Global Research News Hour

This week's episode of the Global Research News Hour takes a close look at the Migrant Caravan making its way from Honduras to the US-Mexico border. In the first half hour, guest Tyler Shipley, author of Ottawa and Empire: Canada and the Military Coup in Honduras, outlines the ways in which Canada and Canadian business interests has supported and enabled the very violent living conditions in Hondu...

On this week's Global Research News Hour, we continue our alternative coverage of the centenary of the end of World War One with an extensive interview with researcher Gerry Docherty, who has authored two books detailing the origins of the 'war to end all wars' not in an assassination in Sarajevo, but in a secret cabal of British financial elites looking to secure and extend the Empire. Docherty e...

On the occasion of the 100th anniversary of the end of the First World War, we present this repeat broadcast from 2014. Host Michael Welch interviews historian Jacques Pauwels and foreign policy critic Yves Engler. They discuss the legacy of twentieth century conflicts, with an emphasis on World War I and assess, the real political and economic motivations for Canada and other countries in partici...

This week's Global Research News Hour continues its coverage of the foreign imposed Venezuelan crisis. We first hear from Mike Prysner, an organizer and activist and co-producer of Telesur's the Empire Files. He debunks much of the mainstream media narrative about the Venezuelan government's democratic failures and human rights abuses. We then hear from Barry Weisleder, an organizer in Toronto, ab...

On this week's Global Research News Hour radio program we investigate factors influencing the outcome of the US Mid-term elections. We first hear from lawyer, author, and editor of the online Columbia Free Press Bob Fitrakis about past and ongoing mechanisms which allow partisan operators to clandestinely manipulate the vote. We next interview broadcaster, writer and political economist Dr. Jack R...

On this week's installment of the Global Research News Hour radio program, Suzanne Ross of International Concerned Family and Friends Mumia Abu-Jamal brings us an update on efforts by Mumia Abu Jamal to appeal his guilty verdict in the 1981 murder of a Philadelphia police officer, a crime for which his supporters claim he has been falsely accused. We follow with a brief excerpt of a speech by Ange...

This week's Global Research News Hour attempts to deconstruct some of the messaging around the humanitarian crisis in Venezuela and the allegations of undemocratic behaviour on the part of the Maduro government. Our first guest, author and foreign affairs critic Yves Engler examines what he believes to be the true motives behind the humanitarian and rights based rhetoric. Our next guest, Steve Ell...

This week's Global Research News Hour examines the underlying currents pushing the presidency in the direction of a hard right wing admirer of past dictatorial governments. We'll also place these developments within a larger geopolitical context. Guests include the noted veteran Brazilian journalist Pepe Escobar and Professor Michel Chossudovsky of the Centre for Research on Globalization. We will...

On this week's Global Research News Hour, the noted critic of Canadian foreign policy and special guest interviewer Paul Graham explore reason why established left of centre groups that challenge corporate power within Canada end up promoting and defending corporate power interests abroad, including military interventions. This contradictory reality forms the basis of his latest book: Left, Right:...

This week's Global Research News Hour examines the ongoing confrontation between the US and Russia, and provides a historical context to the growing divide between the two major powers. We first hear from writer, blogger and geopolitical analyst Dmitry Orlov about the deteriorating relationship between Russia and the Western powers over the last year, the fundamentals underlying American actions,...

On this week’s Global Research News Hour , we turn our attention to development’s in one of the world’s largest economies and indications that democratic freedoms and mechanisms are imperilled under the current right wing BJP government. Our guests for the hour are Niranjan Takle, the journalist who broke a major story about the death of Judge Brijgopal Loya, and University of Manitoba academic an...

This week's Global Research News Hour returns to the Israel-Paestine conflict. Guest Suha Jarrar, researcher with the Palestinian human rights organization Al Haq, provides an overview of the humanitarian situation in Gaza, with a special emphasis on climate change impacts and settler-colonialism. Larry Commodore, an Indigenous activist from the Soowahlie community of the Stó:lō Nation, near Vanco...

