Global Research News Hour

This week, on the Global Research News Hour, we spend most of the hour speaking to a popular author and educator on world energy issues. His name is Richard Heinberg, and he wlll be speaking about a new book he has just written: Power: Limits and Prospects for Human Survival. He arguing that the characteristics which allowed humans to overcome natural limits over millenia are colliding with the ve...

This week, on the Global Research News Hour, we spend the entire program with conservation biologist, social profit and predictor of near term human extinction Guy McPherson for a rousing discussion of Climate Disruption triggering events, elite management of the situation and one sliver of a chance he is exploring of how our demise as a species could possibly be avoided.

This week on the Global Research News Hour, on the 20th anniversary of the launching of the war on Afghanistan, we will probe the dynamics of the relationship between the US and Afghanistan, and the look ahead to what it will mean in the larger cold war with Russia and China.. Our first guest Retired Professor of Geography John Ryan will speak about his visit there in 1978, how the Islamic extremi...

This week, on the Global Research News Hour, we will examine the new frontiers of our technological sophistication and witness the hazards of machines that ultimately do not liberate us from drudgery so much as put us under the thumb of a new brand of elites. In our first half hour, Bruce Gagnon of the Global Network Against Weapons & Nuclear Power in Space returns to share his concerns on the eve...

This week on the global research News Hour, with the election behind us now, we’ll plan to take a closer look at the broader patterns facing the country that got little attention in the campaign. We will take a look at Canadian foreign policy with foreign policy critic and activist Yves Engler. We will have a short discussion on the Meng Wanzhou situation with Ken Stone of the Hamilton Coalition t...

This week on the Global Research News Hour, we continue the discussion surrounding the 9/11 attacks and examine what’s been gained and what’s been lost after 20 years of research, promotion, and legal actions In our first half hour we are joined by the Architects and Engineers for 911 Truth president and CEO Roland Angle to discuss the results for their group, and talk about efforts to defray and...

This week on the global research news hour, as we approach the 20th anniversary of the massive attacks believed to be the work of Al Qaeda terrorists, we will have a discussion on this program with the unique perspectives of two individuals who have challenged the official explanation in their own ways. In our first half hour, we talk to Matt Campbell, a British national whose brother was a victim...

On today’s program, we convene a panel discussion which took place on April 3 , 2021, on the eve of the 72nd anniversary of the founding of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, NATO. The name of the conversation was Why Canada should leave NATO. Panelists include Margaret Kimberley from the Black Alliance for Peace, Professor Paul Robinson from the(University of Ottawa), Belgian peace activist...

This week, on the Global Research News Hour, we invite the listeners to attend a panel discussion talking about the movie Haiti Betrayed. They will discuss the various military, economic and other ways the U.S. and Canada and other major powers are continuing to benefit from the misery of the people. Panelists include Elaine Brière a Canadian film-maker, Jean St-Vil, Haitian born activist and comm...

On this week’s program, we present a panel discussion produced by the Canadian Foreign Policy Institute entitled Innumerable Ways Canada Supports Israeli Apartheid - And What We Can Do About it. Speakers include Yves Engler, author of Canada and Israel: Building Apartheid, Jonathan Kuttab, co-founder of Palestinian human rights group Al-Haq and of Nonviolence International, and Karen Rodman, Found...

This week on the Global Research News Hour we present a panel discussion on Meng Wanzhou, the Chinese chief financial officer of Huawei arrested in Canada and facing extradition to the USA. The panel discusses legal developments, the geo-political context, and the rise of anti-Asian hate crimes in Canada. The Cross-Canada Campaign to Free Meng Wanzhou was sponsored by the Canada China Council for...

This week on the Global Research News Hour, we profile the life and legacy of the veteran journalist, anti-imperialist and executive director of Black agenda Report, Glen Ford. Joining up over the course of the 60 minute program, we will read part of a write-up by Margaret Kimberley, hear Jared Ball's commemoration, and listen to interviews with Ajamu Baraka, Ann Garrison, organizer Elias Amare, a...

