A Socialist In Canada, Jan 19, 2018 (revised website posting) Film director Oliver Stone’s 2016 documentary Ukraine On Fire is available to view in streaming or DVD purchase. The 90-minute video can be streamed or …
By Roger Annis, A Socialist In Canada, Jan 8, 2018 (with postscripts) Many readers of Western news media will be perplexed over reports of the wave of social protests which broke out in Iran on …
By Patrick Lawrence, published in Salon.com, Dec 31, 2017 (with comment by Roger Annis further below) Unnoticed by the West, ceasefire talks continue, even as the Pentagon ships weapons to a corrupt Ukrainian regime It …
By Virginia Tilley, published in CounterPunch, Dec 29, 2017 Introduction by Roger Annis: The enclosed article originally appeared in CounterPunch. It is one of many articles recently posted to New Cold War.org examining the growing …
A Socialist In Canada, Dec 27, 2017 The following is a compilation of articles and interviews by Dr. Jason Hickel. He is an anthropologist and author at the University of London and a Fellow of …
By Chris Heges, weekly column in Truthdig, Dec 24, 2017 In the early 1980s, I was in a refugee camp for Guatemalans who had fled the war into Honduras. It was a cold, dreary winter …
Op-ed commentary by David Schindler and Faisal Moola, published in the Vancouver Sun (Postmedia daily), Dec 20, 2017 (with related readings further below) The controversial, $10.7-billion Site C dam in northern British Columbia is Canada’s …
By Roger Annis, A Socialist In Canada, Dec 19, 2017 The people of Venezuela are staunchly resisting the regime change drive of Western governments and media. International solidarity is lacking. News reports in Western media …
By Azeezah Kanji, Toronto Star op-ed page, Dec 14, 2017 (with related readings and updates further below) This is the fundamental problem with Trump’s Jerusalem declaration: not that it risks igniting Muslim passions, but that …
By Roger Annis, A Socialist In Canada, Dec 13, 2017 (with postscripts on Dec 22, 2017) British Columbia Premier John Horgan announced on December 11 that his New Democratic Party government will proceed with construction …
By Frederick Burrill, published in The Conversation, Dec 11, 2017 Introductory note by Roger Annis: Quebec’s mainstream political spectrum from left to right supports the idea that the provincial government should legislate ‘secularism’ in government …
A Socialist In Canada, Dec 11, 2017 (extensive related readings further below) ‘The development of nuclear weapons signifies not a country’s elevation to greatness, but its descent to the darkest depths of depravity.’ ‘All responsible …