- Capitulatism
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2026
Published: 2026
Capitulatism is a term used by some religious groups of Black Hebrew Israelites known as Sicarri or the Israelite School of Universal Practical Knowledge (ISUPK). Capitulatism (sometimes also called Aibu Capitulatism) refers to the practice, encouraged by the ISUPK, of white people expressing remorse for the harms caused by slavery and racism by engaging in public acts of apology and symbolic submission.
- Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - December 21, 2025
Solstice
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 2025
Published: 2025
- Israel Apologists Hasten To Use Bondi Shooting To Attack Anti-Genocide Activists
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2025
Published: 2025
Massacring civilians is wrong. It's wrong in Bondi Beach, and it's wrong in Gaza. Today the worst people in the world are trying to claim that because the former happened, everyone needs to stop protesting the latter. This is pure, cynical manipulation designed to protect a genocidal apartheid state from criticism. It deserves nothing but a scoff and a dismissal.
- Rebranding Genocide
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2025
Published: 2025
The Genocide in Gaza has not stopped. It has been rebranded. And that is enough of a linguistic subterfuge to get the world to ignore it.
- Think tanker altered Ukraine war map before big Polymarket payout
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2025
Published: 2025
On November 15, as Russian forces were advancing on the outskirts of the town of Myrnohrad in eastern Ukraine, retail investors placed risky bets in real time on the battle using Polymarket, a gambling platform that allows users to bet on predictive markets surrounding world events. If Russia took the city by nightfall -- an event that seemed exceedingly unlikely to most observers-- a handful of retail investors stood to earn a profit of as much as 33,000% on the battle from the comfort of their homes.
When nightfall came, these longshot gamblers miraculously won big, though not because Russia took the town (as of writing, Ukraine is still fighting for Myrnohrad). Instead, it was because of an apparent intervention by a staffer at the Institute for the Study of War (ISW), a D.C.-based think tank that produces daily interactive maps of the conflict in Ukraine.
- The hidden cost of Ceding Government Procurement to a Monopoly Gatekeeper
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2025
Published: 2025
Amazon has quietly captured a growing share of government purchasing. Based om a close investigation of spending data, pricing, and contract terms, ILSR maintains that Amazon has driven up costs for governments, eliminated transparency, and eroded competition by pushing out better-performing, more accountable independent suppliers.
- The Cloud's Not Fluffy, It's a Hot, Loud, Energy-Voracious Factory
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2025
Published: 2025
The Cloud” might be the greatest branding trick in history. It sounds fluffy, ethereal, and notably light. It implies that our digital lives…our emails, our crypto wallets, our endless scrolling…exist in some vaporous layer of the atmosphere, detached from earthly constraints. But if you actually drive out to Loudoun County, Virginia, or stare at the arid plains of Altoona, Iowa, you realize the Cloud is actually just a very big, very loud, and very hot factory.
- A subway moment
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2025
Published: 2025
Most of the time, I actually like riding the subway.I like people-watching, and there are a lot of people to watch.
- Let's go easy on self-righteousness
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2025
Published: 2025
The last thing -- the most stupid thing we can do -- is to attack people who come over to our side for not having done so sooner.
- Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - November 11, 2025
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 2025
Published: 2025
The November 11, 2025 issue of Connexions Other Voices newsletter ranges over a number of topics, including self-righteousness, hot air about 'projected' emission reductions while real emissions keep rising, Europe’s self-destructive political and economic policies, the prospects for deradicalizing Israel, the future of a world dominated by AI, King Charles’ association with pedophiles, the justification for civil disobedience when democracy no longer works, and ideas for changing the CBC and extricating it from the dead end it has ended up in.
- Palestine 36 is a masterpiece on the 1936 Arab revolt
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2025
Published: 2025
The film focuses on the Palestinian revolt in the 1930s against the British Mandate, a rebellion that began peacefully but escalated into violence in response to intensifying British repression. Amid the destruction of Gaza and settlement expansion in the occupied West Bank, it is a tale for our times.
- I Grieve
No one in power respects my grief. And no one is coming to console me
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2025
Published: 2025
Politicians, the police and the media want millions of us to imagine we are alone in grieving the slaughter of Gaza’s children – and that our grief is shameful. They need us to succumb to their lies.
- Proof of AI Garbage In, Garbage Out
Incorrect Results Traced to Reddit and Quora
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2025
Published: 2025
We again exhort readers: do not use AI. Please discourage others from using AI. Large language models need so much content as training sets that they not only can’t afford to discriminate in terms of content, but they are even eating their bad output as part of their training sets. If you need remotely accurate answers, you need to opt out.
- Is Europe Preparing for War Against Russia or Against Own Populations?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2025
Published: 2025
All the additional weaponry and surveillance goodies that aren't immediately tossed into the corrupt pit of death that is Ukraine could be more likely to be used on an increasingly discontented population rather than against Russia.
- The Destruction of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2025
Published: 2025
A detailed account of the making and unmaking of Yugoslavia may seem a bit overwhelming. But it isn’t clear whether outsiders can understand how events played out without considering the very complex history of the ethnic groups in the region.
- The Weekend Briefing: Interview with Randa Abdel-Fattah
Resource Type: Film/Video
First Published: 2025
Published: 2025
Antoinette Lattouf interviews Australian author and academic Randa Abdel-Fattah, who has been under attack from the Zionist lobby for speaking out against the genocide in Gaza.
- Gaza and the CBC: The Public Broadcaster Betrays Its Mandate
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2025
Published: 2025
One CBC staff member described the network’s reporting as "the type of coverage that will one day be taught in schools and museums as a factor that contributed to genocide." This grim judgment reflects a painful truth: the broadcaster has distorted reality, misrepresented victims, and shielded audiences from the ethical urgency of Gaza’s destruction.
- 21 Questions About Australian Claim of Iran Orchestrating Anti-Semitic Attacks
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2025
Published: 2025
It’s hard to see how orchestrating anti-Semitic attacks in Australia would advance Iranian interests more than the interests of some other state, like, say, just for example, Israel.
- Israel's Assassination of Memory
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2025
Published: 2025
The razing of Gaza is not a crime only against the Palestinian people but against our cultural and historical heritage. We can’t understand the present, especially when reporting on Palestine and Israel, if we don’t understand the past.
- Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - August 25, 2025
In the heat of the summer
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 2025
Published: 2025
Catastrophic climate change, forest fires, American threats against Canada, Israel's targetted killing of journalists.
- Death of Memory Is the Death of Democracy
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2025
Published: 2025
This war on memory is not just theoretical; it takes concrete form in the attacks on institutions that hold our collective history.
- Never Forget The Lies They Told About Gaza. Never Forgive Them.
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2025
Published: 2025
Never forget all the monsters who tried to gaslight you and convince you that you are crazy and hateful for saying these things are happening.
- Raubt Russland Kinder?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2025
Published: 2025
Sind die Kinder, die aus umkämpften ukrainischen Gebieten nach Russland gebracht wurden, "geraubt" -- oder einfach nur in Sicherheit gebracht worden? Helmut Scheben ist den Spuren nachgegangen.
- How Much Energy Does ChatGPT's Newest Model Consume?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2025
Published: 2025
The article estimates that the energy consumption of the newest version of ChatGPT is significantly higher than previous models. This can contribute to rising electricity costs for consumers and raises concerns about the broader environmental impact of the tech industry. There is a severe lack of transparency regarding the energy use and environmental impact of AI models.
- To Those Who Died So Young
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2025
Published: 2025
The early deaths of Patrice Lumumba, Franz Fanon and other African revolutionary leaders underline the brutality of imperialism. If a radical appears to lead a people to sovereignty, the radical cannot be allowed to survive.
- 'Israel Says' Is Not Journalism
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2025
Published: 2025
Responsible journalists should explain to audiences that Israel has a long history of lying, fabrication and deceit. Since the genocide began, there has been a litany of lies that the ‘mainstream’ media have propagated and, when exposed, ignored or downplayed.
- Sanctions Are Just as Deadly as War
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2025
Published: 2025
A Lancet study has found that the yearly total excess human death toll associated with economic sanctions across the world is roughly equivalent to the annual human death tolls of active wars and combat. In fact, the research reveals that on average, the civilian deaths caused by sanctions exceed battle-related casualties in kinetic conflicts each year. According to the study, the worst effects on populations across various age groups are caused by unilateral US and EU sanctions against targeted countries.
- A graveyard of liberal illusions
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2025
Published: 2025
For whatever reasons -- geopolitics, economics, guilt at turning a blind eye to the Holocaust, Islamophobia, racism -- for the last two years Western politicians, with the overwhelming support of the mainstream media, have supported Israel’s genocidal campaign in Gaza and done their best to brand all opposition as "antisemitism."
- How the 'blood libel' paradox keeps the west silent on Israel's genocide
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2025
Published: 2025
Author Jonathan Cook analyzes the paradox of the "blood libel" concept. This all-too-familiar phenomeneon is at work, not only in being used to justify Israel's genocide of the Palestinians, but int other instances of Western colonialism as well. Cook demonstartes how the 'blood liel' concept is used as a means of gaining control and justifyiing atrocities.
- Canada's wildfires fuel the climate crisis
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2025
Published: 2025
An appalling scramble by politicians to approve new fossil-fuel projects is happening just as feedback effects from wildfires stoke climate catastrophe.
- Die Geschichten von russischen "Kinderräubern"
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2025
Published: 2025
Die USA haben in allen Kriegen von Vietnam bis Afghanistan Tausende von Kindern evakuiert und dies als humanitäre Mission deklariert. Wenn Russland Waisen aus den Kampfgebieten in der Ukraine bringt, stellt ein überwältigender westlicher Propaganda-Apparat dies als Kindsraub und Verbrechen dar.
- Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - July 26, 2025
We can't look away
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 2025
Published: 2025
If achieving some kind of balance is the goal, this newsletter must be judged a failure. We are in the midst of a genocide. What else can this newsletter be about? We can’t look away, we can’t turn away. This newsletter, almost all of it, is about Gaza.
We wish it didn’t have to be.
- It's A Genocide, But It's Also So Much More Than That
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2025
Published: 2025
The mass atrocity in Gaza is a genocide, obviously, and is an undisguised ethnic cleansing operation. But it's also a lot more than that.
- Subsidizing The Occupation: How You've Funded Israeli Violence
Canadians have subsidized charities that the CRA found to have aided Israel’s army and settlements
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2025
Published: 2025
Subsidizing The Occupation is a project created by The Maple's opinion editor, Davide Mastracci, documenting how a vast network of Canadian charities has subsidized the Israeli occupation of Palestine.
- Gaza Isn't Starving, It Is Being Starved
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2025
Published: 2025
Gaza isn't starving, it is being starved. And the people who are starving it have names and addresses.
- Israel's genocide is big business - and the face of the future
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2025
Published: 2025
US corporations and military planners welcome the ‘legal maneuver space’ Israel has opened up for them to profit from warfare that slaughters and starves civilians.
- Backyard cinema in a war zone
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2025
Published: 2025
In Gaza, movie events provide a spark of light and a screen of hope amid the trauma of displacement. Even in the darkest times, children deserve moments of light.
- On Gaza, the goal is to confuse us about where rights end and criminality begins
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2025
Published: 2025
An Israeli Jew is charged over referring to ‘Nazi Israel’. An anti-genocide protester risks arrest as a terrorist for waving a Palestinian flag.
- The Video Store
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2025
Published: 2025
I'm just back from a successful visit to the video store, having checked out three films I'm looking forward to watching. One of the things I like about video stores, as well as the used-book stores I also regularly frequent, is precisely that they are individual and often a little idiosyncratic. They have character. They are run and staffed by actual human beings. I’m pretty sure that actual human beings, not algorithms, decide what is found on their shelves, and those human beings often have opinions they are willing to share.
- 'An Offer You Can't Refuse': Trump Sends Canada a Wake-up Call
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2025
Published: 2025
Canadians understand full well that it is our sovereignty that is at stake. But we differ on where this might take us. Talk of Canada becoming America’s 51st state is a red herring; it is not Canada's formal sovereignty that is in danger. What we confront is the drip-by-drip erosion of our substantive sovereignty: the loss, already well under way, of democratic capacities to determine the kind of society we hope to build.
- In Gaza, journalism comes with a death sentence
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2025
Published: 2025
Israel has killed more journalists and media workers than were killed in both world wars plus the wars in Vietnam, Yugoslavia, and Afghanistan.
- Things fall apart: the centre will not hold
Where is the West headed after Israel and America's '12-Day War' on Iran?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2025
Published: 2025
The press are reporting that a third ceasefire in Gaza is imminent, with Donald Trump committing to "ensuring negotiations continue until a final agreement is reached." Whether this will end Israel’s "war," which began on October 7, 2023 and has now raged for 21 months, killing a documented 57,012 Palestinians (as of July 2) and in all likelihood many thousands more, remains to be seen.
- NATO boss calls Trump 'daddy'
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2025
Published: 2025
NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte has rushed to defend US President Donald Trump's recent expletive-laden rant about Iran and Israel as merely "daddy" using "strong language."
- You Can't Bomb Iran Into Zionism
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2025
Published: 2025
The U.S. not only has zero interest in peace, it is engaging in morally abhorrent levels of dishonesty and deception, attacking under a false flag of truce.
- Mother in Germany separated from one-year-old son over Palestinian activism
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2025
Published: 2025
The European Legal Support Centre, which is supporting her case, say the woman is the latest victim of the German state’s weaponisation of residency issues to repress Palestinian solidarity. Since 2019, the Amsterdam-based legal advocacy group has documented at least 22 incidents in Germany in which residency status or restrictions to freedom of movement have been used to stifle such solidarity.
- Trump's attack on Iran is 'unconditional surrender' to Israel
Shunning the US intelligence consensus, Trump and top principals rely on Israeli fraud to bomb Iran.
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2025
Published: 2025
Having returned to the White House this year, Trump is proving his detractors correct on all counts but one: the location on the map. The rogue state that he's colluding with — at great peril to the planet -- is not Russia, as his most vocal detractors alleged, but Israel.
- Israel Supporters Will Be Despised For The Rest of Their Lives
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2025
Published: 2025
Do Israel’s supporters know it’s over for them? Like, they know they’re going to be despised for the rest of their lives, right? That they will never, ever live down the fact that they supported a live-streamed genocide? And that it will only get worse for them as history clarifies things?
- Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - June 21, 2025
Artificial Intelligence
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 2025
Published: 2025
What is artificial intelligence and and why does it exist? The marketing paints pictures of benefits of all kinds. Some of those benefits are real, but there are also substantial negatives. For example, there are massive environmental costs, and some profoundly concerning effects on education. Many of the cutting-edge developments in AI consist of developing new and more efficient ways to kill people (e.g. self-targeting drones, smart bombs) and increased surveillance in the interests of increased state control and suppression of dissent. This newsletter looks at some of the dimensions of artificial intelligence.
- Palestinian nurse denied entry to Israeli bomb shelter by patients
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2025
Published: 2025
Nurse barred from shelter near clinic north of Haifa tells MEE: 'They know who I am. They are my patients and I know all of them'
- Starmer and Lammy are Terrified
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2025
Published: 2025
Western governments have abandoned the very system of intrnational law which they created and which they claimed to abide by.
- People Don't Realize Meta's AI App Is Publicly Blasting Their Humiliating Secrets to the World
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2025
Published: 2025
Users of Meta's AI app are inadvertently posting the most private queries imaginable to what they don't realize is showing up for anyone to see. Released in late April 2025, Meta's "AI assistant" app -- really just a flashy chatbot meant to harvest your data -- has quickly become a go-to virtual helper for many around the world. here's just one tiny problem: everything you ask Meta's AI is liable to wind up in a public feed for the whole world to laugh at.
- Stanford Research Finds That "Therapist" Chatbots Are Encouraging Users' Schizophrenic Delusions and Suicidal Thoughts
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2025
Published: 2025
AI therapist chatbots are contributing to harmful mental health stigmas — and reacting in outright dangerous ways to users exhibiting signs of severe crises, including suicidality and schizophrenia-related psychosis and delusion.
- Do AI Models Think?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2025
Published: 2025
AI will bring nothing but harm. As I said earlier, AI is not just a disaster for our political health, though yes, it will be that (look for Cadwallader’s line “building a techno-authoritarian surveillance state”). But AI is also a disaster for the climate. It will hasten the collapse by decades as usage expands.
- Activists and Empires, Old and New
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2025
Published: 2025
When activists attempt to resist outside these boundaries, especially with transparency and nonviolence, to challenge State led starvation, the (Holy) State’s reaction often reveals its priorities. In the past and the present, the non-state actor poses a unique threat, not because they are powerful in material terms, but because they reveal the contradictions in the sovereign power’s claims to moral authority.
- Is the US on the Path to Becoming a Failed State?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2025
Published: 2025
The United States has entered a phase that resembles the early stages of state failure. What once seemed impossible in a country with vast resources and robust democratic traditions now appears increasingly plausible.
- Enforcing Silence
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2025
Published: 2025
Imagine the U.S. government requiring public speech or enforcing public silence in return for the benefits it gives out, writes Andrew P. Napolitano. Well, it is happening under our noses today.
- Your Smartphone Is a Parasite, According To Evolution
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2025
Published: 2025
Head lice, fleas and tapeworms have been humanity’s companions throughout our evolutionary history. Yet, the greatest parasite of the modern age is no blood-sucking invertebrate. It is sleek, glass-fronted and addictive by design. Its host? Every human on Earth with a wifi signal. Far from being benign tools, smartphones parasitise our time, our attention and our personal information, all in the interests of technology companies and their advertisers.
- AI Is Destroying a Generation of Students
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2025
Published: 2025
If the testimony of beleaguered teachers is anything to go by -- as gathered in this extensive roundup of educator opinions by 404 Media -- it sure sounds like the explosion of the homeworking-cheating machines also known as AI models is obliterating the up and coming generation of students.
- Richard Murphy Gets ChatGPT to Describe How It Inherently Makes Shit Up
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2025
Published: 2025
Many users seem to have lost sight as to how generative AI programs like ChatGPT work. They do not do research. They use the data in their training set and then give probabalistic responses based on that. Richard Murphy queried ChatGPT as to how it had delivered bogus results to a request he'd made. The response confirms that ChatGPT, and presumably other generative AI will often include garbage output, which means any user is always at risk of relying on bad information. Moreover, ChatGPT 'splaining itself is reminiscent of the scorpion tell the frog that his fatal behavior is in his nature.
- Teachers are not OK
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2025
Published: 2025
Teachers comment on AI has impacted education.
- AI Is Destroying Gen Z's Chances at a Stable Career
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2025
Published: 2025
There's reason to believe these buzzy tales of AI "innovation" and "workplace paradigm shifts" are really just cover for broader -- and more perfidious -- trends in the labor market, such as the "gigification" of labour. Meanwhile, researchers and labor organizers are sounding the alarm that the most vulnerable among us -- not just entry-level, but minority, immigrant, and elderly workers -- will be among the first to feel the rungs break as the "AI revolution" barrels on.
- Here's what they don't tell you about 'massive Russian strikes on Ukraine'
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2025
Published: 2025
- How Microsoft became a hub for Israeli intelligence
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2025
Published: 2025
Microsoft's close collaboration with Tel Aviv — including its employment of over 1,000 Israelis — strongly undermines the tech giant's claim that no Palestinians have been harmed by its services.
- MI5's Fake Terror Plots
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2025
Published: 2025
Terror plot propaganda is now being ramped up again to promote the Islamophobia intended to drive public support in the UK for the Genocide in Gaza and a forthcoming attack on Iran.
- The Ethiopian bookbinder connecting a city's people with its forgotten past
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2025
Published: 2025
Ethiopian bookbinder, Abdallah Ali Sherif, grew up in eastern Ethiopia in the city of Harar. The city, a rich centre for Islamic scholarship, was absorbed into a Christian empire in 1887. Islamic culture and institutions became repressed by the state and some demolished entirely. Sherif is determined to uncover the once central parts of Harar's identity.
- Zionists Are Losing the Narrative
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2025
Published: 2025
If any anti-Zionist with a public profile had said Jews control Silicon Valley and use it to influence public opinion for the benefit of Israel, they'd be forcefully denounced by the entire western political-media class as a rabid antisemite. But a Jewish politician saying Jews must use their control over Silicon Valley to influence public opinion about Israel receives no attention from that same political-media class.
- Ukrainian nationalists rewrite history
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2025
Published: 2025
Eighty years after the defeat of Nazi Germany, Ukrainian nationalists are re-writing history, removing memorials to anti-Nazi fighters and erecting memorials to Nazi collaborators.
- Kashmir & the Indus River
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2025
Published: 2025
In the latest tensions between India and Pakistan the reverberations of the British Empire can be seen extending their evil over generations.
- 'Everything went off': How Spain and Portugal's massive power cut unfolded
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2025
Published: 2025
Residents of Spain, Portugal. and some parts of France. share first-hand experiences of the mass power cut that caught all by surprise. Local commuters, residents, and businesses all struggled to suddenly manage without electricity, while also having limited access to any updates regarding the outage.
- How the state sent Californians' personal health data to LinkedIn
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2025
Published: 2025
The state's health insurance exchange transmitted pregnancy and domestic abuse data during a marketing campaign.
- As History Erasure Intensifies, Independent Internet Archives Are Helping Fortify the Â'Digital Preservation Infrastructure'
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2025
Published: 2025
There is a difference between the government changing a policy and the government erasing information, but the line between those two has blurred in the digital age… In the digital age, government publishing has shifted from the distribution of unalterable printed books to digital posts on government websites. Such digital publications can be moved, altered, and withdrawn at the flick of a switch. Publishing agencies are not required to preserve their own information, nor to provide free access to it.
- "You Can't Lick a Badger Twice": Google's AI Is Making Up Explanations for Nonexistent Folksy Sayings
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2025
Published: 2025
Google's AI readily makes up 'explanations' for sayings that don't exist. The bizarre replies are the perfect distillation of one of AI's biggest flaws: rampant hallucinations. Large language model-based AIs have a long and troubled history of rattling off made-up facts and even gaslighting users into thinking they were wrong all along.
- Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - April 14, 2025
Another Spring
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 2025
Published: 2025
This newsletter, as always, is about what is happening in the world, and that – that can wear down even the most resilient spirit. Sorry. But where there is life, there is hope, and this newsletter is about hope too.
- Trump’s Inverted View of America’s Tariff History
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2025
Published: 2025
Economist Michael Hudson claims that Trump's goal in replacing income tax on the wealthy with tariffs as the government's main source of revenue is misguided by a misunderstanding of past implementations of tariffs.
- 'Someone's starting to listen,' says Abenaki chief, applauding defeat of New Hampshire bill
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2025
Published: 2025
Chief of the Abenaki of Odanak, Rick, O'Bomsawin, celebrates the success of their campaign against proposed New Hampshire Bill giving recognition to illegitimate tribes.
- The Historical Revision of Buchenwald
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2025
Published: 2025
This article frames the liberation of the Buchenwald camp as a prisoner resistance movement, challenging the narritive that it was liberated by the United States Army.
- This Passover, We Must Reckon With Israel's Massacre of Children in Gaza
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2025
Published: 2025
The Passover story decries a ruler who inflicts atrocities on children. The Israeli military is doing that now in Gaza.
- Israeli Troops Blow Whistle on War Crimes in Gaza 'Kill Zone'
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2025
Published: 2025
One IDF officer said that not only are Israeli troops killing military-age males, "we're killing their wives, their children, their cats, their dogs. We're destroying their houses and pissing on their graves."
- Is This The World We Created?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2025
Published: 2025
It is all a part of the same phenomenon. Western governments actively assisting genocide in Gaza; attacks on benefits for the disabled; a deliberate official narrative of Russophobia; rampant Islamophobia boosting the rise of extreme right-wing parties and fuelled by government anti-immigrant rhetoric; an incredible accumulation of wealth by the ultra-rich; rampant erosion of freedoms of speech and expression.
- Pan-African Revolutionaries
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2025
Published: 2025
From Andrée Blouin to Flora Nwapa there is a rich tradition of female writers on the African continent who have played key roles in publishing and national liberation movements alike.
- Israel kills, lies, and the Western media believe it
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2025
Published: 2025
The execution of 15 Gaza medics and rescuers demonstrates just how normalised the dehumanisation of Palestinians is.
- So let us hope that the American political leadership comes to understand that they can coexist peacefully with the Chinese people and the Russian people
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2025
Published: 2025
Interview with Dimitri Lascaris on Gaza, Ukraine, and Global Power Shifts on PointS News
- Key 7 October "mass rapes" witness denounced as liar by Israeli reporter
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2025
Published: 2025
An Israeli man who claimed to have heroically rescued hundreds of people from Hamas fighters on 7 October 2023 has been exposed as an outright liar who made up stories "from beginning to end."
- Trump's Impoverishing Tariffs
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2025
Published: 2025
The rest of the world isn't ripping off the U.S. The American trade deficit is the result of chronically large budget deficits resulting from tax cuts for the rich combined with trillions of dollars wasted on useless wars.
- American Freefall
The extent to which the U.S. has embarked on a departure from reality is only a question for empires in their waning decades.
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2025
Published: 2025
The imperatives imposed by the Zionist lobbies in the U.S. long, long ago destroyed what integrity remained among U.S. mainstream media. Now they are destroying institutions of higher learning, the Justice and Homeland Security departments and altogether American law.
- Being Non-Transactional
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2025
Published: 2025
It is now clear, after decades of thrashing around, that constructing an honest society according to Liberal principles is actually impossible. So much the worse for Liberal principles, then. So where does that leave us? Well, it leaves us to reflect on why honest societies actually exist, and why more generally people obey common unwritten rules when it is not in their short-term personal interest to do so.
- Can Europe Survive Its Own Leaders? The War Narrative and Economic Collapse
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2025
Published: 2025
The US seems to be adjusting to multipolarity. It needs to have a new priority. Europe seemingly is less of a priority, while there seems to be a need to make peace with Russia. And we see that on the European side, rather than pulling back from the proxy war against Russia, the Europeans insist now that they will continue the war without the United States, which is a bit doubtful, but it also gets worse.
- China Dethrones the US as the Global Leader in Research
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2025
Published: 2025
42 Chinese academic institutions rank among the 100 world's best research centres, surpasing the United States and the United Kingdom, according to Nature Index Global.
- The complete idiot's guide to world affairs
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2025
Published: 2025
The left and right take the same reality-based view of the world but respond to it in different moral terms. Liberals, on the other hand, live in an alternate universe – of pure make-believe.
- Five Reasons Why Euro Area Citizens Should Be Terrified By the ECB’s (Apparently) Fast Approaching Digital Euro
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2025
Published: 2025
The European Central Bank is eager to roll out the digital Euro which may have drawbacks for citizens of the European Union.
- Growth or Degrowth? Ecosocialism confronts a false dichotomy
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2025
Published: 2025
Stark binaries obscure the real problems we face in building a movement against capitalist ecocide.
- Would it be okay for Hamas to strike a hospital treating Benjamin Netanyahu?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2025
Published: 2025
The only reason it is okay for Israel to attack a Palestinian hospital, killing Palestinian civilians, to assassinate a Palestinian politician is because the western political and media class are out-and-out anti-Palestinian racists.
- The Kingdom of Judea vs. The State of Israel
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2025
Published: 2025
A geo-political reading of Israel's incipient civil war.
- Group claiming credit for Mahmoud Khalil arrest demanded "blood" of Gaza babies
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2025
Published: 2025
A New York-based Zionist group that is taking credit for the Trump administration’s arrest of Columbia University student organizer Mahmoud Khalil may be raising funds without being registered as a charity, a violation of the law. Betar USA is notorious for spreading hatred against Palestinians and has explicitly and directly incited the mass murder of Palestinian babies.
- A Swan-song For Europe
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2025
Published: 2025
And so, by common consent, Europe faces its gravest collective political crisis since 1945. And so, by equally common consent, its political class has never been so weak and incompetent, and so evidently out of its depth, encountering for once a problem that cannot be solved by well-judged tweets and complicated financial instruments. Socked around the face by the large wet fish of Real Life, the European political class retreats into silly games, hallucinatory fantasies and futile aggressivity.
- Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - March 9, 2025
Challenges and Opportunities
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 2025
Published: 2025
We are faced with an uncertain future which will undoubtedly bring a whole array of challenges. But the upheavals that lie before us, internationally and in our own country, will also present us with new opportunities. It is no longer possible to claim that 'there is no alternative.' On the contrary, new alternatives are precisely what we have to create.
- State Department To Use AI To Revoke Visas of Students Who ‘Appear Pro-Hamas’
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2025
Published: 2025
U.S. Secretary of State, Mark Rubio, announcs the use of AI to screen social media accounts of international students in effort to revoke visas of those expressing sympathy and support for Palestine.
- The Lost 'Arab'
Gaza and the evolving language of the Palestinian struggle
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2025
Published: 2025
Ramzy Baroud on the isolation of Palestine, from physical sieges and military occupation into the realm of language.
- Rebuilding hope
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2025
Published: 2025
A refurbished oven restores a place to cook and, just as importantly, a gathering spot for the women of a tent camp in Gaza. “We shared what we could, though it never seemed to be enough to meet the great needs. But I reminded myself that despite the hardships we may face in life, hope remained the light that guided us through the darkest moments. In the process of rebuilding the oven, I felt as if I were creating hope with my own hands and bringing life back to the camp’s inhabitants.”
- Slow Motion Ethnic Cleansing in Hebron
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2025
Published: 2025
The genocide in Gaza has burst that bubble of shadows and lies and revealed the ugly truth of the Zionist project all over Palestine.
- Israelis mock Palestinian children in viral TikTok 'prank call' trend
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2025
Published: 2025
Israeli content creators have racked up hundreds of thousands of views in a recent viral trend on TikTok deriding the struggles of child victims of Israel's war on the Gaza Strip.
- Yes, Trump is vulgar. But the US global shakedown is the same one as ever
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2025
Published: 2025
If there is one thing we can thank US President Donald Trump for, it is this: he has decisively stripped away the ridiculous notion, long cultivated by western media, that the United States is a benign global policeman enforcing a 'rules-based order'. Washington is better understood as the head of a gangster empire, embracing 800 military bases around the world. Since the end of the Cold War, it has been aggressively seeking 'global full-spectrum domination', as the Pentagon doctrine politely terms it.
- Speak, Claudia!
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2025
Published: 2025
Mexico's president Claudia Scheinbaum is responding to Donald Trumps threats and sabe-ratttling calmly, focused on her agenda of Mexico for Mexicans.
- To save the environment, we must end the profit system
Brazilian magazine interviews Ian Angus about capitalism, metabolic rifts, degrowth, and ecosocialism
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2025
Published: 2025
There is no question that human beings have been changing their environments for thousands of years. What we have not had before the past seventy years is change that actually alters the way the Earth System works, an actual break with the conditions that have been dominant on Earth for some twelve thousand years.
- Meet 85 Canadians That Have Fought For Israel
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2025
Published: 2025
The article draws on a research project on Canadians who have gone to Israel to fight with the IDF (Israel Defence Forces). It discribes the background and motivations of these lone soldiers.
- We've Been Here Before
A Review of Thomas Frank's "The Wrecking Crew"
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First Published: 2025
Published: 2025
Thomas Frank’s 2008 book ‘The Wrecking Crew’ analyzes a not-so-long-ago period in American history, the early-to-mid 2000s, when another gang of conservatives took power in Washington with the intention of wrecking the state in order to impose a radical-right agenda. Lambert Strether‘s review presents lengthy excerpts from the book, accompanied by Strether’s comments on parallels between that period and the present.
- Trump's Threats, Canadian Challenges
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2025
Published: 2025
Canadians must dare to think about parting ways – economically, politically, and socially. They must begin to de-link our economy from that of the US. This is no small ask. To begin to make inroads, they must persuade each other that the political concept that capitalism is the only way to create welfare for most people is not only untrue but also dangerous, as it is the chief reason why the people of the world are confronted by an ecological crisis of an existential nature. In short, we must be willing to think of ourselves as abolitionists of capitalism and promoters of socialism. We must begin by re-imagining our polity as a distinct one that requires its major founders – Indigenous peoples, Québécois, and Anglo-Canadians – to form a consensus based on a politics aiming for the common good of all, while respecting the relative autonomy of each group to reach for that common good in its own special way.
- Learning From Trump: How Progressives Can Become The Party Of Change
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2025
Published: 2025
How do you win a class war? Here's how: you unite the workers and small entrepreneurs against the great capitalists and their kept politicians. Then you take power electorally and do exactly what Trump is doing, but in reverse: you reform the system to empower working people and subordinate capital to labor.
- Media Afraid to Call Ethnic Cleansing by Its Name
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2025
Published: 2025
Recent coverage of Gaza and the West Bank illustrates that, while corporate media occasionally outright call for expelling Palestinians from their land, more often the way these outlets support ethnic cleansing is by declining to call it ethnic cleansing.
- 'Worthless' Free Trade Agreements
"Why should we feel constrained by a free trade agreement?"
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2025
Published: 2025
Threats of annexation and a looming trade war with the United States has prompted Canadians to critically examine longstanding free trade agreements with the Americans. Regardless of whether or not U.S. President Donald Trump makes good on his tariff threats, it is likely that the economic and political relationship has been irrevocably harmed.
- Understanding Biology? Biological Essentialism
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2025
Published: 2025
Anyone who has critiqued, or even dared to question, the ideology of the transgender movement likely has been accused of being a "biological essentialist." It's common in these debates for people to use the terms sex (a matter of biology) and gender (a matter of social norms) in confused and confusing ways. More on that later. Let's start with the comment about essentialism, which many people assume to be a very bad thing, even if they don't define it clearly.
- The Mafia State
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2025
Published: 2025
Chris Hedges argues that mafia capitalism, the concentration of wealth in the hands of a few, has turned the US into a mafia state, where the Trump administration and billionaires are centralizing authoritarian power and wealth, leading the US empire into its final stage of decay.
- The Intricate Connection of Birdsongs to Human Language
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2025
Published: 2025
- Canadian residents are racing to save the data in Trump's crosshairs
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2025
Published: 2025
A guerilla effort is underway to preserve medical, environmental data from deletion as Trump's appointees pursue a campaign of wiping out information that doesn't fit with their agenda.
- Declared dead by Service Canada, N.B. woman still trying to get life back
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2025
Published: 2025
t took Cathy Adams almost seven weeks to realize she was dead. When the New Brunswick woman checked her bank account on Jan. 29, her Old Age Security and CPP benefits hadn't been deposited. So she called Service Canada and was put on hold while the government worker checked her file. "When she came back she said, 'I'm sorry, it's bad news ... On Dec. 13, we received a death notice for you. My condolences.'"
- The day Israel came for the booksellers
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First Published: 2025
Published: 2025
With a Palestinian colouring book as proof of 'incitement,' Israeli police raided East Jerusalem's world-famous Educational Bookshop and arrested its owners.
- Bought journalism
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First Published: 2025
Published: 2025
Wht I am concerned with here is this part of USAID’s activities: USAID’s funding of over 6,000 journalists, 1,000 platforms worldwide raises concerns over independence and transparency; USAID: $270 Million for ‘Independent’ Journalists; USAID Funded Massive ‘News’ Platform, Extending ‘Censorship Industrial Complex’ To Billions Worldwide.
- Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - February 8, 2025
Time to Talk?
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 2025
Published: 2025
If we want to change the world, we need other people – millions, eventually hundreds of millions of others – to agree that the world needs changing and to join us in changing it. We need to persuade a majority of the population that a fundamental social and economic transformation is necessary and desirable. That’s easier said than done. What do we say, and who do we talk to? This newsletter offers tenative explorations of some of those issues.
- With Trump's tariffs, it's time for a more self-reliant Canada
Let's dust ourselves off and make things by Canadians for Canadians
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First Published: 2025
Published: 2025
Donald Trump says he doesn't need Canadian oil or anything else Canadian. Let's face it, Canada has been dumped and is on its own. By raising tariffs unilaterally, Trump will grossly violate USMCA, the former NAFTA.
- Grape Boycott
BC labour led a four-year boycott of non-union American grapes
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2025
Published: 2025
The United Farm Workers' (UFW) strike began in 1965 near Delano, California but soon spread. The strike became a struggle for justice and human rights that resounded globally. When the union called for a consumer boycott of non-union grapes, the BC labour movement responded by asking the public to stop buying California grapes.
- The Wrong Dureee: The Politics of Cedric J. Robinson's Racial Capitalism
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2025
Published: 2025
Interests are the basis of political life. Put another way, politics is the process through which discrete interests are articulated, organized, and imposed through institutions, policies, cultural hegemony, coercion, force, or some combination of those elements. Here I do not merely mean interests in the pedestrian sense of what concerns us but in the deeper, early modernist sense of passions—what preoccupies us and motivates us, what determines our immediate actions and shifting priorities in real historical time.
- Another Day
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First Published: 2025
Published: 2025
It’s just another day
in the life of an IDF soldier
- How the Israel Lobby Tries to Silence Criticism of Israel
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First Published: 2025
Published: 2025
There's a long history of the Zionist lobby pressuring, bullying and cajoling critics of Israel and they're now upping their tactics.
- Trump's Balance-of-Payments War on Mexico, and the Whole World
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First Published: 2025
Published: 2025
Neither Trump nor his economic advisors understand what damage their policy is threatening to cause by radically unbalancing the balance of payments and exchange rates throughout the world, making a financial rupture inevitable.
- Trump's Balance-of-Payments War on Mexico, and the Whole World
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2025
Published: 2025
Germany and Europe as a whole will become sacrificial offerings in our desperate but futile effort to save the US Empire.
- German MEP calls viral song by schoolgirls Russian propaganda tool
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2025
Published: 2025
- Sweet Daddy Siki, American Canadian wrestling star who pushed limits of the sport, dies at 91
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First Published: 2025
Published: 2025
Sweet Daddy Siki, an American Canadian professional wrestler who pushed the limits of the sport and helped to train world champions, has died in Toronto at the age of 91.
- The CIJA Report
A Pattern of Anti-Palestinian Racism and Genocide Denial at the Centre for Israel and Jewish Affairs
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First Published: 2025
Published: 2025
This report shines a light on how the current discourse about antisemitism in Canada serves to manufacture consent for Israel's genocide in Gaza. By analyzing the public statements, social media posts, and media releases from Centre for Israel and Jewish Affairs (CIJA), this report reveals how CIJA's operates to actively support the state of Israel and its genocidal campaign.
- Freedom of Movement and Global Apartheid
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First Published: 2025
Published: 2025
We might summarize the entire history of the human race in two words: people move. Everything else is just elaboration on that basic plot. Some of history’s worst atrocities can be attributed to certain people trying to control other people’s movements, whether by capturing them, herding them into prison camps (concentration camps, strategic hamlets, model villages), enslaving and transporting them, or warehousing them in besieged countries or regions while barricading the borders of anyplace to which they might want to flee, often consigning them to death in treacherous deserts or seas for trying to exercise the basic human right of freedom of movement.
- German MEP calls viral song by schoolgirls Russian propaganda tool
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First Published: 2025
Published: 2025
A viral song by two Russian schoolgirls, which recently made it into Billboard’s top ten dance hits, has been branded a “Russian trope” used for spreading propaganda on social media by a member of the European Parliament for the Volt Germany party, Nela Riehl.
- Nature Essays and Observations
2020-2025
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First Published: 2025
Published: 2025
- Palestinian women: a history of resistance
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First Published: 2025
Published: 2025
Palestinian women is Israeli prisons have shown remarkable unity, fighting for their rights, often in the face of harsh conditions and mistreatment.
- Street Cred
Resource Type: Film/Video
First Published: 2025
Published: 2025
Street Cred journeys through past and present to recognize four local streets in Toronto: Longboat Avenue, Jean Lumb Lane, Miriam Garfinkle Lane, and Reggae Lane. It centers on the untold stories of the namesake individuals, whose significant and positive impact on the city can still be felt in today’s Toronto.
- Voices of the Genocide
A Report on Israel's Ongoing Genocide on the Gaza Strip - October 2023 - January 2025
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First Published: 2025
Published: 2025
- The Inauthenticity of our Class Discourse: or, Publishing Respects your Foodbank Usage
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2024
Published: 2024
I'm a British novelist and my fourth novel, The Spoiled Heart, came out -- in the U.K., U.S., and elsewhere -- in the spring of this year. It's a novel vexed with questions of class and race, with wondering which of these, for my characters, is central. I wrote a longish essay to make my own position clear and to speak candidly about how the left, including the publishing left, fails the poor and the working class.
- Canadian mayor fined for LGBT thought crime of refusing to bend over
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First Published: 2024
Published: 2024
Refusing to display the rainbow flag for Pride Month has cost the townsip of Emo (pop 1204) and its head a combined $15,000 in penalties
- How Extinction Rebellion 'reaped a whirlwind'
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First Published: 2024
Published: 2024
The Extinction Rebellion founders' reliance on the momentum model was a crucial factor in the project's early innovations and successes.
- Media groups condemn Israel over Gaza journalist 'massacre'
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2024
Published: 2024
Two separate reports by media freedom organisations found Israel killed an unprecedented number of journalists.
- Taliban In Afghanistan Bad, Al-Qaeda In Syria Good
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2024
Published: 2024
It’s pretty wild how the west went directly from "We need to occupy Afghanistan for two decades to prevent it from being taken over by the Taliban" to "Yay! Syria’s been taken over by al-Qaeda!"
- Bhopal Gas Tragedy
Forty Years of Struggle for Justice—Part One
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First Published: 2024
Published: 2024
First part of a twelve-part series to commemorate forty years of the quest for justice for the Bhopal Gas Tragedy victims.
- The Pride Paradox
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2024
Published: 2024
The last election confirmed what many pundits had already feared but wouldn't admit even to themselves—that Trumpism isn't a fringe phenomenon but drifts squarely in the often toxic American mainstream. Perhaps one of the most sobering things about the most recent election was how quietly it unfolded—with none of the violence widely expected, without riots or mass protests. Afterwards it seemed as if even some of the winners were in a state of shock over what had actually happened—that a convicted felon more interested in victory for victory's sake and in avenging himself on his foes than concrete policy proposals had been given a second chance to be President.
- Alison Acker Obituary
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First Published: 2024
Published: 2024
Obituary of Alison Acker (October 8, 1928 - November 17, 2024), Canadian journalist, professor, activist and Raging Granny.
- Reaction to Arabic poem reveals racist reality of 'remembrance'
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2024
Published: 2024
Remembrance Day celebrates chauvinistic Anglo imperialism. The reaction to an Arabic peace poem reveals the depth of Canada's colonized minds.
- UNESCO bars Russian journalists from free speech session
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2024
Published: 2024
Russian journalists have been denied access to a UN session in Paris on media freedom, Moscow's delegation to UNESCO has claimed. On Friday, the UN cultural body presented a report on killings of journalists, which was criticized by Moscow for ignoring the murders of Russian journalists by Ukraine.
- A-Z of Children killed in Gaza
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2024
Published: 2024
- Do other countries do it?
A simple litmus test for RFK Jr's ideas
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First Published: 2024
Published: 2024
A simple litmus test for RFK Jr's ideas is do other, sensible nations do it that way.
- Israel & the Evidence Gap
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2024
Published: 2024
For the small segment of U.S. citizens looking beyond the mainstream media, the discrepancy between popular perceptions and evidentiary reality is relatively easy to spot.
- Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - November 9, 2024
This Moment
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 2024
Published: 2024
- Tooth-Fairy Politics
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2024
Published: 2024
Trump or Harris, the outcome of this election was never going to make a meaningful difference to the victims of the U.S. empire, whatever we were told, writes Jonathan Cook.
- Bad for India to kill 'terrorists' abroad but not Israel?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2024
Published: 2024
Canadian politicians and media show a double standard by rightly opposing India’s assassinations in Canada while not denouncing Israel's killing of leaders like Yahya Sinwar and Hassan Nasrallah.
- Israeli Attacks on Medics Apparent War Crimes: Human Rights Watch
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2024
Published: 2024
The Israeli military has repeatedly attacked medical workers and healthcare facilities in Lebanon. Human Rights Watch documented three of these attacks and concluded that they involved apparent war crimes.
- A Palestinian Family Goes to Pick Up Olives
It Ends in an Execution by Israeli Soldiers
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2024
Published: 2024
Around 10:30 A.M. the military pickup truck reappeared, four soldiers came out, one knelt down and started shooting. A witness says that even the trees were shaking from the shooting
- Substack De-Platformed Me With No Explanation
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2024
Published: 2024
I posted articles at Substack during April 11 to October 12 of 2024, a total of 202 news-reports and commentaries, during those 184 days, but then Substack removed my password and would not enable me to create a new one. When a reader-comment is posted to one of my articles, I'm no longer able to reply to it if I want — I am blocked from doing that. I can't post any comment there, even to my own article. I've received no explanation from Substack, and they provide me no way that I can contact anyone there.
- What Do You Say to Your Pro-Israel MP?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2024
Published: 2024
- Aurora, Ontario arts center censors anti-genocide artists and closes down exhibition as "the best possible business decision"
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2024
Published: 2024
Aurora Cultural Centre closed down an art exhibition “Expressions of Critical Thought” after just one day of opening because of complaints made about it's pro-Palestinian content. The centre went on to justify the closure as a sustainable business decision.
- Boomer gegen Millennials? Wir haben keinen Generationen-, sondern einen Klassenkonflikt
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2024
Published: 2024
Die Frontlinie liegt eher zwischen Arm und Reich als zwischen Alt und Jung.
- Photo Essay: An autobiography of uprising
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2024
Published: 2024
Documenting one year of revolt from the occupied West Bank to the East Coast.
- Cringeworthy Words in the Battle of Ideas
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First Published: 2024
Published: 2024
Zoltan Zigedy says it’s time to call out words or expressions that mislead, distort, or poison our discourse. He nominates several candidates for retirement, restraint, or caution.
- How the Great Revolutions happened, Part 1 – The English Revolution begins
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2024
Published: 2024
It is not great individuals, but mass action which drives history, argues Dominic Alexander in a series on the Great Revolutions from England in the 1640s, France to 1917 in Russia.
- Israeli journalists join the live-streamed genocide
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2024
Published: 2024
A mainstream Israeli journalist recently blew up a house in Lebanon as part of a news report while embedded with the military. The broadcast shows how mainstream genocidal activity has become in Israeli society.
- Israeli journalists join the live-streamed genocide
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2024
Published: 2024
A mainstream Israeli journalist recently blew up a house in Lebanon as part of a news report while embedded with the military. The broadcast shows how mainstream genocidal activity has become in Israeli society.
- Wendat History in Toronto Obscured by Shady Archaeological Practices, but That’s Changing
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2024
Published: 2024
Archaeology in the GTA was "overtly colonial" until recently, with a trophy-collecting mentality, including people taking Indigenous skeletal remains for entertainment and display.
- "The Children," James Baldwin Wrote, "Are Always Ours, Every Single One of Them"
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2024
Published: 2024
Saqib Bhatti laments the unbearable task of parenting during genocide -- from the United States to Gaza.
- How American media incited genocide
Commentaries published by US media outlets have openly demonised Palestinians and justified the mass killings in Gaza.
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2024
Published: 2024
- Reality and Mainstream Media Reporting
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2024
Published: 2024
On the gap between the reality and the general public's view of Israel, shaped by the mainstream media.
- Music inspires child who lost hand in Israeli attack
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2024
Published: 2024
Muhammad Abu Aida, 14, and his mother, Muna, had hoped they had found some measure of safety in the Nuseirat refugee camp, even though the sounds of explosions resonate constantly and feelings of fear permeate every corner. But the UN school at which they had sought shelter eventually proved to provide no protection. On 16 July, ten months after they were forcibly displaced from their home, Israeli warplanes bombed the school that had become their haven.The attack partially destroyed the school, killed 23 people, and wounded more than 70, including Muhammad, whose right hand had to be amputated.
- Celebrating the 70th Anniversary of Salt of the Earth
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2024
Published: 2024
In many ways, 1954's Salt of the Earth is a singular, cinematic phenomenon, one of the most unique American movies ever made. At a time when star-driven Hollywood was cranking out widescreen biblical epics, technicolor musicals, sci-fi and horror B pictures for drive-ins, Westerns, comedies, as well as films starring highly trained "Method" actors, Salt featured a largely nonprofessional cast in a story about ordinary people doing extraordinary things. These non-actors played versions of themselves—miners who had struggled in a recent, real-life strike.
- The West's Support for Israel's Genocide Is Destroying the World as We Know It
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2024
Published: 2024
The old world is dying once again, but the US-Israel axis is wrong to suggest it is slaying monsters. It is the monster.
- Planting seeds of sovereignty in Gaza
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2024
Published: 2024
Food sovereignty is a matter of life and death in Gaza, where Israel has been deliberately destroying Palestinians’ ability to sustain themselves. Over the past year, many farmers in Gaza like Abu Rabee have had to abandon their land, crops and way of life due to Israeli bombing and evacuation orders. Instead of producing their own food, they, like everyone else in Gaza, have become dependent on the little humanitarian aid allowed in as Israel deliberately destroys Palestinians’ self-sufficiency. And they have also become the targets and victims of Israel’s genocide.
- War criminal Israelis welcomed to Canada, Palestinians barred
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2024
Published: 2024
The double standard is egregious. Holocaust victims face extreme security checks while genocidal Jewish supremacists enter Canada with ease.
- Three phones go silent
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2024
Published: 2024
When the Israeli genocide in Gaza began more than a year ago, the three elderly al-Ghalayini sisters — Maysoun, 80, Rofida, 65, and Arwa, 61, decided they would not leave their house in al-Rimal neighborhood in Gaza City. In January, Israeli soldiers surrounded their home and ordered them to move to southern Gaza. When they did not comply, the soldiers threw a firebomb.
- Israel has taken human shields to a whole new criminal level
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2024
Published: 2024
The use of Palestinian civilians as ‘human baits’ in Gaza demonstrates how racism informs Israel’s warfare practices.
- Text Me You Haven't Died
My Sister Was the 166th Doctor To Be Murdered in Gaza
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2024
Published: 2024
Dr. Soma Baroud was murdered on October 9 when Israeli warplanes bombed a taxi that carried her and other tired Gazans somewhere near the Bani Suhaila roundabout near Khan Yunis, in the southern Gaza Strip.
- Who Are the Terrorists?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2024
Published: 2024
In 1985, the Terrorism Act 2000 was still 15 years away. There was no such thing as a proscribed organisation under the Terrorism Act. Under today's legislation, every single one of those people writing in support of the African National Congress or out campaigning for the release of Nelson Mandela would have been liable for arrest under Section 12 1 (a) of the Terrorism Act.
- Israel Is Routinely Shooting Children in the Head in Gaza
US Surgeon & Palestinian Nurse
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2024
Published: 2024
American doctors polled by The New York Times revealed a disturbing trend they were witness to while working in Gaza: children being shot in the head.
- The Israeli Spies Writing America's News
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2024
Published: 2024
Barak Ravid's function has been to manufacture consent for the government among elite liberal audiences who read Axios, allowing them to continue to believe that the U.S. is an honest broker for peace in West Asia rather than a key enabler of Israel.
- Overshoot-and-return
A dangerous climate change illusion
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2024
Published: 2024
Once the 1.5°C limit is passed, there will be no going back
- Israel Arrests US Journalist, Fires on UN Peacekeepers, Bombs Beirut, Kills More Kids, Etc
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2024
Published: 2024
A summary of crimes committed by Israel over the course of just a few days.
- Palestine & the Lessons of East Timor
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2024
Published: 2024
History teaches us that Palestine, as with East Timor, will be free.
- Simply No Red Lines At All
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2024
Published: 2024
There is literally no act so vile that the UK, US and Germany will not support if perpetrated by the terrorist state of Israel.
- They Know What Real Bombing Means
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2024
Published: 2024
Israel's bombing of Beirut mirrors its harsh attacks on Gaza and symbolises the disdain for human life that characterises both Israeli and U.S. warfare.
- 11 Communications Rules for Activists to Live By
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2024
Published: 2024
People from the liberal arts (or law or the sciences) are inculcated with the false belief that the facts persuade by themselves.
- How a Newspaper Revolution Sparked Protesters and Influencers, Disinformation and the Civil War
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2024
Published: 2024
In the mid-1800s, a boom in media outlets created a massive political movement — and plenty of disinformation.
- Kris Kristofferson
The Anti-War Veteran
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2024
Published: 2024
American country musician Kris Kristofferson was a military veteran and anti-war activist. He continued his advocacy against the Gulf Wars and benefit concerts for Palestinian children despite the negative impacts that both had on his career.
- Mapping 1,400 Israeli settler attacks in the West Bank over the past year
There was an average of four incidents of settler violence per day in the occupied West Bank since October 7.
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2024
Published: 2024
While Israel continues its genocide against Palestinians in Gaza, in the occupied West Bank, Israeli settlers have ramped up their attacks on people, often under the protection of Israeli soldiers.
- In Praise of Civil Disobedience
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2024
Published: 2024
Western governments are deeply involved, strongly against the will of the majority of their population, in committing a colonial genocide of indigenous people. Democracy has therefore failed, having been fatally corrupted. In these circumstances, civil disobedience is not just ethically justified, it is the duty of the good citizen.
- Israeli Soldiers Who Document Their Crimes Know They're Safe From Prosecution
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2024
Published: 2024
These videos seem to be everywhere in the past year: soldiers abusing, looting and smashing, all with big smiles. On Friday, Al Jazeera aired a comprehensive investigative report about war crimes committed by the IDF in Gaza, which is full of material posted by the soldiers themselves. Most of the report deals with more horrific crimes, from mass starvation to the shooting of children, but these videos are especially shocking: the visible faces make the violence more intimate, and the giggles testify to a sadistic pleasure that is hard to deny.
- Meta Steps Up Aggressive Censorship
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2024
Published: 2024
Meta has been ramping up censorship of speech that’s critical of Israel and its U.S.-backed atrocities for a while now, with a sharp increase that was anecdotally noticeable immediately after the company announced back in July that it would be instituting vague new censorship protocols against the word “Zionism." After that move, critics of U.S. foreign policy such as Aaron Maté, Jonathan Cook and Tadhg Hickey began reporting that their posts about Israel’s genocidal actions in Gaza were being unexpectedly taken down on Facebook.
- Know their names: Palestinian families killed in Israeli attacks on Gaza
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2024
Published: 2024
- Al Jazeera Documentary Uses Israeli Soldiers' Social Media Footage to Accuse Them of War Crimes
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2024
Published: 2024
Names and identifying details of soldiers who served in Gaza are used in a film documenting Israeli war crimes, alongside footage they posted of their own misconduct throughout the war.
- Everything is under control. Until it isn't.
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2024
Published: 2024
In the nuclear age, a miscalculation can result in unspeakable catastrophe, but nonetheless, decision-makers continue to take risky actions which they calculate will bring them an advantage. They assume that they can to push forward and ‘show strength’ and then push some more, while reserving the option of showing restraint if the other side pushes back too vigorously. The world now finds itself in probably the most dangerous situation since the Cuban Missile Crisis. All it will take is one misstep, one miscalculation, one reckless action by a mid-level military officer acting without orders – and the missiles will start flying. And it will be game over for the human race.
- Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - October 5, 2024
Everything is Under Control. Until it Isn't.
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 2024
Published: 2024
In the nuclear age, a miscalculation can result in unspeakable catastrophe, but nonetheless, decision-makers continue to take risky actions which they calculate will bring them an advantage. They assume that they can to push forward and ‘show strength’ and then push some more, while reserving the option of showing restraint if the other side pushes back too vigorously. The world now finds itself in probably the most dangerous situation since the Cuban Missile Crisis. All it will take is one misstep, one miscalculation, one reckless action by a mid-level military officer acting without orders – and the missiles will start flying. And it will be game over for the human race.
- Will it matter when the last newspaper dies?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2024
Published: 2024
There will come a day in our lives when the last newspaper, on actual paper, is sent out on the trucks. There will come a day sometime after that when whatever the old houses evolved into, finally fall into ruin and silence. Will it matter?
- Things Don't Always Get Better
And "Against Recentism," while we're at it.
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2024
Published: 2024
When I was young, there was a general belief that the world had been getting better for a while, and would continue to do so. This wasn't an ideology, more of a commonplace, everyday assumption.
- Israeli court rules that body of Walid Daqqa can be held as bargaining chip in hostage negotiations
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2024
Published: 2024
Israel's supreme court ruled authorities have the right to indefinitely hold the body of Palestinian novelist Walid Daqqa, rejecting a petition filed by his family to secure the return of his remains for a dignified burial.
- Good Westerners Don't Start Off Hating Israel, But Truth Eventually Leads Them There
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2024
Published: 2024
A sincere dedication to truth, justice and kindness can only lead one to view the Zionist project with complete revulsion after learning the facts about what it really is, what it really does, and why our western governments really support it.
- Is this how western media would report Netanyahu's killing by Hezbollah?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2024
Published: 2024
Western journalists claim to report the news objectively and fairly. If they really did, this is what coverage of Netanyahu’s assassination might look like…
- Ignore Their Words; Watch Their Actions
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2024
Published: 2024
While the mass media publish White House press releases disguised as news stories about the president’s feelings and celebrity progressives assure us that this administration is "working tirelessly for a ceasefire," the Israeli Defense Ministry is announcing that it has secured another $8.7 billion in military aid from the US.
- Life, Preempted
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2024
Published: 2024
Policymakers in both the U.S. and Europe are undertaking increasingly brazen acts of escalation in Ukraine designed to bring Russia to the breaking point.
- How Wokeness Kills Class Politics and Empowers Empire
Resource Type: Audio
First Published: 2024
Published: 2024
Oftentimes the idea of 'wokeness' or 'woke' ideology, whether calling it as such or acknowledging its existence, can be thought of as coinage of the right wing. Christian Parenti, professor at John Jay College, journalist and author, joins host Chris Hedges on this episode of The Chris Hedges Report to make the case that what he and many others define as "woke" is actually a weapon used to further suppress marginalized people, prevent the awareness of class politics and class struggle and further divide the working class.
- Is it really 'disinformation' to show Russians as human beings
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2024
Published: 2024
The Liberals are openly suppressing alternative views and escalating a war with a nuclear armed state. In recent days they’ve helped ban an anti-war film, labelled a media outlet foreign interference and sought to bomb deep inside Russia. Last Tuesday Deputy Prime Minister Chrystia Freeland boosted a campaign to suppress the screening of Russians at War at the Toronto International Film Festival.
- To the Israeli Soldier Who Murdered Her
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2024
Published: 2024
Shooting unarmed people is not bravery. It is not courage. It is not even war. It is a crime.
- Zionists travel further on path to fascist far right
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2024
Published: 2024
Israel supporters have become a leading fascist force in Canada.
- Hindu far right pressured a Canadian university into cancelling a critical lecture
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2024
Published: 2024
Exploiting the language of anti-racism and multiculturalism, Hindu nationalists are promoting their far-right ideology in Canada.
- 72 Minutes
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2024
Published: 2024
Our future is held hostage by a madman in Kiev, backed by lunatics in Europe. The question is -- what are we going to do about it?
- Toxische Atmosphäre
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2024
Published: 2024
- Wer über die NATO-Kriege nicht reden will, sollte über zu hohe Flüchtlingszahlen schweigen
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2024
Published: 2024
Wie kann die hohe Zahl an Asylbewerbern reduziert werden? Dieses Thema beherrscht seit Wochen die politische Diskussion. Ein Blick auf die Herkunftsländer der Flüchtlinge zeigt die Hauptursache, warum diese Menschen sich gezwungen sehen, ihre Heimat zu verlassen: Es sind die Kriege und die Sanktionspolitik der NATO-Staaten, die die Existenzgrundlagen von Millionen Menschen in Ländern wie Afghanistan, Libyen, Irak und Syrien zerstört haben.
- Attacks on RT reveal the sad truth about the West
Amar, Tarik Cyril
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2024
Published: 2024
With their crusade against their own dissidents, the US and its allies betray the desperation of their collective propaganda machine.
- The United States sanctioned Europe, not Russia
Dimitri Lascaris in Conversation with Michael Hudson and Radhika Desai
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2024
Published: 2024
Geopolitical economists Radhika Desai and Michael Hudson contend that the true victim of Western sanctions on Russia is not Russia itself, but Europe.
- Climate protesters are taking action against Big Oil
UK courts are handing them prison terms akin to rapists and thieves
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2024
Published: 2024
Just Stop Oil protesters jailed after highway blocked.
- Meet the right-wing Canadian influencers accused of collaborating with an alleged Russian propaganda scheme
Tenet Media founder Lauren Chen allegedly took funds from pro-Moscow outlet
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2024
Published: 2024
On Wednesday, the U.S. Justice Department unsealed an indictment against two Russian nationals, accusing them of setting up a conservative media outlet as a front for pro-Kremlin propaganda. The media outlet was unnamed in the indictment, but it was clear from details within that the charges referred to Tenet Media, founded in 2023 by the Canadian influencer known as Lauren Chen and her husband, Liam Donovan.
- National Novel Writing Month defended the use of AI. Now authors are stepping down from its board
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First Published: 2024
Published: 2024
Organization under fire after saying it's 'classist' and 'ableist' to condemn artificial intelligence. Writers are storming off the board of National Novel Writing Month, a popular literary non-profit that challenges writers to pen a novel in 30 days, after it posted a statement supporting the use of some types of artificial intelligence (AI).
- Canadian journalist outs himself as Canadian, Ukrainian intelligence collaborator
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First Published: 2024
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Adam Zivo, a columnist who covered the war in Ukraine for Canada's National Post newspaper, has outed himself as an operative of Canadian and Ukrainian intelligence.
- Deaths at sea: Mass media mourns the rich, ignores the poor
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First Published: 2024
Published: 2024
The sinking of a super-yacht gets mass coverage, while thousands of refugees drown in darkness.
- Israel supporters flout Canadian law with impunity
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First Published: 2024
Published: 2024
Canadians fighting in a force that’s slaughtered tens of thousands should be investigated under Canada’s Crimes Against Humanity and War Crimes Act. Highlighting reports of Canadians in the Israeli military, a Canadians for Justice and Peace in the Middle East letter to Justice Minister Arif Virani called on him to “Issue a warning to Canadian nationals that serving or volunteering with the Israeli military may make them criminally liable under the Crimes Against Humanity and War Crimes Act”.
- Hiding an Ugly Truth About Israel
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First Published: 2024
Published: 2024
Jonathan Cook on Tony Greenstein's exposure of a glaring omission in a new biography of Rudolf Vrba, the first Jew to escape Auschwitz and an intense critic of the Zionist movement.
- How it all went wrong for tourism
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First Published: 2024
Published: 2024
Summer 2024 will be remembered as the season that tourism got nasty.
- Guardian's Zionist gatekeeper rewrites Holocaust history
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First Published: 2024
Published: 2024
Book review of "The Escape Artist: The Man Who Broke Out of Auschwitz to Warn the World" by Jonathan Freedland
- Laundering Carbon and the New Scramble for Africa
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2024
Published: 2024
The carbon offset market is an integral part of efforts to prevent effective climate action. Most carbon credits traded today are fictitious and do not result in any real reduction in carbon emissions.
- Big Boy Biden in His Own Words
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2024
Published: 2024
- Fatal Force
1,029 people have been shot and killed by police in the past year
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2024
Published: 2024
On average, police in the United States shoot and kill more than 1,000 people every year, according to an ongoing analysis by The Washington Post.
- Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - July 14, 2024
Imperial Spectacle, Imperial Decline
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 2024
Published: 2024
- Ordinary People are absolutely repulsed by AI-powered customer service
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2024
Published: 2024
A survey suggests that people don't just dislike the idea of AI being used in customer service -- they're actively repulsed by it.
- Why the news media's job is to groom us
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2024
Published: 2024
Large numbers of Palestinians and Ukrainians were killed in missile strikes days apart. The media's differing treatment of these comparable events is the clue to what the media’s really there to do. As readers, we don't, as we imagine, 'consume' news. Rather, the news consumes us. Or put another way, the media uses the news to groom us, its audience. Properly understood, the relationship is one of abuser and abused.
- 'I'm bored, so I shoot': The Israeli army's approval of free-for-all violence in Gaza
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2024
Published: 2024
Israeli soldiers describe the near-total absence of firing regulations in the Gaza war, with troops shooting as they please, setting homes ablaze, and leaving corpses on the streets — all with their commanders’ permission.
- German Parliamentarian in Washington Says No to NATO - Yes to Peace
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2024
Published: 2024
NATO’s myths are losing their luster. The Alliance’s strategies are succumbing to their own imperial overextension. What we need now is an immediate end to arms deliveries to Ukraine and, at long last, a ceasefire there. Those who seek peace and security for their own populations must halt the aggressive policy of expansion into Asia. We need peace instead of NATO.
- The Need for a New Political Vocabulary
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2024
Published: 2024
Political differences between Europe’s centrist parties are marginal, all supporting neoliberal cutbacks in social spending in favor of rearmament, fiscal stringency and the deindustrialization that support of U.S.-NATO policy entails. The word “centrist” means not advocating any change in the economy’s neoliberalism. Hyphenated-centrist parties are committed to maintaining the pro-U.S. post-2022 status quo.
That means letting U.S. leaders control European politics via NATO and the European Commission, Europe’s counterpart to America’s Deep State. This passivity is putting its economies onto a war footing, with inflation, trade dependence on the United States and European deficits resulting from U.S.-sponsored trade and financial sanctions against Russia and China.
- The foreign interference behind foreign interference act
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2024
Published: 2024
The foreign interference panic sweeping Canadian media and politics reflects US power. It targets states which the U.S. sees as competitors. It ignores those states most active in interfering in Canadian politics: Israel and the United States.
- That's militainment! Big Hollywood succumbs to the Pentagon Borg
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First Published: 2024
Published: 2024
- Assange Is Free: Here's What He’s Given Us
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2024
Published: 2024
Contrary to U.S. government claims, WikiLeaks’ revelations actually saved lives -- and drove demand for accountability from Washington.
- Progressive Except for Palestine
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2024
Published: 2024
A Zionist tries to understand why progressive people disapprove of the fact that he backs a genocidal racist state.
- Is Canada's Parliament Concealing Embarrassing Information about Canada's 'Allies'?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2024
Published: 2024
Assessing what has been publicly revealed about the 'foreign interference' enquiry, Dimistri Lascaris writes "At the end of the day, I do not know whether China, Russia or Iran surreptitiously interfere in Canadian political discourse or in its 'democratic institutions'. It is possible that they do. The Canadian government, however, has failed to disclose persuasive evidence to support its allegations against them. Moreover, the Government could be protecting 'allies' of Canada who engage in these very offences.
- The Media Kept Assange Behind Bars
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2024
Published: 2024
The establishment press acted in concert to assassinate the character of the WikiLeaks founder, making it respectable to hate him.
- Dear Child
Full Short Film
Resource Type: Film/Video
First Published: 2024
Published: 2024
- Did The West Provoke The Ukraine War? Sorry, That Question Has Been Cancelled
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2024
Published: 2024
Is it possible for an entire 'mainstream' media system -- every newspaper, website, TV channel -- to completely suppress one side of a crucial argument without anyone expressing outrage, or even noticing?
- You Saved Julian Assange
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2024
Published: 2024
After 14 years of persecution, Julian Assange will go free. We must honor the hundreds of thousands of people across the globe who made this happen.
- Censorship at a Jewish School Part of a Crisis for Free Expression
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2024
Published: 2024
The staff of the Boiling Point don’t consider themselves student journalists. They consider themselves journalists.
- All Vivek Murthy Wants for Christmas is a Label Maker
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First Published: 2024
Published: 2024
“It is time to require a surgeon general’s warning label on social media platforms,” Vivek Murthy writes in a New York Times op-ed, “stating that social media is associated with significant mental health harms for adolescents.”
- Anti-Trump Anxiety Ignores History
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2024
Published: 2024
Given the track record of U.S. authoritarianism, Nat Parry says it’s not surprising that Democrats’ calls for resisting the incoming Trump dictatorship ring hollow for many Americans.
- Divine Land Grants
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2024
Published: 2024
- 'Orwellian': EU's push to mass scan private messages on WhatsApp, Signal
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First Published: 2024
Published: 2024
EU member states to vote on controversial Chat Control 2 proposals to scan communications for child sex abuse material.
- Bill C-70: Trudea's Latest Assault on Free Speech
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First Published: 2024
Published: 2024
The Trudeau government’s latest national security legislation promises to cement Justin Trudeau’s legacy as the most anti-free speech Prime Minister in the post-WWII era. Bill C-70 constitutes a serious threat to democratic discourse. It is particularly dangerous for those who are critical of Canadian foreign policy.
- D-Day 2024
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First Published: 2024
Published: 2024
In retrospect, it becomes clear that the Cold War "communist threat" was only a pretext for great powers seeking more power.
- The B'nai Brith Audit of Antisemitic Incidents: An Unreliable and Dangerous Document
An Unreliable and Dangerous Document
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2024
Published: 2024
Allegations of widespread antisemitism in Canada have penetrated the media and the political sphere. But a careful analysis of these claims shows that while there is a rise in antisemitic incidents, claims of imminent danger to Canadian Jews are fueling a moral panic that is both disingenuous and dangerous.
- 'What Are They Afraid Of?': Columbia Law Review Board Shuts Down Website Over Nakba Article
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2024
Published: 2024
The author of the 106-page piece said the suppression attempt is "reflective of a pervasive and alarming Palestine exception to academic freedom."
- Droning Russia's nuke radars is the dumbest thing Ukraine can do
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2024
Published: 2024
Attacks on the early warning system actually highlights the fragility of peace between the world's nuclear powers
- Assessing the Implications of Adtech for Terrorist and Counter-Terrorist Operations
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2024
Published: 2024
The February 27, 2024 article published in Wired -- How the Pentagon Learned to Use Targeted Ads to Find Its Targets -- and Vladimir Putin -- is an excerpt from the book, Means of Control: How the Hidden Alliance of Tech and Government Is Creating a New American Surveillance State, by Byron Tau. Tau’s piece illuminates the tactics and methods intelligence agencies are using to track the activities and movements of individuals by using the data on their smart phones.
- Oui à la vie - malgré tout
Les enfants et la guerre d'Israël contre Gaza 2006-2024
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2024
Published: 2024
- Remembering Peter Rosenthal
Another Early Mentor, a Friend, and A True Warrior for Social Justice
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2024
Published: 2024
- Trotzdem Ja zum Leben sagen
Kinder und Israels Krieg gegen Gaza 2006-2024
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First Published: 2024
Published: 2024
- Yes to life in spite of everything: Children and Israel's war on Gaza 2006 - 2024
Connexions Other Voices May 25, 2024
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 2024
Published: 2024
For most of us our natural instinct is to protect children, nurture them, teach them, answer their questions, help them understand, help them find their way.
But sometimes we can't protect them.
And we have no answers to their questions.
We can’t explain why this is happening or why the world is letting it go on.
- Are you chatting with a pro-Israeli AI-powered superbot?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2024
Published: 2024
Smart bots have emerged as an unexpected weapon in Israel's war on Gaza.
- Indeed, there is no comparison: Israel's crimes are far worse than Hamas's
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2024
Published: 2024
Benjamin Netanyahu is right to dismiss as 'absurd and false' the suggestion that there is any equivalence in the atrocities committed by the two sides. Here's why.
- Israeli military censor bans highest number of articles in over a decade
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2024
Published: 2024
The sharp rise in media censorship in 2023 comes as the Israeli government further undermines press freedoms, especially amid the Gaza war.
- Active Participants in Genocide
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2024
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In obedience to Israel, the Western political and media class is isolating itself from public opinion on Gaza in ways hard to believe.
- For Children of Gaza, War Means No School, No Indication When Formal Learning Might Return
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2024
Published: 2024
Atef Al-Buhaisi, 6, once dreamed of a career building houses. Now, all he craves is to return to school.
- Beyond Awards and Accolades: Why Gaza Journalists are the Best in the World
Why Gaza Journalists are the Best in the World
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2024
Published: 2024
By granting its 2024 World Press Freedom Prize to Palestinian journalists covering the Israeli war on Gaza, UNESCO has acknowledged a historic truth.
- CBC has whitewashed Israel's crimes in Gaza. I saw it firsthand
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First Published: 2024
Published: 2024
Working for five years as a producer at the public broadcaster, I witnessed the double standards and discrimination in its coverage of Palestine -- and experienced directly how CBC disciplines those who speak out
- CBC has whitewashed Israel's crimes in Gaza. I saw it firsthand
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2024
Published: 2024
Working for five years as a producer at the public broadcaster, I witnessed the double standards and discrimination in its coverage of Palestine -- and experienced directly how CBC disciplines those who speak out
- Pauline Shirt
Connexipedia article
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First Published: 2024
Published: 2024
Elder Pauline (Nimikiiquay) Shirt (July 13, 1943 - May 7, 2024) was an Indigenous activist and educator who cultivated space for Indigenous approaches to education and provided guidance and mentorship to the Toronto Indigenous community.
- When school shelters are targeted
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First Published: 2024
Published: 2024
A family took refuge in Kuwait School, then Israeli shelling destroyed nearly everything. Yet dreams survive.
- In any case, you came, Eid
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First Published: 2024
Published: 2024
Finding a way to celebrate Eid even for just a few moments, was a way to show children that they were cared for.
- Psychological Coercion : Methods Of Conducting 'Color Revolutions'
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First Published: 2024
Published: 2024
As one of the main methods of conducting "Color Revolutions" in conditions of hybrid warfare, psychological coercion requires greater scrutiny
- Civilization Will Triumph Over Barbarism
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First Published: 2024
Published: 2024
The recent Congressional hearings leading to a bloodbath of university presidents brings back memories from my teen-age years in the 1950s when everyone's eyes were glued to the TV broadcast of the McCarthy hearings.
- Ben Gvir Wants Israeli Police to Create 'Local Response Teams' to Protect Jews Outside of Israel
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First Published: 2024
Published: 2024
Israel’s National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir, an extremist settler and Jewish supremacist, has called on the police commissioner to create “local response teams” globally to protect Jewish communities overseas.
- ARPCF Condemns the Removal of Palestinian Poem by Toronto Public Library
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First Published: 2024
Published: 2024
The Anti-Racism Program of the CJPME Foundation (ARPCF) condemns the recent decision by the Toronto Public Library (TPL) to remove the poem "If I Must Die" by Palestinian poet Refaat Alareer from a display on the "Israel-Palestine Conflict" at its Main Street Library location.
- 7 easy steps to outlawing marches that call for an end to Israel’s genocide in Gaza
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2024
Published: 2024
The BBC and other media are willing co-conspirators in promoting the pro-genocide playbook of groups like the Campaign Against Antisemitism.
- Cruelty of Language -- the NYT's Leaked Gaza Memo
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First Published: 2024
Published: 2024
Ramzy Baroud responds to revelations about The New York Times "guidance" on language about the Israeli mass slaughter in the Gaza Strip since October 7, 2023.
- 'I am prepared to die': Mandela's speech which shook apartheid
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First Published: 2024
Published: 2024
Sixty years ago during the Rivonia Trial in South Africa, Nelson Mandela delivered one of the most famous speeches of the 20th century. He expected to be sentenced to death but instead lived to see his dream ‘of a democratic and free society’ realised.
- Facebook designates Grayzone journalist Kit Klarenberg a 'dangerous individual'
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2024
Published: 2024
The notoriously intelligence-friendly social media network appears to have imposed a ban on posting a recent report by Kit Klarenberg, and is automatically restricting users who re-publish his work.
- Starting college when there are no colleges left
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2024
Published: 2024
How do you study in the rubble of destroyed buildings? How do you concentrate when classmates are killed?
- Could the Russians Seize Congress?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2024
Published: 2024
A look back at the Red Scare and how charges of "Russian interferance" are often used to deflate criticism now
- German Police Shut Down Palestine Conference
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2024
Published: 2024
Police arrested attendees as German authorities prevented Gazan doctor Ghassan Abu Sitta, an invited speaker, from even entering the country.
- The Missiles of April
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First Published: 2024
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The "Missiles of April" represent a sea-change moment in Middle Eastern geopolitics — the establishment of Iranian deterrence that impacts both Israel and the United States.
- A mother’s journey through war
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First Published: 2024
Published: 2024
A personal account of a woman and her family evacuating her Palestinian home after October 7.
- Children playing on Eid use destroyed Gaza mosque as a slide
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First Published: 2024
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The remains of a mosque destroyed in an Israeli attack in Gaza became a makeshift slide for a group of children as they played on the first day of Eid.
- Child's Play at the FBI
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2024
Published: 2024
Why prosecute Medicare/Medicaid fraud or bank fraud or wire fraud when you can, let’s say, wait for a kid in a chat room to turn 18?
- The Revolt of the Outer Party
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2024
Published: 2024
We never bother with the question "why educate people?" today. The need is tacitly taken for granted, and if a justification were ever needed it would be that a complex society like ours would collapse if people were not educated to help run it. That's true as far as it goes, but it doesn't explain why education was necessary in the first place. To call it a "human right" is meaningless, since anything can be called a human right if enough powerful actors are able to force its acceptance as such. You can also argue that education is necessary for economic growth, but, as Ha-Joon Chang points out, that relationship is not a simple one: more education does not necessarily mean higher economic growth.
- France Saves Europe
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First Published: 2024
Published: 2024
We are now in the degenerate phase of the Ukrainian crisis, and more especially in the sorry and pathetic story of the West's collective attempts to manage it. Western political leaders are in zombie mode, staggering forward in various states of disrepair, blundering on because they have no real idea what to do, completely overmatched by events that they did not see coming, and cannot now understand.
- Censorship is a crucial complement of genocide
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2024
Published: 2024
This is why, as a genocide continues unabated in Gaza, we all have a responsibility to insert 'Palestine' and 'Palestinians' into every conversation.
- Transgender - The Inability To Distinguish Facts From Wishes
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2024
Published: 2024
- The Dumbest Cover Story Ever
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2024
Published: 2024
New York Magazine's "Freedom of Sex" is the ultimate example of the lunatic nihilism that's consumed America's intellectual class
- Failed ICJ Case Against Russia Backfires, Paves Way for Genocide Charges Against Ukraine
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2024
Published: 2024
As January became February [2024], the International Court of Justice (ICJ) delivered a pair of legal body blows to Ukraine and its Western backers.
- Biden Now Seeks WW3 Against Russia, Says High U.S. Defense Expert
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2024
Published: 2024
The U.S. plan is that since any Ukrainian pilots who could fly America’s F-16s are dead by now, Biden and Stoltenberg have authorized NATO pilots to be flying the U.S. F-16s that will be sent to Ukraine.
- The Torturers' Poor Memories
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2024
Published: 2024
The Bush/Cheney torture regime and its Devil's Island at Gitmo are among the darkest events perpetrated by a modern American presidency.
- AIPAC's Dark Money Arm Unleashes $100 Million
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2024
Published: 2024
Amid Israel's assault on Gaza and intensifying repression in the West Bank, AIPAC is showing zero tolerance for even the mildest criticism of Israel during the 2024 U.S. elections.
- For a bi-national workers' state in Palestine-Israel!
From the river to the sea: Smash Zionist tyranny!
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2024
Published: 2024
The result of the 1948 Nakba is that two peoples are now interspersed within a single territory, and each can only exercise their right to 'self-determination' at the expense of the other. No 'two state' solution can equitably resolve their competing national claims and Marxists reject out of hand 'solutions' to national oppression that simply reverse the terms of oppression.
- The Myth of Israel as 'US Aircraft Carrier' in Middle East
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2024
Published: 2024
If Israeli apartheid were to disappear, oil and trade would still flow from the Middle East towards the West, write Jean Bricmont and Diana Johnstone.
- 'Birthright' in a time of genocide
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2024
Published: 2024
Amid the genocidal war on Gaza, Israel’s Birthright programme accrued even more horrifyingly sinister implications.
- Belfast's International Wall becomes the Palestinian Wall
Resource Type: Film/Video
First Published: 2024
Published: 2024
In a defiant show of solidarity with the people of Palestine a group of mural artists led by internationally renowned artist Danny Devenny has transformed Belfast's iconic International Wall into the Palestinian Wall to show off amazing murals designed by Palestinian artists who would have suffered imprisonment, torture and death had they attempted to paint them in their homeland.
- Drowning in a Sea of Lies
Introduction to the March 3, 2024 edition of Other Voices
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First Published: 2024
Published: 2024
Lies are the lifeblood of the world we live in. The American-dominated international order is rooted in violence and exploitation, but lies are its language, its public face, and its spiritual essence.
- Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - March 3, 2024
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 2024
Published: 2024
Lies are the lifeblood of the world we live in. The American-dominated international order is rooted in violence and exploitation, but lies are its language, its public face, and its spiritual essence.
- Even without environmental approval, N.L.'s 1st wind-to-hydrogen project seems to be full steam ahead
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2024
Published: 2024
Lack of government signoff hasn't stopped World Energy from securing millions in funding and buying assets.
- Snakes on a Plain
Article in the Marc-April 2024 issue of Canadian Geographic - Vol. 144, No. 2
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2024
Published: 2024
About the garter snakes of Narcisse in Manitoba.
- Worthy & Unworthy Victims: Navalny & Lira
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2024
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While Alexey Navalny's death commanded 24-hour news coverage, Gonzalo Lira's death in Ukraine was virtually ignored.
- German guiltwashing in times of genocide
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2024
Published: 2024
We have experienced the full severity of Germany’s crackdown on pro-Palestinian activism. We know it is not about historic guilt.
- The vanishing: my search for a beloved animal, after millions of them die
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2024
Published: 2024
A former biologist returns to the Alberta badlands to search for the species he was captivated by as a child, which has now been decimated across North America. Was he too late?
- Worthy vs. unworthy victims: Study reveals media's selective coverage of Navalny and Lira
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2024
Published: 2024
A new MintPress News study of media coverage of the deaths of American journalist and commentator Gonzalo Lira and Russian political leader Alexey Navalny has found that the establishment U.S. press overwhelmingly ignored the former and focussed on the latter.
- Countering Corporate Propaganda
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2024
Published: 2024
This disconnect between capitalism’s reputation as an efficient economic system rewarding hard work and innovation and its reality as a system of mass impoverishment is endemic to our culture. At its heart, it is a system rooted in individual well-being, a seductive idea that appeals to the very human need to take sole credit for our achievements and feel shame when we fall through the cracks. The modern American economy preys on our belief in this ideal. When we can’t afford to pay for groceries it’s our fault. If we can’t pay back the cash advance, we are to blame. Those who don’t grin with joy while delivering takeout are the ungrateful ones.
- Israel Supporters Are Some Of The Worst People In The World
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2024
Published: 2024
No political faction I have ever interacted with is as immoral and dishonest, or so frequently says things that are so jaw-droppingly disgusting I am sure I must be misinterpreting it at first. I’ve never tangled with a more odious group of people.
- Rethinking Ukraine: Putin and the Mystery of National Identity
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2024
Published: 2024
The same powers who fund and arm Ukraine fund and arm genocide by a racial supremacist Israel. My belief in some kind of inherent decency in the Western political Establishment was naive.
- Elite Fear Of The Public: Ukraine, Gaza and Assange
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2024
Published: 2024
It is a historical fact that powerful elites do not wish to be diverted from pursuing their selfish interests by the public. Minimal, unthreatening expressions of dissent may be tolerated in ostensible 'democracies'. But public opinion needs to be managed, manipulated or, if necessary, simply ignored.
- The Palestinian Resistance is Winning
The Movement Must Expose and Defeat Netanyahu's "Final Solution" to the Palestinian Question
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2024
Published: 2024
Netanyahu makes his objectives clear. He wants a "final solution" to the Palestinian problem -- the mass annihilation of the Palestinian people. His goal is a Palestine without any Palestinians so Israel can completely occupy all of Palestine once and for all.
- Why Brazil's Lula is Right -- Israel is Behaving like Nazis
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2024
Published: 2024
I note the irony that YouTube allows unfettered access to view images of the Holocaust but tries to limit who can see similar images from Gaza. What is unfolding in Gaza is a war crime of gargantuan proportions. Israel, by its conduct, desecrates the legacy of those Jews who were exterminated by the Nazis and those who survived.
- Music and resistance after October 7
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2024
Published: 2024
Book review of Palestinian Music in Exile: Voices of Resistance by Louis Brehony
- Israel may have the least 'moral army' in the world
The rate of civilian death during Israel’s assault on Gaza has few precedents this century
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2024
Published: 2024
It is a sign of desperation that Israel and its supporters go on making the outlandish claim that the IDF is a beacon of morality. This is an indication of how isolated from world opinion, particularly in the Global South, Zionism has become. That the project is that detached from reality is a sign of its vulnerability.
- Singh's kowtowing to Israel lobby raises leadership questions
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2024
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Amidst Israel’s slaughter in Gaza, the divide between Jagmeet Singh and NDP supporters, as well as his caucus, has become glaring.
- Akram's empty chair
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2024
Published: 2024
More than 10,000 Palestinian children have been killed in just over 100 days of Israeli bombardment. That’s nearly 100 every day. Akram Abu Shammala was one of them.
- NDP, Liberals smear Palestine Demo
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2024
Published: 2024
Canada's liberal political establishment are echoing Kahanist fascists in their smears of internationalist, anti-genocide, activists.
- Zionists lead the charge to a more authoritarian Canada
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2024
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Israel supporters have become a leading fascist force in Canada. They are pushing to restrict civil liberties, dismantle democratic organizations and increase policing.
- Warsaw-Rafah: Scurrying Cockroaches
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2024
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The serial ethnic cleansings of the people of Gaza, to culminate with the expulsion of 1.4 million people trapped in Rafah (half of them children) to either al-Musawi, a forlorn desert area the size of Los Angeles Airport, or into the Egyptian Sinai, reminded me of something my late Mother once said about her experience during the Nazi holocaust: “It was not a war; it was an extermination. We were like cockroaches, scurrying this way or that whenever the light shone on us.”
- How I became a target in the gender-critical civil war
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2024
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A small faction of activists won't tolerate dissent.
- The 'Reality' around Us is Constructed by Liars: 'Journalists are War Criminals'
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2024
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- The Western Press Are Just Printing Straight Up Nazi Propaganda About Middle Easterners Now
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2024
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It sure is an interesting coincidence how all this mass media demonizing and dehumanizing of Muslim populations is happening at the exact same time the western empire is raining military explosives upon nations full of Muslims.
- E.P. Thompson, Marxist rebel
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2024
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The Little Englander still shows that socialism can have a human face.
- Quality and Propaganda
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2024
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An obviously fake video created and circulated by the Australian Jewish Association, which purported to show protesters chanting 'Gas the Jews,' received massive media coverage and went viral, even though it was immediately shown to be fake. Hundreds of mainstream journalists reported it as if it were true.
- Quality and Propaganda
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2024
Published: 2024
- Foreign spies trying to punish South Africa for taking on Israel – minister
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2024
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Pretoria’s security minister has warned of foreign meddling to punish the country over its genocide allegations
- Database exposes 500 instances of Israeli incitement to genocide in Gaza
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2024
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Europe-based NGO, Law for Palestine, unveils more than 500 cases of incitement to genocide and ethnic cleansing against Palestinians by Israeli decision-makers, lawmakers, army personnel, and intellectuals.
- France: the new authoritarian journalism
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2024
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Western media's reporting of the war in Gaza makes little pretence of impartiality. In French newsreooms and radio studios, unconditional support for Israel is the norm and part of a wider lurch to the right.
- May nation 'A' Attack Nation 'B' If 'B' is supplying Weapons Used to Attack Nation 'A'
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First Published: 2024
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- World Hijab Day: Unveiling is Strength
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This year's World Hijab Day’s theme is Veiling is Strength but it doesn’t take strength to do as you are told. The veiling of women is a religious imposition, often via force and compulsion.
- "It Surpassed Tragedy": The Horrors of Being Pregnant and Giving Birth in Gaza
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First Published: 2024
Published: 2024
Women in Gaza are giving birth in a health care system that is on the brink of collapse, with little access to prenatal or postnatal care.
- Worried About AI Voice Clone Scams? Create a Family Password
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2024
Published: 2024
Your grandfather receives a call late at night from a person pretending to be you. The caller says that you are in jail or have been kidnapped and that they need money urgently to get you out of trouble. Perhaps they then bring on a fake police officer or kidnapper to heighten the tension. The money, of course, should be wired right away to an unfamiliar account at an unfamiliar bank.
- Ottawa shrugs off ICJ genocide verdict while cutting funds to Palestinian refugees
Many Western powers are now plausibly complicit in the genocide of Palestinians
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2024
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The ICJ’s ruling puts the lie to the dominant claims by Western media and government officials that Israel is simply defending itself against terrorism, and its actions in Gaza, however excessive, are nonetheless justified. In short, the global majority has rejected the West’s framing of the Israeli war on Gaza.
- Western Media's Blackout of Israel's "Hannibal Directive"
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2024
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In the time since the October 7, 2023 invasion of Israel there have been suggestions both from within Israel and from alternative media elsewhere that Israel used a version of a military protocol known as "The Hannibal Directive" that day, and perhaps has continued to operate upon that protocol since.
- The Entry of a New German Left Party Shakes up the Country
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First Published: 2024
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Launched by Sahra Wagenknecht and her allies, a new left party is proposing a different direction for Germany.
- The olive tree, symbol of Palestine and mute victim of Israel’s war on Gaza
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2024
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The loss of these steadfast companions has left deep scars on the hearts of many Palestinians in Gaza.
- Prominent lawyer says Israel's war on Gaza is 'The Most Moral War in Human History'
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First Published: 2024
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Dimitri Lascaris responds to two high-profile supporters of Israel’s war on Gaza.
- Gaza - A Brutal Demonstration Of 'Western Values'
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2024
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Displaced children having their faces painted ahead of New Year celebrations at an UNRWA school in Deir al-Balah, Gaza.
- Jeremy Brecher on How Labor and Climate Movements Build Power from Below
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First Published: 2024
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Author, labour historian and activist Jeremy Brecher has been engaged at the intersection of labour, the environment, and the climate for decades. We talk with Jeremy about strikes, unions, and union leadership, the labour-climate movements and much more.
- 'Extremists stoking rage': The German government seeks to downplay protesting workers' plight
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First Published: 2024
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Farmers, truckers, train drivers – numerous workers are making it known that they are fed up, as the chancellor’s approval drops to 20%.
- Strike threat over claim pro-Israeli lobby forced out Australian journalist
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First Published: 2024
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Australia’s national broadcaster is under fire amid claims that pro-Israel lobbyists forced the sacking of a broadcaster.
- Namibia condemns Germany for defending Israel in ICJ genocide case
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First Published: 2024
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Namibia has criticised Germany's "shocking decision" to support Israel in the genocide case at the International Court of Justice (ICJ) brought by South Africa, as Israel's war on Gaza entered its 100th day.
- R.I.P. Gonzalo Lira: Journalist 'Died' In Ukrainian Prison
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2024
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Journalist Gonzalo Lira died in a Ukrainian prison, where his health was allowed to deteriorate and he was dened access to health care.
- John Pilger - 'A Majority Of One
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First Published: 2024
Published: 2024
- At least 33 Canadian churches have burned to the ground since May 2021. So far, 24 are confirmed arsons
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First Published: 2024
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CBC investigation finds steep rise in church fires since reports of potential graves at residential schools.
- Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - January 7, 2024
Bearing witness
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 2024
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- Remains from 'ancient' Indigenous burial ground found in North Riverdale
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First Published: 2024
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Remains found near Withrow Avenue Junior Public School, which sits on a site of Indigenous encampments.
- Guilty as Charged
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First Published: 2024
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This is a hallmark crossroad: a generational test of time and purpose and a profound challenge for all those yet to come. In the presence of indisputable overwhelming evidence of war crimes, genocide and crimes against humanity, we are painfully, perhaps predictably, witness to collective inaction by the United Nations and other international bodies and tribunals that preach from on high while perched as little more than silent witness to unspeakable Israeli crimes.
- Heads of 17 Canadian environmental charities collecting major compensation packages
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First Published: 2024
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A small group of leaders of Canadian charities in the environment, conservation, and animal protection sectors are taking home compensation packages equivalent to, and in some cases higher than, the salaries of provincial premiers.
- Israel's lebensraum master plan for Gaza, borrowed from the Nazi’s depopulation of Jewish ghettos, is clear. Destroy infrastructure, medical facilities and sanitatio
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First Published: 2024
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Israel's lebensraum master plan for Gaza, borrowed from the Nazi’s depopulation of Jewish ghettos, is clear. Destroy infrastructure, medical facilities and sanitation, including access to clean water. Block shipments of food and fuel. Unleash indiscriminate industrial violence to kill and wound hundreds a day.
- Connexions List of Perfect People
A list of perfect people - with photos and accounts of their lives
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First Published: 2024
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As a service to those offended by imperfections in other human beings, Connexions has compiled a list of perfect people, people who never said or did anything for which they could be criticized.
- Ernest Edward Hobbs
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2024
Published: 2024
Obituary of Ernie Hobbs, 1948-2024
- Letter to my tribe
Resource Type: Film/Video
First Published: 2024
Published: 2024
- Media Literacy Guide
How to Detect Bias in News Media
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2024
Published: 2024
- Peter Rosenthal
Connexipedia article
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First Published: 2024
Published: 2024
- Theaters of War
Resource Type: Film/Video
First Published: 2024
Published: 2024
Traveling across America, filmmaker and media scholar Roger Stahl engages an array of other researchers, bewildered veterans, PR insiders, and industry producers willing to talk. In unsettling and riveting detail, he discovers how the military and CIA have pushed official narratives while systematically scrubbing scripts of war crimes, corruption, racism, sexual assault, coups, assassinations, and torture.
- Tourism Degrowth Manifesto
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2024
Published: 2024
A 13-point manifesto from Spain, published in 2024, calling for tourism degrowth. The original version, in Catalan and with a preamble, can be found at: https://assembleabarris.wordpress.com/manifest-pel-decreixement-turistic/
- True or Not
Resource Type: Film/Video
First Published: 2024
Published: 2024
Is international real?
- Ukraine between war and peace
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2024
Published: 2024
Interview with Ret. Col. Jacques Baud.
- Warum Gendersprache scheitern wird
Resource Type: Film/Video
First Published: 2024
Published: 2024
- The West agonises over an 'atrocity upsurge' while backing Israel's genocide in Gaza
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2024
Published: 2024
The problem isn't 'global inaction' to prevent mass atrocities, as the Guardian claims. It's intense US and UK support for atrocities so long as they bolster their global power
- CBC Radio badly off track with too much personal storytelling
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First Published: 2024
Published: 2024
I'm not surprised that many of my friends have abandoned CBC Radio. I think traditional listeners are leaving in droves. CBC Radio is fixated on building an audience by providing trivial, entertainment-like. For many managers, numbers are more important than content.
- Ukraine Timeline Tells the Story
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2023
Published: 2025
Without historical context, which has been buried by corporate media, it's impossible to understand Ukraine.
- At the Onset of the 'Sixties' Radicalization
My Youthful Year in Germany 1961-62
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2023
Published: 2024
In June 1961, with the aid of a modest bequest and encouragement from a number of European student friends, I left my home in Toronto and set out for a year of study in Germany.
- The Cost of Bearing Witness
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2023
Published: 2023
There are scores of Palestinian writers and photographers, many of whom have been killed, who are determined to make us see the horror of this genocide. They will vanquish the lies of the killers.
- 'Are we the baddies?'
Western support for genocide in Gaza means the answer is yes
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2023
Published: 2023
The desperate smear campaign to defend Israel's crimes highlights the toxic brew of lies that's been underpinning the liberal democratic order for decades.
- On Zionist feelings
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2023
Published: 2023
The feelings and fragility of Zionists are used as a rhetorical shield to deflect from the reality of Palestinian genocide. I refuse to provide reassurances to placate and soothe Zionist political anxieties.
- The Jewish establishment’s blindness to Palestinian slaughter also hurts U.S. Jews
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2023
Published: 2023
Israel's racism against Palestinians has subsumed official Jewish life. American Jews have abandoned their best traditions out of deference to a militant state that exists in constant fear of those it subjugates.
- The anatomy of Zionist genocide
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First Published: 2023
Published: 2023
What are the motivations behind Israel's genocidal acts in Gaza, and what is the way forward?
- The Death of Israel
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2023
Published: 2023
Settler colonial states have a terminal shelf life. Israel is no exception.
- Hamas 'mass rape' claim lacks evidence. But it's being used to justify genocide
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2023
Published: 2023
Claims of systematic rape on October 7 appeal to a racist trope of the savage, predatory Arab. Which is why western politicians and media are so unconcerned by the dearth of evidence.
- The Obamas' "Rustin"
Fun Tricks You Can Do on the Past
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First Published: 2023
Published: 2023
When I learned that the Obamas were producing a biopic on Bayard Rustin, I shuddered a bit in apprehension of what such a project would be.
- Witnesses Say IDF Troops 'Executed' Women and Children in Gaza School
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First Published: 2023
Published: 2023
Eyewitness testimony reported Wednesday by Al Jazeera accused Israeli troops of massacring forcibly displaced women and children sheltering at a school in northern Gaza. The reported massacre took place at the Shadia Abu Ghazala School in the al-Faluja area west of the Jabalia refugee camp in the northern Gaza Strip. Video footage aired by the Qatar-based news network showed numerous covered bodies piled in one of the school’s classrooms.
- Death and Destruction in Gaza
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2023
Published: 2023
What Israel is doing in Gaza to the Palestinian civilian population – with the support of the Biden administration – is a crime against humanity that serves no meaningful military purpose.
- Democracy denied: A sinister force controls the US presidential debates
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First Published: 2023
Published: 2023
A commission run by the Republicans and the Democrats gatekeeps third-party and independent runners from the public eye.
- 'The Holodomor': How Ukraine distorted the history of a tragic Soviet famine to help build its modern national myth
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First Published: 2023
Published: 2023
Ukrainian propagandists have presented the Holodomor as a deliberate genocide against Ukrainians, organized by the Soviet government in the Ukrainian SSR.
- Ukrainian trial demonstrates 2014 Maidan massacre was false flag
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First Published: 2023
Published: 2023
A massacre of protesters during the 2014 Maidan coup set the stage for the ouster of Ukraine’s elected president, Viktor Yanukovych. Now, an explosive trial in Kiev has produced evidence the killings were a false flag designed to trigger regime change.
- A List Of Some People In Canada Fired For Pro-Palestine Views
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2023
Published: 2023
- What sort of 'caring' do Zionist medical faculty at U of T teach?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2023
Published: 2023
An exaggerated sense of self-importance and entitlement, hubris, chutzpah, racism while claiming victimhood and massively flawed thinking are the descriptors that come to mind when considering the 555 doctors at the U of T who signed an Open Statement to the University of Toronto Faculty of Medicine.
- Genocide - The Gaze From The Abyss
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First Published: 2023
Published: 2023
We lampooned the claim that although journalists are 'working within profit-maximising, billionaire-owned, advertiser-dependent, government-subsidised media, they are nevertheless exposing "disinformation" without the slightest trace of bias.
- A Brief History of the Prison for Women (P4W)
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First Published: 2023
Published: 2024
- How Israel uses an AI genocide program to obliterate Gaza
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2023
Published: 2023
It should already have been evident from the scale of death and destruction inflicted on Gaza over the past eight weeks that Israel was implementing a policy of ethnic cleansing and genocide against Palestinians in the besieged enclave.
- Reisman should not get tax credit for funding Israel army
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First Published: 2023
Published: 2023
As part of pushing back against the police and York's overreach we should be pressing the CRA to revoke the charitable status of Reisman and husband Gerry Schwartz' Heseg Foundation for lone soldiers.
- Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - December 2, 2023
Toward the light
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 2023
Published: 2023
Most of us no longer celebrate the ancient festivals, but many of us - countless thousands - have been asserting our own desire and determination to create light in the darkness by going out into the streets and making our voices heard. This issue of Other Voices looks at challenges we face, asks questions about what we should do, and looks to the past, as well as what is happening now, for ideas about how to move forward.
- 'I am not an anti-Semite': Pro-Palestine artists cancelled across Europe
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First Published: 2023
Published: 2023
A celebrated Bangladeshi photojournalist, Palestinian filmmaker, and US author warn that cultural spaces are at risk of repression.
- 'A mass assassination factory': Inside Israel's calculated bombing of Gaza
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2023
Published: 2023
Permissive airstrikes on non-military targets and the use of an artificial intelligence system have enabled the Israeli army to carry out its deadliest war on Gaza, a +972 and Local Call investigation reveals.
- How I survive: a 7-year-old's life in Gaza
Resource Type: Film/Video
First Published: 2023
Published: 2023
Day-in-the-life video of seven-year-old Lina and her family in central Gaza.
- Turning innocence into resistance
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2023
Published: 2023
With every murderous crime, new fuel is poured on the fire of resistance, which every traumatized child like Salma carries in their young heart. Resistance may be all she has in the end. When the suffering is endless, it binds one generation’s suffering to the next. This is why many Palestinians may die, but our children will never forget.
- Second Nakba; Same Israeli Lies; Same Western Narrative
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2023
Published: 2023
Israel is openly carrying out ethnic cleansing inside Gaza and yet, just as during the first 'Nakba,' Israel's lies and deceptions dominate the West's media and political narrative.
- Deep Throat Does LA: 50 Years of Sex, Cinema, Politics & Controversy
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First Published: 2023
Published: 2023
- IDF Knew Real Hamas HQ While Lying About al-Shifa
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2023
Published: 2023
While telling the world that Hamas HQ was under al-Shifa Hospital, the IDF had already found the actual command center 8.5km away.
- Israel's War on Hospitals
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2023
Published: 2023
Israel is carrying out a campaign to make Gaza uninhabitable. This campaign includes destroying all of Gaza's hospitals. The message Israel is sending is clear. Nowhere is safe. If you stay you die. Israel is not attacking hospitals in Gaza because they are 'Hamas command centers.' Israel is systematically and deliberately destroying Gaza's medical infrastructure as part of a scorched earth campaign to make Gaza uninhabitable and escalate a humanitarian crisis. It intends to force 2.3 million Palestinians over the border into Egypt where they will never return.
- Doctor suspended from U of O residency after pro-Palestinian social media posts
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First Published: 2023
Published: 2023
A petition is calling for the reinstatement of a doctor who says he was suspended from his medical residency at the University of Ottawa after posting pro-Palestinian messages on social media that were also critical of Israel. Dr. Yipeng Ge has posted multiple times on social media supporting the Palestinian cause, including by criticizing what he calls "apartheid upon Palestinian people" and "settler colonialism."
- Israel and its allies are repurposing the goals and lies of 1948 -- in Gaza in 2023
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2023
Published: 2023
- US Shared Location of Aid Groups With Israel. Israel Bombed Them Anyway.
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First Published: 2023
Published: 2023
POLITICO reports that the US has been sharing with Israel the location of humanitarian groups in Gaza in an attempt to prevent strikes on the sites. But Israel has been bombing them anyway.
- Why does Israel target Palestinian hospitals?
Targeting hospitals is psychological warfare Israel can get away with with the US's tacit approval, say analysts
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2023
Published: 2023
Six weeks into its war on Gaza, Israel's attacks on hospitals have emerged almost as a motif of the conflict, even though refugee camps, schools and churches have not been spared either. At least 21 of Gaza’s 35 hospitals -- including the strip's solo cancer centre -- are completely out of service, and others have been damaged and are short of medicines and essential supplies.
- No Room at the Inn for Roger Waters
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First Published: 2023
Published: 2023
The rocker's Buenos Aires and Montevideo hotel rooms were canceled because he opposes genocide in Gaza, so he must fly in from Brazil each night for his concerts.
- From Gaza With Rage
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First Published: 2023
Published: 2023
I have always signed my letters to supporters and friends from around the world with these words, "From Gaza with Love." But today I'm writing with a rage that no mother should know, a rage of desperation and disbelief about what is being allowed to happen. I still feel love for everyone in Palestine, and people who have stood in support and solidarity of our shared struggle. But please, take action. And then do more. We must stop this genocide.
- The War Machine Wants You to Condemn Hamas
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First Published: 2023
Published: 2023
The act of condemnation has been cynically weaponised, writes Jonathan Cook. The aim is not to show solidarity with Israelis. It's to fan the flames of hatred to rationalise crimes against Palestinians.
- Activating the Genocide Convention
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First Published: 2023
Published: 2023
There is no doubt that Israel's actions amount to genocide. Numerous international law experts have said so and genocidal intent has been directly expressed by numerous Israeli ministers, generals and public officials. I can see no room to doubt whatsoever that Israel's current campaign of bombing of civilians and of the deprivation of food, water and other necessities of life to Palestinians amounts to genocide.
- Israel Lobby's Disastrous Domination
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First Published: 2023
Published: 2023
AIPAC has involved the U.S. in a revolting crime against humanity that will almost certainly undermine American security at home and abroad. It must be broken.
- When claims of 'antisemitism' are racist and antisemitic
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First Published: 2023
Published: 2023
Claims that calling out someone who uses their vast wealth to support a military slaughtering thousands of Palestinian children is antisemitism are nonsense. Worse, they destroy the original meaning of the term antisemitism. Judge people by what they do, not who they are, has always been good advice and a longstanding principle of civil rights movements everywhere.
- ADL Data on the rise of anti-semitism doesn't add up
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First Published: 2023
Published: 2023
A new, highly publicized report from the Anti-Defamation League claims that anti-Semitic incidents across the United States have skyrocketed by more than 400%. But these ADL numbers do not add up -- unless one equates opposition to the Israeli bombardment of Gaza with hatred of Jews.
- Karriere mit links
Warum die Krise der Linkspartei auch eine Krise des Parteiensystems ist
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First Published: 2023
Published: 2023
- Canada is a wholly owned subsidiary of Benjamin Netanyahu and company
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First Published: 2023
Published: 2023
It is clear that Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and his diplomats care more about satisfying Israel's requests than attending to the dire circumstances of hundreds of Canadian citizens in Gaza.
- 'I want my legs back': the child amputees of Gaza's war
The child amputees of Gaza's war
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First Published: 2023
Published: 2023
The horrific impact of Israel's genocidal attack on Gaza on the children of Gaza.
- Israeli Minister: Nuking Gaza Is An Option
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First Published: 2023
Published: 2023
Israel's far-right Heritage Minister Amichai Eliyahu said on November 5, 2023 that one of Israel's options against the Hamas Movement was to drop a nuclear bomb on the Gaza Strip.
- Gaza 2023: Dehumanization and humanity
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First Published: 2023
Published: 2023
A hyper-militarized state, with a 75-year track record of ethnic cleansing, extreme violence, and violating international law with total impunity, is now crossing the final red line. We are witnessing genocide.
- Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - November 4, 2023
Gaza: Dehumanization and humanity
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First Published: 2023
Published: 2023
On Israel's genocidal attack on Gaza, October-November 2023.
- A Dangerous Conflation
An open letter from Jewish writers
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First Published: 2023
Published: 2023
A group of Jewish writers drafted this letter after seeing an old argument gain new power: the claim that critiquing Israel is antisemitic. The writers share this letter in solidarity with those who continue to speak out in support of Palestinian freedom.
- What the BBC fails to tell you about October 7 [2023]
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First Published: 2023
Published: 2023
It is journalistic malpractice for the media to still be repeating so credulously the Israeli military's account of that day.
- No Country Has a "Right to Exist"
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First Published: 2023
Published: 2023
No country has a 'right to exist.' After all, what is a country -- or, in more precise terminology, a state -- other than a political arrangement? And why would any political arrangement be deemed as having 'rights,' much less a supposed right to never be altered or cancelled?
- The Genocidal Language Behind Israel's Intent in Gaza
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First Published: 2023
Published: 2023
Long before October 7, 2023, the Zionist-Israeli discourse was always that of racism, dehumanization, erasure and, at times, outright genocide.
- October 7 testimonies reveal Israel's military 'shelling' Israeli citizens with tanks, missiles
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First Published: 2023
Published: 2023
Israel's military received orders to shell Israeli homes and even their own bases as they were overwhelmed by Hamas militants on October 7. How many Israeli citizens said to have been 'burned alive' were actually killed by friendly fire?
- Brief History of Israel-Palestine Conflict
Teach-In on Gaza, Israel, and Hamas
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First Published: 2023
Published: 2023
- From the Gazan Laboratory to the World's Borders
A Conversation with Jeff Halper
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First Published: 2023
Published: 2023
The acclaimed Israeli author and anthropologist explains how Israel has become an enforcer for fortress Global North, selling systems of control first developed in the Palestinian Occupied Territories.
- Germany's Ban on Public Solidarity With Palestine
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First Published: 2023
Published: 2023
While other European countries are witnessing mass protests in solidarity with Palestine, Germany has been policing such scenes off its streets.
- The fall of Scientific American
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First Published: 2023
Published: 2023
When its articles touch on questions of gender and biological sex, Scientific American seems to have abandoned objective facts entirely, in favour of trans-activist pseudoscience.
- Incredibly, I Face Investigation for Terrorism - Defence Funds Appeal
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First Published: 2023
Published: 2023
My phone is not being returned to me by police as, astonishingly, I am now formally under investigation for terrorism. Whether this relates to support for Palestine or for Wikileaks has currently not been made clear.
- Israel is caught lying time and again. And yet we never learn
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First Published: 2023
Published: 2023
Disinformation over the blast at Gaza's al-Ahli hospital worked as planned, taking the focus off the victims and lifting pressure on Israel to stop its rampage.
- Our Responsibility to End the Cycle of Violence
A Call for Justice and Change
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First Published: 2023
Published: 2023
Truth telling and pointing out colonial structures of power and oppression has always been our mission, and so it remains. Because as long as those structures remain, nobody can live in true safety.
- Dehistoricizing October 7
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First Published: 2023
Published: 2023
The Israeli historian explains the history essential to understanding the current attacks on Gaza and the danger of suppressing that history.
- Ontario NDP kicks Hamilton MPP Sarah Jama from caucus after controversial Gaza comments
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First Published: 2023
Published: 2023
Ontario New Democrats have kicked Hamilton Centre MPP Sarah Jama out of caucus, nearly two weeks after she posted a controversial statement in support of Palestinians. NDP Leader Marit Stiles said in a statement Monday that while the caucus allows different viewpoints, some of Jama's actions since making her comments "have contributed to unsafe work environments for staff."
- The only word that does not fail me now: "Gaza!"
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First Published: 2023
Published: 2023
Let's not try to apply logic to the Gaza wound and call ourselves a civilized world.
- Writing while expecting to die
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First Published: 2023
Published: 2023
"Can you kindly publish the attached stories if I die?" This is what we have been hearing from the young writers we work with from Gaza in the We Are Not Numbers project.
- Israel's ambassador pushes to shut down pro-Palestinian activism
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First Published: 2023
Published: 2023
Israel wants Canada to criminalize growing displays of solidarity with Palestinians.
- The Maidan Massacre, Censorship & Ukraine
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First Published: 2023
Published: 2023
Natylie Baldwin interviews Ivan Katchanovski, a Canadian-Ukrainian professor whose research focuses on the Ukraine coup of 2014 and the killing that year of protesters in Kiev.
- Ontario doctor suspended, his address published after pro-Palestinian social media posts
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First Published: 2023
Published: 2023
An Ontario doctor has been suspended from his job, threatened and had his address shared online after he posted pro-Palestinian views on social media.
- A Reading List for the Delhi Police
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First Published: 2023
Published: 2023
When they raided the Tricontinental Research Services' office in early October, investigators took, among other things, 12 dossiers featured here. Vijay Prashad recommends they study them all.
- Scapegoating Politics: How Fascism Deploys Race, and How Antiracism Takes the Bait
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First Published: 2023
Published: 2023
Race-reductionist explanations and simplistic historical analogies are counterproductive as a politics because they fail to provide a basis for challenging the looming authoritarian threat.
- Israel's Culture of Deceit
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First Published: 2023
Published: 2023
Israel, which always seeks to blame Palestinians for the atrocities it carries out, is the least trustworthy source about the bombing of the hospital in Gaza.
- Israeli forces shot their own civilians, kibbutz survivor says
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First Published: 2023
Published: 2023
The Electronic Intifada is now able to publish the entire interview with Yasmin Porat, the Kibbutz Be'eri survivor who told Israeli radio that Israeli security forces 'undoubtedly' killed a large number of their own civilians following the Hamas assault on 7 October 2023.
- Western media's parroting of official lies is paving way to genocide in Gaza
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First Published: 2023
Published: 2023
Disinformation campaigns are one of the chief battlefields in any war - something any serious journalist is only too aware of. And western powers and their allies have an appalling track record of lying to their own medias.
- Canada's complicity with crimes against humanity in Gaza
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First Published: 2023
Published: 2023
Melanie Joly traveled to Israel to support its genocidal policies in Gaza. The trip will go down as one of the more shameful moments in Canada's odious anti-Palestinian history.
- Letter From the Gazan Prison
Gaza Is a Prison Under Siege. This Is My Letter to the World Outside.
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First Published: 2023
Published: 2023
Ahmed Abu Artema, a founder of the Great March of Return, on facing Israel's genocidal assault on Gaza.
- List of war crimes and crimes qualifying as genocide committed by Israel in Gaza since 7th October 2023
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First Published: 2023
Published: 2023
Defenders of Israel's bombing and invasion of Gaza have challenged me to offer a 'chapter-and-verse' list of war crimes that Israel has committed since the Hamas Offensive of 7th October. Here is an indicative, but not exhaustive, list.
- What the media forgets to tell you about Israel and Gaza
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First Published: 2023
Published: 2023
Ignore the fake news. Israel isn't defending itself. It's enforcing its right to continue ethnically cleansing Palestinians.
- On Western media and the erasure of Palestine
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First Published: 2023
Published: 2023
The Palestinian struggle brings to the forefront the colonial relations that underpin today's world, and that the West, and its media, work tirelessly to hide.
- Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - October 14, 2023
Fading to Silence?
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First Published: 2023
Published: 2023
Fading to silence, as well as the more active and deliberate silencing of dissenting views, is the theme of this issue of Other Voices.
- A bookstore moment
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First Published: 2023
Published: 2023
When the world seems too much to handle, as it does these days, I sometimes seek solace in a bookstore.
- Fascism in the West to Enable Genocide in Palestine
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First Published: 2023
Published: 2023
The UK and the US are both sending military assistance to Israel to commit a calculated and deliberate act of genocide, which is already underway.
- History of the Gaza Strip
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First Published: 2023
Published: 2023
Maha Nassar provides historical context to the current violence in the densely populated and besieged enclave.
- Lawless in Gaza: Why the West Backs Israel No Matter What
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First Published: 2023
Published: 2023
As Western politicians line up to cheer on Israel as it starves and bombs Gaza's civilians, it's important to understand how we reached this point -- and what it means for the future.
- The Blood of Gaza Is on the West's Hands as Much as Israel's
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First Published: 2023
Published: 2023
Israel is on the rampage again and Gaza's population is facing a quiet, slow path to erasure. The ones funding it and enabling it are the US and its European allies.
- West lets Israel get away with genocide
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First Published: 2023
Published: 2023
As the world stands aside, preparing to applaud genocide, the entire structure of the so-called post-World War II rules-based order is being reduced to rubble.
- Why isn't cheering Israel's bombing of civilians a hate crime?
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First Published: 2023
Published: 2023
During its decade and a half siege, Israel's military has killed more than 5,000 Palestinians in Gaza. Over the past four days the nuclear armed state has killed over 2,500 Palestinians, including 260 children. Alongside its onslaught on Gaza, Israel has also bombed Lebanon, Syria and Egypt over the past 48 hours. Yet it's those who have been rallying against Canada's contribution to the racist, colonial enterprise who are being declared criminals by crazed politicians and supporters of the apartheid state.
- The Gaza Ghetto Uprising
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First Published: 2023
Published: 2023
From the Warsaw Ghetto uprising to the Gaza Ghetto uprising, the basic situation is the same: If half-starving people with no clean water or the ability to travel outside of their ghetto launch any kind of uprising, the obvious context is the fact that they were under siege, living in a walled ghetto, prevented from importing the things they need to survive and prevented from traveling. This is the obvious reason for any people living in such conditions to rise up against their occupying power. But instead, we are fed a narrative that begins with the ghetto uprising, without any explanation for the basic nature of the situation, that is, that an occupying army is forcing people to live and starve in a walled ghetto.
- Now We Have Your Attention
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First Published: 2023
Published: 2023
There have been decades of photos of dead Palestinian women and children, and kids being beaten, humilated and imprisoned by Israeli soldiers. The historic killing rate in this 'conflict' has been fairly consistent at about 40:1.
- Palestinians Speak Israel's Language
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First Published: 2023
Published: 2023
Israel follows the colonial playbook. Death for death. Atrocity for atrocity. But it is always the occupier who initiates this macabre dance and trades piles of corpses for higher piles of corpses.
- We're facing unprecedented horror. Why is Biden adding fuel to the fire?
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First Published: 2023
Published: 2023
With the climate in Israel-Palestine reviving the fears of May 2021, the U.S. should be preventing further massacres, not allowing Israel to take revenge.
- Woke and war-crazed: Why Western liberals support Ukraine's atrocities
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First Published: 2023
Published: 2023
Being compelled to believe untruths, and indeed obvious untruths which you know in your heart are untrue, and then living your life as if these untruths are true, can have a morally corrosive effect and prime you to conform with terrible crimes.
- Our job is to oppose the U.S.-NATO Empire
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First Published: 2023
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The U.S.-NATO empire is the main enemy for those of us who live in that empire. That empire is far and away the main enemy of peace, and of working people, in the world today.
- Resistance to Ukraine occupation good, Palestine bad: politicians
Jewish suffering matters to Canadian politicians. Palestinian suffering doesn't.
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First Published: 2023
Published: 2023
Soon after the resistance broke through their cage in Gaza, the leaders of Canada's four main federal parties condemned the Palestinians. The same politicians who cheer on resistance to Russia's invasion of Ukraine denounce Palestinian fighters who captured Israeli tanks, soldiers and bases, all instruments of an illegal ongoing occupation of United Nations recognized Palestinian territory and the colonial blockade of Gaza.
- War as an 'Investment': The Bizarre Business-Speak of Mass Killing
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First Published: 2023
Published: 2023
Did you know the Russia-Ukraine War is a great 'investment' for the United States? A terrific opportunity to kill lots of Russians and to destroy lots of their military equipment at a relatively cheap cost to us? War as an 'investment' truly symbolizes the moral bankruptcy of conventional discourse in the U.S. political mainstream. Instead of war being a calamity, a catastrophe, a realm of death and destruction, dare I say even a mortal sin of grievous evil, we're told that instead it's an investment that's paying dividends, especially in that growth stock known as Ukraine.
- Define 'Nazi': Western media muddies history to cover up Canada's SS scandal
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First Published: 2023
Published: 2023
"Fighting against the USSR didn't necessarily make you a Nazi," Politico says. Maybe. But Yaroslav Hunka definitely was one.
- The Many Lessons of Ukraine War
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First Published: 2023
Published: 2023
Combatting Russia to the last Ukrainian was always an odious strategy.
- Why Mass Movements Fail
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First Published: 2023
Published: 2023
The wave of global popular protests that erupted in 2010 and lasted a decade were extinguished, meaning new tactics and strategies are required, as Vincent Bevins explains in his book If We Burn.
- No 'End of History' in Ukraine
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First Published: 2023
Published: 2023
Francis Fukuyama's triumphalist post-Cold War vision of liberal democracy - published in 1989 - had a major blindspot. It omitted history.
- Honored Nazi Exposes Canada's Longstanding Ukraine Policy
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First Published: 2023
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By celebrating a Waffen-SS volunteer as a 'hero,' Canada's Liberal Party highlighted a longstanding policy that has seen Ottawa train fascist militants in Ukraine while welcoming in thousands of post-war Nazi SS veterans.
- I Was the Only U.S. Official Imprisoned Over the Torture Program - Because I Opposed It
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First Published: 2023
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The only person associated with the CIA's global torture program who was prosecuted and imprisoned was the man who blew the whistle on it - John Kiriakou.
- UK and Israel: Has the fightback against weaponised antisemitism begun?
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First Published: 2023
Published: 2023
Jews in the Labour party and academics are finally exposing the UK establishment’s smear campaign to silence criticism of Israel and destroy the left.
- I've been cancelled for standing up to racial identity politics
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First Published: 2023
Published: 2023
An education conference has disinvited me because my presence would make speakers feel 'unsafe'.
- The Need To Replace The Existing U.S.-Government-Controlled Web
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First Published: 2023
Published: 2023
The U.S. Government controls the Web; and this means that it also indirectly controls the news-media.
- US Can't Deal with Defeat
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First Published: 2023
Published: 2023
In the U.S., the strongest collective memory of America’s wars of choice is the desirability -- and ease -- of forgetting them. So it will be when we look at a ruined Ukraine in the rear-view mirror.
- Big Tech must not be judge, jury and executioner
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First Published: 2023
Published: 2023
YouTube's clampdown on Russell Brand is an affront to due process.
- Only women can get pregnant
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First Published: 2023
Published: 2023
The GMC and the NHS are promoting gender pseudo-science. The idea that men can also get pregnant, or have periods and go through the menopause, is the sort of bonkers thing you might expect to hear from a students' union, not from respected medical professionals.
- Zelensky's terror team: Why the West looks the other way when Ukraine's secret murder squad kills journalists and activists
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First Published: 2023
Published: 2023
Threats and tactics that would be instantly labeled unacceptable against any other country get a pass when applied to Russians.
- The Slow Motion Execution of Julian Assange
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First Published: 2023
Published: 2023
- Hyping Ukraine Counteroffensive, US Press Chose Propaganda Over Journalism
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First Published: 2023
Published: 2023
It has been clear for some time that US corporate news media have explicitly taken a side on the Ukraine War. This role includes suppressing relevant history of the lead-up to the war, attacking people who bring up that history as 'conspiracy theorists', accepting official government pronouncements at face value, and promoting an overly rosy picture of the conflict in order to boost morale. For most of the war, most of the US coverage has been as pro-Ukrainian as Ukraine's own media, now consolidated under the Zelenskyy government.
- Ukraine's worst enemies are those who demand Russia's strategic defeat
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First Published: 2023
Published: 2023
- Why the media aren’t telling the whole story of Libya’s floods
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First Published: 2023
Published: 2023
There are reasons for Libya's 'chaotic', 'dysfunctional' response to the disaster. And to identify them, we need to look closer to home.
- 'Empty shelves with absolutely no books': Students, parents question school board's library weeding process
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First Published: 2023
Published: 2023
In a mindless outbreak of wokeness, a major school board removes books from library shelves en masse -- not to replace them with new books, but to replace them with -- nothing.
- Georgia's RICO Law Is in the News -- but Its Use to Silence Protesters Gets a Pass
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First Published: 2023
Published: 2023
Georgia’s RICO (Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations) law, modeled on the federal statute designed to attack mob bosses, has been in the news a lot, ever since Fulton County, Georgia, District Attorney Fani Willis used Georgia's law to charge former President Donald Trump and his associates with attempting to overturn the results of the 2020 election.
- NATO Now Acknowledges That Western Media Lie About Ukraine's War
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First Published: 2023
Published: 2023
On September 7th [2023], NATO's Secretary General, Jens Stoltenberg, acknowledged that the war in Ukraine did not start on 24 February 2022 when Russia invaded Ukraine, like Western 'news'-media say, but much earlier, in 2014, and that Russia's invasion in 2022 resulted from NATO's efforts to bring Ukraine into NATO and to bring NATO's military forces closer to Russia's borders.
- Will Ukraine's Western Apologists Finally Admit the Truth?
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First Published: 2023
Published: 2023
Western political leaders and their media sycophants ignore mounting evidence about the corrupt, brutal, and authoritarian nature of Ukraine's government. Ukraine is now a 'democracy' in which the press is strictly censored, opposition media banned entirely, opposition political parties are outlawed, a longstanding major church is being harassed and silenced, and torture and assassinations have become routine.
- For Gaza's children, sleep brings only nightmares
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First Published: 2023
Published: 2023
Repeated Israeli aggressions take a terrible toll on the mental health of Gazan children.
- Surrogacy: Human right, or just wrong?
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First Published: 2023
Published: 2023
Whether it is altruistic or for-profit, surrogacy is exploitation -- it turns the female body into a commodity for hire. Those gushing about the joy surrogacy brings to the lives of commissioning parents, and claiming it is a 'human right' to have a biological child, should take some time to consider the many wrongs being done to the women used as surrogates.
- The EU's best weapon against free speech isn't working
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First Published: 2023
Published: 2023
The European Union has just realized that it can't rule the internet with an iron fist by throwing around the 'Kremlin propaganda' label.
- Progressive virtue, performed in public
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First Published: 2023
Published: 2023
Wokeness, however it is defined, has more in common with a religious mindset than a political project, says Ian Buruma.
- Southfront blocked by U.S.-controlled global Internet supervisor
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First Published: 2023
Published: 2023
On the night of 18 August [2023], the "international domain name registry" blocked southfront.org without any warning or explanation. Despite the fact that this organisation has been formally independent since 1998, it is actually controlled by the US Department of Commerce. What they have done is an unprecedented action in the history of modern information society. This is the American way of democracy, freedom of speech and the rule of law.
- Gofundme freezes Grayzone fundraiser 'due to some external concerns'
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First Published: 2023
Published: 2023
Another attack on left media.
- Forest carbon offsets, supposedly worth billions, have no climate benefit
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First Published: 2023
Published: 2023
REDD projects combine false emission claims, worthless credits and human rights abuses.
- Blowing up pipelines won't save the planet
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First Published: 2023
Published: 2023
A review of the film "How to Blow up a Pipeline" that is critical of the film's message: The review argues that sabotage may be exciting and personally satisfying … but it can’t defeat capital’s colossal power.
- ‘You have occupied the territory, now what?’
Resource Type: Film/Video
First Published: 2023
Published: 2023
Movie review of The First 54 Years: An Abbreviated Manual for Military Occupation directed by Avi Moghrabi
- YouTube bans Scott Ritter
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2023
Published: 2023
YouTube has terminated the account of former US intelligence officer Scott Ritter and deleted all of his videos on the platform.
- The 'hanging libraries' of Nigeria: How a book drive is exciting pupils
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First Published: 2023
Published: 2023
The quality of basic education is on a decline in Nigerian public schools. One volunteer book drive wants to halt that.
- JK Rowling scrubbed from Harry Potter exhibit over trans stance
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First Published: 2023
Published: 2023
The Museum of Pop Culture in Seattle has removed any references to Harry Potter author JK Rowling from an exhibition celebrating the fictional wizard.
- Myths and reality about the Ukraine war
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First Published: 2023
Published: 2023
How one views the war depends very much on the starting point of one's analysis.
- Forgotten Victims of America's Class War
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First Published: 2023
Published: 2023
Once the jobs left and Democrats abandoned working men and women, people became desperate in the author's hometown in Maine - as in tens of thousands of white, rural enclaves across the country.
- Modern Life
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2023
Published: 2023
Trying to collect on an insurance claim -- and finding it impossible to know what insurance company one is dealing with. This is just a small personal story, but it seems to illustrate how impossible it has become for ordinary people to interact effectively with the hypercapitalism that orders so much of our lives.
- The Lies that Launched Black Lives Matter (and other "movements")
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First Published: 2023
Published: 2023
- Beware the Righteous
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First Published: 2023
Published: 2023
There is nothing more dangerous that the inability to see that it is reasonable for others to have a different view or interest.
- 'Africa is fighting, Africa will win': How Soviet art supported the decolonization of the 'Dark Continent'
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First Published: 2023
Published: 2023
The liberation of Africa from the oppression of Western colonizers in the 1960s became one of the main themes of Soviet propaganda posters.
- NATO does not, and never did, 'defend' democracy
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First Published: 2023
Published: 2023
Its record demonstrates that NATO is not a consensual, popular alliance to defend democracy. NATO is not only a hazard to peace, it is also a threat to democracy.
- Opposing War: No Disclaimers Required
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First Published: 2023
Published: 2023
My own opinion on US meddling in Russian/Ukrainian relations doesn't depend on an assessment of whether the invasion was provoked, unprovoked, justified, or unjustified, so I don't need any such disclaimers.
- How Would Canadians Perceive Russian Troops On Their Border?
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First Published: 2023
Published: 2023
The Canadian government's plan to double its semi-permanent military force on Russia's border ratchets up tensions that should be reduced. It highlights the West's betrayal of promises made to Soviet officials and Canada's addiction to stationing troops in Europe.
- 'A Death Sentence For People And Ecosystems': The Climate Emergency, Governments And The Public Enemy
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First Published: 2023
Published: 2023
Media Lens' reporting on the climate crisis, the refusal of governments and corporations to take accountability, and the failure of the established media to address these rising climate issues.
- Has Western Democracy Now Failed?
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First Published: 2023
Published: 2023
Keir Starmer's determination to use his refusal to alleviate child poverty as the issue with which to demonstrate his macho Thatcherite credentials, has provided one of those moments when blurred perceptions crystallise. A Labour government in the UK under Starmer will bring no significant changes in economic or foreign policy and will make no difference whatsoever to the lives of working class people.
- NATO isn't defending Ukraine. It's stabbing it in the back
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First Published: 2023
Published: 2023
The US and its allies are sustaining the very war they now cite as grounds for disqualifying Kyiv from Nato membership.
- The Ever-Expanding Definition of Trauma
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First Published: 2023
Published: 2023
In diluting the word's meaning mental health professionals are creating a generation of victims.
- The Most Massive Attack Against Free Speech in United States History
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First Published: 2023
Published: 2023
Sometime since January 2021, Biden administration policymakers decided that they were infallible -- or a 'close enough for government work' level of infallible. They claimed a divine right to suppress the online posts and comments of conservatives and anyone else who had a bad attitude towards federal power.
- 'Punch a TERF': the violent misogyny of the trans movement
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Woke identitarians have become apologists for violence against women.
- The Pseudoscience of Critical Race Theory
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First Published: 2023
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Critical Race Theory is not a hard science. It's not even a soft science.
- Norman Finkelstein: A National Treasure?
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First Published: 2023
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Among the most dangerous people in the US are those who actually once fervently believed the foundational myths of the country's social and political order.
- There is nothing progressive about identity politics
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First Published: 2023
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When did supporting colour-blindness, gay rights and women's liberation become a right-wing position?
- They Lied About Afghanistan & Iraq; Now They're Lying About Ukraine
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First Published: 2023
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The U.S. public has been conned, once again, into pouring billions into another endless war.
- Aussie cops paid $1300 to identify as 'gender neutral' -- Teen girls in UK say NO to 'trans' lies -- And yes, they ARE coming for your children
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First Published: 2023
Published: 2023
- South Korea: the 'Land of Morning Calm' is working itself to death
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First Published: 2023
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South Korea is often held up as a model of modern technological capitalism. But daily life for many South Koreans is much harsher than the glossy image projected by its popular culture.
- Toxic spills threaten marine ecosystem
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The X-Press Pearl sank off Sri Lanka two years ago, releasing a toxic cocktail of chemicals and plastics into the sea, the biggest disaster. Only tough regulations can prevent a repeat.
- Water is more than a common good
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As the ready availability of fresh water is threatened around the world, attention has focused on minimising water use. But that obscures how deeply political the issue of universal access to water is.
- TRC Chair Murray Sinclair: Genocide Denier
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First Published: 2023
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The purpose of the denialism canard is to end questioning and to patrol what knowledge we're entitled to possess. Even the chair of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission is a genocide denier according to definition now being used.
- The Enemy Is Not a Human Being
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First Published: 2023
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There's a crucial, overlooked aspect of Daniel Ellsberg's legacy that's very much worth saluting, you might say: his transformation from a believer in the Vietnam war to a horrified opponent of it, ready to risk prison time to bring classified truth about its pointlessness into public awareness.
- Mourning a home filled with memories, destroyed by Israel's army
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Nablus, occupied West Bank -- rubble, destroyed window frames, remnants of a couch shrouded in dust and debris -- that is all that was left of the 130sq-metre home of the al-Jouri family. Overnight, Israeli soldiers, backed by armoured vehicles and bulldozers, surrounded the three-bedroom apartment in Nablus, filling it with explosives and blowing it to smithereens.
- 'Israelism' documentary focuses on young Jews' change of heart
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First Published: 2023
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A new documentary unpacks the confluence of Judaism and pro-Israel fervor in the American Jewish community and the young Jews who are coming to reject it.
- All that is beautiful and painful
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First Published: 2023
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Profile of artist Abdul Rahman Katanani who works with construction material of refugee camps
- Killing The Story - Bakhmut, Nick Cohen, Kakhovka, Nord Stream and Piers Morgan
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First Published: 2023
Published: 2023
- A petri dish for fascism: How Ukraine has become a magnet for Western neo-Nazis
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Ukraine is a mecca for some of the most odious people on earth. What sort of threat does this pose to their home countries?
- Leaks reveal FBI helps Ukraine censor Twitter users and obtain their info
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First Published: 2023
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The Federal Bureau of Investigation has aided a Ukrainian intelligence effort to censor social media users and obtain their personal information, leaked emails reveal.
- Neo-Nazis in Ukraine? No, Yes, No-Yes
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First Published: 2023
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A New York Times' reporter's job this week is to persuade us that all those Ukrainian soldiers wearing Nazi insignia and marching through Kiev in Klan-like torch parades are not what you think.
- British police detain journalist Kit Klarenberg, interrogate him about The Grayzone
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First Published: 2023
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British 'counter-terror' police detained journalist Kit Klarenberg upon his arrival at London's Luton airport and subjected him to an extended interrogation about his political views and reporting for The Grayzone.
- The Democratic Party's Revenge on Matt Taibbi
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First Published: 2023
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Extensive government blacklists, revealed by the Twitter Files, are used to censor left-wing and right-wing critics. This censorship apparatus has been turned on the reporter who exposed them.
- Underexposure Exposed
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First Published: 2023
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If you want people to think that a country resistant to US leadership is a festering doomscape, just underexpose the hell out of your photographs.
- Journey to St. Petersburg, Moscow, and Crimea
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First Published: 2023
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At the end of April of this year [2023], the two of us ventured together to Russia. We went with the purpose of fact-finding and also to make a point that we do not believe that Russia should be isolated from the world through sanctions and travel bans.
- The War in Ukraine Was Provoked
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First Published: 2023
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The Biden administration's insistence on NATO enlargement has made Ukraine a victim of misconceived and unachievable U.S. military aspirations.
- 'Apartheid' Designation Ignored as Israel Kills Children in Gaza Again
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First Published: 2023
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Greene looked at coverage of Israel's bombings of the Gaza Strip from the Washington Post, New York Times and CNN, and didn't find a single reference to Israel as an apartheid state, despite this being the consensus in the human rights community. Greene criticizes the lack of coverage and distortion of events perpetuated by the media.
- The Attack on Our Libraries
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First Published: 2023
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- One foreign government openly interferes in Canadian politics
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Amidst widespread anxiety over foreign interference in this country's politics, Israel's embassy recently mobilized its domestic lobby to strategize on shaping Canadian policy. The absence of media outrage, or even a little embarrassment, speaks loudly about which foreign governments are allowed to ‘interfere' in Canadian politics.
- What will Gaza's children remember?
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First Published: 2023
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Gaza children grow up thinking bombing is normal, creating shelter space is normal, having plans disrupted by war is normal.
- An Immigrant's Ode to Canada
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First Published: 2023
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A survivor of Sri Lanka's civil war who found safety and prosperity on Canadian shores wonders why his well-to-do white neighbours seem so fixated on racism.
- Palestinian photographer brings towns lost in Nakba to life on walls of refugee camps
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First Published: 2023
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As soon as you enter Madaris street in Balata refugee camp, to the east of Nablus in the occupied West Bank, your gaze is drawn to the right-hand wall of the street - now adorned with 30 depictions of villages and towns that were purged of Palestinian residents during the creation of the state of Israel in 1948. In 17 refugee camps across the West Bank, Palestinian photographer Ahmed al-Bazz has brought to life images of historic Palestine to the descendants of those who were expelled during the Nakba.
- Why the Agressor in Ukraine is America - Not Russia
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Published: 2023
- Have you had an 'Ojibway taco'? If not, act quick - Toronto is losing a cafe devoted to powwow fare
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Pow Wow Cafe is Closing
- US Seizes Web Domains Related to Hezbollah
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First Published: 2023
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The U.S. government has seized over a dozen web domains belonging to the Lebanese resistance group Hezbollah and others. The U.S. Department of Justice said that the web domains were operated by persons or groups who had been sanctioned by the U.S. government.
- Israel's Latest Hasbara Scheme Enlists High School Students as Trolls Against Palestine
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First Published: 2023
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In April, Israel's Foreign Affairs Ministry launched a program training high school students to boost the country’s image online. However, as global awareness grows of Israel’s human rights violations, the government is turning teenagers into its own personal troll army to combat the Palestinian-led Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement’s efforts on social media.
- Behind the Wall of East-Germany
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With more than 300,000 objects, German Democratic Republic museum in Berlion probably has the world’s largest collection of GDR artifacts and historical items. The wealth of objects at the museum is due to the enormous willingness of former citizens of the GDR to donate items that they still had in their possession.
- Report on the Censorship-Industrial Complex: The Top 50 Organizations to Know
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First Published: 2023
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A citizen's starter kit to understanding the new global information cartel
- The Debt Ceiling Debate Is A Massive Deception Against The Public
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Opinion piece on the U.S. Congress imposing successive ceilings on the national debt. The piece criticizes the government, media and academics for refusing to admit or consider tax increases as a viable alternative.
