Section: Canadian Dimension (Canada)
The US Election: an Exercise in Mendacity
Image by Rich Girard What’s that smell in this room? Didn’t you notice it, Brick? Didn’t you notice a powerful and obnoxious odor of mendacity in this room?… There ain’t nothin’ more powerful than the odor of mendacity… You can smell it. It smells like death. — Big Daddy to son Brick in Tennessee Williams’ Cat...
Tribute to Fidel Castro on His 90th Birthday
Photo by Marcelo Montecino On Saturday, August 13, the world will celebrate the 90th birthday of Cuban revolutionary leader Fidel Castro Ruz, the only individual ever to be acknowledged by the UN as a “World Hero of Solidarity.” It is very hard to think of a more important world leader than Fidel. The contribution he has made to the world...
Open Letter to Stéphane Dion re: Ukraine and Russia
Photo by Mstyslav Chernov The Honourable Stéphane Dion Minister of Foreign Affairs House of Commons Ottawa, ON K1A 0G2 Dear Minister Dion, Thank you for your letter of June 30 that was in response to my letter to you of November 17, 2015. When your government came into office last fall you inherited the Harper Conservative foreign policy...
Western Propaganda for a New Cold War
Photo by Day Donaldson Western propaganda portrays Russia as the aggressor and NATO as the victim, but the reality looks almost opposite from the ground level, Rick Sterling found on a recent fact-finding trip. Recently I went on a 15-day visit to Russia organized by the Center for Citizen Initiatives. The group visited Moscow, the Crimean...
The Doomsday Clock
Illustration by Carl Wiens The following is excerpted from Noam Chomsky’s new book, Who Rules the World? In January 2015, the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists advanced its famous Doomsday Clock to three minutes before midnight, a threat level that had not been reached for 30 years. The Bulletin’s statement explaining this advance...
The Looting Stage of Capitalism: Germany’s Assault on the IMF
Photo by Bruno Sanchez-Andrade Nuño Having successfully used the EU to conquer the Greek people by turning the Greek “leftwing” government into a pawn of Germany’s banks, Germany now finds the IMF in the way of its plan to loot Greece into oblivion. The IMF’s rules prevent the organization from lending to countries that cannot repay...
The Panama Papers Expose the Hidden Wealth of the World’s Super-Rich
Photo from Public Domain As global wealth concentrates in fewer hands, the world’s wealthy are shifting trillions to offshore havens to escape taxation, accountability, and publicity. The just-released Panama Papers—filled with titillating details involving the shady dealings of world leaders and violent traffickers of drugs and...
The New Global Financial Cold War
Photo by Des Byrne The Guns and Butter Interview Suppose a country owes money to another nation’s government or official agency. How can creditors collect, unless there’s an international court and an enforcement system? The IMF and the World Bank were part of that enforcement system and now they’re saying: ‘We’re not...
Western Aggression: The Highest Form of Terrorism
Photo by Daniel Oines Aggression is arguably the highest form of terrorism as it invariably includes the frightening of the target populations and their leaders as well as killing and destruction on a large scale. The U.S. invaders of Iraq in 2003 proudly announced a “shock and awe” purpose in their opening assault, clearly designed to instill...
Post Communist Russia in a Multi-Polar World
Photo by Global Panorama “The way Russia is now structured as a political unit, it looks very much like a big corporation…Putin basically, he’s anything but a dictator, he’s more like a chair of a board.” -Boris Kagarlitsky This special holiday edition of the Global Research News Hour features a speech by Boris Kagarlitsky, delivered...
