This week, on the Global Research News Hour, with the imminent shortage of world supplies of fossil fuels due to sanctions against Russia which includes its energy exports, we take a close look at how economies and even whole societies in the US and Europe could be disrupted by sudden price increases and even shortages of this vital resource. IN our first half hour, we speak to Earth Scientist David Hughes about his latest study on the Shale reality in the US and what it suggests about the future of natural gas supplies to Europe to replace Russian shortages. Then we get hold of the author of the book The Long emergency James Howard Kunstler to talk more broadly about the immediate reality of peak oil and gas, and how it would play out in our lives. He also touches on COVID19 and the compromised presidency of Joe Biden

This week on the global Research News Hour, we will explore the realities of fake news and distorted coverage of the war in Ukraine coming not from Russia but From Ukraine and the NATO side.

We’ll start with a review by Independent journalist Max Blumenthal of TheGrayZone.com We will next here from Yves Engler about some of the lies and underhandedness on the part of the Canadian government. And in our final few minutes we will be joined by Winnipeg Peace activist Glenn Michalchuk about the alterations if any to his group’s campaign for veering away from militarism in Ukraine after 4 weeks of a Russian-led incursion into the country.

What follows is a repeat of the interview recorded on March 23, 2022 for the program The Global Research News Hour. Here is Ritter speaking on the role of Nazis in the Russian's move, the fact that the Russians will soon achieve a victory, the role of Zelensky in his public demands, and the role sanctions ultimately played in Vladimir Putin's favor.

Scott Ritter is a U.S. Marine Corps Intelligence officer, former UN Chief Weapons Inspector from 1991 -1998, and is currently engaged as a commentator and columnist on Huffington Post, consortiumnews and the American Conservative.

This week on the Global Research News Hour we take a look at what this war with Ukraine will look like in a few weeks time and of the ramifications for the world beyond as the various trade sanctions take their toll. In our first half hour, Marine Corps intelligence officer Scott Ritter weighs in with his beliefs that in spite of appearances, Russia is doing brilliantly and will be finished soon. He will also offer thoughts about the role of President Zelenskyy and about the impact of the sanctions. In our second half hour we will talk about the acceleration of America’s decline brought about by the war and the demise of the us dollar on the world scene with the great economic thinker Michael Hudson.

On this week’s Global Research News Hour, as part of its ongoing mission to separate the myths from the reality of Russia’s now three week long military incursion in Ukraine we speak to guests who can relay more background on the history and geopolitics of the area allowing us to assess with greater clarity the steps for resolution ahead. In part 1 of our program, activist and editor Richard Sanders explains some of his research on Stepan Bandera and on the groups still following his lead. Then in part 2, journalist Eva Bartlett talks about her journey to Crimea and the Donbas in 2019, what she learned from them, and on how her previous investigations in Gaza and Syria informs her understanding of Western Press style fake news in the current Ukraine conflict.

On this week’s global Research News Hour, as much of the tragedy playing out in Ukraine is making for big news, there is relatively little being said about the major disaster of nuclear activity being released both through meltdowns of the factories targeted by Russia in Ukraine and by the final nuclear showdown between Russia and US that could bring an end to all life on this planet. We will speak to broadcaster of Nuclear Hotseat (NuclearHotseat.com) Libbe LaHavy and with the legendary anti-nuclear doctor Helen Caldicott about the severe new nuclear situation we are facing, both in Ukraine and in Japan on the 11th anniversary of the Fukusihima Daiichi disaster.

This week on the Global Research News Hour, more than a week into the massive carnage and destruction that has reigned down on much of the former Soviet country, we will be making available to listeners the voices of analysts and peace groups in the United kingdom, the United States and Canada who depart from the narrow and they claim false package that provokes audiences to more hawkish positions on behalf of the completely innocent and naïve Ukrainian government.

In our first half hour writer and geopolitical historian Dr Leon Tressell introduces some context to the violence missing from standard accounts. He is followed by Bruce Gagnon of the Global Network Against Weapons & Nuclear Power in Space. Who addresses the US’s documented agenda for Russia via Ukraine. Finally, Tamara Lorincz, member of Voices of Women For Peace talks about Canada’s complicity in the war through NATO and what the country could be doing instead to de-escalate tension and strive for Peace.

This show features host Michael Welch together with fellow station host Ras Rico discussing the subject of decolonization at length touching on Haiti, Angola, Cuba and other places in the cross-hairs of the U.S. Empire. We also allow cameos by Volunteer Coordinator Ugonna Chigbo and by Program Director Scott Price. We also talk about the station CKUW itself and encourage listeners to support it with a pledge. And we host musical numbers as well!

This week, we present part one of a special broadcast where we try to convince you the listener an opportunity to donate what you can to keep CKUW 95.9fm our ground-base radio station continuing to keep diversity alive on the airwaves and allow resistance to thrive.

Featured on this program will be activists from across the country talking about their work and the various important projects they are involved in. We will also convince you to donate whatever you can.

This week on the Global Research News Hour as the truckers protest has hooked the imaginations of Canadians and divided them into excited supporters and disgusted critics, we will attempt a greater understanding of what is driving the movement from their perspective.

In our first half hour, we hear from Allison Pejovic a lawyer from the Justice Centre for Constitutional Freedoms who is representing leading organizers of the Freedom Convoy. In our second half hour we will hear excerpts from two press conferences in recent days addressing Canadians about the issues at hand and not the claimed false rhetoric put out by mainstream media.