2023-02-14 15:20
Beginning in July of 2022 a series of articles here and on Disaster X have been examining and questioning what it means to declare crime a “public health emergency”. The case… Read More
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Turning and turning in the widening gyre | The falcon cannot hear the falconer | Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold | Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world | The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere | The ceremony of innocence is drowned | The best lack all conviction, while the worst | Are full of passionate intensity. -- W.B. Yeats, The Second Coming
2022-10-17 00:07
As a non-partisan, volunteer activist group, Fearless Canada was present at the beginning and on several other occasions during the Freedom Convoy protest in Ottawa. As such, many of our mem… Read More
2022-09-30 23:09
Note: Contrary to this site’s policy of not republishing work from other sites, which has been in effect for several years, this exception is a must. It is almost impossible for me to… Read More
2022-08-20 16:33
Today, August 20, 2022, marks the 75th anniversary of the end of the trials of medical professionals at Nuremberg. Central principles and fundamental rights were enshrined as a result of the… Read More
2022-08-07 01:27
Rodrigo Chaves, the central protagonist in this drama, has been cast by Costa Rican media as a renegade. One paper spoke of how he “shook the country by eliminating the mandatory use o… Read More
2022-07-21 23:19
When it should be that the declaration of a public health emergency is itself the crime.
“There are efforts being made to ensure that countries respond in the way that we are respon… Read More
2022-07-10 22:54
We are now facing a regime that is losing, is aware that it is losing, and wants at all costs to survive even if it means damning everyone else. That is the picture that we get, in bold stro… Read More
2022-07-04 00:42
February of 2022 was a particularly dark month, both in Quebec and in Canada generally. In Quebec, we had the expansion of the use of “vaccine passports” to large, well-ventilate… Read More
2022-07-01 02:42
The final day of hearings focused on family law in the context of courts that simply uphold, without any question, state doctrine on the Covid so-called “vaccines” and that in al… Read More
2022-06-29 03:11
The Citizens’ Hearing is, “an independent inquiry into Canada’s response to Covid-19. We will hear evidence from scientists, legal experts, and healthcare providers, as wel… Read More
2022-06-27 21:23
From Wednesday, June 22, through Friday, June 24, 2022, a combined effort by the Canadian Covid Care Alliance and Fearless Canada, brought three full days of testimonies that… Read More
2022-06-25 22:18
Disaster X is a new publication, that is tied to this site: it is available on Substack. Here I just want to briefly introduce the material that already is there, and which will appear there… Read More
2021-12-26 20:51
There are some suggestions that the Omicron variant could well end “the pandemic”. And that is a problem. It is a problem on two fronts. First, a variant that not only defea… Read More
2021-12-01 16:25
“Two weeks to flatten the curve,” is what we heard across Canada1 just after March 11, 2020, when the World Health Organization unilaterally declared a global “pandemi… Read More
2021-10-24 00:15
On Thursday, October 21, 2021, just after 9:00pm, Imam Yasin Abu Bakr of the Jama’at al-Muslimeen of Trinidad and Tobago, passed away at the age of 80. He collapsed at home and was tak… Read More
2021-08-21 01:05
First it was not even a university, but Seneca College. Then it was the University of Ottawa. Then Carleton University, the University of Western Ontario, and the University of Toronto. Now… Read More
2021-08-19 23:32
On August 4, an interesting event took place: “Stop the Shot”. This was a video press conference organized by the Truth for Health Foundation in the US, which was live streamed o… Read More
2021-08-05 20:36
Since the Government of Quebec under Premier François Legault decided to jump the gun today and announced the coming of “vaccine” certification on September 1st, possibly… Read More
2021-08-01 20:19
Friday, July 30, 2021 was Day #2 of an online international and interdisciplinary symposium organized by Doctors for Covid Ethics (see the report for Day #1). The symposium was titled, &ldqu&hell…Read More
2021-07-30 15:42
A brief note before the main content for this report: since last publishing to this site I have been occupied with preparing a long and detailed series of articles which will begin to appear… Read More
2021-06-06 14:37
In Part 1 we ended with the documentary’s discussion of the type of business model that has been created around COVID-19, or to match the title of the film, a system. The system consis… Read More
2021-06-05 14:58
On March 11, 2020, when the World Health Organization announced that COVID-19’s spread was now a pandemic, and on March 13, 2020, when here in Quebec a total lockdown was declared, mos… Read More
2021-05-30 00:09
If this was a good time for Canadian academia, you would not be able to tell from the blanket of almost absolute silence that has been pulled over universities. There is no euphoria, no cele… Read More
2021-05-24 22:49
Over the past twenty years or so, what has been the record of the World Health Organization when it comes to major public health crises? Has the WHO itself invented at least some of those c… Read More
2021-05-17 21:00
Nobody (as far as I know) has commented on how hard this year of lockdowns has been on university professors. That’s good: nobody should. Many millions of workers at home and abroad, a… Read More
2020-06-17 13:43
Statement released by Chief Ricardo Bharath Hernandez,
Santa Rosa First Peoples Community,
Arima, Trinidad & Tobago,
June 16, 2020.