This episode of the Global Research News Hour turns its attention to the murder of the celebrated freedom movement leader, and advocate for racial justice, Malcolm X! It examines the background and the circumstances that permitted the FBI, the CIA, and the New York Police Department unprecedented interest in surveilling this man eventually leading to an orchestrated death. Our guest is the outstan...

This episode of the Global Research News Hour turns its attention to the murder of the celebrated freedom movement leader, civil libertarian and champion of peace Martin Luther King. It examines the impossibility of his murder by James Earl Ray, the cover-up of what really happened and a look at what motivated certain figures to eliminate him. Our guest is the outstanding researcher and longtime i...

This week’s instalment of the Global Research News Hour focuses on the first assassination death: John F. Kennedy. It takes during the same week that an explosive new documentary series is released! The release of JFK Revisited: Through the Looking Glass takes place also 30 years after the release of the blockbuster JFK and it is directed as well by film-maker Oliver Stone. The investigator who wi...

This week’s instalment of the Global Research News Hour focuses on the last of four assassination deaths: Robert F. Kennedy. Not only is it the most visibly provable crime committed by someone other than Sirhan Sirhan, but the individual in question is facing a parole hearing at the end of August 2021. The investigator who will be playing a role directing us through the 60s assassinations is a rem...

This week the Global Research News Hour chooses to reflect on the story of Canada from a real vs mythical perspective. In our first half hour, the emeritus Economics scholar Kari Polanyi Levitt shares her thoughts about the so called sovereignty of Canada in 2021, the measures it would have to resort to in order to distinguish its independence from the US. In our second half hour, Richard Sanders...

This week on the Global Research News Hour, a special tribute to the passing of two separate individuals who made their unique marks on the world around us. In our first half hour, Ramsey Clark is memorialized by his long time co-director of the International Action Center, Sara Flounders. Then in our second half hour, guests Greg Albo and Sam Gindin pay their respects to their long time friend Le...

Today on a special episode of the Global Research News Hour, as increasing numbers of Canadians wake up to the reality of the horrors that took place in the residential school system, we hear multiple perspectives about what it all means for the survivors, for settlers, for the foundation of the building of this country and for the prospects of righting relationships and moving forward in a mutual...

This week on the Global Research News Hour, as the determined mindset of President Joe Biden is prepared to clash with Vladmir Putin on supposed human rights issues, we explore some of the elements playing out with respect to each countries actual realities. The Russian-American writer and blogger expands on these issues, the collapse of the American Empire, the Corona virus and vaccines and more!

This week on the global research news hour as COVID-19 rages on, we engage 2 doctors challenging the standard approach, especially the COVID vaccine. In our first half hour we speak with prominent doctor Stephen Malthouse about the move to now immunize 12 year olds and the general punishment shared by doctors questioning official COVID-19 narratives. Then in our second half hour we are joined by t...

This week on the Global Research News Hour, as a follow-up to last week’s portrait of 11 days of violence in the past month, we will explore the numerous obstacles which continue to shape the ambitions of the Israeli occupation and the lives of the Palestinian people 73 years after Nakba. We first speak with Professor Michel Chossudovsky about the Dagan plan, the death of Yasser Arafat and other v...

This week on the Global Research News Hour, with masses of humanity amid the most recent military exchange we will be exploring some of the stories behind the slaughter with three observers and assess what answers there may be to their dismal present in the Middle East area. In our first half hour, we get an assessment from international law and relations scholar Richard Falk about the roots of th...

This week on the Global Research News Hour, we dedicate the entire program to the situation in India as it now rocks global media with tragic, and arguably misleading headlines. In our first half hour we hear from author Jo Nash of the group Left Lockdown Sceptics about the true nature of the pandemic in the country and other factors that need to be taken into context. Then in our second half hour...

This week on the Global Research News Hour, we are continuing our conversation on racial justice in America by shining the majority of our spotlight on the long time political prisoner Mumia Abu Jamal. In our first half hour, Suzanne Ross of the International Concerned Family and Friends of Mumia Abu Jamal brings us a few updates on his health following his surgery, and the plight of his legal sit...