Pandering to Putin
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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…
Zelenskyy Defends World Against Trump and Vance as They Attack Him Like Putin’s Proxies
Yesterday was wild politically. This has not been seen before. Even Trump realized how much this is going to be seen, at the end of the overly public argument. There…
Wednesday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading.- Alejandra Gomez and Greisa Martinez Rosas offer a reminder that Donald Trump's attempt to pit immigrants against other workers serves only to distract from…
Was the 2024 US Presidential election irrelevant? Yes and no.
Was the 2024 US Presidential election irrelevant? Yes and no. If Trump and Kennedy do end the war in Ukraine, as promised, that will be a giant victory, because it…
How Solar Supports Ukraine
In the ongoing war caused by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine power plants have been attacked by both sides to hurt military and civilian operations. Beyond the obvious horrors of war…
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…
The cluster bomb curse
The United States recently took a step towards civilizing war, if war can be in any way termed civilized. Last Friday the US Defence Department made history by destroying the…
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…
Today’s News: Roundup time
A roundup of this week’s news: First, this happened on Tuesday — weird, wasn’t it: The handshake. pic.twitter.com/9KBgNH1mcP — Andrew Brown (@browncbc) February 7, 2023 I can’t believe this needs…
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…
The noble Nobels
The collapse of the Soviet Union, the “Evil Empire,” was perhaps the most welcome event of the latter part of the 20th century. Almost three hundred million people freed from…
Today’s News: The Beginning of the End?
Three stories tonight seem to have the same theme — that it may be the beginning of the end for Pierre Poilievre, for Elon Musk and for Donald Trump. First,…
November
There are things going on. From absurd numbers of kids home sick from school, to the Grey Cup going on today in Regina. The most vocal civilian critic of the…
And after Putin?
Russian President Vladimir Putin is not happy in the modern world. A child of Soviet Communism and of that particular enthusiasm bred by service in the KGB, he prefers government…
From the bookmarks
Of course dinosaurs and humans never co-existed – dinosaurs went extinct 65 million years before humans developed, and the CBC knows it, as do all paleontologists. But no scientist wants…
Today’s News: The story behind Russia-gate and the Ukraine War
The New York Times has published a major article The Untold Story of “Russia-gate” and the Road to War in Ukraine (gift article link), and the story actually turns out…
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…
Today’s News: Updates
Just a short one tonight. First, about the POEC hearings: A lot of people are looking really really bad in this inquiry and none of them are named Trudeau. —…
Today’s News: Playing nuclear chicken?
Well, this is terrifying, isn’t it? It sounds like Russia is getting set to try to play a game of Nuclear Chicken with Ukraine and the west: It comes as…