“Yves became a foreign-policy expert by working as a night
doorman in Montreal…He’s in the mould of I. F. Stone, who wasted no time
with politicians, who all have an agenda, but went instead straight to
the public record.”
— Rick Salutin, Globe and Mail
“Truth is often a casualty in politics. Thankfully, there’s
Yves Engler — Canada’s version of Noam Chomsky — to set the record
straight when political spin morphs into historical fact.”
— Charlie Smith, Georgia Straight
“Yves Engler is Canada’s foremost feisty contrarian.”
— Michael Welton, CounterPunch.
Join the Book Club: Stand on Guard for Whom? A People’s History of the Canadian Military with Yves Engler
In March 2022, World BEYOND War will be holding a weekly discussion each of four weeks of Stand on Guard for Whom? A People’s History of the Canadian Military
with the author Yves Engler as part of a small group WBW book club
limited to a group of 18 participants. Yves will send each participant a
signed paperback copy of his book. We'll let you know which parts of
the book will be discussed each week along with the Zoom details to
access the discussions.
When:
For one hour on four Mondays, March 7, 14, 21,
and 28, 2022. The time is 9 a.m. Pacific, 12 p.m. Eastern, 5 p.m. in
London, 6 p.m. Central European, 8:30 p.m. in Tehran, and 6 a.m. the
next day in Aukland:
Stand on Guard for Whom? is the first book to present a
history of the Canadian military from the perspective of its victims. In
his eleventh book, Yves Engler, the prolific author and critic of
Canadian politics, exposes the reality of Canadian wars, repression, and
military culture despite the mythologies of Canada as an agent for
international peacekeeping and humanitarianism.
Originating as a British force that brutally dispossessed First
Nations, the Canadian Forces regularly quelled labour unrest in the
decades after Confederation. It would go on to participate in military
occupations or invasions in Sudan, South Africa, Europe, Korea, Iraq,
Serbia, Afghanistan, and Libya, as well as Canadian gunboat diplomacy
and UN deployments that have ousted elected governments. As the federal
government department with by far the greatest budget, staff, PR
machine, and intelligence-gathering capacities, this book shows how the
Canadian military is a key developer of military technology, including
chemical, biological, and nuclear weapons. It also has an immense
ecological footprint and a toxic patriarchal, racist, and
anti-democratic culture.
However, as this book shows, Canadian militarism has always been
contested, as early as opposition to conscription during World War I and
as especially during peace activism against the US war in Indochina.
More recently, city councils have declared themselves nuclear weapons
free zones and prevented hosting of weapons bazaars and, in 2003,
antiwar activists stopped Prime Minister Jean Chrétien from leading
Canada into the US-led invasion of Iraq.
This book reveals the
hidden militarism in Canadian life, and reminds us that the first step
to contest it is to recognize its pervasiveness and power.
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