Owen Schalk
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From  NEW! Lockerbie: A sprawling affairFrom: 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  Palestine, 2006 |
In this chapter, Engler and Schalk examine Canada’s foreign policy response to Hamas’s victory in the 2006 Palestinian elections, in which Canada became the first country to suspend … | Owen Schalk; Yves Engler | 6 | 2024 | $0.60 Add |
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From Paraguay, 2012 |
In this chaper, Engler and Schalk examine the 2012 ouster of Paraguayan President Fernando Lugo, the Curuguaty land conflict that triggered his impeachment, and the deep tensions between his … | Owen Schalk; Yves Engler | 5 | 2024 | $0.50 Add |
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From Peru, 1992 |
In this chapter, Engler and Schalk examine President Alberto Fujimori’s 1992 self-coup in Peru, where he dissolved his own congress with military backing. | Owen Schalk; Yves Engler | 4 | 2024 | $0.40 Add |
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From Peru, 2022 |
In this chapter, Engler and Schalk examine how in December 2022, Peruvian president Pedro Castillo was impeached and jailed, sparking violent protests in which over sixty, mostly Indigenous, … | Owen Schalk; Yves Engler | 6 | 2024 | $0.60 Add |
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From Russia, 1993 |
In this chapter, Engler and Schalk examine the 1993 Russian political crisis where President Boris Yeltsin ordered the bombing of the parliament building after dissolving the elected legislature. | Owen Schalk; Yves Engler | 5 | 2024 | $0.50 Add |
Targeting LibyaHow Canada went from building public works to bombing an oil-rich country and creating chaos for its citizens |
In Targeting Libya, investigative journalist Owen Schalk examines how Canadian business and government actors influenced Libya’s fate, from the rise and fall of Muammar Qadhafi to the … | Owen Schalk | 258 | 2025 | View |
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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 The Democratic Republic of the Congo, 1961 |
In this chapter,Engler and Schalk examine Canada’s military and political role in the overthrow and assassination of Patrice Lumumba, the first prime minister of the Democratic Republic of … | Owen Schalk; Yves Engler | 15 | 2024 | $1.50 Add |
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From The Dominican Republic, 1963 |
In this chapter, Engler and Schalk examine the 1963 military coup against elected President Juan Bosch in the Dominican Republic and the 1965 US invasion that followed. | Owen Schalk; Yves Engler | 7 | 2024 | $0.70 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 |
