Ukraine and the “Disinformation” Project: How Universities, NATO, and Intelligence Agencies Suppress Dissent

Tamara Lorincz  has a Masters in International Politics & Security Studies from the University of Bradford and a Law degree and MBA from Dalhousie University. She’s a member of the Canadian Voice of Women for Peace and the Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom-Canada. Tamara is also on the board of the Global Network…

Canadians Challenge Calls for a Foreign Influence Registry

Daniel Xie On April 14, 2023, Petition E-4395 became available for signature on the House of Commons website. This petition was drafted in response to plans for the implementation of a “Foreign Influence Transparency Registry” that is being considered by the Trudeau government; this being in response to baseless allegations being spread by CSIS and…

NATO’s Fabulators

Joshua Rathz ‘That reptile’, Brecht once wrote in his journal, referring to Thomas Mann, ‘cannot imagine anyone doing anything for Germany (and against Hitler) without orders from anywhere’. The Manns had been spreading rumours around Los Angeles that Brecht was Moscow’s pawn: ‘slurs . . . they know full well can do a great deal…

The Coming War

John Pilger Dec. 20, 2008: Protesters in Montreal threw shoes at a target poster of President George Bush outside the U.S. Consulate to show support for the Iraqi journalist Muntadar al-Zeizi , who threw his shoe at the real Bush. (Anirudh Koul, Flickr, CC BY-NC 2.0) Silences filled with a consensus of propaganda contaminate almost…

Cancelling Habermas

Stephan Sander-Faes On Feb. 15, 2023, left-liberal newspaper Die Zeit published an op-ed by Eva Illouz with the meaningful title ‘ Denouncing the Philosopher’s Calls for Negotiations, Intellectuals and Media Render Germany’s Reckoning with its Nazi Past a Farce I long for a total victory’ (orig. Ich wünsche mir einen totalen Sieg). Three days later, on Feb. 18,…

Fascist RESTRICT Bill is the State’s Reaction to an Irreversible Escalation in Class Conflict

Rainer Shea  With the introduction of the RESTRICT bill, the element of the ruling elite that’s most committed to advancing imperialism has made its intentions clear: to criminalize anti-imperialist activities and sentiments, starting with efforts to build solidarity with anti-imperialist countries. Should it pass, it will make the organizers I know whose job is to…

Canada’s Legacy Press Smears Assange to Deny the Public’s Right to Know

Peter Biesterfeld Ithaka the Movie (@IthakaMovie). Free Julian Assange advocates with the Shiptons after a screening of Ithaka in Toronto, Ontario. ‘Death spiral’ is an apt description of the status of Canadian establishment journalism today, journalism that misinforms Canadian news consumers about international affairs, coverage that fails to bring reliable insight and understanding of Canada’s…

Haiti, Syria and Beyond: How Canada’s Fourth Estate Fails to Serve the Public’s Right to Know

Peter Biesterfeld CF Editorial Note: This is part two of Peter Biesterfeld’s series for The Canada Files: Facts are Subversive: How Canada’s Mainstream Media Spreads Disinformation about the Conflict in Ukraine. It focuses on how Canada’s mainstream media is failing Canadians with its foreign policy coverage. What follows is a critical examination of the reliability…

Canada: More Rogue CSIS Spies Revealed Amidst Anti-China Psy-op

Aidan Jonah On March 16, 2023, on the CBC’s Power & Politics show, ex-Vancouver mayor Kennedy Stewart said two Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS) agents visited him in May 2022 and alerted him to supposed Chinese election interference out of frustration in hopes of him taking action. Stewart said the agents did this because they…

‘Rigorous’ Maidan Massacre Exposé Suppressed by Leading Academic Journal

Kit Klarenberg A peer-reviewed paper initially approved and praised by a prestigious academic journal was suddenly rescinded without explanation. Its author, one of the world’s top scholars on Ukraine-related issues, had marshaled overwhelming evidence to conclude Maidan protesters were killed by pro-coup snipers. The massacre by snipers of anti-government activists and police officers in Kiev’s…

Reality Based People Can Fact Check the ‘Fact-Checkers’

Moon of Alabama Stavroula Pabst, a writer in Greece, has published an interesting piece on the nefarious purpose of fact-checking and ‘dis-information’ debunking. Guy Debord’s Warning of “The Role of the Expert”: A Philosophical Perspective on the Rise of Fact-Checking The piece explains this by going back to the writings of the French philosopher Guy…

In a Compromised Media Environment, Western Intelligence Agencies Escalate NATO’s Proxy War in Ukraine Unchallenged

Stavroula Pabst The NATO Proxy War: A Bird’s Eye View As winter bites, the current NATO proxy war that has raged for almost a year shows no signs of stopping, with November 2022 reports quietly admitting that roughly 100,000 Ukrainian soldiers had been killed or wounded in action. Millions of Ukrainians have fled their homes, and…

Nord Stream: Propaganda, the Ultimate Weapon of Empire

Mohsen Abdelmoumen Empire’s relentless and murderous persecution of journalists who reveal the truth Journalists who care about doing their job and informing the public are very rare in the West, but fortunately there are still some, even if everything is done to prevent them from delivering information contrary to the dominant doxa. The most obvious…

$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,…

Facts are Subversive: How Canada’s Mainstream Media Spreads Disinformation about the Conflict in Ukraine

Peter Biesterfeld This is part one of Biesterfeld’s TCF series: A Case for anti-war and anti-imperialist journalism. Read before you write Once asked to explain his role as reporter preeminent investigative journalist I.F. Stone (1907-1989) answered: “To write the truth as I see it; to defend the weak against the strong; to fight for justice;…

India: Legal Proceedings against British Communications Network Unveils Geopolitical Positions

Yoselina Guevara L. George Soros and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi On February 14, Indian authorities carried out a procedure at the headquarters of the British broadcaster BBC in New Delhi. The operation is part of a tax audit, however it came after the publication of a documentary in which the BBC gave a biased…

Fidel Castro’s Legacy Lives on as Cuba Keeps Sending ‘Doctors, not Bombs’ All Across the World

Daniel Kovalik  Cuba’s leader Fidel Castro speaks on International Workers Day in Revolution Plaza in Havana, Cuba. ©  AP Photo/Javier Galeano In the immediate aftermath of the recent devastating earthquakes in Türkiye and Syria, Cuba dispatched medical teams to the affected areas to provide care to victims. Their departure was marked by a farewell ceremony, which featured…

Lies Liberals Tell to Obscure Operation Z’s Anti-Fascist Nature, & Discourage Anti-Imperialist Struggle

Rainer Shea When almost two-thirds of Americans are living paycheck to paycheck because of the inflation that the Ukraine war has accelerated, the U.S. empire can only continue its proxy war by carrying out an unprecedented amount of psyops. The war machine’s narrative managers have had to innovate, or else the social base for their Eurasian destabilization…