Global Research News Hour

On this week's Global Research News Hour radio program, we take a look at some of the factors shaping American economic policy, its influence on the world stage, and the ability of the American public and rival powers to counter US hegemony. Our first guest Dr. Jack Rasmus will take us through an analysis of the current US China trade war. In the second half hour, York University professor Leo Pan...

This week's Global Research News Hour explores some of the historic divides along racial lines that have threatened working class solidarity. For the bulk of the show, two in-studio guests: Chris Ramsaroop of the Migrant Justice Network (Toronto) and Louis Ifill, a former program coordinator for the Winnipeg-based Workers of Colour Support Network, discuss how and why obstacles have persisted for...

This week's Global Research News Hour commemorates the centenary of the 1919 Winnipeg General Strike, by exploring the overall impact of that event on successive generations of labour and social activists. Our first guest, Leo Panitch speaks to the context and historic significance of the 1919 Strike. In the second half hour, a round table speaks to the legacy of the strike and its meaning for tod...

This week's Global Research News Hour presents a review of some of the adverse health impacts associated with the new generation of Wireless networks, known as 5G. In the first half hour, Meg Sears PhD, Chair of Prevent Cancer Now, presents some of the solid peer-reviewed research on the known health risks of Wireless Technology that are being ignored or downplayed by Health Canada. In the second...

On the occasion of the recent election of Volodymyr Zelensky to the Ukraine Presidency, the Global Research News Hour examines some of the undemocratic currents running through the Eastern European country. In the first half hour, Eva Bartlett returns for the second week in a row to elaborate on two recent articles describing the plight of a Ukrainian journalist who has been detained without trial...

On this week's episode of the Global Research News Hour we continue our examination of the siege against Venezuela with a special emphasis on Canada's role. Our first guest Yves Engler explains Canada's actual motivation for seeking the ouster of the Maduro government. and provides backgrounds on one particular think tank which is advocating a skewed narrative of Venezuela's economic and political...

This is a repeat broadcast from the January 11, 2019 program. On a week when youth around the planet are mobilizing strikes for ‘climate action,’ the Global Research News Hour highlights the major indicators of a natural world in crisis due to global warming. In the first half hour, following a short report on a local (Winnipeg) youth activist event, University of Ottawa based climate systems scie...

On a week corresponding with the 25th anniversary of the start of the Rwandan genocide, the Global Research News Hour shines a light on research pointing to the under-examined crimes committed by the Tutsi-dominated Rwandan Patriotic Front before, during and after the infamous 100 day killing spree that claimed hundreds of thousands of African lives. Our guests include radio host and former Intern...

As the North Atlantic Treaty Organization celebrates its 70th anniversary, the Global Research News Hour takes a more critical look at the 29 member alliance and the agenda it pursues under the pre-text of 'promoting peace and freedom.' Guests include Mahdi Darius Nazemroaya, sociologist, geopolitical analyst, and author of The Globalization of NATO; and Andre Vltchek, novelist, film maker, journa...

On a week when the nation of Venezuela is shrouded in darkness from power outages, the Global Research News Hour puts current events in a political and geopolitical context. Long time Venezuela watcher and researcher Dr. Julia Buxton presents her perspectives over the course of the program. While acknowledging the important influence of US and foreign interference, she also points to some of the m...

This week's Global Research News Hour marks the 20th anniversary of NATO's 1999 bombing campaign against the former Yugoslavia with four expert interviews. Professor Michel Chossudovsky Professor of Economics and Founder Director of Centre for Research on Globalization provides the geopolitical and economic background for the war. Živadin Jovanović, provides his insights into the NATO attacks as t...

On this week's Global Research News Hour radio program, we commemorate the 8th anniversary of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear meltdowns, examining the ongoing hazards from radioactive contamination and the efforts made by the Japanese government, nuclear regulators and health authorities in suppressing information that would protect the public and the natural environment. Guests are legendary anti-n...

