War/military

07/11/25
Author: 
Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity, Consortium News
photo: Nicolas Maduro in 2017. Jeso Carneiro, Flickr.

Nov. 6, 2025

What Wider War In Venezuela Would Bring: Escalation would be almost inevitable.

Russia, and possibly even China, would feel obligated to enhance military support in response to a missile, air, or even drone strike on sovereign Venezuelan territory. 

November 5, 2025

ALERT MEMORANDUM FOR: The President

FROM: VETERAN INTELLIGENCE PROFESSIONALS FOR SANITY (VIPS)

SUBJECT: What Wider War in Venezuela Would Bring

Dear President Trump:

05/11/25
Author: 
David Macdonald and Hadrian Mertins-Kirkwood
Prime Minister Mark Carney, right, and Finance Minister François-Philippe Champagne, left, make their way into the House of Commons for the tabling of the federal budget Tuesday. Photo by Justin Tang, the Canadian Press.

Oct. 4, 2025

But will the Liberals find enough support to survive a non-confidence vote?

With so much on the line, the new federal government has tabled a budget that in many ways could pass as a Conservative budget.

01/11/25
Author: 
 Lev Golinkin
CBC Blurs Out Fascist Link

Oct. 30, 2025  • 

Graham Platner’s problem is that he lives just a tad too far south. If the Democratic Senate candidate from Maine wanted to make all the hubbub about his Nazi tattoo go away, all he’d have to do is move to Canada.

The furor over Platner’s Totenkopf, or Death’s Head, tattoo stands in striking contrast to Canada, where both Nazi symbols and a shameful history of aiding Nazis is hushed over or, quite simply, blurred out.

17/10/25
Author: 
Amanda Follett Hosgood
Canada’s Prime Minister Mark Carney is dealing with two world powers as Chinese President Xi Jinping, right, increasingly restricts critical mineral exports to the US and President Donald Trump, left, takes an interest in BC mining companies. Photo of Donald Trump by Gage Skidmore via Wikimedia, Creative Commons licensed. Photo of Mark Carney via Wikimedia. Photo of Xi Jinping via Wikimedia.

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Oct. 16, 2025

Global instability is creating a rush for critical minerals, which are useful for green energy. And the military.

Last week, Vancouver-based Trilogy Metals announced that it had signed a deal with the U.S. Department of War.

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