An oil pump jack pumps oil in a field near Calgary, Alberta. Photo by Getty Images. For months during and after Canada’s 2019 federal election campaign, corporate media have provided daily frontline news space for non-stop Alberta demands for more tar-sands export infrastructure through British Columbia, as well as discrediting
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Canadian Dimension: The Koch Brothers and the Tar-Sands
Photo by NRDC Big Lies and Ecocide in Canada As we know, big lies can run free across borders with few people joining the dots. For example, no media has been reporting that China’s growing dispute with Canada is based on Canada’s enforcement of the Trump administration’s unilateral embargo against
Continue readingCanadian Dimension: Trump Decapitates the Russia Peace Initiative
Photo by Erin A. Kirk-Cuomo Trump folds under totalizing corporate media and war-state pressures today. The resignation of National Security Adviser Michael Flynn decapitates his presidency’s peace initiative with Russia after years of campaigning for it. General Flynn is not another Trump slob. He is the most advanced military intelligence
Continue readingCanadian Dimension: The Davos Blind Eye: How the Rich Eat the Poor and the World
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The just-released Oxfam Davos report An Economy For the 1% which the mass media have ignored arrestingly shows that 62 individuals (388 in 2010) now own more wealth than 50 per cent of the…
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