Economic sanctions are an increasingly popular foreign policy instrument in Western countries, deployed alone or in conjunction with military and/or diplomatic interventions. They have been used to deadly effect in Syria says Vanessa Beeley. Beeley is an independent journalist and photographer who has worked extensively in the Middle East in Syria, Egypt, Iraq and Palestine, while also covering Yemen since 2015. Beeley's presentation was part of a webinar entitled "The Violence of Nonviolence: the Impact of Sanctions on Health" which is available at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I2w74NNZXKw&t More information https://geopoliticaleconomy.org/manifesto-group/ https://thewallwillfall.org/ Video Production Paul S. Graham https://paulsgraham.ca ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZegHrsBX5Z4

Mahdi Darius Nazemroaya is a sociologist at the University of the Philippines. His presentation was part of a workshop entitled NATO and Militarism in a Multipolar World. Sponsors - Geopolitical Economy Research Group - Peace Alliance Winnipeg - Manitoba Chair for Global Governance Studies - University of Manitoba Institute for the Humanities - Department of Political Studies, University of Manitoba - Department of Political Science, University of Winnipeg Links http://peacealliancewinnipeg.ca http://newcoldwar.org Video Production Paul S. Graham http://paulsgraham.ca ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NrJL2e_0y9A

Members of the Winnipeg local of the Canadian Union of Postal Workers and their supporters rallied in front of the office of Liberal MP Jim Carr. Their message: tell Canada Post management to negotiate. Video: Paul S. Graham, http://paulsgraham.ca ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9VoSKP_KN3c

Oct. 15, 2011: Scenes from Occupy Winnipeg - and a reminder that what is now called Canada was occupied long before by the aboriginal peoples of this part of the world. It is time the descendants of the Europeans who took the land from the people who were here first do a much better job of sharing it with today's First Nations. Video production: Paul S. Graham, http://paulsgraham.ca ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_0cb7G7-eZg