Tag: Politics

  • Patriotism and Sinophobia

    People such as former US military men like Scott Ritter and Douglas MacGregor provide excellent analysis on the geopolitics and warring in Ukraine. Ritter and McGregor are two Americans apparently able to relay a perspective based on their own take of a situation, a take independent of government pronouncements and home media reports. Nonetheless, despite […]

  • Pro-Israel and Ukraine Groups Use Identity Politics to Attack Free Speech

    Pro-Israel and Ukraine Groups Use Identity Politics to Attack Free Speech

    Questioning Canada’s contribution to NATO’s proxy war is “hate” that must be shut down according to some Ukrainian groups mimicking Zionist organizations by promoting an identity politics laced cancel culture. A Ukrainian student group sought to cancel my talk at Kings College in London, Ontario, on Thursday. In “Western Ukrainian Students’ Association Statement on The […]

  • Criminals at Large: The Iraq War Twenty Years On

    The arrest warrant from the International Criminal Court for Russian President Vladimir Putin came at an opportune moment. It was, if nothing else, a feeble distraction over the misdeeds and crimes of other leaders current and former. Russia, not being an ICC member country, does not acknowledge that court’s jurisdiction. Nor, for that matter, does […]

  • U.S. and Allies Seek Regime-Change in Russia

    U.S. and Allies Seek Regime-Change in Russia

    On 10 March, Canada’s National Post headlined “Regime change in Moscow ‘definitely’ the goal, Joly says,” and reported that “Foreign Affairs Minister Mélanie Joly raises the possibility of regime change in Moscow. … ‘The goal is definitely to do that, is to weaken Russia’s ability to launch very difficult attacks against Ukraine. We want also […]

  • How and Why Obama Downed the MH17 Passenger Plane on 17 July 2014

    How and Why Obama Downed the MH17 Passenger Plane on 17 July 2014

    Before the MH17 passenger plane was shot down over the civil-war zone in Ukraine on 17 July 2014, U.S. President Barack Obama needed to persuade 9 EU countries that were opposed to adding more sanctions against Russia — needed to force them to approve adding those sanctions. He needed to supply them with ‘evidence’ that […]

  • The Not-So-Winding Road from Iraq to Ukraine

    The Not-So-Winding Road from Iraq to Ukraine

    U.S. soldiers breaking into a home in Baquba, Iraq, in 2008   Photo: Reuters   March 19 marks the 20th anniversary of the U.S. and British invasion of Iraq. This seminal event in the short history of the 21st century not only continues to plague Iraqi society to this day, but it also looms large […]

  • It’s Your Human Right to Access Russian News and Analysis Sites in English if You Want

    It’s Your Human Right to Access Russian News and Analysis Sites in English if You Want

    Collage © Jan Oberg 2023 The human right to freely seek information is laid down in the American Convention on Human Rights from 1968. Article 13 states that “Everyone has the right to freedom of thought and expression. This right includes freedom to seek, receive, and impart information and ideas of all kinds.” The Universal […]

  • Birth Again the Dream of Global Peace and Mutual Respect

    Birth Again the Dream of Global Peace and Mutual Respect

    On 24 February 2023, the Chinese Foreign Ministry released a twelve-point plan entitled ‘China’s Position on the Political Settlement of the Ukraine Crisis’. This ‘peace plan’, as it has been called, is anchored in the concept of sovereignty, building upon the well-established principles of the United Nations Charter (1945) and the Ten Principles from the […]

  • North Carolina Strives To Extend and Increase Low-Performing Virtual Charter Schools

    Brick-and-mortar charter schools are notorious for being low-performing schools, even though they often cherry-pick their students to get the “best test results.” Poor academic performance is one of the three main reasons charter schools, which are privately-operated, close every week, leaving many parents, students, and teachers high and dry. Mismanagement and financial malfeasance are the […]

  • Trashing Asylum: The UK’s Illegal Migration Bill

    Trashing Asylum: The UK’s Illegal Migration Bill

    He was standing before a lectern at Downing Street. The words on the support looked eerily similar to those used by the politicians of another country. According to UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak, Stop the Boats was the way to go. It harked back to the same approach used by Australia’s Tony Abbott, who won […]

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