Stop the Wars at Home and Abroad!
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By Nick Corbishly, Naked Capitalism, August 28, 2024 Mexico’s President AMLO responds by refusing to discuss the matter with US Ambassador Ken Salazar while giving the Mexican people a brief history lesson on US interference in Latin America. Well, that was quick. Just a week ago, we wagered that the US and Canadian embassies would soon begin piling pressure on[…]
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by Yves Engler, published on The Canada Files, October 20, 2023 Israel wants Canada to criminalize growing displays of solidarity with Palestinians. In a bid to amplify calls to ban Palestine solidarity marches, Israel’s ambassador Iddo Moed told the Canadian Press on Thursday, “I don’t think that democracies allow people to hate and to incite, and I think that that is something that is[…]
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by Margaret Kimberley, published on Black Agenda Report, September 27, 2023 The Canadian government turned what should have been an ordinary photo opportunity with Ukraine’s president into a political debacle when a Ukrainian Nazi collaborator was honored in parliament. Now Canada’s history of admitting Ukrainian SS volunteers is facing new scrutiny as Russia gains the upper hand in the proxy war[…]
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by Robert Fantina, published on World Beyond War, August 16, 2023 MEK: From Iraq, to Albania, to Canada The United States support for international terrorist organizations is no secret. The U.S. often finances and sometimes creates terrorists to destabilize and overthrow governments that refuse to follow the U.S.’s marching orders. One such organization supported by the U.S. is the so-called[…]
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by Azza Rojbi, published on Fire This Time, March 26, 2023 March 26, 2023, marks 8 years since the start of the Saudi-led coalition war on Yemen. The coalition airstrikes have destroyed houses, schools, roads, markets, hospitals, water tanks, sanitation facilities, mosques, and other vital infrastructure in the country. Almost 400,000 people have been killed because of the war. Those[…]
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Statement by Jeanette Graulau, published on Labor Today, November 2022 While some Western countries are planning to re-nationalize their energy industries, the U.S. imposes upon its colony of Puerto Rico a privatization plan to ‘unbundle’ the Puerto Rico Electric Power Authority (PREPA), one of the oldest and fully operational electric power corporations of Latin America. Since 2020, LUMA Energy, a[…]
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by Janine Solanki, published in Fire This Time, Volume 16: July, August 2022 The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) is sold to the public as a defense organization made up of western democracies ensuring safety and security around the world. Until recently, some also viewed NATO as just a Cold War relic and didn’t give it a second thought. However,[…]
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by Owen Schalk, published on CovertAction Magazine, August 3, 2022 The United States does the heavy lifting, but Canada provides consistent behind-the-scenes support to enable the plunder of Congo and other nations in the Global South. On October 14, 2004, a group of ten armed men took control of the city of Kilwa in the eastern Katanga province of the[…]
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While in Venezuela as an international observer during the regional elections in November 2021, Fire This Time Editorial Board member Alison Bodine had the opportunity to interview Professor Luis Acuña, the Charge d’Affaires of the Venezuela Embassy in Canada. Professor Acuña is the former Minister of Higher Education in Venezuela under President Comandante Hugo Chavez. From 2012-2017 Luis Acuña was[…]
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Statement from Hamilton Coalition to Stop the War, February 25, 2022 The US and NATO created this crisis because they tossed aside the reasonable demands of the Russian Federation in two draft treaties submitted on December 21, 2021. One of the key demands was for a neutral Ukraine and a binding pledge that it would never join NATO. For his part,[…]
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