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COAT
has held
marches, rallies, conferences and many campaigns
to oppose arms sales, to protest the glorification of warplanes at
family 'air shows,'
to raise concerns about war toys, to expose Canada Pension Plan
investments in weapons industries, to challenge Canada's role in
US/NATO-led wars, and to unmask the UN's 'Responsibility-to-Protect' doctrine. While imperial
wars are cloaked as peace missions, they remain an institutionalized racket. The confidence scams of war racketeers use
propaganda to entrap their marks with deceits like 'defence' &
'security.' Such euphemistic sleights of hand hide the real, economic reasons for war.
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Press for Conversion! (P4C!) magazine began in early 1990. In its first decade, P4C! was a quarterly focused on converting military industries to socially-useful, eco-friendly, civilian uses. In the late 1990s, P4C! embraced a broader view. Because the virus of war profiteering has so deeply infected our body politic, the idea of conversion needs to include transforming a wide variety of institutions, reallocating budgets, changing official narratives, rethinking history and renewing the social-change movement. Each issue of P4C! explores a different anti-war subject. Many have focused on dispelling national peace myths about "Canadian values." These captivating myths are effective in conjuring support for wars because they inspire public faith in the deceit that Canada is a global force for peace, human rights and democracy. |
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Fictive Canada: Indigenous Slaves and the Captivating Narratives of a Mythic Nation |
Captive Canada: Renditions of the Peaceable Kingdom at War, from Narratives of WWI and the Red Scare to Mass Civilian Internment |
Profiting from Israeli Apartheid: CPP Investments in Corporations Supporting Israel's Military-, Police-, Surveillance-, Prison-Industrial Complex |
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Operation SILENT PARTNER: Canada's Quiet Complicity in the Iraq War |
CANSEC War is Business |
Lies without
Borders: How CIDA-funded 'NGOs' waged a propaganda war to justify Haiti’s 2004 coup |
Putting the
Aid in Aiding & Abetting: CIDA's Agents of Regime Change in Haiti's 2004 Coup |
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CIDA's Key Role in Haiti's 2004 Coup: Funding Regime Change, Dictatorship and Human Rights Atrocities, one Haitian 'NGO' at a Time" |
A Very
Canadian Coup in Haiti: The Top 10 Ways that Canada’s Government helped the 2004 Coup and its Reign of Terror |
New Face of Terror in Afghanistan: How "Democracy" Empowered our Allies - the Fundamentalists, Warlords & Drug Barons |
Canada’s Role in Militarizing Space: RADARSAT -
The Warfighters’ Eye in the Sky and its links to "Missile Defense |
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Canada’s Role in 'Missile Defense' Weapons Program: |
Missile Defense: Trojan Horse for the Weaponization of Space |
All in the Family: The Apple does not Fall Far from the BUSH |
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Part II: Sea-based, Theatre Ballistic Missile Defense |
Part I: NORAD, Government Largesse and the ABC’s of Corporate Complicity |
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Facing the Corporate Roots of American Fascism |
Operation Embedded Complicity: Canada, Playing our Part in the Business of War |
The U.S. Role in Wars and Regime Changes in the Middle East and North Africa since WWII |
Going to War: The American use of War Pretext Incidents |
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What are the Real
Reasons for the Invasion of Iraq? |
Canada's Military Air Shows: Reaching New Heights in the Glorification of War |
Divide and Rule: Understanding the India-Pakistan Conflict |
Power Politics: Oil, Terror and the War Against Afghanistan |
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Taking Over the World: Militarism and Corporate Globalization |
Canada's Military Exports: Fuelling wars and abusing international human/labor rights |
A People's History of the CIA: The Subversion of Democracy from Australia to Zaire |
Nonviolent Resistance to War and Injustice |
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COAT Research Archive
Profiting from the
Slaughter of Innocents in Iraq
Canadian
Military Exports to Countries at War |
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Building a Culture of Peace |
Ridding the
World of Nuclear Weapons |
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COAT Slide Shows
Iraq, Afghanistan and
Making a
Killing!
The CPP's War Investments in the News! |
Arms Trade Treaty (ATT) The top supporters of the UN's ATT are the governments of the world's top weapons exporters. So, why do so many large mainstream peace, human rights and development organizations also support it? |
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Watching the Watchers: Canadian War Technologies in the Surveillance of US & Cdn Protests A case study in how Canada learned to stop worrying and arm the world In this article Richard Sanders targets Cdn peace myths by looking at The Reaper, an eye-in-the-sky/killing machine armed with Cdn government-subsidized systems: Wescam's missile-grade spy sensors and CAE's pilot & weapons crew training simulators. Used in May 2020 to spy on US protests, this cutting-edge gear was used by the RCAF in 2010 against G8/G20 protesters who were putting a public spotlight on global elites meeting in Toronto to further structure their control over global financial/political systems. In this romp through the Cdn history of supporting the US imperium since Hiroshima and Nagasaki, you'll meet a Roman goddess, the Brothers Grimm, Drs. Strangelove, Teller and Oppenheimer, Cdn warplanes and missiles armed with US nuclear warheads, the RCAF's "Demon Squadron" and others. It concludes with a beyond-the-grave thought experiment aimed at preventing well-meaning Canadians from becoming even more complicit in US war crimes. |
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Mothers'
Day at the War Show When Ottawa's highly-militarized 'air show' was held on Mothers' Day, May 11, 1997, COAT set up a display inside the show to exhibit original paintings by Iraqi children. This film jarringly juxtaposes war planes doing air-show stunts for thrilled families; Pentagon footage of these same kinds of war planes that bombed Iraq; pilots doing runway poses for adoring fans; air-show kids gleefully describing their favourite war planes; interviews from Iraq with victims of the war describing the effect of aerial attacks, and former US Att.Gen. Ramsey Clarke who describes the horror of economic sanctions. These sanctions, enforced throughout the 1990s by the US, Canada and others, killed 500,000 Iraqi children under the age of five! There are statements by Iraqi mothers, songs by Iraq Kurds and the Raging Grannies, degrading images of woman painted on US and UK warplanes that bombed Iraq, and footage of peace activists at work inside the show, including the film-maker interviewing his own mother. (Learn more here.) |
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