- The Guardian's 'Anti-Semitism' Incident
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First Published: 2023
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With the row over its cartoon, the newspaper that helped oust Jeremy Corbyn from the Labour Party has briefly found that what you sow, you can reap.
- Julian Assange: A Fight We Must Not Lose
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The detention and persecution of Julian Assange eviscerates all pretense of the rule of law and the rights of a free press.
- Things Fall Apart
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- A big passion for little things
After 42 years, the Moncton Miniature and Doll Club closes its tiny doors
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- Jewish doctor denied $500 payment after refusing to promise Arkansas he won't boycott Israel
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The state of Arkansas is refusing to pay a Jewish doctor for a talk he delivered at a public university because he declined to promise not to boycott Israel.
- From Yellow Journalism to China Bashing, the Media's Enduring Role in Promoting War
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- AOC gloats over 'deplatforming' of Tucker Carlson
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Fox News host Tucker Carlson was fired on Monday, eliciting cheers from the Pentagon and numerous public figures. New York congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez celebrated Carlson's 'deplatforming', saying "Deplatforming works, and it is important and there you go. Good things can happen. Couldn't have happened to a better guy."
- Tucker Carlson's firing reveals how afraid the media is of independent journalists
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While the left is busy hating on Tucker Carlson, and not without reason, it is missing the bigger picture.
- Hypocrisy and war
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The Ukraine war is a graphic case study of the pitfalls of playing the geopolitical game.
- If Lula can call for peace in Ukraine, why not Canada's left?
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Progressive governments are rejecting pleas to send more weapons to Ukraine. Canada should follow suit and push for peace talks.
- John Pilger's Guide to Propaganda
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Journalist, author and filmmaker John Pilger, who has spent decades studying governments’ nefariousness, tells Katie Halper how to spot propaganda.
- Western media suddenly hates Twitter's 'government-funded' labels
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First Published: 2023
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Establishment outlets were perfectly fine with the social media scarlet letter when it was handed to their 'undesirable' counterparts. Recently, some media outlets have quit Twitter over what they see as unjust labeling, which leads to the question 'where was their outrage when the same rules were being applied to their competition?'
- Biden DOJ Indicts Four Americans For 'Weaponized' Free Speech
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First Published: 2023
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The Biden administration's Department of Justice has just charged four members of the African People's Socialist Party (APSP) for conspiring to act as agents of Russia by using speech and political action in ways the DOJ says 'weaponized' the First Amendment rights of Americans.
- Biden DOJ Indicts Four Americans For 'Weaponized' Free Speech
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First Published: 2023
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The U.S. government is charging that members of the African People's Socialist Party 'weaponized' the First Amendment to publish 'propaganda' and promote 'dissenion." What that means is that they engaged in speech and political activism that the U.S. government does not like.
- Snowden and Texeira: Ten Years of Disaster
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First Published: 2023
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The idea that the legacy media in any way serves the truth or the public interest is now completely buried. The legacy media serves the state, and the state serves the billionaires. It is a shame the Washington Post, New York Times, Guardian and Bellingcat each had no interest whatsoever in the journalistic pursuit of the truth behind this extraordinary episode. We live entirely in security states: there is no doubt about it.
- The Case of Steven Donziger: Supreme Court Liberals Help Turn Judges into Prosecutors
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Criticizes the decision from seven of the nine justices of the Supreme Court of the United States to decline to hear Steven Donziger’s appeal of a criminal contempt decision involving his representation of Indigenous Ecuadorians against Chevron.
- Disorder is the Order of the Day
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America suffers a dangerous leadership vacuum. This is not civil war. This is something else. But what?
- How the trans census fooled Britain
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Tribal speech codes breed linguistic compliance.
- Mughals, RSS, evolution: Outrage as India edits school textbooks
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India's right-wing government removes significant historical and scientific facts from textbooks as it pursues a Hindu supremacist agenda.
- The case for getting naked
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Non-sexual nudity is being erased
- How NATO states sponsored ICC prosecutor's Putin arrest warrant
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ICC prosecutor general Karim Khan raised millions from NATO states by crafting an arrest warrant for Vladimir Putin while freezing investigations into well-documented US and Israeli war crimes. Along the way, he won powerful friends in Washington, London, Kiev - and Hollywood.
- Why socialist Susan Neiman says 'woke-ism' is not leftist
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All marginalized peoples or people who have been oppressed in the past need deep solidarity with other people.
- India town mourns burning of historic library at Muslim school
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Residents of Bihar Sharif town are still coming to terms with attack on a century-old 'madrassa' during the Hindu festival of Ram Navami.
- 'Death to Christians': Violence steps up under new Israeli government
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Christian leaders in Jerusalem say never have Israeli attackers felt more emboldened than under the far-right ruling coalition.
- Fossil Fuel Divestment Doesn't Work
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NGOs, activists and especially policymakers need to stop pretending that the climate movement can succeed by pressuring capitalists to be more responsible.
- Why Zelensky Will NOT Take Back Crimea
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The 2014 coup was the last straw. The Maidan violence, coup government decisions on language, and attacks on civilians made it imperative to quickly secede. Russia already had soldiers in Crimea at the leased naval base at Sebastapol. The referendum proceeded quickly and peacefully. Western hypocrisy and double standards are breathtaking. The West actively promoted the breakup of Yugoslavia, the secession of Kosovo from Serbia and South Sudan from Sudan. The right and popular will of Crimeans to secede from Ukraine and reunify with Russia is clear. Yet the West continues to falsely claim that Russia "occupies" Crimea.
- "Legitimate target" - Bellingcat defends terror attack at St. Petersburg cafe
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Christo Grozev of the US government-sponsored Bellingcat endorsed the terror attack that killed a Russian war reporter and injured many others during a public event in St. Petersburg. He also defended Ukraine's attempt to assassinate a Russian philosopher because he was a 'propagandist.'
- The tragedy of the war in Ukraine: a reply to Kagarlitsky
Mandel, David; Gindin, Sam
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Even if Ukraine were in some sense to win the war, what sort of sovereignty would the Ukrainian people possess?
- Israel's crisis is about who gets to play tyrant: the generals or religious thugs
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Over the years, international human rights groups have slowly come to acknowledge this fundamental lack of democracy, too. They now describe Israel as what it always was: an apartheid state.
- The Clock is Ticking
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With landmark anniversaries of the invasions of Iraq and Ukraine, and the failure to address global heating, Chomsky argues that ninety seconds to midnight (the new set time for the doomsday clock, a universally recognized indicator of world's vulnerability to global catastrophe) may be too generous an appraisal.
- Germans Down and Russians Out
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Any sign of sympathy with Russia has been so demonized, repressed, even criminalized since the Russian invasion began on Feb. 24, 2022, that most German protests initially avoided taking any position on the war and focused on the economic hardships caused by sanctions. But on January 25, 2023 of this year, Chancellor Olaf Scholz gave in to U.S. pressure to send German Leopard 2 tanks to Ukraine, about the same time that German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock, of the Green Party, casually told an international meeting that "we are fighting a war against Russia." This jolted people into action.
- Attack on Antiwar Activists Exemplifies Russophobia Among 'Leftist' Apologists for Western Imperialism and a Fascist-Loving Regime
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Many liberal leftists, siding with the U.S.-NATO and Kyiv, purvey falsehoods about the Ukraine War.
- The true Left is not woke
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Progressive activists have forgotten their roots.
- 'Rigorous' Maidan massacre exposé suppressed by top academic journal
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First Published: 2023
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A peer-reviewed paper initially approved and praised by a prestigious academic journal was suddenly rescinded without explanation. Its author, one of the world's top scholars on Ukraine-related issues, had marshaled overwhelming evidence to conclude Maidan protesters were killed by pro-coup snipers.
- The Censorship Industrial Complex
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First Published: 2023
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Contains testimony by Michael Shellenberger to The [U.S.] House Select Committee on the weaponization of the Federal Government, i.e., U.S. government support for domestic censorship and Disinformation Campaigns 2016-2022.
- Fascistic Judges
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First Published: 2023
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The jailing of three U.K. climate activists should provide another warning to anyone expecting judges to defend liberties. The current legal establishment will adapt itself to whatever legal framework is ordained by the rulers.
- The CCF, George Hara Williams, and Saskatchewan's socialist movement
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First Published: 2023
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- "You'll Be Hearing From Me as Long as I'm Here," Daniel Ellsberg Vows After Terminal Cancer Diagnosis
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- Despair and Joy in Berlin
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First Published: 2023
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- "Erase the Memory" to "Erase a People"? They're Doing it in the USA Too
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Published: 2023
- The Crusades of the Virtuous
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It is now indispensable, more than ever before, to support and promote enlightenment, education, culture and the arts by reconstructing the bridge (that was damaged by postmodernism and neoliberalism) to our historical cultural roots.
- On military vs political support
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Why the Bolshevik Tendency favours a Russian military victory over US/NATO and its Ukrainian proxy.
- Left and Right Join Together to Rage Against Ukraine War on Its One Year Anniversary
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Several thousand people gathered at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C., on Sunday, February 19, 2023, to protest U.S. support for the war in Ukraine around the time of its one-year anniversary. The protest was organized by the People's Party and Libertarian Party. It brought together groups on the left and libertarian right which were unified in their demand that the U.S. government should not spend one more penny on the war in Ukraine.
- Unifying the Rage Against the War Machine
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Recalling the disparate groups who came together for the massive anti-nuclear demonstration in New York City on June 12, 1982, Chuck Zlatkin recommends the same unity of purpose on February 19, 2023 in Washington.
- Hollywood abandoned Russia one year ago, but the country's box office has just set an all time record: How did this happen?
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First Published: 2023
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Film industries around the world exist independently of Hollywood, and Russian producers might just be about to strike gold.
- 19 February 'Rage Against the War Machine' Protest in D.C.: Why socialists should attend
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First Published: 2023
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The Bolshevik Tendency plans to attend the February 19 (2023) protest against the war. We do not agree with political views of the organizers, but we plan to attend in order to talk to participants who agree (as we do) with many of its slogans.
- The Calamity of America's 'Divine Mission'
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First Published: 2023
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Critical review of Robert Kagan's book The Ghost at the Feast: America and the Collapse of World Order, 1900-1941.
- Ending the Cesspool in Pharmaceuticals by Taking Away Patent Monopolies
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First Published: 2023
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Explores the prevalent corruption in the pharmaceutical industry, inlcuding monopolies, patents of "dubious legal status," and concealing evidence of drugs' protential harm.
- The problem with "trans women are women"
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First Published: 2023
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Is it any wonder people are confused?
- Sy Hersh & The Way We Live Now
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First Published: 2023
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Coverage of the sabotage of the Nordstream pipelines helped Murray realize something important about how the Big Lie works.
- How America Took Out The Nord Stream Pipeline
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First Published: 2023
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The New York Times called it a "mystery," but the United States executed a covert sea operation that was kept a secret - until now.
- Hassan Diab, trial in absentia
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First Published: 2023
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Hassan Diab's supporters are demanding that the government not put him through another unfair extradition hearing based on thin evidence.
- Ukraine purges libraries of Russian-language books
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First Published: 2023
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Ukraine is undergoing a process to "overcome to consequences of Russification," which includes removing certain Russian literature from school curricula, renaming streets, and dismantling monuments to Russian historical figures.
- Canada's Russia sanctions are hitting people with no connection to Putin's war
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First Published: 2023
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Canada's economic measures against Russia - which are meants to target the assets of wealthy oligarchs and government officials - are hitting the personal finances of people with no ties to the Russian government, CBC News has learned. Canadian residents are pleading with Ottawa to release assets frozen after sanctions were imposed on banks.
- The Enormous Limitations of U.S. Liberal Democracy and Its Consequences
The Growth Of Fascism
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First Published: 2023
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Explores the "baked-in bias" towards the far right in the United States and the threat it poses to the democratic system of governance.
- The Ukraine War in the Light of the UN Charter
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First Published: 2023
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The war in Ukraine did not start on 24 February 2022, but already in February 2014. The civilian population of the Donbas has endured continued shelling from Ukrainian forces since 2014, notwithstanding the Minsk Agreements. These attacks on Lugansk and Donetsk significantly increased in January-February 2022.
- Woke Imperialism
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First Published: 2023
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Diversity is important. But when it is devoid of a political agenda it recruits a tiny segment of those marginalized by society into unjust structures to help perpetuate them.
- Canada's state broadcaster CBC peddles lies and slanders about jailed journalist Julian Assange
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First Published: 2023
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Following the calamitous ruling on December 10, 2021 by a British court to extradite Julian Assange to face espionage charges in the US, the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) aired two reports, densely packed with hideous deceptions that lend support to Washington's efforts to persecute and silence the award-winning journalist.
- ChatGPT is the best thing to happen to teaching since the Socratic method
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First Published: 2023
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Can there be another way to teach and learn? ChatGPT is a reminder that the oral tradition is still fitfully around.
- The books that made me
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First Published: 2023
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Lively explores the role of reading in her writing process. She explains that every library is autobiographical, with its potential to shape and define its readers.
- Tyre Nichols: The bigotry of the 'anti-racists'
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First Published: 2023
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Those blaming his death on white supremacy seem to think black cops are just mindless thugs.
- Every Gender Identity Is 'Authentic' - Until It Isn't
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First Published: 2023
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Faddish forms of self-identification often reflect subjective feelings that shift over time. Let's stop treating them as sacred truths.
- Looking back on the coverage of Trump
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First Published: 2023
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Seven and a half years ago, journalism began a tortured dance with Donald Trump, the man who would be the country's forty-fifth president, first dismissing him, then embracing him as a source of ratings and clicks, then going all in on efforts to catalogue Trump as a threat to the country (also a great source of ratings and clicks).
- The Inspiring Outrage of Norman Finkelstein
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First Published: 2023
Published: 2023
A few thoughts on the new book, "I'll Burn That Bridge When I Get to It!"
- Why this woman left a career in architecture to catalogue bird feathers
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First Published: 2023
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During the pandemic lockdowns, Munshi took a two-year online course on bird biology from Cornell University. And now, instead of designing buildings, she puts her aesthetic skills to use by collecting, photographing, measuring and cataloguing the wings and feathers of India's more than 1,300 bird species.
- Labour Militancy in Canada
A History of the Right to Strike
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First Published: 2023
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Bill 28, the Keeping students in Class Act, 2022, had its first reading in the Ontario Legislature on October 31, 2022. The name was a distraction from the Act's actual wording and intention, which were less about keeping students in class and more about removing education workers' right to strike.
- Jordan Peterson is being disciplined for his tweets. Why some say that raises free speech issues
College of Psychologists of Ontario launched investigation after complaints about Peterson's tweets
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First Published: 2023
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The College of Psychologists of Ontario has ordered controversial psychologist Jordan Peterson -- who has espoused questionable views on women, masculinity and gender identity -- to undergo media training over tweets allegedly degrading the profession.
- America's 'War Against Communism' Was Really A War Against Advocates For The Poor
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First Published: 2023
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Two examples - Korea and Indonesia - will be documented here in order to display that America's Cold War against communism was/is a cover-story, or deceptive cloak, for a war actually against the poor (and the political left) in all nations: in other words, a fascist war, meaning that America's Government became fascist-imperialist as soon as World War II ended, despite FDR (Franklin Delano Roosevelt - America's President throughout WW II) having been passionately anti-fascist and anti-imperialist.
- Rooftop turbines aim to capture power in windy cities
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First Published: 2023
Published: 2023
The design of traditional wind turbines doesn't really work in cities, where densely packed buildings tend to black and redirect wind, making it gusty and variable in speed and direction. However, new designs of wind turbines that allow for urban use have the potential to change the ways cities use energy.
- Using diversity to eviscerate diversity
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First Published: 2023
Published: 2023
On a controversy over an image depicting Muhammad.
- Russia-Ukraine war: How the US paved the way to Moscow's invasion
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First Published: 2023
Published: 2023
Nearly a year after Russia's invasion, the western narrative of an 'unprovoked' attack has become impossible to sustain.
- Archives donation paints picture of local union's rich community history
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First Published: 2023
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A donation of historical materials from Unifor Local 199 to Brock’s Archives and Special Collections is now available for students and researchers to explore in the James A. Gibson Library. The fonds of Unifor Local 199, which was previously the Canadian Auto Workers Local 199 and, before that, the United Auto Workers Local 199, includes records and ephemera dating back to 1937.
- Bayard Rustin: The Panthers Couldn't Save Us Then Either
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First Published: 2023
Published: 2023
Bayard Rustin's commentary between 1965 and 1975 on race, class, and politics in the U.S. was sharply insightful and can be read profitably for cultivating a nuanced understanding of the crucial period between the victories won by the civil rights movement and institutional consolidation of the ethnic interest-group regime generally known as 'black politics.'
- War, Peace and the Media: Propping up the U.S. Empire and Risking the Planet
Fourth Edition, Expanded and Updated
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2023
Published: 2023
This fourth and greatly expanded edition of a work first published in 1983 questions the dominant narratives about militarism and war, and their relationship to global heating, as well as the role of the media in distorting and suppressing truths about their relationship. Contributors to this new edition of War, Peace and the Media challenge the U.S./NATO version of the Russia-Ukraine war and its historical causes, and highlight the role of mainstream and social media in sidelining or silencing dissenting information and opinions.
- Charting a New Path for Canadian Engagement with the Middle East
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2023
Published: 2023
Canada is criticized today for not having a coherent Middle East policy that adequately reflects the realities of the region or defines a long-term strategy to protect and advance its interests in this part of the world. This article offers recommendations on how to address such a deficit by first reviewing Canada's historical engagement with the Middle East, particularly its effective role in influencing regional events during the Cold War and in the aftermath of the fall of the Soviet Union.
- Donbass: The War on Remembrance
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2023
Published: 2023
The Ukrainian Army wants not only to annihilate pro-Russian forces in eastern Ukraine but also wipe out the region’s heroic history of resisting the Nazi onslaught in World War II.
- Guy Debord's Warning of "The Role of the Expert": A Philosophical Perspective on the Rise of Fact-Checking
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2023
Published: 2023
Why are we bombarded by fact-checks and 'anti-disinformation' efforts in our timeline scrolls?
- Bad faith UN report on Nicaragua whitewashes violent US-backed coup
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2023
Published: 2023
A new, anonymously-produced UN report denouncing Nicaragua's government whitewashes the brutal US-backed 2018 coup against it while refusing to interview victims of sadistic opposition violence.
- Boomtown
A solar land rush in the West
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2023
Published: 2023
- Canada's 'shocking' new report on foreign interference has found none
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2023
Published: 2023
The idea that the US -- the most powerful country on Earth -- has absolutely no influence on its resource-rich next-door neighbor is absurd. The fact that the influence is so systemic that it's not even worth a glance or a mention in a report into foreign interference is glaring. Does the Canadian government care to look under that rock? Or are they just going to keep scapegoating Russia and China when the most existential, insidious threat to Canadian independence lies inward and southward?
- Canadian government partners with pro-Israel lobby to delete Palestinian accounts
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2023
Published: 2023
- Children can't be experts on themselves
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2023
Published: 2023
Character is created over a lifetime, not discovered whole.
- Corporate Rules
The Real World of Business Regulation in Canada
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2023
Published: 2023
How government regulators are failing the public interest.
- The Cultural Looting of Gaza
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2023
Published: 2023
People in Gaza are confined to living with few resources in what amounts to a prison. They are permitted levels of nutrition and medicine that are just enough to prevent total starvation and disease. This is only because Israel, which controls the piece of land known as the Gaza Strip, does not want disease to spread into its own borders.
- Dangers of AI Revealed as Israeli Bullet Decides to Kill Somebody
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2023
Published: 2023
This use of the passive in describing Israeli crimes is absolutely typical of the Guardian, and of the entire mainstream media. A more naturally expressed and honest headline would have been "Israeli soldiers shoot Palestinian journalist in the head for filming demolition of Ramallah homes".
- Files expose Syrian 'Revolution' as Western regime change operation
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2023
Published: 2023
Throughout August and September, anti-government protests have rocked Syrian cities. While the crowds are typically small, numbering only a few hundred, they show little sign of abating. Demonstrators are motivated by increasingly unlivable economic conditions spurred by crippling U.S.-led international sanctions against Damascus. These have produced hyperinflation, mass food insecurity, and many daily hardships for the population. They also prevent vital humanitarian aid from entering the country.
- Five Decades of Connexions
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2023
Published: 2023
- Fünf Jahrzehnte von Connexions
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2023
Published: 2023
- Gaza, Israel & The Hamas Attacks
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2023
Published: 2023
- In the Dead of Night
Israel's military raids into Palestinian homes
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2023
Published: 2023
Almost every night, between midnight and 5am, the Israeli army breaks into Palestinian homes across the occupied West Bank and East Jerusalem.
- Insurgent Notes 25 - January 2023
On the War in Ukraine
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 2023
Published: 2023
A collection of left perspectives on the war between Russia and Ukraine.
- The Media Accountability Project
Resource Type: Website
First Published: 2023
Published: 2023
- MEET STEVEN
Resource Type: Website
First Published: 2023
Published: 2023
The fossil fuel industry and its allies in government continue to target renowned human rights lawyer Steven Donziger for helping Amazon communities in Ecuador win a landmark $10 billion pollution judgment against Chevron. Steven needs our support — as do the Indigenous and farmer communities in Ecuador who are leading the way in trying to hold Chevron accountable and save our planet.
- The militant minority will not save the labor movement
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2023
Published: 2023
In my experience forging a shared politics, or better yet a real practice of solidarity, doesn’t happen by preaching on street corners, hawking party papers, or walling yourself off into a small clique. One’s politics change through the experience of engaging in common struggle and winning tangible changes through such efforts. Struggling together also changes our relationships with our co-workers, helping us move past our differences to find the common ground that builds solidarity. Such transformation doesn’t happen overnight, and it often requires moving past our initial dislike or prejudgments of our colleagues in the service of forming a fighting union.
- Nat Turner in Gaza
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2023
Published: 2023
Finkelstein draws parallels between the Nat Turner rebellion in the United States and the Gaza rebellion of 2023.
- Pirates of the European Union: How Brussels turned its own customs agents into petty thieves
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2023
Published: 2023
The bloc's bureaucracy, unable to sever economic ties with Russia, decided to annoy Moscow in different way - by stealing from the country's ordinary citizens.
- Remembering Reg McQuaid (1935-2023)
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2023
Published: 2023
- Remembering U of T's Natalie Zemon Davis, a renowned social historian
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2023
Published: 2023
- The Scottish Gestapo
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2023
Published: 2023
If you are on the 'wrong' side in the culture wars, you will get prosecuted for an innocuous tweet or a remark in the street. If you are on the 'right' side, you can punch women in the face or parade a sign calling for the decapitation of those who disagree with you, and face no legal jeopardy.
- Secret Canada
Resource Type: Website
First Published: 2023
Published: 2023
Secret Canada is a freedom of information project from The Globe and Mail
Freedom of information laws give you the right to obtain records held by public institutions. This project helps you navigate Canada's access system.
- Shakespeare flagged as 'far right' literature in UK - media
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2023
Published: 2023
Several of the UK's most respected television shows, movies and works of literature have been included in a list of works that could potentially encourage far-right sympathies.
- Toronto Holocaust Museum aims to keep survivors' memories alive
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2023
Published: 2023
- The Twilight of Freedom
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2023
Published: 2023
Three British journalists I know personally - Johanna Ross, Vanessa Beeley and Kit Klarenberg - have each in the last two years been detained at immigration for hours on re-entering their own country, and questioned by police under anti-terrorist legislation. This is plainly an abuse of the power to detain at port of entry, because in each case they could have been questioned at any time in the UK were there legitimate cause, and the questioning was not focused on their travels. They were in fact detained and interrogated simply for holding and publishing dissident opinion on foreign policy, and in particular for supporting a more collaborative approach to Russia.
- Unprovoked narratives
Resource Type: Film/Video
First Published: 2023
Published: 2023
A series of films celebrating the beauty of Gaza, its people, its struggle and its survival. The program aims to resist the demonisation of this beautiful place.
- How General Winter Did Not Save the Soviet Union in 1941
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2023
Published: 2023
- Diversity is Important. Diversity-Related Training is Terrible
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2023
Published: 2023
It became increasingly obvious that many of the problems that diversity-related training was supposed to help mitigate seemed to be persisting or growing worse, raising the prospect that many widely-used interventions may be ineffective or even harmful.
- The Nations of Canada
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 2023
Podcasts, 136+ episodes.
- 231 Palestinians were killed in 2022. These are their stories.
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2022
Published: 2022
2022 was the deadliest year for Palestinians living under Israeli occupation in decades. We kept a record of all those who were killed by Israeli state and settler violence. These are their names, faces, and stories.
- Evidence of US-Backed Coup in Kiev
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2022
Published: 2022
NewsGuard gave Consortium News a red mark for "publishing false content" on Ukraine, including that there was a U.S.-backed coup in Kiev in 2014. Here is CN's detailed proof.
- FBI Cointelpro is Back and Worse Than Ever
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2022
Published: 2022
Elon Musk has opened the floodgates to expose the FBI's latest war on Americans' freedom of speech. The FBI massively intervened to pressure Twitter to suppress accounts and tweets from individuals the FBI disapproved, including parody accounts. The FBI and other federal agencies also browbeat Facebook, Instagram, and many other tech companies.
- Most of All, I am Offended as a Muslim
On Hamline University's shocking imposition of narrow religious orthodoxy in the classroom
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2022
Published: 2022
Barring a professor of art history from showing a painting, lest it harm observant Muslims in class, is just as absurd as asking a biology professor not to teach evolution because it may offend evangelical Protestants in the course.
- On Neo-Nazi Influence in Ukraine
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2022
Published: 2025
A short history of neo-Nazism in Ukraine in response to some who say, "There is no evidence that Nazism has substantial influence in Ukraine." Joe Lauria reports.
- On the Influence of Neo-Nazism in Ukraine
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2022
Published: 2022
A short history of neo-Nazism in Ukraine.
- Reflecting New U.S. Control of TikTok's Censorship, Our Report Criticizing Zelensky Was Deleted
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2022
Published: 2022
For years, U.S. officials and their media allies accused Russia, China and Iran of tyranny for demanding censorship as a condition for Big Tech access. Now, the U.S. is doing the same to TikTok.
- On the First Workday of the New Year, the Average CEO Will Make More Than an Average Workers Earns in an Entire Year
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2022
Published: 2022
If the typical CEO of a large U.S. corporation clocks in at 9 am on January 2, by 3:37 pm that afternoon he'll have earned $58,260 - the average annual salary for all U.S. occupations.In other words, in less than seven hours on the first workday of the New Year, that CEO will have made as much as the average U.S. worker will make all year.
- The Curse of the Algorithm
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2022
Published: 2022
The existence of algorithms might be a sign of civilization, but it might also be a sign of madness. As human decision-making is handed over to machines, these machines can make rather irrational, discriminatory, and outright mad decisions.
- To Defeat Fascism, We Must Win Over a Substantial Segment of the Social Strata that Make Up its Mass Base
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2022
Published: 2022
It is not enough to counter fascism militarily, as Antifa does, though that is important. To truly defeat fascism, we must win over a substantial segment of the social strata that make up its mass base. That is a project that has not been undertaken since the 1960s and 1970s, when the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) challenged white radicals to organize in white communities against racism and for economic and social justice.
- Ukraine dismantles monument to iconic Soviet author
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2022
Published: 2022
Ukrainian authorities have taken down a monument to Maxim Gorky, a revolutionary who founded socialist realism and became one of the most popular Soviet writers, in the eastern city of Dnepr. The move comes amid the 'de-Russification' campaign ongoing across the country.
- Critical Thinking, Reverential Thinking, and Lashing Out
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2022
Published: 2022
Before we challenge conventions, we must understand and master them.
- Snowden says 'I told you so'
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2022
Published: 2022
Former CIA and National Security Agency whistleblower Edward Snowden has claimed vindication after a media report exposed how surveillance tools deployed to fight Covid-19 are now being abused by law enforcement and other authorities – as he predicted over two years ago.
- Why German state racism is now directed at the Palestinians
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2022
Published: 2022
The Holocaust serves, paradoxically, as an alibi for Europeans to assume they are morally superior to others, as the cancellation of an arts prize to Caryl Churchill shows.
- The EU's freeze of Russian media assets is a perversion of its own principles
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2022
Published: 2022
There's a big difference between actual disinformation or misinformation, and information or analysis that you just don't like.
- Starless Sky
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2022
Published: 2022
As humanity conquered the dark with electricity, a new rhythm regulating daily life emerged. Making the night disappear has affected us in many ways, including the disregulation of our hormones, including Melatonin which regulates sleep, lowers cholesterol, boosts the immune system, and more.
- Vandals destroy prehistoric aboriginal art
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2022
Published: 2022
Trespassers have ruined a one-of-a-kind sacred artwork in South Australia's Koonalda Cave. South Australian officials have been criticized for failing to secure Koonalda Cave, which was previously vandalized.
- The Wild American Chestnut is on its Way Back
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2022
Published: 2022
There is a petition in front of the US Department of Agriculture requesting permission to release genetically engineered American chestnut trees into wild forests. However, naturalist Bernd Heinrich finds clear evidence of a natural revival of the nostalgic chestnut tree, and many fear that GE trees would threaten this natural comeback.
- Can the Left Disagree Without Being Disagreeable?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2022
Published: 2022
Addresses the lack of nuance amongst the Left and calls for more meaningful dialogue.
- Promoting Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine Abroad
Regavim in Toronto
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2022
Published: 2022
- On Justice for Kashmir
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2022
Published: 2022
Among the self-determination struggles of our time, Kashmir is at risk of being forgotten by most of the world (except for Pakistan), while its people continue to endure the harsh crimes of India’s intensifying military occupation that has already lasted 75 years.
- 'Nearly Every War Has Been The Result Of Media Lies'
Julian Assange, State-Corporate Media and Ukraine
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2022
Published: 2022
Julian Assange once observed that, 'Nearly every war has been the result of media lies.' For daring to publish evidence of US war crimes, Assange now sits in the high-security Belmarsh prison in London, at risk of being extradited to the US within the next few weeks. The prospects for a fair trial range from miniscule to zero.
- America's Neo-Nazi bedfellows in Ukraine are latest in long line of odious allies Washington has used against Russia
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2022
Published: 2022
From pogrom-mongers to Hitlerites to radical Islamists, the US has collaborated with repugnant partners for more than a century.
- Something in the water?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2022
Published: 2022
One Deer Lake crusader believes a corporate giant knew about debris sullying the town’s water supply. He’s on a mission to prove it.
- West ignores evidence of Ukrainian torture and use of prohibited weapons when making 'war crimes' claims
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2022
Published: 2022
To mark Ukrainian Armed Forces Day, it's worth remembering the crimes Kiev has committed against civilians.
- At Cross Purposes
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2022
Published: 2022
Quebec's secularism law is the culmination of a decades-long struggle to come to terms with the province's Catholic past.
- Book of the Living
House museums of New Orleans
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2022
Published: 2022
- Canadian 'father' of evidence-based medicine wins global Einstein Foundation award
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2022
Published: 2022
Hamilton researcher Gord Guyatt has won an international prize for work that jurors say makes him the "father of evidence-based medicine."
- Gentrifying America's school system
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2022
Published: 2022
- Pakistan's coercive sweatshop capitalism
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2022
Published: 2022
Pakistan's textile industry is a major supplier for Western discount clothing brands. This means nothing is allowed to disrupt productivity; workers' rights and safety are frequently flouted, and police and private security firms use intimidation and violence to ensure the machines keep running.
- Scramble to be Africa's window on the world
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2022
Published: 2022
Several nations are boosting their presence in Africa in a quest for trade opportunities, status and influence. A key way of pursuing this is through the media, in what's become a propaganda war.
- Special Places
Photography and the Landscape of Memory
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2022
Published: 2022
Special places are not necessarily spectacular places. What makes them special can be subtle. What makes them special to us is how we experience them and how we remember them.
- Gender indoctrination in schools: a teenage girl's testimony
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2022
Published: 2022
- 'Tantura' Exposes the Lie at the Heart of Israel's Founding Myth
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2022
Published: 2022
A new documentary challenges Israel's narrative about 1948 and the forced displacement of Palestinians.
- Bye-bye, Kiev, hello Cote d'Azur
As Westerners send aid, here's how Ukraine's corrupt elites are profiting from the conflict
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2022
Published: 2022
Officials and oligarchs have diverted much of the financial support sent to Kiev.
- Defending Palestinian Rights Is Not Antisemitism
The Bogus Attack on Joel Harden
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2022
Published: 2022
A statement by Independent Jewish Voices (IJV) calling to reject the attacks on Ontario New Democratic Party MPP Joel Harden for his solidarity with Palestinian rights.
- Gay Not Queer
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2022
Published: 2022
Gay identities are based on biological sex; gender identities erase biological sex and replace it with gender.
- When Journalism Standards Vanish
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2022
Published: 2022
Because Russia and Iran are both viewed as enemies of Washington, Western news media often feel comfortable publishing any old claim about them as fact regardless of sourcing or evidence. Imperial propagandists lower their editorial standards when reporting on official enemies not because they are bad at their job, but because they are very good at their job. It's just that their job isn't what we've been told.
- COP27
Corporate Courts Versus Developing World
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2022
Published: 2022
As rich countries move away from dispute-settlement mechanisms that give corporations power to block environmental protections, Manuel Pérez-Rocha says they keep imposing them on developing countries through trade pacts.
- Israel's Rightward Turn
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2022
Published: 2022
The backlash against the increasingly vocal demands for recognition and equality on the part of Israel’s Arab citizens has decisively shaped twenty-first-century Israeli politics.
- Anti-racism attacks my American Dream
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2022
Published: 2022
Why do Democrats condemn hardworking immigrants?
- Blowback
Italian police bust Azov-tied Nazi cell planning terror attacks
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2022
Published: 2022
The arrest of Italian neo-Nazis affiliated with the Ukrainian Azov Battalion highlights the terrifying potential for blowback from the Ukraine proxy war.
- Q&A: Navigating the Left's Ukraine Debate
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2022
Published: 2022
A lengthy statement from the pro-NATO left.
- The precautionary principle
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2022
Published: 2022
Doing stuff 'just in case' is not precautionary. You need evidence.
- UN envoy admits fabricating claim of Viagra-fueled rape as 'Russian military strategy'
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2022
Published: 2022
UN Special Representative Pramila Patten has been exposed for fabricating her claim that Russia was supplying its troops with Viagra as a part of its 'military strategy' in the Ukraine conflict. The widely publicized lie was recycled from baseless NATO propaganda deployed during its 2011 Libyan regime change war.
- Maligned in Western Media, Donbass Forces are Defending their Future from Ukrainian Shelling and Fascism
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2022
Published: 2022
- Transgender charity seeks to strip gay rights group of status
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2022
Published: 2022
Members of 'Mermaids' have taken legal action against the LGB Alliance, accusing it of 'transphobia'.
- Getting Closer
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2022
Published: 2022
The Greens -- recently called "the most hypocritical, aloof, mendacious, incompetent and, measured by the damage they cause, the most dangerous party we currently have in the Bundestag" by the indestructible Sahra Wagenknecht -- are rather more afraid of nuclear power than nuclear arms.
- The cry gevalt syndrome
are Jewish students really 'terrified' on campus?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2022
Published: 2022
University campuses are places where contending views meet and clash. Pro-Israel organizations would seem to want the opposite.
- 'Our Auschwitz, our Dachau'
Reckoning with Germany's genocide in Namibia
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2022
Published: 2022
- Professor Attacked by Mainstream Media for Opposing NATO Narrative on Ukraine
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2022
Published: 2022
A highly regarded Russia specialist in Canada, Professor Michael Carley at the University of Montreal, has refused to support the NATO narrative on the Ukraine conflict and has since been subjected to a vicious smear campaign.
- Reckoning with Germany's genocide in Namibia
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2022
Published: 2022
- Researchers Find Massive Anti-Russian 'Bot Army'
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2022
Published: 2022
An Australian university has unearthed millions of Tweets by fake accounts pushing disinformation on the Ukraine war, Peter Cronau reports. The sample size dwarfs other studies of covert propaganda about the war on social media.
- The Hijab as a Billboard for Islamist Propaganda
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2022
Published: 2022
Let's not fool ourselves about what is actually happening in Iran now and for the last five weeks. These women are not just merely "celebrating" or marching for their freedom of expression in general political terms, no! They are fighting a piece of cloth that has come to symbolise an all-encompassing religious intolerance and zealotry as the core of a disintegrating Islamist ideology.
- Only one country backs US in UN Cuba vote
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2022
Published: 2022
The Biden administration is continuing the American embargo on Cuba, with only Israel supporting Washington.
- Germany's position in America's New World Order
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2022
Published: 2022
Discusses the American New Cold War and the creation of two camps: the U.S.-centered NATO, and the emerging Eurasian coalition. Germany finds itself in the midst of this fracture, and is being convinced by the US that it requires American protection.
- The BDS Movement's Anti-Normalization Guidelines Explained
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2022
Published: 2022
The BDS Movement outlines their guidelines for anti-normalization, which is opposes participation in any project, initiative, or activity, local or international, that normalizes the Israeli settler-colonial regime and oppression of Palestinians.
- Wicked Leakidence On Nord Stream Sabotages
Part 1: How The Media Quarantined Evidence On Nord Stream Sabotage
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2022
Published: 2022
On the British media's biased reporting of the Nord Stream sabotage.
- It's Time to Abandon America's Fetish for "Unconditional Surrender"
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2022
Published: 2022
Argues that the American obsession with "unconditional surrender" comes in the way of meaningful diplomacy, particularly between the US and Russia.
- Police Escalate the British State's War on Independent Journalism
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2022
Published: 2022
The raid on investigative journalist Asa Winstanley isn't about terrorism – except the UK government's. It is about scaring us into staying silent on Britain's collusion in Israel's genocide
- More crash deaths linked to Teslas in US
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2022
Published: 2022
Ten people have perished in accidents involving automated-driving vehicles over the past four months, government data shows.
- Practice involuntary recognition
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2022
Published: 2022
An old pamplet holds some contemporary wisdom, argues Marianne Garneau. She advocates for "involuntary recognition," in which workers force employers to recognize the union outside the boundaries drawn by labour law.
- Putting The Don in Its Place
Toronto's billion-dollar project to heal a river destroyed by development
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2022
Published: 2022
- The ads are virtual, but for some NHL fans, the irritation is real
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2022
Published: 2022
The NHL is making use of a new type of high-tech ad in its hockey broadcasts this season, where ads are presented virtually on the boards around the ice. Some fans have not welcomed the digitally enhanced dasherboards, which are visible to viewers at home but not to those in an arena.
- How Much Longer Can the U.S. Continue to Wage Economic War on Europe, and Much of the World, Without a Major Blowback Effect?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2022
Published: 2022
Sabotage of the Nord Stream 2 pipeline has awakened many people to the gangster methods that have been deployed for years by the U.S. government doing the bidding of multinational corporations.
- Pigeons and People
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2022
Published: 2022
Every self-respecting downtown has pigeons, and pigeons have mastered the sidewalk ballet quite as expertly as we humans have.
- Tauben und Menschen
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2022
Published: 2022
In jeder anständigen Stadtmitte, inklusive in der in Toronto, wo ich lebe, leben Tauben. Diese haben das Gehweg-Ballett genauso gekonnt wie die Menschen gemeistert.
- Crippling the Left
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2022
Published: 2022
Whenever it truly matters, from Assange to Corbyn, Guardian George Monbiot journalist aligns with the corporate media herd.
- Why do Palestinian children throw stones?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2022
Published: 2022
Children of my Gaza refugee camp were rarely afraid of monsters but of Israeli soldiers. This is all that we talked about before going to bed. Unlike imaginary monsters in the closet or under the bed, Israeli soldiers are real, and they could show up any minute – at the door, on the roof or, as was often the case, right in the middle of the house.
- Nuclearism: Converging Disasters
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2022
Published: 2022
Converging disasters: Unprecedented climate emergencies, methane leak from Nord Stream gas lines, interrupted energy supplies, wars -- Kyoto-exempt military is the largest single global emitter of greenhouse gases, Ukraine nuclear reactors in the battle zone. Shock doctrine response: more nuclear reactors, more coal.
- 60 years since the Cuban Missile Crisis
How cool heads prevented a Soviet-US naval encounter sparking a nuclear war
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2022
Published: 2022
This October marks the 60th anniversary of the 'underwater' component of the Cuban Missile Crisis. It was an extraordinary episode that precipitated the infamous standoff between Moscow and Washington weeks later, and likewise brought the world to the brink of nuclear destruction. With frenzied Western accusations abounding that the Kremlin is preparing to use atomic weapons in the Ukraine conflict, and spirited denials emanating from the opposite direction, it’s never been more important to revisit the incide
- Unveiling the Chilly Climate
The Suppression of Speech on Palestine in Canada
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2022
Published: 2022
Independant Jewish Voices (Canada) conducted a study on the Canadian "chilling effect" in which academics, students and Palestine solidarity activists face repression in discussing Israel's crimes against Palestinians.
- Zeitenwende - Der Linksliberalismus und der Abschied von der liberalen Gesellschaft
Auszug aus dem neuen Vorwort zur Taschenbuchausgabe von 'Die Selbstgerechten'
Resource Type: Unclassified
First Published: 2022
Published: 2022
- Is your boss tracking you while you work?
Some Canadians are about to find out
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2022
Published: 2022
In Ontario, employers must now disclose if they have been using productivity tracking software to keep tabs on their employees. Experts say while this may address transparency concerns, businesses should be tracking output instead.
- Amazon wants surveillance robots in every home
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2022
Published: 2022
Amazon's new home robot is charged with privacy violations in line with the Roomba and the Ring.
- The Nord Stream Sabotage
A New Low For Western Mainstream Media
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2022
Published: 2022
Condemning the Guardian's coverage of the recent Nord Stream sabotage, Lascaris discusses the increasing lenghts which Western media will go to promote the U.S. government's hegemonic agenda. He highlights several examples of the Guardian's exercises in propoganda-masquerading-as-journalism.
- US Media's Intellectual No-Fly-Zone on US Culpability in Nord Stream Attack
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First Published: 2022
Published: 2022
Discusses the media's suspicion of Russia over the destruction of the Nord 2 pipeline, although Washington has an established history of opposition to the pipeline.
- The BBC to NATO Pipeline
How the British state broadcaster serves the powerful
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First Published: 2022
Published: 2022
The death of Queen Elizabeth II, where the BBC dropped programming to run endless, wall-to-wall coverage, has underlined the fact to many Britons that the network is far from impartial, but the voice of the state.
- H. Chandler Davis Was a Lifelong Radical and a Moral Touchstone for the Left
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First Published: 2022
Published: 2022
Chan Davis, who died last month at the age of 96, faced down McCarthyite blacklists and imprisonment to pursue a brilliant academic career. Davis knew how to change and learn from political experience, but he always remained loyal to his socialist principles.
- Israel experiments on Palestinians with AI-powered guns at checkpoints
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First Published: 2022
Published: 2022
Discusses the ways Israeli weapons development efforts uses Palestinians as guinea pigs to be able to market their military technology as field-tested to foreign governments.
- Mass Media Omertà
Burying Al Jazeera's 'The Labour Files'
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First Published: 2022
Published: 2022
The damaging revelations about the Labour Party in the recent four-part Al Jazeera series, ‘The Labour Files’, and the almost totalitarian silence in response by British news media, should ram home the illusory nature of ‘democracy’ in the UK.
- Close Encounter with a Red-tailed Hawk
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First Published: 2022
Published: 2022
A life-and-death drama in downtown Toronto.
- Omerta in the Gangster War
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First Published: 2022
Published: 2022
The sabotage of the Nord Stream 2 pipeline has virtually announced that the war in Ukraine can only intensify with no end in sight.
- Pipelines sprengen unter Freunden, das geht gar nicht
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First Published: 2022
Published: 2022
Es erscheint vollkommen unmöglich, dass inmitten dieses dicht überwachten Areals ein staatlicher Akteur eine größere Marineoperation durchziehen kann, ohne dass dies von den unzähligen aktiven und passiven Sensoren der Anrainerstaaten bemerkt worden wäre; schon gar nicht direkt vor der Insel Bornholm, wo sich Dänen, Schweden und Deutsche ein Stelldichein bei der Überwachung der Über- und Unterseeaktivitäten geben.
- Iran: "This is a woman's revolution in the making"
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First Published: 2022
Published: 2022
If you look at the Handmaid's Tale, people talk about it as fiction. But it is real life in Iran. We're talking about a government that legally discriminates against women and legally imposes and encourages violence against us.
- Failing to Count the Arabs
The Myth of the "Democratic" Jewish State
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First Published: 2022
Published: 2022
Israel wants the world to believe that it is a majority Jewish state with a 20% Arab minority and that the Arab population enjoys a good standard of living and full equal rights. And while this is easy to disprove, it is still part of the mainstream discourse on Israel.
- Conditioned for War with Russia
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First Published: 2022
Published: 2022
Most Americans are oblivious to the reality that Western media are owned and operated by the same corporations that make massive profits by helping to stoke small wars and then peddling the necessary weapons. Corporate leaders and Ivy-mantled elites, educated to believe in U.S. 'exceptionalism,' find the lucre and the luster too lucrative to be able to think straight. They deceive themselves into thinking that (a) the U.S. cannot lose a war; (b) escalation can be calibrated and wider war can be limited to Europe; and (c) China can be expected to just sit on the sidelines.
- Conditioned for War with Russia
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First Published: 2022
Published: 2022
Discusses the American role in the war between Russia and Ukraine, and the Establishment media's part in keeping the truth from Americans.
- Ukraine War, Divided Left
'Social Patriots' and the 'Anti-Imperialism of Fools'
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First Published: 2022
Published: 2022
Since Russia's military operation commenced on February 24, 2022, the socialist left has been divided in its response to the armed conflict in Ukraine.
- Luring Doctors from Poorer Countries is the UK's Quiet Scandal
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First Published: 2022
Published: 2022
The United Kingdom brings in medical professionals from poor and middle-income countries to make up for their shortage while disintergrating these countries' health systems.
- Captiongate: How a Single Zoom Call Propelled Canada's Greens Into Pronoun Meltdown
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First Published: 2022
Published: 2022
Amita Kuttner claimed that online text reading 'she' instead of 'they' illustrated a 'system of oppression.' Now the party's president has resigned, and the movement is in chaos.
- Knowing What We Know, Knowing what We Don't Know and Knowing the Difference
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First Published: 2022
Published: 2022
There is enormous disinformation (i.e., deception) flooding the internet from both Ukraine and Russia. However, Ukraine has a decided advantage in the information war given the massive covert action support supplied by US and NATO intelligence organizations.
- Anarchist antimilitarism and myths about the war in Ukraine
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First Published: 2022
Published: 2022
A polemic by Czech anarchists against war and all warmongers, who, they say, are also abundant in the anarchist movement.
- Google is spying on your private conversations, manipulating search results
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First Published: 2022
Published: 2022
Interview with Dr. Robert Epstein who has been conducting research on tech companies' roles in American politics.
- The Great Clutching at Pearls
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First Published: 2022
Published: 2022
Tt turns out Marx was right. The crisis of capitalism is now upon us. Neoliberalism (another word for designing state systems deliberately to lead to incredible concentrations of wealth amid general poverty) is coming to the end of its course.
- Strippers' greatest protection is each other
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First Published: 2022
Published: 2022
Caroline Leigh describes her experience working in the stripping industry and the urgency of organizing it.
- Israeli army shuts down prominent Palestinian rights groups
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First Published: 2022
Published: 2022
Israeli occupation forces have raided, sealed and imposed closure orders on the offices of several prominent Palestinian human rights, feminist and social services organizations in the West Bank.
- Ukraine war veterans on how Kiev plundered US aid, wasted soldiers, endangered civilians, and lost the war
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First Published: 2022
Published: 2022
Ukraine's parliamentarians have given themselves a 70% salary increase while soldiers fighting against Russia receive none of the humanitarian aid pouring in from the US and Europe.
- Clayton Ruby: weighing him in the balance
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First Published: 2022
Published: 2022
The well-known Toronto lawyer and civil libertarian died earlier this month, at age 80. So far, most of the obituaries have praised him and portrayed him as a left-wing icon. But it is the left that he smeared for its support for Palestinians' human rights.
- How Israel erases Palestinian cultural memory
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First Published: 2022
Published: 2022
On Israel's looting of Palestinian cultural and historical archives.
- Those angry at Rushdie's stabbing have been missing in action over a far bigger threat to our freedom
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First Published: 2022
Published: 2022
The Satanic Verses novelist is championed by western liberals not because he has bravely articulated difficult truths but because of who his enemies are.
- Those Angry at Rushdie's stabbing have been missing in action over a far greater threat to our freedom
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First Published: 2022
Published: 2022
Both Julian Assange and Salman Rushdie have been victims of violence, but sympathy was only given to Rushdie. Cook argues that although both men are prominent proponents for the freedom of speech, Rushie questions the authority of clerics and governments in far-off lands, and Assange speaks out against the crimes committed by Western governments.
- Gaza's children are used to the death and bombing
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First Published: 2022
Published: 2022
An account of civilians caught in the crossfire between Israel's army and Palestinian factions.
- Ukraine and its Western backers should be held accountable for the 'suicidal' attack on Europe's largest nuclear powerplant
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First Published: 2022
Published: 2022
Even as UN Secretary-General António Guterres addressed survivors of the World War Two US atomic bomb attack on Hiroshima, halfway around the world, the armed forces of Ukraine seemed hellbent on unleashing a modern-day nuclear holocaust on Europe by firing artillery rockets at the Zaporozhye power plant.
- Pre-Emptive Murder
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First Published: 2022
Published: 2022
The lives of the latest fifteen Palestinian children to be murdered by Israel in Gaza, lives ripped from their small, terrified bodies with devastating violence, do not seem of much concern to the powerful in the West, or indeed anywhere.
- We all must speak up in defense of Graham Phillips!
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First Published: 2022
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British journalist Graham Phillips has been subjected to sanctions by the British government for reporting from Donbas.
- Clayton Ruby was a shining example of ‘how much one person can do
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First Published: 2022
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Clayton Ruby was one of Canada’s leading lawyers and an outspoken proponent of social justice, the environment, and press freedom.
- Shedding Light on Who, Exactly, is Responsible for the War in Ukraine
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First Published: 2022
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It is necessary to understand not only what Russia is doing with its intervention in Ukraine but also what alternative existed to stop Ukrainian aggression against Donbas and to assure Russia's national security.
- The Globe and Mail Just Published Neo-Nazi Propaganda
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First Published: 2022
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A profile in the newspaper focusing on a Ukrainian neo-Nazi group uncritically includes its subject's description of them as 'heroes.'
- How the Elites Use Identity Politics to Wage Class War
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First Published: 2022
Published: 2022
I fail to perceive how this ideology menaces an established order that its identity-activists have unctuously and sedulously wooed. Worse, identity politics weakens worker solidarity, because it never mentions class.
- Radical chic' and the left's problem with race
White, middle-class left-wingers are still in thrall to age-old prejudices.
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First Published: 2022
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"If you believe that everyone should play by the same rules and be judged by the same standards", Thomas Sowell has said, "that would have gotten you labelled a radical 50 years ago, a liberal 25 years ago, and a racist today".
- Close encounter with humpback whale terrifies - and delights - B.C. family
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First Published: 2022
Published: 2022
A B.C. family had a thrilling experience off the coast of Vancouver Island when a humpback whale spent almost an hour rubbing up against their boat, spinning around and flapping its fins.
- Celebrated Canadian civil rights lawyer Clayton Ruby dead at 80
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First Published: 2022
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Distinguished Canadian civil rights lawyer and legal giant Clayton Ruby has died at the age of 80.
- If Canada were a Christian state
What would Canada be like if it were a Christian state in the same sense that Israel is a Jewish state?
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First Published: 2022
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What apartheid looks like in Israel, and what it would like in Canada.
- Uncloaked: Canada's "Jekyll-and-Hyde" Masquerade as Nation that Supposedly Supports Pacifism and Progressive Principles
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First Published: 2022
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How Canada's military-industrial complex sucks up to and serves the American one.
- Uncloaked: Canada's Jekyll-and-Hyde Masquerade as Nation that Supposedly Supports Pacifism and Progressive Principles
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First Published: 2022
Published: 2022
How Canada's military-industrial complex sucks up to and serves the American one.
- Against False Privilege
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First Published: 2022
Published: 2022
One of the biggest blunders of modern activism is the promotion of guilt and the demand for false privilege.
- How Stonewall turned against gay rights
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First Published: 2022
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How is it that an organisation that was so instrumental in the struggle for equality has morphed into what many perceive to be a serious threat to gay rights?
- American Diplomacy as a Tragic Drama
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First Published: 2022
Published: 2022
As in a Greek tragedy whose protagonist brings about precisely the fate that he has sought to avoid, the US/NATO confrontation with Russia in Ukraine is achieving just the opposite of America's aim of preventing China, Russia and their allies from acting independently of U.S. control over their trade and investment policy.
- The West Can't Stop Pillaging Other Countries' Bank Accounts
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First Published: 2022
Published: 2022
Leave your nation's money in a western bank, and it might not be yours for very long, especially if you in any way displease the U.S. and its client states.
- What the U.S. Government and The New York Times Have Quietly Agreed Not to Tell You About Ukraine
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First Published: 2022
Published: 2022
The narrative that portrays Ukraine as a democratic state - no matter how beloved by U.S. corporate media or endlessly repeated by the State Department - is a fantasy. History has shown us that the Ukrainian government's commitment to democracy is dubious or non-existent. Ukraine currently has more banned political parties than legal ones; political repression and imprisonment of dissidents has been commonplace ever since its independence; and both the government and its affiliated party militias routinely resort to violence to quell peaceful protests while turning a blind eye to violence inflicted on Jews and other racial and ethnic minorities.
- Time to acknowledge hateful leader of 'anti-hate' group
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First Published: 2022
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What do you call an 'antiracist' group led by an open ethnic/religious supremacist?
- Cruelty against Gaza patients enabled by US and EU
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First Published: 2022
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The cruelty of the siege of Gaza and the depravity of those who prolong it cannot be overstated.
- The Dawn of the Apocalypse
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First Published: 2022
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We were warned for decades about the death march we are on because of global warming. And yet, the global ruling class continues to frog-march us towards extinction.
- Servant of the Corrupt
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First Published: 2022
Published: 2022
Pedro Gonzalez details the connections among Zelensky, oligarch Ihor Kolomoisky and Washington, D.C.
- Government censorship rebrands with 'disinformation' campaign
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First Published: 2022
Published: 2022
Current official talk about 'disinformation' has largely become a euphemism for protecting empire and a rebranding of age-old government-run censorship.
- Anger at trans swimmer's 'Woman of the Year' nomination
Lia Thomas has been nominated for a prestigious women's award
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First Published: 2022
Published: 2022
The University of Pennsylvania is facing a wave of criticism after nominating transgender swimmer Lia Thomas for the NCAA's 'Woman of the Year' honor for 2022.
- Podcast with Michael Hudson, Steve Keen, Steve Grumbine
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First Published: 2022
Published: 2022
- The Capitalist Solution to 'Save' the Planet: Make It an Asset Class & Sell it
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First Published: 2022
Published: 2022
Lynn Fries speaks to John Bellamy Foster on a critically important and underreported topic: how investors are trying to use rapidly moving climate crisis as an opportunity to loot even more of the commons.
- Barely Legal: the Global Uber Enterprise
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First Published: 2022
Published: 2022
In terms of the gig economy, there are few more ruthless buccaneers than this San Franciscan ride-share company that has persistently specialised in cutting corners and remaking them.
- Germany criminalizes journalist for exposing Ukrainian war crimes
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First Published: 2022
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Independent Donetsk-based journalist Alina Lipp of Germany details her prosecution by the German state for violating new speech codes through her reporting in the Donetsk People’s Republic. As the only German reporter on the ground in Donetsk, Lipp has exposed Ukrainian forces shelling civilians, attacking a maternity ward, mining harbors, and bombing a granary filled with corn for export. She faces three years in prison if she returns to her home country.
- The End of Western Civilization
Why It Lacks Resilience, and What Will Take Its Place
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First Published: 2022
Published: 2022
Today's New Cold War diplomacy involves extracting economic tribute by pushing foreign economies further into dollarized debt, to be paid by imposing depression and austerity on themselves. This subjugation is depicted by mainstream economists as a law of nature and hence as an inevitable form of equilibrium, in which each nation’s economy receives "what it is worth." Today's mainstream economic models are based on the unrealistic assumption that all debts can be paid, without polarizing income and wealth. All economic problems are assumed to be self-curing by "the magic of the marketplace," without any need for civic authority to intervene. Government regulation is deemed inefficient and ineffective, and hence unnecessary. That leaves creditors, land-grabbers and privatizers with a free hand to deprive others of their freedom. This is depicted as the ultimate destiny of today's globalization, and of history itself.
- In memoriam: John W. Warnock
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First Published: 2022
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John Warnock leaves behind an incomparably rich political legacy.
- Americans are being urged to delete period tracking apps. Should Canadians do the same?
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First Published: 2022
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Health apps' promises to protect users' data should be taken with a grain of salt, privacy experts say.
- Ukraine's neo-Nazi Azov Battalion has built a 'state within a state,' and it despises both Russia and the liberal West
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First Published: 2022
Published: 2022
The Ukrainian regiment adheres to its own brand of ‘National Idea,’ loosely modelled on Mussolini's Italy.
- History boxes bring national museum to life for rural N.B. students
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First Published: 2022
Published: 2022
University students and Grade 1 class explore 'sacred stuff' together with help of Canadian Museum of History. As the school year wraps up, university and elementary students in the small town of Sackville, N.B., are reflecting on some important discoveries they have made with the help of one another, and a big black box filled with 25 Canadian artifacts.
- Cognitive Warfare: Israel Targets Journalists Who Threaten Its Reality-Creation Tactics
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First Published: 2022
Published: 2022
The evidence shows Israeli military/intel forces see journalists as 'lawful targets,' as part of the 'Cognitive War' they wage against the Palestinians, but more particularly against the global population in an attempt to legitimize their military oppression of the Palestinians in their ongoing effort of 'population expulsion' of the Palestinians from Palestinian territory.
- A Lemming Leading the Lemmings
Slavoj Zizek and the Terminal Collapse of the Anti-War Left
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First Published: 2022
Published: 2022
Have you noticed how every major foreign policy crisis since the U.S. and U.K.'s invasion of Iraq in 2003 has peeled off another layer of the left into joining the pro-NATO, pro-war camp?
- Not worth your sympathy: The story of Ukraine's neo-Nazi Azov battalion
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First Published: 2022
Published: 2022
Much less than the heroic defenders they are made out to be, the extremist regiment’s many crimes are well documented.
- The Paradoxical Seeds of The Holocaust
Oppression and Death Live On in the Apartheid State
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First Published: 2022
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It is becoming increasingly difficult for Israel and the agencies that promote Zionism around the world to portray Zionism in rosy colors. This is primarily because there is a history of close to 100 years of Zionism; and the actions of the Zionist State, Israel, have a history of seven and a half decades of violence and racism. To add to that, in February, Amnesty International came out with a damning report demonstrating in no uncertain terms that Israel is engaged in the crime of apartheid and has been since the day it was established.
- Robbed by Law Enforcement
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First Published: 2022
Published: 2022
People who have never even been charged with a crime can have their life savings taken away. That’s civil asset forfeiture.
- British 'Watchdog' Journalists Unmasked as Lap Dogs for the Security State
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First Published: 2022
Published: 2022
The cases of Carol Cadwalladr and Paul Mason reveal how readily celebrated media figures are recruited to the intelligence services’ covert information war against other journalists.
- Craig Murray: Your Man in Saughton Jail Part 2
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First Published: 2022
Published: 2022
Think of every sensible thing you think you know about prison. Think of education, training, rehabilitation. It is all completely ignored by the Scottish Prison Service.
- The Federal Bureau of Tweets: Twitter Is Hiring an Alarming Number of FBI Agents
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First Published: 2022
Published: 2022
Twitter has been on a recruitment drive of late, hiring a host of former feds and spies. Studying a number of employment and recruitment websites, MintPress has ascertained that the social media giant has, in recent years, recruited dozens of individuals from the national security state to work in the fields of security, trust, safety and content.
- Sámi: Looking for lost elements of night skies
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First Published: 2022
Published: 2022
Over the past couple centuries, much of Sámi sky lore has been lost, but what is known shows a culture that is intimately in tune with the land.
- Old Norse: Reading into ancient sky stories
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First Published: 2022
Published: 2022
Despite mastering the night sky, many old Norse sky culture details have been lost over time
- Leaked emails expose Paul Mason's collusion with senior British intelligence agent
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First Published: 2022
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In leaked emails, celebrity journalist Paul Mason plots extensively with Andy Pryce of the UK Foreign Office Counter Disinformation and Media Development unit.
- Forget liberating Ukraine - We first need to liberate our minds
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First Published: 2022
Published: 2022
Because we in the West are the strongest tribe on the planet, we are also the most deluded, the most propagandized, and the most dangerous.
- Joe Biden's Saber-Rattling Threatens World War III - with China and Russia
Fits long pattern of war-mongering and provocations that are a feature of the American Century
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First Published: 2022
Published: 2022
- On Ukraine, 'progressive' proxy warriors spell disaster
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First Published: 2022
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'Progressives" who urge leftists to support the Ukraine proxy war whitewash the US role, attack dissenting voices, and advocate the dangerous militarism that they claims to oppose.
- Palestinian artists targeted in Germany ahead of major art event
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First Published: 2022
Published: 2022
Exhibition space for Kassel's documenta 15 art festival vandalised, as threats to Palestinian artists in Germany escalate.
- Paul Mason's covert intelligence-linked plot to destroy The Grayzone exposed
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First Published: 2022
Published: 2022
Leaked emails reveal British journalist Paul Mason plotting with an intel contractor to destroy The Grayzone through "relentless deplatforming" and a "full nuclear legal" attack. The scheme is part of a wider planned assault on the UK left.
- US State-Affiliated NewsGuard Targets Consortium News
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First Published: 2022
Published: 2022
The Pentagon and State Dept.-linked outfit, with an ex-N.S.A. and C.I.A. director on its board, is accusing Consortium News of publishing "false content" on Ukraine
- A new generation of US-trained extremists is fighting Russia. Are we prepared for the blowback?
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First Published: 2022
Published: 2022
US agencies have directly and indirectly trained and empowered Nazis and ultra-nationalists at home and abroad to fight Russians in Ukraine. This program follows the blueprint established by Western intelligence agencies in Afghanistan and Syria.
- Lawyers will add Abu Akleh to Palestinian journalists' ICC case
ICC case highlights Israeli attacks on journalists and the bombing of Al Jazeera's offices in Gaza last May
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First Published: 2022
Published: 2022
- NATO/US vs Russia in Ukraine: A Trotskyist Analysis
A litmus test for Trotskyists
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First Published: 2022
Published: 2022
The current conflict in Ukraine seems in all likelihood to eventually be viewed as a major historical turning point. It has three interrelated threads: the decline of the American imperium; Russia’s role in an emerging multipolar geopolitical world order; and sharpening of national/ethnic antagonisms within Ukraine itself.
- How 'Virtual Crime Scenes' Became a Propaganda Tool in Nicaragua, Ukraine, and Syria
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First Published: 2022
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Creating "virtual crime scenes" is a tool which enables establishment media such as the New York Times, the BBC or (in Spain) El Pais, to convey interpretations of the events which conveniently coincide with the way they are seen by the US government and its allies.
- Finance Capitalism's Self-Destructive Nature
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First Published: 2022
Published: 2022
Transcript of Interview on The Left Lens with Danny Haiphong May 25th, 2022
- The Threat to Privacy in the Post-Roe Era
How Your Cellphone Could Be Used Against You
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First Published: 2022
Published: 2022
Using a maps app to plan a route, sending terms to a search engine and chatting online are ways that people actively share their personal data. But mobile devices share far more data than just what their users say or type. They share information with the network about whom people contacted, when they did so, how long the communication lasted and what type of device was used.
- India: Birds Drop Out of the Sky, People Die
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First Published: 2022
Published: 2022
"The streets, she says, are lined with dead things. Dogs. Cats. Cows. Animals of all kinds are just there, dead. They've perished in the killing heat. They can't survive." People spend all day in canals and rivers and lakes. Some people line the streets passed out at the edge of life or death.
- Calls By Western Socialists For A Russian Retreat From Ukraine Amount To De Facto Support For NATO Aggression
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First Published: 2022
Published: 2022
NATO socialists dismiss or ignore altogether the concerns of Russia over the expansionism, militarism and sanctions of the NATO alliance. In reality, Russian diplomatic efforts to push back against NATO's aggression - and NATO's use of Ukraine for its aggression - have gone on for several decades.
- Gender Ideology's True Believers
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First Published: 2022
Published: 2022
I spent 25 years in a cultish political sect. Trans activists are giving me deja vu.
- Letter to editors of FAIR.org on 'annexationists' and 'secessionists' in Crimea and Donbass
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First Published: 2022
Published: 2022
The duly elected government of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea staged a democratic referendum on March 16, 2014 to secede from the new, right-wing Ukraine referendum and rejoin the Russian Federation.
- The 16 Biggest Lies the U.S. Government Tells America About the Ukraine War
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First Published: 2022
Published: 2022
In any war, the first casualty is truth. Here, according to Richard Ochs, are the biggest lies.
- Censoring Palestine: Swarms of Israeli Bots Are Crippling Pro-Palestinian Twitter Account
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First Published: 2022
Published: 2022
The Israeli government's targeting of Palestinian digital content is well-documented. According to 7amleh, The Arab Center for the Advancement of Social Media, the Israeli Ministry of Justice Cyber Unit sends content-removal requests aimed at Palestinian content to social media companies such as Facebook, Google, and YouTube. The Justice Ministry has boasted these corporations comply with 95% of their requests. And Israeli governmental organizations and NGOs also encourage their citizens to flag Palestinian content for removal.
- The Israeli Execution of Shireen Abu Akleh
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First Published: 2022
Published: 2022
Israel, which shoots hundreds of Palestinians a year, routinely includes reporters and photographers on its target lists. The execution of Abu Akleh was not an accident. She was singled out for elimination.
- The New Iron Curtain
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First Published: 2022
Published: 2022
The Ukraine crisis proves to be Europe's crucible and Europe proves a profound disappointment. And here's the thing about this profoundly misguided project. The populations of the Western post-democracies will pay a far higher price for letting their leaders build the thick stone wall of Cold War II than those it is supposed to consign to the wilderness. Westerners will pay this price in blindness, in ignorance, and in isolation from the global majority.
- Russia has the historical right to invade Ukraine
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First Published: 2022
Published: 2022
The simple question is: What was Russia to do?
- Will Shireen Abu Akleh's Murder Mark a Turning Point in the Liberation of Palestine?
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First Published: 2022
Published: 2022
As I write these words, the world is trying to make sense of the brutal assassination of Al Jazeera journalist Shireen Abu Akleh, who was targeted by Israeli forces while covering yet another Israeli assault on Jenin. Furthermore, Israeli forces have now attacked the funeral procession leading Shireen to her final resting place. One wonders why is anyone surprised.
- Ben Norton aka Multipolarista interviews Michael Hudson: Destiny of Civilization
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 2022
Published: 2022
The decline of the US dollar, the three 'systems', the sanctions war on Russia, on the eve of the publication of Prof. Hudson's new book: The Destiny of Civilization: Finance Capitalism, Industrial Capitalism or Socialism.
- Contemporary Race Theory and the Problem of History: A Critique
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First Published: 2022
Published: 2022
The inability of contemporary race theory to fully account for and explain (rather than just label) the social dynamics that produce and reproduce inequality stems from two core assumptions that form the bedrock for this taxonomic project. The first is that anti-Black racism is an unalterable feature of American life - hence the impetus towards labeling and naming the different and ostensibly novel forms that racism takes. The second is that class analysis in inadequate theoretically, and class struggle is politically outmoded.
- How a century of political violence in Ukraine is linked to the atrocities of today
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First Published: 2022
Published: 2022
The history of Ukrainian nationalist cruelty is an important factor, barely discussed, or known, in the West.
- "Let Me Go Get My Big White Man"
The Clientelist Foundation of Contemporary Antiracist Politics
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First Published: 2022
Published: 2022
No matter what those who propound it may believe about themselves or, more meaningfully, want the rest of us to believe about them, contemporary race-reductionist politics - i.e., what is commonly recognized as antiracist politics - is not in any way left, egalitarian, or democratic. It is not linked to any popular, insurgent, or 'bottom-up' black or other political expressions. It is not oriented practically toward a vision of broadly egalitarian social transformation, nor is it at all aligned with or congenial to any project of generating a political movement toward such ends.
- Gerald Hannon, a key figure in the gay liberation movement, has died at age 77
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Recalling Gerald Hannon.
- Dear Al Gorithm
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A look at search engine optimization (SEO) spam and the algorithms behind them.
- My Husband Died With Dignity. Everyone Should Have That Right.
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Frank Cunningham, the love of my life for over fifty years, died of acute leukemia on February 4, 2022, at age eighty-one. Frank died as he wished: through the Canadian medical assistance in dying (MAID) program, at home in Vancouver, British Columbia (BC), lying on our living room sofa, with me holding his hands.
- My Nelson Mandela is dead
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The way to liberate the Palestinians from Israel requires replacing the apartheid regime known as "Israel" with a free, democratic Palestine – and not expecting that Israel itself will allow Palestinians to be free. Israel isn't just the perpetrator of the crime, it is, in and of itself, the crime. The existence of Apartheid Israel is the crime.
- Donziger: a Tale for Our Times
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This case shows how we are all, in a sense, the prisoners of corporations which dictate the terms on which we live, work and share knowledge.
- A Reader Sounds Off on PayPal's Ban on Consortium News
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As with Julian Assange and WikiLeaks, journalism that tells some truths that might undermine the case for war can't be tolerated.
- Ukraine: Cost of War in Africa & Global South
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As the West is busy dealing with its own economic woes while cutting off Russian exports, little heed is being paid to those suffering the most.
- Burned alive: How the 2014 Odessa massacre became a turning point for Ukraine
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Clashes between opposing activists turned into mass murder. The perpetrators have never been punished.
- UK intensifies crackdown against Russian media
London accused RT of spreading 'dangerous nonsense' amid Moscow's military campaign in Ukraine
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- PayPal Cancels CN Account; May Seize Balance
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PayPal has canceled Consortium News' account without any prior notice or due process and with virtually no explanation. As Consortium News is today launching its Spring Fund Drive, it has lost one of its most important ways for its viewers and readers to show their support through donations.
- The NATO to TikTok Pipeline: Why is Tiktok employing so many national security agents?
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- France Stuck in the Extreme Center
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After years of neoliberalism, French politics that venture outside the conformist centre's unshakable loyalty to the Atlantic Alliance are now dangerously 'extreme.'
- Alice Walker & the Price of Conscience
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On the decision of the Bay Area Book Festival to disinvite Alice Walker.
- A Recap Of The War In Ukraine
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- An Intellectual No-Fly Zone: Online Censorship of Ukraine Dissent Is Becoming the New Norm
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Google has sent a warning shot across the world, ominously informing media outlets, bloggers, and content creators that it will no longer tolerate certain opinions when it comes to Russia's invasion of Ukraine.
- An Intellectual No-Fly Zone: Online Censorship of Ukraine Dissent Is Becoming the New Norm
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Google has sent a warning shot across the world, ominously informing media outlets, bloggers, and content creators that it will no longer tolerate certain opinions when it comes to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
- How the trans ideology dehumanises women
Grace Lavery's bonkers book shows just how sexist trans thinking has become.
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I've seen some gaslighting in my time, but the new book from transgender professor Grace Lavery takes the biscuit. It is almost entirely about Lavery's penis - as confirmed by its title, Please Miss: A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Penis - and yet if any of you dare to refer to Lavery as a man you will be branded a bigot.
- Why Russia's intervention in Ukraine is legal under international law
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The argument can be made that Russia has exercised its right to self-defense under international law.
- Big Tech's 'Cancel Culture' Love Affair
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Cancel culture is inbuilt in the techno-feudalist project: conform to the hegemonic narrative, or else. Journalism that does not conform must be taken down. This month, several of us - Scott Ritter, myself, ASB Military News, among others - were canceled from Twitter. The - unstated - reason: we were debunking the officially approved narrative of the Russia/NATO/Ukraine war.
- Mom furious Grade 8 students at Woodstock, Ont., school must make posters for anti-abortion group's contest
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The posters being made at Woodstock school will be graded, entered in Right to Life Coalition contest.
- Prison Food
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"Not for Human Consumption." The author, who saw that label himself when he was incarcerated, calls out a widespread human rights violation being committed in U.S. prisons.
- Zelensky's Hardline Internal Purge
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Ukraine's 'pro-democracy' president has outlawed his opposition, ordered rivals arrested and presided over the disappearance and assassination of dissidents.
- As opportunities to see old movies fade, so does basic cinematic literacy
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When it comes to the movies many people feel comfortable ignoring anything made before they were born. Black-and-white movies? Forget it. Silent films? Are you kidding? And I’m not even talking about teenagers, or casual fans. I've taught film students - many of whom want to make their own movies - who seem to think cinema started with 'Pulp Fiction.'
- Balalaika compared to swastika
Swedish folk group cancels concert after being criticized for playing Russian instruments
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- "One less traitor": Zelensky oversees campaign of assassination, kidnapping and torture of political opposition
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While claiming to defend democracy, Ukraine's Volodymyr Zelensky has outlawed his opposition, ordered his rivals' arrest, and presided over the disappearance and assassination of dissidents across the country.
- US, EU sacrificing Ukraine to 'weaken Russia': former NATO adviser
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As the Russia-Ukraine war enters a new phase, former Swiss intelligence officer, senior United Nations official, and NATO advisor Jacques Baud analyzes the conflict and argues that the US and its allies are exploiting Ukraine in a longstanding campaign to bleed its Russian neighbour.
- The US has The Hague Invasion Act, but wants The Hague to target Russia
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Washington wants Putin in the International Criminal Court, but its law allows "all means necessary" to prevent cases against USA.
- Twitter Wars: My Personal Experience in Twitter's Ongoing Assault on Free Speech
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- Five rules for fighting transactivism
Stonewall loyalists need rescuing from themselves
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With a nod in solidarity to beleaguered adults across the land having to deal with transactivist drama in their organisations, homes, and friend groups: here are five supernanny-style rules from me.
- Pentagon Asks Top 8 US Arms Makers to Meet on Ukraine
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According to a report from Reuters, the Pentagon will host leaders from the top eight US weapons makers to discuss the industry’s capacity to produce arms for Ukraine if the war lasts years. Since Russia invaded Ukraine on February 24, the US has pledged over $1.7 billion in new military aid for Ukraine.
- Thinking about Terry Fox and the Marathon of Hope
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Reflections on Terry Fox's legacy.
- Frieden für die Ukraine - Wie der Krieg beendet werden kann
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- Hate speech and death threats
Canadian academics harassed after criticizing Hindu nationalism in India
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Academics receive online hate from local diaspora groups and foreign trolls.
- The US Bubble of Pretend
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The lack of objective, principled coverage of the war in Ukraine is a degenerate state of affairs. The one thing worse is the extent to which it’s perfectly fine with most Americans.
- Questions Abound About Bucha Massacre
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The West has made a snap judgment about who is responsible for the massacre at the Ukrainian town of Bucha with calls for more stringent sanctions on Russia, but the question of guilt is far from decided.
- New witness testimony about Mariupol maternity hospital 'airstrike' follows pattern of Ukrainian deceptions, media malpractice
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A key witness to the widely publicized incident at the Mariupol maternity hospital has punctured the official narrative of a Russian airstrike on the facility, and raised serious questions about Western media ethics.
- Democrats: Party Of Child Mutilators & Kidnappers
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- The left-wing case against identity politics
It is time progressives stood up to the racism, classism and misogyny of wokeness.
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Book review of The Identity Myth by David Swift.
- Russia, Ukraine and the Law of War: War Crimes
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Scott Ritter lays out what the law says about war crimes and how it applies to the conflict in Ukraine.
- Striving to make sense of the Ukraine war
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- The week the trans spell was broken
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In the end, it wasn't one person who pointed out that gender extremism wears no clothes. There were so many: therapists, academics, parents, authors, athletes, politicians, barristers, journalists, scientists, feminists, gay activists, all shouting over the years that this ideology would hurt women, children, gay people and trans people.
- Biden Administration to Review 'Troubled Legacy' of Indian Residential Schools
The U.S. government funded hundreds of residential schools for American Indians
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The Interior Department's press release says the commission will "shed light on the unspoken traumas of the past" and promised to "respect families and communities."
- How the organized Left got Covid wrong, learned to love lockdowns and lost its mind
An autopsy
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For two years the left has championed policies of surveillance and exclusion in the form of: punitive vaccine mandates, invasive vaccine passports, socially destructive lockdowns, and radically unaccountable censorship by large media and technology corporations. For the entire pandemic, leftists and liberals - call them the Lockdown Left - cheered on unprecedented levels of repression aimed primarily at the working class: those who could not afford private schools and could not comfortably telecommute from second homes.
- Ukraine: The Economic Fallout
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Economists Michael Hudson and Richard Wolff discuss the economic war against Russia and its boomerang effect on the West. Does it mean that globalization is over?
- Partnering With Neo-Nazis in Ukraine: An Inconvenient History
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Under pressure from neo-Nazi parties that have large power that is disproportionate to their small support, Zelensky abandoned his campaign peace promise and refused to talk to the leaders of the Donbas and implement the Minsk Agreements.
- Michael Hudson interview with Margaret Flowers
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According to Michael Hudson, all of a sudden this last week, you're seeing the world economy fracture into two parts, a dollarized part and other countries that do not follow the neoliberal policies that the United States insists that its allies follow. We're seeing the birth of a new dual World economy.
- Palestine is a loud echo of Britain's colonial past - and a warning of the future
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In moving from Nazareth back to the UK, I have stepped out of the frying pan and into the fire.
- Russia, Ukraine & the Law of War: Crime of Aggression
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- Social media giants repress Palestinian content
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Silicon Valley is solidly entrenching itself as a devoted enemy of political dissent. As the West implements draconian sanctions against Russia over the invasion of Ukraine, including the banning of the Russian news outlets RT and Sputnik from YouTube, Facebook, Twitter and TikTok as well as search engine results, social media censorship of political messaging about the Palestinian liberation struggle continues.
- America Defeats Germany for the Third Time in a Century
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The recent prodding of Russia by expanding Ukrainian anti-Russian ethnic violence by Ukraine's neo-Nazi post-2014 Maiden regime was aimed at (and has succeeded in) forcing a showdown in response to America's fear that it is losing its economic and political hold on its NATO allies and other Dollar Area satellites. These countries have seen major opportunities for gain to lie in increasing trade and investment with China and Russia.
- Cancel Culture Democracy Comes to Ukraine
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When I am told, by possibly well-meaning but at best indoctrinated and at worst imbecilic individuals, that Freedom and Democracy require Censorship and Suppression it is my duty to fight against such buffoons.
- On Being Disappeared
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YouTube has removed the entire six-year archive of the author's show 'On Contact.' This censorship, he says, is about supporting what I.F Stone reminded us is what governments always do - lie.
- MSM Cover-Up of Neo-Nazis In Ukraine
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In its coverage of the war in Ukraine, one of the MSM's most egregious offenses is its silence or downplaying the significance of the neo-Nazis in Ukraine.
- The road to Ukraine started with 1999's Kosovo War
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On March 24, 1999, NATO launched an air war against Serbia and Montenegro, then known as the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia.
- Washington Helped Trigger the Ukraine War
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The magnitude of the aggressive moves taken by the Pentagon and CIA are just now becoming apparent.
- Escalation Without Consequences on the Op-Ed Page
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Corporate media outlets are calling for the United States and its allies to react to Russia’s illegal invasion of Ukraine by escalating the war. The opinion pages are awash with pleas to pump ever-more deadly weaponry into the conflict, to choke Russian civilians with sanctions, and even to institute a "no-fly zone." That such approaches gamble with thousands, and possibly millions, of lives doesn’t shake the resolve of the press’s armchair generals.
- The fictional world of trans activism
There's nothing harmless about denying the truth
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- The Lie of American Innocence
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The branding of Vladimir Putin as a war criminal by Joe Biden, who lobbied for the Iraq war and staunchly supported the 20 years of carnage in the Middle East, is one more example of the hypocritical moral posturing sweeping across the United States. It is unclear how anyone would try Putin for war crimes since Russia, like the United States, does not recognize the jurisdiction of the International Criminal Court in The Hague. But justice is not the point. Politicians like Biden, who do not accept responsibility for our well-documented war crimes, bolster their moral credentials by demonizing their adversaries. They know the chance of Putin facing justice is zero. And they know their chance of facing justice is the same.
- Washington's Sanctions War
A Futile Attempt To Control the World Economy
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In essence, economic sanctions assume that the state is entitled to expropriate and destroy economic value owned by any business which had been doing good faith trading or financial transactions with sanctioned Russian entities.
- World Frog Day
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- How Much Less Newsworthy Are Civilians in Other Conflicts?
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As US news media covered the first shocking weeks of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, some media observers -- like FAIR founder Jeff Cohen -- have noted their impressions of how coverage differed from wars past.
- It's Not OK for Grown Adults to Think This Way About Ukraine
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- Social media giants allow hate speech against Russia but silence Israel's critics
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Silicon Valley's decision to allow anti-Russia threats reveals it as little more than a propaganda arm of the West.
- For Washington, War Never Ends
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The formation of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) and the rearmament of Germany confirmed that for the United States, the war in Europe was not entirely over. It still isn't. It goes on and on.
- Is this how it all ends?
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- Shock and Awe: Then and Now
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In the two U.S. wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, the world has seen two decades of wholesale death and destruction at the hands of the U.S. military, at a cost of trillions and countless deaths estimated between one and two million.
- Humanitarian flights for Ukraine loaded with weapons, protesting airport workers claim
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Airport workers in Italy claim "humanitarian" cargo from Pisa was actually aimed at fuelling the conflict.
- The politically driven campaign against Harvard anthropologist John Comaroff
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The attack on Harvard anthropology professor John Comaroff has taken to a new level the campaign to purge American colleges and universities on the basis of anti-democratic identity politics.
- Under the Wolfsangel: The uncomfortable truth about radical ideologies in Ukraine
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The Nazi influence on modern-day Ukrainian politics is clear, tangible, and willfully ignored by its Western supporters.
- Conflict In Ukraine Used To Silence Voices Of Dissent In The United States
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Clearing the FOG speaks with political comedian Lee Camp about the sudden de-platforming that happened to him when RT America abruptly shut down after the Russian military intervention in Ukraine last month. Camp lost his program Redacted Tonight that aired weekly for the past eight years, and he was kicked off of other platforms such as Spotify. Camp talks about the big picture of growing censorship, the state of the media and freedom of the press, and the assault on the public's access to information that counters the narrative in the corporate media.
- International Day of Action for Rivers 2022
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- Nuclear expert speaks on the dangers of war between the US and Russia
Interview with Greg Mello
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Nuclear war is not one or two Hiroshima-sized bombs. The imagination cannot encompass nuclear war. Nuclear war means nuclear winter. It means the collapse of very fragile electronic, financial, governmental, administrative systems that keep everyone alive. We’d be lucky to reboot in the early 19th century. And if enough weapons are detonated, the collapse of the Earth’s ozone layer would mean that every form of life that has eyes could be blinded. The combined effects of a US-Russian nuclear war would mean that pretty much every terrestrial mammal, and many plants, would become extinct.
- Waltzing Toward Armageddon with the Merchants of Death
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The doctrine of permanent war dominated our lives during the Cold War and dominates our lives now.
- The West's Hands in Ukraine as Bloody as Putin's
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There is a discursive nervous tic all over social media at the moment, including from prominent journalists such as Guardian columnist George Monbiot. The demand is that everyone not only "condemn" Russian President Vladimir Putin for invading Ukraine, but do so without qualification.
- I Work for Sputnik News
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Torture, whistleblowing, extraordinary rendition, secret prisons, solitary confinement and corruption in the justice system. Those are Kiriakou's subjects and he is happy to talk about them anywhere.
- Worthy & Unworthy Victims
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The life of a Palestinian or an Iraqi child is as precious as the life of a Ukrainian child. No one should live in fear and terror. No one should be sacrificed on the altar of Mars.
- Australian Government Sanctions People For Sharing Unauthorized Thoughts
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Stomping on speech which doesn't align with the authorized opinions of the government and the globe-spanning empire of which it is a member state.
- The Casualties of Empire
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Diabolic methods of propaganda and perception management are at work now that have no precedent. This is war waged in a new way — against domestic populations as well as those declared as enemies.
- In These Days of Great Tension
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Rather than allow this war to escalate and for positions to harden, it is important for the guns to go silent and the discussions to recommence. writes Vijay Prashad.
- The Crisis in Ukraine is a Planetary Crisis Provoked by the U.S. that Threatens Nuclear War
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- The Crisis in Ukraine is a Planetary Crisis Provoked by the U.S. that Threatens Nuclear War
Boyd-Barrett, Oliver
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In the United States and its allies, Russia confronts an adversary which is the only country ever to have used nuclear weapons on another. This is also an adversary which has many times since considered using nuclear weapons again.
- National Endowment for Democracy Deletes Records of Funding Projects in Ukraine
Deletion needed to preserve big lie of an unprovoked Russian invasion
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The National Endowment for Democracy (NED) -- a CIA offshoot founded in the early 1980s to advance "democracy promotion" initiatives around the world—has deleted all records of funding projects in Ukraine from their searchable "Awarded Grants Search" database.
- Pity the Nation
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Fact-based arguments Scott Ritter made challenging the case for war against Iraq were effectively silenced. Today he sees the same template in play towards anyone challenging the dogma of 'Putinism.
- A Proposed Solution to the Ukraine War
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An end to the invasion and war in Ukraine can only be guaranteed if Russia’s security is itself guaranteed. Security is largely indivisible. Security for one state requires security for others, says the Los Alamos Study Group.
- Western cancel culture has gone nuclear in targeting an entire country
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By now, we're all used to righteous people pitching fits and ganging up, mean-girl style, on those they feel have committed transgressions against the status quo. But amid the conflict in Ukraine, some are actually trying to deplatform the world's largest country by attacking anyone and anything even remotely associated with it.
- Erklarung zur Abstimmung uber den Ukraine-Antrag von SPD/CDU/CSU, Bündnis 90/DIE Grune und FDP
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- War, Conflict & Enemies of Truth
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The frenzy engendered by the Ukraine conflict reinforces a herd mentality that cries out for critical thinking.
- George Monbiot: NATO's witchfinder
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In everything he writes George Monbiot accepts what pro-Western sources report as gospel and on this basis alone denounces his opponents.
- How Zelensky Made Peace With Neo-Nazis
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While Western media deploy Zelensky's heritage to refute accusations of neo-Nazis in Ukraine, the president now depends on them as front line fighters in the war with Russia.
- Russia-Ukraine: Western media are acting as cheerleaders for war
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Journalists are cheering on the arming of militias and civilians making improvised explosives - acts they usually treat as terrorism
- Secret trackers and hidden cameras expose how some movers could be ripping you off
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A group of moving companies is offering low quotes and then increasing the total cost of moves by thousands of dollars -- in some cases grossly over-estimating the weight of goods to be moved, a CBC Marketplace investigation has found. Questionable moving practices are on the rise, industry experts say.
- Spotify Purges Dissident Voices In Latest Censorship Escalation
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Multiple American podcasters who speak critically of the political status quo in their country are reporting that their channels have been shut down as the censorship campaign against Russia-backed media continues to escalate.
- Defending Freedom And Democracy Sure Requires An Awful Lot Of Censorship
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Perhaps we have foolishly consented to a reality where the most powerful people in the world get to control the information people consume in order to shut down dissent against a murderous and oppressive globe-spanning oligarchic empire.
- Russia and the West: between sanctions and war
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On sanctions as economic war.
- How are the Germans keeping warm?
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- Foreign Agents Designation Causes Media Cold War
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Media based in countries the United States regards as enemies, such as Russia and China, even if they are privately owned, are required to register as "foreign agents." So are media which run reports critical of U.S. foreign policy, like Al Jazeera. Other state owned-media, like the BBC, CBC, Deutsche Welle, let alone Voice of America, are not required to register.
- Russia-Ukraine Resources: History, context and analysis of the crisis
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Articles and interviews examining the context and background of the 2022 crisis.
- Sleepy Joe's Ukraine Hypocrisy Is Truly Beyond Measure
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- Ukraine: What Will Be Done and What Should Be Done?
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- Chronicle of a War Foretold
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- Experts Warned For Years That NATO Expansion Would Lead To This
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Analysts and diplomats have been saying since the 1990s that NATO expansion would eventually spark a conflict in Eastern Europe.
- The main enemy is at home
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The outbreak of war is always a human disaster with unforeseeable consequences. The 'fog of war,' incessant propaganda, rapidly changing events, our own confused thoughts and emotions, all make it exceedingly difficult to know how to react.
- In Ukraine, 'No One Hears That There Is a Diplomatic Solution'
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- Twelve Thoughts On Ukraine
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- Why Putin Went to War
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Russia says it has no intentions of controlling Ukraine and its military operation is only to "demilitarize" and "de-Nazify" Ukraine in an action taken after 30 years of the U.S. pushing Russia too far, writes Joe Lauria.
- Canceling talks with Russia won't achieve anything
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The United States and its European partners have no vital interests in Ukraine — and therefore should be prepared to compromise.
- No Actually The US Empire Is Still The Power To Criticize
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- No To Preventive Detention: From Palestine, to Guantanamo, to U.S. Jails!
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On administrative detention of 500 Palestinians when they announced a boycott of Israeli military courts.
- Trans ideology has captured the university
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- Trans privilege
It is an outrage that Lia Thomas is allowed to compete against women
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- US Foreign Policy Is a Cruel Sport
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- Western Media Fall in Lockstep for Neo-Nazi Publicity Stunt in Ukraine
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- What Is the Difference Between Kosovo & Donbass?
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When the corporate media push for war, one of their main weapons is propaganda by omission. In the case of the recent crisis in Ukraine, Western journalists have omitted key context about the expansion of NATO since the end of the Cold War, as well as US support for the Maidan coup in 2014. A third and crucial case of propaganda by omission relates to the integration of neo-Nazis into the Ukrainian armed forces If the corporate media reported more critically about Western support for the neo-Nazi-infested Ukrainian security services, and how these forces function as a front-line proxy of US foreign policy, public support for war might be reduced and military budgets called into greater question.
As recent coverage demonstrates, one way of resolving this issue is by not mentioning the inconvenient matter of Ukrainian neo-Nazis altogether.
- Expelled from a Progressive Think Tank - for the Crime of Denouncing Antifa Violence
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2022
Published: 2022
- Russia-Ukraine is an Information War, So Government Intelligence Needs More Scrutiny Than Ever
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2022
Published: 2022
- Why I stopped being a good girl
Women can no longer afford to sit out the gender wars
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2022
Published: 2022
How can feelings (gender identity) always take precedence over material reality (biological sex)?
- "If you want peace, prepare for war" (Russia, Ukraine, NATO, EU)
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2022
Published: 2022
An explanatory article on the background and geo-political rivalries leading to the 2022 escalation of conflict in Ukraine. The text is a translation of "Si vis pacem para bellum – Wer Frieden will rüste sich zum Krieg (Platon, Cicero, Russland, Ukraine, NATO, EU)" by Gruppen Gegen Kapital Und Nation (Groups against Capital and Nation) which was published on February 21st, two days before the Russian invasion began.
- The Ottawa Trucker Protest Was Disruptive. The Hysterical Reaction to It Was Worse
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2022
Published: 2022
- How sensitivity readers corrupt literature
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2022
Published: 2022
They sullied my memoir to suit their agenda
- The truckers have changed Canada forever
The Freedom Convoy has shaken Canadian politics to its core
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2022
Published: 2022
- War in Europe and the Rise of Raw Propaganda
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2022
Published: 2022
- Justin Trudeau's phoney dictatorship
Relying on emergency powers reveals his weakness
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First Published: 2022
Published: 2022
When Justin Trudeau invoked emergency powers to quell protests against mandatory Covid-19 vaccinations this week, it was another sign that for Western liberal democracy, business as usual is over.
- The truckers' revolt has exposed the left's class hatred
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2022
Published: 2022
- PBI-Canada remembers peace activist Frank Showler
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2022
Published: 2022
Frank Showler passed away on February 10, 2022 at the age of 102.
- The Problem of Sex Discrimination in Indigenous Archaeology
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2022
Published: 2022
Discrimination still faced by women who toil away in the fields of anthropology and archaeology.
- Rest in Power, Frank
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2022
Published: 2022
Short biography of Frank Showler, an anti-capitalist and pacifist who died at the age of 102.
- World Hippopotamus Day
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2022
Published: 2022
- World Bonobo Day
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2022
Published: 2022
- The Crisis in Ukraine Is Not About Ukraine. It's About Germany
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2022
Published: 2022
- How the Left betrayed the Truckers
The convoy is despised by those who should support it
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2022
Published: 2022
Ottawa's truckers are a symptom of the massive class divide that is opening up across the West. Marxists are sticking their heads in the sand about this generational moment, or papering it over with absurd topsy-turvy leaps.
- Resource Limits to American Capitalism & the Predator State Today
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2022
Published: 2022
James K. Galbraith discusses the shift of US capitalism from an industrial state to what he calls a predator state: a finance-led, military-centered corporate republic that continues to prevail. To overcome it, he lays out what is needed to focus on employment, stability and adjustments to rising resource costs.
- Freedom Convoy
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2022
Published: 2022
- I'm not sure I trust my 'rational' view of the trucker protest anymore
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2022
Published: 2022
Our reaction to the protest was narrative construction in real-time
- The Maus That Roared
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2022
Published: 2022
- US Approach to Ukraine and Russia Has Left the Domain of Rational Discourse
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First Published: 2022
Published: 2022
- Smearing an Entire Protest Movement as Fascistic Will Come Back to Haunt My Fellow Leftists
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2022
Published: 2022
Canadians as a whole, and especially centre-left voters, have come to believe that the legitimacy of a movement inheres not in its size or the diversity of people and views it represents, but rather in its ability to discipline and control its supporters.
- What the Left can learn from the 'Freedom Convoy'
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2022
Published: 2022
- Anatomy of a Propaganda Campaign: Jeremy Corbyn's Political Assassination
Zollmann, Florian; Coles, T.J.
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2022
Published: 2022
Jeremy Corbyn, the former leader of the British Labour Party, was subjected to a concerted propaganda campaign by the British right-wing military-industrial establishment, which regarded him as a threat to its interests. This article fleshes out the individual components of this campaign and dissects how it was amplified by the British mainstream media. As Corbyn pointed out, he was not the threat. The real 'threat' was the general public who would have used Corbyn as a political representative to bring services back into common ownership, moderately raise taxes on the wealthy, properly fund social security, and to some degree curtail British militarism abroad.
- Canadian Jewish Group Welcomes New Amnesty Report on Israeli Apartheid, Urges Government to Act
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First Published: 2022
Published: 2022
- Israel's Apartheid Against Palestinians
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2022
Published: 2022
Amnesty International has analysed Israel's intent to create and maintain a system of oppression and domination over Palestinians and examined its key components: territorial fragmentation; segregation and control; dispossession of land and property; and denial of economic and social rights. It has concluded that this system amounts to apartheid. Israel must dismantle this cruel system and the international community must pressure it to do so. All those with jurisdiction over the crimes committed to maintain the system should investigate them.
- The Unintended Consequences of COVID-19 Vaccine Policy
Why Mandates, Passports, and Segregated Lockdowns May Cause more Harm than Good
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First Published: 2022
Published: 2022
- Let's Back Up A Sec And Ask Why Free Speech Actually Matters
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2022
Published: 2022
To really answer the question of whether the increasingly widespread practice of Silicon Valley censorship via algorithm and deplatforming is a major problem and whether an increase in speech restriction is desirable, we need to take a step back and ask ourselves why free speech even matters in the first place.
- Meet the truckers: The men and women of the Freedom Convoy 2022
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2022
Published: 2022
The National Post spoke to truck drivers and supporters as they were driving to Ottawa for this weekend's "Freedom Convoy 2022" to protest vaccine mandates. Here is what they said about their jobs, their frustrations with government measures during the pandemic, and the rule that could kill their livelihoods.
- Joyce Nelson was my friend
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2022
Published: 2022
- Activists in Canada Build Construction Site on Pipeline Executives' Front Lawns
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First Published: 2022
Published: 2022
Toronto supporters of the Wet'suwet’en land defense struggle against the Coastal Gaslink pipeline set up construction sites at the Toronto homes of TC Energy Board Chair Siim Vanaselja and Royal Bank of Canada Executive Doug Guzman. The supporters also flyered the neighborhood with photos of the two men with signs warning, "Your neighbour is pushing the Coastal Gaslink pipeline through Wet'suwet'en Territory at gunpoint."
- Censorship By Algorithm Does Far More Damage Than Conventional Censorship
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 2022
Published: 2022
By mid-2017 independent media outlets were already reporting across ideological lines that algorithm changes from important sources of viewership like Google had suddenly begun hiding their content from people who were searching for the subjects they reported on.
- The death of intimacy
Sex positivity has created a cult of celibacy
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2022
Published: 2022
What's happening in heterosexual couplings now is also, crucially, about what isn't happening: a sexual famine amongst Gen Z, who are upending the entire romantic landscape as they come of age. There is less sex, but also less dating, less social interaction writ large without the intermediary of a screen.
- Is it already too late to say goodbye?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2022
Published: 2022
My blog posts once attracted tens of thousands of shares. Then, as the algorithms tightened, it became thousands. Now, as they throttle me further, shares can often be counted in the hundreds. "Going viral" is a distant memory.
- As Trudeau cracks down, the left drives protesters into the right's arms again
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2022
Published: 2022
Divide and rule, the cultivation of tribalism, is an insurance policy against successful dissent and the threat of revolution.
- Joyce Nelson
Obituary
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First Published: 2022
Published: 2022
- In Memoriam: Joyce Nelson
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First Published: 2022
Published: 2022
- Actual reality is infinitely preferable to the dystopian augmented reality of the Metaverse
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2022
Published: 2022
After isolating lockdowns and other absurd anti-science measures that have made life hell for many for the past year-and-a-half, people are thirsty for real life interactions, not Zoom calls or other digital meet-ups.
- Advocating for Palestine in Canada
Histories, Movements, Action
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2022
Published: 2022
- Archaeology is under attack from wokeness
Resource Type: Unclassified
First Published: 2022
Published: 2022
Identifying the sex of ancient remains must stop, woke academics are demanding. If they have their way, it will be a scientific disaster.
- Asian socialists condemn Russia's war on Ukraine, NATO expansionism
Statements against the war
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First Published: 2022
Published: 2022
- Building That Bright Future
Soviet Karelia in the Life Writing of Finnish North Americans
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2022
Published: 2022
- The Call of the Red-Winged Blackbird
Essays on the common and the extraordinary
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2022
Published: 2022
- The case that changed the gender debate
Stonewall's strategy of 'no debate' has backfired
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2022
Published: 2022
- The causes and consequences of the Ukraine war
A lecture by John J. Mearsheimer
Resource Type: Film/Video
First Published: 2022
Published: 2022
- Cobalt: Cradle of the Demon Metals, Birth of a Mining Superpower
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2022
Published: 2022
- The Destiny of Civilization
Finance Capitalism, Industrial Capitalism or Socialism
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2022
Published: 2022
The Destiny of Civilization presents an overview of Michael Hudson's geo-political perspective: analysis which integrates economics, history, politics, archaeology and psychology.
- The Don: The Story of Toronto's Infamous Jail
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2022
Published: 2022
An in-depth exploration of the Don Jail from its inception through jailbreaks and overcrowding to its eventual shuttering and rebirth.
- 'Earliest total genocide of WWII'
How the massacre in Gudovac became a step into terror
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First Published: 2022
Published: 2022
In the first massacre ordered by the newly established Nazi Croatia, the Ustasha shot 180 Serb villagers near Bjelovar.
- For a Better World
The Winnipeg General Strike and the Workers' Revolt
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2022
Published: 2022
Looks at the history and legacies of the 1919 Winnipeg General Strike.
- 400,000 fewer mammograms during pandemic, more advanced cancer now seen: OMA
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First Published: 2022
Published: 2022
Doctors in Ontario are seeing more advanced cases of breast cancer after 400,000 fewer mammograms were performed in the province during the COVID-19 pandemic, the Ontario Medical Association says. Although screenings have since returned to normal levels, the organization warned that the temporary decrease in testing has led to many cases of the disease being diagnosed at later stages.
- France's Yellow Vests: Western Repression of the West's Best Values
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2022
Published: 2022
An account of the Yellow Vests movement in France, by a journalist who covered the movement.
- The Freedom Convoy: The Inside Story of Three Weeks that Shook the World
Lawton, Andrew
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2022
Published: 2022
- Frieden für die Ukraine - Wie der Krieg beendet werden kann
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2022
Published: 2022
- From Layton to Singh
The 20-year conflict behind the NDP's deal with the Trudeau Liberals
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2022
Published: 2022
An analysis of the federal NDP since 2000, examining the ongoing, unresolved tension between the grassroots members and the central bureaucracy.
- Für eine populäire Linke
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2022
Published: 2022
Wir wollen eine LINKE, die für die Mehrheit der Bevölkerung, die Arbeitenden, die Familien, die Rentnerinnen und Rentner und die sozial Benachteiligten aktiv ist.
- Gifted magazine writer Gerald Hannon was no stranger to controversy
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First Published: 2022
Published: 2022
Gerald Hannon, a radical sex-positive activist, journalist and social commentator, on Dec. 13, 1996.
- Here's what I found at the reported 'mass grave' near Mariupol
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First Published: 2022
Published: 2022
A first-hand look at the location where Kiev claims trenches hold thousands of bodies.
- How to stop children being indoctrinated
Woke textbooks should be laughed at - not censored
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2022
Published: 2022
I read recently of the "flame purification" ceremony conducted by the board in charge of elementary and secondary schools in southwestern Ontario. Almost 5,000 books judged to contain outdated racial stereotypes were removed from school libraries to be burnt or recycled. Some of the incinerated remains were used as a fertiliser to plant a tree - an uplifting, progressive and environmentally conscious gesture, if one ignores the overtones of Fahrenheit 451.
- I know Israel practices apartheid because I helped enforce it
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First Published: 2022
Published: 2022
Rafael Silver left Israel because he could no longer be a part of a system that practices apartheid against the Palestinian people. "I have seen it in action with my own eyes," he writes. "I have enforced it during my military service in the West Bank and in the Gaza Strip and supported it as an Israeli taxpayer."
- The Identity Myth: Why We Need to Embrace Our Differences to Beat Inequality
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2022
Published: 2022
In The Identity Myth, David Swift covers the four different kinds of identity most susceptible to this trend - class, race, sex and age. He considers how the boundaries of identities are policed and how diverse versions of the same identity can be deployed to different ends. Ultimately, it is not that identities are simply more 'complex' than they appear but that there are more important commonalities. Swift argues that we must unite against these identity myths and embrace our differences to beat inequality.
- Invading sea lions take over B.C. fish farm
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2022
Published: 2022
- Israel's Dance of Flags is a Zionist Hate Parade and, by Definition, an Act of War
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2022
Published: 2022
- Kingdom of Night
Witnesses to the Holocaust
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2022
Published: 2022
- The Last Heroes
Foot Soldiers of Indian Freedom
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2022
Published: 2022
So who really spearheaded India’s Freedom Struggle? Millions of ordinary people -- farmers, labourers, homemakers, forest produce gatherers, artisans and others -- stood up to the British. People who never went on to be ministers, governors, presidents, or hold other high public office. They had this in common: their opposition to Empire was uncompromising. In The Last Heroes, these footsoldiers of Indian freedom tell us their stories.
- Media Are Now Whitewashing Nazis They Had Previously Condemned
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First Published: 2022
Published: 2022
Over the years many 'western' media have correctly reported about the Ukrainian fascists. Here is an incomplete collection.
- Media Support 'Self-Determination' for US Allies, Not Enemies
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2022
Published: 2022
Non-Western media outlets have identified a precedent for Russia citing Donetsk and Luhansk's right to self-determination as a rationale for attacking Ukraine: the Kosovo War. In 1999, NATO conducted a 78-day war that helped to dismember Yugoslavia and create a new state, Kosovo, a Serbian province whose population was 90% ethnic Albanians.
- David Milgaard
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2022
Published: 2022
The victim of one of Canada's most notorious miscarriages of justice, David Milgaard spent 23 years in prison for a 1969 rape and murder he didn't commit. He died over the weekend after a short illness at the age of 69.
- The narcissism of America's race politics
The realities of black British lives were eclipsed by BLM
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2022
Published: 2022
in the aftermath of Floyd’s death, the catch-all framework of "Black Lives Matter" was imported to every corner of the planet, even though race relations are not the same throughout the world. They are instead mediated by a country's unique history and culture.
It was bizarre, watching the majority of liberal democracies use the example of America to make sense of race in their own countries.
- Okoknage
The Story of the Kettle Nakoda First Nation
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2022
Published: 2022
The comprehensive story of the Nakoda people in their own words
- On Going Seriously Boom
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2022
Published: 2022
On what nuclear war would mean.
- 'Peacemaker' of death: This Ukrainian website threatens hundreds of thousands with extrajudicial killings
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2022
Published: 2022
For the last eight years, a group of publicly unknown activists in Ukraine have been compiling lists of 'enemies of the people' with impunity. Hundreds of thousands have been declared criminals without trial. Among them are not only Russian citizens, but also Ukrainian opposition figures and bloggers, European politicians, and US citizens. At the very least, being added to this list is a stigma that makes life difficult in Ukraine, but it can also serve as justification for imprisonment or, in some cases, even being killed.
- The Quiet Girl
Resource Type: Film/Video
First Published: 2022
Published: 2022
- Rare Merit
Women in Photography in Canada 1840 - 1940
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2022
Published: 2022
As Canada took shape in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, women across the country captured people and places that were entirely new to the lengs. This book shows how they did so, and the meaning their work carries.
- Remembering Frank Showler
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2022
Published: 2022
- Remembering Murray Dobbin: activist, intellectual, mentor, friend
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2022
Published: 2022
- 'Rublegas:' the world's new resource-based reserve currency
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2022
Published: 2022
Rublegas is the commodity currency du jour and it isn't nearly as complicated as NATO pretends. If Europe wants gas, all it needs to do is send its Euros to a Russian account inside Russia.
- The Russian language in post-Soviet Ukraine
30 years of discrimination against the country's most popular tongue
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2022
Published: 2022
How restricting use of the language, native to a large part of the country, has become one of the top priorities of the Ukrainian government.
- The Situation in Russia and Ukraine
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2022
Published: 2022
- Smelter Wars
A Rebellious Red Trade Union Fights for its Life in Wartime Western Canada
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2022
Published: 2022
- The South: Jim Crow and Its Afterlives
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2022
Published: 2022
A memoir and historical account of growing up in the Jim Crow South.
- Spin Doctors: How Media and Politicians Misdiagnosed the COVID-19 Pandemic
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2022
Published: 2022
- Terry Fox und der Marathon der Hoffnung
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2022
Published: 2022
- Thick Skin: Field Notes from a Sister in the Brotherhood
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2022
Published: 2022
For more than two decades, Hilary Peach worked as a transient welder and was one of the only women in the Boilermakers Union. This is her story.
- Those who violated the Geneva Conventions at Guantánamo are free, while the man who helped expose their crimes languishes in prison
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2022
Published: 2022
- Tree Thieves
Crime and Survival in North America's Woods
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2022
Published: 2022
- The Uber Files
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2022
Published: 2022
The secret story of how the tech giant won access to world leaders, cozied up to oligarchs and dodged taxes amid chaotic global expansion.
- Ukrainian fighting tactics endanger civilians
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2022
Published: 2022
Ukrainian forces have put civilians in harm's way by establishing bases and operating weapons systems in populated residential areas, including in schools and hospitals, as they repelled the Russian invasion that began in February, Amnesty International says,
- John Warnock
Obituary
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2022
Published: 2022
- West Lincoln councillor breached code of conduct during 'freedom convoy': Integrity Commissioner
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2022
Published: 2022
West Lincoln Councillor Harold Jonker will be suspended from the Niagara-area council without pay for 30 days and be required to account for and pay back all food and gifts received during his participation in the anti-mandate protest around Parliament Hill. Jonker's participation in the so-called "Freedom Convoy," which began on January 28, 2022 and was determined by Ottawa Police to be "unlawful activity", led to a call by West Lincoln Integrity Commissioner John Mascarin for an investigation.
- Western media clubs together to white-wash Ukrainian Neo-Nazis
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2022
Published: 2022
Multiple outlets use the same talking points, quotes, and 'experts' to whitewash Ukraine's notorious Azov regiment.
- The woke mob are headed down the same well-trodden book-burning road as the Conquistadors and the Nazis
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2022
Published: 2022
- You can't police offence
Politicians shouldn't try to outlaw psychological distress
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2022
Published: 2022
Delivering people from psychological distress is the business of therapists or priests, not lawmakers.
- Your Man in Saughton Jail Part 1
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2022
Published: 2022
- Zeitenwende - Der Linksliberalismus und der Abschied von der liberalen Gesellschaft
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2022
Published: 2022
- Key Biodiversity Areas
Resource Type: Website
First Published: 2022
KBAs are sites that contribute to the persistence of biodiversity nationally and globally. Found across land, freshwater, and marine environments, KBAs support rare and threatened species and ecosystems, as well as key natural processes.
- Sanctions Kill
Resource Type: Website
First Published: 2022
- What Happens When Killer Robots Start Communicating with Each Other?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2021
Published: 2021
it’s only a matter of time before the U.S. military (and presumably China’s, Russia’s, and perhaps those of a few other powers) will be able to deploy swarms of autonomous weapons systems equipped with algorithms that allow them to communicate with each other and jointly choose novel, unpredictable combat maneuvers while in motion.
- Sense and Nonsense About Ukraine
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2021
Published: 2021
- The left's contempt for bodily autonomy during the pandemic is a gift to the right
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2021
Published: 2021
When did parts of the left get so contemptuous of the principle of "bodily autonomy"? Answer: Just about the time they started fetishising vaccines as the only route out of the current pandemic.
- Greenlanders shipped to Denmark as children seek compensation
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2021
Published: 2021
Inuit children were sent to the former colonial power as part of a failed social experiment that left them traumatised.
- Things are getting better and better and bettxrxr and bxzyxxx
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2021
Published: 2021
- Inside the US push to uncover Indigenous boarding school graves
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2021
Published: 2021
Researchers say unmarked graves likely will be found at majority of boarding schools for Indigenous children across US.
- A database for the displaced
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2021
Published: 2021
The Kushan Baladi initiative (literally: land title initiative) was founded to create an official register of Palestinian land ownership inside the 1948 boundaries of historic Palestine, now Israel.
- Anti-Vaxxer Protest
Resource Type: Unclassified
First Published: 2021
Published: 2021
Account of an anti-vaxxer protest in Toronto.
- Establishment ideological contradictions and the left
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2021
Published: 2021
The divisions that have arisen in the political establishment globally are a result of the stresses neoliberal capitalism have produced within the system, and the unprecedented political instability that has resulted.
- The tribal left's a mirror image of the tribal right
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2021
Published: 2021
- Following the Science?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2021
Published: 2021
"Following the science" has been the mantra of public officials from the very beginning of the pandemic. But what does "following the science" actually mean? When we as a society are faced with difficult policy choices, can science tell us what choices we should make?
- Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - November 13, 2021
Following the science
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2021
Published: 2021
When we as a society are faced with difficult policy choices, can science tell us what choices we should make? We should be sceptical of anyone who says that it can, because that isn’t actually what science does. It can certainly provide information we need to take into account when making choices and trade-offs, but choices don’t automatically follow from science.
- The politics of rebranding
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2021
Published: 2021
How politics and social activism have too often become exercises in rebranding not material change.
- Justice for Julian Assange is Justice for All
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2021
Published: 2021
Following the final High Court hearing to decide whether or not Julian Assange is to be extradited to the United States - for the 'crime' of revealing a landscape of government crimes and lies -- John Pilger looks back on the decade Assange has been fighting for his freedom, and the implications for independent journalists and the very notion of justice.
- New research shows 50 year binge on chemical fertilisers must end to address the climate crisis
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2021
Published: 2021
New research shows that synthetic nitrogen fertilisers are a major driver of the climate crisis, responsible for 1 out every 40 tonnes of GHGs currently pumped into the atmosphere. Now is the time for the world to kick its addiction to synthetic nitrogen fertilisers and urgently transition to farming without fossil fuels and chemicals.
- The Planetary Rift
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2021
Published: 2021
In "Imperialism in the Anthropocene," we developed an argument that departs from most traditions on the left, in that it takes physical geography seriously as the climate catastrophe demands. Thus, we explained how low-latitude countries, essentially the Global South, are affected most, as a result of Earth System dynamics, by climate change, independently of the fact that they are already economically exploited by the nations of the Global North.
- World Development under Monopoly Capitalism
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2021
Published: 2021
The recent period of globalization - following the collapse of the Eastern bloc and the reintegration of China into the world economy - is one where global value chains have become the dominant organizational form of capitalism. The big question is whether this global value chain world is contributing to, or detracting from, real human development. Is it establishing a more equal, less exploitative, less poverty-ridden world?
- Massive cyberattack disrupts petrol stations in Iran
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2021
Published: 2021
- We demand real zero, not net zero!
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2021
Published: 2021
Net zero emissions and other false solutions allow polluters to continue polluting, says this statement adopted by the Oilwatch International Global Gathering in Nigeria in October 2021.
- Ecosocialism Not Extinction!
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2021
Published: 2021
Ecosocialist Alliance statement on the opening of 2021 UN climate talks in Glasgow.
- Red tape bad, more red tape better
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2021
Published: 2021
Ontario's Progressive Conservative government, which bestowed the slogan "Open for Business" on the province after it took office, has been living up to its name by "cutting red tape" in order to make life easier for businesses. Ministerial Zoning Orders, which allow developers to build what they want, where they want, without being bothered by tiresome requirements like environmental assessments or public meetings, are a good example of what the Ford government means by cutting red tape.
- Palestinian NGOs designated 'terrorists' call for support
Outlawed organisations have called on the international community to take a stance against Israel's military order.
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2021
Published: 2021
Palestinian human rights groups designated by Israel as "terrorist organisations" have called for international support to reverse the decision, which has the potential to compromise their ability to do humanitarian work.
- Covered Bridge Potato Chips
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2021
Published: 2021
The hunt for Covered Bridge Sea Salt and Pepper potato chips.
- Deconstructing Electric Vehicles on the eve of Glasgow COP26
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2021
Published: 2021
Since the 1988 Congressional definitive testimony of James Hansen and other climate scientists, there is no discourse about "Stop": elimination of fossil fuel emissions quickly morphed into adaptation and mitigation which is now replaced by "transition". EVs is a representative example of focusing on one small part, conveniently deleting the whole.
- Impact of online harms bill includes 'spectre of censorship,' library group warns in submission
Consultation on the government’s proposal wrapped up in September, but the government is refusing to release the 423 submissions it received
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2021
Published: 2021
The Canadian Association of Research Libraries has joined civil liberties groups and international organizations who are raising the alarm about the bill which will mandate social media and other platforms monitor online posts and remove illegal content.
- Is the enemy of my enemy my friend?
Barnaby Raine on the resurgence of "tankie" and "campist" politics.
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2021
Published: 2021
Barnaby Raine claims that there is a trend among some on the left to sympathizing with authoritariam states like China or Russia. According to Raine, this is part of a seeming comeback of "tankie" or "campist" politics -- a tendency that, once upon a time, uncritically aligned with the Soviet Union and other enemies of the United States, in the name of the struggle against imperialism. However, Raine offers no evidence for this 'resurgence.'
- Library and Archives Canada service cuts hindering research, historians complain
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First Published: 2021
Published: 2021
Researchers say recent service cuts at Canada's national archives are making their work - already hampered by COVID-19 - even more challenging.
- These African animators are saving their native languages using cartoons
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First Published: 2021
Published: 2021
The African continent hosts roughly one-third of the world’s approximately 7,000 living languages. Due to the relentless dominance of international languages such as English and French, native languages are increasingly coming under threat.
- How Democracy Ends
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First Published: 2021
Published: 2021
The pandemic events of 2020-2021 outline a potential pathway for a future democratically elected President of the United States to systematically end democracy.
- Palestine underground: A new face for local radio
How Palestine's Radio Alhara is taking a grassroots approach to shaping a new landscape for protest, culture and local journalism online.
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First Published: 2021
Published: 2021
Radio Alhara wasn't always meant to be so overtly political. Set up during the first wave of the coronavirus pandemic in March 2020, the station was initially formed as a way for the station co-founders – five creatives active within the Palestinian cultural sphere – to broadcast daily radio shows online according to their mood on a particular day of isolation.
- Trans backlash on Atwood shows that while women have been freed from the control of men, they're now controlled by men in dresses
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First Published: 2021
Published: 2021
Why should award-winning author Margaret Atwood have to endure an online onslaught from trans activists who refuse to acknowledge basic biology, simply for retweeting an article that questions the erasure of the word 'woman'?
- Public health or private wealth?
How digital vaccine passports pave way for unprecedented surveillance capitalism
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First Published: 2021
Published: 2021
- Super Imperialism: The economic strategy of American empire with economist Michael Hudson
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First Published: 2021
Published: 2021
Economist Michael Hudson discusses the update of his book "Super Imperialism: The Economic Strategy of American Empire" and the financial motivations behind the US new cold war on China and Russia.
- Refreshingly Honest Billionaire Says Media Purchase Will Be Used For Propaganda
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First Published: 2021
Published: 2021
In a recent interview with The Wall Street Journal, Mathias Döpfner, CEO of the German publisher Axel Springer, said that Politico staffers will be required to adhere to a set of principles which include "support for a united Europe, Israel's right to exist and a free-market economy, among others."
- The US Has Placed Itself In Charge Over Which Nations Get To Eat
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First Published: 2021
Published: 2021
The Colombian-born Venezuelan citizen Alex Saab, as it happens, is a "fugitive" from the US government's self-appointed authority to decide which populations on our planet are permitted to have ready access to food. His crime is working to circumvent the crushing US sanctions which have been starving Venezuelan civilians to death by the tens of thousands.
- Hypocrisy at its finest: Facebook whistleblowers are feted, while Julian Assange is jailed
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First Published: 2021
Published: 2021
The very contrasting treatment of whistleblowers willing to testify against Facebook with that of the imprisoned WikiLeaks founder shows us that the Establishment's support of those 'spilling the beans' is highly selective.
- Dalit, tribal women among worst victims of India's hunger crisis
While more than 60 percent of Indian women are anaemic as they eat last and the least, rising hunger levels hit the marginalised most.
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First Published: 2021
Published: 2021
In 2020, India's COVID-19 lockdown resulted in a tremendous collapse of livelihoods, causing an epidemic that India has been trying to fight off for decades: hunger.
- Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - October 13, 2021
Light and darkness
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First Published: 2021
Published: 2021
The more we learn, the more we realize how little we know. Each question we answer opens the door to more questions, because there are always more questions than answers. We are called upon to attempt to answer at least a few of the questions that seem important to us, but we do well to keep in mind that our answers are tentative and incomplete, always subject to revision in the light of further investigation. It can be difficult to remain critical, and self-critical, but self-righteousness and absolute certainty, no matter how emotionally satisfying they may be, only do harm, to ourselves, and to those we interact with. This issue of Other Voices offers some fragments of knowledge and insight, and it also raises questions.
- Shekon Neechie statement on "Open letter to the Council of the Canadian Historical Association and the Canadian Public"
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First Published: 2021
Published: 2021
The undersigned applaud the CHA for their “Canada Day Statement” and refute the arguments used by the signatories of the “Open Letter” in the 9 August 2021 issue of The Dorchester Review to denounce it.
- World-Class Scientist Calls Out Medical Journal For Smearing Lockdown Critics Instead Of Proving Them Wrong
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First Published: 2021
Published: 2021
A respected vaccine safety researchers says that scientific institutions are killing their own legitimacy by enabling and perpetrating lies, distortions, smears, and unwarranted hysteria about COVID-19. "Open and honest discourse is critical for science and public health. As scientists, we must now tragically acknowledge that 400 years of scientific enlightenment may be coming to an end," writes Dr. Martin Kulldorff, a professor of medicine at Harvard University and coauthor of the Great Barrington Declaration.
- Kathleen Stock is the real victim of hate here
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First Published: 2021
Published: 2021
- Stasi of the suburbs turn neighbours against each other as Aussie police spend months tracking down anti-lockdown protesters
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First Published: 2021
Published: 2021
Months after an anti-lockdown protest, Australian police are using informers and Facebook posts to track down demonstrators accused of taking part in illegal gatherings opposed to draconian, state-imposed restrictions on freedom.
- Cancelling the Beat Generation
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First Published: 2021
Published: 2021
What is extraordinary is the way in which the assaults on the Beat legacy have now switched from the Right to the Left.
- The Church is acting like the police
The Church is acting like the police
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First Published: 2021
Published: 2021
The Revd Canon Alan Billings, who used to be a parish priest -- and taught me theology at Vicar's training college -- is now the Police and Crime Commissioner for South Yorkshire. He recently wrote a piece, in which he suggested that the Church could learn a valuable lesson from the mistakes made by the police.
- Critical Race Theory's new disguise
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First Published: 2021
Published: 2021
Implementing a grievance model into our youth education curriculum will not fix the problems it purports to solve. There is, after all, a dearth of evidence suggesting that DEI programmes advance diversity, equity or inclusion.
- Richard Falk's passage to "positive public notoriety"
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First Published: 2021
Published: 2021
Richard Falk is universally regarded as one of the top minds when it comes to international law. Yet his views are not only not welcome in establishment circles, but even among most left-leaning liberals. He was once the darling of liberals, someone whose left-of-center views were seen as important in "balancing" conservative and centrist views in debates, seminars, and TV programs. He was, in short, one of the establishment's favorite critics of American foreign policy. That is until he crossed several red lines. The most consequential of these red lines was moving from abstract legal critiques of Israel's policies in the Middle East to one of active sympathy with the Palestinian people's struggle, and especially when he had the temerity to call Israel's fundamental strategy of governance by its name: "apartheid."
- "Low-carbon" Misses the Point: Arguments Favoring Nuclear Power as a Climate "Solution" are Fundamentally Misframed
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First Published: 2021
Published: 2021
The climate argument for using nuclear power assumes that since nuclear power generation directly releases no CO2, it can be an effective climate solution. It can’t, because new (or even existing) nuclear generation costs more per kWh than carbon-free competitors -- efficient use and renewable power -- and thus displaces less carbon per dollar (or, by separate analysis, per year): less not by a small margin but by about an order of magnitude (factor of roughly ten).
- "Low-carbon" Misses the Point: Arguments Favoring Nuclear Power as a Climate "Solution" are Fundamentally Misframed
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First Published: 2021
Published: 2021
The view that climate protection requires expanding nuclear power has a basic flaw in its prevailing framing: it rarely if ever relates climate-effectiveness to cost or to speed -- even though stopping climate change requires scaling the fastest and cheapest solutions. By focusing on carbon but only peripherally mentioning cost and speed, and by not relating these three variables, this approach misframes what climate solutions must do.
- What Is Diversity? And Why Is It Valuable?
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First Published: 2021
Published: 2021
Suppose I just get back from vacation, and you ask me how it went. "Oh, it was wonderful," I say, "There was such diversity." That wouldn’t answer your question at all. Instead, you'd want to know two things: Diversity of what? And why would that sort of diversity make the vacation better? It doesn't make sense to speak about diversity, full stop. There's only diversity of this or that. And diversity isn't always valuable. Despite this, higher education continues to talk about diversity in the abstract.
- Novichok Secret Paralyzes British Doctors Following German Doctor's Disclosures
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First Published: 2021
Published: 2021
The leading hospital doctors on Novichok poisoning in Britain and Germany are not allowed by their governments to reveal publicly the medical information they have exchanged with each other.
- Six-Month Sentence for Lawyer Who Took on Chevron Denounced as 'International Outrage'
Conviction of Steven Donziger, said one critic, "perfectly encapsulates how corporate power has twisted the U.S. justice system to protect c
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First Published: 2021
Published: 2021
Environmental justice advocates and other progressives on Friday condemned a federal judge’s decision Friday to sentence human rights lawyer Steven Donziger to six months in prison--following more than two years of house arrest related to a lawsuit he filed decades ago against oil giant Chevron.
- US lawyer who sued Chevron sentenced to 6 months in contempt case
Steven Donziger has spent more than two decades battling oil giant over pollution in the Ecuadorian rainforest.
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First Published: 2021
Published: 2021
Disbarred American lawyer Steven Donziger, who spent more than two decades battling Chevron Corp over pollution in the Ecuadorian rainforest, has been sentenced to six months in prison on contempt charges.
- China’s Fortune Cookie Crumbles
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First Published: 2021
Published: 2021
With China’s increasing wealth, Western investors want some of the action. One of those investors is a bullish gentleman called George Soros. However, the Chinese are acutely aware that with Western investment comes inequality. So as Beijing begins to rethink how to do proper economic growth, we ask, will China learn from Western mistakes?
- Confusion reigns after China slams door on crypto
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First Published: 2021
Published: 2021
China effectively banned all trading in cryptocurrencies last week, leaving investors scrambling for legitimate options to cash in their holdings.
- Indigenous Toronto
Wandering Spirit School and the vision of Nimkiiquay
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First Published: 2021
Published: 2021
Pauline (Nimkiikwe), is a Plains Cree Elder originally from Saddle Lake, Alberta, Red-Tail Hawk Clan, and member of the Three Fires Society (Midewiwin) and Buffalo Dance Society. Informed by her own Plains Cree culture, Pauline has dedicated her life to providing people with ceremony and guidance, and to cultivating spaces in this city that offer an Indigenous approach to education.
Pauline started Wandering Spirit Survival School – a school that would teach children living in Toronto about Indigenous ways of life. It became the first Native-led school founded in Canada.
- The Untold Story of Why Palestinians Are Divided
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First Published: 2021
Published: 2021
Palestinian political disunity is tied to the fact that the issue of representation in Palestinian society has always been an outcome of one party trying to dominate all others
- Laughing at Mass Death Brings Us Closer to Fascism
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First Published: 2021
Published: 2021
We have witnessed the evolution of a social and moral binary in the United States: vaccinated and unvaccinated. Immersed in a culture of blame and condemnation, around the spread of COVID-19, we have also seen the rise of a brand of humor that author Kelly Hayes characterizes as "recreational dehumanization." So how should we be talking about vaccination and mass death, and how can we be constructive?
- The Names You'll Never Know
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First Published: 2021
Published: 2021
Americans have been killing civilians since before there was a United States. At home and abroad, civilians -- Pequots, African Americans, Cheyenne and Arapaho, Filipinos, Haitians, Japanese, Germans, Koreans, Vietnamese, Cambodians, Laotians, Afghans, Iraqis, Syrians, Yemenis, and Somalis, among others -- have been shot, burned, and bombed to death. So many civilians have been obliterated, incinerated, or "shredded" in America’s forever wars. Who in the United States remembers them? Who here ever knew of them in the first place?
- André Vltchek: In Memoriam
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First Published: 2021
Published: 2021
On 22 September 2020, André Vltchek quietly passed away on a night-ride from the Black Sea in Turkey to Istanbul, accompanied by his wife, Rossie. He just fell asleep in the back seat of a chauffeur-driven car and didn’t wake up. His legacy is diverse, heavy in substance and revealing – revealing about the world, about the dark forces that command the world.
- EU: Democracy is dead in Keir Starmer's Labour
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First Published: 2021
Published: 2021
Democracy in the Labour party is now dead. Keir Starmer's leadership has seen new rules invented and applied retrospectively and constituency parties de facto suspended, their elected officers removed and replaced by reliable rightwingers.
- Palestinian village pledges to struggle 'until land is returned'
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First Published: 2021
Published: 2021
The village of Kufr Qaddoum near Nablus is paying a high price for its weekly protests against the theft of its land.
- The Inside Story of How Berlin Took On Corporate Landlords and Won
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First Published: 2021
Published: 2021
Kilian Weisser, like many Berlin residents, lives in an apartment block owned by a corporate landlord: Heimstaden, which owns around another 6,000 flats in the city. Disputing his rent, Weisser argued that due to another housing law that caps certain rents depending on the area, €720 was way too high. Heimstaden disagreed, but did offer a slightly lower rent. Weisser rejected the offer, demanding that the rent return to €420, which he believed was legal. But without the means to take the landlord to court, Weisser continues to pay the high increased rent, along with hundreds of thousands of other people in Berlin.
- Race to the bottom: the disastrous blindfolded rush to mine the deep sea
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First Published: 2021
Published: 2021
The island republic of Nauru has informed the International Seabed Authority (ISA) of its intention to start mining the seabed in two years' time via a subsidiary of a Canadian firm, The Metals Company (TMC, until recently known as DeepGreen).
- The many selves of Gillian Mears
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First Published: 2021
Published: 2021
A new biography captures the enigmatic Australian writer
- Australians Need To Decide If This Is The Kind Of Country We Want To Live In From Now On
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First Published: 2021
Published: 2021
A lot has changed for Victorians since the lockdowns started. Our lifestyles. Our waist sizes. The kinds of things we see as normal. And a lot has changed in Victoria itself since we’ve been in lockdown as well.
- 'Bodies with vaginas'?
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First Published: 2021
Published: 2021
The prestigious medical journal, The Lancet, is in hot water over its latest issue. A quote on the cover from a senior editor has triggered widespread outrage on social media for "dehumanizing" and "erasing" women. "Historically, the anatomy and physiology of bodies with vaginas have been neglected," says the pull quote on the cover of its latest issue, with a publication date of September 25, 2021.
- Covid, the Left and radical democracy
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First Published: 2021
Published: 2021
Recent events in Melbourne confirm something many of us have been arguing for months: the far right is growing alarmingly during the pandemic.
- Remembering Paulo Freire as a Freedom Fighter
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First Published: 2021
Published: 2021
Freire was a revolutionary whose passion for justice and resistance was matched by his hatred of neoliberal capitalism and loathing for authoritarians of all political stripes. Put simply, he was not merely a public intellectual but also a freedom fighter.
- Gaslighting The Public: Serial Deceptions By The State-Corporate Media
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First Published: 2021
Published: 2021
Other than the ever-present risk of nuclear war, there is no greater threat to humanity than the climate crisis. And there is no more damning example of gaslighting by state-corporate media when they tell us we can trust governments and corporations to do what is required to avert catastrophe.
- Bill Gates' Global Agenda and How We Can Resist His War on Life
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First Published: 2021
Published: 2021
The health emergency of the coronavirus is inseparable from the health emergency of extinction, the health emergency of biodiversity loss, and the health emergency of the climate crisis. All of these emergencies are rooted in a mechanistic, militaristic, anthropocentric worldview that considers humans separate from—and superior to—other beings. Beings we can own, manipulate, and control. All of these emergencies are rooted in an economic model based on the illusion of limitless growth and limitless greed, which violate planetary boundaries, and destroy the integrity of ecosystems and individual species.
- Indiana University and South African Divestment
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First Published: 2021
Published: 2021
About the anti-apartheid divestment movement at Indiana University.
- US officials to probe whip-like cords used against migrants
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First Published: 2021
Published: 2021
Images and video show mounted US border guards wielding the cords amid mass migrant expulsion along the Texas-Mexico border.
- A Business Basis for Unionism: The growth of paid officers and staff inside the American Federation of Labor, 1881-1912
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First Published: 2021
Published: 2021
This is part three of a series examining the origin of paid staff and paid union officers, by labor historian Robin J. Cartwright (the name is a pseudonym). In this segment, he shows how early AFL unions came to rely increasingly on paid, professional staff as contracts and union insurance plans proliferated, and union finances stabilized.
- In Pursuit of Clancy Sigal
A writer’s radical life
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First Published: 2021
Published: 2021
I first encountered Clancy Sigal, in a manner of speaking, in 1963, during my last semester in college. That's when I picked up, and devoured, Doris Lessing's novel The Golden Notebook, which featured a character named Saul Green who was widely known to have been based on Sigal. At the time, I was a fervent and brooding left-wing activist with two years of political organizing under my belt (mostly trying to ban the bomb). So I was, unsurprisingly, enthralled by Lessing's book, which took left-wing politics and writing seriously, as human facts, not "background."
- Up to Six Million People
The Unrecorded Fatalities of the 'War on Terror'
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First Published: 2021
Published: 2021
Nafeez Ahmed examines the direct and indirect deaths of the post 9/11 era, as a new kind of state-sanctioned mass violence became globalised and normalised.
- The Most Intransigent of Bolsheviks: Gavril Miasnikov, the Workers Group and the Degeneration of the Russian Revolution
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First Published: 2021
Published: 2021
Gavriil Il'ich Miasnikov is the name of an oft-forgotten Bolshevik. A metal worker from the Urals, Miasnikov was nothing if not an intransigent revolutionary. His life represented in many ways the best of revolutionary socialism; he helped establish both factory committees and Soviets, and was involved in the execution of the Tsar's brother, Grand Duke Michael.
- Anarchist Bookfair bans anarchist publisher
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First Published: 2021
Published: 2021
The organizers of Montreal's Anarchist Book Fair have banned Black Rose Books, who have been publishing anarchist books since the 1960s, from participating. The reason given is that Black Rose publishes
- Judith Butler's toxic nonsense
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First Published: 2021
Published: 2021
- Circle in the Darkness Book Review
Review of Diana Johnstone's memoir Circle in the Darkness: Memoir of a World Watcher
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First Published: 2021
Published: 2021
Johnstone says: "If I must claim a label, it owuld be that of an independent truth-seeker."
- Greece Gives Birth to Another Virulent Neo-Nazi Party
Is the U.S. Ambassador One of Its Proud Godfathers?
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First Published: 2021
Published: 2021
This article explores Greek far-right organizations such as Golden Dawn and the "Greeks for the Fatherland" party, as well as former far-right MP Ilias Kasidiaris. He further explores American involvement in fostering the Far Right in the "cradle of democracy."
- The complications from sex reassignment surgery are horrific -- but in today's trans-activist world, we can't talk about this
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First Published: 2021
Published: 2021
There is an unspoken price being paid for the fashionable transgender theories of our day. There are unseen victims, invisible, though in plain sight. They are hidden because their supporters believe too blindly, and their detractors write them off, and their misery is facilitated by a lack of open discussion and a censorship of the facts. These hidden victims are the young transgenders themselves, who are led to believe so strongly that they can ‘change their sex’ that they undergo sex-reassignment surgery, only to find themselves not just disappointed by the result, but horrified. These are true victims, in the sense that many of them suffer horrific and irreversible physical damage and pain
- The Far Left and the Far Right Actually Have a Lot in Common
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First Published: 2021
Published: 2021
It is the strangest thing to know that most of the regular people attracted to both the far left and the far right very clearly appear to be motivated by a desire to stand up to an elite that is actively destroying the lives of so many people around the world, but they have such radically differing ideas of each other’s motivations, and of the nature of the elite they oppose.
- Wheatley explosion could be 'tip of the iceberg' in Ontario given number of abandoned wells: expert
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First Published: 2021
Published: 2021
An explosion in Wheatley, Ontario which sent 7 people to hospital, believed to be caused by an abandoned gas well is the extreme example of what can happen if such wells are not properly plugged.
- Don't expect tech giants to build back better
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First Published: 2021
Published: 2021
Tech giants need to quantify human behaviour to make money from it. The pandemic, by forcing much of our lives online, has shown just how much money they can make.
- The Downsides of Masking Young Students Are Real
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First Published: 2021
Published: 2021
- 'Systematic theft of communal property'
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First Published: 2021
Published: 2021
In 1549, tens of thousands of English peasants fought -- and thousands died -- to halt and reverse the spread of capitalist farming that was destroying their way of life. The largest action, known as Kett’s Rebellion, has been called "the greatest practical utopian project of Tudor England and the greatest anticapitalist rising in English history."
- Where Are They? The Disappeared: When Remembering is a Political Act of Resistance
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First Published: 2021
Published: 2021
Every day, people disappear in many parts of the world. Some of these disappearances are investigated by police and the family of the disappeared. But too often the perpetrator is not a criminal or a gang, but rather the police or other agents of a nation state or a government.
- Watching The News
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First Published: 2021
Published: 2021
Watching "The National" on CBC, as well as some local news programs, is proving to be an interesting experience. I haven't lived in a house with TV for more than 15 years, and hadn't watched TV news for many more years before that, so I come to this experience as a more-or-less naive outsider.
- Stop Deep-Sea Mining
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First Published: 2021
Published: 2021
Advocates for the end of exploitation of mineral resources through deep-sea mining until sufficent scientific information has been obtained on if deep-sea mining can be done without damage to the marine environment.
- The Whole Country is the Reichstag
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First Published: 2021
Published: 2021
The right-wing political alliance anchored by the Republican party and Trumpism coheres around a single concrete objective -- taking absolute power in the U.S. as soon and as definitively as possible. And they're more than ready, even seemingly want, to destroy the social fabric of the country to do so.
