Yves Engler
Auteur van The Black Book of Canadian Foreign Policy
Werken van Yves Engler
Stop Signs: Cars and Capitalism on the Road to Economic, Social and Ecological Decay (2011) 31 exemplaren
A Propaganda System: How Canada's Government, Corporations, Media and Academia Sell War (2016) 4 exemplaren
Canada in Africa - 300 Years of Aid and Expoitation 2 exemplaren
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As is, the book has two major chapters from Engler’s wheelhouse and a lot of smallish résumés in other areas tacked on; which ultimately makes the book feel kind of inorganic and not fleshed out. I did like how he highlighted the courageous moral outrage when a free speech advocate is sentenced to 5 years in prison in an “official enemy state” and the deafening yawns of silence when police in the avuncular dictatorships use live ammunition on demonstrators or mass decapitations in freaky fundamentalist states that barely rate an official mention; no doubt aided by the oligarchic media with deliberate under reporting or omission.
Thanks to a helpful footnote, the author reveals the origins of the specific editorial slant of the book and the possible primer on the subject: Martin Lukacs: The Trudeau formula: education and betrayal in the age of discontent.… (meer)