The End of Canada: The Shift from Democracy to Totalitarian Behaviour in the ‘Pandemic Era’

Ray McGinnis Introduction March 2024 marked the fourth anniversary of one of the most disastrous assaults on human rights in Canadian history. This assault was in synch with what unfolded in democracies across ‘the West.’ In her 2007 book, The End of America: Letter of Warning To A Young Patriot, Dr. Naomi Wolf warned readers of ten steps repeatedly…

Canada: Calls for Invoking War Measures Act Against Pro-Palestine Protests

Marthad Shingiro Umucyaba The colonial empire strikes back. Mass arrests and martial law are now openly being called for by the reactionary Zionist forces in the colonial periphery of Canada and the United States of America, in coordinated fashion with the ramping up of repressive tactics by the state, against pro-Palestine youth. The Sith lords…

AI Countergovernance

Blair Attard-FrostIn the last year, the rapid uptake of generative artificial intelligence (AI) systems such as ChatGPT, Dall-E, and Stable Diffusion has led to countless public discussions about the ethics and regulation of AI. There have also been revelations of significant harms caused by those systems. The development of ChatGPT  and many other AI systems is deeply entwined with exploitative labour…

Confinement: Analysis of a Mass Obedience Pilot Experiment

Juan Manuel Olarieta In September last year two French sociologists, Nicolas Mariot and Theo Boulakia, published a book entitled «L’Attestation»  on the confinement imposed during the pandemic in several countries. In addition, on Wednesday Mariot gave an interview to the journal of the CNRS, the French equivalent of the French National Research Council (*), a…

The Gaza Method

Tarik Cyril Amar The West’s evolving blueprint for controlling a poly-crisis world by mass-murdering and subjugating the poor, the rebellious, and those deemed “superfluous.” When Israel started its latest and ongoing round of genocide-with-ethnic-cleansing against the Palestinians (and then, of course, every crime against humanity and war crime in the book, all the books), I…

The Mechanism: The Rules Based Order Descends into Savagery

Pepe Escobar The awful shadow of some unseen Power Floats tho’ unseen amongst us, -visiting This various world with as inconstant wing As summer winds that creep from flower to flower.- Like moonbeams that behind some piny mountain shower, It visits with inconstant glance Each human heart and countenance; Like hues and harmonies of evening,-…

Policing and Palestine

Erik Jacobson For many people, the security guard’s infamous actions during Aaron Bushnell’s protest in front of the Israeli embassy illustrated the stark division between the police and those who fight against multiple forms of state-sponsored violence. While Aaron was sacrificing his life to call attention to the ongoing oppression of Palestinians, the guard’s first…

Manufacturing Consent: The Border Fiasco and the “Smart Wall”

Whitney Webb The political response to the crisis at the southern border continues to advance the bipartisan “smart wall,” having been backed by Trump and Biden alike. This bipartisan consensus reaches far beyond the US, as much of the world is similarly speeding along in implementing “digital borders.” The disastrous situation at the US-Mexico border…

UK Steps Up War on Whistleblower Journalism with New National Security Act

Kit Klarenberg Under a repressive new act, British nationals could face prison for undermining London’s national security line. Intended to destroy WikiLeaks and others exposing war crimes, the law is a direct threat to critical national security journalism. It was the afternoon of May 17 2023 and I had just arrived at London’s Luton Airport. I was…

Why Is Fascism Growing? How Can We Stop It?

Boaventura de Sousa Santos People hold up their cell phones as they protest against the AfD and right -wing extremism in front of the Reichstag building in Berlin, Germany, Sunday, Jan. 21, 2024. [AP Photo/Ebrahim Noroozi] To understand the emergence and growth of far-right parties around the world, and especially in Europe, we need to…

Gaza & Confronting Power

When Goebbels, the brain behind Nazi propaganda, heard culture being discussed, he brought out his revolver. That shows that the Nazis, who were and are the most tragic expression of imperialism and of its thirst for domination–even if they were all degenerates like Hitler, had a clear idea of the value of culture as a…

Press Freedom is Slipping Away in Canada

Marc Edge Our right to free expression is under assault from all sides—government, corporations and even academics Press freedom is increasingly under assault worldwide by governments that are finding the Internet much easier to control than the press ever was. While dictators everywhere suppress dissent by throttling the chokepoint of Internet access, Canada unfortunately leads…

MKUltra’s Terrifying Reach: Ethnic Bioweapons from Ukraine, Mind Control and Horrific Human Experiments

Kit Klarenberg In a groundbreaking investigation, renowned anthropologist Orisanmi Burton has blown the lid off a dark chapter in CIA history. Classified Agency files, recently obtained through Freedom of Information laws, expose shocking ties between the infamous MKULTRA program and nightmarish experiments on prisoners of color within the United States. Burton’s findings expose MKULTRA’s sinister mission to develop…

Liberal and Left Silence on National Security Police State When Used Against Trump and His Supporters

Stan Smith Members of the D.C. National Guard deployed outside the U.S. Capitol in Washington on January 6. (Andrew Caballero-Reynolds/AFP/Getty Images) The National Security police state now regards the Democratic Party a more useful tool to criminalize opposition to US wars and maintain their control over the US government. We see this in the attack…

Innocent Until Labelled “Foreign”: The Unrestricted Parameters of Foreign Influence Registries

Truth Bomb Media As Canadian lawmakers consider the adoption of a Foreign Influence Transparency Registry, it’s important for Canadians to critically examine the true motives underlying this law and consider what it’s been used for by our “allies.” While it is presented as a measure to enhance transparency and bolster national security, instead, it will serve as…

Commission Reveals that Trudeau Government Lied About Nature of Truckers Protests in Ottawa Last February to Justify Invocation of Emergencies Act

Ray McGinnis Anti-vaccine mandate protesters were falsely accused of being rapists, white supremacists and violence-prone by a liberal prime minister who endangers Canadian freedoms. A year ago Canadian mainstream media and politicians described an unruly mob headed for Ottawa. On January 26, 2022, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau told Canadians there was a “fringe minority” with…

$749,387 Pentagon Contract Debunks the Lie about “Independent” Fact-Checkers

Dilyana Gaytandzhieva The Pentagon has funded fact-checkers under a program to mark independent journalists as disinformation. Photo: defense.gov Documents expose the so called „independent“ fact-checkers. The so called disinformation fighters are nothing more than well-paid employees working under a $749,387 program funded by the Pentagon. A U.S. company called News Guard, self-proclaimed as independent fact-checkers,…

iSAGE: The Journalist-Run, Intelligence-Linked Operation that Warped British Pandemic Policy

Kit Klarenberg Presented as an independent voice for “unbiased” scientific advice, iSAGE provided a channel for media spinmeisters, spies and psy-op specialists to influence Britain’s pandemic policy without accountability. Leaked internal emails show members fretting over its unethical methods. Throughout Britain’s response to the COVID-19 crisis, a lobbying group known as the Independent Scientific Advisory…