On this week's Global Research News Hour, on the occasion of the 17th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks, we bring you an encore presentation of the 2004 film - The Great Conspiracy: The 9/11 News Special You Never Saw by Canadian journalist and media critic Barrie Zwicker. This film, which is available in its entirety for free on YOUTUBE sums up most of the problems with the official story of the Se...

Originally aired April 13, 2018. On this week's Global Research News Hour, we mark the fourth anniversary of the passing of noted LAPD whistleblower, investigative journalist, and peak oil activist Michael Ruppert. Over the course of the show, we will feature perspectives from close friends and associates, including Carolyn Baker, Jamey Hecht, Barry Silverthorn, Jenna Orkin, Mark Robinowitz, and M...

Originally aired April 6, 2018. On this week's Global Research News Hour, on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the death of the famous Civil Rights leader, we spend the hour discussing the assassination and evidence there was a high level conspiracy to murder King and conceal the truth about it. Our guest is noted Human Rights lawyer, author and King family friend, William Pepper.

Originally aired March 16, 2018. This week's episode of the Global Research News Hour we take an in depth look at the My Lai Massacre on the 50th anniversary of that incident, as well as the war in which it was situated. University of Massachusetts Professor of History and author Christian Appy examines the deterioration of America's War narrative in the wake of My Lai and other developments over...

In this special summer 2018 episode of the Global Research News Hour, we air part two of an interview by contributor Scott Price with journalist and documentary film-maker Robbie Martin about his film A Very Heavy Agenda, which focuses on the Neocons and their role in shaping foreign policy in Washington. This interview Is followed by a repeat broadcast of an interview with the legendary investiga...

This week's Global Research News Hour radio program features the first of a two part interview with Robbie Martin. The brother of popular investigative journalist Abby Martin, Robbie Martin is a journalist, musician and documentary film-maker. In a recent conversation with Global Research News Hour contributor Scott Price, Martin provides background on the neoconservatives in Washington, and the t...

This week's Global Research News Hour airs a recording of a lecture by Professor Michel Chossudovsky, delivered June 8, 2018 in Regina, Saskatchewan. The lecture is based on his book, The Globalization of War: America's Long War on Humanity. In this speech, Professor Chossudovsky postulates that the US and its Western allies have embarked on a hegemonic war of conquest, using the September 11, 200...

This week's Global Research News Hour presents excerpts from the Winnipeg talk, sponsored by a number of local groups to address the implications of the U.S. Administration's decision to relocate its embassy to the Holy City of Jerusalem. Representatives of the three great faith traditions of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam, all of which have unique ties to the city were called upon to comment at...

This week, as part of the Global Research News Hour's special summer series, we air two talks from the University of Manitoba Geopolitical Economy Research Group's 2017 Revolutions Conference. Writer, trade union activist, self-described socialist, and editor of the site newcoldwar.org speaks on some of the mis-conceptions about the Russian revolution that have served to divide the Left 100 years...

This week, as part of the Global Research News Hour's summer series, we bring a talk by Julia Buxton, Professor of Comparative Politics at Central European University's School of Public Policy, and Senior Research Associate at the Global Drug Policy Observatory, Swansea University. A specialist on Latin America and an expert on Venezuela, Professor Buxton traces some of the history of Venezuela's...

On this week’s Global Research News Hour, we examine the European migrant crisis from the perspective of geo-strategy. Former U.S. State Department Official, whistleblower and author J Michael Springmann sees the mass movement of peoples from militarily compromised countries in North Africa and Southwest Asia as not only a consequence, but a deliberate instrument of US geo-strategy. We discuss his...

This week's installment of the Global Research News Hour examines the role of certain entities in the background of decision-making in Ottawa that undermining the sovereign decision-making of the electorate, regardless of which party rises to power. Morgan Duchesney explores the history and background of the Canadian Council of Chief Executives and its influence on federal governments since the mi...

This week's Global Research News Hour sets its gaze on the challenges facing the Trudeau government domestically and in its relations with the Trump Administration. We first hear from Energy Analyst David Hughes, the author of a CCPA report on Canada's Energy Outlook. He tackles the economic and environmental viability of the Trudeau government's determined purchase of Kinder Morgan's Trans-Mounta...