Conflict & Peace

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The Delivery Man

The Delivery Man

From: A Beauty that Hurts

This chapter details the lack of news about Guatemala through Canadian news sources. 1 $0.10 Add
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The Den of Arabism

The Den of Arabism

From: Washington's Long War on Syria

The constitution of the Ba’ath Party made a proclamation in its very first line which Washington could have only regarded with deep hostility: “The Arabs are one nation which has its … 55 $5.50 Add
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The Difficult Return of Canada's Blue Helmets

The Difficult Return of Canada’s Blue Helmets

From: Canada is Not Back

Deals with the Trudeau approach to peacekeeping. Discusses Canada’s previous role in international Peacekeeper and how this evolved through the Chretien, Martin, Harper and Trudeau … 19 $1.90 Add
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The Economy

The Economy

Whose Interests Are Being Served?

From: Canada after Harper

Andrew Jackson leads off by describing how our economy has been seriously harmed by the transfer of industries and jobs to other countries, by wage stagnation, and an over-reliance on the … 19 $1.90 Add
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The Empire of Japan

The Empire of Japan

From: Patriots, Traitors and Empires

Chapter One The Empire of Japan/i> focuses on the rise of Japanese imperialism and colonialism in Korea. As an emerging industrial power, Japan required access to vital raw materials necessary … 23 $2.30 Add
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The Environment

The Environment

Good Stories, Bad Policies, and What to Do

From: Canada after Harper

Peter Robinson then rounds out our survey of the environment by discussing how a rights-based mobilization offers the best hope for bringing government environmental policy into line with … 7 $0.70 Add
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The Fasting Granny vs. the Trudeau Government

The Fasting Granny vs. the Trudeau Government

Demanding an End to the Canadian Presence in Vietnam

From: Worth Fighting For

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The Fiction of Democracy

The Fiction of Democracy

From: A Beauty that Hurts

This chapter discusses the complexity of democracy within Guatemala and details issues of mass poverty and human rights violations. 3 $0.30 Add
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The First Real Holy War

The First Real Holy War

From: Patriots, Traitors and Empires

In the conclusion, The First Real Holy War Gowans reflects on the long struggle for freedom and the future of colonized states across the world. 3 $0.30 Add
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The Globalization of Education

The Globalization of Education

The Implications for Canada

From: Canada after Harper

Larry Kuehn writes of the need to save our public education system from the corroding effects of privatization, underfunding, international testing, charter schools, and other related education … 18 $1.80 Add
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The Great Burning

The Great Burning

From: The Memory We Could Be

Humans have caused enough upheaval to heat the entire world — its seas and its skies — by over an entire degree Celsius. Just that one degree of temperature has been enough to trigger … 13 $1.30 Add
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The Great Wall of Montreal

The Great Wall of Montreal

The L'Acadie Fence

From: Walls

This chapter is about the l’Acadie Fence, a little-known barrier that separates the communities of Parc-Extension and the Town of Mount Royal (TMR) in downtown Montreal, Quebec. Parc-X is a … 25 $2.50 Add
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The Homeland is Where None of This Can Happen

The Homeland is Where None of This Can Happen

From: Pay No Heed to the Rockets

This chapter describes the experiences of Palestinian poet Mahmoud Darwish from the 1940s to the present. 25 $2.50 Add
The Hope that Remains

The Hope that Remains

Canadian Survivors of the Rwandan Genocide

Every immigrant that comes to Canada has a story. This book captures ten of those stories and the remarkable resiliency and fortitude of the human spirit. In 1994 one of the worst genocides in … 192 View
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The Just Society and the Jamahiriya
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The Just Society and the Jamahiriya

From: 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, … 23 $2.30 Add
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The Liberation of Italy

The Liberation of Italy

A Fateful Precedent

From: The Myth of the Good War

Looks at the liberation of Italy in 1943 and how this process set a precendent for other liberation efforts. 9 $0.90 Add