A Rabble interview with the Macdonald-Laurier Institute’s Kaveh Shahrooz offers a troubling window into Canadian politics. Last month the left-wing website, for whom I’ve written for two decades, published “Understanding the dynamics of the protests in Iran”. Everything about the article should have raised red flags. Described as “a lawyer and human rights activist”,... Continue Reading →
Israel lobby continues to stoke anti-Iran animus
In recent years Israel has assassinated Iranian scientists, sabotaged its cyber facilities and backed opposition groups. The nuclear armed state has also repeatedly bombed Iranian targets in Syria. Yet the mainstream media and our government never criticizes Israel’s effort to destabilize a regime that offers some resistance to its domination of the region. Instead, Canada... Continue Reading →
Talk of Iran regime change reaffirms Canadian hypocrisy
According to Canadian government behaviour, the lack of democracy and repression of women is bad in Iran, but okay in Saudi Arabia. Why? None of the opposition parties are even asking the question. The new deputy leader of the Conservatives wants to overthrow the government of Iran. In response to Power & Politics host Vassy... Continue Reading →
Trudeau toes imperial line on Iran
While the current Liberal government claims to be progressive and in favour of a rules-based international order, promotion of democracy and world peace, its actions regarding Iran demonstrate that the primary drivers of Canadian foreign policy remain US Empire geo-political interests and the rich and powerful. (This previous article argues this has long been the... Continue Reading →
Canada opposed Iranian democracy
To understand where you are, it is necessary to know where you have been. To understand current Canadian policy towards the 18th most populous country in the world, it is necessary to look at the history of Ottawa’s relations with Iran. For the first 75 years after Confederation Canada’s foreign policy was largely shaped by the... Continue Reading →
Seizure of Iranian property to pay Americans another example of Canadian hypocrisy
While France, Germany, Russia and China seek detente, Canada is increasingly part of the US-Saudi Arabia-Israeli axis stoking conflict with Iran. Canada recently seized and sold $30 million worth of Iranian properties in Ottawa and Toronto to compensate individuals in the US who had family members killed in a 2002 Hamas bombing in Israel and... Continue Reading →
Munk School of Global Affairs feeds anti-Iran propaganda
Sometimes, when you pay attention, it is easy to see how foreign policy propaganda works. Take the case of Iran. Recently the US has choked off Iranian oil exports, listed its military a terrorist organization and dispatched an aircraft carrier and B-52 bombers to its environs to stop Iran’s “aggression”. Going along with Donald Trump’s... Continue Reading →
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