As Amerindians/Indigenous Peoples in the Caribbean, w… Read More
2020-04-30 21:23
Part 5 of 5 of the COVID-19 Series.
Some are openly proclaiming, “you don’t want to waste a crisis,” as they calculate how the crisis could become a series of opportunities… Read More
2020-04-30 00:05
Part 4 of 5 of the COVID-19 Series.
The Seventh Seal
As if taken from a plot of some 1950s science-fiction classic, or an episode from the original Twilight Zone series, our reality lends it… Read More
2020-04-28 22:10
Part 3 of 5 of the COVID-19 Series.
Indispensable. Here was the so-called “indispensable nation,” the self-appointed saviour of the world, with generations of its leaders and thi… Read More
2020-04-27 22:59
Part 2 of 5 of the COVID-19 Series.
The Routes of Panic
It turns out that when people panic, they panic according to a template. Panic follows established routes, and is more structured than… Read More
2020-04-26 20:42
Part 1 of 5 of the COVID-19 Series lasting from April 26 through April 30.
Corona—meaning: a crown. Travelling around the world, as if at full gallop. Firing off arrows into the air: v… Read More
2020-02-04 17:13
Colonial propaganda that masks “humanitarianism” behind self-interest, and breeds euphemisms that are inversions of reality, constitute the recurring subjects of the critiques pr… Read More
2020-01-06 19:17
What is propaganda? What does cinema reveal about the Third Reich and its people? What are German films about during the Third Reich? What do they reveal? And what are they hiding? What does… Read More
2019-12-31 17:48
Annual Review of 2019: The State of the Empire at the End of a Decade
This year marks the end of the second decade of the 21st-century, and as we enter the third decade one prediction seems… Read More
2019-11-28 01:34
Review of Giants: The Global Power Elite by Peter Phillips (Introduction by William I. Robinson). New York: Seven Stories Press, 2018. LCCN 2018017493; ISBN 9781609808716 (pbk.); ISBN 978160… Read More
2019-10-11 12:37
Pearls, in the Parish of St. Andrew’s, Grenada, just up the road from the main town of Grenville, is a unique place that sits at the intersection of two of the main themes of my r… Read More
2019-10-02 23:51
Strategically timed to appear immediately after a heady week of international climate emergency marches, including large ones in Canada, and after the same week in which Greta Thunberg deliv… Read More
2019-09-29 17:51
Following a week at the UN and ensuing climate change “protests” (state-sanctioned, party-approved, media-praised, university-endorsed, “protests”), in which we wer… Read More
2019-09-28 13:51
Out on a limb in Grenada in August, I had the fine pleasure of sampling such a special sweet fruit of the “Spice Isle”. It is a fruit that should be the seed for another familiar… Read More
2019-09-26 16:52
Arima Born
Revealing the History of Arima and its Mission through the Catholic Church’s Baptismal Registers, 1820–1916
byMaximilian C. ForteMontreal: Alert Press, 2019
The Catho… Read More
2019-06-28 15:31
“For as long as I can remember, I always wanted to make a film about libraries,” explains Ben Lewis, the director of Google and the World Brain (2013). About libraries, he says… Read More
2019-06-25 22:55
Sabotaging another nation’s power grids, or blowing up industrial plants, are actual acts of war under international law. The term “cyber-terrorism” as used in the title, a… Read More
2019-05-24 03:04
