How will the crisis in Ukraine affect the Arctic Council?
When the Arctic Council meets this week in Yellowknife, participants will no doubt be thinking of the Ukraine. But they probably won't be talking about it, at least during the official sessions.Ukraine...
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Ottawa situation report: Harper does the chicken hawk
Tuesday, March 25, 2014Embassies around the world routinely prepare situation reports or sitreps: assessments of host governments and their leaders. Foreign offices request these reports be updated...
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Popular memory and the economic underside of Russia's 'geopolitical disaster'
Wednesday, April 2, 2014 Two questions more politically useful than "Is Putin Hitler" might be: "But what does 'geopolitical disaster' actually mean in the Russian context?" And: "What did Putin...
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How the gas industry is exploiting the crisis in Ukraine to push fracking
Tuesday, April 15, 2014The way to beat Vladimir Putin is to flood the European market with fracked-in-the-USA natural gas, or so the industry would have us believe. As part of escalating anti-Russian...
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Harper on Russia: America's useful idiot?
Monday, April 21, 2014Stephen Harper's acutely embarrassing behaviour regarding the crisis in Ukraine -- demonizing Vladimir Putin and upping the rhetoric -- must be welcomed in the U.S. which created...
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Canada's coup-supporting corporate cowboy diplomacy
Wednesday, April 23, 2014When U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry bloviated last fall about officially ending the Monroe Doctrine (the U.S. belief that God grants only Americans the right to interfere...
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Is Ukraine descending into civil war?
Is this show currently playing? May 6, 2014 Professors Nicolai Petro and Aleksandr Buzgalin discuss the factional clashes in the Ukrainian city of Odessa and how the international community can...
View ArticleHow Canada is responsible for the crisis in Ukraine
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View Article'Mother Russia' stereotypes outdated as Ukraine war heats up
The following article was written in the days before I departed Moscow on July 17, 2014 following a two-week visit to Crimea and Moscow.Bombardments of cities and towns in eastern Ukraine by the...
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Threats to security start at home
Friday, September 5, 2014"Developments in other parts of the world, particularly in Iraq and Syria, threaten our security at home" (Barack Obama and David Cameron, in the Times of London). I'll say. In...
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Help the brave women of Ukraine to be heard via a documentary film!
Publish Date: September 8, 2014Summary: Support the courageous women of the Ukraine as they tell their story Support this campaignSupport the film here!read more
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U.S. blunders, prepares military escalation in Ukraine
Tuesday, February 10, 2015Like this article? Chip in to keep stories likes these coming.On February 9, following a meeting with German Chancellor Angela Merkel, U.S. President Obama announced he is...
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Faith-based policy and the West's dangerous game with Russia
Friday, March 6, 2015What are the consequences when elected governments make policy based on faith and imperial hubris instead of science and expertise? It's a question that is forcing itself on the...
View ArticleVladimir Putin's strategic crisis in 2014 sure looks a lot like John F....
"Good evening, my fellow citizens," President John F. Kennedy said grimly on Oct. 22, 1962. "This Government, as promised, has maintained the closest surveillance of the Soviet military build-up on the...
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Crimea and the law of power
Tuesday, March 18, 2014The hasty referendum organized by the self-proclaimed government of Crimea, which had seized power two weeks earlier, had the expected result -- an overwhelming vote by Crimea to...
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