- A Day in the Death of British Justice
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First Published: 2021
Published: 2021
The pursuit of Julian Assange for revealing secrets and lies of governments, especially the crimes of America, has entered its final stage as the British judiciary -- upholders of 'British justice' -- merge their deliberations with the undeterred power of Washington.
- Afghanistan and the "experts"
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First Published: 2021
Published: 2021
Tthe "experts" are never wrong. When each intervention turns into yet another predictable disaster -- predicted by others, of course, not by the "experts" -- the "experts" never acknowledge their mistakes, and the media never holds them to account.
- Canadian Nobel scientist's deletion from Wikipedia points to wider bias, study finds
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First Published: 2021
Published: 2021
- Open Letter to the Council of the Canadian Historical Association and the Canadian public
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First Published: 2021
Published: 2021
Historians express grave disappointment with the Canadian Historical Association's2021 Canada Day Statement.
- The Canadian Historical Association's Fake 'Consensus' on Canadian Genocide
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First Published: 2021
Published: 2021
Last month, the Canadian Historical Association (CHA) issued a public 'Canada Day Statement" -- described as having been "unanimously approved" by the group's governing council -- declaring that "existing historical scholarship" makes it "abundantly clear" that Canada's treatment of Indigenous peoples amounts to “genocide." The authors also claimed that there is a "broad consensus" among historians on the existence of Canadian "genocidal intent" (also described elsewhere in the statement as "genocidal policies" and "genocidal systems").
- Robert Moses: An Equal Rights Militant in a Land of Unfulfilled Promises
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First Published: 2021
Published: 2021
- The smear campaign against the Great Barrington Declaration
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First Published: 2021
Published: 2021
Demonizing those who question lockdowns.
- Commons and classes before capitalism
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First Published: 2021
Published: 2021
Preventing soil degradation and preserving soil fertility ought to be a global priority, but it isn’t. According to the United Nations, a third of the world’s land is now severely degraded, and we lose 24 billion tonnes of fertile soil every year. More than 1.3 billion people depend on food from degraded or degrading agricultural land.
- An Abortion Law Preformed
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First Published: 2021
Published: 2021
In 1984, in R. v. Morgentaler, Carolyn Egan and Janice Patricia Tripp of the Ontario Coalition for Abortion Clinics gave evidence for the defence in the Supreme Court of Ontario. This 2021 article in the Journal of Law and Social Policy (Volume 35, Number 35) analyzes the transcripts of their courtroom testimony. It focuses on "those moments when Egan and Tripp answered questions about the 1969 abortion law" and, in effect, "made the 1969 abortion law itself, its rules and procedures, the subject of examination." In doing so, according to Joanna N. Erdman, "they constructed new meanings of the law and social action in relation to it."
- Craig Murray's jailing is the latest move in a battle to snuff out independent journalism
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First Published: 2021
Published: 2021
Craig Murray, a former ambassador to Uzbekistan, the father of a newborn child, a man in very poor health and one who has no prior convictions, will have to hand himself over to the Scottish police on Sunday morning. He becomes the first person ever to be imprisoned on the obscure and vaguely defined charge of "jigsaw identification".
- The Burning of Canada's Churches
Dozens have gone up in flames, and the prime minister’s response is tepid
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First Published: 2021
Published: 2021
- Papers Instead of Human Lives: The Sentencing of Daniel Hale
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2021
Published: 2021
Daniel Hale sentenced to 45 months in jail for telling the truth about the U.S. program of drone assassinations.
- Trauma is constant for Gaza's children
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First Published: 2021
Published: 2021
This article discusses the constant violence that children in Gaza are exposed to at the hands of Israel, and the long-term psychological effects that sustained trauma can have.
- What's the worst thing about being cancelled?
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First Published: 2021
Published: 2021
It's impossible to talk about cancel culture without acknowledging how fiercely social humans are. As frightening as it is to experience threats of violence, as disturbing as it is to suffer abuse, what's truly dreadful is the feeling of being ostracised. There’s no "I" without a "we" to reflect it back to you. When the "I" in other people’s eyes is a gross, despicable caricature of who you think you are, that's an attack on your fundamental sense of yourself as human, broadcast on the inhuman scale of social media.
- I had ten minutes to evacuate my life
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First Published: 2021
Published: 2021
I do not believe any human being should ever be accustomed to wars; it is just abnormal to live under fire and rockets with this amount of tension. Neither Abdallah, nor any other child should ever get used to wars.
- Why women are faking it
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First Published: 2021
Published: 2021
Female Love Islanders justify Botox with the language of victimhood.
- These 3 Deceptively Simple Questions Can Shatter the Mythology that Sanctifies U.S. Imperialism
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First Published: 2021
Published: 2021
- Why Black Lives Matter Can't be Co-opted
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First Published: 2021
Published: 2021
Black Lives Matter BLM never was and never had the potential to be what people like this fantasized that it was.
- Climate Change: Why we can't trust mainstream media
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First Published: 2021
Published: 2021
A Q&A on capitalism, media, and climate. Explains How and why mainstream media minimizes climate change.
- Israeli spyware used to target journalists, activists
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First Published: 2021
Published: 2021
Activists, politicians and journalists from around the world – including from Al Jazeera – were targeted in a surveillance operation using software sold by the Israeli surveillance company NSO Group, according to an investigation into a massive data leak by The Guardian, The Washington Post and 15 other media outlets.
- Women's rights at stake in fight over men in female spa area
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First Published: 2021
Published: 2021
- The obliteration of memories
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First Published: 2021
Published: 2021
Over 16,000 housing units were damaged during the recent [2021] Israeli attacks on Gaza. What that number doesn't capture however is what else was lost in those places -- the irreplaceable photos, keepsakes, and possessions and that made each a home.
- Auschwitz survivor and fighter against fascism Esther Bejarano has died
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First Published: 2021
Published: 2021
- Making Sense of Sex and Gender
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First Published: 2021
Published: 2021
Feminist politics is not a denial of trans people’s experiences but an alternative way to understand those experiences that does not involve drugs, cross-sex hormones, and surgery. Feminist politics is an embrace of our differences and a way to live with those differences collectively, as we struggle to eliminate the hierarchies that impede our ability to thrive.
- Michael Ratner's inspiring activist life culminated with dramatic change on Israel
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First Published: 2021
Published: 2021
Michael Ratner personally changed human rights law, and in doing so he let go childhood views of Israel. "I thought of [Israel] as the home of my people. I had my bedroom ceiling painted with the seven wonders of the world and a huge map of Israel. I had no idea how my view of Israel would change later in life."
- 'Beita is undefeatable': Inside the struggle to save this Palestinian village from Israeli settlers
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First Published: 2021
Published: 2021
In early May, a group of Israeli settlers arrived with caravans and set up an illegal outpost on the top of Jabal Sabih on the outskirts of Beita, in the northern occupied West Bank. Every single day since then, protests in the village have been nonstop.
- Key Assange Witness Recants - With Zero Corporate Media Coverage
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First Published: 2021
Published: 2021
Sigurdur Ingi Thordarson confessed to Icelandic outlet Stundin that he used his position to steal money from Wikileaks and received immunity from the FBI in a quid pro quo. This article critiques the lack of coverage about this in corporate media, and argues that the global corporate press long ago decided to side with the US national security state.
- A Remarkable Silence: Media Blackout After Key Witness Against Assange Admits Lying
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First Published: 2021
Published: 2021
A major witness in the US case against Julian Assange has admitted fabricating key accusations in the indictment against the Wikileaks founder. But all of this is seemingly of no interest to the ‘mainstream’ media.
- Private moments captured on home security cameras being live streamed again on website
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First Published: 2021
Published: 2021
Cybersecurity experts say with home security cameras becoming more popular and people working from home during the pandemic, it's vital the public is educated about how to keep their cameras secure.
- Dying for environmental democracy
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First Published: 2021
Published: 2021
This article is about Peruvian indigenous environmental defenders in Latin America, a region described as one of the world's deadliest areas for enviromental human rights defenders. Tran focuses on the indigenous Ashanika defenders and their plight in fighting for environmental justice.
- The Goal of These Ads Is to Distract From Their Actual Business Model
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First Published: 2021
Published: 2021
CounterSpin interview with Duncan Meisel on oil industry greenwashing.
- US seizes three dozen websites used for 'Iranian disinformation'
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First Published: 2021
Published: 2021
- From fear to solidarity: Canada’s Jewish community and Palestine
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First Published: 2021
Published: 2021
For Jewish people who are already on edge, social media has created an echo chamber where their worst fears are affirmed and amplified by like-minded people. Suddenly, they’re seeing anti-Semitism everywhere. But it isn’t fear of rockets from Hamas that has got some people spooked. It’s the fact that Israel’s supporters were on the defensive against an unprecedented show of public support for the Palestinians, as well as a changing media landscape where critical opinions about Israel are now leaking through the cracks. Indeed, the traditional pro-Israel consensus that has long dominated the corporate media is now overwhelmingly being circumvented by new social media, where solidarity with Palestine is growing.
- Media Must Stop Asking Youth Activists to 'Save the World'
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First Published: 2021
Published: 2021
Graceffo explores the recent trend in which young activists are granted international fame. She argues that the media places too much responsibility on these youth with little protection against scrutiny and hate speech while also continuing to silence voices from the Global South.
- Annamie Paul’s failure to confront international racism
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First Published: 2021
Published: 2021
Annamie Paul and her supporters are right to cite racism as a driving factor in her leadership crisis. But the Green leader's supporters have misplaced the source of responsibility. It is Paul's inability to view colonized peoples, notably Palestinians, as deserving of equal rights that is the source of her current troubles.
- Britain is a Parasite on Other Countries
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First Published: 2021
Published: 2021
Britain deliberately trains far fewer doctors and nurses than it needs. It makes up the difference by recruiting great numbers of trained medical staff from impoverished countries where they are already in critically short supply.
- Lost Children
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First Published: 2021
Published: 2021
The threat of death was part of life at the Kamloops Indian Residential School. So why is it so hard to determine how many children died there?
- Concerning Life
An Open Letter to Jean- Pierre Dupuy and Wolfgang Palaver
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First Published: 2021
Published: 2021
"Saving lives" has justified every policy adopted to counteract the pandemic during the last year, and life is likely to continue as the sacred sign in which the revised social order that emerges from the pandemic will root its legitimacy. Accordingly, it seems important to seek some clarity on what is now meant by this word.
- 'Net zero' emissions is a dangerous hoax
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First Published: 2021
Published: 2021
- Solar geoengineering is a threat to the planet, not a solution to climate change
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First Published: 2021
Published: 2021
Under the pressure from indegenous and environmental groups, Sweden's space agency has cancelled a solar geoengineering project due to its potentially adversial environmental effects. The article also reveals a connection between geoengineeringand big oil.
- U.S. Imperialists Deprive Cuba of Syringes That Are Needed Now
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First Published: 2021
Published: 2021
Cuba, the first Latin America country to develop its own COVID-19 vaccines, presently is short of syringes for immunizing its population against the virus. It’s not feasible for Cuba to make its own syringes. The U.S. blockade prevents Cuba from importing them from abroad.
- Exposing How Pro-Israel Groups Manufacture Antisemitism Narratives
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First Published: 2021
Published: 2021
These narratives attempt to have the public, media and politicians focus on bogus allegations of antisemitism instead of Israel’s actions.
- Four Wars Old: Fourteen Years of Childhood in Gaza
Fourteen Years of Childhood in Gaza
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First Published: 2021
Published: 2021
Sixty-seven Palestinian children were killed during Israel’s 11-day assault on Gaza in May 2021. Our latest visual looks at what life is like for the hundreds of thousands of children who survived, for whom a ceasefire offers little relief. This is childhood in Gaza.
- Was there a Wuhan lab leak?
An inquiry won’t dig out the truth. It will deepen the deception
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First Published: 2021
Published: 2021
For many years, scientists at labs like Wuhan’s have conducted Frankenstein-type experiments on viruses. They have modified naturally occurring infective agents – often found in animals such as bats – to try to predict the worst-case scenarios for how viruses, especially coronaviruses, might evolve. The claimed purpose has been to ensure humankind gets a head start on any new pandemic, preparing strategies and vaccines in advance to cope.
- Shamelessness, Thy Name is Blinken
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First Published: 2021
Published: 2021
It was only eight years ago that it was the US that was forcing down a plane, only in that case it was not just any plane but rather one carrying a head of state, Bolivian President Evo Morales. But as with this latest incident the goal was harassing an "independent media' and nabbing a critic. In that 2013 incident the real target was Edward Snowden, source for one of the biggest stories of the century: the disclosure thousands of documents from a global spying program by the top secret US National Security Agency where he had been employed as a private contractor.
- Groups That Aid Israel's War Crimes Can't Deny All Responsibility for Those Crimes
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First Published: 2021
Published: 2021
But here is something that can be said with equal certainty. Israel’s apologists – whether Jews or non-Jews – cannot deny all responsibility for Israel's war crimes when they actively aid and abet Israel in committing those crimes, or when they seek to demonise and silence Israel's critics so that those war crimes can be pursued in a more favourable political climate.
- We Want a Society Without Landlords
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First Published: 2021
Published: 2021
The popularity of Berlin’s campaign to expropriate corporate landlords shows just how few people trust capitalism to provide them with affordable, good-quality homes.
- The Cautionary Tale Of "Doctor America"
How Dr. Tom Dooley -- Once A Universally Revered Secular Saint to Millions -- Found the CIA and Lost His Halo
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First Published: 2021
Published: 2021
How the Dulles brothers, the CIA and the U.S. Navy conspired to turn a decent man into a deceitful spreader of disinformation in support of the Vietnam War.
- Corporate Media's Double Standard: They Attack Whomever They Want, But You Cannot Criticize Them
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First Published: 2021
Published: 2021
Greenwalk responsed to The Washington Post's article and Daily Beast's questions about accusations from The Intercept that he endangered their writers.
- ‘This time is different’: Gaza journalists on Israeli bombardment
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First Published: 2021
Published: 2021
Several Palestinian journalists have spoken to Al Jazeera of their fear and the exhaustion of covering the continuing Israeli bombardment of the besieged Gaza Strip and their determination to continue their work.
- "Today we are Nazis," says member of Israeli Jewish extremist group
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First Published: 2021
Published: 2021
Israeli Jewish extremists used instant messaging services to organize armed militias to attack Palestinian citizens of Israel. Voice messages, texts and other communications indicate they coordinated attacks in cities where Palestinians live in close proximity to Jews – including Haifa, Bat Yam and Tiberias in the north, and Ramla and Lydd – Lod in Hebrew – in the center, to Beersheba in southern Israel. In many cases, extremist organizers said they relied on either the active or passive support of Israeli authorities.
- Ex-Israeli pilot: 'Our army is a terrorist organisation run by war criminals'
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First Published: 2021
Published: 2021
A former Israeli Air Force pilot, Yonatan Shapira, has described the Israeli government and army as "terrorist organisations" run by "war criminals."
- Remembering the Committee of Concerned Canadian Jews and their fight for Palestinian rights
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First Published: 2021
Published: 2021
Sometime in the summer of 1982, Jews in their 20s and 30s in Toronto, including myself, came out in droves to meetings of the new Committee of Concerned Canadian Jews (CCCJ). (Yes, our name was a bit awkward and wordy.)
- The fallacy of the colonial 'right to self-defence
Colonial powers have long demanded the 'right to self-defence' against the people they have colonised.
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First Published: 2021
Published: 2021
- But What About Hamas's Rockets?
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First Published: 2021
Published: 2021
We must be clear: What started this immediate horror was the intensification of Israel’s ethnic-cleansing campaign against Palestinians in East Jerusalem.
- This Must End
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First Published: 2021
Published: 2021
Our current living conditions under the siege are an affront to human dignity. Concrete political action is needed NOW to end not only the current deathly bombing raids, but also this illegal occupation and siege of Gaza by Israel, immediately.
- Fifteen Thoughts On Palestine
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First Published: 2021
Published: 2021
You don't get to drop an entire colony on top of an inhabited country, grind those inhabitants into the dirt for generations, and then claim self defense every time they retaliate. That's not a thing.
- This isn't a civil war, it is settler-colonial brutality
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First Published: 2021
Published: 2021
We are not seeing a "civil war" inside Israel, but rather the Israeli settler state declaring a war on its colonized "citizens," and Palestinians fighting for their liberation.
- Zionism's endgame has begun
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First Published: 2021
Published: 2021
All around us today we hear these blows falling on the central creed of Israel: the supposed right of a Jewish collective to national self-determination in a land populated by others.
- Boycott is a right and a duty
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First Published: 2021
Published: 2021
Israel's efforts to demonize the Palestinian call for boycott, divestment and sanctions (BDS) threaten a venerable form of nonviolent resistance. These efforts push for the censoring of Palestinian voices and those of our allies, undermining free speech rights and academic freedom while falsely conflating criticism of the State of Israel with anti-Jewish bigotry.
- The Israel Narrative Is Crumbling Because Of Phone Cameras And The Internet
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First Published: 2021
Published: 2021
Social media is teeming with viral video footage of police assaulting peaceful worshippers in the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound, of Israelis cheering and chanting “Yimach shemam (may their names be erased)” at the sight of a fire near the mosque, of Israeli soldiers arresting Palestinian protesters using the signature knee-on-neck maneuver made famous by the murder of George Floyd, many of which have millions of views.
- We can defeat the corporate media’s war to snuff out independent journalism
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First Published: 2021
Published: 2021
as journalists seek to liberate themselves from the strictures of the old corporate media, that same corporate media is working very hard to characterise the new technology as a threat to media freedoms. This self-serving argument should be treated with a great deal of scepticism. I want to use my own experiences to argue that quite the reverse is true. And that the real danger is allowing the corporate media to reassert its monopoly over narrating the world to us.
- The Myth of Corbyn's Labour Failure and Neoliberalisms Western Electoral Success
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First Published: 2021
Published: 2021
The spin on recent history presupposes two false premises. Firstly, that the era of Corbyn’s grassroots mobilisation was some sort of oxymoron democratic failure, this the available evidence belies. Secondly, that rather than being a process of direct democratic representation on behalf of the mass of society, electoral politics should be treated as some sort of advertising/marketing game designed to facilitate the careers of a small handful of individuals, operating on behalf of highly financed corporate lobbyists.
- The "Kill a Leftist" Law
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First Published: 2021
Published: 2021
So now it’ll be legal in some Neolithic U.S. states to run over leftists with your car.
- United States Withdraws From Afghanistan? Not Really
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First Published: 2021
Published: 2021
No lessons have been learned from this history. The U.S. will “withdraw,” but will also leave behind its assets to checkmate China and Russia. These geopolitical considerations eclipse any concern for the Afghan people.
- Orientalism and ahistoricism
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First Published: 2021
Published: 2021
The ahistoricism of Orientalism leads Said to mimic the very discursive structures against which he polemicises. Said creates a “Western tradition” which runs in an unbroken line from the Ancient Greeks, through the Renaissance and the Enlightenment to modernism. It is a tradition which defines a coherent Western identity through a specific set of beliefs and values which remain in their essence unchanged through two millennia of European and Western history. This, of course, is the myth of “Western civilization” propagated by many an advocate of Western superiority.
- World's Most Tyrannical Regime Can't Stop Babbling About "Human Rights"
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First Published: 2021
Published: 2021
Like all US secretaries of state, Blinken's public statements overwhelmingly focus on the claim that other nations abuse human rights, and that it is America’s duty to defend those rights. Which is very silly, considering the fact that the US government is the single worst human rights abuser on planet Earth.
- The Left Continues to Destroy Itself and Others With Evidence-Free Destruction of Reputations
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First Published: 2021
Published: 2021
Equating accusations with proven fact is reckless and repressive. It is also standard behaviour in liberal politics, whereby they ruin lives without a second thought.
- No more plastics in Southeast Asia paradise
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First Published: 2021
Published: 2021
Plastic waste has accumulated in Southeast Asia since China stopped importing it for recycling. The region's governments want western exporters to stop using it as a dumping ground.
- The Futility of Race-Naming Mass Shooters
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First Published: 2021
Published: 2021
As simplistic and satisfying as it would be, no single demographic emerges from the data as “the typical mass shooter.” It depends on what type of mass shooting you’re looking at. In the end, focusing on the race of mass shooters is not helpful; it is not predictive of who is likely to engage in gun violence. Singling out any specific race as being dangerous is likely to do more harm than good. While race is not a useful or predictive prism through which to understand or identify mass shooters, mental illness is no better and is in many ways a distraction from the deeper issues. As with other mass shooter demographics, there is little insight to be gained by focusing on the mental health history of mass shooters. There are several reasons for this, perhaps most prominently that most mass shooters across all categories do not have a prior history of mental health treatment.
- Heroes But Not Saints: Why We Shouldn't 'Cancel' Flawed Progressive Icons
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First Published: 2021
Published: 2021
Planned Parenthood need not reinforce the misconceptions about Sanger that the pro-life movement and right-wingers in general have been perpetuating for decades. These misleading views about Sanger hinge on two aspects of her life that have generated considerable controversy and debate.
- Human Rights Watch Confirms Israel is an Apartheid State
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First Published: 2021
Published: 2021
The forthright branding of Israel as an apartheid state by Human Rights Watch could be a watershed moment in mainstream acceptance of what Israel has become. Human Rights Watch is not an outlier or left wing organisation. It is very much a part of the establishment in the United States and is not generally associated with hard hitting criticism that conflicts with the promoted interests of the American state. Kenneth Roth, the Human Rights Watch CEO who has been in power longer than Putin, is a darling of the New York liberal and Democratic Party Establishment. That is an important financial source for HRW and includes many members of New York’s highly altruistic liberal Jewish community.
- The Day The World Ended
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First Published: 2021
Published: 2021
The day the world ended began like any other day. People woke up, had their coffee, checked their social media, kissed their loved ones, went to work. Nobody knew it was coming.
- Focusing Purely on Injustices in China and Russia with a Cold War Mindset Damages Human Rights Everywhere
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First Published: 2021
Published: 2021
The essence of human rights propaganda is not lies or even exaggeration, but selectivity.
- The cynical hypocrisy of the world's No1 propagandist
US pledges $300mn to fund massive global anti-China media machine
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First Published: 2021
Published: 2021
Chinese- and Russian-funded journalism is 'disinformation,' but when Washington spends millions on 'independent' news outlets and buying journalists to get favourable coverage of its policies, it's called 'spreading information.'
- The Mass Media Will Never Regain The Public’s Trust
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First Published: 2021
Published: 2021
It doesn’t ultimately matter what mainstream pundits and reporters believe is the cause of the public’s growing disgust with them, because there's nothing they can do to fix it anyway. The mass media will never regain the public's trust.
- Biden’s Climate Plan: It’s Too Late for Gradualism
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First Published: 2021
Published: 2021
The climate emergency demands a radical and rapid decarbonization of the economy with numerical goals and timetables to transform all productive sectors, not only power production (27% of carbon emissions), but also transportation (28%), manufacturing (22%), buildings (12%), and agriculture (10%). That emergency transformation can only be met by an ecosocialist approach using public enterprise and planning. Instead, Biden's plan emphasizes corporate welfare: subsidies and tax incentives for clean energy that will take uncertain effect at a leisurely pace in the markets. Moreover, it does nothing to stop more oil and gas fracking and pipelines for more gas-fired power plants, or to shut down coal-fired power plants. Without out directly saying so, it is a plan to burn fossil fuels for decades to come.
- Reflections on Genocide as the Ultimate Crime
de Zayas, Alfred; Falk, Richard
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First Published: 2021
Published: 2021
The misuse of the word genocide is disdainful toward relatives of the victims of the Armenian massacres, the Holocaust, the Rwandan genocide -- and as well a disservice to both history, law, and the prudent conduct of international relations. We already knew that we were adrift in an ocean of fake news. It is far more dangerous to discover that we are also at risk of being immersed in the turbulent waters of "fake law". We must push back with a sense of urgency. Such a development is not tolerable.
- Climate Scientists: 'Net Zero' is a dangerous trap
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First Published: 2021
Published: 2021
The only way to keep humanity safe is by immediately and radically cutting emissions in a socially just way.
- Media's Top Meaning for 'Proxy' Is 'Iranian Ally'
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First Published: 2021
Published: 2021
"Proxy," defined as someone who works on someone else's behalf, is a term of delegitimation in international politics: It undermines the credibility of both those who are accused of being "proxies" and those accused of having "proxies." In the former case, the term suggests that the party in question is not representing its peoples' interests, but rather those of an outside actor. The nation described as having proxies is implicitly accused of meddling in another country's affairs.
- Slavery reparations are just another elite political ploy to avoid tackling the real race problems in America
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First Published: 2021
Published: 2021
Unfortunately for black Americans, be they descendants of slaves or not, slavery reparation payments -- even if Congress ultimately sanctions them – will do nothing to alleviate black poverty, or ease the bitter ongoing racial tensions that continue to tear American society apart on a daily basis. In fact, the entire slavery reparations issue is nothing more than an ideological smokescreen, behind which America’s contemporary ruling elite can continue to avoid confronting the race issue that they have consistently refused to meaningfully deal with for centuries.
- Pure: Ten Points I Just Can't Believe About the Official Skripal Narrative
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First Published: 2021
Published: 2021
A lie repeated often enough enters the public consciousness, so I am republishing this in the hope of stimulating the honest and the intellectually awake.
- America's Neoliberal Financialization Policy vs. China’s Industrial Socialism
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First Published: 2021
Published: 2021
- Biden isn't ending the Afghanistan War, he's privatizing it
Special Forces, Pentagon contractors, intelligence operatives will remain
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First Published: 2021
Published: 2021
Over 18,000 Pentagon contractors remain in Afghanistan, while official troops number 2,500. Joe Biden will withdraw this smaller group of soldiers while leaving behind US Special Forces, mercenaries, and intelligence operatives — privatizing and downscaling the war, but not ending it.
- The CIA Used To Infiltrate The Media. Now The CIA Is The Media.
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First Published: 2021
Published: 2021
In totalitarian dictatorships, the government spy agency tells the news media what stories to run, and the news media unquestioningly publish it. In free democracies, the government spy agency says “Hoo buddy, have I got a scoop for you!” and the news media unquestioningly publish it.
- The Palestinians: "We Shall Not Be Moved"
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First Published: 2021
Published: 2021
The resolve of the Palestinians to live on the land that is rightly theirs, despite all the Israeli efforts to dislodge them and drive them out, has never wavered. Just as the long struggle of African Americans has persisted in the face of white resistance.For both peoples their simple determination to win their rights remains their greatest strength.
- The intelligence of ravens and the foolishness of (some) humans
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First Published: 2021
Published: 2021
The problem with studies that continue to propagate the idea that intelligence is a single quantity, a thing that can be measured and quantified.
- Agriculture's Greatest Myth
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First Published: 2021
Published: 2021
For policymakers, the big obstacle to global promotion and restoration of small-scale farming (leaving aside the lobbying power of agribusiness) is allegedly that, "it can't feed the world". If that claim were true, local food systems would be bound to leave people hungry and so promoting them becomes selfish, short-termist, and unethical. Nevertheless, this purported flaw in sustainable and local agriculture represents a curious charge because, no matter where one looks in global agriculture, food prices are low because products are in surplus.
- Mighty Moe book review
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First Published: 2021
Published: 2021
Mighty Moe tells the story of Maureen Wilton, a youthful long-distance runner from Toronto who set a women’s world record in the marathon in 1967, when she was 13.
- The news media offers wall-to-wall propaganda every day. We only notice when a royal dies
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First Published: 2021
Published: 2021
If the BBC makes its editorial decisions based on what rightwing and far-right newspaper tycoons think is good both for the country and for the world, then how is the BBC not equally rightwing?
- The Judicial Persecution of Steven Donziger
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First Published: 2021
Published: 2021
in the U.S., a judge acts as prosecutor and jury on behalf of a giant oil company, Chevron, as it destroys the life and career of human rights lawyer Steven Donziger. His crime? Daring to win a judgment against Chevron in an Ecuadorian court. For those less enchanted with the U.S. justice system, this is no surprise.
- Antidote For Rural Sprawl: Land Use Zoning
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First Published: 2021
Published: 2021
There will always be people who will argue that zoning is an infringement upon their freedom to build a home where they choose. Speed limits and traffic lights are an infringement of our freedom to drive at any speed we want, but society recognizes that we would have chaos without such limits. The same principles apply to land use. Most of us recognize that zoning has value. Who doesn’t believe keeping structures out of a river's flood plain or keeping a pig farm out of a residential neighborhood isn’t reasonable? We need to extend that idea to the entire landscape, or we will lose much of what we consider valuable.
- How I got vaccinated
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First Published: 2021
Published: 2021
- How the Saami Indigenous People Fended Off Gates-funded Geoengineering Experiment
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First Published: 2021
Published: 2021
The first ever stratospheric test of geoengineering technology, funded by Bill Gates, has been suspended under pressure from the indigenous people over whose heads it would take place, the Saami of northern Scandinavia.
- The Plague of Historical Amnesia in the Age of Fascist Politics
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First Published: 2021
Published: 2021
In the age of neoliberal tyranny, historical amnesia is the foundation for manufactured ignorance, the subversion of consciousness, the depoliticization of the public, and the death of democracy. It is part of a disimagination machine that is perpetuated in schools, higher education, and the corporate controlled media.
- Vandana Shiva: Bill Gates Empires 'Must Be Dismantled'
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First Published: 2021
Published: 2021
In an interview with Dr. Joseph Mercola, Vandana Shiva says, "… if In the next decade, if we don’t protect what has to be protected … and take away the sainthood from this criminal, they will leave nothing much to be saved."
- Some Standard Cynical CIA-Style Cuba Covid Reporting at The Washington Post
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First Published: 2021
Published: 2021
Imperial cynics and propagandists can only see the world through the lens of cynicism and propaganda, which they project on to others.
- The Business of Scenery
Why America's national parks need new management
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First Published: 2021
Published: 2021
- Lost in Thought
The psychological risks of meditation
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First Published: 2021
Published: 2021
- Seaspiracy
Closing the net on industrial fishing
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First Published: 2021
Published: 2021
A review of Seaspiracy; the film lifts the lid on the fishing industry, described as secretive and corrupt. Seaspiracy scrutinizes ocean conservation groups like Marine Stewardship Council and the Earth Island Institute are complicit in the fishing industry, and educates viewers on the complex relationships found in ocean food chains.
- Propaganda By Omission: Libya, Syria, Venezuela And The UK
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First Published: 2021
Published: 2021
We live in a war-like society; one that supports, and is in league with, the world's number one terrorist threat: the United States of America. Corporate media propaganda plays a key role in keeping things that way.
- To Live in a Plural Society
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First Published: 2021
Published: 2021
No one has a right not to be offended. All of us have a duty to challenge bigotry. These two claims are not just compatible, they are often interconnected. Today, though, many view these as conflicting perspectives. To give offence to other cultures or faiths, they argue, is to foment racism; to challenge racism, one should refrain from giving offence.
- The Amazon Chernobyl is a Warning for Us All
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First Published: 2021
Published: 2021
From the Athabasca to the Niger Delta to the Ecuadorian Amazon, the fossil fuel industry, along with other extractive industries, are drenched in the blood of countless innocent people and responsible for ecological annihilation on a scale that is unimaginable.
- Islamic Homophobia is Empowered by Leftist Silence
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First Published: 2021
Published: 2021
This piece scrutinizes homophobia in the Muslim community and explores the left's reluctance to criticize it in a consistent and productive manner.It argues that the word Islamophobia is a deliberate conflation that blends criticism of an ideology (Islam) with criticism of a people (Muslims). This allows the silencing of any critics of Islam through the accusation of Islamophobia, which carries an inferred accusation of hatred against Muslims – something which would be far better described as Muslimophobia or anti-Muslim bigotry. Due to this conflation, the fear of being accused of Islamophobia makes individuals hesitant to highlight the abhorrent nature of Islamic homophobia, its theological roots, and the corresponding Islamic jurisprudence that results in the ongoing persecution of LGBT people.
- Money Is Made Up And We Can Change The Rules Whenever We Want
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First Published: 2021
Published: 2021
Have you ever noticed how online capitalism cultists who condescendingly tell socialists they “just don’t understand economics” are always unable to lucidly defend their own understanding of economics? If you've never pressed such a character to clearly and concisely explain what it is you "don't understand" using their own words, I highly recommend that you try it, because it’s one of the funniest things in the world.
- Enbridge is "funding and incentivizing" Minnesota police
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First Published: 2021
Published: 2021
Line 3's mostly female, indigenous opponents say they're being harassed by local cops bankrolled by the Canadian oil giant.
- Private ownership of long-term care homes means overcrowding and more deaths
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First Published: 2021
Published: 2021
The bottom linecknowledge, is that private ownership is associated with overcrowding, failure to invest in modernization, and more deaths. This certainly seems like an argument in favour of ending private ownership of long-term care facilities.
- WSJ Rage at 'Woke' China Foreshadows New Redbaiting of Social Justice Activists
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First Published: 2021
Published: 2021
The Wall Street Journal editorial board has accused a major Chinese newspaper, and by extension the People’s Republic of China, of exploiting progressive rhetoric around racial justice to create division in the United States.
- BBC secrets revealed: Leaked files indicate UK state media engaged in anti-Moscow information warfare operations in Eastern Europe
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First Published: 2021
Published: 2021
Within a tranche of secret UK Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office (FCDO) papers, recently leaked by hacktivist collective Anonymous, are files indicating that BBC Media Action (BBCMA) -- the outlets 'charitable' arm – plays a central role in Whitehall-funded and directed psyops initiatives targeted at Russia.
- Boring Revelations and Fanciful Victimhood: The Harry-Meghan-Oprah Show
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First Published: 2021
Published: 2021
The Prince Harry-Meghan Markle revelations were boring, uninspiring, tedious, self-promoting celluloid slush. For a moment, royalty gorgers and gloaters could forget the pandemic, the deaths of over 500,000 Americans, millions of job losses and incompetent governance. They could feast their eyes on a privileged couple being interviewed in the environs of Californian luxury talking about their terrible hardships.
- Britain proudly announces a plan to 'protect journalists' – but if it really cared it would free Julian Assange
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2021
Published: 2021
Scarcely a day goes by without the UK Government's sounding off on the persecution of journalists somewhere–other than in the UK of course.
- Like the Diana story, Meghan’s fight with the Royals will ensure nothing really changes
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2021
Published: 2021
Oprah Winfrey's interview with Meghan and Harry is a perfect case study of how an important political debate about the corrupting role of the monarchy on British life gets shunted aside yet again, not just by the endless Royal soap opera but by supposedly progressive identity politics.
- Sweden: Apocalypse Not
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2021
Published: 2021
From the moment Covid-19 was declared a pandemic in March 2020, Western public-health agencies presented their publics with a single option: total lockdown of their societies. This was an improvised and untested option with many risks. After more than a year, it is clear that lockdowns did not “flatten the curve” as advertised, or even likely slow the spread, as promised. Societies which avoided this shutdown approach did just as well and even better. Since there were a limited number of states which rejected total lockdowns, the experiences of dissident Sweden and, to some extent, lighter-lockdown Japan had to act as the placebos in this grand medical experiment.
- WANTED: A different attitude to science
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2021
Published: 2021
In our materialist, neoliberal society in which money is the measure of all things science is construed, and taught, almost entirely as a materialist pursuit - as the source of high technologies that can “compete” in the world market and make us all rich. (Or at least make some of us rich - those who are deemed to matter. Who, broadly speaking, are the ones who are rich already).
- Screened out by a computer?
What job interviews are like without human beings
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2021
Published: 2021
Experts predict "asynchronous" one-way interviews will outlast the COVID-19 pandemic.
- Translation and Identity
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2021
Published: 2021
If the issue was simply about racism and marginalisation, the argument would not have been that a black poet needs a black translator but that there should be more black translators, whatever the skin colour of the writer being translated.
- The Left Will Never Achieve Its Goals Until It Prioritizes Countering Establishment Propaganda
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2021
Published: 2021
The idea that China or Russia pose a threat to you is so self-evidently ridiculous, so transparently absurd, that the only way to make you believe it would be to propagandize you. And if you do believe it, that’s exactly what has happened. You can expand this principle to include the entirety of US foreign policy on the global stage today. No ordinary American benefits from the US having troops in Syria, sanctioning Venezuelans to death, supporting Saudi Arabia while it rapes Yemen, circling the planet with military bases and working to destroy any nation which refuses to bow to its dictates. The only way to get Americans to consent to any of these agendas is to propagandize them into doing so.
- The Great Realisation
Resource Type: Film/Video
First Published: 2021
Published: 2021
The Great Realisation is a simple rhyming tale read as a daddy-daughter bedtime story taking on heavy themes such as fevered capitalism, man-made ecological issues, digital addiction and COVID-19.
- Recentering the Lumpen Question Today
Understanding Lumpenization and Bonapartism
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2021
Published: 2021
To name a class "lumpenproletariat" is to reveal something that would otherwise prefer to stay hidden. The lumpenproletariat is not merely defined by its non-relation to production, which is the most common definition of the term in Marxist thought, nor is lumpenization reserved only to a process that occurs within the proletariat. Lumpenization is a process of active decomposition, a verb, not merely an analytic or descriptive category.
- Collecting the evidence
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2021
Published: 2021
Publisher and activist Lokman Slim, assassinated last month in Lebanon, spent 30 years trying to make sure that the memories of civil conflict were not forgotten.
- U.S. State Department accusation of China 'genocide' relied on data abuse and baseless claims by far-right ideologue
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2021
Published: 2021
Both President Joe Biden and his Secretary of State Anthony Blinken have endorsed former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo’s last-minute accusation of "genocide" against the Muslim Uyghur population in China's Xinjiang province. But an investigation of published work by the researcher Pompeo relied on to level his genocide allegation reveals a pattern of data abuse and fraudulent assertions that substantially undermines the incendiary charge.
- Notwithstanding clause
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2021
Published: 2021
The notwithstanding clause makes it possible for legislatures to overrule the courts. There are times when this is necessary, and a good thing. There are also times when it can be abused.
- The People Haven't Risen Up For The Same Reason Abuse Victims Don't Leave Their Abusers
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2021
Published: 2021
Abusive relationships aren't just one partner doing cruel things to another. If they were, there would be no relationship: there'd just be a woman getting assaulted one time by her boyfriend and then immediately leaving. Abusive relationships necessarily include the construction of psychological barriers to leaving, or else they would not exist. Victims of abuse are kept constantly confused, off-balance, insecure and unsure of themselves, because their abuse always necessarily includes the element of psychological manipulation.
- Meet a Toronto man with a passion for collecting phone books
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2021
Published: 2021
For most of us, our phone books are in our smart phones — and many young people have probably never even seen one made of paper. But Fred Meandro has had to make room for dozens of them in his Toronto condo. The 66-year-old is an avid collector and says you can learn a lot about a city by going through old and new phone books.
- Capitol Riots Were a Dark Day for American Journalism
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2021
Published: 2021
An article critical of the news coverage surrounding the January 6, 2021 invasion of the Capitol by a pro-Trump mob. Cockburn argues that exaggerating the violence of the event threatens the credibility of the media and could justify repression by the government.
- Plutonium in Space: What Are the Odds of a Catastrophe?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2021
Published: 2021
- 'Here Are the Superheroes To Come and Save Us'
Media Waste No Time Fawning Over Biden
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2021
Published: 2021
McLeod discusses the celebration of the Biden administration by prominent corporate media that has come at a cost of little scrutiny. He argues that the country's journalists should see themselves as the government's adversaries, rather than their allies.
- Reuters, BBC, and Bellingcat participated in covert UK Foreign Office-funded programs to "weaken Russia," leaked docs reveal
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2021
Published: 2021
New leaked documents show Reuters' and the BBC's involvement in covert UK FCO programs to effect "attitudinal change" and “weaken the Russian state's influence," alongside intel contractors and Bellingcat.
- The Retrograde Quest for Symbolic Prophets of Black Liberation
Moving beyond the Moses Complex
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2021
Published: 2021
One little-examined legacy of the broader intellectual embrace of race-reductive thinking is something we might call the Quest for Moses(es)—the shorthand branding exercise of privileging the content of individual characters in our debates on racial injustice. We see this tendency in much of today’s wokeness-inflected discourse, which leans heavily on appealing to the authority individuals considered to be exemplary, from differing times or historical contexts, in lieu of empirical arguments to support assertions concerning how we should understand racial injustice.
- The fortunate Marxist
Ernie Tate (1934-2021)
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2021
Published: 2021
Ernie Tate (1934-2021) was a long-standing supporter and leading member of Trotskyist groups in Canada and the United Kingdom and a founder of the International Marxist Group and Vietnam Solidarity Campaign in Britain.
- Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - February 14, 2021
Beyond the Walls
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 2021
Published: 2021
From Gaza to Kashmir, people continue to meet life's challenges, and to love, laugh, and live.
- In Memory of Ernie Tate (1934-2021)
A Life of Revolutionary Activism
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2021
Published: 2021
The socialist movement lost an outstanding educator and organizer with the passing of Ernest (Ernie) Tate in Toronto on 5 February, 2021. An outstanding partisan of global anti-imperialist solidarity, Ernie also contributed, with his partner Jess MacKenzie, to building revolutionary Marxist groups and to promoting socialist unity in Canada and Britain.
- Ottawa Jewish Archives finding success online despite pandemic challenges
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2021
Published: 2021
Archives are witnesses to the past, providing a tangible history of the community -- and the Ottawa Jewish Archives' collection includes family, business congregation and organization materials to preserve the Ottawa Jewish community's lived experiences.
- Forgotten 20th-Century Photography Studio Found in New York Attic
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2021
Published: 2021
- Big Tech's Playing Monopoly. It's Going to Lose.
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2021
Published: 2021
Knapp critiques Big Tech, including Facebook and Twitter, as limiting freedom of speech in return for substantial revenue from government contracts.
- A Museum Dedicated to Stalin: An Example of How to Deal With Historical Memory
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2021
Published: 2021
I think that the Stalin Museum is an example of how to deal with historical memory.
- Intensive Fishing and the Birth of Capitalism, Part 1
Commodity cod & factory ships
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2021
Published: 2021
Beginning a series on the role of fishing in the birth and spread of capitalism, and the role of capitalism in today’s mass extinction of ocean life.
- Betting on "The Greek": How the NFL Is Banking on Biological Racism
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2021
Published: 2021
Sports have long been a prominent frontier where issues of racism, exploitation, labour, and power have been debated and contested. In this respect, North American football has been no exception and, indeed, has represented a particularly rugged stretch of terrain on this frontier.
- For Clinton feminists, not all women are equal
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2021
Published: 2021
Female liberation has been captured by a wealthy elite.
- The Leadership Institute: PR School for Right-wingers
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2021
Published: 2021
- Why the West isn't racist
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2021
Published: 2021
The Enlightenment gave us individual freedom -- yet Kehinde Andrews blames it for anti-black bigotry
- The eviction moratorium is a useful lesson in how reforms actually happen
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2021
Published: 2021
Ray Valentine describes how collective disruption "outside the political process" won tenants significant concessions.
- Twitter Rolls Out New Wikipedia-Like Program To Narrative Manage Tweets
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2021
Published: 2021
On the concerns raised in relation to Twitter's Birdwatch feature.
- Media's Deficit Hawks Fly Again -- Soon as a Democrat Takes Office
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2021
Published: 2021
On corporate media's predictions on government spending since a Democrat has assumed office.
- Racial Justice, Class Justice
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2021
Published: 2021
Unity in greater numbers has been the principal strength of working classes since the dawn of capitalism. Reducing economic inequality will routinely reduce racial inequalities unless specific actions are taken to interrupt that connection. Our lopsided levels of economic inequality are now so huge, with so much income and wealth concentrated in the hands of the super-wealthy, that even a relatively modest redistribution of economic resources – say, $2 trillion a year – could improve almost everybody’s lives. Progressive taxation of our infamous top 1% can provide more than enough to finance dramatic economic transformations for the working class of all colors.
- How the Israeli flag became a symbol for white nationalists
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2021
Published: 2021
The U.S. white nationalist movement's admiration for the Jewish state's supremacist values fits comfortably with its deep antisemitism. Lorber argues that for right-wing groups in the United States, Israel has become a symbol for a set of values and a worldview that transcends any geopolitical reality and takes on a life of its own.
- Historic photos of Corner Brook's paper mill -- saved from the trash -- see the light of day
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2021
Published: 2021
Former mill supervisor rescued photos destined for the landfill in 1984.
- What 'Democracy' Is Under Attack? Notes From The Edge Of The Narrative Matrix
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2021
Published: 2021
Johnstone argues that threats to US "democracy" is "entirely fictional".
- Banning the Proud Boys
Be careful what you ask for
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2021
Published: 2021
Clarke argues that state efforts to eradicate the threat of fascism are often a double-edged sword that can be easily turned against the political left and used to threaten workers' rights.
- Trump's Twitter Ban May Be Justified, but That Doesn't Mean Tech Giants' Power Isn't Scary
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2021
Published: 2021
On the implications of mixed media response to social media companies taking measures against Trump, after the storming of the US Capitol.
- One of the oldest known cave paintings has been found in Indonesia
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2021
Published: 2021
Pig art on the island of Sulawesi dates to at least 45,500 years ago.
- 'This is apartheid': Rights group slams Israeli rule
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2021
Published: 2021
On report from human rights group condemning Israeli government's policies towards Palestinans as apartheid.
- Media Cry Wolf for Third Time on Afghan 'Bounties'
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2021
Published: 2021
Macleod raises questions about credibility of media reports that have relied heavily on anonymous spies.
- How the left is being manipulated into colluding in its own character assassination
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2021
Published: 2021
This is the left's dilemma. We struggle to win the argument in a corporate media environment that not only denies us a hearing but also promotes the voices of those like Freedland trying to destroy us from the centre and those supposedly on the left like George Monbiot and Owen Jones who are too often destroying us from within. We need to find ways to turn the tables on the war criminals who have been gaslighting us in demanding that Assange, who exposed their crimes, is the one who needs to be locked up. We need to make clear that it is those who are so ready to smear anti-racists as antisemites – as Corbyn’s successor, Sir Keir Starmer, has done to swaths of Labour party members – who are the real racists. And we need to unmask as war hawks those who accuse the anti-war left of serving as apologists for dictators when we try to stop western states conducting more illegal, resource-grab wars with such devastating results for local populations.
We must get much more sophisticated in our thinking and our strategies. There is no time to lose.
- Stop Trivializing The Term 'Coup': Notes From The Edge Of The Narrative Matrix
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2021
Published: 2021
Critique of media's use of term "coup" to describe events at the US Capitol on January 6, 2021.
- An Open Letter to Patriot Prayer and the Proud Boys (cc: Antifa)
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2021
Published: 2021
What the elite from both ruling parties want is division. What they want is for us to shout at each other and shoot each other.
- No more easy scapegoats
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2021
Published: 2021
On Niki Ashton and our collective loss of compassion and critical thought.
- America's racial fairytales
Are those with the power to cancel people wielding that power responsibly?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2021
Published: 2021
The practice of cancelling ordinary people for minor public rudeness or crudeness has been a common practice for nearly 10 years now.
- Another World
Resource Type: Film/Video
First Published: 2021
Published: 2021
Esther Maloney writes: As the COVID-19 pandemic swept the world in the Spring of 2020, my four-year-old son was fascinated by disaster stories, such as the sinking of the Titanic. One night, as he slept, and as folks bravely marched for racial healing and social justice across North America, I thought about the way children are coming of age at a time when humanity is also struggling to come to maturity. What have they known of the world we are leaving behind, and what will we all build in the months and years ahead?
The poem Another World came through that night.
- Canada, a Working History
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2021
Published: 2021
- Creating a 'Brave New World': Rather than guarding Britain's national treasures, woke museum curators want to dispose of them
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2021
Published: 2021
Museum curators are no longer the devoted custodians and investigators of artefacts; they are more likely to be schooled in post-modernism and to loathe those artefacts, seeing them as tainted by a history of oppression. Rather than guarding Britains national treasures, curators are lobbying to dispose of them.
- Decolonising Israel, Liberating Palestine
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2021
Published: 2021
This book explores how the concept of settler colonialism provides a clearer understanding of the Zionist movement's project to establish a Jewish state in Palestine by displacing the Palestinian Arab population.
- Decolonizing Israel, Liberating Palestine
Zionism, Settler Colonialism, and the Case for One Democratic State
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2021
Published: 2021
Jeff Halper argues that the only way out of a colonial situation is decolonization: the dismantling of Zionist structures of domination ad control and their replacement by a single democractic state, in which Palestinians and Israeli Jews forge a new civil society and a shared political community.
- The Devil Goes to Preschool
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2021
Published: 2021
In 1983, journalists helped conjure a nationwide sex panic.
- Dissenting POWs: From Vietnam's Hao Lo Prison to America Today
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2021
Published: 2021
A fresh look at the how US troops played a part in the resistance of US troops to the American war in Vietnam.
- Every Drop of Blood
The Momentous Second Inauguration of Abraham Lincoln
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2021
Published: 2021
Achorn focuses on Washington, D.C. on the eve of Abraham Lincoln’s historic second inaugural address as the lens through which to understand all the complexities of the Civil War.
- Everything on (the) Line
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2021
Published: 2021
On a chilly April day in 2001, some 75,000 protesters flooded the streets of Quebec City to denounce corporate globalization and a neoliberal trade deal. From that wellspring of activist anger, energy, and hope came the founding of rabble.ca: an alternative news source and community space that reported on Canadian politics from the ground, catching the attention of journalists and activists across the country. Stories of activist struggle lie at the heart of Everything on (the) Line, a collection of rabble's most incisive articles from the past twenty years.
- A Few Good Them: Woke Canadian judge says lawyers and their clients must state their pronouns when introduced to the court
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2021
Published: 2021
- Film: The Living Record of Our Memory
Resource Type: Film/Video
First Published: 2021
Published: 2021
A documentary which explores film through the voices of significant professionals who have contributed to make sure moving images survive and remain accessible.
- 5 Errors Made by Public Heath/ Science During The Pandemic
A Doctor Reflects
Resource Type: Film/Video
First Published: 2021
Published: 2021
- Fred Hampton vs Race Bamboozlers: Solidarity is the Key to Justice
Solidarity is the Key to Justice
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2021
Published: 2021
Where I part with CRT and BLM is when they take these evident truths about our country and weaponize them to collectively judge “others”, monopolize pains, arrogantly lecture people and silence anyone who disagrees with them. Forgetting the lessons of Martin Luther King—who wisely noted that hate cannot be driven out with hate—advocates of CRT and BLM insist on being divisive instead of forging common grounds with other marginalized communities the way Fred Hampton did in the 1960s.
- Grand Army of Labor
Workers, Veterans, and the Meaning of the Civil War
Resource Type: Unclassified
First Published: 2021
Published: 2021
- How to Blow Up a Pipeline
Learning to fight in a world on fire
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2021
Published: 2021
- Humans Nature and the Illusion of Separateness
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2021
Published: 2021
One of the biggest lies that people in the global north were sold and have largely internalized is that we are separate from the biosphere from which we evolved and on which we depend upon for our very survival. Even as we stand on the precipice of ecological collapse, human supremacy over nature has been the unchallenged narrative.
- Die Intelligenz von Raben und die Dummheit mancher Menschen
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2021
Published: 2021
- Introducing the Icelandverse
Resource Type: Film/Video
First Published: 2021
Published: 2021
After Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg introduced the 'Metaverse,' Iceland introduced something even more exciting: the 'Icelandverse.'
- Is the enemy of my enemy my friend?
Barnaby Raine on the resurgence of 'tankie' and 'campist' politics
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2021
Published: 2021
Raine professes to see a comeback of what he labels 'tankie' or 'campist' politics -- a tendency that, once upon a time, he claims, "uncritically aligned with the Soviet Union and other enemies of the United States, in the name of the struggle against imperialism."
- Modest Hopes
Homes and Stories of Toronto's Workers from the 1820s to the 1920s
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2021
Published: 2021
- The Path to a Livable Future
A New Politics to Fight Climate Change, Racism, and the Next Pandemic
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2021
Published: 2021
Stan Cox makes plain the connections between the multiple crises facing us today, and provides an inspired vision for how to resolve them. With a deeply informed, clear to-do list, Cox shows us how we can work together to address the climate emergency, white supremacy, and our vulnerability to future pandemics all at once.
- Paying for the Land
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2021
Published: 2021
About the Dene of the Northwest Territories.
- Racism, Privilege, and Anti-Asian Hostility
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2021
Published: 2021
Anti-Asian hostility is real. Asian privilege is not. Nor is hostility towards Asians merely the product of “white supremacy”; it emerges from a complex interplay of racism and identitarian politics. Whatever the reasons behind the Atlanta shootings, it’s time we stopped using myths about Asian Americans to sustain both racism and cartoonish views about racial differences.
- A Radical Life: A memoir by Jim McIlroy
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2021
Published: 2021
- Remembering Don Weitz, 1930-2021
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2021
Published: 2021
- A Runner's Journey
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2021
Published: 2021
- The Seeds of Vandana Shiva
Resource Type: Film/Video
First Published: 2021
Published: 2021
A documentary about the life of Gandhian eco-activist and agro-ecologist, Vandana Shiva.
- Solidarity: Canada's Unknown Revolution of 1983
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2021
Published: 2021
The year 1983 began like any other year in Canada's West Coast province. Then everything suddenly changed. The newly elected provincial government announced an avalanche of far-right legislation that shocked the country. A resistance movement called Solidarity quickly formed across British Columbia, uniting social activists and trade unionists and people who had never protested before.
- Stealing Africa: How Britain looted the continent's art
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2021
Published: 2021
During war and colonisation, Western nations participated in the theft of thousands of pieces of African art. This is the story of the role Britain’s anti-slavery mission played in looting African artefacts, and of the campaign to get them returned.
- Tea with Rosie
Resource Type: Film/Video
First Published: 2021
Published: 2021
Short video about Rosemarie Harrop.
- Temporary Closures Reduce Challenges to Publications and Policies in Canadian Public Libraries in 2020 and Early 2021
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2021
Published: 2021
- Through Pluripolarity to Socialism
A Manifesto
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 2021
Published: 2021
Our Manifesto appears in this moment of danger from deep and wide discussions
among activists of all continents representing many socialist traditions. Its historical
and theoretical assessment of the present conjuncture seeks to advance class and
national struggles for socialism.
- Toronto Community Union Project (T-CUP) in Trefann Court
Connexipedia article
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2021
Published: 2021
The Toronto Community Union Project (T-CUP) was a small group of community organizers who came together in 1966 to help working-class residents facing "urban redevelopment" in a neighbourhood called Trefann Court.
- Trans Science
A review of Abigail Shrier’s Irreversible Damage: The Transgender Craze Seducing Our Daughters
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2021
Published: 2021
The incidence of teen gender dysphoria is rising and seems to be linked to internet influences and social peer groups. The number of people identifying as lesbians is dropping. Therapists are accepting patients’ self-diagnoses unquestioningly, and irreversible treatments are being offered without therapist involvement.
- US Bombs Syria And Ridiculously Claims Self Defense
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2021
Published: 2021
So we are being told that the United States launched an airstrike on Syria, a nation it invaded and is illegally occupying, because of attacks on "US locations" in Iraq, another nation the US invaded and is illegally occupying. This attack is justified on the basis that the Iraqi fighters were "Iranian-linked", a claim that is both entirely without evidence and irrelevant to the justification of deadly military force. And this is somehow being framed in mainstream news publications as a defensive operation. This is Defense Department stenography. The US military is an invading force in both Syria and Iraq; it is impossible for its actions in either of those countries to be defensive. It is always necessarily the aggressor.
- The Use and Misuse of Antisemitism Statistics in Canada
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 2021
Published: 2021
Sheryl Nestel of IJV-Toronto has published a detailed analysis B’nai Brith’s audit, and found that their interpretation of the state of antisemitism in Canada is misleading at best, perhaps deliberately so.
- Vietnam's Prodigal Heroes
American Deserters, International Protest, European Exile, and Amnesty
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2021
Published: 2021
- We The Power - The Future of Energy is Community Owned
Resource Type: Film/Video
First Published: 2021
Published: 2021
A journey into the citizen-led community-energy movement in Europe. An exploration of divesting power from large energy companies and placing that power of electricity in the hands of local communities. How can local activists create more financially empowering, environmentally beneficial, and healthier communities?
- The Wealth Hoarders
How Billionaires Pay Millions to Hide Trillions
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2021
Published: 2021
- What liberals get wrong about race
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2021
Published: 2021
- You can't win without a fight: Why worker cooperatives are a bad strategy
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2021
Published: 2021
- Youth Unstoppable
Resource Type: Film/Video
First Published: 2021
Published: 2021
Follows Director Jewell-Kemker's journey from grassroots teenager to activist adult in the environmental movement. Centered over the course of twelve years in nine different countries.
- The Marathon World Record Holder the World Forgot
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2021
Published: 2021
- Social Distancing
Abstand halten, w?hrend des Corona-Lockdowns
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
- Casas Compartidas en Toronto - 1960s & 1970s
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2020
Published: 2024
Las casas compartidas en Toronto se convirtieron en un gran problema a finales de los años 60 y principios de los años 70, ya que las prioridades de vivienda estaban cambiando rápidamente.
- Criticising Monbiot isn't 'demonisation'. It’s a first step on the path to reclaiming our minds
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
- Another Hiroshima is Coming - Unless We Stop It Now
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
Hiroshima and Nagasaki were acts of premeditated mass murder unleashing a weapon of intrinsic criminality. It was justified by lies that form the bedrock of 21st century U.S. war propaganda, casting a new enemy, and target - China.
- I am an American constitutional lawyer - and I see our government using Covid-19 to take away our fundamental rights
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
- US Wants to Track Americans Over Coronavirus
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
- Taking a Stand
Introduction to the February 18, 2020 issue of Other Voices
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
- Afterword to Karl Marx, Critique of the Gotha Program
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
Marx writes of producers or labor power. He writes about serfs, slaves; he includes employed and unemployed (the active army, the reserve army); he refers to peasants, to artisans, to small manufacturers. All people who have lost their organic connections to nature, that is, to land, its creatures, its grains; to the waters and pastures; as well as to the geological resources lying beneath the land. All people who have been expropriated from the means of life, the means of production, the means of subsistence, this is what he means.
- New Film Explores US Suppression of Key Footage from Hiroshima and Nagasaki
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
- La Moralidad en un Mundo Inmoral
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
- Moralidade em um Mundo Amoral
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
- Morality in an Amoral World - Vietnamese text
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
- Collecting the evidence
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
Publisher and activist Lokman Slim, assassinated last month in Lebanon, spent 30 years trying to make sure that the memories of civil conflict were not forgotten.
- Living principles: In memory of Ed Finn
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
Born in Spaniard’s Bay, Newfoundland, in 1926, Ed Finn grew up in Corner Brook, where he later became first a printer’s apprentice, then a reporter, columnist, and editor of that city’s daily newspaper, the Western Star. His long career as a journalist later included two years at the Montreal Gazette and 14 years at the Toronto Star. During his four-year fling in politics in Newfoundland (1959-1962), he served as the first provincial leader of the NDP. He worked closely with Tommy Douglas and helped defend and promote his pioneering Medicare legislation in Saskatchewan. And throughout the 1960s, ’70s, and ’80s, he did communications work for several labour unions, and served on the board of directors of the Bank of Canada. From 1994 to 2014 he was Senior Editor at the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives, and Editor of the CCPA Monitor. On November 27, 2020, Ed was appointed to the Order of Canada.
- When they say jump
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
This article explores the failure of ATU Local 11, the union that represents the majority of TTC workers, to organize its members for "Transit Worker Assault Awareness Day" after a member was stabbed while working.
- Leo Panitch and the Socialist Project
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
Maher reflects on Leo Panitch's contributions to democratic socialism.
- Postcard from a liberated Gaza
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
A piece of fiction published as part of +972’s New Futures project. In this series, writers, thinkers, and activists share how they visualize Israel-Palestine the day after the pandemic, as a way of transforming this dystopian moment into an exercise in radical imagination of rethinking through the past, present, and future of this region, and envisioning a different reality for all those living between the river and the sea.
- Online classes, offline class divisions
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
Students living in the Ambujwadi slum in north Mumbai are struggling with online classes for months, while also working to support their families after their parents' income was hit by the lockdown and its aftermath
- The people who are preparing for war, and the lies they tell
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
The double standards, hypocrisy, and dishonesty of the media are absolutely breathtaking.
- Looking Beyond the Abolition of Restaurants
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
What does a revolutionary society do to produce food for people who aren’t necessarily in the mood to cook for themselves that day?
- The problem with 1199's 'Advice to Rookie Organizers'
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
One of the most widely-circulated statements on organizing is SEIU 1199’s “Advice to rookie organizers,” popularized most recently by Jane McAlevey but originally drafted in 1985 at an SEIU organizing conference. It’s good advice — it’s actually excellent advice for the most part — and I think anyone who takes a hard look at almost any organizing can spot where things went right by how closely it followed this advice and where things went wrong by where it deviated from it.
- Secret, Invisible Evidence Of Russian Hacking Is Not Actually Evidence
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
- The Real Giants Whose Shoulders We Stand On
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
We stand upon the shoulders of giants. Yes, we do. But the giants are not the "great men" like Rich Fancyboi who have received all the acclaim and attention throughout recorded history, they’re the ones doing the actual moving, making, mothering and maintaining in our world upon whose heads the famous figures stand.
- History museums launch new program to address lack of representation in stories about Toronto
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
Toronto's 10 history museums have launched a new program that aims to address the lack of representation in stories about the city. The program, called Awakenings, is a virtual series of art projects by artists who are Black, Indigenous and people of colour. The projects will be released in stages over the next couple of years.
- How Gulf states became business partners in Israel's occupation
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
Since signing the Abraham Accords, the UAE and Bahrain have been actively colluding with Israel's settler movement and military authorities. The professed rationale for the recent Abraham Accords, so-called "peace deals" signed with Israel by the UAE and Bahrain, was to stymie Israeli efforts to annex swaths of the West Bank.
- Kashmiris outraged as authorities fell thousands of apple trees
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
India engages inethnic cleansing in Kashmir.
- Uproar in India: And You Thought It Was Only About Farmers?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
Surely the 'mainstream' media (a strange term for platforms whose content excludes over 70 per cent of the population) cannot be unaware of these implications of the new farm laws for Indian democracy. But the pursuit of profit drives them far more than any notion of public interest or democratic principles. Shed any delusions about the conflicts of interests (in plural) involved. These media are also corporations. The Big Boss of the largest Indian corporation is also the richest and biggest media owner in the country.
- Antisemitism claims mask a reign of political and cultural terror across Europe
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
Cook explores the "cultural, political and intellectual reign of terror" in European countries, primarily Germany, after the German parliament equated non-violent boycotts of Israel with antisemitism. He documents the hypocrisies of European countries who fight for free speech but outlaw criticism towards Israel, and the ways antisemitism has been weaponised.
- Beyond the Great Awokening
Reassessing the legacies of past black organizing
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
Discourse about race and politics in the United States has been driven in recent years more by moralizing than by careful analysis or strategic considerations. It also depends on naïve and unproductive ways of interpreting the past and its relation to the present.
- Gangsterism as Foreign Policy: Assassinations are Becoming the New Norm
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
State-sponsored assassinations employ the methods of gangsterism and discredit and delegitimise those who use them.
- Adding up to Zero
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First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
I just learned that Canada's biggest meat company is now proclaiming itself both "carbon neutral" and "carbon zero."
- A Film from a Land with No Cinemas
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First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
"This is Not a Burial, It's a Resurrection" is a film from Lesotho, where no film industry exists.
- One of the Best Ways to Protect Biodiversity is to Preserve Indigenous Languages
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
Is there a connection between loss of biodiversity and loss of Indigenous languages? Or, to put another way, what significance protecting Indigenous languages might have for protecting biodiversity?
- Natural Pathogens and Social Affliction
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
On how focus on COVID-19 pandemic has resulted in a lack of attention and resources to other diseases, particularly in developing nations.
- Establishment journalists are piling on to smear Robert Fisk now he cannot answer back
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
Leading journalist in the corporate media have suddenly felt the urgent need not only to criticise the late, much-respected foreign correspondent Robert Fisk, but to pile in against him, using the most outrageous smears imaginable.
- Maradona, Muhammad Ali, and me
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
For an Asian kid growing up in a Britain that was viscerally racist to a degree barely imaginable now, Maradona was more than a footballer. As with Ali, what mattered was not just his sublime skills, but his attitude, too. The defiance and pride that both men symbolised spoke to me in a world in which every day was a day of having to defend my dignity, often in the face of physical attack.
- Saving photos and memories from a flood
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
- The planet cannot begin to heal until we rip the mask off the West's war machine
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
- 'Refusing to serve in the army is my small act of making change'
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
Hillel Rabin spent 56 days in military prison for refusing to serve in the IDF. Now she opens up about her time behind bars, conversations with her fellow inmates, and talking to young Israelis about the occupation.
- Can We Build a Progressive Future If We Dismiss a Large Part of the Working Class?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
It is hard to imagine a stable progressive future for our country with many millions of working-class Americans mobilized in angry opposition. At best this will create a political deadlock that frustrates possibilities for the lasting and radical reforms we so desperately need.
- The People's Point of View: The Toronto Workers' History Project
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
- Yes, the Left Should Talk to Trump Supporters
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
If we're serious about defeating the dictatorship of capital and the horrors of U.S. empire, left-wing activists, writers, and organizers should be very clear: there is absolutely no way to avoid talking and organizing with Trump supporters. It's not easy, but in many contexts, it’s already happening.
- Common Organizing Mistakes
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
Organizing is difficult and every organizer makes mistakes. Here are some of the most common ones, and how to avoid them.
- MSM Already Helping Next Administration Hide Corruption Under 'Diversity' Banner
Resource Type: Unclassified
First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
On published articles by the Times and Vox discussing diversity in the incoming Biden administration; and argues that it overlooks individual actions of those appointed.
- New York Times Job Listing Shows How Western Propaganda Operates
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
In order to get a job at the New York Times, you need to demonstrate that you subscribe to the mainstream oligarchic imperialist worldview which forms the entirety of western mass media output. You need to demonstrate that you have been properly indoctrinated, and that you can be guided into toeing the imperial line with simple attaboys and tisk-tisks from your superiors rather than being explicitly told to knowingly lie.
- I Am Greta isn't about Climate Change
It's about the Elusiveness of Sanity in an Insane World
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First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
For 90 minutes we live in Thunberg’s shoes, we see the world through her strange eyes. For 90 minutes we are allowed to live inside the head of someone so sane that we can briefly grasp – if we are open to her world – quite how insane each of us truly is. We see ourselves from the outside, through the vision of someone whose Asperger's has allowed her to "see through the static", as she too generously terms our delusions. She is the small, still centre of simple awareness buffeted in a sea of insanity.
- The Dead And Those About To Die - Climate Protests And The Corporate Media
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First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
On the climate protest demonstration on Remembrance Day, 2020.
- Robert Fisk had True Independence of Mind, Which is Why He Angered Governments and Parts of the Media
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
At the heart of Fisk's journalism was relentless and meticulous eyewitness reporting of events, a refusal to see complex conflicts in terms of black and white, while not surrendering to moral indifference and keeping a sense of outrage when confronted with real evil. Above all, perhaps, he showed an unbending refusal to back down when what he said was being denied, denounced or ignored by politicians and the media.
- US military buys location data of popular Muslim apps
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
- Conspiracy Theories and the Canadians who Love Them
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First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
Anderson explores Canada's conspiratorial heritage, a heritage that continues to engage with transnational currents attempting to explain the modern world. He focuses on two Canadian figures, Social Credit MP John Blackmore and writer William Guy Carr, to argue that they are not isolated fringe figures in Canadian history, but that they exist within widespread national and transnational networks.
- Palestinians and Israelis call for a single democratic state
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First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
The Palestinian-led One Democratic State Campaign (ODSC), comprised of Palestinians from every major community ('48, the West Bank and Gaza Strip, the refugee camps and the Diaspora/Exile), together with their critical Israeli Jewish partners, has issued a call for the establishment of a single democratic state including everyone living between the River and the Sea, including Palestinian refugees who choose to return to their homeland.
- November 11
Remembrance Day
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
Official remembrances are often about forgetting as much as they are about remembering.
- A Picture of How Power Works
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First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
On normalisation of corruption and incompetence in the appointed heads in both public and private systems.
- Der 11. November
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First Published: 2020
Published: 2023
- Robert Fisk - Death Of A 'Controversial' Journalist
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First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
why do ‘mainstream’ commentators feel obliged to red-flag Fisk’s journalism with ‘controversial’ in this way, and why is it a 'weasel word'? Consider that the likes of the BBC's Andrew Marr, the Guardian's Martin Chulov and The Times' David Aaronovitch, and numerous others, will never be described as 'controversial', despite their highly controversial, in fact outrageous, warmongering bias.
- Cultural and Political Diversity in the White Working-Class
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First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
Explores American politics and voter trends and challenges the idea that highly educated people are the norm and the ideal, whereas poorly educated whites are ignorant and deplorable, standing in the way of positive change the educated are trying to bring.
- Party Organization in Lenin's Comintern
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First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
Many socialist groups today seek to shape their organizational principles in the spirit of "democratic centralism" identified with V.I. Lenin. Yet as historian Lars Lih has demonstrated ("Fortunes of a Formula" and "Further Fortunes of a Formula"), Lenin himself used the term only occasionally, and then with widely varying emphasis. The formula's meaning for socialists today is in fact derived mainly from its application by the Communist International (Comintern) in Lenin's lifetime and under his guidance (1919–23).
- The Gaza I Grew Up In
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First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
Palestinian journalist Jehad al-Saftawi speaks on his experience working in Gaza; walking a tightrope, seen as suspect by the rulers and residents of Gaza and the Israeli army.
- RIP Betty Dodson, Sex Revolutionary
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First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
The great sex revolutionary and Godmother of Masturbation, Dr. Betty Dodson (1929-2020), one of my most beloved mentors, died on the Blue Moon of Halloween night.
- The biosecurity myth
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
Favouring industrialised poultry rearing and stock raising, including pigs, through internationally prescribed rules doesn't prevent epidemics. It just puts small, local organic producers out of business, and it helps big agribiz.
- China's outlaw fishermen
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
China subsidises a huge fishing fleet, umatched in size and reach. its vessels help feed the nation, but also serve as pawns on the geopolitical chessboard, intimidating other nation's fishermen and coastguards.
- Leninism without the working class? The missing subject in Malm's ecological revolution
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First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
Although scientists have been publishing on the viral consequences of deforestation for decades, Andreas Malm’s Corona, Climate, Chronic Emergency is the first publicly accessible book that connects pandemics, climate change, and capitalism.
- Palestinian olive farmers defy Israeli attacks for prized crop
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First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
Israeli restrictions, attacks and intimidation continue to hinder the vital olive harvest but Palestinians persevere.
- The Free University: A people's history
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First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
A history of a Free University in Australia.
- Social media's erasure of Palestinians is a grim warning for our future
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
Nowhere are ties between tech and state officials more evident than in their dealings with Israel. This has led to starkly different treatment of digital rights for Israelis and Palestinians.
- The Gonzo Constitutionalism of the American Right
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First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
- Secularists and free thinkers - Maryam Namazie on the freedom to choose
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
A veteran campaigner for human, especially women's rights, Maryam Namazie speaks with the eloquence and quiet confidence that comes with years of sustained activism on issues ranging from Islamophobia, to blasphemy, misogyny and sex apartheid.
- Two very different Jewish responses to bigotry
One promoting solidarity, the other promoting insularity
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
In the last weeks of September 2020, anonymous adhesive stickers bearing possible messages of bigotry appeared on utility poles and other surfaces in Halifax, Nova Scotia. And the response from two Jewish organizations demonstrate two very different approaches to those messages.
- The Culture War is nothing but a bourgeois distraction from the only war that really matters - Class War
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
Middle-class squabbling over statues and outdated anthems only serves to fill up the political discourse with meaningless hot air and to perpetuate a system that keeps them comfortable and the working-classes quiet.
- After the QAnon Ban, Who's Next?
QAnon is crazy, but so is our increasingly arbitrary system of speech controls
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
This current system is the worst of all worlds. It's invisible to the public, clearly invites government recommendations on speech, allows a gameable system of anonymous complaints to influence content, and gives awesome power to an unelected, unaccountable body of private media regulators. Whatever the right method is for dealing with dangerous content in the Internet era -- and it’s clear we need a better one -- this isn't it.
- 'None Of It Reported': How Corporate Media Buried The Assange Trial
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First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
When it comes to arguably the most important political trial in our lifetimes, there is a not-so-curious media reluctance to dwell on it or even mention it, never mind grant it the kind of blanket coverage that celebrity trials regularly generate. Thus, media attention given to the extradition hearing of Julian Assange, the WikiLeaks founder and editor, was minimal and dwarfed by the coverage devoted to the actor Johnny Depp over the summer.
- Welcome to Flatland
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First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
On the shallowness of cultural and political debate in relation to the postponement of Philip Guston's exhibition.
- Eyewitness to the Trial and Agony of Julian Assange
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
John Pilger has watched Julian Assange's extradition trial from the public gallery at London's Old Bailey. He spoke with Timothy Erik Ström of Arena magazine, Australia.
- The Prognosis
Looking the consequences in the eye
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First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
What has impressed me about the coronavirus is the extent to which its fearsome reputation has eclipsed and occasionally exceeded its actual effects. This is not to deny that some of these effects have been, in places, quite terrible. It is only to point out that the myth of the pandemic -- the story that already clothed it upon arrival -- has sometimes had more influence on policy than the facts of the matter, which are more difficult to ascertain.
- Greenwald's Intercept Resignation Exposes The Rot In All Mass Media
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
Journalist Glenn Greenwald has made major waves throughout mainstream and alternative media by resigning from The Intercept, an outlet he co-founded in 2014 with the stated mission of holding power to account with the power of unrestricted journalism. Johnstone argues that editorial freedom is being curbed.
- Exxon Touts Carbon Capture as a Climate Fix, but Uses It to Maximize Profit and Keep Oil Flowing
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
A discussion of ExxonMobil's promotion of carbon capture.
- Democrats have a better option than court packing
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First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
The easiest way to defeat right-wing judicial tyranny is to ignore it
- 'Confirmed' Has Become A Meaningless Word In Mainstream News Reporting
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First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
The word "confirmed" has been misused and abused to such a spectacular extent in mainstream news reporting of late that it doesn’t actually mean anything anymore when they say it.
- 'Confirmed' Has Become A Meaningless Word In Mainstream News Reporting
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
Last week Politico published a major exclusive report that the “Iranian government is weighing an assassination attempt against the American ambassador to South Africa” in retaliation for the assassination of General Qassem Soleimani earlier this year, citing (you guessed it) anonymous government officials.
- Huawei Sting Operation Exposed
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
December 1, 2020 is the second anniversary of Huawei CFO Meng Wanzhou’s arrest — or kidnapping, depending on your point of view — in Vancouver, Canada. If you work for the U.S.’s Departments of Justice, Treasury and State, with the CIA/NSA cheering from the galleries, it is just a simple extradition request to "carry out the law." If, however, you are company executive Frédéric Pierucci, Meng was kidnapped by the U.S., just as he was in 2013, whereupon he was imprisoned for two years on similar — he would say trumped-up — charges. His seizure was used to extort France’s flagship Alstom Corporation to pay $772 million in fines (ransom according to Pierucci) and sell off its most valuable portfolios to General Electric (GE), its U.S. competitor — all to gain his release.
- How Abraham Lincoln Fought the Supreme Court
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
It is not enough to question the decisions, the justices, or even the structure of the current court -- we need to challenge, as Abraham Lincoln did, the foundation of its power to determine the law.
- The Trouble with Disparity
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
Racism is real and antiracism is both admirable and necessary, but extant racism isn’t what principally produces our inequality and antiracism won’t eliminate it. And because racism is not the principal source of inequality today, antiracism functions more as a misdirection that justifies inequality than a strategy for eliminating it.
- Julian Assange Show Trial Resumes: Why the U.S. Government Wants Him Silenced
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
Julian Assange has been held in isolation (23 hours per day) at Belmarsh high-security prison since he was dragged out of the Ecuadorian embassy in London on April 11, 2019.
- Greece Gives Birth to Another Virulent Neo-Nazi Party - Is the U.S. Ambassador One of Its Proud Godfathers?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
A new neo-Nazi party, "Greeks for the Fatherland," has formed in Greece under the leadership of former Golden Dawn (GD) leader Ilias Kasidiaris as the infamous GD Party begins to fade.
- Nonconforming
AGainst the erosion of academic freedom by identity politics
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
- Nuclear War: A Thought Experiment
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
- It's time Europeans demanded reparations for slavery
Over a million people from across the continent were taken by Moorish pirates — when will their descendents receive justice?
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First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
Let's make people pay for what their ancestors did. What could possibly go wrong?
- 'They're Out to Get You': Police Misconduct in White, Working-Class America
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
A study by the People’s Policy Project suggests that white, working-class people are particularly vulnerable to police brutality. As Jacobin reported, the study found that the rate of police killings increased as census tract poverty increased, with the level of police killings in the highest-poverty quintile more than three times that of the lowest-poverty quintile. In layman's terms, you’re overall more likely to be killed by a police officer if you’re working-class or poor.
- Today's Uprising and the Global Fight against Racism
Resource Type: Film/Video
First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
Interview of Prexy Nesbitt. Nesbitt spent more than 50 years fighting white supremacy on three continents. He worked with liberation movements in southern Africa in the 1960s and built U.S and European solidarity with Africa in the 1970s.
- How Israel wages its war on Palestinian history
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
Israel’s archives are being hurriedly sealed up precisely to prevent any danger that records might confirm long-sidelined and discounted Palestinian history. Last month Israel’s state comptroller, a watchdog body, revealed that more than one million archived documents were still inaccessible, even though they had passed their declassification date. Nonetheless, some have slipped through the net.
- Torturing Assange
An Interview with Andrew Fowler
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
Andrew Fowler, Australian award-winning investigative journalist and author of 'The Most Dangerous Man in the World: Julian Assange and WikiLeaks' Fight for Freedom,' accounts the rise and political imprisonment of Assange. According to Fowler, Assange seemingly inevitably moved toward an adversarial positioning against American imperialism abroad. He was a tonic for the indifference expressed by so many ordinary Americans in the traumatic aftermath of 9/11 and the rise of the surveillance state.
- Keep it Real
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
A review of Diana Johnstone's book Circle in the Darkness: Memoirs of a World Watcher
- The Simple Fix For Corporate Income Tax: Tax Stock Returns
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First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
It is time for a major and simple overhaul of the corporate income tax system. The main problem with the current system is that it is focused on the wrong target. Instead of taxing corporate profits, we should be taxing stock returns.
- The cancellation of professor Adolph Reed, Jr.'s speech and the DSA's promotion of race politics
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
The New York Times published a lengthy news article last week highlighting an instructive incident that took place earlier this year within the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA). A speech by professor emeritus of political science Adolph Reed, Jr. was cancelled due to objections by the AFROSOCialist and Socialists of Color Caucus over his "reactionary and class reductionist form of politics."
- Here we go again! US intelligence saying IRAN is paying bounties to kill Americans in Afghanistan is pure parody
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
It was Russia in June, now it’s Tehran. Don’t US analysts understand that Taliban fighters really don't need any more motivation to target American troops? This is simply politicized (un)intelligence that isn't fooling anyone.
- Gassing Immigrants in Detention with a Highly Toxic Industrial Disinfectant
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First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
What is being done to immigrant detainees by the US is a grotesque chemical assault on America's "undesirables."
- I see Gaza in Beirut
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
- The 'Lesser-Evil' Syndrome: Noam Chomsky's Fall Into Self-Contradiction
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
No matter whether or how we cast our ballots, policy is insulated from voter preferences and keeps moving to the right. Nevertheless, Chomsky takes leftists who abstain or vote third party (in swing states) to task for failing to carry out what he considers to be a straightforward exercise in damage mitigation.
- On The Barricades and Between The Lines
Steve Izma & Anarchy in the UW (and beyond)
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
- Racial categories are reactionary
One of the most banal and vulgar ways to think about humanity is to classify by 'race'
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
Racial thinking, no matter how 'progressively' arrived at, can only be reactionary. It is irrational, anti-scientific and anti-humanist. It is a fetter on the social development of human beings and their flourishing. Racialism and racism are twin brothers. Solidifying racial categories in mainstream discourse is a grave mistake. Real progress should mean challenging racial thinking at its root and ultimately transcending it.
- Rosa Luxemburg's Birds
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
- Victimhood has become a cult that wants you to suffer forever
I know because I broke free of its grasp.
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
Victim culture is pervasive. From gaming to politics, an endless cycle of hurt feelings has tainted all it touches. But in a society where depression is skyrocketing, it’s time to call out a mindset that is ruining people’s lives.
- How the US helped push Lebanon to the brink of collapse, and now threatens more sanctions
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
While the media blames the crisis in Lebanon solely on corruption, the US government unleashed a “maximum pressure” campaign to push regime change and crush Lebanese resistance with sanctions and aggressive hybrid warfare.
- From the Grassroots: The Company of Young Canadians, Local Activism, and Sustainable Development in Canada, 1965-1975
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
This study draws upon and extends recent work that examines grassroots environmental activism as well as government support for such ventures in the Canadian context. In doing so it examines how the CYC became midwife to initiatives that began to grapple with the meaning of sustainable development, from projects concerned directly with the environmental effects of air and water pollution, to urban countercultural communes and cooperatives experimenting with recycling programs and organic food. Though most of these CYC-sponsored projects and their affiliated community organizations were concerned primarily with economic and social development, it is argued here that members of the Company, like others in the nascent environmental movement of the period, were inevitably being drawn towards assessing issues and using strategies that linked people, land, and community in more broadly sustainable ways.
- The New Puritans
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
The attack on congressional candidate Alex Morse for consensual sexual relationships is disturbing for many reasons, but mostly because it reveals a new American phobia toward adulthood.
- The New Puritans
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
The attack on congressional candidate Alex Morse for consensual sexual relationships is disturbing for many reasons, but mostly because it reveals a new American phobia toward adulthood.
- Twitter spreads paid US government propaganda while falsely claiming it bans state media ads
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
Twitter says it bans ads from state-affiliated media outlets. However, US government propaganda organs like Voice of America’s VOA Persian pay the social media corporation huge sums of money to spread disinformation against Iran and other foreign adversaries.
- Twitter spreads paid US government propaganda while falsely claiming it bans state media ads
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
On allegations that Twitter has demonstrated bias in favor of US government and its interests, with regards to policies on state-backed media outlets.
- Journeying to freedom in a closed-off world
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
Palestinians know only too well what it’s like to be under lockdown or prevented from traveling, hemmed in by walls, checkpoints and bureaucracy, themes Qumsiyeh tackles in Walled Citizen.
- For Gaza patients, uncertainty over Israeli permits is a matter of life and death
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
Israel's permit regime has become even more arduous for Palestinian patients since the PA halted coordination, with rights groups trying to fill the vacuum.
- The history and politics of the Communist Party of Canada: an overview
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
- Authoritarianism & Lockdown Time in Occupied Kashmir and India
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
Under the guise of crises, authoritarian governments can compress time, manipulating it in ways to render decisions that are long in the making seem like spur-of-the-moment measures taken to protect the public interest.
- 'Putin Hacked Our Coronavirus Vaccine' Is The Dumbest Story Yet
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
- 'We Get There First or White Supremacists Do'
How These Rural Canvassers Disrupt Racist Narratives
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
The stew of punitive policies and racial demagoguery was precisely why progressive organizers deemed Alamance County a crucial battleground in the wake of the 2016 election. While the intertwined immigration and monument battles were playing out in Alamance, canvassers from Down Home North Carolina fanned out across the county, knocking on doors and holding conversations with residents about immigration and healthcare.
- Torture casts a shadow over the G20
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
This year, Saudi Arabia is holding the rotating presidency of the Group of 20 (G20), the world's largest economies. The kingdom will use its presidency as a PR opportunity to expand its economic influence and attract foreign investment. However, Legner argues that the proven practice of systemic torture and human rights abuses should disqualify Saudi Arabia from holding the presidency of the G20.
- Why is Surrogacy Illegal in Most of the World?
Ethics and Risks
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
The infertility and surrogacy multi-billion-dollar industries, those who benefit from it, and others, too often attempt to out-shout any criticism of surrogacy by conflating surrogacy with LGBTQ+ rights and labeling all opposition to surrogacy as homophobic. Opposition to surrogacy has nothing to do with the sexual preference, sexual orientation, gender identification or marital status of those who use anonymous gamete and/or hire a surrogate. It is contractual anonymous conception and surrogacy which is at question, regardless of who contracts for such services.
- Chemical weapons and cover-ups: the Western media's Syrian shame
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
How Western media shapes public perception with regards to chemical weapons in Syria.
- Butterfly
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
Lives end, but life goes on.
- COVID-19 Exposes the Weakness of a Major Theory Used to Justify Capitalism
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
Wolff argues that COVID-19 exposed orthodox economics -- the idea that capitalists' decisions about investing and producing are inherenty "efficent" -- as a sham.
- Electorial Interventions
A Suspiciously Naive View of U.S. Foreign Policy in the Post-Cold War World
Resource Type: Website
First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
Gill explores American intervention abroad, and argues that foreign intervention has been a part of the American policy since the Monroe Doctrime in 1823. He further argues that in the Post-Cold War world, the US has promoted a liberal form of democray where any emphases on social and economic rights are largely absent. He critiques the work of David Shimer, a New York Times correspodent, as being naive and regurgitating the carefully crafted statements of American political elites.
- Heat Wave
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
Like COVID-19 and much else, extreme heat disproportionately affects the poor and the elderly. They are the ones who often don’t have air conditioning, and often they live alone with no support networks.
- The Surprising Geography of Police Killings
Back-of-the-Napkin Calculations on Race, Region, and Violence
Resource Type: Unclassified
First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
- An evening paddle
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
Went canoeing on the Humber River with a friend yesterday evening. We paddled the river and explored the marshes.
- Polynesians steering by the stars met Native Americans long before Europeans arrived
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
On the history of interactions between Polynesians and Native American peoples based on new genetic findings.
- A Statue of Hatuey
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
On the story of Hatuey, a Taino warrior who resisted the invasion of the Spanish in the Western hemisphere.
- On Disposability and Rebellion: Insights From a Rank-and-File Insurgency
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
- Connecting the Dates - US Media Used To Stop The 'Threat' of Peace
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
This is not a column defending Donald Trump. Across my career I have said more positive words about the scolex family of intestinal tapeworms than I have said about Donald Trump. (Scolex have been shown to read more.)
- Seriously, Get The Hell Out Of Afghanistan
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
With overwhelming bipartisan support, the House Armed Services Committee has added a Liz Cheney-spearheaded amendment to the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) which throws severe roadblocks in the Trump administration’s proposed scale-down of US military presence in Afghanistan and Germany.
- A Call for Radical Humanism: the Left Needs to Return to Class Analyses of Power
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
In tackling police violence and other social inequities rampant throughout the world today, we must address the underlying problems and not give overdue focus to the symptoms of the problems. For instance, we already know that class and not race is what determines who is affected most by institutional injustices, from the police murders of George Floyd to Tony Timpa to the the mass incarceration rates of the poor.
- The Racial Wealth Gap Is About the Upper Classes
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
On the racial wealth gap in the US and how it is driven by the upper classes.
- On 'White Fragility'
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
A few thoughts on America’s smash-hit #1 guide to egghead racialism.
- How Racism is an Essential Tool for Maintaining the Capitalist Order
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
U.S. capitalism survived because it found a solution to the basic problem of its instability, its business cycles. Since capitalism never could end cyclical downturns and their awful effects, its survival required making those effects somehow socially tolerable. Systemic racism survived in the post-Civil War United States partly because it helped to achieve that tolerability. Capitalism provided conditions for the reproduction of systemic racism, and vice versa.
- Truth is Our Weapon and Shield
An Interview with Black Panther Party Veteran Billy X Jennings
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
- Truth is Our Weapon and Shield - An Interview with Black Panther Party Veteran Billy X Jennings
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
Interview with Billy X Jennings discussing legacy of BPP, role of education in revolutionary practice, and current uprising in the US.
- US Must Return Its Political Prisoner Simón Trinidad to Colombia
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
Murderous violence and oligarchy were in charge in Colombia during the 20th century. Colombians by the millions were marginalized, impoverished, and/or displaced from small land holdings.
- Longing for freedom, and grieving loss
Reflections on watching swifts on a summer evening
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
The chimney swifts lured me outside again this evening. I’d already been out for one walk, but my door was open, and hearing their calls pulled me out in search of them, as it so often does.
- Sehnsucht und Liebe
Die unerreichbare Freiheit der Segler
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2020
Published: 2025
Da ich erdgebunden bin und aktuell meine Optionen, verschiedene Orte zu besuchen, zusätzlich durch die Pandemie eingeschränkt sind , sehne ich mich nach ihrer Freiheit, dorthin zu fliegen, wohin sie nur möchten.
- Uncovering Canadian Media's Devastating Pro-Israel Bias
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
The bias is enforced at every level of the media, from editorial boards all the way to ownership.
- Big Tech Is Using Pandemic To Push Dangerous New Forms Of Surveillance
Data from new smartphone apps being used to track COVID infections can easily be weaponized against groups of people
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
For more than two decades, the ankle shackle has remained the standard electronic monitoring (EM) device. While cellphones, tablets, smartwatches and laptop computers evolved, the black plastic band remained — bulging out under socks and scraping the skin off criminalized legs. Even at this stage of the Fourth Industrial Revolution, many of these devices require a landline phone to function. They retain ancestral ties to the analog age.
- To Make Crime, Create Laws
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
It is generally considered a beneficial thing for politicians to have on their resumés -- that they sponsored many laws during their time in Congress. But how beneficial is that to the rest of us?
- Some musings about risk
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
When it comes to COVID, my gut reaction is that everyone who is taking fewer precautions than me is reckless, and everyone who is taking more precautions than me is overly timid.
- Bringing the Israeli model to Kashmir
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
- America's Intifada Must Dig Deeper
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
Palestinians’ sustained struggle for freedom and independence offers many lessons
- Israelizing the American police, Palestinianizing the American people
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
Israel has not influenced U.S. law enforcement by training it to be more violent, but rather has served as a model in creating the American Security State.
- Crippling New Sanctions Punish Syrian Civilians For U.S. Defeat In Proxy War
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
As Syria tries to recover from a nearly decade-long war, the US has imposed crippling new sanctions under the Caesar Act that target reconstruction.
- Millions of abandoned oil wells are leaking methane, a climate menace
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
Green explores the repurcussions of more than a century's worth of oil and gas drilling, particularly leaks from abandoned wells that release pollutants into the air and water.
- Narrative Control Operations Escalate As America Burns
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
On reports regarding social and mainsteam media attempting to censor and control narrative surrounding current protests in the US.
- After Barr Ordered FBI to "Identify Criminal Organizers," Activists Were Intimidated at Home and at Work
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
Four people in Cookeville, Tennessee were questioned about antifa after posting about Black Lives Matter rallies on social media.
- The American Press Is Destroying Itself
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
The leaders of this new movement are replacing traditional liberal beliefs about tolerance, free inquiry, and even racial harmony with ideas so toxic and unattractive that they eschew debate, moving straight to shaming, threats, and intimidation. They are counting on the guilt-ridden, self-flagellating nature of traditional American progressives, who will not stand up for themselves, and will walk to the Razor voluntarily. They've conned organization after organization into empowering panels to search out thoughtcrime, and it’s established now that anything can be an offense
- Don't Dismiss The Importance Of Toppling A Statue
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
I did not expect to be returning to this issue so soon but I was surprised, to put it mildly, to discover that my last post on anti-racists toppling a statue of the notorious slave trader Edward Colston in Bristol proved to be the most polarising article I have ever written. Given the many controversial topics I have addressed over the years, that seems noteworthy in itself.
- Fascism On The March
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
It’s been less than two weeks since the murder by cop of George Floyd in Minneapolis, and in that short time, an astonishing rebellion has sprung up from the angry grass roots. It began among a black population for whom this vicious videotaped slow and casual killing of a non-violent black suspect of a minor alleged crime by a calm and clearly unthreatened white police officer was the last straw.
- How the US and Israel exchange tactics in violence and control
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
Two decades of Israeli-US police cooperation includes training in racial profiling and violent suppression of protests.
- Infiltrating Antifa: the Feds and Their Long History of Subversion
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
On May 31st, 2020, President Trump (or his people) tweeted: “The United States of America will be designating ANTIFA as a Terrorist Organization.” Attorney General, William Barr, said: “The violence instigated and carried out by Antifa and other similar groups in connection with the rioting is domestic terrorism and will be treated accordingly.”
- Massacres as a weapon of ethnic cleansing during the Nakba
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
Sitta explores the ways massacres were an integral element of the Israeli settler colonial state, and aims to challenge the Zionist narrative that has dominated the Western mind. He provides a chronology of the violence and massacres commited by the Israeli state towards various Palestinian settlements.
- Police are the Enemy Within
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
Yates argues that the police are the enemy of the working class, and that "law enforcement" has a long history of violence against Black and Indigenous individuals and communities. Moreover, in the capitalist system where the law is biased in favour of property over persons, the role of the police continues to be the protection of business from damage, and that harm to persons is simply collateral damage.
- Project Venezuela: Right-Wing Activists Push Wikipedia to Blacklist MintPress, other Alternative Media
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
A group of right-wing Venezuelans has managed to ban the use of a range of alternative media outlets covering Venezuela, including MintPress News.
- Meet Wikipedia's Ayn Rand-loving founder and Wikimedia Foundation's regime-change operative CEO
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
Wikipedia has become a bulletin board for corporate and imperial interests under the watch of its Randian founder, Jimmy Wales, and the veteran US regime-change operative who heads the Wikimedia Foundation, Katherine Maher.
- Parallels between Minneapolis and Jerusalem are More than Skin Deep
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
Cook argues that there are significant parallels between the United States and Israel, particularly the use of police brutality and the lack of prosecution against police officers and soldiers. He notes that the US police forces have learned from Israel's decades of experience in crushing Palestinian resistance and applied their techniques to the Black American underclasses.
- J.K. Rowling Writes about Her Reasons for Speaking out on Sex and Gender Issues
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
I refuse to bow down to a movement that I believe is doing demonstrable harm in seeking to erode 'woman' as a political and biological class. I stand alongside the brave women and men, gay, straight and trans, who're standing up for freedom of speech and thought, and for the rights and safety of some of the most vulnerable in our society.
- Wikipedia formally censors the Grayzone as regime-change advocates monopolize editing
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
On Wikipedia, a small group of regime-change advocates and right-wing Venezuelan opposition supporters have blacklisted independent media outlets like The Grayzone on explicitly political grounds, violating the encyclopedia’s guidelines.
- Wikipedia formally censors the Grayzone as regime-change advocates monopolize editing
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
On the blacklisting campaign of certain independent new sites launched by a small group of Wikipedia editors.
- Hong Kong's "pro-democracy" movement allies with far-right US politicians that seek to crush Black Lives Matter
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
As a Hong Kong protest leader promotes far-right condemnations of US anti-racism demonstrations and activists shut down a Black Lives Matter rally in the city, Hong Kong organizers forge close ties with hardline Republicans in Washington.
- The New York Times Admits Key Falsehoods That Drove Last Year’s Coup in Bolivia: Falsehoods Peddled by the U.S., Its Media, and the Times
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
The U.S. government and its media once again help destroy a thriving Latin American democracy.
- America's Forever Wars Have Come Home
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
Talk about America’s wars coming home! George Floyd’s recent killing is both a long way, and yet not far at all, from the police shooting of the unarmed 18-year-old Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri, in 2014.
- The Most Revealing Footage On Police Brutality Is These Cops Applauding Its Perpetrators
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
On video of police applauding perpetrators of police brutality, and the pervasiveness of violent police culture.
- Shocker: US state propaganda outlets censor Black Lives Matter protests
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
On the history of Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty of promoting the interests of the American Empire, and downplaying issues related to police brutality and racism.
- The Slow Exodus of Palestinian Christians
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
Israel has exploited the steady decline in the numbers of Palestinian Christians to advance its claim that they are being hounded from the region by Muslim extremists. But the real blame lies with Israel and the foreign Churches.
- As Jews, We'll Never Address Racism While Clinging To Zionism
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
If you can't make the connections, it’s best to keep quiet. If you can’t see how your own views on related matters may defeat your credibility, then say nothing. If you think someone else is being racist but you’re only concerned about security, you need to do some serious study and a bit of self-reflection. Otherwise, you end up looking disingenuous, or foolish, or both.
- Strange Sounds Up in the Trees
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
I'm being distracted by the sounds coming from up in the trees above my head. Usually I have some idea of what I'm hearing from up above -- swifts, robins, cardinals, sparrows, squirrels, cicadas later in the summer -- but these sounds I can’t place. They're just weird: a combination of whistles, clacking sounds, chuckling, rattling, in no particular sequence that I can make out, and certainly not musical.
- Acadian Driftwood
One Family and the Great Explusion
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
Growing up on the south shore of Nova Scotia, Tyler LeBlanc wasn’t fully aware of his family’s Acadian roots — until a chance encounter with an Acadian historian prompted him to delve into his family history. LeBlanc’s discovery that he could trace his family all the way to the time of the Acadian Expulsion and beyond forms the basis of this account of Le Grand Dérangement
- Planet of the Censoring Humans
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
The campaign to remove Michael Moore’s new documentary from the Internet -- led by Moore's erstwhile progressive "allies" -- is a significant advance in the censorship revolution.
- COVID Underdogs: Mongolia
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
Mongolia has had the best COVID-19 response in the world. Not only do they have zero deaths, they have zero local transmissions. Mongolia didn’t flatten the curve or crush the curve -- they were just like 'fuck curves'. In Mongolia, there simply wasn't an epidemic at all.
- Silencing the past: reflections on remembering and forgetting
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
Silencing the Past: Power and the Production of History by Haitian writer Michel-Rolph Trouillot was first published in 1995. Twenty-five years on, its weaving of personal narrative with stories of slave rebellion, black Jacobins in the Haitian Revolution and the 'discovery' of the Americas still resonate.
- Canadian Cities Hit By Pandemic Lockdown. Vulnerable To BlackRock's Privatization Agenda
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
On May 20, CUPE Ontario (representing 80,000 municipal employees) and the Association of Municipalities of Ontario (representing about 440 municipal councils) joined forces to appeal for immediate federal and provincial emergency funding. Their appeal backs a similar call put out by the Federation of Canadian Municipalities in mid-April, urgently asking the federal government for $10 billion in emergency aid.
- How many dead Yemenis does it take to equal one Washington Post contributor?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
The War Nerd dissects reporting on Saudi Arabia to show how the corporate media cares more about a dead Washington Post columnist than a quarter of a million Yemenis killed in a Western-backed war.
- After Losing Hope for Change, Top Left-wing Activists and Scholars Leave Israel Behind
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
They founded anti-occupation movements and fought for the soul of Israeli society, but ultimately decided to emigrate. The new exiles tell Haaretz how they were harassed and silenced, until they had almost no choice but to leave.
- Diarrhea, Dehydration, Hunger, Exhaustion: India's Rural Poor Suffer Most Under Lockdown
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
India just saw its biggest spike in coronavirus cases in 24 hours with 6,000 new reported infections, as an estimated 3 million seek shelter from a powerful cyclone and tens of thousands have no work or food.
- For tone-deaf Feminists it doesn't matter that Covid-19 kills almost twice as many men, because 'women bear the emotional brunt'
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
Feminists on the frontline of gender politics have seized on a poll they helped publish to push their agenda to the fore in a crisis that has wrecked everyone’s economies and lives. Disproportionate male deaths got a side note.
- Reflections on the 50th Anniversary of the Abortion Caravan
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
Over the last few weeks, there have been virtual events for the 50th anniversary of the Abortion Caravan, including celebrations of the publication of Karin Well's extraordinary new book that details its history.
- Heartbreaking Genius of Staggering Over-Simplification
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
Planet of the Humans is a deeply frustrating work: for it is both seminal and deeply problematic. Its foes have missed or tried to drown out the seminal importance it potentially has or had. Its fans have missed or tried to paper over its profound flaws. In this review we explore the fundamental insights it offers as well as illuminate — as the film sadly does not — a path for the constructive use of renewable energy going forward. A path that is rather more limited and specific than most of those who are excoriating the film would like to believe.
- Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - May 14, 2020
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
The COVID-19 pandemic has disrupted our world. Many of us feel some degree of disorientation and uncertainty about when and how we will return to some kind of ‘normal’ and what that new normal will look like. Important choices lie ahead, so it is vital that we think clearly, ask questions, discuss with others, and make our voices heard.
- With Corbyn gone, the Israel lobby is targeting Palestinians directly
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
- Thinking Clearly in a Time of Crisis
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
A crisis like this pandemic is not a time to stop thinking. It is a time when critical thinking and public discussion are more important than ever. A small number of officials and politicians are taking decisions with enormous and far-reaching implications for the lives of many people, not just for the duration of this pandemic, but far into the future. The time to have serious discussions about what they are doing, and the direction we are heading in, is now, not some day in the future when it will be difficult, or too late, to change course.
- Remaking the Politics of Palestine Solidarity in Canada
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
Farah explores the awkward position the Canadian-Arab finds themselves, where they attempt to engage in cultural and professional event programming which have to be resolutely non-political. Many times, this means avoiding those engaged in political organizing out of fear of the repercussions.
- Thought to be extinct, Beothuk DNA is present in living families, genetics researcher finds
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
New research suggest Beothuk may be connected to other Indigenous peoples.
- Inside the slaughterhouse
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
North America’s largest single coronavirus outbreak started at this Alberta meat-packing plant.
- The "Red Light" of Yugoslav Partisan Photography
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
The 75th anniversary of the liberation from fascism is a time to remember one of the largest anti-fascist movements in Europe.
- The Scourge of Authoritarianism in the Age of Pseudoscience
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
Questionable science is being used to pursue policies that are essentially 'unscientific' - governments, the policy and the corporate media have become the arbiters of 'truth'.
- Banning The Conspiracist David Icke Is Wrong & Actually Strengthens His Case That We're Sleepwalking towards Dictatorship
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
The banning of the former TV presenter from Facebook and YouTube is an assault on free speech and free expression which needs to be forcefully resisted, whatever your views are on Icke’s theories on world governance.
- Google Meet, Microsoft Teams, and WebEx are collecting more customer data than they appear to be
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
Certain applications collecting more data from users than is immediately apparent.
- Google Meet, Microsoft Teams, Webex Privacy Issues - Consumer Reports
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
CR evaluated videoconferencing privacy policies and found these services may collect more data than consumers realize.
- Humans are not the problem: Reflections on a "useless" documentary
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
With nearly everyone trapped at home for the fiftieth anniversary of the first Earth Day, Michael Moore released a film that picks apart the US environmental movement as it may have looked ten years ago, and then misleadingly presents it as breaking news.
- The Inevitable Coronavirus Censorship Crisis is Here
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
As the Covid-19 crisis progresses, censorship programs advance, amid calls for China-style control of the Internet.
- Covid-19: Cuba's People-Before-Profit Approach Pays Off As Capitalism Proves A Bitter Pill For The US
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
Havana has punched above its weight for decades when it comes to health. But never have the differences between its socialist system and the market-based system of its strongest detractor, America, been so apparent.
- Did This Virus Come From A Lab? Maybe Not- But It Exposes The Threat Of A Biowarfare Arms Race
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
There is no scientific finding that the novel coronavirus was bioengineered, but its origins are not entirely clear. Deadly pathogens discovered in the wild can be studied in secret in labs -- and sometimes made more dangerous. That possibility, and other plausible scenarios, have been incorrectly dismissed in remarks by some scientists and government officials, and in the coverage of most major media outlets.
- Why It's Ugly To Criticize Trump For Dodging The Vietnam Draft
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
There’s a popular tweet going around saying “Do you know what the 58,220 American Dead from the Vietnam War will have in common with the 58,220 American dead expected this midweek? Donald Trump refused to fight for either one of them.”
- The Meltdown of the Careerist Greens
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
The wildly, uniquely popular, documentary “Planet of the Humans” has been viewed over 2 million times in less that four days – likely 100s of thousands more by the time you read this.
- How the Chinese Authorities and the World Health Organization Handled the Coronavirus
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
On April 14, 2020, U.S. President Donald Trump addressed a news conference at the White House, where he said that his administration would “halt [all] funding” for the World Health Organization (WHO).
- In Pictures: The long road home for India's migrant workers
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
Coronavirus lockdown sees tens of thousands of workers emerging from factories and workplaces in search of a way home.
- Maubere Timor: Keeping East Timor's songs of resistance alive
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
Presumed dead for years, musician and independence fighter Berliku returns to pay tribute to his nation through music.
- As Pandemic Rages, US Economic Sanctions Against Cuba are Deadly
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
We know that for almost 60 years the U.S. government has blockaded Cuba and, in the process, has damaged Cuba's economy and threatened the health and safety of the Cuban people.
- Corona and the Rise of the German Police State
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
A few weeks ago, a German women did something illegal. She bought a book called 1984 in a local bookstore. The bookseller was crying because he had not seen a customer for ages.
- The Gangster Head of the WHO
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
The head of the World Health Organization, Dr. Tedros Adhanom Gebreyesus, was a senior capo for the Tigray Peoples Liberation Front (TPLF) gangster mafia that ruled Ethiopia from 1991-2018. During that time he served as Health Minister and Foreign Minister, cementing his credentials as a member of the inner circle of what was one of if not the most corrupt, brutal and genocidal regimes to set foot on this planet in the past 30 years.
- Hell is Other People: Pandemic Lifestyles and Domestic Violence
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
In No Exit, the translated title of Jean-Paul Sartre’s play, Huis Clos, three deceased characters find themselves in a room, ostensibly in Hell, in what transpires as a permanent wait.
- The Problem With Conservation Easements
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
The Washington Post recently published an article that repeated the old and flawed idea that ranching will "protect" the land and suggesting conservation easements are the solution to sprawl.
- COVID-19: Vietnam Winning New War Against Invisible Enemy
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
The World Economic Forum, the Financial Times and others laud Vietnam as a low cost Covid-19 success story to be emulated by poor countries with limited resources, say Anis Chowdhury and Jomo Kwame Sundaram.
- Seasons in a Pandemic: Mary Shelley on What Makes Life Worth Living and Nature's Beauty as a Lifeline to Regaining Sanity
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
- Could COVID-19 bring down the US empire?
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
Medea Benjamin and Nicolas J S Davies compare the responses to COVID-19 across the world and how the pandemic impacts US hegemony
- Pussycat media has failed to call out the UK government's ABYSMAL Covid-19 response. We should be angry
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
As the UK government’s inadequate response to the coronavirus pandemic gets record numbers of citizens killed, the media should be up in arms calling out every failure. Instead, the Q&A sessions look like a softball match.
- They Are Rolling Out The Architecture of Oppression Now Because They Fear The People
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
"As authoritarianism spreads, as emergency laws proliferate, as we sacrifice our rights, we also sacrifice our capability to arrest the slide into a less liberal and less free world," NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden said in a recent interview.
- Covid-19 'immunity certificates': practical and ethical conundrums
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
The media’s understandable focus is now on the number of people hospitalized with and dying from Covid-19. Yet most Americans who develop this disease will recover from it on their own after experiencing flu-like symptoms.
- COVID-19: Coronavirus and Civilization
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
Lockdowns reveal helplessness rather than power. While in a crisis some will take advantage of disaster, it makes no sense that dominant economic powers sought this crisis for some mysterious benefit to themselves, says Diana Johnstone.
- The Real Conspiracy: Notes From The Edge of the Narrative Matrix
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
Some conspiracy-type people say the world is messed up because we're ruled by illuminati or reptilians, but I'm way more out there than that: I say our entire society is made of imaginary thought stories with little relation to objective reality, and some clever manipulators have figured out how to exploit this.
- Amid Plague, Sanctions are Genocide
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
Sanctions have long been indefensible; now in the time of Covid-19, more so than ever. Nor are they some minor phenomena.
- The New Terrorist Threat: Ukrainian Ultra-Nationalist and Neo-Fascist Terrorism at Home and Abroad
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First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
On 16 February 2020, the U.S. State Department Coordinator for Counterterrorism arrived in Ukraine. The agenda was not announced. The hope is that he discussed at least some of the issues discussed in this report with his Ukrainian counterparts.
- COVID-19 and the "Just-in-Time" Supply Chain: Why Hospitals Ran Out of Ventilators and Grocery Stores Ran Out of Toilet Paper
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First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
On March 25th, 2020, N.Y. Times op-ed columnist Farhad Manjoo wrote about “How the World's Richest Country Ran Out of a 75-Cent Face Mask.” The subtitle certainly went against the grain of what you’d read from a page dominated by Thomas Friedman: "A very American story about capitalism consuming our national preparedness and resiliency."
- The Attack On Civil Liberties In The Age Of COVID-19
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First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
You can always count on the government to take advantage of a crisis, legitimate or manufactured. This coronavirus pandemic is no exception.
- Criminal blockade: Cuba outraged as delivery of Covid-19 aid from Alibaba chief aborted ‘at the last minute’ due to US sanctions
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Cuba has slammed the US' "criminal blockade" of the country after the embargo stood in the way of the delivery of Covid-19 test kits and ventilators donated by Chinese e-commerce tycoon Jack Ma.
- Privacy Experts Say Responsible Coronavirus Surveillance Is Possible
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Data collected to fight the pandemic should not be used for other purposes and should only be requested from health officials.
- Torontos historische Friedhöfe
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- Guess what, liberal thinkers? The working class doesn't need your condescending op-eds
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- Face Off: the Problem With Social Distancing
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Published: 2020
- People's Skepticism About Covid-19 Is The Fault Of The Lying Mass Media
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Published: 2020
- Rikers Island Prisoners Are Being Offered PPE and $6 an Hour to Dig Mass Graves
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First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
New York City owns and operates a public cemetery on Hart Island, which has been tended by prison labour. Now prisoners are being asked to dig mass graves
- New research suggests industrial livestock, not wet markets, might be origin of Covid-19
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First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
Let’s be clear: there is no solid evidence that the origin of the SARS-CoV-2 virus, which is the cause of the current Covid-19 disease pandemic, is an open seafood market in Wuhan that also trades in domestic and wild animals.
- Waterfront Toronto: Google's de facto Development Arm in Canada
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First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
Big tech’s smart city initiatives aim at taking over governance and decision-making functions in cities around the world.
- What the coronavirus calamity means for intellectual and cultural life
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Published: 2020
- The working class should be hailed as Covid-19 heroes for enabling all our comfy quarantines
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First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
I grew up in a working-class family and know first-hand what these people have endured for decades. With the Covid-19 pandemic, they are pillars holding up societies, and should be hailed as such – but I fear they never will be.
- Austerity Has Weakened Our Ability To Fight The COVID-19 Pandemic
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First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
"I have delivered food parcels to four families this morning," says Paula Spencer, who runs the community centre in Thanington, a deprived district on the outskirts of Canterbury. Two of the families had called for help because they had symptoms of the coronavirus, and two simply needed food to eat.
- The Bio-Economic Pandemic and the Western Working Classes
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First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
As of March 2020, the world is back to the future. The global financial crisis of 2007-08, which escalated into a global financial meltdown in September 2008, was supposed to be the big bang crisis, a once in a lifetime event. And yet, here we are again.
- The Coronavirus Conundrum and Human Rights
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First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
These are strange times. From left to right, no one quite knows what to do or who to believe. While the rapid spread of the coronavirus has rendered many of us bewildered and confused, the edict to physically distance ourselves from others has managed to highlight both just how vulnerable and interdependent we all are.
- How a Police State Will Deal With the COVID-19 Pandemic
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First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
What do zombies have to do with the U.S. government’s plans for dealing with a coronavirus outbreak?
- Military, Trump administration ready plans for domestic crackdown as virus spreads across US
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First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
According to a Politico report published Saturday, the Trump administration, through Attorney General William Barr, is urging Congress to pass legislation that would allow for the suspension of due process during the coronavirus crisis.
- Our leaders are terrified. Not of the virus - of us
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- Putting Profits Before Workers' Safety: Inside Amazon During the COVID-19 Crisis
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First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
As coronavirus continues to spread and much of the country is locking down, Amazon has been ramping up.
- The Skies Are Emptying Out
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- Yes, mobile technology can help solve the Covid-19 crisis - but can also fuel the authoritarian virus sweeping across the world
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First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
When it comes to technology innovation, the saying that if you are not solving a real problem you are creating one, could not be truer with regard to the use of mobile apps and data to tackle coronavirus.
- Calling those who oppose totalitarian Covid-19 measures #COVIDIOTS is just another tactic by our sheepherders to shut down debate
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Published: 2020
- Class war in the making? Coronavirus quarantines pit well-off hermits against serfs who supply them
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First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
Coronavirus has exposed stark divides in US society as the wealthy hole up in their homes and the poor are reduced to delivering their supplies in often-unsafe conditions. With mass layoffs underway, is class war imminent?
- Coronavirus gives Israelis a tiny taste of what life is like for Palestinians
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First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
Will Israelis emerge from the virus with a newfound sympathy for Palestinian suffering? Not likely.
- Coronavirus: What Newsweek Failed to Mention About "Continuity of Government"
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Published: 2020
Last week, Newsweek published a report entitled “Inside The Military’s Top Secret Plans If Coronavirus Cripples the Government,” which offers vague descriptions of different military plans that could be put into effect if the civilian government were to be largely incapacitated, with a focus on the potential of the current novel coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic to result in such a scenario.
- Zimbabwe farmers turn to smart solutions to fight climate change
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First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
Having suffered poor harvests due to drought, Lupane small-scale farmers find solutions in climate-smart agriculture.
- Increase in child abuse a big concern during COVID-19 pandemic
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First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
Agencies that serve abused children are bracing for an increase in abuse cases as they reduce their services because of COVID-19.
- Lockdowns, curfews. Troops on the streets. Governments handing out free cash. This utter madness was entirely avoidable
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First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
What happens when governments confuse worst-case scenarios with reality? They transform a health crisis into a social crisis and an economic tsunami, with consequences more severe than the virus could produce in the first place.
- Banks Pressure Health Care Firms To Raise Prices On Critical Drugs, Medical Supplies For Coronavirus
Investment bankers have been candid about the opportunity to raise drug prices on critical drugs and medical supplies
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First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
In recent weeks, investment bankers have pressed health care companies on the front lines of fighting the novel coronavirus, including drug firms developing experimental treatments and medical supply firms, to consider ways that they can profit from the crisis.
- Biggest threat Covid-19 epidemic poses is not our regression to survivalist violence, but Barbarism with human face
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The impossible has happened and the world we knew has stopped turning around. But what world order will emerge after the coronavirus pandemic is over – socialism for the rich, disaster capitalism or something completely new?
- Morality in an Amoral World
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First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
A crisis is a mirror. It shows us - if we have the courage to see - who we are as individuals and as a society. The self-congratulatory poses of governments, politicians, and state institutions are confronted with the harsh test of reality. Each of us - as individuals, friends, families, neighbours, communities - face new and sometimes difficult challenges. The novel coronavirus COVID-19 is such a crisis.
- Morality in an Amoral World - Bulgarian text
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First Published: 2020
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- Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - March 19, 2020
Morality in an Amoral World
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First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
A crisis is a mirror. It shows us - if we have the courage to see - who we are as individuals and as a society. The self-congratulatory poses of governments, politicians, and state institutions are confronted with the harsh test of reality. Each of us - as individuals, friends, families, neighbours, communities - face new and sometimes difficult challenges. The novel coronavirus COVID-19 is such a crisis.
- Bashing Probe of US War Crimes, Pompeo Threatens Family of ICC Staff With Consequences
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First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
Amnesty International on Wednesday rebuked Secretary of State Mike Pompeo over new comments bashing the International Criminal Court and threatening court staff--and their family members--investigating alleged war crimes committed by United States forces in Afghanistan. "Threats against family members of ICC staff who are seeking justice is a new low, even for this administration," said Daniel Balson, Amnesty International USA's advocacy director.
- Big Tech Firms Are Using Automation To Censor News About Coronvirus
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First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
Big tech is again attempting to define the range of acceptable political discussion on its platforms; this week YouTube announced a number of changes in the face of the global COVID-19 pandemic, chief among those being that automated systems, rather than humans, will predominantly be authorizing or removing content in the foreseeable future.
- Big Tech Firms are Using Automation to Censor News About the Coronavirus
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First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
Big tech is again attempting to define the range of acceptable political discussion on its platforms; this week YouTube announced a number of changes in the face of the global COVID-19 pandemic, chief among those being that automated systems, rather than humans, will predominantly be authorizing or removing content in the foreseeable future.
- Inside The Military's Top Secret Plans If Coronavirus Cripples the Government
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First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
Even as President Trump says he tested negative for coronavirus, the COVID-19 pandemic raises the fear that huge swaths of the executive branch or even Congress and the Supreme Court could also be disabled, forcing the implementation of "continuity of government" plans that include evacuating Washington and "devolving" leadership to second-tier officials in remote and quarantined locations.
- Women refugee photographers who changed how post-war Britain saw itself
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First Published: 2020
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An exhibition on the lives and work of the two dozen women photographers who sought refuge in Britain from Nazi Europe after 1933.
- As Coronavirus Grips The US, Americans Get A Taste Of Life Under Sanctions
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First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
Across fifty states, Americans are collectively bracing for the incoming COVID-19 pandemic to hit. In the face of the virus, people are resorting to panic buying, stocking up on vital foods and goods, leading to pressing shortages of key products like hand sanitizer and toilet paper.
- Can Coronavirus Force Policy Types to Think Clearly About Intellectual Property?
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First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
While there are researchers all over the world working on developing a COVID-19 vaccine, they are to a large extent working in competition. Each team wants to be the first to develop a vaccine so that they can secure a patent and get immensely rich.
- The Only Treatment for Coronavirus Is Solidarity
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First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
We live in an interwoven, interconnected world where an injury to one is truly an injury to all. We must confront the coronavirus with solidarity and fight for a society where the health of all is more important than profits for a few.
- Beothuk remains returned to Newfoundland after 191 years in Scotland
Mi'kmaq chief says remains are 'almost home' at St. John's museum, far away from gravesite
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The remains of a Beothuk couple who were taken from a grave in central Newfoundland and sent to Scotland almost two centuries ago have been returned to their home province.
- Capitalism is an Incubator for Pandemics: Socialism is the Solution
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First Published: 2020
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Coronavirus is wreaking havoc across the world. Capitalism cannot adequately respond to a global health crisis. That's why we need socialism.
- Dying of Thirst in Gaza
In Gaza, Even the Water is Occupied Territory
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First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
In 2012, the United Nations issued a report entitled Gaza 2020: A livable place?, with a question mark. If the report took off the question mark, it would’ve answered its own question in the title. No, it's not.
- The Killing and Raping Game in Kenya and the Despots Who Run It
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First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
Politics in Kenya is dominated by rapacious elites consumed with the looting of state resources, using violence to avoid any possible accountability. Elections serve as key points of entry and consolidation in this system for both ruling and competing elites, and are manifestations of corruption, fraud, and repression.
- A People's History of the German Revolution 1918-19 - book review
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First Published: 2020
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William Pelz’s People’s History of the German Revolution is a vivid and accessible introduction to socialism's greatest lost revolution.
- Best Methods For Staying Safe From Coronavirus
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- Capitalist agriculture and Covid-19: A deadly combination
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The real danger of each new outbreak is the failure -- or better put -- the expedient refusal to grasp that each new Covid-19 is no isolated incident. The increased occurrence of viruses is closely linked to food production and the profitability of multinational corporations. Anyone who aims to understand why viruses are becoming more dangerous must investigate the industrial model of agriculture and, more specifically, livestock production. At present, few governments, and few scientists, are prepared to do so. Quite the contrary.
- Reading About Coronavirus Without Scaring Yourself Too Much (or Too Little)
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Unfortunately, because this is the corporate-controlled, understaffed, underexperienced news media we’re talking about, much of that coverage has been incomplete, misleading or sometimes just plain wrong.
- Time to Stop Pretending People With Serious Psychosis Can be "Independent"
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- The Climate Movement Doesn’t Know How to Talk With Union Members About Green Jobs
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Throughout the Democratic primary, the potential loss of good construction and fossil fuel industry jobs has helped prevent moderate Democratic candidates, including frontrunner Joe Biden, from taking policy positions that would aggressively confront the fossil fuel industry and the climate crisis. Whoever opposes Donald Trump in the general election will face a politics of climate denial built on an empty but alluring promise of job security in the oil, gas, and coal industries.
- Cookie Monster: the Nuts and Bolts of Online Tracking
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First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
Big Tech has become notorious for its hoarding of its users' personal data, collected with great breadth and down to minute details. Billions have been paid by online platforms to settle legal charges over their invasive and reckless privacy follies.
- Corporations and Military Powers Are Selling Phony "Wokeness" on International Women's Day
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First Published: 2020
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It was a familiar sight March 8, 2020 on International Women’s Day, as military contractors and other giant corporations used the holiday to attempt to associate themselves with progressive causes and agendas.
- Patterns of Occupied Palestine and Kashmir: Part 4 of Uncountable
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- SYRIZA's Betrayal of Greece is a Spectre haunting the Left
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First Published: 2020
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Regardless of whether he beats the odds, no one can deny the significance of Sanders's movement in taking the relatively progressive first step of returning "socialism" from exile to everyday U.S. politics which was once an inconceivable prospect. Unfortunately, a consequence is that now his idea of an 'alternative' to capitalism has been made synonymous with the word in the minds of Americans, regardless of its qualifications.
- They Stripped Us of Our Clothes and Assigned Us a Number
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First Published: 2020
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How can one begin to excavate the horrors of a radical resocialization project (from roughly 1876 to 1986) to transform "savages" into "civilized" citizens? In turning First Nations societies upside down, the government and the churches ended up turning themselves upside down, evident in the spiritual and moral degradation of themselves and students under their care.
- 'Women are the strongest pillar'
Meet the female fishmongers in Liberia fighting for healthy fisheries.
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First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
On the landing beaches of Liberia fishing canoes crowd the shallows, the bright colour schemes and fluttering flags showing the pride the fishermen take in their work. But although the men haul the nets this is an industry underpinned by women.
- Carrying the load: The weight of women's work in the DRC
For one photojournalist, an image of women miners symbolises the struggles and strength of all the women she has met.
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With her arms raised above her head, she grips the rope and leans forward to keep the basket full of heavy stones tethered behind her back. Beside her, the other women do the same as they make their way from the bottom of the valley, up a steep and slippery pathway of mud and rocks, towards the top of the Kamituga mining site in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo.
- Pakistan's Women's March: Shaking patriarchy 'to its core'
Young activists and their older counterparts explain why they are uniting to fight for women's rights in Pakistan.
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First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
Thousands of women have marched across Pakistan's main urban centres to mark International Women's Day. 2020 is the third successive year that the Aurat March, women's march, has been held in the country.
- Why the working-class, socialist history of International Women's Day matters today
On International Women's Day, Katherine Connelly looks at its origins in the socialist and feminist movements led by working class women
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First Published: 2020
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The high-profile celebrations of a day founded by socialists to highlight the struggles of working-class women will not include any discussion of socialism, nor will they contain much about the specific problems and experiences of working-class women.
- The Brooklyn Yeshiva Anthem Protest: Why It’s Not Antisemitic
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- Films from the Frontlines: "Sorry We Missed You," Ken Loach’s Stirring Exposure of Capitalist Speed and Consumers' Greed
Film review
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- Johnstone Brings her Moral Compass to our Dantesque World
Review of Diana Johnstone, Circle in the Darkness: Memoir of a World Watcher
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First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
Diana Johnstone's memoir is a classic, and will be read and quoted as long as we keep struggling for peace and justice. It is one of the great personal accounts of the anguished decline of our uncivilization, both a riveting eye-witness account of many of the horrors and perfidies, and a primer for students of history and all those struggling to not only dismantle the beast, but to prepare us for what follows it.
- A Feminism for the Working Class
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First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
In 1999, Barbara Ehrenreich charged the feminist movement with advancing only "educated, middle-class women." Her critique is more pertinent than ever.
- Inside the World Uyghur Congress: The US-backed right-wing regime change network seeking the 'fall of China'
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First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
In recent years, few stories have generated as much outrage in the West as the condition of Uyghur Muslims in China. Reporting on the issue is typically represented through seemingly spontaneous leaks of information and expressions of resistance by Uyghur human rights activists struggling to be heard against a tyrannical Chinese government.
- No Limits. The Disabled People's Movement: A Radical History - book review
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First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
In No Limits, Judy Hunt recovers the history of the disabled people’s movement, showing how disabled people organised themselves against ‘the challenge of an inaccessible society’ and achieved significant gains.
- Even the Machines Are Racist. Facial Recognition Systems Threaten Black Lives.
The use of surveillance technology for "security" comes at the expense of civil liberties for Black and Brown people.
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First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
Politicians and companies pushing facial recognition technology say that, like the near-certainty of DNA and the exactness of fingerprint matches, the software is a precise, unbiased alternative to human bigotry in policing. Yet in reality, facial recognition technology is prone to false positives that target Black and Brown people, and then tracks them when they're on parole.
- Cajamarca - curing gold fever
The people of Cajamarca stopped a gold mine in their water and food rich territory. But the real story is what happened next...
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First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
Farmers, youth and other environmental defenders from Cajamarca, deep in the embrace of the Colombian Andes Mountains, have stopped a vast gold mine, re-valued the ‘true treasures’ in their territory and begun to develop regenerative alternatives to mining 'development'.
- Coronavirus vs. the Mass Surveillance State: Which Poses the Greater Threat?
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First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
Emboldened by the citizenry's inattention and willingness to tolerate its abuses, the government has weaponized one national crisis after another in order to expands its powers. The war on terror, the war on drugs, the war on illegal immigration, asset forfeiture schemes, road safety schemes, school safety schemes, eminent domain: all of these programs started out as legitimate responses to pressing concerns and have since become weapons of compliance and control in the police state's hands.
- In northeastern BC, over 10% of oil and gas wells are leaking methane
There is no monitoring program for abandoned wells, so they can leak for a long time before emissions are detected and repaired.
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First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
Northeastern British Columbia has been a major centre of conventional oil and gas production since the 1960s. More recently, the shale gas sector has also targeted the region.
- The Real Modi: Do the Killings of Muslims Represent India's Kristallnacht?
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First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
On 23 February 2020 in Delhi, Hindu nationalist mobs roamed the streets burning and looting mosques together with Muslim homes, shops and businesses. They killed or burned alive Muslims who could not escape and the victims were largely unprotected by the police.
- Researchers Are Substantially Undercounting Gene-Editing Errors
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First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
The standard gene-editing tool, CRISPR-Cas9, frequently produces a type of DNA mutation that ordinary genetic analysis misses, claims new research published in the journal Science Advances. In describing these findings the researchers called such oversights "serious pitfalls" of gene editing.
- To Save Our Climate We Need Taller Trees Not Taller Wooden Buildings
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First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
To many of us working at the intersection of forest conservation and climate stability recent opinions and news coverage of proposals to fill our cities with tall wooden buildings presents not a stirring vision of sustainability but a nightmarish scenario of a land base increasingly scarred by clearcuts, logging roads and small diameter tree plantations at a time when climate science insists that reestablishing natural forests and letting them grow much bigger and older is one of humanity's last best hopes to keep climate change from accelerating out of control. To save our climate we need taller trees not taller wooden buildings.
- Freedom for Me But Not for Assange (or Thee): The Breathtaking Hypocrisy of CNN's Christiane Amanpour
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First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
CNN anchor Christiane Amanpour has some strange ideas about democracy and journalism, believing her colleagues to be above elected officials – but only if they have the correct politics and serve the right masters, obviously.
- How 'dark fishing' sails below the radar to plunder the oceans
Billions of dollars in illegal and unregulated fish supplies are mixed with legal catches and smuggled into the market.
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First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
In September 2019, the Greenpeace campaign ship Arctic Sunrise was scanning the mid-Atlantic ocean, thousands of kilometres from anywhere. On board, investigators were looking for vessels that were doing their best not to be found.
- Stop Calling Harmful Bigotry "Religious Freedom"
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First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
The Supreme Court is considering a case, Fulton v. City of Philadelphia, that once again pits LGBTQ rights against so-called religious liberty. In this case, one of the plaintiffs, Catholic Social Services, is arguing that it has the right to discriminate against same sex couples when placing children in foster care.
- Every state is a battleground
Howie Hawkins' Response to "An Open Letter to the Green Party About 2020 Election Strategy"
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First Published: 2020
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It is condescending and disrespectful to say that Greens are political dilettantes who cast votes just to feel good. We vote to advance a program of system change. We don't waste our votes affirming Democrats like Clinton who personified the elite consensus for the neoliberal economics and neoconservative imperialism that has given us unabated global warming, growing economic insecurity, and endless wars.
- An Open Letter to the Green Party About 2020 Election Strategy
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As the 2020 presidential election approaches the Green Party faces the challenge of settling on a platform, choosing a candidate for president, and deciding its campaign strategy.
- How We Stay Blind to the Story of Power
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If one thing drives me to write, especially these blog posts, it is the urgent need for us to start understanding power. Power is the force that shapes almost everything about our lives and our deaths. There is no more important issue. Understanding power and overcoming it through that understanding is the only path to liberation we can take as individuals, as societies, and as a species.
- The "Liberal" Media’s Propaganda War on Bernie Sanders
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- 'Every journalist should feel a cold, icy hand running down their spine
Assange's extradition case examined
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"Every journalist in the United States should feel a cold, icy hand running down their spine" at the charges that had been leveled against this publisher. Because they could be next,' writer Suelette Dreyfus says about Assange whose project published leaked documents exposing possible US War crimes in Iraq and letters exposing shenanigans against Bernie Sanders in 2016 by bosses within the Democratic Party.
- 'I wish I was a boy': The Kenyan girls fighting period poverty
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First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
In Kenya, one million girls miss school each month because they cannot afford sanitary pads, while some share used ones.
- New Deal for Nature: Paying the Emperor to Fence the Wind
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First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
The latest idea to be heavily promoted by big conservation NGOs is doubling the world's so-called "Protected Areas" (PAs) so that they cover thirty percent of the globe's lands and oceans. This is now their main rallying cry and response to two of the world's biggest problems -- climate chaos and loss of biodiversity. It sounds good: It's easy to grasp and has numbers that are supposed to be measurable, and advertisers do love numbers. What better answer to climate change and biodiversity loss than to ban human "interference" over huge areas? If, that is, you think "everybody" is guilty of causing both crises and that everything's solved by keeping them away. The idea's been around for years, but now governments and industries are promoting it to the tune of billions of dollars, so it'll be difficult to oppose. But it's actually dangerous nonsense which would have exactly the reverse effect to what we're told, and if we want to save our world, it must be stopped.
- Assange's Extradition Case: Critical Moment for the Anti-war Movement
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First Published: 2020
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While media have become stenographers to power and have long betrayed ordinary people, WikiLeaks has defended the public’s right to know by publishing more than 10 million documents, with a pristine record of accuracy exposing human rights abuses, government spying and war crimes on an unprecedented scale. By bringing truth to the public, the whistleblowing site transformed the Fourth Estate into becoming a powerful vehicle for peace-making.
- Revealed: The British government's covert propaganda campaign in Syria
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First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
The British government covertly established a network of citizen journalists across Syria during the early years of the country's civil war in an attempt to shape perceptions of the conflict, frequently recruiting people who were unaware that they were being directed from London.
- 'Unreasonable & unacceptable': Beijing slams Washington for press freedom hypocrisy after Chinese media branded 'foreign missions'
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First Published: 2020
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China has denounced Washington for advocating freedom of the press while obstructing media, after it tightened control over Beijing-run outlets operating in the US by equating them to diplomatic missions.
- The West Displays Its Insecurity Complex
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First Published: 2020
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"The West is winning!' U.S. leaders proclaimed at the high-level Annual Security Conference held in Munich last weekend. Not everybody was quite so sure.
- Which Side Are You On?
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I think of my friend whenever I hear some bullshit-bloated politician or commentator dismissing the humanity and dignity of criminals and prisoners.
- Capitalist roots of the environment crisis
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First Published: 2020
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Here we are, heading into the middle decades of the 21st century, with all the accumulated wisdom and knowledge of millennia of human endeavour literally at our fingertips, staring down the barrel of a catastrophic, and possibly terminal, breakdown of the relationship between human society and the natural world on which we depend.
- The Disappeared
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First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
On the fifth floor of the tall glass federal building in Portland, Oregon, the immigration court hums in hushed tones, an air of reverence coming from a dozen or so fidgety children and teenagers. They sit in two long pews that line the back of the room, facing the elevated bench of the immigration judge.
- Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - February 19, 2020
Taking a Stand
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First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
Psychologists call it cognitive dissonance. George Orwell called it double-think. Some of us might call it organized hypocrisy. Call it what you will, it surrounds us. The government proclaims its commitment to 'reconciliation' with indigenous people, and says that its relationship with them is its most important relationship. At the same time the RCMP, following an order by a colonial court, invades unceded indigenous land and arrests people for occupying their own land. Governments mouth platitudes about the importance they place on dealing with the climate emergency while at the same time they build new pipelines and approve massive new tarsands projects. The biggest polluter on the planet - the U.S. military - meanwhile receives constant increases in its budget, even while it pursues demented schemes to take us to the edge of war, mostly recently by deploying a new generation of "low-yield" thermonuclear weapons on submarines. All this is business as usual. Fortunately many people across the country, and around the world, are saying no to business as usual. They are taking a stand and disrupting business as usual.
- Profiting from Loss: How Business in Illegal Israeli Settlements Continues Unchecked
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
UN efforts to protect Palestinian land from economic exploitation are failing, and exposing the hypocrisy of western states.
- 'OK, Boomer' mentality: Academics want to label old age a disease, in case you had any respect left for the elderly
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
Prominent academics are pushing for the World Health Organization (WHO) to include old age on its list of diseases. They say it will improve old people’s lives – but in reality, it will give everyone the excuse to write them off.
- Colonial conservation - a 'cycle of impunity'
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
A UN investigation has suggested that rangers funded by the World Wildlife Fund (WWF) have beaten up, abused and murdered people in the forests of Congo. These atrocities were committed in the name of conservation.
- The Lies of Industry and the Liars Who Sell Them
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
A review of The Triumph of Doubt: Dark Money and the Science of Deception, a book by David Michaels.
- Extensive Chemical Safety Fraud Uncovered at German Testing Laboratory
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
The case of an animal rights activist who infiltrated an independent German chemical testing laboratory has triggered the discovery of an apparently extensive chemical testing fraud.
- 1945 Dresden bombing’s lesson is the same 75 years on: Might still makes right
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
Dresden is like Auschwitz or Srebrenica, a terrible event elevated to almost mythical status because it is in fact the symbol of a wider phenomenon, in this case the bombing campaign conducted against a large number of German cities including Hamburg and Berlin. Dresden occupies this symbolic status because of the very high number of civilian deaths, most burned to death by incendiary bombs whose function was to set buildings alight, and because the town had little or no military significance.
- Palestinians hail UN list of firms linked to Israeli settlements
Palestinian leaders say report will reinvigorate push to boycott international companies in occupied territories.
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
Palestinian leaders have hailed the United Nations Human Rights Office report, which lists firms linked to illegal Israeli settlements, saying it is a critical step towards boycotting Israeli businesses operating in the occupied West Bank. The UN body said it identified 112 business entities - 94 based in Israel and 18 in six other countries - which it has reasonable grounds to conclude have ties with Israeli settlements, which are considered illegal under international law.
- When CNN Introduces Bernie-Bashers Only as "Former," CNN is Lying to You
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
On Wednesday night, CNN's Don Lemon hosted ubiquitous Bernie Sanders-basher Jim Messina – solo, without an opposing view – to slam Sanders and his Medicare for All proposal. Messina was introduced and repeatedly identified only by his former positions: "Former Obama Campaign Manager" and "Former Deputy Chief of Staff, Obama Administration."
- Huawei fires back, points to US' history of spying on phone networks
Huawei denies having secret access to phone networks, calls it "impossible."
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
Chinese vendor Huawei has provided a longer response to US allegations of spying, claiming that it doesn't have the spying capability alleged by the US and pointing out that the US itself has a long history of spying on phone networks.
- Named: 112 companies linked to illegal Israeli settlements by the UN
United Nations Human Rights Council lists firms it says likely connected to Israel's colonisation of the occupied West Bank
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
The United Nations Human Rights Council produced a list on Wednesday of 112 companies it has concluded have ties to illegal Israeli settlements. Ninty-four of the firms named are domiciled in Israel, the other 18 are in other states.
- US media tries another 'Bernie blackout' after New Hampshire win, but their game is not working
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
Bernie Sanders won the New Hampshire primary, but it appears this is such a hard pill for US media to swallow, that they've simply decided to ignore it -- or at least frame it in a way that somehow makes winning sound bad.
- Wall Street Invading Wet’suwet’en Territory
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
While protesters have rightly condemned the RCMP actions in arresting Wet’suwet’en First Nation land defenders, they (and the corporate media) have largely overlooked the role of a major player in this whole debacle: Wall Street titan Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co., better known as KKR.
- Canadian Embassy: Militarily Supporting Israeli Apartheid
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
A top diplomat organizing an event to celebrate Canadians fighting for another country's military ought to generate criticism. Doing so while that force humiliates Palestinians at checkpoints in the West Bank, fires on protesters in Gaza and bombs Syria in violation of international law is an outrage that must be condemned.
