Global Research News Hour: Recent Episodes
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(REPEAT BROADCAST)This week, on the Global Research News Hour, with tensions soaring lately over the decision by outgoing president Biden to allow Ukraine to fire ATACMS missiles into the territory of its neighbours, we are spending time discussing the latest stage of the conflict which could make NATO a direct combatant in the Russia-Ukraine war and lead to World War III.For most of the show, we are joined by military veteran turned peace activist Scott Ritter to tell us about some of the history of the war extending way before February 2022, the latest updates, and his involvement with Operation Dawn. Toward the end of the show, we hear from Hamilton based peace activist Ken Stone about plans to counter NATO during the group’s meeting in Montreal, Quebec this coming weekend.
(repeat broadcast)This week, on the Global Research News Hour we share the disappointing news, in the eyes of some critics, that a modified, watered down version of the Pandemic Agreement was finally approved at the World Health Assembly last month, and the prospects for rights and national sovereignty moving forward.In our first half hour, we play an excerpt from a September 2024 interview with journalist and film maker James Corbett of the Corbett Report on last year’s failure of the Pandemic Agreement in which he successfully predicted the threat it represented would be approved sooner or later. And in our second half hour, we spoke to commentator Dr. Meryl Nass about what is still problematic about this year’s approach to stopping apparently much more frequent pandemic calls in the years ahead.
REPEAT BROADCAST - This week, on the Global Research News Hour, concerns are starting to be raised about more and more journalists, activists and even scholars who are having their lives disrupted in the wake of detentions, arrests, and even outright suppression of rights as the cancer of anti-terrorism laws grows to the point of targeting almost anyone who voices concerns as we have on the show about the NATO instigated Ukraine War, opposition to the genocidal campaign waged by Israel and more. This show features an array of guests with dissenting views on foreign policy in Canada and abroad facing such measures and some analysis of what can be done to reverse this trend. Conversations with journalists Eva Bartlett and Vanessa Beeley, and with academics Tamara Lorincz, Radhika Desai and Kevin Mackay.
REPEAT BROADCAST - This week on the global Research News Hour, we are observing key themes in 21st century warfare that are missed in conventnional mainstream media coverage. In our first half hour. Bruce Gagnon of the Global Network Against Weapons and Nuclear Power in Space reveals how space technology has transformed modern warfare and how today’s peacemakers can fight back. And in our second half hour, the pivotal 9/11 truth activist Richard Gage steps in to tell listeners about the 21 parallels between the September 11th terrorist attack on America and the October 7th Hamas attack on Israel, including the state reaction satisfying the nation’s prior geo-strategic goals.
On today’s broadcast we will air excerpts from a webinar held on June 10 and focusing on the theme of how both NATO and the G7 are vehicles for the imperialist powers to dominate the globe and make the planet a great deal more dangerous. It was organized by the Canada-Wide Peace and Justice Network and featured three key voices: Owen Schalk, Tamara Lorincz and Barbara Waldern.
This week, on the Global Research News Hour, we have a special episode dealing with the principal concerns of the leading critic of Canadian foreign policy, Yves Engler. We discuss the subject of the Israel-bias in mainstream Canadian media and we also discuss Yves’s decision to run seriously for the New Democratic Party, after its former leader resigned. We will also hear part of an interview from 2018 with Yves by Global Research News Hour collaborator and friend Paul Graham.
This week on the Global Research News Hour we are taking on major crimes of disinformation in Western media regarding the 21 month assault on the people of Gaza, which conveniently distorts it to the point here Israelis are the victims and the Palestinians who die by the tens of thousands are all Hamas. How is this task continuously achieved in the age of information? In our first half hour, we hear from reporter Robert Inlakesh about the state of censorship in the conflict currently. And in our second half hour, Jason Toney of Canadians for Justice and Peace in the Middle East shows up to introduce listeners to the latest publication from The Breach entitled When Genocide Wasn’t News: How Canadian Media Covered up the Destruction of Gaza
This week on the Global Research News Hour we examine this fundamental push happening toward support for NATO and militarism happening behind the scenes while our planet is facing a host of other problems. In our first half hour we speak to Alex Tyrrell leader of the Green Party of Quebec about a disturbing trend of NATO aligned entities looking to promote themselves under the guise of civic participation of our youth to reverse the anti-war trend that has developed among young people today. Then in our second half hour, we talk to revered peace activist figure Medea Benjamin about NATO countries’ overwhelmingly agreed to addition of 5 Percent of nations’ GDP to defensive purposes will also subtract from our commitment to the environment and each other. Finally, peace activist Ken Stone joins us to talk about CANA. The Canadian NATO Parliamentary Association, and how it too drowns out Canadian military and foreign policy independence in the waters that power Defence contractors and Weapons manufacturers at the expense of everyone from the elderly to the next generation.
This week on the Global Research News Hour we focus the spotlight on long time friend and colleague James Corbett, host of the Corbett Report on the arrival of his brand new book, Reportage: Essays on the New World Order, a book that explores the podcasters journey through the many topics that should concern listeners but that is ignored and suppressed in mainstream media, including the false flag theory of the 9/11 attacks, the control by elites of both the Left and the Right, the capture of science and environmental concerns and much, much more.
This week on the Global Research News Hour, we look at the recent attack on Iran by Israel and the reciprocal attacks by Iran and the alarming direction this exchange of missiles could lead in the not so distant future. In our first half hour, we talk to Military analyst Drago Bosnic about the latest developments and the possibility of the greater powers getting into the fray. And in our second half hour, the economist, writer and radio broadcaster Jack Rasmus is back to look at the history of decline of the US Empire and the latest damage this strike against Iran will do to the fate of the US empire.
Today on the Global Research News Hour, we are looking at plans by Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney to boost military spending to 2 percent of the GDP of his country in just a few months, his apparent embrace of the unproven Golden Dome missile defense shield and what stakes await Canadians who want to stop war, not start new ones (especially those of a nuclear nature.) In our first half hour, the scientist Theodore Postol of MIT joins us to explain why the Missile Defense shield today,, like missile defense in the 1980s is more science fiction than science fact and why alternatives would be far more preferable to this insanely expensive strategy. Then in our second half hour, we sit down with Tamara Lorincz of the Canadian Voice Women for Peace to discuss the false vision of a more peaceful world through increasing and expensive military strength and how to refute these claims in Canada. Finally, Alberta organizer Morrigan Johnson representing the Canada-Wide peace and justice network explains what is wrong with the G7 leaders meeting in his province this weekend and about the activities pushing back against an agenda not in the interest of the Canadian or the world’s people.
This week, on the Global Research News Hour we share the disappointing news, in the eyes of some critics, that a modified, watered down version of the Pandemic Agreement was finally approved at the World Health Assembly last month, and the prospects for rights and national sovereignty moving forward.In our first half hour, we play an excerpt from a September 2024 interview with journalist and film maker James Corbett of the Corbett Report on last year’s failure of the Pandemic Agreement in which he successfully predicted the threat it represented would be approved sooner or later. And in our second half hour, we spoke to commentator Dr. Meryl Nass about what is still problematic about this year’s approach to stopping apparently much more frequent pandemic calls in the years ahead.
This week on the Global Research News Hour, as the wildfires in Manitoba and across Canada are raising concerns and has many figures pointing to Climate Change as a major culprit, we resurrect an earlier interview pertaining to secret technology being used that not only affects forest fires, but also weather, earthquakes, hurricanes and even shockingly people! We will speak to the author of the Geoengineering trilogy and discuss the fourth book, “The Geoengineered TransHuman: The Hidden Technologies of HAARP, Chemtrails, 5G/6G, nanotechnology, Synthetic Biology, and the Scientific Effort to Transform Humanity.”
This week on the Global Research News Hour we continue our discussion of CUBA in the modern era by spending the bulk of our time in the physical company of Gerardo Hernandez, the leader of the CUBAN 5. During our conversation we talked about the mission for which the group was punished, his his time in prison, the impact of being freed, and the difficult journey of CUBA in modern times.
The Cuban people have been through so much over the last 60 plus years with intense periods of hardship, especially over the last decade. The bulk of this hardship, I suspect, is due to the Blockade. But there is a disturbing trend developing at least as far back as the Obama administration, that elements of the Cuban society are succumbing to American pressure and are serving roles willingly or not against the very principles of the Revolution. If that is the case, how does the resistance in the streets react to the reality of the enemy within so to speak? And has the Revolutionary fight weakened with the death of the legendary Fidel Castro? That concept will be the subscript to the discussion in a special episode of this program.
This week on the Global Research News Hour we mark both the 19th month of Israel’s continued assaults on Gaza since October 7th, and we also mark the 77th anniversary of the NAKBA, the displacement and expulsion of hundreds of thousands of Palestinians which started the Arab-Israeli War. We will first hear from Louay Alghoul, a Winnipeg lawyer with over a hundred relatives killed over the past year and a half and he will inform us regarding the situation as he encountered the fleeing and dying from his trips to Egypt in recent months. Later on we hear from radio station CFCR in Saskatoon regarding their guest Deirdre Nunan an orthopedic surgeon who talks about what she encountered through her practice of medicine in this unending Middle East war.
This week on the Global Research News Hour, we turn our attention to the massive killings of Alawites, Sunnis and Christians continuing to take place in parts of Syria while the so-called pro-democratic Western media looks on with indifference, and continues to present the culprits, Hayat Tahrir Al-Sham or HTS, as the 'new and improved regime. We spend most of our show in conversation with award-winning journalist and photographer Vanessa Beeley discussing the experiences of many who have been fleeing and of her own experience in mid-December. Then toward the end of our show, we are joined by military and geopolitical analyst Drago Bosnic to get insights from him on the broad goals of themain foreign power interests supporting HTS in Syria supposedly for the good of the people.
This week on the Global Research News Hour we continue our discussion with the Federal candidates competing against each other to become the next representative of Winnipeg Centre in the April 28 election. We also hear from Michel Chossudovsky, head of the centre for Research on Globalization about the single question of how US Northern Command has already fundamentally extinguished our sovereignty in critical ways. And we finally hear from author and activist Yves Engler about the major Canadian foreign policy questions not getting enough attention in mainstream media.
(REPEAT BROADCAST) This week, on the Global Research News Hour, with the 29th UN Conference of the Parties underway preparing to save the day for the Planet, we host an analysis of some of the factors other than fossil fuels influencing global Climate change and also take a look at what major financial eco-warriors are really doing behind the curtain of mainstream media spotlight.In our first half hour, we hear a report by Greg Reese on the probable use of ENMOD strategies and the motive of supplying the US with access to lithium that was responsible for the devastation in North Carolina last month, We hear from Writer-Blogger Dmitry Orlov on the cause of climate change as rooted in the heavens rather than the Earth. And in our final half hour, Matthew Ehret, editor-in-chief of The Canadian Patriot Review, joins us to discuss the rise of Canadian Banker Mark Carney and his role in forging ahead with a world government and the depopulation of the planet.
This week, on the Global Research news Hour, we feature appearances by some of the candidates in the Canadian elections as they situate themselves and their positions in time for the April 28 national vote. We start our show with one by one discussions with three of the candidates for the riding of Winnipeg Centre which houses radio station CKUW. Then we play back excerpts of a discussion from 2018 with Saskatchewan based farmer, political activist and two time contender for leadership of the Progressive Conservative Party of Canada about how Canada is in the same position in 2017 as the Canadian colonies were in back in 1866, and now like then, pulling out of free trade with the U.S. would be to the advantage of those above the 49th parallel.
This week, on the Global Research News Hour, with politicians everywhere calling for increased spending on the military and we now standing at the cusp of an even larger Middle East war about to break out soon we are trying to assess where we may be headed. In our first half hour, we have a talk with Ken Stone of the Hamilton Coalition to Stop the War about his group’s appeals for peace during the federal election. Then in our second half hour, Larry Johnson, former CIA officer and intelligence analyst, offers his thoughts about the tensions between the US and Iran finally exploding into a major military attack in the not too distant future.
This week, we provide audio from a special presentation of two Israeli War resisters who were travelling across Canada shedding light on their bold decision to refuse military service in protest of Israel’s occupation of Palestine and its ongoing violence in Gaza. Einat Gerlitz and Tal Mitnick are leading figures in a growing wave of dissent among Israeli youth, challenging the brutal military occupation and advocating for Palestinian liberation. Both of them have paid the price for their stand, enduring time in Israeli military prisons for their refusal to participate in what they call a violent system that perpetuates apartheid and genocide. Their actions have sparked a global conversation about the vital role of war resisters in the fight for human rights and a free Palestine.They are also examples of the call to others in military service during illegal wars to Abandon the Battlefield, a major activist call by the Centre for Research on Globalization. So this week, we thought we would give you the entire presentation by these two heroic individuals at the Hope Mennonite Church, in Winnipeg, Manitoba on March 20, 2025.
This week on the Global Research News Hour, we examine the agendas of the billionaire tech pros behind the Trump administration and see that there is a heck of a lot more to be worried about than what has been recently reported in the legacu media. In our first hour we will have a conversation with the author, journalist and the co-founder of the Dailyclout Naomi Wolf about the digital theft Elon Musk perpetrated at the end of January and the repercussions for the public in America and abroad. Then in our second half hour, UK author and journalist Iain Davis joins us to talk about his latest series of articles entitled The Dark MAGA Gov-Corp Technate, which alleges that the wealthy Tech lords standing in the shadows behind him are using their positions to further goals toward a Technocratic future, whether Trump is aware of it or not.
This week on the Global Research News Hour, we focus on the differences in American foreign policy resulting from the newly sworn in president Donald Trump and how it is changing not only international wars but even the alliances within the world order. In our first half hour, author and journalist Ron Ridenour reports on the recent Greenland election and how the result was reflected and impacted by the promise of the American President's Annexation threat. Then in our second half hour, frequent Global Research News Hour commentator Jack Rasmus reflects on the reasons for Trump's approach of making threats to allies and meeting with supposed enemies, all in the name of building peace in our world and making America strong again.
This week on the Global Research News Hour, as we go on air on the eve of International Womens Day, we review the state of the womens movement today and reveal its many shortcomings and uses in fact to enable the male dominated fields of imperialism, and war against Mother Nature. In our first half hour, Professor Claudia Von Werlhof joins us to talk about the principle of fighting Patriarchy which is missing in the modern womens movement and about how we must tackle it before our silence rips apart the Earth itself. Then in our second half hour we are joined once again by author, broadcaster and journalist Sonali Kolhatkar to share some of the history of the dismantling ofk establishment of womens rights in Afghanistan as being linked to US imperalistic control. Finally, we talk to Nour Jaghama, a Palestinian-American and CODEPINK organizer about how the feminist movement in the US is being exploited as an enabler of imperialist control at the expense of the rights of women in Palestine, Iran and elsewhere.
This week, on the Global Research News Hour, we return to the theme of Black History Month and examine the underlying but unstated White Supremacism which is still expressing itself today. In our first half hour, we hear from the scholar-activist Tina Renier about the United States turning against people of colour under Trump and the MAGA movement and about some of the ways we could reverse the tide. Then in our second half hour, we hear from the acclaimed Canadian Historian Afua Cooper about the various examples of Black people in Canada being marginalized in the history books and about what is gained by hiding past crimes from pupblic consicousness.
The Global Research News Hour this week will fight back against the State’s propaganda drive.In our first half hour, we are talking to two allies and friends, Chris Cook, the host of “Gorilla-Radio” and Phil Taylor, host of The Taylor Report on the different issues we are all covering that confront people in the peace movement in 2025. In our second half hour, we speak about the importance of keeping our fora on campus-community radio stations alive and well when all the state and corporate media have developed into George Orwell’s Ministry of Truth. As well, I invite Jazmin Alfaro, a former radio host of CKUW, onto the show to talk about the merits of doing this kind of journalism for herself and for her listeners.This was a LIVE episode of the Global Research News Hour. It was part of our annual fund-raiser for the station.
Donate to fundrive.ckuw.ca So on this week’s episode, we are putting the focus on the work we do along side numerous people attempting to speak the unspoken truth of war. In the first half hour, we spend time talking to Yusuf Omar of Seen.tv. He is a former war correspondent working for CNN who came to understand the unique contributions that Palestinians can make in Gaza by telling their own stories with a cell phone camera, and at a time when Palestinian journalists are dying by the scores in order to communicate to the outside world. He is to present films by Bisan Owda and Ahmad Ghunaim to audiences across Canada and the United States in the coming week. This interview is followed by one with Ramsey Zeid, a Palestinian-Canadian activist in Winnipeg, talking about aspects of the Genocide in Palestine not spoken about in mainstream media outlets, including the challenges and the rewards of activism. Finally, two former guests, Canadian peace activists, Glenn Michalchuk and Tamara Lorincz, speak about some of the more persistent lies and persistent activism to turn the tide toward a more stable and just world. This show is part of radio station CKUW’s Fundrive, encouraging listeners to contribute what they can to keep an island of truth-telling less isolated in an ocean of propaganda.
(Please donate now to CKUW radio during Fundrive! go to https://fundrive.ckuw.ca) This week, on the Global Research News Hour, in the first week of Black History Month, we are profiling major incidents around the world affecting Black people struggling against white supremacist imperialist control. In our first half hour, Abayomi Azikiwe joins us to talk about what caused people in the Sahel States running through the heart of Africa to turn their backs on The French and American interests acting in their own interests. We also have him explain the dynamics behind the 18 month civil war erupting in Sudan. In our second half hour, we are joined by Judi Rever who speaks to us about how Rwanda and its links with the US and EU is responsible for the latest developments in Goma, DRC. Finally, we are joined by the Haitian-Canadian Jafrikayiti to explain the bigger White supremacist picture behind the current so called humanitarian mission in the Western end of the Hispaniola Island.
This week on the Global Research News Hour we are exploring unusual events in January that were explained in the mainstream media but behind which more questions lie. In our first half hour, we talk to a veteran of the CIA and the State Department’s Office of Counter Terrorism about lingering questions he has about the attacks in New Orleans and in Las Vegas on New Year’s Day, and indications that the FBI and the Las Vegas police force were deliberately lying about certain aspects of each case, and about some similarities the two actors had with each other. Next in our second half hour, we are joined by botanist and forest agronomist Robert Brame who noted some of the odd properties of the fires currently burning toward Los Angeles. Finally, Elana Freeland, the writer, and specialist on the Deep State and GEO ENGINEERING presents an alternative explanation of the fires and reveals plans for this technology going way beyond merely arson.Do
This week on the Global Research News Hour, with the return of President Trump to high power, what can we now expect from this presidential felon with his bold and occasionally inaccurate assertions, especially having learned from his first time out, what is on the drawing board for the USA and what the stakes are for the more vulnerable people on the planet. In our first half hour, we speak to Quebec international economist Professor Rodrigue Tremblay about Trump’s economic agenda, particularly the tariff agenda and how it’s likely to impact the world. Then in our second half hour, we talk to independent researcher and writer Timothy Alexander Guzman about the Trump Cabinet picks and what it says about the future of American foreign policy.
This week on the Global Research News Hour with Justin Trudeau announcing he will soon resign as Prime Minister, and as the Liberal party leader, we will be taking a close look at his record in power, and casting a similar look at what the leader who succeeds him will be like. In our first half hour, we are joined by author and activist Yves Engler who looks at Trudeau and some of the leadership candidates in terms of their foreign policy. Then in our second half hour, we will talk to researcher and analyst Matthew Ehret at the deep historical and political perspective in terms of the characters who helped bring Trudeau to the stage, and the battles that have played out within the party itself leading them to what Trudeau is doing now.
This week, on the Global Research News Hour we take a special look at post-Assad Syria and its fate with two experts who bring us enlightened and seldom talked about perspectives on who’s in charge of the oldest current capital city in the world and the stakes for the country and the region. In our first half hour, Drago Bosnic, the commentator from last week joins us to talk to us about the role of the US and other foreign powers directing affairs in the West Asian country behind the scenes and why they are doing it. Then in our second half hour we are joined by Middle East analyst and commentator Laith Marouf about who the new regime is, what the people crossing the border into Lebanon experienced recently, and how the Middle East stands to be affected by the fall of the once strong supporters of Lebanon against Israel.
This week, on the Global Research News Hour, with the new cold war evolving into hot wars on all fronts, we take a look at the forbidden scenario of a nuclear conflagration eventually emerging unless people around the globe can stop it in time to save the planet and themselves. In our first half hour, we speak once again to prominent Canadian anti-war activist Tamara Lorincz about the petition circulating recently trying to get Canada to prohibit nuclear weapons in the world. Then in our second half hour, we hear from the award-winning geopolitical and military analyst Drago Bosnic about the multiple scenarios by which warfare might escalate to the nuclear level and of the possible cost of doing nothing in the face of the emerging threat of ATOMIC DISASTER.
Fidel Castro and his fellow motivated guerilla soldiers provide the backdrop for this special broadcast of the Global Research News Hour which explores my journey through the Jewel of the Caribbean today to learn what I can about how the people are coping with the determination to live separate from the grip of the US or any other foreign power, democratically, to provide their science, their music and their arts to each other and provide their unique lessons to a troubled world. My guide for most of the journey will be the Calixto Garcia Brigade, a non-profit project based in Canada in partnership with the Cuban Institute for the Friendship of the People, or ICAP.
This week, on the Global|Research News Hour, with world tensions frightening us and leading to embrace the pandemic treaty and the Pact for the Future among other arguably technocratic remedies to the classic Hegelian problem reaction solution, we explore the dynamics of the recent scare known as Pandemic, learn from similar suggested versions in history, and source out ways of preparing ourselves for a possible totalitarian dynamic playing out in the near future. Our first guest, Dr Bryan Ardis, talks about his own experiences within the medical care system within the United States and his considering a reason other than COVID-19 to the high death toll over the last few years. Then we speak to researcher Mattias Desmet about the psychological state he saw vast sectors of the Global Population subjected to and how it, together with propaganda, linked us to Totalitarian frameworks for a new technocracy. Finally, UK former political figure James Ferguson speaks to us about his organization and how it attempts to liberate us from the gradual allure of giving up our freedoms and being happy.
This week on the Global Research News Hour, Canadian voices who have been crying out against the illegal actions by the State of Israel are making gains in the Palestine movement, and we are attempting to highlight some of the successes on the eve of December 10 , human rights day, First we will speak to Professor Miles Howe about a report he co-authored linking millions of dollars to 5 key charitable foundations going to support illegal settlements and activities on Palestinian occupied territory. Then we speak with author and activist Yves Engler about The Anti-Nato protests in Montreal two weeks ago that got major international headlines as violent and anti semitic and that were denounced by the Canadian Prime Minister Trudeau. Finally we hear about the non violent act of civil disobedience waged at Parliament Hill demanding an arms embargo against Israel for crimes that continue to be used against the latest historic genocide.
This week, on the Global Research News Hour, with Pat King apparently the latest figure making news around the Truckers in Ottawa almost 3 years ago this coming January, we take a look at what objective evidence reveals in retrospect about the freedom convoy. We start off with Rodney Palmer, the award winning former CBC and CTV journalist who stated based on his own experience in Ottawa during the Convoy Occupation that the media was outright using propaganda to convince us that our country was under attack. And in our second half hour, author Ray McGinnis reports on the Convoy based on what was actually presented at the Public Order Emergency Commission, and arrives at difficult conclusions regarding the way our government and our media behaved during the peak of the COVID-19 crisis.
This week, on the Global Research News Hour, with tensions soaring lately over the decision by outgoing president Biden to allow Ukraine to fire ATACMS missiles into the territory of its neighbours, we are spending time discussing the latest stage of the conflict which could make NATO a direct combatant in the Russia-Ukraine war and lead to World War III. For most of the show, we are joined by military veteran turned peace activist Scott Ritter to tell us about some of the history of the war extending way before February 2022, the latest updates, and his involvement with Operation Dawn. Toward the end of the show, we hear from Hamilton based peace activist Ken Stone about plans to counter NATO during the group’s meeting in Montreal, Quebec this coming weekend.
This week, on the Global Research News Hour, with the 29th UN Conference of the Parties underway preparing to save the day for the Planet, we host an analysis of some of the factors other than fossil fuels influencing global Climate change and also take a look at what major financial eco-warriors are really doing behind the curtain of mainstream media spotlight. In our first half hour, we hear a report by Greg Reese on the probable use of ENMOD strategies and the motive of supplying the US with access to lithium that was responsible for the devastation in North Carolina last month, We hear from Writer-Blogger Dmitry Orlov on the cause of climate change as rooted in the heavens rather than the Earth. And in our final half hour, Matthew Ehret, editor-in-chief of The Canadian Patriot Review, joins us to discuss the rise of Canadian Banker Mark Carney and his role in forging ahead with a world government and the depopulation of the planet.
This week on the Global Research News Hour, we will be reviewing the impact of the 2024 selection of the US Commander-in-Chief, and assess whether or not it will really make a difference for America and the world going forward and for whom. We will have discussions with economic and political writer and commentator Dr Jack Rasmus, writer Dmitry Orlov and host of the Corbett Report, James Corbett.
