Canadian mainstream media coverage of the quite different situations in Venezuela and Ukraine has one thing in common: how very misleading it is, and its slant. So here’s a selection of articles worth reading:
On Venezuela:
Mike Gonzalez writes from Caracas
George Ciccariello-Maher on Venezuela at the crossroads
Jerome Roos on why it’s the opposition that’s undemocratic
Jeff Webber and Susan Spronk’s major analysis
On Ukraine:
Interview with Denis, a radical unionist in Ukraine
A very useful two-part piece by Gabriel Levy, writing from Ukraine