- Experiments in Peace
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
On the history of Grindstone Island.
- Oscars: Read Joaquin Phoenix's Best Actor Speech
The best actor winner received multiple standing ovations and teared up during his acceptance speech.
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
In his speech, he called out injustices in the world. During multiple moments throughout his acceptance, Phoenix received applause from the audience and even teared up toward the end when he spoke about a lyric his brother wrote.
- Systemic Cruelty
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
When bailiffs broke down his door on the 20th June 2018 they found Errol Graham emaciated and dead. He weighed just four and a half stone (28.5kg). There was no food in the flat except for two tins of fish that were four years out of date, no gas or electricity supply.
- Bt Cotton: Cultivating Farmer Distress in India
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
To date, cotton is the only officially sanctioned GM crop in India. Those pushing for GM food crops (including the government) are forwarding the narrative that GM pest resistant Bt cotton has been a tremendous success which should now be emulated with the introduction of GM mustard. Ever since its commercialisation in 2002, however, the issue of Bt cotton in India has been a hotly contested issue. Bt cotton hybrids now cover over 95% of the area under cotton and the seeds are produced by the private sector. But critics argue that Bt cotton has negatively impacted livelihoods and fuelled agrarian distress and farmer suicides.
- Democrats impeach Trump for Withholding Arms to Neo-Nazis in Ukraine
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
That the Democrats are not impeaching Trump for an actual unconstitutional offense like the diverting of military funds to his border wall without congressional approval is revealing of its true motivations. Trump only crossed a line when he went after another member of the political establishment and fleetingly halted the U.S. war machine in its aggression toward Moscow.
- German TV Exposes the Lies That Entrapped Julian Assange
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
- Organizing to ampliyfy ecosocialist voices around the world
African journal interviews John Molyneux, a founder of the new Global Ecosocialist Network, on the challenges before ecosocialists today.
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
John Molyneux, a socialist activist and writer based in Ireland, has played a central role in organizing the Global Ecosocialist Network. He was interviewed by Leo Zeilig of the Review of African Political Economy (ROAPE).
- Intimidating or coercing a civilian population is terrorism. Right?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
So, Donald Trump's "peace plan" threatening to wipe out the Palestinians' legitimate rights and reduce them to a fragmented vassal mini-state with restricted freedom and limited self-rule, to be forever at the mercy of their cruel and lawless neighbour, is a terror document. Right?
- 6-year-old begs for help during arrest at Florida school: video
Resource Type: Film/Video
First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
- Step to Nuclear Doomsday: US Puts Low-Yield Nukes on Submarines in Response to Made-up Russian 'Escalate to Deescalate' Strategy
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
The US has deployed “low-yield” nuclear missiles on submarines, saying it’s to discourage nuclear conflict with Russia. The move is based on a “Russian strategy” made up in Washington and will only bring mass annihilation closer.
- Saugeen Ojibway Nation Has Saved Lake Huron From a Nuclear Waste Dump
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
A major victory for Canada's First Nations has just been won in Ontario. On January 31, 2020, the Saugeen Ojibway Nation (SON) overwhelmingly voted down the proposed deep geological repository (DGR) for storage of low- and intermediate-level radioactive nuclear waste next to Lake Huron.
- How to Help Someone With a Disability: Listen to Them
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
If you know someone with a disability, the best thing you can do is listen to them. Let them tell you about their strengths, and weaknesses, and needs.
- The Issue Dividing Democratic Candidates Is Hidden in Plain Sight
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
Takes came in hot and heavy last weekend after the New York Times editorial board endorsed both Elizabeth Warren and Amy Klobuchar for the Democratic presidential nomination, mercifully ending the paper's self-aggrandizing pseudo-event widely compared to … that's right … "The Apprentice."
- The Public Charge Rule for Immigrants Evokes the Antebellum Slave Codes
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
Immigration historians have written extensively about how the archaic provision Trump is relying on had antecedents in state laws regulating Atlantic immigration in the 1800s. But little, if anything, has been said in the media about how Trump's rule is also rooted in a different set of state laws, specifically, state slave codes and other antebellum-era laws designed to preserve slavery and limit the movement of freed slaves.
- RBC surveillance camera shows someone else took cash, but bank says customer is to blame
Bank says she was careless, but tech expert says chip-and-PIN cards can be compromised
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
An Ontario woman says she is out thousands of dollars after her bank blamed her for two unauthorized withdrawals from her account, despite surveillance photos that show another person taking the cash right under the noses of RBC tellers.
- The military's carbon bootprint
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
As the biggest single user of fossil fuels, why is the military exempt from the climate discussion?
- How the Environmental Lawyer Who Won a Massive Judgment Against Chevron Lost Everything
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
Chevron has hired private investigators to track Donziger, created a publication to smear him, and put together a legal team of hundreds of lawyers from 60 firms, who have successfully pursued an extraordinary campaign against him. As a result, Donziger has been disbarred and his bank accounts have been frozen.
- The Trans Mountain Expansion Project (TMX): Alberta Premier Jason Kenney and the Russians
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
There has long been fierce opposition to the TMX project (owned at the time by Texas-based Kinder Morgan), which will nearly triple the pipeline’s capacity to bring Alberta diluted bitumen (dilbit) to the West Coast.
- Free period products for trans boys in UK schools is about ideology, not pupils' needs
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
Proposed guidelines explicitly presumed that it is the teacher and not the parent who ought to possess the authority to provide the conditions that allow children to transition to another sex. The document entitled “Supporting Transgender Young People: Guidance For Schools In Scotland,” insisted that teachers should not inform parents if their child changes gender in school, unless the child, who may well be as young as four, gives permission.
- The Holocaust, the BBC and antisemitism smears
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
Senior BBC news reporter Orla Guerin has found herself in hot water of an increasingly familiar kind. During a report on preparations for the commemoration of the 75th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz concentration camp, she made a brief reference to Israel and an even briefer reference to the Palestinians.
- 'We've got a real divide in the community:' Wet'suwet'en Nation in turmoil
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
The battle over the CGL pipeline in British Columbia both on social media and in the press is dividing the Wet'suwet'en Nation some members say. The two opposing sides have been in a very public dispute over Coastal GasLink's (CGL) 670 km pipeline that will carry fracked natural gas from Dawson Creek, B.C., in the northeast, to Kitimat on the coast.
- Flu Deaths: US 6,600 — China 25
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
Western countries just let their people die. It's called "free markets" and the cold-blooded "cost of doing business".
- We have legal age limits for driving, voting, and having sex, why not for transgender treatment?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
- The privatization of rivers in Chile
Auctioning-off rivers for private gain has severe social and environmental impacts. But there is a better way.
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
The Chilean government has continued with the mercantile treatment of common goods, putting several rivers in the Bio Bio Region up for auction, despite ongoing social unrest.
- America's Long History of Meddling in Russia
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
Setting aside the question of whether it's smart to take the U.S. government at its word — it isn't — if Russia were to meddle in our domestic politics, we would have it coming. To say the least.
- Claims that the 'NAFTA 2' Agreement is Better are a Macabre Joke
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
Although Democrats and public pressure forced through some improvements, the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA), or NAFTA 2, isn't substantially different and remains a document of corporate domination. It would appear that appearances, not substance, drove Democrats in the House of Representatives to approve the deal.
- Facebook censors explainer clip recalling when western media liked Soleimani – and demonetizes popular account for sharing it
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
The social media behemoth didn't just remove independent journalist Dan Cohen's 'In the Now' segment, "How 'good guy' Soleimani became US media's 'bad guy'," from the show's page on Tuesday – it demonetized In the Now entirely, citing the typical unspecified violations of "community standards." The move comes amid an alarming escalation in the platform's crackdown on political speech that runs contrary to US foreign policy, a wave of censorship that has not been limited to Facebook.
- The World Must End The US' Illegal Economic War
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
The United States is relying more heavily on illegal unilateral coercive measures (also known as economic sanctions) in place of war or as part of its build-up to war. In fact, economic sanctions are an act of war that kills tens of thousands of people each year through financial strangulation.
- Understanding France's General Strike in the Context of the Yellow Vests and Global Class Warfare
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
Labor and capital are at loggerheads in France. As the open-ended strike launched on December 5th against a neoliberal overhaul of the pension system continues to expand, the Macron regime has dug in its heels to defend the advantages this so-called reform would have for the wealthy (even though it has recently been forced to present what it considers to be a "compromise" to the union leadership).
- Palestine's sci-fi future is todays repressive reality
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
Palestine + 100, an anthology of science fiction by Palestinian authors, is likely the first of its kind. Its 12 writers were given a simple, but flexible, prompt: What would Palestine look like in 2048, a century after the Nakba?
- Black or White, It's the Same Old Anti-Semitic Pathology
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
2019 closed with a number of anti-Semitic attacks in the New York City area—including the killing of three people at a Jersey City kosher market by two shooters who had expressed interest in the fringe Black Hebrew Israelite movement, and a machete attack at a rabbi's home in Monsey, NY by a suspect who appears to have referenced the same anti-Semitic hate group in his rambling manifesto.
- The Inauthentic Opposition is "Stunned" by a Crime it Encouraged
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
Top Democrats are "stunned" that Trump impulsively ordered the killing of "the commanding general of a sovereign government" (New York Times) – Iran’s Maj. Gen. Qassim Soliemani - on the sovereign territory of Iraq without the permission of Iraq's government. The imperial assassination of Soliemani is a criminal act of war guaranteed to provoke a reaction that could produce a regional war involving U.S. forces in the Middle East.
- Miriam Garfinkle Lane
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
Miriam Garfinkle Lane is a laneway in the city of Toronto. The name honours Dr. Miriam Garfinkle (1954-2018), a Canadian physician and social justice activist.
- The Dangers of Privatized Intelligence
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
Ray McGovern once again effectively demolishes (as he has several times over the past three years) the flimsy props holding up Russiagate, especially the "Intelligence Community Assessment" (ICA) prepared in January 2017 by "handpicked analysts" from the FBI, CIA and NSA (not 17 intelligence agencies, as first claimed by National Intelligence Director James Clapper and CIA Director John Brennan).
- Israeli Justice... a Futile Chase
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
Seventeen years ago, 23 year old Rachel Corrie (a Washington State volunteer with the International Solidarity Movement) was crushed to death by an armoured military bulldozer as she stood on top of a mound of dirt trying to prevent the dozer from destroying a civilian home in the Southern Gaza Strip village of Rafa.
- A theological moment
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
The question is: what is purgatory?
- 'Completely unsustainable': How streaming and other data demands take a toll on the environment
Tech firms look for solutions as data centres use huge amounts of power to fuel streaming and social media
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
"We are using an immense amount of energy to drive this data revolution," said Jane Kearns, an environment and technology expert at MaRS Discovery District, an innovation hub in Toronto. "It has real implications for our climate."
- The Abortion Caravan: When Women Shut Down Government in the Battle for the Right to Choose
Wells, Karin
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
In the spring of 1970, seventeen women set out from Vancouver in a big yellow convertible, a Volkswagen bus, and a pickup truck. They called it the Abortion Caravan. Three thousand miles later, they "occupied" the prime minister's front lawn in Ottawa, led a rally of 500 women on Parliament Hill, chained themselves to their chairs in the visitors' galleries, and shut down the House of Commons, the first and only time this had ever happened.
- Accidental Wilderness
The Origins and Ecology of Toronto's Tommy Thompson Park
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
- Afro-American Progressive Association
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
The Afro-American Progressive Association (AAPA) was one of the first Black Power organizations in Canada, and one of the liveliest.
- All Shook Up: The Politics of Cultural Appropriation
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
In the era of global capitalism, imagining the lives of others is a crucial form of solidarity.
- Allan Gardens
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
More than 150 years since it first opened to the public Allan Gardens is still a city park open to the public. Due to its central location and large size Allan Gardens Park has long been a chosen site for protests and demonstration in Toronto.
- Alternative Schools in Toronto in the 1960s & early 1970s
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
In the 1960s, there was increasing criticism of the education system in Ontario, as in many other parts of the world, and a corresponding search for changes or alternatives.
- Assam's excluded non-citizens
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
- Bain Co-op
Connexipedia article
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
Built as a low-income housing project in 1913, Bain became a co-operative in 1977.
- Big Strikes and the sabotage of the labor movement
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
- Black Power in Toronto
Connexipedia article
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
History of the Black Power Movement in Toronto, in the context of the Black Power movement in North America.
- Brickworks
Connexipedia article
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
Beginning in the 1840s brick works operations began to locate near the Don River to take advantage of the large clay deposits and water power, as well as easy access to the growing city.
- Cage of Gold
The corrupt business of deportation
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
On the Bracero Program that perpetuated violence and exploitation against Mexican laborers, and argues for a reckoning with this history in US-Mexico relations.
- Canadian Liberation Movement
Connexipedia article
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
The Canadian Liberation Movement (CLM) was an organization founded in 1969 dedicated to liberating Canada from U.S. control and domination. It fought for the independence of Canadian unions from U.S.-controlled “international” unions and stood for Canadian unions for Canadian workers. CLM adopted a nationalist perspective rooted in a variety of ‘Marxist-Leninist’ thinking, and drew inspiration especially from Maoist China.
- Cherry Beach
Connexipedia article
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
Cherry Beach, originally called Clarke Beach Park, was established as a recreational beach in the 1930s. Established close to the mouth of the Don River, Cherry Beach was very close to what was then a heavily industrial area.
- Circle in the Darkness
Memoir of a World Watcher
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
Veteran journalist Diana Johnstone's memoir covers half a century of contemporary history. Johnstone recounts in detail how the Western Left betrayed its historical principles of social justice and peace and let itself be lured into approval of aggressive U.S.-NATO wars on the fallacious grounds of "human rights". Subjects range from caustic analysis of the pretentious confusion of French philosophers to the stories of many courageous individuals whose struggle for peace and justice ended in deep personal tragedy, with a great deal in between.
- Community Homophile Association of Toronto (CHAT)
Connexipedia article
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
History of the Community Homophile Association of Toronto (CHAT).
- Company of Young Canadians
Connexipedia article
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
The Company of Young Canadians (CYC) was a federal program established in 1966 to encourage social, economic and community development in Canada.
- Copenhagen, cycle city
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
- Coronavirus: Global academia gets a taste of the Palestinian lockdown
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
- Counter-Culture
Connexipedia article
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
An article on the history of the 1960s Counter-Culture in Toronto.
- COVID-19 and Digital Rights
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
Many of our digital rights are impacted by COVID-19.
- The Cruise Missile Conversion Project
Connexipedia article
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
The Cruise Missile Conversion Project was a dedicated group of women and men committed in 1980-1981 to resisting Canadian militarism. They chose as their focus the Rexdale, Ontario manufacturing plant operated by Litton Systems Canada.
- The Diary of Dukesang Wong
A Voice from Gold Mountain
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
A window into the lives of Chinese workers who built the transcontinental railways across North America, a glimpse into the racism, starvation, and disease they faced every day while working the most difficult and dangerous jobs. The diary of Dukesang Wong, speaks vividly about his experiences and emotions during six years working on the Canadian Pacific Railway. It is the only first person account known to exist.
- Diet for a Large Planet
Industrial Britain, Food Systems, and World Ecology
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
A history of the unsustainable modern diet -- heavy in meat, wheat, and sugar -- that requires more land and resources than the planet is able to support.
- Don Mount (Napier Place)
Connexipedia article
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
Located just east of the Don River in Riverdale, the area bordered by Queen, Broadview and Dundas Street as well as the Don Valley Parkway.
- Don Vale ("Old Cabbagetown")
Connexipedia article
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
Don Vale, or "Old Cabbagetown" as it now usually called, is a small neighbourhood on the west bank of the Don Valley. Roughly bordered by Parliament and Gerrard Streets as well as St. James Cemetery, the Toronto Necropolis Cemetery, and Riverdale Park.
- Don Valley Parkway & Gardiner Expressway
Connexipedia article
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
The first chair of the Metropolitan Toronto council, established in 1953, was Frederick Gardiner, who quickly drew up plans for a system of expressway and parkway arterials that expanded outward from the city centre. Gardiner's plan, which was considered progressive and reasonable at the time, included five total arterials including the Gardiner Expressway, the Don Valley Parkway and the Spadina Expressway.
- Don't Let Blackwashing Save the Investor Class
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
I could care less about these memorials to slavery and empire. Good riddance. The demonstrators have reinvigorated a process of recognition and historical consciousness that is long overdue, but their chosen targets also reflect a relative powerlessness in the face of contemporary forces. The gestural politics of the moment, reflected in terms like "white skin privilege" and "post-traumatic slavery disorder" have been heartily embraced by the investor class precisely because they deflect from the actual corporate decisions that justify exploitation, rationalize obsolescence and waste, and reproduce inequality all in pursuit of profit.
- Elder Abuse
Nursing homes, the coronovirus, and the bottom line
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
Neglect of the elderly in nursing homes in the US during the COVID-19 pandemic and the inability of the US healthcare system (Medicaid) to support the elderly.
- Election Bias
The new playbook for voter suppression
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
On the systemic/bureaucratic voter suppression of People of Color (POC) and working class communties in the United States.
- Empire, Socialism and November
Panitch, Leo; Gupta, Sanjiv
Resource Type: Unclassified
First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
Sanjiv Gupta interviews Leo Panitch.
- Enemy Alien
A True Story of Life Behind Barbed Wire
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
This graphic history tells the story of Canada’s first national internment operations through the eyes of John Boychuk, an internee held in Kapuskasing from 1914 to 1917. The story is based on Boychuk’s actual memoir.
- Good Guys With Guns
Why the left should arm itself
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
On the Socialist Rifle Association (SRA) and why working people and the left should own guns.
- The Great Barrington Declaration
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
As infectious disease epidemiologists and public health scientists we have grave concerns about the damaging physical and mental health impacts of the prevailing COVID-19 policies, and recommend an approach we call Focused Protection.
- The Great Barrington Declaration - Frequently Asked Questios
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
Basic epidemiological theory indicates that lockdowns do not reduce the total number of cases in the long run and have never in history led to the eradication of a disease. At best, lockdowns delay the increase of cases for a finite period and at great cost.
- The Great Strike 1917
Resource Type: Film/Video
First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
A documentary about the Great Strike of 1917, Australia’s largest industrial upheaval.
- Greater Riverdale Organization (GRO)
Connexipedia article
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
The Greater Riverdale Organization expanded on, and replaced, the Riverdale Community Organization (RCO) – a lively and effective organization fighting for issues relevant to Toronto east-side neighbourhoods.
- The history of Highway 2 when it was the gateway to Toronto
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
- Homestead Steel Mill - the Final Ten Years
USWA Local 1397 and the Fight for Union Democracy
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
- In the name of rose
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
- The Injured Workers Movement
Connexipedia article
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
History and formation of The Injured Workers Movement.
- Irreversible Damage: The Transgender Craze Seducing Our Daughters
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
- Jeannie's Demise
Abortion on Trial in Victorian Toronto
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
- League for Student Democracy (LSD)
Connexipedia article
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
An article about the history of the League for Student Democracy (LSD) in Toronto.
- Les cimetières historiques de Toronto
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
- Local Initiatives Program (LIP)
Connexipedia article
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
The Local Initiatives Program or LIP was a federal program established by the Liberal government in 1971 to provide grants to a variety of community and cultural projects. The program was billed as part of the Pierre Trudeau's effort to create a "Just Society." LIP grants were intended to create jobs, especially in areas where de-industrialization had left many people unemployed.
- Locations of Grief
An Emotional Geography
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
- M is for Miriam
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
An illustrated children's book about the Canadian physician and activist Miriam Garfinkle. Each page is devoted to some page of her life: C is for Community, D is for Doctor, G is for Garden, L is for Laughter, N is for Nature, P is for Piano, Q is for Questions, S is for Solidarity, W is for Waffles....
Identifiers: Canadiana 20190236663 - ISBN: 9781927470077
Subjects: LCSH: English language - Alphabet - Juvenile literature - LCSH Alphabet books. - LCSH: Garfinkle, Miriam, 1954-2018.
Classification: LCC PE1155.D54 2020 - DDC j421--dc23
- May 4th Movement (M4M)
Connexipedia article
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
The May 4th Movement (M4M) was a Toronto-based radical group formed after the Kent State shootings of unarmed university students on May 4, 1970.
- Mnidoo Bemaasing Bemaadiziwin
Reclaiming, Reconnecting, and Demystifying Resiliency as Life Force Energy for Residential School Survivors
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
Mnidoo Bemaasing Bemaadiziwin is a twenty-five year research and community based book. It brings forward Indigenous thought, history, and acts of resistance as viewed through the survivors of residential school who through certain aspects of their young lives were able to persevere with resiliency, and share their life experiences, teaching us about them, and their understanding of their own resiliency.
- A motley crew for our times?
Multiracial mobs, history from below and the memory of struggle
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
'Motley crew' is a useful concept for our times. In the eighteenth century, the 'motley crew' referred to a work group, a collective of people whose cooperation was essential to accomplish a particular task.
- Movement for Municipal Reform (ReforMetro)
Connexipedia article
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
The Movement for Municipal Reform (often called ReforMetro) was created in Toronto in 1975. Its purpose was to establish and institutionalize close linkages among community organizers, left-wing city aldermen (as they were still called at that time), and their constituents (primarily in working-class wards).
- My Octopus Teacher
Erlich, Pippa; Reed, James
Resource Type: Film/Video
First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
Focuses on the relationship between Craig Foster -- a South African filmmaker -- and an octopus in a nearby kelp forest. This bond helps to reflect themes of protectionism and environmental empathy.
- Naomi Binder Wall Interview
Resource Type: Audio
First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
Three interviews with left political organizer Naomi Binder Wall conducted by Ulli Diemer in May 2020. An audio recording of this interview is in the Connexions Library & Archive.
- New Left Caucus
Connexipedia article
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
The New Left Caucus (NLC) was a radical student group active on the University of Toronto campus in 1969-1970.
- 1960s CounterCulture in Toronto
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
Amidst the overt political developments of the late 1950s and early 1960s, a small but significant portion of youth became attracted to Beat or bohemian culture.
- November Rain
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
- Opportunities for Youth
Connexipedia article
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
Opportunities For Youth was a federal Liberal program of the early 1970s that provided funding for a variety of community projects.
- Our Backs Warmed by the Sun
Memories of a Doukhobor Life
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
When author Vera Maloff set out to find the truth about her family's history, she knew something of the struggles of living a pacifist, agrarian life in a world with opposing values. To find the bones of that history she turned to her mother Elizabeth, who, in her nineties, had forgotten nothing. In Our Backs Warmed by the Sun, the author, through the stories of her mother, describes a wholly activist life. The Doukhobors -- both the Sons of Freedom and moderate sects -- led anti-military protests throughout the early 1900s, harboured draft dodgers in the 60s, and stood up for their beliefs.
- Pakistan sentences Christian man to death for 'blasphemous texts'
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
- Leo Panitch (1945-2020) - "An irreparable loss"
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First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
- Parkdale Tenants' Association (PTA)
Connexipedia article
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
History of the Parkdale Tenants’ Association (PTA) in Toronto.
- Pier 21: A History
Schwinghamer, Steven; Raska, Jan
Resource Type: Unclassified
First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
Between 1928 and 1971, nearly one million immigrants landed in Canada at Pier 21 in Halifax, Nova Scotia. During those years, it was one of the main ocean immigration facilities in Canada, including when it welcomed home nearly 400,000 Canadians after service overseas during the Second World War. In the immediate postwar period, Pier 21 became the busiest ocean port of entry in the country. Today, people across Canada still enjoy connections to Pier 21 through family history and stories of arrival at the site. Since 1998, researchers at the Pier 21 Interpretive Centre and now the Canadian Museum of Immigration have been conducting interviews, reviewing archival materials, gathering written stories, and acquiring photographs, documents, and other objects reflecting the history of Pier 21. This book builds upon the resulting collection.
- Le quartier de Yorkville dans les années 60
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
Yorkville était un quartier dans la ville de Toronto qui était le centre de la contreculture des années 60s. Son nom vient de l’avenue Yorkville, mais en tant que district, ses limites était aux alentours de la rue Bloor vers le sud, la rue Davenport vers le nord, la rue Yonge vers l’est et la rue avenue vers l’ouest. L’avenue Hazelton et les rues Cumberland, Scollard, et Bellair faisaient partie du quartier de Yorkville.
- Race, Class, and White Privilege: A response
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
Underlying the "white privilege" thesis are two basic claims. First, that being "white" is a useful category in which to put everyone from the CEOs of multinational corporations to the cleaners in an Amazon warehouse. And, second, that being in such a category imbues people with privileges denied to those not in that category. Are either of these claims true?
- Reclaiming Tom Longboat
Indigenous Self-Determination in Canadian Sport
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
Reclaiming Tom Longboat recounts the history of Indigenous sport in Canada through the lens of the prestigious Tom Longboat Awards, shedding light on a significant yet overlooked aspect of Canadian policy and Crown-Indigenous relations.
- Red Morning
Connexipedia article
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
Red Morning was a revolutionary group founded in Toronto in the early 1970s. Quasi-Marxist in orientation Red Morning sought to organize working-class youth into a revolutionary force to contest capitalism.
- Regent Park
Connexipedia article
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
One of the oldest public housing projects in Canada. Approved in the mid-1940s and finally completed by 1960, Regent Park consisted of high- and low-rise, subsidized apartment buildings in the area of Toronto bordered by Gerrard, River, Shuter and Parliament Streets. The area is now being rebuilt with mixed-income housing.
- Regent Park Community Improvement Association
Connexipedia article
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
The Regent Park Community Improvement Association (RPCIA) was founded in 1969 at a meeting organized by a previous organization, BLAST, which consisted of Regent Park South Residents.
- Restigouche
The Long Run of the Wild River
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
The Restigouche River flows through the remote border region between the provinces of Quebec and New Brunswick, its magically transparent waters, soaring forest hillsides, and population of Atlantic salmon creating one of the most storied wild spaces on the continent. In Restigouche, writer Philip Lee follows ancient portage routes into the headwaters of the river, travelling by canoe to explore the extraordinary history of the river and the people of the valley. They include the Mi’gmaq, who have lived in the Restigouche valley for thousands of years; the descendants of French Acadian, Irish, and Scottish settlers; and some of the wealthiest people in the world who for more than a century have used the river as an exclusive wilderness retreat.
- Riverdale
Connexipedia article
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
Consisting of a the area east of the Don Valley and bordered by the Danforth, Greenwood Avenue and Lake Ontario, Riverdale was annexed into Toronto in 1884.
- Riverdale Community Organization
Connexipedia article
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
The RCO emerged out of discontent at the city,’s handling of the housing expropriation in the Don Mount renewal zone. In 1969, several religious figures from the area formed the East Don Urban Coalition to represent local interests and hired organizer Don Keating. After six months several smaller organizations that had formed around specific local issues united to form the Riverdale Community Organization.
- Riverdale Zoo/Riverdale Farm
Connexipedia article
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First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
A zoo which existed on the west bank of the Don River, at the east end of Winchester Street, from 1899 to 1975. the site subsequently became the location of Riverdale Farm.
- Rooming Houses in Toronto -- 1960s & 1970s
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
Rooming houses in Toronto became a big issue in the late 1960s and early 1970s as housing priorities were changing rapidly. These dwellings were usually old houses that had been converted for single-room-occupancy tenants, who typically paid weekly rent and shared the bathroom and kitchen facilities with four or more (unrelated) tenants.
- St. James Town
Connexipedia article
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
Bounded by Wellesley, Howard, Sherbourne and Parliament Streets. Originally comprised of houses, the area was demolished in the 1960s and filled with highrise apartment buildings.
- St. Michael's Residential School: Lament and Legacy
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
St. Michael’s Residential School: Lament and Legacy is a moving narrative -- told by two caregivers who experienced on a daily basis the degradation of Indigenous children.
- Saving the Nile
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
For the 280 million people from 11 countries who live along the banks of the Nile, it symbolises life. For Ethiopia, a new dam holds the promise of much-needed electricity; for Egypt, the fear of a devastating water crisis.
- Solidarity: Five Largely Unknown Truths about Israel, Palestine and the Occupied Territories
Resource Type: Film/Video
First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
Drawing on both historical and current struggles for Palestinians under siege, occupation and forced displacement, including the Great March of Return in Gaza, the film provides a stirring indictment of Israel’s settler project as well as that of the cable networks’ deliberate spin to shield Israel from accountability. As the film’s title indicates, Peck divides the film into five themes: the expulsion of Palestinians during the Nakba, when 800,000 Palestinians were forced from their homeland in 1947-1948; Israel’s disproportionate violence against Palestinians; Israel’s continued expansion of illegal settlement colonies; the US’ financial support of Israel; and what’s behind the smear campaigns to label criticism of Israel’s policies as anti-Semitism.
- South of Carlton Community Action Committee (SOCCA)
Connexipedia article
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First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
The South of Carlton Community Action Committee was formed by a group of residents in the South of Carlton neighbourhood in 1970.
- South of St. James Town
Connexipedia article
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First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
The area just to the South of the St. James Town apartments, roughly bordered by Wellesley, Sherbourne, Carlton and Parliament Streets.
- Spirit of the Grassroots People
Seeking Justice for Indigenous Survivors of Canada's Colonial Education System
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
A memoir by a survivor of the Indian residential and day school system who fought for justice on behalf of Indigenous people.
- Springboard
Connexipedia article
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
Springboard was a volunteer organization run out of the Christian Resource Centre during the 1970s. The purpose of the program was to facilitate regular contact between incarcerated men and their families during their time in prison.
- Stop Spadina Save Our City Co-ordinating Committee (SSSOCCC)
Connexipedia article
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
History of the Stop Spadina Save Our City Co-ordinating Committee (SSSOCCC), which was formed to oppose the proposed Spadina Expressway that was supposed to be bulldozed through the middle of downtown Toronto.
- There is something missing from tech worker organizing
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
- Todmorden Mills
Connexipedia article
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
Todmorden Mills were a series of mills built in the Don Valley, north of Bloor Street.
- Toronto Necropolis Cemetery
Connexipedia article
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First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
A historic cemetery, located between Sumach Street and the Don River, opened in 1850, and the final resting place of people who were originally buried in Potter's Field.
- Toronto Student Movement (TSM)
Connexipedia article
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
The Toronto Student Movement was organized at the University of Toronto in the summer of 1968. Its founding coincided with student revolts in Quebec, France, Germany, Italy, and the U.S. While there were many issues (such as the Vietnam War) galvanizing student uprisings, the primary focus of the TSM was education itself. The university was seen as itself oppressive and intent on re-creating subservience to capitalist and imperialist projects.
- Toronto Warrior Society
Connexipedia article
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
The Toronto Warrior Society (TWS) was affiliated with the American Indian Movement (AIM), which emerged in the United States in the late 1960s to defend First Nations activists and to promote Native pride. TWS was strongly committed to socialism, and to anti-capitalist endeavours.
- Toronto Women’s Liberation Movement (TWLM)
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
An article about the history and development of the Toronto Women’s Liberation Movement (TWLM).
- Toronto Women's Liberation Movement (TWLM)
Connexipedia article
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
As the 1960s progressed, Toronto activists embraced a wide range of issues, from racial justice to student rights. Hardly anyone was talking about the oppression of women, yet women were paid much less than their male co-workers on average, and they weren’t allowed to apply for many jobs, simply because they were women.
- Toronto's Historic Cemeteries
Connexipedia article
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
A overview of Toronto's early cemeteries.
- Trefann Court
Connexipedia article
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First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
A thin strip of land just south of Regent Park and bounded by Queen, Parliament, Shuter, and River Streets, Trefann Court was slated for “urban renewal” by the City of Toronto in 1966. Residents fought back and eventually managed to stop the redevelopment plan.
- Trefann Court Residents Associations
Connexipedia article
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
A thin strip of land just south of Regent Park and bounded by Queen, Parliament, Shuter, River Streets, Trefann Court was slated for 'urban renewal' by the city in 1966. Home to 1,300, mostly working class, residents, the area was characterized by old houses and a dwindling population. Faced with the demolition of their neighbourhood and inspired by earlier resistance by residents in the Don Mount on the other side of the Don River, residents organized against the project and refused to accept the city's plans.
- The Triumph of Doubt: Dark Money and the Science of Deception
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
- United Jewish Peoples Order (UJPO)
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Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
The United Jewish People’s Order (UJPO) is a national, progressive, secular and independent organization that can trace its roots back to 1926.
- Valley of Unrest
India's unending occupation of Kashmir
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
On life in Kashmir after India revoked its semiautonomous state under the Modi government.
- Walmart's planned economy
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
The mighty global chain operates according to highly efficient, constantly reactive, yet long-term plans, which leftwing government can only envy.
- We Shall Not Be Moved
Collective ownership gives power back to poor farmers
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
On the Community Land Trust (CLT) model implemented in Georgia to help build economic power among Black farmers.
- Women Working With Immigrant Women (WWIW)
Connexipedia article
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
Women Working With Immigrant Women (WWIW) developed as an umbrella organization for agencies and women working with immigrant women in Metro Toronto in 1974. Its main goals included information sharing and referral, acting as a support group, and initiating programmes and services to meet the needs of immigrant and refugee women and women of colour.
- Yellow Earth
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
Rich layers of shale oil are discovered under Yellow Earth, North Dakota and the neighboring Three Nations Indian reservation. All hell breaks loose.
- Yorkville in the 1960s
Connexipedia article
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
A section of urban Toronto that was the centre of the counterculture in the mid-1960s.
- Radical Digressions 10
Resource Type: Website
First Published: 2020
- Fallacies about free public transit
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
Whenever the movement for free public transit shows signs of gaining public support, the media digs up 'experts' who furrow their brows and tell us what an impractical idea it is.
- What Next?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
- The Transnational Network That Nobody is Talking About
IntelBrief
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
The Azov Battalion is emerging as a critical node in the transnational right-wing violent extremist (RWE) movement. Recruits from the U.S., Norway, Italy, Germany, the United Kingdom, Brazil, Sweden, and Australia, among others, have reportedly traveled to train with the Azov Battalion. The global nature of these groups is just one of several similarities between RWEs and Salafi-jihadists.
- Radical Digressions 9
Resource Type: Website
First Published: 2019
Published: 2021
- Faith, Hope and Persistence - Vietnamese text
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
- Wiara, Nadzieja i Wytrwalosc
Faith, Hope and Persistence - Polish translation
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
- Concerns over 'shocking' road erosion in Wheatley Provincial Park
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
- Where does it all come from? Where does it all go?
Toronto's water, energy, and waste systems
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2019
Published: 2020
In a big city like Toronto, it’s easy to live disconnected from the environment that supports us each day. Many of us do not know where our water or energy comes from or where our waste goes. This Toronto-specific picture book answers these questions for Torontonians of all ages and backgrounds in a simple and fun way. Looking at maps, readers can get to know specifically how they fit into the larger picture. Once we know where things come from and where things go, we are no longer lost. We are connected, and have a foundation upon which to develop a caring relationship with our environment.
- Change Agent: Gene Sharp's Neoliberal Nonviolence (Part Two)
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
Gene Sharp (1928-2018), famed theorist of nonviolent action, is known as a "nonviolent warrior" whose ideas have buttressed "nonviolent revolutions" around the world. As The Atlantic put it: "Besides Gandhi, no one in the last century has more systematically laid out the theory of nonviolent power than Sharp."
- US Contractors Accused of Funding Taliban Attacks Against American Troops
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
On lawsuit filed by military personnel against group of companies, alleging funding attacks on Americans by making protection payments to Taliban.
- It's not oppression if a 'pro-Western democrat' does it? Montenegro's 'religious freedom' law is a vile, lawless travesty
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
Adopting a 'religious freedom' law that opens the door to persecuting a particular faith would normally be seen as a horrifying breach of human rights, but when done to Orthodox Serbs in Montenegro, the West doesn’t seem to mind.
- Liberals' 'humanitarian' open arms is not a solution to migrant crisis; radical economic changes are needed
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
Calls by Liberals to 'open our hearts' to immigrants from poor countries are about maintaining the status quo in the capitalist world. The solution is a radical change in the global economic system which encourages migration.
- Trans woman Debbie Hayton is accused of transphobia after expressing view that we are biologically attached to our sex at birth
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
A transgender physics teacher by the name of Debbie Hayton is facing disciplinary action and potential expulsion from her seat on the Trades Union Congress LGBT committee, for stating trans people are biologically attached to the sex they are born as.
- All Massacres Will Become 'Alleged Massacres' If We Don't Pay Attention
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
The greatest enemy of all journalists – and all politicians – is the failure of institutional, historical memory.
- Amazon Alexa wants to save you from uncomfortable Christmas dinner talk. Be careful what you wish for.
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
Amazon has introduced a feature for Alexa to introduce conversation topics at Christmas family dinners. Given the history of privacy breaches people should wary.
- Indo-Pak Nuclear Confrontation: First Use Policy and the Race Towards Armageddon
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
There are several indications that India's ruling party, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and its ideological mentor the Rashtriya Swayamsewak Sangh (RSS) are obsessed with the perverse urge to wipe out Pakistan with nuclear weapons by unleashing a first or a second strike.
- Remembering America's First (and Longest) Forgotten War on Tribal Islamists
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
Here are the relevant points when it comes to the Moro War (which will sound grimly familiar in a twenty-first-century forever-war context): the United States military shouldn’t have been there in the first place; the war was ultimately an operational and strategic failure, made more so by American hubris; and it should be seen, in retrospect, as (using a term General David Petraeus applied to our present Afghan War) the nation's first "generational struggle."
- Faith, Hope and Persistence
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
When we look at what is happening in our world, it can be difficult to believe that there are grounds for hope, let alone faith. And yet we – we humans – continue to live and act in ways that testify to our hopes, and to our faith in the possibility of a better future.
- Fé, Esperança e Persistência
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
- Trade Deals Are About Increasing Protectionist Barriers
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
Past trade deals were about making it easier to trade manufactured goods, making it as easy as possible for corporations to take advantage of low-cost labor in the developing world. This has the predicted and actual effect of putting downward pressure on the wages of less-educated workers.
- Zuversicht, Hoffnung und Beharrlichkeit
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
- The Perils of Embedded Journalism: 'Afghan Papers' Wouldn't Be Needed If We Had a Real Independent News Media
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
If the Post and other major news media outlets had been pursuing the truth over the years about these all the wars, and the so-called "War" on Terror, instead of leaving the hard work of exposing all the lies to the likes of whistleblowers like Chelsea Manning and Edward Snowden and journalist/whistleblower publisher Julian Assange, we'd already know about the venality and culpability of our government.
- This ancient cave art is the oldest known 'storytelling'
Art found in Indonesia shows humans with animal characteristics hunting animals with spears and ropes
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
A cave painting found on Indonesia's island of Sulawesi, depicting human-like figures hunting animals, appears to be the earliest known pictorial record of storytelling, according to a study by a team of Australian and Indonesian researchers.
- By pretending the world is uniquely cruel to women, smug feminists only enrage men who risk & sacrifice their lives each day
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
The kind of feminism sees women as victims, oppressed by evil men is not just deeply offensive to women, but also totally unhelpful to those who buy into it.
- Myles Horton (Highlander School) Introduction
Resource Type: Film/Video
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
Introductory film on the history of the Highland School and Myles Horton, its principal proponent. Prepared by the School.
- Start a tradition of choosing picture books to share with children in your life
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
Reading to children is associated with a heap of benefits, including more expansive expressive and receptive vocabularies, better language comprehension and better early math abilities. More recently, the study of reading has turned to examine the social and emotional benefits provided by storybook reading.
- How can the U.S. dare lecturing China about Rights of the Muslims?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
For some time, I have been warning the world that the West, and the United States in particular, are helping to radicalize the Uyghurs in Xinjiang Province and outside.
- Spokane vs. the Border Patrol: How Immigration Agents Stake Out a City Bus Station
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
Amid the Trump administration's immigration enforcement crackdown, the Border Patrol has stepped up raids on Greyhound buses nationwide, combatting what the agency claims is a "growing threat" of "alien smuggling and drug trafficking organizations to move people, narcotics, and contraband to interior destinations."
- Money, Power and Turf: Winning the Middle East Media War at Any Cost
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
It is hardly surprising to see Middle Eastern countries at the bottom of the World Press Freedom Index, as the worst violators of freedom of the press. But equally alarming is the complete polarization of public opinion as a result of self-serving media and, bankrolled by rich Arab countries, whose only goal is to serve their specific, often sinister, agendas.
- 'Sexy tricks': How journalists demonize Venezuela's socialist government, in their own words
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
The United States has labeled Venezuela's government a "dictatorship" and part of a "troika of tyranny," and has sponsored multiple coup attempts there, including one in November. The corporate media has dutifully ignored the US role in the country's economic woes, laying the blame squarely at the feet of Maduro, omitting crucial political context on Venezuela's economic crisis while keeping up a constant flow of content presenting the country as a socialist hellhole.
- Russiagate media smears against Corbyn brought to you by US and UK military-intelligence apparatus
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
The popular socialist leader of Britain's Labour Party, Jeremy Corbyn, could be on the verge of becoming prime minister of the United Kingdom. And the mere possibility is terrifying British intelligence services and the US government.
- Uber Has Always Been a Criminal Organization
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
Uber's whole business model was premised on criminality -- the willful, systematic flouting of local taxi regulations, based on a wager that the company could retroactively absolve itself by getting the laws changed via big-money lobbying. With that kind of mission, it's not surprising its executives had blood on their hands long before they started taking Saudi blood money.
- The Faux Generosity of the Super-Wealthy: Why Bill Gates is a Menace to Society
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
While the media may be full of stories singing Gates' praises, presenting him as a good billionaire (as opposed to the current president), the reality is that one man with that amount of power, be it political (like Trump) or economic (like Gates and Bezos) has a highly corrosive effect on democracy and society more generally.
- Revolutionary reels: Soviet propaganda film and the Russian Revolution
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
However, the Bolsheviks would revolutionize Russian cinema as leaders recognized the potential of film propaganda as a way to influence the political and social attitudes of the people. Vladimir Lenin clearly understood the power of film, as he stated, "Of all the arts, for us, cinema is most important."
- Study Reveals How UK Intelligence Works with Media to Smear Jeremy Corbyn
New research from Matt Kennard has shown how the British intelligence establishment works with the UK media to smear Jeremy Corbyn.
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
Academic studies of the Corbyn coverage have also shown that corporate media have shown a profound hostility to him and his project. One report from the London School of Economics included an entire section called "Delegitimization through Ridicule, Scorn, and Personal Attacks."
- What Religion is Your Nationalism?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
On November 9, 2019, 27 years after mobs destroyed the Babri Masjid in Ayodhya, the Supreme Court of India, despite stating that the demolition of the mosque was against the rule of law, pronounced the lawbreakers as victors. Those who had indulged in a bloodbath to build a temple where they claim Lord Ram was born have become the owners.
- Quo Vadis, Lebanon?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
Some Lebanese call what is happening on the streets of Beirut, Tripoli and other cities, an "October Revolution", but in reality, this uprising has very little to do with the iconic Russian Bolshevik Revolution of 1917.
- 'Shadow banning' written into Twitter's new terms of service, may 'limit visibility' of some users
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
With the addition of those four words, the company is telling users it reserves the right shadow ban or "throttle" certain accounts. On what basis will it make those decisions – or whether they will be made solely by an automated algorithm – remains unclear.
- Ukrainian neo-Nazis flock to the Hong Kong protest movement
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
Neo-Nazis from Ukraine have flown to Hong Kong to participate in the anti-Chinese insurgency, which has been widely praised by Western corporate media and portrayed as a peaceful pro-democracy movement. Since March 2019, Hong Kong has been the site of often-violent protests and riots that have run the city’s economy into the ground.
- Harvesting the Blood of America's Poor: The Latest Stage of Capitalism
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
In today’s wretched economy, where around 130 million Americans admit an inability to pay for basic needs like food, housing or healthcare, buying and selling blood is of the few booming industries America has left.
- NATO's Crises
The 2% goal as defence illiteracy
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
NATO's London Summit on December 3 and 4, 2019 displays the deep political crisis of the 70-year-old alliance: Only a dinner and a short meeting, no statement to be issued, quarrels among the leading military members, accusations, substantial differences on Syria and many other issues, the deepest-ever Transatlantic conflict and the usual issues of burden-sharing.
- Perspectives for the coming revolution in America: Race, class and the fight for socialism
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First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
The title for this meeting is "Perspectives for the Coming Revolution in America." It begins with the understanding, broadly felt by a growing section of workers and youth throughout the world, that we live in a revolutionary period.
- Ukraine, the New Cold War and the Politics of Impeachment
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The question not being asked is why it was politically, legally or morally justified for the U.S.-- the Obama administration, to 1) use NGOs and the CIA 2) to join with real and virulent Ukrainian Nazis to 3) oust the Democratically elected president of Ukraine 4) in order to install a puppet regime that answers to the national security state? Passionate assertions that Donald Trump is corrupt face the question back: what part of this entire operation isn't corrupt?
- Technocracy now: The US is working to turn Lebanons anti-corruption protests against Hezbollah
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First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
The movement was spurred by the levying of regressive taxes and the persistence of a corrupt neoliberal order that has mismanaged the economy and hollowed out the public sector while enriching a handful of elites amid a looming economic collapse. Though the protests remain focused on class issues and corruption, the US is increasingly determined to co-opt the movement for its own goals.
- Berlin Tax Office withdraws charitable status from Nazi victims' organisation
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First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
The Berlin Tax Office has withdrawn the charitable status of one of the largest and most long-established anti-fascist associations in Germany jeopardizing its abillity to continue its work.
- From Nukes to Occupy: The Rise and Fall of the Non-Violent Direct Action Movement in the United States, 1976 – 2012
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First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
The non-violent direct action movement originated in the anti-nuclear power movement of the late 1970s / early 1980s. Inspired by the German anti-nuclear movement, activists organized occupations of construction sites for nuclear reactors, aiming to insure no new plants were built. The processes, organizational structure, and culture adopted by these activists differed sharply from the movements of the sixties and early seventies.
- Britain's Chief Rabbi is Helping to Stoke antisemitism
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First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
Chief rabbi Ephraim Mirvis has not only misrepresented the known facts about Labour and its supposed antisemitism crisis. He has not only interfered in an overtly, politically partisan manner in the December 12, 2019 election campaign by suggesting that Jeremy Corbyn -- against all evidence -- is an antisemite.
- Fire Brigades Union study exposes decades of deregulation and cost cutting that led to Grenfell Tower inferno—Part 1
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First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
The Fire Brigades Union (FBU) has published a damning report demonstrating that years of austerity measures, privatisation and deregulation led to the entirely avoidable fire at Grenfell Tower in June 2017, which claimed 72 lives.
- The Grand Illusion
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First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
As the ecological crisis deepens, nearing the infamous Tipping Point – taking us closer to planetary catastrophe – we are being led to believe that an imminent "greening" of the world economy will deliver us from a very dark future. Somehow, against all logic, we have adopted a collective faith in the willingness of ruling governments and corporations to do the right thing.
- The Most Enduring Media Cover Up
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First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
Clearing the FOG hosts Margaret Flowers and Kevin Zeese interviewed Alison Weir, journalist and founder of If Americans Knew, a website that provides factual information about the Israeli State and Palestine.
- Statement Condemning US Removal of Democratically-Elected Evo Morales
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First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
Following months of destabilization, on November 10, 2019, the legitimate, constitutional, democratically-elected President of Bolivia, Evo Morales, was driven at gunpoint out of office and the country by the US and its allies, among them Bolivian fascists and several members of the Organization of American States (OAS), including Canada. This latest aggression follows centuries of colonial, imperialist, and neo-colonial conquest and plunder of the Indigenous-majority population of Bolivia.
- What is Happening in Spain?
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First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
Spain spends much less on public social expenditures that what it should spend according to its level of economic development. It is one of the countries of the European Union 15 (the more advanced economies of the European Union) that spends the least on public services such as health care, education, public housing and child care, and on transfers, such as pensions.
- Antisemitism Claims have One Goal: To Stop Jeremy Corbyn Winning Power
The Jewish community’s alienation from Labour has been years in the making
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First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
A supposed antisemitism crisis in Britain's Labour party since Jeremy Corbyn became leader has erupted back into the headlines.
- A Collective Ignorance of Ecosystems
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First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
Loss of genetic diversity is one consequence of the Industrial Forestry Paradigm that dominates the U.S. timber industry and all public agencies from the state forestry agencies to the federal agencies like the Forest Service.
- An interview with historian Gordon Wood on the New York Times' 1619 Project
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First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
I was surprised, as many other people were, by the scope of this thing, especially since it's going to become the basis for high school education and has the authority of the New York Times behind it, and yet it is so wrong in so many ways.
- The hijab: "preventing common impositions"
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First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
Children are not the property of their parents. They are individuals with rights and bodily integrity. And just because their parents believe in child veiling or FGM and male circumcision doesn't mean they should be automatically entitled to impose their views on their children, especially when these views are harmful.
- New Study: "Russian Trolls" Did Not "Sow Discord" - They Influenced No One
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First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
The U.S. has claimed that the Russia government tried to influence the 2016 election through Facebook and Twitter. Russia supposedly did this through people who worked the Internet Research Agency (IRA) in St. Petersburg (Leningrad), Russia. The evidence contradicts these claims.
- Operation Condor 2.0: After Bolivia coup, Trump dubs Nicaragua 'national security threat' and targets Mexico
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First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
One successful coup against a democratically elected socialist president is not enough, it seems. Immediately after overseeing a far-right military coup in Bolivia on November 10, the Trump administration set its sights once again on Nicaragua, whose democratically elected Sandinista government defeated a violent right-wing coup attempt in 2018.
- With the right-wing coup in Bolivia nearly complete, the junta is hunting down the last remaining dissidents
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First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
A brutal military junta that seized power from Bolivia's democratically elected President Evo Morales is violently repressing a working-class indigenous-led uprising, and the country is rapidly falling under its control. Soldiers in military fatigues prowl the streets, enforcing a series of choke points around the seat of power.
- Amazon's Ring Planned Neighborhood 'Watch Lists' Built on Facial Recognition
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First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
Amazon's plan to create proactive "watch lists" based on supposed suspicious activity - including facial recognition software - seen by their Ring cameras should alarm anyone who cares about privacy.
- It Is True That Corruption Caused The 737 MAX Accidents. But It Was Not Foreign.
The New York Times blamed the foreign pilots for the crashes of two 737 MAX airplanes. It now takes a shot at the foreign airlines
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First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
So someone from Indonesia's air safety agency took another job in the industry. Three years later he changed back into a government role. That shows that Indonesia is a corrupt country and that Lion Air is the most corrupt, says a former pilot with an ax to grind.
- The Lies About Assange Must Stop Now
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First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
Newspapers and other media in the United States and Britain have recently declared a passion for freedom of speech, especially their right to publish freely. They are worried by the "Assange effect".
- Nuclear Lies and Broken Promises
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First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
When Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan told an economic meeting in the city of Sivas this September that Turkey was considering building nuclear weapons, he was responding to a broken promise. When Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu accused the government of Iran of lying about its nuclear program, he was concealing one of the greatest subterfuges in the history of nuclear weapons.
- On the degradation of political debate
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First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
Today, political debates have become vacuous and insipid because politicians have become contemptuous of the electorate. Voters, many believe, are ignorant, swayed more by emotion than by reason, happy to accept lies and drawn to politicians with easy answers.
- Uber stripped of taxi operations license in London
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First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
Ride-hailing service Uber has lost its license to operate in the UK capital, after authorities have discovered that more than 14,000 trips were made with uninsured drivers. Transport for London (TfL) announced the decision not to renew the firm's license at the end of a two-month probationary extension granted in September.
- CIA helped shape ‘Tom Clancy's Jack Ryan' series into bigoted Venezuela regime change fantasy
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First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
In a new video analysis of the show (embedded at the end of this article), researcher Tom Secker exposed the show as straightforward US imperial propaganda which was produced in direct collaboration with the CIA and Pentagon.
- A Guided Tour of AI and the Murky Ethical Issues It Raises
In "Artificial Intelligence: A Guide for Thinking Humans," Melanie Mitchell explores the workings and ethics of AI.
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First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
Mitchell's goal is to give a thorough (and I mean thorough) account not only of the ethical issues artificial intelligence raises today (and tomorrow), but of how the various branches of AI that the Dartmouth group pursued actually work. She is a good writer with broad knowledge of the topic (unsurprising, since she has a Ph.D. in computer science), and a canny mindfulness of both the merits and problems of AI.
- Hillary's white pantsuit says 'empowerment' but Tulsi's says 'fringe cult leader': NYT pilloried for two-faced style commentary
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First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
The New York Times has been accused of peddling ridiculous and shamelessly biased punditry, after the Gray Lady took aim at presidential candidate Tulsi Gabbard’s white pantsuit but ended up red-faced.
- Hong Kong's opposition unites with Washington hardliners to 'preserve the US's own political and economic interests'
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First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
The U.S. Senate unanimously passed the so-called Hong Kong Human Rights and Democracy Act on November 19, 2019, without any opposition. Despite loudly proclaiming to protect "human rights" and "democracy," a closer look at this legislation reveals the imperial agenda underlying Washington’s actions in Hong Kong.
- Journalists need 'national security' training to stop flow of embarrassing but true NATO stories, defense-backed think tank warns
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First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
With Western armed forces already using embedded reporters to tell the story they prefer, a UK think tank now calls for national security training for journalists so they don't help out Russia or China by telling the truth.
- Responding to Lt. Col. Vindman about my Ukraine columns … with the facts
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- Inside the Organized Crime Syndicate known as the CIA: an Interview with Douglas Valentine
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- Stanford Study Says Renewable Power Eliminates Argument for Using Carbon Capture with Fossil Fuels
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First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
A study in the peer-reviewed journal Energy and Environmental Science, concludes that carbon capture technologies are inefficient at pulling out carbon, from a climate perspective, and often increase local air pollution from the power required to run them, which exacerbates public health issues. Replacing a coal plant with wind turbines, on the other hand, always decreases local air pollution and doesn't come with the associated cost of running a carbon capture system, says Jacobson.
- Freedom, Valor, Love: On Snowden's Permanent Record
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First Published: 2019
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Edward Snowden's life reveals it's not just "the computer guy" (or other non-male folks) at tech's helms, but the general U.S. public that bears witness to corporatized data surveillance state violations, or the data industrial complex. This secretive sprawling network is the invasive rule today; it involves regular media outlets, telecommunications, social media platforms, Internet service providers, and government agencies.
- Rapunzel, Rapunzel, let down your bush
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First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
The interesting thing about feminine depilation: though it is a symptom of the patriarchy, it spreads, is held up and is passed along by women of their own free will. Like many parts of the patriarchy it is something we swallow and reproduce sometimes without the input of men at all.
- VAR, technology and human judgment
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First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
VAR aims to eliminate 'clear and obvious errors' by referees by using TV replays to allow officials to view contentious incidents from different camera angles and by reconstructing the movement of the ball or players to check whether a goal was actually scored and whether a player was offside. The trouble is, what constitutes a 'clear and obvious error' is itself a judgment call.
- A World in Revolt
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First Published: 2019
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We are pleased to include in this issue of Insurgent Notes a series of very detailed accounts and analyses of the gilets jaunes or yellow vests movement in France prepared by activists associated with Temps critiques. The texts are informed by a distinctive theoretical perspective (regarding capitalist reproduction and the possibility of revolution) and their sustained involvement in the yellow vests movement from its inception.
- A rich diversity: Underground channels and stream of US Trotskyism, 1928-1965
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- Rosa Luxemburg and the actuality of revolution
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She was brilliant, insightful, with considerable knowledge and practical experience. She said and wrote things that are worth comprehending, actively considering, and testing out as we try to understand and change the world around us.
- Why The 'Ok Boomer' phenomenon is short-sighted
Millennials and Generation Zers have more in common with struggling boomers than wealthy elites our own age
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First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
The "Ok Boomer" meme, which many young people are using online as a rebuttal against supposedly out-of-touch baby boomers, taps into frustrations disproportionately experienced by millennials and Generation Zers -- particularly in Canada's most unaffordable cities. Unfortunately, however, the meme also represents a discourse that ignores the many older people experiencing poverty, discrimination and hardship.
- Israel's relentless violence on Gaza met by global silence
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First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
A ceasefire has been reached in Gaza after Israel launched a wave of airstrikes that killed 34 Palestinians, including eight members of one family. Ali Abunimah of The Electronic Intifada discusses Israel's latest bombings, which come after more than one year of weekly, deadly Israeli attacks on non-violent Palestinian demonstrators.
- Building resistance to Canada's destructive mining industry
Review of Joan Kuyek's book Unearthing Justice
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First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
In her book Unearthing Justice: How to Protect Your Community from the Mining Industry, long-time activist Joan Kuyek brilliantly shares lessons from decades of fighting environmental and community disruption by Canada’s mining corporations.
- Top Bolivian coup plotters trained by US military's School of the Americas, served as attachés in FBI police programs
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First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
The United States played a key role in the military coup in Bolivia, and in a direct way that has scarcely been acknowledged in accounts of the events that forced the country's elected president, Evo Morales, to resign on November 10, 2019.
- How the Hand of Israeli Spy Tech Reaches Deep into our Lives
Israeli software used on Palestinians is producing new cyber weapons that are rapidly being incorporated into global digital platforms
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First Published: 2019
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Digital age weapons developed by Israel to oppress Palestinians are rapidly being repurposed for much wider applications – against Western populations who have long taken their freedoms for granted.
- Social inequality in Early Bronze Age Europe
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First Published: 2019
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Recent research into Bronze Age populations in Germany provides some insight into a certain aspect of class formation, which may be more broadly relevant. In Europe, aside from the Aegean area, such civilizations did not develop in the same manner as in the territories to the east, with their high degree of urbanization and intensive, often irrigation-based, agriculture.
- Cuba's urban farming shows way to avoid hunger
Urban farming, Cuban-style, is being hailed as an example of how to feed ourselves when climate change threatens serious food shortages.
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When countries run short of food, they need to find solutions fast, and one answer can be urban farming. That was the remedy Cuba seized with both hands 30 years ago when it was confronted with the dilemma of an end to its vital food imports.
- The 2019 UN Vote Against the US Blockade of Cuba
Trump's Washington Remains Cornered
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On November 7, 2019, for the 28th year in a row, the entire United Nations General Assembly, gathered in one room, voted overwhelmingly against "the Economic, Commercial, and Financial Embargo Imposed on Cuba by the United States." The final tally was 187 in favor, 3 opposed (Brazil, Israel, US), 2 abstentions (Colombia, Ukraine), 1 not voting (Moldova).
- Noel Ignatiev, 1940-2019
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First Published: 2019
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Yesterday I learned that my friend and comrade Noel Ignatiev passed away. He’d been in poor health for some time, diagnosed with a rare form of gastrointestinal cancer that made it difficult for him to swallow properly or digest, but it still caught me off guard.
- The "Irrepressible Conflict:" Slavery, the Civil War and America's Second Revolution
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First Published: 2019
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The purpose of this lecture series, hosted by the Socialist Equality Party, is to address the falsifications of the New York Times' "1619 Project" and undertake a historical materialist analysis of American history, and in this lecture, the Civil War.
- Bank Report Reveals Where Ruling Class Lives
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First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
The 2019 Credit Suisse Global Wealth Report provides a glimpse at the inequality that the neoliberal era has produced, who has benefitted and those who have been left behind.
- My Friend Was Murdered for Trying to Save the Amazon
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First Published: 2019
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Paulino paid with his life for trying save his tribe's forest, the Arariboia Indigenous Territory, in the north-east Amazon.
- Dams and the Green New Deal: Why the Silence?
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First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
Hydroelectric power from dams might be the thorniest question that proponents of the Green New Deal (GND) have to grapple with. Providing more energy than solar and wind combined, dams could well become the backup for energy if it proves impossible to get off of fossil fuels fast enough.
- Erosion along Wheatley, Hillman Marsh, Point Pelee shorelines 'gravely concerning,' say experts
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Erosion along the shorelines of three major southwestern Ontario parks has experts deeply concerned.
- Gabor Maté on the misuse of anti-Semitism and why fewer Jews identify with Israel
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First Published: 2019
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Talking today about antisemitism, particularly posing it as a problem on the left.
- The Never-Ending Curse of Coal
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First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
Last week Murray Energy, one of the largest coal mining corporations in the nation, filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy. That makes it the fifth coal company to do so in the last year.
- Unfree Media – State Stenography And Shameful Silence
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First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
A recent viral clip of Jeremy Corbyn featured vital truths about the corporate media that ought to be at the forefront of public consciousness in the approach to the UK General Election on December 12, 2020.
- failing to see the deeper causes of social tragedies
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First Published: 2019
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In both cases, the roots of the tragedies are manifold. But in both cases we seem more interested in laying instant blame than in excavating the wider causes that might help us prevent such catastrophes happening again.
- 'What a mess': McDonald's customers frustrated as 'Hamburglar' hacks more app accounts
Company said incidents are rare and it's 'confident in the security of our app'
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First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
The so-called Hamburglar is still at large, hacking customers' McDonald's app accounts and ordering food on their dime. For some victims, their troubles didn't end there as they were unhappy with how McDonald's handled their cases.
- Slavery and the American Revolution: A Response to the New York Times 1619 Project
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First Published: 2019
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In its insistence that race -- which has no basis in science -- is the determinative category of both the present and past, the 1619 Project shares the most basic premise of the white supremacists and fascists that are being set into motion by the Trump administration.
- Deconstructed Special: The Noam Chomsky Interview
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First Published: 2019
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On this week’s Deconstructed, Chomsky sits down with Mehdi Hasan to discuss the impeachment inquiry against President Donald Trump, the 2020 Democratic field, and why he opposed Trump's Syria troop withdrawal.
- Domestic violence was an issue with no name
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In the 1960s and ’70s, domestic violence was an issue with no name.
Countless women endured violence in their own homes, but it was not acknowledged as an issue in the public realm. It was a shameful secret, quietly accepted as a part of life for women. When a woman was abused, there was nowhere to go. A woman’s place was in the home, even if home could kill her. Against this grim backdrop, different groups of women across the country worked to open Canada’s first women’s shelters.
- Get Started with Lino Printing
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First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
Lino printing is a form of fine art printmaking where the printing plate is cut into lino. Yes, lino as in linoleum, as in the floor covering. The lino is then inked, a piece of paper placed over it, and then run through a printing press or pressure applied by hand to transfer the ink to the paper. The result, a linocut print. Because it's a smooth surface, the lino itself doesn't add texture to the print.
- Tamil Nadu's seaweed harvesters in rough seas
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First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
An unusual activity of the fisherwomen of Bharathinagar in Tamil Nadu keeps them more in the water than on boats. But climate change and overexploitation of marine resources are eroding their livelihoods.
- The Tangled Web of US Border Security Around the World
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First Published: 2019
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Between 1998 and 2016, the US Border Patrol counted nearly 7,000 migrant deaths along the border. Curiously, El Salvador’s new president, center-right Nayib Bukele, who’d won the election in a landslide on a campaign that promised "new ideas," responded to the death of his country's citizens by saying, "It is our fault."
- Toronto's Meghan Murphy Meltdown: A Case Study in Media-Driven Social Panic
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- Colorado police who blew up family's house with CHEMICAL BOMBS just to catch a shoplifter owe them NOTHING, court rules
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A Colorado family whose house was destroyed in a 19-hour standoff between police and an armed shoplifter is not entitled to any compensation from the department that rendered them homeless, an appeals court has ruled.
- Historian Victoria Bynum on the inaccuracies of the New York Times 1619 Project
An interview with the author of The Free State of Jones
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The 1619 Project, launched by the New York Times in August 2019, presents American history in a purely racial lens and blames all "white people" for the enslavement of 4 million black people as chattel property.
- Money Talks, Bullshit Walks on Cable News
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First Published: 2019
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None of the big companies buying advertising time on CNN and MSNBC have any interest in the progressive taxation and restored union organizing and collective bargaining rights that Sanders advocates.
- Camp Bucca, Abu Ghraib, and the Rise of Extremism in Iraq
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First Published: 2019
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Suffering caused through our wars including conditions inside US military camps, in Iraq, led to the extremism of Al-Baghdadi and his ISIS followers.
- To Be or Not to Be a Jewish State, That is the Question
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First Published: 2019
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Israel's champions owe us an explanation. First, they insist that Israel is and always must be a Jewish state, by which most of them mean not religiously Jewish but of the "Jewish People" everywhere, including Jews who are citizens of other states and not looking for a new country.
- The Toronto Reference Library's rich collection of Communist newspapers
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- What may be lost with Rojava
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300,000 people displaced. Villages and infrastructure destroyed. Allegations of white phosphorus use. The costs of the Turkish invasion of northern Syria to create a 'safe zone' are immense, the latest twist in the seemingly intractable Syrian war.
- Disagreeing Reasonably in a Complex World
A review of The Case Against Free Speech
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First Published: 2019
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Free speech is not a naturally occurring object. It's an idea, a notion, an aspiration, an approach to politics, always involving a theory about what it means to be human in a particular society at a particular time.
- Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - October 27, 2019
What Next?
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Millions of us, in many different countries, came out in late September to demand action on the climate crisis. Around the world, in diverse ways, we are working to keep up the pressure. Time is short, and the tasks are huge. In the midst of our activism and organizing, we need to keep asking ourselves some important questions: What are our goals? And what should we do to reach our goals?
- A health care algorithm affecting millions is biased against black patients
A startling example of algorithmic bias
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First Published: 2019
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A health care algorithm makes black patients substantially less likely than their white counterparts to receive important medical treatment. The major flaw, which affects millions of patients, was revealed in research published in the journal Science.
- Race, genetics and pseudoscience: an explainer
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First Published: 2019
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A small number of researchers, mostly well outside of the scientific mainstream, have seized upon some of the new findings and methods in human genetics, and are part of a social-media cottage-industry that disseminates and amplifies low-quality or distorted science, sometimes in the form of scientific papers, sometimes as internet memes – under the guise of euphemisms such as 'race realism' or ‘human biodiversity'. Their arguments, which focus on racial groupings and often on the alleged genetically-based intelligence differences between them, have the semblance of science, with technical-seeming tables, graphs, and charts.
- Crow Nation is a place where one could vanish - and many have
Bureaucratic loopholes, jurisdictional gaps, discrimination foster an epidemic of missing and murdered Native Americans.
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First Published: 2019
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It is an epidemic impacting land-based tribes across the country and is particularly acute in Montana, where Native Americans are five times more likely to be reported missing than any other group in the state. Here in Crow Nation, disappearances from this sovereign territory have become so commonplace that nearly every member of the Crow tribe has a close friend or blood relative who has gone missing.
- Revolutionary theory, academia and Marxist political parties
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According to Lenin, revolutionary work has four parts: theoretical work, propaganda, agitation and organization.
- Let's Make Sure the Nazis Killed in Vain
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I don't know how many times I've heard that if we don't stand by Israel, the victims of the Nazi Judeocide will have died in vain. I knew something was wrong with that claim, but for the longest time I couldn't put my finger on it. Now I think I can.
- The PR Campaign to Hide the Real Cause of those Sky-High Surprise Medical Bills
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First Published: 2019
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Since 2010, an increasing number of hospitals have outsourced their emergency rooms, radiology, anesthesiology, and other specialized services to physician staffing firms. Patients who need these critical services may inadvertently receive care from a doctor outside of their insurance network and find that they owe thousands or even tens of thousands of dollars in surprise medical bills.
- US Democrats Cultivated the Barbarism of Isis
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First Published: 2019
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There is something profoundly deceitful in the Democratic Party and corporate media's framing of Donald Trump's decision to pull troops out of Syria. One does not need to like Trump or ignore the dangers posed to the Kurds, at least in the short term, by the sudden departure of US forces from northern Syria to understand that the coverage is being crafted in such a way as to entirely overlook the bigger picture.
- Here we go again: Amazon AI-powered Cloud Cam actually powered by unseen humans who watch you have sex
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First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
Amazon’s AI-based home security system is sending footage of users' private moments to dozens of algorithm trainers halfway around the world, according to former employees - not unlike its Alexa "smart" speakers. Amazon’s Cloud Cam home security device regularly sends video clips to employees in Romania and India, who help "train" its AI algorithms, according to five current and former employees who spoke to Bloomberg.
- Communist Dictatorship in Our Midst
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First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
A kind of undercurrent of thought about workplace democracy has bubbled beneath the surface of public discourse of our current "crisis of democracy." Beneath the surface: one can hardly identify any serious public discourse these days on the anti-democratic nature of most work under Neo-liberal conditions.
- 'Consumers are not aware we are slaves inside the greenhouses'
Exploitation plagues Spain's farming province, with migrant workers paid below minimum wage and living in squalor.
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First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
What is referred to as Almeria's "economic miracle" among Spanish economists is almost exclusively dependant on an invisible, expendable and often illegally employed migrant workers like Maruf, toiling under 40-degree heat and extreme humidity.
- I am a trans woman - but I think this woke world has gone too far
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First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
From anger directed at celebrities for the rational belief that parents shouldn't decide whether their three-year-old is trans, to a culture of outrage that freaks out at the most minor of offenses, transgender activists have become detrimental to my, and others', very existence.
- At 13, She Broke the Women's Marathon World Record. Then She Disappeared From Running
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First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
The Story of Maureen Wilton.
- Catalonia 'separatists' bad, HK 'pro-democracy protesters' good: Orwell's 1984 becomes user's manual for Western 'free media'
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First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
When supporters of Catalan leaders jailed for organizing a democratic vote advance on Barcelona airport, media make a fuss over 'separatists' causing chaos. When the same tactic is used in Hong Kong, it's a 'pro-democracy' protest. In George Orwell’s 1984, The War Ministry was renamed the Ministry of Peace. Truth was Lies, Hate was Love. But author Lewis Carroll got there first.
- Death, Misery and Bloodshed in Yemen
"Strike with Creativity" proclaims Raytheon.
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Writing about his visit to the world's largest weapons bazaar, held in London during October, Arron Merat describes reading this slogan emblazoned above Raytheon’s stall: "Strike with Creativity." Raytheon manufactures Paveway laser-guided bombs, fragments of which have been found in the wreckage of schools, hospitals, and markets across Yemen.
- To Adapt to the Escalating Climate Crisis, Mere Reform Will Not Be Enough
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First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
As I've watched young people around the world take part in the climate actions of the last month, I've gotten the sense that I'm watching a spectacle which has been orchestrated to create the illusion that we're still in an earlier, more stable time for the planet's climate. Legitimate as the passion and commitment of this generation of teen climate activists is, their efforts are being packaged by the political and media establishment in a way that encourages denial about our true situation.
- Miriam Garfinkle
Connexipedia article
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Miriam Garfinkle was a Canadian physician and social justice activist.
- Why deep-learning AIs are so easy to fool
Artificial-intelligence researchers are trying to fix the flaws of neural networks.
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First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
These problems are more concerning than idiosyncratic quirks in a not-quite-perfect technology, says Dan Hendrycks, a PhD student in computer science at the University of California, Berkeley. Like many scientists, he has come to see them as the most striking illustration that DNNs are fundamentally brittle: brilliant at what they do until, taken into unfamiliar territory, they break in unpredictable ways.
- 'Cotton has now become a headache'
A chemical-intensive Bt cotton monoculture is spreading through Odisha’s Rayagada district – harming health, deepening debt, irreversibly er
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First Published: 2019
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Kunari's account reflects a dependence brought about by cotton cultivation that is taking root across the ecologically sensitive highland tracts of Odisha's Rayagada district, with deep implications for its rich store of biodiversity, farmers' distress and food security (See Sowing the seeds of climate crisis in Odisha).
- Lawless Trump-Canada Connections
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First Published: 2019
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Canada recently seized and sold $30 million worth of Iranian properties in Ottawa and Toronto, a gross hypocrisy explains Yves Engler in light of oversights of more flagrant US and Israel terror victims. But the behaviour of Canada Foreign Affairs in joining the lawless US war of sanctions, embargos and military threats against Iran goes deeper than hypocrisy.
- Red-Green Alliance: A Green Earth With Peace And Room For Us All
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First Published: 2019
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The Red-Green Alliance advocates a strong international labour organization with muscles to raise global demands for workers. It means a labour organization where it is possible to remain organized, even when traveling across borders, and where people working in the same company, or in the same sector across borders, can be organized together, and raise common demands.
- Taxing Financial Transactions Is More Strategic Than Taxing High Wealth
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First Published: 2019
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- New weapons and the new tactics which they make possible: three examples
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First Published: 2019
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- Impeachment, Brought to You by the CIA
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First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
Despite occasional warm gas passed in a leftish direction, establishment Democrats never had any intention of allowing a left political program to move forward. After four decades of asserting that they 'believe' climate science, the moment has arrived when the only political path forward is to take on their donors.
- Irregular votes, panicked moves, kiosks
Insiders detail the last days of Jason Kenney's campaign to be leader of Alberta's United Conservative Party
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First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
A CBC News investigation lifts the veil on what happened inside voting kiosks set up by the Kenney campaign. It’s part of a larger story about allegations of wrongdoing by the team behind Alberta's current premier that one longtime conservative operative says is the focus of an ongoing RCMP investigation and an expert says undermines the credibility of Canada’s democratic system.
- Making Money Off of Green Debt: Cory Morningstar Finds Corporate Wolves Behind Environmental Sheep
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First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
Building through the privatization-friendly Reagan-Bush era of the 1980s, ramping up significantly with Bill Clinton's signing of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) in the 1990s, and solidified through the de facto repeal of the post-Great Depression separation between investment and commercial banks at the end of Clinton’s scandal-plagued final term in office at the turn of the millenium, the United States went through a very noticeable shift in how its economy functioned.
- Robot Trolls on Amazon: How Fake Reviews Could Undermine Progressive Politics
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First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
In the pursuit of profit, corporations appear to be using bots to undermine competitors on Amazon, as they do on Twitter and Facebook. This could have detrimental effects on progressive authors and filmmakers who, in the absence of major corporate backing, need the support of reviewers -- at least on Amazon -- in order to boost their marketability.
- Sowing the seeds of climate crisis in Odisha
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In Rayagada, Bt cotton acreage has risen by 5,200 per cent in 16 years. The result: this biodiversity hotspot, rich in indigenous millets, rice varieties and forest foods, is seeing an alarming ecological shift.
- The New York Times Called a Famous Cartoonist an Anti-Semite. Repeatedly. They Didn’t Ask Him for Comment.
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First Published: 2019
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- The Open Letter from the Governments of US, UK, and Australia to Facebook is An All-Out Attack on Encryption
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First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
Top law enforcement officials in the United States, United Kingdom, and Australia told Facebook today that they want backdoor access to all encrypted messages sent on all its platforms. In an open letter, these governments called on Mark Zuckerberg to stop Facebook's plan to introduce end-to-end encryption on all of the company's messaging products and instead promise that it will "enable law enforcement to obtain lawful access to content in a readable and usable format."
- Adversarial Interoperability
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First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
A round-up of the EFF's writing on 'adverserial interoperabillity' which is necessary for creating a decentralized internet free from corporate monopolies.
- The Peterloo Massacre and Shelley (2)
Part 2: Shelley's politics and his Peterloo poems
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First Published: 2019
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The Peterloo poems adopt various popular forms and styles. Addressing a popular audience with his attempt at a revolutionary understanding suggests a sympathetic response to the emergence of the working class as a political force, and the poems are acute on economic relations.
- Climate Change: A Socialist Solution
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A lot has been written, including by myself, on why capitalism, by its very nature, cannot tackle or stop climate change. The purpose of this article is not to repeat those arguments but to make the positive case for socialism as necessary to deal with this existential crisis for humanity.
- 'How Dare You!' The Climate Crisis And The Public Demand For Real Action
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First Published: 2019
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Reality clashed with the BBC version of false consensus in a remarkable edition of HardTalk last month. Roger Hallam, co-founder of Extinction Rebellion, was starkly honest about humanity’s extreme predicament in the face of climate breakdown and refused to buckle under host Stephen Sackur’s incredulous questioning.
- The Peterloo massacre and Shelley (1)
Part 1: The aftermath of the massacre and the responses
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First Published: 2019
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The escalation of repression by the ruling class that followed, resulting in a greater suppression of civil liberties, was met with meetings of thousands and the widespread circulation of accounts of the massacre. There was a determination to learn from the massacre and not allow it to be forgotten or misrepresented.
- The Solution to the Country's Debt and Deficit Problem
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First Published: 2019
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For most people, the country's national debt and annual deficit are not major concerns. However, for a substantial portion of the policy types who make, write, and talk about economic and budget policy, debt and deficits are really big deals. And, the fact that our budget deficit and debt are both large by historic standards, and growing rapidly, is an especially big deal.
- When Welfare Checks Turn Deadly
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First Published: 2019
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The disabled and mental ill encur growing risks and dangers when interacting with police as their actions are often interrupted as hostile or dangerous. Such misinterruption often result in a fatal encounter with law enforcement.
- Agriculture is one of the biggest contributors to climate change. But it can also be a part of the solution.
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While past focus has been on industries such as fossil fuels and transportation, new attention is being put on agriculture's role in the climate change solution.
- Anatomy of a Conspiracy Theory
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Conspiracy theories in general tend to be crude and simplistic, more often than not reflecting the nature of the people who indulge them. But when the conspiracy theory is mingled with antisemitism – as with the Rothschild rot – it represents a particular failure of the imagination, a particularly null and void exercise in dehumanisation.
- Film Charts Failed Experiment Inviting Palestinian Teens to Become Kibbutzniks
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First Published: 2019
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A new documentary brings to light an episode almost completely erased from Israel’s official history - and one that reveals how Israel's apartheid character was established from its birth.
- Reform or revolution? A response to three intriguing questions
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First Published: 2019
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The article by Steve Downs Three questions of political strategy poses three intriguing questions: Does "democratic road to socialism" = "parliamentary road to socialism"? Does "insurrection" = "revolution"? Does "rupture" = "revolution"? Steve found these questions helpful in understanding the contending views in Solidarity and DSA over reform or revolution.
- Three Questions of Political Strategy
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As I read contributions to The Call and Jacobin, and from Solidarity members, I wonder if that doesn't explain some of the disagreements about "reform or revolution" that have come up between some Solidarity members and some members of DSA’s Bread and Roses caucus. Framing these disagreements as a set of questions has helped me better understand the contending views.
- New Met production of Porgy and Bess prompts racialist criticisms of America’s greatest opera
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First Published: 2019
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The very fact that the race, gender or nationality of the artist is today uncritically presented as a central issue in evaluating a work testifies to the degeneration of bourgeois thought in general and the terrible damage inflicted over many years by identity and racial politics. The use of such criteria in past periods was associated with the political right, which employed them to promote anti-democratic and racist agendas.
- 10 Ways that the Climate Crisis and Militarism are Intertwined
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First Published: 2019
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The environmental justice movement that is surging globally is intentionally intersectional, showing how global warming is connected to issues such as race, poverty, migration and public health. One area intimately linked to the climate crisis that gets little attention, however, is militarism.
- How climate change gave added urgency to a $1.25B project to prevent flooding in Toronto
New river system being developed amid concerns about flooding, climate change
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First Published: 2019
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For Toronto, preventing the next potentially disastrous flood is increasingly urgent. And it's a reality facing many Canadian communities as they try to brace for the impacts of a changing climate in the years ahead.
- Technology was supposed to make us more capable. Instead it has made us scarily dependent
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Technology has promised to make things easier and elevate the species. But much technology emerging today has only increased our dependence on technology by rendering obsolete many of the skills we once relied upon.
- Amazon vs. the Socialists in Seattle
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First Published: 2019
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In what may turn out to be a preview of the U.S. presidential election, with the ruling class hellbent on stopping Bernie Sanders at all costs, big business in Seattle is carrying out an unprecedented assault of corporate PAC money against socialist and progressive candidates in this year’s elections.
- Banks tell dozens of customers they're to blame for thousands of dollars lost to e-transfer fraudsters
Cybercrime detective says banks must do better job informing customers of risk
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Electronic banking agreements leave customers on the hook and absolve banks of responsibility when electronic money transfers go bad.
- Banks tell dozens of customers they're to blame for thousands of dollars lost to e-transfer fraudsters
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First Published: 2019
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Cybercrime detective says banks must do better job informing customers of risk. After Rene Trudeau of Île-des-Chênes, Man., e-transferred $3,000 to pay for a new front door and a fraudster stole the cash, TD Bank said it wasn't to blame and refused to reimburse the money.
- Peter Graham and Ian McKay, Radical Ambition: The New Left in Toronto.
Book Review
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Works on the Canadian New Left are now sprouting plentifully and certainly a work on the country's major city is welcome. This one is encyclopedic, and Graham and McKay deserve thanks for their inclusive rendition of the youthful radical movements in Toronto from 1958 to 1985. The book is generous in its treatment of most of them, though it offers, as it should, analysis of why some groups achieved more in the short term than others while still others left a lasting legacy, for example, in preserving natural areas or working-class neighbourhoods that corporate interests wanted to bulldoze.
- Florida grandmother outraged after 6-year-old arrested for "tantrum"
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A Florida grandmother was shocked to find out her 6-year-old granddaughter had been arrested Thursday for throwing a tantrum.
- What George Carlin Taught Us about Media Propaganda by Omission
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First Published: 2019
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In the old George Carlin joke, the TV sportscaster announces: "Here's a partial score from the West Coast – Los Angeles 6." For a brilliant comedian like Carlin -- who skewered corporate power, class structure and political/media propaganda – that's one of his more innocuous jokes. But it's sharply relevant today as corporate TV news outlets serve up a series of partial scores. Call it 'propaganda by omission.'
- Algorithms Are People
The secret sauce of search engines gives tech companies an abundance of plausible deniability.
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First Published: 2019
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Amazon, Google, and other tech platforms deny interfering with their respective search algorithms, to boost profits or sidestep regulations. Because of the murky mechanics of how search works, proving the allegations is nearly impossible.
- Recalling the Hundreds of Thousands of Civilian Victims of America's Endless 'War on Terror'
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According to very conservative estimates, as reported by the "Costs of War" project of Brown University’s Watson Institute on International and Public Affairs, nearly 250,000 civilians have been killed during the 8 years since September 2001 in Iraq, Afghanistan and Pakistan in wars or attacks that were instigated by the United States.
- Smart Faucets And Toilets Use Alexa To Listen To Your Conversations
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First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
It is hard to imagine a more intrusive home surveillance device than a faucet or toilet that listens to everyone’s conversations, but that is just what Delta Faucet and Kohler have done. Delta Faucet's "Voice IQ" takes advantage of where lots of people like to congregate and turns it into an Alexa eavesdropping centre.
- Empires Are a Secret until They Start Falling
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First Published: 2019
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Alfred McCoy says that it is only when empires are in decline that people begin to recognize they live in an empire and start to talk about it. While discussion of empire hasn't broken into the corporate media, it is certainly happening in the independent media. A concerted effort by a popular movement could bring it to the fore, just as Occupy changed the political dialogue about wealth inequality and the power of money. People in the US need to face some stark realities when it comes to declining US global power.
- Facebook advertisers can write their own headlines for shared news stories
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Advertisers on Facebook are able to completely rewrite the displayed headline for news stories, CBC News has learned, opening the door for potential disinformation to spread on the platform while using news media branding as cover.
- Against neurodiversity
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The neurodiversity movement has good intentions, but it favours the high-functioning and overlooks those who struggle with severe autism.
- Rich Getting Richer Via Tax Policies
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First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
Marginal income tax rates plunged starting in the 1980s, hitting their modern-day lows under President George W. Bush. After rising modestly during the Obama Administration, they fell again under President Trump. Rate cuts generate only part of the current bonanza. Tax breaks passed by various Congresses account for the rest, hugely increasing the billions that flow to the haves.
- Sundarbans: 'Not a blade of grass grew...'
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People in the Sundarbans of West Bengal, for long living on the edge, are now facing climate change – recurring cyclones, erratic rain, growing salinity, rising heat, depleting mangroves and more.
- US Media Keep Saying Iran is "In Violation" of a Nuclear Agreement the US Withdrew From
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US Media portray Iran as having violated the US-Iran nuclear agreement. That's because the Trump administration, acting on its own, foolishlypulled out unilaterally from that agreement, and has been imposing sanctions on Iran, all of which has been in violation of the agreement, and which, by violating its terms, effectively terminates the agreement.
- The War in Eastern Ukraine May be Coming to an End but Do Any Americans Care?
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First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
The Ukraine War remains largely unknown to the American public even though the United States has had a great stake in it.
- Masterless Men: Poor whites and slavery in the Antebellum south by Keri Leigh Merritt - Book review
"1619" and the myth of white unity under slavery
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First Published: 2019
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A critique of the New York Times' "1619" initiative, marking the 400th anniversary of the disembarkation of the first African slaves in what was to become the United States.
- What's the True Unemployment Rate in the US?
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First Published: 2019
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The real unemployment rate is probably somewhere between 10%-12%. The 3.7% is the U-3 rate, per the labor dept. But that’s the rate only for full time employed. What the labour depatment calls the U-6 includes what it calls discouraged workers (those who haven’t looked for work in the past 4 weeks). Then there's what's called the 'missing labour force' - i.e. those who have'’t looked in the past year. They're not calculated in the 3.7% U-3 unemployment rate number either. Why? Because you have to be 'out of work and actively looking for work' to be counted as unemployed and therefore part of the 3.7% rate.
- 'The forgotten people' of a razed Corner Brook neighbourhood revived in new book
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Poet Douglas Walbourne-Gough seeks to erase stigma of Crow Gulch, a community bulldozed beginning in the late 1960s, after its residents spent decades there living in poverty, and living with outsiders' racism and scorn, even as parts of Corner Brook prospered around them.
- Larry Dohey was unforgettable. We can honour him by protecting the archives he loved.
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First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
Keeping our stories alive for the future is the passion of archivists whose work is not often recognized.
- Yellow fever
Populist pangs in France
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First Published: 2019
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The 'gilets jaunes' are a complex movement that has grown from a distrust of France's elites towards demands for citizen-led democracy. Their invocation of the French Revolution has provided the movement with a powerful sense of popular legitimacy but, as Gabriel Bristow argues, contains contradictions of its own.
- Ukraine's Nazis: Who are they, why are they so influential — and why have media ignored them?
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First Published: 2019
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A recent festival in Kiev proudly displayed Nazi symbols and even advertised 'White Pride' – yet received almost no attention from Western media, who still steadfastly pretend there are no Nazis in Ukraine, neo- or otherwise.
- The Knotty Question of When Humans Made the Americas Home
A deluge of new findings are challenging long-held scientific narratives of how humans came to North and South America.
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First Published: 2019
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Indeed, no tidy, new framework has arisen to take the place of older theories. Instead, new data, including genetic findings, continue to complicate the story of how these continents came to be peopled.
- Disablement, Oppression, and Political Economy
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First Published: 2019
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It is often claimed that disabled persons are invisible, disregarded by mainstream society, and irrelevant to the workings of society. This analysis has attempted to explain that the "unemployables" have been deliberately shut out of the labour force due to a capitalist economy that so far has dictated their exclusion by measure of economic calculations that favor the business class. It further posits that disabled persons are further oppressed in capitalist societies by having been purposely shifted onto social welfare or segregated into institutions for similar reasons – to keep workers who could not be profitably employed out of the mainstream workforce but also to exert social control over the entire labour supply.
- 'The happy days are now just nostalgia'
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Along with the temperatures, the Brokpa say, the entire weather pattern has become increasingly unpredictable in the past two decades in the mountains of Arunachal Pradesh, which border the Tibet Autonomous Region of China, Bhutan and Myanmar.
- Remembering Mitch Podolak
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First Published: 2019
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- Time for creative disruption?
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First Published: 2019
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- The Stupidity of Smart Devices and Smart Cities
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First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
Smart phones, smart bombs, and, it follows, Smart Cities (capitalising such terms implies false authority), do not exist in that sense, whatever their cheer squad emissaries in High Tech land claim. They are merely a masterfully daft celebration of tactically deployed cults: there is a fad, a trend, and therefore, it must be smart, a model option to pursue.
- Congo's Patrice Lumumba: The Winds of Reaction in Africa
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First Published: 2019
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A brief history of Patrice Lumumba who was briefly Prime Minister of an independent Congo.
- In Protest Against Police Raping Spree, Women Burn Their Station in Mexico City.
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First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
A first person account of protests in Mexico City in response to reports of rape by police officers which have been dismissed by the administration.
- Offering Choice But Delivering Tyranny: the Corporate Capture of Agriculture
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First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
Proponents of genetically modified seeds say they are opening up 'choice' to farmers and consumers but end up giving monopolies to powerful corporations with proprietary agricultural tools and methods. This lessens environmental and dietary health and diversity.
- That Couldn't Be True: Restorying and Reconciliation
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First Published: 2019
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To achieve reconciliation with Indigenous people Canada must let go of the myth of itself as a benevolent force in the world.
- Rivers of Dust: The Future of Water and the Middle East
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First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
Syria and Iraq are at odds with Turkey over the Tigris-Euphrates. Egypt's relations with Sudan and Ethiopia over the Nile are tense. Jordan and the Palestinians accuse Israel of plundering river water to irrigate the Negev Desert and hogging most of the three aquifers that underlie the occupied West Bank. According to satellites that monitor climate, the Tigris-Euphrates basin, embracing Turkey, Syria, Iraq and western Iran, is losing water faster than any other area in the world, with the exception of Northern India.
- It's No Wonder the Military likes Violent Video Games, They Can Help Train Civilians to Become Warriors
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First Published: 2019
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Most studies show no correlation between video games and violence but the adoption of computer simulations by the military and their similarity to video games should give us pause about their ethical impact on society.
- Uncle Sam was Born Lethal
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First Published: 2019
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The white European "settlers" of North America wiped out millions of the continent's original inhabitants. They populated their southern colonies and states with Black slaves they mercilessly tortured, raped, maimed, and murdered in forced labour camps that provided the critical raw material for the rise of American capitalism long before Mussolini, Franco, and Hitler rose to power.
- Who Inflicts the Most Gun Violence in America? The U.S. Government and Its Police Force
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First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
Statistical analyses of gun violence in America consistently fail to account for the number of victimes of police killings. The militization of policiing has led to a greater number of victims, particularly among young black men and the mentally ill.
- 1958: My Search for Socialism
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First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
The author speaks about his teenage years and his first forays into socialist activism in 1950s Toronto.
- Facebook had human contractors 'reviewing' users' Messenger voice chats
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First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
Facebook has given contractors access to people's private voice chats for transcription purposes.
- Lyme Disease and Biowarfare
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First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
Historical look at the connection between Lyme disease and US government-produced bioweapons by a journalist who has been researching it for decades.
- Myanmar's Other Reporters
The world cheered when two Reuters journalists were freed from prison. But who’s watching out for the rest?
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First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
Detailed analysis of the state of freedom of speech and the press in Burma/Myanmar.
- 5 facts confirming just HOW incredibly wealthy the world's richest families are
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First Published: 2019
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Some facts based on Bloomberg's list of 25 richest families show how vast the gulf of inequality is.
- If you work for Uber or DoorDash, your boss isn't a person but an algorithm
App-driven jobs in the gig economy can mean constant surveillance
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First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
Gig-economy apps claim that their workers are contractors or even another kind of customer but human-devised algorithms strictly control their work conditions.
- 'Today we seek those fish in Discovery Channel'
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First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
Kadal Osai, a community radio of and for fisherfolk on Pamban island of Tamil Nadu's Ramanathapuram district, turns three this week. And it's making waves – with climate change as its latest focus.
- Unhappy customer asked to sign legal agreement not to write a bad review
Contracting company offered cash rebate to Ottawa couple, but only if homeowners sign
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First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
After a major kitchen renovation, an Ottawa couple say the contractor has refused to reimburse money they're owed unless they sign a legal agreement preventing them from publishing a negative review.
- Australian investigative journalist exposes Guardian/New York Times betrayal of Assange
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First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
Sources reveal new first-hand information exposing the extent of the betrayal of Julian Assange by the Guardian and the New York Times and refute lies both publications have used to smear the WikiLeaks founder.
- Australian investigative journalist exposes Guardian/New York Times betrayal of Assange
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First Published: 2019
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Australian journalist Mark Davis HAS revealed new first-hand information exposing the extent of the betrayal of Julian Assange by the Guardian and the New York Times, and refuting the lies both publications have used to smear the WikiLeaks founder.
- Politics in the Pub Mark Davis
Resource Type: Film/Video
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
The current attempt to use the UK courts to drag Assange into the clutches of a foreign intelligence agency for his revelations is not just an abuse of the extradition process but a fundamental threat to journalism.
- Neoliberalism Has Met Its Match In China
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First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
Unless China starts playing by neoliberal rules Trump's economic war with them will lead the US to a race to the bottom or isolation from international markets.
- The 9% Lie: Industrial Food and Climate Change
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First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
They now warn us that we have to drastically reduce global emissions – by at least 45 percent – over the next decade. Otherwise, we'll pass the point of no return – defined as reaching 450 ppm or more of CO2 in the atmosphere sometime between 2030 and 2050 – when our climate crisis will morph into a climate catastrophe.
- Families "Are Scared To Death" After A Massive ICE Operation Swept Up Hundreds Of People
About 680 suspected undocumented workers were arrested in Mississippi in one of the largest worksite operations ever conducted by ICE agents
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First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
A massive arrest of undocumented workers in Mississippi had people scrambling to care for kids whose parents were detained and traumatized the community.
- Is the Pentagon Behind the Rise in Lyme Disease?
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First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
A conversation with Kris Newby author of Bitten: The Secret History of Lyme Disease and Biological Weapons.
- Like Israeli settlers, white mass shooters are a manifestation of their society
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First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
A caution against calls from the left to label white mass shooters as terrorists. Calling them terrorists does not address the fact that they carry out the objectives of their settler-colonial states.
- Taxed, throttled or thrown in jail: Africa's new internet paradigm
The costs of speaking out online are rising rapidly
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First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
Many governments in Africa, threatened by the democracy of internet communication, are stifling it by imposing taxes and fees, throttling internet service itself and even arresting bloggers.
- To Silence a Poet, and a Nation: What Stella Nyanzi's Conviction Means for Uganda
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First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
Dr. Stella Nyanzi has been convicted under internet obscenity laws for criticizing Uganda's president. The style of her writing may be as much an issue as the criticism itself.
- Amazon Is Coaching Cops on How to Obtain Surveillance Footage Without a Warrant
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First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
Amazon's home surveillance company Ring is coaching police on how to use their technology which simultaneously provides a source of advertising for Amazon.
- Are Israel's spies stealing your data?
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First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
Many Israeli spies go into careers in surveillance software bringing techniques that are used to violate the privacy of Palestinians into everyday commercial software.
- How protesters are 'deanonymising' Russia's riot police
Online tools identify policemen who violently dispersed protesters in Moscow
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First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
Tools such as reverse-image search are being used to identify police who violently broke up a protest in Moscow. The legality of releasing this information and the threats some people are making with it is discussed.
- What kind of rebellion will save humanity from extinction?
The real power of mass civil disobedience is not its ability to shock the powerful into listening, but rather its potential to draw masses o
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First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
Despite overwhelming evidence that the world has already passed certain tipping points, setting off large and unpredictable changes in the climate, why are governments still refusing to act on the scale and pace required?
- How Slick Consulting Firms Get Us on Drugs
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First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
A look at some of the techniques drug companies use to get doctors to prescribe their products.
- The Last Frontier
Homesteaders on the margins of America
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
The San Luis Valley in southern Colorado still looks much as it did one hundred, or even two hundred, years ago. Blanca Peak, at 14,345 feet the fourth-highest summit in the Rockies, overlooks a vast openness.
- Localism's Contradictions in Hong Kong
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First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
Localism, as a recent political phenomenon in the Hong Kong political landscape, stresses Hong Kong’s political and cultural autonomy as distinct from that of China, while older pan-democratic organizations tend to stress this continuity between democratic struggles in Hong Kong and China. Localism has politicized the younger generations in many ways – but is localism a coherent political ideology, and how does it square with an anti-capitalist, mass-led political practice?
- A Play with No End
What the Gilets Jaunes really want
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First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
When I caught up with the Gilets Jaunes on March 2, near the Jardin du Ranelagh, they were moving in such a mass through the streets that all traffic had come to a halt. The residents of Passy, one of the wealthiest neighborhoods in Paris, stood agape and apart and afraid.
- Another day, another data hack-- and truth is, there's not much you can do about it
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First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
This week's Capital One hack is just yet another reminder of what cybersecurity experts have known for a while: you've probably already had your information stolen, and the only question is whether you know it.
- Small businesses, residences on Great Lakes being 'destroyed' by high water this summer
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
Fingers are pointed at the International Joint Commission, which regulates levels. But the IJC points out that the upper Great Lakes, Superior, Huron and Erie, are unaffected by Plan 2014, since their water levels are not controlled; they flow toward Niagara Falls and then down into Lake Ontario. Yet those upper lakes are also at near-record levels -- proof that weather is the sole cause of this summer's problems. Furthermore, allowing more water from Lake Ontario to flow through the dam at Cornwall, Ont., could lead to flooding downstream in Quebec.
- From Nazi Germany to Ottoman Turkey, Genocides Begin in the Wilderness, Far From Prying Eyes
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First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
Recent research shows that the Armenian genocide began before its usually accepted date in 1915. This is consistent with other genocides which start away from the metropolises with only minimal instructions from higher government.
- The Discovery and Rediscovery of Metabolic Rift
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First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
Ian Angus discusses the scientific developments that led Marx to develop metabolic rift theory, and a new generation to rediscover it in our time.
- 'It was chaotic': National outage of passport kiosks causes major delays at Pearson
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
A nationwide outage affecting the primary inspection kiosks and NEXUS of the Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA) caused serious delays for passengers arriving on international flights.
- Numsa strike against sexual harassment is a 'powerful moment in labour history'
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
A union of metal workers in South Africa staged a strike underground in harsh conditions to support a coworker whose sexual harassment complaint had been dismissed by management.
- 'Algorithms don’t write themselves'
Google whistleblower on Big Tech merging with politics
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First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
- Israel's latest attempt to erase Palestine
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
Efforts by teams from the Israeli defense ministry to remove sensitive documents from Israeli archives must be understood in a new political climate and are not simply an attempt to spare Israeli governments embarrassment, as some have suggested.
- Lessons of Nashville: The working class and the defense of immigrants
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First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
A recent story about residents of a Nashville neighborhood rallying to protect their neighbors from ICE agents shows the power of class solidarity in the face of attempts at racial division.
- Marx on Children (and on Forgiving Christianity)
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First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
An exploration of Marx's and Christianity's views on children.
- The Radical Roots of Free Speech
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First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
Interview with Laura Weinrib author of "The Taming of Free Speech: America's Civil Liberties Compromise."
- This School District Threatened To Take Kids Away From Parents Over Lunch Debt. Then It Refused a Businessman's Offer to Pay Those Debts
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First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
A Pennsylvania school district sent letters to parents who owed lunch money informing them that they could lose custody of their children due to their lunch money debt.
- ANYONE can be re-identified from 'anonymous data', researchers claim & let you TEST it
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
Online services that claim to anonymize users’ personal data aren’t as secure as we think, according to researchers who found over 99 percent of people can be identified from a handful of supposedly anonymous data points. Using just three commonly-requested demographic attributes -- birthdate, zip code, and gender -- the program is able to successfully identify users about 83 percent of the time. And with 5 and more data points the machine-learning model gets it right over 99 percent of the time.
- This London Firm Helps the Wealthy Hide Assets - or Steal Them. Luckily We Have 15 Years of Their Client Communications
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
A London firm that helps the rich hide or steal money has had 15 years' worth of communications leaked. These are being made available to hopefully help return stolen money.
- Did John Bolton Light the Fuse of the UK-Iranian Tanker Crisis?
Evidence suggests he pressured the Brits to seize an Iranian ship. Why? More war.
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First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
The details of the UK's seizure of the Grace 1 point to involvement by John Bolton and the Trump administration to put pressure on Iran.
- "How Could They?" Why Some Americans Were Drawn to the Communist Party in the 1940s
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
We did not become Communists because of any adoration of Stalin. We wanted a better world, one in peace, and we admired the giant achievements of the Soviet people in overcoming illiteracy and building a giant industrial base which proved so vital in defeating the Nazis. We also admired an economy which suffered no joblessness while nearly the entire world groaned under the Great Depression.
- I was banned for trans heresy
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First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
- No Woman Should Be Forced to Give a Troll a Brazilian Bikini Wax
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First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
Transgender activist Jessica Yaniv has forced the British Columbia Human Rights council to hear a truly absurd complaint. Canada's human rights authorities are currently considering whether the country's gender equality law requires a Brazilian waxing business that only takes female customers to perform the service on a trans woman who possesses male genitalia.
- American Visitors to the Gestapo Museum Draw Their Own Conclusions
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First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
An exploration of the ethics of drawing comparisons from present-day injustices to Nazi atrocities.
- Think Republicans are disconnected from reality? It's even worse among liberals
A new survey found Democrats live with less political diversity despite being more tolerant of it – with startling results
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First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
Democrats and Republicans have deep misconceptions about what the other side believes. This stops them from working together towards goals that mutually acceptable and achievable.
- The Plastic Industry's Fight to Keep Polluting the World
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First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
An in-depth look at the failure of recycling intiatives and the plastics industry's PR efforts that put the onus on small scale efforts to reduce waste while they fight any initiatives that curb production at the industry level.
- Our Veggie Gardens Won't Feed us in a Real Crisis
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First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
Small scale farming that can actually provide for people requires more knowledge and resources than people think.
- History Is Happening: WikiLeaks, the Global Fourth Estate
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
An article based on and in discussions with Nozomi Hayase's book 'WikiLeaks, the Global Fourth Estate: History Is Happening'.
- The People Emerge: The Storming of the Bastille
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First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
A history of the storming of the Bastille emphasizing the revolutionary history that is glossed over in patriotic celebrations.
- Brexit Divides the British Left
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First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
Short commentary on three leftist perspectives on Brexit. The articles discussed are linked in the main piece.
- The World Needs a Water Treaty
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First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
During the face-off earlier this year between India and Pakistan over a terrorist attack that killed more than 40 Indian paramilitaries in Kashmir, New Delhi made an existential threat to Islamabad. The weapon was not India’s considerable nuclear arsenal, but one still capable of inflicting ruinous destruction: water.
- The World Needs a Water Treaty
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First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
Climate change is making water into as valuable a commodity as oil with similar national tensions resulting.
- It's Raining Sand in Rayalaseema
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First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
In the Rayalaseema region in India, changing agriculture has reduced biodiversity, depleting the soil and leading to aridity and sandstorms.
- The Journalists Do The Shouting
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First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
A summary and analysis of some of the mainstream media's coverage US conflicts with Iran.
- The Journalists Do The Shouting
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
Today’s meaningful art is samizdat stickers on wireline poles and spray-canned corporate advertising. Corporate media is no longer considered a sure source of credible reporting.
- Outsourced spying: Google admits 'language experts' listen to 'some' assistant recordings
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
Google assistants are recording their surroundings without the user's knowledge and making the recordings available to contractors.
- "Strategic Extremism": How Republicans and Establishment Democrats Use Identity Politics to Divide and Rule
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First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
Since morality is easy to use as a tool to manipulate voters, Republican's wooing of the alt-right is an effective strategy in a close election. To counter this the left must focus on real issues that challenge corporate power.
- On the Democratic Character of Socialist Revolution
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First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
Great social movements redefine legality and human rights, setting in motion a process of change that becomes irresistible. Socialists utilize electoral opportunities while recognizing that they are far from the whole story. A workers’ government committed to socialism will probably be achieved as the democratic ratification of a program that has already gained majority support through discussion and mobilization among the population at large.
- RT's ban from media freedom conference shows British irony is alive and well
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First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
RT has been banned from a conference on media freedom for reportedly 'spreading disinformation.' They find this accusation and its source an ironic juxtoposition.
- The Seizure of an Iranian Tanker and the Lethal Toll of Sanctions
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
Sanctions against Syria are having a disastrous effect on the population. Comparisons to Iraq during the 1990s by someone who was there show the historic failure and potential further consequences of sanctions.
- Trudeau government gives dangerous new powers to Canada's political cops
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First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
The British Columbia Civil Liberties Association has published a massive collection of documents that reveal that CSIS is gathering information on peaceful protest groups. This coincides with new legislation from the Trudeau government that gives CSIS increased powers to conduct surveillance.
- Why Aren't the Democrats Talking About Ending Patent Financed Drug Research?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
Presenting a case for replacing government-granted patent monopoly financing of pharmaceutical research to make drugs available at free market prices.
- Guilt of Anti-semitism Now Needs No Evidence
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First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
Accusations of anti-Semitism against Jeremy Corbyn and the Labour Party make an effective smear in a corporate-contolled media that focuses on individual personalities.
- Weaponizing human rights: UN chief Bachelet's Venezuela report follows US regime change script
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First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
A report from the UN High Commissioner on the situation in Venezuela has been condemned by many sources as a political tool to justify the US's attempted regime change in that country.
- Canada Adopts America First Foreign Policy US State Dept Boasted in 2017
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First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
A declassified cable from the US embassy in Ottawa titled "Canada Adopts 'America First' Foreign Policy" notes that the Canadian government would be "Prioritizing U.S. Relations, ASAP."
- Doubling Down: The Military, Big Bankers and Big Oil Are Not In Climate Denial, They Are in Control and Plan to Keep It That Way
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First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
The two most important narratives imposed on us are climate change as a "threat to national security" and as a "business opportunity" - the twin rationales for military and corporate power. They want to focus us on how to manage the crisis, profit from it, or adapt to it, instead of opposing it.
- From the Green Revolution to GMOs: Toxic Agriculture Is the Problem Not the Solution
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
The pesticide industry lobbies governments to allow chemicals that have long been known to be harmful.
- Google Maps outage sparks mass disorientation
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
The Google Maps server went offline in some parts of the world, and users found themselves utterly disoriented – or couldn't find themselves at all.
- Karl Kautsky as Architect of the October Revolution
Part 2: 1917: The Bolsheviks Apply Kautsky’s Tactics
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First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
The Bolsheviks came into 1917 with two pieces of Kautsky advice firmly under their belts: enlist the peasantry as a revolutionary ally, and do not deviate from militant anti-agreementism.
- When the IWW Took on the Copper Kings
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First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
Review of the movie "Bisbee ‘17" about a strike and subsequent deportation of the workers of an Arizona mining town.
- Whose history? Why the People's History Museum is vital
In recent months, high-profile figures have claimed museums should be ‘neutral’ spaces. Thank goodness, then, for the People’s History Museu
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First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
Peoples History Museum also acts as a space for learning and offers a site for new debates to emerge, regularly allocating space for community exhibitions and contemporary political discussion. It also exhibits documents from recent events and contemporary unions, as it continues to build its collections.
- Amazon admits it keeps some Alexa recordings even when users delete them
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
Amazon has admitted that Alexa can keep recordings and other data after a user believe they have deleted them. Amazon cites improving customer service and technology as one reason for doing this.
- Karl Kautsky as Architect of the October Revolution
Part 1: Before the War: The Bolsheviks Applaud Kautsky's Tactics
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First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
Lenin remained true to the tactical ideas of Karl Kautsky after the latter had abandoned them.
- De-Dollarizing the American Financial Empire
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
A long interview with economist Michael Hudson about Trump's plan to lower interest rates.
- How Does the War on Terror Stack Up to Some of History's Most Infamous Genocides?
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First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
A look at whether the US War on Terror can be classified as genocide. Comparisons to historical precedents are complicated since the War on Terror is not a systematic effort directed at one location.
- Israeli government minister takes credit for 27 U.S. states passing anti-BDS laws
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First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
It is considered a huge scandal that Russia allegedly interfered in the 2016 US election but Israel is messing in our politics all the time, and that’s standard operating procedure.
- Memory, History, and a Pillar of Salt
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
A personal memoir about art and history in the early days of AIDS and ACT UP.
- Paris police use pepper spray against seated climate change protesters
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First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
Police in Paris have been filmed pepper-spraying peaceful protestors. This is part of Macron's crackdown on the "yellow vest" movement in which several protestors have been seriously injured.
- Raging Against the Algorithm: Google and Persuasive Technology
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
Fears of Google's algorithms detrimental effect on society may be well-founded but the proposed solutions are problematic.
- The Anti Nazi League and its lessons for today
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First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
Interview with Paul Holborow, organising secretary of the Anti Nazi League in 1977-1980.
- Germany threatens journalist with prison for speaking about Palestine
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
Palestinian-Canadian journalist Khaled Barakat has been banned from speaking or participating in political activity in Germany.
- How Evil Wins: the Hypocritical Double Standards of Political Outrage
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
The injustices carried out under Trump are not new and people who believe they are or that partisan politics will fix things are being fooled.
- The secrets of Nineteen Eighty-Four
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
Close analysis of 1984, including biographical details of Orwell, defending it as a work of leftist literature.
- Thousands of Goldminers Invade Yanomami Territory
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First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
Goldminers have invaded Yanomami lands in northern Brazil, probably emboldened by Bolsonaro's war against Indigenous rights. They have brought disease to uncontacted peoples and are poisoning the environment.
- Women and the far right
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First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
Many of the past gains of human and civil rights with women are at risk of being rolled back as the far right assumes power in numerous countries. Such attacks on women's reproductive rights and their places and roles in society have historical precedents in fascist movements in the past.
- Rolf Knight Obituary
March 4, 1936 - June 22, 2019
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First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
Born on March 4, 1936, the son of an itinerant cook, Rolf Knight grew up in B.C. logging camps, gained his M.A. in anthropology at UBC in 1962, and a Ph.D. from Columbia University in 1968. For decades Knight was a brave and under-heralded historian and a steadfast enemy of the notion that there exists such a phenomenon as the common man.
- How Capitalist Globalization Forecloses on Health Systems
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First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
Discussion of the multi-author collection "Health Care under the Knife." The book criticizes many aspects of medicine under capitalism but falls short of promoting radical alternatives.
- The Watchmakers Revolution
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
History of a worker takeover of a watch company in 1970s France. Refers to a recent book by Donald Reid 'Opening the Gates: The LIP Affair, 1968-1981.'
- Deep Fakes: Will AI Swing the 2020 Election?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
The ability of AI to create credible-looking fake videos could pose a threat to candidates at election time but gullibility was a problem before computer technology.
- New York Times Admits it Sent Story to Government for Approval
The American paper of record just provided a major example of the symbiotic relationship between U.S. corporate media and the government
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First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
The NY Times' seeking approval for a recent story is part of a history of the mainstream media's collaboration with the US government.
- The Hydroponic Threat to Organic Food
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First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
The US Department of Agriculture is approving methods as "Certified Organic" which are contrary to the principles of organic, sustainable agriculture. This is done mostly to comply with the demands of large agribusiness companies.
- Fear in Sri Lanka as monk calls for stoning of Muslims
Top monk says Muslims should be stoned amid unsubstantiated reports of Muslim doctor sterilising Buddhist women.
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First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
Sri Lanka's Muslim minority fear further violence as a top Buddhist monk advocate's stoning amid unsubstantiated rumors of a Muslim doctor sterilizing Buddhist women.
- Mark Field and the Danger of Getting Sidetracked
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First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
The media's focus on British government minister Mark Field's assault on a climate change activist, is a smokescreen to draw attention away from people with money and power that effect real issues such as climate change.
- A Brief History of US Concentration Camps
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First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
An overview of ethnic cleansing and civilian concentration camps in the US starting with the Trail of Tears.
- Race, Identity and the Political Economy of Hate
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First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
A look at statistics casts doubt on the supposed rise of white nationalist groups and violence.
- Some Suburb of Hell: America's New Concentration Camp System
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First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
New York Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez referred to US border detention facilities as "concentration camps," spurring a backlash in which critics accused her of demeaning the memory of those who died in the Holocaust. Debates raged over a label for what is happening along the southern border and grew louder as the week rolled on.
- Washington's Dr. Strangeloves: Is plunging Russia into darkness really a good idea
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First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
US cyber attacks on Russia's power grid, reportedly done without the president's knowledge, are part of a historic pattern of US/Russian relations being sabotaged US defense and intelligence agencies.
- We hacked tube ads to call out the Home Office's hostile environment
Our Future Now on how they helped the Home Office be a little more honest about its policies
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First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
Today our activist group, Our Future Now, have installed subverted adverts on London Underground trains calling out the Home Office's 'hostile environment' and its brutal and racist policies.
- The Shaving Kit - Manufacturing The Julian Assange Witch-Hunt
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First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
A survey of mainstream media coverage of Assange's arrest that makes him an object of ridicule. Much attention is given to the beard he had at the time.
- 'We Need to Ban Fracking': New Analysis of 1,500 Scientific Studies Details Threat to Health and Climate
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First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
The latest analysis of studies on the effects of fracking confirms that it poses an extreme threat to the environment and local people's healt.
- The Global Movement Against Gentrification
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First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
Accounts of worldwide efforts to promote municipal engagement and organize locally for justice are given in the book Fearless Cities: A Guide to the Global Municipalist Movement.
- Marta Harnecker, the Fighter
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
Obituary for Marta Harnecker, sociologist, political scientist, and activist from Chile.
- US Foreign Policy Exposed
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First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
Some recent events and information leaks have forced even the mainstream media to break the usual veneer over US foreign policy.
- US Cyber Attack on Russia's Power Grid is an 'Act of War' (According to the US)
What about Venezuela's hacked power grid?
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First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
The New York Times reports that the US has hacked Russia's power grid. Reporting on the issue has failed to mention any call for consequences or the fact that the US has already been accused of doing the same to Venezuela.
- How Much Do Humans Pollute? A Breakdown of Industrial, Vehicular and Household C02 Emissions
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First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
Modified excerpt from author's new book, Privatized Planet: "Free Trade" as a Weapon Against Democracy, Healthcare and the Environment.
- How SDS Imploded: an Inside Account
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First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
A look at how Students for a Democratic Society imploded 50 years ago and how it is similar to the behaviour of political parties in the US today.
- Tom Paine, Christianity, and Modern Psychiatry
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First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
Much of modern psychiatry is based on unscientific theories even many practitioners of its find problematic. Since Thomas Paine knew Dr. Benjamin Rush (1746-1813), considered the "father of American psychiatry," this article draws parallels between Paine's criticisms of religion with those of psychiatry today.
- Trump's Trade Threats are Really Cold War 2.0
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First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
Trump's attempts to bully China economically may backfire and alienate the US from trade partners.
- The Irish Language and Marxist Materialism
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First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
A review of Caoimhghin Ó Croidheáin's book "Language From Below: the Irish language, ideology and power in 20th century Ireland" which looks at the role language and nationalism has played in Irish liberation movements.
- Creative + Strategic = Effective Movements for Change
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First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
Some positive, creative ideas on non-violent actions to make social change.
- How Urban Planners Promote Gentrification
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First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
A review of Samuel Stein's book "Capital City: Gentrification and the Real Estate State" which looks at how private interests and government promote gentrification.
- While the World Watches Trump, It’s Missing What’s Really Going On
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First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
The superficial antics of Trump and other world leaders are making front page news while investigative reporting on real issues is pushed to the margins.
- Breach of Ethics
Leaked Chats Between Brazilian Judge and Prosecutor Who Imprisoned Lula Reveal Prohibited Collaboration and Doubts Over Evidence
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First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
Leaked documents show that Sergio Moro, a judge at the time, collaborated heavily with investigators in Operation Car Wash, a serious breach of judicial impartiality. Even critics of Lula who consider him corrupt doubt the veracity of aspects of the investigation.
- How and Why The Intercept Is Reporting on a Vast Trove of Materials About Brazil’s Operation Car Wash and Justice Minister Sergio Moro
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First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
A summary of the Intercepts investigation into Operation Car Wash based on a trove of private communication they have received and are making available to the public.
- US Sanctions on Venezuela Illegal Under UN, OAS and US Law
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First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
A detailed look at the many laws being violated by US sanctions against Venezuela.
- Education in the Service of Assimilation: The Founding Vision of Residential Schools in Canada
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First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
A look at some scholarly histories of residiential schools that put paid to Canada's kinder, gentler reputation.
- Mainstream media loves protests for democracy and freedom... unless they're in US ally Honduras
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First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
Anti-government protests in Honduras provide a contrast with coverage of those in Venezuela. People protesting an illegitimately elected president get almost no US mainstream coverage in this case.
- On Equating BDS With Anti-Semitism: a Letter to the Members of the German Government
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First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
An open letter to the German government by a Jew arguing against a motion equating BDS with anti-Semitism.
- Why the US is Persecuting Assange
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First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
Governments don't like it when reporters disclose secrets that impede their preferred narrative. This article draws parallels between Assange and the work of Yemeni reporter Maad al-Zikry.
- 'Where was the Lord?': On Jefferson Davis' birthday, 9 slave testimonies
The voices of five men and four women, once held in human bondage, interviewed in Alabama in 1937.
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First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
Testimonies of several victims of slavery collected in the 1930s tell of separation from family, overwork, and abuse.
- At the Bridge
James Teit and an Anthropology of Belonging
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
The story of James Teit (1864–1922), a prolific ethnographer and tireless Indian rights activist who spent four decades helping British Columbia's Indigenous peoples in their challenge of the settler-colonial assault on their lives and territories.
- Downstream
The afterlife of American junk
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First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
The squat warehouse at Miami’s 5th Street Terminal was nearly obscured by merchandise: used car engines; tangles of coat hangers; bicycles bound together with cellophane; stacks of wheelbarrows; cases of Powerade and bottled water; a bag of sprouting onions atop a secondhand Whirlpool refrigerator; and, above all, mattresses -- shrink-wrapped and bare, spotless and streaked with dust, heaped in every corner of the lot -- twins, queens, kings. All this and more was bound for Port-de-Paix, a remote city in northwestern Haiti.
- Nothing Kept Me Up At Night the Way Gorgon Stare Did
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First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
An interview with an expert on drones about a new camera technology that drastically improves wide-area sureillance capabilities.
- Israeli intervention in US elections overwhelms anything Russia has done, claims Chomsky
The 89-year-old said the media was largely ignoring vital issues such as climate change
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First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
Chomsky on the brazen interference of Israel in US politics to which supposed Russian meddling in the US election pales in comparison.
- Swedish Sex Pistol Aimed at Assange
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First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
By asserting the extraterritorial jurisdiction of American law to demand the extradition of another country’s (Australia) citizen from a third country (Great Britain) for activities that took place entirely outside the US, the present indictment is, as Joel Simon of the Committee to Protect Journalists, points out: “a direct threat to journalists everywhere in the world….Under this rubric, anyone anywhere in the world who publishes information that the U.S. government deems to be classified could be prosecuted for espionage.”
- Arab photography archive releases 22,000 historic images online
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First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
Arab Image Foundation completes $255,000 digitisation initiative and will reopen its Beirut building this summer.
- CRA signs secret settlement with wealthy KPMG clients involved in offshore tax scheme
Watchdog group accuses the Liberals of covering up the KPMG affair
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First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
The Canada Revenue Agency has settled out of court and off the record with large tax avoiders. This follows years of promises to crack down on tax evasion and have more transparency at the CRA.
- Engels on the importance of Hegel to Marxism
Letter to Conrad Schmidt
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First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
Neo-Kantian by persuasion, Schmidt nevertheless asked Engels what the philosophical underpinnings of Marxs thought were. Engels already had put out a book on the topic, Ludwig Feuerbach and the End of German Classical Philosophy (1885), but apparently the implications of this work were not clear enough.
- Lessons from Canada: On Women's Libraries and Liberation
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
A report on a talk Bec Wonders gave at the For Women Scotland event held on May 14, 2019, detailing her experiences as co-founder of Vancouver Women's Library and the value of knowledge produced by second wave feminists.
- The human cost of US 'economic war' on Venezuela: Hyperinflation hits 130,000% last year
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
Short article about the steep increases in inflation in Venezuela.
- Press Freedom is Under Threat in the Land of its Birth
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First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
The US was not among the conulates protesting controversial new extradition bill in Hong Kong. They can't with a straight face object to Hong Kong passing an act that endorses extradition for political crimes while Washington is pursuing Wikileaks founder Julian Assange.
- Press Freedom is Under Threat in the Land of its Birth
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First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
The author draws parallels between the US and Hong Kong's treatment of freedom and individual rights.
- The Western Media is Key to Syria Deceptions
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First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
An analysis of why western media has failed to practice any scepticism regarding claims that the Syrian government is using chemical weapons.
- Another Empire's Boot Stomps on Ireland
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First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
A civilian airport in Ireland is being used as a hub by the US military.
- The Evidence We Were Never Meant to See About the Douma Gas Attack
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First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
A report that conflicts with claims that two cylinders containing chemicals were dropped from an aircraft was suppressed by the Organisation for the Prevention of Chemical Weapons. This erodes public trust in the institution and is distressing given the recent history of using dubious existence of deadly weapons to justify wars.
- How You Can Be 100% Certain That QAnon Is Bullshit
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
Outlines techniques used by members of QAnon, including excusing Trump's facilitation of evil deep state agendas, refusing to prove the validity of their positions, and making bogus claims and innacurate predictions.
- The Boeing Way: Blaming Dead Pilots
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First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
The House Transportation Subcommittee on Aviation held a hearing about the recent crashes of Boeing 737 MAXs. The Representatives (many of whom received campaign contributions from Boeing) actively tried to shift blame from the company and place it on the dead pilots.
- Bolivia's universal healthcare is model for the world, says UN
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First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
Bolivia has implemented universal healthcare to provide free care to its poorest citizens. Although controversial with the country's doctors the program is lauded by the UN.
- Rooting rebellion in nature
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First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
Reflections on the legacy of philosopher and ‘geologian’ Thomas Berry, ten years after his death.
- Russiagate and the Dry Rot in American Journalism
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First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
The idea that Trump colluded with Russia to steal the 2016 election is used by both liberals and the right to maintain the status quo. Comparisons to Hunter S. Thompson show how staid mainstream news has become.
- An (Even More) Inconvenient Truth
Why Carbon Credits For Forest Preservation May Be Worse Than Nothing
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First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
Article exploring of limitations of carbon credits
- Gaza exit permits: Aisha's lone journey for cancer treatment
Israeli permit system prevents some parents from accompanying their sick children to hospitals outside of Gaza Strip.
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First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
Heartbreaking story of a girl in the Gaza strip with a brain tumour who had to go through surgery accompanied by a stranger because parents could not get permission to accompany her to the hospital.
- Far-Right Identity Politics and the Task for the Left
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
To oppose far-right ideology, the left must fight the violence and austerity they promote but also acknowledge the appeal of universal values of populist movements.
- From the Middle East to Northern Ireland, Western States are All Too Happy to Avoid Culpability for War Crimes
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First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
Forgiving war crimes when they are committed by their own side is a practice of the Nazis that many western governements seem to be taking up.
- Moving past climate denial
Deniers feel that the impacts of climate breakdown don't matter, but the solutions pose an imminent threat, new research shows.
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First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
Katharine Hayhoe, a climate researcher and political science professor argues that it's more productive to show climate change skeptics that solutions are beneficial to them rather than trying to make them believe in the science of climate change.
- The Violent History of the Venezuelan Opposition
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First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
Mainstream media paint Venezuelan opposition as peaceful heroes and President Maduro as a villain. Details about opposition leader Leopoldo Lopez show this to be blatant propaganda.
- The Yellow Vests of France: Six Months of Struggle
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First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
A look at the Yellow Vest movement in France after six months. Although they avoid structures of formal organizations they are converging with several other groups.
- 3 solutions to electronic car theft, a continuing threat to high-end Toronto automobiles
Electronic theft of luxury vehicles rose 90% from Dec. 2017 to 2018, police say
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First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
Cars that unlock and start with an electronic fob can be stolen without the key. The article suggests some ways to protect yourself.
- Where Lyme Disease Came From and Why It Eludes Treatment
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First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
A review of two books that discuss Lyme disease's origin in government experiments with germ warfare.
- Assange revolutionized journalism, and the elite will never forgive him
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
Julian Assange's treatment by governments and mainstream media shows how he is a threat to the former and shames the latter.
- Updated flood plain maps will send the housing market underwater
Eventually, entire communities will find themselves publicly identified as at-risk
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First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
The federal government will soon be posting maps of places at risk of flooding. This will have serious consequences for the housing markets in those areas.
- WhatsApp breach might have targeted human rights groups
Suspicion falls on Israeli company as users urged to update messaging app
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First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
The messaging app WhatsApp had a security breach that installed surveillance software on users' phones. It seems to have targeted several people in human rights groups who report getting phone calls from strange numbers at odd times.
- D is for a Dictatorship Disguised as a Democracy
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
American government is much like show business: empty entertainment with smoke and mirrors hiding the string-pullers behind the scenes.
- Why Are These Facts So Stubbornly Forbidden?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
The author gives several examples of people refusing to change their beliefs even when confronted with facts.
- 120 years of Indian day schools leave a dark legacy in Kahnawake Mohawk Territory
'The damage from day schools was just as severe as residential schools,' says former student
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First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
Day schools have not received as much attention as residential schools but they were attended by more children who experienced simliar abuses and loss of culture.
- The Strange Workings of Identity and Adolph Reed Jr.'s Thought
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
One of the cornerstones of the socialist approach to identity is the insistence that identities are not naturally occurring but are, rather, the products of history. The controversy surrounding Reed’s work offers an opportunity to try to clarify our understanding of identity.
- Distorting 'Democracy' in Venezuela Coverage
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
Round up of some of the many media outlets that call Guaidó's coup attempt in Venezuela a democratic movement and refer to democratically elected president Maduro as a dictator.
- PepsiCo ends lawsuits against Indian potato farmers
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
Pepsi has dropped a lawsuit against Indian potato farmers for growing the same potatoes used in Lay's chips. The lawsuit had been subject to public backlash.
- Thank Russia for Winning World War II
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First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
- Thank Russia for Winning World War II
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First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
Our Soviet allies barely held on alone for three years against Hitler, yet conventional wisdom is that we won the war because we equipped Soviets to die for us. This is propaganda – the USSR bore more than 90% of its own wartime industrial burden.
- Dam it all: More than half of the world's long rivers are blocked by infrastucture
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First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
But with the increasing demand for more water, energy generation, and flood management, the construction of dams, levees, reservoirs, and other river-obstructive infrastructures is becoming ubiquitous.
- Imagination and Nuclear Weapons
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First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
Imagining the horror of nuclear war is not enough to prevent it. Governments with nuclear weapons must be forced to disarm.
- The London Climate Protests - Raising The Alarm
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First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
Analysis of media coverage of the climate crisis looks at how many outlets try to discredit 'alarmist' activists. However a sense of panics is rational and needed to avoid catastrophe.
- The Militarization of Empathy
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First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
Surprise reunions between returning soldiers and their families are a major spectacle in US media. But these heartwarming scenes serve as a distraction from the activities of the soldiers while they are overseas.
- Yelp and the Myth of Consumer Power
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First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
Online reviews on Yelp have had a massive effect on the service industry but this should not be perceived as giving power to consumers. In the end it is only the platfrom that profits.
- Peterloo (film review)
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First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
Review of a movie about the massacre at a popular revolt in St Peter's Field in Manchester, U.K in 1819.
- A million species 'threatened with extinction'
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First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
A summary of a dire climate report on the decline in global biodiversity.
- On the Coast of Oaxaca, Afro and Indigenous Tribes Fight for Water Autonomy
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First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
In southern Mexico, a multi-ethnic network of towns has halted the construction of a mega-dam. Now they are organizing to manage their own natural resources and revitalize their culture as native water protectors.
- US State Department Publishes, then deletes sadistic Venezuela hit list boasting of economic ruin
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First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
A fact sheet put out by the US State Department listing its "accomplishments" in Venezuela reads more like a confession of atrocities. The document was later withdrawn.
- Google Bans Press TV
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
Social media companies are banning media outlets in the name of alleged 'hate speech' but the companies' contacts and their targets make them instruments of government censorship.
- Gray Whales Are Dying: Starving to Death Because of Climate Change
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First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
A look at the plight of sea mammals and the state of marine science education.
- Israel Again Bombs Gaza - But Is It "In Response"?
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First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
In this case it is undoubtedly the Palestinian side that is responding to Israeli violence. But even if Palestinians would fire missiles without an immediate cause it would be within the full rights of the Palestinian people. In its 1982 Resolution 37/43 the General Assembly of the United Nations reaffirmed:
"the legitimacy of the struggle of peoples for independence, territorial integrity, national unity and liberation from colonial and foreign domination and foreign occupation by all available means, including armed struggle;"
The UN GA resolution is standing international law. The Palestinian people have the right to resist against the occupation force. In practice as well as legally Israel is a colonial entity that occupies Palestinian land, especially in Gaza and the West Bank. Any armed struggle by Palestinians against the occupation, provoked or not, is thus morally and legally justified.
But do not expect that any 'western' mainstream media will ever point that out.
- Review: Jonathan Metzl, Dying of Whiteness (2019)
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First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
A detailed review, focusing mainly on gun violence, of Jonathan Metzl's book Dying of Whiteness.
- Leaked: USA's Feb 2018 Plan for Coup in Venezuela
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First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
Publication of a military document outlining the military, diplomatic, and propaganda policies to overthrow the Maduro governnment.
- Venezuelan economist: 'Hyperinflation is a powerful imperialist weapon'
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First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
Interview with Venezuelan an economist about how hyperinflation is being used as a weapon against the country.
- West Africa's Fine Line Between Cultural Norms and Child Trafficking
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First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
Human traficking in West Africa is difficult to deal with as it has become entrenched in the culture of people living in extreme poverty.
- Wildly Underestimated Oilsands Emissions Latest Blow to Alberta's Dubious Climate Claims
As disaster looms, petro province lets industry call the shots.
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First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
The oilsand industry's own measurements of their carbon output fall far short of that reported by Environment Canada's and others' research. This could deal a blow to the industry's PR efforts.
- Lost at Sea
Poverty and paradise at the edge of America
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First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
A few miles north of San Francisco, off the coast of Sausalito, is Richardson Bay, a saltwater estuary where roughly one hundred people live out of sight from the world. Known as anchor-outs, they make their homes a quarter mile from the shore, on abandoned and unseaworthy vessels, doing their best, with little or no money, to survive.
- Pete Seeger Was A Movement Musician
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
A memorial to Pete Seeger on what would have been his 100th birthday.
- The Truce
How the United States helped spoil a plan to end gang violence in El Salvador
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
For over twenty years, Mijango argues, the overwhelming influence of the United States on Salvadoran law enforcement has led to tremendous mistakes in security policy. Mijango believes that the United States pressured the Salvadoran attorney general’s office to prosecute him because it had opposed the negotiations from the beginning.
- Where Our New World Begins
Politics, power, and the Green New Deal
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First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
We find ourselves today in much the same place, confronted by an array of emergencies -- seemingly disparate, but in fact closely connected - that threatens to destroy us. Braced against them is a set of ideas put forward in a congressional resolution by Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (the notorious AOC), a twenty-nine-year-old freshman congresswoman, and her young, ad hoc brain trust.
- "I have been there before" - For Sri Lankan Christians like me, the Easter attacks revived old
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
A personal narrative about the complicated politics of language, ethnicity, and religion in Sri Lanka in the wake of the Easter bombings.
- Sri Lanka Easter Sunday Massacre: Reflection Of Long Time Silence
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
A personal story about extreme ideologies that infiltrated Islamic societies.
- Canada’s new far right: A trove of private chat room messages reveals an extremist subculture
An analysis of 150,000 chat room messages paints a picture of a group that is actively recruiting new members, buying weapons and trying to
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First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
The Globe and Mail has obtained a trove of 150,000 messages posted between February, 2017, and early 2018 that reveal the private communications of a loosely aligned node of Canadian right-wing extremists. The record of their continuing conversations reveals a movement, energized by the rise of white ethnonationalism in the United States, that aims to upend a decades-old multicultural consensus in this country.
- A Lethal Industrial Farm Fungus is Spreading Among Us
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First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
Agricultural fungicides are creating strains of drug-resistant fungi.
- Why Left Wing Populism Is Not Enough
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First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
Mainly a critique of Chantal Mouffe's book 'For a Left Populism,' discusses the shortcomings of a poplulism that downplays the role of class.
- What the 'White Irish Slaves' Meme Tells Us About Identity Politics
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First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
In setting out to rebut narratives of 'Irish Slaves' the left has often downplayed the history of Irish oppression.
- My Response to the PBS Series: Reconstruction: America After the Civil War
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First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
A criticism of the PBS series on Reconstruction which presents slavery as a 'southern problem,' ignoring its ties to capital and class.
- Nitrogen Crisis: A neglected threat to Earth's life support systems
Part One of a discussion of the disruption of the global nitrogen cycle by an economic system that values profits more than life itself.
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First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
The rift in the nitrogen cycle is a major threat to the stability of the Earth System. This and subsequent articles will discuss how the natural cycle works and how it has been disrupted in the Anthropocene.
- Russiagate is Dead! Long Live Russiagate!
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First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
Looking at the fiasco of Russiagate, it's instigators, who profits from it and the issues that it distracts from.
- How the U.S. Military Feeds at the Terror Trough
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First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
A meandering take on the US's perpetual wars around the world.
- Washington's Biggest Fairy Tale: 'Truth Will Out'
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First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
The idea that the truth will eventually be exposed may be comforting to people that think we live in a transparent democracy. But this investigative journalist discusses how hard it is to get information from the government.
- The Debt System: A History of Sovereign Debts and their Repudiation
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
A history of national debt and the international power structures it supports. Calls for the repudiation of illegitimate debt.
- Talking Trash: Unfortunate Truths About Recycling
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
A deep dive into the mechanics of recycling and why it isn't a panacea for our environmental problems.
- Calling Assange a Narcissist Misses the Point
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
Personal attacks on Assange are used to discredit his work publicizing war crimes and the truth behind pro-war propaganda.
- How a Christian Nonprofit Helped a Controversial Minnesota Mining Company Buy Gear for Local Police
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First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
A Christian non-profit called Shield616 that donates gear to police forces has received donations from mining companies. This sparks concerns of a conflict of interest among residents that are protesting these mines.
- ICL Breaks with Leninism on the National Question
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First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
On the radical change of direction of the Trotskyist International Communist League.
- In Defense of (Seymour’s) Marxism
Exposing the 'Theoretical Framework' of ICL's Neo-Pabloist Turn
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First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
The abrupt abandonment of the longstanding approach to the national question by the Seventh International Conference of the International Communist League (ICL - formerly the international Spartacist tendency [iSt]) has major (many as yet unelaborated) programmatic implications. It is difficult to overstate the political importance for the ICL of the dramatic turn represented by the main conference document, "The Struggle Against the Chauvinist Hydra" which repudiates the iSt/ICL's previous refusal to capitulate to "Third World" nationalism - a stance that distinguished the group from its pseudo-revolutionary competitors for decades. The former policy is now simply dismissed as "chauvinism."
- Assange's Indictment Treats Journalism as a Crime
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First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
The charges against Assange send a message to journalists that they are in danger for doing their jobs. The UK can and should deny extradition of Assange to the US.
- Israel: Are democracy and despotic racism compatible?
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First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
A criticism of Zionism as a "melding of an elitist pseudo-democracy with racist despotism."
- The Burning of Highlander Center: a Fascist-like Attack
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
The Highlander Research and Education Center was burned to the ground in New Market, Tennessee in an act of arson by the white power movement.
- The politics of identity, left and right
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
One of the consequences of the bifurcated debate is historical amnesia about the origins of identity politics. Most people imagine that its roots are on the left. In fact, they lie on the reactionary right, in the counter-Enlightenment of the late 18th century. It wasn’t then called the politics of identity. It was called racism. It is, however, in the concept of race -- the insistence that humans are divided into a number of essential groups, and that one’s group identity determines one’s moral and social place in the world -- that we find the original politics of identity, out of which ideas of white superiority emerged.
- Wealth and the Invisibility of Human Life
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
Review of the book "Globalists: The End of Empire and the Birth of Neoliberalism" by Quinn Slobodian.
- Kautsky, Lenin, and the transition to socialism
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First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
Counterposing Karl Kautsky's perspective of a "democratic road to socialism" as against a supposed Leninist "insurrectionary strategy" presents a false framework for the debate.
- Fake News Tsunami - Trump's 'Collusion' And Corbyn As 'Dangerous Hero'
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
Analysis of recent news coverage that paints Corbyn as an anti-semite compared to that of the Trump campaign's supposed ties with the Russian government.
- An Open Letter to Chelsea Manning: A Free Woman in An American Prison
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First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
A message of courage and strength addressed to Chelsea Manning.
- Weaponized Social Media Is Driving the Explosion of Fascism
Social media platforms give governments, extremists, haters and propagandists the ability to excite and incite hate amplified by algorithms.
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First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
Describing how social media wages war on reality by spreading propaganda. With examples from ISIS to Alex Jones.
- Where Have You Gone Abbie Hoffman?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
A collection of excerpts of people writing about Abbie Hoffman on the 30th anniversary of his death.
- From Pre-K On, US Schools Privilege the Already Privileged
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
The college bribery admissions scandal is only the extreme end of the inequality in the education system. Public policies, such as school funding based on property values, disadvantage children in low-income communities starting as early as pre-K.
- Eight miners die from toxic gases in Peru’s northern highlands
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First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
Eight miners died after poisonous gases escaped in an informal gold mine in northern Peru. Informal mines are operated without licenses or safety standards by companies that can easily bypass regulations.
