Medicine has always been implicated in torture. In this issue of Briarpatch, Baijayanta Mukhopadhyay looks at the role of doctors in national security and the politics of pain. Isabeau Doucet and Justin Podur discuss Canada’s role in Haiti’s new dictatorship, and Briarpatch editor emeritus Dave Oswald Mitchell tackles the topics of drugs, gangs, and Harper’s war on the poor.
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MagazineLetter from the editor
The shift in modern warfare toward counterinsurgency carried out by states against diffuse populations, rather than organized armies, calls for new instruments of domination.
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MagazineDefining who is Métis
“I will never know exactly why and when my own family’s Métis history was buried; I only know that it was.”
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MagazineKillers in high places
If the drug war is a tool of social and territorial control and capital accumulation, it’s not enough to simply accuse Harper’s Conservatives of pursuing a misguided strategy.
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MagazineWhen a bone breaks
“It’s going to be very painful without the anaesthetic in your toe.” My face twists in anticipation. “Maybe we could give you something to relax a little, send you off to sleep.”
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MagazineThe olive grove
The annual olive harvest is a key economic, social, and cultural event for Palestinians. The olive oil produced makes up 14% of agricultural income in the Occupied Palestinian Territories and helps support 80,000 families.
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MagazineOutsourcing sovereignty
Haiti is an avant-garde microcosm of the privatization, deregulation, and loosening of state structures and protections that is happening everywhere.
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MagazineResponsibility to protect?
The Responsibility to Protect (R2P) is a new name for the old concept of humanitarian intervention, or humanitarian imperialism.
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MagazineAmulet
when time is army marshalled / against you starved and alone / I write in celebration your survival / each molecule of courage you collect / sunrise and sundown.
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MagazineReduced, refused, reignited
In 2006, the Conservative government cut the funding of Status of Women Canada (SWC) by 38 per cent, to the tune of $5 million, in a move to enhance “fiscal responsibility.”
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Magazine“Dreams are the worst right now”
After a decade of captivity, Omar Khadr, the first child ever convicted of a war crime, became the last Western citizen to be repatriated out of Guantanamo Bay.
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MagazineConversations on ecological justice, healing, and decolonization
If those of us who care about the earth are to have a chance at actually stopping its destruction, we need to expand environmentalism way beyond its conventional boundaries.
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MagazineMonkeywrench murder mystery
The Slickrock Paradox, by Alberta-based mystery author Stephen Legault, wraps its twisting plot around one central mystery. There are crimes for the protagonist to solve, including more than one murder, but they are almost peripheral; the core riddle is the absence of a body.
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MagazineFrom abortion rights to reproductive justice
It’s been nearly 25 years since the Supreme Court decriminalized abortion in Canada, but the dust has yet to settle on Parliament Hill.
