As a response to Trump, Canada must decouple from US military

 

It makes little sense to remain integrated with the military of a hostile country whose president wants to annex Canada

Amidst Donald Trump’s belligerence Canada continues to assist the US military and arms industry. In response to the president’s hostility, Canada should cancel the Lockheed Martin F-35 contract, end officer exchanges, and cease our participation in NORAD’s missile defence program.

Recently, outgoing Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said Trump wants to sabotage Canada’s economy in a bid to annex this country. “What he wants is to see a total collapse of the Canadian economy,” Trudeau said, “because that’ll make it easier to annex us.” Subsequently, the New York Times reported that Trump told Trudeau he wants to redraw the international boundary between Canada and the US.

Many Canadian media personalities have reacted to Trump’s threats by calling for a big boost in military spending. The National Observer’s lead columnist Max Fawcett recently said, “it’s probably time for Canada to bump its military spending to 5% of GDP,” while commentator Dean Blundell noted, “Canada needs to re-arm, recruit and sign strategic security deals worldwide while figuring out how to get the [atomic] bomb.” During the recent Liberal leadership debate both Chrystia Freeland and Karina Gould criticized eventual winner Mark Carney for not committing to their plan to boost military spending to two percent of GDP in two years (Carney committed to five years).

While each have slightly different arguments for jacking up defence spending, there is no credible anti-Trump, nationalist, argument for boosting the military that does not include decoupling from the US war machine. As I detail in Stand on Guard for Whom: A People’s History of the Canadian Military, Canada’s armed forces act as a virtual extension of the US empire. Last month, Université du Québec à Montréal political science professor Justin Massie told Le Devoir, “Our forces are designed like Lego bricks that fit into another piece.” A Canadian battalion, he noted, is designed to be inserted into a US or international brigade. “We have a sample army to ‘patch’ holes,” Massie added.  (more...)

As a response to Trump, Canada must decouple from US military

Could Canadian military leadership be a US fifth column?

 

A contradiction: Donald Trump’s annexation threats have ever more Canadians fearful of the country to our south; simultaneously, those tasked with “defending” Canada seek to bolster the US military.

Polls show Canadian attitudes towards the US have declined precipitously in response to Trump’s insults, border musing and annexation threats. Thirty percent of Canadians now see the US as an “enemy” nation. Attitudes towards the US are now on par with longstanding official enemies Russia and China.

But, as hostility to the US grows, the Canadian military leadership is deepening its support for the US. Last Friday the Ottawa Citizen reported, “Canada’s military leadership is pushing for yet another sole source deal for American equipment despite U.S. President Donald Trump’s vow to economically damage this country and eventually annex it as the 51st state.”

The military leadership justifies its support for the US on the grounds they’ve previously assisted the US. In a recent column Alex McColl, author of CF-39 Arrow II: A Swedish Solution to the CF-18 Replacement Problem, highlights the self-perpetuating cycle of US dependence promotion. At the end of February, he writes, a “senior RCAF [Royal Canadian Air Force] officer argued that we had to keep the F-35 because it works with the Boeing P-8. The RCAF had previously argued that we had to sole source the Boeing P-8 because it works with the F-35.”  (more...)

Could Canadian military leadership be a US fifth column?

James Jesus Angleton And The JFK Assassination

 

Lisa Pease co-editor and publisher of Probe Magazine (1995-2000). Lisa has been a featured speaker at several seminars in Dallas and Los Angeles. Lisa Pease is also the co-editor with James DiEugenio of The Assassinations (2003) that covers the deaths of John F. Kennedy, Martin Luther King, Robert Kennedy, and Malcolm X.

JFK Files EXPOSE Israel...AGAIN

 

The CIA requested all mention of Israel be removed from the JFK Files. In addition to that, we’ve also learned that Israel has been running covert operations for the U.S. since AT LEAST 1954 and only 1 man was allowed to know exactly what dark ops Israel has done on the US’s behalf. 

The question everyone should have: if Israel has nothing to do with JFK’s assassination, why would the CIA want all mention of Israel to be redacted and why does their name show up SO OFTEN in files specifically about JFK?

Mahmoud Khalil BREAKS His Silence In BREATH-TAKING Letter From Prison

 

Katie talks to Human Rights lawyer Craig Mokhiber and Palestinian-American journalist Said Arikat about Mahmoud Khalil's shocking detainment video and letter from prison.

• Footage of Mahmoud Khalil being detained and whisked away in an unmarked van
• Craig Mokhiber fears that’s just the beginning
• Israel’s stripping away of human rights is finding it’s way to the USA
• The last time students were expelled for protesting from  Columbia in 1936 for an anti-nazi protest
• Mahmoud Khalil’s letter from prison
• Craig and Said react to this powerful and historic document

Craig Mokhiber is an American former United Nations (UN) human rights official and a specialist in international human rights law, policy, and methodology. On October 28, 2023, Mokhiber stepped down as the director of the New York office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR). In his final letter to High Commissioner Volker Türk, he harshly criticized the organization's response to the war in Gaza, calling Israel's military intervention a "textbook genocide" and accusing the UN of failing to act.

Said Arikat is a Palestinian journalist and Washington bureau chief for Al-Quds, a daily Newspaper which has been published out of East Jerusalem (uninterruptedly) since 1951. In addition to his work as a journalist, Arikat is an adjunct professor at the American University. He served as the United Nations Chief Spokesman in Iraq from 2005-2010. He is a familiar face at U.S. State Department press briefings, where he has engaged in sometimes contentious exchanges with State Department Spokespersons.

Corbyn Demands Answers About Who Authorised British Participation in the Gaza Genocide

 

Speaking to Palestinian Deep Dive’s Ahmed Alnaouq, Jeremy Corbyn says, “I want to know and I really do want to know who in the British government authorised the overflying of Gaza? Who in the British government authorised the delivery of weapons? Who in the British government knowingly provided weapons to a country that has been arraigned before the ICJ and the ICC?” 

To these answer, the former UK Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn is demanding a “Chilcot-style” inquiry into the British government’s participation in the Gaza genocide.

The Chilcot Report, officially titled the Iraq Inquiry, was an independent public inquiry into the UK's involvement in the 2003 Iraq War, chaired by Sir John Chilcot. 

The Report exposed intelligence failures, lack of planning and questioned the legal basis for the war.

Israeli Teenagers Jailed for Refusing to Serve in the Army

 

They were just teenagers when they went to prison for months -- all for refusing to serve in the Israeli army. Tal Mitnick and Einat Gerlitz sat down with me for an exclusive interview. The two were on a cross Canada tour, but you wouldn't know it by watching mainstream media. When are two teenagers imprisoned for refusing to serving in the army not newsworthy? When Israel is the one doing the imprisoning.