On this week's Global Research News Hour we mark the 54th anniversary of the start of America's ground war in Vietnam with four interviews about under-reported aspects of the war. Professor Peter Dale Scott focuses his analysis on the Deep State motivations behind the Vietnam War and reasons for the escalation immediately after Kennedy's Assassination. Abayomi Azikiwe, editor of Pan African News W...

On this week's Global Research News Hour, we mark the 15th anniversary of the coup against Haiti's democratically elected president and the foreign occupation. We first hear from Ottawa-based Haitian-Canadian writer and activist Jean St. Vil about some of the geopolitical and historical context of the coup and the violence that followed. We next hear from Canadian foreign policy critic Yves Engler...

This week's Global Research News Hour radio program marks Black History month with three provocative interviews relating to racial justice in America. Radio host and commentator Glen Ford shares his perspective on the state of the resistance two years into the reign of Donald Trump. Suzanne Ross of International Concerned Family and Friends of Mumia Abu Jamal brings us an update on the plight of A...

This week's episode was a fund-raiser for CKUW 95.9FM in Winnipeg, the community radio station that hosts the Global Research News Hour radio program. Over the course of an hour, host Michael Welch, along with fellow programmers Scott Price and Kent Davies, and special guests, former CKUW News Director Geoffrey Young and former CKUW Program Director Robin Eriksson build the case for donating to th...

This week's Global Research News Hour investigates some of the post 2016 mechanisms being implemented to restrict dissident news and analysis in the name of fighting fake news and 'foreign interference' in political affairs. Whitney Webb, author of a major expose on a neocon backed 'news rating agency' called Newsguard comes in to provide background on why independent media sites should be concern...

This week's Global Research News Hour, we consider the possibility that some of the most prominent climate campaigns on the planet, including the Greta Thunberg-led Climate Strikes are in fact being co-opted by the world's most prominent financial elites, via vehicles like large environmental NGOs, to serve a pre-existing agenda having more to do with expanding capitalism than reversing or mitigat...

On a week when the U.S., Canada and other world powers are recognizing an opposition politician and not the democratically elected Nicolas Maduro as the legitimate president of Venezuela, the Global Research News Hour examines the internal and external forces attempting to undermine the

On the occasion of the historic events sweeping the UK Parliament in the past week, this week's Global Research News Hour focuses on the fate of the EU in the face of a contentious debate in the UK Parliament, and the Gilets Jaunes (Yellow Vest) movement that has overtaken the imaginations of the French population seeking alternatives to the EU order as manifested by Emmanuel Macron. Our first gue...

This week's Global Research News Hour debuts in 2019 with a special look at key stories from the past year and what they portend for 2019. Andy Lee Roth, Associate Director of Project Censored, speaks to some of the key themes running through the top 25 most censored stories of the past year, and this year's CENSORED 2019 compendium. Dr. Jack Rasmus, a political economist and instructor at St. Mar...

This week's holiday edition of the Global Research News Hour features Venezuela based academic Steve Ellner speaking to a Winnipeg audience about the factors influencing the current crisis in the Latin American country. In this Oct 19 2018 talk, Ellner brings up foreign agents at work, the realities behind the violence in the streets, and more.

This week's Global Research News Hour delves into the US extradition request of Huawei executive Meng Wanzhou and the decision by Canada to detain her. First guest Professor Michel Chossudovsky believes the detention is related to a call by the Five Eyes Alliance of intelligence agencies to block Huawei from gaining ground in the international market for its 5G technology. We then speak with estee...

The Global Research News Hour marks the passing of noted scholar, writer and U.S. foreign policy critic William Blum with a special retrospective on his life and legacy. It features interviews with Chris Agee and Lou Wolf of Covert Action Magazine, Canadian journalist and media critic Barrie Zwicker, son Alexander S Blum and his wife Adelheid Zöfel. Also included in the program are clips from a pa...

On this week's Global Research News Hour, on the occasion of the recent passing and funeral of the 41st president of the United States, George Herbert Walker Bush, we present a portrait of Bush's background and criminal activities, largely missing from current discourse over the late president's legacy. Guests include Florida based freelance journalist John Buchanan, who, in 2003, revealed for the...