This week, on the Global Research News Hour we play excerpts from a special debate of Third Party candidates (other than Kamala Harris and Donald Trump) for president of the United States. It featured Jill Stein (Green Party), Chase Oliver (Libertarian Party), and Randall Terry (Constitution Party.) It also included a few brief comments by the Director of Policy and Strategy for Free And Equal Inc: Mike Leon.
This week on the Global Research News Hour, we take another look at illegal actions in the Middle East and try to assess ways to resolve the situation justly and peacefully in a seemingly complex and challenging world. In our first half hour we speak with Michael Lynk, a Canadian professor of Law and Former Special Rapporteur on Human rights in the Occupied Palestine territories about some of the pressing difficulties in arriving at a satisfactory legal solution. And in our second half hour we hear from Michel Chossudovsky of the centre for research on globalization and Global Research editor about how the focus of much of the peace movement is too much on Israel and not enough on the architects of Israel’s actions located in Washington DC.
THIS week, on the Global Research News Hour, we investigate and analyze the 2024 U.S. presidential election from a deeper political and historical vantage point then is typical in the mainstream press. In our first half hour, lawyer, journalist and activist Dimitri Lascaris offers his views from a foreign policy perspective, especially with regard to the Israeli wars in the Middle East and the Russo-Ukraine War. In our second half hour, Ajamu Baraka of Black Alliance for Peace offers his own "pox on both your houses" take. And Finally, journalist and writer matt Ehret offers his views on an article written in an article about the bankers coup plot foiled by patriotic military man Smedley Butler and why this historical incident could repeat itself in the new future against Donald Trump.
THIS week, on the Global Research News Hour, we investigate and analyze the 2024 U.S. presidential election from a deeper political and historical vantage point then is typical in the mainstream press. In our first half hour, lawyer, journalist and activist Dimitri Lascaris offers his views from a foreign policy perspective, especially with regard to the Israeli wars in the Middle East and the Russo-Ukraine War. In our second half hour, Ajamu Baraka of Black Alliance for Peace offers his own "pox on both your houses" take. And Finally, journalist and writer Matt Ehret offers his views on an article written in an article about the bankers coup plot foiled by patriotic military man Smedley Butler and why this historical incident could repeat itself in the new future against Donald Trump.
THIS week, on the Global Research News Hour, we investigate and analyze the 2024 U.S. presidential election from a deeper political and historical vantage point then is typical in the mainstream press. In our first half hour, lawyer, journalist and activist Dimitri Lascaris offers his views from a foreign policy perspective, especially with regard to the Israeli wars in the Middle East and the Russo-Ukraine War. In our second half hour, Ajamu Baraka of Black Alliance for Peace offers his own "pox on both your houses" take. And Finally, journalist and writer matt Ehret offers his views on an article written in an article about the bankers coup plot foiled by patriotic military man Smedley Butler and why this historical incident could repeat itself in the new future against Donald Trump.
THIS week, on the Global Research News Hour, we investigate and analyze the 2024 U.S. presidential election from a deeper political and historical vantage point then is typical in the mainstream press. In our first half hour, lawyer, journalist and activist Dimitri Lascaris offers his views from a foreign policy perspective, especially with regard to the Israeli wars in the Middle East and the Russo-Ukraine War. In our second half hour, Ajamu Baraka of Black Alliance for Peace offers his own "pox on both your houses" take. And Finally, journalist and writer matt Ehret offers his views on an article written in an article about the bankers coup plot foiled by patriotic military man Smedley Butler and why this historical incident could repeat itself in the new future against Donald Trump.
THIS week, on the Global Research News Hour, we investigate and analyze the 2024 U.S. presidential election from a deeper political and historical vantage point then is typical in the mainstream press. In our first half hour, lawyer, journalist and activist Dimitri Lascaris offers his views from a foreign policy perspective, especially with regard to the Israeli wars in the Middle East and the Russo-Ukraine War. In our second half hour, Ajamu Baraka of Black Alliance for Peace offers his own "pox on both your houses" take. And Finally, journalist and writer matt Ehret offers his views on an article written in an article about the bankers coup plot foiled by patriotic military man Smedley Butler and why this historical incident could repeat itself in the new future against Donald Trump.
This week on the global Research News Hour, we are observing key themes in 21st century warfare that are missed in conventnional mainstream media coverage. In our first half hour. Bruce Gagnon of the Global Network Against Weapons and Nuclear Power in Space reveals how space technology has transformed modern warfare and how today’s peacemakers can fight back. And in our second half hour, the pivotal 9/11 truth activist Richard Gage steps in to tell listeners about the 21 parallels between the September 11th terrorist attack on America and the October 7th Hamas attack on Israel, including the state reaction satisfying the nation’s prior geo-strategic goals.
This week on the Global Research News Hour, we are attempting to probe the near assassinations of Trump this past summer with a leading researcher of the assassination attempts of past presidents and presidential candidates: Lisa Pease. With her expertise we examine many of the unusual activity getting no attention in mainstream media and try to assess what was gained and what was lost in the attacks. This week’s interview will be conducted by an associate and friend, David Wright.
This week on the Global Research News Hour, we are turning are attention to the more subtle yet profound developments in the world leading us further down the road to a world governed by unelected international figures. In our first hour we are greeted by journalist and activist Derrck Broze who will share more information about the Summit of the Future, featured at the UN General Assembly next week, and what it could do to further Global governance. Then in our second half hour, we are joined by James Corbett of the Corbett report outlining further biosecurity initiatives including new pandemics, new vaccines, and new Pandemic Treaties that could should in place the final pieces of the jigsaw panel of Technocratic dominion over the globe.
This week, on the Global Research News Hour, we analyze major news stories today while taking a look at what has been missed or totally forgotten in major news dialogue, examining the 9/11 attacks, the attack on Israel nearly ago and more. Our guest for the hour will be the phenomenal award-winning Investigative Journalist Kit Klarenberg.
This week on the Global Research News Hour, we do our anniversary special on the 9/11 attacks by seeing it through the lens of family members of the casualties of the terrorist attacks, particularly those who came to doubt everything that was said about the tragedy being caused by member of government for reasons other than being caught with their pants down. In our first half hour, Matt Campbell, brother of 9/11 victim Geoff Campbell returns to the show to talk about the steps ahead for him now that his application for a new inquest into Geoff’s death was refused. Then in our second half hour, we are joined by Ray MCGinnis. He will talk about his 3 year old book "Unanswered Questions: What the September Eleventh Families Asked and the 9/11 Commission Ignored."
(Repeat Broadcast)This week on the Global Research News Hour we will be looking behind us at the consequences of the great COVID-19 pandemic and looking ahead at the second round of pandemic diseasesas the Mainstream press is beginning to increasingly formulate and as Bill Gates himself predicted way back in 2020. In our first half hour, we will look at the findings from the recently released final Report from the National Citizens Inquiry: Canada’s Response to Covid-19, and we will talk to one of the authors of that report. In our second half hour, we will speak to film-maker and journalist James Corbett about what to make of signs a new pandemic may be on the way and also to look at the latest draft of the Pandemic Agreement which could potentially affect the freedom of our national and individual health.
(Repeat broadcast)This week, on the Global Research News Hour is the 60th anniversary of the JFK’s assassination. We will be spending the majority of the hour discussing the famous case with Jacob Hornberger, a long time author and investigator of the 1960s event. Mr Hornberger in particular explores the subject matter of two recent books he wrote on the assassination of the 35th president of the United States.
(Repeat Broadcast) This week, on the Global Research News Hour, we are marking the 60th anniversary of the Kennedy assassination with two outstanding guests who have probed one of the most talked about moments in American history. In our first half hour, we speak with Jeremy Kuzmarov of Covert Action Magazine about the current state of affairs in the JFK Assassination, and what we have learned after 6 decades of research and sabotage of the facts. Then in Our second half hour, we are joined by Phillip F Nelson, a JFK researchers who will outline the facts surrounding his vice president Lyndon Baines Johnson as to his guilt in the affair and where researchers and activists of the current age should be devoting their attention in getting at the culprits of this great tragedy.
(Repeat Broadcast) This week on the Global Research News Hour we continue with an update on the situation in Ukraine where the war is headed and what it says about Canada’s participation in it. In our first half hour, we will be talking to peace activist Tamara Lorincz about how Canada’s foreign policy has been shaped by its involvement in NATO and about her visit to Russia late last year. In our second half hour military analyst an commentator Scott Ritter returns to the show to share his thoughts about the looming demise of the war, the creation of the Ukraine Reconstructive Bank, and also about his trip to Russia in late April, early May.
(Repeat Broadcast) This week, on the Global Research News Hour, we are addressing the wildfires that have ravaged much of the forests of Canada, along with Maui and other places and the tendency to blame it all on Climate Change. We ask if there are other interests at stake which are using the fight against Climate Change as a mask. In our first half hour, we speak to Peter Koenig about the prospect of elites having the ability and the motive to cash in on a devastated planet and advance the prospects of the World Ecoomic Forum’s Great Reset . And in our second half hour, we talk to Alberta Professor Anthony Hall about how climate change fakery is driving increasing divides between Alberta and the rest of Canada.
This episode of the Global Research News Hour features complete presentations by Canadian writers Owen Schalk and Yves Engler about the ousting of more than 20 elected governments around the world to which "democratic" nation Canada has contributed. The event at which they were speaking was held at the University of Winnipeg on June 20, 2024.
This week on the Global Research News Hour, we air a special lecture delivered by science fiction author, blogger, and journalist Cory Doctorow on Escaping the Enshittoscene. HE discusses the rapid, precipitous decline of every digital service we depend on, which he argues is designed by specific individuals. He also explains the changes the people can bring about delivering a new, better internet better able to confront genocide, environmental collapse, and rising fascism. It was sponsored by the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives Manitoba Branch, and radio station CKUW.
This is a 2017 interview with updated comments following John Pilger's death on Dec 30, 2023. Special guest interviewer Lesley Hughes interviews Academy and Emmy award-winning documentary film maker and investigative reporter John Pilger. Pilger, an Australian based in the United Kingdom since 1962, has produced dozens of documentaries over the course of his career. He is principally critical of the imperialist policies and agendas of the United States, the United Kingdom and Australia. In this feature interview, Lesley and John discuss the role of the journalist and modern challenges to authentic journalism, the misleading characterization of North Korea as current tensions mount, the West's role in instigating the refugee crisis, the destruction of an authentic anti-war movement under President Obama, mainstream media warmongering on Russia, and the mendacity of 'hope'.
(Repeat broadcast originally aired November 5, 2021) This week on the Global Research News Hour we bring a special program focused on the plight of Julian Assange. We look not only on the details of the recent appeal of the Extradition Trial, we probe his history and background, the role of Wikileaks, and the eventual erasure of journalism manifest in attempts to continue the assault on Assange. Our round of guest speakers include John Shipton, the father of Assange, John Kiriakou, Joe Lauria, Binoy Kampmark, and Megan Sherman with appearances by Stella Moris, Assange’s fiancee, and John Pilger.
This week, on the season finale episode of the GLOBAL RESEARCH NEWS HOUR, we are taking a look at the most recent alarming developments in the saga of the Ukraine war and reviewing the developments in war 80 years ago for any lessons to be learned to help stave off nuclear disaster. In our first half hour, we speak to independent military and geopolitical analyst Drago Bosnic about the deadly attacks on Russia over the weekend and the notion that NATO powers are leveraging more and more indications it is planning on having boots on the ground by the end of the summer. Then in our second half hour, Dr Jacques Pauwels, a historian examining the wars of the 20th century outlines the Russian story standing behind D-Day and the similarities and differences between America’s involvement in both World War II and the prelude to a possible World War III.
This episode of the Global |Research News Hour is dedicated to June 21, labelled National Indigenous Peoples Day in Canada, a day recognizing and celebrating the cultures and contributions of the First Nations, Inuit, and Métis Indigenous peoples of Canada. This episode attempts to give voice to the Indigenous people in our community and help them establish their own mechanisms in cultural practices to make it back to their non-colonized identities, and rescue their language, their knowledge and their culture from the brink of extinction, On the show this week, is a knowledge keeper by the name of Wally Chartrand, who graciously shared the teachings he had received over the course of his life, including a common one about Sweet-grass. But this talk also references the attempts to impose cultural amnesia on a people and the positive sense of retrieving ancient ways and finally coming back home. The host this week is an Indigenous associate of mine, who goes by the spiritual name of White Thunderbird.
This week, on the Global Research News Hour, with tensions building as President Putin warns of actions against NATO countries, if Ukraine strikes deep into Russian territory with Western weapons, we are considering the prospects of this two year long Ukraine fight exploding onto the Global stage possibly into a nuclear confrontation. In our first half hour, we speak with activist and author Yves Engler about Canada’s role in the ongoing escalations, and of his upcoming book correcting the record of Canada against and not for democracy abroad. Then in our final half hour, we chat with former CIA analyst Larry Johnson about the dangerous path to a NATO-Russia war we are on, and we also speak about his recent attendance at the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum a week ago and about what he heard on the ground from land of the Bear.
This week on the Global Research News Hour, with Artificial Intelligence poised to replace 300 million full time jobs in various sectors of human life, we will be reflecting on the negative potential of AI on our society and our world, and the potential to avoid AI- maggedon. In our first half hour, Dr T. P. Wilkinson talks about the origins of AI using military-intelligence applications which will forever shape its purposes away from peace and human decency actually towards the worst nightmares of the Dark Ages. Then in our second half hour, we hear from Science Fiction Author and activist Cory Doctorow about the false aspects of the AI threat and the ability of working people to escape its grip. Finally, we speak to long time activist Momjir Babacek about neuroweapons acting at a distance to impact the human heart and nervous system and the role AI may play in interfering with our lives at a subconscious level.
This week on the Global Research News Hour, we are examining the prospect that the deaths of Ebrahim Raisi of Iran and the near death of Robert Fico of Slovakia may have been high level assassination attacks by officials looking at containing an official threat. We first talk to Jeremy Kuzmarov of COVERT ACTION MAGAZINE about what is believed to be past assassination attacks by US operatives and some of the patterns that they have had in common. In our second half hour we speak to independent geopolitical and military analyst Drago Bosnic about his assessment of the suspected attacks of Mid-May as being decapitation strikes against enemies of US-NATO-Israel hegemony. Finally, Canadian physician and frequent Global Research contributor Dr. William Makis explains his recent video in which he suspects the case of Slovakian Prime Minister Robert Fico was intended to send a warning against those who oppose the WHO’s new proposed Pandemic Agreement.
This week, on the Global Research News Hour, we are examining the complex plans moving forward at the World Health Organization this coming week which, according to critics, would radically alter the way the state organizations in charge of public health gain control of our lives. We first hear from Michelle Leduc Catlin, former spokesperson for the National Citizens Inquiry: Canada’s response to COVID-19 about her coming trip to Geneva, and how she is attempting to help build bridges across the globe for public health against against private tyranny. In our second half hour, we have an extensive discussion with medical expert Dr Meryl Nass about her own investigation into the package of reforms, what it would mean to our own freedoms, and how we can fight back.
This week on the Global Research News Hour, as we commemorate NAKBA Day, we take a look at what motivates Israel’s over the top cruelty in their campaign against Hamas carried out for the most part on Palestinian Women and children and the response of university students and people around the world who are determined such actions are not made in their name. In our first half hour we speak to journalist and film maker Robert Inlakesh about the truth and lies about the protest encampments springing up everywhere, and about the mission of attacking the heavily populated Rafah at the end of its murderous campaign across the strip. In our second half hour, we speak with lawyer, activist and journalist Dimitri Lascaris about the Freedom Flotilla with aid for the desperate masses in Gaza. Finally, we have a chat with geopolitical analyst and commentator Mike Whitney about the behaviour of Israel toward the Palestinian people having a root in the racist imperialist drive of the West in the late nineteenth century.
This week, on the Global Research News Hour, with NAKBA day coming in less than a week, we return to Gaza at a time when they are experiencing what some people call a second NAKBA, and look at the cost so far from the ongoing carnage by Israel of the Palestinians on the strip. In our first half hour, we speak with Louay Alghoul, A Winnipegger with ancestry and many relatives living in Gaza about the impact of the Israel-Gaza war on his loved ones, the current genocidal rage as NAKBA 2.0 and the roots of the conflict in indigeneity. Then in our second half hour, we are joined by British journalist and film maker Richard Sanders about his recent film, October 7, exposing the truth and lies about the Operation Al-Aqsa Flood which tragically altered the region.
This week, on the Global Research News Hour, as a new bill got through the US House of Representatives in April allocating $61 billion devoted supposedly to Ukraine, we inspect the fine details of this and another less explored bill on the dynamics of the bloody War in Ukraine and examine the consequences for the victory or finality of Ukraine. For most of the hour we speak with author, radio host and economics teacher Jack Rasmus about the expected result of the bills passing through Congress, and the comparative positions of Ukraine, Russia and NATO geostrategically. Then toward the end of our show we chat with geopolitical analyst Peter Koenig about the wider implications and about the “Wars for Peace” rule which continues to captivate people everywhere.
This week, on the Global Research News hour, following the many climate related events as part of the recent Earth Day celebrations, we have decided to take a closer look at the generations long warnings and alarmism connected to climate change and explore the prospect that the UN and the elites who have orchestrated a lot of this activity may have other devious motives not connected to saving the planet, except of course for themselves. In our fist half hour, we have a chat with Tom Nelson, A climate skeptic and producer of the recent film Climate the Movie: The Cold Truth. Then in our second half hour, we speak with Jacob Nordangard about his recent book: Rockefeller, Controlling the Game, exploring how one of the most influential figures on the planet was able to both scientifically and politically anchor the climate issue.
This week, we are now focused on what happens next now that Iran has drawn a line in the sand no longer tolerating further offences against their citizenry like the APRIL 1ST ATTACK on their embassy in Damascus, and speaking to two expert guests who relay what they understand about what happened last weekend and what it potentially means for the region and for all humanity . In our first half hour we have journalist, lawyer and activist Dimitri Lascaris talking about the legal logistics of the various players of the war and about his most recent trip to the area. In our second half hour, former CIA analyst Larry Johnson offers his critique of the Iran attack, the consequences of an israeli counter-retaliation and the prosepcts of the US intervening militarily on the Israeli side. Finally, he hear from groups across Canada about what they plan to do this weekend in their attempts to confine the authority of the Israeli bull in a china shop.
This week, on the Global Research News Hour we are examining what is now called the Genocide against the Tutsis in Rwanda as they took place starting 30 years ago this week, and arriving at the conclusion that this horrible tragedy was masked to conceal the truth of the actual perpetrators, the RPF, and the victims. In our first half hour, journalist Ann Garrison joins us to elaborate on what her research revealed and about how the current day Rwanda is a totalitarian regine with no room for dissent on this question. Then in our second half hour, writer, and publisher Robin Philpot returns to the show to talk about his 2013 book, Rwanda and the New Scramble for Africa.
This week, on the Global Research News Hour, we mark the 75th anniversary of the formation of NATO into a huge global military organization by looking at it from a variety of lenses beyond praising the North Atlantic Cavalry. In our first half hour, Yves Engler joins us to break down Canada’s connection to NATO and how peace activists may consider life without NATO. In our second half hour, journalist Rick Rozoff who specializes in opposition to NATO spells out what is objectionable about the organization in the larger picture. And right after, Ajamu Baraka of Black Alliance for Peace tells the tale of what is objectionable about NATO from a Black Radical Perspective.
Repeat Broadcast: On the show this week, we will be spending the next hour investigating the late journalistic career of an accomplished journalistic figure: Stephen Lendman. HE passed away in May of 2023, however with his views so well pronounced in numerous press articles on his blog and in the many radio shows that he produced, it is almost difficult not to imagine what he would be saying at the present time in the face of the latest manouevre to deny trump a presidential candidacy, the attempts to disguise Ukraine’s continuing losses in the war with Russia, or the efforts to wage a full genocide against Gaza. The show will feature past audio of his radio show, as well as features with him on other people’s programs. And we talk to several individuals who can speak to their own experiences of knowing him.
This week, on the Global Research News Hour, we commemorate the 25th anniversary of NATO’s first act of offence, against another country, the war on Yugoslavia with interviews with two informed guests. The great writer and journalist Diana Johnstone shows up first to talk about the true reasons for the war and about the similarities between that war and the current war in Ukraine. Then in our second half hour, we have a lengthy discussion with investigative journalist Kit Klarenberg about the intelligence aspects of the war that helped to drive the Yugoslavia venture and other US-based initiatives continuing to advance US hegemony throughout the post cold war globe.
This week, on the Global Research News Hour, first broadcasting on the Ides of March, we are viewing the prospect of war, possibly the ultimate nuclear war, erupting in the wake of current affairs happening in the battle field and in our own movie-going culture. In our first half hour, writer and documentary film Maker Greg Mitchell returns to the show to talk about the ways in which the anti war anti-nuclear movement is betrayed in Chris Nolan’s Oscar Award winning film and how Hollywood itself is a producer of pro-war propaganda. Then in our second half hour, we talk to journalist, and geopolitical and military analyst Drago Bosnic about the slow motion victory by Russia in Ukraine and how NATO’s determination to prevail may force us to endure the reality of what Oppenheimer warned us about decades ago.
This week, on the global research News Hour, we salute the day known as International Women’s Day with an examination of what women have faced and continue to face in a world populated, supposedly, by more progressive governments and more civilized societies. In our first half hour, we hear a discussion with peace activist Tamara Lorinz about feminized foreign policy being absent in the government of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau in Canada. In the next half hour, we are joined by Friba of the Revolutionary Association of Women of Afghanistan to explain the plight of women in Afghanistan during the occupation and since the Taliban resumed their rights destroying ways in power. Finally, we hear once again from researcher Tina Renier on how the hidden tendrils of control of white supremacist countries affect the continued containment of women in the black racialized countries in the Caribbean and in the global south generally.
This week on the Global Research News Hour, on the occasion of just concluded Black History month we are shining a spotlight on the prevailing mechanisms by which colonial powers continue to exert their influence on the racialized countries they previously controlled and efforts to reverse this trend. In our first half hour, we will be speaking to Jamaica based researcher Tina Renier about the Coloniality of Power and the dilemmas facing Black Nationalism In our second half hour, we are joined by Jafrikayiti about the 20th anniversary of Jean-Bertrand Aristide this week, and how the tactic of invading a black nation in the name of protecting it will be attempted again in a few weeks.
This week on the Global Research News Hour, CKUW, the radio station hosting the show is having its annual fund-raiser. This show will feature excerpts from past programs, music and lots and lots of pitching. The fund-raiser has come to a close by the time this show is posted but listeners are encouraged to pledge a donation at fundrive.ckuw.ca!
This week on the Global Research News Hour, we are taking a look at the landmark trial pitting multiple citizens groups against the EPA and seeing the elaborate interests other than teeth that benefits from adding Silicofluorides into drinking water and realizing the magnitude of efforts needed to stop it even after revealed by research studies. In our first half hour, we speak with Dr Robert C (Bob) Dickson chair of Fluoride free Canada about concerns about use of Fluoride in Canada. Then in our second half hour, we hear an interview by Journalist Derrick Broze of theconsciousresistance.com with Michael Connett, lead attorney for the Fluoride Action Network in the United States about the history of the current Lawsuit, the harms of fluoride to developing brains, and the number of interests networked with the EPA to keep the fluoridation work going.
Freedom Convoy 2022. Was the Emergencies Act Justifiable? Was Media Accurate? Two Perspectives by Michael Welch
This week, on the Global Research News Hour a week after the conclusion of Davos24 we are focused on the battle against Climate Change and the mechanism of the World Economic Forum that puts the world’s wealthiest figures in the driving seat. For the majority of our hour, we speak to Geopolitical analyst Peter Koenig and to environmental activist and to organic farmer Julian Rose about their skepticism toward the human role in generating climate change and about how climate action as prescribed by the World Economic Forum will not so much save the planet as feed the rich. Toward the end of our show, Elizabeth Woodworth, another Global Research contributor who supports the scientific consensus on climate change expresses her concerns about elevating the role of corporate interests, including big oil, ahead of respecting and defending democratic States around the world.
This week on the Global Research News Hour, following the victory of a party in Taiwan favouring Independence from China, and following years worth of Sinophobia cemented by the west after the COVID-19 fiasco, we are taking a look at the positive and not so positive factors that have made the world’s most populous country what it is today. In our first half hour, we are joined by author Patrick wood of Technocracy.news. HE explains how the Trilateral commission actually turned the country into a technocracy which is spreading around the world, including America itself and why this is alarming to him. Then in the second half hour, we are joined once again by journalist and independent writer Pepe Escobar who does not see China launching an attack on Taiwan following the election of the Democratic Progressive Party, and instead explains how China is on a roll while the US continues to wither away.
This week on the Global Research News Hour, following the victory of a party in Taiwan favouring Independence from China, and following years worth of Sinophobia cemented by the west after the COVID-19 fiasco, we are taking a look at the positive and not so positive factors that have made the world’s most populous country what it is today. In our first half hour, we are joined by author Patrick wood of Technocracy.news. HE explains how the Trilateral commission actually turned the country into a technocracy which is spreading around the world, including America itself and why this is alarming to him. Then in the second half hour, we are joined once again by journalist and independent writer Pepe Escobar who does not see China launching an attack on Taiwan following the election of the Democratic Progressive Party, and instead explains how China is on a roll while the US continues to wither away.
