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Joshua Blakeney

A U.K. freelance journalist and activist living in Canada, Joshua Blakeney was the Media Coordinator of the Center for Globalization Studies at the University of Lethbridge (Alberta, Canada) from September 2009 to October 2010. Further information on his background is available on his Blog.

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The "Maple Spring"

Quebec students spearhead pan-Canadian uprising against austerity

by Joshua Blakeney

Lethbridge (Canada) | 7 June 2012

Catapulting the Canadian province of Quebec into the spotlight, the four-month old student protests have become a symbol of the most powerful challenge to neoliberalism on the North American continent. Recognizing that the students’ demands for an accessible and democratic public education (...)

Iran: US/Israeli “False Flag” attack reported underway

by James Fetzer, Joshua Blakeney

15 January 2012

Several warnings of an imminent “false flag” attack by the Israeli-influenced United States on one of its own warships, which will be attributed to Iran, have been reported by several reliable sources. In recent years “false-flag” terrorism has been utilized multiple times by US and Israeli (...)

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Christopher Hitchens, 1949-2011: A neo-con cheerleader

by Joshua Blakeney

19 December 2011

Iconic journalist and author Christopher Hitchens has passed away. After 9/11, former "trotskyist" Hitchens became an apologist for cancerous, imperialist wars of aggression and a rabble rouser for an Israelocentric War on Islam. In this provocative article written over one year ago, Joshua (...)

Ed Miliband: A Possible Game Changer on British Policy Towards Israel?

by Joshua Blakeney

Lethbridge (Canada) | 18 January 2011

Canadian-based scholar and journalist Joshua Blakeney is prepared to gamble on U.K. opposition leader Ed Miliband emerging as the first western political figure to resist the Zionist meat grinding machine. Ironically, Miliband is the first Labour Party leader of Jewish upbringing and the first (...)

Citizens’ arrest

The trial of the man who tried to arrest George W. Bush

by Joshua Blakeney

Lethbridge (Canada) | 22 May 2010

On March 17, 2009, Mohawk activist Splitting the Sky (STS) attempted a citizens’ arrest on George W. Bush in Calgary (Canada), his first foreign visit as a private citizen without diplomatic immunity. Brutally arrested for his action, STS earned his "day in court" in March 2010 to highlight the (...)

The Audacity of Lies

Why Obama is the President of War not “Change”

by Joshua Blakeney

Lethbridge (Canada) | 15 September 2009

This penetrating overview and analysis traces the ideology driving the Obama administration back to the concept of a "Divine America" and the policies applied against the indigenous people of North America. The son of a formerly colonized Kenyan, double-speak Obama has now become the (...)