National Security

For nearly four years, Hussein Moanes, a former spokesman for Iraq’s Hezbollah Brigrades, was imprisoned by U.S. forces for having engaged in armed resistance to the U.S. occupation of [...]

This week, while in Qatar, I attended the Doha International Maritime Defence Exhibition (DIMDEX). According to the Qatari government, DIMDEX is “a flagship event for the international [...]

Avdiivka has fallen, and with it, NATO’s credibility. Fortress Avdiivka Before the Ukraine war, Avdiivka was an industrial city with a population exceeding 31,000. It lies about thirteen [...]

Those who follow my writings will know that, prior to October 7 of last year, the primary focus of my analysis and reporting over the preceding eighteen months had been the war in Ukraine. In [...]

(This is the second part of a two-part article on Israel’s looming defeat. Part 1 can be read here.) Israel is vulnerable to military defeat America’s unsinkable aircraft carrier is [...]

From its founding in 1948, Israel has gotten away with murder. It has systematically flouted the laws of war. It has violated relentlessly the sovereignty of its neighbours, even going so far as [...]

On October 21, 2023, shortly after Western governments urged their nationals to leave Lebanon immediately, I reported from Rafic Hariri International Airport in Beirut, Lebanon. I discussed the [...]

On October 17, 2023, an airstrike destroyed Gaza’s Al-Ahli hospital. The strike appears to have been carried out by Israel’s military. It killed many medical personnel and hundreds of [...]

Most of us, including yours truly, were stunned today by the speed and success of the Palestinian offensive. Hours after launching thousands of rockets at Israeli targets, hundreds of Palestinian [...]

On September 20, 2023, the Canada-Wide Peace and Justice Network held a webinar in which I and two other peace activists discussed the delivery of cluster munitions and depleted uranium to [...]