This week on the Global Research News Hour, we return to the Israel-Gaza war to get an update on the new developments seizing the region since October 7 and try to assess whether any efforts can stop the slaughter in Gaza and beyond. In our first half hour, Lawyer, Journalist and activist Dimitri Lascaris is back to discuss the larger situation causing Lebanon, and Iran and the US to be involved in Israel’s private dispute. In our second half hour, two writers in California discuss their Global Research article alleging evidence and law in the current genocidal hearings against Israel at the International Court of Justice will be nothing more than window dressing in the outcome of the case. And finally, journalist Robert Inlakesh returns to the program to update us on what is known about people on the ground in Gaza and about crimes committed by Israel against Gaza citizens, including journalists
This week, on the 2024 debut of the Global Research News Hour, we are once again exploring the most important and under-reported events of the past year, and looking ahead at the stories anticipated for this brand new year with a set of guests. First up is Andy Lee Roth, Associate Director of Project Censored about his organization’s list of the top 25 most censored stories of 2022 to 2023. In our second half hour, activist and author Yves Engler joins us to talk about the most censored stories in Canada relating to Canadian Foreign Policy. We also hear from Ryan Cristian, founder and editor of the Last American Vagabond website about his view of the most censored story of 2023.
On the show this week, we will be spending the next hour investigating the late journalistic career of an accomplished journalistic figure: Stephen Lendman. HE passed away in May of 2023, however with his views so well pronounced in numerous press articles on his blog and in the many radio shows that he produced, it is almost difficult not to imagine what he would be saying at the present time in the face of the latest manouevre to deny trump a presidential candidacy, the attempts to disguise Ukraine’s continuing losses in the war with Russia, or the efforts to wage a full genocide against Gaza. The show will feature past audio of his radio show, as well as features with him on other people’s programs. And we talk to several individuals who can speak to their own experiences of knowing him.
This week on the Global Research News Hour as people getting Booster shots for COVID-19 has begun to wade and as more and more indications suggest that the Vaccine is not safe and effective, we have a look at the possibility that a second even more dangerous pandemic is on the way with the vaccine already being prepared to increase numbers getting the jab. In our first half hour, we are joined by Dr William Makis who discloses his research into the dozen or so Mainstream articles talking about a second pandemic and how the research patterns indicate this could be a man made pandemic designed to increase cratering numbers of people not getting the shot. In our second half hour, journalist Naomi Wolf returns to the show with recent updates into her research of the Pfizer report the company and FDA tried to keep out of the public eye, and of the repercussions on her running a story journalistically against the current of standard COVID-19 reporting.
This week, on the Global Research News Hour, we, together with a group of individuals, have filed a special tribute to Kissinger befitting of the kind of work he has done over the course of an entire century of his existence.
This week on the Global Research News Hour we will be looking behind us at the consequences of the great COVID-19 pandemic and looking ahead at the second round of pandemic diseases as the Mainstream press is beginning to increasingly formulate and as Bill Gates himself predicted way back in 2020. In our first half hour, we will look at the findings from the recently released final Report from the National Citizens Inquiry: Canada’s Response to Covid-19, and we will talk to one of the authors of that report. In our second half hour, we will speak to film-maker and journalist James Corbett about what to make of signs a new pandemic may be on the way and also to look at the latest draft of the Pandemic Agreement which could potentially affect the freedom of our national and individual health.
This week, on the Global Research News Hour is the 60th anniversary of the JFK’s assassination. We will be spending the majority of the hour discussing the famous case with Jacob Hornberger, a long time author and investigator of the 1960s event. Mr Hornberger in particular explores the subject matter of two recent books he wrote on the assassination of the 35th president of the United States.
This week, on the Global Research News Hour, we are marking the 60th anniversary of the Kennedy assassination with two outstanding guests who have probed one of the most talked about moments in American history. In our first half hour, we speak with Jeremy Kuzmarov of Covert Action Magazine about the current state of affairs in the JFK Assassination, and what we have learned after 6 decades of research and sabotage of the facts. Then in Our second half hour, we are joined by Phillip F Nelson, a JFK researchers who will outline the facts surrounding his vice president Lyndon Baines Johnson as to his guilt in the affair and where researchers and activists of the current age should be devoting their attention in getting at the culprits of this great tragedy.
This week on the Global Research News Hour, on the eve of Remembrance Day, we are turning our attention to the realities of foreign policy that seems to go very much against the sentiment of NEVER AGAIN, harnessing more, not less, military conflicts abroad. In our first half hour, Glenn Diesen discusses his book THE THINK TANK RACKET Managing the Information War Against Russia, which dives into how foreign policy is increasingly set not by the public, but by experts influenced to a large extent by elements by the military industrial complex. Then in our second half hour, Global Research News Hour contributor Paul Graham talks to Owen Schalk about his recent work Canada in Afghanistan: A story of Military, diplomatic, political and media failure 2003-2023. on the forces shaping Canada’s 20 year efforts in the ongoing Afghan tragedy.
This week, on the Global Research News Hour, As the genocidal intentions of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is being made clear following the Hamas Attack on Israel and as deaths of Palestinians in Gaza is piling up to close to 10,000, we spend another week analyzing the situation with an emphasis on whether or not this pivotal moment will spread beyond Gaza. In part one of our interview, we are joined by the geopolitical analyst and author Mahdi Nazemroaya who gives us his take on the plan based on past statements and on where this conflict may be headed. Near the end, we are joined by activist, lawyer and journalist Dimitri Lascaris who shares his own thoughts and analysis following his trip in recent weeks to Lebanon where he saw the energies of the people in the streets and the Israeli soldiers minding the store on the north side.
This week on the Global Research News Hour, we continue to investigate the situation in Israel-Gaza and with an emphasis on the reaction to the escalation of the situation in the 75 year history of the divide. In our first half hour, Pan-African News Wire editor Aboyomi Azikiwe shares his thoughts and analysis of why much of the world is resisting the Israeli response to the Hamas Oct 7 attack to levels rivalling the Iraq War resistance 20 years ago. Then in our second half hour, Chris Cook of radio station CFUV’s Gorilla Radio bring us a conversation from earlier this week with physician Tarek Loubani about the silencing of his colleague Ben Thomson and other humanitarian dissenters in the current age of suppression.
This week on a dynamic episode of the global Research News Hour we are turning our attention to the explosion of all peace between Israel and Gaza following the devastating attack by Hamas on Israeli citizens and the show of support from world leaders, from the US, Canada, France and elsewhere giving Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu moral support to not only inflict violence on Palestinians, but also to wage genocide on the population greater than any level since the creation of the Israeli State in 1948. In our first half hour, Canadian activists Yves Engler and Ken Stone speak up about the role of the Canadian government and about protests in Hamilton affecting the left wing New Democratic Party. In our second half hour, we hear from Journalist Rob Inlakesh about the many unverified and plausibly incorrect stories in Israel and Gaza circulating on mainstream and social media. Finally, Phil Giraldi a former counter-terrorist expert spelled out how this attack by Hamas which sparked a brand new war on terrorism was also a false flag incident.
This week on the Global Research News Hour, following the 22nd anniversary of the launching of Operation Enduring Freedom and the longest war ever fought by the United States, we set our sights on some of the most dynamic elements of the war that are under-exposed in mainstream press. In our first half hour, we have a conversation with Journalist Max Parry about a two year old article he wrote linking the rise of deaths due to opioid addiciton with the rise of opium production in Afghanistan and about how there is a trend between illegal drugs and imperial US conquest. Then in our second half hour, we speak with Jeremy Kuzmarov, managing editor of Covert Action Magazine about how a US Ambassador to Afghanistan became the “Franz Ferdinand” of the 40 year long war in Afghanistan.
This week, on the Global Research News Hour following the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation commemorating the trauma experienced by First Nations on this land resulting from the government and Church policies, we will be focusing on the Treaties signed between the first Nations of this soil and the European visitors which provided a basis for access to the land and what was taken away from the original dwellers here and the lengthy life of sorrow and dread that was the result. Our lone guest for the entire hour will be Sheldon Krasowski, the academic, and currently the Director of Research and Archives at the Office of the Treaty Commissioner in Saskatoon into his book NO Surrender: The Land Remains Indigenous on his findings that the Treaties were secured on a foundation of government fraud and deception.
This week on the Global Research News Hour we continue with an update on the situation in Ukraine where the war is headed and what it says about Canada’s participation in it. In our first half hour, we will be talking to peace activist Tamara Lorincz about how Canada’s foreign policy has been shaped by its involvement in NATO and about her visit to Russia late last year. In our second half hour military analyst an commentator Scott Ritter returns to the show to share his thoughts about the looming demise of the war, the creation of the Ukraine Reconstructive Bank, and also about his trip to Russia in late April, early May.
This week on the Global Research News Hour, we return to the situation in Ukraine now approaching a year and a half in length. People around the world are calling for an end to the conflict. But what tools are at hand to break this chain of violence? We will discuss the topic of peace in Ukraine with two sets of guests. In our first half hour we will talk to Ken Stone and Glenn Michalchuk of the Canada-Wide Peace and Justice Network about the state of their movement in Canada and about coming projects planned for the Global Week of Action to end the war in Ukraine from October 1st to October 8th. Then in our second half hour, we have a special discussion with the conscientious objector and pacifist in Ukraine, Yurii Sheliazhenko about how and why he is under house arrest for his position against the war even though he condemns the aggression by Russia.
This week, on the Global Research News Hour, we are addressing the wildfires that have ravaged much of the forests of Canada, along with Maui and other places and the tendency to blame it all on Climate Change. We ask if there are other interests at stake which are using the fight against Climate Change as a mask. In our first half hour, we speak to Peter Koenig about the prospect of elites having the ability and the motive to cash in on a devastated planet and advance the prospects of the World Ecoomic Forum’s Great Reset . And in our second half hour, we talk to Alberta Professor Anthony Hall about how climate change fakery is driving increasing divides between Alberta and the rest of Canada.
This week on the Global Research News Hour, we are focused on the infamous actions against the first socialist to be elected president in a liberal democracy in Latin America and mechanisms intended to come to the aid of the people of that country. In our first half hour, we speak to former military Chilean Francisco Valenzuela, a supporter of President Allende on what he witnessed at the time of that historic moment 50 years ago, and to fellow Chilean-Canadian Bernardo Jorquera about an upcoming Coup Commemoration in the city of Winnipeg. In our second half hour, we speak with Professor of Politics Llisa North on the book she edited which explored Canada Chile solidarity from 1973 to 1990 and the acts of unspoken leadership performed by many of the Churches and Unions along the way.
On today’s program, we focus on the September 11 attack research by the Late Greame MacQueen as we have presented it on the show over the last ten years. We will also have a brief interview with fellow researcher Ted Walter about a new film featuring Greame in a brand new 9/11 film.
On this 31st annual general meeting of the Global Network against Weapons and Nuclear Power in Space, held over ZOOM on the 15th of July, we presents a number of eloquent discussions encapsulating not only Ballistic Missile Defense systems (Star Wars) but also the development of NATO into the Asia-Pacific, Full Spectrum Dominance, and the evolution of propaganda in the era of social media and the internet. These discussions are the focus of this summertime edition of the Global Research News Hour. Appearing in this discussion were GN Board Chair Dave Webb, Korean-American Juyeon Rhee, independent journalist Christian Sorenson, retired educator and organizer Lisa Savage, and Canadian peace activist and academic Tamara Lorincz.
(This version contains Robert J Sawyer's original narration. The previous version was a second take after this version was lost.) This week, on the Global Research News Hour, we are finally turning our attention to possibly the greatest revolution in technological advances since the creation of the first atomic bomb, That being in the field of artificial intelligence. A new technology that will soon make life without it as productive as life without computers will change dramatically the way we live and we will spend this hour focused on what those changes will potentially look like. Winnipeg based head of Project Whitecard Khal Shariff and acclaimed Canadian Science Fiction writer Robert J Sawyer join me to discuss Artificial Intelligence, the good, the bad, and the really ugly.
This episode of the Global Research News Hour is a panel discussion made of several individuals talking about some of the other factors in Castillo’s removal and the subsequent uprising of people in the streets. It was produced by the Canadian Foreign Policy Institute in February and featured Peruvian political scientist Eliana Carlin Ronquillo, Journalist Ben Norton, author and activist Yves Engler and Professor of International Development Studies Kirsten Francescone.
Journalist Marianne Klowak explains in an hour long interview for the National Citizens Inquiry: Canada's Response to COVID-19. Listeners and viewers were let down by the CBC's refusal to air their own stories during her broadcasts. And she was never allowed to interview experts who, because they did not agree with the standard COVID-19 narrative, (not unlike the people interviewed on this show) were not considered experts and were even referred to as “anti-vaxxers” and “disinformation artists.” It is the distinct pleasure on this edition of the Global Research News Hour to play a slightly edited version (due to length) of her testimony to the National Citizens Inquiry
(Repeat Broadcast) On this week’s show, we offer three of the most high profile stories of interest to Black people and their colleagues throughout the world. First we will hear Professor Johanna Fernandez speaking of the circumstances of long time imprisoned journalist Mumia Abu Jamal now that a judge has turned down a much hoped for new trial. We will have a conversation with Abayomi Azikiwe about efforts afoot to continue the colonization of the African continent. Finally, Austin Cole, a co-coordinator of the Black Alliance for Peace brings details about a collective effort to build a People(s)-Centered Campaign for a Zone of Peace in the Americas.redacted
(Repeat episode) This week on the Global Research News Hour, as the UN talks on Climate Change finally comes to an end, we will host a show discussing the agenda of the billionaire foxes wearing the clothing of planet saving sheep. In our first half hour, we are joined once again by independent journalist and environmental activist Cory Morningstar to discuss what is coming out of this year’s Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change. Then in our second half hour, we will hear from academic and author Claudia Von Werlhof about how secret military geoengineering in the United States and abroad is actually happening and how the agreements signed by the multiple climate meetings together with the COVID scare is helping the billionaire architects create a brave new economic and political world for all of us.
(Repeat Broadcast)On this day of remembrance, the Global Reseach News Hour looks into the existence of the groups of right-wing Nazi collaborators who were given a lot of room to collect and grow and express their views right here In Canada. We will hear from writer and researcher Marco Carynnyk about the history of Ukrainian nationalism and participation in the pogroms of World War II. Then we will hear from people signing onto a petition banning federal government funding of associations of Eastern European ethnonationalists who glorify of Nazi Collaborators
On today’s show, we feature a speech given by lawyer, journalist and activist Dimitri Lascaris on the lessons he learned during his one month trip to Russia about the people there and particularly their feelings about the current conflict in Ukraine that has already claimed the lives of thousands of soldiers on both sides. He went on this voyage without a welcoming committee in Russia, with his proceeds being paid by no one. For Lascaris, his speeches were intended as acts of Peace. Spreading the word across the land correcting mis-information and propaganda on the mainstream airwaves and hopefully turning the tide of support for the war. The speech was given in Winnipeg as part of a ten city cross-Canada tour.
This week, on the season finale of the Global Research News Hour we have invited investigative journalist and podcast producer James Corbett of the Corbett Report onto the show to talk about the case of Dr David Kelly, what drew him to it as well, and how it may be connected to biowarfare exercises including the debut of the recent pandemic.
This week on the global Research News Hour we continue our journey into the latest adventures into the new artificial intelligence research that is taking the world by storm and firing up the imaginations of politicians, military individuals and corporate leaders alike and see how far that takes us down the techno-autocratic hole. In our first half hour, we will hear from writer Karsten Riise about how AI has finally put the US ahead of China and Russia as a true game changer, and how its enormous impacts will soon shape a new geopolitical frontier. And in our second half hour, we are joined again by geopolitical analyst Peter Koenig who investigates the trajectory the human species is on that leads us to dark and tragic endings beyond COVID and into the Great Reset.
This week, on the Global Research News Hour, we are finally turning our attention to possibly the greatest revolution in technological advances since the creation of the first atomic bomb, That being in the field of artificial intelligence. A new technology that will soon make life without it as productive as life without computers will change dramatically the way we live and we will spend this hour focused on what those changes will potentially look like. Winnipeg based head of Project Whitecard Khal Shariff and acclaimed Canadian Science Fiction writer Robert J Sawyer join me to discuss Artificial Intelligence, the good, the bad, and the really ugly.
This week on the Global Research News Hour, during a week in which our Canadian House of Commons is spell bound with what has become a major controversy around foreign power influence in Canadian elections and the sudden lack of National trust in our current Special Rapporteur on the matter, David Johnston, we will be investigating aspects of the discussion that are seldom if ever explored on the mainstream public airwaves. In our first half hour, we conduct an interview with Montreal based activist and Canadian foreign policy critic Yves Engler on how he evaluates the prospects of Chinese meddling in Canadian politics, how Canada approaches the politics of certain other countries, and the sp0ectre of certain other countries influencing Canadian democracy more than China. This is followed by a feature interview with investigative journalist Aidan Joseph of the Canada Files about his recent article GOVERNMENT BY CSIS
(REPEAT BROADCAST)On this day of remembrance, the Global Reseach News Hour looks into the existence of the groups of right-wing Nazi collaborators who were given a lot of room to collect and grow and express their views right here In Canada. We will hear from writer and researcher Marco Carynnyk about the history of Ukrainian nationalism and participation in the pogroms of World War II. Then we will hear from people signing onto a petition banning federal government funding of associations of Eastern European ethnonationalists who glorify of Nazi Collaborators
On this week’s Global Research News Hour, like the rest of Global Research, we are endeavoring to see the conflict through the eyes of Russians and others not drowning in a sea of media propaganda about finding a way to peace, rather than "fight Russia to the last Ukrainian." Appearing on the show is Canadian political scientist Ivan Katchanovski who studied much of the data around the Maidan Massacre in February of 2014, and reveals the role of fascist elements of the Maidan and their higher level contacts abroad in a coup d’etat! He then talks about the implications at the heart of the war and the prospects that the conflict can possibly reach a peaceful conclusion. This is followed by two other “Canadian ambassadors to Russia” - Dimitri Lascaris and Professor Radhika Desai - about their own journeys recently to "Putin-land," and what they learned most prominently about what the people on the ground, in official fora and in the streets had to tell them.
This week, on the Global Research News Hour we intend to place an end point on coverage of the COVID-19 pandemic by focusing on a few stories not yet covered in detail that further advance concerns about what was done that should be reconsidered as the pandemic appears to retreat into the distance and the body-counts continue to grow. In our first half hour we are joined by Dr Naomi Wolf, the journalist and founder and CEO of the Daily Clout who has been hit by censorship following an interview with her on a radio program about the files she researched on PFIZER’S vaccine records obtained through a Freedom of Information request. In our second half hour, with International ME/CFS Awareness Day having past less than a week ago, we turn to emerita professor and celebrated environmental toxicologist Magda Havas to warn of the links between COVID-19 and the massive build up of Radio frequency Radiation in our communities, particularly in the US, Canada and Western Europe. In our last few minutes, we offer Manitoba’s Chief Provincial Public Health Officer Dr Brent Roussin the opportunity to respond briefly to some of the concerns expressed on this program on behalf of concerned citizens throughout our community and around the globe.
On this very special broadcast, we are bringing you some highlights of the National Citizens Inquiry: Canada’s Response to COVID-19. The hearings have so far been conducted in six cities with two more coming by the middle of this month. I should also point out in the interests of full transparency that I myself engaged in presenting a viewpoint to the Inquiry when it was in Winnipeg one month ago, in spite of some condemnation by notable individuals and virtually no coverage by mainstream press. I should also alert you that some listeners may find messaging against the common beliefs about COVID treatment across the board to be extremely troubling. I urge listeners to express discretion before proceeding further with the broadcast. Speakers include Emergency physician Dr Charles Hoffe, Former mainstream media representative Rodney Palmer, Saskatoon resident Marjaleena Repo, and Trucker Dave Hartmann. Also an interview with NCI spokesperson Michelle Leduc Catlin.
On today’s special broadcast, we pay tribute to the late Graeme MacQueen’s research into 9/11, but also into the deep academic, activist and spiritual influences that helped paint the picture of a remarkable figure influencing the individuals acquainted with his writing and his speeches.We’ll be providing over the next hour several individuals who were influenced by him in some way.
This week, on the Global Research News Hour, as yet another banking institution is in trouble, we reassess the dangers of further troubles spreading across the nation and ascertain the dilemma facing both the giant banks as well as the humble households of America. In our first half hour, Geo political analyst Peter Koenig speaks of his vision of these bank failures actually being coordinated to help move forward plans to digitize all currency well before the end of the decade. Then in our second half hour, we will hear from Economic thinker and journalist Dr Jack Rasmus about the fundamentals of what happened to Silvergate Capital and Silicon Valley Bank last month, and what may be in store for more banks as the qualifiers continue to go unaddressed.
This week, on the Global Research News Hour, as Earth Day arrives on Saturday April 22, we mark the occasion with a special look at how the environment and our lives may be affected by manoeuvres of the billionaire elites orchestrated in the name of saving the planet. In our first half hour, Australian activist Michael Swifte explains the Carbon Capture gimmick used by the big energy companies to sucker the big named climate activists while helping their coffers. Then in our final half hour, Vandana Shiva, Indian environmentalist, and food advocate reflects on her writings of what she calls the Philanthropists and the threat of something far worse than the Green Revolution coming to developing and developed nations alike.
On this week’s show, we offer three of the most high profile stories of interest to Black people and their colleagues throughout the world. First we will hear Professor Johanna Fernandez speaking of the circumstances of long time imprisoned journalist Mumia Abu Jamal now that a judge has turned down a much hoped for new trial. We will have a conversation with Abayomi Azikiwe about efforts afoot to continue the colonization of the African continent. Finally, Austin Cole, a co-coordinator of the Black Alliance for Peace brings details about a collective effort to build a People(s)-Centered Campaign for a Zone of Peace in the Americas.
(Repeat broadcast)This week, on the Global Research News Hour, with a story of the destruction of major natural gas pipelines being orchestrated by Washington, we dig deep into this exclusive report by none other than the journalist himself, Seymour Hersh. With an interview taking up the lion’s share of the hour, he discusses the attack, the lack of interest by players at the UN for an independent and non-partisan investigation, and also the fading of the popularity of his work among mainstream papers and reporters. As well, he mentions his thoughts about the My Lai Massacre that won him a Pulitzer nearly 55 years after it happened. In the final phase of our show we will also hear from a friend and colleague of his, Former CIA analyst Ray McGovern, about how he makes sense of Russia’s behavior over the past year and what is likely to happen in the future.
This week, on the Global Research News Hour, we take a special look at the Dr. Kelly situation, with an individual partially responsible for bringing aspects of the suicide and the faulty behavior of the Lord Hutton inquiry to light in major media. His name if David Halpin who, together with a team of other physicians, are demanding a coroner’s inquest into Dr. Kelly’s death which he claims was not a suicide and was more likely a murder with the fingerprints of British government individuals all over it. An extensive interview taking up the majority of the hour, Dr. Halpin explains the specifics of his doubts about the official story, and the reasons he thinks Kelly may have been murdered.
This episode of the Global Research News Hour marks the 20th anniversary of the Assault which marked a turning point for many Americans living the shame of the crusade supposedly for Weapons of Mass Destruction. Over the next hour, we will hear the voices of several individuals reflecting on the crimes of the past two decades toward the Iraqi people, and even to the people carrying out these acts of barbarism. And we will hear about the levels of skullduggery considered to keep the citizenry focused on the task of getting the premise for the war secured. We will evaluate the United Nations and the mainstream corporate media as not only compliant but as an accomplice in the enterprise. And we shall take a look at the legacy the orchestrators set for the US and it’s NATO Partners in the lead-up to the War on Ukraine, which at a time of escalation, China is now trying to negotiate a ceasefire and peace treaty.
This week, on the Global Research News Hour, we discuss the article written by a Global Research contributor in the Winnipeg paper called Ethnorama News which was raised by at least one member of the public and led to the end of sponsorship by two representatives of the left leaning NDP: Leah Gazan and Daniel Blaikie. In our first half hour we speak to the author of the article, Dr John Ryan, about the factual content on which it was based and the problems from his point of view with the NDP for appearing to coerce the two individuals to wash their hands of the magazine based on one article. Then we speak with Ethnorama editorial collective members Marianne Cerilli and Glen Michalchuk about their defense of the article and their critical view of US-NATO’s role in the war. And also of the fund-raising event scheduled for the 31st of March.
This week, on the Global Research News Hour, with a story of the destruction of major natural gas pipelines being orchestrated by Washington, we dig deep into this exclusive report by none other than the journalist himself, Seymour Hersh. With an interview taking up the lion’s share of the hour, he discusses the attack, the lack of interest by players at the UN for an independent and non-partisan investigation, and also the fading of the popularity of his work among mainstream papers and reporters. As well, he mentions his thoughts about the My Lai Massacre that won him a Pulitzer nearly 55 years after it happened. In the final phase of our show we will also hear from a friend and colleague of his, Former CIA analyst Ray McGovern, about how he makes sense of Russia’s behavior over the past year and what is likely to happen in the future.
