Lester Pearson's Peacekeeping: The Truth May Hurt
All are invited to attend a guest lecture by
by Yves Engler
Lester Pearson's Peacekeeping: The Truth May Hurt
Thursday March 8, 2012 7:00 pm
Dr. Alvin Woods Building 2-106
Wilfrid Laurier University
Yves Engler has been dubbed "one of the most Important voices on the Canadian Left today" (Briarpatch), "in the mould of I. F. Stone" (Globe and Mail), "ever-insightful" (rabble.ca) and a "Leftist gadfly" (Ottawa Citizen). His six books have been praised by Naomi Klein, Noam Chomsky, William Blum, Rick Salutin and many others.
Written in the form of a submission to an imagined "Truth and Reconciliation" commission about Canada's foreign policy past, Lester Pearson's Peacekeeping: The Truth May Hurt will change how you think about this country's most famous statesman. Rather than an 'honest broker' or 'peacekeeper' Pearson was an ardent cold warrior who backed colonialism and apartheid in Africa, Zionism, coups In Guatemala, Iran and Brazil and the US invasion of the Dominican Republic. A beneficiary of US intervention in Canadian political affairs, the Nobel Peace laureate provided important support to the US in Vietnam and pushed to send troops to the American-led war in Korea. Pearson helped construct the post World War II US-empire. This book challenges one of the most important (and useful) Canadian foreign policy myths.
For details, please see the attached poster.
This Event is FREE and Sponsored By:
The Department of Sociology, the Department of Political Science, The Faculty of Arts, and the Academic Council on the United Nations System (ACUNS) .
For Additional Information contact:
Dr. Peter Eglin, Department of Sociology, at peglin [at] wlu [dot] ca" moz-do-not-send="true">peglin [at] wlu [dot] ca or ext. 3877
