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The Western Media is Key to Syria Deceptions
The Western Media is Key to Syria Deceptions Image Source: TUBS – CC BY-SA 3.0 By any reckoning, the claim made this week by al-Qaeda-linked fighters that they were targeted with chemical weapons by the Syrian government in Idlib province — their final holdout in Syria — should have been treated by the western media with a high degree of scepticism. That […]
We Must Defend Assange to Save Democracy from American Despotism
We Must Defend Assange to Save Democracy from American Despotism Photograph Source Elekhh – CC BY-SA 3.0 On Thursday, the Department of Justice made an unprecedented move to file 17 Espionage Act charges against WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange. This indictment was what Assange and his legal team have been warning about since 2010 and the risk of […]
Canada’s Meddling in Venezuela
Canada’s Meddling in Venezuela Why does the dominant media pay so much attention to Russian “meddling” in other countries, but little to Canada’s longstanding interference in the political affairs of nations thousands of kilometres from our borders? The case of Ben Rowswell illustrates the double standard well. The current Canadian International Council President has been […]
The Belligerence of Empire
The Belligerence of Empire Photograph Source: Sgt. Ajenis Nunez – Public Domain “Capitalism’s gratuitous wars and sanctioned greed have jeopardized the planet and filled it with refugees. Much of the blame for this rests squarely on the shoulders of the government of the United States. Seventeen years after invading Afghanistan, after bombing it into the […]
Custer’s Last Stand Meets Global Warming
Custer’s Last Stand Meets Global Warming Photograph Source: Charles Marion Russell – Public Domain A recent article in Arctic News on the outlook for global warming foresees a frightening scenario lurking right around the corner. Hopefully, the article’s premise of impending runaway global warming (“RGW”) is off the mark, by a lot. More to the […]
Climate Change was No Accident
Climate Change was No Accident Years ago, tobacco companies discovered the link between their products and lung cancer. Did they warn their customers? No — they denied the link entirely, misleading the public for decades while killing their customers. Similarly, ExxonMobil scientists made startlingly accurate predictionsabout climate change as early as 1982 — and then spent millions […]
Maximum Pressure in the Strait of Hormuz
Maximum Pressure in the Strait of Hormuz Hegemons are never going to sound too sensible when they lock horns or joust in spats of childish anger. Power corrupts, not merely in terms of perspective but language, and making sense about the next move, the next statement, is bound to be challenging. Otherwise justified behaviour can […]
Timidity and Palliatives While the Planet Burns
Timidity and Palliatives While the Planet Burns Photograph Source: Eric Fisk – Public Domain The best conditions for genuine discussion, for me at least, is during a feast of good food and drink. Ancient Greeks called that symposium. The wisdom behind the tradition of symposium – millennia ago and today — is simple. Friends and […]
The Mysterious “Sabotage” of Saudi Oil Tankers: a Dangerous Moment in Trump’s Escalating Conflict With Iran
The Mysterious “Sabotage” of Saudi Oil Tankers: a Dangerous Moment in Trump’s Escalating Conflict With Iran Saudi Arabia’s claim that two of its oil tankers have been sabotaged off the coast of the UAE is vague in detail – but could create a crisis that spins out of control and into military action. Any attack on shipping in or […]
Canada’s Minister of Defence is an Arms Pusher
Canada’s Minister of Defence is an Arms Pusher Would it surprise you to learn that Canada’s minister of defence is an arms pusher? Last Friday members of Mouvement Québécois pour la Paix interrupted a $135-a-plate luncheon to confront defence minister Harjit Sajjan. At an event sponsored by SNC Lavalin, Bombardier, Rio Tinto, etc., we called for cutting military spending, for Canada to […]
Pompeo’s Arctic Shipping Lanes
Pompeo’s Arctic Shipping Lanes Drawing by Nathaniel St. Clair America’s Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, speaking at the prestigious Arctic Council biannual meeting in Finland, christened the Arctic meltdown: “A wonderful economic opportunity for international trade.” In a nutshell, here’s a critique of the Secretary’s advice: An ice-free Arctic reduces travel time for shipping lanes […]
Adult Lifestyles Sentence Kids to 1,000 Years of “Deadly” Heat Waves
Adult Lifestyles Sentence Kids to 1,000 Years of “Deadly” Heat Waves Photograph Source: Intothewoods7 – CC BY-SA 4.0 Sixteen year old Greta Thunberg’s School Strike for Climate generation seems likely to witness the beginnings of a grueling, traumatizing, brutal, heat-driven reversal of the human population boom. Why? Because we’ve continued to pack the atmosphere with a little more […]
Post-Brexit Farming, Glyphosate and GMOs
Post-Brexit Farming, Glyphosate and GMOs The following is an edited and abridged version of an open letter recently sent by Dr Rosemary Mason to Michael Gove, the British Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs. The full version containing relevant citations and additional data and information may be accessed here. You can also find on […]
Environmental Crisis, Oil Geopolitics and the Trump Diversion
Environmental Crisis, Oil Geopolitics and the Trump Diversion Drawing by Nathaniel St. Clair America in 2019 is a very strange place. The problems of the age: looming environmental calamity, the threat of nuclear annihilation and accumulating class tensions, keep being shoved to the side through diversionary tactics. No sooner had a range of left programs […]
Bavarians Vote to Stop Extinction
Bavarians Vote to Stop Extinction The world is in the throes of an extinction crisis unlike any throughout paleoclimate history, aka: the Sixth Mass Extinction, keeping in mind that the normal “background rate” for extinction is 1-to-5 species gone per year. But, what if it is five (5) every 24 hours? Answer: It’s a lot […]
