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Lester Pearson's Peacekeeping: The Truth May Hurt

May 3, 2012
| A new book by activist Yves Engler says that far from being a peacekeeper, former prime minister Lester Pearson was a dedicated cold warrior and an ardent supporter of NATO.

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'The Hero has Feet of Clay': An honest assessment of Canada's Foreign Policy

Mar 12 2012 - 7:00pm

Location

Concordia Hall Bldg.
1455 de Maisonneuve West 760 (right in front of the elevator on the 7th floor)
Montreal, QC
Canada
45° 29' 50.3592" N, 73° 34' 44.5044" W

Written in the form of a submission to an imagined " Truth and Reconciliation Commission" about Canada's foreign policy during the Lester B. Pearson era, this book will change your mind about Canada's most famous statesman . Rather than an " honest broker," or " peacekeeper, " Pearson was an ardent cold warrior, who backed colonialism and apartheid in Africa, coups in Guatemala, Iran and Brazil and the U.S. invasion of the Dominican Republic. A beneficiary of U.S. intervention in Canadian political affairs, the Nobel Peace laureate provided important support to the U.S. during the Vietnam war and advocated sending troops to the American-led war in Korea. Pearson helped construct the post World War 11 US-empire.

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Nadi Alexan
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The truth about Lester Pearson's peacekeeping

Lester Pearson’s Peacekeeping: The Truth May Hurt

Lester Pearson’s Peacekeeping: The Truth May Hurt

by Yves Engler
(Fernwood Publishing,
2012;
$15.95)

In his new book, Yves Engler sets to demolish the near saintly status of Lester Bowles ("Mike") Pearson in the public sphere, Canadian foreign policy circles and even on the social democratic left. And in the process, he takes on the much repeated slogan that "the world needs more of Canada."

Much like Noam Chomsky who provides a forward to Lester Pearson's Peacekeeping, the author relies mostly on the excellent but largely unread scholarship plus the former PM's own statements in Parliament and in memos to successfully establish a case.

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Driving for a car free future

Stop Signs: Cars and Capitalism: On the Road to Economic, Social and Ecological Decay

by Bianca Mugyenyi and Yves Engler
(Fernwood Publishing,
2011;
$19.95)

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Today cars are everywhere in our lives, on city streets, printed on glossy magazines pages, flickering on TV screens, referenced in pop songs and embedded in mainstream political discourse.

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The world's most powerful

Power - Donald Savoie

Power: Where is it?

by Donald J. Savoie
(McGill-Queen's University Press,
2010;
$29.95)

Someone reading People magazine might conclude that Tom Cruise and Sandra Bullock run Hollywood. While they're certainly influential, so are the directors and producers behind the scenes as well as the financiers and studios that decide what films get made. To truly understand the movie industry, one should investigate the cultural context from which it operates and the economic principles that drive it, divorced from any individual.

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Canada and Israel: Building Apartheid- A lecture by Yves Engler

Nov 17 2010 - 7:00pm
Nov 17 2010 - 10:00pm

Location

Ryerson University (Room SCC 115)
55 Gould Street (Ryerson University Student Center)
Toronto, ON M5B 1E9
Canada
43° 39' 28.6092" N, 79° 22' 44.148" W

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Canada: Most Pro-Israeli Country? A lecture by Yves Engler

Nov 16 2010 - 5:30pm
Nov 16 2010 - 7:00pm

Location

University of Waterloo, E2 1303
200 University Avenue West
Waterloo, ON N2L 3G1
Canada
43° 28' 19.4736" N, 80° 32' 37.9788" W

Has the Harper Government Made Canada the Most Pro-Israel Country in the World?

Author of Canada and Israel: Building Apartheid, Yves Engler to speak on Canada-Israel relations.

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Students for Palestinian Rights
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Public Forum: Israel and Canada - Military and Political Connections

May 15 2009 - 7:00am
May 15 2009 - 9:00am

Location

OISE, U to T, Room 5-250
252 Bloor St. W.
Toronto, ON
Canada
43° 40' 3.3132" N, 79° 23' 57.9156" W

Israel and Canada:

Military and Political Connections

 

Speakers:

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Not In Our Name: Jewish Voices Opposing Zionism
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