Yves Engler NATO is a bad influence. The North Atlantic Treaty Organization strengthens the worst tendencies of our political culture. Ricochet recently reported on internal government documents regarding a discussion about selling sensors for armed drones to Turkey. Last spring the Trudeau government approved an exemption to an arms export ban to Turkey, allowing Ontario-based L3Harris Wescam…
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Canadian Ties to U.S. Empire: Lester Pearson and the Myth of Canada as Peaceable Kingdom
Richard Sanders Pearson with LBJ sitting in front of RCMP. [Source: potus-geeks.livejournal.com] B. Pearson, a recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize is a symbol of Canada’s supposed humanitarianism; In reality, however, he was a war hawk and the Godfather of Canada’s Cold War. Part I in an exclusive CAM series on the United States’ northern…
Canadian Economist Dispels 4 Myths About Socialism
Steve Lalla The Cuban interior ministry building in Havana’s Revolution Square,Havana. “The word ‘socialism’ sounds very scary to many people,” said Canadian political economist Radhika Desai in a recent interview. “Because of the propaganda against the idea of socialism, we’ve been made to fear socialism,” she added. Desai is a professor with the Department of…
Black Lives Matter Canada Stands in Solidarity with Deposed Tigrayan Puppets for US Imperialism
Ann Garrison #R2P Propaganda for US War in Tigray Reaches Young Anarchists and Black Lives Matter Not just white phony “leftists,” but Black Lives Matter activists have been conned into mouthing vicious CIA and State Department propaganda against Ethiopia and Eritrea. “The propaganda used to lure First World leftists to imperialism against the Third World…
Racial Capitalism and the Betrayal of Haiti
Yves Engler The richest Haitians Domination by multinational corporations and “light skinned” local capitalists — that’s the story of Haiti as illustrated by one recent event. The day after his already paper-thin constitutional legitimacy completely eroded Jovenel Moïse gave significant amounts of Haitian land to a light skinned oligarch working with Coca-Cola. According to most…
How Did a Fateful CIA Coup—Executed 55 Years Ago this February 24—Doom Much of Sub-Saharan Africa?
Charles Quist-Adade, Ph.D. Dr. Kwame Nkrumah, former Prime Minister of Ghana and Pan-Africanist visionary who was voted as “Africa’s Man of the Millennium.” [Source: africanglobe.net] Fifty-five years ago on this day, the fate of Africa was irrevocably altered when the CIA sponsored a 1966 coup d’état against Dr. Kwame Nkrumah, former Prime Minister of Ghana…
Labor and Repression: Contradictions Persist in the Global Labor Struggle
Nicholas Ayala Lenin recognized that at his time, imperialism was being pursued by social democrats, reformers, and progressives. Imperialism “emerged from the domestic tract of the Western trade union movement.” The social imperialists in the rich countries believed that Western workers would have to advance first and then they could lead the rest of the…
Fighting the Extreme Right, Building the Left
André Frappier Masked Proud Boys at a protest in Raleigh, North Carolina. Photo by Anthony Crider/Flickr This article is a response to “Banning the Proud Boys—be careful what you ask for” by John Clarke, published in Canadian Dimension on January 16, 2021. The federal government’s addition of the far-right group the Proud Boys to the…
Zionism’s Shrewd Manipulation of African Movements
Ahjamu Umi The conscious African activist community is reacting today to the announcement that Alicia Garza – one of the original spokespersons for the rising Black Lives Matter movement in 2014 – has accepted an invitation to speak at a so-called “Jewish Values International Awards dinner during February of 2021. To the untrained eye, it’s…
Canada: Controversial Legislation Targets Environmental, Indigenous Activists
Brendan Devlin A man waves a Mohawk Warrior flag on the Pat Bay Highway during a blockade in support of Wet’suwet’en hereditary chiefs, February 2020. Photo by Wolf Depner/Black Press Media. Critical infrastructure protection: Dangerous politics in Manitoba, Alberta and beyond At the close of last year’s fall legislative session, Manitoba’s Progressive Conservative government introduced…
Haiti: Black Despots and White Rulers
Jemima Pierre The horror story in Haiti since 2004 is not really about despotic Black government, but is the consequence and crime of global white rule. “Moïse is the product of a broader system blocking Haiti’s democratic path and sovereignty, a system that is built and maintained by the white rulers of the world.” The…
Anniversary of African Genocide in Libya
Editorial Comment: The following article was published in February, 2019. Libya remains in turmoil today as NATO nations compete for the spoils of war and the people languish as hopes for healing, peace and justice are unrealized. A.V. Julian Lahai Samboma Men carry coffins during the burial of more than two dozen people after an…
