The arrest warrant from the International Criminal Court for Russian President Vladimir Putin came at an opportune moment. It was, if nothing else, a feeble distraction over the misdeeds and crimes of other leaders current and former. Russia, not being an ICC member...
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Pro-Israel and Ukraine Groups Use Identity Politics to Attack Free Speech
Questioning Canada’s contribution to NATO’s proxy war is “hate” that must be shut down according to some Ukrainian groups mimicking Zionist organizations by promoting an identity politics laced cancel culture. A Ukrainian student group sought to cancel my talk at...
Spent Matters: The AUKUS Nuclear Waste Problem
When Australia – vassal be thy name – assumed responsibilities for not only throwing money at both US and British shipbuilders, lending up territory and naval facilities for war like a gambling drunk, and essentially asking its officials to commit seppuku for the...
The Need to Clue in
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The Causes of Dogmatism
Orientation In part I of this series, following the work of Judy J. Johnson in What’s so Wrong with Being Absolutely Right: The Dangerous Nature of Dogmatic Belief, we identified dogmatism — not as the content of a particular ideology but as a process of thinking,...
U.S. and Allies Seek Regime-Change in Russia
On 10 March, Canada’s National Post headlined “Regime change in Moscow ‘definitely’ the goal, Joly says,” and reported that “Foreign Affairs Minister Mélanie Joly raises the possibility of regime change in Moscow. … ‘The goal is definitely to do that, is to weaken...
African Scholar: Only China Can Deter America from Hegemony
Kyeretwie Opoku, convener of the Socialist Movement of Ghana, speaks to why China presents a peaceful path for the future co-prosperity of the world. The post African Scholar: Only China Can Deter America from Hegemony first appeared on Dissident Voice.
Two Sessions Summary
This week’s News on China in 2 minutes. • Two Sessions Summary • New National Data Office • China’s Historical Mediation between Iran and Saudi Arabia • Modern Feminism in China The post Two Sessions Summary first appeared on Dissident Voice.
My Lai, “Killing Ideology,” and Disobeying Orders
“We weren’t there to kill human beings, really. We were there to kill ideology.” (Lt. William Calley) Officially termed an “incident” (as opposed to a “massacre”), the events of March 16, 1968, at My Lai — a hamlet in South Vietnam — are widely portrayed and accepted...
The Not-So-Winding Road from Iraq to Ukraine
U.S. soldiers breaking into a home in Baquba, Iraq, in 2008 Photo: Reuters March 19 marks the 20th anniversary of the U.S. and British invasion of Iraq. This seminal event in the short history of the 21st century not only continues to plague Iraqi society to this...
How and Why Obama Downed the MH17 Passenger Plane on 17 July 2014
Before the MH17 passenger plane was shot down over the civil-war zone in Ukraine on 17 July 2014, U.S. President Barack Obama needed to persuade 9 EU countries that were opposed to adding more sanctions against Russia — needed to force them to approve adding those...
Every St Patrick’s Day, Everywhere, All at Once
Patrick banishing the snakesMarch 17 is traditionally St Patrick’s Day, a day when ‘Irishness’ is celebrated all over the world. This date is traditionally held to be the date of the death of St Patrick (c. 385 – c. 461), the patron saint of Ireland. It is marked by...