
Hosted and produced by CKUW News Director and contributor, Michael Welch, in association with the Centre for Research on Globalization, the Global Research News Hour is a one hour analysis of major developments in the world of economics, politics and geo-politics, with researchers and news makers from around the world. If you want to get the story beyond the headlines, strap yourself in for 60 minutes of informative and provocative radio.
Episodes

Wednesday Jan 22, 2025
Wednesday Jan 22, 2025
This week on the Global Research News Hour with Justin Trudeau announcing he will soon resign as Prime Minister, and as the Liberal party leader, we will be taking a close look at his record in power, and casting a similar look at what the leader who succeeds him will be like. In our first half hour, we are joined by author and activist Yves Engler who looks at Trudeau and some of the leadership candidates in terms of their foreign policy. Then in our second half hour, we will talk to researcher and analyst Matthew Ehret
at the deep historical and political perspective in terms of the characters who helped bring Trudeau to the stage, and the battles that have played out within the party itself leading them to what Trudeau is doing now.

Monday Jan 13, 2025
Monday Jan 13, 2025
This week, on the Global Research News Hour we take a special look at post-Assad Syria and its fate with two experts who bring us enlightened and seldom talked about perspectives on who’s in charge of the oldest current capital city in the world and the stakes for the country and the region. In our first half hour, Drago Bosnic, the commentator from last week joins us to talk to us about the role of the US and other foreign powers directing affairs in the West Asian country behind the scenes and why they are doing it. Then in our second half hour we are joined by Middle East analyst and commentator Laith Marouf about who the new regime is, what the people crossing the border into Lebanon experienced recently, and how the Middle East stands to be affected by the fall of the once strong supporters of Lebanon against Israel.

Thursday Dec 26, 2024
Thursday Dec 26, 2024
Fidel Castro and his fellow motivated guerilla soldiers provide the backdrop for this special broadcast of the Global Research News Hour which explores my journey through the Jewel of the Caribbean today to learn what I can about how the people are coping with the determination to live separate from the grip of the US or any other foreign power, democratically, to provide their science, their music and their arts to each other and provide their unique lessons to a troubled world. My guide for most of the journey will be the Calixto Garcia Brigade, a non-profit project based in Canada in partnership with the Cuban Institute for the Friendship of the People, or ICAP.

Wednesday Dec 18, 2024
Wednesday Dec 18, 2024
This week, on the Global|Research News Hour, with world tensions frightening us and leading to embrace the pandemic treaty and the Pact for the Future among other arguably technocratic remedies to the classic Hegelian problem reaction solution, we explore the dynamics of the recent scare known as Pandemic, learn from similar suggested versions in history, and source out ways of preparing ourselves for a possible totalitarian dynamic playing out in the near future. Our first guest, Dr Bryan Ardis, talks about his own experiences within the medical care system within the United States and his considering a reason other than COVID-19 to the high death toll over the last few years. Then we speak to researcher Mattias Desmet about the psychological state he saw vast sectors of the Global Population subjected to and how it, together with propaganda, linked us to Totalitarian frameworks for a new technocracy. Finally, UK former political figure James Ferguson speaks to us about his organization and how it attempts to liberate us from the gradual allure of giving up our freedoms and being happy.

Monday Dec 09, 2024
Monday Dec 09, 2024
This week on the Global Research News Hour, Canadian voices who have been crying out against the illegal actions by the State of Israel are making gains in the Palestine movement, and we are attempting to highlight some of the successes on the eve of December 10 , human rights day, First we will speak to Professor Miles Howe about a report he co-authored linking millions of dollars to 5 key charitable foundations going to support illegal settlements and activities on Palestinian occupied territory. Then we speak with author and activist Yves Engler about The Anti-Nato protests in Montreal two weeks ago that got major international headlines as violent and anti semitic and that were denounced by the Canadian Prime Minister Trudeau. Finally we hear about the non violent act of civil disobedience waged at Parliament Hill demanding an arms embargo against Israel for crimes that continue to be used against the latest historic genocide.

Monday Dec 02, 2024
Monday Dec 02, 2024
This week, on the Global Research News Hour, with Pat King apparently the latest figure making news around the Truckers in Ottawa almost 3 years ago this coming January, we take a look at what objective evidence reveals in retrospect about the freedom convoy. We start off with Rodney Palmer, the award winning former CBC and CTV journalist who stated based on his own experience in Ottawa during the Convoy Occupation that the media was outright using propaganda to convince us that our country was under attack. And in our second half hour, author Ray McGinnis reports on the Convoy based on what was actually presented at the Public Order Emergency Commission, and arrives at difficult conclusions regarding the way our government and our media behaved during the peak of the COVID-19 crisis.

Wednesday Nov 27, 2024
Wednesday Nov 27, 2024
This week, on the Global Research News Hour, with tensions soaring lately over the decision by outgoing president Biden to allow Ukraine to fire ATACMS missiles into the territory of its neighbours, we are spending time discussing the latest stage of the conflict which could make NATO a direct combatant in the Russia-Ukraine war and lead to World War III.
For most of the show, we are joined by military veteran turned peace activist Scott Ritter to tell us about some of the history of the war extending way before February 2022, the latest updates, and his involvement with Operation Dawn. Toward the end of the show, we hear from Hamilton based peace activist Ken Stone about plans to counter NATO during the group’s meeting in Montreal, Quebec this coming weekend.

Monday Nov 11, 2024
Monday Nov 11, 2024
This week on the Global Research News Hour, we will be reviewing the impact of the 2024 selection of the US Commander-in-Chief, and assess whether or not it will really make a difference for America and the world going forward and for whom. We will have discussions with economic and political writer and commentator Dr Jack Rasmus, writer Dmitry Orlov and host of the Corbett Report, James Corbett.

Monday Nov 04, 2024
Monday Nov 04, 2024
This week, on the Global Research News Hour we play excerpts from a special debate of Third Party candidates (other than Kamala Harris and Donald Trump) for president of the United States. It featured Jill Stein (Green Party), Chase Oliver (Libertarian Party), and Randall Terry (Constitution Party.) It also included a few brief comments by the Director of Policy and Strategy for Free And Equal Inc: Mike Leon.

Monday Oct 28, 2024
Monday Oct 28, 2024
This week on the Global Research News Hour, we take another look at illegal actions in the Middle East and try to assess ways to resolve the situation justly and peacefully in a seemingly complex and challenging world. In our first half hour we speak with Michael Lynk, a Canadian professor of Law and Former Special Rapporteur on Human rights in the Occupied Palestine territories about some of the pressing difficulties in arriving at a satisfactory legal solution. And in our second half hour we hear from Michel Chossudovsky of the centre for research on globalization and Global Research editor about how the focus of much of the peace movement is too much on Israel and not enough on the architects of Israel’s actions located in Washington DC.