Today on the Global Research News Hour, we are focused on major actions in Canada, the United States and around the world attempting to veer us away from war strategies that continue to kill people our governments say they are trying to help. In our first half hour, three representatives of a group seeking the end sanctions in Syria come on the show to talk about the origins of their group, and about how dropping the sanctions is necessary to save lives in the country. Then in our second half hour, we will hear from a couple of activists speaking in Washington DC on Feb 19 about the need to stop America’s proxy war in Russia via Ukraine.
On this special edition of the Global Research News Hour, we will not only point to the similarities and differences between the major military offensives past and present, but we will also highlight the personal recollections of host and producer Michael Welch, and his commitment then and now to put an end to war through the magic of radio informed antiwar activism. This marks a special fund-raising episode for the show and the radio station broadcasting it. This program features a clip from a show in the past year. There will be a live interview with Ken Stone of the Hamilton Coalition to Stop the War who is supporting this weekend’s special actions in Canada to bring the War in Ukraine to an end, as well as a panel discussion connecting the dots between the Ukraine War and other U.S./NATO imperialist agendas all over West Asia. It will also broadcast an interview with one of four Indigenous chiefs in Ontario signing a Mutual Cooperation Agreement to defend their territory from mining exploration without their consent.
This edition of the Global Research News Hour is a fundraising edition designed to solicit contributions from listeners. As well, in the body of the show, we feature audio from the public gathering in support of Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women, Girls and Two-Spirited People and of the grieved families they leave behind. We also have interviews focused on the Freedom Convoy of truckers from early last year making demands to eliminate the various vaccine mandates. Diwa Marcellino is a representative of a Winnipeg group that condemns the convoy. Benita Pederson is a representative and media spokesperson for World Unity Convoy 2023 held in a community outside of Winnipeg, and celebrates the Freedom Convoy movement.
This week, On the Global Research News Hour, our discussion focuses on the ongoing war in Ukraine examining details of what set off the invasion nearly a year ago, the attitudes of various nations, and what is likely to be the outcome of this war between neighboring countries on an escalating course toward nuclear Armageddon. My guest for most of the show is geopolitical analyst Mahdi Nazemroaya. In addition, we will introduce you to the station CKUW's Fundrive event starting as this show goes to air.
This week on the Global Research News Hour, we take a look at Ukraine and the war being waged within it through two unlikely sources. In our first half hour, Ajamu Baraka of the Black Alliance For Peace joins us to explain the stance of his group toward the nearly year long fight within Ukraine’s borders., and toward NATO generally, revealing how it is consistent with anti-racist principles. Then in our second half hour, we are joined by a young Ukrainian woman who emigrated to Winnipeg nearly 15 years ago and shares some of her thoughts about the country she left, the role of the United States and Russia, and the current conflict that is threatening her country of birth
This week, on the Global Research News Hour, we are exploring the prospect that NATO may today actually be a malevolent force on the global stage and that Canada and the world should consider abandoning it. In our first half hour, Rick Rozoff, a long time geopolitical analyst and critic of NATO offers his perspectives on the nature of the trans-national beast and where it may be headed in the future. This is followed by an interview with lawyer, journalist and activist Dimitri Lascaris on the role Canada could be playing as an advocate for peace outside of NATO. We finish off the program with anti-war activist Ken Stone of the Hamilton Coalition to Stop the War talking about a recent action his group organized in the city outside the building where Prime Minister Trudeau and his Cabinet were meeting.
This week on the Global Research News Hour, we are looking at the world’s current economic and political difficulties through the lens of the historical trajectory of the economic currents rising and competing with those of allied and enemy countries. Starting off, our first guest, Professor Radhiika Desai introduces her latest book, Capitalism, Coronavirus and War: A Geo Political Economy, which notes the devastation caused by the pandemic was already rooted in the failures of the model of neoliberal financialization, and more calibrated ways for progressives to achieve change. This interview is followed by an interview with Mahdi Nazemroaya who has worked in the field in China and brings some unique thoughts about China’s approach to he disease and how elements actually were similar in a lot of ways to the American and European methods.
This week on the Global Research News Hour, we are looking back 2 years to the march of thousands on the U.S. Capitol and examining the way certain powerful figures turned it into something like another 9/11 event with consequences for future restrictions on human rights and future attempts to civilly question authority. In our first half hour, journalist Joachim Hagopian joins us and shares the evidence of the vote theft in both the 2020 Presidential election and the 2022 Mid-Terms. Next, we are joined by former Election Defense Alliance Director Jonathan Simon who goes through his own data analysis and concludes the signs of the election point if anything at theft from Biden. Then in our second half hour, Ryan Cristian of The Last American Vagabond joins us to reveal evidence there was a lot more going on at the January 6 event than the media is allowing you to see.
This week on the Global Research News Hour, we spend the show talking about the major events of the past year getting little or no attention in the Mainstream media. In our first half hour, we hear from Andy Lee Roth of Project Censored about the top stories missed by the Press in the United States and the annual year book published for 2023. In our second half hour, we hear from three past guests, Radhika Desai, Matthew Ehret and Max Blumenthal about the top major stories in their view that got little or no coverage by the major media.
(Repeat Broadcast) On this week’s Global Research News Hour, on the 59th anniversary of President Kennedys untimely demise, we will examine the incident yet again alongside the work of solid JFK assassination researcher Jim Dieugenio, and probe much of what’s been revealed in the wake of renewed releases of documents since the 1991 release of OLIVER STONE’s movie JFK. Towards the end of the hour, we will also get a point of view by additional JFK writer, researcher and Research Associate of the Centre for Research on Globalization, Edward Curtin.
This week, on the Global Research News Hour, as we start a brand new season of the show, we will focus our attention on the 21st anniversary of the attack that propelled America into perpetual war and also the reasons for questioning the understanding of what really happened that day and who is ultimately responsible. In our first half hour, we are joined by the architect, and campaigner for 911 truth Richard Gage AIA about his efforts to raise awareness and about the changes to his work and others like him more than 2 decades after the historic attack. And in our second half hour, we meet guest Susan Lindauer, the CIA Asset who claimed advance knowledge of the attacks, who got arrested and put in jail as a consequence and wrote a book to describe her experience.
This week, we feature a tribute to the work of Dr Griffin and invite many people who have known him to participate with their own ideas about what made the man exceptional.
On this episode of the Global Research News Hour, we are going to talk to Professor Michel Chossudovsky about his latest book, The Worldwide Corona Crisis: Global Coup D’Etat Against Humanity, in which he outlines the fear campaign around 'v the virus', claims that lies are disguised as truths about the disease or diseases, and talks about how humanity itself is the intended target of the COVID enterprise. We’ll follow the interview with a short review of the book overall.
This week on the Global Research News Hour, we are returning to Haiti to look at the remarkable events taking place there since the assassination of President Jovenel Moise last year and then escalating with the barricade around the fuel port this autumn. We will first hear from Haitian born lawyer and Haiti advocate Ezili Danto about the real reasons behind the UN call for troops to mount an assault on Haiti, the role of the supposed savior Jimmy Cheriznier, and other elements mobilizing the crowds against non-democratic governments and policies.
In our second half hour, the outspoken commentator, activist and radio host Jafrikayiti Jean St-Vil talks about Canada’s specific interests in maintaining the Haitian nation’s white supremacist status quo.
On this week’s Global Research News Hour, on the 59th anniversary of President Kennedys untimely demise, we will examine the incident yet again alongside the work of solid JFK assassination researcher Jim DiEugenio, and probe much of what’s been revealed in the wake of renewed releases of documents since the 1991 release of OLIVER STONE’s movie JFK. Towards the end of the hour, we will also get a point of view by additional JFK writer, researcher and Research Associate of the Centre for Research on Globalization, Edward Curtin.
This week on the Global Research News Hour, as the UN talks on Climate Change finally comes to an end, we will host a show discussing the agenda of the billionaire foxes wearing the clothing of planet saving sheep.
In our first half hour, we are joined once again by independent journalist and environmental activist Cory Morningstar to discuss what is coming out of this year’s Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change. Then in our second half hour, we will hear from academic and author Claudia Von Werlhof about how secret military geoengineering in the United States and abroad is actually happening and how the agreements signed by the multiple climate meetings together with the COVID scare is helping the billionaire architects create a brave new economic and political world for all of us.
On this day of remembrance, the Global Reseach News Hour looks into the existence of the groups of right-wing Nazi collaborators who were given a lot of room to collect and grow and express their views right here In Canada. We will hear from writer and researcher Marco Carynnyk about the history of Ukrainian nationalism and participation in the pogroms of World War II. Then we will hear from people signing onto a petition banning federal government funding of associations of Eastern European ethnonationalists who glorify of Nazi Collaborators
On this day of remembrance, the Global Reseach News Hour looks into the existence of the groups of right-wing Nazi collaborators who were given a lot of room to collect and grow and express their views right here In Canada. We will hear from writer and researcher Marco Carynnyk about the history of Ukrainian nationalism and participation in the pogroms of World War II. Then we will hear from people signing onto a petition banning federal government funding of associations of Eastern European ethnonationalists who glorify of Nazi Collaborators
This week on the Global Research News Hour we continue our coverage of the war being fought in Ukraiine with a particular emphasis on apparent distortion in the hands of Western Media coverage. In our first half hour, we speak to George Eliasson, a resident journalist in Luhansk region talking about what he encountered during the recent referenda there, the experiences during the previous eight-year war, and the realities of the Kiev based fascists continuing a 20-year war against Russia and Russian Ukraine. Then in our second half hour, we hear clips from Canadian Ministers Chrystia Freeland and Anita Anand at the Twenty Seventh Congress of Ukrainian Canadians in Winnipeg about the reasons for their support for the military in Ukraine. We then hear from Winnipeg peace activist Glenn Michalchuk about his views favoring peace negotiations ahead of war-making, the flawed context supplied by mainstream media, and efforts to build peace in the more war-hawkish position in which the Liberal government is pushing all of us in this country
This week on the Global Research News Hour we continue our coverage of the war being fought in Ukraiine with a particular emphasis on apparent distortion in the hands of Western Media coverage. In our first half hour, we speak to George Eliasson, a resident journalist in Luhansk region talking about what he encountered during the recent referenda there, the experiences during the previous eight-year war, and the realities of the Kiev based fascists continuing a 20-year war against Russia and Russian Ukraine.
Then in our second half hour, we hear clips from Canadian Ministers Chrystia Freeland and Anita Anand at the Twenty Seventh Congress of Ukrainian Canadians in Winnipeg about the reasons for their support for the military in Ukraine. We then hear from Winnipeg peace activist Glenn Michalchuk about his views favoring peace negotiations ahead of war-making, the flawed context supplied by mainstream media, and efforts to build peace in the more war-hawkish position in which the Liberal government is pushing all of us in this country
This week on the Global Research News Hour, we bring you the latest news from the site of the war in Ukraine. In our first half hour, we'll hear from U.S. Colonel Douglas Macgregor, about his predictions for how the war in Ukraine is going better for Russia than how the media is letting on, and how a new escalation inwar violence could arrive as soon as November. Then in our second half hour, we talk with independent geopolitical analyst Pepe Escobar about recent developments in the former Soviet Territory and about how Europe is adjusting to life without Russian gas, and how the world has fundamentally changed forever.
This week on the Global Research News Hour, we bring you the latest news from the site of the war in Ukraine. In our first half hour, we'll hear from U.S. Colonel Douglas Macgregor, about his predictions for how the war in Ukraine is going better for Russia than how the media is letting on, and how a new escalation inwar violence could arrive as soon as November. Then in our second half hour, we talk with independent geopolitical analyst Pepe Escobar about recent developments in the former Soviet Territory and about how Europe is adjusting to life without Russian gas, and how the world has fundamentally changed forever.
This week on the Global Research News Hour, as the dust settles on the pandemic, we’ll try to host a conversation on what seemed to go wrong with the way it was covered by the press, what may have to be done to cover such issues accurately and responsibly and even think about whether it is too late to save the media in question. In our first half hour we talk to Former mainstream journalist turned independent podcaster Alison Morrow about her issues with COVID News. Then in our second half hour we hear a voice from the other side, science educator, journalist and podcast producer David Kattenburg about the so called flaws in evidence not being what they are drawn up to be..
This week, on the Global Research News Hour we will be examining the changes to the way journalism is practiced in the world today, its toxic effect on the quality of news, and the multiple instances of independent sites being misrepresented as putting forward "fake news". Our first guest, veteran journalist of high acclaim John Pilger will assess how the space for exceptional work, simply isn’t there anymore and how even in the presence of full information, it is taking us to a place beyond the propaganda level of 1930s Germany. Then we will get word from Max Blumenthal of TheGrayZone about how they were targeted for de-platforming and found that they had exposed their accusers as in fact a state intelligence operation.
Israel has been targeting Palestinian civil society organizations as linked to terrorism. On August 18, they shut down the offices of seven of these organizations and sealed the entrances shut with welded steel. While Israel has not presented evidence, Ottawa has yet to condemn these actions. A discussion at the start of the month touched on whether Israel has motives other than security. As well, they would touch on Canada's role in enabling Israeli violence on Palestinians and how Canadian civil society can respond.
Speakers include
Sahar Francis, General Director of Ramallah-based Addameer Prisoner Support and Human Rights Association
Michael Lynk, legal academic, associate professor at the University of Western Ontario and former United Nations Special Rapporteur for the Occupied Palestinian Territories
Yavar Hameed, lawyer in Ontario with a focus on racial profiling, lawful expression, equality rights, prisoner rights and migrant protection
Bianca Mugyenyi, journalist, activist, author and Director of the Canadian Foreign Policy Institute
Israel has been targeting Palestinian civil society organizations as linked to terrorism. On August 18, they shut down the offices of seven of these organizations and sealed the entrances shut with welded steel. While Israel has not presented evidence, Ottawa has yet to condemn these actions. A discussion at the start of the month touched on whether Israel has motives other than security. As well, they would touch on Canada's role in enabling Israeli violence on Palestinians and how Canadian civil society can respond. Speakers include Sahar Francis, General Director of Ramallah-based Addameer Prisoner Support and Human Rights Association Michael Lynk, legal academic, associate professor at the University of Western Ontario and former United Nations Special Rapporteur for the Occupied Palestinian Territories Yavar Hameed, lawyer in Ontario with a focus on racial profiling, lawful expression, equality rights, prisoner rights and migrant protection Bianca Mugyenyi, journalist, activist, author and Director of the Canadian Foreign Policy Institute
This week, on the Global Research News Hour, as we start a brand new season of the show, we will focus our attention on the 21st anniversary of the attack that propelled America into perpetual war and also the reasons for questioning the understanding of what really happened that day and who is ultimately responsible.
In our first half hour, we are joined by the architect, and campaigner for 911 truth Richard Gage AIA about his efforts to raise awareness and about the changes to his work and others like him more than 2 decades after the historic attack. And in our second half hour, we meet guest Susan Lindauer, the CIA Asset who claimed advance knowledge of the attacks, who got arrested and put in jail as a consequence and wrote a book to describe her experience.
This week, on the Global Research News Hour, as we start a brand new season of the show, we will focus our attention on the 21st anniversary of the attack that propelled America into perpetual war and also the reasons for questioning the understanding of what really happened that day and who is ultimately responsible.
In our first half hour, we are joined by the architect, and campaigner for 911 truth Richard Gage AIA about his efforts to raise awareness and about the changes to his work and others like him more than 2 decades after the historic attack. And in our second half hour, we meet guest Susan Lindauer, the CIA Asset who claimed advance knowledge of the attacks, who got arrested and put in jail as a consequence and wrote a book to describe her experience.
This week on the Global Research News Hour, we are taking a look at the sudden threat to food security suddenly propping up everywhere, and whether or not there is an attempt to recreate food systems the way the COVID-19 pandemic and lockdowns was the start of restructuring the business sector via The Great Reset. In our first half hour, an expert with the Food and Agricultural Organization of the United Nations, Monika Tothova, offers up specifics surrounding the role of the pandemic and the Russian war in Ukraine in accelerating the situation and about actions they recommend to nations to decrease the misery in the coming year. In our second half hour, we are joined by OFF-Guardian editor and journalist Kit Knightly, who articulates the numerous other ways by which the food security situation is deliberately being made worse and the individuals, corporations and systems that could stand to gain from the outcome.
(Repeat Broadcast)This week on the Global Research News Hour we take a look at what this war with Ukraine will look like in a few weeks time and of the ramifications for the world beyond as the various trade sanctions take their toll. In our first half hour, Marine Corps intelligence officer Scott Ritter weighs in with his beliefs that in spite of appearances, Russia is doing brilliantly and will be finished soon. He will also offer thoughts about the role of President Zelenskyy and about the impact of the sanctions. In our second half hour we will talk about the acceleration of America’s decline brought about by the war and the demise of the us dollar on the world scene with the great economic thinker Michael Hudson.
(Repeat Broadcast)This week on the Global Research News Hour, more than a week into the massive carnage and destruction that has reigned down on much of the former Soviet country, we will be making available to listeners the voices of analysts and peace groups in the United kingdom, the United States and Canada who depart from the narrow and they claim false package that provokes audiences to more hawkish positions on behalf of the completely innocent and naïve Ukrainian government.
In our first half hour writer and geopolitical historian Dr Leon Tressell introduces some context to the violence missing from standard accounts. He is followed by Bruce Gagnon of the Global Network Against Weapons & Nuclear Power in Space. Who addresses the US’s documented agenda for Russia via Ukraine. Finally, Tamara Lorincz, member of Voices of Women For Peace talks about Canada's complicity in the war through NATO and what the country could be doing instead to de-escalate tension and strive for Peace.
(Repeat broadcast)This week on the Global Research News Hour, as the world witnesses in horror the real consequences of the first super-powers confrontation since the fall of the Berlin Wall, we try to take a closer look at the truth behind the scenes, the source of the conflict and whether or not the situation can and will be peacefully resolved. In our first half hour, Glenn Michalchuk of Peace Alliance Winnipeg drops by to articulate the demands of his and similar groups across the country relating to Canada’s role in restoration of peace. We also play part of an interview recorded last week with geopolitical analyst and investigative journalist Pepe Escobar about the direction this stand-off was headed and about the role of Kazakhstan as playing a sneaky behind the scenes role in the chaos. Finally in our second half hour we have a talk with the long time foreign correspondent in Russia John Helmer about the larger context and the factors giving Russia an edge.
(Repeat broadcast)This week on the Global Research News Hour, we continue our previous conversation
on the very evident decline of the U.S. Empire by examining elements both abroad and within the nation and how they are showing few prospects for any immediate rescue from a horrifying fate. Our guest for the show is an insightful military analyst and blogger and the author of a new book discussing the collapse of the U.S. Empire. His name is Andrei Martyanov.
This week on the Global Research News Hour, as the US has lost in Afghanistan and is not doing so well on the world stage generally, we examine the weakening aspects of its empire and the growing fade in its power as now China seems to threaten to be the next big state on the world stage, and we examine this global shift through a historical lens. Joining us for the bulk of the hour, the historian and educator from Madison-Wisconsin Al McCoy make his debut on the show to discuss these issues at the centre of his brand new book - To Govern The Globe: World Orders and Catastrophic Change.
This week on the Global Research News Hour, as the US has lost in Afghanistan and is not doing so well on the world stage generally, we examine the weakening aspects of its empire and the growing fade in its power as now China seems to threaten to be the next big state on the world stage, and we examine this global shift through a historical lens. Joining us for the bulk of the hour, the historian and educator from Madison-Wisconsin Al McCoy make his debut on the show to discuss these issues at the centre of his brand new book - To Govern The Globe: World Orders and Catastrophic Change.
The state of the present situation facing indigenous people all around the world is the focus of the episode of the Global Research News Hour. And without negating persistent racist themes, this is a positive and hopeful episode. Part one is a conversation with Dr Rudolph Ryser, the chair of the Center for World Indigenous studies. Dr Ryser has for more than forty-five-years worked in the field of Indian Affairs as a writer/researcher and as Indian Rights advocate. Part two is a documentary put together in the past month. An example of the current threat posed to the people of Hollow Water First Nation as they face a company called Canadian Premium Sands seeking to mine huge amounts of silica sand from the territory and the devastation critics say would result for their land, their water and their health.
This episode of the Global Research News Hour we host a panel discussion entitled NATO and Global Empire. This talk attempts to deal with where we are heading with this war-like path NATO is putting us on, how NATO is now operating not only in North America and Europe, but in Africa, China and around the globe, and how this path leads to more wars, colonial violence and white supremacy.
Today’s episode is a recording of a conversation exploring the role of the Canadian Mining companies heavy investment in mineral extraction from the continent of Africa. The role of these companies and of the Canadian government is quite abysmal in terms of their abuse of human rights and the ecological damage done to the environment. We will host conversations about the operations at hand, how they got to the extent of the current enterprise, and about ways we could conceivably reverse course.
Speakers in this episode include Jamie Kneen of MiningWatch Canada, Phyllia Ngoatje of Mining Affected Communities United in Action (MACUA)
and Yves Engler, a researcher and author . The talk was moderated by Bianca Mugyenyi, who is also Director of the Canadian Foreign Policy Institute which together with Mining Watch Canada sponsored this event
Repeat broadcast.
This week the Global Research News Hour chooses to reflect on the story of Canada from a real vs mythical perspective. In our first half hour, the emeritus Economics scholar Kari Polanyi Levitt shares her thoughts about the so called sovereignty of Canada in 2021, the measures it would have to resort to in order to distinguish its independence from the US. In our second half hour, Richard Sanders of the Coalition Opposed to the Arms Trade shares his research on the myth of Canada as a Peaceable Kingdom helped prosecute crimes from the genocide of Indigenous People, to aiding and abetting US imperial warfare.
THIS WEEK on the Global Research News Hour, as we approach the 155th anniversary of Confederation or Canada Day, we will look at the different currents affecting our national interests which by and large reflect elite interests and not the aims of average citizens. Our first guest Dimitri Lascaris joins us to talk about the position Canada has taken in geopolitical affairs and about the increasing tendency to stifle dissent in mainstream and social media. Then in our second half hour, we have a conversation with author, journalist and founder of Canadian Patriot Review Matthew Ehret who discusses the deceptions around the birth of Canada as an independent nation, and how that false belief continues to divide our genuine concerns and ambitions away from the forces acting supposedly in our interest.
This week on the Global Research News Hour, we are reviewing the consequences of Biden’s refusal to host certain Latin American leaders during last week’s summit meeting in Los Angeles and probe how the US role in Latin America and the Caribbean may be waning at a time when its position as head of an empire is crucial. We hear from three guests. Stephen Sefton based in Nicaragua brings us his take of the situation from his country’s perspective and on the consequences of Biden’s isolation. We will get the view of journalist and CUBA specialist Arnold August on how Canada has soft-peddled the isolation and imperial domination of the continent. This is followed by an interview with Ajamu Baraka of Black Alliance for Peace which put out a statement encouraging Latin American and Caribbean states to boycott the Summit of the Americas altogether.
This episode of the Global Research News Hour takes a look at the criminal complaint brought down against the UK Government in relation to the measures taken in the name of stopping COVID. We speak to Phil Hyland of PJH Law who spoke to the evidence and eventual dropping of the case. Then we speak to Volcanologist and 'anti-science' crusader Dr Peter Hotez about what he saw as fraudulent arguments promoting the vaccine as being unsafe and inefficacious. Plus there is a VOX POPULI at the end featuring Winnipeggers on whether initiatives such as Hyland's can be effective.
This week on the Global Research News Hour, we are taking a look at the sudden threat to food security suddenly propping up everywhere, and whether or not there is an attempt to recreate food systems the way the COVID-19 pandemic and lockdowns was the start of restructuring the business sector via The Great Reset. In our first half hour, an expert with the Food and Agricultural Organization of the United Nations, Monika Tothova, offers up specifics surrounding the role of the pandemic and the Russian war in Ukraine in accelerating the situation and about actions they recommend to nations to decrease the misery in the coming year. In our second half hour, we are joined by OFF-Guardian editor and journalist Kit Knightly, who articulates the numerous other ways by which the food security situation is deliberately being made worse and the individuals, corporations and systems that could stand to gain from the outcome.
This week on the Global Research News Hour, we bring you a special edition of the show devoted to the challenges facing the Labour movement in the midst of the major redress of how we do work, and how the people are addressing new forms of tyranny in an emerging technocracy. We first bring Professor Anthony Hall to the program to address the changes he fears face humankind with the changes brought about particularly by the pandemic and how in his view labour and the left in its current construction will not save us. Then in our second half hour, we assemble a panel discussion of major thinkers and labour activists Professor Richard Wolff, Nora Loreto and Paul Moist about the where hope lies in future engagements at home and on the world stage
This week, on the Global Research News Hour, while the headlines are raging around the war in Ukraine, we will feature a discussion about a nation where the death toll has risen to as many as half a million due to fighting, starvation and lack of medical attention. We are taking a look at the difficulties facing Ethiopia and Eritrea after the new round of violence that erupted into a civil war as of November of 2020. We first speak to an American activist originally from Eritrea to explain the situation from his perspective. In our second half hour, journalist Ann Garrison joins us while she is in the middle of her investigative tour through Ethiopia and Eritrea to give us more on the situation and more about the role of the US in undermining the peace of the people.