First shown at London’s East End Festival in June of 2017, Brexitannia was the very first documentary about Brexit. It is a striking and deeply pensive film, in contrast with the Brexi… Read More
2019-05-21 18:55
What have been billed as momentous EU Parliament elections are taking place this week (May 23–26), and it seemed like the right time to review some Brexit films—one is entertainm… Read More
2019-05-14 22:34
For more than a month, a particularly courageous group of people have dedicated all of their time and energies to protecting the integrity of the Embassy of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezu… Read More
2019-05-12 23:02
Review of American Exceptionalism and American Innocence: A People’s History of Fake News—from the Revolutionary War to the War on Terror. By Roberto Sirvent and Danny Haiphong… Read More
2019-05-06 00:49
What might world history have looked like if there had never been a United States, or if it ceased to exist before the 20th-century? Is “America” an “exceptional” nat… Read More
2019-05-01 05:07
The April 30, 2019, coup attempt in Venezuela has come and gone. The coup has failed. “Failed state” theory just got a lot more complicated. No longer can the “failed state… Read More
2019-04-29 23:16
On Thursday, April 25, 2019, I had the honour of participating in two separate radio interviews concerning the case of Julian Assange and WikiLeaks. The first was with Glen Ford of Black Age… Read More
2019-04-14 03:02
In the avalanche of news reports that have washed over the globe since the abduction of Julian Assange, this conversation struck me as containing numerous points of importance. It seemed wor… Read More
2019-04-12 03:40
After a day of following RT’s live coverage of the outrageous arrest of Julian Assange, abducted from the Embassy of Ecuador in London by British police agents, and then hearing US med… Read More
2019-03-31 22:31
Eva Bartlett, reporting from Venezuela, is a freelance journalist with extensive experience in the Gaza Strip and Syria. See her website, In Gaza, for more of her work, and see her page on Z… Read More
2019-03-29 14:05
Apart from employing German Nazi scientists, and adopting the methods, principles, and science of the Nazis in developing modern warfare, for what other purposes were Nazis sought after the… Read More
2019-03-25 05:49
It’s a simple matter, even if one might lose oneself in the various details, names, places, and dates. The Caribbean Community and Common Market (CARICOM), mostly made up of Anglophone… Read More
2019-03-13 18:45
Surely we have heard and seen enough by now that any lingering “optimism” about Trump governing as an anti-interventionist in foreign affairs has totally evaporated. What Trump p… Read More
2019-03-08 04:42
Lessons from Hanoi: North Korea and the US
The first Kim-Trump Summit, which took place in Singapore a mere eight months ago, seemed so hopeful—a real breakthrough, a new landmark, new… Read More
2019-03-05 05:47
At the turn of the millennium a trilogy of disasters gained a high profile in the international media. First, in July of 2000 the fiery crash of Air France’s Concorde flight 4590 from… Read More
2019-02-24 17:33
There it is: Saturday, February 23, 2019, has now come and gone—and it’s not to say that “nothing has changed”. In fact, some important changes did occur, none of whi… Read More
2019-02-17 20:09
Almost a month after Donald Trump recognized Juán Guaidó as the “interim president” of Venezuela, and the imperial media started to label Nicolás Maduro as t… Read More
