Canadian Author and Activist
The government’s response to a Montréal firm supplying 50,000 explosives to the Israeli military highlights the need for opponents of Israel's holocaust to challenge Canada’s military alliances. Last week it was reported that a Montreal facility of General Dynamics Ordnance and Tactical Systems will provide 50,000 mortars and fuzes to the Israeli military. The $83... Continue Reading →
Do you understand just how racist and colonial the NDP’s foreign policy seems to many? The party’s apparent racism is on display in its response to widely covered issues such as China and those largely ignored like Haiti. During the federal election campaign in October Jagmeet Singh said Canada should seek to join AUKUS, the... Continue Reading →
This year marks the 75th anniversary of a little known but influential arm of Canada’s foreign policy apparatus. An entity called the Communications Security Establishment was established to spy internationally in 1946, operating secretly during its first four decades. With an annual budget of $780 million and 3000 employees, the CSE has a variety of high-tech... Continue Reading →
For thousands of years folk wisdom has insisted that ‘you shall be known by the company you keep’. This is also true of countries. A recent United Nations vote condemning the “glorification of Nazism, neo‑Nazism and other practices that contribute to fuelling contemporary forms of racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and related intolerance” generated significant commentary... Continue Reading →
Who is the useful idiot? According to National Post columnist John Ivison, I am. (“Useful idiots of the world unite - and they have, with 'Free Meng' event”) So are others who challenge the narrative that authoritarian China is such a danger to the US/Britain/Canada/Australia/New Zealand "Five Eyes" settler colonial states’ way of life that... Continue Reading →
In recent weeks movements in different countries have toppled statues and put the police and other institutions upholding systemic racism on the defensive. But, amidst unprecedented protests against racism, there has been remarkably little interest in the white supremacist foreign policy alliance currently driving conflict with China. The “Five Eyes” intelligence arrangement has faced almost... Continue Reading →
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