Phosphate mining in Togo. Photo by Alexandra Pugachevsky/Wikimedia Commons. The invasion of Ukraine and the resultant Western sanctions against Russia have wrought far-reaching consequences on global commodity flows. These impacts…
World Health Organization headquarters, Geneva. Photo by Yann Forget/Wikimedia Commons. On May 25, 2022, the World Health Assembly held a vote regarding the dire health conditions in occupied Palestine. The…
After the deaths of eight miners at Burkina Faso’s Perkoa zinc mine, owned by the Vancouver-based Trevali Mining Corporation, watchdogs have accused Canadian mining firms of acting with impunity abroad.…
A balcony in Old Havana. Photo by Ramon Rosati/Flickr. At the 2022 International Meeting of Solidarity with Cuba, President Miguel Díaz-Canel offered a galvanizing statement to visiting delegates: “Solidarity cannot…
“The Battle of Isandlwana” by Charles Edwin Fripp (1854–1906), depicting one of the worst disasters suffered by the British Army in the late nineteenth century. Image from Wikimedia Commons. Legacy…
Still image from the film Korea Brigade, produced by Canada’s Department of National Defence in 1951. Directed by Sergeant L. Stephens. Photo courtesy Library and Archives Canada. In a statement…
Ghanaian President Kwame Nkrumah. Image from the cover of Kwame Nkrumah and the Dream of African Unity by Lansiné Kaba (Diasporic Africa Press, 2017). On April 27, 1972, former Ghanaian…
Criticism of Russia’s militaristic actions rings totally hollow when one simultaneously ignores or celebrates the militarism of Canada and its allies, writes Owen Schalk. Image by Ahmed Jahaf/@A7medJa7af. Supposed anti-war…
A woman with a child evacuates from a residential building damaged by shelling in Kyiv, Ukraine, March 16, 2022. Photo courtesy the State Emergency Service of Ukraine. Who does Russia’s…
The Lac Des Iles mine, an open-pit and underground operation located almost 100 kilometres north of Thunder Bay, Ontario. Photo courtesy of North American Palladium. Although Canada hosts the world’s…
An Afghan girl in Balish Kalay Village, Urgun District, Afghanistan, March 27, 2011. Photo from Flickr. After the Biden administration withdrew US ground forces from Afghanistan, paving the way for…
A damaged billboard of Saddam Hussein along a roadside as Coalition forces conduct operations in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom, March 2003. Marine Corps photo by Lance Cpl. Matthew R.…
The financial war against the Russian economy has already had wide-ranging effects on ordinary people inside and outside of the country. Photo from iStock. While the Russian and Ukrainian economies…
Alberta Premier Jason Kenney attends a rally in Edmonton in support of Ukraine following Russia’s invasion. Photo courtesy Ukrainian Canadian Congress – Alberta Provincial Council. The second Russia launched its…
More than four million Canadians are currently grappling with food insecurity. Image by rasslava/iStock. In January 2020, the Canadian Medical Association Journal (CMAJ) published the horrifying results of a survey…
Aerial bombing of Sanaa, Yemen, by the Saudi-led coalition, March 2016. Photo by Fahd Sadi/Wikimedia Commons. In the past few days, Saudi-led coalition forces have intensified their bombardment of the…
Kyle MacLachlan plays FBI Agent Dale Cooper in Twin Peaks: The Return. Photo courtesy Showtime. Oh now it’s gone, gone And I am who I am Who I was, I’ll…
Canadian postage stamp celebrating the vastness of the British empire, December 25, 1898. Imperialism is not only instantiated in military force and unilateral sanctions deployed to influence the sovereign political…
The Kumtor mine in northern Kyrgyzstan, run by the Canadian Centerra Gold company since 1997, is one of the largest gold mines in Central Asia. Photo by Silvia Sorana. On…
In this UNTV image, Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro speaks in a pre-recorded video message during the 75th session of the United Nations General Assembly, Wednesday, September 23, 2020, at UN…