- Fighting Against Racism - And For a Better Paycheck - On the Docks
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First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
Dockworker labour solidarity. Heavily references two books: 'Dockworker Power: Race and Activism in Durban and the San Francisco Bay Area' by Peter Cole and 'Choke Points' essays edited by Jake Alimahomed-Wilson and Immanuel Ness.
- Former UAW vice president pleads guilty to conspiracy in bribery scheme
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First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
Norwood Jewell, former vice president of the United Auto Workers pleaded guilty to one count of conspiring to violate labor laws. There could be even higher ranking officials charged, highlighting the conflicting interests of union bosses vs workers.
- Social Media Regulation: Speak of the Devil and in Walks Zuck
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
Social media giants such as Facebook support government regulation as a means to secure their monopolies.
- US Capitalism Was Born in the Destruction of the Commons
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
Interview with Silvia Federici and Peter Linebaugh about Federici's book Re-enchanting the World: Feminism and the Politics of the Commons.
- Collusion in Plain Sight
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First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
The media should use the same language for Trump's pandering to corporations and failure to publicly condemn white supremacist violence as they do for his supposed collaboration with Russia.
- Factional provocation, middle-class hysteria, and the collapse of the International Socialist Organization
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First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
The International Socialist Organization is collapsing just over a month after its national convention, amidst factionally instigated denunciations of sexual assault and cover-up.
- Facebook plans to curate 'high quality' news for its users from 'trusted outlets'
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First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
Facebook is considering hiring human editors to hand-pick 'trustworthy' news to display on its site. Facebook's track record of bias and censorship make its motives suspect.
- Filing Your Taxes Is Already Difficult. The House Just Passed a Bill That Keeps It That Way Forever.
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
The complicated process of paying and filing taxes - and the consquences of doing so incorrectly - cause hardship to many Americans especially the poor. This system could be much easier but many companies have an interest in maintaining the status quo.
- Lyft and Other Gig Economy Giants Cash In With IPOs Before Labor Laws Catch Up With Them
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
Many platform companies are making initial investors money by going public. Later investors could be on the hook if they have to change their business models to be in compliance with labour laws.
- The Public Library: Antidote to Everyday American Banality
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
A celebration of the local library that includes conversations with librarians and patrons.
- Solidarity, Survival and Sabotage: Reconstructing the History of the Blackouts Tormenting Venezuela
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
A detailed timeline of events during the recent blackout in Venezuela.
- Works of Mercy
The power of pastoral care
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
Health care organizations increasingly recognize that meeting the spiritual needs of their patients is part of their mandate, and hospitals must address these needs to receive national accreditation. The provision of care for the sick, disabled, and dying beyond the strictly medical or therapeutic is now a career possibility with many variant descriptions and categories.
- Don't Believe the Hype: Paying for Medicare for All Is Simple
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
Debunking recent arguments that Medicare for All will require reducing spending in other areas.
- Notorious Portuguese political prison becomes museum of resistance
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First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
A historical fortress Peniche used to hold dissidents under Portugal's dictatorship is being turned into a museum to remind people of the life under fascism.
- Some of Khashoggi's killers received training in US: WaPo report
Projects under intelligence and defence partnership between US and Saudi on hold after killing.
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First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
Some of the people involved in killing Jamal Khashoggi may have had special-operations training in the US, conducted by Tier 1 Group, an Arkansas-based company.
- In defense of To Kill a Mockingbird: The 1962 film about racism in theaters this week
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First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
Attempts to remove To Kill a Mockingbird from curricula are misguided and ignore the artistic and courageous ambitions of the book and film.
- ‘Renouncing Violence’ Is a Demand Made Almost Exclusively of Muslims
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First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
Media analysis shows that calls to renounce violence are directed at Muslims or other victims of Western occupation.
- UN aviation body blocks critics online
The UN’s aviation body is blocking climate critics on Twitter, accusing them of 'fake news' and 'spam'.
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
The International Civil Aviation Organization is blocking people who interact with them on Twitter. They claim their critics' arguments are not 'fact-based.'
- The U.S.' Refusal of Entry to Arnold August Is a Dangerous Precedent for All Activists
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
The US's refusal of entry to August is part of a long history of targeting people at the borders. This limits our democratic rights to organize and express political views peacefully.
- Dung beetles 'reduce human pathogens risk'
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
Farmers remove habitats that encourage natural wildlife for food-safety reasons, however, these habitats encourage biodiversity which could reduce the risk of pathogens in food.
- To Readers, $X Billion Just Means 'a Whole Lot of Money'
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
A call for media to put numbers in context, e.g., food stamps cost of $70 billion a year is just 0.4 percent of the budget.
- Russia and the Democrats
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
The Democratic Party's insistence of Russian meddling in the election show how out of touch and unfit their leadership is.
- 'They Had Already Decided They Wanted to Invade Iraq'
CounterSpin interviews with Robert Dreyfuss and Diana Duarte on media and the Iraq War
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
MP3s and transcripts of two interviews about justifications for the Iraq war. One focused on intelligence on WMDs and the other on women's rights.
- A Very Incomplete List of Sinister Things Vladimir Putin/Russia/'the Russians' Have Been Accused of Doing
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
A list as the title describes (with links).
- Why Activists Fail
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
Describes why activists have historically failed to make a real difference - they don't know how the world works. Describes how the world works and explains some components of nonviolent strategy for change.
- Pathological Deceit: The NYT Inverts Reality on Venezuela's Cuban Doctors
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
Claims that the Maduro government is using Cuban doctors to coerce voters by refusing care to the opposition are based on very dubious evidence.
- Race, Class, and the Left with Adolph Reed Jr.
Resource Type: Audio
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
Audio interview with Adolph Reed Jr.
- Reflections on coherence and comradeship
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
A lengthy personal meditation on strategic challenges facing left organizing.
- UN to probe 'horrific' Mali attacks as death toll jumps to 160
Local officials say at least 160 people were killed and scores more wounded in Saturday's attack in Mopti region.
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First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
The UN has sent a team of investigators to Mali in the aftermath of an attack that killed 160 people. Violence in the region is rooted in rivalry between two communities.
- US Foists 'Humanitarian Aid' on Venezuela, Helps Create a Humanitarian Crisis in Yemen
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
The US-backed Saudi Arabia war on Yemen is causing the worst humanitarian crisis of the modern era. The lack of concern from politicians should belie this justification for U.S. intervention in other countries.
- Anti-Muslim Bigotry and Far-Right Terror
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
Far-right ideology is fuelled by such a large mishmash of ideas that censoring anti-Muslim rhetoric is futile for stopping attacks.
- Emulating the circle of life
We need to rethink efficiency in our food system.
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
Developing food systems that simulate the processes found in nature can make food production more sustainable.
- Epifanio Camacho: a Militant Farmworker Brushed Out of History
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
Biographical info on Epifanio Camacho, a labor activist who fought alongside the less militant Cesar Chavez. He has been largely forgotten by history.
- The Homeless 8-Year-Old Chess Champion and Other Horrific 'Uplifting' Stories
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
Stories in US media of people overcoming adversity are only inspiring if you ignore the unjust systems that create their oppression.
- How would a revolutionary government protect the environment?
There is an enormous unused human potential waiting to be drawn into the job of saving the ecosphere. How can it be mobilized?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
A look at how a revolutionary government would combat climate change. Includes a lengthy excerpt from the pamphlet The Green Tax Fraud by Dick Nichols.
- In Brazil, thousands of people are still living under the threat of bursting mining dams
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
The Brazilian state of Minas Gerais is home to several large dams many of which have burst causing death and environment damage. There is evidence that some of these disasters were predictable.
- Three Lessons for the Left from the Mueller Inquiry
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
Important lessons for the progressive left to consider now that it is clear the inquiry by special counsel Robert Mueller into Russiagate is never going to uncover collusion between Donald Trump's camp and the Kremlin in the 2016 presidential election.
- The TSA's Role as Journalist Harasser and Media 'Watchdog'
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
An American journalist whose work opposes the US government is openly marked for extra screening and inspections when travelling.
- The Faculty of Divinity, Cambridge and Approved Ideas
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
The university environment should be the last place where dangerous ideas, and views, are stifled and stomped upon. In actual fact, we are seeing the reverse; from students unions to middle- and upper-managerial parasites and administrators, the contrarian idea must be boxed, the controversial speaker silenced and sent beyond the pale.
- Rethinking Dominant Approaches to Climate change
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
Market-based attempts to curb climate change are inadequate since they further enable its root cause, capitalism.
- 10 Failed Levees In Midwest Flood Zone Were Not Inspected By Federal Government
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
Many of the levees that failed during flooding of the Missouri River had not been inspected since the early 2010s. Some people say the Army Corps of Engineers has mismanaged levees under their responsibility.
- US and Puppet Guaido Implicated in Terrorism Plot Against Venezuela PLOT
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
New evidence has been uncovered regarding terror campaign planned by the US and the Venezuelan opposition.
- Defense for Chelsea Manning and Julian Assange
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
Transcript of a speech in defense of Chelsea Manning and Julian Assange.
- Everyone Washington Supports, by Definition, Is a Moderate Centrist
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
Many right-wing movements and leaders are described as moderate or even left-leaning by politicians and corporate media. In these cases the terms no longer have a political definition but is a way to convey approval.
- Killing for Credibility: A Look Back at the 1999 NATO Air War on Serbia
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
A detailed look back at NATO's 1999 war on Yugoslavia.
- New Zealand - Open letter: Betraying women and free thought in the name of Christchurch massacres
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
An open letter questioning shows of solidarity with Muslims after the Christchurch massacre, specifically non-Muslim women wearing head coverings and a Canadian university that disinvited an ex-Muslim atheist speaker.
- Recording Reveals Oil Industry Execs Laughing at Trump Access
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
A 2017 recording of Independent Petroleum Association of America executives reveals them revelling in their access to high levels of government. Since then many environmental protections have been rescinded.
- Reading Manifestos: Restricting Brenton Tarrant's The Great Replacement
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
Attempts to censor the Christchurch shooter's manifesto hinders attempts to understand and counteract their motives. Arguments for censorship, such as enabling copycats, are based on controversial evidence.
- Undermining the watercycle
A critical appraisal of the mining industry's contributions to the global water crisis.
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
The mining industry is often overlooked as a cause of the global water crisis. This article examines recent history of mining disasters and how the industry PR greenwashes its image.
- U.S.: We Will Break Your Legs
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
The US has threatened to deny visas to any ICC personnel investigating possible war crimes by U.S. forces. This should make clear the hypocrisy when the the US cites human rights violations as an excuse to invade other countries.
- The Chilling Censorship of the Christchurch Shooting
Rather than expunging information about the killer, we should be confronting evil head on.
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
Attempts to censor details of the Christchurch shooting may have the opposite of the intended effect by enabling denial and conspiracy theories.
- Larger high school class sizes will make Ontario students more resilient, education minister says
Lisa Thompson defends education changes in Metro Morning interview
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First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
Ontario Education Minister Lisa Thompson claims that larger class sizes are good for students based on consultations with employers and post-secondary teachers.
- Women's stories from the frontline of Sudan's revolution must be told
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
Women are leading Sudan's revolt against religious fundamentalism. As in Egypt and Saudi Arabia they face a violent backlash.
- Broiler chickens: The defining species of the Anthropocene?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
Broiler chickens may be distinct and ubiquitous enough as a human-modified species that their fossil record could justify calling our era the Anthropocene.
- The Destruction of Freedom: Chelsea Manning, Julian Assange And The Corporate Media
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
The corporate media's hostility towards Assange, Manning and WikiLeaks - obvious by lack of coverage or overt antagonism - shows it is tool of the state and big business.
- Green construction and worker safety
Green construction yields promising results for the future of our planet. But new technologies come with new safety risks for workers.
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
Eco-friendly construction exposes workers to new methods and materials which do not have the standard safety practices of those that are more established.
- Hebron - the heart of the occupation
Justice for Palestine is central to the left. The situation in Hebron is a good example why.
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
The history and current situation in Hebron.
- An Interview With Lisa Littman, Who Coined the Term 'Rapid Onset Gender Dysphoria'
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
In 2018, Lisa Littman, Assistant Professor of the Practice at the Brown University School of Public Health, published an article in the peer-reviewed journal PLOS ONE entitled Rapid-Onset Gender Dysphoria in Adolescents and Young Adults: A Study of Parental Reports. The article drew attention to a phenomenon that had attracted widespread concern among parents, but which had not yet been studied systematically in the scientific literature. Following publication, Dr. Littman and her study became the subject of intense criticism from some activists.
- The New Zealand Shootings, a Microcosm of Imperialism
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
The New Zealand Shootings and other mass murders use the same justification as governments that carry out campaigns against the same targets on a larger scale.
- US Government Knew Climate Risks in 1970s, National Petroleum Council Documents Show
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
Newly discovered documents show that the fossil fuel industry has know since the 1970s the effect that CO2 emissions would have on the environment.
- Why climate action is the antithesis of white supremacy
Behind the urgency of climate action is the understanding that everything is connected; behind white supremacy is an ideology of separation
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First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
Climate action and climate change denial are antithetical to each other as the former is based on interconnectivity and collective action while the latter seeks exclusion and separation.
- The New Politics of Disablement: The Contribution of Mike Oliver
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
Obituary for Mike Oliver, one of the founders of the social model of disability. Includes historical information, his legacy, and suggested reading.
- Exposure of Another Pro-War Lie Doesn't Make Media More Skeptical of Pro-War Claims
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
The story of pro-Maduro forces burning trucks bringing aid to Venezuela has now been reported as false, even by corporate media. The bigger story of how and why this lie was propogated gets left behind.
- Murder on the Mekong: why exiled Thai dissidents are abducted and killed
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
In Thailand, people who violate lèse-majesté law - which prevents any criticism of the monarchy - can find themselves with a bounty on them and end up living in exile. Some dissidents have been murdered or disappeared.
- 'Combat Obscura' is a brutally honest look at the blurred morality of the war in Afghanistan
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
A documentary featuring footage from a 2011 deployment in Afghanistan shows the reality of the war.
- Local fishermen: caught between the pros and cons of traceability
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
Consumers concerned about the environmental impact of fishing are demanding more transparency and accountablity from the industry. Ironically, the resulting regulations are prohibitive to the small scale fishermen that are the most sustainable part of the industry.
- Why the 1953 cancellation of German debt won’t be reproduced for Greece and Developing Countries
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
Detailed look at the differences between cancellation of Germany's debt and that of developing countries today.
- Brazilian dam disaster 'is part of a pattern'
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
A team of Autonomous University of Barcelona (UAB) academics is marking the international day of action for rivers by hanging out the dirty laundry of a very dirty company.
- Venezuela Coup Leader's Oil Plans Revealed: Guaidó Hopes to Privatize State-Controlled Industry
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
Juan Guaidó and his economic advisers have a plan to privatize the country's petroleum industry. This privatization scheme will be difficult to implement, however, since he is not in power.
- The Intercept Shuts Down Access to Snowden Trove
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
First Look Media, owner of The Intercept, is shutting down access to Snowden’s leaked NSA documents. Their reporters still have copies of all the documents and are looking to find a new outlet for them.
- "Please Step Away from the Socialism": The Red Scare Dems at MSNBC
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
The anti-socialist scaremongering at MSNBC should put paid to the idea that they have any leftist bias.
- Grand Jury Efforts: Jailing Chelsea Manning
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
The role of Grand Juries in the persecution of Chelsea Manning and a summary of their history.
- Hollywood's 'Captain Marvel' Blockbuster Is Blatant US Military Propaganda
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
Captain Marvel is the latest in a long line of movies made with the cooperation and approval of the US military.
- Publicised Cruelty: Scott Morrison Visits Christmas Island
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
Australia is reopening the immigration detention centre on Christmas Island. The prime minister made a public tour of the facilities.
- US Negotiations: Masters of Defeats
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
A summary of several US attempts at diplomacy that have failed due to their unwillingness to make any concessions to the other party.
- US Regime Change Blueprint Proposed Venezuelan Electricity Blackouts as 'Watershed Event' for 'Galvanizing Public Unrest'
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
A 2010 memo from Center for Applied Non-Violent Action and Strategies (CANVAS) seems to be playing out as planned in 2019.
- Shout out for peace and quiet
Green solutions to noise reduction could improve our mental and physical wellbeing.
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
Noise is a cause of stress with physical and psychological effects on people and also harms the environment. Noise reductions needs to be made part of solutions such as industry standards and urban planning.
- The Fake News Nazi - Corbyn, Williamson And The Anti-Semitism Scandal
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
Analysis of Corbyn's press shows accusations of anti-semitism against him only started when he became a political threat.
- 'I lost four sons': In Kashmir, women suffer brunt of conflict
Women's Day is a grim reminder of atrocities and hardships faced by the women of the region in decades-long conflict.
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
Women in Kashmir suffer the loss of their sons, husbands, and fathers in ongoing conflict.
- Bela Lugosi: actor, union leader, anti-fascist
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
On the life and career or Bela Lugosi.
- Eric Hobsbawm: Historical cosmonaut
David Kynaston on a 'national treasure' whose politics provoked endless bitterness
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
Review of 'A Life In History' a biography of Eric Hobsbawm by Richard J. Evans.
- The witch hunt at Westminster
Why was a documentary film on the 'anti-Semitism in Labour debate' banned from being screened at the British parliament?
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First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
A screening of a documentry about anti-Semitism in the Labour Party was cancelled in British parliament. Charges seem to conflate anti-Semitism with anti-Zionism.
- The Global Assault on Indigenous Peoples
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
Focusing on the the Ngäbe–Buglé in Panama, a look at the Indigenous people who have their way of life is destroyed by capitalism.
- The Prisoner Says No to Big Brother
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
A tribute to Julian Assange and WikiLeaks. Includes details of some of the corruption they have exposed.
- The War That Never Ends
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
North Korean denuclearization is unlikely without concessions (such as sanctions relief) from the US side. How likely is the Trump administration to make such a deal?
- Breaking the Silence: Inside the Israeli Right's Campaign to Silence an anti-Occupation Group
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
Breaking the Silence, an Israeli anti-occupation group that collects testimonies of Israeli soldiers operating in Palestinian territories has been targeted by moles and other attacks.
- British MPs won't get to see 'WitchHunt' in the House of Commons - the very place it needs to be shown
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
A screening of a documentary - made by Jewish Labour party members - about charges of anti-semitism in the British Labour Party has been cancelled.
- Angela Davis: Relevant as Ever After Thirty Years
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
A look at how Angela Davis's work in Women, Culture, and Politics (1989) applies today.
- Betraying the Kurds
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
Many debates about Trump's decision to withdraw troops from Syria ignore the overall illegitmacy of military-political intervention.
- Britain's Witchfinders are Ready to Burn Jeremy Corbyn
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
The suspension of MP Chris Williamson for alleged anti-semitism is part of a smear campaign against Corbyn. It is also a by-product of all criticism of Israel being labelled anti-semitism.
- California Burning, PG&E Bankrupt
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
A synopsis of PG&E's history of negligence and corruption which has caused wildfire disasters. The company tries to escape consequences but others are demanding change.
- A Call to Action
Book Review
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
Positive review - with caveats - of a book about how we can transform society.
- Catechism of the Waters
Species in conflict on the Columbia River
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
In September, commercial fisheries for salmon and sardines throughout the West Coast states were granted disaster relief. But over the past ten years, much of the damage has been done by sea lions.
- Chicago Charter Teachers Strike, Win
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
Reporting on the unprecedented and successful strike of charter school teachers in Chicago.
- Facebook Wants You to Know if You’re Getting Your News From the Wrong Government
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First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
Media outlets owned by a company with ties to the Russian government are forced to disclose their affiliation on Facebook. Media outlets owned or funded by the US government are not held to the same standard.
- A Fistful of Shells: West Africa from the Rise of the Slave Trade to the Age of Revolution
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
A history of West Africa from the 17th century onwards. Draws on written histories as well as archival research in nine countries, art, oral history, archaeology, and letters.
- Further Reading on the Russian Revolution
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
Several book recomendations with some comments on each.
- Guiding principles for an Ecosocialist Green New Deal
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
Statement of the Ecosocialist Working Group of the DSA on their demands for a Green New Deal that combats climate change and inequality.
- Lots of Scurrying But No Revolution in Sight
Book Review
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
Disappointed review of a collecton of essays of women and climate change, mostly in support of reforming the status quo.
- Marx for Today: A Socialist-Feminist Reading
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
In-depth look at the relationship between feminism and Marxism.
- MLK in Memphis, 1968
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
A look at MLK's actions and speeches in Memphis and their relevance today.
- Orbán: Strong Man, Authoritarian Ideology
Book Review
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
Review of a book about Viktor Orbán's political career.
- PG&E Bankruptcy
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
A short news item about Pacific Gas & Electric's bankruptcy case.
- The Story of Storytelling
What the hidden relationships of ancient folktales reveal about their evolution—and our own
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
Since Charles Darwin published On the Origin of Species in 1859, scientists have repeatedly proposed that the laws of biological evolution apply not just to bird and beast but also to creatures of the mind. Perhaps most famously, in his 1976 book The Selfish Gene, the English evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins coined the word meme to describe a "unit of cultural transmission" analogous to a biological gene.
- The Strange Career of the Second Amendment, Part II
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
A further look at the history of the Second Amendment. Focuses on late 19th and 20th c and disparity of the laws in regard to race.
- Turkey in 2019: An Assessment
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
A look at the current state of the Erdogan regime in Turkey as well as the hopes and challenges of what the left can accomplish.
- The UTLA Victory in Context
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
A look at the bigger picture surrounding the LA teacher's strike as part of the national upsurge that began with the 2012 strike of the Chicago Teachers Union.
- Venezuela Coverage Takes Us Back to Golden Age of Lying About Latin America
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
Corporate media has many stories about food and medicine shortages in Venezuela. These lies and others are debunked by someone who lives there.
- What Los Angeles Teachers Won
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
A Los Angeles teacher's take on the successful strike.
- White Women and White Power
Book Review
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
Review of two books about white supremacy. Especially focused on the role of white women in white power movements.
- Who Is Responsible?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
A short update on attempts to gain justice for Indigenous genocide in Guatemala in the 1980s.
- Whose "Security" -- and for What?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
Editorial about how accepted "security" discourse obscures the real structural and systemic crises today.
- Women's Oppression and Liberation
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
On the role of Marxism in the feminist movement in India.
- UN Council: Israel Intentionally Shot Children and Journalists in Gaza
Officials say killings are part of Israel's 'obligation'
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First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
A short piece on the UN Human Rights Council report on Israel's firing on unarmed protesters.
- Debunking The Myth That Anti-Zionism Is Anti-Semitic
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
Looks at some of the cases of Anti-Semitism and Zionism as mutually held beliefs, as well as other contradictions, to argue that Anti-Semitism and anti-Zionism are not the same.
- A History of the Indonesian Massacres, 1965-1966
Book Review
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First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
Review of a book of the Indonesian massacres contains lengthy excerpts and summary of the history.
- Hitting nature where it hurts: Iran feels the pernicious effects of US sanctions on biodiversity conservation
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
Iran is home to a rich and complex array of biodiversity. Efforts to protect its biodiversity have been challenged by decades of economic sanctions and political isolation.
- Illusion or Advance? Ecosocialists debate the 'Green New Deal'
Activists from System Change Not Climate Change discuss the strengths and weaknesses of the Green New Deal proposal.
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First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
Activists from 'System Change Not Climate Change' discuss the strengths and weaknesses of 'Green New Deal' proposals, and how the left should respond.
- ‘It Was a Remarkably Successful Grassroots Campaign to Target Amazon’s Credibility’
CounterSpin interview with Neil deMause on Amazon's retreat from New York
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First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
Transcript of interview with Neil deMause about NY's bid for Amazon HQ. Included downloadable MP3 of interview.
- The Rigors of Organizing: On the Road with the German Climate Resistance
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
Ende Gelände, is a broad coalition of German climate resistance organizers. Members are touring the US sharing info about their tactics.
- The U.S. is funding dangerous experiments it doesn’t want you to know about
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
The US government is funding research into making bird flu virus highly contagious without publicly disclosing it. A number of scientists are opposed to the secrecy behind these experiments and even question their value.
- ‘We Don’t Do Propaganda’
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
Dutch historian Rutger Bregman's (un-aired) appearance on Tucker Carlson sparked outrage in Carlson and an opportunity to highlight how money controls the narrative in mainstream news.
- The Christian Genocide During the Ottoman Empire Sounds a Dark Warning for the Future
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
Review and discussion of The Thirty-Year Genocide: Turkey’s Destruction of Its Christian Minorities 1894-1924 by Benny Morris and Dror Zeevi.
- The battle of testosterone that will decide the fate of sport
The curious case of Caster Semenya
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First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
Since the notion of “transgender athletes” appeared in the public domain – brought in by transgender tennis player Renee Richards back in 1975 – this has been the subject of never-ending controversy and debate. But now things are heading to what could be a culmination of decades-long deadlock. That is through the ongoing legal battle between South African runner Caster Semenya and the International Association of Athletics Federations. Last year, after IAAF introduced the controversial limit to testosterone levels of 5.0 nanomols per liter of blood for female athletes. Many regarded this as an attack on innocent athletes.
- Black Liberation Struggle: The Key to American Socialist Revolution
Part Two
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
Everybody is familiar with Marx's famous saying, in Capital, Vol. 1 (1867), that "labour cannot emancipate itself in the white skin where in the black it is branded." This was more than a moral appeal against slavery. It was a statement of fact: Marx recognized that so long as half the country was dominated by slavery, workers would never be able to fight for even basic trade-union rights. The Civil War paved the way for the growth of American capitalism and the labor movement.
- Judicial Secrecy: Where Justice Goes to Die
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
The trend of courts imposing gag orders and press bans on judicial proceedings is a hallmark of police states and a threat to freedom and justice.
- The War on Venezuela is Built on Lies
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
Maduro, like Chavez before him, is a fairly elected leader with support from the people. Talk of his 'illegitmacy' is propaganda in service of the coup.
- 'Making this up': Study says oilsands assessments marred by weak science
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
The environmental impact assessments required by oil companies use such inconsistent criteria that their reports say have little reliable information about one of the most heavily industrialized landscapes in Canada.
- A Tale of Two Citations: Rachel Carson's "Silent Spring" and Michael Harrington's "The Other America"
Contrasting Lessons for Activists
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First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
Looking at the forgotten, more radical aspects of Carson's "Silent Spring." Compares it with other, less radical works that were more easily co-opted by governments looking to appease new social and environmental movements.
- The Chickens Come Home to Roost ... in Syria
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
American meddling in the Middle East since 9/11 may finally be reaching a crisis as the process produces irreconcilable conflicts with allies.
- Court Throws out Energy Transfer's 'Racketeering' Claims Against Dakota Access Pipeline Opponents
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
An energy company that tried to bring RICO charges against Greenpeace and other people opposing their pipeline have had their case thrown out.
- The new Jewish left
In Canada, young Jews are fighting antisemitism while opposing the Israeli occupation
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
Young Jewish people in North America are fighting antisemitism while opposing Israel's occupation of Palestine.
- Yiddish Glory: How a Grammy nomination sprang from a Canadian prof's chance discovery
'Yiddish Glory: The Lost Songs of World War II' nominated in World Music Grammy category
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First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
A collection of WWII era Soviet Yiddish music went from an archive to a Grammy-winning album. The collection revealed much new information about Soviet Jews.
- Beyond Corporate Power
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
By concentrating on corporate power we can end up looking to the state for solutions. But the only way to achieve even the moderate reforms necessary is through revolutionary mass movements.
- Greenwashing the Climate Catastrophe
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
Many solutions to climate change such as the Green New Deal do not address the real threat to the planet: capitalism. They in fact are a smokescreen under which to conduct business as usual.
- Juan Guaidó: The Man Who Would Be President of Venezuela Doesn't Have a Constitutional Leg to Stand On
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
The US coup in Venezuela uses constitutional arguments to give legitimacy to Guaido's presidency. This article details how this argument is false.
- On the Front Lines of the Climate Change Movement: Mike Roselle Draws a Line
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
An excerpt from the book The Big Heat: Earth on the Brink by Jeffrey St. Clair and Joshua Frank. An account of environmental activists fighting massive industries to save the environment.
- Why Ann Coulter Has Power: U.S. Politics are Authoritarian by Design
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
A description of undemocratic processes in the US government - the Electoral College, gerrymandering, etc. - and how these allow a small minority to decide the leadership of the country.
- Repeat after me, protests in Venezuela good, protests in France bad!
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
Anti-government protests in Venezuela and France are treated differently because of the interests the respective presidents - and their opposition - represent.
- Venezuela Blitz - Part 1: Tyrants Don’t Have Free Elections
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
Thorough summary of support for the Venezuela coup in US and UK media with many excerpts.
- Venezuela Blitz - Part 2: Press Freedom, Sanctions And Oil
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
Analysis of corporate coverage of Venezuela reveals: reporting on the supposed lack of free press, and rarely mentioning the US's interest in their oil and effect of sanctions on the country.
- US Media Ignore -- and Applaud -- Economic War on Venezuela
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
US reporting on Venezuela fails to mention the effect economic sanctions have in Venezuela defying the work of experts in the area.
- Venezuela: The U.S.'s 68th Regime Change Disaster
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
The US's sanctions and political interference in Venezuela are part of a long history of foreign meddling that brings strife to the affected country.
- Face Surveillance Is a Uniquely Dangerous Technology
CounterSpin interview with Shankar Narayan on facial recognition
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
Lightly edited transcript of an interview regarding face recognition technology and how it will impact people who are already over-policed.
- The Long Goodbye of Antiwar Protest
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
There is a lack of real opposition - both by other governments and the public - to US-led regime changes.
- A Plague of Rats: How Years of Austerity Prompted Many Britons to Vote for Brexit
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
Many Britons in poor areas voted for Brexit even though they benefited financially from the EU. Though often blamed on fear of immigration it is also a result of discontent brought on by severe austerity and privatization.
- How the Murders of Journalists in the Middle East Are Brushed Aside
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
Though higher-profile than most, Jamal Khashoggi was far from the first Arab journalist to be murdered in the Middle East. In his case, just like most others, cover-ups disguised as investigations may placate public outcry.
- 'Palestinian Rights Has Become an Incredibly Mainstream Issue'
CounterSpin interview with Josh Ruebner on BDS bans
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
Interview with Josh Ruebner about anti-BDS legislation. With downloadable MP3 of interview.
- What the Media Won't Tell You About the Venezuelan Coup
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
Calling Venezuela's election illegitimate is false and is also a familiar tactic for US interference in a country's government.
- A Nonviolent Strategy to Defeat the US Coup Attempt in Venezuela
To the People of Venezuela
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
An open letter to the people of Venezuela regarding the US coup and with support for how they can resist.
- Judge: Providing Water to Dying Immigrants in Desert is a Crime
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
Activists who leave water near the US-Mexico border have been found guilty of various charges. Others in similar situations are still awaiting trial.
- The Need for a Compelling Anti-Capitalist Narrative
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
To inspire people with possibility socialists need to create a vision of the world they want to create instead of just showing how bad capitalism is.
- Orphan Bachelors
Exclusion and Confession, the two slamming doors of America
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
The Chinese Exclusion Act was the first law to ban a nationality, as well as a victory for labor. Since the 1840s, whites moving to California considered the state to be for whites only and thought that any job held by a non-white was stolen from them.
- Reclaiming control of Indonesia's oceans
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
Indonesian activists are building a global movement to resist the financialisation and privatisation of the world's oceans.
- Republican Estate Tax Repeal: An Effort to Avoid Ever Being Taxed
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
While Sen. Bernie Sanders proposes an important increase in the estate tax, Republicans are gearing for its complete repeal. Morris Pearl of the group Patriotic Millionaires, talks about how the Republicans’ plan would help the rich from ever being taxed.
- The Same Media That Opposed Democracy in South Africa Now Warn Against It in Israel/Palestine
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
Coverage of South African apartheid in US news in the 1980s compared with coverage of Israel/Palestine today reveals similar racist bias.
- Trump's Brilliant Strategy to Dismember U.S. Dollar Hegemony
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
The US's ability to use finance as international leverage is weakening as American nationalism becomes more blatant and alienates allies.
- Without a Trace
Missing, in an age of mass displacement
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
We are entering an age of mass displacement, bearing witness to the first tentative gestures of what promises to be a titanic redistribution of the world's citizenry. More than 68 million people are currently exiled from their homes by violence, more than at any other point in recorded history.
- Media Rally Around 'Forever War' in Afghanistan
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
A round up of some of the alarmist reporting on supposed withdrawal of US troops from Afghanistan.
- Rivers in crisis: water theft and corruption in the Darling River system
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
A water crisis in New South Wales has resulted in millions of fish dying and a shortage of water in communities. Politicians blame drought while other blame corruption and the actions of big irrigators.
- Why the Anthropocene is not 'climate change' - and why that matters
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
Reducing our current predicament to combatting climate change, or even narrower, reducing CO2 emissions fails to show the big picture of how humans have changed the planet. To contend with the Anthropocene we need to get rid of one-dimensional thinking of climate change.
- A Liberal Elite Still Luring Us Towards the Abyss
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
A recent manifesto decrying "populism and nationalism" see today's problems as coming from the abandonment of liberal ideals when they are in fact caused by extreme adherence to them.
- The Making of Juan Guaidó: How the US Regime Change Laboratory Created Venezuela's Coup Leader
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
A detailed account of US-backed groups that positioned Juan Guaidó to declare himself president of Venezuela.
- Rigging the Science of GMO Ecotoxicity
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
Scientific article about dangers of GMO plants and techniques used by developers to disguise harms to get GMOs through testing.
- Water resources - 'The river is dying': the vast ecological cost of Brazil's mining disasters
Water resources are tapped with often reckless abandon and poor regulation. And it looks set to go on under new president.
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
Brazil's worst mining disaster in decades has prompted calls to create stronger regulations and enforce them with real consequences rather than small fines that often go unpaid.
- The West Failed to Learn the Most Important Lessons From the Rise and Fall of ISIS
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
The attempted coup in Venezuela today is an example of imperial overreach western governments displayed in the Middle East.
- In Praise of Direct Action (and More)
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
The speed with which air traffic controllers' work stoppage put an end to the government shutdown shows the power of direct action especially when it threatens capitalist profit.
- The Nine Worst Lawfare Injustices in the US and What They Tell Us About Ourselves
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
"Lawfare" is when the law is weoponized and directed against a group of people declared to be an enemy. This is a brief history with nine examples.
- Kashmiris launch calendar to remember disappeared loves ones
At least 8,000 people have disappeared since 1989 according to human rights groups, leaving relatives in no-man's land
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
Women whose husbands were disappeared have spent decades wondering what happened to them and fighting for justice. They and a group representing families of disappeared persons have published a calendar commemerating 12 victims.
- 'No right to make money off us that way': Woman targeted by baby product marketing after miscarriage
Go Public test reveals Motherhood Maternity not always transparent about how personal information is shared
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
Information shared with companies and social media is often shared in ways that seem unethical. This is very upsetting to people who suffer miscarraiges and continue getting marketing directed at new parents.
- The US coup in Venezuela: New attempt to eradicate the Chavista Revolution
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
The coup in Venezuela is the latest in a long history of US attempts to undermine and overthrow progressive governments in Latin America. American progressives must do more to stop this aggression.
- Yet Another U.S. Coup Attempt to Eradicate the Bolivarian Revolution
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
History of the attempted coup in Venezuela as of January 2019.
- International undercover agents target Toronto-based digital rights group Citizen Lab
Group targeted following its reports on Israeli software used to spy on Jamal Khashoggi
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
Members of the internet watchdog group Citizen Lab have been contacted by men masquerading as investors who seem to be trying to dig up dirt on them.
- Komiks from the Underground: the Radicalism of Gilbert Shelton
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
A review and history of "Radical America Komiks," a reprint collection of underground comics from 1969.
- Venezuela: Is President Maduro 'illegitimate'? 10 facts to counter the lies
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
Concise rebuttal of talking points used by those trying to bring about a coup in Venezuela.
- A Robust Doctrine: Break the Taboo on Odious Debts and their Repudiation
The Challenges for the European Left regarding Debt and the Banks
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
An interview with Éric Toussaint, the author of The Debt System. A History of Sovereign Debts and their Repudiation. He discusses debt, illegetimate debt and the instances in history when debts were repudiated.
- Behind the popular revolt in Sudan
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
Interview with journalist and former Sudanese Communist Party activist Rashid Saeed Yagoub. Amgad Fareid Eltayeb outlines the situation and background to the revolt in Sudan. Also, a solidarity statement issued by the Alliance of Middle Eastern Socialists.
- Attacks in Thailand's deep south: Who, why and what's next?
Burst of violence deepens concerns the situation in the conflict-hit region could deteriorate in the coming months.
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
Fatal attacks by Malay separatists have brought what some feel are overly punitive retaliation from Thailand's military. This could lead to a deterioration in diplomacy and more violence.
- 'Fake news' is okay if it's about #RussiaGate: Top 7 fake 'collusion' stories the media pushed
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
A summary of stories of Russian interference in US politics that were later retracted.
- First responder in Skripal poisoning turns out to be Britain’s most senior military nurse
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
Sergei and Yulia Skripal were given first aid by the British Army’s most senior nurse, who just happened to be nearby, according to a new report – adding further intrigue to the highly controversial case. The latest development in the Salisbury poisoning affair will fuel the claims of skeptics, who don’t believe the official British narrative.
- Propaganda of omission: Britain's role in Rohingya genocide absent from UK reports
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
The British military supports the Myanmar army with training. While coverage of Myanmar violence against innocent Rohingya is covered the media say little about British involvement and politicians find ways to excuse it.
- 'I regret it': Hayden King on writing Ryerson University's territorial acknowledgement
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
I think that the territorial acknowledgement is by and large for non-Native people. So if we're writing a script then providing a phonetic guide for how to recite the nation's names, then it doesn't really require much work on behalf of the people who are reciting that territorial acknowledgement.
- What's the alternative to factory farms?
Book Review
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
Mixed review of a collection of essays about industrial agriculture. Most of the papers point out the destructiveness of animal agriculture but neglect the wider issue of capitialism.
- Declassified Documents Now Reveal There Were Two CIA Torture Programs
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
Declassified documents expose new info about the CIA's detention and interrogation operations. This article looks at their history going back to MKUltra in the 1950s.
- Refugees Are in the Channel Thanks to the Actions of the West
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
The outcome of Western military and economic interventions in the Middle East and North Africa have caused the outflow of refugees from zones of conflict.
- Breaking the Left's Gay Taboo
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
A review of Allen Young's "Left, Gay and Green: a Writer's Life" that includes much historical context and the reviewer's personal history.
- Climate Advocates Underestimate Power of Fossil Fueled Misinformation Campaigns, Say Top Researchers
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
The "climate countermovement" direct massive resources towards denying the reality of climate change. Climate advocates need to address their opposition's tactics to be able to combat this misinformation.
- Dances of Disinformation: the Partisan Politics of the Integrity Initiative
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
The Integrity Initiative - a supposedly non-partisan agency aiming at dismantling state sponsored misinformation - was exposed as funded by a UK government agency to undermine the opposition. This brings into question the plausibility of an impartial or apolitical playing field.
- Mainstream Media Bias on 2020 Democratic Race Already in High Gear
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
Mainstream media pundits undermine the chances of progressive candidates like Bernie Sanders despite the defeat of centrist politicians by the right.
- More than 100 First Nations could purchase the Trans Mountain expansion pipeline
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
Dozens of First Nations leaders are meeting to discuss a plan that could make them the next owners of the controversial Trans Mountain pipeline. Indigenous leaders will debate which financial model is ideal if they are able to purchase the pipeline project, which would boost the amount of oilsands bitumen shipped from Alberta to the B.C. coast. The Indian Resource Council (IRC) is optimistic it will be able to present a proposal to Ottawa to acquire the pipeline project in the coming months. The IRC represents 134 First Nations that have oil and gas resources on their land.
- Putin Asks And Trump Delivers - A List Of All The Good Things Trump Did For Russia
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
- Dearest Arundhati Roy: Shahidul Alam reflects on his time in prison
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
The Bangladeshi photographer was charged with criticising his country on Facebook and spent more than 100 days behind bars. Now freed, he replies to the Indian novelist who wrote to him in jail.
- Do we fetishize indigenous people?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
Although well-intentioned, Western representations of and interactions with Indigenous people can undermine their humanity.
- The FBI's police state operation against Trump
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
The allegations that Trump is a Russian agent lack credibility. The FBI's invesitigation seems more like the agency is attempting to overthrow an elected government - a threat the FBI has posed in the past.
- In the US South, anti-Confederate protesters face harassment
At least 1,728 Confederate memorials - among them 772 monuments - remained intact as of June 2018, says SPLC watchdog.
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
In recent years Confederate monuments have become increasingly high-profile as symbols of racism with links to extremist violence. Protests against these monuments are highly tense even when violence does not break out.
- The Persecuted
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
Fundamentalist Christians maintaining that they are persecuted may not make sense given the prevalence of sympathetic and Christian-owned media and businesses. Listening to a sermon reveals they see the inability to impose their views in society as persecution.
- Shedding Light on Forced Child Pregnancy and Motherhood in Latin America
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Published: 2018
Research and campaigns by women's rights advocates are beginning to focus on the problem of Latin American girls who are forced to bear the children of their rapists, with the lifelong implications that entails and without the protection of public policies guaranteeing their human rights.
- Socially Polarised, Politically Paralysed
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
An essay on the peculiar character of contemporary social polarisation illstrated through the discussion of Brexit.
- We The Workers: A limited documentary about labour rights groups in China
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
A review of a documentary on labour conditions in China. The docementary was filmed at great risk but the motiviations and the end product are questionable.
- "Free Trade" Is Today's Imperialism by the 1 Percent
Building alternatives to free trade must become an essential component of a more progressive US foreign policy.
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
Principles of "free" trade allow global North corporations to continue the colonial policies that made them their wealth. Alternatives to free trade need to shift power and wealth to the global South to create fairness and progress.
- In The Eye of the Beholder: USA History of Imprisoning Women Politicals
Part One of review and discussion of Linda G. Ford's Women Politicals in America: Jailed Dissenters from Mother Jones to Lynne Stewart
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
An in-depth review of Linda Ford's "Women Politicals in America: Jailed Dissenters from Mother Jones to Lynne Stewart" (2018). The author draws on his personal experience as a journalist and organizer.
- 1919: The Year the World Was on Fire
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
A sprawling take on international revolutionary events of 1919 using Emma Goldman, Bill Haywood, and John Reed as focal points.
- Updating Some U.S. Political Prisoners January 2019
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
An update on political prisoners in the United States.
- Argentina's Indigenous People Fight for Land Rights
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
Indigenous people in Argentina live with the constant threat of eviction on land to which they own no title. Much of their predicament is due to colonial laws and attitudes that persist even though constitutional changes now recognize Indigenous land rights as an urgent issue. Deforestation due to expanding agriculture exacerbates this conflict.
- U.S. Newspapers Are More Than Twice As Likely to Cite Israeli Sources in Headlines Than Palestinian Ones
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
A study of 50 years of news headlines on the Israel-Palestine conflict from five major American publications shows that they are biased towards the Israeli side.
- US astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson targeted by #MeToo campaign
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
American astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson has become one of the most recent targets of the #MeToo campaign, the sexual witch hunt sweeping the professional middle classes in the US and beyond. Nothing that has come to light so far demonstrates that Tyson is guilty of any wrongdoing. On the contrary, the published material suggests he is the victim of a virulent strain of political and psychological hysteria.
- As Democratic Elites Reunite With Neocons, the Party's Voters Are Becoming Far More Militaristic and Pro-War Than Republicans
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
As President Trump announces plans to withdraw troops from Syria and Afghanistan Democrats have seemingly adopted a pro-war stance in greater numbers than Republicans.
- French Democracy Dead or Alive?
The Gilets Jaunes in 2019
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
An overview of the Yellow Vests: their methods, demands, media coverage and summary of major events from November 2018 to January 2019.
- Legal Weed Is Great, But Black and Brown Communities Can't Be Left Behind
Marijuana legalization must bring both equity and justice for those most impacted by the War on Drugs.
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
Marginalized populations that were hardest hit by the War on Drugs should be at the forefront of legalization legislation as well as recipients of the tax revenue from legalized marijuana.
- Neoliberalism: Free Market Fundamentalism or Corporate Power?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
The idea of "free market fundamentalism (FMF)" omits the fact that neoliberalism requires state intervention to run, so criticism of neoliberalsm based on FMF is ahistorical and self-defeating.
- 'Not a Good Answer': Privacy Advocates Reject Democratic Proposal for 'Technological Wall' With Expanded Border Surveillance
'More surveillance' has become the default answer to far too many difficult policy questions
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
Digital rights advocates called on Democratic lawmakers to expand their fight against the wall into a fight for all human and constitutional rights-instead of suggesting alternative "border security" proposals that would infringe on civil liberties.
- For Owners of Amazon’s Ring Security Cameras, Strangers May Have Been Watching Too
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
Amazon's Ring security cameras have a history of lax, sloppy oversight when it comes to deciding who has access to some of the most precious, intimate data belonging to any person: a live, high-definition feed from around -and perhaps inside- their house.
- Indigenous People, the First Victims of Brazil's New Far-Right Government
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
Anti-Indigenous sentiment in Brazil is emboldened by Bolsonaro's regime. This is leading to greater efforts by the government and agribusiness to seize Indigenous Lands.
- Meet Europe's Left Nationalists -'A momentous turn against free movement in Europe'
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
The rise of leaders like Sahra Wagenknecht and Jean-Luc Mélenchon marks a momentous turn against free movement in Europe-at the expense of immigrants.
- Resignations rock US civil rights institute after it strips Angela Davis of award over pro-BDS views
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
Three members quit the board of the Birmingham Civil Rights Institute after its controversial decision to first grant, then to rescind an award for iconic activist Angela Davis, following objections to her anti-Israel statements.
- A Tale of Two Toilets: Profiting from Necessity?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
As indoor plumbing arrived in the U.S. in the 1840s and Dr. John Snow’s treatise on sewage-contaminated water causing cholera came out in 1855, the current global toilet situation cannot be attributed to lack of knowledge, technology, or resources.
- The 'Unpeople' of South Korea
Idiocy and Violence of Immigration
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
Who are the ‘unpeople’ of South Korea? They are an majority of illegal migrants who lack basic rights and security and believed to deserve it according to the laws and principles under which Korean society operates.
- Catherine Rottenberg's Neoliberal Feminism
Book Review
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
An interview with Catherine Rottenberg, author of The Rise of Neoliberal Feminism (2018).
- The Orwell quotes right-wingers never mention
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
A brief look at George Orwell's revolutionary, left-wing views to counter the superficial references to "thought police" or "big brother" used in right-wing circles.
- Protesting the "slave law" in Hungary: The erosion of illiberal hegemony?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
Popular protests have arisen in Hungary to oppose exploitive changes to the labor code. The government opposition has supported the protests but this could result in weakening the protests' legitimacy as a movement.
- Alliance statement: Solidarity with the popular uprising in Sudan
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
Statement of allliance by the Aliiance of Middle Eastern Socialists for the ongoing uprising in Sudan which erupted on December 19th, 2018.
- From Academic to Assembly Line Worker: My Life of Precarity in Middle America
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
A non-tenured academic's story of trying to make ends meet in Indiana.
- Nicaragua: The Other Revolution Betrayed
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
A look at the current neoliberal regime in Nicaragua and how the Sandinista government failed to deliver on the promise of the 1979 Revolution.
- Shots All Around: How Four Roses Bourbon Workers Won Their Strike
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
Four Roses Bourbon Worked successfully striked over a two-tier contract proposal that would have given worse benefits to new hires.
- Who Would Believe It? Annals of the New Left Era
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
A review of "You Say You Want a Revolution" a collection of memoirs of the Progressive Labor Party.
- Newly Released FOIA Documents Shed Light on Border Patrol’s Seemingly Limitless Authority
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
More than 1,000 pages of previously unseen Customs and Border Protection training documents, shed light on the details of the Amercian Border Patrol’s seemingly limitless authority.
- Progressive Ideas Matter to Voters. So Why Do Democrats Fixate on the Identity of the Messenger?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
There is a larger rhetorical trend toward divorcing voter preferences from ideology to focusing on identity. Wittingly or not, the effect is to undermine the obvious power of progressive ideas.
- 'Slaves of the sea'
The long-forgotten Jaladas community and their need for policy inclusion
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
Due to socio-econimical, political, and geographical reasons, the Jaladas community has been negelected and they are vulnerable. Relevant sectoral policies enacted by the government of Bangladesh would address these issues.
- France: Yellow Jackets and labour movement at a crossroads - Social and political questions
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
A brief look at the Yellow Vests in 2018. Though they may have their problems they provide a possiblity of change outside the electoral system.
- U.S. Senate's First Bill, in the Midst of the Shutdown, Is a Bipartisan Defense of the Israeli Government From Boycotts
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
This Senate's first bill of 2019 considers giving state and local governments the power to punish companies that boycott Israel. These laws have been found to be unconstitutional but still have bipartisan support.
- Discarded Christmas trees used to restore creeks and streams, protect fish in Halton
Trees rebuild banks in creeks, streams in order to reduce warming of the water
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
In Halton, discarded Christmas trees are used to restore and protect wildlife in creeks and streams.
- Indonesia: 41 dead, 546 assaulted, 51 shot in agrarian conflicts under Jokowi’s watch
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
An explosion of agrarian conflicts between 2014 and 2018 has resulted in many casualties including 41 people killed, 546 people assaulted and 51 people shot since President Joko Widodo came to office.
- Must Writers Be Moral? Their Contracts May Require It
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
Publishers have been adding clauses to contracts that let them break relationships with writers who display behaviour that could damage their reputations. Many see this as a risky loophole open to abuse.
- Three big insights into our African origins
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
John Hawks delivered a lecture to the American Society for Human Genetics, focusing on the African record of human origins.
- United States - DSA Two Years Later: Where Are We At? Where Are We Headed?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
The Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) had had a massive surge in membership in the last two years. Here is a look at the history of socialism in the US and the DSA's current prospects for enacting real change.
- When Your Boss Locks You Out for Nearly 6 Months and Cuts Off Your Healthcare
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
When energy company National Grid locked out its workers during contract negotiations, workers workers had to struggle with loss of income and health insurance. Workers as well as legislators see this as an unfair bargaining tactic.
- Why Should My Newspaper Pledge Not to Boycott Israel?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
An editorial by the publisher of an Arkansas newspaper expected to sign a pledge promising to not boycott Israel in exchange for the ability to sell advertising.
- Old Mother Forest
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
A poignant look at the ecosystem of a rainforest from a conservationist in India.
- U.S.A : How Federal Workers Could Fight the Shutdown
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
Federal workers have dealt with low pay, degraded working conditions, and repeated employer lockouts. If they want to improve their conditions, they'll have to organize.
- Anti-Semitism & Me Too complaints challenge freedom of debate
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
- Apocalypse of Our Times
Book Review
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
Review of Gerald Horne's "Apocalypse of Settler Colonialism," a look at the 17th century origins of the slave trade.
- As Long as Grass Grows
The Indigenous Struggle for Environmental Justice, from Colonization to Standing Rock
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
A call to action on behalf of indigenous environmental justice that is deeply grounded in the histories and legacies of settler colonialism and the nonnative environmental movement. Understanding this past, the author believes, is fundamental to reshaping the future.
- BDS: Repression and Progress
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
Short piece about recent BDS actions and attempts to censor pro-Palestinian protest.
- The Best of Enemies
Resource Type: Film/Video
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
A film based on the book The Best of Enemies: Race and Redemption in the New South, by Osha Gray Davidson, which focuses on the relationship between civil rights activist Ann Atwater and Ku Klux Klan leader C. P. Ellis.
- Bolivia's coup
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
- Breaking the Impasse
Book Review
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
Review of Cracks in the Wall by Ben White, a hopeful book about weakening pro-Zionism in public consensus.
- Capitalism and Disability: Selected writings by Marta Russell
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
This book comprises a collection of groundbreaking writings by Marta Russell on the nature of disability and oppression under capitalism.
- Class War on New Ground
Book Review
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
Review of Kim Moody's New Terrain, a book looking at how capitalism has changed and how left wing organizing must adapt.
- Colorblind Law -- NOT
Book Review
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
Positive review of Color of Law by Richard Rothstein. It looks at the history of how states circumvented federal desegregation laws.
- Disciplined for Acting with Integrity
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
The smear campaign against two profs at University of Michigan participating in BDS harks back to McCarthyist attempts to silence the left at that same institution.
- Easy Chair: Lefty Lingo
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
On contemporary vernacular categorized as left-wing and its tendency towards exclusion.
- Eating Tomorrow: Agribusiness. Family Farmers and the Battle for the Future of Food
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
Reporting from Africa, Mexico, India, and the United States, Timothy A. Wise's Eating Tomorrow discovers how in country after country agribusiness and its well-heeled philanthropic promoters have hijacked food policies to feed corporate interests.
- The economic Anschluss of the GDR
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
- The Emergence of Ecosocialism
Collected Essays by Joel Kovel
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
- Europe's Political Turmoil -- Part II
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
Could the rise of the far right across Europe actually lead to establishing fascist regimes? Overemphasis on this fear may divert attention from where it is needed.
- Father Greg: A Life
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
A biography of Fr. Greg MacLeod, noted for his work on community economic development on Cape Breton Island.
- The FBI in Ecuador
Book Review
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
Review of a book detailing the FBI's actions in Latin America throughout the 20th century.
- Fearless Cities: A Guide to the Global Municipalist Movement
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
Self-government, or 'municipalism', is changing politics all over the world. This is a guide to winning back our towns and cities from below with real radical policies happening now; practical organizing strategies and tools; and profiles of 50 pioneering municipalist platforms from around the world.
- The Forest for the Trees
Reducing Drug and Mental Health Harms in the Inner City of Winnipeg
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
15 Annual State of the Inner City report.
- Friedrich Engels and Modern Social and Political Theory
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
- Gaza Fights for Freedom
Resource Type: Film/Video
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
Filmed during the height of the Great March Of Return protests, it features exclusive footage of demonstrations where 200 unarmed civilians have been killed by Israeli snipers since March 30, 2018.
- Global business of bytes
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
- GM Closures -- What's Next?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
Plant closures by GM in the US, Canada and internationally threaten workers and communities. Can unions fight to stop this destructive practice?
- Grenfell's untold story
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
- Nancy Gruber, 1930-2018
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
Obituary of radical activist Nancy Gruber.
- History in the Age of Abundance?
How the Web is Transforming Historical Research
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
Ian Milligan argues that web-based historical sources and their archives present extraordinary opportunities as well as daunting technical and ethical challenges for historians. Through case studies, he outlines the approaches, methods, tools, and search functions that can help a historian turn web documents into historical sources.
- Holocaust to Resistance
My journey
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
A memoir by Suzanne Berliner Weiss, a holocaust survivor born in France, who came to North America and was active in radical causes in the United States and Canada.
- Honeyland
Resource Type: Film
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
Delves into the life of Hatidze, a beekeeper in North Macedonia utilizing traditional methods of cultivation. However, new neighbors arrive and cause harm to the area. The film explores the link between survival, commercialization, and the environment.
- How the World Works
The Story of Human Labor from Prehistory to the Modern Day
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
In How the World Works, Cockshott connects scientific, economic, and societal strands to produce a sweeping and detailed work of historical analysis.
- I Accuse!
Herewith a proof beyond reasonable doubt that ICC chief prosecutor Fatou Bensouda whitewashed Israel
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
This finely-honed indictment by a writer widely acknowledged for his forensic skills is directed at Fatou Bensouda, the Chief Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court. It sets out how she defiled her office by refusing to investigate credible allegations of Israeli criminality.
- In Defense of Julian Assange
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
A wide range of distinguished contributors, many of them in original pieces, here set out the story of Julian Assange and WikiLeaks, the importance of their work, and the dangers for us all in the persecution they face. In Defense of Julian Assange is a vivid, vital intervention into one of the most important political issues of our day.
- Invisible Generations
Living between Indigenous and White in the Fraser Valley
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
Historian Jean Barman narrates the story of a family of mixed Indigenous and white descent and the prejudice they faced in BC -- a long-ignored aspect of the province's history.
- A Jagged Scrap of history
On the Shining Path
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
On the history of "The Shining Path", a Maoist guerilla group and its political impact on Peru.
- Journalists Speak Up for Julian Assange
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
Journalists and journalistic organizations around the globe, express their grave concern for Julian Assange's wellbeing, for his continued detention and for the draconian espionage charges.
- The K-12 Takeover
Big Philanthrophy's bid to privatize education
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
On the effects of the implementation of the charter school system in New Orleans.
- Law's disorder in Nigeria
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
- Lebanon: the right to know
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
- A Left for Itself
Left-Wing Hobbyists and Performative Radicalism
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
David Swift argues that the left is dominated by what he terms hobbyists and performative radicals.
- Life After Life
Why parole in America is just another prison
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
On the ineffectiveness of the US criminal-justice system's parole arm for paroled people who have been sentenced to life in prison.
- Life Itself is an Art
The life and work of Erich Fromm
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
- Magnificent FIght: the 1919 Winnipeg General Strike
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
In Magnificent Fight, Dennis Lewycky lays out the history of this iconic event, which remains the biggest and longest strike in Canadian history. He analyzes the social, political and economic conditions leading up to the strike.
- Manufacturing the Enemy: The Media War Against Cuba
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
Mainstream media in the United States for the past 60 years has converged with the neo-colonial foreign policy objectives of the state to create a misinformed, biased narrative against the Cuban revolution. Using extensive examples, including pre-revolutionary historic coverage, journalist Keith Bolender reveals how the national press has established an anti-Cuba chronicle in adherence to Washington's unrelenting regime change policies.
- David McReynolds, 1928-2018
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
Obituary and memoir of leftist activist David McReynolds.
- Men at Work
Is there a masculine cure for toxic masculinity?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
On the "EvryMan" men's group and its retreats supposedly designed to cure toxic masculinity.
- The Menace of Right "Populism"
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
Editorial about Trump and right-wing regimes world-wide and the opportunities for left-wing organizing.
- Mighty Moe
The True Story of a Thirteen-Year-Old Women's Running Revolutionary
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
The story of how 13-year-old Maureen Wilton set a women's world record in the marathon at a time when most of the sports world was antagonistic to the idea of women and girls competing in distance running.
- Miriam Garfinkle Social Justice Fund
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
The Miriam Garfinkle Social Justice Fund was established to honour Miriam Garfinkle's lifetime of work for social justice. Its mission is to support projects and initiatives which aim to change the world in large ways and small, with the ultimate goal of building a world based on justice and community where people live in harmony with the planet.
The Miriam Garfinkle Social Justice Fund prioritizes grassroots initiatives, with special emphasis on projects designed to raise awareness and stimulate organizing and action.
- My Gang is Jesus
Brazil's evangelicals face the temptations of the drug trade
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
Examines the use of religion by gang members as a source of community and support; highlighting the complex relationship between gang culture and religion.
- Nationalism, Patriotism, Hate Crimes
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
A look at the (mis)use of the word "nationalism" to describe Trump and white supremacists.
- The Nature of Canada
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
A collection of essays, photos, and illustrations, exploring how humans have engaged with Canadian nature and what those interactions say about the nature of Canada.
- No, Iran Does Not Break The Nuclear Deal
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
On May 8 2018 the United States broke the JCPOA when it reimposed sanctions on Iran. Iran can not "break" a deal that the U.S. already broke. The JCPOA clearly states that Iran would take this step if and when the U.S. breaches the agreement by imposing new sanctions. That Iran is now exceeding one of the limits JCPOA sets out is not in breach of the agreement but in adherence to its letters.
- Our Movement, Our Lives
Book Review
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
Review of a history of the Black Lives Matter movement, both nationally and locally.
- Panic Attack: Young Radicals in the Age of Trump
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
Although Soave may not personally agree with their motivations and goals, he takes their ideas seriously, approaching his interviews with a mixture of respect and healthy skepticism. The result is a faithful cross-section of today's radical youth, which will appeal to libertarians, conservatives, centrist liberals, and anyone who is alarmed by the trampling of free speech and due process in the name of social justice.
- Party for the Revolution
Book Review
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
Review of Crowds and Party by Jodi Dean, a philosophical look at the crowd and the individual in revolutionary action.
- The Peking University Marxist Society and Student Activists
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
Their report on the living and working conditions of university staff approaches Mao's suggestion that 'knowledge of any kind is inseparable from direct experience' when it states that 'it is only through practice that you can produce genuine knowledge.'
- Permanent Record
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
- Pure: Ten Points I Just Can’t Believe About the Official Skripal Narrative
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
- Radical Ambition
The New Left in Toronto
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
The story of Toronto's New Left from its initial stirrings in the late 1950s to its 'long, ambiguous goodbye in the early 1980s.
- Red Round Globe Hot Burning
A Tale at the Crossroads of Commons and Closure, of Love and Terror, of Race and Class, and of Kate and Ned Despard
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
- Resistance Matters
The Radical Vision of an Antipsychiatry Activist
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
Don Weitz writes "Antipsychiatry organizing saved my life once, and has always given it meaning. This book is an invitation to join me and other psychiatric survivors (and our allies) in exposing psychiatry’s coercive, life-destroying practices and utter lack of scientific validity; and creating and promoting life-affirming alternatives."
- A Revolutionary Detroit Memoir
Book Review
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
Review of autobiographical memoir of a white, working-class, Catholic woman who became involved in Black activisim.
- Russia and the patriarchal code
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
- Sard's Permanent War Economy
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
A long biographical essay on Edward Sard who founded the theory of "permanent war economy."
- Sister Language
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
Sister Language is a collaboration, composed mainly of letters and other writings, between two sisters, one of whom, Christina, is schizophrenic.
- Sources Calendar Expired Entries 2018
Resource Type: Website
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
- Sources News Release Archive 2019
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
News releases from 2019.
- Still Lonely on the Right
Book Review
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
A review of 3 books about Black Republicans.
- The Strange Career of the Second Amendment -- Part I
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
Detailed analysis of the Second Amendment and different perceptions of gun rights in US history.
- Ukraine on Fire: The Real Story
Resource Type: Film/Video
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
- Unconditional support for Israel is unconditional support for injustice
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
Like tens of thousands of Jews worldwide, we oppose Israel's ongoing illegal occupation of Palestinian lands and its regime of violence, intimidation and incarceration aimed at the Palestinian population of the West Bank, East Jerusalem and Gaza. We challenge those who offer unconditional support for Israel to ask themselves if they would support the same violations of human rights and international law anywhere else in the world. We affirm that our criticism of Israel comes from an embrace of both Jewish and universal humanitarian values and has no relation whatsoever to antisemitism.
- Unconditional support for Israel is unconditional support for injustice
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
Like tens of thousands of Jews worldwide, we oppose Israel's ongoing illegal occupation of Palestinian lands and its regime of violence, intimidation and incarceration aimed at the Palestinian population of the West Bank, East Jerusalem and Gaza. We challenge those who offer unconditional support for Israel to ask themselves if they would support the same violations of human rights and international law anywhere else in the world. We affirm that our criticism of Israel comes from an embrace of both Jewish and universal humanitarian values and has no relation whatsoever to antisemitism.
- Unearthing Justice
How to Protect Your Community from the Mining Industry
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
Brimming with case studies, anecdotes, resources, and illustrations, Unearthing Justice exposes the mining process and its externalized impacts on the environment, Indigenous Peoples, communities, workers, and governments. But, most importantly, the book shows how people are fighting back.
- US Trotskyism 1928-1965 Part I: Emergence
Left Opposition in the United States
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
The first in a documentary trilogy of U.S. Trotskyism, this volume spans 1928 to 1940, surveying labour struggles, contributions to the study of history and Marxist theory, and confrontations and convergences among left currents.
- US Trotskyism 1928–1965 Part II: Endurance
The Coming American Revolution. Dissident Marxism in the United States: Volume 3
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
The second in a documentary trilogy of U.S. Trotskyism, this volume spans 1941 to 1956, surveying the Second World War, the post-war strike wave, ongoing struggles against racism, and more.
- US Trotskyism 1928–1965 Part III: Resurgence
Uneven and Combined Development.
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
The third in a documentary trilogy of U.S. Trotskyism, this volume spans 1954 to 1965, surveying the Cold War era, the Black liberation struggle, the "third wave" of feminism, and more.
- Water as a Form of Social Control
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
Whether in Palestine or Detroit, restricting access to water is a tactic used to deprive populations of personal and social agency with dire consequences to health.
- What Black Life Actually Looks Like
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
In the age of Black Lives Matter protests, many activists and academics seem unable to see the complexity of black life beyond the barricades, or outside the frame of the latest viral video killing of a black civilian.
- Who funded the ISO? An analysis of the financial basis of pseudo-left politics
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
- Why the US Puppet President of Venezuela is Toast
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
In the alternative universe of corporate media, which ignores the economic war being waged against Venezuela, Reuters bemoans that the “crackdown” on Guaidó’s agents has failed to receive “significant retaliation from the international community.” In reality, Venezuela has massively suffered from the US-orchestrated punishments for resisting reverting to the status of a client state.
- The Yaniv scandal is the end-product of trans activism
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
Does inclusivity mean the Canadian state should compel women to handle a penis?
- The Deportation Racket
Con artists are preying on undocumented immigrants in detention
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
Undocumented immigrants have long been targeted by swindlers who promise shortcuts through the labyrinthine corridors of immigration law. What happened to Duran is most commonly called notario fraud, a catchall term that refers to a scam in which an individual misrepresents his or her qualifications to handle immigration work.
- Wem gehört das Internet?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2024
Als das Internet privatisiert wurde, waren die dominierenden Unternehmen nicht mehr bloß damit zufrieden, Werbung in Form von Printmedien zu veröffentlichen. Nun begannen sie damit, ihre Nutzer auszuspionieren, indem sie alle möglichen Informationen über sie sammelten.
- CLR James rejected the posturing of identity politics
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
C.L.R. James railed against the superficial nonsense that masquerades as 'anti-racism.'
- 75 Years Ago, the Battle of Stalingrad
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
The impact of the Battle of Stalingrad was enormous. In Germany, the public was henceforth painfully aware that their country was heading towards an ignominious defeat, and countless people who had previously supported the Nazi regime now turned against it.
- Quebec prosecuting nearly 100 crane operators for 'illegal' 2018 strike
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
Nearly 100 crane operators in Quebec are facing criminal prosecution for having participated in an "illegal" wildcat strike in June 2018.
- Venezuela: US Imperialism Is Based On Lies And Threats
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
First-hand report of a delegation to Venezuela from the US. They say the coup is weak and the Venezuelan people are strong and Maduro has their support.
- "Embodied Materialism" and Ecosocialism
Book review
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
Detailed chapter-by-chapter review of Ariel Salleh's Ecofeminism as Politics: Nature, Marx, and the Postmodern.
- Not My Revolution
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
The Women's March is not immune to the same forces that have confronted the political left in the U.S. for decades. The larger women's movement itself, that sprang from the antiwar movement and civil rights movement of the 1950s and 1960s, carried flaws along with its development that are not new to left political movements in the U.S.
- Media Panic Over the Stock Market Plunge
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
The media continue to be in a panic over the drop in the stock market over the last few weeks. Fortunately for political pundits, there is no expectation that they have any clue about the subjects on which they opine. For those more interested in economics than hysterics, the drop in the market is not a big deal.
- Sources Calendar Expired Entries 2018
Resource Type: Website
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
- Worse than Obsolete: NATO Creates Enemies
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
Twenty years' worth of "unintended" or "collateral" damage hasn't created friends in the war zones.
- 'This is a big bird': Wild turkey in Christie Pits is a neighbourhood favourite
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
- The US war on China's economic model
The growing hostility of Western governments to China is more about the interests of Western investors than legitimate security fears
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
China poses no military threat to the US but is still considered a top threat to the US. Although this perceived threat is economic that may not stop the US from military intervention.
- Water Wars: El Salvador Social Movements Resist Water Privatization
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
A look at the efforts of Salvadoran social movements which have unified in an urgent effort to counter the right-wing's most recent push to privatize El Salvador's scarce water resources.
- Irony alert: Firm that warned Americans of Russian bots...was running an army of fake Russian bots
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
The co-founders of cybersecurity firm New Knowledge warned Americans in November to "remain vigilant" in the face of "Russian efforts" to meddle in US elections. This month, they have been exposed for doing just that themselves.
- Islamic State in Ukraine: A Christmas present from the West
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
The report in British newspaper the Times, that Chechen Islamists, many reeling from defeat in Syria and Iraq amongst the alphabet soup of fanaticism, had indeed arrived at the war front in eastern Ukraine, woke me up from any Christmas torpor.
- Organ theft, staged attacks: UN panel details White Helmets' criminal activities, media yawns
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
- No matter how it appears, Trump isn't getting out of Syria and Afghanistan
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
Trump's plans to withdraw troops from Afghanistan and Syria don't reflect a large change in US foreign policy. US troops are only a small part of the forces currently deployed there and they will probably be replaced with mercenaries paid for by oil monarchies.
- Behind the epidemic of police killings in America: Class, poverty and race
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
Article examines root causes and socioeconomics dimension of police violence, with particular stress on the importance of class.
- Alice Walker's Conspiracy Theories Aren't Just Anti-Semitic - They're Anti-Black
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
White supremacy relies on different stereotypes of Black and Jewish people. Alice Walker's adoption of anti-semitic conspiracy theories points to the need for solidarity between the Black and Jewish communities - which are not mutually exclusive.
- The Case that Dare Not Speak Its Name: the Conviction of Cardinal Pell
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
Cardinal Pell, a high-ranking official of the Catholic Church and financial grand wizard of the Vatican, was found guilty on December 11, 2018 of historical child sexual abuses pertaining to two choir boys from the 1990s. But details remain sketchy.
- The ignorant, repressive attack on Frank Loesser's "Baby, It's Cold Outside"
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
A look at Frank Loesser's 1944 song "Baby, It's Cold Outside" and the social forces which have aggressively pushed the new 'Puritanism' that seeks to have the song banned.
- Indian Country: The Situation is Bleak, But Not Hopeless
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
Discusses how even though issues such as the Dakota Access Pipeline have received lots of public attention people are unaware of how Indigenous dispossession is deeply ingrained in the fabric of the US.
- Indian Country: The Situation is Bleak, But Not Hopeless
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
A discussion of Stephanie Woodard's book "American Apartheid: The Native Struggle for Self-Determination and Inclusion" and looking at how present-day colonial practices impact Native people in the US.
- Marc Lamont Hill's Detractors are the True Anti-Semites
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
Temple University's administration announced the unsurprising news that it has found no grounds to punish or investigate Professor Marc Lamont Hill for his speech on the occasion of the International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People. Yet, the university's Board of Trustees felt compelled, nonetheless, to issue a statement further maligning Dr Hill, albeit indirectly this time.
- Viktor Orban, Trump and the Populist Battle Over Public Space
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
The Hungarian legislation and the turmoil caused by Trump's moral equivalencies reveal how politicized space is not a distracting side effect of populist politics; rather, public space treated as a symbol of national identity is a defining characteristic of populism.
- The World Google Controls and Surveillance Capitalism
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
Google's encroaching powers over our lives, to include the freedom of expression protected by most national laws, not to mention EU and UN Charters, around the planet today.
- "Alexa, Drop a Bomb": Amazon Wants in on US Warfare
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
A look at US comapany Amazon and its involvement with the US military in creating an artificial 'brain' called JEDI. It demonstrates a new level of US determination for global domination, and would represent the creation of a weapon that would dramatically up the level of global military rivalry and ensure more human conflict.
- The "Gilets Jaunes" Seen From My Workplace
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
Due to the insular and ambiguous nature of social media, the Yellow Vests movement may spark political unrest but probably won't lead to real social revolution.
- Israeli army razes home of prominent Palestinian activist
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
The Israeli army has demolished a residential building owned by a prominent Palestinian activist, whose six sons have been imprisoned by Israel. The building, owned by Latifa Abu Hmeid, is located in the Amari refugee camp near the occupied West Bank city of Ramallah.
- Central Europe and Central America: Will there be a historical convergence?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
- Industrial accident claims three lives in Leduc, Alberta
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
A look at the troubling indifference to the alarming statistics on worker fatalities, and the lax occupational health and safety regulations that are designed to protect employers and permit the further expansion of company profits.
- Something New for Revolutionary Politics
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
A review of Kristin Ross's provocative article on the “The Long 1960s and 'The Wind from the West.'"
- The Troubling Link Between Attacks on Immigrants and Repression of Labor
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
A look at the targeting of immigrants and its connection to attacks on labour movements, and how it leads to disturbing increases in violations of civil liberties.
- Israel rolls out the welcome mat for Europe's neo-fascists
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
The recent visit to Israel of a dominant figure in Italy's right-wing coalition government, is the latest in an increasingly open alliance between the Israeli state and resurgent forces of the far-right and neo-fascism in Europe.
- Left-Wing Disaster Relief Efforts Spread Goodwill for Socialism
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
A look at some of the disaster relief initiatives by left-wing groups in the United States, as well as the disconnect that seems to underscore a number of issues with the state's disaster relief efforts.
- Truckers Spend the Holidays Driving Too Much for Too Little Pay
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
A look at the diminishing compensation provided to truck drivers, and why the trucking corporations get away with paying so little.
- Uber? Taxis? Or Plan C? How to Get Ride Hailing Right
BC could show the world a non-profit model that beats oligopolies
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
A look at 'ride-hailing' and why it should be run on a non-profit basis as a co-op or other non-profit model.
- Huawei executive's arrest provokes anti-US protests in China
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
The arrest of a Huawei executive in Canada has led to a wave of anger in China, in a move perceived to undermine China's increasingly dominant position in advanced technology. On Chinese social media comments denounce the arrest and call for the executive's immediate release as well as a boycott of Canadian brands.
- Québec solidaire reviews the election and maps campaign on climate crisis
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
Meeting in Montréal December 7-9, 2018, Québec Solidaire reviewed elections results, adopted a proposal to prioritize the issue of climate crisis, and held a discussion on how to prepare an internal debate on "secularism and religious signs."
- Tale of two uprisings: Ukraine's Maidan got McCain & cookies, French Yellow Vests get shunned
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
Unlike the 2014 Ukraine uprising, which witnessed invasive meddling on the part of US politicians and diplomats, Western support for the French Yellow Vest protests has been conspicuously missing in action.
- Time magazine honors journalists facing repression - but snubs Julian Assange
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
A look at Time Magazine's 'Person of the Year' award for 2018, which did not list any journalist who exposed state secrets or government misconduct in the United States, nor whistleblowers from Israel, Egypt, India or any of the NATO countries.
- Want to Fix Foster Care? Ask Kids Who Have Been Through the System
Innovative report co-researched by youth from care focuses on importance of relationships
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
A report called Relationships Matter for Youth "Aging Out" of Care, co-researched by youth from care, focuses on what truly matters to the young people who are in the system and notably on the importance of building relationships.
- What the Attack on Marc Lamont Hill Tells Us
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
Destruction is the Zionists' strategic goal and the attack on Marc Lamont Hill and others like him is dictated by the tactics they have chosen to use toward that end.
- Why white supremacists and Hindu nationalists are so alike
White supremacy and Hindu nationalism have common roots going back to the 19th-century idea of the 'Aryan race'.
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
Many members of the so-called "alt-right" - a loosely knit coalition of populists, white supremacists, white nationalists and neo-Nazis - turned to India to find historic and current justifications for their racist, xenophobic and divisive views.
- Blacking Out the Yellow Vests on Cable News: Corporate Media Doing its Job
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
France is experiencing a left-leaning popular and working-class uprising consistent with the French revolutionary tradition of "Liberty, Equality, and Fraternity", yet the majorty of Western media have given very little investigation or serious attention to the momentous events.
- Climate justice and migration in the media
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
A climate justice narrative is needed to communicate and enhance public understanding of migration induced by climate change. Key components must include human rights protection, greater equity in burdens sharing, and participation in decision-making processes.
- Siloed Thinking, Climate, and Disposable People
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
Judith Deutch takes a look at the human side of the climate disaster and the constricted way of thinking about it, as even those who do recognize anthropogenic climate change still do not examine a range of critical interactions.
- A very British coup: The spies who went out to the cold
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
Former British MP George Galloway comments on the revelation that subcontracted work from MI5 and MI6 targeted not only Russia but also smeared British politicians whom they perceived to be "pro-Russian"; those smeared include not only himself but Jeremy Corbyn and others in his party.
- Washington using legal cover to conceal economic banditry
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
The arrest of a Chinese telecom executive in Canada on behalf of the US is an abuse of the legal process and international law to pursue American economic interests. China's anger resonates with similar grievances against the US felt by Russia, Iran, Venezuela, and even American allies in Europe.
- William Blum: Anti-Imperial Advocate
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
The late William Blum, former computer programmer in the US State Department and initial enthusiast for US moral crusades, who died December 2018, gave us various exemplars of this counter-insurgent scholarship. His compilation of foreign policy ills in Rogue State: A Guide to the World's Only Superpower, was written with the US as sole surveyor of the land, all powerful and dangerously uncontained.
- Climate litigation looms
Interview
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
Nick Breeze interviews Dr. Saleemul Huq, Director of the International Centre for Climate Change and Development (ICCCAD), who explains why we must stay below 1.5C, and why loss and damage compensation, and litigation, are the next big agenda items at COP24.
- 'If I don't come back, call my lawyer': Practical solidarity for people
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
A recommendation of practical steps to help people facing the threat of detention, and the importance of standing in solidarity with others who are dealing with a hostile environment.
- Foreign Interventions in Revolutionary Russia
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
All over Europe, the First World War had brought about a potentially revolutionary situation as early as 1917. In countries where the authorities continued to represent the traditional elite, exactly as had been the case in 1914, they aimed to prevent the realization of this potential by means of repression, concessions, or both.
- Here's how we stopped a brutal, inhumane and barely legal charter flight
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
Helen Brewer describes how she, and 14 other activists, broke into Stansted Airport on the 28th of March 2017, and blocked a mass deportation charter flight due to send 60 people to Nigeria and Ghana -- a forced removal which threatened to place migrants in extreme danger.
- 100th Anniversary of 1918 Australian & New Zealand Surafend Massacre Of Palestinians
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
A look back at the premeditated massacre of male Palestinian villagers by Australian and New Zealand soldiers in the village of Surafend and a nearby Bedouin camp, which took place on December 10, 1918. The massacre has been largely ignored but serves as an allegory of settler colonialism.
- Stansted 15: British Activists Who Stopped Deportation Charter Flight Convicted of Terrorism Charge
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
A look at a group of fifteen activists who prevented a deportation charter flight from leaving Stansted airport in the UK by securing themselves around the aeroplane, and were subsequently found guilty of a terrorist offence.
- Unions Should Go Big on a Green New Deal for Canada
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
Canada's unions need to play a much larger leadership role on climate change, not just because it deals with economic policies directly affecting members but also because it will be difficult to get where we need to go without them.
- William Blum, Renowned U.S. Foreign Policy Critic, Dead at 85
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
Obituary for William Blum with biographical information and links to his work.
- Ethics and Whistleblowing for Engineers Affects Us All
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
Some engineering professors worry that their students' busy course schedules prevents them from adequately exploring the liberal arts. Without exposure to the liberal arts, engineering students will lack the broad context that will help them approach their work as a profession, not just a trade.
- Linking class and gender theory
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
A detailed review of "Social Reproduction Theory" an essay collection edited by Tithi Bhattacharya. Contributors include Nancy Fraser, Salar Mohandesi and Emma Teitelman, Susan Ferguson, Carman Teeple Hopkins, Serap Saritas Oran and Alan Sears.
- She's Planting the Seeds of Indigenous Food Sovereignty
How Jessie Housty feeds the growth of her Heiltsuk culture and community
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
A look at the efforts of Jessie Housty, an Indigenous woman from British Columbia, who is helping to change the diet of her community that is overwhelmingly dominated by industrial food products.
- Canadian Jewish News: Promoter of Terror Tourism?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
What should we make of a media outlet that praises those who join or give money to a foreign army, which occupies territory belonging to another people, terrorizes the local population by destroying houses, restricting their movement, subjecting them to military courts and shooting unarmed protestors? What should we call the Canadian Jewish News, an unfailing flatterer of Canadians who join or finance a military subjugating Palestinians? Would “promoter of terror tourism” be an appropriate description?
- A Killer Dies, a Teacher Lives: George H.W. Bush v. Noam Chomsky
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
The obsequious praise of the life and legacy of the now deceased mad-dog killer George H. W. Bush (1924-2018) contradict the reality of his actions during his life and presidency.
- Climate Jobs for All
Building Block for the Green New Deal
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
This article discusses the federal jobs guarantee (JG) concept which is also known as "jobs for all." The advocates of JG generally include climate protection as one of many types of work beneficial to the public that might be included in a jobs guarantee program.
- Climate Jobs for All
Building Block for the Green New Deal
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
A federal climate jobs guarantee (CJG) is a proposed program similar to the New Deal's WPA that would prioritize jobs that protect and improve the environment. Polls show that the program has popular support and could be a major political force in 2020.
- Israeli spyware being used to monitor Indonesian LGBT community, religious minorities
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
A look at the company and spyware product that is used by various institutions to monitor the activities of the LGBT community and religious minority groups in Indonesia.
- On the nature of change
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
The first in a series of articles exploring how dialectical systems thinking can direct change making. The 'On the Nature of Change' series will have three clear sections: 'The Philosophers' will examine a philosophical theory of change, and how this has developed and evolved over time. The second, 'Interpreting the World', and will apply this theory to three fundamental areas: the self, the team, society. Lastyly, 'Changing the World', will present clear ways in which this theory of change can be practically applied.
- Revolution in Ukraine? Yes, please! Revolution in France? Rule of law!
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
Western media coverage has differed with reports describing French protesters as rioters, while Ukrainian protesters were described as revolutionaries. The contrasting reaction has prompted many to ask: If a so-called revolution is allowed to happen in Ukraine, why not in France?
- Preservation Acts
Toward an ethical archive of the web
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
But they began to wonder what it meant to take an ephemeral object -- destined, after days and weeks, to sink to the bottom of an ever-shifting pile -- and render it permanent. It wasn't hard to see how an archive of civil disobedience could become a tool of government surveillance.
- The Vanishing
The plight of Christians in an age of intolerance
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
In the summer of 2014, the Islamic State occupied Christian cities and villages across northern Iraq, appropriated Christian homes, and destroyed farms of Christian families. When Islamic State commanders separated men from women and imposed jizyah, or extortion taxes, their purpose was extreme: they meant to subjugate the Christians or drive them away from the land.
- Why Are Young People Having So Little Sex?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
Despite the easing of taboos and the rise of hookup apps, Americans are in the midst of a sex recession. American teenagers and young adults are having less sex.
- Women in the Black Panther Party
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
While much that has been written about the Black Panther Party (BPP) is focused on the role of certain prominent male leaders, lesser known is that during peak membership women made up nearly two-thirds of the party. Leela Yellessety spoke to three authors of recent books that highlight the contribution of women in the Black Panther Party.
- Manifesto of Indian Farmers
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
Adopted by an assembly representing the farmers of India, the manifesto outlines Indian farmers convictions, principals, concerns, rights and calls on the parliament of India to hold a Special Session to address the agrarian crisis by passing and enacting the two Kisan Mukti Bills and address additional demands.
- Remembering the Jallianwala Bagh Massacre
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
A look back at the Jallianwala Bagh Massacre of April 13, 1919, where British colonial forces opened fire on peaceful Indian protesters. The massacre stands as a pivotal moment in Indian history that laid bare the true face of British Imperialism.
- The BBC Has Legal Protection to Spread Fake News: the Curious Case of ISIS, Andrew Neil and Jeremy Corbyn
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
A look at the reporting of 'fake news' by the BBC, which has no legal obligation to give its audience any information about its sources and seemingly has legal protection from scrutiny.
- Pakistan's blasphemy laws – The Supreme Court, Asia Bibi and the laws' historical background
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
A description of a blasphemy case in Pakistan. Also includes a history of blasphemy laws going back to British India.
- 'A Turtle is Worth More Alive Than Dead'
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
Various participants at the Sustainable Blue Economy Conference in Kenya discuss ways they can sustainably economically benefit from the local environment.
- Alberta has only itself to blame for bitumen problems
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
The article explains why Alberta has primarily itself to blame for the low price of its bitumen, a situation built on years of mismanagement in government and poor industry advice.
- The Counterinsurgency Paradigm: How U.S. Politics Have Become Paramilitarized
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
Bernard Harcourt argues in his recent book "The Counterrevolution: How Our Government Went to War Against Its Own Citizens" that the same counterinsurgency paradigm of warfare used against post-9/11 enemies has now come to the US as the effective governing strategy.
- The Dangerous Junk Science of Vocal Risk Assessment
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
Various companies and government agencies aim to use technology that measures biological features such as facial expressions or tone of voice to assess individuals, such as refugee claimants or potential employees, for 'risk'. Many critics say the science behind this is dubious and can hide cultural bias under a blanket of objectivity.
- Disagreement is not hatred
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
An essay on the transgender debate which argues that debate ends when we label views we simply disagree with as 'hatred''.
- Oil Industry Cleanup Costs Vastly Exceed Alberta Government’s Estimates
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
Transcript of interview with Regan Boychuk of Reclaim Alberta on the cost to clean up after Alberta's tar sand industry.
- Climate Change Drives Up Rural Poverty in Latin America
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
In Latin America and the Caribbean region's first meeting of Week of Agriculture and Food, held in November 2018, more than 1,000 officials and experts agreed that the fall in agricultural yields and increasing migration from the countryside are consequences of global warming.
- Extinction Rebellion: From the UK to Ghana and the US, Climate Activists Take Civil Disobedience World-Wide
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
A look at the Extinction Rebellion, an international movement that calls for peaceful mass economic disruption around the world in order to bring awareness to the growing environmental crisis.
- Made-in-China fake news overwhelms Taiwan
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
Since 2016, when Tsai Ing-wen of the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) was elected as Taiwan's president relations between Taiwan and China have been increasingly strained. In parallel, a series of fake news campaigns have captured Taiwanese media, with experts tracing several of these stories back to China.
- Afghanistan is Collapsing. Get Out: Now!
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
A look at the disastrous results of US and NATO intervention in Afghanistan, a conflict which has little to do with eliminating international terrorism.
- Air pollution now 'largest health crisis'
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
The WHO estimates that seven million premature deaths are linked to air pollution every year, of which nearly 600,000 are children who are uniquely vulnerable.
- Alberta's Problem Isn't Pipelines; It's Bad Policy Decisions
Bitumen prices are low because the province has ignored at least a decade of warnings.
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
A 2007 Alberta government report indicates that the provincial government has been aware for more than a decade that its oilsands policies were setting the stage for today's price crisis.
- Dunlop Factory (South Africa): The workers who won't snitch
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
Metalworker union Numsa files legal arguments in the Constitutional Court on on behalf of Dunlop factory workers from Howick, KwaZulu-Natal, after workers were dismissed because they did not snitch on fellow workers during a protected strike.
- Noam Chomsky Turns 90: How a U.S. Anarchist Has More Than Survived
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
A brief look back at the life and work of world reknowned linguist, philospher and social activist Noam Chomsky, who turns 90 on December 7, 2018.
- Thankstaking in the Trumpfederacy: Terminate the Tribe That Aided the Pilgrims
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
A look at the hostile climate that exists under the Trump Administration for America's first peoples. The article looks at the further erosion treaties and protective laws, and the belief among indigenous communities that the administration's policy is a return to 'termination'.
- Twitter closes down my account for 'hateful conduct'
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
Several Twitter accounts with pro-Palestinian content have been suspended. At the same time those making explicit threats against them have been found not to violate Twitter's terms of service.
- When the BBC did fake news
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
The BBC recently aired a series on disinformation and fake news which made it seem like a problem reserved for non-British/non-European locales. The author looks at the BBC's role in the 1953 coup against Iran's democratically elected government.
- After Visiting Brazil's Lula in Prison, Noam Chomsky Warns Against "Disaster" Under Jair Bolsonaro
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
An interview with Noam Chomsky about newly elected President Jair Bolsonaro of Brazil. Politically the election marks a dramatic shift to the right for the country which Chomsky describes as a disaster for Brazil. The article includes a link to the interview on video.
- Facing the left-wing challenge in the European Union - Ten proposals
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
The left could bring radical change if they could prove themselves capable to people in the Eurozone dissatisfied with austerity measures. Here are ten proposals for social mobilization and actions to be taken by any government that is truly operating in the interests of the people.
- "It's Killing the Student Movement": Canary Mission's Blacklist of Pro-Palestine Activists Is Taking a Toll
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
Canary Mission, a website that compiles dossiers on Palestinian rights advocates and labels them racists, anti-Semites, and supporters of terrorism has taken a toll on activists' mental health and their ability to engage in free speech and public advocacy on Palestine.
- Noam Chomsky: Moral Depravity Defines US Politics
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
An interview with Noam Chomsky where he discusses the political parties' lack of focus on crucial issues. Though made hopeful by young progessive candidates winning in the midterms, electoral politics should not be the focus for radical political change.
- Trump's Amoral Saudi Statement Is a Pure Expression of Decades-Old 'U.S. Values' and Foreign Policy Orthodoxies
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
Donald Trump's statement that the US would continue business and diplomatic relations with Saudi Arabia after the murder of Jamal Khashoggi may be blunter than people are used to but it is standard operating procedure of American policy.
- US bombs continue to kill in Laos 50 years after Vietnam War
US dropped two million tonnes of bombs on Laos at height of Vietnam War. Why are cluster munitions still killing?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
A look at the problem of unexploded US bombs in Laos which have killed tens of thousands of people since the end of the war, and continue to kill and maim dozens annually.
- You Say You Want a Revolution: SDS, PL, and Adventures in Building a Worker-Student Alliance
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
A collection of memoirs from people who were part of Progressive Labor Party in the United States in the 1960s.
- Dust Bowls of Empire: Imperialism, Environmental Politics, and the Injustice of "Green" Capitalism
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
Analysis of the 1930s Dust Bowl as the result of capitalism and US imperialism. Also looks at what we can learn from it for today's climate crisis.
- Herbicides undermine antibiotics, threaten medical care
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
A New Zealand study adds to the body of evidence that industrial herbicides, not intended to be antibiotics, can have profound effects on bacteria, with potentially negative implications for medicine's ability to treat infectious diseases.
- New maps of land destruction show why caravans flee Central America
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
A new map developed at the University of Cincinnati illustrates the extent of worldwide land degradation, including the deforestation that is now forcing migrants to leave Guatemala and Honduras.
- 'Time is Running Out,' American Petroleum Institute Chief Said in 1965 Speech on Climate Change
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
In 1965 the president of the American Petroleum Institute discussed the effect of CO2 in the changing the atmosphere and the role specifically of the petroleum industry in causing climate change. More than 50 years later the science on this has become stronger but messaging from the industry has softened.
- Why (Mostly) Men Trophy Hunt: a Biocultural Explanation
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
A review of several studies offering insights into the biological basis of human behavior, specifically trophy hunting, and the biologically responsive strategies for changing it.
- Women-Led Radio Station Amplifies Voices of Indigenous Communities in Argentina
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
In the late 1990s several Indigenous women founded a radio station which continues to broadcast. It resists cultural subjugation and provides a voice to Indigenous people.
- Approaching Development: GMO Propaganda and Neoliberalism vs Localisation and Agroecology
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
A look at the pro GMO (Genetically Modified Organisms) lobby and the reasons why they are pushing GMO technology. The article looks towards agroecology as a better means of achieving genuine food sovereignty.
- It's Time for America to Reckon With the Staggering Death Toll of the Post-9/11 Wars
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
Researchers strive to count the casualties of American wars but are faced by a lack of political and military accountability and a seemingly apathetic public.
- Welcome to Arivaca: Where residents want anti-migrant militia out'
Many in this Arizona border town want armed vigilantes, who've vowed to round up undocumented migrants, to leave.
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
Many in this Arizona border town want armed vigilantes, who've vowed to round up undocumented migrants, to leave.
- Why is Inclusive Mosque so Afraid of Secularism?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
Secularism is merely a framework that separates religion from the state to ensure that religion cannot influence the state and public policy and impose itself on private lives. After all, not everyone in a given society is a believer and even if they are, they don’t usually want the state to tell them how to believe. Only a secular framework can ensure the equal rights of all citizens before the law and not different rights for different categories of communalised groups. It is only a secular framework that can ensure one law for all via changeable laws made by people versus unchangeable ‘divine’ laws imposed by clerics. It is a secular framework which can allow for multi-ethnic, multi-religious and plural societies and is a minimum precondition for the rights of women and minorities. It is a secular framework that can ensure freedom of conscience, including freedom of and from religion.
- Palestinian 'geeks' code their way to a better future in Gaza
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
Coding is empowering a new generation of Palestinians in the besieged Gaza Strip and helping many find work.
- These Activists Blocked Migrant Deportations. Now They Face Life Imprisonment in the U.K.
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
Fifteen activists who blocked a plane deporting migrants are being charged with laws intended for terrorists. The use of charter flights for deportations is one of the issues they raise.
- As the Obama DOJ Concluded, Prosecution of Julian Assange for Publishing Documents Poses Grave Threats to Press Freedom
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
Democrats and Republicans both seem willing to curtail freedom of the press when an outlet publishes work against their interests, however, prosecuting Julian Assange/Wikileaks would create a precedent that would criminalize the core function of investigative journalism.
- 'Being treated like slaves': Why migrant exploitation exists
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
A look at the labour market in modern capitalist society, and how it leads to the exploitation of migrant workers who are sometimes treated as slaves.
- Cucks, Cuckolding and Campaign Management
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
Talk about a bunch of sad sacks that really stink in the sack. The Trumpocalypse is ruining sex for the rest of us.
- A New Economic Model for the South: Ditch Corporate Welfare and Fund Agricultural Co-ops
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
A report from the Institute for Policy Studies, titled "Agricultural Cooperatives: Opportunities and Challenges for African-American Women in the South," makes the case that redirecting governmental support from corporate welfare to agricultural co-ops could provide an alternative vision for economic development in the Southern United States.
- November 1918: Red Revolution in Strasbourg
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
In the context of the revolution that erupted in Germany as the country suffered defeat in November 1918, a revolutionary situation also arose in Strasbourg, capital of Alsace, a province that still belonged to the Reich at that time.
- Right-wing coup or popular revolt? The April 2018 Nicaraguan uprising examined
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
Description of a report on the causes of the April 2018 conflict in Nicaragua.
- Amazon HQ2 Will Cost Taxpayers at Least $4.6 Billion, More Than Twice What the Company Claimed, New Study Shows
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
In addition to the billions in local government subsidies Amazon stands to gain from Federal Opportunity Zones. Researchers who have studied opportunity zones find that these tax schemes rarely ever help cities, and often financially cripple them.
- Propaganda Blitz: How the Corporate Media Distort Reality
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
A look at how corporate media distort the news. Uses recent examples such as the Scottish Independence referendum.
- Crucifying Julian Assange
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
Juilien Assange, who exposed the dark machinations and crimes of the US government, is now under threat of being expelled from the Equadorian Embassy. The article looks at what is happening to Assange and why the the silence over his plight is a betrayal by the press.
- Google's 'Smart City of Surveillance' Faces New Resistance in Toronto
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
A plan to develop 12 acres of the valuable waterfront just southeast of downtown Toronto
by the government agency Waterfront Toronto and Sidewalk Labs, owned by Google’s parent company Alphabet Inc. has sparked concerns about privacy and lack of public consultation. A recent slew of resignations from its board has made these concerns increasingly urgent and public.
- Pakistan, hostage of the religious - The radical left in resistance
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
Radical leftists strive amid fundamentalist hostility in Pakistan where blasphemy is a serious charge with its roots in colonial religious divisions.
- Military 'Service' Serves the Ruling Class
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
Military veteran and peace activist Will Griffin comments on the military campaigns in which he participated, and why he believes that military service ultimately serves noboby but a minority ruling class.
- Why does the language of journalism fail indigenous people?
A journalist with indigenous roots reflects on the making of We Are Still Here: A Story from Native Alaska.
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
A journalist with Indigenous roots reflects on the difficulty of doing justice to the community she is filming a documentary about. Historical misrepresentation due to lack of cross-cultural understanding has led to a distrust of the media.
- The Left Has Better Things to Do Than Watch Liberals Scratch Their Heads
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
Drawing from author David Harvey's work "The Ways of the World", Munson examines how Liberal-democracy has changed when the nucleus of capitalism shifted in the 1970's from the production of goods to the production of 'signs'. He further examines how 'neo-liberalism' is now grappling and adjusting in the era of Trump.
- The Malevolent Hypocrisy of Selective Sanctions
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
A look at why the US government is steadfast in its support of the Saudi dictatorship no matter what criminal excesses may be perpetrated by the Riyadh regime, while on the other hand it is determined to punish other countries like Cuba and Venezuela with severe economic sanctions.
- The Weaponization of Social Media
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
How the online environment and social media is being used as a political weapon, notably through the use of 'Bots'.
- How To Be A Reliable 'Mainstream' Journalist
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
A commentary on what is required to be a 'good' and 'reliable' journalist for the mainstream Western media.
- Keep those albums sounding great by converting your vinyl to a digital format
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
- The niqab represents a pernicious ideology and its spread should worry us all
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
A look at the controversial niqab and similar veils, and why they are so concerning.
- The Rewilding of Humanity?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
John Davis looks back at the exploitation of the wilderness, where urban dwellers are now alienated from the natural world that once surrounded them, and wonders whether we can ever return and live in a more natural and balanced state.
- Public Spaces, Private Control
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
A look at the commercialization of public spaces in Britain and elsewhere in the industrialized world, where gentrification and increasingly troubling privatization of public spaces goes largely unnoticed by a populace caught up in the day-to-day grind of living.
- Bolsonaro: a Monster Engineered by Our Media
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
Jonathan Cook explains why the mainstream Western media prefer an extreme right-wing leader over one from the Left.
- Bolsonaro: a Monster Engineered by Our Media
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
Jonathan Cook explains why the plutocrats and the mainstream media spokespeople much prefer a far-right populist like Jair Bolsonaro, or Donald Trump, to a populist leader of the genuine left.
- ECHR twisted logic: You can insult Christian but not Muslim religion
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
Two recent rulings by the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) demonstrate not only that it's a political and hypocritical organization. They also show the severe structural defects of human rights law in general.
- If We're on the Left, How Come We're Still Here?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
Andrew Levine looks at why the Left is largely ignored by Trump's more radical followers and pundits.
- Architects of Mass Slaughter
Book Review
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
Detailed review of two books about the Indonesian Genocide.
- The Constitutional Root of Racism
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
A look at how the US Constitution enables racism by affording power to the states.
- The End of "The Great War"
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
A thorough look at the ending of World War I, focusing especially on class conflict.
- Europe's Political Turmoil (Part I)
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
Far-right parties are gaining ground all over Europe scapegoating immigrants and people of colour. The radical left has not come up with a competitive strategy for winning people over.
- Europe's Political Turmoil and the Rise of the Far Right
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
A look at the recent rise of far-right governments all over Europe and the failure of the left to effectively counter this.
- Is There a Gig Economy?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
A data-heavy analysis questioning whether 'gig-economy' precarious jobs are indeed growing rapidly as reported.
- Jan and Carrol Cox, Political Activists
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
Obituary for Jan and Carrol Cox, long-time activists from Illinois.
- Karl Marx in the 21st Century
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
Looking at how Marx's theories can explain today's global crisis.
- Karl Marx: Revolutionary Heretic
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
A celebration of Marx as a thinker who constantly adapted his ideas and thinking.
- Latin America Crises and Contradictions
Book Review
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
Detailed review of a collection of essays on Latin America.
- The Logic of Human Survival
Book Review
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
Review of a Marxist look at the concept of the Anthropocene.
- The Making of Corporate Empire
Book Review
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
Review of a book covering Henry Ford's "ethos of the assembly line" and how his racist views shaped it in different places.
- Marx and the "International"
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
A rebuttal of the idea of Marx as Eurocentric and a white supremacist.
- Marx's Capital as Organizing Tool
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
A guide to how the left could use Marx's Capital as a text for organizing.
- The Saga of a City Rising
Book Review
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
Positive review of a collection of essays about Black organizing in Mississippi. The review focuses on two of the essays with two "key takeaways."
- Slavery and Capitalism
Book Review
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
A review of a collection of essays about the economics of American slavery.
- Supreme Toxicity -- Confirmed
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
Editorial about Brett Kavanaugh, the U.S. Supreme Court and the hopefulness of grassroots movements like #metoo and BLM spur people to take action.
- Triumph and Tragedy
Book Review
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
Le Blanc's sympathies with the Bolshevik project are clear, but this is no apologia. On the contrary, grounded in material and intellectual evidence, it is a work that helps us better understand the factors that shaped the choices the revolutionary leaders made and the alternatives paths that might have been open to them.
- Trump and Science
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
Although Trump is called anti-science he simply continues a trend that started with Reagan. Calling him anti-science can mask how his policies and tactics are rational ideologies in the service of neoliberalism.
- Two Powerful Films on Indonesian Mass Terror
Film Review
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
Short review of two films about Indonesian genocide.
- The Wars of Rich Resources
Book Review
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
Review of Bolivia's mid-20th century conflicts over resource extraction.
- Diverting Class War Into Generational War, Again
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
Dean Baker provieds a counter argument to a New York Times article titled "65 or Older? Here's What We Owe Our Kids" by Glenn Kramon, which directs blame at Social Security and Medicare for the current struggles of the younger generation.
- Fact-Checking the Establishment's 'Fact-Checkers': How the 'Fake News' Story is Fake News
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
A look at the introduction of "Fake News" in the US and how is was used by both political parties in the lead-up to the 2016 US election, and moreover how it was propogated by the mainstream media and fact-checked by dubious verification sources.
- How Not To Skip Class: Social Reproduction of Labor and the Global Working Class
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
This essay refutes conceptions of what working class really means by reactivating fundamental Marxist insights about class formation that have been obscured by decades of neoliberalism. The author argues that the key to developing a sufficient understanding of the working class is the framework of social reproduction.
- Over 90% of the world's children breathe toxic air every day
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
A look at the WHO report on "Air pollution and child health: Prescribing clean air", a study of the heavy toll of both outdoor and household air pollution on the health of the world's children, particularly those living in low and middle-income nations.
- This Soviet-era ghost town is being reclaimed by nature and it's eerily beautiful
Resource Type: Film/Video
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
Crumbling bricks, vines crawling up the walls and trees growing on roofs – see the silent beauty of an abandoned Soviet-era town nestled in the mountains of Abkhazia. In summer, you would have a hard time spotting Akarmara from above. The small town is almost entirely overgrown, with trees even growing on the few roofs that are still intact.
- We think therefore we are
Staying Positive in a Negative World - Celebrating Dr. Miriam Garfinkle
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
- Blasphermy, Religious and Secular
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
An essay on a European Court of Human Rights ruling and on changing forms of blasphemy law.
- Eulogy for Miriam
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
Eulogy for Miriam Garfinkle (24 April 1954 - 15 September 2018) delivered by Ulli Diemer at Memorial gathering for Miriam on October 28, 2018.
- How the EU's principled pragmatism sows strife in the Middle East
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
A look at how the European Union is creating greater instability, distrust, and casualties like Jamal Khashoggi, by trading fundamental values such as human rights for more practical avenues coined as "principled pragmatism".
- 'October Song' - A challenging portrayal of the Russian Revolution
Review of Paul Le Blanc, October Song: Bolshevik Triumph, Communist Tragedy, 1917-1924
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
A review 'October Song,' Paul Le Blanc's book about the Russian revolution. Detailed with excerpts and criticism.
- Revolutionary Rojava: An polyethnic, feminist and anti-capitalist experiment
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
A history of the Democratic Federation of North Syria as a beacon of hope in Syria's 8-year-long civil war.
- System change means dismantling patriarchy
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
A look at patriarchy and the sexual division of labour, and why gender justice is fundamental for meaningful environmental justice, and moreover how grassroots, anti-capitalist feminism is key to system change.
- Karl Kautsky: From Pope to Renegade
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
Once recognized as "The Pope of Marxism" for his popularization and systematization of Marxist ideas, Kautsky fell into obscurity following the Russian Revolution. In recent revival of interest in his politics, in both academia and on the political left, raises questions about the meaning of Kautsky's orthodox Marxism and about what a renewed revolutionary left should adopt from it as their own.
- 'City of Surveillance': Google-backed smart city sounds like a dystopian nightmare
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
A Google-backed project to build the interconnected, data-driven ‘city of the future’ sounds like all George Orwell’s nightmares come true, and is now in the spotlight after a privacy expert resigned from the project in protest. Toronto’s Waterfront district used to be an industrial wasteland, but Sidewalk Labs – a sister company of Google – wants to turn that wasteland into a prototype ‘city of the future,’ where data helps planners micromanage every aspect of urban life.
- Revealed: The Saudi death squad MBS uses to silence dissent
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
The MEE reveals information from a Saudi source with intimate knowledge of the Saudi intelligence services, about a death squad that operates under the guidance and supervision of Saudi Prince Mohammed bin Salman.
- Why the "Two State Solution" is Apartheid
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
- Laurie Anderson on language, story and losing her archives to Hurricane Sandy
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
Artist and performer Laurie Anderson discusses her recent book titled "All the Things I Lost in the Flood". The book was inspired by the devastation caused by Hurricane Sandy in 2011, which destroyed Anderson's archive of work and memorabilia. The article contains a link to the interview on CBC Radio.
- Reflections on Chomsky's Voting Strategy: Why The Democratic Party Can't Be Saved
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
Nick Pemberton explains why his opinion is different from that of Noam Chomsky on the matter of third party voting during US elections.
- Quiet, Please! The Latest Threat to the Big Wild
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
A look at the growing problem of noise pollution in Glacier National Park in Montana, where each summer helicopters carrying tourists fly low over the landscape.
- US 'Outrage' Over Slaying of US Residents Depends on the Nation Responsible
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
This article takes a look at the reasons why the US media managed to be outraged at the murder of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi by Saudi Arabia's government, yet there was no such reaction when Israel killed Furkan Dogan, a 19-year-old American citizen.
- Caught In The Cross Hairs - Media Lens And The Mystery Of The Wikipedia Editor
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
Media Lens investigates the case of "Philip Cross", a person who has made hundreds of thousands of edits to Wikipedia pages in a campain against anti-war activists, critics of British and Western foreign policy as well as Media Lens itself.
- Climate-Driven 'Bugpocalypse'
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
An alarming report published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) shows that in addition to annihilating hundreds of mammal species, the climate crisis has also sparked a global "bugpocalypse" that will only continue to accelerate in the absence of action to stop planetary warming.
- A Marxist History of Capitalism (Book Review)
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
A book review of Henry Heller's "A Marxist History of Capitalism" which restores class struggle to a central place in explaining how capitalism arose and grew, and can eventually be overcome.
- US plastic waste is causing global environmental crisis
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
A recent ban in China, which normally takes in the largest proportion of US plastic waste, has left the US dumping plastic in other over-burdened countries, while waste still continues to pile up in the States. US plastic scrap exports dropped by almost a third in the first six months of 2018, as waste firms struggled to find a home for their plastic scrap.
- The dawn of our liberation: The early days of the International Communist Women's Movement
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
An examination of the early days of the international Communist Women's Movement (CWM). The article focuses on three points in particular: the CWM's ideas on women's emancipation, the relationship with non-communist women's movements and the problematic relationship with male comrades.
- The Doomsday Machine and Nuclear Winter
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
The portion of an interview with Daniel Ellsberg, an American activist and former United States military analyst, who comments on thermonuclear war and its outcome.
- Lopez Obrador in Mexico: Meet the New Boss, Same as the Old?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
The newly elected President of Mexico, Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, has been described by some in the U.S. as a radical socialist, however this article explains that he has already back-peddled on important pre-election promises.
- Anarchism and Kavanaugh
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
Richman argues that without the current State, but rather with an Anarchistic one, the U.S. public would have been spared the Brett Kavanaugh Supreme Court nomination episode.
- Brett Kavanaugh, the Supreme Court, and the End of Legal Neutrality
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
The Brett Kavanaugh Supreme Court hearings destroyed any surviving myth of legal neutrality. Shultz explains why this may be a good thing, because it is time to recognize that the Supreme Court and its Justices are not politically neutral and that neither should they be.
- Plastic plague intensifies on remote southern islands
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
A look at a report titled " Marine plastics threaten giant Atlantic Marine Protected Areas", which examines the alarmingly high concentrations of plastic on southern Atlantic islands and throughout the food chain.
- 'This is murder': French islanders want Paris to own up to poisoning their land with pesticide
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
The French islands of Martinique and Guadeloupe in the Caribbean want France to take responsibility for polluting their land with a toxic pesticide. This article looks at the effects of Kepone, also called chlordecone, on the people of the islands, who now suffer from alarmingly high cancer rates and fertility problems.
- The voice of Hobsbawm
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
A look at how the work and ideas of influential British Historian Eric Hobsbawm made an entry into the Indian intellectual scene, as well as his involvement in two crucial political and intellectual debates in Brazil that cemented his reputation there.
- Blanket Silence: Corporate Media Ignore New Report Exposing Distorted And Misleading Coverage of Corbyn
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
A Media Reform Coalition report reveals that the corporate media in Britain have been producing an alarming amount of 'fake news' items, which includes a narrative that Jeremy Corbyn and Labour party are mired in an 'antisemitism crisis'. The corporate media have largely ignored the report, or any other reasoned criticism of their biased reporting.
- Socialist Register 2019
Volume 55: A World Turned Upside Down?
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
Since the Great Financial Crisis swept across the world in 2008, there have been few certainties regarding the trajectory of global capitalism, let alone the politics taking hold in individual states. This has now given way to palpable confusion regarding what sense to make of this world in a political conjuncture marked by Donald Trump’s ‘Make America Great Again’ presidency of the United States, on the one hand, and, on the other, Xi Jinping’s ambitious agenda in consolidating his position as ‘core leader’ at the top of the Chinese state.
- Checkpoint Nation
Border agents are expanding their reach into the country's interior
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
Even if you never leave the United States, you can encounter Border Patrol at the thirty-five fixed checkpoints and dozens of temporary checkpoints they operate deep in the interior. The locations of these checkpoints are not made public, but the Cato Institute, a libertarian think tank, has developed a project to track them.
- 1918: How the Allies Surfed to Victory on a Wave of Oil
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
- Paper Terrorism
Anti-government vigilantes wield a subtle weapon
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
Such tactics have become known as paper terrorism, defined by Mark Pitcavage, a senior research fellow with the Anti-Defamation League, as "the use of bogus legal documents and filings, or the misuse of legitimate ones, to intimidate, harass, threaten, or retaliate against public officials, law enforcement officers, or private citizens."
- The Printed Word in Peril
The age of Homo virtualis is upon us
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
What I do feel isolated in -- if not entirely alone in -- is my determination, as a novelist, essayist, and journalist, not to rage against the dying of literature's light, although it's surprising how little of this there is, but merely to examine the great technological discontinuity of our era, as we pivot from the wave to the particle, the fractal to the fungible, and the mechanical to the computable.
- An interview with Mike Leigh
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
Working on the film, there were people of various generations, from their twenties to people of my age, from the area, who said, 'I didn’t know about this.' And yet the massacre was widely reported and is a famous and significant, seminal event in the history of democracy in Britain, the labour movement, etc., etc.
- The Rise of the Intellectual Pornstar
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
Once only found in society's margins, the pornography industry has developed into a multi-billion dollar business that is branching into the mainstream. The article explains that the industry, while still controversial, increasingly comments on the social problems of today and pushes for reforms in areas that other large industries are scared to.
- What Brett Kavanaugh Really Learned in High School: Make the Rules, Break the Rules and Prosper
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
The accusations against Kavanaugh may be an open question but his behaviour in handling them proves he is unfit for the Supreme Court. This is reinforced by his previous evasiveness about his role in the Bush administrations torture policy which called his integrity into question long before Christine Blasey Ford made her accusations.
- How wolf scat (and DNA) may help save the Algonquin wolf
Resource Type: Film/Video
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
Hannah Barron, a conservation biologist, uses wolf scat to help identify the population distribution of the threatened Algonquin wolf.
- On Militancy, Self-reflection, and the Role of the Researcher
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
Researcher Jared Sacks examines and questions methodologies of social movement researchers through a self-reflective investigation into his own experience and work.
- Expansion of monocultures expels peasants from their lands
Repression intensifies against peasant leaders opposed to land grabs, evictions and the pollution of water sources.
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
In Guatemala a wave of violence at the hands of large agriculture corporations has been driving Indigenous people and peasants off their land.
- Our American Israel: The Story of an Entangled Alliance
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
- Miriam Garfinkle 1954 - 2018
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
Obituary for Miriam Garfinkle, who died on September 15, 2018.
- Charges 'Without Merit' - Jeremy Corbyn, Antisemitism, Norman Finkelstein and Noam Chomsky
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
A commentary on the anit-semitism claims by the British media regarding Jeremy Corbyn and the Labour party.
- The Omega Principle: A vicious circle of fish, cattle and capitalism (Book review)
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
A review of Paul Greenberg's book "The Omega Principle: Seafood and the Quest for a Long Life and a Healthier Planet", which examines how the fishing industry that plunders the seas for tiny fish is supporting unsustainable industrial agriculture.
- Dinner with Marx in the House of the Swan
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
When Jacques Pauwels enters a bistro in Brussels' Grand-Place, he finds himself under the watchful eye of an illustrious former patron - Karl Marx. As he dines, a great number of stories cross his mind. The historian, author of 'The Great Class War 1914-1918', tells us how this tourist hotspot was once a hotbed of revolutionaries, and how Marx's stay in Brussels played a role in his writings.
- Open Letter: Health Care Providers Support OPS and SCS
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
An open letter to Premier Doug Ford and Minister of Health Christine Elliot regarding the Ontario Government's recent hold on approvals for new overdose prevention sites (OPS). The letter is signed by over 800 physicians and medical personnel.
- The Fearless Benjamin Lay: The Quaker Dwarf Who Became the First Revolutionary Abolitionist
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
The little-known story of an eighteenth-century Quaker dwarf who fiercely attacked slavery and imagined a new, more humane way of life.
- The Rise of Neoliberal Feminism
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
Offers a new framework for understanding the kind of cultural work neoliberal feminism carries out. Examines the high-powered women and celebrities who are embracing this new variant of feminism.
- To overcome climate paralysis, unite for system change
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
A look at how to break through the climate paralysis that has led to the environmental crisis that mankind is currently facing. Wallis indicates that by having identified who the enemy is, we know who our potential allies are- the other 99%.
- European Communist Parties and '68
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
One effect of the May 1968 uprisings was to highlight and/or hasten the split between communist parties and social movements in Europe.
- Fascist Attack in Chile
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
An open letter calling for international solidarity in the aftermath of an attack on the March for the Right to Free, Legal Abortion on Demand in Santiago, Chile where three women were stabbed.
- Historical Subjects Lost and Found
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
Looking at the legacy of Marx in the West Indies.
- Janus and My Ode to Capital
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
Looking at Marx and how to make him relevant to people through 40 years of teaching Capital.
- Joel Kovel (1936-2018)
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
Obituary for psychiatrist, teacher and author Joel Kovel.
- Labor's Last Stand
Unions must either demand a place at the table or be part of the meal
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
The slow degradation of workers' rights through the use of the courts has led to a weakening of negotiated power of unions and the retreat of organized labour.
- Martha (Marty) Quinn, 1939-2018
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
Obituary for Martha Quinn, a founding member of Solidarity.
- Marx, Engels and the National Question
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
A historical look at the role of class and nation-states in socialism.
- Marx Turns 200: A Mixed Gift
Book Review
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
A mixed but detailed review of a biography of Karl Marx. The author likes the Life material but has problems with the treament of the Works.
- Nicolas Calas: The Trotskyist Time Forgot
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
A lengthy, detailed look at modern Trotskyist poet Nicolas Calas (1907-88).
- On the "Transformation Problem"
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
Further discussion of Marx's "transformation problem." References a previous column reviewing Fred Moseley's "Money and Totality."
- The Power of Story, the Evidence of Experience
Book Review
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
Review of a book of oral histories of migrant farmworkers.
- Reply
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
A reply by the author of "Money and Totality: A Macro-Monetary Interpretation of Marx’s Logic in Capital and the End of the Transformation Problem" to two previous responses to his book.
- Struggling for Justice
Book Review
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
Mainly postive review Keith Gilyard’s biography of organizer, educator, cultural worker and Black Left feminist Louise Thompson Patterson.
- Syria's Disaster, and What's Next
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
Detailed description of Syrian crisis as of July 2018.
- A Template for Hate
Polarized politics and mainstream intolerance
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
The rise of Hindu nationalist politics has led to communal violence, particularly around the status of cows, as they are considered sacred by Hindus. Inter-communal violence has increased with killings perpetuated by vigilantes and the mainstreaming of intolerance.
- An Unrepentant '68er's Life
Book Review
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
Review of an autobiographical book by May 1968 figure Daniel Bensaïd.
- Wellness Cures
Can hospitals learn to better treat Deaf patients?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
The Deaf regularly move through the medical system without agency or dignity -- not because they cannot hear but because they are not given the opportunity to communicate. The onus for change is put on the Deaf themselves, often in terms of changing their own bodies to accommodate the hearing majority. What if, instead, the Deaf were consulted about what changes they would like, or how they would like for them to happen? What if they were invited to take part in shaping the next generation of doctors?
- Where to Begin?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
The rise of socialist-identified candidates like Bernie Sanders and Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez are a hopeful resistance against the politics that resulted in President Trump. But people must organize outside of electoral politics to bring real change.
- The White World and Black Reality
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
White people on the left must deal with racism to create true solidarity and resist Trump's politics.
- Who Killed Marielle?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
Marielle Franco, a Rio de Janeiro city councilwoman, whose murder is still unsolved, was a thorn in the side of the right-wing, repressive government. The fight she fought continues through with people people she represented.
- Worldwide "Moment of Madness"
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
A look at 1968 a legendary year in history. Analysis of how student- and worker-led revolts played out in different parts of Europe.
- The Irishmen Who Fought in the Last Great Battle Against Spanish Fascism
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
An account of the numerous Irishmen who were killed, injured, captured and who simply disappeared while volunteering to fight against the rising fascist tide during the Spanish Civil War.
- Revised NAFTA Shows Every Sign of Being Another Trump Scam
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
A look at the renegotiated North American Free Trade Agreement between the US and Mexico, a deal intended to force Canada, which has the strongest regulations, into signing on disadvantageous terms. Dolack explains why any new NAFTA will undoubtedly be a windfall for multi-national corporations at public expense.
- Engineering the climate could cost us the earth
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
Political scientist Gareth Dale takes a look at Geoengineering as a "political technology" and institutional apparatus that is preventing effective climate action, and actually serves to reduce the sense of urgency needed for genuine and more effective structural change.
- Carrying capacity, technology, and ecomodernist confusion
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
Biologist Michael Frieman responds to an article titled "The Earth's Carrying Capacity for Human Life Is Not Fixed" by Ted Nordhaus, an executive director of the Breakthrough Institute and strong proponent of ecomodernism. Friedman counters the idea that capitalist technology is capable of solving virtually any of the environmental problems generated by humankind while still making eternal capitalist growth possible- a viewpoint based on assumptions that are fraught with problems.
- No Remorse: Reflections on Radical "Purism"
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
Street justifies his critical commentary on the disappointing presidency of Barrack Obama and the standard neoliberal manipulation of campaign populism and identity politics in service to big-money. He also takes a cynical look at the DMC, another party of corporations, as well as Bernie Sanders and what a Sanders Presidency might have looked like.
- Canada’s Earliest Printers
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
- Bolton calls on Al-Qaeda to stage more chemical attacks in Syria
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
The latest statements from the US, France and UK warning against the use of chemical weapons in Syria leave many skeptical and disbelieving of the alarm cries, having seen this song and dance before. Chemical weapons accusations are among the most overused war propaganda tactic used by the West during the war on Syria.
- The deadly flood in Kerala may be only a gentle warning
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
Arundhati Roy comments on the disasterous flooding in the Indian state of Kerala. While acknowleding various forces lead to the disaster, Roy also places blame on government mismanagement and ignoring the needs of the state's most disadvanted people.
- Lockheed Martin receives bloody images instead of cool weapons photos in failed Twitter campaign
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
The world's largest defense contractor fails miserably in a social media campaign asking Twitter users to send them an "amazing photo" of a Lockheed Martin product.
- Corbyn's Labour Party is Being Made to Fail - By Design
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
The embattled Labour party is reportedly soon to adopt the four additional working "examples" of anti-semitism drafted by the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA). The full adoption of the IHRA definition of anti-semitism will be a victory for Israel and its apologists in Britain, who who have been seeking to curb all meaningful criticism of Israel.
- A Mighty Voice for Peace Has Gone Silent: Uri Avnery, 1923-2018
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
A brief article in commemoration of Israeli human rights activist Uri Avnery, who died in Tel Aviv at the age of 94.
- NATO training Latvian military to quell 'civilian unrest' during largest drills in decades
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
NATO has launched war games in Latvia involving 10,000 troops, the largest training exercise since the country gained independence.
- What if the world started using US logic in its relations with America?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
You're sanctioned! You’re bombed! You're invaded! The US has plenty of punishments lined up for states which it claims are doing things wrong. But what if the rest of the world held the US to the same standards?
- How Canada could use the Saudi quarrel to help the Middle East - and itself
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
Saudi Arabia's overreaction to Canadian criticism on human rights provides an opportunity for Canada to rethink Middle East policy. Such a policy, based on universal human rights, would greatly benefit not just Saudi Arabians but those in the broader Middle East, and also Canada.
- Africa's Pioneering Marxist Political Economist, Samir Amin (1931-2018)
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
A look at the pioneering work of Egyptian-French Marxian economist Samir Amin, who died on August 12, 2018.
- Corporate Media: the Enemy of the People
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
We on the Left don't need to reflexively and absurdly jump to the defense of imperial criminals at the instigation of that (well, yes) "enemy of the people" the U.S. corporate and so-called mainstream war, news, and entertainment media.
- Memoir From the Underground
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
A review of the film "Memoir of War", directed by Emmanuel Finkiel, a semi-fictional memoire of writer Marguerite Duras who lived under a facist regime in Vichy France.
- My Longest Day: How World War II Ended for My Family
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
An essay excerpted from Hans-Armin Ohlmann's memoirs, which recounts his experiences growing up in Germany during the Second World War.
- An Updated and Improved Marxism
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
An article that criticizes the stubborn immersion in the past by current Marxists and left wing intellectuals, and to comprehend activism and set goals in the twenty-first century requires a revision of the Marxian conception of revolution.
- Where Have All the Nazis Gone?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
Thousands of "anti-fascist" protestors converged on the streets of the nation's capitol to deny a platform to (or just beat the snot out of) twenty or thirty racist idiots who were trying to assemble in Lafayette Square and stand around shouting racist slogans at each other.
- Chasing Shadows: Socialism Won't Go Away Because It is Capitalism's Antithesis
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
The abstract forces of capitalism's dynamism create the conditions for ever more creative and novel ways to profit, which is why the Golden Age of postwar capitalism-which had a mix of capitalist and socialist economic features-evolved into the neoliberal period after the external oil shocks of 1973 and 1979. Those conditions created a transitional context to shift out of a regulated state-interventionist capitalism into the aggressive, free-market neoliberal variety lasting more than 30 years, leading us to the precipice of the present.
- Google keeps tracking you even when you specifically tell it not to: Maps, Search won't take no for an answer
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
Google has admitted that its option to "pause" the gathering of your location data doesn't apply to its Maps and Search apps – which will continue to track you even when you specifically choose to halt such monitoring.
- The Stasi Project: Solving the World's Biggest Puzzle
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
In Germany, a small team virtually piece together the history of a surveillance state in the Stasi Puzzle Project.
- There Is a Coordinated Campaign to Suppress Criticism of Israel
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
Israel's human rights violations are accompanied by U.S. efforts to stifle dissent.
- Institutionalizing Intolerance: Bullies Win, Freedom Suffers When We Can't Agree to Disagree
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
As America has become ever more polarized, and those polarized factions have become more militant and less inclined to listen to -- or even allow for the existence of -- other viewpoints, we are fast becoming a nation of people who just can't get along. Here's the thing: if Americans don't learn how to get along--at the very least, agreeing to disagree and respecting each other's right to subscribe to beliefs and opinions that may be offensive, hateful, intolerant or merely different--then we're going to soon find that we have no rights whatsoever (to speak, assemble, agree, disagree, protest, opt in, opt out, or forge our own paths as individuals). In such an environment, when we can't agree to disagree, the bullies (on both sides) win and freedom suffers.
- "Right to Try" Is a Cruel Farce
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
Drug companies want you to think they're providing glimmers of hope to terminally ill patients. Don't believe them.
- Thousands of Palestinians and Israelis Chant: 'No to the nation-state law, yes to equality'
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
Palestinian flags were seen held high during a demonstration in which tens of thousands of Arab Palestinians and Israeli Jews marched on Saturday, in Tel Aviv, to protest against the controversial Jewish Nation-State Law.
- American Exceptionalism: The Naked Truth
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
A large number of Americans hold a deeply-held conviction that no matter what the US does abroad, no matter how bad it may look, no matter what horror may result, the government of the United States means well. American leaders may make mistakes, they may blunder, they may lie, they may even on many occasions cause more harm than good, but they do mean well. Their intentions are always honorable, even noble. Of that the great majority of Americans are certain.And Americans genuinely wonder why the rest of the world can’t see how benevolent and self-sacrificing America has been. Even many people who take part in the anti-war movement have a hard time shaking off some of this mindset; they march to spur America -- the America they love and worship and trust -- they march to spur this noble America back onto its path of goodness.
- Australia: Worst drought ever, but don't mention climate change!
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
Despite record drought conditions in Australia and the numerous climate related disasters around the globe, the Australian goverment still refuses to acknowledge human-induced climate change.
- Venezuela: Maduro survives assassination attempt -- but journalism doesn't
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
Venezuela was rocked on August 5, 2018 by an attempt to assassinate President Nicolas Maduro during a public event, using drones armed with explosives.But as more details of the attack became available, mainstream media coverage sought to sow doubt on the events, using words such as "apparent" or "alleged". It focused on the government using this "alleged" event to step up repression.
- Bangladesh: Challenge of the Students Uprising - Its historical background
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
The students’ movement that erupted on 29 July following the death of two students in a tragic road accident in Dhaka spread to almost all the major cities of the country. Thousands of outraged school and college students laid siege to the streets of the capital Dhaka for a week demanding road safety across the country.
- Helping drought-stricken farmers requires recognising global warming and planning
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
All of NSW has now officially been declared to be in drought, and 57% of Queensland has officially entered its sixth year of the current drought (though there has been little real change from when 88% was declared to be in drought in March 2017).Droughts keep getting worse, and the changing climate means they will continue to do so.The Coalition's "solutions" start with denying that climate change is real.
- On 'Bullshit Jobs'
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
A review of the book "Bullshit Jobs: A Theory" by anthropologist David Graeber, which provides a classification for the many forms of employment, some which he deems not only meaningless and unfullfilling, but ultimately harmful to society.
- Yes, the Press Helps Start Wars
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
History shows that a jingoistic media can whip up support for hardline policies, as Trump rightly pointed out.
- Barcelona's Experiment in Radical Democracy
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
Issues that Barcelona en Comu is tackling come up against limitations set by Catalan and Spanish law. The city lacks authority to regulate housing, although the city has created new affordable housing, and has successfully limited the reach of Airbnb.
- The Crisis in Corbyn's Labour Party is Over Israel, Not Anti-Semitism
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
If there is indeed an anti-semitism problem in the UK's Labour party, it is not in the places where the British corporate media have been directing our attention. What can be said with even more certainty is that there is rampant hatred expressed towards Jews in the same British media that is currently decrying the supposed anti-semitism of Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn.
- First they came for Alex Jones. Now Facebook bans Venezuela news site
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
Days after the purge of Alex Jones from social media, Big Tech seems to have found another suitable target for apparent censorship. Facebook suspended the page of a prominent leftist news site writing about Venezuela.
- Israel Is The Real Problem
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
Elite power cannot abide a serious challenge to its established position. And that is what Labour under Jeremy Corbyn represents to the Tory government, the corporate, financial and banking sectors, and the 'mainstream' media. The manufactured 'antisemitism crisis' is the last throw of the dice for those desperate to prevent a progressive politician taking power in the UK: someone who supports Palestinians and genuine peace in the Middle East, a strong National Health Service and a secure Welfare State, a properly-funded education system, and an economy in which people matter; someone who rejects endless war and complicity with oppressive, war criminal 'allies' such as the United States, Saudi Arabia and Israel.
- Siege and resistance in Gaza – For more than 10 weeks...
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
Toufic Haddad, an activist, academic and author of Palestine Ltd: Neoliberalism and Nationalism in the Occupied Territory, spoke to Omar Hassan about the meaning of the protests – and what next in the struggle for the liberation of Palestine.
- 'Unprecedented': Staffers drown out reporters by clapping at Doug Ford news conference
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
When reporters tried to ask Ontario Premier Doug Ford questions at a Tuesday news conference about new funding to prevent gun violence, they were once again intentionally drowned out by applause.
- Hiroshima and Nagasaki: Fictions and Facts
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
The New York Times reported that year, “Many historians believe the bombings [of] Hiroshima and then Nagasaki, which together took the lives of more than 200,000 people, saved lives on balance, since an invasion of the islands would have led to far greater bloodshed.” Many historians, perhaps; but not that many.
- Inside Google's Effort to Develop a Censored Search Engine in China
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
Google analyzed search terms entered into a Beijing-based website to help develop blacklists for a censored search engine it has been planning to launch in China, according to confidential documents seen by The Intercept. Engineers working on the censorship sampled search queries from 265.com, a Chinese-language web directory service owned by Google.
- It's not a 'defense' of Alex Jones to argue that we're on a slippery slope of internet censorship
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
The celebration on the Left at the quick-fire purge of Alex Jones and InfoWars from social media has been disturbing -- not because Jones' views deserve to be defended, but because his banning is a warning shot against dissent.
- Nine essential tools from ICIJ's data journalism and programming experts
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
A look at the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists' favorite data journalism tools, including: spreadsheets, Datawrapper, Jupyter Notebook, OpenRefine, Python and R, Talend Studio, SQL, Pandas, Neo4j + Linkurious.
- The Peopling of the Americas: Evidence for Multiple Models
Explore the peopling of the Americas through interior and coastal migration routes, including the Beringia land bridge and Kelp Highway.
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
Exactly how and when the peopling of the Americas took place has long been one of the hottest debates in science. For every new paper that emerges with evidence of an interior or coastal route, it seems another team publishes contradictory conclusions. Authors of a new review of archaeological, geological and paleogenetic research have concluded that both of the two main models are reasonable — and that a couple fringe theories are most definitely not.
- "What followed horrified us beyond our wildest imaginations": an eyewitness account of the Bangladesh student protests
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
Like other high school students, Abdul Karim Rajib, 18, and Dia Khanam Mim, 17 had many hopes and dreams for their lives. One had hoped to become an army officer, the other, a banker. On July 29, 2018, around noon, the two teenagers were killed in the streets of Dhaka, the capital of Bangladesh, by three buses speeding against each other for no reason other than to arrive first and cram as many passengers into their already overcrowded interiors, for maximum profit.
- Disabled People in UK Lead Fight Against Austerity
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
In July 20,2018, John Clarke represented the Ontario Coalition Against Poverty (OCAP) at the International Deaf and Disabled People’s Solidarity Summit, in Stratford, east London that had been convened by one of our key allies in the UK, Disabled People Against Cuts (DPAC). This powerful gathering was an important moment in the building of a resistance by disabled people as part of a broader international struggle against the forces of neoliberal austerity.
- Even the FBI Agrees: When Undercover Agents Pose as Journalists, It Hurts Real Journalists' Work
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
The FBI doesn't want the public to know more about how its agents pose as journalists during undercover investigations.The government acknowledged in a court filing that FBI agents who pretend to be journalists create a chilling effect, making it harder for real journalists to gain trust and cooperation from sources.
- Eternity, nature, society and the absurd fantasies of the rich
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
The wealthier they are, the more they fear that others will try to take their wealth. No wonder the super-rich are building bunkers to escape the apocalypse.
- The Unjust Prosecution of the Holy Land Foundation Five
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
Miko Peled, in "Injustice: The Story of the Holy Land Foundation Five," his exhaustive study of the U.S. government's case against five defendants from a friendless minority, demonstrates how American justice has deviated so far from Blackstone that the courts can convict a hundred innocents for one who is guilty.
- Working Class Movement Must Be Independent
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
A new chapter in the history of the South African working class was opened in Soweto on 21-22 July 2018, when representatives from over 147 South African working-class formations represented by 1000 delegates assembled to unite workplace and community struggles.
- Let Us Now Praise Infamous Animals
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
In medieval Europe (and even colonial America) thousands of animals were summoned to court and put on trial for a variety of offenses, ranging from trespassing, thievery and vandalism to rape, assault and murder. The defendants included cats, dogs, cows, sheep, goats, slugs, swallows, oxen, horses, mules, donkeys, pigs, wolves, bears, bees, weevils, and termites. These tribunals were not show trials or strange festivals like Fools Day. The tribunals were taken seriously by both the courts and the community.
- The Lessons of the World Cup for our Victim Culture
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
That we are living in an age of victim culture is well-exemplified by an article recently published by the CBC suggesting that minorities "feel apprehensive about heading into the wild because they don't see themselves reflected in the outdoor industry and media." The underlying premise is that a paucity of representations of members of these groups constructs the outdoors as a kind of "unsafe space" of which people from these communities ask, according to the African-American author of a book called The Adventure Gap, James Mills, "'Do I belong here? And if somebody believes that I don’t belong here, will they do something to harm me?'"
- The other side of Gaza: Swimming, canoeing and 'trying' to be a child
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
Here in Gaza, I want to tell this story. To show our audience a piece of a normal life, away from Hamas, or Israel's "terror" rhetoric, away from the diplomatic efforts, the political bargaining, away from the weekly Friday protests. Just show you something normal.
- Nazi-inspired jewellery, trinkets wiped from auction site
Polish anti-racist group convinces auction site to punish sellers and buyers trading goods bearing fascist symbols
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First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
The anti-facist group Never Again has convinced an auction site to punish sellers and buyers trading Nazi memorabilia and other goods bearing fascist symbols.
- "Brutal and Sadistic": Noam Chomsky on Family Separation & the U.S. Roots of Today's Refugee Crisis
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
An interview with Noam Chomsky on the refugee crisis and the Trump administration's family separation policy. The article includes a link to the video interview.
- The Socialists of the Prairies
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
Proyect talks about the arrival of the Prairie Trilogy at the Metrograph Theater on Friday, July 27th. The trilogy consists of three documentaries made in 1978 by John Hanson and Rob Nilsson about the radical movement in North Dakota during the heyday of the IWW, the Socialist Party, and the Nonpartisan League (NPL).
- Israel's 'nation-state law' parallels the Nazi Nuremberg Laws
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
Israel's new 'nation-state' law follows in the footsteps of Jim Crow, the Indian Removal Act and the Nuremberg Laws.
- The Marxist and the Gamers: Reading, Fortnite, and My Students' Identities
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
A school teacher reflects on the differences he sees in his students from past generations, notably the many young people who are avid online gamers.
- When Worse is the Enemy of Bad
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
The claim that all that is wrong with America is due to the malignant machinations of Putin is the most blatantly false, potentially disastrous bucket of bullshit ever inflicted by the matrix on this ignorant, credulous, propagandized people.
- PayPal censors journalists who criticize Israel
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
Under apparent influence from Benjamin Weinthal, PayPal chose to close down the account of the French online publication Agence Media Palestine. Such a move constitutes censorship as it denies journalists the means to raise money for their work and freedom to express ideas.
- Still 'world policeman': US expands overseas military presence with 300k troops in 177 states
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
Trump is sticking to the policies of past administrations despite campaign claims that the US shouldn't be 'world policeman', experts told RT regarding Pentagon figures of 300,000 US troops in 177 states.
- Traditional and contemporary Anishinaabe expression celebrated in M’Chigeeng museums
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
- If the doctor is listening, you have 11 seconds
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
U.S. study found that just 36% of doctors posed an open-ended question to get patients to talk.
- Israel steps up its war on mixed marriages
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
The Israeli government has long funded various efforts to try to prevent romantic relationships between Jews and non-Jews, both inside territories it controls and around the world. But a new program confirmed this month by the tourism ministry takes Israel's war on families of mixed religion or ethnicity to a new level.
- The Belem Ecosocialist Declaration: An historic document
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
In 2008 more than 400 activists from 37 countries endorsed this statement of ecosocialist principles and goals. Today the Belem Ecosocialist Declaration remains an important consensus statement of ecosocialist principles and goals.
- Cooperative farming is the only solution to the present agriculture crisis
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
A look at the agricultural crisis in India and the economic realities the country faces in a market tilted in favour of America and Europe. Solutions include government policy based on science in the use of land and water, less reliance on pesticides and fertilizers, and a move towards cooperative farming.
- Banned in Pakistan
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
Pakistan's decision to censor 'blasphemous' websites provides a new perspective on the attitudes of many Western liberals towards Charlie Hebdo.
