Defy the Powerful

For The Real News, I spoke recently with former U.S. Marines intelligence officer and United Nations weapons inspector Scott Ritter about the Ukraine war, global nuclear security and Canada’s [...]

On November 4, the Canadian Foreign Policy Institute hosted an online discussion with me and CodePink co-founder, Medea Benjamin, about the paths to peace in the Ukraine war. I argued that the [...]

On October 28, 2022, U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Canadian Foreign Minister Melanie Joly attempted to stage a photo op at the Marché Jean-Talon in Montreal, Canada. I and other [...]

As the Ukraine war has escalated into a potentially catastrophic conflagration for all of humanity, the climate movement has gone AWOL. A case in point is the ongoing leadership contest of the [...]

The Guardian’s coverage of the recent Nord Stream sabotage highlights the increasingly absurd lengths to which Western media will go to promote the U.S. government’s hegemonic agenda. Guardian [...]

Today, I and a fellow peace activist disrupted a pro-NATO love-fest featuring Germany’s Foreign Minister, Annalena Baerbock, and Canadian Foreign Minister, Mélanie Joly. Their [...]

The Federal Council (FC) of the Green Party of Canada (GPC) has taken the Draconian, unprecedented step of expelling from its membership the sitting leader of a provincial Green Party. The newly [...]

From the outset of Russia’s invasion in February of this year, Western elites have bestowed upon Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky a level of adulation that few (if any) leaders have [...]

A new poll has found that more than two-thirds of Ukrainians (70%) believe Ukraine’s government bears either a great deal or some responsibility for Ukraine’s conflict with Russia. [...]

From the start of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, Western media have systematically misrepresented developments on the battlefield. Time and again, major media organizations, including The New York [...]

On June 8, 2022, Canadian media widely published an article by Canadian Press reporter Marie Woolf regarding a new “study” which claims that Canada is being “targeted” by Russia [...]

For months, Western military analysts have sung a chorus of contempt for Russia’s military performance in the Ukraine war. Time and again, Western media have dutifully repeated — without a [...]

Earlier this year, the Palestinian human rights group, Samidoun, published an article on the first Palestinian farm cooperative in Greece. The Hakoura organic farm (Hakoura means [...]

On May 24, I spoke with author and activist Yves Engler on Foreign Policy Hour about my decision not to run for the leadership of the Green Party of Canada, the militarism and censorship sweeping [...]

After months of reflection and consultations with family, friends and political allies, I’ve decided not to run in the upcoming Green Party of Canada leadership contest. Without a doubt, this has [...]

We are pleased to announce that the Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) has ruled that “Product of Israel” labels affixed to wines produced in Israel’s illegal West Bank settlements violate [...]

On March 24, 2022, I participated in a debate organized by the Spadina-Fort York EDA of the Green Party of Canada. The question we debated was whether the Canadian government’s use of the [...]

From the beginning of Russia’s illegal invasion of Ukraine, I have argued that the overarching priority of Western governments should be to end the hostilities as quickly as possible, and [...]