Last week the Social Media Lab at Toronto Metropolitan University’s School of Management released a report titled “The reach of Russian propaganda and disinformation in Canada”. According to lead author Anatoliy Gruzd, “the research provides evidence that the Kremlin’s disinformation is reaching more Canadians than one would expect. Left unchallenged, state-sponsored information operations can stoke […]
The collapse of the short-lived Israeli government of Naftali Bennett and Yair Lapid validates the argument that the political crisis in Israel was not entirely instigated and sustained by former Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu. Bennett’s coalition government consisted of eight parties, welding together arguably one of the oddest coalitions in the tumultuous history of […]
[Prefatory Note: The following post was published in slightly modified form in COUNTERPUNCH on July 15, 2022. It attempts to connect my despair about developments In America with wider global systemic tendencies. It is not hopeful about the future, yet Its central message is that we should continue to struggle for a future we can believe […]
America loves its military. It should because it’s the most expensive defense force of all time. $778B was allocated for defense spending in 2022. China comes in a distant second at $229B. All of which prompts a provocative question: What if the Marine Corps publishes a landmark study that claims recipients of the US government […]
The post US Marine Press Takes on Hothouse Earth first appeared on Dissident Voice.
Unless the Ukrainians have a decisive victory or a Russian advance is too great to hide, news of the war follows a pattern of headlines: Russians shell dozens of Ukrainian towns in the Donbas Casualties rise as Russia makes incremental gains in east From the New York Times “The ruined industrial city in eastern Ukraine […]
The post Severodonetsk: Deciphering News of the War in Ukraine first appeared on Dissident Voice.
Canada is at war with Russia. But the government doesn’t want to talk about it. On Saturday the New York Times reported that Canadian special forces are part of a NATO network providing weapons and training to Ukrainian forces. The elite troops are also in the country gathering intelligence on Russian operations. The Department of […]
The post Troops on the Ground Prove Canada is at War with Russia first appeared on Dissident Voice.
The shifting baseline syndrome requires today’s people disavowing things written 10 years ago, even five years ago, but those books, articles, whitepapers and radio broadcasts are actually ahead of their time . . . And what is that expiration date for good, sound, righteous news and writing and broadcasting? I see more and more young […]
The post Out with the Old, In with the New first appeared on Dissident Voice.
Petro Poroshenko said the Minsk agreements “meant nothing” – ©STR / NurPhoto via Getty Images Samizdat | June 17, 2022 Petro Poroshenko has admitted that the 2015 ceasefire in Donbass, which he negotiated with Russia, France and Germany as president of Ukraine, was merely a distraction intended to buy time for Kiev to rebuild its […]
LeRoy Clarke (Trinidad and Tobago), Now, 1970. This past week, as part of its policy to dominate the American hemisphere, the United States government organised the 9th Summit of the Americas in Los Angeles. US President Joe Biden made it clear early on that three countries in the hemisphere (Cuba, Nicaragua, and Venezuela) would not […]
The post The Lethality of Washington’s Global Monroe Doctrine first appeared on Dissident Voice.
By Scott Ritter | Samizdat | June 12, 2022 According to Reuters, the US government is considering selling to Ukraine four MQ-1C Grey Eagle drones capable of firing Hellfire missiles for use against Russian forces participating in the special military operation in the Donbass region. If true, the sale would require special permission from both the State […]