- Israelis Just Keep Killing People, Stealing Land
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
The recent killing of Palestinians in the Gaza Strip by Israeli sharpshooters following the "The Great March of Return" is outlined, as well as the ongoing futility of Israel's policy and actions against the self-governing Palestinian territory whose population are forced to live under dire conditions.
- Nelson Mandela's legacy hijacked to help West sell liberal agenda
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First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
Wight explains why the distortion of Nelson Mandela's legacy by champions of Western liberalism is "sickening and obscene".
- Canada's Military shapes Coverage of Deployments
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
A look at the Canadian military's influence over news coverage. The article outlines the great lengths the military goes to shape information covering its missions, including the recent deployment to Mali.
- Israeli forces 'deliberately killed' Palestinian paramedic Razan
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
Probe by Israeli rights group B'Tselem concludes that intentional fatal shot was fired at the Palestinian paramedic.
- A New Native-Led Strategy for Fighting Keystone XL
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
Sacred crops planted by the Poca represent another legal barrier for the construction of the Keystone pipeline, as its intended path must now cross sacred historic sites owned by a sovereign tribal nation.
- ICE: The making of an American Gestapo
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
Justin Akers Chacón, author of Radicals in the Barrio and co-author with Mike Davis of No One Is Illegal, takes an in-depth look at the troubling history and practices of a government agency that more and more people are calling to be abolished.
- Interview: Angela C. Wild of #GetTheLOut on Pride in London and Lesbian erasure
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
Meghan Murphy interviews Angela C. Wild about the recent Lesbian protest at Pride in London and the state of the LGBT movement today.
- New Dark Age: Technology and the End of the Future
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
- Red Fawn Fallis and the Felony of Being Attacked by Cops
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
The tackling, arrest and imprisonment of female protester Red Fawn Fallis near a Dakota Pipeline construction site is another example of corporate and government abuse of power. When it comes to women dissenters, particularly of black or indigenous dissent, US authorities have a significant history of intimidation and punishment.
- Reality check: Croatian uniform virtually identical to...
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First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
Some media reports are ga-ga that the Croatian team will be wearing its red and white checkered uniform in the 2018 World Cup final on Sunday against France. Far from being innocent or fashionable, this is ominous. By allowing this uniform to be worn, FIFA is emboldening the Croatian fascists and their European allies such those in Ukraine.
- Starving and Bombed Children of Yemen Seek Entrapment in Flooded Thai Cave
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
While the world was gripped by media coverage of trapped Thai boys in a flooded cave, hundreds of thousands of children were killed and suffering in other parts of the world -- yet received little or no attention. This article examines what this tells us about ourselves and geopolitics.
- Parkdale tenants' campaign blames real estate agent for loss of rooming houses
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
A look at 'displacement realty' in the Parkdale area of Toronto, where the selling affordable homes at inflated prices pushes new landlords into forcing out old tenants in order to increase rents.
- Why the food movement needs to understand capitalism
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
To fully appreciate the challenges we face in transforming our food system we need to explore the economic and political context in which food is grown, sold and consumed in the world today.
- Lenin and the Bolshevik Party: A revolutionary collective
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
The Russian Revolution of 1917 clearly reveals the complexities of Bolshevism – Lenin's party – as a revolutionary collective.
- Rethinking community organising
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
Building a just, sustainable future will require transcending traditional community organising models. Working through existing institutions within the current system is not good enough.
- CEMB march at Pride 2018 in London: A Victory against Islamism
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
Council of Ex-Muslims of Britain marched in Pride in London on 7 July for LGBT rights in countries under Islamic rule; in 15 states or territories, homosexuality is punishable by death. The march was a victory against Islamist forces in Britain like Mend and East London Mosque that tried and failed to stop CEMB from marching with accusations of 'Islamophobia' aimed at imposing de facto blasphemy and apostasy laws.
- No Trump, No Clinton, No NATO
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First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
Murray explains why the notion that those who do not want Clinton in power are therefore supporters of Trump is intellectually risible and politically dishonest.
- Changing the concept of "woman" will cause unintended harms
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
There are more things to consider than some trans activists would have you believe, argues Kathleen Stock.
- 'Fake news' a loosely-defined term used for political gain
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
Commentary on a panel discussion of media representatives, part of the International Cybersecurity Congress, which discusses the topic of 'fake news'. The article includes a link to full video of the discussion.
- Israel is arming neo-Nazis in Ukraine
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
A report on Israeli weapons and training being provided to anti-Semitic or neo-Nazi soldiers in the Ukraine.
- It's not a conspiracy theory – your phone really is watching you, research finds
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
Scientists used an automated system to interact with apps, searching for any media files that had been sent from them -- particularly to a third party. It was in the course of searching for audio files that the researchers began to see that screenshots and video recordings were being sent to third parties instead.
- Justice Kennedy and the Myth of the Legal Neutrality
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
The enduring myth in America that law and politics are separate is put into question at the end of 2017 with 5-4 decisions upholding President Trump's travel ban, the striking down mandatory public sector union fees, and the resignation of Justice Kennedy.
- When America Downed an Iranian Airliner and Celebrated It!
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
Every 3rd of July Iranians commemorate the killing of 299 innocent people, including 66 children, by the US Navy. Adding to the tragedy is the American attitude towards this catastrophic event.
- Ex-Muslims: A community in protest
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
I see ex-Muslims as a community in protest: insisting on freedom from religion, and freedom of conscience. For the right to apostasy and blasphemy, without fear. Like the LGBT, anti-slavery, anti-colonialist, anti-apartheid, suffragette or civil rights movements, it’s a movement which insists upon our common humanity and equality – not upon difference or superiority. It’s a movement of people who refuse to live in fear and in the shadows, and who are speaking out for social change in unprecedented ways.
- The Official Fake News
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
Emmanuel Macron, who was comfortably elected to the presidency, has instructed his parliamentary majority to provide him with a law against 'fake news' during election campaigns. The law would be a selective halt to the the dissemination of information with dangerous consequences.
- Why Ocasio-Cortez's Platform is So Great
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
By labeling her foreign policy platform "A Peace Economy," Ocasio-Cortez, using a phrase popular with the peace movement, makes the financial connection without shying away from the immoral and criminal and counter-productive character of war. The fact is that war endangers rather than protecting, erodes rights, militarizes police and society, destroys the natural environment, directly kills and injures and traumatizes and harms millions, and - on top of that - does the most damage through the diversion of resources from where they could do good.
- BDS Versus Settler-Colonialism
Book Review
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First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
Review of two books about pro-Palestinian political activism known as BDS (Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions.) Contains detailed discussion of history and current events covered in the books.
- Cesspools, Sewage, and Social Murder
Environmental Crisis and Metabolic Rift in Nineteenth-Century London
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First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
Karl Marx's analysis of changes in British agriculture in the nineteenth-century provides the theoretical starting point for what is now known as 'metabolic rift theory'. This article considers an aspect of the theory that has not been much discussed in modern ecosocialist analysis- the environmental crisis that the accumulation of human excrement caused in urban areas, notably in London.
- Communism and Self-Management
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
A look at workers' self-management in past regimes and their relevance to current debates.
- Disabling Barriers
Book Review
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First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
Review of a collection on disability rights.
- Endless War, Swirling Chaos
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
The editors of Against the Current comment on current American global affairs, including the Singapore Summit, Iran and Palestine as well as the need for a new Anti-War movement.
- Exploitation, Alienation and Oppression
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
Bakan discusses the varations of Marxism and proports that the best of the Marxist tradition resists orthodoxy. She considers the complexity and variation in the core concepts in Marx's work regarding inequality.
- #FreeSiwatu!
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
Siwatu-Salama Ra, an activist, was arrested in Detriot for felonious assault despite the fact that Siwatu-Salama was acting to defend herself and her family.
- Gender, Race and Marx's Whiskers
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
Roediger juxtaposes James and Marx quotations and discusses the iimplications for how Marx’s limits and his forward motion regarding race and gender might be understood together.
- India's Freedom Struggle Influenced by Marxism
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
In India Marxism has influenced revolutionary figures to varying degrees. As inequality rises a renewed interest in Marx that engages local philosophies could invigorate a proletarian movement.
- Just Transition: Let Detroit Breathe!
A talk by William Copeland
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First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
William Copeland presents the campaign, Let Detroit Breathe. The campaign's prinicipal aim is to help Detroiters win their right to breathe clean air.
- Letter to the Editors
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First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
Georgakas responds to the book review of Finally Got the News in a previous issue of the journal. He was disheartened that pertinent political and artistic seeds that directly fed that period have been neglected.
- The Making of C.L.R. James
Book Review
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First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
A short, positive review of a graphic novel about CLR James.
- Mali disintegrates
‘People are rejecting injustice’
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
Mali’s general election this month looks uncertain, with rebels -- partly inspired by Islamist jihadism -- offering an alternative source of law and order in the central regions.
- Marx and Organization
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
Lause examines Marx's involvement in different organizations and argues that he seems never to have had a problem not being in an organization -- not because he accorded organization no importance, but rather that the importance he accorded it depended entirely on the demands of the class struggle around him.
- Marx, Our Contemporary
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
Marx’s analysis uncovers essential features and defining tendencies of capitalism far better than alternative frameworks. Smith outlines five examples in how Marx remains our contemporary.
- Myron Perlman, Z"L: Working-Class Jewish Radical
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
Memorial for Myron Perlman, union carpenter and social justice activist.
- On Economic Madness
Book Review
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
A mostly positive, informative review of "Marx, Capital, and the Madness of Economic Reason" by David Harvey.
- Ramp Hollow: The Ordeal of Appalachia - Book Review
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First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
Review of Ramp Hollow: The Ordeal of Appalachia by Steven Stoll. Review discusses history of Appalachia as well as previous literature on the subject.
- Rev. Edward Pinkey Freed after 30 Months
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
Michigan's Supreme Court has ruled that Berrien County Prosecutor improperly charged activist Rev. Edward Pinkney with five felony counts of election forgery.
- Revising Class: Lumpen in Literature
Book Review
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
Review of Ragged Revolutionaries by Nathaniel Mills. Marxist analysis of depression-era African-American literaature by Richard Wright, Ralph Ellison, and Margaret Walker.
- The Soviets and Tsarist Debt
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
A history of the Soviet's refusal to honor Tsarist debt afterthe 1971 revolution. Looks at the effect on Russia up to and after the end of the USSR.
- State of the UAW
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
Since the 1979-1981 economic crisis, when the UAW convinced its members to make concessions to the Big-Three, auto-workers have been losing benefits, wages and programs. Feeley discusses the current state of UAW focusing on its leadership.
- Transformation Problem Unraveled
Book Review
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First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
Review of "Money and Totality: A Macro-Monetary Interpretation of Marx’s Logic in Capital
and the End of the 'Transformation Problem'" by Fred Moseley. Burkett provides a summary of the details of Moseley's theory.
- Israeli Government Fears Palestinian Cameras
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
A report on a Bill by the Israeli Knessett that would criminalize the filming of Israeli soldiers in Palestine, with a proposed five year jail sentence for offenders.
- Stop Whining and Start Organizing
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
A commentary on the state of the labour movment in the United States, which has been in a marked decline since the 1950's. Lindorff discusses why unions are vanishing, loss of membership, disassociation with the Democratic party, and the changes needed to reorganize and enforce workers' rights.
- UNRWA Does not Perpetuate the Conflict, the Conflict Perpetuates UNRWA
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
In January, without warning, Donald Trump refsued to pay $305 million of his country's $365 million commitment to UNRWA. UNRWA, the UN agency serving Palestinian refugees, remains $200 million short of the funds it needs to provide humanitarian services for five million people, including 2/3 of the population of the Gaza Strip.This is not really a story about under-funding UNRWA. This is about the people who strenuously seek to eliminate it.
- The birth of the Cuban polyclinic
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
During the 1960s, Cuban medicine experienced changes as tumultuous as the civil rights and antiwar protests in the United States. While activists, workers, and students in western Europe and the United States confronted existing institutions of capitalism and imperialism, Cuba faced the even greater challenge of building a new society.
- Celebrating Canadian Multiculturalism Day
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
On this 27th day of June, let us reflect and give homage to not only all those people who have come from every corner of the world and by working together contributed to building this country of ours
- "I Really Don't Care, Do U?" the Mendacity of Evil
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
While Americans consider themselves well above the authoritarianism and atrocities of such regimes as Nazi Germany, the author takes a look at some disturbing connections and similarites with the United States.
- Kidnapper Trump as Symptom
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
The current plight of asylum seekers in the United States and the traumatic separation of children from parents at the southern U.S. border, is the most recent American policy that is racially motivated.
- On Purpose, In Kabul
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
Amid years of fighting and war profiteering the Afghan Peace Volunteers (APV) forge ahead with impressive work that demonstrates what needs to be done to rebuild the war-torn and economically devastated country.
- Painting a false picture
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
A review of the book "The Wrong Story: Palestine, Israel and the Media" by Greg Shupak.
- Why Do Students Kill Their Class-Mates
Detachment, Isolation, Dehumanization, and Emotional Estrangement from Human Relationships
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
A recently released phone video shot by 19-year-old Parkland, Florida school shooter Nikolas Cruz, reveals a cold, callus young man who claims to "hate everyone and everything."
- The Defiance that Launched Gaza's Flaming Kites Cannot be Extinguished
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
Now Israel is facing a new and apparently even tougher challenge: how to stop Palestinian resistance from Gaza using flaming kites, which have set fire to lands close by in Israel. F-16 fighter jets are equipped to take on many foes but not the humble kite.
- 15 Actions That Can Shut Down Trump's Assault on Immigrant Families
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
A list of recommended actions that can be taken against the Trump Administration's policy toward immigrant families, some of which include: Expose for-profit detention corporations; Target mayor's offices, state capitals, and governor's mansions; Practice non-violence, as well as using the media to your advantage.
- Movers charged 10 times the agreed upon price, Oakville woman says
Last minute move went from about $250 to $2,200
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
An Oakville woman's simple $250 move deteriorated into a $2,200 nightmare earlier this month, she says. And now, the people she hired to do the move are not returning her calls.
- Why It Just Makes Sense for the U.S. to Withdraw from the UNHRC
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
Having withdrawn from the Paris Accord, and the Iran deal; having broken with the world to recognize Jerusalem as Israel's capital; having provoked allies and rivals with trade war-triggering tariffs and personal insults; having shocked the world with talk of a Great Wall to keep out Mexicans (paid for by Mexico).
- A New COINTELPRO?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
Malik discusses the revelations that the FBI is targeting Black Lives Matters and what Justice Department head Jeff Sessions calls “Black identity” extremists as well as the response to open racism and how to move forward.
- Young protesters are defying Israel's blockade with scraps of paper and plastic
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
Five years ago, the film Flying Paper documented the successful efforts of Gaza’s children to set a new world record for mass kite-flying. The children defied Israel’s blockade, which prevents entry of most goods, by making kites from sticks, newspapers and scraps of plastic.
- Sanitized Radicals: Whitewashing 20th Century Socialists
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
A look at some of the 20th century's most inspiring leaders, whose socialist views have been conveniently ignored by the Right and the mainstream American media.
- Grieve the Beloved Children: Israel and the War on Children
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
A discussion of Israel's tactics in its campaign against Palestinians, which includes the use of deliberate provocation to incite retaliation, and the disturbing reality that results in large numbers of children's deaths.
- All in the family
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
Three parents who have made Canadian history by winning a court's recognition as a legal family are still adjusting to their status as pioneers for polyamorous rights.
- How can environmental activists use social media? Part 3
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
Has Twitter jumped the shark? Is Facebook now MySpace? Should environmental activists bother with social media - and does the Cambridge Analytica scandal mean we should boycott?
- Less Than Fundamental: the Myth of Voting Rights in America
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
The story of voting rights in America is one of exceptionalism. In 1787 when the US Constitution was drafted the right to vote was absent from the text.
- Trump's War on Children is an act of State Terrorism
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
State terrorism comes in many forms, but one of its most cruel and revolting expressions is when it is aimed at children. The Trump administration has detained more than 2,000 children, and the numbers are expected to grow exponentially in light of Trump's refusal to change the cruel policy.
- The U.S. Is Building Jails for Toddlers Because Trump "Doesn't Want to Look Weak"
The optics of Donald Trump's "zero-tolerance" immigration policy are - somehow - only getting worse.
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
A look at the Trump Administration's "zero-tolerance" immigration policy, announced by Attorney General Jeff Sessions in April, 2018. The policy, which separated children from their mothers and detained them in caged facilities, caused outrage among both Democrat and Republican lawmakers.
- Unprecedented Cruelty Against Immigrants and Their Children
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
Recently White House Chief of Staff, John Kelly backed up the policy when he explained that, "the children will be put in foster care or whatever." This comes at the same time as a new report revealed that there are some 1,500 undocumented children, who have been placed by federal authorities in homes of "sponsors," and are now missing in the system.
No other country has a policy of separating families who intend to seek asylum.
- How can environmental activists use social media? Part 2
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
Environmentalist activists and major NGOs all spend a considerable amount of time on social media - as an immediate and direct connection to the public. But to what effect?
- John Pilger's speech at Sydney rally to free Julian Assange
Resource Type: Film/Video
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
Video by Cathy Vogan & Liam Kesteven (https://www.facebook.com/liam.kesteven), for Politics in the Pub. http://politicsinthepub.org.au
- A one of a kind culinary tour with food from some of the world's most dangerous places tonight
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
A one of a kind culinary tour with food from some of the world's most dangerous places
happening tonight!
- Separating children from their families is nothing new, US has been doing it for decades
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
While the child-parent separation of asylum seekers at the southern U.S. border is closer to home for Americans, the United States has had a longstanding foreign policy of separating thousands of children from their parents on a daily basis.
- The fallacy of Israel's human shields claims in Gaza
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
Desperately trying to justify the killing of unarmed protesters, Israel once again uses its 'human shields' mantra.
- How can environmental activists use social media? Part 1
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
Environmental activists and NGOs spend a considerable amount of time Facebook posting and Tweeting. But the best use of social networks is about what you want to achieve. Alessio Perrone spoke to some experts in the field and gives some tips about how to use platforms successfully to promote social change
- Hundreds of children wait in large metal cages with foil blankets at Texas Border Patrol facility
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
Inside an old warehouse in South Texas, hundreds of immigrant children wait in a series of cages created by metal fencing. One cage had 20 children inside. Scattered about are bottles of water, bags of chips and large foil sheets intended to serve as blankets.
- The Nightmare of Neoliberal Fascism
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
Henry A. Geroux gives his analysis on such subjects as fascism and white nationalism in the age of Trump, and the state of higher education in a time of Neo-liberalism.
- Democracy and Ecological Crisis
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
In view of the global ecological problems which have arisen from aggressive market driven economies, the author examines what democracy and socialism really mean, and what a more environmentally responsible Post-Capitalism society might look like.
- Toronto gets its 1st Industrial Heritage District, highlighting history of Dundas and Carlaw
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
Toronto's first-ever Industrial Heritage District is open in Leslieville - an area now home to some of the city's trendiest lofts.
- Toronto gets its 1st Industrial Heritage District, highlighting history of Dundas and Carlaw
'It's a fascinating rich history that's being brought to life,' Councillor Paula Fletcher says
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
An Industrial Heritage District opens in Leslieville, an area of Toronto now home to some of the city's trendiest lofts. The initiatve is part of an ongoing effort to promote an appreciation for the city's rich architectural, industrial, and cultural heritage.
- The NED's Useful Idiots
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
On Friday, June 8, 2018, MSNBC's Rachel Maddow augmented her nightly Russiagate fetish by extolling the merits of the National Endowment for Democracy (NED), telling her huge audience that the NED, created in the 1980s by the Ronald Reagan administration, still does the "non-partisan hard work around the world, of promoting small D democracy and promoting the institutions of civil society that any culture needs in order to have a functioning democracy."
- Oliver Law, the Lincoln Brigade's Black Commander
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
General Colin Powell was three months old when at 33 tall, broad-shouldered Texas African American Oliver Law, became the first Black Commander of an American Army.The date was June 12, 1937.Law was selected by a committee of three white officers to lead this integrated army.Heard of Colin Powell but never heard of Oliver Law? Hardly surprising. Law’s not mentioned in school books or social studies classes, and has yet to find a place in most college texts or history courses. But Law made his mark on world history in June 1937and for very good reasons.
- Why Do Establishment Feminists Hate Sex Workers?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
On March 21st, 2018, U.S. Senate Republicans and Democrats joined together to overwhelmingly pass the Stop Enabling Sex Traffickers Act (SESTA); the House had earlier passed the Allow States and Victims to Fight Online Sex Trafficking Act (FOSTA).
- No such thing as socialist Zionism
The historic contradictions of the Zionist left are being played out in the death throes of Meretz, writes Tony Greenstein
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
Greenstein discusses the historic contraditions associated with Labour Zionism and explains why the term 'Socialist Zionist' just cannot exist.
- She says federal officials took her daughter while she breastfed the child in a detention center
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
Under the American zero tolerance policy at the southern U.S. border hundreds of children are being separated from their mothers and families, including babies and toddlers.
- 3 adults in polyamorous relationship declared legal parents by N. L. court
St. John's court ruling believed to be legal first for Canada
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
In what is believed to be a legal first in Canada, a court in Newfoundland and Labrador has recognized three unmarried adults as the legal parents of a child born within their "polyamorous" family. Polyamorous relationships are legal in Canada, unlike bigamy and polygamy, which involve people in two or more marriages.
- Separating Migrant Families Is Barbaric. It's Also What the U.S. Has Been Doing to People of Color for Hundreds of Years.
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
A look at the root of the current human rights crisis at the southern border, a crisis based primarily on racism and bigotry which has driven many American policies throughout the nation's history.
- The corporate media's world of illusions
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
In fact, the Great Western Narrative has been developed and refined over centuries to preserve a tiny elite’s privileges and expand its power. The role of journalists like me was to keep feeding these illusions to readers so they would remain fearful, passive and deferential to this elite. It is not that journalists lie – or at least, not most of them – it is that they are as deeply wedded to the Great Western Narrative as everyone else.
- The Wrong Story: Palestine, Israel and the Media
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
The Wrong Story lays bare the flaws in the way large media organizations present the Palestine–Israel issue. It points out major fallacies in the fundamental conceptions that underpin their coverage, namely that Palestinians and Israelis are both victims to comparable extents and are equally responsible for the failure to find a solution; that the problem is "extremists," often religiously-motivated ones, who need to be sidelined in favour of “moderates”; and that Israel’s uses of force are typically justifiable acts of self-defense.
Weaving together the existing literature with new insights, Shupak offers an up-to-date and tightly focused guide that exposes the distorted way these issues are presented and why each is misguided.
- Massacres and Morality
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
What can one say about the morality of Israeli soldiers who shoot unarmed protestors, and then are caught on camera cheering their kills? And how do we judge the civilian population of Israel, many of whom openly support and cheer their soldiers as they go about their work of killing Palestinians? And what can we say about the political leaders of other countries, Canada say, who sit down and smile and make deals with officials of the Israeli government at the very moment that the killing is going on?
- The New York Times' Second Assassination of Razan at-Najjar
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
On 1 June 2018, an Israeli assassin poised along "the largest concentration camp ever to exist" killed 20-year-old paramedic Razan al-Najjar. On 7 June 2018, the New York Times assassinated her a second time. It surely does not surprise that the Times provides yeoman’s service for Israeli hasbara.
- Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - June 10, 2018
Massacres and Morality
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
In the wake of Israel's brutal massacres of Palestinian protestors in Gaza in May and June 2018, Other Voices looks at the ways in which state terrorism is used to keep subjugated populations in line, at home or abroad. The issue also questions the morality of those who either support, or keep silent about, the violence of the oppressor.
- Debunking A Century of War Lies
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
In the modern age of democracy and volunteer armies, a pretense for war is required to rally the nation around the flag and motivate the public to fight. That is why every major conflict is now accompanied by its own particular bodyguard of lies. From false flag attacks to dehumanization of the "enemy," here are all the examples you’ll need to help debunk a century of war lies.
- How the Guardian aided the anti-semites
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
Who do you help when you censor a cartoon depicting Israel's well-documented war crimes against Palestinians – and do so on the grounds that the criticism of Israel is anti-semitic?
The answer is: you help anti-semites.
- Massaker und Moral
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2024
Seitdem es Staaten und Armeen gibt, gibt es auch Massaker.
- What would you do if soldiers dragged your son out of bed in the middle of the night?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
After more than half a century of occupation, most Israelis can no longer imagine themselves in the place of the Palestinians. But if we cannot imagine what it is like to live under occupation, we must at least confront its brutal reality.
- Pret-A-Patriarchy – on "modest" fashion
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
"Modest" fashion is a fast growing industry with companies like Dolce & Gabbana, H&M, Marks and Spencer, DKNY, Zara and others all rushing to cash in. But while more choice is undoubtedly good, I have a problem with the labelling.
- Police Broke Into Chelsea Manning's Home with Guns Drawn - in a 'Wellness Check'
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
A video recording of a 'wellness check' by police in Maryland, USA, shows police officers arriving with weapons drawn. The incident sheds light on a very disturbing police procedure and whether law enforcement should be called at all as first responders in matters of mental health.
- The Ideal of a Free Media Died Long Ago
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
Should the media include positive editorial content secretly paid for by major corporations, as London's Evening Standard newspaper has begun doing, according to new revelations?
Most of us instantly recoil from any blurring between editorial and advertising in the media. How would we know if what was reported was factual, truthful and newsworthy or there simply as public relations spin? How could we trust anything we read?
- The Ideal of a Free Media Died Long Ago
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
Most of us instantly recoil from any blurring between editorial and advertising in the media. How would we know if what was reported was factual, truthful and newsworthy or there simply as public relations spin? How could we trust anything we read? But here's a seditious idea. Would that be such a bad thing? Maybe it would better if we were far more wary of the corporate media and began to think of it chiefly as a sales platform – selling us an ideology harmful to our individual welfare and that of our societies.
- Sacrificing Gaza: The Great March of Zionist Hypocrisy
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
The Great March of Return is a startling, powerful expression of Palestinian identity and resistance. Thousands of Palestinians have come out, bravely and unapologetically, to say: “We refuse to remain invisible. We reject any attempt to assign us to the discard pile of history. We will exercise our fundamental right to go home.” They have done this unarmed, in the face of Israel’s use of deadly armed force against targets (children, press, medics) deliberately chosen to demonstrate the Jewish state’s unapologetic determination to force them back into submissive exile by any means necessary. By doing this repeatedly over the last few weeks, these incredibly brave men, women, and children have done more than decades of essays and books to strip the aura of virtue from Zionism that’s befogged Western liberals’ eyes for 70 years.
- The Syrian Observatory: Funded By The Foreign Office
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
The UK funded a project worth £194,769.60 to provide the 'Syrian Observatory for Human Rights' with communications equipment and cameras.
- Gaza medic killed by Israel as she rescued injured
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
Israeli occupation forces shot dead a volunteer medic and injured dozens of people as they continued their indiscriminate attacks on Palestinians taking part in Great March of Return protests in Gaza for the 10th consecutive Friday. Razan Ashraf Abdul Qadir al-Najjar, 21, was helping treat and evacuate wounded protesters east of Khan Younis when she was fatally shot on Friday evening. She was about 100 meters away from the boundary fence with Israel at the moment she was shot and was wearing clothing clearly identifying her as a medic.
- Takashi Nagai
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
Takashi Nagai was a Catholic physician specializing in radiology. During WWII Nagai treated the wounded and was a survivor of the atomic bombing of Nagasaki, after which he also treated its victims. Diagnosed with leaukemia, likely from his work in radiology, Nagai spent his remaining years as a teacher, author and devout Catholic. He was honoured with the title of Servant of God, the first step towards Catholic sainthood.
- This e-waste evangelist got into a battle involving Microsoft - and is going to prison for it
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
Recycling entrepreneur pleaded guilty, sentenced for copyright infringement dealing with computer discs.
- Africa's whistleblowers
'All I did was tell the truth'
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
In Africa, those who denounce corruption face hardship and physical danger even when there’s a legal framework that should protect and guarantee them a fair hearing.
- Mozambique won't be Mato Grosso
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
A popular movement centred on a small farming village in northern Mozambique has, for the moment, halted an attempt to move to cash-crop monocultures mainly for export.
- A search for roots and connections
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
The post-third-way Labour Party is trying to encourage its many new activist members, especially among the young, to turn the party into a social movement.
- Surveillance Self-Defense
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
A guide on how online surveillance works and the various tools and techniques the public can use to help protect themselves from spying.
- Trump's EU doormats
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
The author demontrates the need for EU members to maintain their independence and sovereignty through the treatment and demands made of EU leaders by Trump concerning deals on Iran.
- Missing Children: The Pottery Barn Rule Revisited
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
If one in five American parents couldn't figure out where their kids were, most people would rightly see the phenomenon as a crisis and a national scandal. Grandstanding prosecutors with visions of gubernatorial campaigns dancing in their heads would conduct mass parental perp walks. Legislators would boost their presidential aspirations by co-sponsoring legislation requiring universal implantation of GPS trackers at birth.
- Nanking Massacre
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
A summary of the massacre at Nanking (Nanjing) , which occurred over a period of six weeks starting on December 13, 1937. During this period soldiers of the Imperial Japanese Army perpetrated horrific atrocities, and murdered Chinese civilians and disarmed combatants who numbered an estimated 40,000 to over 300,000.
- Confronting Germany's New Fascists in Berlin
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
A look at the rise of facism in Germany with the recent winning of seats, now with 92 representatives in the national Bundestag, by the five-year-old Alternative for Germany (AfD). This new found platform provides the party with a voice in every debate and the first speakers after those of the government.
- Eight Things I learned About Palestine While Touring Eight Western Nations
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
The main theme of all my talks in various cultural, academic and media platforms was the pressing need to refocus the discussion on Palestine on the struggle, aspirations and history of the Palestinian people. But, interacting with hundreds of people and being exposed to multiple media environments in both mainstream and alternative media, I also learned much about the changing political mood on Palestine in the western world.
- Finding the truth amid Israel's lies
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
The famous – and by now overused – expression that history is written by the victors can be countered in many ways. One way is by unpacking the victors’ publications in order to expose the lies, fabrications and misrepresentations, as well as their less conscious actions. A rereading of these open sources about the Nakba, mostly written by Israelis themselves, unlocks fresh historiographical perspectives on the big picture of that period – while declassified documents allow us to see that picture in a higher resolution. This reprise could have been done at any moment between 1948 and today – as long as historians were willing to employ the critical lens needed for such an examination. Rereading these open sources, especially in tandem with the numerous oral histories of the Nakba, reveals the barbarism and dehumanization that accompanied the catastrophe. The barbarism is common to settler communities in the formative years of their colonization projects and can sometimes be obscured by the dry and evasive language of military and political documents.
- Israel deliberately provoked the latest violence in Gaza, but you won't learn that in the NY Times
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
The Times breathlessly and at length recounts Israeli anxiety over the limited attacks from Gaza: "Sirens blared again;" "cellphones were buzzing with alerts of incoming rockets."
- Israel deliberately provoked the latest violence in Gaza, but you won't learn that in the NY Times
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
The Times breathlessly and at length recounts Israeli anxiety over the limited attacks from Gaza: "Sirens blared again;" "cellphones were buzzing with alerts of incoming rockets." The Times has a reporter in Gaza, Iyad Abuheweila, but the paper had nothing to say whatsoever about how Gazans were reacting to being under assault. Maybe their cellphones were also buzzing, and their children were also afraid?
- Israeli minister threatens to destroy Gaza "once and for all"
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
As Israel bombed it dozens of times in the past day, a senior Israeli minister has incited the total destruction of Gaza.
- Joyless in Zion
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
Israel is held in contempt by much of the western world, and Israelis know it even as they get down to the hard business of shooting border-crossers. The New York Times did a piece suggesting that Israelis have a conscience about the violence they poured forth at the Gaza border, and they hope that it was the right thing to do. But Gideon Levy says they have lost their conscience; and that was my impression too from interviewing Israeli Jews in West Jerusalem. I talked to 20 people. Every one expressed support for the killings. There was simply no dissent.
- Local Autonomy: A Key to Protection of the Ecosystem
Apo Island's Protected Landscape and Seascape
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
In his book, The Plundered Seas, Michael Berrill called the Grand Banks and Georges Bank maybe the saddest story of overfishing.Berrill’s solution was the management of Large Marine Ecosystems.
- 'Our Rivers are Black with Coal' - living with Siberia's mines
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
A look at the aggressive coal mining industry in Siberia where local opposition and human rights are ignored, and indigenous communities and ecosystems are being destroyed.
- Video: IJV and CJPME tell Israeli trade Minister Eli Cohen and the Canadian Trade Minister to #EndApartheidTrade and divest from the Israeli-Canadian arms trade
Resource Type: Film/Video
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
- Fathi Harb burnt himself to death in Gaza: Will the world notice?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
Self-immolation is more than suicide. That can be done quietly, out of sight, less gruesomely. In fact, figures suggest that suicide rates in Gaza have rocketed in recent years. But public self-immolation is associated with protest.
- MST Letter to the Brazilian People
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
We call on the Brazilian society as a whole to build and participate in the Congress of the Brazilian People, organized by the Brazil Popular Front, to be the space for discussion and organization on the country's problems and the structural measures
- Say 'I Love You'
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
A commentary on the issue of gun violence in schools in the United States, and the current lack of leadership which narrowly places blame on the shooter rather than tackle the more complex issues and policies which could make a difference.
- The Simulation of Democracy
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
The global capitalist ruling classes have been stuck with "democracy" ever since, or, more accurately, with the simulation of democracy.
- 13 protesters against copper plant in India killed after police open fire
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
Public protests at the copper smelter plant of Sterlite Industries in the town of Thoothukudi in Tamil Nadu, India, were met with police fire during the last two days, with 13 protesters killed and and hundreds injured.
- Trump, the NYPD and the People We Call 'Animals'
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
A look at the reckless use and dissemination of de-humanizing pejorative language, notably by President Donald Trump and some police agencies in the United States, which has consequences for the public who interact with police and for society as a whole.
- You Can't Commit Genocide Without the Help of Local People
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
How do you organise a successful genocide – in Turkish Armenia a century ago, in Nazi-occupied Europe in the 1940s, or in the Middle East today? A remarkable investigation by a young Harvard scholar – focusing on the slaughter of Armenians in a single Turkish Ottoman city 103 years ago – suggests the answer is simple: a genocidal government must have the local support of every branch of respectable society: tax officials, judges, magistrates, junior police officers, clergymen, lawyers, bankers and, most painfully, the neighbours of the victims.
- A Faustian Bargain with the Climate Crisis
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
Take as our inspiration the temptations of capitalist individualism set before us, we make the exact same bargain. The difference in this case however is that we know the disaster is coming; we don't even need to worry about what our spidey senses say, 97% of all climate scientists agree that the capitalist mentality that sees the world as an infinite resource and infinite garbage dump is warming the atmosphere. We have even less excuse.
- YIMBYs Exposed: The Techies Hawking Free Market "Solutions" to the Nation's Housing Crisis
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
Anti-displacement activists hate them. Tech firms and big developers love them -- and shower them with cash.
- Baran & Sweezy versus Marx
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
In response to the editors' question 'Where was Marx in 1968?," Daum chooses to comment briefly on one topic: the anti-Marxist influence of Paul Baran and Paul Sweezy’s book Monopoly Capital.
- Editorial Statement: Introducing Insurgent Notes on Marx in 1968
Insurgent Notes vol. 17
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
The editors introduce the focus of this issue: How present or absent was the thought of Karl Marx in 1968?
- From Catholicism and the working class to communism and Marx
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
Garvey describes his childhood growing up in a Catholic community in New York and explains how Marx and Marxism were episodically present in the later periods of his life but first engagement with them was not nearly as deep as it needed to be. He asserts that in the 1960s Marx and Marxism that were on offer in the world of political practice were, more often than not, caricatures. What was needed in 1968 and beyond was not simply more Marx but a different Marx. At the end, he sketchs out some ideas of what a different Marx might have been and what difference it might have made.
- Getting to Marxism in Wisconsin and Iowa
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
Dave Ranney recounts his experiences during the 1960s which led him to accepting Marxism. He emphasizes his experinces in Southeast Asia during the 1960s which exposed covert Americian military action in the region. Other formative experiences include those as an university professor in Wisconsin and Iowa where he witnessed and joined campus movements.
- Marx in 1968 in France
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
In a personal essay, Coleman describes his personal experiences in France from 1966-1968.
He highlights significant number of Marxists teaching in both high schools and secondary settings. Furthermore, he discusses how the working class perceived in the Marxist far left, Trotskyist and Maoist press before May 1968.
- Marx in 1968: Report on a Journey
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
Harvey Goldman discusses his intellectual jounrey during the 1960s in relationship to Marism. As a member of SDS, Goldman was engaged actively in student activism.
- Marx is dead, long live Marx!
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
Duran describes 1968 as an an "ideological revolution which unquestionably affected the dominant revolutionary ideology, Marxism, and here begins my contribution, which I will divide into two large sections: an account of the situation in Spain, and then the rebirth of
Marxism, and why we can say: 'Long live Marx!'"
- Marx and Marxism in Berkeley in 1968
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
Setting context by describing the early twentieth century political landscape in Berkeley, Goldner continues to describe his experince as a student at UC Berkeley by discussing local, national and international contexts for my encounter with Marx in Berkeley, 1968.
- A Political Education and Militant Intervention Before, During and After May ’68
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
In the context of the Algerian War for independence, Charroussart discusses his political education and activism before, during after 1968 in relation to Marixsm.
- Studying Marx
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
Buhle discusses how often participants in "The Movement" were not formally educated in Marxism but rather held self-studies conducted individually and in groups.
- The Italian Long ’68
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
Taddeo describes how the charateristics of 1968 continued in Italy passed 1968 and his subsequent participation in various movements. He explains that with the struggles of 1977 and the repression that followed, one can say that the social ferment begun in Italy in 1968 had exhausted itself.
- Wild at Heart: Keeping Up With Margie Kidder
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
Margie Kidder died on Sunday in her house in Livingston, Montana. It's not that she hadn’t had close calls with the Reaper before.
- An Interview with Norman Finkelstein: "I'm Not Betraying the Legacy of My Parents in Order to Make Myself Palatable."
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
Norman Finkelstein is among the leading scholars on the Israel-Palestine conflict in the United States. His work primarily focuses on the history of the Israel-Palestine conflict and the Nazi Holocaust. For decades, he has advocated for a two state solution on the June 1967 borders, a "just solution to the refugee question," an end to the Israeli settlements in Palestine, the deconstruction of the border wall, the right to clean water, and an end to the occupation, the Gaza blockade, and the use of force against the Palestinians.
- Israel Commemorates Nakba with Mass Murder at the Gaza Fence
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
On the 70th anniversary of the Nakba, the "catastrophe" that resulted in the expulsion of hundreds of thousands of Palestinians, and the theft of their lands, homes, and even their household possessions, the message today was clear: the Israeli state is prepared to maintain its apartheid state by any means necessary. The catastrophe for the Palestinians was the birth of Israel and was celebrated by the Israeli state with tear gas, bullets and the blood of Palestinians.
- "Killing Gaza" captures culture of resistance
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
Watch Killing Gaza, absorb the atmosphere of siege and listen to the testimonies of the trapped. You might then understand why so many chose to rush the gates.
- American Jews Stand Against the U.S. Embassy Move and Israel's Mass Killing of Protesters in Gaza
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
This is the ongoing Nakba: Celebrating the annexation of Jerusalem while gunning down Palestinian protesters
- CJPME Condemns Israeli Shooting of Canadian Doctor, Slaughter of Gaza Protesters
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
Canadians for Justice and Peace in the Middle East (CJPME) condemns Israel’s shooting of London, ON based doctor Tarek Loubani, shot while attending the wounded in Gaza.
- My Experiences in 1968 in Working-Class Turin
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
Lepore recounts his experiences growing up in 1968 in working class Turin. He highlight the influence of the newspaper, Lotta Comunista, its developed Marxist approach and his subsequent involvement with, and then commitment to, that group.
- 'Today is one of the most tragic days in the history of the Jewish people: one American Jews response to the Gaza massacre
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
In this open letter to the Westchester Israel Action Committee by congregant Howard Horovitz, Horovitz asks "When will we stand up, as human beings, as a committee and as a Temple, to condemn the massacre of Palestinians on the Gaza border?"
- West's failure to act will be cause of the next Gaza massacre
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
Jewish Israelis celebrate, and governments around the world stand by passively, as Israel massacres Palestinians in Gaza. Inaction by Western governments ensures that Israel will feel embolded to commit further massacres in the future.
- On Nakba Day Palestinians in Gaza explain why they joined the 'Great March of Return'
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
Palestinian refugees in their own words, on the 70th anniversary of the creation of Israel. In the context of the 2018 opening of the USA embassy in Jerusalem.
- A New Politics? Movements, Power and Transformation
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
Hilary Wainwright’s latest book, A New Politics from the Left (Cambridge, UK: Polity Press), represents a timely appeal for a democratic, participatory, and bottom-up political transformation.
- When Covering Up a Crime Takes Precedence Over Human Health: BP's Toxic Gulf Coast Legacy
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
On April 20, 2010, BP’s Deepwater Horizon oil rig exploded. Over the next 87 days, it gushed at least 200 million gallons of crude oil into the Gulf of Mexico, creating the worst human-made environmental disaster in US history and afflicting the coasts of Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama and Florida.
- The future of the Nakba
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
If the Nakba’s most salient features are the theft of Palestinian land and the expulsion of the Palestinians from their land, and subjecting the lands that could not be stolen and the people who could not be expelled to systematic control and oppression, then, it would be most inaccurate to consider the Nakba as a discrete event that refers to the war of 1948 and its immediate aftermath. Rather, it should be historicized as a process which spanned the last 140 years, beginning with the arrival of the first Zionist conquerors to colonize the land in the early 1880s. In addition, Israeli leaders continue to regale their own people and the world with assurances that the Nakba is not just a past and present process of dispossessing the Palestinian people of their lands and expelling them, but rather one that must continue to preserve the future survival of Israel. The Nakba then turns out to be not just a past event and an ongoing process in the present, but a calamity that has a decidedly planned future ahead of it. If so, what might that future be?
- Israel at 70: Why Gaza's refugees and their descendants will never forget their violent expulsion
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
Tuesday marks the anniversary of the start of the exodus from what became Israel, an event Palestinians call the Nabka (catastrophe). Sarah Helm visits Gaza to hear the views of residents old and young about their past and future
- The May '68 Events and Revolution in the West
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
The political explosion fifty years ago in May 1968 in France has become a key historical marker for the Left. In an outburst of political revolt, workers seized factories and students occupied universities bringing France to a halt in a series of massive general strikes.
- May 1968: the posters that inspired a movement
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
The May 1968 uprising in France produced an important visual language for protest that still resonates half a century later. While often aesthetically crude in design, the posters were pasted up in the streets calling for solidarity in the fight against capitalism.
- What's it like for a social movement to take control of a city?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
Ada Colau surprised many when she won the election to become mayor of Barcelona. The housing rights activist was part of a deep social movement aiming for participatory democracy. But this latest article from the Symbiosis Research Collective examines how winning the election was just the first step
- Why Everyone Is Wrong about the Censorship Fight at Universities
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
The silencing of part-time instructors is the real free speech crisis
- A Brief History of American Torture
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
The recent appointment of Gina Haspel as Head of the CIA reopens a dark chapter in US history -- the "enhanced interrogation", or torture of men, women and children. It also emphasizes the fact that no American officials who sanctioned, devised, supervised or implemented torture have ever been brought to justice for these crimes against humanity.
- Free and Accessible Transit Now
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
Transit is a critical issue for many people in Toronto, as in all major urban areas. More is at stake than reducing traffic congestion and gridlock. Free transit opens the door to a broader transformation of urban life and the current social system. Our 'Red-Green' vision is socialist, based on the working class, environmentally just, internationalist, and transformative.
- Killing Children: From Ireland to Palestine
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
The most tragic casualty in a conflict is that of a child, the most disturbing casualty in a conflict is that of a child killed purposely. In Palestine there is a disturbingly tragic high rate of children killed by those sporting the uniform of Israeli armed forces.
- What if Ida B. Wells Depended on Facebook?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
The work of Ida B. Wells, the crusading journalist who forced Americans to pay attention to lynchings and human rights abuses, is a reminder why we need a tax-dollars-funded, and journalism focused, commitment to public media.
- Who is Afraid of Venezuelan Democracy?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
We are witnessing before our eyes a scenario of subversion and disqualification of Venezuela’s democracy.
- De-Briefing Academics: Unpaid Intelligence Informants
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
Many academics frequently engage in what government officials dub 'de-briefing'! Academics meet and discuss their field-work, data collection, research finding, observations and personal contacts over lunch at the Embassy with US government officials or in Washington with State Department officials.
- 2018: When Orwell's 1984 Stopped Being Fiction
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
A commentary on The Guardian's news story "Revealed: UK's push to strengthen anti-Russia alliance". Cook questions facts and the terminology used in the Guardian article, a form of 'journalistic fraud', which promotes the UK government's policy towards Russia.
- Defining Israel as a "Jewish State"
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
The definition of what is a "Jewish State" and "what is a Jew" is a fundamental part of this debate. The "Jewish State" is like no other. It uses a concept of Jewish nationality which is like no other definition of nationality. It is the Jewish character of the State that is given preference to all other considerations and gives superior rights to Jews over the non-Jewish population in Israel.
- Who's Funding the White Helmets?
Reality Check
Resource Type: Film/Video
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
You've no doubt heard of the White Helmets, aka the Syria Civil Defense. They claim to be a neutral entity in Syria. They say they are just helping people caught in the middle of a civil war. But are they? Follow the money and you will find numerous ties to government funding from not only the U.S., but the U.K., Netherlands, Denmark and Germany. We untangle these ties to the White Helmets in a Reality Check you won't get anywhere else.
- Denver Post Editor Who Criticized Paper's Ownership Resigns
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
Chuck Plunkett said he knew that he was risking his job as the editorial page editor of The Denver Post when he wrote an impassioned editorial last month blasting the newspaper's hedge-fund owners as "vulture capitalists" who had hobbled Colorado's largest newspaper with deep layoffs and cost-cutting. On Thursday, Mr. Plunkett resigned after he said an executive who oversees the newspaper refused to run another sharp-edged editorial Mr. Plunkett had written for this Sunday's newspaper.
- The 'One Democratic State Campaign' program for a multicultural democratic state in Palestine/Israel
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
As the Leonard Cohen song goes, ":everybody knows" the two-state solution is dead and gone. Zionism’s 120-year quest to Judaize Palestine – to transform Palestine into the Land of Israel – has been completed. Every Israeli government since 1967 has refused to seriously entertain the notion of a genuinely independent and viable Palestinian state alongside the state of Israel.
- Though Invisible to Us, Our Dead Are Not Absent
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
A reminder that the world is a beautiful place, and we must save it by listening to the voices of those who have passed, who instilled us with life, love and the spirit of resistance.
- A Tool to Combat Washington's Middle East Wars
Book review: "The Plot to Attack Iran: How the CIA and the Deep State have Conspired to Vilify Iran"
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
A Review of Dan Kovalik's book "The Plot to Attack Iran: How the CIA and the Deep State have Conspired to Vilify Iran", which provides a concise overview of US imperial conduct since WWII and the disturbing hypocrisy and deceit of the US Government and media.
- What your government can't tell you about drug prices
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
One of the best kept commercial secrets? The price governments pay for brand name drugs
- FC St. Pauli: Antifascist, Antiracist
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
Haasen describes the political activism of FC St. Pauli footbal team and its supporters in Hamburg, Germany. Having once supported the Nazi Regime, this club has radiically changed it stance to become a vocal supporter of antiracism, antifascism and humanitarian efforts.
- Gazan Gandhis: Gaza Bleeds Alone as 'Liberals' and 'Progressives' Go Mute
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
Tens of thousands of protesters, raising Palestinian flags continue to hold their massive rallies across the Gaza border. Despite the high death toll and the thousands maimed, they return everyday with the same commitment to popular resistance that is predicated on collective unity, beyond factionalism and politics.But why are they still being largely ignored? It is politically convenient to criticize Palestinians as a matter of course, and utterly inconvenient to credit them, even when they display such courage, prowess and commitment to peaceful change.
- Privatization is Killing Us: Dispatches from the Capitalist War on Society
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
A look at various sectors of society that are suffering under privatization in the United States- including education, the prison system, healthcare, and the environment.
- African Americans and Immigrant Workers
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
Malik discusses job competition and tensions between Afrcian Americans and Hispanic workers, more specifically between African Amercians and undocumented workers. He illustrates this through the example of a conflict in a Chicago bakery.
- Animating the Great Migration and After
Book Review
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
Brian Dolinar reviews Pioneering Cartoonists of Color by Tim Jackson.
- Barbara Ehrenreich Isn't Afraid to Die
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
A look at Barbara Ehrenreich's book "Natural Causes: An Epidemic of Wellness, The Certainty of Dying, and Our Illusion of Control", where she questions current cultural practices, our sense of 'self', and advocates for a broader acceptance of death's inevitability.
- Can a Minority Overthrow the Majority?
Book Review
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
Feeley reviews Democracy in Chains: The Deep History of the Radical Right’s Stealth Plan for America by Nancy MacLean.
- Confronting the Right: An Introduction
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
An overview of issues related to confronting the right, including questions surrounding the labelling of free speech as hate speech.
- Defending 'Our Democracy'
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
Despite the onsought of attacks on American democracy, groups like the teachers in West Virginia, Oklahoma and Kentucky and the Parkland surviors through their activism are defending America's democracy.
- Doubts about 'Novichoks'
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
Briefing notes developed from ongoing research and investigation into the use of chemical and biological weapons during the 2011-present war in Syria conducted by members of the "Working Group on Syria, Media and Propaganda".
- For Campus Free Speech
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
Bose describes the right-wing incursion on universities and his troubled feelings about the climate of intellectual fear among some on the campus left. He elaborates on this by discussing the demands for speaking engagements for right-wing pundits to be cancelled.
- London Pub Crawl with Karl Marx
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
An account by Wilhelm Liebknecht of an incident which occured during a 'beer trip' -pub crawl- between Karl Marx, other Germans, and some Englishmen.
- Marx at 200; Capital at 150
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
Holmstrom discusses the relevance of Marx's Das Capital in understanding modern and historical economic systems. Specifically, she looks at the themes of exploitation, gender, race and capital.
- Marx's Ecology: Recovered Legacy
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
Löwy says that while mainstream ecologicail theory has been dismissive of Karl Marx, serious research in recent decades has recovered some of his very important insights on ecological issues.
- Modernity and Negations
Book Review
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
Finkel reviews The End of Jewish Modernity and What is Modern Israel? He says they offer complementary perspectives on some of the tragedies confronting today’s world, and their historical backgrounds.
- 1917 and the Colonial Revolution
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
Solenberger discuss the 1917 Russian Revolution and the subsequent spead of the communist movement internationally. He focuses on the conditions which led to the rapid spread of its ideas and how in 1920 the movement went from being on the offense to defence.
- On the 'Duty to Protect'
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
On April 14, 2018, U.S.-British-French forces launched a missile strike on alleged Syrian chemical weapons facilities, citing as justification the 'duty to protect'. Finkel make it clear that this attack was illegal under international law.
- Organizing Workers Strikes Against War and Repression
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
A Brief History of Labour Strikes Against Imperialist Wars and Reaction
- Popular Front Counter-Memories
Book Review
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
Ehlers reviews Anti-Imperialist Modernism: Race and Transnational Culture from the Great Depression to the Cold War by Benjamin Balthaser.
- Remembering Joanne Landy
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
Farber recalls the life and work of Joanne Landy. She is remembered as a supporter and organizer for a radical democratic politics opposed to oppression and exploitation throughout the world.
- Review Essay: Are Strikes Over?
Book Review
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
Moody reviews and critiques Riot. Strike. Riot: The New Era of Uprisings by Joshua Clover.
- "Ruthless Criticism of All That Exists"; Against the Current vol. 194
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
In October 1864, Marx drafted the inaugural rules for the International Working Men's Association (First International). Its opening lines were a hymn to freedom and self-activity: "the emancipation of the working classes must be conquered by the working classes themselves."
- Taking on the Far-Right Menace
An Interview with Mark Bray
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
Diana Feeley and David Finkel interview Mark Bray, author of The Anti-Fascist Handbook and professor at Darmouth College. Bray answers questions about his book, facism, tracking the racist right and tactical issues.
- An Urban Teacher Union Epic
Book Review
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
Swerdlow reviews A Fight for the Soul of Public Education: The Story of the Chicago Teachers Strike. She suggests that the 2012 Chicago teachers strike can be used as a model to persuade the public that public employees and their labour organizations benefit society and lead to effetive change.
- What Fascism is, and Isn't
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
By examining historicial fascist movements, Oppenheimer delineates what is and isn't fascism and also explores the common themes between the alt-right and its fascist predecessors.
- Where It All Began: The Dawn of 'Fake News'
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
While today's political smear campaigns and propaganda have gotten more sophisticated and subtle, the underlying ethics remain as maggoty as ever.
- Yemen's Turn
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
The Arab Spring, numerically strong but politically weak, failed to break this destructive dynamic. With the corpse of Arab nationalism in a state of advanced decay and the principal opposition, the Muslim Brotherhood, desperate for a deal with Washington, the 2011 uprisings were easily confiscated by the US to further its own aims in the region. Despite its many national peculiarities, the ruinous war in Yemen has to be viewed in this context.
- Help wanted from Canadian Mothers, for Mothers in Malawi
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
It's easy for Canadian mothers to find proper health care for themselves and their children. In Malawi, it is not. Pregnant women will walk for hours or days to reach a health facility or camp out beside one, so they have a safe place to give birth.
- WADA reveals worst doping cheaters in 2016, Russia not even in top 5
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
While Russian national athletics federations (RUSAF) still remain suspended by international sports governing bodies as part of the crackdown over its alleged state-sponsored doping system, a new report by the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) indicates that Russia is far from the worst offenders in 2016.
- Toronto's film industry grows, but at what cost?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
While high profile film productions are increasing in Toronto, the article questions whether taxpayers are getting good value for the billions of dollars of public money being invested into the film industry's expansion in the city.
- The Attack on Wilderness From Environmentalists
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
Wildlands are being lost across the globe, and some conservation groups are assisting in that loss by proposing lesser protective status.
- Defenders of Copyright Troll Victims Urge Congress to Reject the "Small Claims" Bill
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
A dedicated group of attorneys and technologists from around the U.S. defend Internet users against abuse by copyright trolls.
- The League of Assad-Loving Conspiracy Theorists
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
So the global capitalist ruling classes' War on Dissent is now in full swing. With their new and improved official narrative, "Democracy versus the Putin-Nazis," successfully implanted in the public consciousness, the corporatocracy have been focusing their efforts on delegitimizing any and all forms of deviation from their utterly absurd and increasingly paranoid version of reality.
- How Many Millions Have Been Killed in America's Post-9/11 Wars? Part 3
Libya, Syria, Somalia and Yemen
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
Davies investigates the death toll of U.S. covert and proxy wars in Libya, Syria, Somalia and Yemen and underscores the importance of comprehensive war mortality studies.
- Privately run prisoner transport company kept detainees schackedl for 18 days
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
The inhumane treatment of people by a prisoner transport company puts into question the use of privately hired companies, where incentive to pick up as many detainees as possible for financial gain supercedes the basic human rights of their charges.
- Russia and the War Party
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
A critical look at the book "Russian Roulette", by Michael Isikoff and David Corn, which examines alleged Russian interference in the 2017 U.S. election.
- For the love of books: Mobile libraries around the world
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
A look at the people behind mobile libraries serving communities from Nigeria to the Netherlands.
- Gideon Levy: A Voice of Sanity from Israel
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
In spite of a systemic policy of demonization, Israeli journalist and human rights activist Gideon Levy continues denouncing the Israeli government and the crimes against Palestinians.
- Girls Reduced to Being Repositories of Communal and Religious Identities in Kashmir
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
The rape and ruthless murder of an eight-year old girl in Jammu province underscores the brutal gender violence that is a consistent feature of the political thuggery that grips the subcontinent.
- In Middle East Wars It Pays to be Skeptical
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
In the context of Western air strikes on alleged Syrian biological weapons sites on 14 April, 2018, the history of the bombing of the Abu Ghraib baby milk factory in 1991 underscores the need for permanent scepticism towards claims by U.S. and Western governments that they know exactly what is happening on the ground in Syria.
- Just When You Thought 'Russiagate' Couldn't Get Any Sillier
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
The lawsuit against the Trump campaign, the Russian government and WikiLeaks is simply the latest version of what the DNC has been doing since 2016, which is trying to fob blame for its loss of an election it should have won.
- Unit 731: How Leaders of Japan's WWII Germ Warfare Unit Ended Up Working for the US
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
A look at the post-war collaboration between the United States and members of Unit 731, a germ warfare branch of the Imperial Japanese Army that conducted horrific and lethal experiments on Chinese civilians and Allied prisoners.
- Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - April 21, 2018
Their Interent or Ours?
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
The Internet, which was at one time a free and open space for sharing information and ideas, has been privatized and twisted to serve the profit-making agenda of huge corporations, working hand-in-glove with governments which want to suppress opposition and alternatives. What can we do about it? Is it our Internet or theirs?
- Palestine: MSF teams in Gaza observe unusually severe and devastating gunshot injuries
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
MSF medical staff report receiving patients with devastating injuries of an unusual severity, which are extremely complex to treat.
- Their Internet or Ours? - Chinese text
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
- Their Internet or Ours?
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
The Internet, at one time a free & open space for sharing information & ideas, has been privatized & twisted to serve the profit-making agenda of huge corporations, working hand-in-glove with governments which want to suppress opposition & criticism.
- Their Internet or Ours?
Introduction to the April 21, 2018 issue of Other Voices
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
What happened to the Internet? The Internet, which was at one time a free and open space for sharing information and ideas, has been privatized and twisted to serve the profit-making agenda of huge corporations, working hand-in-glove with governments which want to suppress opposition and alternatives. What can we do about it? Is it our Internet or theirs?
- Government Mass Murder
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
"This is not an assault." Twenty-five years ago, that was the lie blaring over government loudspeakers as the FBI and the ATF (Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms) carried out its plan to obliterate the Branch Davidians, an integrated group that formed as a breakaway from the Seventh-day Adventist Church. Orchestrated and overseen at the highest levels of the Clinton administration, the 19 April 1993 assault outside Waco, Texas, engulfed the Branch Davidians’ Mount Carmel commune in an inferno that killed over 80 people, including some two dozen children.
- Liberation of Dalits: Key to Indian Workers Revolution
Review of Ants Among Elephants: An Untouchable Family and the Making of Modern India
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
Ants Among Elephants is both a family memoir and a political history.
- A Tale of Two Atrocities: Douma and Gaza
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
Compare the intense media coverage of an alleged Syrian chemical attack to the near silence accorded the horrific civilian massacre perpetrated by Israeli soldiers in Gaza, at the very same time.
- 'The Forced Displacement of Palestinians Never Truly Ended
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
As Israel celebrates its 70th anniversary, a child and grandchild of exiled Palestinian reflects on the Nakba, where 750,000 were driven from their homes or fled in terror following massacres of Palestinian civilians by Jewish militias.
- As lies on Syrian gas attack unravel, US and UK shift to claims of Russian "cyber war"
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
An examination of the alleged gas attack in Syria as pretext for yet another war against a Middle Eastern nation, the suppression of anti-war sentiment, and the legitimization and crackdown on democratic rights and censorship of the Internet under the banner of combating Russian cyber warfare.
- Challenging Capitalism through Workers’ Control
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
From the upheavals of the early 20th century to the neo-liberal re-structurings of the late 20th century emerges the common feature of 'worker's control' -- a movement to protect jobs and communities.
- Exposing Canary Mission
A Resource for College and University Leaders
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
A report on Canary Mission, a secretive and non-academic political organization that uses their website to engage in defamatory attacks against college students, academics and others who report on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and advocate for Palestinian rights.
- Facebook says it tracks non-users but doesn't 'sell people's data'
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
Facebook admits it also collects data on people who are not users of their service, yet what they do with that data is unclear.
- Fisk Puts to Test the Free-Press Myth in Douma
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
Veteran Middle East corrrespondent Robert Fisk was the first western correspondent to arrive in Douma following the US, UK and French attacks on Syria. Based on first hand interviews Fisk's account is clearly honest about what he reported and certainly plausible, yet respected British newspapers like the Guardian gave his reports a cursory if not hostile treatment.
- Robert Fisk's Douma Report Rips Away Excuses for Air Strike on Syria
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
A report by respected journalist Robert Fisk shows that there is a highly credible alternative explanation for the aftermath of the alleged gas attack in Douma, Syria. His report, including an eyewitness account by a senior doctor, counters the video evidence used by the US to justify the air strikes on the region. It was an attack that should never have taken place before inspectors were able to investigate and report their findings.
- His father brought hundreds of Jewish tailors to Canada - now he's stitching together their
'It opened the doors,' Larry Enkin says of the Tailor Project
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
Larry Enkin hopes to document the history of the immigrant tailors who came to Canada under the The Tailor Project. The project was initiated by his father Max Enkin following WWII, which brought approximately 2,000 displaced people from Europe to Canada to work in the clothing industry.
- Don't Fall for the Chemical Weapons Convention Justification
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
A look at the interventionalist arguments in support of Western air and missile attacks in Syria, and the false claim that the attack was justified under international law because it was a response to the use of banned chemical weapons.
- IJV deeply concerned about politically-motivated firing
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
Independent Jewish Voices Canada (IJV) is deeply concerned about the firing of Kevin Metcalf, a staff person at Canadian Journalists for Free Expression (CJFE), following a statement he issued in the name of the organization condemning recent attack
- President Trump's War Crime is Worse than the One He Accuses Assad of
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
The single most important thing that happened Friday night when the US military on President Trump's orders launched a wave of over 100 cruise missiles against Syria was that once again the US violated the most profound international law of war: initiating a war of aggression against a nation that posed no threat, imminent or otherwise, to the US or its allies.
- War is just f**king wrong
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
Jacobs explains the underlying capitalist imperative of waging war.
- What's Kinder Morgan's Real End Game?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
An ultimatum has been imposed by Texas based Energy Infrastructure company, Kinder Morgan,that they will cancel the Trans Mountain Pipeline Extension at the end of May 2018 unless clarity is provided by the government. Klein argues that Kinder Morgan knows that the pipeline is already doomed, due to external economic factors and Indigenous opposition.
- Call me radical, but journalists should be able to pledge support for Palestinian journalists: Neil Macdonald
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
Journalist Neil MacDonald defends journalistic freedom and safety following a statement issued by the Canadian Journalists for Free Expression (CJFE), an organization that faltered in carrying out its mandate.
- Remembering Ireland's Great Famine
A review of Black '47 a soon to be released film about the famine in Ireland
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
The Irish film, Black 47 (Director Lance Daly) is about the worst year of the catastrophic Irish famine and is set in the west of Ireland in 1847. The story centers around an Irish soldier, Feeney (James Frecheville), returning from serving the British Army in Afghanistan only to find most of his family have perished in the Famine or An Gorta Mor (the Great Hunger) as it is known in Gaelic.
- US media love war more than they hate Trump & egg him on to strike Syria
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
US media outlets are recklessly promoting war with help from neocons, including Arab American right-wingers who do not represent the views of the region they are demanding Trump bomb.
- War, lies and censorship
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
Damon cautions news consumers that there is precedent for dissemination of government propaganda in the Anglo-American mainstream media when leaders are preparing to take part in military action.
- "Al Qaeda's MASH Unit": How the Syrian American Medical Society Is Selling Regime Change and Driving the US to War
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
The Syrian American Medical Society (SAMS) is not merely a group of Syrian doctors tending to the wounded in war torn areas, nor is it an objective and relaibale source on chemical attacks and other atrocities. This article explains that SAMS is actually a politically enaged organization that has for years been actively seeking to overthrow the Syrian government.
- "Before all else a revolutionist": Marx and the Question of Strategy
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
If we begin listening to the voices of those he conversed with, we can stop seeing Marx as the source of infinite quotes and begin to view him instead as a comrade on a common path – a path that he walked before us, always in conversation, and often in dispute, with many of his contemporaries.
- Killing Mosquitoes: The Latest Gaza Massacres, Pro-Israel Media Bias And The Weapon Of 'Antisemitism'
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
The most recent brutality against Palestinians, and brazenness with which the killings were carried out, is yet another demonstration of the Israeli contempt for the people it tried to ethnically cleanse in 1948.
- Misleading figures on greenhouse gas emissions
Letter to the editor
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
A letter to the editor from an oil industry apologist (April 12) tries to excuse the Alberta oilsands’ growing carbon emissions with the argument that Canada accounts for “just” 1.6 per cent of global greenhouse gas emissions. Even if that figure were accurate, it would mean that Canada is producing emissions which are more than three times as large as its proportion of the world’s population.
- Facebook: A Cooperative Transformation
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
Facebook represents a standard for a global model of concentration of wealth and power in the 21st century, joined by companies like Google, Amazon, and Uber. Entrepreneurs with computer skills and good or lucky timing have privatized and enclosed the global information commons and have enriched themselves by providing services for free or for reduced prices to the billions.
- Taking the World to the Brink of Annihilation
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
Western neoconservatives and hawks are driving the international situation to increasing tension and danger. Not content with the destruction of Iraq and Libya based on false claims, they are now pressing for a direct US attack on Syria.
- Argentine Newspapers Recuperated by Workers' Cooperatives
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
An economic recession in Argentina that culminated in intense protests and the resignation of then-president Fernando de la Rua, also fostered the phenomenon of companies being recuperated by its workers as a cooperatives. In the last two years the majority of companies recuperated have been media outlets, which opens up new possibilities for journalism in the country.
- Debunked: How VoA journalist pushed fake news story on 'Russian tanks crossing into Ukraine'
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
The easily-verifiable false claim by Voice of America journalist that Russian tanks were filmed entering Ukraine was shared thousands of times before being debunked. The journalist, however, refused to issue a retraction.
- UN Security Council Rejects Proposal for Investigation Into Syria Chemical Allegations
Russian envoy urges US, allies to refrain from attacking Syria
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
A UN Security Council resolution proposed by Russia has been voted down, with Western nations fighting against it. The resolution would've called for a formal investigation into the alleged Syrian chemical weapons attack on Saturday.
- Despite Gaza Massacre, Israel Remains Immune From Criticism
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
Imagine for a moment that it was not the two million Palestinian in Gaza, who are mostly refugees from 1948, but the six million Syrian refugees in Turkey, Lebanon and Jordan who had staged a march to return to the homes that they have lost in Syria since 2011. Suppose that, as they approach the Syrian border, they were fired on by the Syrian army and hundreds of them were killed or injured. The international outcry against the murderous Syrian regime in Washington, London, Paris and Berlin would have echoed around the world.
- Palestine: IFJ demands justice following the killing of a journalist in Gaza
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) joined its affiliate, the Palestinian Journalists' Syndicate (PJS), in condemning the killing of Palestinian photojournalist Yasir Murtaja and the wounding of at least 7 more journalists in Gaza.
- Eight reasons why the latest Syria chemical weapons attack allegations are almost certainly complete nonsense
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
A discussion on the chemical attack in Douma, Syria, and why the allegations are likely false.
- If only we could revive the fruitful tension between Martin Luther King and Malcolm X
Reflections on Dr King’s death have overlooked how his liberal universalism and Malcolm X’s separatism gave each other strength
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
Kenan argues that conflict averse approach to activism blunts the edge of contemporary social movements for change.
- The Economics Behind the Skripal Poisoning
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
The question is why are they doing this with Russia? Why are they imposing sanctions and mounting a great publicity campaign?
- A Letter to CBC: Your Biased Coverage of the Land Day Massacre
The following letter was sent yesterday to the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation regarding their biased coverage of the Land Day massacre
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
Chairperson of the Canada Palestine Association, Hanna Kawas, presents a letter to the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, alleging editorial interference by pro-Israel lobbying group 'Honest Reporting Canada' in their coverage of the land day killings of unarmed civilians by Israeli government forces.
- US Isn't Leaving Syria -- but Media Lost It When Possibility Was Raised
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
The US military exists to fight wars. It is the most heavily armed, most violent organization in the world. Saying that it should continue to occupy Syria, and most of the mainstream media do, is a way of saying that the war in that country should continue. In fact, it’s a call for escalation of that war.
- Ecuadorean Villagers May Still Triumph Over Chevron
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
Michael Krauss, a lawyer who teaches "ethics" at a law school named after the late U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, recently posted a blog on the Forbes website entitled "The Ecuador Saga Continues: Steven Donziger now owes Chevron more than $800,000" (Forbes 3/14/2018). Kraus says that Chevron has basically triumphed over evil...
- Guidelines for police in dealing with mentally ill people
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
An investigative report report by the CBC shows that more than 460 people in Canada have "died in encounters with police" since the year 2000.
- Digital occupation: What's behind Israel's social media in Arabic
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
Israeli social media accounts in Arabic aim to normalise Israel's occupation and whitewash its image, Palestinians say.
- Laura Ingraham's advertisers aren't really staging a boycott. It's a capital strike
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
There are no regulations or laws preventing or even restricting capital strikes in the form of corporate activism, therefore social and political aspirations of capital always have an effective instrument on hand; yet the same cannot be said for labour.
- Most Canadians killed in police encounters since 2000 had mental health or substance abuse issues
More than 460 people have died in encounters with police in Canada since 2000
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
More than 460 people have died in encounters with police across Canada since the year 2000, and a substantial majority suffered from mental health problems or symptoms of drug abuse, a CBC News investigation has found.
- License to Kill
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
Halimi places alleged Russian involvement in the attempted assasination of Sergei and Yulia Skripal in the context of routine extrajudicial killings by the wider inernational security services.
- Top 10 Civil-Rights Songs
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
Upon the 50th anniversary of the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr., some of the more popular civil-rights songs are remembered. The article includes online links to music videos.
- Facebook and the Rise of Anti-Social Media
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
For those who haven't thought about it, the internet is insidious because of the very capacity that Cambridge Analytica claims to be able to exploit: customization. Users have limited ability to confirm the authenticity of anything they see, read or hear on it. Print editions can be compared and contrasted-- technology limits print media to large-scale deceptions. With the capacity to create entire realms of deception -- identities, content, web pages and entire online publications, trust is made a function of gullibility.
- Trump's Protectionism: A Great Leap Backward
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
US Presidents, European leaders and their academic spokespeople have attributed China's growing market shares, trade surpluses and technological power to its "theft" of western technology, "unfair" or non-reciprocal trade and restrictive investment practices. President Trump has launched a 'trade war' – raising stiff tariffs, especially targeting Chinese exports – designed to pursue a protectionist economic regime.
- Courrieres Mine Disaster 1906
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
The devastating mine disaster in 1906 that killed over 1,000 workers in Courrieres, France, is remembered.
- How the Guardian became the West's Pravda
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
Cook says that the British newspaper The Guardian has become a mouthpiece for the establishment.
- Why aren't we expelling Israel's diplomats?
Letter to the Editor
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
Canada expelled Russian diplomats on the strength of unsubstantiated allegations that Russia was involved in the poisoning of a former spy in Britain. Will Canada now expel Israeli diplomats in condemnation of Israel's latest massacre in Gaza?
- Assange's internet blackout & Skripal case part of propaganda war that risks real one
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
John Pilger condemns the mainstream media for its role in acting as an uncritiical conduit for government propaganda.
- Beyond Implementation: Policy Considerations for Secure Messengers
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
The importance of secure Messenger tools goes beyond just reliable technology, it must be developed and have its infrastructure maintained by a trustworthy group with a history of responsible stewardship.
- For first time in 70 years, Palestinians return to their villages
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
To commemorate Land Day, group of Palestinian refugees returned to the villages they were expelled from in 1948.
- Engaging the Popular Imagination; Engaging the Holy Week culture
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
Holy Week, in the Christian religious tradition, comprises an important series of events that take place in many communities in the Mediterranean, Latin America and beyond around this time – events commemorating Jesus Christ's entry to Jerusalem, his last supper with the Apostles, together with his passion, death and resurrection. These commemorative events extend well beyond religious devotion and piety.
- Gun Control in Old East Germany
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
In Communist-run East Germany weapons and ammunition were strictly controlled. Rifles, though privately-owned, were locked up at the hunting clubs, usually connected with the forest rangers' home and station.
- If John Bolton Is Right, Pearl Harbor Was Perfectly Legal
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
Michigan attorney Kary Love explores the legal basis for a pre-emptive attack on North Korea by the USA.
- Off the Map: Disabilities and Just Mobility
People with disabilities who rely on local public transit are getting squeezed between gentrification and austerity.
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
An examination of the tensions between investment driven public transit improvements and displacement of less affluent residents; with particular reference to people with mobility issues or disabilities.
- The Skripal Poisonings and the Ongoing Vilification of Putin
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
Pinning the poisoning of Sergei Skripal and his daughter by a nerve agent on the Russian state makes little sense, and is an attempt by the West to futher villify Putin who actually had little to gain by ordering such an action.
- This Artist Took 4,000 Portraits to Show the Range of Human Skin Color - and the Results Exceeded the Pantone Library
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
"Using this scale, I am sure that nobody is 'black,' and absolutely nobody is 'white,'" says artist Angélica Dass.
- The anti-semitism paradox damaging Labour
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
A look at the damaging effect of anti-semitism for the political left, which is being exploited in a tactic to stifle class solidarity and subvert a genuinely progressive Labour leadership.
- Demand for atheism rises in countries under Islamic rule
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
The rise of atheism in the Middle East, North Africa and South Asia is something we have been speaking about for some time now. The Iranian Baztab Now website warned of a tsunami of atheism amongst Iranian youth. The #ExMuslimBecause hashtag initiated by the Council of Ex-Muslims of Britain became viral overnight with over 120,000 Tweets from 65 countries.
- Recalling Africa's harrowing tale of its first slavers - The Arabs
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
- Community forest management against illegal timber logging
Indigenous communities comply with strict rules to ensure the regeneration of the forest and protect water sources.
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
Guatemala is hit hard by mudslides caused by deforestation. Government-led initiatives created in consultation with Indigenous communities have been successful in preserving forests and promotiing sustainability.
- Gina Haspel's CIA nomination demands the United States account for its history of torture
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
President Trump's nomination of Gina Haspel to head the CIA has stirred objections from many quarters. Dorfman recounts the impact of state sanctioned torture in Chile.
- New website gives Torontonians a glimpse of the city's past
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
Sidewalk Labs has unveiled a interactive map based on City of Toronto Archives images that allows people to view old pictures of Toronto by clicking on a map. However, the mapping is often wrong.
- Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - March 25, 2018
Looking for Answers, Creating Alternatives
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
This issue of Other Voices features people who are questioning and challenging the way the world works and trying to create better alternatives.
- Amnesty International: Trumpeting for War… Again
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
One would expect a human rights organisation to be intrinsically opposed to war, but AI is a cheerleader of so-called humanitarian intervention, and even "humanitarian bombing".
- The Meaning of Heritage in an Age of Identity
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
A discussion of the meaning of heritage in the current age of identity politics, and why there is a need to reject the nativist, or clash of civilizations, and the multicultural approaches to heritage.
- Israeli hackers reportedly gave Cambridge Analytica stolen private emails of two world leaders
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
Israeli hackers reportedly gave information from the hacked emails of two world leaders to Cambridge Analytica, the political-research company at the centre of a massive Facebook-data scandal.
- Police release video of Uber self-driving vehicle accident in Arizona
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
- No Spirit Of Liberty - The Salisbury Case, Corbyn And The Need For Dissent
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
A look at recent 'Mainstream' media coverage, notably the Guardian and BBC, which has been instrumental in presenting a misleading image of Prime Minsiter May as a stable leader, and yet presents Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn in a much less flattering light.
- How They Sold the Iraq War
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
The war on Iraq won't be remembered for how it was waged so much as for how it was sold: it was a propaganda war, a war of perception management.
- In Run-Up to Vote to End Yemen War, MSNBC Remains Totally Silent
MSNBC outflanked from the left by Breitbart
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
Johnson expresses concern about the lack of MSNBC coverage of the role of the USA in the conflict in Yemen since 2015.
- Raleigh police are asking Google to provide user data for all people near crime scenes
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
Police in Raleigh, North Carolina, have presented Google with warrants to obtain data from mobile phones from not just specific suspects who were in a crime scene area, but from the mobile phones of all people in the area
- Revolutionary Optimism: Journeys in Radical Politics Past and Present
Resource Type: Film/Video
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
On the "Reality Asserts Itself" program of The RealNews network, Prof. Leo Panitch is interviewed by host Paul Jay. Discussion topics include his political leanings, the rise of Jeremy Corbyn, the UK Labour Party, and whether radical change is indeed possible.
- Violet McNaughton: the Mighty Mite Reformer From Saskatchewan
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
Violet McNaughton deserves recognition as one of Canada's greatest and most formidable adult educators and co-operator of the twentieth century bar none
- Amazon's Initiative: Digital Assistants, Home Surveillance and Data
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
A look at technological developments such as Amazon Echo and Google Home, which are less innovations than intrusive tools utilized by big data companies to mine personal information and condition human approaches to the way information is shared.
- Of a Type Developed by Liars
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
Porton Down scientists are not able to identify the nerve gas as being of Russian manufacture, and have been resentful of the pressure being placed on them to do so. Porton Down would only sign up to the formulation "of a type developed by Russia" after a rather difficult meeting where this was agreed as a compromise formulation.
- School Shootings: Who to Listen to Instead of Mainstream Shrinks
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
Clinical psychologist Bruce Levine discusses the prevailing cynicism and hopelessnes among young people in the United States -- about their country and their future. In particular the article focuses on troubled young people who have lost any connection with adults and view the world as an uncaring place, and are commonly prescribed medication such as anti-depressants.
- Superunknown: Scientific Integrity Within the Academic and Media Industrial Complexes
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
Mattis provides an analysis of the competing priorities of scientists, funders and the media that together, create a perfect storm of "unscientific science".
- The Tip of the Iceberg: My Lai Fifty Years On
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
- What is Organizing?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
Morgan reviews the history of Organizing in the USA and provides advice to activists on how to organize in an inclusive, constructive, way.
- Will We Ever See Al Jazeera's Investigation Into the Israel Lobby?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
So when am I going to be able to watch Al Jazeera's hard-hitting investigation into Israel’s powerful lobby in the United States? Remember Al Jazeera? The tough, no-holds-barred Middle East satellite channel that transformed Qatar into a media empire whose reports frightened dictators and infuriated potentates and presidents alike? Why, George W Bush once wanted to bomb its headquarters in Doha – so it must have been doing something right. It even has an office in Jerusalem.
- Why They Hate Margaret Atwood
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
On March 9, a University of Alberta English professor named Julie Rak headlined a speaking event that was billed as a showdown on the issue of "bad feminism." A promotional poster done up in a boxing motif included a picture of Rak on one side, and legendary Canadian author Margaret Atwood on the other.
- Illegal logging: An organized crime that is destroying Latin American forests
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
A recent report indicates that Illegal wood trafficking is the most profitable crime against natural resources, and allows other crimes to flourish, including deforestation, labor exploitation, land invasions, tax evasion, document forgery and state corruption.
- Illegal logging: An organized crime that is destroying Latin American forests
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
Illegal timber trafficking is a complex type or ogranized crime that involves other crimes such as tax evasion, labor exploitation, and land invasion. Countries in Latin America need to work together to fight this crime.
- No Fare Is Fair: A Campaign for Free Public Transit in Toronto
Why Do We Need Free Transit?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
Public transit should be a right for everyone in Toronto. Using subways, buses, and streetcars shouldn't require paying fares, or user fees, that penalize riders with lower incomes.
- All Fire and Fury in Ukraine
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
Using Oliver Stone's 'portentious' documentary film 'Ukraine on Fire' as a basis for discussion, the article looks beyond the mainstream media and public discourse on the events and developments in the country which ultimately framed the public's view of the situation.
- The End of Policing & Police: A Field Guide
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
A Field Guide to the Police is a study of the indirect and taken-for granted language of policing, a language we're all forced to speak when we talk about law enforcement. The book refuses to see the world as police do, instead it contends that when we talk about police and police reform, we speak the language of police legitimation through the art of euphemism. State sexual assault becomes "body-cavity search," and ruthless beatings become "plain compliance." Like any other field guide, it reveals a world that is hidden in plain view. In entries like "Police dog," "Stop and frisk," "Rough ride," and scores more, the authors show how "copspeak" obscures the true meaning and history of policing. This book will arm activists on the streets--as well as anyone with an open mind--on one of the key issues of our time: police violence. The book argues that a redefined language of policing might help us chart a future free of police and police violence.
- nerve agent case for 'action' on Russia
Official claim that 'Novichok' points solely to Russia discredited
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
The case against Russia using the nerve agent Novichok is undermined by earlier reports by the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW), which previously declared that they have no evidence for the existence of a Russian Novichok programme.
- Notes on Terminology
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
A look at common and popular terminology and 'labeling', especially in the media, which at times is not only inaccurate and misleading, but also diminishes or softens the severity of an event.
- Say No to 'Hardening' the Schools with Zero Tolerance Policies and Gun-Toting Cops
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
The last thing the school system needs is harsher penalties and armed guards which turn students into 'inmates'. Schools in the Unites States are already heavily policed, with School Resource Officers (SRO) funded by the Deptartment of Justice, and harsh penalties for kids as young as 4-5 years old.
- The Young Cree Man from Saskatchewan
Without Truth There Is No Reconciliation: Two Colten Boushie Stories
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
It seems there are two versions of the August 2016 death of Colten Boushie, the young Cree man from Saskatchewan.
- Popular airlines flagged for safety system non-compliance
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
The regulatory breach was uncovered by Transport Canada agents during a 2016 visit to the airline's Etobicoke offices, where inspectors reviewing maintenance records also found planes had not received required work.Sunwing is one of several popular commercial airlines that have been flagged for widespread non-compliance by Transport Canada, the details of which are contained in government surveillance reports that are not public and must be obtained through Access to Information legislation.
- America's Troll Farm Media
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
A look at the American mainstream media, which is in a constant search of sensation, scandal, gossip, and above all -- profit.
- Crisis of the State, Crisis of the Left
Articulating Socialism After the Anarchist Moment
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
'Augmenting the left' -- that is, finding ways to build new organizational alliances, expand practices of resistance, and culturally envision and collectively build toward a better world -- is not just a worthwhile project, but also an essential one. Human survival may depend upon it. In this regard, it must be recognized that there is also a crisis of the various post-Marxisms, especially to the extent that they tried to replace class as the central structural pivot around which different forms of oppression and counter-hegemonic emancipatory struggles condense.
- The leaders of the American Womens March have spoken: Jews are unwelcome on the feminist left
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
Columnist Emma Teitel draws attention to the problematic relationship between US Women's March organizers and antisemetic Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan.
- How Palestinian women led successful non-violent resistance
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
Two women share their stories of how they peacefully protested during both Intifadas and challenged Israel's occupation.
- Barbarism: Texas judge ordered electric shocks to silence man on trial. Conviction thrown out.
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
A look at the controversial use of the stun belt, a pain inducing device used to control prisoners, which was recently used by a judge within a court of law in the state of Texas.
- 'Follow Your Bliss' - The Tweet That Brought Corporate Journalism To The Brink Of A Nervous Breakthrough
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
Don't write for the "mainstream". Don't write for money. Don't write for prestige. Just "follow your bliss" by writing what you absolutely love to write to inspire and enlighten other people. Write what seems interesting, important and true, and give it away for free.'
- Hamilton anarchist space, The Tower, has been vandalized
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
The city's local anarchist social centre, The Tower, has been vandalized. The damage comes days after a masked mob that dubbed itself "The Ungovernables" caused $100,000 in damage during a vandalism spree on Locke Street.
- Baum, Gregory
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
A brief biography of Gregory Baum, one of Canada's most influential and controversial theologians and a participant in the Second Vatican Council.
- Google Is Helping the Pentagon Build AI for Drones
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
Google has partnered with the United States Department of Defense to help the agency develop artificial intelligence for analyzing drone footage, a move that set off a firestorm among employees of the technology giant when they learned of Google's involvement.
- Know your history: Google has been a military-intel contractor from the very beginning
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
But the fact that Google helps the military build more efficient systems of surveillance and death shouldn't have been surprising, especially not to Google employees. The truth is that Google has spent the last 15 years selling souped-up versions of its information technology to military and intelligence agencies, local police departments, and military contractors of all size and specialization -- including outfits that sell predictive policing tech deployed in cities across America today.
- City closes foot path to school where 11-year-old student was killed by a driver
Jim Karygiannis, Councillor for Ward 39, says decision was not made lightly
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
Following years of advocating for a safer walkway for pedestrians, the death of a child leads to a closure and further safety measures.
- The risks of becoming a Google city
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
Plans for a high tech custom-connected community by US company Google raises significant concern from experts. With sensors monitoring and recording daily life there are troubling questions in matters of freedom and privacy, as well as potentially negative implications for the poor and less privileged residents of the city who stand little to gain from efficient privately operated communities.
- Anti-BDS bills expected to feature prominently at AIPAC
Annual meeting to push for measures that counter boycott Israel campaign as rights groups call bills 'unconstitutional'
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
At the annual meeting of AIPAC (American Israel Public Affairs Committee), the lobbying group's agenda is set to propose measures to counter the growing campaign to boycott Israel and its West Bank settlements. At the centre of discussion are anti-bocott bills, described by critics as laws designed to curb the not-for-profit Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement- a human rights movement that supports Palestinian rights.
- Suspect in Lahore blasphemy case fighting for his life
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
A Christian resident of Lahore says he attempted suicide as interrogators forced him to perform oral sex on cousin.
- Suspect in Lahore blasphemy case fighting for his life
A Christian resident of Lahore says he attempted suicide as interrogators forced him to perform oral sex on cousin.
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
Christians and other minorities, who make up about two percent of Pakistan's 207 million population, are disproportionately targeted by blasphemy laws, which prescribe a mandatory death penalty for anyone found guilty of "defiling the sacred name of the Holy Prophet Muhammad". There is increasing violence associated with the laws, with at least 74 people killed in attacks motivated by blasphemy accusations since 1990.
- The Geography of Marxism
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
David Harvey is a geographer and a Marxist. A collection of his works titled The Ways of the World was recently published in paperback. A collection pulled from his writing and lectures, the works are insightful, both in their approach to the world and the manner in which he combines geography and Marxism.
- How Neoliberal Fundamentalism Helped Make Trump President
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
A common, headache-inducing media narrative has surfaced since the election in 'mainstream' liberal U.S. publications they can no longer trust, such as The Washington Post or New York Times: that the true decline of U.S. democracy, the true dominance of U.S. corporate power in public life, and the true deterioration of the 'American Dream' has at last begun to arrive with the victory of Donald Trump.
- After the Grenfell Tower Fire
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
A look at the grave injustice surrounding the Grenfell Tower fire, from the way residents were treated before and after the disaster and the austerity measures that exacerbated it - such as cuts to fire departments.
- Dialectics of Revolutionary Learning
Book review
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
Review of the book Revolutionary Learning: Marxism, Feminism and Knowledge by Sara Carpenter and Shahrzad Mojab.
- The Fight for Housing, 1967-68 & Milwaukee NAACP Commandos
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
A history of The Commandos, an offshoot of the NAACP Youth Council formed in Milwaukee in the 1960s. Their main fight was against segregated housing.
- For International Women's Day: Honoring the Fighters
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
Brief descriptions of Ahed Tamimi, Asma Jahangir, Heather Heyer, Berta Cáceres, Erica Garner, and Tarana Burke in honour of International Women's Day.
- Gaza girl awaiting surgery reunited with her mother in West Bank
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
After getting an Israeli-issued medical permit, Inam al-Attar traveled without her parents from Gaza Strip to West Bank.
- Honduras: U.S. Support for Repression & Fraud
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
The US has supported the illegitimate election in Honduras. The people continue to resist despite deaths, disappearances and incarcerations by the military.
- #MeToo for All Women
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
The #MeToo movement exposed systems that abuse and silence of women. It's important to note that these systems are not just individual professions or university administrations but they are enabled by the larger system of capitalism.
- MLK: To the Promised Land
Charles Williams interviewing Michael Honey
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
Interview with Michael Honey author of the study, To the Promised Land: Martin Luther King and the Fight for Economic Justice.
- Moroccan Catastrophic Convergence
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
The convergance of injustices in Morocco - climate change, neoliberalism, political suppression - make for a completely untenable situation. This could make people hopeful since it makes radical change the only possibility.
- The New Poor People's Campaign
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
Though there has been progress in electoral politics since the days of MLK this success leaves many people behind. The New Poor People's Campaign seeks to create a grassroots movement to counter that.
- The 1970s: Finally Got the News!
Charles Williams interviews Brad Duncan
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
Interview with Brad Duncan, editor of Finally Got the News: The Printed Legacy of the U.S. Radical Left, 1970-1979.
- 'NSA-proof' Tor actually funded by US govt agency, works with BBG, FBI & DOJ - FOIA docs
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
Newly released documents reveal that The Tor Project, a supposed safeguard against a surveillance state, has received funding from US government agency the Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG), and cooperates with intelligence agencies.
- One Hundred Years, "We" Past and Present
Review
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
A review of Steve Bloom's epic poem about the Russian Revolution.
- The Patriarchal Stranglehold
Book review
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
A review of the book Down Girl: The Logic of Misogyny by Kate Manne.
- William A. Pelz
Obituary
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
Obituary for labour history scholar and activist William A Pelz.
- Readings: Intersectional Black Activists
Domestic Worker Organizers, 1960s-1970s
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
A brief history and suggestions for further reading on 1) Black women fighting for labor rights for domestic workers, 2) Callie Houses's struggle for reparations 3) Sojourner Truth and her fight for emancipation and suffrage for Black women.
- Reproductive Justice in an Age of Austerity
Book review
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
Reviews of two books about reproductive rights.
- Sex and the Russian Revolution
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
The philosophy of the October Revolution contained radical ideas around sexual politics which have been forgotten today. Drawing parallels to today's issues on gender and sexuality could help a new generation get into radical labour politics.
- Single Payer: What Will It Take to Pass It?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
Single payer healthcare needs to be implemented in a universal, sweeping move. Incremental changes will only impede progress.
- A Window on Inhuman Detention
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
A first-hand account of the inhumane conditions of immigration detention by a Korean woman seeking asylum in the US.
- Worldwide Wobblies Remembered
Book review
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
A review of the essay collection Wobblies of the World: A Global History of the IWW.
- The Authoritarians Who Silence Syria Questions
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
A look at the unchallenged western media narrative on Syria and notably recent commentary by Brian Whitaker, the Guardian's former Middle East editor, who is opposed to experts in the study of propaganda setting up a panel - the Working Group on Syria, Propaganda and Media - which aims to "provide a source of reliable, informed and timely analysis for journalists, publics and policymakers" on Syria.
- Large Archive of Hannah Arendt's Papers Digitized by the Library of Congress
Read Her Lectures, Drafts of Articles, Notes and Correspondence
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
Many people read the German-Jewish political philosopher and journalist Hannah Arendt as something of an oracle, a secular prophet whose most famous works -- her essay on the trial of Adolf Eichmann and her 1951 Origins of Totalitarianism -- contain secrets about our own times of high nationalist fervor.
- ACLU sues US over separation of mother, child seeking asylum
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
American Civil Liberties Union accused the U.S. government of unlawfully separating a Congolese woman and her 7-year-old daughter by holding them in different immigration facilities 2,000 miles (3,200 kilometers) appart.
- The Curse of Energy Efficiency
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
The more 'efficient' our technology, the more resources we consume in a downward spiral of catastrophe.
- Microfinance or Debt Trap? What the Poor Don't Know
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
Qazi's article outlines how poorly designed microfinance initiatives harm rather than help low income borrowers.
- James Laxer - Canadian iconoclast 1941-2018
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
Obituary for the prominent campaigner, author and academic James Laxer, who passed away February 23rd 2018.
- Where's the Beef Stroganoff? Eight Sacrilegious Reflections on Russiagate
Street, Paul
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
Street expresses his frustration with the US political establishment in light of the 2017-2018 FBI investigation into alleged foreign intervention in the 2016 US presidential election.
- Ryan Coogler's Black Panther: A hollow "defining moment" cloaked in identity politics
A review of the film 'Black Panther'
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
A conventional Hollywood "blockbuster," chock full of action sequences, explosions and the rest.
- The World Will Not Mourn the Decline of U.S. Hegemony
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
- Gaza: Who or What Has a Right to Exist?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
A look at Norman Finkelstein's book "Gaza: An Inquest into Its Martyrdom", which investigates the Israeli attacks on Gaza such as Operation Cast Lead (2008-09), the Mavi Marmara (2010), and Operation Protective Edge (2014).
- Pakistan / Gilgit-Baltistan: Advocate Ehsan Ali, a symbol of political sanity
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
In Gilgit-Baltistan, one of the most politically sensitive regions of Pakistan, the author explains why it is important to recognize and support people like Ehsan Ali, who is a vocal human rights activist and a symbol of interfaith harmony.
- The Car of the Future Will Sell Your Data
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
As "smarter" vehicles provide storehouses of personal information, carmakers are building databases of consumer preferences that could be sold to outside vendors for marketing purposes, much like Google and Facebook.
- The Crisis of Social Democracy: From Norway to Europe
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
With social democratic parties in Europe suffering poor election results and significant setbacks, this article puts the current crisis in historical context, and how resolution and success will depend on more radical solutions.
- Disinformation: In the Philippines, political trolling is an industry - this is how it works
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
In the Philippines, influential personalities and online 'trolls' are credited with winning Rodrigo Duterte the presidency in 2016. This article examines the chief architects of disinformation who continue to vociferously share 'fake news' and silence dissenters.
- Doctors as Stewards of medicare, or not: CAMSI, MRG, CDM, DRHC and the thin alphabet soup of physician support
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
Physicians are deeply involved in Canadian medicare because it is through medicare that they are paid. However, from its origins to the present physicians -- as a profession -- have not been strong supporters of medicare.
- Ecological Sustainability, Inequality and Social Class
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
Raju Das connect sustainability to metabolism, reproduction, and value of labour power.
- Indictment of Russians over US election meddling is case of pot calling the kettle black
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
WorldNetDaily writer and former US Department of Defense official F. Michael Maloof recalls past US foreign policy adventures in light of claims of Russian interference in the 2016 US presidential election.
- Lawsuit accuses DC police of collusion with far right
An advocacy group has filed a lawsuit alleging that police broke protocol by working with a far-right organisation.
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
Federal prosecutors and the Metropolitan Police Department (MPD) in Washington, DC, colluded with far-right groups in cases against anti-Trump protesters, a recently filed lawsuit alleges.
- Remembering Italy's Cervi brothers amid far-right surge
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
The Cervi brothers in Italy are famous for leading the local peasant resistance against Benito Mussolini's rule. Today, Adelmo Cervi is still a leading voice against the rise of far-right populist parties in Italy.
- Hearts and Minds: How do People Change?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
If we want to change the world, we need other people - millions, eventually hundreds of millions of others - to agree that the world needs changing and to join us in changing it.
It's a daunting prospect. How can we reach and persuade those who may have voted for the likes of Donald Trump and those like him in other countries, or who are not interested in engaging in 'politics' at all?
- Mueller Indictment - The "Russian Influence" Is A Commercial Marketing Scheme
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
An explanation of why the U.S. Justice Department's indictment is based on a misunderstanding of the commercial activities of a Russian marketing company in U.S. social networks.
- Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - February 17, 2018
Hearts and Minds: How do People Change?
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
How can we reach the millions we need to reach and engage if fundamental change is to happen? How can we accomplish the essential task of persuading a majority of the population that a fundamental social and economic transformation is necessary? Even more importantly, what will it take for people to come together and act collectively to bring about that transformation? What can we do to help make this happen?
- The Boomerang Effect: How Netanyahu Made Israel an American Issue, and Lost
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
Trends in US opinion polls indicate that Israel is not just losing support and overall appeal among large sections of American society but also among the newer generation of American Jews, a worrying change in US public opinion for the Israeli government.
- Stop replacing London's phone boxes with corporate surveillance
New connected kiosks are replacing London's payphones. Every time you use them, you're allowing Google, BT and Primesight to track you
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
Concerns over privacy in London, UK, as Google, BT and Primesight provide free wifi and phone charging in exchange for allowing the consortium to identify users and track their movements through the city.
- Syria strikes back as Israel discovers its warplanes aren't invincible
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
The recent shooting down of an Israelli jet by the Syrian Army brings attention to the numerous recent incursions into Syrian territory by Israel. It also highlights vulnerabilities of the Israelli military which is assuredly on course for another conflict with Hezbollah, an organization that has grown in strength since 2006.
- What You Don't Know About Abolitionism: An Interview with Manisha Sinha on Her Groundbreaking Study
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
Manisha Sinha draws attention to the role of Black abolitionists in ending slavery in the USA in her book: The Slave's Cause: A History of Abolition.
- To stop migration, stop the abuse of Africa's resources
Europe should tackle migration not by deploying troops, but by curbing economic abuse and destablisation.
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
On January 17, Italy's parliament approved the deployment of up to 470 troops in Niger to combat "irregular migrant flows" and the trafficking of people towards Libya, and, from there, to Europe. A number of other European countries are pursuing similar policies, including France, Germany, and Spain.
- Kenya's 'Erin Brockovich' defies harassment to bring anti-pollution case to courts
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
Phyllis Omido is leading a landmark class action demanding a clean-up and compensation from a lead-smelting factory accused of poisoning local residents - including her own son.
- A puzzling moment in the park
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
A woman, a German Shepherd, a conversation, and a game of fetch.
- Canada's Deadly Diplomacy and the Plight of Political Prisoners in Honduras
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
A look at the political crisis in Honduras since the Nov. 26 election, which has led to brutal and deadly government crack-downs by military police and other state forces of Honduras. Described as state-led terrorism, it is being tacitly supported by funding from Canadian taxpayers.
- '54 Palestinians die' as Israel refuses medical permits
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
According to Rights groups, Israel is responsible for 54 deaths in the besieged Gaza Strip in 2017 due to a lack of medical permits.
- Intellectual Property Regime Undermines Equity, Progress
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
Developing countries must reject the intellectual property rights regime imposed on them by powerful foreign monopolies in recent decades.
- The Killing Season: A History of the Indonesian Massacres, 1965-66,
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
- The Face Off: Law Enforcement Use of Face Recognition Technology
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
Face recognition is poised to become one of the most pervasive surveillance technologies, and law enforcement's use of it is increasing rapidly. However, the adoption of face recognition technologies like these is occurring without meaningful oversight, without proper accuracy testing of the systems as they are actually used in the field, and without the enactment of legal protections to prevent internal and external misuse.
- FashMaps website tracks neo-Nazis in the US
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
As Daily Stormer struggles to keep an online home, a new anti-fascist site aims to track neo-Nazis' meetings in the US.
- Lissa Lucas Dragged Out of West Virginia House Judiciary Hearing For Listing Oil and Gas Contributions
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
Mokhiber's article summarizes the case of political candidate Lissa Lucas, whose testimony against a bill "that would allow companies to drill on minority mineral owners' land without their consent" was censored by the court.
- Mozambique's farmers battle to keep land in Nakarari
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
Parenti and Liberti examine the Nakarari community's ongoing resistance to commercial agricultural planning.
- Norman Finkelstein and Dr. Mads Gilbert
Resource Type: Film/Video
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
A discussion with professor and author Norman Finkelstein about his book "Gaza: An Inquest into Its Martyrdom".
- On Resistance: BDS and Israel's Declining Support Among Diaspora Jews
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
Like its predecessor movement decades ago in South Africa, assessing the success of BDS against Israel today necessarily rubs up against the tension between Israeli Hasbara (propaganda) and its reality as an effective organizing tool against it throughout the world.
- Against the odds: Why customers often lose in battles with banks
Complaint system wears people down and usually rejects claim, consumer advocate says
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
Banking customers with complaints about lost deposits face significant obstacles, with those looking for help dealing with a complaints system that is designed to wear people down and usually siding in favour of the banks.
- Black Politics After 2016
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
A article on the significance of race in American politics, particularly since the 2016 election, and the symbiotic relation between antiracist politics and Democratic neoliberalism.
- Fake News and the Gatekeepers of Truth
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
A look at misinformation or 'fake news' and how it has changed from the past; while only governments and prominent figures could once manipulate public opinion, today it is anyone with online access.
- Fragmented Power: Portugal in Revolution, 1974-1975
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
In Portugal the underground Armed Forces Movement's long-planned coup d'etat to bring down the Estado Novo regime was a success; however it was relatively short-lived despite the modest intentions of its organizers. This article takes a look at the popular initiatives that brought Portugal to the brink of a socialist revolution and why it failed.
- After Alleged Election Fraud and Protests, Honduran Congress Moves to Regulate Hate Speech Online
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
The Honduran Congress is debating a law that seeks to regulate hate speech and "fake news" on the Internet. Honduran activists and opposition political parties say the proposal would function as a gag law aimed at silencing government critics.
- Foxconn: The Myth and Reality of the Welfare Queen
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
Social scientists who have studied the welfare system before and after the Clinton era welfare "reforms" have exposed the notion that women on public assistance were "welfare queens" as a myth.
- How Apple is Paving the Way to a 'Cloud Dictatorship' in China
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
Apple Inc. is set to hand over the operation of its iCloud data center in mainland China to a local corporation, but Apple has not explained the real issue. With the move a state-owned big data company controlled by the Chinese government will have access to all the data of its service users in China; this will allow the state apparatus to jump into the cloud and look into the data of Apple's Chinese users.
- How to Use Critical Thinking to Spot False Climate Claims
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
This article outlines ways to address common climate-contrarian arguments, all of which contain errors in reasoning that are independent of the science itself.
- The Power Struggle in Catalonia, or the Staging of a Tragicomedy
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
One, a consolidated power, is the Spanish state. The other, an emerging power, drives the project to create a state of its own, a project promoted by nationalists and pro-independence currents. These include a fraction of the divided system (PdeCat, erc and cup) and some social organizations (the Catalan National Assembly, Omnium Cultural and some trade unions) -- with the support of an important part of society.
- Syria: The Assad regime - a response to Marcel Cartier
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
A response to Marcel Cartier's article "Vanguards of Humanity: Why I support Afrin & the Rojava Revolution", which denounces the Turkish invasion of Afrin and calls for solidarity with Rojava. While author Slee agrees with the call for solidarity, there is disagreement with some fundamental points in Cartier's article.
- Brazil's Largest Newspaper Quits Facebook, Accuses it of Harboring 'Fake News'
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
The Brazilian media conglomerate Folha de S. Paulo, made the decision to rebel against Facebook by ceasing to publish content, saying the decision stems primarily from Facebook's recent change on users' news feed which aims to reduce the amount of content and favour posts by friends and family. The paper says Facebook is effectively banning professional journalism from its pages in favour of personal content and 'Fake News'.
- Defending Afrin means defending the women's revolution
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
Since January 20, 2018 the Turkish army has been attacking the Kurdish region of Afrin in the Democratic Federation of North Syria; among the casualties are women, children and many refugees. In this message to the world a confederation of women's organisatons in Afrin call upon all women worldwide to join their struggle.
- Haiti: An Example of Fake News by Omission
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
The main problem with the mainstream media today, as in the past, is not 'fake news' but what is left out of articles dealing with controversial issues.
- How a backwards shirt led to a lesson in kindness for P.E.I. kindergarten class
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
Students show their support for one of their own.
- Keep seeing Mondoweiss in your news feed following changes at Facebook
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
As most of you by now know, Facebook has recently made big changes to how users see content from publishers like Mondoweiss.
- 'A Load Of Tosh'– The BBC, 'Showbiz News' And State Propaganda
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
BBC News reporting on international relations, with particular reference to 2017-2018 tensions with Russia, relies heavily on state propaganda.
- NYT op-ed describing Israel as a place of refuge is missing the word, Palestinians
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
A rebuke by author Levine to the New York Times op-ed written by Susan Silverman titled "How Did Israel Become A Place of No Refuge?".
- Soros & the £400k Question: What constitutes 'foreign interference' in democracy?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
The news that US billionaire Soros donated £400k to an anti-Brexit group came on the day that YouTube said they found no evidence of Russian interference in Brexit.
- Thursday morning ping pong: The little sport doing big things at Toronto retirement home
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
Patterson is one of many at the Salvation Army Meighen Retirement Residence who've become dedicated ping pong players, benefiting from the physical and cognitive exercise, according to staff at the home.
- What 'News' Media in U.S. And Allied Countries Never Report
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
Newsmedia effectively ban reporting corruptness of newsmedia -- even of media that stand on the opposite side of the political divide.
- A conversation with film historian Max Alvarez
How the #MeToo campaign echoes the McCarthyite witch hunt of the 1940s and 1950s
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
Clearly, this is not as organized a political campaign as the one that took place in the 1940s and 1950s, but the climate is chillingly similar in terms of the massive capitulation and conformity in the entertainment industry.
- Here's what war with North Korea would look like
A full-blown war with North Korea wouldn't be as bad as you think. It would be much, much worse
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
A look at the chilling logistics and devastating loss of life a full-blown war between the USA and North Korea would cause.
- Jeff Bezos' Quest to Find America's Dumbest Mayor
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
Baker questions the wisdom of cities offering online-retailer Amazon tax and infrastructure incentives to host the company's second head quarters.
- Propaganda! Pardon me, is mine really bigger than yours?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
They say Propaganda! In the West, both the mainstream media and even some of the so-called progressive outlets are shouting: "Those Russians and Chinese and the others like them, they are at it again! Their vicious propaganda is infiltrating our democratic, freedom-loving countries, spreading confusion and chaos!"
Yes, ban or at least curb RT, contain TeleSur, and if at all possible, throw Press TV to the dogs. And put the writers of NEO, Sputnik, Global Times and other foreign outlets on that proverbial Western mass media 'no fly list'.
- Science's pirate queen
Alexandra Elbakyan is plundering the academic publishing establishment
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
A profile of open access academic publishing activist Alexandra Elbakayan and the ongoing conflict between academics and for-profit academic publishing houses.
- Will The Conspiracy Against Trump and American Democracy Go Unpunished?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
The American people do not realize the seriousness of the Russiagate conspiracy against them and President Trump. Polls indicate that a large majority of the public do not believe that Trump conspired with Putin to steal the presidential election, and are tired of hearing the media prostitutes repeat the absurd story day after day. On its face the story makes no sense whatsoever.
- Can a minority rule a majority in perpetuity?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
A review of "Israel: Democracy or Apartheid State?" by Josh Ruebner. Subjects include the question of one or two states, and whether Israel should be considered democratic or an apartheid state are among numerous topics addressed in the book.
- Foreign Policy for Sale: Greece's Dangerous Alliance with Israel
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
For a brief historical moment, Alexis Tsipras and his political party, Syriza, ignited hope that Greece could resurrect a long-dormant Leftist tide in Europe. A new Greece was being born out of the pangs of pain of economic austerity, imposed by the European Union and its overpowering economic institutions – a troika so ruthless, it cared little while the Greek economy collapsed and millions of people experienced the bitterness of poverty, unemployment and despair.
- In Sweeping War on Obesity,Chile Slays Tony the Tiger
New regulations, which corporate interests delayed for almost a decade,require explicit labeling and limit the marketing of sugary foods to
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
The Chilean government, facing skyrocketing rates of obesity, is waging war on unhealthy foods with a phalanx of marketing restrictions, mandatory packaging redesigns and labeling rules aimed at transforming the eating habits of 18 million people.
- A library without books? OSU and other universities purging dusty volumes
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
A library without books? Not quite, but as students abandon the stacks in favour of online reference material, university libraries are unloading millions of unread volumes in a nationwide purge that has some print-loving scholars deeply unsettled.
- Resistance is life: Mehmet Aksoy's last letter to his family
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
A tribute authored by family and friends to Mehmet Aksoy, a hero of Kurdistan and the internationalist struggles against capitalism, colonialism and fascism.
- Facebook announces latest step in censorship campaign, prioritizing "local news"
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced that the social media giant will prioritize news from 'local sources' in the News Feed displayed to users. This is the third move this year in a roll-out of updates by Facebook aimed at censoring online information.
- A 14-Year-Old Girl Forced Alone and at Night Into the Gaza Cage. Another Routine Mishap for Israel's Occupation
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
How did a 14-year-old Palestinian girl who has never set foot in the open-air prison of Gaza find herself being dumped there by Israeli officials – alone, at night and without her parents being informed?The terrifying ordeal – a child realising she had not been taken home but discarded in a place where she knew no one – is hard to contemplate for any parent.And yet for Israel's gargantuan bureaucratic structure that has ruled over Palestinians for five decades, this was just another routine error. One mishap among many that day.
- Is political pressure behind YouTube's video labeling?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
YouTube has started labeling videos by government-funded media after their recommendation program was the subject of a Guardian investigation and a letter from the Senate Intelligence Committee's ranking Democrat.
- Up Against the Ivy Wall: the Columbia Insurrection at 50
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
"My plan was to major in English and become a professor," she writes in an essay titled "Stopping the Machine" that's collected in A Time to Stir: Columbia '68, a new 438-page book (Columbia, $35) which is edited by filmmaker Paul Cronin. Rosahn explains that at the start of the protests, she was a "leftish Democrat" and that in the course of the rebellion she became "a devoted student radical."
- Academics Who Serve as Israel's Useful Idiots
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
How derisively would we have treated an academic - an expert in human rights, no less - who argued back in the 1980s that those who supported a boycott of apartheid South Africa must have been secretly anti-white or anti-Christian because they did not equally prioritise a boycott of Israel?
- Africa: New evidence of ongoing corporate looting
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
A World Bank report indicates a massive depletion of Africa's natural wealth by transnational corporations (TNC). There are two ways to address TNC capture of African wealth: bottom-up through direct action that blocks extraction, or top-down through significant reform.
- Bring on Solutionary Rail!
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
A look at Solutionary Rail, a people-powered campaign to electrify America's railroads and open corridors to clean and renewable energy.
- 'I really want to find it before I die': why are we so fascinated by lost books?
From the Book of Kells to Walter Benjamin, literary history is marked with tantalising absences – which two bibliophiles have made it their
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
Essay on the allure of rare and lost books, inspired by Giorgio van Straten's recent work, " In Search of Lost Books".
- Rebel Without a Clue: Autonomy and Authority in the American Public School
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
The high school dropout is a revolutionary without having recovered the sense of dignity of failure, in a system of authoritarian control. Blaming the dropout is to blame the victim of institutional abuse of power exercised within youth indoctrination centers carrying the misnomer, school. Is it possible that the problem is mainly systemic and not due to the personal faults of the dropout? Is it possible that the education system itself contributes to young people dropping out of high school? Is it possible that capitalism is the root cause?
- Without a Popular Movement We Don't Stand a Chance: Andreas Malm on Climate Change
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
An interview with the author of "Fossil Capital and The Progress of This Storm", who says there are reasons to be hopeful but significant progress will require a global movement of unprecedented scale.
- Immigration and Cultural Loss
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
While immigration has brought major changes in the physical character of British cities and in the rhythm of social life, it is not alone in driving social changes nor is it even the most important driver of social change.
- Teen On Birthright Trip Hadn't Expected To See So Many Dead Palestinians
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
Satire.
- Iranian police arrest 29 women over protests against compulsory hijab
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
Iranian police have arrested 29 women in the capital, Tehran, after they protested against a law that makes wearing the hijab compulsory.
- Korea: What the Generals Aren't Telling You
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
Hamilton points out that the 24 nuclear power stations in South Korea represent high risk targets in a retaliatory attack from North Korea.
- How the internet 'punishes' Palestinians
Tech giants Google, Airbnb and PayPal accused of shaping false narratives with policies in Palestinian territories.
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
Multinational tech companies, including Google, Facebook and PayPal are being accused of complicity in rights violations and in shaping false narratives with regard to policies in Palestinian territories.
- Liberal Totalitarianism and the Trump Diversion
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
Baraka warns against enthusiastic embrace of the FBI as a "neutral political force populated by people of unreproachable character" in light of their well documented history of politically motivated targetting of civil rights activists.
- "Mr. Boston": Meet the Man Who Secretly Helped Daniel Ellsberg Leak Pentagon Papers to the Press
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First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
Interview with historian Gar Alperovitz. Alperovitz has revealed for the first time the key role he and a handful of other activists played in helping whistleblower Daniel Ellsberg leak to journalists the Pentagon Papers -- a 7,000-page classified history outlining the true extent of the U.S. invasion of Vietnam.
- Champions Of Democracy - From Fake News To Imposed Insanity
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
While social media is largely blamed for the proliferation of 'fake news', it is through social media where the corporate media commentariat are exposed. Readers are now at last able to see some rational dissent, this is the up-side to social media that the 'mainstream' cannot even discuss.
- How to create an ecological society
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
A review of the book "Creating an Ecological Society: Towards A Revolutionary Transformation" by Fred Magdoff and Chris Williams, which addresses different aspects of the debate on the politics of the environment.
- The Real Burning Man
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
Driving converted delivery trucks, Roadtreks,vintage RVs, "skoolies" and the odd Prius, a few thousand gather in defiance of consumerist society.
- Buy Banned Books
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
The article takes a look at 'banned books' in the social media era, where the 'imagination police' dominate and a form of 'fictional aparteid' is taking place, and moreover why we have a duty to buy them.
- Mass Incarceration
New Jim Crow, Class War, or Both?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
Using data from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent to Adult Health, Lewis analyzes racial and class disparities in incarceration.
- Thailand: Junta orders pro-democracy leaders charged with inciting rebellion
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
The junta has ordered seven of the most prominent pro-democracy activists charged with crimes including sedition after they launched a protest campaign calling for general elections to be held in November.
- Volkswagen faces new twist in emissions scandal as allegations of animal testing emerge
Ten macaque monkeys exposed to diesel emissions to see the impact on their bodies
Resource Type: Unclassified
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
German automaker Volkswagen is facing a new round of criticism after the company was found to have funded tests of its diesel engine emissions on captive monkeys as part of an attempt to brand its vehicles as clean, safe and healthy.
- From Moral Outrage to Moral Panic: the Limits of Public Rage
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
There has been forceful break from the culture of silence that has long protected men from being held accountable for their misdeeds. While rage emerges against male sexual abuse, some progressive feminists have raised concerns that this movement may slip into 'moral panic' and a possible conservative, neo-puritan anti-sex campaign.
- How the 'free' media dupe us on climate change
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
Commentary on a segment of Al Jazeera's programme The Listening Post on why climate scepticism persists only in what it terms the "Anglosphere media", that is, those in the United States, UK, Australia and Canada.
- Hue Back When: the Bloodbath in Vietnam Was Us
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
A look at Mark Bowden's book "Hue 1968: A Turning Point of the American War in Vietnam", which provides a two-sided perspective on a particularly tragic moment in the Vietnam War.
- Claude McKay's Lost Novel
Review of Amiable with Big Teeth; Against the Current vol. 192
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
Review of Amiable with Big Teeth, a novel by the African-American revolutionary activist and writer Claude McKay.
- The FBI's Maoist Faction
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
The following is based on research by Aaron J. Leonard and Conor A. Gallagher for their book, A Threat of the First Magnitude: FBI Counterintelligence & Infiltration from the Communist Party to the Revolutionary Union - 1962-1974, (London: Repeater Books, 2018).
- Fruits and perils of the 'bloc within': The Comintern and Asia 1919-25 (Part 3)
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
The most advanced experience of Communist alliance with national revolutionists occurred in Indonesia (Dutch East Indies) prior to the Baku Congress. However, it was not mentioned at the congress, even though one of its architects – the Dutch Communist Maring (Henk Sneevliet) – was present in the hall. Maring had been a leader for many years of revolutionary socialist Dutch settlers in Indonesia, who had achieved the remarkable feat of transforming their group into one predominantly indigenous in leadership, membership, and programmatic orientation. The key to success had been a close alliance with a mass national-revolutionary organization of the type described by the Second Congress, called Sarekat Islam.
- New Orleans' History of Struggle
Review of Development Drowned and Reborn; Against the Current vol. 192
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
A review of Development Drowned and Reborn which is a novel by Clyde Woods.
- On Justice And Vengeance
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First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
- Should Communists ally with revolutionary nationalism? The Comintern and Asia 1919-25 (Part 2)
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First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
But how would the proposed alliance of workers' and national uprisings be effected? This strategic issue was addressed in the Comintern’s Second Congress, held in Moscow 9 July-7 August 1920.
- Toward a global strategic framework: The Comintern and Asia 1919-25 (Part 1)
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
The revolutionary activists who founded the Communist International (Comintern) in 1919 had little contact with movements for national and colonial liberation outside Russia. Nonetheless, only a year later, in July 1920, the Comintern adopted a far-reaching strategy for national and social revolution in dependent countries, later termed the anti-imperialist united front.
- The Hollow Ethics of Israel's Liberals
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
Although sympathetic to the plight of African immigrants, when it comes to the Palestinians most liberal Israelis sound little different from Netanyahu's supporters, both concerned with maintaining Israel as a fortress Jewish state.
- Struggle for equal rights for Palestinians is 'right choice,' and will lead to 'significant exodus of Jews' - Henry Siegman
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
Everyone should read Henry Siegman's long piece in the National Interest on the "Implications of President Trump's Jerusalem Ploy." Siegman is a great leader because he has bucked the American and Jewish establishment, of which he is a member, to declare that the two-state solution is dead and buried. He is also a prophet inasmuch as he is counseling American Jewry to give up its attachment to Zionism as a dead letter, no different from a Christian state here, and so prepare itself for a future in which Israel is isolated as a pariah state and there is a "significant exodus of Israel’s Jews." His words are astounding because Siegman, a Holocaust survivor now in his late 80s, was himself a Zionist, and head of the World Jewish Congress. His bravery in renouncing the animating political faiths of his life-- it's inspiring.
- The Great British Empire Debate
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
Malik discusses the complex issues of British colonialism, its many painful legacies and how it should be dealt with in such fields as academia and politics.
- Let Me Be Frank: Francesco Serpico, A Genuine Actor
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
When you see injustice and corruption, when you open your eyes and see lying and deceit everywhere, you must be your own hero; you must be courageous and act.
- Privatizing the IRS
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
The headline in the New York Times on January 10, 2018, a few short days before Congress decided it was easier to shut down the government than to legislate, announced that the I.R.S. "paid $20 million to collect $6.7 million in Tax Debts." At first blush the reader assumed this was a story that had somehow crept into the newspaper by mistake and escaped the attention of the articles editor. The reader who thought that could be forgiven for being surprised at seeing the story. That is because that story had appeared in the New York Times and other publications on two earlier occasions.
- Raising Consciousness About The Color of Law
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First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
A look at "The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America" by auther Richard Rothstein, and how racial segregation is the underlying cause of much of the country's social and economic problems.
- Sex, Scandals and Power
#MeToo Mania and the Democrats' "Resistance"
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
A wide range of behavior -- including flirtation and innuendo, a vulgar text or a crude joke, not to mention unpleasant sex -- is being lumped together with real crimes of coercion and assault. Those called out for sexual impropriety, no matter how trivial, how unproven or how long ago, run the media gantlet, are declared guilty and their careers ruined.
- Trump & the Fed: US Shadow Bankers About to Deepen Control of US Economy
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
What's sometime referred to as 'shadow bankers' have been running the economy and drafting US domestic economic policy since Trump took office. 'Shadow' banks include such financial institutions as investment banks, private equity firms, hedge funds, insurance companies, finance companies, asset management companies, etc. They are outside the traditional commercial banking system (e.g. Chase, Bank of America, Wells, etc.) and virtually unregulated. Shadow banks globally now also control more investible liquid assets than do the world's commercial banks.
- Intersectionality is a Hole. Afro-Pessimism is a Shovel. We Need to Stop Digging, Part 1 of 2
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First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
Dixon argues that intersectionality - or, rather, its interpretation by the so-called "US left" - decenters class struggle in its effort to equalize oppressions.
- Jackson Rising: At Last, a Real Strategic Plan
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
Moser reviews Jackson Rising: The Struggle for Economic Democracy and Black Self-Determination in Jackson, Mississippi.
- A Lavish Bollywood Musical Is Fueling A Culture War In India
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
Review of the controversial 2018 Bollywood film "Padmaavat". Qureshi summarises the politically charged campaign of misinformation and resulting sectarian violence that has dogged its release.
- "Show Me Your Papers!" Roundups, Checkpoints and National ID Card
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
With the government empowered to carry out transportation checks to question people about their immigration status within a 100-mile border zone that wraps around the country, you're going to see a rise in these "show your papers" incidents. That's a problem.
- What happened to Brown is fundamentally wrong. Every man in the world is now vulnerable
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
For all the other moments #MeToo has wrought, the Patrick Brown story is seminal: A political leader is cut down like a sapling in the forest in a matter of hours, and none of his colleagues, in and outside of the Ontario Conservative party, and including the Ontario premier and the prime minister of Canada, have one word to say in the defence of fair play or the presumption of innocence.
- The Algiers Accords: Decades of Violations and Silence
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First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
This week marks the 37th anniversary of a pledge made by the United States in 1981:
The United States pledges that it is and from now on will be the policy of the United States not to intervene, directly or indirectly, politically or militarily, in Iran’s internal affairs.
This week also marks 37 continuous years of the United States failing to uphold its pledge: the 1981 Algiers Accords.
- If you're going to blame a cyberattack on North Korea, you'd better show your work
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
Transit operator Metrolinx says it was hit by North Korean hackers. Experts want evidence
- An Inside Look At The Accounts Twitter Has Censored In Countries Around The World
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First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
BuzzFeed News has identified more than 1,700 Twitter accounts that have been blocked in at least one country. The list provides an unprecedented glimpse into Twitter's collaboration with national groups and governments -- democratic and authoritarian alike -- and provides new details about a surge in blocked accounts in Germany, France, and Turkey.
- Iran: Compulsory veiling is abusive, discriminatory and humiliating; end the persecution of women for peacefully protesting against it
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First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
Amnesty International criticizes Iran's compulsory veiling laws, arguing that they are not only harmful to women, but fundamentally unconstitutional.
- Me Too's Misguided Pursuit of Equality: Drop the Spirit of Vengeance and Defend Dignity Instead
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
With Me Too’s focus where it is, on man’s injury to woman, the capitalist for-profit system can wash its hands. Eyes glued to salacious details are off the oppressive economic order that has over time erased our cultures, communities and is set to destroy all life on the planet.
- Peterson unmasks stitch-up of TV interviews
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First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
Jonathan Cook on Jordan Peterson’s recent interview with Channel 4’s Cathy Newman.
- The Trials of Africa and the Real Dr. King They Want Us to Forget
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
A look at some of Martin Luther King Jr.'s views beyond those emphasized by the mainstream media, where he pushed beyond 'liberal' America and his strong anti-war and global solidarity values were unapologetically linked to the fight against racism and poverty.
- Ursula K. Le Guin - Rest in Power
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
Obituary celebrating Le Guin's contributions as a community activist, a fighter for feminism, peace, freedom of speech, access to knowledge for everyone, and radical democracy in addition to her literary acclaim.
- Call-Out Culture Is a Toxic Garbage Dumpster Fire of Trash
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
A look at the "Call-out" culture where individuals who express opinions are quickly reprimanded online with derogatory labels; a mass media social comdemnation often without any sort of due process, which ultimately spreads a fear to engage in controversy or voice opinions that are even slightly outside the tide of contemporary thinking.
- For an international coalition to fight Internet censorship
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
In this open letter from the International Editorial Board of the World Socialist Web Site, the threat and consequences of internet censorship and reduction in access to information is highlighted.
- The War Against "Fake News" is a War on Us
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
Barely a day passes without a new development in the war on social media -- that is, the war on us. Today, it is a report that Twitter has emailed hundreds of thousands of its users, warning them that they shared "Russian propaganda".
- Behind the Money Curtain: A Left Take on Taxes, Spending and Modern Monetary Theory
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
Taxes do not fund government spending.That's a core insight of Modern Monetary Theory (MMT) whose radical implications have not been understood very well by the left. Indeed, it's not well understood at all, and most people who have heard or read it somewhere breeze right past it, and fall back to the taxes-for-spending paradigm that is the sticky common wisdom of the left and right.
- It's Time to Call Economic Sanctions What They Are: War Crimes
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
Cockburn argues that economic sanctions impose collective punishment on the general population rather than targetting the people in power.
- Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - January 21, 2018
What are we eating?
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
What are we eating? A simple question which opens up a labyrinth of devilishly complex issues about production and distribution, access to land, control of water, prices, health and safety, migrant labour, and much else.
For millions of people, the answer is brutally simple: not enough to survive. UNICEF estimates that 300 million children go to bed hungry each night, and that more than 8,000 children under the age of five die of malnutrition every day. The UN's Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) estimates that 12% of the world's population is chronically malnourished.
How is this possible in a world where there is an enormous surplus of food, where farmers are paid not to grow food?
A short answer is that food production and distribution are driven by the need to make profits, rather than by human needs.
- What are we eating?
Introduction to Other Voices, January 21, 2018
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First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
What are we eating? A simple question which opens up a labyrinth of devilishly complex issues about production and distribution, access to land, control of water, prices, health and safety, migrant labour, and much else. For millions of people, the answer is brutally simple: not enough to survive. UNICEF estimates that 300 million children go to bed hungry each night, and that more than 8,000 children under the age of five die of malnutrition every day. The UN's Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) estimates that 12% of the world's population is chronically malnourished. How is this possible in a world where there is an enormous surplus of food, where farmers are paid not to grow food?
- What are we eating? - Arabic text
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
- Womit ernähren wir uns?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2024
Womit ernähren wir uns? Eine einfache Frage, die Diskussionen über komplexe Fragen zu Produktion und Verteilung, Zugang zu Land, Kontrolle des Wassers, Preise, Gesundheit und Sicherheit, Arbeitsmigranten und vielem mehr ermöglicht.
- Apple and the Guardian: Partners in a Death Spiral
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
This report on Apple CEO Tim Cook's visit to a UK school to promote the company's new coding curriculum for schoolchildren could hardly be a better illustration of the way the Guardian newspaper serves as a key propagandist for aggressive global corporate capitalism, helping to create for it a façade of humanitarianism.
- The data war behind net neutrality
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
The fight for the enormous volume of information the public generates with every search and click is the most precious commodity for big data companies, and the winner stands the most to gain with the end of Net Neutrality.
- King St. middle-finger approach seems like an odd way to deal with lost business
For people who say business is down because of streetcar traffic, the owners have chosen a really bizarre way to try to welcome riders in
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
Toronto business owners protest Theatre District anti-congestion measures with a sculpture of a middle finger (obscene gesture).
- A Liberal Pillar Of The Establishment - 'New Look' Guardian, Old-Style Orthodoxy
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First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
Respected liberal media like the New York Times and Guardian are key battlegrounds in the relentless elite efforts to control public opinion.
- Tax Havens and the Other Paris Agreement
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
Paradise & Panama papers, Canada & red herrings, and the international agreement on tax havens with "enough loopholes to drive a fleet of Ferraris through"
- A Threat of the First Magnitude: FBI Counterintelligence & Infiltration from the Communist Party to the Revolutionary Union - 1962-1974
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
A Threat of the First Magnitude reveals the untold story of the FBI informants who penetrated the upper reaches of organizations such as the Communist Party, USA, the Black Panther Party, the Revolutionary Union and other groups labeled threats to the internal security of the United States.
- Yanis Varoufakis's Self-Incriminating Account of the Greek Crisis - Parts 3 and 4
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
Yanis Varoufakis traces his collaboration with Alexis Tsípras and his alter ego, Nikos Pappas, back to 2011. That collaboration gradually broadened, starting with 2013, to include Yanis Dragasakis (who became vice-Prime Minister in 2015). There is a constant in the relations between Varoufakis and Tsípras: Yanis Varoufakis constantly argues for changes in the political programme that Syriza had adopted. Varoufakis tells us that Tsípras-Pappas-Dragasakis themselves clearly wanted to move toward an orientation that was different from, and significantly more moderate than, the one their party had adopted.
- The Atomized and Siloed U.S. Left
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
We're increasingly siloed as organizers and protesters. The environment literally decays as we watch, and the Trump administration is hard at work dismantling what environmental regulations there are.
- Bitcoin's energy usage is huge - we can't afford to ignore it
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First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
A look at the use of cryptocurrency, its astonishingly high use of electrical power and why there is a need to take it seriously as a climate threat.
- The Business of Bullshit
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
Bullshit business is about the meaningless language conjured up in schools, in banks, in consultancy firms, in politics, in the media and, of course, in thousands of business schools releasing MBA-certificated managers who are then spreading the meaningless managerial buzz-word language of bullshit business around the world. Bullshit business can indeed take over organizations crowding out their core purpose – profit-maximization.
- The Collaboration Trap
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
Most of environmental/conservation groups in the West are participants in various public land collaboratives.Most participating collaborative members are made up of people who generally believe in exploiting natural landscapes for human benefit. As a generalization, there is overwhelming representation in such collaboratives by people who speak for the resource extraction industry or their sympathizers like rural county commissioners, ORV enthusiasts, and so forth.
- Force of Evil: Abraham Polonsky and Anti-Capitalist Noir
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First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
Policy lies at the heart of Abraham Polonsky’s Force of Evil, arguably the most anti-capitalist film ever to emerge from Hollywood. Released 70 years ago to puzzled critics and an indifferent public, over time it would achieve cult status among devotees of film noir while offering a tantalizing glimpse of what might have been accomplished by Polonsky and other members of the Hollywood Left had the blacklist not intervened.
- How Big Pharma Infiltrated the Boston Museum of Science
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
Mental illness is a highly stigmatized, life-long condition, that millions do not even realize they have and only a pharmaceutical drug can fix says Pharma and its operatives.
- Uber Used Clandestine Technology Tool To Thwart Police Raids
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
Uber uses a number of technological tools for tax evasion, undermining competition and monitoring customers and drivers.
- GI Coffeehouses Recalled: a Compliment From General Westmoreland
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
The New York Times has published an op-ed piece by historian David Parsons about the coffeehouses started near US bases during the War in Vietnam.
- Toronto does not need to hire more police officers
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
As you contemplate the push by the Toronto Police Association to have more police officers hired, remember that the issue is not the need for more officers, but featherbedding.
- Why "Coercive Diplomacy" is a Dangerous Farce
Offering to talk while threatening military force hasn't worked in 30 years.
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
In the context of rising tensions between the USA and North Korea 2017-2018, historian and journalist Gareth Porter, details the history of failure of "Coercive Diplomacy" as a tool in US foreign policy.
- The Forgotten Socialist History of Martin Luther King Jr.
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
King believed that a multiracial working-class movement was required to overcome the failings of capitalism.
- Justice for Hassan Diab and the Unbearable Banality of Evil
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
Deutsch examines the case of Dr. Hassan Diab - a sociology professor and Canadian citizen who was accused of bombing the Rue Copernic Synagogue - and uses it to critique international and domestic justice systems.
- Monbiot Is a Hypocrite and a Bully
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First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
It is time for George Monbiot’s legion of supporters to call him out. Not only is he a hypocrite, but he is becoming an increasingly dangerous one. Turning a blind eye to his behaviour, or worse excusing it, as too often happens, has only encouraged him to intensify his attacks on dissident writers, those who – whether right or wrong on any specific issue – are slowly helping us all to develop more critical perspectives on western foreign policy goals than has ever been possible before.
- Outspoken professor stokes free-speech debate at East Coast university
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First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
An associate professor at Acadia University is facing a growing backlash over incendiary social media comments, stoking a national debate about free speech on campus amid calls for his ouster from the Wolfville, N.S., school.
- The suffering of surrogacy: A veteran feminist spells it out
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First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
In Surrogacy: A Human Rights Violation Dr Renate Klein takes on the surrogacy industry with plenty of sass and hard evidence. A dogged feminist academic and publisher for over thirty years, her critique of neoliberal capitalism is always underpinned by an authentic concern for women’s wellbeing and a focus on patriarchal structures. She never fails to point out the power differentials. She completely rejects surrogacy in all its forms.
- Typewriters Still Smoking? An Interview with Underground Press Maven John McMillan
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First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
An Interview with Underground Press Maven John McMillan, who is an associate professor of history at Georgia State University in Atlanta, with degrees from Michigan State and Columbia, and the author of the best book about the underground press. Smoking Typewriters: The Sixties Underground Press and the Rise of Alternative Media in America (Oxford University Press)
- Gentrification and Class Struggles in Barcelona, Spain: Interview with Etcétera Collective
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
In an interview with the Barcelona-based collective Etcetera, the processes of urban development in one of the fastest gentrifying cities in Spain and their implications for potential movements and struggles are examined.
- Am I a bad feminist?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
My fundamental position is that women are human beings, with the full range of saintly and demonic behaviours this entails, including criminal ones. They're not angels, incapable of wrongdoing. Nor do I believe that women are children, incapable of agency or of making moral decisions.
- The Guardian, White Helmets, and Silenced Comment
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
The Guardian recently published an article claiming that critical discussion of the White Helmets in Syria has been 'propagated online by a network of anti-imperialist activists, conspiracy theorists and trolls with the support of the Russian government'. Many readers were dismayed at this crude defence of a – presumably – pro-imperialist perspective, and at the unwarranted smearing of reasoned questioning based on evidence from independent journalists.
- This Is Why Carrots Cost More Than Twinkies
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
An examination of the role of Government-subsidized crop insurance, farm loans, tax credits, agricultural research and education, as well as environmental and public-health exemptions for farming, on the cost of food production and how that transfers to the consumer.
- World War I: Crime and Punishment
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
Jacques Pauwels' The Great Class War is a contribution to the ideological front in the struggle for a world without wars, for in resetting the story of that war in the Marxist frame, he loosens our ties to idealist interpretations that obscure the class nature of wars, naturalize war as an inevitable part of life, and force us to assume and share a guilt that largely rests on the shoulders of a profiteering and exploitative class, which holds the power of decision making through its control of political, economic, military, police, and media powers and grants us a vote that is largely cosmetic.
- Barbed-Wire Imperialism: Britain's Empire of Camps, 1876-1903, by Aidan Forth - Review
Internment in the colonies served a darker purpose beyond aid efforts
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
A book review of Aidan Forth's "Barbed-Wire Imperialism: Britain's Empire of Camps, 1876-1903", which provides new insights and ulterior motives behind Britain's aid efforts in southern Africa.
- Ahed Tamimi Offers Israelis a Lesson Worthy of Gandhi
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
Sixteen-year-old Ahed Tamimi may not be what Israelis had in mind when, over many years, they criticised Palestinians for not producing a Mahatma Gandhi or Nelson Mandela.
Eventually, colonised peoples bring to the fore a figure best suited to challenge the rotten values at the core of the society oppressing them. Ahed is well qualified for the task.
- What Happened to H E Harris
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
Those of us who started in philately over thirty years ago remember H E Harris. Harris was the largest stamp dealer in the mid twentieth century, growing rapidly during the Great Depression with the Captain Tim radio show. Harris was a leading promoter of philately with album publishing and approvals so that by 1975 Harris had tens of thousands of customers.
- Comrade Bernard
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
A review of Bernard Goldstein's "Twenty Years with the Jewish Labor Bund: A Memoir of Interwar Poland", a firsthand account of the struggles of the Jewish working class in Poland between the two World Wars.
- Eric Hobsbawm’s histories
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
Eric Hobsbawm was the author of, among many other works, a classic quartet on modern world history, The Age of Revolution, The Age of Capital, The Age of Empire and Age of Extremes. Hobsbawm was widely respected as one of the greatest historians of the left and one of the greatest historians of the 20th century more generally.
- Fishers under siege
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
A review of Penny McCall Howard, Environment, Labour and Capitalism at Sea: "Working the Ground" in Scotland.
- The language of the unheard
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
A book review of "A People's History of Riots, Protest and the Law: The Sound of the Crowd" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2017) by author Matt Clement.
- Lenin and the Tsarist Duma
A review of August H Nimtz, Lenin’s Electoral Strategy from Marx and Engels through the Revolution of 1905: The Ballot, the Streets—or Both
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
Donnelly reviews Nimtz's two volume account of Lenin's pre-revolution electoral strategy and summarises the thesis that Lenin's critique of reformism in parliamentary democracy was rooted in the conclusions of Marx and Engels.
- Marxism, class and revolution in Africa: the legacy of the 1917 Russian Revolution
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
This article assesses the influence of 1917 on African liberation movements and explains how it influenced struggles against and beyond colonialism.
- The PCP in the Portuguese Revolution 1974-5: crisis, state and revolution
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
How did the Portuguese Communist Party (PCP), loyal to the Soviet Union deep into the second half of the 20th century, react to a social revolution in 1974-5? The moments are rare when we can study workers' revolutions in a European country where the Communist Party had a decisive influence. I argue here that the revolution happened despite the party, not because of it. The USSR wanted above all to maintain the equilibrium of the Cold War, and Portugal was, in the division made at Yalta and Potsdam in 1945, in the NATO sphere. The PCP was faithful to that policy.