This week, on the Global Research News Hour, as the war continues in Ukraine, we bring you a full examination of one of the most shocking geopolitical developments in recent times, the controversial removal of the popular Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan from power, the players involved and the future for the country and the wider region.
In our first half hour, We will be joined by Professor Junaid Ahmad , who will provide us with more details as to how and why the no confidence motion and exit of Khan took place and also focusing on the enormous rallies surging around the iconic figure. Then in our second half hour we bring back a past interview with Professor Michel Chossudovsky director of the Centre for Research on Globalization to talk about how the US allies in Pakistan, the ISI, worked toward feeding the very enemy they supposedly came to see as a great evil, and more on Afghanistan 20 years earlier.
This week, on the Global Research News Hour, as the Russian invasion into Ukraine enters its third month, we focus on the war from a Canadian angle. First we hear from Yuri Sheliazhenko a journalist, blogger, human rights defender and pacifist based in Ukraine about his position against the violent fight back against Russia.
Then we hear from Glen Michalchuk, chair of Peace Alliance Winnipeg, about the different degrees of intervention that take people away from peace in the country. Then our final speaker is Ken Stone of the Hamilton Coalition to stop the war outlining his campaign against a man championing a website which he says violates the Canadian Foreign Enlistment Act in reference to serving militarily for the Ukrainians in the present conflict and the Canadian government turning a blind eye to it.
This week on the Global Research News Hour, on the day marked as Earth Day on our calendars, we devote the hour to examining how Indigenous people and tribal societies play a role in protecting our land and water and how their efforts are obstructed by governments and industry, including those who pledge to save nature. In our first half hour, We are joined by Judy DaSilva of Grassy Narrows First Nation in Canada to talk to us about the unusual convergence of with which just about every destructive event Indigenous peoples are faced. In our second half hour, an interview with Stephen Corry the former director of survivalist international, to talk about the slaughter and eviction of tribal people all over the world in the name of conservation and efforts to confront it.
(repeat broadcast)This week on the Global Research News Hour, we continue our previous conversation
on the very evident decline of the U.S. Empire by examining elements both abroad and within the nation and how they are showing few prospects for any immediate rescue from a horrifying fate. Our guest for the show is an insightful military analyst and blogger and the author of a new book discussing the collapse of the U.S. Empire. His name is Andrei Martyanov.
This week, on the Global Research News Hour, with the imminent shortage of world supplies of fossil fuels due to sanctions against Russia which includes its energy exports, we take a close look at how economies and even whole societies in the US and Europe could be disrupted by sudden price increases and even shortages of this vital resource. IN our first half hour, we speak to Earth Scientist David Hughes about his latest study on the Shale reality in the US and what it suggests about the future of natural gas supplies to Europe to replace Russian shortages. Then we get hold of the author of the book The Long emergency James Howard Kunstler to talk more broadly about the immediate reality of peak oil and gas, and how it would play out in our lives. He also touches on COVID19 and the compromised presidency of Joe Biden
This week on the global Research News Hour, we will explore the realities of fake news and distorted coverage of the war in Ukraine coming not from Russia but From Ukraine and the NATO side.
We’ll start with a review by Independent journalist Max Blumenthal of TheGrayZone.com We will next here from Yves Engler about some of the lies and underhandedness on the part of the Canadian government. And in our final few minutes we will be joined by Winnipeg Peace activist Glenn Michalchuk about the alterations if any to his group’s campaign for veering away from militarism in Ukraine after 4 weeks of a Russian-led incursion into the country.
What follows is a repeat of the interview recorded on March 23, 2022 for the program The Global Research News Hour. Here is Ritter speaking on the role of Nazis in the Russian's move, the fact that the Russians will soon achieve a victory, the role of Zelensky in his public demands, and the role sanctions ultimately played in Vladimir Putin's favor.
Scott Ritter is a U.S. Marine Corps Intelligence officer, former UN Chief Weapons Inspector from 1991 -1998, and is currently engaged as a commentator and columnist on Huffington Post, consortiumnews and the American Conservative.
This week on the Global Research News Hour we take a look at what this war with Ukraine will look like in a few weeks time and of the ramifications for the world beyond as the various trade sanctions take their toll. In our first half hour, Marine Corps intelligence officer Scott Ritter weighs in with his beliefs that in spite of appearances, Russia is doing brilliantly and will be finished soon. He will also offer thoughts about the role of President Zelinsky and about the impact of the sanctions. In our second half hour we will talk about the acceleration of America’s decline brought about by the war and the demise of the us dollar on the world scene with the great economic thinker Michael Hudson.
On this week’s Global Research News Hour, as part of its ongoing mission to separate the myths from the reality of Russia’s now three week long military incursion in Ukraine we speak to guests who can relay more background on the history and geopolitics of the area allowing us to assess with greater clarity the steps for resolution ahead. In part 1 of our program, activist and editor Richard Sanders explains some of his research on Stepan Bandera and on the groups still following his lead. Then in part 2, journalist Eva Bartlett talks about her journey to Crimea and the Donbas in 2019, what she learned from them, and on how her previous investigations in Gaza and Syria informs her understanding of Western Press style fake news in the current Ukraine conflict.
On this week’s global Research News Hour, as much of the tragedy playing out in Ukraine is making for big news, there is relatively little being said about the major disaster of nuclear activity being released both through meltdowns of the factories targeted by Russia in Ukraine and by the final nuclear showdown between Russia and US that could bring an end to all life on this planet. We will speak to broadcaster of Nuclear Hotseat (NuclearHotseat.com) Libbe LaHavy and with the legendary anti-nuclear doctor Helen Caldicott about the severe new nuclear situation we are facing, both in Ukraine and in Japan on the 11th anniversary of the Fukusihima Daiichi disaster.
This week on the Global Research News Hour, more than a week into the massive carnage and destruction that has reigned down on much of the former Soviet country, we will be making available to listeners the voices of analysts and peace groups in the United kingdom, the United States and Canada who depart from the narrow and they claim false package that provokes audiences to more hawkish positions on behalf of the completely innocent and naïve Ukrainian government.
In our first half hour writer and geopolitical historian Dr Leon Tressell introduces some context to the violence missing from standard accounts. He is followed by Bruce Gagnon of the Global Network Against Weapons & Nuclear Power in Space. Who addresses the US’s documented agenda for Russia via Ukraine. Finally, Tamara Lorincz, member of Voices of Women For Peace talks about Canada’s complicity in the war through NATO and what the country could be doing instead to de-escalate tension and strive for Peace.
This show features host Michael Welch together with fellow station host Ras Rico discussing the subject of decolonization at length touching on Haiti, Angola, Cuba and other places in the cross-hairs of the U.S. Empire. We also allow cameos by Volunteer Coordinator Ugonna Chigbo and by Program Director Scott Price. We also talk about the station CKUW itself and encourage listeners to support it with a pledge. And we host musical numbers as well!
This week, we present part one of a special broadcast where we try to convince you the listener an opportunity to donate what you can to keep CKUW 95.9fm our ground-base radio station continuing to keep diversity alive on the airwaves and allow resistance to thrive.
Featured on this program will be activists from across the country talking about their work and the various important projects they are involved in. We will also convince you to donate whatever you can.
This week on the Global Research News Hour as the truckers protest has hooked the imaginations of Canadians and divided them into excited supporters and disgusted critics, we will attempt a greater understanding of what is driving the movement from their perspective.
In our first half hour, we hear from Allison Pejovic a lawyer from the Justice Centre for Constitutional Freedoms who is representing leading organizers of the Freedom Convoy. In our second half hour we will hear excerpts from two press conferences in recent days addressing Canadians about the issues at hand and not the claimed false rhetoric put out by mainstream media.
This week on the Global Research News Hour, we feature special coverage of the Freedom Convoy from the people involved, and at the very centre of the movement to finally eliminate COVID Vaccine mandates. Voices include Tamara Lich the lead organizer, Clay Farnsworth of Police on Guard, Ethics Professor Julie Ponesse, plus Adam and Dillon from Team Vegan.
Joining us to discuss the pharmaceutical company Pfizer are two guests. In our first half hour, Professor Michel Chossudovsky talks about the bombshell release of information about Pfizer’s secret report on impacts of its vaccine, as well as giving us more background not only on its criminal record but on its attempts to subdue its own medical adversaries. Then in our second half hour, we hear more about Pfizer’s background of escaping accountability through the investigative reporter Johnny Vedmore.
On this week’s Global Research News Hour, we focus on the growing friction between the United States and Russia over the fate of Ukraine with three great guests;
In our first half hour, commentator and columnist Scott Ritter expresses his thoughts about NATO’s inability to thwart the Russians and opens up a possible face saver for all forces involved.
In our second half hour, commentator Paul Craig Roberts opens up about the West’s involvement in the popular movement that overthrew President Yanukovych and about the choice by Crimeans to actually rejoin the Russian Federation. Finally in our second half hour, we will hear from a journalist, activist and observer actually living in Kiev named Dmitriy Kovalevich about the racist groups that sprung up after the Maidan and how all politics, journalism and policing in Ukraine has been affected for the worse.
This week on the Global Research News Hour, as the world witnesses in horror the real consequences of the first super-powers confrontation since the fall of the Berlin Wall, we try to take a closer look at the truth behind the scenes, the source of the conflict and whether or not the situation can and will be peacefully resolved. In our first half hour, Glenn Michalchuk of Peace Alliance Winnipeg drops by to articulate the demands of his and similar groups across the country relating to Canada’s role in restoration of peace. We also play part of an interview recorded last week with geopolitical analyst and investigative journalist Pepe Escobar about the direction this stand-off was headed and about the role of Kazakhstan as playing a sneaky behind the scenes role in the chaos. Finally in our second half hour we have a talk with the long time foreign correspondent in Russia John Helmer about the larger context and the factors giving Russia an edge.
The Global Research News Hour marks the occasion by reviewing some of the more pertinent stories of the past year and what we should watch out for going into a new year.
IN our first half hour, we reconvene our conversation with Project Censored editor Andy Lee Roth about what the journalist project saw as the most overlooked big stories of the past year and about some of the major highlights of the Censored’s annual magazine. In the middle point of the show, the geopolitical analyst and journalist Pepe Escobar weighs in on the biggest geopolitical event altering world events. Finally, independent media journalist James Corbett lays out what he calls the People Reset setting the stage for popular resistance to the rash of COVID waves pounding down on us on what’s possibly coming in 2021.
(Repeat broadcast originally aired November 5, 2021)
This week on the Global Research News Hour we bring a special program focused on the plight of Julian Assange. We look not only on the details of the recent appeal of the Extradition Trial, we probe his history and background, the role of Wikileaks, and the eventual erasure of journalism manifest in attempts to continue the assault on Assange. Our round of guest speakers include John Shipton, the father of Assange, John Kiriakou, Joe Lauria, Binoy Kampmark, and Megan Sherman with appearances by Stella Moris, Assange’s fiancee, and John Pilger.
(Repeat Broadcast of show aired October 1, 2021)
This week, on the Global Research News Hour, we will examine the new frontiers of our technological sophistication and witness the hazards of machines that ultimately do not liberate us from drudgery so much as put us under the thumb of a new brand of elites. In our first half hour, Bruce Gagnon of the Global Network Against Weapons & Nuclear Power in Space returns to share his concerns on the eve of Keep Space for Peace week. In our second half hour, we are joined by Patrick Wood, editor-in-chief of Technology News and Trends, explain his examination of technocrats, 5G, and their potential to truly dominate the globe for a tiny minority of the opulent.
Four months after his passing, this week we salute the life and legacy of a man who served the country as a Parliamentarian and then worked hard to alert Canadians of the dangers associated with the end of borrowing from the bank of Canada, the free trade agreements, and globalization generally. This hour features conversations with Professor Ronald Stagg, Howard Bertram, Barrie Zwicker, Rocco Galati, Grant Cameron, Victor Viggiani, and of the nearly century old figure himself: PAUL HELLYER!
On this week’s Global Research News Hour we present perspective on the COVID crisis with one of the more conventional experts offering insights into how she deals with educating the public about 'V the virus' and getting what she calls life saving information into people’s minds before it’s too late. My guest for the hour is associate professor and infectious disease research scientist Dr. Tara Moriarty.
This week on the Global Research News Hour, we are returning to the question of the COVID crisis as we examine the situation through an original and under appreciated lens. For the bulk of the hour we talk to Dr. James Lyons-Weiler, the CEO of the Institute for Pure and Appled Knowledge who has conducted peer reviewed analysis related to the COVID vaccine and is here to relate that it is far more dangerous to human health than most of the media is willing to broadcast.
This week on the Global Research News Hour, we continue our previous conversation
on the very evident decline of the U.S. Empire by examining elements both abroad and within the nation and how they are showing few prospects for any immediate rescue from a horrifying fate. Our guest for the show is an insightful military analyst and blogger and the author of a new book discussing the collapse of the U.S. Empire. His name is Andrei Martyanov.
This week on the Global Research News Hour, as the US has lost in Afghanistan and is not doing so well on the world stage generally, we examine the weakening aspects of its empire and the growing fade in its power as now China seems to threaten to be the next big state on the world stage, and we examine this global shift through a historical lens. Joining us for the bulk of the hour, the historian and educator from Madison-Wisconsin Al McCoy make his debut on the show to discuss these issues at the centre of his brand new book - To Govern The Globe: World Orders and Catastrophic Change.
On a special week when we focus on honouring fallen comrades in past wars, and in an effort to learn so that the mistakes of the past are not repeated in the future, this edition of the global research news hour takes a determined decision to remember war in all its horror including the lies concealing the true goals on the part of the victors. In our first hour, we are joined by veteran turned peace activist Brian Willson about what he has learned and what he has experienced. And in our second half hour we will hear about Yves Engler’s latest book which follows the history of Canada’s fighting force and how the myths of heroism and valour frequently don’t match the reality.
This week on the Global Research News Hour we bring a special program focused on the plight of Julian Assange. We look not only on the details of the recent appeal of the Extradition Trial, we probe his history and background, the role of Wikileaks, and the eventual erasure of journalism manifest in attempts to continue the assault on Assange. Our round of guest speakers include John Shipton, the father of Assange, John Kiriakou, Joe Lauria, Binoy Kampmark, and Megan Sherman with appearances by Stella Moris, Assange’s fiancee, and John Pilger.
This week on the global research News Hour, as the world gears up for the historic COP26 summit happening Oct 31 to Nov 12, we examine the negative sides of the elites and their non profit industrial complex and where the mechanisms put in place for decades will lead us in the age of COVID. For the bulk of the show, we are joined by the independent writer, journalist and environmental activist Cory Morningstar to describe the world’s fate in the face of the capitalist menace that continues its onslaught.
This week, on the Global Research News Hour, we spend most of the hour speaking to a popular author and educator on world energy issues. His name is Richard Heinberg, and he wlll be speaking about a new book he has just written: Power: Limits and Prospects for Human Survival. He arguing that the characteristics which allowed humans to overcome natural limits over millenia are colliding with the very same characteristics that may doom the very environment that sustains us all.
This week, on the Global Research News Hour, we spend the entire program with conservation biologist, social profit and predictor of near term human extinction Guy McPherson for a rousing discussion of Climate Disruption triggering events, elite management of the situation and one sliver of a chance he is exploring of how our demise as a species could possibly be avoided.
This week on the Global Research News Hour, on the 20th anniversary of the launching of the war on Afghanistan, we will probe the dynamics of the relationship between the US and Afghanistan, and the look ahead to what it will mean in the larger cold war with Russia and China..
Our first guest Retired Professor of Geography John Ryan will speak about his visit there in 1978, how the Islamic extremist threat was actually manufactured by the US and how the recent withdrawal of US forces was a result of their 20 year occupation. Next we’ll hear from international economist Professor Rodrique Tremblay about the failure of the US mission and the consequences for the recent Democratic president who ended it. Finally, Professor Michel Chossudovsky comes on to the show explaining that the withdrawal of US soldiers is not the fundamental defeat it appears to be.
This week, on the Global Research News Hour, we will examine the new frontiers of our technological sophistication and witness the hazards of machines that ultimately do not liberate us from drudgery so much as put us under the thumb of a new brand of elites. In our first half hour, Bruce Gagnon of the Global Network Against Weapons & Nuclear Power in Space returns to share his concerns on the eve of Keep Space for Peace week. In our second half hour, we are joined by Patrick Wood, editor-in-chief of Technology News and Trends, explain his examination of technocrats, 5G, and their potential to truly dominate the globe for a tiny minority of the opulent.
This week on the global research News Hour, with the election behind us now, we’ll plan to take a closer look at the broader patterns facing the country that got little attention in the campaign. We will take a look at Canadian foreign policy with foreign policy critic and activist Yves Engler. We will have a short discussion on the Meng Wanzhou situation with Ken Stone of the Hamilton Coalition to stop the War, and in our final half hour, we are joined by Matthew Ehret , Editor-in-Chief of the Canadian Patriot Review who will discuss with us how the political direction of the party that won, the LIBERALS, saw its patterns shift in a fundamentally different direction during the latter half of the 20th century.
This week on the Global Research News Hour, we continue the discussion surrounding the 9/11 attacks and examine what’s been gained and what’s been lost after 20 years of research, promotion, and legal actions
In our first half hour we are joined by the Architects and Engineers for 911 Truth president and CEO Roland Angle to discuss the results for their group, and talk about efforts to defray and disqualify the campaign for truth. In our second half hour, film maker and podcaster James Corbett reflects on his views about the state of the movement and how it guides us to respond to crimes threatening a new generation of 'conspiracy theorists.'
This week on the global research news hour, as we approach the 20th anniversary of the massive attacks believed to be the work of Al Qaeda terrorists, we will have a discussion on this program with the unique perspectives of two individuals who have challenged the official explanation in their own ways. In our first half hour, we talk to Matt Campbell, a British national whose brother was a victim and who is trying to get a new inquest into his death. Then in our second half hour, we’ll have a talk with journalist Lesley Hughes whose run for federal politics in 2008 was derailed by her advocating a truther position.
On today’s program, we convene a panel discussion which took place on April 3 , 2021, on the eve of the 72nd anniversary of the founding of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, NATO. The name of the conversation was Why Canada should leave NATO. Panelists include Margaret Kimberley from the Black Alliance for Peace, Professor Paul Robinson from the(University of Ottawa), Belgian peace activist Ludo de Brabander and scholar Tamara Lorincz of Canadian Voice of Women for Peace) They will discuss the need to leave a nuclear armed alliance that has drawn Canada into wars in Libya, Afghanistan and Yugoslavia as well as recent military missions in Iraq and Latvia.
This was a discussion hosted by the Canadian Foreign Policy Institute, an organization seeking to disrupt the myth of Canada as a force for peace with its reality as a major contributor racial oppression and war.
Bianca Mugyenyi is the moderator, she is an activist, and journalist and the director of the Canadian Foreign Policy Institute, whose site is foreignpolicy.ca
This week, on the Global Research News Hour, we invite the listeners to attend a panel discussion talking about the movie Haiti Betrayed. They will discuss the various military, economic and other ways the U.S. and Canada and other major powers are continuing to benefit from the misery of the people. Panelists include Elaine Brière a Canadian film-maker, Jean St-Vil, Haitian born activist and commentator, Haitian born scholar Kira Paulemon, and Brian Concannon, a human rights lawyer and foreign policy advocate. The moderator of the discussion was Bianca Mugyenyi, an activist, journalist and director of the Canadian Foreign Policy Institute.
This discussion was co-sponsored by the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE), Haiti Liberté, Inter Pares, Blueprint Project, Institute for Justice and Democracy in Haiti (IJDH) .
On this week’s program, we present a panel discussion produced by the Canadian Foreign Policy Institute entitled Innumerable Ways Canada Supports Israeli Apartheid - And What We Can Do About it.
Speakers include Yves Engler, author of Canada and Israel: Building Apartheid, Jonathan Kuttab, co-founder of Palestinian human rights group Al-Haq and of Nonviolence International, and Karen Rodman, Founder of Just Peace Advocates .
This week on the Global Research News Hour we present a panel discussion on Meng Wanzhou, the Chinese chief financial officer of Huawei arrested in Canada and facing extradition to the USA. The panel discusses legal developments, the geo-political context, and the rise of anti-Asian hate crimes in Canada.
The Cross-Canada Campaign to Free Meng Wanzhou was sponsored by the Canada China Council for Cooperation and Development, the Canadian Foreign Policy Institute, the Canadian Peace Congress, the Hamilton Coalition to Stop the War, and the International Action Center.
This week on the Global Research News Hour, we profile the life and legacy of the veteran journalist, anti-imperialist and executive director of Black agenda Report, Glen Ford. Joining up over the course of the 60 minute program, we will read part of a write-up by Margaret Kimberley, hear Jared Ball's commemoration, and listen to interviews with Ajamu Baraka, Ann Garrison, organizer Elias Amare, and radio host and activist Dahoud Andre.
This episode of the Global Research News Hour turns its attention to the murder of the celebrated freedom movement leader, and advocate for racial justice, Malcolm X! It examines the background and the circumstances that permitted the FBI, the CIA, and the New York Police Department unprecedented interest in surveilling this man eventually leading to an orchestrated death. Our guest is the outstanding researcher and longtime investigator into the assassinations of the 60s, James DiEugenio!
This episode of the Global Research News Hour turns its attention to the murder of the celebrated freedom movement leader, civil libertarian and champion of peace Martin Luther King. It examines the impossibility of his murder by James Earl Ray, the cover-up of what really happened and a look at what motivated certain figures to eliminate him. Our guest is the outstanding researcher and longtime investigator into the assassinations of the 60s, James DiEugeinio!
This week’s instalment of the Global Research News Hour focuses on the first assassination death: John F. Kennedy. It takes during the same week that an explosive new documentary series is released! The release of JFK Revisited: Through the Looking Glass takes place also 30 years after the release of the blockbuster JFK and it is directed as well by film-maker Oliver Stone.
The investigator who will be guiding us through the complexities of the case and cover-up is a remarkable researcher particularly of this case. He is also incidentally the screenwriter of JFK Revisited: James DiEugenio.
This week’s instalment of the Global Research News Hour focuses on the last of four assassination deaths: Robert F. Kennedy. Not only is it the most visibly provable crime committed by someone other than Sirhan Sirhan, but the individual in question is facing a parole hearing at the end of August 2021.
The investigator who will be playing a role directing us through the 60s assassinations is a remarkable chronicler of every single one of these cases. He has even been referred to as the guru of the probers into the assassinations. His name is James DiEugenio.
This week the Global Research News Hour chooses to reflect on the story of Canada from a real vs mythical perspective. In our first half hour, the emeritus Economics scholar Kari Polanyi Levitt shares her thoughts about the so called sovereignty of Canada in 2021, the measures it would have to resort to in order to distinguish its independence from the US. In our second half hour, Richard Sanders of the Coalition Opposed to the Arms Trade shares his research on the myth of Canada as a Peaceable Kingdom helped prosecute crimes from the genocide of Indigenous People, to aiding and abetting US imperial warfare.
This week on the Global Research News Hour, a special tribute to the passing of two separate individuals who made their unique marks on the world around us. In our first half hour, Ramsey Clark is memorialized by his long time co-director of the International Action Center, Sara Flounders. Then in our second half hour, guests Greg Albo and Sam Gindin pay their respects to their long time friend Leo Panitch.
Today on a special episode of the Global Research News Hour, as increasing numbers of Canadians wake up to the reality of the horrors that took place in the residential school system, we hear multiple perspectives about what it all means for the survivors, for settlers, for the foundation of the building of this country and for the prospects of righting relationships and moving forward in a mutually advantageous way. In our first half hour we hear from Professor Niigaan Sinclair about why some Canadians are refusing to associate residential schools with a genocide. Then we hear from Professor David Macdonald about the origins of residential schools and what continues their trend toward violence today. We’ll hear from former Anglican Minister Kevin Annett about his own endeavors to correct the record and what is missing from the media’s current reporting. Finally, researcher Richard Sanders shares the secret about FICTIVE CANADA and the role that played in doing nothing in the face of atrocities against Indigenous people.
This week on the Global Research News Hour, as the determined mindset of President Joe Biden is prepared to clash with Vladmir Putin on supposed human rights issues, we explore some of the elements playing out with respect to each countries actual realities. The Russian-American writer and blogger expands on these issues, the collapse of the American Empire, the Corona virus and vaccines and more!
This week on the global research news hour as COVID-19 rages on, we engage 2 doctors challenging the standard approach, especially the COVID vaccine. In our first half hour we speak with prominent doctor Stephen Malthouse about the move to now immunize 12 year olds and the general punishment shared by doctors questioning official COVID-19 narratives.
Then in our second half hour we are joined by the renowned internist, professor of medicine and leading fighter against COVID, Dr Peter McCullough about his early treatment with medicines, his criticism of the vaccine and the challenges faced by dissident COVID doctors in today’s America.