2019-02-15 03:09
After considering the economic foundation of current US intervention, designed to erase Venezuela’s economic sovereignty, the purpose here is to focus more on the political side of the… Read More
2019-02-12 22:02
A Bridge Too Far
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It resembled something from a post-apocalyptic setting in a movie: images of the blocked highway bridge linking Colombia to Venezuela, silent and desolate… Read More
2019-02-10 03:47
Was Barack Obama’s “pivot to Asia” the signal for a coming US war on China? Is the current clash between the US and China a confrontation between an empire in decline and a… Read More
2019-02-06 15:15
As discussed in the previous article, the membership of the Organization of American States is in fact not at all united around support for foreign intervention and recognition of an alterna… Read More
2019-01-30 03:24
Increased complexity leads to increased risk. Stock markets run by algorithms, creating virtual markets that even the experts have difficulty explaining. The “flash crash,” &ldqu&hell…Read More
2019-01-25 04:23
Last year in our final report on 2018, we closed with this warning: “one of the things we must all look out for then are the prospects of a new war in 2019, with those at greatest risk… Read More
Review Of 2018, Part 4 (October–December): Nationalism, Deglobalization, Plus The US Exit From Syria
2018-12-23 15:15
OCTOBER
Where US–Canada relations were concerned, as well as Trump’s trade strategy, NAFTA was the leading event opening the month of October.
The US–Mexico–Canada Ag… Read More
2018-12-22 13:10
JULY
June was a month so heavily saturated with key turning point events, that it seemed like the longest month of the year—but then July came. Already, on the first day, we were treat… Read More
2018-12-21 17:45
APRIL
The Trade War Begins?
April continued many of the same themes from March, beginning with the apparent start of a trade war between China and the US as China made good on its threats of… Read More
2018-12-21 01:48
In memory of James Laxer, n. December 22, 1941, d. February 23, 2018, prolific author, and an inspiration to all Canadian academics to think for ourselves.
JANUARY
A US-dominated World Order… Read More
2018-12-21 01:35
Numbering 100 printed pages, at about 50,000 words, the thickest review of 2018 is about to be published here in four parts over the next few days. A year in the making, and more than just a… Read More
2018-12-14 23:38
AbstractWhat is “silencing” and is it out of place in the contemporary North American university? How do “silencing” and “public anthropology” intersect?… Read More
2018-12-03 00:10
When and how did the polarization of political opinion become so mainstream in the US? When was acrimony institutionalized? When did it become acceptable to deny a political opponent’s… Read More
2018-10-29 02:33
Miami, and what became a Miami aesthetic, was probably one of the most distinctive and memorable features of the 1980s in North America. Hit shows like Miami Vice and the music of Jan Hammer… Read More
2018-10-07 03:33
SYRIA, seat of an Islamic Caliphate. Syria, site of the Middle East’s newest liberal democracy. Syria, socialist paradise. Syria, a corrupt and murderous dictatorship that practices ge… Read More
2018-09-27 23:39
Review of:Afghanistan Post-2014: Power Configurations and Evolving Tragectories.Edited by Rajen Harshe’ and Dhananjay Tripathi. (New Delhi: Routledge), 2016, pp. xix+248.