- The radical Robert Burns
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
For many people the only association they have with the work of Robert Burns is singing Auld Lang Syne at New Year celebrations or at annual Burns Supper events. The real Burns, the radical, revolutionary Burns, is rarely even hinted at in these events. Instead what we have is a sentimentalised, romanticised portrayal of Burns as what Henry Mackenzie called "that heav'n taught ploughman". MacKenzie was a lawyer, novelist and editor of The Lounger magazine in which he reviewed Burns's work. Burns admired some of Mackenzie's work; indeed one of his favourite novels was his Man of Feeling (1771). Mackenzie, however, was scornful of Burns's use of vernacular Scots "which greatly damps the pleasure of the reader".
- The Button, the Wall and the Myth of Nations
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
North Korean sanctions, the border wall with Mexico, and the "toxic" role of nationalism with regards to international relations and domestically in the US are discussed.
- GMOs, Global Agribusiness and the Destruction of Choice
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
One of the myths perpetuated by the pro-GMO (genetically modified organisms) lobby is that critics of GMOs in agriculture are denying choice to farmers and have an ideological agenda. The narrative is that farmers should have access to a range of tools and technologies, including GM crops. But GM agriculture is not 'feeding the world', nor has it been designed to do so. The choice for farmers between a technology based on broken promises and conventional non-GMO agriculture is no choice at all.
- Causes behind Iran's protests: A preliminary account
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
The causes of the uprising that has been rocking the Islamic Republic of Iran for a week now are unsurprisingly both structural and contingent.
- US J20 defendants: 'Waiting is part of the punishment'
The first six people have been acquitted, but the 188 remaining Inauguration Day defendants have yet to go to trial.
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
Alleged anti-fascist protestors, controversially arrested at the 2017 US presidential inauguration, await trial and or sentencing in 2018.
- All You Fascists Bound to Lose
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
A look at Shane Burley's new book "Fascism Today: What It is and How to End It", which examines the current fascist movement and the opposition to it in the United States.
- Corporate Coercion and the Drive to Eliminate Buying with Cash
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
Consumer freedom and privacy are examined as coercive commercialism quickly moves toward a cashless economy, when all consumers are forced into corporate payment systems from credit/debit cards, mobile phones and perhaps even through facial recognition technology.
- How the System Got Trumped: Cambridge Analytica's Electoral Psyops Campaign
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
Available from Cinema Libre Studios, "Trumping Democracy" provides the key to understanding how we have ended up with the most unpopular president in history.
- Mining History Written in Blood
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
Domestic coal mining history above and below ground lives on the pages of Written in Blood: Courage and Corruption in the Appalachian War of Extraction edited by Wess Harris (PM Press, 2017). The anthology unpacks the industry, people and communities of a coal-rich region, amplifying relevant class and gender issues over a century.
- The Truth About "Trailer Trash"
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
"Trailer trash" remains one of the last unquestioned relics of political incorrectness in our nation. As a toxic slur, the "trailer trash" brand works to stigmatize an entire category of people marginalizing them from mainstream society.
- Current Developments in Iran
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
An update on the new wave of demonstrations that started December 28, 2017 in Mashhad, the second-largest city in Iran, and why dissent is different from that of 2009.
- Sci-fi author Judith Merril and the very real story of Toronto's Spaced Out Library
A prolific author and pioneer Merril's donation of 5,000 items started the Toronto Public Library's massive speculative fiction collection.
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
The story of Judith Merril's work promoting and developing Science-fiction writing in Canada, and the founding of the Rochdale Library, which later became the Spaced Out Library.
- Trump threat to cut Palestine aid could 'unravel Oslo'
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
US President Donald Trump's threat to withdraw aid to the Palestinian Authority (PA) would deprive Washington of its influence on the body, and could cause the Oslo accords to unravel, analysts say.
- Does the Bitcoin frenzy make any sense at all?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
The author explains how the strange story of a "crypto-currency" reveals the underlying irrationality of a system that is designed to work for the rich only.
- Life without Limits: The Delusions of Technological Fundamentalism
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
In a routinely delusional world, what is the most dangerous delusion? This delusion is not limited to one country, one group, or one political party, but rather is the unstated assumption of everyday life in the high-energy/high-technology industrial world. This is the delusion that we are -- to borrow from the title of a particularly delusional recent book -- the god species.
- Report From Southeast Asia
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
A general commentary on work and economic conditions in parts of Southeast Asia, and possible comparisons with the ferment in Eastern Europe prior to 1917.
- South Sudan archivists fear loss of historical texts
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
South Sudan doesn't have a museum, so thousands of archival documents are sitting in a small building in the capital, Juba, waiting for a national archives to be built. The project will also need the help of international donors to get off the ground, and the ongoing conflict has made it difficult to secure funding.
- Fallen Pan, Furious Women, and the Failure of Soulless Feminism
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
The excited triumphal coverage of the Me Too Movement conveys the fatal devaluing of imagination - and the banning of thoughtful discourse as well as passionate enthusiasm - that defines and shackles the liberal mind during this excruciating Trumpian moment we’re sharing.
- Pakistan: Teachers and Farmers Protests Brutally Crushed in Sindh
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
On December 25, 2017, primary, secondary and high school teachers in Karachi held a defiant protest against the Sindh government due to its refusal to provide them with permanent jobs despite having agreed to do so in 2014. The provincial government is refusing to honor its agreement even after forcing teachers to pass a rigorous examination conducted by the National Testing Service and the University of Sindh.
- Seven Forbidden Words: On the Uses of Censorship
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
In December 2017, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) moved to take ideological control of the agency's budget-writing process. A Trump appointed official presented a directive to the agency's departments listing seven words that were not to be used in budget preparation.
- Thousands march in Ukraine to mark Nazi collaborator Bandera's birthday
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
Some 6,500 people across Ukraine took part in marches on the first day of the year to mark the birthday of Stepan Bandera, a Ukrainian nationalist leader considered a hero in the country despite his violent past and history of collaboration with the Nazis.
- After 10 years, Hassan Diab is finally free
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
Hassan Diab is freed by French authorities after what was deemed a bungled case and rush to judgment, one which zeroed in on Diab with unjust finger-pointing from B'nai Brith.
- American Nightmare: Facing the Challenge of Fascism
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
In this provocative collection of essays, Henry Giroux warns of the consequences of doing too little as Trump and the so-called alt-right relentlessly attack critics, journalists, and target the hard-earned civil rights of women, people of color, immigrants, the working class, and low-income Americans.
- Archive That, Comrade!
Left Legacies and the Counter Culture of Remembrance
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
Archive That, Comrade! explores issues of archival theory and practice that arise for any project aspiring to provide an open-access platform for political dialogue and democratic debate.
- As the World Burns
Combustion Engines; There Will Always Be Fires
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
A two essay report that examines the causes and costs of large wildfires. The first essay titled "Combustion Engines" takes a look at a 'mega-fire' that raged across Montana in 2017, placing blame on global warmimg, mismanagement by authorities, and the building of houses in high rish areas. The second essay, "There Will Always Be Fires", describes the conditions that led to huge blazes in Portugal which are largely attributed to the introduction of of the highly flammable eucalyptus.
- Before the Deluge
How Washington sealed Puerto Rico's fate
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
A look at the problems facing Puerto Rico prior to Hurricane Maria, which was already a plundered and mis-managed society with crumbling infrastructure long before the hurricane struck.
- Black History and the Class Struggle
#26
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
- Black Nationalism, Black Solidarity
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
Malik explains examines Black Nationalism and its relationship to a Marxist analysis of nationalism of oppressed peoples.
- The Bodies in The Forest
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
An excerpt from Gessen's book "Never Remember: Searching for Stalin's Gulags in Putin's Russia", published by Columbia Global Reports. The book examines Stalin's extensive network of labour camps that held and killed millions of prisoners in 1930s to the 1950s.
- Bypassing Dystopia
Hope-Filled Challenges to Corporate Rule
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
Joyce Nelson explores global examples of active and creative resistance to the iron grip of corporatism on our economies and imaginations.
- Can the Working Class Change the World?
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
A look at how the working class and its allies can oppose capitalism to bring radical change.
- Capitalism: A Crime Story
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
Harry Glasbeek explains how liberal law strives to reconcile capitalism with liberalism, while giving corporate capitalism privileged treatment under the law.
- Catalunya: 'Only the People Save the People'
Against the Current vol. 192
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
- Celebrating Miriam Garfinkle
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
Miriam Garfinkle is my hero.
- Clarion Alley Confronts a Lack of Concern
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
Clarion Alley's thought-provoking, provocative, clever and often political art was created by those determined to leave a record of their existence and experience and to give voice to marginalized and disenfranchised communities.
- Climate Justice: Hope, Resilience, and the Fight for a Sustainable Future
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
Stories of the impact of and resistance to climate change from grassroots activists around the world.
- Cold as Ice
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
An excerpt from a letter written in 1897 to the editor of the British newspaper the 'Daily Chronicle'. The letter is included in "The Annotated Prison Writings of Oscar Wilde", published by Harvard University Press. The letter is an appeal and commentary on the harsh and cruel treatment of children being held in English prisons.
- Combat Obscura
Resource Type: Film/Video
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
Footage of combat in Afghanistan from the Marine Corps' official videographer.
- Cursed Fields
What the tundra has in store for Russia's reindeer herders
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
Noah Sneider visits the Yamal Peninsula in Russia where an outbreak of anthrax is killing herds of reindeer and engdangering the lives of the local people. Rising temperatures and a particularly hot summer have led scientists to conclude that climate change is the most credible explanation for its deadly return.
- The Death of a Once Great City
The fall of New York and the urban crisis of affluence
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
Kevin Baker takes a close look at the changes to his home city of New York over the past forty years. He notes that while some of the more undesirable aspects of New York in the 1970's have improved, such as crime, dirt, garbage- the new and more gentrified city masks significant problems, the most notable being a growing housing crisis.
- Drinking Poblems
A Kansas town confronts a tap-water crisis
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
A look at the health crisis in Pretty Prairie, Kansas, where Nitrate from farms has polluted the water supply for three decades. Elizabeth Royte takes a look at the town's history and social climate in order to understand why the problem was left for so long.
- Drinking Problems
A Kansas town confronts a tap-water crisis
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
Investigation on the drinking water crisis in the US, examinign the sources of contamination, the inadequate regulatory responses, and the potential helath consequences of long-term exposure to pollutants in the country's water supply.
- Empty Suits
Defamation law and the price of dissent
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
A look at lawsuits filed by companies that are intended to censor, intimidate, and silence dissenters by burdening them with the cost of a legal defense- known as SLAPP or strategic lawsuits against public participation.
- The End of Eden
Climate change comes to the end of civilization
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
A look at the devastating environmental outlook in Iraq, where climate change has led to rising temperatures and a dramatic drop in precipitation. Further exacerbating the environmental problems are decades of mismanagement, war, and regional politics.
- Estar Baur (1920-2017)
Against the Current vol. 192
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
With the passing of Estar Baur, Dianne Feeley discusses Baur's life as a lifelong socialist activist.
- A Flag for Trump's America
The power of strength
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
A look at the Blue Lives Matter slogan and flag, which became a symbol for the U.S. police counter-movement advocating that those who are prosecuted and convicted of killing law enforcement officers should be sentenced under hate crime statutes. It was started in response to Black Lives Matter.
- Florida Students Confront Spencer
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
Aliya recounts her experience protesting the Richard Spencer event at the University of Florida.
- Following the Levellers, Volume Two
English Political and Religious Radicals from the Commonwealth to the Glorious Revolution, 1649–1688
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
The Levellers sought to restructure the state in 1647-9 around popular consent and liberty for conscience, especially in their Agreement of the People. Following the Levellers, Volume Two examines the later political efforts of Leveller spokesmen like John Lilburne, John Wildman, and Richard Overton, and their followers.
- Free Public Transit: And Why We Don't Pay to Ride Elevators
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
In an age of increasing inequalities and ecological crisis, movements for free public transit are proposing a profound rethinking of urban transit as a fundamental human right and public good. Research shows that, if the bus were free, people would ride it as much as 50% more in the first year, dramatically reducing car use, traffic, and pollution, while redistributing wealth and increasing social inclusion for poor and working people. But free public transit alone is not enough; it must also be combined with much better service and reserve bus lanes to be effective. In its twenty chapters, this book explores the winning strategies and pitfalls of case studies ranging across fourteen countries: the United States, Canada, Estonia, Greece, Italy, Sweden, Brazil, Mexico, Poland, China, France, Belgium, Germany, and Australia.
- Gaza: An Inquest into Its Martyrdom
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
The Gaza Strip is among the most densely populated places in the world. More than two-thirds of its inhabitants are refugees, and more than half are under eighteen years of age. Since 2004, Israel has launched eight devastating “operations” against Gaza’s largely defenseless population. Thousands have perished, and tens of thousands have been left homeless. In the meantime, Israel has subjected Gaza to a merciless illegal blockade.
What has befallen Gaza is a man-made humanitarian disaster.
Based on scores of human rights reports, Norman G. Finkelstein's new book presents a meticulously researched inquest into Gaza’s martyrdom. He shows that although Israel has justified its assaults in the name of self-defense, in fact these actions constituted flagrant violations of international law.
- Harvey's Toxic Aftermath in Houston
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
Wingard exposes the enviromental devastation caused by Hurricane Harvey. The hurricane caused chemical spills and explosions which Wingard says forecast a pending enviromental crisis.
- A History of International Women's Day in words and images
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
An online history of International Women's Day, which includes visual materials and numerous photographs from each decade.
- How the UAW Can Make It Right
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
Aswar discusses how the UAW lost the vote at the Nissan plant in Mississippi and proposes that Organized laboUr adapt Opertaion Dixie to move forward.
- How to Start a Nuclear War
The increasingly direct road to ruin
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
A chilling look at the security measures and processes behind the U.S. nuclear weapons system. The article examines how safeguards and procedures have evolved, including more recent efforts to curb the President's absolute authority to push the button.
- If These Walls Could Talk
The strange history of our futile border fortifications
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
From ancient times to the present day, the article takes a look at the reasoning behind physical barriers that society's construct to divide nations, and the historical fact that they usually fail.
- Illiberal Values
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
Walter Kirn reflects on the Liberalism of his youth and how the principles that attracted him in the 1970's have changed, and are particularly eroded in the era of Trump.
- Indigenous Sovereignty & Socialism
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
- International Women's Day
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
The annual day for recognition of and struggle for women's economic, social and political rights.
- Israel: Democracy or Apartheid State?
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
Josh Ruebner draws on personal anecdotes and reflections, historical documents, and legal analyses to answer one of the most pressing issues in international affairs today: is Israel a democracy or does its separate and unequal treatment of the Palestinian people render it an apartheid state?
- Killing Gaza
A documentary film about life under siege
Resource Type: Film/Video
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
Independent journalists Max Blumenthal and Dan Cohen documented Israel’s 2014 assault on Gaza during the war, and chronicled its horrific aftermath. As they waded through the rubble of Gaza’s destroyed border regions, they turned a camera onto the survivors of the slaughter and let them speak for themselves. Dan returned, week after week, to capture on film the daily struggles of the people of Gaza as they suffered through one of the worst winters in recorded history, and then weathered the sweltering summer heat without electricity and -- in many cases -- without homes. While giving voice to the pain of a people under siege, Cohen and Blumenthal also highlighted Gazans’ inspiring acts of creative resistance, from painting to break-dancing to literature, that allow them maintain their humanity in the face of deprivation and war. Yet this film is much more than a documentary about Palestinian resilience and suffering. It is a chilling visual document of war crimes committed by the Israeli military, featuring direct testimony and evidence from the survivors.
- The Kurdish Crisis in Iraq and Syria
Against the Current vol. 192
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
In discussion of right of self-determination for the between 28 and 35 million Kurdish people in Iraq, Syria, Turkey and Iran, the author considers the current polticial landscape.
- Language for Resisting Oppression
Review of Revolutionary Keywords for a New Left
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
Review of the Revolutionary Keywords for a New Left by Ian Parker.
- Leon Rosselson on Gaza
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
In Gaza the slaughter was premeditated and calculated. The snipers were primed to kill. They had their orders. They used the protesters, men women, children, for target practice. According to the latest reports, 109 Palestinians?—?including children, one an 8 month old baby -- have been killed and over 6,000 wounded, including nearly 1000 children. The wounds were particularly debilitating because Israeli soldiers used dumdum bullets which expand when they enter the body. The bullets used are causing injuries local medics say they have not seen since 2014. The entrance wound is small.The exit wound is devastating, causing gross comminution of bone and destruction of soft tissue.
- Lessons from James Baldwin
Review of James Baldwin: The FBI File; Against the Current vol. 192
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
A review of James Baldwin: The FBI File, a novel edited by William J. Maxwell which sets out an interpretive frame,through which readers may study his excerpts his file from the FBI.
- Looking for Calley
How a young journalist untangled the riddle of My Lai
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
Seymour M. Hersh looks back at the 1969 My Lai Massacre where hundreds of unarmed civilians were massacred by U.S. Army soldiers. As a young freelance journalist in Vietnam Hersh gained recognition for exposing the atrocity and its cover-up, and ultimately helped turn public opinion against the war.
- Looted and Hidden - Palestinian Archives in Israel
Resource Type: Film/Video
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
- The Lost City
Ian MacEachern's Photographs of Saint John
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
For The Lost City: Ian MacEachern's Photographs of Saint John, architectural and social historian John Leroux has selected seventy-five black-and-white photographs drawn from MacEachern's exceptional archive and written an accompanying essay that examines the recent history of Saint John and the effect of urban renewal on civic architecture, historic neighbourhoods, and community structure.
- Man of the Trees: Richard St. Barbe Baker, the First Global Conservationist
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
A biography of Richard St. Barbe Baker
- A Marxist History of Capitalism
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
A short history of capitalism by a history professor at University of Manitoba
- The #MeToo Revolution Edtorial
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
The editors ask whether the #MeToo Movement will be different than other moments in which sexual abuse was revealed, and propose that organized labour can play a role in ensuring harassment-free work enviroments.
- Midian Farm
Resource Type: Film/Video
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
From 1971 - 1977, Midian Farm was a back-to-the-land social experiment created by a community of urban baby boomers from Toronto. Part of the youth counterculture movement during a period of social and political re-imagining, its utopian vision eventually collapsed. More than four decades later, filmmaker Liz Marshall unearths a transformative piece of family and Canadian history.
- The Minds of Others
The art of persuasion in the age of Trump
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
In a divided America, seven writers explore the ways that persuasion operates in our lives- from the intimate to the far-reaching, and ultimately how we can pursuade others to see things the way we do.
- Miriam Garfinkle
Memories, Stories, Photos, Articles, Statements, Interviews, Letters, Actions, Activism, News
Resource Type: Website
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
This page is dedicated to the memory of Miriam Garfinkle (1954 - 2018). It provides links to Miriam’s articles and interviews, letters; accounts of her activism and organizing; stories from some of the occasions when Miriam’s activities landed her in the news; photo albums; and tributes to Miriam. There is a separate page, Moments with Miriam, on which more 100 people share stories of Miriam.
- Mobbed Up
How America boosts the Afghan opium trade
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
Touted by the US as fueling terrosism, the author takes a closer look at the opium trade in Afghanistan and reveals a situation far more complex; notably drug lords manipulating US commanders and Western involvement ironically creating explosive opium growth.
- Moments with Miriam
Resource Type: Website
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
This page was created to enable Miriam Garfinkle’s friends, family, and the people whose lives she touched, to share their stories, memories, and photos.
- The Moral Economy of the Iranian Protests
Beset by inequality and corruption, Iran's provincial working classes are revolting against the revolution's broken promises
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
A look at the root causes of the widespread protests that have been taking place, primarily in provincial towns, throughout Iran. Persistent unemployment and inflation, overdue wages and pensions, environmental degradation, and ponzi schemes are a far cry from the social justice vision that animated and united the revolutionary forces of 1979.
- No Exit
The ongoing abuses of Australia's refugee policy
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
A first person account of the refugee crisis in Australian detention centres. At great expense the Australian government holds detainees offshore in crowded camps, many of whom are stranded and living under deplorable conditions.
- Not Saving Private Ryan
The Murderous Finale of the Great War. November 11, 1918, One Hundred Years Ago
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
- NPR Runs IDF Playbook, Spinning Killing of 17 Palestinians
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
The article looks at the NPR reporting on the killing of 17 palestinians, which follows a pro-Israel bias that dates back for years.
- Obstruction of Justice
Why the criminal justice system is ill-equipped to prosecute rape charges
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
Author Charlotte Shane examines why the U.S. justice sytem is incapable of effectively adjudicating rape, moreover the profound psychological and societal issues inborn in our culture that produces rapists. Shane takes a look at the film "I Am Evidence", directed by Trish Adlesic and Geeta Gandbhir, as a starting point for discussion.
- The October Revolution: Its Necessity & Meaning
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
On the 100th anniversary of the Russian Revolution, Mandal examines the necessity and meaning of the October Revolution.
- The Omega Principle: Seafood and the Quest for a Long Life and a Healthier Planet
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
Looking at the hype around the benefits of omega-3 as well as the impact its extraction has on the environment.
- Open and Hidden Horrors
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
Before Trump's December 6, 2017 recognition of Jerusalem as the capital of Israel, American aggression and its results were apparent in the Middle East and Africa.
- The Other Whisper Network
How Twitter feminism is bad for women
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
Katie Roiphe takes a closer look at the #MeToo movement, particularly the use of Twitter and social media which can dangerously be used to rouse extremes in a similar way that Trump has energized his supporters.
- A People's History of the German Revolution
1918-19
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
The story of the revolutionary moment which overthrew the German monarchy in 1918, but was then defeated by the forces of reaction.
- The Pictures
Securing Peter Hujar's place among the greats
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
In his will American photographer Peter Hujar left his entire photographic archive to his friend Stephen Koch. In this article Koch explains why he embarked on a journey to usher Hujar's work into posthumous notoriety, and ultimately how the photographs changed his life.
- The Plot to Attack Iran
How the CIA and the Deep State Have Conspired to Vilify Iran
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
A summary to the US war against Iranian democracy and the complex situation in the Middle East.
- Portrait of an Icon
Review of Becoming Belafonte: Black Artist, Public Radical
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
A review of Becoming Belafonte: Black Artist, Public Radical by Judith E. Smith.
- The Progress of This Storm
Nature and Society in a Warming World
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
An attack on the idea that nature and society are impossible to distinguish from each other.
- Punching the Clock
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
An excerpt from David Graeber's book "Bullshit Jobs" published by Simon and Schuster. Graeber, a professor of anthropology at the London School of Economics, looks at the existence of meaningless work and the psychological and societal harm that results.
- Race and the Logic of Capital
Review of Class, Race, and Marxism
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
A review of Review of Class, Race, and Marxism by David Roediger.
- Racial Terror & Totalitarianism - Book Review
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
A review of Race and the Totalitarian Century: Geopolitics in the Black Literary Imagination
by Vaughn Rasberry.
- Rage Against the Machine: A War vs. Consensus
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
As it stands now, even if the unlikely liberal wet dream of a Trump impeachment actually comes to pass, the theocratic Mike Pence will simply assume office. No doubt cities like New York and Boston will initially erupt in celebration. But should it really be that long before the realization dawns that the real work remained ongoing?
- Seeds of Resistance: The Fight to Save Our Food Supply
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
Food production in the age of climate change and corporate control.
- Sources News Release Archive 2018
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
News releases from 2018.
- Speaking of Indigenous Politics
Conversations with Activists, Scholars, and Tribal Leaders
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
On her radio program Indigenous Politics, J. Kehaulani Kauanui talked candidly and in an engaging way about how settler colonialism depends on erasing Native peoples and about how Native peoples can and do resist, bringing Indigenous activism to the mainstream. Collected here, these conversations speak with clear and compelling voices about a range of Indigenous politics that shape everyday life.
- The State & Institutional Power: Ulli Diemer - Selected snippets & quotes from Radical Digressions
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
- Surveillance Self-Defense
Resource Type: Website
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
Modern technology has given those in power new abilities to eavesdrop and collect data on innocent people. Surveillance Self-Defense is EFF's guide to defending yourself and your friends from surveillance by using secure technology and developing careful practices.
- Swap Meet
Wall Street's war on the Volcker Rule
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
A look at the opposition to the Volcker Rule, originally proposed by former United States Federal Reserve Chairman Paul Volcker, which restricts US banks from making certain speculative investments that do not benefit customers.
- Theorizing the Soviet Bureaucracy
Review of Trotsky and the Problem of Soviet Bureaucracy
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
A review of the book: Trotsky and the Problem of Soviet Bureaucracy by Thomas M. Twiss.
- Transgender Children and Young People
Born in Your Own Body
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
A collection of essays about the current theory and practice of transgendering children.
- The Trouble With Uplift
How black politics succumbed to the siren song of the racial voice
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
I've long suspected that, to a certain strain of race-conscious or antiracist discourse, historical exploration in popular culture was less important than the propagation of tales of inspiration and uplift. These fables typically feature singular black heroes who have overcome crushing racist adversity against all odds. In recent years, a steady stream of films and other narratives have openly embraced that preference.
- US, UK and France 'Inflicted Worst Destruction in Decades on Raqqa'
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
Amnesty International reports that air and artillery strikes by the US and allies inflicted devastating loss of life on civilians in the Isis-held city of Raqqa. It is a report that contradicts claims by the US, Britain and France, that they precisely targeted Isis fighters and positions during the four month siege.
- What Really Happened With Lesbian Protestors At Pride London Yesterday?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
A campaigning group, called 'Get the L Out', protesting harassment of young lesbians for same-sex attraction are being smeared in the media as marching against 'against trans women'.
- Why There are Few Christians Left in the Holy Town of Bethlehem
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
This is the time of year when they have a chance to break out of an isolation enforced in concrete since Israel enclosed the town with a "separation wall" more than a decade ago.
- William ('Bill') Pelz:
Againist the Current vol. 192
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
In memoriam, Patrick M. Quinn and Eric Schuster discuss the life and contributions of William ('Bill') Pelz, a well-known socialist activist and prolific scholar in the field of European and comparative Labour History.
- Alternative Canada 150 project redraws history to spotlight untold stories
Born from opposition to Canada 150, Remember Resist Redraw posters are being used in schools across Canada
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
During Canada 150 celebrations, a project titled "Remember Resist Redraw" releases illustrated posters depicting a variety of stories often left out of traditional history textbooks -- stories of oppression, inequality, racism, and colonialism.
- Ta-Nehisi Coates is the neoliberal face of the black freedom struggle
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
Coates represents the neoliberal wing of the black freedom struggle that sounds militant about white supremacy but renders black fightback invisible. This wing reaps the benefits of the neoliberal establishment that rewards silences on issues such as Wall Street greed or Israeli occupation of Palestinian lands and people. The disagreement between Coates and me is clear: any analysis or vision of our world that omits the centrality of Wall Street power, US military policies, and the complex dynamics of class, gender, and sexuality in black America is too narrow and dangerously misleading. So it is with Ta-Nehisi Coates’ worldview.
- Why Is Allergan Partnering with the St. Regis Mohawk Tribe?
Inside the bizarre world of patent law.
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
The St. Regis Mohawk Tribe has invested in a portfolio of patents, their status as a sovereign-entity allows the holder to circumvent the "inter partes review" if a patent dispute is raised, increasing the value of their holdings.
- Action this Thursday, City allowing respite spaces to be lost
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
City allowing respite spaces to be lost despite shelters being full and directive from council to maintain respite capacity
- Betty Peterson Leaves a Legacy of Peacework
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
It is with great sadness and immense appreciation of her contribution to peace and justice that we let you know of the peaceful passing of our mentor, inspiration and “grandmother with a hug”, 100 year-old Betty Peterson. Long-time Nova Scotia
- China: Human Rights activist detained for six months without charge
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
Since September 2017, human rights activist Zhen Jianghua has been in police detention and his lawyer Ren Quanniu has been denied access to his client. The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) demand the immediate release of Zhen Jianghua.
- Connexions Other Volices - June 10, 2018 - Massacres and Morality
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
In the wake of Israel's brutal massacres of Palestinian protestors in Gaza in May and June 2018, Other Voices looks at the ways in which state terrorism is used to keep subjugated populations in line, at home or abroad.
- Creating a worldwide Nakba 70th anniversary community thorough Action
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
With the 70th anniversary of the Deir Yassin Massacre on April 9, and especially with Gaza's heroic "Great March of Return" leading to May 15, the world's attention is being drawn to the Nakba like never before. To mark Nakba Day, nakba70action.org
- CWF Reminds Canadians to Nominate Nature Heroes for Awards
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
The Canadian Wildlife Federation reminds Canadians that it’s the final week to submit nominations for the national Conservation Achievement Awards. The deadline for applications is Jan. 31.
- Disability and Immigration Rights Groups Call on Immigration Minister to Do the Right Thing
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
Advocates are calling on Immigration Minister Ahmed Hussen to do the right thing: repeal sections of the Immigration Act that deny permanent residency to an entire family if a member of the family is sick or has a disability.
- Emmanuel International Canada (EIC) applauds the Government of Canada
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
Emmanuel International Canada (EIC) applauds the Government of Canada for tabling historic accessibility legislation aimed at breaking down barriers for Canadians with disabilities.
- Emmanuel International Canada (EIC) is taking part in the nation-wide celebration of International Development.
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
Emmanuel International Canada (EIC) is taking part in the nation-wide celebration of International Development. Established 27 years ago by Global Affairs Canada, International Development Week (IDW) is a tradition unique to Canada.
- Emmanuel International Canada Celebrates World NGO Day
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
Emmanuel International Canada Celebrates World NGO Day. World NGO Day to raise awareness and recognize the importance of the NGOs worldwide.
- Hearts and Minds: How Do People Change?
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
Hearts & Minds: How do people change? Feb 17 Connexions Other Voices asks How can we reach the millions we need to reach and engage if fundamental change is to happen? See http://www.connexions.org/Media/CXNL-2018-02-17.htm
- IFJ welcomes lowest number of killings of journalists for a decade but warns "no room for complacency"
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) warns there is no room for complacency despite recording the lowest number of killings of journalists since 2007.
- IJV Canada statement on the 70th Anniversary of the Nakba
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
Let this latest string of massacres be a wake up call to the world. We call on Canadians, and fellow Jewish Canadians in particular, to join us not only in acknowledging and mourning the Nakba, but in doing all that we can to put an end to it.
- India: Two journalists killed in 24 hours
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
Sandeep Sharma and Naveen Nishchal were both killed in separate vehicle incidents in India on Monday, March 26. The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) and its affiliate the National Union of Journalists (India) condemn the killings
- Interview Opportunity with Chopsticks+Forks, Founder and entrepreneur Jusep Sim
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
Interview Opportunity with Chopsticks+Forks, Founder and entrepreneur Jusep Sim
- Looking for answers, creating alternatives - Connexions Other Voices March 25, 2018
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
The March 25, 2018 issue of Other Voices, the Connexions newsletter, features people who are questioning and challenging the way the world works and trying to create better alternatives.
- Malaysian government tables 'Anti-Fake News' bill
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) joins its affiliate the National Union of Journalists; Peninsular Malaysia (NUJM) in criticizing the so-called anti-fake new bill and the heavy penalties.
- Media Release - IFIC Announces New Senior Management Appointments
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
Toronto, ON - January 24, 2018 - The Investment Funds Institute of Canada (IFIC) President and CEO Paul C. Bourque, Q.C. has announced two new appointments to IFIC’s senior management team – Carolyn Quick to the position of Vice President, Pu
- Media Release - IFIC Releases Monthly Statistics for December 2017
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
Toronto, ON - January 19, 2018 - The Investment Funds Institute of Canada (IFIC) announces that for the month ending December 31, 2017, the assets under management (AUM) for the mutual funds industry totalled $1.48 trillion. AUM decreased by $6.7
- Media Release - IFIC Requests Creditor Protection for RDSP Beneficiaries
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
Toronto, ON - January 9, 2018 - In a submission made on January 5 to the Government of Canada, the Investment Funds Institute of Canada (IFIC) requested an amendment to the Bankruptcy and Insolvency Act that would give beneficiaries of Registered
- Opening of Moss Park Armouries Necessary But Temporary Measure: More Permanent Shelter Beds Needed
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
Warming centres will save lives this winter but conditions within most are appalling and they don’t necessarily meet the City’s own shelter or public health standards. We need permanent beds in the downtown core and we need them now.
- Our Statement on Syria
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
VOW condemns the devastating attack on Syria
- Recognizing World Water Day 2018
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
2018 marks the 25th anniversary of World Water Day held every year by the United Nations and recognized by millions around the Globe.
- Richard McGowan Executive Director Emmanuel International Canada congratulates the Finance Minister Hon. Bill Morneau and the Federal Government of Ca
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
Richard McGowan Executive Director Emmanuel International Canada congratulates the Finance Minister Bill Morneau and the Federal Government of Canada’s commitment announced in the 2018 Federal Budget to increase investment in international assistan
- The Isolation of Julian Assange Must Stop
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
We call on the government of Ecuador to allow Julian Assange his right of freedom of speech.
- There's No Such Thing As "Free" Preschool Say Day Care Operators
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
Ontario's independent licensed child care centres question whether the Liberal Government's latest election promise-- "free" preschool --will actually benefit families, or just result in more centre closures, higher taxes and greater government debt
- Thirteen journalists injured in bloody repression of Gaza protests
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
Thirteen journalists covering protests in Gaza were injured on Monday, 14 May when Israeli military opened fire on Palestinian protesters along the Gaza border.
- Thousands Marching In Gaza
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
In Gaza, thousands are marching -- one of the many unarmed actions planned over 45 days which will build through May 15, when Palestinians mark 70 years since hundreds of thousands were made refugees during the war of 1948.
- UN call to stop attacks on Palestinian journalists
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
The IFJ has welcomed calls by United Nations Special Rapporteur Michael Lynk that freedom of the media and the rights of journalists must be respected and that Israel should stop targeting Palestinian journalists.
- VOW Demands Peaceful Resolution for the Crisis in North Korea
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
Re: Worsening humanitarian and human rights impacts of UN sanctions on the DPRK. To Honourable Members of UN 1718 Sanctions Committee (DPRK). This letter comes to you from the Canadian Voice of Women for Peace (VOW) and
- What are we eating? asks January 21 issue of Other Voices
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
What are we eating? A simple question which opens up a labyrinth of devilishly complex issues about production and distribution, access to land, control of water, prices, health and safety, migrant labour, and much else..
- Multiple distinct groups historically populated Newfoundland, DNA study suggests
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Study suggests implies that the island of Newfoundland was populated multiple times by distinct groups.
- Vintage Photos of Traveling Libraries
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Photo essay.
- U.S. elections rank last among all Western democracies
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Are US elections fair and democratic? A detailed look at the data and methodology that questions the integrity of elections.
- Welcome to the Witchhunt
or Would the Labour Party Expel Einstein for Antisemitism?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
- Companies race to gather a newly prized currency: Our body measurements
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
The mining of data by clothing companies in the form of documented body measurements raises concerns over privacy and misuse of our most personal information.
- Corporate America Unmasked
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
While US public views seem generally favourable about American corporations, an extensive study by psychologist Dr. Gary Brumback concludes that leadership, particularly in large corporations, is found to be morally depraved and their organizations often dysfunctional.
- Alternative Toronto: 1980 - 1995
Resource Type: Website
First Published: 2017
Published: 2018
A community archive and historical map of Toronto's alternative cultures, scenes and spaces of the 1980s and early 1990s.
- Ethiopian workers 'beaten and robbed' by Saudi police
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
A group of undocumented Ethiopians told The Associated Press news agency that after being captured by Saudi police officers they were subject to serious abuses, including beatings and filthy prison conditions as well as witnessing shootings during roundups.
- Why is the West praising Malala, but ignoring Ahed?
Is an empowered Palestinian girl not worthy of Western feminist admiration?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Khoja-Moolji examines the lack of media response to the plight of 16 year-old Ahed Tamimi, detained for allegedly assaulting an Israeli soldier during a confrontation at her home during which Israeli soldiers shot a fourteen-year-old child.
- Venezuela declares Craib Kowalik, Canada's Chargé d'Affaires in Caracas, persona non gratas
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Last week Venezuela declared Canada's chargé d'affaires in Caracas persona non grata. In making the announcement the president of the National Constituent Assembly Delcy Rodriguez denounced Craib Kowalik's "permanent and insistent, rude and vulgar interference in the internal affairs of Venezuela."
- Apple sued for deliberately slowing down older iPhones
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
A lawsuit was filed in California against technology giant Apple after the company admitted to slowing down their older iPhone models.
- The Great Unraveling: Using Science and Philosophy to Decode Modernity
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
All of this ecological destruction has been driven by America’s most popular exports: capitalism and imperialism. William Hawes talked about using science and philosophy to decode modernity.
- How Inequality Kills
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
The Global March of Neoliberalism: The World Inequality Report 2018
- Not by Bread Alone
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Anarchists in the Spanish Civil War focused on people's daily needs--who doesn't love hot, buttered toast? People in Spain were starving--they needed food. People--were homeless and needed homes; people were jobless and needed something to do; people were rejected from their communities needed to be included. Anarchists focused on these practical, attainable and above all human needs. And, these are the basic rights that should undergird all human social organizations.
- Turning Perpetrators into Healers
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Innocent people -- or "innocently guilty" people, like the junior senator from Minnesota -- often get unfairly hung out to dry. Should he have to resign? Who among us (Roy? Donald?) hasn't committed worse transgressions? And shouldn't a person's positive achievements be factored into the severity of his punishment, at least when no permanent damage has occurred?
- In Praise of the Telescopic Perspective: A Reflection on Living Through Turbulent Times
Perspective to lift the blinders of our cultural moment
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Maria Popova has found solace in taking a more telescopic view - not merely on the short human timescale of her own life, looking back on having lived through a Communist dictatorship and having seen poems composed and scientific advances made under such tyrannical circumstances, but on far vaster scales of space and time.
- The Big Lie About the Tax Bill: Why Bosses Will Never Raise Wages
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
The big lie underlying the $1.5-trillion Trump/Republican Congressional tax bill is that Corporations will pass much of it on to workers in the form of higher wages, and to consumers in the form of lower prices.
- The Internet is Already Broken
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Nick Pemberton's article on the already broken internet.
- Sex, Drugs and Rollickin' Roles: Christmas and Our Ever-Changing Relationship with Nature
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
The benefits of industrialisation have come at price as industry and technology the world over pushes nature further and further into ecological crises. Christmas has become the vehicle for the worst excesses of industrialisation, commercialisation and commodification.
- South Asia: Murderous majorities
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Drawing from essays and recent literature the author discusses the ethnic cleansing of the Rohingya in Burma/Myanmar, and the broader historical context of majoritarian nationalism in South Asia where majoritarian violence has been a shortcut to power.
- South Sudan: Volunteers Gather Names of South Sudan's Uncounted War Dead
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
The names of 5,000 victims of violence appear in the "Remembering the Ones We Lost" project, a memorial to people who have died in seven decades of conflict.The project invites witnesses to submit details of killings or disappearances through an online form or by text message, the information is then collated by volunteers.
- What is Happening in Catalonia and Spain?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Vincente Navarro explains the historcal background to the Catalonian independence referendum results in 2017, and notes the political challenges this movement will face.
- How Brazil’s Sex Workers Have Been Organized and Politically Effective for 30 Years
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
In Brazil, sex work remains politically and socially contentious. But thanks to a staunch sex worker movement in the country, the people who actually do the work have made themselves key contributors to the debate.
- How Brazil's Sex Workers Have Been Organized and Politically Effective for 30 Years
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Sex workers in Brazil have been organizing for 30 years and have influenced politics to the extent that the government recognizes sex-work as an official occupation. They are celebrating the anniversary in part with an exhibit of photographs taken by sex-workers.
- Import and Die: Self-Sufficiency and Food Security in India
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
While there are clear signs that India needs to achieve greater food self-sufficiency, there is also a World Bank-backed agenda for the future of India where the majority of farmers don't have much of a role.
- Marxism, feminism and transgender politics
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
An examination of feminism and transgender politics through a Marxist lens.
- Adapt or Die: Millennials, Technology, and Net Neutrality
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
The Internet is changing the way we think, concentrate, and process information. Studies are showing the Internet is lowering our concentration because the Internet offers constant distractions. It’s reducing our attention span, and it’s ruining our interpersonal communication skills. Basically this technology is dehumanizing us.
- Half of UK sees The Sun tabloid as 'negative influence'
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Half of Britons see one of the UK's largest tabloids, The Sun, as a negative influence on society, according to a new poll.
- Musta'ribeen, Israel's agents who pose as Palestinians
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Musta'ribeen, or mista'arvim in Hebrew, is a word that is derived from the Arabic "musta'rib", or one that is specialised in Arabic language and culture. In Israeli security terms, the word denotes security forces who disguise themselves as Arabs and carry out missions in the heart of Palestinian societies or other Arab countries.
- Collective Memory and Cultural Amnesia
Introduction to the December 17, 2017 issue of Other Voices
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Our society is obsessed with the short-term present. It devalues memories and the past. That's the nature of capitalism, especially the speeded-up hypercapitalism of today. The past is useless: profits are made by getting rid of the old and replacing it with something new.
- Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - December 17, 2017
Collective Memory and Cultural Amnesia
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Our society is obsessed with the short-term present. It devalues memory and the past. But there are those who do remember, and who work to preserve and share our collective memory. But they have to contend with those of us who see historical memory as a way of contributing to the struggle for a different world. For us, knowledge of history is subversive, and remembering can be a form of resistance.
- A history of violence: Growing up in CAR
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
A child born from rape and a young gunshot victim grow up amid CAR's cycle of violence.
- The U.S. is Not a Democracy, It Never Was
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
There is no contradiction or supposed loss of democracy because the United States simply never was one. This is a difficult reality for many people to confront, and they are likely more inclined to immediately dismiss such a claim as preposterous rather than take the time to scrutinize the material historical record in order to see for themselves
- Zionism in the Light of Jerusalem
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
- Surveillance firms spied on campaign groups for big companies, leak shows
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
British Airways, the Royal Bank of Scotland and Porsche are among five large companies that have been identified as having paid corporate intelligence firms to monitor political groups that challenged their businesses, leaked documents reveal.
- A damning indictment of the Ontario Liberal government's private power strategy
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Private power is a great deal for private power owners, writes Thomas Walkom. For the rest of us, not so much.
- Google's true origin partly lies in CIA and NSA research grants for mass surveillance
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Two decades ago, the US intelligence community worked closely with Silicon Valley in an effort to track citizens in cyberspace. And Google is at the heart of that origin story. Some of the research that led to Google's ambitious creation was funded and coordinated by a research group established by the intelligence community to find ways to track individuals and groups online.
- Israeli soldiers filmed harassing schoolchildren in occupied Hebron
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Footage shot in Hebron in occupied Palestinian territory shows Israeli soldiers routinely harassing teachers and schoolchildren on a number of occasions. Rights activists say it is part of a state policy aimed at forcing Palestinians to leave the city.
- Province ignored whistleblowers who warned about child abuse at its training schools
An ongoing Star investigation of alleged physical, sexual and emotional abuse at the schools for troubled youth between the 1960s and the 19
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
An investigation of alleged physical, sexual and emotional abuse at Ontario training schools between the 1960s and the 1980s found that two officials warned the province of brutal and sadistic treatment at the hands of staff -- warnings the province appears to have ignored.
- 'Reporters Without Scruples' fails to derail revelatory conference on White Helmets
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
The Geneva Press Club (GPC) announced an event that would present the darker side of the Oscar-winning, multi-million-dollar internationally funded White Helmets, operating in Syria alongside Jabhat al-Nusra (Al-Nusra Front) and other US Coalition-armed & financed terrorist groups.The event was entitled "They Don't Care About Us – White Helmets True Agenda."
- Israel uses Palestinian land to illegally dump toxic waste
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Israel dumps unknown waste and military garbage in a disposal site in Kisan village, in the occupied West Bank.
- Syrian boys caught in 'vicious cycle' of sex abuse: UN
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Syrian men and boys, in their war-torn country and abroad, have suffered "a vicious cycle" of sexual abuse with more devastating consequences than previously reported, according to the United Nations new report "We Keep it in Heart".
- Toronto music teacher sues after principal, VP call folk song racist
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
A Toronto music teacher is suing her principal, vice-principal and the public school board for defamation after the administrators sent an email to the school community apologizing that a well-known folk song - "Land of the Silver Birch" - was performed at a school concert, calling it "inappropriate" and "racist."
- Transit decisions must remain local, former city planner says
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
The Toronto Region Board of Trade seeks to plunge us into a massive transit amalgamation process.Reminiscent of arguments made two decades ago touting the efficacy of the megacity, the board sees magical solutions for revenue shortages, better planning, superior service levels, and the adoption of modern technologies through the creation of a mega transit corporation, Superlinx.
- What Happens When the Government Uses Facebook as a Weapon?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
It's social media in the age of "patriotic trolling" in the Philippines, where the government is waging a campaign to destroy a critic -- with a little help from Facebook itself.
- As Egypt Arrests and Tortures Gay People, It Enlists the Help of Pro-LGBTQ PR Firm in Washington
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
The public relations firm APCO has taken on a $1.2 million annual contract to work with Egypt's notorious spy services, the General Intelligence Directorate, to promote the Egyptian government’s interests in D.C.
- Evicting the Underclass
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
A Chinese government campaign to expel migrant workers from Beijing is designed to reap greater profits from urban land and reserve the city for elites.
- Finland: 100th anniversary of workers' revolution drowned in blood
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
A look at the Workers' Revolution in Finland, a source of inspiration and a powerful example of the strength of collective struggle.
- International Olympic Committee bans Russia from 2018 Olympics in political provocation
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
The International Olympic Committee (IOC) Executive Board announced Tuesday that it had decided to ban the Russian Olympic team from participating in the 2018 Winter Olympics in South Korea.
- Postmedia and Torstar deal results in "largest closure of newspapers on single day in Canadian History
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Reporters Without Borders (RSF) is concerned by the deal between Canada's two largest newspaper publishers, Postmedia and Torstar, which have decided to swap more than forty local newspapers with each other, and subsequently shut down most of these newly acquired newspapers in regions where they compete with other existing publications.
- Resistance to Antibiotics: The Good, The Bad and the Ugly
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
The growing resistance to antibiotics and other antimicrobials due to their overuse and misuse both in humans and animals has become an alarming global threat to public health, food safety and security, causing the deaths of 700,000 people each year.
- The rising repression of social protest in Latin America
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
On 17 October, 2017, the corpse of Santiago Maldonado appeared in the Chubut River. The young activist had been missing for 80 days. The suspense surrounding Maldonado’s whereabouts aroused a great sense of unease in a country where the word “disappeared” brings to mind the 30,000 victims of the civic-military dictatorship that ruled Argentina from 1976 to 1983.
- Violence Against Women: Why The UN Secretary-General Got It Wrong
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Burrowes argues that efforts to resolve violence aganist women are futile unless the focus shifts to preventing emotional and physical violence against children, with particular emphasis on boys.
- Who Voted for Germany's New Nazis?
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Klikauer examines the rise of the far-Right in Germany, with reference to unresolved inequalities post re-uinification, changing demographics and media interests.
- Another peace activist, Raza Khan, goes missing in Lahore
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Raza Mahmood Khan, a Peace activist and social worker, went "missing" in Lahore on Dec. 2, 2017, shortly after he had organised a public discussion about a recent demonstration that ended in ignominious surrender to those seeking power in the guise of religion.
- The Anti-Empire Report #153
Cold War Number One: 70 years of daily national stupidity. Cold War Number Two: Still in its youth, but just as
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
A comentary on current events in Russian and US relations which may be entering a new Cold War, as well as a look back at events through the Cold War period from 1948 to the 1980's.
- Broadband monopolies to censor Internet content
Behind the FCC plan to abolish net neutrality
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
The recently released plan by the American Federal Communications Commission to abolish net neutrality has evoked mass opposition across the US and around the world.
- Class Dismissed: Identity Politics Without The Identity
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
In a capitalist society, work is at the core of identity, In the United States there are sharply divergent attitudes between professionals and the working class.
- The FBI's Perjury Trap of the Century
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
John Brennan, Jim Comey, Sally Yates, Peter Strzok and a passel of deep state operatives -- all of whom baldly abused their offices, set a perjury trap designed to snare Mike Flynn as a first step in relitigating and reversing the voters' verdict.
- The Government Is Trying to Make It Impossible For Reality Winner to Defend Herself in Court
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
The Justice Department is engaged in a multi-pronged effort to hamstring Reality Winner's defense against charges of violating the Espionage Act behind cumbersome classification rules.
- How Bosses Use 'Open Shop' Campaigns to Crush Unions
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Chad Pearson's book "Reform or Repression: Organizing America's Anti-Union Movement" and Lane Windham's new book "Knocking on Labor's Door: Union Organizing in the 1970's and the Roots of a New Economic Divide", take a historical look at anti-union tactics through the 20th century, and demonstrate how Unions can regroup, reform and fight back.
- How Israel is digitally policing Palestinian minds
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Israeli authorities have been arresting and holding hundreds of Palestinians it accuses of fanning the flames of violence in the occupied West Bank and Israel.
- Power and Protest: The Electoral Tactics of Leftist Social Movements
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
The central difficulty for left social movements is determining electoral tactics that will enable them to win both in the short run and in the middle run. On the surface, it seems that winning in the short run conflicts with winning in the middle run.
- The public humiliation and destruction of Metropolitan Opera conductor James Levine
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
The decision by the Metropolitan Opera in New York City to suspend James Levine, its longtime musical director (1976-2016), from any further conducting engagements is the latest victory for the New York Times and the champions of the new repression.
- Tearful Liberal MP should accept James Bezan's fifth apology and move on
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Comes a time to draw the line, to note that not all remarks of a sexual nature are actually sexual in nature, that not all talk that is debatably inappropriate must be censored, that sometimes a bad line is just a bad line and that the #metoo movement does not require every woman to recall and publicize every slight, real or imagined, ever inflicted upon her by every man in the world.
- This Israeli Presentation on How to Make Drone Strikes More "Efficient" Disturbed Its Audience
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Research backed by the U.S. and Israeli military scandalized a conference near Tel Aviv earlier this year after a presentation showed how the findings would help drone operators more easily locate people -- including targets -- fleeing their strikes and better navigate areas rendered unrecognizable by prior destruction.
- Trump's Transition Team Colluded With Israel. Why Isn't That News?
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Hasan asks the question: why aren't more members of Congress or the media discussing the Trump transition team's pretty brazen collusion with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to undermine both U.S. government policy and international law?
- Untouchable - The Uses And Misuses Of 'Genocide Denial'
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
One of the wonders of contemporary propaganda is the extent to which corporate commentators are in denial about their use of the term 'genocide denial'. Clearly, they believe they are using a neutral, objective term to describe indisputable facts of genocidal killing and ugly refusals to recognise those facts. The delusion is quickly exposed when we ask a few simple questions. For example: how often do we see 'mainstream' commentators describing US-UK sanctions on Iraq from 1990-2003 as 'genocidal', as affirmed by senior UN diplomats? How often do journalists describe supporters of the devastating Bush-Blair war on Iraq, the Obama-Cameron war on Libya, or May's war on Yemen as 'genocide deniers'? Can we imagine someone who supported the war on Libya being called an 'Obama apologist'? Like 'terror' and 'terrorism', 'genocide' and 'genocide denial' are simply not terms that are applied to Western actions. This really awesome level of bias points to the reality that 'genocide denial' is a propaganda term overwhelmingly used to portray Official Enemies as morally and intellectually despicable, in fact untouchable. As used in the 'mainstream', the term is antirational, an attack on honest debate.
- The BDS movement is about justice for Palestine
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
The University of Ottawa Israeli Awareness Committee (IAC) blocked a Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (BDS) resolution presented by the Student Federation of the University of Ottawa (SFUO). The BDS movement is a call to action from Palestinians seeking justice and equality, while the IAC is a pro-Israel lobby group which works with the Israeli Embassy and others to promote the Israeli government to students.
- How Russia-gate Rationalizes Censorship
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
The Russia-gate hysteria has spread beyond simply a strategy for neutralizing Donald Trump or even removing him from office into an excuse for stifling U.S. dissent that challenges the New Cold War, reports Joe Lauria.
- Uncertainty shapes immigrant life in the United States
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Immigrants in the United States without legal residency or who were admitted on a temporary basis feel that their lives have become much more complicated in 2017 because of the current Republican administration's intention to expel thousands of Latin Americans even though they are successfully integrated into the local economy and have no criminal record.
- The myth of one Jewish nation
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Zionism is an anti-Semitic creed. It was so right from the beginning. Already the founding father, Theodor Herzl, a Viennese writer, penned some pieces with a clear anti-Semitic slant. For him, Zionism was not just a geographical transplantation, but also a means of turning the despicable commercial Jew of the diaspora into an upright, industrious human being.
- The President of Honduras Is Deploying U.S.-Trained Forces Against Election Protesters
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernández, using the specter of rampant crime and the drug trade, won extensive support from the American government to build up highly trained state security forces. Now, those same forces are repressing democracy.
- 33rd Anniversary Of The Bhopal Gas Leak Disaster
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First Published: 2017
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The escape of about 40 tonnes of methyl isocyanate (MIC) – a highly toxic chemical – from a storage tank on the premises of the pesticide plant of Union Carbide India Limited (UCIL) in Bhopal – the capital of the State of Madhya Pradesh – on the night of 02/03 December 1984 resulted in a horrendous disaster in the city, which was inhabited by about 900,000 persons then.
- The long ecological revolution
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First Published: 2017
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Up until the rise of the ecological movement in the late twentieth century, the conquest of nature was a universal trope, often equated with progress under capitalism (and sometimes socialism). To be sure, the notion, as utilized in science, was a complex one. As Francis Bacon, the idea's leading early proponent, put it, "nature is only overcome by obeying her." Only by following nature's laws, therefore, was it possible to conquer her.
- Philippines: when the police kill children - Kulot, Carl, Kian...
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First Published: 2017
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Murders of several teenagers in the Philippines suspected to have been killed as part of the government's war on drugs.
- Internets Past
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
This article discusses the Internet and the problems with prevailing public concern over Net neutrality. The author advocates for an alternate way forward, and a need to bring political economy back to the agenda by viewing corporations as political actors and the technology corporations as powerful commercial players with their own agendas.
- Stop Shock Now: Psychiatry's War Against Women and the Elderly
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Today, most people including many health professionals are surprised to learn that electroshock (ECT) is still prescribed. As we also know, women, particularly elderly women, are the main targets of electroshock -- women over 60 and many in their 80s or 90s have been shocked in Canada.
- Watermelons, Nooses, and Straight Razors: Stories from the Jim Crow Museum
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Watermelons, Nooses, and Straight Razors uses images from the Jim Crow Museum, the nation's largest publicly accessible collection of racist objects. These images are evidence of the social injustice that Martin Luther King Jr. referred to as "a boil that can never be cured so long as it is covered up but must be exposed to the light of human conscience and the air of national opinion before it can be cured." Each chapter concludes with a story from the author's journey, challenging the integrity of racial narratives.
- A dramatic suicide in a 'court' of fake justice
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
After a war crimes tribunal rejected his appeal, a Bosnian Croat general drank poison and died. His last words resonate with many in the Balkans, who regard the court as a tool of US and NATO that has not fostered justice, but only made war wounds worse.
- Fighting for Their Water and Their Lives, Communities Take Direct Action Against Barrick Gold in the Dominican Republic
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
People who live near the Pueblo Viejo gold mine iin Dominican Republic struggle to gain accountabilty from the Canadian-owned companies running it. Their environment has been poisoned and they want funds for 600 families to be relocated.
- Major study shows species loss destroys essential ecosystems
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Long term research by German ecologists proves that loss of biodiversity has "direct, unpleasant consequences for mankind."
- Withdrawal of RT America's accreditation on Capitol Hill 'dire development'
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
The US congressional press office has revoked RT America's accreditation on Capitol Hill, citing its 'foreign agent' status.
- The Blue-Collar Hellscape of the Startup Industry
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
The tactics and work environments at tech companies, including Amazon, show a disregard for the fundamental health, safety and humanity of low-tier workers, demonstrating what laissez-faire startup-styled late capitalism really looks like.
- Borneo: Island Devastated, People Oblivious
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Borneo is now synonymous with mining and logging, as well as with terrible plantations that have already cannibalized most of the land. Nothing is being produced, but everything has been extracted.
- Depraved Treatment of Drug War Captives on US Coast Guard Ships
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Wessler provides details in an interview transcript on how the United States Coast Guard routinely subjects individuals alleged to be involved in the transport of cocaine between South America and Central America to such conditions.
- Occupy: The Fall of the Oakland Commune
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
For many people, the Occupy movement was an initiation into radical politics, an experiment in decentralized and nonhierarchical movement-building, and a glimpse at the possibility for a new kind of society. Yet the whole thing was over in just a few weeks -- a crisis quieted, a moment of hope extinguished.
- Strike Friday at Amazon.it
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Amazon workers at the Castel San Giovanni hub launched their first strike on Black Friday 2017. The facility is Amazon's largest in Italy, where the retail giant employs up to four thousand workers, less than half of whom have a permanent contract.
- Beating wives if they refuse sex is OK, according to books in Britain's Islamic schools
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
An educational watchdog in Britain finds reading material in some Islamic schools to be out of step with mainstream Muslim thinking.
- Cutting Cords to Kurds: Facebook's Foreign Policy
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
The recent deletion and suspension of Facebook accounts of Kurdish supporters provides further troubling evidence that the popular social media company has been censoring the Kurdish resistance for the past five years.
- NY comedian Randy Credico targeted in Russia investigation over 'links to Assange'
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
New York comedian Randy Credico has become the unlikely focus of the US government's Russia investigation. He believes the US is trying to use him as a pawn to undermine WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, who has been dubbed a "demon" by the CIA director.
- Politics Without Politics
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Jonathan Smucker's recently published book Hegemony How-To: A Roadmap for Radicals offers a flawed road map for rebuilding the Left.
- U.S. Coast Guard operating secret floating prisons in Pacific Ocean
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
In the war on drugs, the U.S. Coast Guard is reportedly turning its cutter ships into floating prisons.
- US & Europe's farcical hypocrisy over Russian foreign media law
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
The US and the European Union rushed to condemn Russia's new media laws restricting foreign entities. At the same time, they assume the unilateral right to hound Russian news outlets as "foreign agents."
- Google's de-ranking of RT in search results is a form of censorship and blatant propaganda
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
A commentary on the recent admission by an executive of Google's parent company (Alphabet) that special algorithms are being created to filter RTs news in order to make it appear less prominently in Google's search results.
- Susan Sarandon: 'I thought Hillary was very dangerous. If she'd won, we'd be at war'
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First Published: 2017
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An article about actress Susan Sarandon who discusses politics, sexism in Hollywood, female empowerment and her career.
- It flies, and it snoops: Norway's pricey F-35s caught sending 'sensitive data' to US
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Norway's new F-35 fighter jets boast an impressive array of high-tech gadgetry, but Norwegian defense officials were surprised to learn of one unadvertised feature: the pricey plane relays sensitive data back to its US manufacturer, Lockheed Martin.
- Quebec City police arrest 44 at far-right protest and counter-demonstration
Police laud co-operation from far-right group La Meute, but had to use tear gas to keep sides apart
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
A report on a protest and clash between demonstrators when several hundred members of far-right groups, including La Meute and Storm Alliance, marched in the rain to a convention centre that was hosting a major policy meeting of the Quebec Liberal party.
- The Great American Sex Panic of 2017
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
What interest of sanity or reason is served by this reckless lumping together of flicks of the tongue and forcible rapes into the single broad-brush term “sexual misconduct,” as though there is no important difference between an oafish pat or crude remark at an office party and a gang rape?
- Protecting individual privacy -- with a large dose of hypocrisy
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
In a prominent half-page article in Canada's highest-circulation newspaper, the Toronto Star, columnist Emma Teitel criticizes "the media" for invading the privacy of the daughter of a prominent politician.
- Two Decades of Monsanto's Illegal Actions, Frauds and Crimes in India
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Over the two decades since Monsanto entered India, it has violated laws, deceived Indian farmers by making unscientific and fraudulent claims, extracted super profits through illegal royalty collection by violating India’s Patent and Intellectual Property laws, pushed farmers into debt, and, as a consequence of the debt trap, to suicide.
- God: A Human History - a rescue attempt by Reza Aslan
Book review
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Gods and religions have caused so much distress that even those who have spent a lifetime apologising for and ignoring the doctrinal foundations of their abuses must make a rescue attempt.
- From an Open Internet, Back to the Dark Ages
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Can anyone still doubt that access to a relatively free and open internet is rapidly coming to an end in the west? In China and other autocratic regimes, leaders have simply bent the internet to their will, censoring content that threatens their rule. But in the "democratic" west, it is being done differently. The state does not have to interfere directly -- it outsources its dirty work to corporations.
- Google's Eric Schmidt admits political censorship of search results
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Recent remarks by the Executive Chairman of Google's parent company confirm charges that the company has been deliberately altering its search algorithms and taking other measures to prevent the public from accessing information that is critical of the US government.
- Survival? Symptoms of Breakdown
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Government policies are driven primarily by short-term political gain and corporate power, so there needs to be a massive public demand for control of the economy towards sustainability. The alternative is no human future.
- Syria, 'Experts' and George Monbiot
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Investigative journalist Gareth Porter has published two exclusives whose import is far greater than may be immediately apparent. They concern Israel’s bombing in 2007 of a supposed nuclear plant secretly built, according to a self-serving US and Israeli narrative, by Syrian leader Bashar Assad.
- Israel's settlements: 50 years of land theft explained
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Today, between 600,000 and 750,000 Israelis live in these sizeable settlements, equivalent to roughly 11 percent of the total Jewish Israeli population. So why have these housing compounds caused so much rancour and been called a threat to the prospect of peace in the Holy Land? Follow this journey to find out.
- The Nuclear Enterprise Is on Autopilot
CounterSpin interview with William Hartung on nuclear overkill
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Janine Jackson interviewed William Hartung about nuclear overkill for the November 17, 2017, episode of CounterSpin.
- France Is Debating Whether French Is Sexist
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
In early September, French President Emmanuel Macron paid a visit to Villers-Cotterets. An hour's drive north of Paris, the village boasts as its main attraction the ancestral home of Alexandre Dumas pere."France was made through its language," he observed, when "the king decided in this chateau that all of those living in his realm had to speak French." Understandably, the children did not correct Macron: The edict simply made French, not Latin, the administrative language of the kingdom. As for the "French," they continued to speak a dozen different languages and hundreds of patois for the next 300 years or so.
- Google will 'de-rank' RT articles to make them harder to find - Eric Schmidt
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
The Executive Chairman of Google's parent company Alphabet states that the company will engineer specific algorithms for news services RT and Sputnik to make their content less prominent on the search engine's news delivery services.
- Israel's Ploy Selling a Syrian Nuke Strike
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Evidence now available shows that there was no nuclear reactor in the Syrian desert, and that the Israelis had misled George W. Bush's administration into believing that there was in order to draw the United States into bombing missile storage sites in Syria.
- Making Nuclear Weapons Usuable Again
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
A chilling look at the urge of both President Trump and key figures in the Pentagon to normalize nuclear weapons as a basic war-fighting tool in the American arsenal.
- On the 800th Anniversary of the Charter of the Forest
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
A Keynote Address, Delivered in the State Rooms at the House of Commons, 7 November 2017 about the Charter of the Forest.
- Imagining a New Social Order: Noam Chomsky and Robert Pollin in Conversation
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Noam Chomsky and Robert Pollin discuss how the left can save the US from neoliberal excesses.
- Istvan Meszaros and Marx's theory of alienation
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
The article explains how alienation can only be overcome by collective action which challenges capitalist relations of production.
- The colour-coded Israeli ID system for Palestinians
Israel's control over the Palestinian population is based on a system of colour-coded IDs in the occupied territories
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
A look at the colour-coded system of Palestinian population control that has remained in place in Israel for five decades; it still affects everything from freedom of movement to family unity.
- The German Revolution (World Revolution for Beginners Part III)
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
It's really important to understand that the Nazis made real appeals to the working class, not very successfully, but they considered themselves to be a party that was for a workers' revolution, but for a German Workers Revolution. So, that’s something often lost in translation when people just say "Nazis" or "National Socialists".
- Lenin and Luxemburg (World Revolution for Beginners, Part I
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Both of these people are great revolutionaries and there are libraries of books written about them. So in two hours, I’m going to try to sort of summarize what I think is really important about them.
- Stalin and Trotsky (World Revolution for Beginners Part II)
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Last week, we were talking about Lenin and Luxemburg, and I was trying to work up some notes for today; I just realize that the topic of Stalin and Trotsky is far more complicated. Why? First of all, because it was in this period that Bolshevism became an international phenomenon.
- Excerpts from secretly recorded meeting between Wilfrid Laurier University grad student and faculty
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First Published: 2017
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Lindsay Shepherd, a Wilfrid Laurier University graduate student and teaching assistant, landed in hot water with the university over a video clip, featuring controversial University of Toronto professor Jordan Peterson, she used in a critical thinking course. After receiving complaints, the university claimed she created a toxic environment. Shepherd had a meeting with faculty and administration, here are excerpts from the secretly recorded conversation.
- ICIJ Releases Paradise Papers Data From Appleby
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
A look at data released from the Paradise Papers investigation, a global journalistic collaboration that exposed offshore deals of political players and corporate giants. A team of journalists explored a trove of 13.4 million records from two offshore firms and 19 secret jurisdictions.
- Suppressing TVO video, stifling free speech, is making Wilfrid Laurier unsafe
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
The university is wrong to castigate a grad student and teaching assistant for showing to her students a debate on TVO’s The Agenda that featured controversial professor Jordan Peterson.
- Transgender refugee defies critics by inviting military recruiters to a trans job fair
Trans group calls job fair 'extremely disrespectful' and 'a racist act'
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
A transgender Kenyan refugee is defiant in the face of accusations she's being racist and "inherently violent," for inviting the Canadian Armed Forces to a job fair aimed at helping transgender people find work.
- A creeping quiet in Indian journalism?
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First Published: 2017
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How a combination of government pressure, harassment by political activists, commercial actors including both advertisers and some media owners, is exercising a chilling effect on Indian journalism.
- The Motherboard Guide to Not Getting Hacked
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Do you want to stop criminals from getting into your Gmail or Facebook account? Are you worried about the cops spying on you? Motherboard Staff have answers on how to protect yourself. This is Motherboard's comprehensive guide to digital security, which will be regularly updated and replaces some of our old guides. This guide is also available as a printable PDF.
- Rethinking the challenge of anti-Muslim bigotry
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
In 1997 the British anti-racist organisation the Runnymede Trust published its highly influential report Islamophobia: A Challenge for Us All. Twenty years on, the Runnymede Trust has brought out a follow-up report Islamophobia: Still a Challenge for Us All, which is a stock-take on current views, and facts, about the issue.
- Thank You, Ed Herman
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Obituary of Edward S. Herman, condsiderd "the godfather of antiwar media critique."
- Why Are Police In The USA So Terrified?
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
The routine killing of innocent civilians by the police has become a national crisis despite concerted attempts by political and legal authorities and the corporate media to obscure what is happening.
- In search of the common good
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
This essay examines the historical change in the meaning and understanding of the 'common good', particularly between ancient times and the modern world, and also takes a look at the social and political changes of recent decades that have shaped how we look at the issue.
- Richest 1% have more money than poorest half of world's population
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
The bottom half of adults in the world collectively own less than the richest one percent, according to a Credit Suisse report. The gap between the super-rich and the poor has significantly grown since the global crisis.
- Forcing RT to register as 'foreign agent' is a 'horrendous blow to press freedom'
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
The US government ultimatum that forced news agency RT to register as a 'foreign agent' has drawn condemnation from the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ), which calls the action a "troubling precedent."
- An open letter from Jewish academics and elders to McGill's administration regarding false allegations of student anti-Semitism
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
This letter was sent Nov. 13 to Principal Suzanne Fortier, Provost Christopher Manfredi, and Secretariat Board of Governors and Senate Maria Kontzidis.
- Warning to Spanish (and Other) Whistleblowers: Anonymous Boxes which ARE NOT ANONYMOUS
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Citizens' victories in the struggle against corruption, sometimes requiring information to be provided through safe anonymous channels like Xnet's Mailbox for reporting corruption, have catalysed a proliferation of similar initiatives within governments and institutions.
- Kichwa community commits to eco-sustainable tourism
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
In Ecuador the Sani Isla Indignenous community runs a sustainable eco-tourism business. Although in close proximity to oil companies they do not cooperate with them and are in legal disputes with them due to the impact of pollution.
- Cambridge slammed for 'censoring' Palestine BDS event
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Cambridge University is accused of censorship after it threatened to ban a meeting about the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) movement, unless the Palestinian academic chairing it was removed and replaced with its own choice.
- Left parties
Introduction to the November 11, 2017 issue of Other Voices
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
"There is no alternative." That is capitalism's message in the neo-liberal era. The rich keep getting richer and richer, millions of people are unemployed, millions more are trying to survive on precarious, marginal, and part-time work, hundreds of millions are without health care, housing, education, or clean water. Environmental collapse is increasingly likely, masses of people are fleeing wars and economic disasters, nuclear war is a real danger. And all that the corporate elite, the corporate media, and the mainstream political parties have to offer is their insistence that there is nothing we can do about it: there is no alternative.
- Linksparteien
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
- Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - November 11, 2017
Left Parties
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
In recent years, there have been repeated attempts to build left political parties and coalitions, i.e. parties to the left of the established social democratic parties which have long become part of the neoliberal capitalist mainstream. Left parties have emerged out of mass movements in countries like Spain (Podemos), Germany (Die Linke), and Greece (Syriza). In Latin America, in the last two decades, left movements or parties have formed governments in Venezuela, Bolivia, Brazil, and Uruguay. What these new left parties/movements have in common is a strategy of engaging in grassroots organizing and also running in elections. They all describe themselves as socialist, though in many cases their programs are more reminiscent of what social democrats used to advocate decades ago: reforms that would tame and manage capitalism rather than abolish it. Their ultimate vision may be a world without capitalism, but their immediate proposals are more modest and incremental, though still significantly to the left of the neo-liberal consensus.
- In Search of Los Angeles' Lost Socialist Colony, Llano del Rio
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
In search of the ruins of Llano del Rio, a socialist colony founded in 1914 by Job Harriman, looking to create a utopian community.
- Kaspersky Lab in crosshairs since exposing US & Israeli spies behind Stuxnet
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
The campaign to discredit Kaspersky Lab dates back to 2010, when the Russian-based cybersecurity firm uncovered the origin of the Stuxnet malicious computer worm which ruined Iran's nuclear centrifuges.
- Noam Chomsky And The BBC: A Brief Comparison
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
A recent interview with 88-year-old Noam Chomsky once again demonstrates just how insightful he is in providing rational analysis of Western power and the suffering it generates. By contrast, anyone relying on BBC News receives a power-friendly view of the world, systematically distorted in a way that allows the state and private interests to pursue business as usual.
- On the Intolerant Left
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Julian Vigo's concern with the growing pattern of intellectual and political intolerance he's witnessed within allegedly progressive circles.
- Thought police strike again as Wilfrid Laurier grad student is chastised for showing Jordan Peterson video
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
A Wilfrid Laurier University teaching assistant has been identified as “transphobic” and sanctioned for last week showing her class an excerpt of a video debate involving the controversial University of Toronto psychology professor Jordan Peterson. In fact, her supervising professor, Nathan Rambukkana, told her that by showing the video to her “Canadian Communication in Context” class, “it basically was like … neutrally playing a speech by Hitler …”
- CIA wrote code 'to impersonate' Russia's Kaspersky Lab anti-virus company, WikiLeaks says
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
WikiLeaks published documents exposing the elaborated malware suite used by the CIA to hack, record and control modern hi-tech appliances worldwide.
- Reframing Migration: A Conversation With Historian Sunil Amrith
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
The 2017 MacArthur Genius Fellowship recipient's interdisciplinary work on the Bay of Bengal teaches us that movement and migration are central forces in the making of Asian -- and global -- history.
- Setting the Record Straight: The Beirut Barracks Bombing
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
The White House wants to blame Iran, but they're wrong. I was there.
- Yemen Doctors: Hundreds Will Die Within a Week to Saudi Blockade
Key Medicines Have Run Out in Yemeni Capital
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
In the past month, Saudi Arabia's naval blockade of Yemen, has tightened dramatically, and even vital medications and food are virtually impossible to import.
- Coverage of sexual harassment claims carelessly blurs lines between minor misconduct and real abuse
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
It is undeniably a great thing that abusers like Harvey Weinstein are finally receiving their comeuppance, however overdue it may be. But in the aftermath of Weinstein’s downfall, we’re at risk of broadening the definition of sexual harassment too widely.There is a vast difference between genuine sexual harassment, abuse or rape — and minor misconduct, flirting or otherwise inappropriate behavior in the workplace (or anywhere else). Yet, in recent weeks, the two have been dangerously conflated.
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Have we just decided to do away with the presumption of innocence, or at the very least the idea that these matters should be dealt with through lawyers and courts, not on Facebook and Twitter? Are we supposed to completely ignore the possibility that just maybe, an accusation could be false?
This kind of trial by social media is dangerous. A simple tweet can brand a person as a rapist who deserves to lose their job and have their lives utterly destroyed in an instant — on nothing more than the say-so of another person.
Sterile culture
A couple of weeks ago, Adam Sandler found himself in the firing line when he touched actress Claire Foy’s knee twice during The Graham Norton Show. Some viewers were so outraged by the contact Sandler had made with Foy’s knee that she was forced to release a statement saying she was not angry or offended by Sandler’s gesture. If this kind of behavior is classed as sexual harassment or as outrageously inappropriate as some viewers suggested, we appear to be on our way toward living in a completely sterile, robotic and puritanical world where nobody can say or do anything for fear of pious backlash from the political correctness police.
There is also an insulting, sexist and patronizing element to all of this which makes women out to be weak-minded, overly sensitive creatures who can’t even handle a sexual joke being told in their presence. Or who are so vulnerable that they simply can’t be left alone to fend for themselves. One POLITICO journalist recently suggested that a good way to limit sexual harassment would be to make closed-door meetings in the workplace a fireable offense.
- The FBI Blindly Hacked Computers in Russia, China, and Iran
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Recent court papers indicate that the FBI repeatedly broke into devices overseas as part of ordinary criminal investigations; in countries hostile to the U.S. this could have significant geopolitical fallout.
- The Forgotten World of Communist Bookstores
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Communist bookstores were one of the most important public spaces for radicals in twentieth century America.
- How Big is My Tribe? The Crisis in Catalonia
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
A look at recent divisive events in Catalonia, Britain and the US, proposing that we should really be concentrating more on important universal issues such as inequality, influence peddling, profit-only deregulation, and offshore tax havens.
- Nation That Says It Can't Afford Medicare for All Has Spent $5.6 Trillion on War Since 9/11
Because, as new study notes, wars force the question: "What we might have done differently with the money spent?"
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
A new analysis offers a damning assessment of the United States' so-called global war on terror, and it includes a "staggering" estimated price tag for wars waged since 9/11—over $5.6 trillion.
- Canada's Impossible Acknowledgment
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
The Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada released its final report in 2015 with ninety-four calls to action, and renewed hope that the nation would finally confront its darkest history with tangible action. This article looks at why this process has yet again stalled, one which repeats the cycle of promises and yet again does not deliver.
- Think Mass Shootings Are Terrorism? Careful What You Wish For
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
In the United States there is no law enforcement or policy reason to apply the entirety of international terrorism law domestically. Doing so would not improve the ability to investigate, prosecute, or punish domestic terrorism, and it would come with unwanted consequences.
- Dennis J. Banks, Naawakamig (1937-2017) - Cofounder of the American Indian Movement
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Under cofounder of the American Indian Movement, Dennis Banks, AIM became the most powerful Native movement of the twentieth century, galvanizing indigenous people throughout the United States, Canada, and beyond.
- As Wildfires Raged, Insurers Sent in Private Firefighters to Protect Homes of the Wealthy
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Another manifestation of extreme inequality in the United States: fire protection for the rich only.
- Hollowing out democracy and law
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
The recent actions of the Catalan government are not those of politicians respecting democracy. The reaction of the Madrid government, which criminalize political dissent, are equally disturbing.
- Poor Whites and Slavery in the Antebellum South: An Interview with Historian Keri
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Historian Keri Leigh Merritt presents a comprehensive study of this malignant and overlooked aspect of slavery in her new book Masterless Men: Poor Whites and Slavery in the Antebellum South (Cambridge University Press). This is an interview with her.
- The Revolution Party
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
The accumulating failures of both Communist and Social Democratic parties over the past 50 years was accompanied by a marked shift on the radical left toward a broad-ranging ‘movementism’ – whether in its pressure-group or protest-oriented dimensions. As Jodi Dean has recently argued, those trying thereby to escape 'the constraints of party’ often reduced it to 'the actuality of its mistakes’ while ‘its role as concentrator of collective aspirations and affects [was] diminished if not forgotten.'
- Can You Say "Conflict of Interest"? Not at the UN
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Exposing the ways that the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) allows oil giants to shape negotiations.
- Don Draper Rules: Russian Ads and American Madness
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
So we've finally seen some of the social media ads which we are told skewed the entire election in 2016 and constituted a key part of the internet assault on America launched by Vladimir Putin's "troll army." Scary stuff blazoned across front pages and screen scrolls everywhere. But before going on, perhaps we should find out what makes a social media account part of Putin's invasion force?
Well, according to Twitter, it is ANY account created in Russia.
- The Serious Price of the Hyperconvenient Economy
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
The rapid "progress" towards greater convenience will induce dependency, ignorance of the product and service and more loss of voice, self-determination and self-reliance.
- Title IX Witchhunts, Anti-Sex Frenzy and Bourgeois Feminism
Unwanted Advances: Sexual Paranoia Comes to Campus - A Review
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Is the specter of sex haunting the campus? Under the pretense of targeting sexual harassment and assault, university administrations have been whipping up a climate of fear and imposing neo-Victorian values. As the recent book Unwanted Advances - Sexual Paranoia Comes to Campus (HarperCollins Publishers, April 2017) argues, "The new campus codes aren't preventing nonconsensual sex; they're producing it.” Written by Northwestern University professor and self-described left-wing feminist Laura Kipnis, the book exposes the vastly expanded definitions of sexual assault, which criminalize anything from drunken hook-ups to student-professor romance and even allow for consent to be withdrawn retroactively.
- 'We're designing minds': Industry insider reveals secrets of addictive app trade
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
A look at the science and psychology behind the 'technological arms race' which seeks to keep people fixated on their smartphones.
- Who’s Afraid of Corporate COINTELPRO?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
On November 30, 2016, presumably right at the stroke of midnight, Google Inc. unpersoned CounterPunch. They didn't send out a press release or anything. They just quietly removed it from the Google News aggregator. Not very many people noticed.
- Confessions of a (verified) Russia-linked Twitter Bot
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Twitter's defines any user who has "ever logged in, at any time, from Russia" as being "Russia-linked." This is taking the new McCarthyism to ridiculous levels.
- Tabloids do not represent the working class
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
It should come as little surprise that media owned and run by unscrupulous billionaires like Rupert Murdoch and Richard Desmond should be more concerned with protecting the party of big business than it is with the wellbeing or interests of working class people. We need to call out the tabloid media for what it is – run by and for the elites.
- Ecuadoreans Won't Back Down in Fighting Chevron-Texaco Over Amazon Oil Disaster
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
A class-action lawsuit first filed in 1993 against Chevron-Texaco has taken its toll on the lawyers and Ecuadorean people seeking justice for environmental damage. Hope for justice and healing drives people to not give up.
- Geri Allen: A Tribute
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
By the time Geri Allen, the pianist, composer and Detroit native who died June 27, 2017 at the age of 60, arrived in New York City in 1984, she had finished one of the most rigorous formal educations then available for an aspiring jazz musician, and it showed
- The Ghosts of St. Louis Future
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Maxwell provides an analysis of the court decision by Judge Timothy J. Wilson's acquital of Jason Stockley, the white St. Louis cop charged with the first-degree murder of Anthony Lamar Smith (a 24-year-old African American).
- Higher Education for Hire
The Capitalist University: The Transformations of Higher Education in the United States since 1945
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Book review of Henry Heller's The Capitalist University: The Transformations of Higher Education in the United States since 1945.
- Honduras Since the 2009 Coup
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
As this is being written, news arrives of arrests and serious charges filed against 14 community members of a poor area of Choluteca for opposing land grabs to build a solar energy plant; 28 small farmers in the northern Agujn Valley criminalized for trying to keep and work their land; and 31 university students and three human rights defenders facing jail after government attacks on student protests in Tegucigalpa.
- How Imperialism Works Today
Imperialism in the Twenty-First Century: Globalization, Super-Exploitation, and Capitalism's Final Crisis
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Book review of John Smith's Imperialism in the Twenty-First Century: Globalization, Super-Exploitation, and Capitalism's Final Crisis.
- Identities and Solidarity
On Anti-Semitism: Solidarity and the Struggle for Justice
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Book review of On Anti-Semitism: Solidarity and the Struggle for Justice, published by Jewish Voice for Peace.
- 'Inappropriate Behaviour' - Michael Fallon, Yemen, And The 'Mainstream' That Is Anything But
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
A look at 'mainstream' journalism, a product of corporate conformity and a deference to power that is anything but mainstream.
- Iran: The Impact of October
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
The Russian Revolution had a profound influence on the revolutionary movement in the countries neighbouring the new Soviet Republic, and Iran was no exception.
- Keeping the Faith
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
A book review: We Were Eight Years In Power (written by Ta-Nehisi Coates)
In Ta-Nehisi Coates's work, we encounter white supremacy not as a political ideology, but as the defining feature of the U.S. polity -- its essential nature.
- One Hundred Years of the Balfour Declaration
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
The Balfour Declaration then not only legitimized the Zionist project in Palestine and transformed it into a contender in international relations. It in effect precipitated the spread of Zionism among British Jews.
- Open Letter to the People of the United States from Puerto Rico, A Month After Hurricane Maria
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
An open letter to the people of the U.S., following the devastating effects of Hurricane Maria on Puerto Rico.
- The Philipinnes: War Against the Poor
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
President Rodrigo Roa Duterte is responsible for a so-called "war on drugs" that is costing thousands of lives and is increasingly concentrating power in his own hands.
- The Political and Rhetorical Strategies of Martin Luther King
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
What we can learned from Martn Luther King about political and rhetorical strategy, as well as movement building and organizing.
- Power to the Soviets
Book Review of October: The Story of the Russian Revolution
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Book review of China Miéville's October: The Story of the Russian Revolution.
- Principles of Organizing
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Explores the culture of organizing, the challenging and confusing dialectical tension that is every organizers terrain: change and continuity, the personal and the political, ideals and interests, planning and opportunity, and the transitions from evolutionary to revolutionary forms of unionism.
- Punitive Neoliberalism in Puerto Rico
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Examines current debates in Puerto Rico using two concepts, punitive neoliberalism and financial melancholia.
- Resisting Capital's Disasters
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Trump represents the twisted and half-deranged face of a systemic assault on virtually every facet of the social safety net, workers' rights, and the entire public sector -- apart from the bloated permanent war economy.
- A Response to the Anti-Defamation League
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
The Anti-Defamation League's statement published in Detroit Jewish News (July 24, 2017, "Jewish Voice for Peace Increases Anti-Israel Radicalism") contains numerous distortions, which can't all be addressed in detail in the limited space available to us here.
- Sweden's Potato Revolution
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Together with the other Nordic countries Sweden was spared from the First World War but suffered food shortages and other hardships due to the surrounding conflicts.
- Theodore W. Allen's Legacy
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Theodore W. "Ted" Allen (1919-2005) was an anti-white supremacist, working-class intellectual and activist, whose work on the centrality of struggle against white supremacy is growing in importance and influene 98 years after his birth.
- Theodore W. Allen: Working-Class Scholar
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Theodore W. Allen was an independent, anti-white supremacist, working-class scholar when he pioneered his "white skin privilege" analysis in the mid-1960s and when he wrote The Invention of the White Race in the 1990s.
- Toxicity and Resistance
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
In a political moment that tends to inspire overwhelming anger, apprehension and fear rather than hope or energy, I suggest that we look towards those who have made resistance a daily part of their lives out of necessity and determination.
- Trials of the Russian Revolution
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Book reviews of The Dilemmas of Lenin: Terrorism, War, Empire, Love, Revolution by Tariq Ali; The Russian Revolution: When Workers Took Power by Paul Vernadsky; The Russian Revolution: A New History by Sean McMeekin; and Russia in Revolution: An Empire in Crisis, 1890 to 1928 by S. A. Smith.
- Trump and Duterte
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Philippines President Duterte presents himself as a nationalist who is especially opposed to the continuing strong influence of the former colonial power, the United States.
- White Supremacy/ Identity Politics
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Can cop violence and anti-Black racism be permanently defeated so long as white supremacist ideology permeates the ruling class and society?
- Why Is There No 'Saudi-Gate'?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
For decades, the DC establishment has been on the payroll of a foreign terror state. But because it's Saudi Arabia, you won't hear a peep.
- World War I and Afterward: Upheaval, Repression and Terror
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Following the April 1917 U.S. entry into World War I, a massive months-long strike wave occurred as workers in those industries, booming with wartime orders demanded improved conditions and better wages that were rapidly being outstripped by war-bred price increases.
- America's "Open Door Policy" May Have Led Us to the Brink of Nuclear Annihilation
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
The article takes a critical look at the potential outcome of North Korea's stigmatized relationship with the United States. It considers the role of US-produced propaganda against North Korea in relationship to the disparity between the militaries of the two countries.
- Big Business and Hitler
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
This book discusses the multiple multinationals doing business with Germany during the Second World War, including American companies such as General Motors, IBM, Standard Oil and Ford, which may explain America's late entry into the war and Hitler's support from powerful businesses despite the horrendous actions of the Nazis'.
- Google, Amazon, Netflix mount lobby crusade on Trudeau Liberals
Amazon had 99 registered contacts with the government last year, Google had 37
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
The numerous meetings between top Liberal Government officials and U.S. tech giants not only smack of favouritism, but also raise ethical questions and concerns over deregulation.
- How to steal a billion-dollar American election with a pocketful of rubles
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
On the absurdity of the narrative that claims that nameless Russians stole the multi-billion-dollar American election with pocket change.
- Is Russiagate dead? Paul Manafort & Kiev caught up in FBI dragnet, Kremlin not mentioned
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
- Racists and xenophobes find fertile ground in violent online world
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Spend enough time hunting terrorists or wandering dystopian wastelands in online games and you're bound to come across players hurling xenophobic and racist taunts at each other -- from the openly Islamophobic in Europe to Korean and Japanese gamers bickering over disputed islands.
- Undocumented special-needs girl in federal custody after emergency surgery
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
An undocumented 10-year-old girl with cerebral palsy was taken into US Customs and Border Protection custody shortly after emergency gallbladder surgery in Texas in a case that advocates say shows the harmful extent of the President's hard line on immigration policies.
- Anthem Protestors Should Stop Mucking Around and Make Their Demands
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
The "anthem protests" have gone on for two years now, but so far the players have not presented a specific set of demands.Why? Do the players simply want to use Sunday football as a platform for raising awareness of racial injustice and police brutality or is there something else going on here?
- The Politcal Economy of Fascism
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
For all of the millions of words written about the fascist danger posed by Donald Trump, there are very few devoted to an actual analysis of fascist economics both as ideology and state policy.
- Sticks and Stones: Free Speech and Punching Politics
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
The author explains why he does not agree with those who believe that right wing 'facist' groups should be denied the right to express their views, either by physical means or force of law.
- Cowardly New World: Alternative Media Under Attack by Algorithms
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
An insidious assault is underway against alternative media on the internet. Leftist and progressive websites have been suffering significant declines in traffic. Some have had online income sources cut. Many others have been publicly defamed.
The only voices speaking the truth, says Kollibri terre Sonnenblume, are those on the fringes and we must amplify them however we can. Some suggestions:
* Read/view alternative media stories and share them in whatever venues you can.
* Stop consuming mainstream media and stop posting links to it.
* Actively support alternative media by donating money, time or other resources.
* Stop using Google as your search engine; I recommend DuckDuckGo. You will be surprised at how much you've been missing.
* Become the media: take your own photos or video and write up stories yourself for whatever outlet will take your work, even if that's only your own blog.
- I'm looking to sue: Black activist says Twitter banned her as 'Russian bot'
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Among the 201 Twitter accounts suspended from the platform for "Russian interference" in the 2016 US election was an African-American activist from Atlanta. Now she has come forward, telling RT she may sue the company for the unjustified suspension.
- Russia-gate Breeds 'Establishment McCarthyism'
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Russia-gate provides cover for an Establishment attack on Internet freedom and independent news, while traditional defenders of a free press and civil liberties are joining the assault or staying on the sidelines.
- Baum, Gregory - obituary
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Obituary for renowned Canadian theologian Gregory Baum, 94, who died Oct. 18, 2017.
- The Character of the Russian Revolution: Trotsky 1917 vs. Trotsky 1924
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
An analysis of the evolution of Leon Trotsky's views from 1917 to 1924.
- Goodbye to Golden Rice? GM Trait Leads to Drastic Yield Loss and "Metabolic Meltdown"
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
While proponents of Golden rice have blamed its failure to reach the market on "over-regulation" of GMOs and on "anti-GMO" opposition, the latest research suggests that problems intrinsic to GMO breeding are what have prevented researchers from developing Golden Rice suitable for commercialization.
- The Harmful Effects of Antifa
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
An historic opportunity is being missed. The disastrous 2016 presidential election could and should have been a wakeup call. A corrupt political system that gave voters a choice between two terrible candidates is not democracy.
- Indigenous population growing rapidly, languages surging: census
Data also reveals on-reserve First Nation housing getting worse
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
The Indigenous population in Canada continues to rapidly outpace the growth of the rest of the country while Indigenous languages are showing a strong resurgence, according to census data released Wednesday by Statistics Canada.
- The Just Society Movement
For the Poor by the Poor - A Model for Grassroots Activism
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
The Just Society Movement (1968 - 1972) was a short-lived but remarkably successful Toronto based grassroots social and political advocacy network run by and for Toronto’s poorest residents.
- Don't Call the Cops If You're Autistic, Deaf, Mentally Ill, Disabled or Old
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
When people entering the police service are trained to be military warriors instead of peace officers, tense situations involving some of our society's more vulnerable people will more likely end violently.
- The FBI's Forgotten Criminal History
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
The FBI has a long record of both deceit and incompetence. Five years ago, Americans learned that the FBI was teaching its agents that "the FBI has the ability to bend or suspend the law to impinge on the freedom of others." This has practically been the Bureau's motif since its creation in 1908.
- Google wants to run cities without being elected. Don't let it
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
A new initiative will see Alphabet – the parent company of Google – take charge of redeveloping a waterfront district in Toronto. Here's why that's troubling.
- Land and Racism
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
A look at the Jewish National Fund (JNF), an organization subsidized by Canadian taxpayers, and its exclusionary land policies.
- Pay to play: Facebook rolls out nightmare scenario for publishers on its network
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Proposed changes to the way Facebook handles posts from publishers and businesses may result in publishers having to pay Facebook to promote their stories so that people can see them.
- 'Pay to play': Facebook rolls out nightmare scenario for publishers on its network
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Facebook is testing out a change to their network in six markets. As a result, posts from some publishers and businesses will be removed from the site's News Feed section. The change has caused a dramatic drop in referral traffic to news outlets.
- What if You Had to Worry About a Lawsuit Every Time You Linked to an Image Online?
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
- What Makes Americans Proud
The Anti-Empire Report #152
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Donald Trump thinks that everyone will be impressed that the American military has never been stronger. Lucky for the man … his seeming incapacity for moral or intellectual embarrassment.He’s twice blessed. His fans like the idea that their president is no smarter than they are. This may well serve to get the man re-elected, as it did with George W. Bush.
- Why We Must Fight for the Right to Repair Our Electronics
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
In an era when reparations to electronics such as digital devices is becoming increasingly more difficult, pending U.S. legislation could force manufacturers to make repair parts and information available at fair prices.
- Guardian Sells False Image of an Open Jerusalem
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
A Guardian essay on a new Israeli open-rooftops project in Jerusalem, part of a Season of Culture, sadly falls into a standard trap for feelgood articles of this kind. It fails to provide the main context for Jerusalem: that the native Palestinians live under a belligerent Israeli occupation that is ultimately trying to evict them from the city.
- Israel maintains robust arms trade with rogue regimes
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Israel's collusion with Myanmar's military is part of a pattern of military aid to rogue regimes that goes back decades, and reflects the importance of the arms trade to Israel's economy.
- Senators 'Stunned' to Learn US Has 1,000 Troops in Niger
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
U.S. Senate Armed Services Committee members recently confirmed they were "stunned" by the revelation that the US had upwards of 1,000 ground troops operating inside the country of Niger, sparking new questions about war authorization.
- Why So Many White Supremacists Are into Veganism
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Not many realize that numerous white nationalists are vegan and vegetarian, a dietary decision with origins from one of the movement's bedrock beliefs: the concept of "blood and soil."
- Gender segregation is humiliating and damaging
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
The author looks at gender segregation, drawing on her own personal experiences in Iran but also in a broader context and the resulting psychological damage done to girls from a very young age.
- The U.S. Will Invade West Africa in 2023 After an Attack in New York - According to Pentagon War Game
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
By 2021, according to the war game's scenario, AQIM boasts an estimated 38,000 members spread throughout Algeria, Mali, Mauritania, and Niger, and a network of training camps in Mauritania, as well as outright bases in Western Sahara.
- The Killing of History
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Pilger examines Ken Burns' documentary about the Vietnam War and the ongoing revisionist history it presents, as well as the acquiescence of the American 'left' in the era of Trump.
- Clinton, Assange and the War on Truth
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
An overview of an interview with Hilary Clinton by the Australian Broadcasting Corporation to promote her score-settling book about why she was not elected President of the United States.
- Proof of concept: An insurgent left can achieve electoral success - even in Canada
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
The article looks at Vancouver's current political climate on the municipal level. Jean Swanson's recent support placed her in second place in a civic election, and demonstrates the city's shift to the centre - left.
- Tomorrow Belongs to the Corporatocracy
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Virtually every major organ of the Western media apparatus (the most powerful propaganda machine in the annals of powerful propaganda machines) has been relentlessly churning out variations on a new official ideological narrative designed to generate and enforce conformity.
- Two Soviet Spies Who Deserve a Posthumous Nobel Peace Prize
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Klaus Fuchs and Theodore Hall, both scientists working on the Manhattan Project, should receive posthumous Nobel Peace Prizes for actions that almost certainly saved millions of innocent lives.
- Cambridge University students given trigger warnings for Shakespeare plays
Academics say degree of sensitivity will 'curtail academic freedom'
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Warnings to Cambridge students regarding violence in course materials brings about discussion over student development and ultimately academic freedom and censorship.
- The Right-Wing Assault on the Truth in India Claims the Life of Another Journalist
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Journalist, activist and writer Gauri Lankesh, was gunned down on the night of Sept. 5, 2017, by a suspected right-wing extremist for her published views in a tabloid paper.
- American Teaching Hospitals: Where Pelvic Exams Under Anesthesia Happen
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Before undergoing a liver biopsy at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New York City, I asked my surgeon's nurse whether I was to be catheterized for the procedure. In response to this perfectly legitimate question the knave sardonically replied: "I'm really not supposed to say this, but what difference does it make? You're going to be under general anesthesia."
- The conspiracy to censor the Internet
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
The political representatives of the American ruling class are engaged in a conspiracy to suppress free speech. Under the guise of combating "trolls" and "fake news" supposedly controlled by Russia, the most basic constitutional rights enumerated in the First Amendment are under direct attack.
- The Decertification of Iran Speech: Refuting Trump
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Despite the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) declaring each time it has reported - most recently in August 2017 - that Iran is in total compliance with its agreements in the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), Donald Trump has now carried through on his threat to decertify Iran.
- Facespook! Social Media Giant Becomes Arm of US Intel
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Facebook, the world's top social media platform, is reportedly seeking to hire hundreds of employees with US national security clearance licenses. Purportedly with the aim of weeding out "fake news" and "foreign meddling" in elections.
- 'Fake news' or free speech: Is Google cracking down on left media?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Left leaning progressive websites say they are being unfairly penalized by Google's efforts to stamp out fake news.
- How the Nazis Used Jim Crow Laws as the Model for Their Race Laws
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
An interview with James Q. Whitman about his new book "Hitler's American Model: The United States and the Making of Nazi Race Law".
- Israeli Soldiers Shut Down Media Outlets In The West Bank
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Israeli soldiers and secret security officers invaded media outlets in dawn raids in several parts of the occupied West Bank. The media outlets provide services to Palestinian TV stations such as Al-Aqsa and Al-Quds.
- Life and Death After the Steel Mills
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
In her study of a community devastated by industry's flight, anthropologist Christine Walley raises questions about how to create and support meaningful work in a postindustrial world.
Steel mills were the economic backbone of many cities across the Midwest and Northeast until the 1980s. When the industry left, former workers not only took a hit economically -- they also felt displaced and suffered disillusionment and a loss of identity.
- No, US Didn't 'Stand By' Indonesian Genocide - It Actively Participated
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Within the coverage of the newly declassified telegram that proves the US actively participated in the Indonesian genocide the media frames Washington as a passive onlooker rather than active participant. This not only lessens the government's culpability; it also tells readers that if the US is to be faulted, it's to be blamed for not doing enough. That's a handy attitude to cultivate for the next time you want to sell a "humanitarian" war.
- On Catalonia: Debates in the Greek Left
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Without the burden of self-censorship or "political correctness" on our backs, let us examine what the possible secession of Catalonia actually means and where it could potentially lead.
- The racist worldview of Arthur Balfour
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
A look at British foreign secretary Arthur James Balfour, whose Declaration of 1917 led to the expulsion of Palestinians.
- Where the world's appetite for fish matters most
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Illegal over-fishing by Chinese and other foreign vessels is severely affecting the economy and food securty of West African nations.
- Big Data is Accelerating Corporate Control of the Global Food Supply
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
A summary of the report "Too Big to Feed: Exploring the Impacts of Mega-Margers, Consolidation and Concentration of Power in the Agri-Food Sector," published by The International Panel of Experts on Sustainable Food Systems.
- Blueprint for a Progressive US: A Dialogue With Noam Chomsky and Robert Pollin
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
In the Trump era, what would an authentically populist, progressive political agenda look like? What would a progressive US look like with regard to jobs, the environment, finance capital and the standard of living? What would it look like in terms of education and health care, justice and equality? In an exclusive interview with C.J. Polychroniou for Truthout, world-renowned public intellectuals Noam Chomsky and Robert Pollin tackle these issues.
- A brief dictionary to help understand the US far right
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
A break down of some of the most important phrases, terms and numerology that are used by the far right online.
- Expert panel identifies unacceptable toll of food and farming systems on human health
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
The UN Committee on World Food Security in Rome has today launched a new report examining the impact of chemical intensive, industrial food system on human health.
- Google Is So Big, It Is Now Shaping Policy to Combat the Opioid Epidemic. And It's Screwing It Up.
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
A snap decision by Google has begun to reshape the drug treatment industry, tilting the playing field toward large conglomerates-- the precise opposite outcome Google had hoped to achieve.
- Journalism as We Knew It Is Never Coming Back
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
It’s old news that Donald Trump abuses reason, knowledge, decency and dark-skinned people. If you are paying attention, each one of his assaults on decency, intelligence and knowledge will feel urgent, ridiculous or both. Each day he threatens grave damage to actual human beings and the rest of Planet Earth, and each day he demonstrates his incapacity to do anything but inflict more damage.
- 1965-1966: Files Reveal US had Detailed Knowledge of Indonesia's Anti-Communist Purge
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Declassified files have revealed new details of US government knowledge of and support for an Indonesian army extermination campaign that killed several hundred thousand civilians during anti-communist hysteria in the mid-1960s.
- The police are not here to protect you
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
It is a liberal fantasy that policing exist to protect us from the bad guys, rather it serves more to manage and suppress those on the losing end of economic and political arrangements.
- The police are not here to protect you
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
The police spend little of their time making arrests, and most crimes are not solved, writes Alex Vitale - their real purpose is social control
- The Popular Front Didn't Work
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
The Communist Party's 1930s popular front strategy weakened the labour movement and empowered the Democratic Party, a strategy that would be even more destuctive to the socialist left today.
- The Popular Front Didn't Work
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
This article focuses on the recent growth of the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA). Through a historical overview of worker's parties in the United States, the article discusses the party's vision for the future.
- Hillary Clinton Just Told Five Blatant Lies About WikiLeaks
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
During an interview with ABC's Sarah Ferguson, while promoting her new book about her loss in the 2017 presidential election, Hillary Clinton told five lies about the WikiLeaks.
- In Myanmar, Anti-Terrorism Is Cover for Ethnic Cleansing
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
A brutal crackdown in Myanmar under the guise of anti-terrorism is really ethnic cleansing against a long-persecuted Rohingya minority.
- 6 underrated Marxists who don't get enough love
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
A look at six less celebrated Marxists: Gavril Miasnikov, Ngo Van Xuyet, Clara Zetkin, Martin Glaberman, Mariarosa Dalla Costa, and Ambalavaner Sivanandan; who participated in working class movements such as the 1918 German revolution, the 1945 Saigon Commune and the strikes in the car factories of Detroit.
- 6 underrated Marxists who don't get enough love
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
It's a sad fact that many of the most radical Marxists, whose participation in working class struggle and ideas challenged not only capitalist society but also the social democratic and Leninist tendencies in the workers' movement tend to get ignored by anarchists and Marxists alike.
- A Tale of Two Islands
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
A look at the two island nations of Cuba and Puerto Rico in the aftermath of devastating hurricanes; one is a poor socialist state and the other a territory of one of the richest countries in the world.
- When a hurricane swept through Toronto, this firefighter made the heartbreaking first rescue attempt
Hurricane Hazel caused 81 deaths and more than $1B in damages in 2017 dollars
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
On the wet and windy evening of Oct. 15, 1954, Hurricane Hazel was bearing down on the city. The fire department was to take no unnecessary risks in the storm, which had already claimed more than 400 lives in Haiti and close to 100 in the United States. As it spiralled towards Canada, Hazel merged with a cold front, intensifying the system.
- When a Radio Host Interviews a War Criminal, Is It Churlish to Ask About His War Crimes?
A letter to New York's popular WNYC-NPR radio host Brian Lehrer
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
An open letter to NPR radio host Brian Leher, critizing the host for not providing greater context and background for his guest Elliott Abrams, who was a go to-guy for U.S.-funded terrorism, and helped arrange the overthrow of democratically elected governments throughout Latin America and the Middle East.
- Historic Speaker's Corner Becomes Site of Anti-feminist Silencing and Volence
Efforts to silence feminist speech have taken a violent turn
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
The "What is gender" debate at the historic Speaker's Corner in London turned vitriolic and violent when opposing organizations accused the discussion of potentially inciting "transmisogyny."
- Marxist Theories of the State Played out in Venezuela
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
The implications of Marxist state theories developed by Nicos Poulantzas and Ralph Miliband are useful for framing issues related to leftist strategy in twenty-first century Venezuela.
- Trump Is the Only One Losing Out by Refusing to Certify the Iran Deal
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
While commentators across the world struggle to adequately convey their outrage over Trump's withdrawal from the Iranian nuclear agreement, Iran is calculating that nothing they do will be quite so damaging to US interests as Trump himself.
- Trump Is the Only One Losing Out by Refusing to Certify the Iran Deal
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
As President Trump withdraws certification of the nuclear agreement with Iran, commentators across the world struggled for words to adequately convey their outrage and contempt. A favourite term to describe Trump is as "a wrecking ball", but the phrase suggests a sense of direction and capacity to strike a target which Trump does not possess.
- In Sarnia's Chemical Valley, is 'toxic soup' making people sick?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Experts and documents cast doubts on whether industry and Ontario government are revealing levels of benzene in areas where residents live right near oil and gas facilities.
- Left-Wing Drexel Professor Who Opposes Free Speech Has His Curtailed
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Outspoken Drexel University associate professor George Ciccariello-Maher has been put on-leave by his employer, stiring the debate about academic freedom and free speech.
- Victory in Stagnation?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
An analysis of the direction of the German left party, Die Linke, in the wake of the 2017 national elections.
- Council committee to tackle what some claim is a new loophole for landlords
Landlords' group says suite meters are a fair way for tenants to budget their power consumption
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
There's growing concern among municipal politicians and tenants advocates about a relatively new practice by landlords called "suite metering" -- and the issue's set to be discussed at city hall Friday. Suite metering allows landlords to stop supplying electricity to their tenants, and instead hire a broker who installs a meter in each unit. The tenant then pays rent to the landlord, and a separate monthly electricity payment to the broker.
- The Flint Militants
Eighty years ago, the Flint Sit-Down Strike showed the power of a determined rank and file and a class-conscious leadership
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
In 1937 hundreds of autoworkers seized two General Motors (GM) plants in Flint, Michigan, paralyzing the massive corporation's production line. The workers' new tactic - the sit-down strike - threatened to fundamentally change the balance of power between workers and management.
- Kansas Is Punishing a Teacher for Following Her Church's Guidance to Boycott Israel
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
As part of her employment with a state program in Kansas a woman was asked to sign a statement proclaiming she not boycott Israel, a clear violation of her first amendment rights says the American Civil Liberties Union.
- Why the truth about the death of anti-apartheid activist matters
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
The murder of school teacher and activist Ahmed Timol is but one of many stories of injustice hidden by apartheid, and left mostly untouched since 1994.
- Chomsky clarifies position on the cultural boycott of Israel
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Prof. Noam Chomsky makes the essential point: the presence of international artists in Israel is used by the government to cover up its occupation and human rights abuses.
- Indigenous resistance: my fight for land and life in Colombia
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
On World Day of Indigenous Resistance, Wayúu woman ANGELICA ORITZ shares her experience as a human rights defender, living and fighting for the future of her community in the shadow of the largest opencast mine in Colombia.
- Rural Americans and the Language Too Many People Use to Talk About Them
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
With the rural-urban divide more pronounced now than it has been in generations, the author takes a closer look at the derogatory language too many people use, as well their meaning and contradictions.
- White Nights: Before Charlottesville Was in the Spotlight, Police Arrested Their Most Prominent Critic in the Middle of the Night
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Within two weeks of voters in Charlottesville going to the polls to decide on the city's next district attorney, the candidate vowing to rein in police abuse and roll back mass incarceration was arrested in the middle of the night and bound for a police station.
- Catalonia: The Revolt of the Rich?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
The Catalonian rebellion, similar to Scottish separatism, is an uprising of the rich against the poor, the protests of a liberal society against the remnants of a redistributive social state.
- New Archival Collections: How to Know What’s New at Your Favorite Repository
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
New archival collections at your favorite repository may be the long-awaited key to solving your family history mysteries! But how can you keep up with what’s new at archives and libraries? Professional archivist Melissa Barker shares her favorite tips.
- Unprecedented data trove maps China's growing global reach and self-interest of its aid
China and U.S. 'neck and neck' in foreign assistance spending
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
The new data on more than 4,300 projects of China in 150 countries indicate those contributions -- if not the means -- have in total, almost matched those of the world's largest foreign aid donor, the United States.
- Deputy Attorney General Rosenstein's "Responsible Encryption" Demand is Bad and He Should Feel Bad
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
U.S. Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein delivered a speech about what he calls "responsible encryption" today. It misses the mark, by far.
- Antifa in Theory and in Practice
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
In recent weeks, a totally disoriented left has been widely exhorted to unify around a masked vanguard calling itself Antifa, for anti-fascist. Hooded and dressed in black, Antifa is essentially a variation of the Black Bloc, familiar for introducing violence into peaceful demonstrations in many countries. Imported from Europe, the label Antifa sounds more political. American Antifa looks very much like a middle class wedding between Identity Politics and gang warfare.
- Antifa in Theory and in Practice
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
A masked vanguard calling itself Antifa, for anti-fascist, is just a variation of the Black Bloc, which is familiar for introducing violence into peaceful demonstrations in many countries. Imported from Europe, the label Antifa serves the purpose of stigmatizing those it attacks as "fascists", yet despite its imported name Antifa in the U.S. is basically just another example of America's steady descent into violence.
- Die Gefahr des Rechtsextremismus
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2024
Wenn wir über die Rechte sprechen, sollten wir uns bewusst sein, dass "die Rechte" keineswegs eine einheitliche politische Macht oder Organisation ist, sondern eine Sammlung aus unterschiedlichen Ideologien, Parteien, Gruppen und Individuen.
- Meeting the Challenge of the Right
Introduction to the October 9, 2017 issue of Other Voices
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
When we talk about the Right, it is well to keep in mind that "the Right" is by no means a unified political force or organization, but rather a label used to describe a disparate collection of ideologies, parties, groups, and individuals.
- Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - October 9, 2017
Meeting the Challenge of the Right
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Challenging the Right requires not only anti-fascist actions in the street, but organizing to reach those who may be attracted the the appeal of the Right and offering an alternative social vision. This issue of Other Voices offers a number of articles, books, and films offering different perspectives on meeting the challenge of the right.
- The Seeds of Agroecology and Common Ownership
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
With platitudes about 'feeding the world', the corporate agribusiness/agritech industry is destroying the commons and democracy and displacing existing localised systems of food production. In fact the increasingly globalised industrial food system is responsible for some of the most pressing political, social and environmental crises we are facing.
- The Seeds of Agroecology and Common Ownership
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
A political-economical critique of modern agriculture and the urgent need to establish societies run for the benefit of the mass of the population, as well as a system of food and agriculture that is more democratically owned and controlled.
- Ghosts of Spadina Expressway haunt us still
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
More than 45 years after the Spadina Expressway was cancelled, its ghosts exist among us in the form of expropriated properties.
- 1688 Germantown Quaker Petition Against Slavery
Wikipedia article
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
The 1688 Germantown Quaker Petition Against Slavery was the first protest against African-American slavery made by a religious body in the English colonies.
- Why Canada's farm industry is ripe for change
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Ottawa is touting agri-food as an area where Canada's economy can grow globally -- and temporary foreign workers have a key role to play.
- Germany's Network Enforcement Act: Legal framework for censorship of the Internet
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
On October 1, 2017, the Network Enforcement Act took effect in Germany. Under the cover of a fight against "fake news" and "hate speech," it creates a legal framework for censorship of the Internet.
- Socialist Register 2018
Volume 54: Rethinking Democracy
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
We have conceived this 54th volume of the Socialist Register on Rethinking Democracy as a companion volume to the 2017 volume on Rethinking Revolution. As we put it in the preface to that volume: ‘The "political event" of gaining state power, whether by taking parliament or in a collapse of the existing political regime, has proven time and again to be less crucial than the social revolution of building capacities for self-government and the democratization and socialization of institutional resources … The "event", in itself, … will never be a sufficient condition for the exploited and oppressed to build their own capacities for establishing collective, rather than competitive, ways of living through developing socialist democracy.'
- The Spirit of Late Capitalism
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
A look at Pentecostalism, one of the world's fastest growing religious movements, which preaches a seductive message to the marginalized: that religious prayer, not political action, is a solution to their earthly woes.
- Warnings from First Americans: Insidious Changes Are Underway that Will Affect Us All
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Rural America In These Times spoke to Native Americans--people whose survival requires being extremely well informed about what all branches of the federal government are up to. From their vantage point as sovereign entities with direct government-to-government relationships with the United States, the tribes have a unique perspective on issues including voting rights, the economy, the extractive industries' hold over this administration and more.
- The Catalan Chain Reaction
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
The article discusses the chain reaction of viral social media support surrounding Catalonia's drive for "independence", which has alarmingly resurrected civil war-era rhetoric. However the most dangerous consequences are a domino effect in regions elsewhere if the separatists are ultimately successful.
- New group challenges role of Israel lobby inside Labour Party as effort to undermine Corbyn
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Jeremy Corbyn's recent declaration of support for the Palestinian cause came as sections of his party's establishment demonstrated that they are determined to undermine his leadership; the issue they have selected as his Achilles' heel relates directly to the debate about the Palestinians.
- The NRA's Latest Terrorist Attack on U.S. Soil
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
It's long past time to start understanding the giant mass shootings that have become part of the new-normal fabric of life in the United States as terrorist attacks on the U.S. populace conducted by the nation’s plutocracy through one of its key and rightward campaign funding, lobbying, and policy organizations -- the National Rifle Association (NRA).
- American Rape of Vietnamese Women was Considered "Standard Operating Procedure"
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Comparing testimony from Vietnamese women and American soldiers, Gina Marie Weaver, in her book Ideologies of Forgetting: Rape in The Vietnam War, finds that rape of Vietnamese women by American troops during the US invasion of Vietnam was a "widespread", "everyday occurrence" that was essentially "condoned", even encouraged, by the military, and had its foundation in military training and US culture.
- Disobeying Spain: the Catalan Referendum for Independence
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
On October 1, 2017, all across Catalunya ballot boxes were ripped from people's hands by masked police and a dangerous violence was unleashed, at random, upon some of the 2,262,424 people who stood in long lines to cast their vote. The repression dealt by the Spanish State to prohibit the Catalan Referendum, in every bloodied baton and ever rubber bullet, transformed the day from a question of independence to a question of democracy.
- A Jewish Atonement for Zionism
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
A review of “Not by Might, nor by Power": The Zionist Betrayal of Judaism, by author Moshe Menuhin. Drawing from personal experience, the book is a methodical and chronological survey of Jewish nationalism.
- On the Extreme Margins of the Centennial of the October Revolution: The Legacy of 1917 We Can Affirm
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
The year 1917 is most closely associated with the Russian Revolution, but it is important to locate that revolution in the global tidal wave of working-class struggle from 1917 to 1921 (continued up to 1927 in China), which forced the end of the first inter-imperialist world war (1914–18).
- The Russian Hack That Wasn't
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Glenn Greenwald of The Intercept exposes the fake news put out by the US Department of Homeland Security (an euphemistic name for a Big Brother operation that spies on US citizens) that Russia hacked 21 US state elections, news that was instantly spread around the world by the presstitute media.
- The Ecosocialism of Joel Kovel
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Joel Kovel has been a prestigious and best-selling writer on psychotherapy, a militant left activist from the middle 1960s onward, an eco-theorist and an explorer of the world just beyond our sense perceptions.
- Istvan Meszaros: Capitalism and Ecological Destruction
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
In memorium to Istvan Meszaros, an excerpt of his writing shows how he was one of the first Marxists to identify the global environmental crisis as a central contradiction of late capitalism.
- A Foodie's Guide to Capitalism: Understanding the Political Economy of What We Eat
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Capitalism drives our global food system. Everyone who wants to end hunger, who wants to eat good, clean, healthy food, needs to understand capitalism. This book will help do that.
- 'It's like they never existed': Toronto monument will honour mistreated British Home Children
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Over eight decades 115,000 children in Britain living in squalid conditions were sent to Canada for a better life, only to be exploited as workers by foster families and often suffering deplorable abuse.
- Karl Marx's Ecosocialism: Capital, nature, and the unfinished critique of political economy
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
A re-evaluation of Karl Marx's views on ecology.
- That rotten stench in the air? It’s the smell of deadly gas and secrecy
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Documents obtained through freedom-of-information requests and from whistleblowers, including internal correspondence and inspection reports, disclose serious infractions and failures in performance by oil and gas companies; yet regulatory standards remain largely unchanged and H2S incidents and risks remain hidden from the public.
- 'There's no sense in speaking up' despite deadly gas risks
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
An investigation into oil industry in Saskatchewan reveals a culture of secrecy fuelled by oil industry money, the province's reliance on that money, and the threats and intimidation that have followed those who have spoken out.
- The Future Belongs to the Blasphemers
A message from ex-Muslims to mark International Blasphemy Day
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Some people believe that disagreeing with deeply held beliefs is hate. It is not. I want to remind you that many of the most powerful ideas, ideas that changed our world were once heretical. I want to remind you that many of the most radical thinkers and reformists in past eras were blasphemers against the established order of their day.
- I wanted to understand why racists hated me. So I befriended Klansmen
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Daryl Davis befriended Ku Klux Klan members in order to gain some understanding of the organization, their beliefs and hatred.
- Memento Mori: a Requiem for Puerto Rico
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Puerto Rico is dying. Let those words sink in.Three and a half million people are without power, water, fuel, food, and support. This isn’t some uninhabited atoll.
- Bequests
Leaving a social justice legacy
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Many of us have made working for social justice a lifetime commitment. If you are thinking about leaving a legacy for social justice that will live on, you might want to consider leaving a bequest to Connexions in your will.
- Bullied BBC? Alternative media returns fire on claims it's waging 'war' on the corporation
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Alternative media accused of waging "guerilla warfare" against the BBC by its former political editor Nick Robinson say they are just providing balance to the 'biased' government-funded corporation.
- Connexions welcomes your support
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Your contribution to Connexions will help us preserve the memories, experiences, strategies, success, failures and visions of those who have worked for social justice over the years so that future generations can learn and be inspired by them.
- The Plague of Nationalism
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Catalan nationalists insist that "self-determination" is an inalienable right and cannot be curbed by the Spanish Constitution. Well, then, why stop with an "autonomous community" as Catalonia is designated? Why don’t provinces everywhere have the right to declare their independence? How about cities? Or neighbourhoods?
- Russian officer who prevented nuclear disaster in 1983
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Stanislav Petrov single handedly prevented the nuclear destruction of the United States and the USSR, and only a handful of Communist leaders knew about the apocalypse he averted.
- Trump, fake news and the war on dissidents
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
A rebuke to a recent Guardian article titled "If mainstream news wants to win back trust, it cannot silence dissident voices", where journalist Nick Robinson claims that the left and right are the peddlers of the same "fakery" in attacking the media.
- While US, North Korea Both Make Threats, Only One Has Killed Millions of the Other's People
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Despite bombastic threats from both the Unites States and North Korea, the mainstream media plays down the simple fact that it is North Korea that is isolated and facing overwhelming military superiority.
- The 24 hour day: women, work and class
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Movements of women, as well as those involving large numbers of women, will increasingly be features of resistance to neoliberalism. The extent to which they succeed will be the extent to which they are able to challenge the class basis of neoliberalism, and its consequences.
- A Visit to Germany's Flyover Country
The AfD Heartland
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- Why Don't We Demand 1st Amendment Rights on the Job?
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Most workers in the US who speak their minds are at the risk of being fired, and have little recourse if they are let go for publicaly expressing opinions that aren't shared by the boss.
- Colonialism Never Gives Anything Away for Nothing
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Decolonization is a violent phenomenon exemplified in Zohra Drif’s memoir, "Inside the Battle of Algiers: Memoir of a Woman Freedom Fighter."
- Memo to Jacobin: Ecomodernism is not ecosocialism
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Ian Angus challenges a left-wing magazine that promotes geoengineering, nuclear power, carbon storage and other techno-fixes as solutions to climate change.
- An ordinary Labour member just gave the most moving speech of the party conference so far
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An ordinary member's speech to the Labour Party conference left the audience stunned. And it's one that everyone needs to hear, as the moving address reflects a crisis in the UK.
- Any White Cop Can Kill a Black Man at Any Time
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Any white cop can kill a black man at any time and the cop will not go to jail, exemplified in the Jason Stockley, Anthony Lamar Smith case.
- The Cancer in Blue: Cop Documentaries
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John Ridely's film "Let it Fall: Los Angeles 1982-1992" is a 144-minute kaleidoscope of interviews and television news footage that climaxes in the riots that followed the acquittal of four cops who were captured on home video by a man named George Holliday as they were beating Rodney King with steel batons.
- The Censorious Vortex of the "Flash News" Barons
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For decades, the factors that decided what noteworthy stories would not find their way into print or on the air came down to the media's ignorance, laziness or from advertising restraints. For too long, the explosive material for good journalism in these and other areas had remained hidden in plain sight.
- Islamophobic U.S. Megadonor Fuels German Far-Right Party With Viral Fake News
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An American website, the Gatestone Institute, is peddling fake news focused on anti-immigration and anti-Islamic rhetoric that many fear will influence the upcoming German federal election.
- Poison in the Fields: Agriculture as Chemical Warfare
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Highly poisonous chemicals ( that were originally designed as weapons of war) have been allowed for many decades, under successive Government policies, to be sprayed on crop fields all over the UK, and with literally no protection at all for the many millions of rural citizens living or attending schools in the locality of such chemically treated areas. (In fact, there is actually no protection for rural residents and communities in the majority of other countries around the world either!)
- Who Are the "Alt-Right"? On the Rise of Reactionary Hatred and How to Fight it
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With much of the public discussing strategies for how best to fight right-wing extremism, the need for constructive solutions is greater than ever. First and foremost, it’s important to point out that public support for far-right extremists is miniscule. The vast majority of Americans reject this movement's violence and hatred. According to a Marist survey from the summer of 2017, just 4 percent of Americans said they support "white supremacy movement" or "white nationalism." Similarly, just 6 percent embraced the term "alt-right" Still, there is a legitimate concern that support for right-wing bigotry may grow in the future if left unchecked.
- Whose Streets? Their Streets
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If people don’t believe that the police in America are the greatest threat to civil society then they've been asleep for years, and comatose just this week. Or they're white, privileged and/or accepting of brutality against their own fellow citizens.
- Why Won't American Media Tell the Truth About What's Happening in Venezuela?
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Unlike Brazil and Argentina, Venezuela has been victimized by a number of factors outside of its control, but especially a precipitous drop in the price of oil, the country's main source of revenue.
- Jacobin and ecomodernism: Two replies
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Two readers, David Schwartzman and David Walters, respond to criticism of Jacobin magazine's special issue on climate change.
- The left wing opposition in Italy during the period of the Resistance
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An account of the groups to the left of the PCI, during WW2 by independent Marxist historical researcher Arturo Peregalli. It was first published in 'Revolutionary History, Vol.5, No.4', and translated by Barbara Rossi and Doris Bornstein.
- Drowning in the waste of Israeli settlers
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Several decades ago, the al-Matwa spring in Salfit city would often be crowded with Palestinians hiking in the valley and families picnicking alongside the clear, flowing stream. Now, however, the sewage flowing through the spring, the rancid smell that engulfs the valley, and the mosquitoes swarming the area have left the valley largely deserted.
- Free Speech for the Right? A Primer on Key Legal Questions and Principles
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The rise in national attention to the "alt-right" and fascist-white supremacist protesters has raised questions about the parameters of free speech in America. When can free speech be limited, if ever? What are the implications of attempting to limit controversial speech? And what precedents has the Supreme Court set regarding free speech?
- Greece mourns slain anti-fascist rapper Pavlos Fyssas
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A self-professed Golden Dawn member stabbed leftist rapper Killah P to death in Piraeus on September 18, 2013.
- The Problem is Fascists, Not Those Who Stand Up To Them
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The ongoing debate of recent weeks around how, or if, to confront demonstrations of white supremacists and fascists is the latest manifestation of arguments the Left and liberals have been having for many years. For this is not simply a question of tactics but incorporates broader ideas of how we conceptualize the threat from the extreme Right.
- Race v. Class? More Brilliant Bourgeois Bullshit from Ta-Nehesi Coates
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Coates is either flat-out lying or woefully ignorant when he argues that "the left" is disinterested in the big and significant problems of racial identity and racial justice. The longstanding legitimately Left progressive agenda addresses both race and class at one and the time. It does not accept Coates' false dichotomy between class and race.
- Rainbow Coalition or Class War?
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Is there any reason to think that Redneck Revolt and the new Rainbow Coalition will turn out differently from the People's Party? American history shows that any political group, left, right or center, that fails to challenge in practice the white community and the institutions and patterns that maintain it will reinforce an identity that has led countless potentially progressive movements to ruin and whose capacity to do harm is by no means exhausted -- no matter how vigorously it denounces “racism” and capitalism and how many coalitions it enters with non-whites. Simply put, white people organized as whites are dangerous to the working class and to humanity, and white people with guns organized as whites are doubly so -- and this is true regardless of the intentions of the organizers.
- U.S. real estate lobbyists turn blind eye to rising sea level threats to waterfront properties
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All along the coast of the southeast United States, the real estate industry confronts a hurricane. Not the kind that swirls in the Atlantic, but a storm of scientific information about sea-level rise that threatens the most lucrative, commission-boosting properties.
- The Genocide of the Rohingya: Big Oil, Failed Democracy and False Prophets
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To a certain extent, Aung San Suu Kyi is a false prophet. Glorified by the west for many years, she was made a 'democracy icon' because she opposed the same forces in her country, Burma, at the time that the US-led western coalition isolated Rangoon for its alliance with China.
- 100 Percent Wishful Thinking: the Green-Energy Cornucopia
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A growing body of research has debunked overblown claims of a green-energy bonanza.
- The Russian Hacking Story Continues to Unravel
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An examination of the text from a recent report by an IBM executive, which disproves the claim that Russia interfered in the US elections or hacked the servers at the DNC.
- Anti-Fascist Self-Defense: From Mussolini's Italy to Trump's America
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A conversation with Mark Bray, a political activist, historian and a lecturer at Dartmouth College and author of Antifa: The Anti-Fascist Handbook.
- Myanmar Rohingya Face "Textbook Example of Ethnic Cleansing"
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As hundreds of thousands of Rohingya Muslims flee violence in Myanmar's Rakhine State, thousands that remain in the country face mass atrocities at a scale never seen before.
- Preferred Conclusions -- The BBC, Syria And Venezuela
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In 2013, it was remarkable to see the BBC reporting claims from Syria on a daily basis in a way that almost always blamed the Syrian government, and President Assad personally, for horrendous war crimes. But as the New York Times reported last month, the picture was rather less black and white.
- Rohingya and the Myth of Buddhist Tolerance
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Since their citizenship rights have been progressively revoked between the 1940s and '80s, thousands of Rohingya men, women and children have been subjected to murder and rape, their villages have been raised to the ground and more than a million have fled to neighboring countries without much protest from the world beyond.
- Radical White Workers During the Last Revolution
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The long-lost story of anti-racist, radical white working class activism has been restored by Amy Sonnie and James Tracy in their invaluable book: Hillbilly Nationalists, Urban Race Rebels, and Black Power: Community Organizing in Radical Times.
- Years Before Charlottesville, Tribes Urged Yellowstone National Park to Change the Names of a War Criminal and a White Supremacist That Defile Sacred Land
We're Still Waiting
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Chief Stan Grier explains why historical figures who advocated genocide and white supremacy must be not continue to be commemorated at Yellowstone National Park, a sacred land to Indigenous communities for at least 10,000 years.
- Berkeley Republicans Hope More Left-Wing Riots Will Create "Pedestal" For Conservative Movement
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The students hosting conservative pundit Ben Shapiro at University of California, Berkeley this week say their fingers are crossed in the hopes for a left-wing protest that could amplify his message.
- Cultural Imperialism and the Seeds of Catastrophe: Ripping Up The Social Fabric of India
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Foreign capital is dictating the prevailing development agenda in India. The aim is to replace current structures with a system of industrial agriculture suited to the needs of Western agribusiness, food processing and retail concerns.The plan is for a fraction of the population left in farming working on contracts for large suppliers and large chain supermarkets offering a diet of highly processed, denutrified, genetically altered food based on crops soaked with chemicals and grown in increasingly degraded soils according to an unsustainable model of agriculture that is less climate/drought resistant, less diverse and unable to achieve food security.
- Do You Socialists Have Any Plans?
Why we need socialist architects
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Bruce Lerro claims that the only way 21st century socialism is going to get any traction or respect from the working class is if socialists collectively develop blueprints for socialism: five years, ten years, fifty years down the road.
- Idylls of the Liberal: The American Dreams of Mark Lilla and Ta-Nehisi Coates
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Social change is not made by noble heroes, even if they find themselves in the right place at the right time to take the credit. It is made by the commoners -- by those who remain nameless and faceless in the legends, and in the political ideologies of Lilla and Coates.
- Hundreds of Scottish Orphanage Children Allegedly Buried in Mass Grave
High infant mortality rate and allegations of abuse raise suspicions of Smyllum Park in Lanark, once run by Catholic nuns
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The Scottish child abuse inquiry is to investigate claims that the bodies of at least 400 children from an orphanage once run by Catholic nuns are buried in an unmarked mass grave.The Smyllum Park orphanage in Lanark operated from 1864 to 1981.
- On the Extreme Margins of the Centennial of the October Revolution
The Legacy of 1917 We Can Affirm
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The year 1917 is most closely associated with the Russian Revolution, but it is more important to locate that revolution in the global tidal wave of working-class struggle from 1917 to 1921 (continued up to 1927 in China), which the forced the end of the first inter-imperialist world war (1914-1918).
- Laughing on the Way to Armageddon
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Roberts argues that he real threat is not from foreign powers like Russia, but from corruption and power games within US politics, and the military/security complex that truly undermine democracy.
- Liberals and Ultra-leftists: A Marriage Made in Hell
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What liberal defenders of ultra-left violence don’t realize is that it’s not the Nazis legally marching down main street that will sabotage U.S. democracy, but the paramilitary police state that will crush all legitimate dissent. Ultra-left violence plays into what apologists for police militarization have been saying all along -- that the police have to keep ahead of the increasing violence in the streets with updated weapons and paramilitary training. Ultra-left violence, far from stopping fascism, enables it. It makes martyrs of the right and helps white supremacists recruit more angry right wingers to their cause, just as every wedding party the U.S. bombs in the Middle East recruits angry family members to the jihadis. With every violent clash between ultra-left and ultra-right, the militarized police will grow stronger … and they’ve got minorities and peace activists in their sights.
- Welcome to 1984: Big Brother Google now watching your every political move
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Google has taken the unprecedented step of burying material, mostly from websites on the political right, that it has deemed to be inappropriate. The problem, however, is that the world's largest search engine is a left-leaning company with an ax to grind.
- Could Punching Nazis Have Prevented Hitler From Taking Power
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There have been repeated references to how Nazism could have been stopped by street-fighting, with almost no attention paid to the concrete socio-political conditions of Germany between 1920 and 1933. For many of those who think that physical force was the key to stopping Nazism, the viral video of Richard Spencer getting punched in the face was far more important as a guide to action than understanding the tragic history of the German left.
- Hippies, Yippies, Radicals and Pranksters
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Review of the book entitled "Did iT! From Yippie to Yuppie: Jerry Rubin, an American Revolutionary," by Pat Thomas.
- Human Rights: the Latest Weapon Against Venezuela
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Non-governmental organizations are using false information to charge Venezuela with "human rights violations." These are merely extensions of the US and western foreign policy apparatus, working as the local infrastructure that is necessary in regime change operations as well as a source for the media to build its biased narrative.
- Palestinian Human Rights Defender Arrested for a Facebook Post
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The Palestinian Authority (PA) is continuing its crackdown on free speech in the West Bank, this time arresting prominent Palestinian human rights activist Issa Amro for criticizing a journalist's arrest in a Facebook post.
- Venezuela: the capitalist offensive - has socialism failed?
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The current economic, social, and political crisis taking place in Venezuala has not been caused by a failure of socialism, but rather is the result of the country's inability to distance itself from capitalism, and introduce a democratic, socialist, and planned economy.
- Chinese neocolonialism in Africa
The Dragon eating the African Lion and Cheetah? (Part I)
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China has literally invaded Africa with its investors, traders, lenders, builders, developers, labourers and who knows what else. The fancy phrase for that is win-win cooperation. The "cooperation" has opened up Africa as a source of raw materials for China and a dumping ground for cheap Chinese manufactured goods. It is Chinese neocolonialism.
- Evictions, trials as Russian Church claims property
With the resurgence of a Kremlin-endorsed monastery, islanders on Valaam have endured trials, evictions and arson.
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With the resurgence of a Kremlin-endorsed monastery, islanders on Valaam have endured trials, evictions and arson.
- How the aristocracy preserved their power
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After democracy finally shunted aside hereditary lords, they found new means to protect their extravagant riches. For all the modern tales of noble poverty and leaking ancestral homes, their private wealth and influence remain phenomenal.
- People are radicalizing Venezuela's Revolution: An interview with Christina Schiavoni
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In this interview Christina Schiavoni, a researcher and food sovereignty activist, provides a different view of the life of the Venezuelan people than we normally get from the media. The interview covers food and health situations as well as on-going politics and people's participation in the politics.
- People's History, Memory & Archives
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A gateway to resources on people's history and grassroots archives.
- The Syriza Wave: Surging and Crashing with the Greek Left - Book review
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A book review of The Syriza Wave: Surging and Crashing with the Greek Left by author Helena Sheehan.
- How Right-Wing Extremists Stalk, Dox, and Harass Their Enemies
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How neo-Nazis in the U.S use the online chatroom Pony Power to harass anti-facist activists.
- Quebec's Antifa movement on rise in response to growth of far-right groups
Left-wing activists grapple with tactics to fight racism, neo-Nazism
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A report on anti-facist groups and their roots in Quebec, and what they are doing to counter the rise of right wing nationalism in the province.
- Community Organizing in Philly and New York
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A look back at the NY and Philadelphia community activist groups White Lighting, O4O, Standing Up Angry, Young Patriots, and what can be learned towards building compelling and viable alternatives to the Right.
- Fighting for climate justice
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Climate change is a key factor in oppression of the poor worldwide.
- Indian journalist critical of Hindu extremists is shot dead in Bangalore
Police say Gauri Lankesh was shot and killed by three assailants as she was entering her home
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Gauri Lankesh, an Indian journalist who was killed by three assailants was the senior editor of the tabloid known to be critical of Hindu extremists. The Committee to Protect Journalists reported that 27 journalists have been killed since 1992 with impunity.
- Why Culture Matters
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In order to engage in a meaningful dialogue about 'cultural appropriation' we have to reject the framing that critics like Bari Weiss give it -- where culture becomes just another market.
- Does Freedom of Speech Include Fascists?
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There are two concepts on how to deal with fascism. One is fighting; the other is running away.
- Language Wars
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Issues of language are examined, in particular the maintenance of power by a linguistic or political majority through imposition of linguistic norms and beliefs on a minority.
- Martin Luther the Man-Devil
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A review of the book 'Manteuffel' by Danish author and public intellectual Peter Tudvad, a work of popular fiction that also takes on religious and social-political issues.
- Protest Alone Won't Stop Fascism
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Desperate people are vulnerable to fascism, and the desperation is deepening: millions are eyeball deep in debt and 80% live paycheck to paycheck, while skyrocketing healthcare costs and rising rent heat up the social pressure cooker. It's this economic gut punch that the fascists hope to benefit from: as working people struggle to breathe the fascists hope to offer cheap, ready-made oxygen.
- The Strange (and Tortured) Legacy of 'Free Speech'
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Despite a well-cultivated radical image, Antifa rarely focuses on the growing ultra-nationalism, militarism, and imperialism that lies at the very core of American politics – tendencies in fact more dangerous than the rhetoric of Yiannopoulos, Coulter, and Shapiro. Beneath its ultra-leftism is a modus operandi riddled with the worst of identity politics. And since its violent tactics are not aligned with any popular movement, its opposition to fascism (such as it is) turns hollow, empty. The irony is that while the FSM and its heirs did everything possible to expand the realm of free speech, new social forces – extreme identity groups, Antifa – want to restrict or deny freedoms.
- Venezuela in the Media: Double Standards and First Impressions
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This article looks into the inconsistent ways that Venzuala has been portrayed in the media, and the effect of sensationalizing the recent crisis. It concludes that those who support the Venezuelan poor, workings classes must seek and spread honest information outside of the mainstream narrative.
- What the Media isn't Telling You About North Korea's Missile Tests
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Here's what the media isn't telling you about North Korea's recent missile tests.
Last Monday, the DPRK fired a Hwasong-12 intermediate-range ballistic missile over Japan's Hokkaido Island. The missile landed in the waters beyond the island harming neither people nor property.The media immediately condemned the test as a "bold and provocative act"
- Annie Kidder and People for Education have made a mark on Ontario schools, but have they become part of the system?
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A look at the work of Annie Kidder, a public education advocate, who has spearheaded a grassroots movement that has given Ontario parents more of a voice in what goes on inside their children's classrooms.
- Smoke seen coming out of chimney!!
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The suspicious activities of those Russians never cease, and neither does the vigilance of the mainstream media in exposing them.
- Attica from 1971 to Today
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Interview with Heather Ann Thompson.
- BLM: Challenges and Possibilities
From #BlacLlivesMatter to Black Liberation
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Book review of Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor's From #BlackLivesMatter to Black Liberation.
- Choices Facing African Americans
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For African Americans, this campaign against Russia (and North Korea, Iran) is a diversion from more central issues including the right to vote.
- Chronicle of Black Detroit
Black Detroit: A People's History of Self-Determination (Review)
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Book review of Herb Boyd's Black Detroit: A People's History of Self-Determination.
- CIA sneak undetectable 'malicious' implants onto Windows OS - WikiLeaks
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Windows machines are targeted by the CIA under 'Angelfire,' according to the latest release from WikiLeaks' 'Vault7' series. The documents detail an implant that can allow Windows machines to create undetectable libraries.
- The Coddling of the American Mind
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For their own emotional well-being, college students are increasingly demanding protection in the classroom from words and ideas they don't like. It is a movement that is problematic for academic institutions, and likely damaging to student development and mental health.
- A Consistently Erroneous Technology
A Magician in the Lab
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First Published: 2017
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A look at the polygraph, or lie detector technology, and why it is unreliable.
- The danger of the white American liberal
What a team of 10-year-olds building a robot can teach us about sexism and racism in the US.