This week on the Global Research News Hour, as a follow-up to last week’s portrait of 11 days of violence in the past month, we will explore the numerous obstacles which continue to shape the ambitions of the Israeli occupation and the lives of the Palestinian people 73 years after Nakba. We first speak with Professor Michel Chossudovsky about the Dagan plan, the death of Yasser Arafat and other variables setting the stage for Israeli violence. Then we get an update from journalist Robert Inlakesh about what is currently happening on the ground between Israelis and Palestinians less than a week into the ceasefire. Finally, we hear from film producer Mike Prysner about his film production alongside Abby Martin of Gaza: Fight for Freedom.
This week on the Global Research News Hour, with masses of humanity amid the most recent military exchange we will be exploring some of the stories behind the slaughter with three observers and assess what answers there may be to their dismal present in the Middle East area. In our first half hour, we get an assessment from international law and relations scholar Richard Falk about the roots of the recent conflict and where it’s headed. After that, Richard Silverstein writer and blogger with the site Tikun Olam talks about the new dynamics in play and where it’s likely headed. Finnally, we get a view from Palestine solidarity activist and commentator Laith Marouf will also reveal the realities motivating changes for the Palestinian people and possibly for the greater world in this seemingly unending nightmare.
This week on the Global Research News Hour, we dedicate the entire program to the situation in India as it now rocks global media with tragic, and arguably misleading headlines. In our first half hour we hear from author Jo Nash of the group Left Lockdown Sceptics about the true nature of the pandemic in the country and other factors that need to be taken into context. Then in our second half hour we have an interview with Delhi-based independent journalist Vandana K speaking to Chris Cook of Gorilla Radio about the huge farmer protests and their determined decision to stick it out, Covid or no Covid, despite the costs.
This week on the Global Research News Hour, we are continuing our conversation on racial justice in America by shining the majority of our spotlight on the long time political prisoner Mumia Abu Jamal.
In our first half hour, Suzanne Ross of the International Concerned Family and Friends of Mumia Abu Jamal brings us a few updates on his health following his surgery, and the plight of his legal situation.
In our second half hour, we are joined by professor and activist Johanna Fernandez to help us explore further Mumia’s case through the lens of racialized policing.
Our Final guest, Mike Afrika Jr talks about the long standing issues facing his family in the wake of the arrests of his parents in ‘78, the bombing in ‘85 and the approach taken to fight the racial oppression facing his group, Mumia and others in 2021.
This week on the Global Research News Hour following the 10th anniversary of the destruction of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear reactors and the 35th anniversary of the demise of Chernobyl, we focus our attention on nuclear power in Canada as it is anticipated as part of a solution to fighting greenhouse gas emissions with so called clean energy. In our first half hour we hear from environmental journalist Robert Hunziker about Fukushima 10 years later and the role of various authorities to conceal the output of the disaster. Then in our last half hour, we hear a podcast from CFUV’s Chris cook with Professor M V Ramana, Simons Chair in Disarmament, Global and Human Security about his reservations to embracing the SMR platform announced by the government as part of the Government’s climate action plan.
This week is Earth Week, and on the Global Research News Hour we take an unfiltered view at the impacts of climate change and on how the current environmental movement are failing us. In our first half hour, our guest, environmental activist and investigative journalist Cory Morningstar shares her thoughts about the increasing influence of the environmental NGOs and the billionaire foundations that finance them. Then in our second half hour we have a chat with geologist and paleo-climate scientist Andrew Glikson about major trends in climate patterns recently that have raised his doubts about the future of humanity.
This week on the Global Research News Hour, with the country of Yemen becoming the site of the greatest humanitarian crisis on the planet, we will convene a show endeavouring to get to the heart of who’s to blame and of what’s at stake. In our first half hour we’re joined by Vancouver based activist Azza Robji to describe how the crisis arose, what are the costs and how activists in Canada can make a difference. And in our second half hour, two journalists, Steve Sahiounie from Syria and Youssra Abdulmalik from Sana’a in Yemen offer their perspectives of where the country is at now with recent moves by the new U.S. President.
In this edition of the Global Research News Hour we feature an exclusive interview with the writer, geopolitical analyst and investigative journalist Pepe Escobar on some of the more prominent conflicts in the world and on the changes resulting from the novelties of COVID and growing ties among US rivals. We also quiz Ken Stone of Hamilton Coalition to Stop the war about the group's activities and priorities at present.
(Originally aired Jan 22, 2021) The Global Research News Hour cites instances of severe allergic reactions and even death immediately following the application of the vaccines by Pfizer-BioNtech and Moderna. Internist and epidemic and anthrax expert Meryl Nass M.D. sees instances authorities are not prepared for and exposes the Emergency Use Authorization and instances dire to vaccine injured recipients. Our next guest, Canadian infectious disease expert Allison McGeer explains that despite the relatively small list of deaths, the roll-out should absolutely not be paused given the threat posed by COVID. Our last guest, Mary Holland of Children's Health Defense opposes the roll-out and explains why.
This week on the Global Research News Hour, we continue our look at past wars started in March by focusing on the wars in Yugoslavia in 1999 and Iraq in 2003
for our first half hour we here a documentary on Yugoslavia featuring opinions by Michel Chossudovsky, Živadin Jovanović, James Bissett and Scott Taylor. And in our second half, former UN Chief Weapons Officer Scott Ritter addresses the Iraq War and the claims of weapons of mass destruction there.
The Global Research News Hour marks the 10th anniversary since the start of the US/ NATO led assault on Libya with two informed critics. Our first, Abayomi Azikiwe examines some of the history, the geopolitics, and the state of the country today. Then in our second half hour, we talk to one of the journalists, Mahdi Darius Nazemroaya, located in Libya during the summer portion of the attack, followed by his analysis and his memory of what was most meaningful.
This week on the Global Research News Hour we feature a special documentary retrospective on the Syrian civil war which was in fact a foreign fueled insurgency, outlining the state of the players on the opposition side, including the US, and a review of the many facets that distinguishes this US war from previous military incursions. The voices include Syrian journalist and commentator Steven Sahiounie, independent journalist and historian Gareth Porter, and Syrian based Western journalist Vanessa Beeley.
This week on the Global Research News Hour, we examine the idea of the COVID crisis being a mask for the Elites to bring about changes on a global level that radically shift our lives in a way that benefits them. In the first half hour, Catherine Austin Fitts of solari.com makes her debut on the program, detailing her written report on the State of our Currencies: the End of Currencies. And in our second half hour, we hear from Mila Aleckowitz Bataille, a noted researcher into psychopathology and psychology about how the COVID measures brought in place are a form of Dark Psychiatric experiment.
This week salutes the last week of Black History Month by examining the shocking events taking place on the troubling nation of Haiti. The President Jovenel Moise claims he still rules the country in spite of a constitution that lawyers and opposition politicians say demands his rejection. We get the latest updates from Kim Ives of Haiti Liberte, and we get a more in depth background and context of the Canadian and US forces driving this agenda from Jean Saint-Vil, Haitian born activist living in Canada.
This episode of the Global Research News Hour is intended to raise funds for CKUW 95.9 Fm in Winnipeg, the host station where the show is put together.FEatured in this broadcast are messages from stations CIXX 106.9FM and WZBC 90.3FM who also broadcast the Global Research News Hour, some great music, and excerpts from previous shows. People who would like to donate show do so ONLY online at fundrive.ckuw.ca
This episode of the Global Research News Hour is intended to raise funds for CKUW 95.9 Fm in Winnipeg, the host station where the show is put together. Featuring an interview with fellow programmer and CJSF program Director Robin Eriksson, and excerpts of past episodes. Support the station and the program by visiting fundrive.ckuw.ca and pledging for Global Research News Hour.
This Week's Global Research News Hour features the renowned academic and author Professor Michel Chossudovsky on the various discrepancies in the narrative around the COVID -19 virus and how Big Moneyed and Big Pharmaceutica interests are driving the show. In the conversation he presses his views about the announcement of a pandemic while numbers outside China were still small, the flawed RT PCR test for counting infections, and the toll all of this was taking on wide sections of the world. Professor Chossudovsky is an award winning author, Professor emeritus of Economics at the University of Ottawa, and the Founder and Director of the Centre for Research on Globalization
On this week's Global Research News Hour, we dive even deeper down the rabbit hole of the COVID vaccines and the numerous fictions associated with the pandemic in order to effortlessly accomplish the dreaded Great Reset. In our first half hour, Dr Chris Shaw spells out his opposition to the Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna mRNA vaccines from a neuroscientific perspective. In our second half hour, after a brief review of many of the myths of the pandemic, we get the overview on the Great Reset from author Dianna Johnstone author of the November article The Great Pretext...for Dystopia!
The Global Research News Hour cites instances of severe allergic reactions and even death immediately following the application of the vaccines by Pfizer-BioNtech and Moderna. Internist and epidemic and anthrax expert Meryl Nass M.D. sees instances authorities are not prepared for and exposes the Emergency Use Authorization and instances dire to vaccine injured recipients. Our next guest, Canadian infectious disease expert Allison McGeer explains that despite the relatively small list of deaths, the roll-out should absolutely not be paused given the threat posed by COVID. Our last guest, Mary Holland of Children's Health Defense opposes the roll-out and explains why.
On this week's Global Research News Hour we take a closer look at the mobs descending on Capitol Hill on January 6 and realize the prospects that the incident may have been a False Flag.
First up, we hear a general explanation by commentator and former Assistant to the Treasury Paul Craig Roberts indicating the role of provocateurs and security standing down. He also speaks on the subject of voter fraud and the division of the masses goig ahead.
Next, journalist and media critic Barrie Zwicker talks on the same subject but speculating on the flaws of the right and the thought that Trump himself may have been responsible. Finally, Jason Bermas,a documentary film maker, broadcaster and journalist tells his story of what he recorded while inn the crowd as a reporter and what the stakes are for both the left and the right.
This week we once again review a lot of the pivotal stories of 2020 and where they will lead going into 2021. Guest Patrick Henningsen, founder and editor with 21st century Wire offers his take on the key stories. Dmitry Orlov expresses some sentiments about prospects of war, and Andy Lee Roth of Project Censored speaks about Project Censored 2021: The State of the Free PRess and the most censored stories of the year. Also a short comment about the recent protest on Capitol Hill.
(Repeat of program aired December 4, 2020)
This week on the Global Research News Hour, two long time environmental activists express doubts of the major institutions forging solutions to climate change. Our first guest Cory Morningstar about the damaging aspects of the Great Reset and how the future of techology will further jeopardize the environment. In our second half hour, Clive Spash articulates the various difficulties with the Paris Accord,and his disdain for economic growth, Keynesian productivity and even Environmental activists groups that prop up faulty solutions. Cory Morningstar is a London based Independent investigative journalist, writer and environmental activist. Clive Spash is an economist, teacher and environmental activist.
(Repeat episode from September 18, 2020)
This hour of the Global Research News Hour we showcase recent developments in and around Russia and try to determine if this major power is being put on the defensive as things heat up. WE first speak with journalist John Helmer about the apparent poisoning of Alexei Navalny and whether it is the Russians or the Germans who have some explaining to do. Next, we are joined by Belgrade academic Stevan Gijic who takes on the possible coloured revolution in Belarus and the significance of increasing NATO activities in the Russian Region.
Three incomparable champions of outstanding service to their fellow human beings in international conflict pass away all within a two month period. Global Research News Hour pays tribute through their own voices and the voices of those who respected and admired them. Saluting Robert Fisk, independent journalist, Andre Vltchek, leading filmmaker, writer and political analyst, and Kevin Zeese, lawyer, activist, and organizer.
With the new COVID vaccine getting approval for entry and dispatch to Canadians, the Global Research News Hour has a conversation with a lawyer who not only criticizes the vaccine, but lockdowns, masking and related measures which he claims are unconstitutional. Rocco Galati also describes the legal challenges in defence of human freedoms.
With the new COVID vaccine getting approval for entry and dispatch to Canadians, the Global Research News Hour has a conversation with a lawyer who not only criticizes the vaccine, but lockdowns, masking and related measures which he claims are unconstitutional. Rocco Galati also describes the legal challenges in defence of human freedoms.
This week on the Global Research News Hour, two long time environmental activists express doubts of the major institutions forging solutions to climate change. Our first guest Cory Morningstar about the damaging aspects of the Great Reset and how the future of techology will further jeopardize the environment. In our second half hour, Clive Spash articulates the various difficulties with the Paris Accord,and his disdain for economic growth, Keynesian productivity and even Environmental activists groups that prop up faulty solutions. Cory Morningstar is a London based Independent investigative journalist, writer and environmental activist. Clive Spash is an economist, teacher and environmental activist.
This week's program deals with the problems with the lack of consent around the 2020 US elections and how they were predicted! It also delves into uncertainty around the second and third wave, the Great Reset, Operation Warp Speed, 5G and more ignored and subverted by mainstream media offered by investigative journalist, documentary producer and activist Derrick Broze. Also, we hear part of a speech by Dr Roger Hodkinson, the reputable doctor, pathologist for the Alberta Medical Examiner, and CEO of a biotech Company which manufactures COVID tests.
This week, the Global Research News Hour brings a special presentation proximate to the anniversary of the assassination of President Kennedy. Michael Parenti delves into the reality of the elite class within society engaging in these plots in order to protect their own power. Michael Parenti is an internationally known author and lecturer. He received his Ph.D. in political science from Yale in 1962 and is one of the nation's leading progressive political thinkers. His highly informative and entertaining books and talks have reached a wide range of audiences in North America and abroad. His books include Democracy for the Few, Superpatriotism, The Assassination of Julius Caesar, History as Mystery, and Contrary Notions.
On this week's,Global Research News Hour, we recall aspects of World War II which reveals the sordid aspects of Canada, the U.S. and the UK and their original support for the Nazis. In our first half hour, Richard Sanders discusses the former Prime Minister's high regard for Hitler and the anti soviet Eastern European Emigres who came to Canada. In our second half hour, Canadian Historian Jacques Pauwels explains how US and UK support for the Nazis affected the conference at Yalta and how the US altered its strategy in 1945 and beyond.
This show features powerful and alternative voices on the COVID pandemic and how to mercifully deal with people in its grip. The guests are Constitutional Lawyer Rocco Galati from a speech he gave in Toronto and from Doctor and Professor Anand Kumar who defends lockdowns and other measures to prevent covid casualties from getting out of hand.
This week, the Global Research News Hour explores the strain of corruption running within the heart of the US Biotech industrial Complex. We discover Dark Winter, a simulation of an anthrax attack preceding the real anthrax attack in 2001, We discover two simulations of a germ release from China again preceding the actual release. Fort Detrick, Bioport, and the recent Operation Warp Speed are all part of the journey moderated by Serena Shim Award-winning investigative journalist Whitney Webb,
This week's Global Research News Hour examines the Social and economic consequences of major changes resulting from the corona virus and actions designed to contain it. In our first half hour we’ll speak with Professor Michel Chossudovsky about the Social and economic implications of the fight against Covid for labour and small businesses.
Then in our second half hour, Professor of political studies professor Radhika Desai talks to journalist Chris Cook about her 7 part series WHAT IS TO BE DONE? A MANIFESTO FOR POLITICS AMID THE PANDEMIC AND BEYOND
This week, on the Global Research News Hour, we question three experts about the uunspecified risks associated with the COVID vaccine. We also dig into a more elaborate risk to human freedom posed by an ID Nanochip with ecomonist and geopolitical analyst Peter Koenig.
On this week's Global research News Hour, in our special Coronavirus series, we study the drug Hydroxychloroquine as a possible treatment for COVID 19, and the lengths some authorities go through to sabotage it. We first hear from Drl Jane Orient, Executive Director of the Association of American Physicians and Surgeons about the lawsuit they are dispatching for not releasing the drug to doctors. We hear from Dr. Meryl Nass about the battle plan of elites to keep the drug out of use. And we hear from three doctors -Vladimir Zelenko, Martin Scholz, and Roland Derwand - about the results of their recent trial of a hydroxychloroquine cocktail on human sufferers with COVID
This episode of the Global Research News converses with two members of Docs for Open Debate to get more lowdown on their concerns about why politicians, the WHO and the media are getting it wrong about the virus and why voices like theirs are crucial.
This is part one of a series exploring the truth behind the new Covid 19 virus. In our first half hour, we hear from a high profile scientist about the way the outbreak has not warranted lockdowns. In the secod half hour, Mark Crispin Miller,describes the harmful side of masks and the reasons behind the propaganda of health.
This hour of the Global Research News Hour we showcase recent developments in and around Russia and try to determine if this major power is being put on the defensive as things heat up. WE first speak with journalist John Helmer about the apparent poisoning of Alexei Navalny and whether it is the Russians or the Germans who have some explaining to do. Next, we are joined by Belgrade academic Stevan Gijic who takes on the possible coloured revolution in Belarus and the significance of increasing NATO activities in the Russian Region.
This episode of the Global Research News Hour examines the question of whether the story of 9/11 continues to have consequences for people 19 years later. My guests include Anthony Hall, who sees the influence of big money which continues right through the COVID crisis. Also, Graeme MacQueen sees the impact on fighting even outside of the Al Qaeda forces. Richard Gage, AIA finishes off with an updated look at the fight for 9/11 truth and 9/11 justice.
This week’s Global Research News Hour features a variety of speakers from a conference on Hydro-impacted communities hosted by Wa Ni Ska Tan. They include speakers from three Manitoba communities, Senator Mary Jane McCallum, speakers from Columbia, Brazil, and feminist political ecologist Deepa Joshi.
On this week’s Global Research News Hour we host a timely and incisive interview with Guy McPherson on the Near Term Extinction of the human species and all life on earth. Guy elaborates on the threat due to melting of polar ice, the aerosol masking effect, challenges of persisting off the grid, and the determination of the mainstream climate movement to disregard his views. Guy McPherson is professor emeritus at the University of Arizona, author of over a dozen books and host/producer of Nature Bats Last, a radio podcast.
On this brand new episode of the Global Research News Hour we take a fresh and discerning look at Joe Biden and Kamala Harris on the week when the Democratic party is hosting its 2020 National Convention.
In the first half hour, Mark Robinowitz offers his assessment as a deep political thinker and ecological thinker. His website is oilempire.us. Ajamu Baraka, national organizer for the Black Alliance for Peace and vice president on the Green ticket during the last presidential election, offer his uncompromising view of the Democratic party and leader Biden in our second half hour.
This week, we will go over the history of Prison Abuse in Canada and about the efforts to bring these crimes to the attention of those on the outside. Bob Gaucher in recognized for his abilities in the field of championing Prison Justice and abolition in Canada. He explains some of the background of suppression of rights historically. We then hear from Montreal based organizer Johanne Wendy Bariteau and from Vancouver based organizer Meenakshi Mannoe about the struggles in those two communities and about the Prison Justice Day events they held.
This brand new edition of the Global Research News Hour commemorates the 75th anniversary of the one and only use of atomic weapons on the Japanese cites of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Our first interview, academic and scholar Michel Chossudovsky, uses the occasion to highlight how certain nuclear weapons are once again being contemplated for use in conventional warfare. In our second half hour, author and journalist Greg Mitchell joins us to discuss the early efforts to shape a false notion of what happened during the attacks with the Hollywood blockbuster “The Beginning or the End.”
On this week’s Global Research News Hour radio program,we discuss some of the recent developments unraveling in the United Kingdom, and what they mean for the country, the European region and the world. For the bulk of the hour, we will hear from Political Studies Professor Radhika Desai and from journalist Youri Smouter about Brexit, the UK election and the dynamics within the British Labour Party. Toward the end of the hour. Patrick Henningsen shares information about an important session of the House of Commons at which whistleblowers from the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons spoke.
This Week's Global Research News Hour radio program further delves into the hazards of wireless and attempts to determine the agendas behind the roll out of the next generation of networks known as 5G. Guests include world renowned research scientist Olle Johansson and former UN staffer, whistleblower and anti 5G campaigner Claire Edwards.
This week's Global Research News Hour reviews the news stories from 2019. In the first half hour, Andy Lee Roth of Project discusses the most censored stories of 2018-19 as depicted in the media project's latest publication CENSORED 2020. In the second half hour, Abby and Robbie Martin, co-hosts of Media Roots Radio, join Global Research News Hour co-hosts Michael Welch and Scott Price to discuss significant developments in media, geopolitics and the environment over the last year and their potential implications for 2020.
This week’s Global Research News Hour presents diverse reactions to the escalating US-Iran tensions in the last week following the assassination of the Islamic Republic’s highly revered military commander General Qasem Soleimani. Allan Wise shares his thoughts as a Canadian with family living in the country, and as a critic of Iran's human rights record. Glenn Michalchuk a long-time Canadian peace activist breaks down the proper role of Canadians in reversing the tide toward war. Pepe Esscobar, journalist, gopolitical analyst and correspondent-at-large for Hong Kong-based Asia Times outlines some of the dynamics behind Trump's provocative behaviour toward the Islamic Republic, and what it means for the region, and the world.
This week's Global Research News Hour radio program features another presentation from the 2019 World Association for Political Economy (WAPE) forum, held in WInnipeg at the University of Manitoba July 19-21. The conference theme this year was 'Class, State and Nation in the twenty-First Century.'
Presenter Maria Páez Victor MA, Ph.D. is a Venezuelan–Canadian sociologist, and winner of the Distinguished Achievement Award in Political Economy for the 21st Century. Her talk focuses on the efforts at regime change in Venezuela and corrects much of the media and political disinformation around the plight of the South American country.
This week's Global Research News Hour radio program features presentations by two prominent Marxist economists at the 2019 World Association for Political Economy (WAPE) forum, held in WInnipeg at the University of Manitoba July 19-21. The conference theme this year was 'Class, State and Nation in the twenty-First Century.'
Utsa Patnaik is Professor Emeritus, Jawaharlal Nehru University (New Delhi). The title of her presentation was ' ‘Austerity’ and its Consequences in the Advanced and Developing Worlds: The Present in the Light of the Inter-War Depression'
MIchael Hudson is President, The Institute for the Study of Long-Term Economic Trends (ISLET). The title of his presentation was 'America Threatens to Self-destruct if Other Countries don’t Obey it.'
ON this week's Global Research News Hour radio program we explore the trajectory of U.S. foreign policy since the origins of the republic and determine how America's quest to displace the British Empire did not end with the Declaration of Independence and continued through World War II, the Cold War right up through the post-Cold War period. Our guest for the hour is Professor Michel Chossudovsky, Professor of Economics (emeritus) at the University of Ottawa, Founder and Director of the Centre for Research on Globalization (CRG), Montreal, and Editor of Global Research.
This week on the Global Research News Hour we break apart the narratives driving the U.S./ NATO regime change operation in Syria, and how and why these nrratives seem to persist. The discussion principally centres around the Syrian White Helmets as a propganda construct, the financial and non-profit networks which sustains them, and the background of media smears against dissident journalists. This conversation features an in depth conversation with independent journalists Cory Morningstar and Vanessa Beeley.
On this week's Global Research News Hour radio program we hear multiple perspectives on the situation in Bolivia from both inside and outside the country in the hope of getting a more accurate impression of the forces and personalities in play in this troubled nation. Guests include Maine based political journalist and Cuba solidarity activist W.T. Whitney, La Paz based anti-racist activist and former student Sara Jaurequi, University of California researcher Jeb Sprague, and Bolivian anarcha-feminist Maria Galindo.
(Repeat broadcast first aired October 25th, 2019. Guest Vanessa Beeley will speak in several Canadian cities in early December 2019. Find details on facebook page for 'Vanessa Beeley's Canadian speaking tour')
On this week’s Global Research News Hour, following two weeks of extensive violence orchestrated by Turkey on the region bordering it to the south, we turn our attention to Syria, and the ongoing campaign of regime change by Western nations, including Canada. In our first half hour, political commentator and Middle East expert Laith Marouf provides some historical context to the Turkish military campaign against the Kurds and the agreement brokered recently to resolve that situation.
We next hear from a member of the Syrian diaspora in Canada, Majd Zooda about the removal of Waseem Ramli from a high profile Syrian representative post and what it means for Syrian and non-Syrian Canadians.
Finally, we re-air part of an interview by Chris Cook of CFUV’s Gorilla-Radio with Journalist Vanessa Beeley about her August article on Canadian human rights lawyer Irwin Cotler and his championing of the White Helmets.
This week's Global Research News Hour takes a look at the activities of the US shadow government or 'Deep State' spanning the 56 years since the tragic death of US President John F Kennedy, and places the current impeachment hearing of President Donald Trump in that context. We first hear from writer and Deep Politics researcher Mark Robinowitz as he distinguishes between successful and unsuccessful strategies in achieving justice and accountability for JFK, 9/11 and other such 'deep events.' We next hear from legendary Deep Politics researcher Professor Peter Dale Scott, who outlines his understanding of the contours of what is called the 'Deep State', its internal divisions and contradictions, and the under-examined unaccountable power dynamics pushing the impeachments both of Richard Nixon in the 70s and Donald Trump today.
