Let's Hold Canada to the Same Standards as China
By Yves Engler; September 01, 2008 - Znet
The mainstream media's hypocrisy during the Olympics would have been funny
if it weren't so ignorance-producing.
So many words written or spoken about human rights violations,
lip-synching, suppression of Tibet, taped fireworks, Communist
dictatorship, evil Chinese nationalism and yet what about context? Or what
about how Canada might seem to them?
Has any media discussed Canada's decades-long support of British
imperialism in China? Opium War anyone? Dividing the country up among