Defy the Powerful

This week, I spoke with documentary film-maker Regis Tremblay about my trip in April to Moscow and Crimea. Regis is from the United States, but he now lives in Crimea. During my journey across [...]

Last month, after visiting Moscow for the first time, I published an account of what I saw and experienced there. In my account, one of the subjects on which I commented was the extent of visible [...]

On January 31, 2023, Green Party leader Elizabeth May gave a press conference in which she revealed that the Green Party under her leadership now supports the transfer of weapons to Ukraine. As I [...]

In late April, shortly before my departure from Russia, I spoke with Malcom Burn of Radio Kingston in New York. Malcolm and I discussed my experiences in Crimea, the impoverishment of the [...]

In the early evening of April 21, I boarded a train from Simferopol to Moscow. Simferopol is the capital of Crimea. It is over 2,000 km away from Moscow by train. The entire journey takes about [...]

Recently, after I had spent several weeks in Russia, I received an interview request from Worlds Apart a geopolitical analysis program airing weekly on RT. The host of Worlds Apart, Oksana Boyko, [...]

[Note: The photographs and videos in this article were taken by me during my visit to Sevastopol.] During the past decade of conflict between Ukraine and Russia, the Crimean port of Sevastopol [...]

Elbe Day, April 25, 1945, is the day U.S. and Soviet troops met at the Elbe River in Germany, marking an historic step toward the end of WWII in Europe. On April 25, I participated in an online [...]

On April 13, 2023, I visited a refugee centre in Sevastopol, Crimea. The name of the center is “We are together Sevastopol”. It assists both refugees and the families of soldiers who are fighting [...]

On April 17, while I was travelling in Crimea (where I remain), I received an email from National Post weekly columnist Adam Zivo. In his email, Adam requested an interview, stating [...]

On April 17, 2023, while I was in Yalta in Crimea, I had the opportunity to speak with a veteran of the Ukraine war named Genadi. Our discussion took place at a school for children with special [...]

Those of us living in the West are shown the Ukraine war almost entirely from the Ukrainian perspective. Moreover, what we see is heavily filtered by media personalities whose bias is [...]

On April 1, 2023, for the first time in my life, I arrived in Moscow. Ten days later, I boarded a train for Crimea. While taking the 28-hour train ride to Simferopol, which is about 2,000 km from [...]

On April 5, the Valdai Club in Moscow hosted an expert discussion, titled “The New Economic Order: Is it Really Possible to End the Dollar Monopoly?” I participated in that discussion, along with [...]

On April 6, 2023, I delivered a presentation at Moscow State Institute of International Relations (MGIMO), Russia’s leading university for the study of international affairs. The subject of [...]

On April 5, 2023, I participated in a panel discussion at the Valdai Club in Moscow. In our discussion, which was focused on de-dollarization, I was joined by Professor Radhika Desai of the [...]

On April 3, 2023, while in Moscow, I joined Yves Engler on Canadian Foreign Policy Hour to discuss the latest pro-NATO propaganda published by a Canadian University. With the obvious goal of [...]

A Canadian university has produced yet another piece of glossy, pro-NATO propaganda masquerading as academic analysis. In concert with the University of Maryland, the University of Regina’s [...]