The colonial… Read More
2018-08-11 23:12
Did Canadians get to vote on whether or not to bring potential terrorists or supporters of terrorists to Canada? No. Will Canadians get a say in where these potentially dangerous men will be… Read More
2018-07-29 14:26
Why is there growing inequality in wealth distribution in the US? Is inequality inevitable? If inequality is inevitable, can it be useful? Can inequality become a problem? If so, when does i… Read More
2018-07-17 16:14
Finally, on Monday, July 16, 2018, the Helsinki Summit bringing together Russian President Vladimir Putin and US President Donald Trump took place, despite shrill demands that it be stopped… Read More
2018-07-04 23:31
Review of: Patriots, Traitors and Empires: The Story of Korea’s Struggle for Freedom, by Stephen Gowans. Published by Baraka Books, Montreal, Quebec, Canada. 6 x 9 inches. 280 pages. I… Read More
2018-07-02 16:18
In Madeleine Albright’s new book, dramatically titled Fascism: A Warning, she slams the anti-globalization crowd, claiming yet again that globalization is here to stay—it’s… Read More
2018-06-18 03:23
Both leaders arrived in Singapore, with significant excitement greeting them. Trump, arriving from a bitter G7 meeting, after which he attacked Justin Trudeau personally, flew into Singapore… Read More
2018-06-10 04:51
Dennis Rodman’s Big Bang in Pyongyang (2015) is probably the documentary to be seeing right now, made timely once again not just by the fact that it gives us a deep view of what was ar… Read More
2018-06-07 16:52
Getting Past the Propaganda
We are routinely told that Mexico has grown into the “one of the more robust emerging economies with exports of about $1 billion a day”, more than 10… Read More
2018-06-07 16:48
In Part 1, details on trade and investment between Canada and the US were presented that showed the US has run surpluses in the trade in goods and services, and more investment came into the… Read More
2018-06-07 16:45
Canada, Mexico, and the US: we could argue that any one of these nation-states “lost” because of NAFTA while the others “won”. That is Donald Trump’s position:… Read More
2018-06-01 13:16
“These tariffs are totally unacceptable. For 150 years, Canada has been America’s most steadfast ally. Canadians have served alongside Americans in two world wars and in Korea… Read More
2018-05-25 14:07
Lee Hsien Loong“Even as the crisis unfolded, we didn’t know how wide it was going to spread, or how severe it was going to be. And we were still hoping that there would be some… Read More
2018-05-25 04:49
North Korea is an exceptional state, but unlike an imperial power it lacks a doctrine of exceptionalism. It is exceptional in that it is willing to suffer any cost to protect its independenc… Read More
2018-05-11 03:11
Review of: Washington’s Long War on Syria, by Stephen Gowans. Published by Baraka Books, Montreal, Quebec, Canada. 6 x 9 inches. 280 pages. ISBN No 9781771861083. Paper, $24.95 CDN; PD… Read More
2018-05-04 01:29
What if the Chinese “economic miracle” were proven to be, like so many other alleged miracles, a mass of illusions? What if savvy American investors were actually shown to be qui… Read More
2018-03-01 01:11
Where does “progress” come from? What does “progressivism” mean? Which cultural tradition and ideological discourse makes “progressive” movements or parti… Read More
2018-02-23 03:59
Finally, on February 21 (2018), I decided to completely withdraw myself from the two main social media accounts that had kept me busy online for nearly a decade: Twitter and Facebook. My acc… Read More
2018-02-01 15:31
The story of the Razor’s Edge company continues to unfold with the latest release of one of their private videos, the kind which have normally been distributed to prospective… Read More
2018-01-20 14:11
I know that I am not the first person to ask this, but when did universities start having “views”? When some professors indulge their rights to free speech or put academic f… Read More
2018-01-11 12:11
Has anything out of the ordinary happened to the US as an imperialist power since the ascent of Trump to office? While the continuities between Trump and his predecessors are considerable, h… Read More
2018-01-04 14:11
To the extent that “white privilege” continues to exist in the US, is it the highest form of privilege? How might a focus on domestic race relations misdirect us f… Read More
2017-12-28 13:12
In memory of Edward S. Hermanb. April 7, 1926, d. November 11, 2017An inspiration that lives on, may he rest in eternal peace.
From provoking potential war with North Korea, to the fabricate… Read More
2017-12-22 14:11
Many North Americans (leaving aside Mexico), would likely not know that the official acronym for “North Korea” is “DPRK,” and if they did then fewer still might reali… Read More
2017-12-16 12:48
For us, one of the special features of 2017 is that it marks the 10th anniversary of Zero Anthropology. We are now officially past 10 years of age, and part of the review that follows will h… Read More
2017-12-07 01:23
“The Emergence of the Chief” is a statue on the Loyola campus of Concordia University in Montreal. {click to enlarge}In Canada, “a yoga instructor…says her free clas… Read More
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