- Hardcover: 304 pages
- Publisher: Doubleday Canada; First Edition edition (Mar 22 2007)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 038566012X
- ISBN-13: 978-0385660129
- Product Dimensions: 22.9 x 15.5 x 3 cm
- Shipping Weight: 522 g
- Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #49,617 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Praise for Linda McQuaig and War, Big Oil and the Fight for the Planet: It’s the Crude, Dude
“With a keen eye and a grim wit, McQuaig’s perceptive inquiry into the world’s energy system strips away layer after layer… [It] is an urgent wake-up call that should — and must — be read and acted upon without delay.”
—Noam Chomsky
“Canadian journalist Linda McQuaig’s brilliant It’s the Crude, Dude will give you an overview of ‘Iraqi’history and indeed of the frantic hunt for the last of the world’s oil that will transform your view of everything current.”
—Heather Mallick, The Globe and Mail
“McQuaig gives the reader an entertaining crash course on the history of the oil industry…It’s a highly educational rant…and a deliciously written one.”
—The Gazette (Montreal)
“With a keen eye and a grim wit, McQuaig’s perceptive inquiry into the world’s energy system strips away layer after layer… [It] is an urgent wake-up call that should — and must — be read and acted upon without delay.”
—Noam Chomsky
“Canadian journalist Linda McQuaig’s brilliant It’s the Crude, Dude will give you an overview of ‘Iraqi’history and indeed of the frantic hunt for the last of the world’s oil that will transform your view of everything current.”
—Heather Mallick, The Globe and Mail
“McQuaig gives the reader an entertaining crash course on the history of the oil industry…It’s a highly educational rant…and a deliciously written one.”
—The Gazette (Montreal)
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As the Bush administration has turned the United States into a belligerent and lawless force in the world, the Canadian government has followed in close step. Attempting to please our powerful neighbour, Ottawa has abandoned Canada’s traditional role as a leading peacekeeping nation, and instead adopted a more militaristic, warlike stance, battling insurgents in Afghanistan as a junior partner in the U.S. "war on terror."
Ottawa has also abandoned Canada’s traditional attempt to be a fair-minded mediator and conciliator, most notably in the Middle East conflict. And, under the government of Stephen Harper, Canada has joined the United States in becoming a leading obstructionist in worldwide efforts to deal with climate change — perhaps the most urgent issue on the international agenda. The switch in direction evident in these positions has redefined the way Canada operates in the world, transforming our country into a helpful assistant to an aggressive U.S. power, increasingly out of sync with our European allies and with the rest of the world.
As in all her previous books, Linda McQuaig strips away the comforting illusions peddled by those in our elite. With her trademark combination of research, analysis, irreverence and passion, McQuaig shows how the elite has pushed us down a path with far-reaching consequences for us as a nation, and for our ability to find our own way in the world.
Ottawa has also abandoned Canada’s traditional attempt to be a fair-minded mediator and conciliator, most notably in the Middle East conflict. And, under the government of Stephen Harper, Canada has joined the United States in becoming a leading obstructionist in worldwide efforts to deal with climate change — perhaps the most urgent issue on the international agenda. The switch in direction evident in these positions has redefined the way Canada operates in the world, transforming our country into a helpful assistant to an aggressive U.S. power, increasingly out of sync with our European allies and with the rest of the world.
As in all her previous books, Linda McQuaig strips away the comforting illusions peddled by those in our elite. With her trademark combination of research, analysis, irreverence and passion, McQuaig shows how the elite has pushed us down a path with far-reaching consequences for us as a nation, and for our ability to find our own way in the world.
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17 of 19 people found the following review helpful:
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This review is from: Holding the Bully's Coat: Canada and the U.S. Empire (Hardcover)
The phase that frequently appeared on my school reports, could equally well be applied to Canada. Repeatedly told that we don't matter and nobody listens to us, our actions indicate that we believe it. There is nothing that the bully to the south of us would like less than Ned Flanders as a neighbour. Yet where we could be a constant example of reasonableness and ethical behaviour, author Linda McQuaig illustrates how, even when we haven't joined in the bullying directly, we have held his coat while he did it. Under the guise of integration and cooperation etc. we are losing our identity in a quagmire of moral cowardice. We are not moderating American behaviour, we are condoning it. Time to stand on our own and call it like we see it.
30 of 36 people found the following review helpful:
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Do your own homework. Read Mcquaig.,
By stevenhorr (Canada) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Holding the Bully's Coat: Canada and the U.S. Empire (Hardcover)
Read for yourself. It is a good thing that books are published that question or criticize the 'official story', aka the CNN/FOX spun version of reality, where "humanitarian aid" means the bombing of civilians, where "spreading democracy" means illegal occupation. You're not being "anti-american" if you don't want to follow America into bogus wars of occupation and invasion, like the current "war on terror". Anti-american twaddle? Mcquaig points out specifically that she is not anti-american, but "anti-american-exceptionalist"-- why should the US have special rights, like the ability to pursue their own nuclear program while they go around seeing that other nations don't pursue theirs? That's just one example of how the american-exceptionalism. The list goes on, and on.Why should Canadians be ashamed to want to be an internationally concerned and responsible country, instead of following in America's agressive-defensive ways? It is often said that we need the US to protect us, but I'd say that US foreign policy in the middle-east, and any Canadian affiliation with it, if anything, has made us a more desireable target of foreign attack. Canadians: read Linda Mcquaig and Michel Chossudovsky. Don't worry about being politically-correct. The media shouts us down as "anti-american" if we don't support an illegal, destructive, US-led war. Canadian media calls us "unsupportive of our troops" if we don't agree with Canadian policy in the middle-east. Why should we, as Canadians, be ashamed to read this material (especially Canadians from Virginia ;) )? We shouldn't be. Read it.
1 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
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Holding the Bully's Coat,
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This review is from: Holding the Bully's Coat: Canada and the U.S. Empire (Hardcover)
Has some interesting information in it. But the writer has more problem with who is doingit then what they are doing. One gets the idea that if the other party was doing it, things would be just fine.
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