Owen Schalk
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From  NEW! Libyan tragedy, Canadian guiltFrom: Targeting Libya |
This chapter argues that NATO’s 2011 war on Libya turned a relatively stable, egalitarian state into a deeply fragmented and impoverished country, while Canadian corporations like … | Owen Schalk | 12 | 2025 | $1.20 Add |
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From NEW! LockerbieA sprawling affair From: Targeting Libya |
This chapter reviews the facts surrounding the Lockerbie tragedy and how although early evidence pointed to Iran as responsible for the downing of the airplane, the West used Lockerbie to justify … | Owen Schalk | 14 | 2025 | $1.40 Add |
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From NEW! "No project has ever had budgets like this"From: Targeting Libya |
This chapter outlnes how Libya moved from sanctions toward rapprochement with the West, while SNC-Lavalin and the Canadian state worked in tandem to win lucrative contracts. Qadhafi’s shift … | Owen Schalk | 9 | 2025 | $0.90 Add |
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From NEW! Oil, militias, and the second civil warFrom: Targeting Libya |
This chapter outlines how, after helping destroy Qadhafi’s Libya, Canada turned a blind eye to its own illegal war while prosecuting SNC-Lavalin for corruption, backing a new Libyan regime … | Owen Schalk | 8 | 2025 | $0.80 Add |
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From NEW! The Canada-Libya thawFrom: Targeting Libya |
In this chapter Canadian prime minister Paul Martin’s 2004 tent meeting with Qadhafi symbolized how Canadian diplomacy, corporate interests (especially SNC-Lavalin and oil firms), and … | Owen Schalk | 6 | 2025 | $0.60 Add |
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From NEW! "The hottest of hot spots"From: Targeting Libya |
This chapter looks at the period of the late 2000s, when Libya’s uneasy opening to foreign investment exacerbated internal political battles while SNC-Lavalin courted the Qadaffi sons with … | Owen Schalk | 8 | 2025 | $0.80 Add |
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From NEW! The Just Society and the JamahiriyaFrom: Targeting Libya |
This chapter explains how during the late 1960s Pierre Trudeau continued Canada’s longstanding pattern of backing corporate expansion and Cold War anti-communism abroad. In contrast, … | Owen Schalk | 23 | 2025 | $2.30 Add |
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From NEW! The Mad DogFrom: Targeting Libya |
This chapter looks at Qadhafi’s radical reform program of the 1980s, which clashed violently with the US-led world order. As Libya used oil, arms, and support for liberation movements to … | Owen Schalk | 15 | 2025 | $1.50 Add |
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From NEW! The multipolar worldFrom: Targeting Libya |
This chapter examines Libya’s collapse into civil war and jihadist takeover while the US shifted its focus to containing a rising China and Russia, whose growing independence signaled a new … | Owen Schalk | 4 | 2025 | $0.40 Add |
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From NEW! The nationalization threatFrom: Targeting Libya |
In this chapter, SNC-Lavalin’s corrupt ties to the Qadhafi family deepened just as Libya’s relations with Western oil companies and governments took a turn for the worse. In Libya … | Owen Schalk | 9 | 2025 | $0.90 Add |
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From NEW! The SNC-Lavalin affairFrom: Targeting Libya |
This chapter details how SNC-Lavalin evaded serious punishment for its Libyan bribery scandal through political lobbying and a plea deal in Canada, while Libya now lay in ruins. | Owen Schalk | 11 | 2025 | $1.10 Add |
