Owen Schalk

Jan 13, 2025 | canadiandimension.com | Owen Schalk

Three months ago, Canadian mining giant Barrick Gold received some good news. A case filed against the company by Tanzanian villagers, alleging Barrick’s complicity in extrajudicial killings by mine security, had been tossed out by an Ontario court. It was the third case brought against Barrick in ten years on the same issue: alleged company involvement in the maiming and killing of Indigenous Kuria peoples by security forces at the North Mara gold mine.

Jan 9, 2025 | mronline.org | Owen Schalk

US President-elect Donald Trump recently referred to Canada as the “51st State” and Prime Minister Justin Trudeau as its “governor.” While on one level, such ridiculous statements are part and parcel of Trump’s political persona, they reveal something deeper about the role that Canada occupies in the American economy and political imagination. This is an issue that the Canadian Marxist historian Stanley B.

Dec 7, 2024 | canadiandimension.com | Owen Schalk

In the past few months, the government of Mali took new steps to challenge Western mining interests and increase the state’s share of mining profits. Its targets were Resolute Mining, an Australian firm that raked in revenues of $341.5 million in the first half of 2024, and Canadian mining giant Barrick Gold, whose third quarter revenues this year totalled $3.37 billion.

Nov 21, 2024 | canadiandimension.com | Owen Schalk

As world leaders met in Rio de Janeiro for the G20 summit on November 19, Brazil’s Federal Police arrested five individuals for their involvement in a 2022 plot to assassinate then-president elect Lula da Silva, Vice President Geraldo Alckmin, and Supreme Federal Court Justice Alexandre de Moraes. Four of those arrested were military personnel assigned to guard the summit. The fifth was a police officer.

Nov 18, 2024 | dissidentvoice.org | Owen Schalk

This November, US president Joe Biden will leave office with the world in turmoil and US fingerprints on the bodies of untold thousands across the globe: in Gaza and Lebanon, Yemen and Syria, Cuba and Venezuela, Pakistan and Haiti, and elsewhere. While Biden attempted to cast his foreign policy actions as defending “democracy” against “authoritarianism,” this framing is a lie.