Canada's role in Afghanistan
Canada: How the NDP facilitates imperialist war
By Graham Beverly, August 25, 2011
The trade union-based New Democratic Party has played a pivotal role in rallying popular support for Canada’s participation in the NATO war against Libya—a war whose transparent purpose has been to effect the overthrow of the Gaddafi regime and replace it with one even more subservient to North American
Wikileaks cable exposes Canadian duplicity in Iraq war
By Carl Bronski, May 19, 2011
A US diplomatic note shows that the very same day Canada’s Prime Minister told parliament that Canada would not join the 2003 US invasion of Iraq, Canadian officials were privately assuring Washington that the Canadian Armed Forces could be “discreetly” deployed in support of the war on Iraq.
Canadian elections: Deafening silence on Libyan and Afghan wars exemplifies all-party support
By Keith Jones, April 7, 2011
Canada’s federal election campaign is now almost two weeks old, yet the fact that the country is involved in two wars has merited no substantive comment from the party leaders, let alone given rise to any debate between them.
Canada to extend participation in Afghan War through 2014
By Keith Jones, November 13, 2010
Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper confirmed Thursday that his Conservative government has decided to extend the Canadian Armed Forces’ participation in the Afghan War for a further three years, that is through 2014.
Child soldier Omar Khadr coerced into plea-bargain
By Keith Jones, October 27, 2010
With Canada’s Conservative government acting as their accomplice and in violation of international law, the Obama administration and US military have coerced child soldier Omar Khadr into a plea bargain.
Canada’s Liberals press for extension of Afghan occupation
By Vic Neufeld, August 11, 2010
Canada’s Official Opposition Liberals are urging the minority Conservative government to maintain a substantial Canadian military presence in Afghanistan after 2011.
Opposition parties abet cover up of Canada’s Afghan war crimes
By Keith Jones, May 21, 2010
By negotiating a deal with the Conservative government that largely removes the Afghan detainee issue from public debate and allows the government, bureaucracy and military to exert decisive influence over what the public learns about Canada’s involvement in war crimes, the opposition parties have become
Canada subcontracted torture of Afghan detainees
By Keith Jones, April 21, 2010
A former Canadian Armed Forces’ interpreter has charged that Canada’s military transferred uncooperative Afghan detainees to Afghanistan’s secret police so that information could be beaten out of them through torture.
Letters from our readers
February 11, 2010
A selection of recent letters sent to the World Socialist Web Site.
What’s at stake in the Canadian intervention in Afghanistan?
By Richard Dufour, February 6, 2010
The Harper government’s suspension of parliament, an act carried out to try to hide the brutal reality of the Canadian Armed Forces’ “Afghan Mission,” underscores the close connection between the growth of militarism in Canada and the threat to the democratic rights of its citizens.
Canada’s Conservatives respond to Afghan torture charges with lies and slurs
By Guy Charron and Keith Jones, December 2, 2009
Canada’s Conservative government has responded to testimony by a high-level diplomat implicating it and the Canadian military in the torture of Afghan detainees with a campaign of lies, slander, and half-truths.
Canada complicit in torture of hundreds of Afghan detainees
By Keith Jones, November 20, 2009
“We detained, and handed over for severe torture, a lot of innocent people,” a Canadian diplomat has told a parliamentary committee on the Canadian Armed Forces’ Afghan mission.
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