RESOURCES
VIDEOS AND LECTURES
Oliver Stone’s 2016 documentary “Ukraine on Fire”: https://vimeo.com/ondemand/ukraineonfire
International relations scholar at the University of Chicago John Mearsheimer 2015 lecture “Why is Ukraine the West’s Fault” posted on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JrMiSQAGOS4
Chatham House 2014 Panel “Russia, Ukraine and the West: Is Confrontation Inevitable?” with John Mearsheimer, former US Ambassador to Russia Michael Mcfaul, Chrystia Freeland, Dmitri Trenin, Director, Carnegie Moscow Center. *Listen to what Mearsheimer says to Mcfaul “You are going to destroy Ukraine.” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mxn_DdshwCc
King’s College February 2022 Interview with John Mearsheimer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nbj1AR_aAcE&t=141s
John Foster, "Peace in the Cross-Hairs: NATO expansion collides with Russian security," Group of 78, Ottawa, 22 Feb 2022.
Notice the similarities: American political scientist Michael Parenti’s 1999 speech “On Yugoslavia” – just replace Yugoslavia with Ukraine : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YZ6QpjPTaG8&t=3919s
President Putin 2007 Munich Security Forum: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U4MAsIh3zMA
AGREEMENTS AND REPORTS
Minsk Agreement 2015
See: https://peacemaker.un.org/sites/peacemaker.un.org/files/UA_150212_MinskAgreement_en.pdf
See: https://www.osce.org/ukraine-smm/216511
Organization for Cooperation and Security in Europe (OSCE) Special monitoring mission in Ukraine: https://www.osce.org/special-monitoring-mission-to-ukraine (Please see the daily reports, the thematic reports on civilian casualties etc. since 2015)
Oleksiy Kuzmenko’s 2021 study “Far-Right Group Made Its Home in Ukraine’s Major Western Military Training Hub.” Oleksiy is with the Institute for European, Russian, and Eurasian Studies (IERES), George Washington University’s Elliott School of International Affairs: https://www.illiberalism.org/far-right-group-made-its-home-in-ukraines-major-western-military-training-hub/
RAND’s 2019 report “Overextending and Unbalancing Russia: Assessing the Impact of Cost-Imposing Options”: https://www.rand.org/pubs/research_briefs/RB10014.html
*This is what the US and NATO have been doing for the past three years.
Richard Sanders, “Defunding the Myths and Cults of Cold War Canada: Ongoing state support for East European émigré groups with deep fascist roots”, Coalition to Oppose the Arms Trade (COAT): https://coat.ncf.ca/
ARTICLES
Chris Hedges “On the roots of this war”: https://www.salon.com/2022/02/26/the-ukraine-and-how-we-got-here-chronicle-of-a-foretold/
International law expert and professor emerita of Thomas Jefferson School of Law Marjorie Cohn published an article on Feb. 23 in Truthout “US Stokes Tensions With Russia by Building Military Base 100 Miles From Border”:https://truthout.org/articles/us-stokes-tensions-with-russia-by-building-military-base-100-miles-from-border/
Diana Johnstone’s “US Foreign Policy is a Cruel Sport” (she reported on NATO’s war in the former Yugoslavia and wrote this latest piece about the conflict between NATO and Russia over Ukraine):
https://consortiumnews.com/2022/02/23/diana-johnstone-us-foreign-policy-is-a-cruel-sport/
Robert Wade, "A Diplomatic Solution to the Ukraine Crisis," Global Policy Journal, 1 March 2022.
John Foster, "Pipeline Politics and the Ukrainian Crisis: Why Nord Stream 2 is a key part of the Impasse," Canadian Dimension, 9 Feb 2022.
Tamara Lorincz “Canada and NATO escalating conflict with Ukraine”: https://www.thespec.com/opinion/contributors/2022/01/30/canada-and-nato-escalating-conflict-with-russia.html
Thomas Jefferson School of Law Marjorie Cohn published an article on Feb. 23 in Truthout “US Stokes Tensions With Russia by Building Military Base 100 Miles From Border”: https://truthout.org/articles/us-stokes-tensions-with-russia-by-building-military-base-100-miles-from-border/
University of Ottawa Professor Dr. Ivan Katchanovski’s article “The hidden origin of the escalating Ukraine-Russia conflict”: https://canadiandimension.com/articles/view/the-hidden-origin-of-the-escalating-ukraine-russia-conflict [You can watch Ivan’s interviews and analysis here: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCdU7AEvOYc7cR1w-blCe5Lg ]
Wikileaks 2008 cable by US Ambassador William J. Burns. “NATO Enlargement and Russia’s red lines”
https://wikileaks.org/plusd/cables/08MOSCOW265_a.html#efmBTnBfi
Yves Engler, “Condemn the invasion, but retain your critical faculties”: https://yvesengler.com/2022/02/24/condemn-the-invasion-but-retain-your-critical-faculties/
Yves Engler, “How Canada’s support for NATO expansion contributed to Ukraine tragedy”: https://yvesengler.com/2022/03/02/how-canadas-support-for-nato-expansion-contributed-to-ukraine-tragedy/
BOOKS
John Foster, "Oil and World Politics: The real story of today’s conflict zones," Lorimer Books, 2018.
Russia, Ukraine and Contemporary Imperialism edited By Boris Kagarlitsky, Radhika Desai & Alan Freeman: https://www.routledge.com/Russia-Ukraine-and-Contemporary-Imperialism/Kagarlitsky-Desai-Freeman/p/book/9780367231088
NEWS PROGRAMS
Democracy Now: https://www.democracynow.org/
Democracy Now: “Ukrainian Pacifist in Kyiv: Reckless Militarization Led to This War. All Sides Must Recommit to Peace”: https://www.democracynow.org/2022/3/1/ukrainian_pacifist_movement_russia_missile_strike
Consortium News: https://consortiumnews.com/
FRANÇAIS
Le Collectif Échec à la guerre: https://echecalaguerre.org/
Artistes pour la paix : Lettre à la ministre des Affaires étrangères : Pourquoi le Canada encourage-t-il la politique militariste de l’OTAN? http://www.artistespourlapaix.org/?p=21681
WEB SITES and EMAIL LIST SERVS:
Canadian Foreign Policy Institute: www.foreignpolicy.ca
World Beyond War: https://www.worldbeyondwar.org/
UPCOMING EVENTS
Peace Summit: No to NATO, Madrid, June 2022: https://peacesummitmadrid.org/