On this week’s Global Research News Hour, we showcase a July 2019 interview with financial economist, author and historian Michael Hudson addressing the financial instruments utilized by the United States to retain its post World War II position of dominance on the world stage, and ways in which foreign economies can survive the looming implosion of the U.S. The conversation also addresses the decisions made by Canadian governments to abandon the Bank of Canada as the country’s lender of choice and the prospects of progressive political candidates and popular movements to pull the U.S. out of its death spiral.
Michael Hudson is a prominent U.S. critical economist and President of The Institute for the Study of Long-Term Economic Trends (ISLET), a Wall Street Financial Analyst and a Distinguished Research Professor of Economics at the University of Missouri, Kansas City.
In the first half hour, Belgian-born Canadian historian outlines how and why U.S. industrial interests supported the Nazis right up until the Pearl Harbor attacks, and the real reason the U.S. would eventually join the fight against the Germans. IN our second half hour, the distinguished award-winning speaker, activist, politician and activist Ajamu Baraka speaks about the evolution of the anti war movement from Vietnam to the present and of the need for the movement to root itself in an anti-imperialist and anti-colonial focus. This interview takes place in advance of lectures he is presenting in five Canadian cities.
From the uprisings in Ecuador to the demonstrations in Chile to the elections in Bolivia, Argentina and Uruguay, tis week's show probes the popular actions against austerity, privatization and other neoliberal policies across South America. Professor Michel Chossudovsky provides a historical context to last month's eruptions, including a recounting of his own recollections from having lived through the 70s era coups in Chile and Argentina. Next up, Pepe Escobar shares his understanding of the geopolitical dimensions of the current uprisings, and why he sees the recent Argentine election in particular as a political game changer. Finally, John Ahniwanika Schertow of Intercontinental Cry examines the role of Indigenous peoples and Indigenous struggle in the modern resistance against the neoliberal project.
On this week’s Global Research News Hour, following two weeks of extensive violence orchestrated by Turkey on the region bordering it to the south, we turn our attention to Syria, and the ongoing campaign of regime change by Western nations, including Canada. In our first half hour, political commentator and Middle East expert Laith Marouf provides some historical context to the Turkish military campaign against the Kurds and the agreement brokered recently to resolve that situation.
We next hear from a member of the Syrian diaspora in Canada, Majd Zooda about the removal of Waseem Ramli from a high profile Syrian representative post and what it means for Syrian and non-Syrian Canadians.
Finally, we re-air part of an interview by Chris Cook of CFUV’s Gorilla-Radio with Journalist Vanessa Beeley about her August article on Canadian human rights lawyer Irwin Cotler and his championing of the White Helmets.
With the Canadian federal election just days away, the Global Research News Hour tackles critical issues, particularly foreign policy, not being addressed by the major political parties or the media.
In the first half hour, we convene a discussion with Canadian foreign policy critic and author Yves Engler and with anti-war activist Ken Stone about the myths and realities surrounding Canadian involvement in the Middle East and militarism more generally and what distinctions if any exist among the different political parties in these areas. In the second half hour, journalist and writer Arnold August discusses Canada's 'policy shift' toward Venezuela and Cuba and why he sees Trudeau's 'slavish' attitude toward the U.S. as unprecedented in modern times. Finally, award- winning freelance writer and researcher Joyce Nelson talks about the Canada Infrastructure Bank and how this little discussed Crown Corporation threatens to oversee the privatization of water and wastewater services across the country.
This episode of the Global Research News Hour, falling on Keep Space for Peace Week, probes the plans by the Trump Administration to militarize and weaponize space and the potential ramifications for escalating a new arms race, with implications for the social welfare and the global environment.
In our first half hour, we get a perspective from Toronto-based academic and peace campaigner Tamara Lorincz, on Canada’s current role in advancing U.S. military agendas including their aspirations with regard to missile defense and dominance in space. She also provides a brief same day report back on a protest she organized outside the NATO Association of Canada office in downtown Toronto.
In our second half hour, Global Research News Hour associate Paul Graham conducts a conversation with Bruce Gagnon of the Global Network Against Nuclear Power and Weapons in Space talks about America’s plans for the development of outer space as a war-fighting theatre. He also details the concerns about the use of nuclear power for space travel, the role of the military in guarding access to the heavens, and the cost of a new nuclear arms race to environment protection, social security and other projects in the public interest.
This week's Global Research News Hour assesses the historical background and impacts of the 20 year old Bolivarian Revolution with the help of three guests. Maria Paez Victor, a Venezuelan-Canadian, sociologist, and policy analyst, outlines the divisions within Venezuelan society and the role of the Bolivarian Revolution in advancing social justice and welfare in the country. Montreal - based author, activist and foreign policy analyst Yves Engler explains Canada's reasons for supporting the 2019 coup against President Maduro. Finally, a second Venezuelan-Canadian, activist and freelance writer Nino Pagliccia, explains where the Venezuelan coup attempts fit into the larger regional geo-strategy.
This week's Global Research News Hour takes a critical look at the Green New Deal and the Greta Thunberg inspired climate actions from a perspective acknowledging the severity of the climate crisis. In the first half hour journalist, author and political consultant Naomi Wolf reveals some of the troublesome and undemocratic aspects of the Green New Deal resolution presented by Congressperson Alexandria Ocasio-Cortes. In the second half hour, investigative journalist and long time environmental activist presents her research into Greta Thunberg's background, the elite interests that have encircled her, and the documentation detailing detrimental environmental and social consequences from an elite agenda being masked by benign sounding sustainability initiatives.
This week's Global Research News Hour returns to an examination of the health hazards associated with wireless communications and the refusal of regulators in Canada and elsewhere do respect the science. We hear from Frank Clegg, Ceo of Canadians for Safe Technology, about the failure of political representatives and regulators to recognize the risks. We later hear from noted researcher Professor Martin L Pall of Washington State University about how EMF exposure affects cell physiology and its impacts on the larger organism, with implications for human survival.
Finally, Mark Gildenhaar of Kingstonians for Safe Technology talks about successful organizing in the city of Kingston, Ontario, and about a Saturday September 21st anti 5G rally and follow-up expert panel discussion.
On this week's Global Research News Hour, we hear about legal and political strategies for advancing the call for a new investigation into the September 11th 2001 terrorist attacks, based on the evidence that points away from the official findings. Richard Gage AIA of the Architects and Engineers for 9/11 Truth and Barbara Honegger of the Lawyers Committee for 9/11 Inquiry discuss the current political and legal strategies. We hear an excerpt from a presentation by New York Fire Commissioner and 9/11 First responder Christopher Gioia about area Fire Fighters' call for a new investigation at a September 11th news conference, and we hear from the lead author of a recent draft study on the collapse of World Trade Center 7.
This week's episode of the Global Research News Hour is a rebroadcast of a round table discussion featuring the late investigative journalist and CIA whistleblower Michael C Ruppert. The talk was aired roughly on the 6 month anniversary of the September 11th attacks. The broadcaster, Canada's VISION TV, was the first national television network in the world to feature critical perspectives of the official story of the terrorist attacks that brought down the WTC towers, killed thousands and directly contributed to the so-called global war on terrorism. Panelists discussed the failure of standard aircraft intercept protocols, evidence of foreknowledge and guilty demeanour on the part of US officials, evidence of oil pipelines and Afghanistan drug production as a motive for the crime, the compromising of Canada's sovereignty, and the proper role of journalists as they covered this unique event and its consequences.
Joining Ruppert on the panel were VISION TV Insight executive producer Rita Deverell, Journalist-educator Peter Desbarats, former chair of Canada's Security Intelligence Review Committee Ron Atkey QC., and peace activist and journalist Phyllis Creighton.
The Global Research News Hour gratefully acknowledges and thanks VISION TV for consenting to the rebroadcast of this content.
(Repeat broadcast of May 10, 2019 episode)
This week's Global Research News Hour presents a review of some of the adverse health impacts associated with the new generation of Wireless networks, known as 5G. In the first half hour, Meg Sears PhD, Chair of Prevent Cancer Now, presents some of the solid peer-reviewed research on the known health risks of Wireless Technology that are being ignored or downplayed by Health Canada. In the second half hour, Patti Wood with the group Grassroots Environmental Education, talks about campaigns to warn the public about 5G, including the May 15th National Day of Action. Finally, we present an interview with Walt McGinnis, Victoria-based political activist, and citizen journalist, about some of the other little discussed aspects of this exotic technology. This last interview aired on the program Gorilla Radio on University of Victoria based CFUV 101.9FM hosed by Chris Cook.
(Repeat broadcast of April 12, 2019 episode)
On a week corresponding with the 25th anniversary of the start of the Rwandan genocide, the Global Research News Hour shines a light on research pointing to the under-examined crimes committed by the Tutsi-dominated Rwandan Patriotic Front before, during and after the infamous 100 day killing spree that claimed hundreds of thousands of African lives. Our guests include radio host and former International Criminal Tribunal on Rwanda investigator Phil Taylor, and the author of a recent book on the genocide detailing the RPF's involvement and complicity in mass murder: Judi Rever.
(Repeat broadcast of March 22, 2019 episode)
This week's Global Research News Hour marks the 20th anniversary of NATO's 1999 bombing campaign against the former Yugoslavia with four expert interviews.
Professor Michel Chossudovsky Professor of Economics and Founder Director of Centre for Research on Globalization provides the geopolitical and economic background for the war.
Živadin Jovanović, provides his insights into the NATO attacks as the Minister of Foreign Affairs for the Federation of Yugoslavia during that time.
James Bissett, a former Canadian Ambassador to Yugoslavia, explains his outspokenness against the war at the time and since, and outlines the new precedent it sets for the institutions of world order.
Scott Taylor, former soldier, journalist and current publisher/editor of Esprit de Corps magazine relays his observations of what he saw and experienced on the ground during the war, and his assessment of the 'independent' status of the 'liberated' Kosovo.
(Repeat broadcast of February 8, 2019 episode)
This week's Global Research News Hour investigates some of the post 2016 mechanisms being implemented to restrict dissident news and analysis in the name of fighting fake news and 'foreign interference' in political affairs. Whitney Webb, author of a major expose on a neocon backed 'news rating agency' called Newsguard comes in to provide background on why independent media sites should be concerned about this organization.
Our next guest, Patrick Henningsen, geopolitical analyst and founder of 21st Century Wire, expands on this 'Fake News Patrol' Trojan Horse by discussing social media partnerships with less than wholesome entities like the Atlantic Council, introduces listeners to something called the Integrity Initiative headquartered in Great Britain which continues the mission of protecting democratic processes from Russian influence, and points to the hazards he sees in a Canadian government initiative proposing to protect elections from foreign (Russian) meddling.
(Repeat broadcast of the January 25 episode)
On a week when the U.S., Canada and other world powers are recognizing an opposition politician and not the democratically elected Nicolas Maduro as the legitimate president of Venezuela, the Global Research News Hour examines the internal and external forces attempting to undermine the democratically elected government of Venezuela, their motives and what the future holds for the Bolivarian Republic. Our guests include Lucas Koerner, a Caracas-based staff writer with Venezuelanalysis.com, Radhika Desai, Professor of Political Studies and member of the Winnipeg Venezuela Peace Committee, and Nino Pagliccia, Vancouver-based Venezuelan-Canadian, writer and activist.
(Repeat broadcast from December 21, 2018)
This week's Global Research News Hour delves into the US extradition request of Huawei executive Meng Wanzhou and the decision by Canada to detain her. First guest Professor Michel Chossudovsky believes the detention is related to a call by the Five Eyes Alliance of intelligence agencies to block Huawei from gaining ground in the international market for its 5G technology. We then speak with esteemed international criminal lawyer Christopher Black Canada's role in the detention and rationale behind the detention of Canadians in China. Finally, Ron Unz of the Unz Review elaborates on his belief that the U.S. has an achilles heel that if exploited could compel Canada to release of Ms. Meng right away.
(Repeat broadcast from November 23, 2018)
On this week's Global Research News Hour, we continue our alternative coverage of the centenary of the end of World War One with an extensive interview with researcher Gerry Docherty, who has authored two books detailing the origins of the 'war to end all wars' not in an assassination in Sarajevo, but in a secret cabal of British financial elites looking to secure and extend the Empire. Docherty elaborates on his thesis in part one.
In part two, Rick Rozoff, anti-war activist and journalist and manager of the STOP NATO list-serve shares his perspectives on the November 11 gathering of World leaders and their commemoration of the end of World War One. He also shares his thoughts about current global trends and the prospects of another major powers conflict in the near future.
On this week's Global Research News Hour, the noted critic of Canadian foreign policy and special guest interviewer Paul Graham explore reason why established left of centre groups that challenge corporate power within Canada end up promoting and defending corporate power interests abroad, including military interventions. This contradictory reality forms the basis of his latest book: Left, Right: Marching to the Beat of Imperial Canada.
(Originally aired Sept.28, 2018)
This week's Global Research News Hour examines the ongoing confrontation between the US and Russia, and provides a historical context to the growing divide between the two major powers. We first hear from writer, blogger and geopolitical analyst Dmitry Orlov about the deteriorating relationship between Russia and the Western powers over the last year, the fundamentals underlying American actions, and where he thinks these developments may lead in the coming year. Then we get a historical backgrounder from long-time anti-war activist Ron Ridoneur, author of The Russian Peace Threat: Pentagon on Alert.
This week's Global Research News Hour, marking the last of the season, will concentrate on the controversial foreign policy decisions made by U.S. President Trump. Topics of discussion include Trump's currents military and economic threats toward Iran, his pull-out from the INF treaty, the factors influencing US policy generally, and the prospects for a peaceful outcome in the Persian Gulf. Guests include Scott Ritter, former Marine Intelligence officer and former Chief UN Weapons inspector in Iraq, and Bruce Gagnon, Secretary/Coordinator of the Global Network Against Weapons and Nuclear Power in Space
This week's episode marks National Indigenous Peoples Day (in Canada). We therefore present interviews thematically linked with Indigenous struggles and resistance in Canada and around the world. Our first guest, Bruce Clark PhD, elaborates on his thesis that the legal system in Canada has been utilizing instruments to suppress Indigenous sovereignty in law and that it therefore is culpable in genocide. Our next guest, Reuben George, a representative of Tsleil Waututh Nation on the Canadian West Coast talks about his community's dissatisfaction with the Federal government's consultation process over the Trans-Mountain pipeline expansion. Our last guest, John Ahniwanika Schertow discusses significant struggles of Indigenous peoples in India and the Middle East.
On this week's Global Research News Hour, on the heels of the June 13th attacks on two tankers in the Gulf of Oman, we examine some of the tensions that have been rising between the US and Iran in recent weeks, and attempt to determine if they represent a prelude for war. In the first half hour, PRofessor Michel Chossudovsky explains his assessment that a conventional war on Iran is highly unlikely given shifting strategic alliances in the region. Later, Yves Engler outlines reasons behind the Canadian government's enmity toward Tehran. Finally, geopolitical analyst Pepe Escobar comments on breaking developments including his contention that Trump, at odds with his own National Security Advisor, wants desperately to open talks with the Iranian government,
On this week's edition of the Global Research News Hour radio program, we will explore what is known about the major players behind the scenes who manage and direct world affairs. Independent journalist Dan Dicks provides us with his observations and experiences covering the 2019 Bilderberg conference in Montreux, Switzerland. Then Professor Peter Phillips, author of the 2018 book 'Giants: The Global Power Elite' breaks down how just under 200 people working with 17 transnational investment firms make the decisions that affect the fate of the entire planet.
On this week's Global Research News Hour radio program, we take a look at some of the factors shaping American economic policy, its influence on the world stage, and the ability of the American public and rival powers to counter US hegemony. Our first guest Dr. Jack Rasmus will take us through an analysis of the current US China trade war. In the second half hour, York University professor Leo Panitch shares his insights into how the US prevails as an economic power and how today’s freedom struggles can be won.
This week's Global Research News Hour explores some of the historic divides along racial lines that have threatened working class solidarity. For the bulk of the show, two in-studio guests: Chris Ramsaroop of the Migrant Justice Network (Toronto) and Louis Ifill, a former program coordinator for the Winnipeg-based Workers of Colour Support Network, discuss how and why obstacles have persisted for migrants and racialized workers in Canada. IN the latter part of the show, Abayomi Azikiwe shares his insights into how and why the labor force in the industrialized northeast of the country has been split along racial lines and who has benefitted from those divisions.
This week's Global Research News Hour commemorates the centenary of the 1919 Winnipeg General Strike, by exploring the overall impact of that event on successive generations of labour and social activists. Our first guest, Leo Panitch speaks to the context and historic significance of the 1919 Strike. In the second half hour, a round table speaks to the legacy of the strike and its meaning for today's solidarity actions and struggles. Professor Panitch is Canada Research Chair in Comparative Political Economy at York University, Emeritus Professor of Political Science at York University, and co-editor with Sam Gindin of The Socialist Register. Julie Guard is Professor of Labour Studies and History at the University of Manitoba. John Clarke is a long time organizer with the Toronto-based Ontario Coalition Against Poverty. Harold Dyck a long time anti-poverty and welfare advocate based in Winnipeg.
This week's Global Research News Hour presents a review of some of the adverse health impacts associated with the new generation of Wireless networks, known as 5G. In the first half hour, Meg Sears PhD, Chair of Prevent Cancer Now, presents some of the solid peer-reviewed research on the known health risks of Wireless Technology that are being ignored or downplayed by Health Canada. In the second half hour, Patti Wood with the group Grassroots Environmental Education, talks about campaigns to warn the public about 5G, including the May 15th National Day of Action. Finally, we present an interview with Walt McGinnis, Victoria-based political activist, and citizen journalist, about some of the other little discussed aspects of this exotic technology. This last interview aired on the program Gorilla Radio on University of Victoria based CFUV 101.9FM hosed by Chris Cook.
On the occasion of the recent election of Volodymyr Zelensky to the Ukraine Presidency, the Global Research News Hour examines some of the undemocratic currents running through the Eastern European country. In the first half hour, Eva Bartlett returns for the second week in a row to elaborate on two recent articles describing the plight of a Ukrainian journalist who has been detained without trial for almost a year, based on articles he had published in 2014. In the second half hour, we hear Ukraine based journalist George Eliason comment on the election of Zelensky in the context of the rise of Ukrainian nationalism and the war in Donbass.
On this week's episode of the Global Research News Hour we continue our examination of the siege against Venezuela with a special emphasis on Canada's role. Our first guest Yves Engler explains Canada's actual motivation for seeking the ouster of the Maduro government. and provides backgrounds on one particular think tank which is advocating a skewed narrative of Venezuela's economic and political problems. We next hear from journalists Dimitri Lascaris and Eva Bartlett about what they observed during their recent visits to Venezuela, and about how and why their reporting differs from corporate media and Diasporic Venezuelans.
This is a repeat broadcast from the January 11, 2019 program.
On a week when youth around the planet are mobilizing strikes for ‘climate action,’ the Global Research News Hour highlights the major indicators of a natural world in crisis due to global warming.
In the first half hour, following a short report on a local (Winnipeg) youth activist event, University of Ottawa based climate systems scientist Paul Beckwith outlines some of the more worrying signs that even the October 2018 IPCC Special Report on Climate Change failed to adequately address, he looks at the threats to the polar ice caps and the role they play in regulating familiar weather patterns, and he assesses some of what needs to be done to avoid multiple ‘tipping points’, and a ‘Hothouse Earth’ scenario.
In our second half hour, wilderness adventurer, independent journalist, former Iraq War correspondent, and Truthout staff writer Dahr Jamail navigates listeners through The End of Ice, his recently published book on climate change.
On a week corresponding with the 25th anniversary of the start of the Rwandan genocide, the Global Research News Hour shines a light on research pointing to the under-examined crimes committed by the Tutsi-dominated Rwandan Patriotic Front before, during and after the infamous 100 day killing spree that claimed hundreds of thousands of African lives. Our guests include radio host and former International Criminal Tribunal on Rwanda investigator Phil Taylor, and the author of a recent book on the genocide detailing the RPF's involvement and complicity in mass murder: Judi Rever.
As the North Atlantic Treaty Organization celebrates its 70th anniversary, the Global Research News Hour takes a more critical look at the 29 member alliance and the agenda it pursues under the pre-text of 'promoting peace and freedom.' Guests include Mahdi Darius Nazemroaya, sociologist, geopolitical analyst, and author of The Globalization of NATO; and Andre Vltchek, novelist, film maker, journalist and globe-trotting war correspondent.
On a week when the nation of Venezuela is shrouded in darkness from power outages, the Global Research News Hour puts current events in a political and geopolitical context. Long time Venezuela watcher and researcher Dr. Julia Buxton presents her perspectives over the course of the program. While acknowledging the important influence of US and foreign interference, she also points to some of the mistakes made by Maduro both politically and economically, and her concerns about the current impasse leading to bloodshed.
This week's Global Research News Hour marks the 20th anniversary of NATO's 1999 bombing campaign against the former Yugoslavia with four expert interviews.
Professor Michel Chossudovsky Professor of Economics and Founder Director of Centre for Research on Globalization provides the geopolitical and economic background for the war.
Živadin Jovanović, provides his insights into the NATO attacks as the Minister of Foreign Affairs for the Federation of Yugoslavia during that time.
James Bissett, a former Canadian Ambassador to Yugoslavia, explains his outspokenness against the war at the time and since, and outlines the new precedent it sets for the institutions of world order.
Scott Taylor, former soldier, journalist and current publisher/editor of Esprit de Corps magazine relays his observations of what he saw and experienced on the ground during the war, and his assessment of the 'independent' status of the 'liberated' Kosovo.
On this week's Global Research News Hour radio program, we commemorate the 8th anniversary of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear meltdowns, examining the ongoing hazards from radioactive contamination and the efforts made by the Japanese government, nuclear regulators and health authorities in suppressing information that would protect the public and the natural environment. Guests are legendary anti-nuclear advocate and physician Dr. Helen Caldicott, and former nuclear industry senior vice president and whistleblower Arnie Gundersen.
On this week's Global Research News Hour we mark the 54th anniversary of the start of America's ground war in Vietnam with four interviews about under-reported aspects of the war.
Professor Peter Dale Scott focuses his analysis on the Deep State motivations behind the Vietnam War and reasons for the escalation immediately after Kennedy's Assassination.
Abayomi Azikiwe, editor of Pan African News Wire expands on the solidarity between Black Nationalists and Civil Rights leaders in the US, and the Vietnamese resistance.
Barrie Zwicker talks about the 'Gulf of Tonkin' false flag incident which enraged the US public and media coverage of the war gnerally.
Finally, Professor Michel Chossudovsky reviews how the liberated south east Asian countru came to be defeated.
On this week's Global Research News Hour, we mark the 15th anniversary of the coup against Haiti's democratically elected president and the foreign occupation.
We first hear from Ottawa-based Haitian-Canadian writer and activist Jean St. Vil about some of the geopolitical and historical context of the coup and the violence that followed. We next hear from Canadian foreign policy critic Yves Engler about Canada's particular role and ongoing interest in the subversion of Haitian democracy, including the involvement of Quebec-based SNC Lavelin currently making headlines in the nation's capital.
This week's Global Research News Hour radio program marks Black History month with three provocative interviews relating to racial justice in America. Radio host and commentator Glen Ford shares his perspective on the state of the resistance two years into the reign of Donald Trump. Suzanne Ross of International Concerned Family and Friends of Mumia Abu Jamal brings us an update on the plight of America's most high profile political prisoner, and two of the recently released members of the Move 9 and their son talk about the crime for which they were unjustly accused and the adversity they and their fellow MOVE family members endured for more than 40 years behind prison walls.
This week's episode was a fund-raiser for CKUW 95.9FM in Winnipeg, the community radio station that hosts the Global Research News Hour radio program. Over the course of an hour, host Michael Welch, along with fellow programmers Scott Price and Kent Davies, and special guests, former CKUW News Director Geoffrey Young and former CKUW Program Director Robin Eriksson build the case for donating to the station to keep independent and alternative news and political perspectives on the public airwaves. Also includes conversation with Glenn Michalchuk, Chair of Peace Alliance Winnipeg, and Alan Freeman, editor of NewColdWar.org and member of Venezuela Peace Committee. Please consider a donation to CKUW at fundrive.ckuw.ca. Consider also pledging to the Global Research website at store.globalresearch.ca/donate/
This week's Global Research News Hour investigates some of the post 2016 mechanisms being implemented to restrict dissident news and analysis in the name of fighting fake news and 'foreign interference' in political affairs. Whitney Webb, author of a major expose on a neocon backed 'news rating agency' called Newsguard comes in to provide background on why independent media sites should be concerned about this organization.
Our next guest, Patrick Henningsen, geopolitical analyst and founder of 21st Century Wire, expands on this 'Fake News Patrol' Trojan Horse by discussing social media partnerships with less than wholesome entities like the Atlantic Council, introduces listeners to something called the Integrity Initiative headquartered in Great Britain which continues the mission of protecting democratic processes from Russian influence, and points to the hazards he sees in a Canadian government initiative proposing to protect elections from foreign (Russian) meddling.
