Saturday Morning Links
Assorted content for your weekend reading.- George Monbiot recognizes that all of the major problems now confronting us derive from the political class' willing subservience to the filthy rich. And…
NATO
Global Geopolitics 2025 – Assessing Russia, & Surviving The 21st Century
Assessing Russia: Reality & Basic Sanity vs Propaganda & Delusion A snapshot, arial perspective and overview of Russia in 2025, within the broader global and historical context, in a rapidly…
Resist NATO and Work for Peace
On June 24, 2025, members of and supporters of Peace Alliance Winnipeg rallied in Winnipeg to speak out against militarism and Canada’s membership in NATO. The rally was held in…
Tuesday Morning Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading.- Pema Levy observes that Elon Musk's use of the U.S. government to line his own pockets would be illegal under any standard in…
Return to manifest destiny
Any commitment the United States may have had to a rules-based international order has been... The post Return to manifest destiny first appeared on Views from the Beltline.
What The World Needs Most
Great discussion, as always, and a great song. (See the link below, to a podcast interview by one of my top three sources.) Now, maybe a song about sisu, the…
Canada Out of NATO!
Winnipeg, April 4, 2024: Members of Peace Alliance Winnipeg marked the 75th anniversary of the founding of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) with an information picket in the Osborne…
Happy birthday, NATO!
This month the North Atlantic Treaty Organization celebrates its 75th. And any individual would consider themselves fortunate it they were in as good shape. NATO first saw the light of…
Dimitri Lascaris on why we need to make peace with Russia
On Thursday, June 22, 2023, Canadian lawyer, journalist, and peace activist Dimitri Lascaris spoke in Winnipeg about his recent trip to Russia and the need for Canada to promote a…
Free Speech for Peace
Free Speech for Peace was presented by Ethnorama News Winnipeg and Al Cafe and recorded at Winnipeg’s historic Ukrainian Labour Temple on March 31, 2023. The event arose out of…
Putin and Peter—What’s NATO got to do with it?
NATO is frequently brought up in the discussion of the Russian aggression against Ukraine. Some pundits suggest it is a cause, even to some a justification. I would suggest NATO…
He’s Living In The Past
For quite some time, I have suspected that Putin was living in the past – quite specifically, the Cold War. His "State of the Nation" speech today confirmed that. Most…
Negotiate Peace in Ukraine
Winnipeg, January 21, 2023: Members of Peace Alliance Winnipeg distributed literature in Winnipeg’s Osborne Village calling for an immediate ceasefire and negotiated peace agreement to end the Ukraine War. Following…
No to NATO! Peace in Ukraine!
Winnipeg, Oct. 28, 2022: Members of Peace Alliance Winnipeg picketed outside Winnipeg’s Delta Inn, site of the Ukrainian Canadian Congress conference, attended by Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Defence…
Don’t go, Chrystia
As a result of Vladimir Putin’s invasion of the Ukraine, NATO is much more in the news lately. Consequently, the job of heading the organization is attracting attention as the…
Abolish NATO for World Peace!
On June 29, 2022, members of Peace Alliance Winnipeg joined peace activists in a dozen cities who demonstrated their opposition to NATO and Canada’s membership in it. You can find…
NATO advances
Vladimir Putin. Yet another megalomaniacal psychopath pursuing Lebensraum, a true heir to the Nazis he claims to despise. If he has accomplished anything in his invasion of Ukraine, it is…
How much for defence?
Chrystia Freehand’s recent budget, although modest, did have some goodies in it for the military, including more than $8-billion in new funding over five years. While less than expected, perhaps,…
Putin and NATO
A proposed explanation, if not a justification, for Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine is that NATO pushed too far east and thus posed a threat. Actually it wasn’t so much…
Making sense of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine
What has become clear is that Canadian and American media are manufacturing consent, and presenting the Russian invasion of Ukraine outside of its historical context. The act of invasion is…