Israel escalates its war on Lebanon
After Israel’s drone strike in Beirut, Lebanon on January 2, 2024, I spoke today with Lebanese-Canadian journalist Nada Raphaël, who currently lives in Lebanon. Nada explained that, many [...]
After Israel’s drone strike in Beirut, Lebanon on January 2, 2024, I spoke today with Lebanese-Canadian journalist Nada Raphaël, who currently lives in Lebanon. Nada explained that, many [...]
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 [...]
Today, I attended a press conference by Canada’s Environment Minister, Steven Guilbeault. What happened there was yet another demonstration that, in Canada, freedom of the press is largely [...]
Russian dissident Boris Kagarlitsky has been released from detention. His release comes several weeks after Canadian professor Radhika Desai asked Russian President Vladimir Putin to look into [...]
Yesterday, Canada’s pro-Israel lobby went bananas after the Trudeau government tossed a crumb to the Palestinian people. For the second time in two months, the United Nations General [...]
On December 2, 2023, I spoke to protesters on Parliament Hill in Ottawa about Israel’s ongoing genocide in Palestine. In my speech, I explained why Israel’s attacks on Gaza amount to [...]
Over the past month, I’ve argued repeatedly that Israel is hurtling toward a strategic defeat. My projection was based in part on Israel’s total abandonment of restraint in its [...]
This week, after the announcement of a ‘humanitarian pause’ in Gaza, I spoke with Zain Raza of Germany’s AcTVism Munich about the cracks in Israel’s edifice of apartheid. [...]
Since October 7, 2023, Canadian-Palestinian artist and educator Rehab Nazzal has been in Bethlehem in the occupied West Bank. On November 22, 2023, Rehab spoke with me about current conditions in [...]
On Dr. David Kattenburg’s Green Planet Monitor, Professor Radhika Desai and I talked about the increasingly aggressive efforts of Western governments to suppress criticisms of their foreign [...]
On November 9, 2023, I delivered a speech to anti-apartheid protesters at the Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM) about the humanitarian catastrophe that Israel has created in Gaza. I argued [...]
(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 [...]
On November 7, 2023 in Montreal, CEO Catherine Tait of Canada’s national broadcaster, the CBC, gave a speech on the threats to the CBC’s “independent journalism”. During [...]
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 [...]
This past weekend, I spoke with American documentary filmmaker Regis Tremblay about Israel’s latest war on Gaza. I explained to Regis the basis of my view that Israel is essentially a huge [...]
On October 24, 2023, I travelled from Beirut to areas of south Lebanon bordering on Israel. After stopping in Qana (which is the subject of a separate report I published yesterday), I visited the [...]
On October 24, 2023, as Israeli forces and Hezbollah militants continued to exchange fire in south Lebanon, I returned to the Lebanon-Israel border. This was my second visit to the border since I [...]
On October 22, 2023, while visiting the border between Israel and Lebanon, I spoke with the Abbas Diab, the President of the Lebanese village of Taybeh. Taybeh lies two kilometres from the border [...]