Peggy Mason on the new Liberal plan for the mission against ISIL
Mason: Let’s leave this ill-considered military mission altogether
Tag Archives: Iraq
The devastating toll from coalition bombing
Are we following the discredited Viet Nam war strategy of destroying cities to “save” them?
Peggy Mason on Canada being shut out of the anti-ISIS coalition meeting
A tempest in a teapot, says Peggy Mason, over Canada’s lack of invitation to the Paris anti-ISIL coalition meeting.
The Liberal government must end the airstrikes now!
Canada should instead throw its support wholeheartedly behind UN-facilitated peace negotiations and participate actively in the Vienna process of the Syrian Support Group.
Some of our favourite Ceasefire.ca posts of 2015
Peggy Mason reviews some of favourite Ceasefire.ca posts from 2015.
Will we ever learn? Isis and the West
Paul Rogers, writing for Opendemocracy.net, provides a clear analysis of the evolution of ISIS and the western worlds’ failure to find a way out of the trap cast by ISIS (“ISIS’s plan, and the west’s trap”, Opendemocracy.net, 27 November, 2015). Tactics employed by ISIS have continued to change but the West has failed to adapt, […]