This week's Global Research News Hour, we consider the possibility that some of the most prominent climate campaigns on the planet, including the Greta Thunberg-led Climate Strikes are in fact being co-opted by the world's most prominent financial elites, via vehicles like large environmental NGOs, to serve a pre-existing agenda having more to do with expanding capitalism than reversing or mitigating climate change. Independent investigative journalist Cory Morningstar is our guest for the hour, and she expands on the theme of her recent series of articles: "The Manufacturing of Greta Thunberg – for Consent."
On a week when the U.S., Canada and other world powers are recognizing an opposition politician and not the democratically elected Nicolas Maduro as the legitimate president of Venezuela, the Global Research News Hour examines the internal and external forces attempting to undermine the
On the occasion of the historic events sweeping the UK Parliament in the past week, this week's Global Research News Hour focuses on the fate of the EU in the face of a contentious debate in the UK Parliament, and the Gilets Jaunes (Yellow Vest) movement that has overtaken the imaginations of the French population seeking alternatives to the EU order as manifested by Emmanuel Macron. Our first guest, economist and geopolitical analyst Peter Koenig examines the fall-out from Theresa May's devastating defeat last Tuesday the 15th, and elaborates on the past present and future of the EU project, including the prospect of military integration. Our second guest, Paris-based Diana Johnstone provides background and analysis of the Gilets Jaunes, reasons for its success, and the efforts by State and media authorities to suppress it.
On a week when youth around the planet are mobilizing strikes for ‘climate action,’ the Global Research News Hour highlights the major indicators of a natural world in crisis due to global warming.
In the first half hour, following a short report on a local (Winnipeg) youth activist event, University of Ottawa based climate systems scientist Paul Beckwith outlines some of the more worrying signs that even the October 2018 IPCC Special Report on Climate Change failed to adequately address, he looks at the threats to the polar ice caps and the role they play in regulating familiar weather patterns, and he assesses some of what needs to be done to avoid multiple ‘tipping points’, and a ‘Hothouse Earth’ scenario.
In our second half hour, wilderness adventurer, independent journalist, former Iraq War correspondent, and Truthout staff writer Dahr Jamail navigates listeners through The End of Ice, his recently published book on climate change.
This week's Global Research News Hour debuts in 2019 with a special look at key stories from the past year and what they portend for 2019.
Andy Lee Roth, Associate Director of Project Censored, speaks to some of the key themes running through the top 25 most censored stories of the past year, and this year's CENSORED 2019 compendium. Dr. Jack Rasmus, a political economist and instructor at St. Mary’s College in California, assesses the fundamentals underlying the global economy and the key events from 2018 affecting those fundamentals. Rick Rozoff, journalist, anti-war activist and manager of the STOP NATO list-serve, takes a look at the geostrategic developments in 2018 on the world stage and what they indicate about near future military conflicts.
Finally, Dmitry Orlov brings us his end of year take on the ongoing collapse of the US Empire in the context of Russia's military capability, the global energy map, and climate change impacts.
This week's holiday edition of the Global Research News Hour features Venezuela based academic Steve Ellner speaking to a Winnipeg audience about the factors influencing the current crisis in the Latin American country. In this Oct 19 2018 talk, Ellner brings up foreign agents at work, the realities behind the violence in the streets, and more.
This week's Global Research News Hour delves into the US extradition request of Huawei executive Meng Wanzhou and the decision by Canada to detain her. First guest Professor Michel Chossudovsky believes the detention is related to a call by the Five Eyes Alliance of intelligence agencies to block Huawei from gaining ground in the international market for its 5G technology. We then speak with esteemed international criminal lawyer Christopher Black Canada's role in the detention and rationale behind the detention of Canadians in China. Finally, Ron Unz of the Unz Review elaborates on his belief that the U.S. has an achilles heel that if exploited could compel Canada to release of Ms. Meng right away.
The Global Research News Hour marks the passing of noted scholar, writer and U.S. foreign policy critic William Blum with a special retrospective on his life and legacy. It features interviews with Chris Agee and Lou Wolf of Covert Action Magazine, Canadian journalist and media critic Barrie Zwicker, son Alexander S Blum and his wife Adelheid Zöfel. Also included in the program are clips from a past interview and a July 2018 panel discussion.
On this week's Global Research News Hour, on the occasion of the recent passing and funeral of the 41st president of the United States, George Herbert Walker Bush, we present a portrait of Bush's background and criminal activities, largely missing from current discourse over the late president's legacy. Guests include Florida based freelance journalist John Buchanan, who, in 2003, revealed for the first time archival documents proving the financial connections between Bush's father Prescott and a key supporter of the Nazi war machine during WWII.
Our second guest, Professor Michel Chossudovsky, discusses President Bush's own unwholesome connections with criminal figures, including the Bin Laden family (via the Carlyle Group) and the Mexican Drug cartels, via his family's relationship with the Mexican president known to be linked with the drug trade.
Finally, Stephen Lendman, a writer, journalist, and past broadcaster presents his overall take on President Bush's criminal record in the context of what he calls 'dirty politics' in America and abroad.
This week's episode of the Global Research News Hour takes a close look at the Migrant Caravan making its way from Honduras to the US-Mexico border. In the first half hour, guest Tyler Shipley, author of Ottawa and Empire: Canada and the Military Coup in Honduras, outlines the ways in which Canada and Canadian business interests has supported and enabled the very violent living conditions in Honduras that Migrants are fleeing from. In our second half hour, independent writer and photojournalist José Luis Granados Ceja reports on his observations of the migrant from his time with them in late October. He describes the narco-trafficking and other dangers the migrants have confronted during their 4000 kilometre journey, his thoughts about the November 25th attack by US border agents, and what he anticipates as a leftist politician, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, assumes the presidency of Mexico on December 1st.
On this week's Global Research News Hour, we continue our alternative coverage of the centenary of the end of World War One with an extensive interview with researcher Gerry Docherty, who has authored two books detailing the origins of the 'war to end all wars' not in an assassination in Sarajevo, but in a secret cabal of British financial elites looking to secure and extend the Empire. Docherty elaborates on his thesis in part one.
In part two, Rick Rozoff, anti-war activist and journalist and manager of the STOP NATO list-serve shares his perspectives on the November 11 gathering of World leaders and their commemoration of the end of World War One. He also shares his thoughts about current global trends and the prospects of another major powers conflict in the near future.
On the occasion of the 100th anniversary of the end of the First World War, we present this repeat broadcast from 2014. Host Michael Welch interviews historian Jacques Pauwels and foreign policy critic Yves Engler. They discuss the legacy of twentieth century conflicts, with an emphasis on World War I and assess, the real political and economic motivations for Canada and other countries in participating in these conflicts and lessons for those of today's generation determined to say NEVER AGAIN to war and its terrible toll on humanity.
This week's Global Research News Hour continues its coverage of the foreign imposed Venezuelan crisis. We first hear from Mike Prysner, an organizer and activist and co-producer of Telesur's the Empire Files. He debunks much of the mainstream media narrative about the Venezuelan government's democratic failures and human rights abuses. We then hear from Barry Weisleder, an organizer in Toronto, about the challenges faced by solidarity activists in Canada to facilitate an authentic dialogue about the Venezuelan situation, including a failed effort to bring Venezuelan Minister Carlos Ron Martinez to Canada. Finally, we hear an excerpt of a skype talk by the Minister in front of a Winnipeg audience on October 19th.
On this week's Global Research News Hour radio program we investigate factors influencing the outcome of the US Mid-term elections. We first hear from lawyer, author, and editor of the online Columbia Free Press Bob Fitrakis about past and ongoing mechanisms which allow partisan operators to clandestinely manipulate the vote. We next interview broadcaster, writer and political economist Dr. Jack Rasmus about his take on the recently renegotiated NAFTA agreement, now called the USMCA, about what is actually in that agreement, and the role it might play in the November 6 election outcome.
On this week's installment of the Global Research News Hour radio program, Suzanne Ross of International Concerned Family and Friends Mumia Abu-Jamal brings us an update on efforts by Mumia Abu Jamal to appeal his guilty verdict in the 1981 murder of a Philadelphia police officer, a crime for which his supporters claim he has been falsely accused. We follow with a brief excerpt of a speech by Angela Davis detailing the role of the prison system in reinforcing elite economic power and white supremacy. We then get a perspective from University of Winnipeg Criminal Justice Professor Bronwyn Dobchuk-Land on the parallel role played by prisons in Canada in maintaining the colonialist status quo.
This week's Global Research News Hour attempts to deconstruct some of the messaging around the humanitarian crisis in Venezuela and the allegations of undemocratic behaviour on the part of the Maduro government. Our first guest, author and foreign affairs critic Yves Engler examines what he believes to be the true motives behind the humanitarian and rights based rhetoric. Our next guest, Steve Ellner, provides more context around the humanitarian situation, details efforts by the Maduro government to address these difficulties, and exposes the opposition forces internally and abroad that are undermining the government, and not in the interests of the Venezuelan public.
This week's Global Research News Hour examines the underlying currents pushing the presidency in the direction of a hard right wing admirer of past dictatorial governments. We'll also place these developments within a larger geopolitical context. Guests include the noted veteran Brazilian journalist Pepe Escobar and Professor Michel Chossudovsky of the Centre for Research on Globalization. We will also get the perspective of a Brazilian political activist and student currently living in Winnipeg.
On this week's Global Research News Hour, the noted critic of Canadian foreign policy and special guest interviewer Paul Graham explore reason why established left of centre groups that challenge corporate power within Canada end up promoting and defending corporate power interests abroad, including military interventions. This contradictory reality forms the basis of his latest book: Left, Right: Marching to the Beat of Imperial Canada.
This week's Global Research News Hour examines the ongoing confrontation between the US and Russia, and provides a historical context to the growing divide between the two major powers. We first hear from writer, blogger and geopolitical analyst Dmitry Orlov about the deteriorating relationship between Russia and the Western powers over the last year, the fundamentals underlying American actions, and where he thinks these developments may lead in the coming year. Then we get a historical backgrounder from long-time anti-war activist Ron Ridoneur, author of The Russian Peace Threat: Pentagon on Alert.
On this week’s Global Research News Hour , we turn our attention to development’s in one of the world’s largest economies and indications that democratic freedoms and mechanisms are imperilled under the current right wing BJP government. Our guests for the hour are Niranjan Takle, the journalist who broke a major story about the death of Judge Brijgopal Loya, and University of Manitoba academic and author Radhika Desai.
This week's Global Research News Hour returns to the Israel-Paestine conflict. Guest Suha Jarrar, researcher with the Palestinian human rights organization Al Haq, provides an overview of the humanitarian situation in Gaza, with a special emphasis on climate change impacts and settler-colonialism. Larry Commodore, an Indigenous activist from the Soowahlie community of the Stó:lō Nation, near Vancouver, talks about the abuse he and his fellow passengers aboard a Gaza-bound Freedom Flotilla ship after it was intercepted by Israeli forces. Lawyer, journalist, and Palestine solidarity activist examines Canada's unique role in aiding and abetting Israel's violations of international law, and measures that could be taken to hold in the Middle Eastern country and Canadian officials to account.
On this week's Global Research News Hour, on the occasion of the 17th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks, we bring you an encore presentation of the 2004 film - The Great Conspiracy: The 9/11 News Special You Never Saw by Canadian journalist and media critic Barrie Zwicker.
This film, which is available in its entirety for free on YOUTUBE sums up most of the problems with the official story of the September 11th attacks, while providing them in their historical and geopolitical context.
Originally aired April 13, 2018.
On this week's Global Research News Hour, we mark the fourth anniversary of the passing of noted LAPD whistleblower, investigative journalist, and peak oil activist Michael Ruppert.
Over the course of the show, we will feature perspectives from close friends and associates, including Carolyn Baker, Jamey Hecht, Barry Silverthorn, Jenna Orkin, Mark Robinowitz, and Mimi German. We will also feature excerpts of previous CKUW interviews with Michael Ruppert!
Originally aired April 6, 2018.
On this week's Global Research News Hour, on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the death of the famous Civil Rights leader, we spend the hour discussing the assassination and evidence there was a high level conspiracy to murder King and conceal the truth about it. Our guest is noted Human Rights lawyer, author and King family friend, William Pepper.
Originally aired March 16, 2018.
This week's episode of the Global Research News Hour we take an in depth look at the My Lai Massacre on the 50th anniversary of that incident, as well as the war in which it was situated.
University of Massachusetts Professor of History and author Christian Appy examines the deterioration of America's War narrative in the wake of My Lai and other developments over the course of the war.
Retired U.S. Army Col. Ann Wright joins us to share her thoughts about My Lai and the future of U.S. militarism. She spoke from Vietnam where a 50th anniversary commemoration has just taken place.
Finally, outspoken Canadian foreign policy critic Yves Engler returns to the Global Research News Hour to share little known tales of how Canada collaborated with the U.S. in Vietnam.
In this special summer 2018 episode of the Global Research News Hour, we air part two of an interview by contributor Scott Price with journalist and documentary film-maker Robbie Martin about his film A Very Heavy Agenda, which focuses on the Neocons and their role in shaping foreign policy in Washington. This interview Is followed by a repeat broadcast of an interview with the legendary investigative journalist, and consortiumnews.com founder, the late Robert Parry.
This week's Global Research News Hour radio program features the first of a two part interview with Robbie Martin. The brother of popular investigative journalist Abby Martin, Robbie Martin is a journalist, musician and documentary film-maker. In a recent conversation with Global Research News Hour contributor Scott Price, Martin provides background on the neoconservatives in Washington, and the trajectory of their influence on consecutive U.S. administrations from George W. Bush to Donald Trump.
Later in the program, we hear a repeat broadcast of an interview with Mark Robinowitz from a January 2018 conversation, in which our guest details the Deep State influences, including the neocons, enabling and affecting the Trump presidency.
This week's Global Research News Hour airs a recording of a lecture by Professor Michel Chossudovsky, delivered June 8, 2018 in Regina, Saskatchewan. The lecture is based on his book, The Globalization of War: America's Long War on Humanity. In this speech, Professor Chossudovsky postulates that the US and its Western allies have embarked on a hegemonic war of conquest, using the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks as a pre-text. Further exacerbating this diabolical agenda is the complicity of media and co-opted movements which refuse to challenge the pre-text of a war on terrorism or of 'humanitarian interventions.'
Professor Chossudovsky is Emeritus Professor of Economics at the University of Ottawa and the Founder and Director of the Centre for Research on Globalization. He is the award-winning author of 11 books and numerous academic articles. His site is globalresearch.ca
This week's Global Research News Hour presents excerpts from the Winnipeg talk, sponsored by a number of local groups to address the implications of the U.S. Administration's decision to relocate its embassy to the Holy City of Jerusalem. Representatives of the three great faith traditions of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam, all of which have unique ties to the city were called upon to comment at this
This week, as part of the Global Research News Hour's special summer series, we air two talks from the University of Manitoba Geopolitical Economy Research Group's 2017 Revolutions Conference.
Writer, trade union activist, self-described socialist, and editor of the site newcoldwar.org speaks on some of the mis-conceptions about the Russian revolution that have served to divide the Left 100 years later. He brings up the need for new class alliances to address climate change, and the role of revolution in resisting imperialist domination.
Economist and Co-director of the Geopolitical Economy Research Group Alan Freeman speaks on the subject of Parties of Revolution, assessing the extent to which political parties create revolutions and the extent to which revolutions create political parties.
This week, as part of the Global Research News Hour's summer series, we bring a talk by Julia Buxton, Professor of Comparative Politics at Central European University's School of Public Policy, and Senior Research Associate at the Global Drug Policy Observatory, Swansea University. A specialist on Latin America and an expert on Venezuela, Professor Buxton traces some of the history of Venezuela's Bolivarian Revolution and noting its failure to address repression and social violence within State institutions. She muses with some pessimism on the prospects for progressive advancements at the current historical moment.
This lecture was delivered as part of the University of Manitoba's Geopolitical Economy Research Group's Revolutions Conference, held in Winnipeg September 29th to October 1st.
For more details about the conference, and to find a video version of Julia Buxton's talk, please visit: https://geopoliticaleconomy.org/revolutions-conference-2017/
On this week’s Global Research News Hour, we examine the European migrant crisis from the perspective of geo-strategy. Former U.S. State Department Official, whistleblower and author J Michael Springmann sees the mass movement of peoples from militarily compromised countries in North Africa and Southwest Asia as not only a consequence, but a deliberate instrument of US geo-strategy. We discuss his 2017 book: ‘Good-Bye Europe, Hello Chaos? Merkel’s Migrant Bomb’ with the author himself, and with Toronto based writer, journalist, and media critic Barrie Zwicker.
This week's installment of the Global Research News Hour examines the role of certain entities in the background of decision-making in Ottawa that undermining the sovereign decision-making of the electorate, regardless of which party rises to power.
Morgan Duchesney explores the history and background of the Canadian Council of Chief Executives and its influence on federal governments since the mid-1980s. Yves Engler breaks down the Canadian Global Affairs Institute and its role in propping up militaristic foreign policy. CUPE research officer Kevin Skerrett talks about the use of the Canadian pension system to enable privatization of infrastructure projects.
This week's Global Research News Hour sets its gaze on the challenges facing the Trudeau government domestically and in its relations with the Trump Administration.
We first hear from Energy Analyst David Hughes, the author of a CCPA report on Canada's Energy Outlook. He tackles the economic and environmental viability of the Trudeau government's determined purchase of Kinder Morgan's Trans-Mountain pipeline, and suggests different priorities the government can explore.
We next hear from political activist, author and organic farmer David Orchard about the tariffs the Trump administration is aiming at Canada and why Canada can and should abandon its obsession with saving NAFTA.
Finally, Moscow based journalist John Helmer attempts to make sense of the Trump Administration's 'coordinated' attack on Prime Minister as the sun sets on the recent G7 meeting.
At a time when violence in the Israel-Palestine conflict is making major world headlines, we'll take a closer look at some of the dynamics playing out in the region with three guests.
Ron Rousseau is one of the Canadiand participating in this year's Freedom Flotilla attempting to breach the ISraeli imposed blockade on Gaza.
Sean Clinton is a Palestine solidarity activist based in Limerick Ireland. He speaks about the lucrative 'Blood Diamond' industry in Israel and the potential of a boycott to pressure the government and military.
Yakov Rabkin is a Professor of History at the University of Montreal, and the author of two books on the history of Modern Israel and the Zionist movement. He outlines some of this history and the internal and external forces continuing to drive Israeli expansionist policies and violence.
On the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the assassination of Robert F. Kennedy, we speak with two researchers who challenge the official account, and who outline possible motives by elite elements of American society for wanting to eliminate the bright charismatic political leader.
Mark Robinowitz is a writer, political activist and ecological campaigner in Eugene, Oregon. He publishes the site jfkmlkrfk.com which connects the dots between deep political events, and the contemporary environmental and economic landscape.
William Pepper is a barrister in the United Kingdom admitted to the bar in numerous jurisdictions across the US. He wrote three books on the assassination of Martin Luther King and has served as counsel for accused RFK murderer Sirhan SIrhan. HIs site is WilliamPepper.com
This week’s Global Research News Hour examines a new and insidious stratagem for overthrowing independent governments and instituting the hegemonic will of foreign powers, most specifically the United States. F. William Engdahl, author of the recent book “Manifest Destiny: Democracy as Cognitive Dissonance” takes a historical look supposed democracy movements from Lech Walesa’s Poland to the current Armenian revolt, inspecting where imperial powers like the US and NATO sought to capitalise on if not orchestrate these developments. Then Stephen Sefton, member of the anti-imperialist collective Tortilla Con Sal breaks down the anti-government protests in Nicaragua over the last month and explores the possibility that they represent a Ukraine style foreign sponsored coloured revolution.
This edition of the Global Research News Hour explores issues around the recent approval of a merger between German pharmaceutical and chemical giant Bayer and the American Agrochemical giant Monsanto. Author and Public Banking Institute Chair Ellen Brown discusses the economic and political clout of the new entity. writer Nick Meyer speaks about the May 19th March Against Monsanto, Dr. Stephen Frantz challenges descriptions of the GMO/Agrochemical industry as safe, sustainable and benevolent, and Vandana Shiva shares her big picture views of agro-chemical agriculture as an artifact of a colonial, patriarchal system, and ways to move beyond it.
This week's Global Research News Hour radio program features a conversation with London Ontario based Cory Morningstar and Boston Massachusetts based Bob Feldman, These two investigative journalists share their research into the way elites manipulate activism and media through foundation funding.
This week's Global Research News Hour hosts a feature interview with Research Associate for the Centre for Research On Globalization and past guest Mahdi Nazemroaya. Over the course of an in-depth discussion, Mahdi Nazemroaya explores recent geopolitical hotspots on the international stage, including the maneuvering of foreign powers in Syria, the popular uprisings happening across Armenia, the realities behind the recent peace overtures between North and South Korea, and the ongoing feud between Saudi Arabia and Iran.
On this week's broadcast of the Global Research News Hour, we pay tribute to noted media critic and anti-war activist, and U.S. foreign policy dissident Edward Herman, on the occasion of his recent passing.
Guests include in order of appearance, the writer, journalist and broadcaster Stephen Lendman, Jeff Cohen, founder of Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting (FAIR), Writer and broadcaster Ann Garrison, and Mickey Huff, Director of Project Censored.
On the occasion of the anniversary of the start of the infamous Maidan uprisings, the Global Research News Hour delves into the politics and economics of the Ukraine crisis, the role of the international community in ameliorating or exacerbating the situation, and the prospects for peace or more war in the future.
Guests include Ruslan Dzarasov - Head of the Department of Political Economy at Plekhanov Russian University of Economics in Moscow, and Roger Annis - Socialist, writer and editor of NewColdWar.org.
On this week's Global Research News Hour, we continue a conversation on the state of the nuclear industry and nuclear power six years after the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear catastrophe by speaking with two experts. First up, Gordon Edwards of the Canadian Coalition for Nuclear Responsibility explains the Canadian government's 70 year embrace of the atom. And later Arnie Gundersen of Fairewinds Energy Education discusses the state of nuclear reactors and regulation in both Canada and the US, before bringing us up to date on Japanese government's efforts to protect the public as well as the nuclear sector.
Arnie Gundersen, a nuclear educator and former nuclear industry senior vice president, has referred to it as “the biggest industrial catastrophe in the history of mankind.” [1]
Six years ago this week, a tsunami, triggered by a category 9.0 earthquake, slammed into the site of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear facility on the north east coast of the Japanese island of Honshu. The natural disaster resulted in the failure of systems keeping the reactor cores and spent fuel rods cool, leading to core meltdowns in three of the plant’s reactors, as well as damage from consequent hydrogen explosions. [2]
Enormous quantities of radioactive particles were released into the atmosphere and the water table leading to the Pacific Ocean. Approximately 170,000 people in the vicinity of the plant were immediately evacuated.
The World Health Organization downplayed the health risks from the catastrophe, concluding in their 2013 Health Risk Assessment from the nuclear accident that the risks of contracting certain cancers in certain sex and age groups were only “somewhat elevated.” The report also concluded “no discernable increase in health risks from the Fukushima event is expected outside Japan.” [3]
Nevertheless, a health management survey examining 38,000 children in Fukushima found three children diagnosed with thyroid cancer. The natural incidence is one in one million. [4]
Further, a December 2011 peer-reviewed report in the International Journal of Health Sciences found that in the 14 weeks immediately following the event, there were 14,000 excess deaths in the United States connected with radio-active fall-out from the Fukushima meltdowns. [5]
The Japanese government has been so successful in its efforts to assuage the concerns of the wider public that Prime Minister Abe was able to secure Tokyo as the site for the 2020 Olympic Summer Games! As of this month, the Abe government ends its housing subsidies to people evacuated from the area proximate to the nuclear facility, forcing those fearful of the lingering radiation to fend for themselves abroad. [6][7]
The nuclear accident may have profound consequences for all humanity, and possibly all life on Earth, yet the severity of the situation doesn’t seem to merit major headlines.
On this, the sixth anniversary of the start of the Fukushima crisis, we spend the hour with world renowned nuclear watchdog, Dr. Helen Caldicott.
In this interview, conducted and recorded on International Women’s Day, Dr. Caldicott talks about the high radiation reading recently recorded at Unit 2, efforts to contain the radioactive water spilling out of the facility, projected health risks from the cesium, tritium, strontium and other isotopes spewing from the site and much, much more. Caldicott also extends the discussion to talk about Canada’s role in nuclear proliferation and the threats posed by the new Trump Administration and Cold War atmosphere in which it is situated.
Dr. Helen Caldicott is a physician and co-founder of Physicians for Social Responsibility. She is a nominee for the Nobel Peace Prize, the recipient of the 2003 Lannan Prize for Cultural Freedom, and author or editor of several books including Nuclear Madness: What You Can Do (1979), If You Love This Planet: A Plan to Heal The Earth (1992), The New Nuclear Danger: George W. Bush’s Military-Industrial Complex(2001), and Crisis Without End -The Medical and Ecological Consequences of the Fukushima Nuclear Catastrophe (2014). She is currently the president of the Helen Caldicott Foundation (NuclearFreePlanet.org). Her latest book, Sleepwalking to Armaggedon: The Threat of Nuclear Annihilation will be available in bookstores in July, 2017.