Canadian Author and Activist
Two weeks ago, Canada adopted another round of sanctions against Iran. Canadian leftists backing a public letter criticizing Iran invariably ignored Ottawa’s latest contravention of international law in service of the supreme international crime. On August 14 Canada provided another bout of assistance to the US/Israeli aggression by sanctioning five more Iranian officials. In response... Continue Reading →
Irwin Cotler is a stain on Canada. Leftists who have promoted this supremacist fraud should apologize to Palestinians. On the front of last Thursday’s National Post the former Liberal minister took his anti-Palestinian hate to a new low. In “The truth about Nakba: Propagandizing the antisemitism agenda in Canada”, Cotler wrote that the tiny “Palestine... Continue Reading →
Canada has violated a commitment for hosting a major international sporting event. But the NDP has stayed mum since it has supported this part of the US/Israeli aggression against Iran. On Tuesday a delegation from Iran’s football federation was blocked from entering Canada. The head of Iran’s delegation, Mehdi Taj, was supposed to lead the... Continue Reading →
Heather McPherson’s appointment as NDP foreign critic is morally and tactically dubious. Last week new leader Avi Lewis gave McPherson a position that she held over the past five years during which time she generally backed the Liberals’ US empire aligned policy. She’s a member of the NATO Parliamentary Association, close to the Ukrainian Canadian... Continue Reading →
Avi Lewis’ foreign critic is a NATO hawk whose positions are at odds with maintaining social services. This can be seen most clearly by contrasting Heather McPherson’s belligerence on Russia with the position of former Liberal PM Jean Chrétien. As NDP foreign affairs critic over the past five years McPherson has been an extreme war-is-the-only-language-they-speak... Continue Reading →
The NDP should apologize for enabling the US/Israeli war on Iran. The party has long assisted imperial aggression, which has escalated to a cataclysmic war. Caitlin Johnstone recently posted, “Can’t get over how many leftists bought into the ‘we support the Iran protests’ schtick. Where the fuck did you idiots think this was headed? What... Continue Reading →
Avi Lewis is right to not boost the genocidal warmongers. The NDP leadership candidate didn’t join other dippers and ‘pro-Palestinian’ thought leaders in encouraging an authoritarian Zionist frenzy. On Sunday genocidal fanatic Israeli foreign minister Gideon Sa’ar called foreign minister Anita Anand to express the rogue apartheid state’s “concerns regarding a series of shooting attacks... Continue Reading →
Yes, Avi Lewis is a “warmonger”. He’s more hawkish than Jean Chrétien on the NATO proxy war and has been silent on NDP militarism. I began a recent article asking “Is Avi Lewis a war monger? Does he want to prolong the costliest proxy war in Canadian history?” The piece detailed Lewis’ support for sending... Continue Reading →
No matter how many Israel kills, some self-described leftists continue to promote a supremacist colonial movement’s obvious ideological stick. But endorsing a unique form of Canadian assistance to a lawless supremacist state is anti-Palestinian. Yesterday the Liberals abolished the special envoy to promote genocide. As I detailed in a widely circulated post, the demise of... Continue Reading →
Does Avi Lewis “profoundly disagree” with my campaign’s call to shut down the tar sands? Or to convert Real Estate Investment Trust units into co-ops? Or to expand indigenous jurisdiction? Or to eliminate billionaires? Or did Avi just want to distance himself from an anti-imperialist who has been widely smeared for challenging power? In a... Continue Reading →
The year of Canada’s radical militarist turn. 2025 was also “the year the No Debate Party refused to discuss this most significant political development”. “History will view 2025 as the year that our allied capital markets and banks swung full force supporting defence and security," explained Kevin Reed, president of the development research group for... Continue Reading →
There’s little space for internationalism in official ‘left’ politics. From the Greens to NDP, imperialism and militarism dominate Canadian politics. A few weeks after backing Mark Carney’s radical militarist budget, Elizabeth May recently criticized Palestinian civil society’s call for non-violent solidarity. According to a Global Green News report, “May reiterated her long-standing opposition to the... Continue Reading →
A new book on Canada’s role in the destruction of Libya should embarrass the NDP and prompt members to ask tough questions of leadership candidates. Would Avi Lewis, Rob Ashton or Heather McPherson have promoted the destruction of the North African nation? Targeting Libya: Canadian Dams, Canadian Bombs is the definitive account of Canada’s significant... Continue Reading →
The NDP has let an individual who applauded a Nazi, supported buying a tar sands pipeline, engaged with a CIA talk shop, sits on a NATO parliamentary body and praises Canada’s leading proponent of a state committing a holocaust to participate its leadership race. But they may block someone who has spent two decades challenging... Continue Reading →
Heather vs Avi. That’s how the liberal media and NDP brass would like to frame the leadership race but, unfortunately for them there’s an anti-genocide, anti-military and anti-US insurgent left campaign promoting economic democracy, degrowth and land back policies, which is already shaping the debate. In “Heather McPherson, Avi Lewis prepare NDP leadership bids”... Continue Reading →
Recent events illustrate the geopolitics of political prisoners and are a lesson for us all about how the system favours certain ways of looking at the world. Marwan Barghouti has been locked up for nearly a quarter century. One of 10 000+ Palestinians kidnapped by occupation forces, Barghouti has been labeled the “Palestinian Nelson Mandela”... Continue Reading →
Genocide advocates are whipped up by my call to defend Canadians’ civil liberties and a colonized people’s internationally enshrined right to resist a brutal occupation. The panic highlights just how weak the NDP’s opposition to a live-streamed holocaust has been. On Sunday I told a Montreal 4 Palestine demonstration that as part of my bid... Continue Reading →
Wednesday evening 60 opponents of genocide marched from the Mount Royal metro to Mélanie Joly’s home in the Plateau neighbourhood. The protest was called to condemn the minister for lying about Canada arming the Israeli military. According to organizers’ press release, “Protesters are gathering outside the home of former Minister of Foreign Affairs Mélanie Joly... Continue Reading →
What exactly does Heather McPherson like about Irwin Cotler’s unremitting defence of Israel no matter how many thousands of children it bombs or starves to death? No matter its internal system of apartheid. No matter its ethnic cleansing, plain for all to see. During the NDP leadership race I am making it my mission to... Continue Reading →
The NDP leadership race is being gamed to favour an individual who supported buying a tar sands pipeline, applauded a Nazi, engaged with a CIA talk shop, sits on a NATO parliamentary body and praises Canada’s leading proponent of a state committing a holocaust. Is the NDP willing to forego $150 000+ to protect their... Continue Reading →
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