Photo from Public Domain The hidden battle in Syria – the one that rarely appears on our television screens – has been raging for years between Israel and a coalition comprising the Syrian government, Iran and the Lebanese militia Hezbollah. Watching over the proceedings without directly intervening has been Russia,
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Canadian Dimension: Diplomacy, and not bombing, is the way to end Syria’s agony
Photo by Scott Bobb These are serious times. Following the missile attacks on Syria, now is the moment for a powerful push for peace. Boris Johnson’s blithe acceptance on Sunday that the conflict will now continue on its current course and that peace negotiations would be an “extra” is an
Continue readingCanadian Dimension: The Afghan toll
Photo by DVIDSHUB The U.S. has little to show for its long engagement in Afghanistan. And if the Taliban returns to power, it will be a major blow to U.S. prestige. Every contingency will be taken to prevent that outcome, even the destruction of Afghanistan. The American war in Afghanistan
Continue readingCanadian Dimension: Syria and the Antiwar Tradition
Photo by Alisdare Hickson There is major disorientation on the left in many Western countries when it comes to Syria and about how antiwar activists should respond to events on the ground in Syria and Iraq. The highly complex nature of the Syrian war involving a multitude of foreign states
Continue readingCanadian Dimension: From 1945-49 the US and UK Planned to Bomb Russia into the Stone Age
Photo from FEMA Photo Library Just weeks after the Second World War was over and Nazi Germany defeated Soviet Russia’s allies, the United States and Great Britain hastened to develop military plans aimed at dismantling the USSR and wiping out its cities with a massive nuclear strike. Interestingly enough, then
Continue readingCanadian Dimension: The New Immoral Age
General Atomics MQ-9 Reaper • Photo by U.S. Air Force photo/Staff Sgt. Brian Ferguson
“It turns out … that I’m really good at killing people.”
President Barack Obama (1961- ) As reported in Reed Peeple…
Canadian Dimension: The Age of Imperial Wars
U.S. Navy photo by Photographer’s Mate 1st Class James Finnigan Introduction 2015 has become a year of living dangerously. Wars are spreading across the globe. Wars are escalating as new countries are bombed and the old are ravaged with ever greater intensity. Countries, where relatively peaceful changes had taken place
Continue readingCanadian Dimension Feed: Washington and Damascus
Syria has become dangerous. Syrians get killed and wounded almost daily. Their neighbours have also felt the impacts of violence: refugees in Turkey and outbreaks of fighting in Tripoli’s streets in Lebanon where peace depends on a nuanced arrangement between Christians and Sunni and Shia Muslims. Northern Iraqi Kurds share
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