Canada's role in Afghanistan
Canada’s Prime Minister inspects neocolonial occupation force in Afghanistan
By Graham Beverley, May 12, 2009
Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper visited the Canadian Armed Forces’ base in Kandahar and other CAF positions in southern Afghanistan for ten hours last Thursday.
Letters from our readers
March 10, 2009
A selection of recent letters sent to the World Socialist Web Site.
Three more Canadian troops killed in Afghanistan
By Keith Jones, March 6, 2009
Three Canadian Armed Forces (CAF) personnel were killed late Tuesday in an area of Kandahar province that till now had been largely untouched by the insurgency against the US-NATO occupation of Afghan...
To relief of Canada’s elite
Obama makes Ottawa his first foreign stop
By Keith Jones, February 21, 2009
Barack Obama visited Canada’s national capital, Ottawa, for six hours Thursday, his first foreign foray since becoming US president.
Canada’s ‘newspaper of record’ calls for Canada to wage Afghan war beyond 2011
By John Mackay, December 31, 2008
The Globe and Mail is mounting a campaign for the country’s political elite to once again defy public sentiment and extend the Canadian Armed Forces’ intervention in Afghanistan beyond the current...
Washington urges Canada to wage war in Afghanistan beyond 2011
By John Mackay and Keith Jones, December 13, 2008
No credence should be given to the Conservative government’s pledge that Canada will have no more than a token military presence in Afghanistan after 2011, after having twice extended the counterins...
Canada: Afghan war could cost in excess of $18 billion
By Carl Bronski, October 11, 2008
With just five days to go before Canadians vote in the October 14 federal election, a report released Thursday conservatively estimates the cost of the Canadian military intervention in Afghanistan at...
Canadian Elections
Leaders’ debates underscores parties have no progressive solution to economic crisis
Canada and the Afghan War
By Keith Jones, October 4, 2008
The US financial crisis and impending North American recession were the focal point of the televised debates, held in French and English on successive evenings this week, between the leaders of the fi...
Canada: Electioneering cannot obscure major parties’ support for Afghan war
The media’s hostile reaction
By Keith Jones, September 13, 2008
In a transparent election ploy, Conservative Prime Minister Stephen Harper declared this week that his government is “planning” to end the Canadian Armed Forces’ counterinsurgency mi...
Iraq war commander named head of Canada’s military
By Keith Jones, June 9, 2008
Canada’s Conservative government has announced that a Canadian Armed Forces (CAF) officer who helped direct the US-British occupation of Iraq for a year, beginning in January 2004, will become t...
Guantánamo judge rules Omar Khadr, arrested at 15, can be tried as war criminal
By Bill Van Auken, May 8, 2008
Omar Khadr, a Canadian who was shot and detained by US Special Forces troops in Afghanistan in July 2002 when he was 15 years old, goes before a drumhead military tribunal at the US detention camp in ...
Canada’s Liberals support war and social reaction
By Guy Charron, March 22, 2008
The Liberals, the Official Opposition in Canada’s parliament, provided the minority Conservative government with the votes it needed last week to extend the Canadian Armed Forces’ (CAF) le...