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The Liberal white American reaction to the sexism and racism exeplified in the Google manifesto and the killing of nine innocent people at Emanuel AME church in Charleston shows how remarkably how easy it is to condemn the evil other when we can use that to avoid facing our responsibility for the society we ourselves have created and work to maintain.
- Dawn of "Total War" and the Surveillance State
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In its efforts to mobilize society for "total war," a still nascent corporate liberal state expanded its scope and authority and in doing so laid foundations and set precedents for the expansion of executive power and the rise of the national surveillance state.
- Detroit's Rebellion and Rise of the Neoliberal State
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First Published: 2017
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In 1967 hundreds of uprisings circulated across U.S. cities with unprecedented power and intensity. Almost always the provocation was racist police violence - ranging from arrests to beatings to shootings.
- Did Scandal Tip the Balance?
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In 2014 a rumor circulated in UAW plants even beyond the Detroit area that UAW Vice President General Holiefield had been "on the take." He suddenly resigned, his administrative assistant was let go and within months Holiefield died from cancer. Then silence.
- Evolution in the College Classroom
Facilitating Conversations about Science and Religion
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New approaches embedded in introductory biology courses about science and religious belief point to promising models for instructors to adopt, and offer insight on strategies for encouraging more constructive dialogue about science and religion.
- How the UAW Lost at Nissan
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In early August, the UAW's union recognition campaign at the Nissan plant in Canton, Mississippi ended in a disastrous 63% "no" vote - 10% greater than the loss at Volkswagen in Chattanooga, Tennessee three and a half years earlier.
- Hurricane Harvey and the Dialectics of Nature
Houston is the city where capitalism's victory over nature is the most complete - and also where nature takes its ultimate revenge
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Proyect argues that historically the shortsighted nature of capitalism has led to natural disasters such as Hurricane Harvey. To understand nature, the ripple effects of its manipulation and to implement laws that protect it is in our only hope to prevent catastrophes such as Hurricane Harvey in the future.
- Immigration's Troubled History
Immigration and the Decline of Internationalism in the American Working Class,1864-1919
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Book review of Charles R. Leinenweber's Immigration and the Decline of Internationalism in the American Working Class,1864-1919.
- Israel Seeks 'Jewish' Non-Jews in Numbers Battle with Palestnians
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First Published: 2017
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With a shortage of Jews to defeat the Palestinians demographically, the Netanyahu government is considering a revision to the traditional rabbinical injunction that a Jew must be born to a Jewish mother -- opening the doors to a new category of 'Jewish' non-Jews.
- Making Their Own History
A People's History of Modern Europe
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First Published: 2017
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Book review of William A. Pelz's A People's History of Modern Europe.
- Marxism, the Arab Spring, and Islamic fundamentalism
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While Islamic fundamentalists are united by a reactionary worldview, the movements are not the same and must be approached differently. The Left must stake out an independent view based on democracy, social justice, equality, and liberation and freedom from oppression.
- Mexican Journalists Say 'No to Silence'
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First Published: 2017
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In Mexico powerful entities -- ranging from government officials, to law enforcement, to drug cartel leaders -- routinely and systematically intimidate journalists and media outlets to prevent them from investigating state corruption and drug-related violence. Efforts to silence media often take place in the shadows, forcing victims to choose between self-censorship, forced displacement, or risking their lives for doing their jobs.
- Mourn Liu Xiaobo, Free Liu Xia
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First Published: 2017
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Assessment of the death of Chinese political prisoner Liu Xiaobo, as well as the house arrest of his wife, Liu Xia.
- Mourn, Then Organize Again
Left Wing Melancholia: Marxism, History, and Memory
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First Published: 2017
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Book review of Enzo Traverso's Left Wing Melancholia: Marxism, History, and Memory.
- The Murder of Kevin Cooper
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First Published: 2017
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I, Kevin Cooper, have been on death row in the state on California for 32 years, going on 33. I came to this place in May of 1985, and I have been fighting for my life ever since.
- NSA's Cyberwarfare Blowback
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First Published: 2017
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In May and June 2017, hackers took over thousands of computers around the world, encrypted their contents, and demanded ransom to decrypt them. They used tools developed by the National Security Agency (NSA) to exploit vulnerabilities in the Microsoft Windows operating system.
- Paradoxes of Infinity
Infinitesimal: How a Dangerous Mathematical Theory Shaped the Modern World
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First Published: 2017
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Book review of Amir Alexander's Infinitesimal: How a Dangerous Mathematical Theory Shaped the Modern World.
- The People vs. Big Oil
Refinery Town: Big Oil, Big Money, and the Remaking of an American City
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First Published: 2017
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Book review of Steve Early's Refinery Town: Big Oil, Big Money, and the Remaking of an American City.
- Predatory Journals: Write, Submit, and Publish the Next Day
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First Published: 2017
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Predatory journals can be defined as "publications [that take] large fees without providing robust editorial or publishing services." They usually "recruit articles through aggressive marketing and spam emails, promising quick review and open access publication for a price. There is little if any quality control and virtually no transparency about processes and fees. Their motive is financial gain, and they are corrupting the communication of science. Their main victims are institutions and researchers in low and middle income countries..."
- Responding to Antifa and Riseup
On Revolutionary Politics and Non-Violence
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
"The left" of contemporary 2017 America is deeply divided and fractured, and it is a shadow of its former self, considering the decline of organized labor, and the disappearance of left-public intellectuals in higher education. In this environment, what remains of "the left" desperately needs to reach out to the masses of Americans, including liberals, moderates, and political independents, and to pull them further to the left, if there is to be any chance of meaningful change. And berating anyone who is not perceived to be on the far left, rather than patiently working to bring these individuals into a broader left movement, is a recipe for irrelevance.
- The Trial of Sacco and Venzetti
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
On May 5 both men were arrested for the Braintree murders. They were armed, Vanzetti with a .38 revolver, Sacco with a .32 Colt pistol.
- Under Attack at San Francisco State University
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Students, staff and faculty at San Francisco State University are under investigation by the university on trumped up charges of anti-Semitism brought forth by San Francisco Hillel. This is the latest in a long history of accusations made against Palestinians and Palestinian advocates at SFSU by the pro-Israel organization.
- The War at Home
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
A question often arises whether Trump is a genuine representative of the aims of the capitalist ruling class in general and the Republican right wing in particular, or a self-centered rogue with serious and potentially dangerous personality disorders. The answer is that he's actually both.
- The Wheel Has Come Full Circle
What Went Wrong: The Nicaraguan Revolution: A Marxist Analysis
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Book review of Dan La Botz's What Went Wrong: The Nicaraguan Revolution: A Marxist Analysis.
- When Progressives Start Abandoning Free Speech
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
In the wake of attacks in Charlottesville, Virginia there were a number of rallies in Canadian cities. The anti-racist counter-demonstrators hugely outnumbered their rally opponents, constituting phenomenal public solidarity against racism. There was much to be cheered in these events. One thing dampened this amazing response. It was how, for some, denouncing hate slid into denouncing speech rights and into dangerous calls for governments to prevent rallies.
- When White Supremacists March
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
The rally, featuring white nationalist groups such as the Nationalist Front and the League of the South as well as white supremacist "superstars" like Richard Spencer and David Duke projected violence from its first moments.
- Written in Blood: Courage and Corruption in the Appalachian War of Extraction
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Written in Blood features the work of Appalachia’s leading scholars and activists making available an accurate, ungilded, and uncensored understanding of our history. Combining new revelations from the past with sketches of a sane path forward, this is a deliberate collection looking at our past, present, and future.
- Pride parade in Vancouver rejects Iranian over veil float
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Iranian Shawn Shirazi and his group Cirque de So Gay were denied entry to the Pride Parade in Vancouver, Canada this year because their float criticising the veil was deemed to be 'culturally [in]sensitive'.
- Victory Over the Sun
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Postwar America's greatest environmentalist Tony Mazzocchi (who passed away in 2002) was a labour leader.
- The Women Who Rode Miles on Horseback to Deliver Library Books
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
They were known as the "book women." They would saddle up, usually at dawn, to pick their way along snowy hillsides and through muddy creeks with a simple goal: to deliver reading material to Kentucky's isolated mountain communities.
- AntiFa's Moral Superiority and the Potential for Left-Wing Unity
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
On the tragedy at Charlottesville and its aftermath.
- Canada, Sign the Nuclear Ban Treaty!
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
The Security Council met on August 29th to consider the heightened tensions on the Korean Peninsula. Janis Alton*, Co-Chair of VOW, sent a letter to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, urging Canada to to be a voice for diplomacy at the UN and sign the Nu
- Churchill had his faults, but he was a far better strategist than his generals were
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
In June 1944, after the D-Day landings in Normandy, his top military advisor, General Alan Brooke, wrote in his diary that, "We had a long and painful evening of it listening to Winston's strategic ravings."
- The Stomach-churning Violence of Monsanto, Bayer and the Argrochemical Oligopoly
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Companies like Monsanto, Bayer and Syngenta, which make up the oligopoly that controls an increasingly globalised system of modern food and agriculture, have successfully instituted the notion that the mass application of biocides, monocropping and industrial agriculture are necessary and desirable.
- Why Are Progressives Stupid? It's Not Too Late to Get Smart
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Many progressives are stupid. Unless they get smart soon, "The Resistance" to Donald Trump will fail, just like everything else the Left has tried to do for the last 40 years.
- Podemos, Catalonia and the workers' movement in the Spanish state
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Following a long period of electoral upheaval and failure of the left, it is argued that the two key areas where the Spanish ruling class could have been confronted was through the workers' movement and the pro-independence movement in Catalonia, both of which were not sufficiently addressed by the Podemos campaign.
- Spend time honouring Indigenous heroes rather than debating Macdonald: Murray Sinclair
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Senator Murray Sinclair, the former chairman of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, says that removing tributes that are considered offensive to Indigenous Peoples would be 'counterproductive' and smacks of anger not harmony.
- Why is the media promoting Antifa?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
The promotion of Antifa serves several interrelated functions. First, the physical violence of a handful of protesters in any large demonstration is regularly used as a pretext for police provocation. This is true not only in the US, but in Europe and around the world. Police give the "anti-fascist" and anarchist groups a free hand to carry out provocations, which are then exploited to carry out a violent crackdown. The groups themselves are easily infiltrated by police provocateurs, who encourage violent acts for the desired end.
- Car remotely deactivated after Quebec teen refuses to pay for removal of GPS device
Resource Type: Film/Video
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
A Quebec teenager's car was remotely deactivated by a dealership after he refused to pay to remove a GPS tracking device -- one that he never wanted installed in the first place.
- Is Harvey Also a Threat to the Air We Breathe?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Following Houston's catastrophic flooding, petrochemical plants have abruptly started shutting down operations, including ExxonMobil, Petrobras, Shell and Chevron Phillips. While these shutdowns might be necessary, they can also produce significant amounts of air pollution.
- The Ugly Side of Antifa
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
When you criticize Antifa members or their defenders for the tactic of mob violence, the reflexive response is usually something like, "There are literal Nazis marching in the streets, and you're attacking us over your precious little non-violence principles?" But Antifa doesn't have a monopoly over concern for what's happening in this country.
- Feindstaaten
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2024
Die üblichen Vorwände, um ein bestimmtes Land zu dämonisieren, wären lachhaft, wenn die Ergebnisse nicht derartig düster wären.
- How 'Antifa' Mirrors the 'Alt-Right'
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Behind the rhetoric of the "alt-right" about white nativism and protecting American traditions, history and Christian values is the lust for violence. Behind the rhetoric of antifa, the Black Bloc and the so-called "alt-left" about capitalism, racism, state repression and corporate power is the same lust for violence.
- Official Enemies
Introduction to the August 27, 2017 issue of Other Voices
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
We are never left in any doubt about who our enemies are. The word goes out from the United States that a certain country is a dictatorship which abuses human rights, supports terrorism, and poses a terrible threat to the U.S. and to the world. The mainstream media then swing into action with military precision and flood us with stories, images, and commentary about how dreadful country 'X' is.
- Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - August 27, 2017
Official Enemies
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Why and how do some countries become 'enemies'? How and why do governments and media work in tandem to demonize official enemies? Who are the people who live in those countries, what are their lives like, and why should we consider them our enemies?
- The Young Patriots, The Original Rainbow Coalition and Rising Up Angry
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
A look back at the social movements The Young Patriots and Rising Up Angry in the 1960's and 70's; the seventh article in the series 'Organize the White Working Class!'.
- Fascism and the far right; twenty years on
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Author Dave Renton revisits his book Fascism: Theory and Practice, and examines how his perspectives would change if he was to think today about the same questions raised 20 years ago.
- "American Thought": from theoretical barbarism to intellectual decadence
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Juraj Katalena argues that direct transposition of ideological frameworks developed in the specific cultural and economic context of the USA, to Eastern Europe (and other regions), is misguided.
- The Anti-Empire Report #150
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Anti-Empire Report by William Blum.
- Marx's Capital at 150
History in Capital, Capital in History
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
A look at Karl Marx's historic book 'Capital' Volume 1 on the 150th anniversary of publication, its historical significance and influence, and what it means for those who read the book today.
- 150 years of Karl Marx's Capital
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
On the 150th anniversary of the publication of Marx's Capital, Tom O'Lincoln explains why "the Bible of the working class" is about much more than economics.
- Philippines: Walden Bello on fighting fascism
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Walden Bello at the National Anti-Dictatorship Conference, University of the Philippines, outlines the key elements of an anti-dictatorship program.
- Trump Attorney Sues Greenpeace Over Dakota Access in $300 Million Racketeering Case
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Lawyers for Energy Transfer Partners, which include Donald Trump's go-to attorneys, have filed a $300 million lawsuit against Greenpeace and other environmental groups for their activism against the long-contested North Dakota-to-Illinois project.
- Antifa is a 'major gift to the right
World-renowned academic prompts criticism for his comments about the anti-fascist movement in the wake of Charlottesville
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
In the wake of the violent protests in Charlottesville and tension between white supremacists and anti-fascists, Noam Chomsky condemns Antifa militant tactics and suggests constructive activism based in education is more effective.
- Black Bloc Warning Urges More Violence Against Canadian Journalists
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Black Bloc anti-fascists whose members assaulted two Global News journalists at a demonstration in Quebec last weekend defended their actions Thursday and threatened more violence against journalists covering future protests in order to, according to the post, "make demonstrations safer" for the group.
- Freedom for the Speech We Hate: a Legal Guide to Your Protest Rights
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
A list of Constitutional questions and answers, including laws and guidelines for peaceful protesting, aimed at promoting the effectiveness of the First Amendment.
- How (Not) to Challenge Racist Violence
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
As white nationalism and the so-called "alt-Right" have gained prominence in the Trump era, a bipartisan reaction has coalesced to challenge these ideologies. But much of this bipartisan coalition focuses on individual, extreme, and hate-filled mobilizations and rhetoric, rather than the deeper, politer, and apparently more politically acceptable violence that imbues United States foreign and domestic policy in the 21st century.
- Undermining the Democratic Process: The Canadian Government Suppression of Palestinian Development Aid Projects
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
This paper examines the government suppression of Canadian development sector organisations running Palestinian aid projects from 2001 to 2012; based on document analysis, policy analysis and original interviews with coordinators running aid projects, it describes how their work was almost universally undermined by the Canadian government.
- Amid the Tumult in Durham
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Peter Gilbert (a rights attorney) and his wife Elena Everett,a non-profit organizer, had their house searched by Sheriff's officers in Durham when nobody was at home. It had to do with a demonstration of some 200 on Monday, Aug. 14, 2017.
- Thousands of Atlantic salmon escape fish farm near Victoria after nets damaged
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Thousands of Atlantic salmon escaped into Pacific waters east of Victoria, BC after facilities containing an estimated 305,000 fish were damaged at a U.S. fish farm in the San Juan Island.
- Village demolition based on Israel's 'racist' plan
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
In the Bedouin village of Umm al-Hiran, residents say the closing of an investigation into the killing of Yacoub Abu al-Qiyan is evidence of a wider strategy to drive residents out of the rural community.
- CBC Radio badly off track with too much personal storytelling
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
CBC Radio's wandering off into a journalistic sub-culture must be curtailed. At most, radio's schedule should include a couple of the storytelling programs.
- 2017 Toronto Open Chess Championship - September 2 - 4
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
The Toronto Open Chess Championship is Greater Toronto’s marquee Open event of the year, sanctioned by the Greater Toronto Chess League. It's being held September 2 - 4, 2017.
- Why Are All Those Racists So Terrified?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Past efforts, whatever personnel, resources and strategies have been devoted to them, have done nothing to address the underlying cause of racism and so their impact must be superficial and temporary. As the record demonstrates.
- The Economy of an Ecological Society Will Be at the Service of Humanity
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
What would a truly just, equal and ecologically sustainable future look like? Why would it require a change in our economic system, namely the end of capitalism? Fred Magdoff and Chris Williams answer these questions in Creating an Ecological Society: Toward a Revolutionary Transformation.
- A taxonomy of American far-right hate groups
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
An overview of the attitudes of various far-right groups in the United States.
- Israel Continues Its Attack on Palestinian Freedom of Expression
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
The arrest of a teenager for voicing an opinion on a social media site raises serious concerns over freedom of expression in Israel.
- Linguistic data analysis of 3 billion Reddit comments shows the alt-right is getting stronger
Taxonomy of Trolls
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
The alt-right isn't one group. They don't have one coherent identity. Rather, they're a loose collection of people from disparate backgrounds who would never normally interact: bored teenagers, gamers, men's rights activists, conspiracy theorists and, yes, white nationalists and neo-Nazis. But thanks to the internet, they’re beginning to form a cohesive group identity.
- Ryerson Made a Mistake in Cancelling Panel Discussion
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Not only are censorship and suppression fatal to the purpose of the university, they undermine the foundation of democratic society. When individual rights to freedom of expression are diminished or taken away for an allegedly good cause, they are necessarily invested in some higher authority that is given the right to determine what is acceptable. The result is censorship from above – ultimately the state – with the likelihood that the champions of that censorship today are its vulnerable targets tomorrow.
- Big city war: NATO seeks concepts for waging urban conflict
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
NATO is asking outside contractors to pitch concepts on military operations in urban areas, admitting that the bloc’s forces are still unprepared for waging wars in big cities, including those lying close to the coast.
- Germany: Confronting the colonial roots of racism
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
The Nazis didn't fall out of the sky, there is a deeper racist, xenophobic mindset in German history.
- Historic Settlement Reached on Behalf of CIA Torture Victims
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Details on the legal settlement between the U.S government and the victims of a CIA torture program in 2002.
- The North Korea Standoff, Like the Cuban Missile Crisis, Exposes the Reckless U.S. Worldview
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
The confrontation between the U.S. and North Korea has cooled off slightly with Kim Jong-un's announcement that, at least for the time being, he will not attack Guam with an "enveloping fire." A good place to start is with the repeated comparisons U.S. politicians have made between the situation with North Korea and the Cuban missile crisis in October 1962.
- Right But Wrong: Trump's Defense of Confederate Symbols and Its Threat to Color-Blind Liberalism
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
The ugly scenes of neo-nazis, neo-Confederates, and self-proclaimed white supremacists marching in large numbers and brawling on the streets of Charlottesville shocked American culture. President Trump spoke three times commenting on those troubling events.
- Settlement Reached in C.I.A. Torture Case
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
The lawsuit against two psychologists who helped architect the Central Intelligence Agency's brutal interrogation program was recently brought to an end, in what was an unusual effort to hold them personally accountable for the tactics the CIA adopted.
- This Group Has Successfully Converted White Supremacists Using Compassion. Trump Defunded It.
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Life After Hate is a Chicago-based nonprofit that does path-breaking work. Founded by former white supremacist leaders in 2011, it studies the forces that draw people to hate and helps those who are willing to disengage from radical extremist movements. In June, the Department of Homeland Security revoked a grant to the nonprofit, telling The Huffington Post that it wants to focus on funding groups that work with law enforcement.
- Yanis Varoufakis's Self-Incriminating Account of the Greek Crisis - Parts 1 and 2
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Part One: Proposals Doomed to Fail
In his latest book, Adults in the Room, Yanis Varoufakis gives us his version of the events that led to the Tsipras government's shameful capitulation in July 2015. It essentially analyses the period 2009-2015, though it makes incursions into earlier periods.
With this voluminous work (550 pages), Yanis Varoufakis shows that he is a gifted narrator. At times he succeeds in moving the reader. His direct and vivid style makes it easy to follow events.
This initial article will cover the first four chapters of a book that comprises 17 in all. It deals with the proposals Varoufakis made before he became a member of the government in January 2015.
- Donald Trump Has Been a Racist All His Life -- And He Isn't Going to Change After Charlottesville
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Consider the first time the president's name appeared on the front page of the New York Times was an article which pointed out that the Department of Justice had sued the Trump family's real estate company in federal court over alleged violations of the Fair Housing Act because of anti-black bias. Over the next four decades, Trump burnished his reputation as a bigot.
- The Misguided Attacks on ACLU for Defending Neo-Nazis' Free Speech Rights in Charlottesville
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
You can fight fascism by employing and championing one of its defining traits: viewpoint-based state censorship. those who favor free speech suppression, or who oppose the ACLU’s universal defense of speech rights, will create results that are the exact opposite of those they claim to want. It’s an indescribably misguided strategy that will inevitably victimize themselves and their own views.
- The Vietnam War is Not History for Victims of Agent Orange
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Nearly 58,000 Americans and 2 to 3 million Vietnamese, many of them civilians, were killed in the war. Untold numbers were wounded. Many US veterans of the war suffer from Post Traumatic Stress Disorder. More US Vietnam War vets have committed suicide than died in the war. However, those numbers do not begin to tell the complete story of the war.
- The Chinese Typewriter: A History
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
How Chinese characters triumphed over the QWERTY keyboard and laid the foundation for China's information technology successes today.
- Do you know a community that might like a new newspaper?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
At least 171 media organizations in 138 communities closed between 2008 and this January [2017]. However, Canadian communities still should be able to have reliable newspapers. They need to explore creating community-controlled not-for-profit papers.
- Dialectics and Difference: Against the 'Decolonial Turn'
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
"Decolonial" criticism is an example of vogue academic approach, which can be grafted onto preexisting disciplines and practices with relative ease. Still further, in so doing, it offers the semblance of radicalism, because it appears to challenge the tacit erasures and hidden presuppositions of prior revolutionary perspectives.
- From the Editors
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Beyond the specifics of the disagreements regarding the election results, it also became clear that political support for the Insurgent Notes project, as it had evolved within that small group was not as deep-seated as needed to allow for coherent decision-making about how we should proceed. We are in the process of forming a new editorial group that we hope will address that fundamental challenge.
- On the Grenfell Towers Fire
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Still working on things in relation to Grenfell as something that belongs to a more long-term development -- if you like, a culmination of so many cover-ups since the advent of brutalised Thatcherism as the neoliberal agenda unfolded during the last 40 years or so.
- Radical Ruptures Emerging from Global Wageworkers
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
The following notes were the basis of a contribution to the internationalist communist summer meeting organized by TPTG, Underground Tunnel and friends, July 11–17, 2017, in Greece.
- US-China Relations in the Age of Trump
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
On the current relationship between the United States and China.
- Venezuela: Target of Economic Warfare
What the heck is really going on in Venezuela? A complex story lies behind the offical narrative.
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
The article examines elements of Venezuala's economic warfare, role as global provider of oil, and the country's relationship with the Trump administration, to provide a multi-faceted picture of the country's recent violent events.
- Whiteness Again
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Whiteness is a protection racket that used to provide material bonuses. It is a minimally advantageous deal that the ruling class continuously renegotiates with a part of the working class, and the first such deal happened before the founding of the United States.
- Google's new advertising program tracks offline line shoppers, violates privacy
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
The privacy watchdog Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC) filed a formal complaint against Google alleging that the company's new advertising program violates consumer privacy.
- Google's new search protocol is restricting access to 13 leading socialist, progressive and anti-war web sites
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
New data suggests that the implementation of changes in Google's search evaluation protocols resulted in a massive loss of readership of socialist, anti-war and progressive web sites.
- How to Fight a Giant: Militant Labor Organizers Catch PepsiCo Off Guard
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
The sudden closing of a factory by PepsiCo, the world's second-largest snacks producer, leaves hundred's of workers in Argentina without jobs or sucurity, resulting in a massive demonstration of solidarity for worker's rights.
- Inglorious Empire: What the British Did to India
Book review
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
A review of Shashi Tharoor's book "Inglorious Empire", which is a scorching indictment of British rule in India and British imperialism in general.
- My Coal Childhood: Lessons From Germany's Mine Pit Lakes
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
A personal account of living near a coal mine in the Lausitz region of Germany, where extensive mining has severely damaged the environment and current 'solutions' are creating even further challenges.
- The People are Not the Enemy: Police Anarchy in America
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
With alarming regularity unarmed American men, women, children and even pets are dying at the hands of police who are trained to shoot first and ask questions later, yet government seems to do little to resolve this crisis in policing.
- Biological Warfare: US & Saudis Use Cholera to Kill Yemenis
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
The US has supported Saudi Arabia and its allies in their aggression against Yemen, committing daily war crimes involving civilians, who are now suffering a cholera epidemic with more than 400,000 victims.
- How to Escape the Present
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
A review of Naomi Klein's book "No Is Not Enough: Resisting Trump's Shock Politics and Winning the World We Need". Klein's focus is the global economy and the deeply flawed value system it creates, at the expense of people and the environment.
- Jewish woman sues Andrew Anglin over troll storm
Suit against Daily Stormer's neo-Nazi blogger raises questions about free speech and online harassment.
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Tanya Gersh and her family had been the target of a coordinated harassment and intimidation campaign spearheaded by Andrew Anglin, a blogger who runs a neo-Nazi website. An ensuing lawsuit against Anglin could set a precedent for the way courts draw a line between free speech and online harassment.
- Nutrient Runoff is Killing American Waters and Voluntary Actions Aren't Working
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
The ongoing causes and devastating effects of nutrient pollution on American lakes, bays and waterways is examined.
- Venezuela Elections: Resurgent Chavismo and 'Unrecognised' Democracy
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
After weeks of imperialist threats and opposition violence, the elections for the Constituent Assembly (ANC) in Venezuela took place on July 30th. The result was a massive turnout of over 8 million voters, around 41% of the electorate, which gave chavismo a much-needed shot in the arm. The western media reacted by trying to dispute the number and sticking even closer to the narrative being pushed by the opposition and the US State Department.
- Marx and Engels on ecology: A reply to radical critics
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
A review of the book "Marx and the Earth: An Anti-Critique" authored by Paul Burkett and John Bellamy Foster, who respond to critics of ecological Marxism with a comprehensive examination of what the founders of historical materialism wrote and thought about mankind's relationship to the earth.
- RIP Liu Xiaobo: Nobel Peace Awardee Who Supported All Wars Unleashed By US Imperialiasm
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
- Stupid Patent of the Month: HP Patents Reminder Messages
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
A recent patent to HP on 'Reminder messages' provides more evidence that the Patent Office takes an overly rigid approach to evaluating whether or not a patent application is obvious, and speaks poorly for its ability to determine whether patent applications actually reflect new inventions.
- Debunking the 2 claims: anti-Zionism is anti-Semitism, and BDS unfairly singles out Israel
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
The author points out the falsehoods surrounding the two most common claims by those who oppose actions in support of Palestinian rights.
- 'It's okay to be racist in Israel'
An Israeli conscientious objector speaks out about racism and subjugation as the occupation enters its 51st year.
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
An interview with Sahar Vardi, a conscientious objector in opposition to Israel's policies in the Palestinian territories, who was sentenced to prison and detention for her defiance.
- Palestine Museum of Natural History
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
The Palestine Museum of Natural History provides testimony to the Palestinian attachment to the land, for preservation of plant and animal life, as well as cultural expression and identity to the Palestinian community.
- Collateral Damage: U.S. Sanctions Aimed at Russia Strike Western European Allies
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Sanctions by the U.S. Congress which aims to distance relations with Russia may also have a crippling effect on European banks, particularly those in Germany and France.
- Israel's Slander Network
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
The author responds to an article titled "It’s Time to Talk About Yves Engler", which was written by a York University student affiliated to the Committee for Accuracy in Middle East Reporting in America (CAMERA).
- One Taxi Driver's Story of Trying to Survive in the Age of Uber
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Since Uber and other "ride-share" businesses emerged in Chicago, the livelihood that once sustained one taxi driver's family of five has now virtually disappeared.
- How Threats Against Domain Names Are Used to Censor Content
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
A summary of a whitepaper released by EFF titled "Which Internet registries offer the best protection for domain owners?", outlining important points to consider, such as the policies of the registry that operates the domain.
- The Lynching of Ted Smith
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
An account of the brutal slaying of Ted Smith, an African American teen who was burned at the stake by a mob of white men in Greenville, Texas on July 28, 1908.
- Poison Papers Snapshot: HOJO Transcript Illustrates EPA Collusion With Chemical Industry
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
A commentary on the "Poison papers", chemical industry and regulatory agency documents and correspondence stretching back decades, which shed light on what was known about chemical toxicity and practices in the often-incriminating words of the participants themselves, and which still have implications for us today.
- First of Its Kind Study Shows 55,400 People Hospitalized or Killed by US Cops in a Single Year
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
The authors of a study which examined police interactions with the public conclude that alarmingly high numbers reflect an "excess exposure" of people to police violence.
- Policing for Profit: Jeff Sessions & Co.'s Thinly Veiled Plot to Rob Us Blind
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Commentary on 'policing for profit', or civil asset forfeiture, which allows police and prosecutors to seize property and sell it to help fund agency budgets.
- Leonardo da Vinci's Visionary Notebooks Now Online: Browse 570 Digitized Pages
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
A look at some of the secret manuscripts by Leonardo da Vinci, many now online, which remained hidden for centuries and only accessible by only the most rarified of collectors.
- Only 100 cyclists...
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
A news article reports that a woman riding her bicycle was seriously injured by a hit-and-run driver in Halton, a regional municipality west of Toronto. But, hey, no big deal.
- Venezuela on the Edge of Civil War
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Venezuela is a step closer to civil war after the July 20, 2017 "fake referendum" held by the government opposition, which resulted in a vote of "no confidence" for President Nicolas Maduro.
- Was the "Russian Hack" an Inside Job?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Forensic studies of "Russian hacking" into Democratic National Committee computers last year reveal that on July 5, 2017, data was leaked (not hacked) by a person with physical access to DNC computers, and then doctored to incriminate Russia.
- When Israel's friends in Labour advocated genocide
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Every so often Labour Friends of Israel pays tribute to Richard Crossman, an early activist with the British pressure group and one of the best known British politicians of the mid-20th century. The tributes to the late cabinet minister are not entirely informative.One detail that tends to be omitted is that, when it came to Palestine, Crossman advocated genocide.
- "All Power to the Soviets!" Biography of a Slogan
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
An examination of the origins of the slogan "All Power to the Soviets" in its original context of Russia in 1917.
- Dylan and Woody: Goin' Down the Road Feelin' Bad
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Book review of Daniel Wolff's 'Grown Up Anger: The Connected Mysteries of Bob Dylan, Woody Guthrie, and the Calumet Massacre of 1913.'
- EFF Asks Court to Strike Down Unconstitutional Restraint on Our Speech
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
GEMSA's patent litigation was featured in EFF's June 2016 blog series "Stupid Patent of the Month."
- Quantitative Easing: the Most Opaque Transfer of Wealth in History
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Quantitative Easing, by 'injecting' money into the economy, was supposed to get banks lending again, boosting investment and driving up economic growth, but this has proven not to be the case.
- A Shameful Silence: Where is the Outrage Over the Slaughter of Civilians in Mosul?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
The catastrophic number of civilian casualties in Mosul is receiving little attention internationally from politicians and journalists. This is in sharp contrast to the outrage expressed worldwide over the bombardment of east Aleppo by Syrian government and Russian forces at the end of 2016.
- Analyzing the Failures of Syriza
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Examines the failture of Syriza, The Coalition of the Radical Left, since their election in Greece.
- The wonderful world of bossnapping
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
A short introduction to and history of 'bossnapping', where workers detain their bosses in order to win demands.
- Geheimhaltung und Macht
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2024
Es ist eine der wesentlichen Eigenschaften von Macht, dass sie auf Geheimhaltung beharrt. Oder besser gesagt: diejenigen, die Macht über andere ausüben, behaupten regelmäßig, dass die Details über ihre Handlungen sowie den Gründen für diese viel zu empfindlich seien, um der Öffentlichkeit preiszugeben.
- Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - July 22, 2017
Secrecy and Power
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Secrecy is a weapon the powerful use against their enemies: us. This issue of Other Voices explores the relationship of secrecy and power.
- Secrecy and Power
Introduction to the July 22, 2017 issue of Other Voices
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
It is one of the essential attributes of power that it insists on secrecy. Or, more precisely, those who wield power over others routinely claim that the details of what they do, and why they do it, are far too sensitive to be revealed to the public.
- Dakota Access-Style Policing Moves to Pennsylvania's Mariner East 2 Pipeline
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Examination of the troubling fusion of private security, public law enforcement, and corporate money in the fight over the Dakota Access Pipeline.
- Alt-right group posts names, photos of 'potentially dangerous' Cornwallis protesters
28 people 'doxed' by national socialist group, some labelled as mentally ill
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
A group of self-described national socialists in Nova Scotia has posted personal information about people who have shown interest in protests calling for the removal of an Edward Cornwallis statue in Halifax, labelling them as "potentially dangerous."
- Condemnation Grows for Bipartisan Attack on Free Speech Rights of BDS Supporters
Lawmakers urged to reject bill that would punish Americans for supporting boycotts of Israel
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
A pair of bipartisan bills targeting boycotts of Israel and Israeli settlements appear to have widespread support in Congress, to the dismay of civil rights advocates who say the proposals are an attack on free speech.
- Empire of Destruction
Precision Warfare? Don't Make Me Laugh
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
A single word to summarize American war-making in this last decade and a half: rubble. It's been a painfully apt term since September 11, 2001. In addition, to catch the essence of such war in this century, two new words might be useful: rubblize and rubblization.
- Jeremy Corbyn Wants to Requisition Homes of the Rich for Fire Survivors - Like Churchill Did in WWII
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
British Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn has a bold proposal to house the survivors of a devastating fire at London's Grenfell Tower apartment complex in empty luxury homes.
- Palestinians have a legal right to armed struggle
It's time for Israel to accept that as an occupied people, Palestinians have a right to resist - in every way possible.
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
International law recognises the fundamental rights to self-determination, freedom and independence for the occupied. For Palestinians that includes the right to armed struggle.
- The Biotech Industry Is Taking Over the Regulation of GMOs from the Inside
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
When a comprehensive evaluation of GMOs and the weaknesses of scientific risk assessment within the biotech industry is urgently needed, the chemical and biotech industries are forcing risk assessment in the opposite direction.
- Ear Hustle: Prison podcast tells of life in San Quentin
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Recorded in the historic San Quentin State Prison, the new Ear Hustle podcast paints a human image of life in lockup.
- Fear and Trembling in the Workplace
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Organized labour is desperately in need of a major facelift. The AFL-CIO needs to hire the best public relations firm in the land, pay them what they ask, do exactly as they say, and get busy educating the American public.
- How Seattle Voted to Tax the Rich
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Seattle further cemented its reputation as one of the most progressive cities in the U.S. last week, when its City Council passed a law to tax the rich, sponsored by socialist City Councilmember Kshama Sawant along with Councilmember Lisa Herbold.
- Venezuelan Opposition "Consultation"
Playing Alone and Losing
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
The Venezuelan opposition "referendum", which in reality was nothing more than a non-binding 'consultation' without any legal status, was predicted as a major political earthquake that would instantly change the country's landscape.
- Why ISIS Fighters are Being Thrown Off Buildings in Mosul
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
The suspicion by Iraqi soldiers and militiamen that their own government is too corrupt to keep captured Isis fighters in detention is one reason why prisoners are being killed.
- Ants Among Elephants: An Untouchable Family and the Making of Modern India
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
A story of the caste system in India told through the autobiography of an untouchable woman.
- CNN: "Russia is an Adversary, Ukraine is Not."
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Monday morning. David Chalian, CNN Political Director, on CNN's "New Day" program. News ticker: "How do Trump-Russia and DNC-Ukraine compare?" New Day co-anchor Alysin Camerota (former Fox anchor) puts the question to her Political Director. Chalian's mechanical reply: "Russia is an adversary, Ukraine is not."
- How I Learned Courts are Off-Limits to the 99 Percent
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Rall discusses the expenses of the American justice system that benefit large corporations and the wealthy.
- Your Personal Consumption Choices Can't Save the Planet: We Have to Confront Capitalism
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Failing to do our part for climate change is a convenient narrative to the small minority of people who are actually responsible for fueling the crisis, and the answer to tackling the crisis is actually changing the economic system driving climate change.
- The Moral Corrosion of Drone Warfare
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
The Jerry Berrigan Brigade, named after Syracuse peacemaker Jerry Berrigan, were called to court for their nonviolent witness against drone warfare at the state-side drone base Hancock.
- The making of a modern 'spell-book'
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Robert Macfarlane and Jackie Morris discuss designing The Lost Words – a gorgeously illustrated book that conjures lost words and and species back into our everyday lives.
- University of Toronto student app takes you back in time in Kensington Market
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
The app uses augmented reality to tell the story of a historic Toronto neighbourhood.
- The Left needs to "find common ground" with Evangelical Christians
"There's no point arguing that it can't be done because the cultural differences are too great," says Chomsky
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
A discussion between Noam Chomsky and Charles Derber excerpted from the novel by Derber entitled, "Welcome to the Revolution: Universalizing Democracy for Social Justice in Perilous Times."
- Anti-Racism at the Neighbourhood Level
Resource Type: Audio
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
On this week's episode of Talking Radical Radio, Scott Neigh speaks with Rabea Murtaza, a member of East Enders Against Racism, a neighbourhood-based anti-racism group in Toronto. Podcast and article.
- The financial system killing environmental activists
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
A Global Witness report reveals 2016 as the deadliest year yet for environmental defenders. International investors are accused of bankrolling the projects that hundreds of people have been killed protesting.
- Israel's Ever-More Sadistic Reprisals Help Shore up a Sense of Victimhood
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Israel argues that a potential attacker can only be dissuaded by knowing his loved ones will suffer harsh retribution.
- Message from the High Court: Carry on arming the Saudis
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Campaigners are furious with a High Court decision in London allowing the UK Government to carry on exporting arms to Saudi Arabia for use against Yemenis.
- The Ordeal of Hassan Diab
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Sociology professor and Canadian citizen Hassan Diab was wrongfully arrested and extradiated to France in 2008. To this day the Canadian government is silent on the events.
- Trump's Worst Collusion Isn't With Russia -- It's With Corporations
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Many leading liberals suspect that Trump worked with Russia to win his election, but we've long known that huge corporations and wealthy individuals threw their weight behind the billionaire.
- U.S., UK and France Denounce Nuclear Ban Treaty
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
The U.S., UK and France did not participate in the United Nations negotiations leading to the recent adoption of the nuclear ban treaty, and joined together in expressing their outright defiance of the newly-adopted treaty.
- The view from different planets
Connecting wildfires and climate change proscribed only on Planet Alberta
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
The political discourse surrounding climate change and wildfires is almost nonexistent in Alberta.
- Why Can't the U.S. Left Get Venezuela Right?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
As Venezuela's fascist-minded oligarchy conspires with U.S. imperialism to overthrow the democratically elected government of Nicolas Maduro, few in the U.S. seem to care.
- A Brief History of Mass Theft
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
The process by which communal land and resources are appropriated by private wealth (or capital), and people are robbed of their self-sufficiency and thereby forced into a position where they have to sell their labour in order to survive, is called Primitive Accumulation. Today we might call this Privatisation, or in plain-speaking, Mass-Theft.The entire process of mass-theft took centuries to carry out in Western Europe and is often difficult to grasp in its entirety.
- Comply or Die: the Police State's Answer to Free Speech Is Brute Force
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Forget everything you’ve ever been taught about free speech in America. It's all a lie.There can be no free speech for the citizenry when the government speaks in a language of force.
- Fighting the Wrong Enemy: Why Americans Hate Muslims
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Certainly, anti-Arab and Muslim sentiments in the US have been around for generations, but it has risen sharply in the last two decades. Arabs and Muslims have become an easy scapegoat for all of America's failed wars and counter-violence.
- My Stealthy Freedom: The Hijab in Iran and in the West
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
An interview with Masih Alinejad, an outspoken critic of the forced hijab policy in Iran, about how the Islamic Revolution affected women, compulsory hijab laws, and her activism.
- Thoreau at 200
Don't Let Bill Gates Ban the Hoe
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
In support of the so-called 'Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa,' Bill Gates is telling African women in remote villages to put down their hand-held hoes.
- Canada's Little Known History of Impoverishing the Congo
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Canadians are ignorant and confused about their country's role in the world.In a recent example of 'benevolent Canada' bias, the Globe and Mail reported uncritically about a trip International Development Minister Marie-Claude Bibeau made to the Congo. In a story last week headlined "Canada commits $97-million to Congo under feminist foreign-aid policy", the Globe reported that "Canada has committed nearly $100-million to the Democratic Republic of the Congo to support women's economic empowerment, protect street children and provide humanitarian assistance."
- A successful rent strike in 1930s Peckham
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Historical account of a successful rent strike in Peckham, London, where tenants lived in appalling conditions.
- Why Palestine is Still the Issue
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
The longest occupation and resistance in modern times is a crime that has been suppressed in the intellectual and political culture of the West.
- UK arms sales to Saudi Arabia ruled lawful
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
After seeing secret evidence, the High Court in Britain has ruled that the UK government's arms sales to Saudi Arabia are lawful, despite claims the government has contravened humanitarian law.
- 'Atheist Muslim' says bigoted Donald Trump supporters have hijacked debate on Islam
'The left is wrong on Islam - the right is wrong on Muslims,' says author Ali Rizvi
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Author Ali Rizvi claims that people on the left and the right of the political spectrum are both unable to distinguish between "Islamic ideology and Muslim identity", preventing honest conversations about the link between religion and terrorism.
- Cultural Appropriation and Secular Blasphemy
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
On the controversies over 'cultural appropriation'.
- Is Tribalism Racist?
Antiracism Norms and Immigration
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Are ethnically-motivated restrictions on immigration racist? Eric Kaufmann draws on new data from an 18-country survey to explain how people answered this question and how their answer affects their own support for higher or lower immigration levels.
- Fake News on Russia in the New York Times, 1917-2017
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Fake news on Russia is a Times tradition that can be traced back at least as far as the 1917 revolution.
- Germany made over 1bn out of Greek debt crisis
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Since the beginning of Greece’s crisis in 2009 Germany’s Finance Ministry has cashed in to the tune of 1.3 billion as a result of its loans to Athens and its debt buying programs reports Euractiv.
- Hungarian far right launches new political party
Militants gather in Budapest to form political movement aiming to replace current party on the extreme right
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Hundreds of Hungarian right-wing militants gathered in Budapest to launch a political movement that they hope will run in next year’s parliamentary elections on a platform that includes open racism.
- The Attack on Al Jazeera
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Since its genesis, Al-Jazeera has served as much more than a mere signpost of speech or thought... popular or otherwise. Its existence, alone, stands as a safety valve against those closed societies that embrace repression as so much a check against the light of day of which they fear. Al-Jazeera's availability throughout the Middle East changed its information landscape ... introducing a level of freedom of speech, on TV, that was previously unheard of in the region.
- The Canadian Left and Israel
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Accusations of Left anti-Semitism may mask a more significant racism problem on the Left.
- The Destructive Power Trips of Amazon's Boss
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Pointed criticism of online retailer Amazon and its Boss Jeff Bezos, whose practices include avoiding state taxes, erosion of traditional retail and small business, and undermining the tax base in communities.
- How climate scepticism turned into something more dangerous
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
The motley array of candidates who ran for the Republican presidential nomination was divided on many things, but not on climate change. None of them was willing to take the issue seriously.
- There's No Good Reason for Your Boss to Make 347 Times What You Do
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
CEO pay at America's 500 largest companies averaged $13.1 million in 2016. That's 347 times what the average employee makes.
- This is What Plutocracy Looks Like
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Mr. Trump is the quintessential plutocrat-- a self-interested man of inherited means and limited life experience who stumbled upward through political economy engineered to benefit his class. It is this very public nature of his 'success' that attaches class culpability to his actions.
- What if Omar Khadr isn't guilty?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
The controversy surrounding Omar Khadr's reported $10.5-million settlement for Ottawa's complicity in his oppressive detention at Guantanamo Bay obscures a key issue we've never truly explored in Canada.What if Khadr was innocent of the murder of Sgt. Christopher Speer this whole time, and we didn't lift a finger while he sat in a hell-hole for a decade?
- When Will Co-opted Figures and Board Members Be Hauled into Court?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
They promote the message that their products are essential to our survival. They promote a fundamentally ecologically, socially and economically damaging model of agriculture facilitated by Washington, the World Trade Organization, World Bank and International Monetary Fund.
- Why Imperial Washington Should Cool It On North Korea
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
The author argues that an enhanced package of sanctions, UN resolutions, diplomatic pressures and miltary threats against North Korea is futile; indeed Washington has been doing this for years and it hasn't worked yet, and a more robust version directed at North Korea won't work now.
- Wonder Woman is a hero only the military-industrial complex could create
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
The author peels back the layer of blockbuster comic book fun to reveal the film's disturbing and not-so-covert political and militaristic messages.
- Clinton lost because PA, WI, and MI have high casualty rates and saw her as pro-war, study says
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
A new study appears to show that Hilary Clinton lost the battleground states of Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, and Michigan in the 2016 presidential election because they had some of the highest casualty rates during the Iraq and Afghanistan wars and voters there saw Clinton as the pro-war candidate.
- Gilroy and Reed on Race, Class & Culture
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
The common theme has been the way that those who call themselves 'progressive' or 'anti-racist' often draw upon ideas that are deeply regressive and rooted in racial ways of thinking; and that the consequences of identity politics and of concepts such as cultural appropriation is to bring about not social justice but the empowerment of those who would act as gatekeeprs to particular communities. The articles have inevitably drawn much hostility, especially from would-be gatekeepers, who insist that to challenge such ideas is to challenge antiracism, even to 'defend white supremacy'.
- New map records sites of Australia's colonial massacres
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Map is the first to detail evidence of more than 150 massacres involving almost every aboriginal clan between 1788 and 1872.
- The problem with identity politics
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
An examination of identity politics, and how experience alone is an inadequate foundation from which to develop an analysis of oppression or to devise political strategies to end it.
- Egerton Ryerson doesn't deserve an anti-Indigenous label
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
In defence of Egerton Ryerson (the namesake of Ryerson University) regarding the current anti-indigenous controversy.
- The Great Power Shift: a Russia-China Alliance
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
A significant powershift in the triangular relaionship between the US, Russia and China is occuring as Sino-Russian relations are improving.
- I'm a Pediatrician. How Transgender Ideology Has Infiltrated My Field and Produced Large-Scale Child Abuse.
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Professionals who question the unscientific party line of supporting gender transition therapy could find themselves out of a job.
- Squatters' 60-Year War Against Private Property
How propertied classes team up with the state to forcibly evict urban squatters.
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Over the past 60 years, whenever squatters claimed homes in Western European and U.S. cities, even buildings long abandoned, the state used force to protect private property.
- Washington and Berlin on a Collision Course
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
The Russia sanctions bill that passed the US Senate on June 15, 2017 directly demonizes the Nord Stream 2 pipeline, under the Baltic Sea, which is bound to double Gazprom's energy capacity to supply gas to Europe.
- You Want a Picture of the Future? Imagine a Boot Stamping on Your Face
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
The author explains why the dystopian future dreamed up by such authors as George Orwell, Ray Bradbury and Margaret Atwood has already arrived.
- Class, Race and Marxism
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Through the lense of Marxism, Roediger argues that racial divisions and the identity of whiteness are inexorably connected to capitalism and the logic of capital.
- Here's why papers don't deserve support; money should go to committed Internet sites
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Governement funding should not go toward propping up mainstream print media, but rather towards access to information in communities where it is currently lacking.
- An Addict, a Confessed Killer and Now a Debut Author
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Despite the voluminous literature produced in prisons very little contemporary prison literature is released by major publishing houses, which are wary of the controversial and ethical pitfalls associated with publishing works by convicts.
- The 'Forgotten' US Shootdown of Iranian Airliner Flight 655
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
The shooting down of Iran Air flight 655 by the US Navy, which killed 290 civilian passengers, is well remembered in Iran twenty-nine years after the incident, yet many Americans reliant on US media may not have even heard about it.
- Waving From the Rooftops
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
The drug Narcan (Naxalone) has skyrocketed in price due to the heroine and opioide crisis. Political response shows disregard for not only drug addicts, but the welfare and lives of all people under capitalism.
- What Does 'Community' Mean?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
The terms evolution makes a nice metaphor for the rise of American individualism -- and the decline of trust in American institutions.
- Where Did Britain's Racists Go?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
A year ago Britain voted to exit the European Union. Anyone who wanted to leave the EU was deemed to be a racist, a caveman, an irrational nationalist and even a drunk fool. However today – exactly one year later, some are talking about a "soft" Brexit or even no Brexit. Has Britain changed so much in a year?
- An Addict, a Confessed Killer and Now a Debut Author
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
The novel "The Graybar Hotel" has received significant praise, yet its release has also raised difficult questions and challenges for the publisher as it tries to win over booksellers and critics to support a work written by a convicted murderer.
- Aztec tower of Human Skulls Uncovered in Mexico City
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Archeologists discover 676 skulls from Aztec archeological site, in Mexico City.
- First register; then turn tricks
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
A new prostitution law to include compulsory registration meant to fight human trafficking and exploitation is not popular in the industry, and may lead to a return of prostitution going underground.
- How Culture Came to Appropriate Race
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Racism has historically played a major role in shaping adoption practices.
- How Paul Robeson found his political voice in the Welsh valleys
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Acclaimed American stage actor, singer, football player and political activist Paul Robeson became involved with the Welsh mining labour movement in the Rhondda Valley, Wales.
- How the tiny fishing village of Pugwash tried to stop a nuclear war
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
The Pugwash Conference in Nova Scotia, a gathering of leading scientists to help thwart nuclear war, is the inspiration for a new play by Vern Thiessen.
- The Myth of 'Cultural Appropriation'
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Arguing that certain people don’t have the right to tell certain stories is a distraction from the real menace: inequality.
- What can the Corbynistas learn from Syriza?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
As a Corbyn government seems more and more likely, there are clear lessons to be drawn from the Greek experience.
- As the World Turned Upside Down
Left Intellectuals in Yugoslavia, 1988-90
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
An account of the author's experiences and reflections meeting left intellectuals, primarily during conferences in Yugoslavia between 1988 and 1990.
- Birth of the "Open Shop"
Reform or Repression: Organizing America's Anti-Union Movement
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Book review of Chad Pearson's Reform or Repression: Organizing America's Anti-Union Movement.
- China's Ancient Labor Party
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Mozi was an outstanding thinker and what is more a militant, grounded on a well-defined program, who fought on behalf of the toilers in ancient China.
- Confederate Monuments Down
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
For the rewriters, the Civil War became a "misunderstanding" (as Donald Trump echoes today) and Confederate generals and politicians were transformed into great Southern heroes and cultural icons. African-Americans were routinely humiliated, brutalized, and mutilated.
- Detroit's Rebellion at Fifty
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
From the days of the Marcus Garvey nationalist movement in the early decades of the century, to Malcolm X, revolutionary autoworkers and the Black Power movement in the 1960s, Detroit was front and center in debates on strategy and tactics to win Black freedom.
- Lebanon and Middle East: On the Hezbollah and fundamentalism - "We need a large movement from below!"
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Interview with Joseph Daher on his new book on the political economy of the Hezbollah.
- The Longest Occupation
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
In the current maelstrom of imperialism and regional wars, Israeli military supremacy, Islamic fundamentalism and the destruction of whole societies and even civilizations in Iraq and Syria, the very possibility of any positive outcome sometimes seems remote.
- Marching for Science and Humanity
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
On April 22, 2017 the March for Science took place in Washington DC, which I attended. It was a dreary rainy day that was lit up by the large crowd of scientists and concerned citizens gathered at the Washington Monument. The atmosphere was festive and defiant despite the weather.
- Murder at the Algiers Motel
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
The following account is abridged from an anthology, Detroit 1967, just published by Wayne State Press. McGuire has uncovered material that hadn't previously come to light.
- One Half-Cheer for Trump?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
June 1, 2017, Donald Trump announced that "The United States will withdraw from the Paris climate accord," setting off alarm bells and outraged protests in U.S. cities and around the world. We would suggest that under present circumstances, he chose the better - well, less bad - of the existing options.
- Poland's Solidarity and Its Fate
Seeing Through the Eyes of the Polish Revolution: Solidarity and the Struggle against Communism in Poland
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Book review of Jack Bloom's Seeing Through the Eyes of the Polish Revolution: Solidarity and the Struggle against Communism in Poland.
- A Redder Shade of Green: Intersections of Science and Socialism
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
As the Anthropocene advances, people across the red-green political spectrum seek to understand and halt our deepening ecological crisis. Environmentalists, scientists, and ecosocialists share concerns about the misuse and overuse of natural resources, but often differ on explanations and solutions.
- Roots of the Rebellion
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Kim D. Hunter interviews Melba Joyce Boyd about the 1967 rebellion.
- The Russian Revolution: Workers in Power
October 1917: Workers in Power
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Book review of Fred Leplat's and Alex de Jong's October 1917: Workers in Power.
- Sweatshop Shoes for Ivanka
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
The factory producing shoes for Ivanka Trump's brand has come under scrutiny for exploitative workplace practices, and for the arrest and disappearance of three labour rights activists who were investigating the place for China Labor Watch.
- A Tale of Two Detroits
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Poverty in Detroit has become more concentrated over the last decade. Families live in neighborhoods with declining populations, more and more abandoned homes, and a poverty that persists year after year.
- Teachers as Change Agents
Educational Justice: Teaching and Organizing against the Corporate Juggernaut
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Book review of Howard Ryan's Educational Justice: Teaching and Organizing against the Corporate Juggernaut.
- Theresa May's Katrina
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
The unlikely reality of a bearded, unashamedly socialist (of sorts) MP winning the affection of working class voters countrywide calls out for further investigation.
- The Unclaimed Dead
In Texas, the Bodies of Migrants Who Perished in the Desert Provide Clues to the Living
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Operation Identification, a program began in 2013 amid a swirl of grassroots organizing, lead the exhumation of more than 50 unidentified human remains from a rural graveyard named Sacred Heart.
- The Unraveling Middle East
Shifting Sands: The Unraveling of the Old Order in the Middle East
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Book review of Raja Shehadeh's and Penny Johnson's Shifting Sands: The Unraveling of the Old Order in the Middle East.
- USAID in El Salvador: The Politics of Prevention
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
The U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) frames its work in El Salvador in the sterile, technocratic language of neoliberalism. The Agency is devoted to fostering "prosperity, security and good governance" in the small Central American nation. Notions of non-partisanship and apolitical, post-ideological action are key to this discourse
- The World and Its Particulars
The Ways of the World
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Book review of David Harvey's The Ways of the World.
- The World Through African Eyes
Securing the Base: Making Africa Visible in the Globe
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Book review of Ngugi wa Thiong'o's Securing the Base: Making Africa Visible in the Globe.
- Call Center Unions Build International Connections
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
One big issue in the three-day strike by 38,000 AT&T workers was the company's offshoring of jobs. To shine a spotlight on the issue and strengthen international solidarity, a group of union members visited the Dominican Republic a couple of weeks before the strike to meet the call center workers on the other end of that offshoring.
- Cleaning Toilets for Jesus
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
An examination of the job-readiness program called Jobs for Life. Founded in 1996 in North Carolina, JFL is a global nonprofit organization premised on the belief that the local church is the ideal solution to unemployment and poverty.
- Liberals' Neglect of Hassan Diab a Scar on Canada's History
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
An innocent Canadian citizen has been wrongly incarcerated by foreign powers and torn away from his family, but our country's leader seems unfazed.
- Class and class struggle in China today
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
An examination of the transformed economy in China and the consequent changes in class relations, and how the Communist Party has managed to maintain its rule.
- Detroit's Underground Economy: Where Capitalism Fails, Alternatives Take Root
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Detroit's economic comeback is greatly overstated, while many residents survive through informal business arrangements and bartering.
- Fast food rights: organising the unorganised
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
The experience from the examples of organising the unorganised both in the US and UK demonstrate that it is possible to develop union organisation; significant examples are discussed in this article, particularly in a British context.
- The 1,000-year-old lost Arab poetry that lives on in Hebrew
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
A thousand years ago, the Iberian peninsula was a cultural oasis-- until a million of its Arabic manuscripts were destroyed. Benjamin Ramm explains how its poetry lives on.
- Uncovering the history of the English Revolution
Book review
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
A review of John Rees, The Leveller Revolution: Radical Political Organisation in England, 1640-1650, Verso (2016).
- Canadian William Grant Stairs: Killing Natives and Seizing their Land for Leopold II in Congo
A Brutal Part of Canada's Dark History in Africa
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
William Grant Stairs of Halifax played an important role in two expeditions that expanded Leopold II's profitable Congolese venture, one that included forced labour and ultimately resulted in millions of deaths.
- Israel's Efforts to Hide Palestinians From View No Longer Fools Young American Jews
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
The denial of Palestinian history by Israel is no longer accepted by many young American Jews, a community that is increasingly polarized by the issue.
- Trump's 'No Fly Zone' Escalates U.S. War Against Syria
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
The June 18th destruction of a Syrian government aircraft by a U.S. fighter jet underscores the fact that U.S. and its imperial allies in Syria will attack any and all forces that seek to interfere with U.S. imperialist objectives.
- CNN Journalists Resign: Latest Example of Media Recklessness on the Russia Threat
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Major U.S. media outlets have published claims about the Russian threat in the direction of exaggerating the threat as well as inventing incriminating links between Moscow and the Trump circle, many of which have turned out to be false.
- Driverless Cars: Hype, Hubris and Distractions
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
The driverless personal car is quickly emerging without a legal, ethical and priorities framework, when priorities should be placed on safer, more efficient and less polluting means of transport.
- Hersh's New Syria Revelations Buried From View
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
A look at veteran journalist Seymour Herst's latest investigation, which questions whether Syrian President Assad was responsible for another alleged gas attack at Khan Sheikhoun.
- HMS Queen Elizabeth aircraft carrier runs on Windows XP, vulnerable to cyberattack
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
The first of Britain's two brand new aircraft carriers runs on outdated Windows XP software that may be vulnerable to cyberattack.
- Immanuel Kant on Electoral Interference
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Historically the United States has been far more inclined to engage in politcal interference than Russia.
- Software problems delay virtual F-35s as well
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Virtual planes experiencing problems plaguing the F-35. "Unexpected issues" have resulted in a three-month delay in delivering the newest simulator software to foreign customers like Norway, Italy, Israel, and Japan.
- Grenfell Tower: the Tragic Price of the Rolled-Back State
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
The British state used to be better organised and effective, but self-interested denigration of the state over the past 30 years has helped erode these strengths, leaving authorities less equiped to handle emergencies such as Grenfell tower disaster.
- Lies That Capitalists Tell Us
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Counter-arguments against common beliefs of the benefit of capitalism.
- Öffentliche Sicherheit
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2024
Es wird zunehmend deutlich, dass wir ein drastisches Zurücksetzen der Systeme und Strukturen beobachten, die die westlichen Gesellschaften im letzten Jahrhundert und darüber hinaus entwickelt haben, um die öffentliche Gesundheit und Sicherheit zu schützen.
- Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter June 26, 2017
Public Safety
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
The June 26, 2017 issue of Other Voices, the Connexions newsletter is about public safety.
- Public Safety
Introduction to the June 26, 2017 issue of Other Voices
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
It is becoming increasingly clear that we have been witnessing a drastic rolling back of the systems and structures which Western societies developed over the past century or more to safeguard public health and safety. Politicians and business leaders, permeated with free-market ideology, have been jettisoning, with little thought or understanding of the consequences, the apparatus previous generations built, piece by piece, to mitigate the most dangerous aspects of industrial civilization.
- Francis Daniel Pastorius
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Francis Daniel Pastorius (September 26, 1651-1720) was a German born educator, lawyer, poet, and public official, who is particularly known for his anti-slavery advocacy.
- One Woman Is Behind the Most Up-to-Date Interactive Map of Femicides in Mexico
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
The interactive 'Femicides in Mexico Map' is a "citizen-led, civic, independent initiative based on open data which, using geographical coordinates, has been mapping cases of femicide since 2016.
- These are the Israeli leaders who want to destroy al-Aqsa
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
The recent violence at the al-Aqsa temple and subsequent response by Israeli leadership underscores the belief that the intent is to replace the Muslim holy site as part of the broader agenda of Israeli sovereignty.
- East Africa: EAC Urged to Go Ahead With Plans to Ban Second-Hand Clothes Import
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
The East African Community (EAC) should continue with plans to ban imports of second-hand clothes to promote the domestic textile industry.
- Election Interference Hypocrisy
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
While Canadian and Western media pursue Russian election meddling they ignore clear-cut Canadian meddling elsewhere, and the Unites States' long history of interference in elections around the world, including in Canada.
- No One Has the Data to Prevent the Next Flint
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Data gaps in testing and regulations of water safety in America can potentially put many citizens at risk.
- On Hidden Cultural Corruptors
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
The educational institution and military institution both purport to be a source of the nation's highest values, yet they often corrupt and bring out the worst qualities in American citizens.
- Palestine: Another Desperate Cry for Help
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
The National Coalition of Christian Organizations in Palestine (NCCOP) has just issued a final plea for help in the form of an open letter to the World Council of Churches and the ecumenical movement.
- The Sex Offender: the 21st Century Witch
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Looks at the status of a "sexual offender" in America, including sexual offender registries, as well as groups working against false accusations.
- What's left of Pakistan's left?
For those in Pakistan who want to explore a non neo-liberal, non-right wing option, the Left is there in some form.
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Menon recounts her discovery of the emerging political Left in Pakistan and reflects on its future. Awami Workers Party featured.
- The Bolsheviks and Antisemitism
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Antisemitism was found across the political divide in Russia's year of revolution.
- The Pentagon Says One Civilian Died in Drone Strike on Syrian Mosque. Witnesses Say It Killed Dozens.
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
A Pentagon review concludes that a missile strike only killed one person and was a legal attack on a legitimate target. The review did not include eye witness testimony which claims dozens of lives were lost as well as damage to a mosque.
- Remembering Peekskill
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
The Peekskill Riots in 1949 remind us of a period of postwar rebellion and reaction that set the stage for the rest of the century.
- Disaster at Arm's Length
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
The Grenfell Tower disaster in London exposes the class violence embedded in London's gentrifying neighbourhoods.
- Resist This: the United States is at War With Syria
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
The United States is engaged in military actions within a sovereign country that poses no actual or imminent threat, effectively an act of war against Syria.
- The Single Party French State ... as the Majority of Voters Abstain
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
The victory of Macron's personal party, la République En Marche (REM), with an absolute majority of 350 out of 577 seats in the National Assembly, has bled the two traditional governing parties, the Republicans and the Socialists.
- Trump's election integrity commission needs to redress voter suppression, not fraud
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
President Trump signed an executive order to establish the Election Integrity Commission, an effort focused on improper voter registrations and voter fraud. The formation comes days after the Supreme Court rejected an appeal to reinstate North Carolina's stringent voter identification laws that were found to discriminate against African Americans.
- Who Built the Panama Canal?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Donald Trump might not know it, but the United States didn't build the Panama Canal. Workers did.
- Grenfell Tower Fire: Corporate Manslaughter in London
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
A massive fire engulfed Grenfell Tower in the early hours of June 14th. Grenfell Tower is a 24-storey building of public housing flats in the North Kensington area of London. Over 600 people were believed to be inside the building and there are fears that the death toll, currently at 58, will rise to over a 100. This incident generated a wave of public anger over ignored safety warnings, an inadequate response from authorities, and most of all about the (housing) policies that safeguard corporate greed over the rights of the poor and working class, in this case their very lives. This was no accident – it was corporate manslaughter.
- Mass Incarceration, Prison Labor in the United States
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Federal Prison Industries (FPI) under the brand UNICORE operates approximately 52 factories (prisons) across the United States.
- The Militarized Police State Opens Fire
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Police and government agents are often left out of the conversation on gun violence, despite being among the greatest purpotrators of gun violence in America.
- Reporters face 70 years in prison over anti-Trump march
Two journalists are among more than 200 people facing felony charges after mass arrests at Inauguration Day rally.
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
The actions of police during the inauguration of Donald Trump and arrest of over 230 people with threat of harsh penalties, including 70 years in prison for two journalists, is tantamount to criminalizing dissent.
- Texas Couple Exonerated 25 Years After Being Convicted of Lurid Crimes That Never Happened
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Fran and Dan Keller's prosecution in 1992 was part of a wave of cases across the country amid an episode of mass hysteria known as the Satanic Panic.
- Decision from an Unknown Body: On blocking websites in Egypt
Resource Type: Unclassified
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Report by AFTE on state censorship and the monitoring and blocking of websites in Egypt.
- Grenfell Tower fire: anger rising
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Four days after the raging inferno that criminally took the innocent lives of so many, survivors and friends and families of the missing are still not only without the support from the authorities that they need, but are suffering an unacceptable lack of information and coordination. It is fair to say, that despite the Tory insistence that all is hand and all that can be done is being done, in reality, all that is being done, is being done by community brothers and sisters and a wider volunteer force. Lacking a central command, people are being fed, clothed and comforted from within the community, organised by those of the community. And while the community has so far largely remained peaceful, united by loss and grief, anger is bubbling.
- The Monopoly board of the city: Grenfell Tower - where was the HCA, government housing regulator??
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
The Homes & Community Agency(HCA) is the UK state regulatory body for social housing; its job is to monitor the performance, finances and provision of services of landlords. Missing from the media coverage of the Grenfell Tower fire disaster so far is any discussion of what relation the HCA has to this horror story of corporate murder.
- The Politics of Terror Mirrors the Politics of Heroin
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
While terrorist activities of ISIS in the West are describes as blowback. a more sinister connection than ‘guilt by association’ comes to the surface if we analyse Western elite behaviour elsewhere.
- Republican Data-Mining Firm Exposed Personal Information for Virtually Every American Voter
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Evidence suggests that Republican-linked election databases were inadvertently exposed to the internet, without password protection, potentially violating the privacy of almost every registered voter in the United States.
- Transit Riders Unions vs. Climate Change, White Supremacy and Disaster Capitalism
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
On May 28th, 2017, two men were killed while intervening to stop the harassment of two young Black women aboard Portland city's light rail. These events occured at a time of growing debate about the militarization of public transportation.
- Trustworthy, loyal, obedient, clean and reverent...
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Book review of 'The Hotel Tacloban' by Douglas Valentine.
- The History Channel Is Finally Telling the Stunning Secret Story of the War on Drugs
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
The US government's involvement with the drug cartels is examined in a new documentary on The History Channel.
- Banned Love: Trump, Pocahantas and the Lovings
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
The author looks at the history of interracial relationships, from thier legalization 50 years ago, to their future during the Trump administration.
- The Challenge of Defining Fossil Fuel Subsidies
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
An examination of the ways fossil fuel subsidies are measured and why semantic arguments over definitions may be missing the point.
- Death of an Activist in Venezuela: In Memory of Orlando Figueroa
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Highlighting the death of a political activist in Venezuala by the utra-right, which uses brutality, murder and ecological destruction to pursue their goal of recuperating control over the oil producing nation.
- Election Con 2016: New Evidence Demolishes the Myth of Trump's "Blue-Collar" Populism
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Evidence indicates that Donald Trump's popularity among working class voters had less to do with economic insecurity and more to do with embracing support for elitist, pro-corporate, and reactionary social agendas.
- Essential Debates at the Intersections of Science and Socialism
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
In the introduction to his new book "A Redder Shade of Green", Ian Angus says ecosocialism must be based on a careful synthesis of Marxist social science and Earth System science -- a twenty-first century rebirth of scientific socialism.
- Here's the PR Firm Behind ‘Your Energy America’ Front Group Pushing Atlantic Coast Pipeline
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
A newly formed front group called "Your Energy America" is pushing Dominion Energy's Atlantic Coast natural gas pipeline; evidence points to DDC Advocacy as the PR firm behind the group, which has known ties to the Republican Party.
- Nuclear Weapons Ban? What Needs to be Banned Is U.S. Arrogance
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Nuclear disarmament will be possible only when leaders in Washington recognize that other peoples also have a right and a will to live.
- Rigged. Forced into Debt. Worked past exhaustion. Left with nothing.
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Port trucking companies in southern California have spent the past decade forcing drivers to finance their own trucks by taking on debt, which is then used as leverage to extract forced labor and trap drivers in jobs that leave them destitute.
- The Breaking Of The Corporate Media Monopoly
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Alternative articles are being shared more widely online than the views of mainstream newspaper commentators. Discussed in relation to 2017 UK election.
- Capitalism in the Web of Life: Ecology and the Accumulation of Capital
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
A review of Capitalism in the Web of Life: Ecology and the Accumulation of Capital by Jason Moore. The author examines how capitalism is innately destructive of its environment, but the solution is revolutionary socialist organisation says Graham-Leigh.
- A Day in the Life of a Day Laborer
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
A look at day labourers in Chicago, many who work precariously, under dangerous conditions and sometimes without getting paid.
- Lynching Free Speech
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
In Charlottesville, as in so many parts of the country right now, the conflict is over how to reconcile the nation's checkered past, particularly as it relates to slavery, with the present need to sanitize the environment of anything -- words and images -- that might cause offense, especially if it's a Confederate flag or monument.
- Why the CIA Cares About Marxism
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Abundant evidence of course exists of the CIA's complex cultural interventions into French intellectual affairs -- but it is critical to recognise that it was the political shortcomings of communist organizations themselves (i.e., Stalinists) that had the determinant impact on the obscurantist trajectory of left-wing academic ideas.
- Wisconsin Dairy Farmers Have Been Duped into Producing Too Much Milk
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Wisconsin farmers have been duped into producing too much milk, resulting in reduced profitability and at the expense of the environment.
- Beware the Poisoned Chalice
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
In the aftermath of the recent (2017) UK election Jeremy Corbyn may be well poised to form a Labour government. But there would be huge risks in assuming office in a context of economic chaos.
- Comey's Lies of Omission
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
An examination of testimony by FBI Director James Comey, which pitted President Donald Trump against the powerful US foreign policy establishment that aims to punish the President for not being 'sufficienty hostile' to the Kremlin.
- The Grenfell Tower fire could have been avoided: this government must be held responsible
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
- In Defense of Cultural Appropriation
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
It is just as well that I’m a writer, not an editor. Were I editing a newspaper or magazine, I might soon be out of a job. For this is an essay in defense of cultural appropriation. In Canada last month, three editors lost their jobs after making such a defense.
- Monbiot Still Can't Admit Media's Core Problem
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
After more than two decades at the Guardian, George Monbiot has finally written a column in which he concedes that the entire British media has a problem, including its supposedly left-liberal elements like the Guardian.
- The Ordeal of Migrants
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Migrants face prejudices, xenophobia and racism, besides bureaucratic obstacles that do not recognize their qualifications.
- The Problem Isn't Willie Pete, The Problem is War Crimes
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
The problem with bombarding Syrian cities, or any populated areas, isn't just that it is being done with white phosphorous, it's that it is being done at all.
- Scapegoating Russia
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Book review of "The Plot to Scapegoat Russia" authored by labour and human rights lawyer Dan Kovalik.
- Colin Kaepernick: Patriotism and the Owning Class
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
National Football League player Colin Kaepernick takes a stand for human rights by kneeling during the U.S. national anthem prior to football games.
- Journalism, History and War: Sit, Type and Bleed
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
There are millions of victims throughout the Middle East region, that cannot be understood or expressed through typical media narration: a gripping headline, couple of quotes and a paragraph or two by way of providing context.The price is too high for this kind of lazy journalism.
- U.S. Has Only Acknowledged A Fifth of Its Lethal Strikes, New Study Finds
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
While Obama took steps to improve transparency about drone strikes, reports show that the U.S. has only acknowledged approximately 20 percent of its reported drone strikes, and failed to claim responsibility or provide details in the vast majority of cases.
- We Need a Much Bigger Leap! John Bellamy Foster on Naomi Klein's 'No Is Not Enough'
Book review
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
There is much to admire in Naomi Klein's new book, but she underestimates the danger posed by Trumpism, and doesn't pose a real alternative. She calls for a Leap, but it isn't high enough or far enough.
- Women-only spa stirs controversy after transgender woman turned away
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
A popular women-only spa is at the centre of a social media controversy after a transgender individual said they were not allowed to enter because of a policy forbidding male genitalia.
- Britain Refuses to Accept How Terrorists Really Work
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Self-interest is motive for the British government's portrayal of terrorism as essentially home-grown cancers within the Muslim community.
- Britain's Real Terror Apologists
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Despite a smear campaign to denigrate Britain's Labour leader as soft on terror, Jeremy Corbyn pulled of a remarkable achievement in the general election.
- Egypt bans Medium as media crackdown widens
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Dozens of websites, including opposition publications, banned since May 24, 2017, in 'clear attack on media', watchdog says.
- An End to Conversion Therapy?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Nevada is the latest of eight states that officially ended the practice of sexual "conversion therapy" of minors.
- The Making of the Muslim World
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Review of Christopher de Bellaigue's 'The Islamic Enlightenment: The Modern Struggle Between Faith and Reason', Cemil Aydin's 'The Idea of the Muslim World: A Global Intellectual History' and Tariq Ramadan's 'Islam: The Essentials'.
- One Palestinian Man's Mission to Make Urban Agriculture More Sustainable
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Urban agriculture is playing an increasing role in helping feed communities. The article and accompanying video introduces Salim Abu Naser, a proponent of sustainable agriculture living and working in Gaza City, Palestine.
- One Palestinian Man's Mission to Make Urban Agriculture More Sustainable
Resource Type: Film/Video
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Video that introduces Said Salim Abu Naser, a proponent of sustainable agriculture living and working in Gaza City, Palestine, along the Mediterranean Coast.
- We Didn't Start the Fire
Class conflict isn't something we choose to engage in. It's just how capitalism works.
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Day urges the historically Liberal US Democratic party to turn to the left, embracing class conflict as an integral component of left-wing politics.
- Why Israelis must disrupt the occupation
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Even dedicated dedicated well-meaning Israelis do far too little and use far too little of their privilege to challenge and combat the injustice meted out against Palestinians.
- The assassination of the Rosselli brothers
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
A summary of the ideology and actions of Carlo and Nello Rosselli, highlighting what led up to their assassinations and its aftermath.
- Davis Day: Coal Miners & Community Connection
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
An historical look at tragic events in the Cape Breton coal mining community, highlighting mining companyies' greed that led to unrest and disaster.
- Propaganda and Lies, Canadian Style
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
As Canadian politicians speak freely and with less accountability on international affairs, indiviuals need to educate themselves on international issues and through alternative sources of information.
- The Facts Proving Corbyn's Election Triumph
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Corbyn has proved himself the most popular Labour leader with the electorate in more than 40 years, apart from Blair’s landslide victory in 1997.
- The Militarization of Canada: Chrystia Freeland's Budgetary Coup
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Canada is to increase military spending by 70% over the next ten years following Donald Trump's demand for NATO allies to increase defense spending to 2% of GDP.
- The World Center of Hacking is in Washington, Not Moscow or Beijing
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Documents from the U.S. NSA (National Security Agency) unveiled by Edward Snowden show that whole countries, not just a number of sensitive computers, have been hacked by the NSA.
- Ten Theses on Farming and Disease
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
There’s a growing understanding of the functional relationships health, food justice, and the environment share. They’re not just ticks on a checklist of good things capitalism shits on.
- Brazil: Increase in land killings as political crisis threatens Amazon
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Cuts to Funai, the agency meant to protect Brazil's indigenous tribes, have encouraged land barons to expand their land holdings into indigenous territories.
- False news
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Laws regulating 'False News' present several unacceptable dangers, including stifling journalists from reporting in environments that are often contradictory and rapidly developing.
- The Clintons Had Slaves
But the prison labor system is also rotten to the core...
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
The prison labour system in the United States has long been an unacknowledged scandal and is in fact as a form of slavery; among the beneficiaries of this prison labour system were Bill and Hillary Clinton.
- Hue 1968
A Turning Point in the American War in Vietnam
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Hue 1968 is the story of the centerpiece of the Tet Offensive and a turning point in the American War in Vietnam.
- In Search of the Lost Chord
1967 and the Hippie Idea
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
An extensive look into the social and cultural events that shaped 1967. Golberg touches on influencial musicians such as the Doors, Jimi Hendrix and Janis Joplin as well as LSD, the Summer of Love and the Vietnam War.
- A Little Crooked House: Trudeau, Morneau, BMO & KPMG Inc
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Canada's Finance Minister Bill Morneau has recently reinvigorated his promise to crack down on tax evasion schemes, but how can we trust him when he is himself named in the Panama Papers?
- London Terror Attack: It's Time to Confront Wahhabism and Saudi Arabia
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
In the UK people are dealing with the aftermath of yet another terrorist attack in which innocent civilians were butchered and injured, this time in London. It is time for an honest conversation about Wahhabism, specifically the part this Saudi-sponsored ideology plays in radicalizing young Muslims both across the Arab and Muslim world and in the West.
- The Plot to Scapegoat Russia
How the CIA and the Deep State Have Conspired to Vilify Putin
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
An in-depth look at the decades-long effort to escalate hostilities with Russia and what it portends for the future.
- Bogota's bibliophile trash collector who rescues books
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
55-year-old Jose,who lives on a steeply sloping road in the La Nueva Gloria barrio in the southern reaches of Colombia's sprawling capital, created a community library and donates books to children, believing that education can break the cycle of poverty.
- Rebels Without a Cause: The Assault on Academic Freedom
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Examining current academic culture which falsely labels "words as violence" and how it is affecting acedemic freedom, notably by some who think of themselves as being on the left, who are employing totalitarian tactics which ultimately cause professional and economic harm.
- Gaza power cuts: When fuel runs out, 'babies will die'
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Gaza's doctors fear inevitable patient deaths if fuel reserves are depleted by end of June.
- New Report Shows Corporations and Western Governments Continue to Profit from Looting of Africa
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
A recent report published by a coalition of African and British social justice organizations indicate that foreign corporations and governments continue to exploit the world's most impoverished continent.
- Swords in the Hands of Children: Reflections of an American Revolution
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Against the vividly evoked chaos and conflicts of the Vietnam Era, Jonathan Lerner probes the impulses that led a small group of educated, privileged young Americans to turn to violence as a means of political change.
- Time to Confront the Media's Anti-Corbyn Bias
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Jeremy Corbyn has been subjected to unprecedented vilification by the British media. No one is surprised that the Daily Mail, Telegraph and Times have been relentless in their hatchet jobs on Corbyn. But it has been disconcerting for the left that the Guardian and BBC never gave him a chance either. He was in their gun-sights from day one.
- Barry Commoner: Radical Father of ModernEnvironmentalism
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Biography of Barry Commoner, a scientist who laid the groundwork for what later become known as the environmental justice movement.
- Dying at home: What I learned from my husband’s death
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
A physician assistant reflects on the palliative care industry and the death of her husband. People need more information on the reality of death to be prepared to help loved ones die at home.
- IFIC Welcomes New Member - LOGiQ Asset Management Ltd.
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
The Investment Funds Institute of Canada (IFIC) announces that LOGiQ Asset Management Ltd. https://logiqasset.com/) has joined IFIC.
- How the 1989 War on Manuel Noriega's Panama Super-Charged US Militarism
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Manuel Noriega is dead at 83. He seems like a sad footnote to the last disastrous quarter century, but the December 1989 US invasion of Panama really was a permission slip for Washington -- led by both Republicans and Democrats -- to waste whatever potential benefits the end of the Cold War might have brought.
- Kenyans Forced Off Tea Highlands By British Colonialists Seek Justice
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Kericho -- One of hundreds of elderly Kenyans seeking to sue the British government for alleged displacement and torture by its colonial predecessor in 1934 to plant tea on their family land, in a case that could encourage other former colonies to press similar claims.
- LIVE with Bret Weinstein: Evergreen State College Racism Controversy
Resource Type: Film/Video
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Bret Weinstein (professor, Evergreen State College) and Dave Rubin sit down to discuss his controversy on campus surrounding allegations of racism and #exposeevergreen.
- The Need to Radicalise the Bolivarian Revolution
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Through an interview with Jorge Martín, the secretary of the Hands Off Venezuela solidarity campaign, the events leading to the Bolivarian Revolution in Venezuela are examined.
- Poland's Bialowieza: Losing the forest and the trees
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Article takes a closer look at official explanations for the Polish government's decision to log a primaeval forest, a practice which sacrifices the long-term wellbeing of ecosystems for short-term pragmatic concerns.
- The Venezuelan Opposition does not want Democracy or Elections
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Interview with Jorge Martin, secretary of the "Hands Off Venezuela" solidarity campaign. The Bolivarian Revolution in Venezuela is facing its most challenging times. The right-wing opposition, backed by the United States, is engaged in a full-blown regime change campaign, with violent protests occurring daily and resulting in over 50 casualties. The chavista supporters of the government have also taken to the streets in defence of the Bolivarian Revolution, and President Maduro surprised everyone by calling for a Constituent Assembly. Jorge Martín, the secretary of the "Hands Off Venezuela" solidarity campaign, give his understanding of the sitution and where it might lead. He discusses how western media are distorting the reality and presenting a one-sided picture, the role of international solidarity, the lack of progress made by the opposition and where things might go from here.
- We Can't Let Britain Become a Vast ISIS Recruiting Station
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
The massacre in Manchester is a horrific event born out of the violence raging in a vast area stretching from Pakistan to Nigeria and Syria to South Sudan.
- Connexions Other Voices - Challenging Injustice
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
In this issue, we look at the relentless persistence of people challenging injustice and entrenched power in places around the world, including Palestine, Korea, China, Canada, and the United States.
- How to build brand awareness
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Developing a BRAND is the first step to marketing yourself, product or service. But it doesn't stop there. Who's going to know about your brand if it doesn't have a presence? Yes! I'm talking about building brand awareness.
- No Laughing Matter: The Manchester Bomber is the Spawn of Hillary and Barack's Excellent Libyan Adventure
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
The jihadi bomber in Manchester and miltants in the hotel massacre in Mali were direct products of American and Western regime change in Libya, a project that was executed by the Obama administration and spearheaded by Hillary Clinton.
- From Left Radicalism to Radical Islamism
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
The current preoccupations of Islamic youth in Britian are much different from the anti-racist activism and political radicalism of the author's generation.
- Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - May 28, 2017
Resisting Injustice
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
In this issue, we look at the relentless persistence of people challenging injustice and entrenched power in places around the world, including Palestine, Korea, China, Canada, and the United States. We spotlight the hunger strike by Palestinian political prisoners languishing in Israeli prisons, workers’ strikes in China, and people in South Korea taking on a corrupt government. In the United States, the Equal Justice Initiative is collecting soil from places where blacks were lynched as a way of remembering their lives and the brutally racist society that murdered them. An article on recent terrorist attacks in Britain asks what underlies ideological violence and sociopathic rage. Ralph Nader asks why people who are supposed to be professional questioners avoid asking hard questions of those in power.
- Oil and Water
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
A collection of articles charting how leaked documents and public records reveal a troubling fusion of private security, public law enforcement, and corporate money in the fight over the Dakota Access Pipeline.
- Are Credit Rating Agencies America's Secret Fifth Column?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
The Rating Agencies and the Banks are part of an organized criminal enterprise that include our Justice Department and our Politicians.
- The Deep State is the State
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Like all elements of the state, the so-called deep state exists to enforce the economic supremacy of US capitalism.
- The Dirty Secret of the Korean War
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
There is a much darker denial at work in forgetting the specifics of history, and this unwillingness to honestly examine the Korean War is at the root of our ongoing conflict with North Korea.
- Endarkenment: Postmodernism, Identity Politics, and the Attack on Free Speech
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Many today find the idea of free speech appalling -- an awful fact to those who believe in freedom, quaint as it sounds. Left-liberals agitate to prevent disagreeable expression. Their masked street allies physically attack those who engage in it.
- It's Not Gonna Be Okay: the Nauseating Nothingness of Neoliberal Capitalist and Professional Class Politics
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Confronted with statements of concern and/or disgust over how they are giving the nation state away to an ever more neofascistic, white-nationalist Republican Party, "Indivisible" liberals say that "things are going to be okay" since their party will "win power back in 2018 and 2020." Paul Street begs to differ.
- We Know What Inspired the Manchester Attack, We Just Won't Admit It
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Not blaming Muslims in general but targeting "radicalisation" or simply "evil" may appear sensible and moderate, but in practice it makes the motivation of the killers in Manchester or the Bataclan theatre in Paris in 2015 appear vaguer and less identifiable than it really is.
- We Must Be Brave Enough to Admit the War on Terror Simply Not Working
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Amid sorrow of Manchester bombing, UK Labour Party leader explains why actively building peace is requisite for ending such horrific and inexcusable carnage in the future.
- Another Housing Bubble?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
This is an edited transcript from an interview on The Real News Network. Sharmini Peries interviewed Michael Hundson (author of J is For Junk Economics).
- The Irish Dead: Fighting Fascism in Spain, 1937
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
In the springtime of 1937, Spain was in the grip of civil war which flared as intense and as hot as the sun that hung over its skies. Of the many different nationalities that went to Spain to help the Republicans defeat the fascists, it was the Irish who proved to be a dominant force, but death stalked the men from the emerald isle and many of them did not see the end of that intensely hot Summer.
- Beyond Neoliberal Identity Politics
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Neoliberal identity politics (NIP) is a great weapon on the hands of the privileged capitalist Few and their mass-murderous global empire.
- The British establishment is putting our lives at risk: Our state's key ally is a major public threat
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Why is the British government allying itself with a country that promotes extremist ideology?
- DEA Lied to Congress About Deadly Raid That Killed Four Hondurans, Government Report Says
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
The Drug Enforcement Administration repeatedly lied to Congress about fatal shooting incidents in Honduras, including the killing of four civilians during a DEA-led operation, according to a devastating 424-page report released today by the inspectors general for the State and Justice departments.
- IFIC's President and CEO to Chair Third Annual Canadian Funds Summit
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
The Investment Funds Institute of Canada (IFIC) announced today that its president and CEO, Paul C. Bourque, Q.C., will chair Strategy Institute's third annual Canadian Funds Summit in Toronto on May 25-26, 2017.
- The Left/Right Challenge to the Failed "War on Drugs"
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
More and more conservatives and liberals, from the halls of Congress to people in communities across the country, are agreeing that the so-called "war on drugs" needs serious rethinking.
- Malaysian government crack down continues: Malaysiakini CEO charged
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) strongly crticises the charges brought against the CEO and Editor-in-chief of Malaysiakini for posting footage of a press conference in July 2016. The IFJ calls for the charges to be immediately withdrawn.
- Panama: la FIP pide justicia en un caso de lesiones contra un sindicalista
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
La Federación Internacional de Periodistas (FIP) pide que se haga justicia en un caso de lesiones contra el secretario general del Sindicato de Periodistas de Panamá, Filemón Medina, cuyo agresor condenado a cinco años de prisión ha recurrido la
- Police assault dozens of journalists covering political demonstration in Kolkata
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) joins its affiliate the National Union of Journalists (India) is condemning two incidents of police brutality against media workers in Kolkata, India on Monday, May 22, 2017. The IFJ demands immediate action
- Ragpicking Through History: Class Memory, Class Struggle and its Archivists
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Our current conjuncture invites a renewed rethinking of two historical imaginaries: first, what is class memory? To ask this question is really to reopen a discussion on what is class struggle – and, more specifically, how does our collective memorialisation of struggles past inform our relationship to struggle in the present. Second, and relatedly, who can be this struggle's archivist?
- Reactions to Manchester Bombing Show How Anti-Muslim Bigots Are 'Useful Idiots' for ISIS
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Following recent terrorist attacks in Britain, the article looks at anti -Mulsim backlash and how it is playing into the hands of ISIS.
- Reactions to Manchester Bombing Show How Anti-Muslim Bigots Are 'Useful Idiots' for ISIS
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
How hatred of Muslims is unwittingly an effective tool for ISIS recuritmenent.
- 10 simple yet vital tips when planning to speak to the media
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
You've sent out newsworthy information, was contacted for an interview and now you are ready to speak to the media. Not quite! Speaking to the media involves planning and tact. How you represent yourself and your organization is important.
- Thai journalist faces defamation charges for reporting
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) expresses concerns for the criminal defamation proceedings against a Thai journalist by a mining company over his reporting. The IFJ calls for the charges to be immediately dropped.
- West Bank: Palestinian photojournalist wounded during clashes
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Majdi Shtayeh, a Palestinian photojournalist for Associated Press (AP) and a member of the IFJ affiliated Palestinian Journalists' Syndicate (PJS) was today wounded from gun shots at a protest in the West Bank.
- Why Jerusalem is not the capital of Israel
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
No country in the world recognises Jerusalem as Israel’s capital, with the exception of Russia.
- The Women of 1917
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Women weren't just the Russian Revolution’s spark, but the motor that drove it forward.
- Giving a Voice to Local NGOs in a Flawed Global Aid Environment
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Driven by wealthy donor countries, the global aid environment is flawed and unbalanced, and evidence suggests it is taking advantage of the regions they are supposed to be helping.
- Music education makes for a poor commodity
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Privatizing the teaching of music into a commodity and decreasing attention spans is leading to poorer music education.
- The beginning of the end for identity politics?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
While the millennial left’s preoccupation with identity has not disappeared, the moralistic fire has grown dimmer.
- Gig Economy or Odd Jobs: What May Seem Trendy to Privileged City Dwellers and Suburbanites is as Old as Poverty
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
The rise of precarious employment is not a stimulus to "creativity" but a long-established way of explloiting the poor.
- Red Terror: Anti-Corbynism and Double Standards
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
A defence oif Jeremy Corbyn, the leader of the British Labour party.
- To discover the 'rights of a river', first think like a river
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
There is a growing global movement to recognise the rights of rivers. But rights alone are not enough. We must love and respect rivers, and even think like rivers to understand the vital functions they perform within landscapes and ecosystems, and so discover where their 'best interests' truly lie. And then we must be willing to act: protecting rivers and restoring them to health and wholeness.
- Unfinished Business
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
The failure of Nicolás Maduro's government to maintain popular living standards has allowed the right-wing opposition to take control of Venezuela's National Assembly, resulting in a bitter standoff between executive and legislature that has yet to be resolved one way or another.
- The erasure of Syrian voices in Western media
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Trapped between a police state and Al Qaeda, average Syrians explain why they fear regime change.
- Getting Assange: the Untold Story
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
The witchhunt against Wikileaks founder Jullian Assange.
- "Hegemony How-To": Rethinking Activism and Embracing Power
A review of Hegemony How-To: a Roadmap for Radicals, by Jonathan Smucker
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
"How many times, I wondered, had I favored a particular action or tactic because I really thought it was likely to change a decision-maker’s position or win over key allies, as opposed to gravitating toward an action because it expressed my activist identity and self-conception? How concerned were we really, in our practice, with political outcomes?"
- How Russia Became "Our Adversary" Again
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
How did Russia, which has been a capitalist state for a querter of a century, become "our adversary" to the United States?
- A people's history of England
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
A posting which attaches in pdf format the 1938 work by AL Morton outlining the most important turning points of British history.
- Propaganda Feeds Fear and Loathing
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
The disturbing and growing trend of misinformation in news reporting.
- Seth Rich, Craig Murray and the Sinister Stewards of the National Security State
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Security leaks and the murder of a Democratic National Committee staff member.
- Slavery Now: Migrant Labor in the Persian Gulf and Saudi Arabia
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Slavery still exists today. And it exists in the Gulf states and in Saudi Arabia.
- The Ancient Game That Saved a Village
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
The village of Marottichal in India was rife with alcoholism and illicit gambling, but everything changed after one man taught the town to play the ancient game of chess.
- The Dangerous Academic is an Extinct Species
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Nair analyzes current academia and the structures in place that prevent academics and students from putting forth ideas that challenge the status quo.
- Fast and Furious: Now They're Really Gunning for Trump
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Allegations about President Donald Trump revealing highly classified intelligence are intended to bring him down.
- If China Can Fund Infrastructure With Its Own Credit, So Can We
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
What the US could learn from China about funding infrastructure initiatives.
- The Uproar Over 'Transracialism'
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Discusses 'transracialism' in relation to gender identity and self identification.
- After Middle Eastern Wars End, the Medical Wars Begin
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
What are the wars doing to the health care infrastructure?
- American/Russian Vladimir Posner on the State of Journalism
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
A Russian journalist's views on the state of journalism.
- China Widens its Silk Road to the World
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
China's new 'Silk Road' initiative is a large-scale, multilateral development Asian project which has the potential to change the shape of the world economy.
- Divine ecstasy of Nature: Selected Writings by John Muir
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
A new collection of John Muir's (1838-1914) writings promises to inspire another generation to fall in love with wild nature, to care for it, to know that wilderness is not optional but central to our survival in the centuries to come. His words survive him. "Everybody needs beauty as well as bread, places to play in and pray in, where Nature may heal and cheer and give strength to body and soul alike."
- The everlasting effects of homophobia and why it's not just gay people that suffer
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
A journalist's personal story about combatting homophobia.
- Security Is Ruining the Internet
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
How the need for cybersecurity has made the internet less convenient for users.
- Who's Afraid of the White Working Class?: On Joan C. Williams's 'White Working Class: Overcoming Class Cluelessness in America'
Book Review
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
A book review on White Working Class Overcoming Class Cluelessness in America (Written By Joan C. Williams).
- African Migrants Bought and Sold Openly in 'Slave Markets' in Libya
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Hundreds of migrants along North African migration routes are being bought and sold openly in modern day 'slave markets' in Libya, survivors have told the United Nations migration agency, which warned that these reports "can be added to a long list of outrages" in the country.
- Are They Really Out to Get Trump?
Sometimes paranoia is justified
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
President Donald Trump and the firing of FBI Director Comey
- Professional Speakers: Market Yourself LOUD and PROUD
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Professional speakers focus on presenting the essence of their message by molding a presentation that is unique and distinctive to their audience. The words you use can make a difference in the effectiveness of how you promote yourself.
- Restoring the Heartland and Rustbelt through Clean Energy Democracy: an Organizing Proposal
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
A proposal to end capitalism and fight climate change at the same time.
- Twelve Reasons to Oppose Rules on Digital Commerce in the WTO
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
US-based transnational companies in the fields of information, technology and media are working to create international rules that limit the ability of governments to put restrictions on how they make profits.
- There's no such thing as a 'pure' European--or anyone else
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Europeans have no unique heritage. New studies show that almost all indigenous Europeans descend from at least three major migrations in the past 15,000 years, including two from the Middle East.
- The Absurdity of Saying "White Privilege'
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Using rhetoric like "white supremacy" and "white privilege" is a way of stereotyping the whole of "white" people and lumping everyone into one group. This is the surest way to turn potential allies in the struggle for justice into adversaries; by doing so we end up perpetuating the very divides that the "system" depends on to splinter people apart.
- Dump the Guardian!
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
The Guardian has spent the last two years relentlessly attacking Jeremy Corbyn. Only recently has it changed its tune, perhaps worried that it has alienated too many readers. Corbyn's success has been despite the Guardian and the rest of the corporate media. The Guardian will now want readers to forget its propaganda war on Corbyn. We've compiled this list so they don't. Dump the Guardian!
- Ban the Bomb! Where is Canada?
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Canadian Voice of Women for Peace asks where is Canada? Historic negotiations of a treaty banning nuclear weapons are on now at the United Nations! The vast majority of countries are gathering from 15 June to 7 July, 2017 to finally prohibit these weapons
- Brazil: Amazon's Indians, rainforest under attack
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Attacks on Amazon Indians and on their land rights threaten vital areas of rainforest. FUNAI, the agency responsible for safeguarding indigenous tribes is being forced to withdraw due to underfunding, while Indians' attempts to assert their rights are met with state violence.
- Get Media Attention by Starting a Public Relations Plan
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Every business, small or big should have a PR plan, for the simple fact that each business has a story to tell. A story that wants to be HEARD amongst the HERD. The first step is to know the ins and outs of your industry.
- The Nat Turner Rebellion and the Fight Against Slavery - Part 2
Black History and the Class Struggle
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Nat Turner’s 1831 revolt in Virginia tears apart the myth that there is no history of slave rebellion or resistance in colonial America or the United States. This is a lie often promoted by racist apologists for American slavery. But it is also untrue to think that the U.S. has a history of slave rebellions similar to the massive uprisings that convulsed the Caribbean, most notably the Haitian Revolution.
- Notes on a factory uprising in Yangon
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Examination of a recent strike and riot at a Chinese-owned H&M supplier in Myanmar (Burma), looking beyond the headlines into its local context and broader political significance.
- Reflections on the way to the gallows
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
A record from a short prison diary kept by Japanese anarchist and feminist Kanno Sugako prior to her execution in 1911 for her part in a plot to assassinate the Emperor.
- Concrete, or beaches? World's sand running out as global construction booms
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
A crucial component of concrete, sand is vital to the global construction industry. China alone is importing a billion tonnes of sand a year, and its increasing scarcity is leading to large scale illegal mining and deadly conflicts. With ever more sand fetched from riverbeds, shorelines and sandbanks, roads and bridges are being undermined and beaches eroded. And the world's sand wars are only set to worsen.
- Document Trove Details Bradley Foundation's Efforts to Build Right-Wing "Infrastructure" Nationwide
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Documents examined by the Center for Media and Democracy (CMD) expose a national effort funded by the Milwaukee-based Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation to assess and expand right-wing "infrastructure" to influence policies and politicians in statehouses nationwide.
- A history of American lynchings
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
A soil collection project is commemorating the forgotten victims of lynching and helping to tell their stories.
- Lessons in leftism: Pete Seeger and the black power movement
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
The rise of "black power" led Pete Seeger to realize he had become a towering figure in a movement he didn't fully understand. The way he dealt with criticisms of him and his friends holds lessons for today.
- Somebody's Going to Suffer: Greece's New Austerity Measures
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
The European Commission announced on May 2, 2017, that an agreement on Greek pension and income tax reforms would pave the way for further discussions on debt release for Greece. The European Commission described this as good news for Greece. The Greek government described the situation in similar terms. It isn't.
- The Universal Lesson of East Timor
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Filming undercover in East Timor in 1993 I followed a landscape of crosses: great black crosses etched against the sky, crosses on peaks, crosses marching down the hillsides, crosses beside the road. They littered the earth and crowded the eye.
- The Anti-Fascist Revolution
Remembering the Action Party, one of Italy's biggest anti-fascist partisan movements.
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Over the last two decades, the Italian Resistance has been a subject of sharp public debate, with both political and historical efforts "radically to repudiate the role and significance" of anti-fascism in Italy's contemporary history. As Pier Giorgio Zunino wrote in 1997, "for the Italian history of the second half of the twentieth century, anti-fascism is the villain."
- Anti-Vax Propaganda Helps Measles -- Once Eradicated -- Spread Across the Twin Cities
Health officials expect the number of diagnoses to rise.
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
The anti-vaxxer misinformation campaign has led to yet another outbreak of a preventable disease. Minnesota's Department of Health has announced that 44 people in the state have been diagnosed with measles, a disease once eradicated in the United States. Forty-two of the cases are in children, most of them Somali-Americans who were never vaccinated. According to numerous sources, the outbreak is the result of a sustained anti-vaccination campaign.
- The anti-Zionist Bund led the Jewish Resistance in Poland whilst the Zionist Movement abandoned the Jews
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Zionism and Israel's racist rulers have created a series of myths about how the only Jewish Resistance in Nazi-occupied Poland was from the Zionists. The role of the anti-Zionist Bund has been erased. In fact the Zionist movement in Palestine and the West abandoned the resistance including the Zionist component of that resistance.
- The British Camps
Though it reached its horrific heights at Auschwitz and Buchenwald, the British, not the Nazis, pioneered the concentration camp.
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Today, the expression "concentration camp" evokes the horrors of Nazi Germany, conjuring up black-and-white images of Auschwitz and Belsen. But Germans were neither the first nation to make use of concentration camps nor the last.
- CIA Chief Declares War on Truth
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Mike Pompeo made it clear that he has little regard for truth, for personal decency, or for the Constitutional protections for free speech or for the free exercise of religion. It was an altogether chilling debut for a spy agency head in a country that still imagines itself enjoying some basic freedoms.
- History and Hypocrisy: Why the Korean War Matters in the Age of Trump
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
The DPRK's recent missile test is a "provocation" according to US state sources. A provocation indeed. Firing things into the air that go bang is clearly not a nice thing to do. People really should ease up on things that explode. I mean somebody could get hurt.
- How Churchill Broke the Greek Resistance
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
On May 8, 1945, Hitler’s successors signed Germany's capitulation. By that point, Greece had already been liberated for six months. Across more than three years, the Greek people had waged a mass resistance against the fascist occupiers -- the Italians, the Bulgarians, and above all the Germans -- in which they had shown heroic courage in the face of a boundless terror.
- If this is feminism...
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Part of the problem with the response to Tuvel's article is that some seem to feel that they are the only ones who have the legitimate right to talk about certain topics. At best, this is identity politics run amok; at worst it is a turf war.
- Israel's New Cultural War of Aggression
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
A few weeks ago my book Palestine’s Horizon: Toward a Just Peace was published by Pluto in Britain. I was in London and Scotland at the time to do a series of university talks to help launch the book. Its appearance happened to coincide with the release of a jointly authored report commissioned by the UN Social and Economic Commission of West Asia, giving my appearances a prominence they would not otherwise have had. The report concluded that the evidence relating to Israeli practices toward the Palestinian people amounted to 'apartheid,' as defined in international law.
- Julius Nyerere: Legacy and defeated dreams in Tanzania
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Julius Nyerere is regarded as one of the greatest African political leaders. He was a visionary for African unity, socialist development and self-reliance in the aftermath of colonialism, and still commands great respect. Though much of his vision failed to materialise he leaves a legacy of ethnic and religious tolerance and peace in his East African country, Tanzania.
- The Lost History of Antifa
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
72 years after the triumph over Nazism, we look back to postwar Germany, when socialists gave birth to Antifa.
- A Partisan Mayor
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
A look back at the "French Tito," partisan militant Georges Guingouin.
- The Real Dad’s Army
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Britain's wartime Home Guard is immortalized in popular culture -- but the socialists who shaped it are forgotten.
- What Obsessing About Trump Causes Us To Miss
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Since the late eighteenth century, the United States has been involved in an almost ceaseless string of wars, interventions, punitive expeditions, and other types of military ventures abroad – from fighting the British and Mexicans to the Filipinos and Koreans to the Vietnamese and Laotians to the Afghans and Iraqis. The country has formally declared war 11 times and has often engaged in undeclared conflicts with some form of congressional authorization, as with the post-9/11 "wars" that rage on today.
- Why I Support the Palestinian Right of Return
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
The repatriation of Palestinian refugees is is a very real and practical concept for which there is ample historical precedent as well as practical means of implementation.
- Academe's Poisonous Call-Out Culture
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
I cannot help thinking that something has gone seriously wrong when a scholar who is not transphobic or working against the interests of trans people, but, in fact, considering an important question, is labeled as "doing harm."
- Don't tell me that working-class people can’t be articulate
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
When writing dialogue, the idea that a drug dealer must be portrayed as verbally hesitant is daft -- language is not a tool issued by the nobility.
- Fake news, echo chambers and filter bubbles: Underresearched and overhyped
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
In the early years of the internet, it was revolutionary to have a world of information just a click away from anyone, anywhere, anytime. Many hoped this inherently democratic technology could lead to better-informed citizens more easily participating in debate, elections and public discourse.
- Italy 1980-81: After Marx, jail! The attempted destruction of a communist movement
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Charting the repression of Italy's 1970s extraparliamentary communist movement.
- Jobs and industry in the Hunter Valley: Context for a conversation about a Just Transition away from coal
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
The development of employment opportuniteis outside the coal miniing industry is both possible and necessary.
- SNCC's Think Tank
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
How SNCC's research department helped civil rights organizers fight Jim Crow.
- Counter Mobilization: an Effective Response to Right Wing Speech
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
As the effects of the Great Recession linger, the ruling rich are making every effort to ensure that the working class bears the brunt of the economic crunch. In this atmosphere, elements of the extreme right feel emboldened to promote their reactionary wares. From the increasing visibility of right wing websites like breitbart.com, to well-publicized speaking tours by conservative ideologues like Milo Yiannopoulos and others, to former Breitbart editor Steve Bannon attaining the status of presidential advisor – the message from the top is clear: racism, sexism and xenophobia will all be used to divide and oppress the 99%. Meanwhile, these same poisonous sentiments are used to divert attention from those actually responsible for and benefiting from the current crisis.
- How are you going to pay for it?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Debates on how government will pay for new programs suffer from a fundamental fallacy: the assumption that the government spends other people's money. It doesn't.
- Imperialism and the Logic of Mass Destruction
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
As throughout much of its war-obsessed history, the United States is currently engaged in military conflict – or threatening such action – across a broad contested terrain. In the cases of Iraq, Afghanistan, and Syria, Washington has resorted to its familiar global modus operandi: sending off barrages of missiles and bombs, much of it hitting civilian populations and resources needed for their survival. Death tolls mount, the largest numbers lately in the protracted battle for Mosul. Heavier casualties are being visited upon non-combatants in Yemen, thanks to U.S.-backed Saudi aerial savagery.
- A Response To George Monbiot's 'Disavowal'
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
There is a pattern of 'mainstream' media insisting on the need for war in response to unproven claims that are often later debunked.
- Zionist Colonization is Not 'Exceptional': A Marxist Viewpoint
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
This article aims to challenge the rather widely accepted claim that the nature of Zionist settler colonization is exceptional and even "defies appeal to any precedent that can usefully be invoked as to its evolution and eventual revolution."
- Zionist Colonization is Not 'Exceptional': A Marxist Viewpoint
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
The author offers a contrasting position to Moshé Machover's 2016 article, "The decolonization of Palestine"- namely, that Zionist colonization is not unique and that features of Zionism are similar to those of other colonial projects, including apartheid South Africa.
- Globe and Mail promotes Controversial Mining Magnate
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
How close is too close when it comes to media outlets working with institutions set up by wealthy individuals to influence the news? The question becomes important to ask when Canada's "national newspaper" promotes a worldview paid for by one of the planet's most controversial mining magnates. The Globe and Mail's close ties to the Munk Debates and University of Toronto's Munk School of Global Affairs should worry journalists and everyone who cares about foreign policy discussion in this country.
- The tragedy of liberal environmentalism
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
The tragedy of liberal environmentalism is that it occupies the political discourse as the most pragmatic, the most possible way to a better future, but implementing this watered down, technical environmental politics is not at all smooth, or easy. It is rather Sisyphean. This is the tragic political circumstance of our times: What is framed as easy, as the most compatible with the status quo, is actually so very, very hard.
- Academic Bullying the Vacuum of Moral Leadership in the Academy
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Workplace bullying is an increasing problem. Books are being written about it, and there is even a Workplace Bullying Institute. The problem isn't restricted to the business world. Books such as Faculty Incivility: The Rise of the Academic Bully Culture and What to Do About It, Bully in the Ivory Tower: How Aggression and Incivility Erode American Higher Education, and Workplace Bullying in Higher Education suggest that bullying is a particular problem among academics.
- The Hidden History of the SNCC Research Department
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
SNCC may have been the most important organization of the postwar civil rights movement. It grew out of the wave of sit-ins in 1960 and was guided initially by Ella Baker, the foundational organizer whose emphasis on bottom-up organizing and democracy deeply shaped SNCC’s vision and methods.
- How Canada's first women’s shelter saved women and their children from abuse
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
- The Prisoners' Revolt: The Real Reasons behind the Palestinian Hunger Strike
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Gaza is the world’s largest open air prison. The West Bank is a prison, too, segmented into various wards, known as areas A, B and C. In fact, all Palestinians are subjected to varied degrees of military restrictions. At some level, they are all prisoners.
- Winner of the 2017 Goldman Environmental Prize for Asia: Prafulla Samantara
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Prafulla Samantara, winner of the prestigious Goldman Environmental Prize for his relentless efforts, has made it his life's work to fight injustice by lending a voice to Indigenous communities and small scale farmers.
- Assuming Boycott
Resistance, Agency, and Cultural Production
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
A collection of essays and seminars that looks at the history of boycott and divestment within activism. Examines a variety of cultural and academic boycotts around the world.
- The Birth of a Holiday
The late Marxist historian Eric Hobsbawm recounts the origins of International Workers' Day.
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
The history of the fight, by the working class, for a holiday for the working class.
- Black War
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
The Black War was the period of violent conflict between British colonists and Aboriginal Australians in Tasmania from the mid-1820s to 1832. The conflict, fought largely as a guerrilla war by both sides, claimed the lives of more than 200 European colonists and between 600 and 900 Aboriginal people, all but annihilating the island's indigenous population.
- A Blaze in a Desert: Selected Poems
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Like Serge's extraordinary novels, A Blaze in a Desert: Selected Poems bears witness to decades of revolutionary upheavals in Europe and the advent of totalitarian rule; many of the poems were written during the "immense shipwreck" of Stalin's ascendancy.
- Bouncing Back Against the Corruption of Science in Capitalist Society
Part 2 of a 2-part series: The Role of Science in Capitalist Society and Social Change
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Part two in a look at capitalism and the role of science, and the strong evidence that science can be on the side of social justice and social change.
- Child Soldiers Reloaded: The Privatisation of War
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
A look at private military companies, a multibillion-dollar industry, and how they recruit former child soldiers for military operations in Iraq, Afghanistan and elsewhere. Includes a link to the film by Mads Ellesoe.
- C. L. R. James and His Times
Every Cook Can Govern: The Life, Impact and the Works of C.L.R. James
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Review of the Worldwrite documentary film Every Cook Can Govern: The Life, Impact and the Works of C.L.R. James.
- Connexions Other Voices - Affirming life, resisting war, reporting UFOs
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
The April 30, 2017 issue of Other Voices, the Connexions newsletter, is now out. This issue is about affirming life, resisting war, and reporting UFOs.
- Detroit Radicals' Odessey
In Love and Struggle: The Revolutionary Lives of James & Grace Lee Boggs
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Book review of Stephen M. Ward's In Love and Struggle: The Revolutionary Lives of James & Grace Lee Boggs.
- E. P. Thompson's Socialist Humanism
E. P. Thompson and the Making of the New Left: Essays and Polemics
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Book review of Cal Winslow's E. P. Thompson and the Making of the New Left: Essays and Polemics.
- Franz Kafka: In His Times and Ours
Franz Kafka: Subversive Dreamer
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Book review of Michael Lowy's Franz Kafka: Subversive Dreamer.
- How Workers Made May Day Theirs
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
The extraordinary thing about the evolution of this institution is that it was unintended and unplanned. To this extent it was not so much an ‘invented tradition’ as a suddenly erupting one.
- Latin America: A Conservative Restoration?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
After a decade of the left's near-hegemonic control over government structures throughout Latin America, previously discredited conservative politicians who favour a return to the capitalist neoliberal polices of privatization and austerity are staging a comeback.
- Learn from Malcolm X
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
It's time to re-learn lessons from Malcolm in the Black community - nationalism and pride, solidarity and militancy, and a worldview that African Americans are part of a global community in struggle against the injustices of capitalism.
- Leonard Weinglass in History
Len, A Lawyer in History: A Graphic Biography of Radical Attorney Leonard Weinglass
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Book review of Seth Tobocman's Len, A Lawyer in History: A Graphic Biography of Radical Attorney Leonard Weinglass.
- Market Uber Alles
Knocking the Hustle: Against the Neoliberal Turn in Black Politics
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Book review of Lester K. Spence's Knocking the Hustle: Against the Neoliberal Turn in Black Politics.
- Nature, Labor, and the Rise of Capitalism
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
The nature of capitalism puts it at war with Nature.
- Philosopher’s Article On Transracialism Sparks Controversy
Updated with response from author
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
An article in the current issue of the feminist philosophy journal Hypatia has created such a controversy over the past several days that the members of its board of associate editors have now issued an apology for publishing it.
- Race and the Real California
The Nature of California: Race, Citizenship, and Farming since the Dust Bowl
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Book review of Sarah D. Wald's The Nature of California: Race, Citizenship, and Farming since the Dust Bowl.
- Reflections on Tom Hayden
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Reflections on Tom Hayden and the 1962 Port Huron Statement.
- Regulation -- Who Needs It?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
In Trump's vocabulary, regulations are ALL bad. (Of course Trump sees regulations around reproductive rights as good, but consistency isn't one of his characteristics.)
- The Russian Revolution and Workers Democracy
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
The Russian Revolution of February and October 1917 opened up a new historical epoch, and was greeted with enthusiasm by workers around the world.
- St. Bartholomew's Day massacre
Resource Type: Website
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
The St. Bartholomew's Day massacre in 1572 was a targeted group of assassinations and a wave of Catholic mob violence, directed against the Huguenots (French Protestants) during the French Wars of Religion.
- Science for the People with the EZLN
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
The Zapatistas have been extremely clever in responding to the continual challenges (not without serious setbacks), both militarily and politically. They have not only survived over the past 23 years but prospered, in their own terms, and gained considerable popular appeal.
- Spain Through Orwell's Eyes
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Eighty years ago, Barcelona's calamitous May Days sealed the fate of a worker-led social revolution. George Orwell was there to bear witness.
- Trump and the Middle East
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Trump tweets about keeping refugees out of the United States, and zeroes out the grossly inadequate U.S. humanitarian aid budget. It all poses the question: Which is the real "failed state"?
- Vietnam Revisited During Trump's Bonkers Brinkmanship
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
I returned to Vietnam in April, having not been there since the war, nearly 50 years ago. I'd sailed there as a seaman in the National Maritime Union (NMU) on a cargo ship carrying war materiel from the naval ammo base in Port Chicago, California.
- What Corporate Media Never Tells You about North Korea
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
There is a great deal of propaganda and deliberate misinformation about North Korea, which the public should know. While neocons, a cheering corporate media, and Deep State, rush to war with North Korea, information is the ultimate weapon. For example, did you know that North Korea, China, and India, are the only three nations who have committed to a "no nuclear first" policy.
- What Is Reproductive Justice?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Reproductive justice means having full control over all aspects of our sexual and reproductive lives, which means an end to all sexual violence.
- What Kind of Opposition?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
To address the millions of Trump supporters whose lives are devastated by his government... requires building an independent - and yes, socialist - left with uncompromising loyalty to the working class and oppressed people of the United States and the world, not to the liberal wing of capital or the Democratic Party.
- Which Way to the Barricades?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
What was the mass strike and what would a successful one look like today?
- Why "traditional media" is far from dead in today's digital world
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Each form of media, traditional or new, has pros and cons on how information is communicated and presented. With Public Relations, it's important to strategically deliver the message in ways that generate maximum coverage and impact.
- Abbas fears the Prisoners' Hunger Strike
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
The Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas is due to meet Donald Trump to discuss reviving the long-cold corpse of the peace process. Back home, things are heating up. There is anger in the West Bank, both on the streets and within the ranks of Abbas's Fatah movement. The trigger is a hunger strike by Palestinian prisoners..
- Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - April 30, 2017
Affirming life, resisting war, reporting UFOs
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
What do we do when those in power recklessly put the future of the entire planet at risk with their acts of aggression and military provocations, while they ignore the growing disaster of climate change? We fight back and organize, on every level, wherever we are, doing whatever offers the hope of resisting and of building a movement that can stop and overturn the out-of-control monster of late capitalism.
- You Are Not An Experience
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
A growing number of intellectuals are arguing that free speech needs to be subordinated to the goal of protecting the feelings of people who don't want to hear views that they find threatening. They are wrong.
- The Role of Science in Capitalist Society and Social Change
Part 1 of 2
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
With its Republican allies in Congress, the Trump administration plans to cut scientific programs while feeding more fuel into the ravenous, murderous, and imperialistic war machine of the United States. Trump's hate of scientists is clearly universal as demonstrated by the sanctioning of 271 Syrian scientists by the Treasury Department despite the fact these scientists have not engaged in any hostile acts aimed at the United States.
- Doctors in Denial
Why Big Pharma and the Canadian medical professionals are too close for comfort
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
A look into the disturbing relationships between medical doctors and Big Pharma, which has influenced what medical students learn and the interactions doctors have with their patients.
- IFIC Supports Continuing Education Requirements for Financial Advisors
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
In a submission filed yesterday, The Investment Funds Institute of Canada (IFIC) expressed strong support for rules proposed by the Mutual Fund Dealers Association (MFDA) governing continuing education (CE) requirements for financial advisors
- South Korea: How candlelight protests impeached a president and created spaces for direct democracy
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
At 9 am on March 10, 2017, people gathered in front of the Constitutional Court to await the court's ruling on whether to impeach South Korean president Park Geun-hye. Two hours before the verdict was read, those gathered chanted: "The Constitutional Court should uphold Park’s impeachment!"
- Climate Struggles and Ecosocialism
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
The hard right U.S. administration of Donald Trump has widened the terrain of struggle over climate change and, indeed, the entire array of environmental issues facing the ecology of North America and the working class movement.
- Discovery of mass graves highlights bloody scramble for Congo’s resources
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Last week, a team with the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights together with personnel from the United Nations Organization Stabilization Mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (MONUSCO) discovered scores of mass graves in Kasai Province, a south central region of the Congo currently wracked by bloody conflict between the Armed Forces of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (FARDC) and Kamuina Nsapu, a local tribal militia.
- Free Speech, but Not for All?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Just over a century ago, the president of a distinguished college barred the suffragette and human-rights activist Jane Addams from speaking on campus, and suspended a student named Inez Milholland for organizing others in support of women's rights. Milholland would go on to become influential in the women’s movement, and the college president, James Monroe Taylor, would become yet another example of an overly protective and historically myopic educator. He believed that women should be "not leaders, but good wives and mothers" -- the prevailing view of the day.
- IFIC Welcomes New Member and New Directors
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Toronto, ON - April 27, 2017 - The Investment Funds Institute of Canada (IFIC) has announced that the board of directors approved the application of CF2G Investissement Inc. to become a member of IFIC at its April meeting. The board also approved
- Indigenous Women: The Frontline Protectors of the Environment
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Indigenous women, while experiencing the first and worst effects of climate change globally, are often in the frontline in struggles to protect the environment.
- Informal Labour, Another Wall Faced by Migrants in Latin America
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
A large proportion of the 4.3 million migrant workers in Latin America and the Caribbean survive by working in the informal economy or in irregular conditions. An invisible wall that is necessary to bring down, together with discrimination and xenophobia.
- "It Is Profitable to Let the World Go to Hell": Will Capitalism Doom the Planet?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Disaster, poverty and misfortune have become great ways to make a fortune. From Afghanistan to Haiti, Pakistan to Papua New Guinea, the United States to the UK, and from Greece to Australia, journalist Antony Lowenstein uncovers how companies cash in on organized misery.
- It's Time for the Left to Ask "What Are We For?"
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Sarah Jaffe interviewed Maria Poblet. Maria Poblet has been working in base building and community organizing in the Bay Area for 18 years, building Causa Justa Just Cause, a democratically held grassroots organization where she is currently transitioning out of the role of executive director.
- Leslieville gallery cancels art show over concerns of Indigenous cultural appropriation
'It trivializes our art, our experience, and our culture', says Indigenous artist
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
An art gallery in Leslieville has cancelled an upcoming exhibit after receiving complaints that works by a Toronto artist are offensive to Indigenous people.
- Retired GM worker speaks on three years of the Flint water crisis
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
The poisoning of the city of Flint continues three long years after the decision was made by politicians and financial speculators to switch city residents to Flint River water. As the world now knows, the corrosive Flint River water leached lead from the antiquated piping system into the homes of residents. Lead is a deadly neurotoxin. Because next to nothing has yet been done to fix the city’s infrastructure, even after the switch back to Detroit water, there is no safe water supply for thousands of residents.
- "Superman Is Not Coming": Erin Brockovich on the Future of Water
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Come take a ride on America's toxic water slide: First stop: Flint, Michigan, where two years later, people are still contending with lead-laced water, which was finally detected by the EPA in February 2015 with the help of resident Lee Anne Walters. Next stop: California, where hundreds of wells have been contaminated with 1,2,3-TCP, a Big Oil-manufactured chemical present in pesticides.
- Trump's Reviled Hotline for "Criminal Aliens" Flooded with Reports of UFOs
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has unveiled its controversial immigrant crime office, complete with a hotline for U.S. citizens to report alleged crimes committed by undocumented aliens. The hotline was promptly overwhelmed with calls about extraterrestrials and UFOs.
- Using Children for Israeli Propaganda
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Engler brings to light Canadian schools' practices that indoctrinate students with problematic colonial, Zionist views.
- Brazil: Government to abandon tribes to 'genocide' by loggers and ranchers
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Brazil's extreme right wing government is preparing to open up the rainforest territories of uncontacted indigenous tribes to 'free for all' development by defunding the protection they currently receive.
- Changing minds on a changing climate
What Makes Climate Science Deniers Change Their Minds?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Reddit commenters point to reasons they went from being climate contrarians to having confidence in mainstream climate science.
- Coal Miners' Futures in Renewable Energy
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
If President Trump wants to earn a rare legislative victory and take political credit for reviving hard-hit regions of rural America, he should take a close look at how one Kentucky coal company is creating jobs.
- Empire Abroad, Empire At Home
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
The institutions and ideas U.S. elites used to project "full spectrum dominance" onto the global stage have eventually become part of the political order in the U.S. It is empire -- most of all -- that dooms democracy. As corporations have an insatiable drive for profit, empires have an insatiable drive for power.
- Endless Atrocities: The US Role In Creating The North Korean Fortress-State
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
An overview of the history that informs North Korea's relations with the United States and "drives its determination never to submit to any American diktat".
- How Propaganda Works to Divide Us
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Political propaganda employs the ideals of liberal democracy to undermine those very ideals, the dangers of which, not even its architects fully understand.
- Inside Corbyn's Office
An interview with Matt Zarb-Cousin
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Jeremy Corbyn’s former press officer on sabotage within the British Labour party, his relationship to the media, and how Labour can close the polling gap.
- The Looting Machine Called Capitalism
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
I have come to the conclusion that capitalism is successful primarily because it can impose the majority of the costs associated with its economic activities on outside parties and on the environment. In other words, capitalists make profits because their costs are externalized and born by others. In the US, society and the environment have to pick up the tab produced by capitalist activity.
- Monks with guns
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Westerners think that Buddhism is about peace and non-violence. So how come Buddhist monks are in arms against Islam?
- Only one bear in a hundred bites, but they don't come in order
Resource Type: Film/Video
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Bob Bossin talked about oil tanks in a Youtube video
- Palestinian, Jewish Voices Music Jointly Challenge Israel's Past
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Baroud analyzes how Israel has appropriated the Palestinian narrative of Al-Nakba to rewrite history and place the occupation of Palestine in a positive light.
- The Rule of Law Won't Save Us
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Donald Trump won't be stopped by the law -- in fact, his worse abuses are enabled by it.
- A Special Obscenity
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Picasso painted Guernica eighty years ago this spring. It still stands as a searing protest against the brutality of war and fascism.
- To conserve tropical forests and wildlife, protect the rights of people who rely on them
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Who are the best guardians of forests and other wild places? Governments? Conservation NGOs? Corporations? No, writes Prakash Kashwan, it's the indigenous peoples who have lived in harmony with their environment for millennia. But to be able do so, they must first be accorded rights to their historic lands and resources, both in law and in practice.
- The CIA director is waging war on truth-tellers like WikiLeaks
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Mike Pompeo, in his first speech as director of the CIA, chose to declare war on free speech rather than on the United States’ actual adversaries.
- Forest Service's 'Independent' Report on Atlantic Coast Pipeline Written by Pipeline Company Contractor
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
The U.S. Forest Service recently published an assessment of the proposed Atlantic Coast pipeline, calling the report "independent." In reality the assessment was performed and written by none other than a contractor working for the pipeline company.
- Fracking kills newborn babies - polluted water likely cause
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
A new study in Pennsylvania, USA shows that fracking is strongly related to increased mortality in young babies. The effect is most pronounced in counties with many drinking water wells indicating that contamination by 'produced water' from fracking is a likely cause. Radioactive pollution with uranium, thorium and radium is a 'plausible explanation' for the excess deaths.
- Global Day of Action on Military Spending (GDAMS) Halifax, N.S.
Sources News Release
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The public is invited to join the Nova Scotia Voice of Women for Peace (NSVOW) at this international Global Day of Action on Military Spending (GDAMS).
- The Madder Trump Gets, the More Seriously the World Takes Him
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
The more dangerous America's crackpot President becomes, the saner the world believes him to be. Just look back at the initial half of his first 100 days: the crazed tweeting, the lies, the fantasies and self-regard of this misogynist leader of the Western world appalled all of us. But the moment he went to war in Yemen, fired missiles at Syria and bombed Afghanistan, even the US media Trump had so ferociously condemned began to treat him with respect. And so did the rest of the world.
- Major Challenges of New Orleans Charter Schools Exposed at NAACP Hearing
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
New Orleans is the nation's largest and most complete experiment in charter schools. After Hurricane Katrina, the State of Louisiana took control of public schools in New Orleans and launched a nearly complete transformation of a public school system into a system of charter schools.
- Media Promote Baseless Assertions By Government Officials Of Russian Interference As Facts
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
The headline of a New York Times article published April 6, 2017, "C.I.A. Had Evidence of Russian Effort to Help Trump Earlier Than Believed," misleadingly implies not only that there was an effort by the Russian government to help Donald Trump win the American presidential election but that it is a settled fact that the CIA was in possession of hard evidence to that effect.
- Prosecution of Assange is Persecution of Free Speech
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
US authorities are reported to have prepared charges to seek the arrest of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange. This overreach of US government toward a publisher is another sign of a crumbling façade of democracy.
- Trump the Gardener
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
In an interview defending his Presidential candidate, Silicon Valley billionaire and undisguised self-interested Randian fanboy Peter Thiel assured the public that when Donald Trump asserted that he would build a mighty wall along the US Mexican border, what he really meant was that he would impose a 'saner, more sensible immigration policy'.
- Dynamo Kiev fans wear KKK outfits, swastikas in ‘white frenzy’ display intended for UEFA official
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Dynamo Kiev fans welcomed a visiting UEFA inspector to their home match versus Shakhtar Donetsk wearing outfits of the white supremacist group the Ku Klux Klan (KKK) and masks bearing swastikas.
- Noam Chomsky: US Is the "Most Dangerous Country in the World"
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Nuclear proliferation and climate change are subjects of acute concern in the current moment, driven into an all-out state of emergency by the new Trump administration. In this interview, Noam Chomsky discusses the media coverage of these two major issues, highlighting US tensions with Russia, Iran and North Korea, as well as discussing the recent US airstrike on Syria's Air Force base.
- The reactionary, class nature of left Academia today
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Mellor challenges the idea that socialism is eurocentric and speaks to how capitalist exploitation and workers' resistance is fundamentally similar all over the world.
- Treating Mental Health Patients as Criminals
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
The criminalisation of the mentally ill is one of the cruellest and most easily avoidable tragedies of our era.
- Gentrification Represents a Geography of Inequality
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
What does gentrification mean for the future of American cities? It means more than the arrival of trendy shops and expensive coffee. Peter Moskowitz intertwines human narratives with incisive analysis of the systemic forces contributing to America's crises of race and inequality, in How to Kill a City. Click here now to order this book with a donation to Truthout!The following is a Truthout interview with Peter Moskowitz, author of How to Kill a City: Gentrification, Inequality, and the Fight for the Neighborhood.
- Newspaper Owned By Fracking Billionaire Leaks Memo Calling Pipeline Opponents Potential "Terrorists"
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has produced a report titled, "Potential Domestic Terrorist Threats to Multi-State Diamond Pipeline Construction Project," dated April 7, 2017. The DHS field analysis report points to lessons from policing the Dakota Access pipeline, saying they can be applied to the ongoing controversy over the Diamond pipeline, which, when complete, will stretch from Cushing, Oklahoma to Memphis, Tennessee. While lacking "credible information" of such a potential threat, DHS concluded that "the most likely potential domestic terrorist threat to the Diamond Pipeline … is from environmental rights extremists motivated by resentment over perceived environmental destruction."
- Xulhaz Mannan: Murder of LGBTQ+ editor highlights danger facing all rational voices in Bangladesh
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First Published: 2017
Published: 17
The murder of Xulhaz Mannan, the founder and editor of Bangladesh's first and only LGBTQ+ magazine, Roopban, has drawn the world's attention to the violence directed against the country's outspoken supporters of equal rights. His death at the hands of six assailants sent a wave of fear through the community, and has prompted others to go into hiding.
- Challenging Racism isn't Anti-Semetic
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Engler criticizes Canadians' willingness to defend the Jewish Defense League, even with their growing connection to white supremist groups.
- Climate Change As Genocide
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Is this what a world battered by climate change will be like—one in which tens of millions, even hundreds of millions of people perish from disease, starvation, and heat prostration while the rest of us, living in less exposed areas, essentially do nothing to prevent their annihilation?
- Israeli activists 'thought it nice' to hold BBQ near Palestinian hunger strikers
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
In the face of increasing human rights abuses being committed towards Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails, an Israeli right-wing group mocked the Palestinian mass hunger strike by hosting a BBQ outside a military prison.
- IFIC Updates Monthly Statistics for March 2017
Sources News Release
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Toronto, ON - April 21, 2017 - The Investment Funds Institute of Canada (IFIC) released updated sales data for the month ending March 31, 2017. The assets under management (AUM) for the mutual funds industry reached $1.39 trillion. Year-to-date
- The Main Issue in the French Presidential Election: National Sovereignty
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
The 2017 French Presidential election marks a profound change in European political alignments. There is an ongoing shift from the traditional left-right rivalry to opposition between globalization, in the form of the European Union (EU), and national sovereignty.
- Rahul Pandita's New India: A Hindutva India On the Ashes Of Democratic Secular India
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Shamsul Islam responds to the rise of the Hindutva in India and challenges their anti-Muslim propaganda.
- Review: Where I Live Now by Sharon Butala takes readers on a lovely and dark journey
Book Review
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Review of a woman's memoir of life on the prairies and the death of her husband.
- The Russian Revolution and the Emancipation of Women
Part Three
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
- Ecologist Special Report: From fish to forests and conflicts to coffee ... how humans are affected by climate-driven species shifts
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Climate change has species on the move, with major consequences for biodiversity and human communities. Building resilience has never been more important and Indigenous Peoples are showing the way.
- Re-examine revolution, but don't abandon it
Book review
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Re-examine revolution, but surely now is not the time to abandon it. Chris Nineham reviews Socialist Register 2017: Rethinking Revolution
- Global Days of Action on Military Spending: April 18-28, 2017
Sources News Release
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First Published: 2017
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This year, the GDAMS movement will take place from April 18th to April 28th, 2016. Canadian Voice of Women for Peace joins with The International Peace Bureau and its members with organized events all around the world (Australia, Colombia, Kenya, Nigeria
- A Turkey Divided by Erdogan Will Become Prey to Its Enemies
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
What critics claim is the openly fraudulent Turkish referendum ends parliamentary democracy in the country and gives President Recep Tayyip Erdogan dictatorial powers. The most unexpected aspect of the poll on Sunday was not the declared outcome, but that the ruling AKP (Justice and Development Party) allegedly found it necessary to fix the vote quite so blatantly.
- The U.S. Pushed North Korea to Build Nukes: Yes or No?
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Washington's policy toward North Korea for the last 64 years entirely based on the assumption that you can persuade people to do what you want them to do through humiliation, intimidation and brute force.
- Children & Nature Network International Conference brings 850+ international leaders working to connect children to nature to Vancouver, BC
Sources News Release
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First Published: 2017
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More than 850 leaders and activists from 22 countries are gathering today in Vancouver B.C. for the 2017 Children & Nature Network International Conference and Summit. This premier gathering of the children and nature movement, co-hosted by the Canad
- The Return of Commercial Prison Labour
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Prisons are seldom mentioned under the rubric of labour market institutions such as temporary work contracts or collective bargaining agreements. Yet, prisons not only employ labour but also cast a shadow on the labour force in or out of work. The early labour movement considered the then prevalent use of prison labour for commercial purposes as unfair competition. By the 1930s, the U.S. labour movement was strong enough to have work for commercial purposes prohibited in prisons.
- Why we should be thanking Burger King for hijacking our smart home devices
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Pringle analyzes the social impact of Burger King's advertising tactic and the hidden vulnerabilities our smart devices are capable of bringing us.
- The Destruction of Inlet Beach
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
As Inlet Beach undergoes development to turn the site into a tourist vacation spot and with no support from the county government or develepment laws, the local community is slowly driven away.
- Has Trump Stolen Philosophy's Critical Tools?
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Williams analyzes how U.S. President Trump is able to exploit the post-modernist view of the subjectivity of truth in order to wield power over how Americans perceive their own reality.
- In India Any Social Activist Can Be Arrested, Charged And Tried - Sans Evidence - For Terrorism: Kobad Ghandy's Case - Part II - The Punjab Trial
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First Published: 2017
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In a follow-up to an article detailing how Delhi's legal system was able to detain Kobad Ghandy in Tihar Jail for engaging in supposedly communist activities, this article discusses a separate attempt to prosecute Ghandy for his social activism.
- Interactive map of workers' councils (1917-1927)
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First Published: 2017
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This article charts the spread of the workers' council movement in the ten-year period after the 1917 revolution in Russia.
- A History of Women's Rights in Toronto
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Whether they were marching in solidarity with the Women's March on Washington or commemorating International Women's Day, women in Toronto have a longstanding tradition of advocating for gender equality across Canada.
- In Memoriam: Bobby Lee, Black Panther
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Hy Thurman remembers Bobby Lee.
- Journalistic Integrity: Allan Nairn vs. Julian Assange
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
I've been really upset since the inauguration and trying to cope with the emotions I am encountering daily. It is pretty obvious that a successful meme has been implanted in the progressive mindset that will have as much impact as the claim Ralph Nader gave the 2000 election to Bush. By this I mean that people are extremely pissed off at me for having backed the Green Party and Jill Stein and seem to say with almost a psychic vitriol that it is somehow my fault that Trump got elected. Didn’t you throw your vote away on the Greens? Didn't you say awful things about Hillary?
- Canadian Voice of Women for Peace - Statement on Syria
Sources News Release
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First Published: 2017
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The Canadian Voice of Women for Peace (VOW) calls for the immediate cessation of violence by all parties. We want no more strikes, an investigation by UN experts into the use of chemical weapons, and immediate commencement of peace negotiation by a
- The Freeland-Chomiak Connection: "It takes a village to raise a Nazi"
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First Published: 2017
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Sanders uncovers Chrystia Freeland's, the Canadian Minister of Foreign Affairs, own personal and professional connection with fascist groups and publications.
- Green nationalism? How the far right could learn to love the environment
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Myths of a pagan past in harmony with nature have been a feature of green nationalism, from its beginnings through to the Anastasia ecovillages in contemporary Russia where - unlike their equivalent hippy communes found in the West - sustainable living is combined with a 'reactionary eco-nationalism'. Could it happen here too?
- Israel's first trans officer helps with ethnic cleansing
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Queer and transgender activists protested an event featuring an Israeli soldier in Seattle on 5 April.The event was supported by the LGBTQ Commission, a body that advises city leaders on lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender issues.Two commissioners resigned in protest just days earlier, criticizing the group’s participation as an act of pinkwashing. Pinkwashing is a public relations strategy that deploys Israel's supposed enlightenment toward LGBTQ issues to deflect criticism from its human rights abuses and war crimes and as a means to build up support for Israel among Western liberals and progressives.
- The Promises and Limitations of Radical Local Politics
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Steve Early's most recent book, Refinery Town: Big Oil, Big Money, and the Remaking of An American City (Beacon Press), describes the building of a what is very likely the most successful progressive political organization, The Richmond Progressive Alliance, in the United States, in Richmond, California, a blue collar city long dominated by Chevron Corp.
- Archives As Activism
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First Published: 2017
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Last week was archives awareness week in Ontario, a week to raise awareness about what archivists do, what archives are, and just generally celebrate all of the good stuff associated with archives. In addition to general archives promotion this week it is also about the connection between archives and activism.
- Dead Zone: Where the Wild Things Were
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First Published: 2017
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Martin Empson reviews an important book (DEAD ZONE: Where the Wild Things Were
by Philip Lymber,Bloomsbury Publishing, 2017) for activists, a frightening examination of the impact of industrial agriculture on the environment, and particularly biodiversity.
- How Media Bias Fuels Syrian Escalation
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
The mainstream U.S. media now reports as "flat-fact" the Syrian government's guilt in the April 4, 2017 chemical weapons incident, but the real facts are less clear and some point in the opposite direction.
- Running Government Like a Business is Bad for Citizens
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First Published: 2017
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Donald Trump and Jared Kushner say that the government should be run like a business, but that would mean eliminating regulations and expenses that benefit the people.
- ISIS Church Bombings Kill 47 in Egypt
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Ditz details two recent ISIS attacks in Egypt targeting Christian churches and followers.
- Wag The Dog -- How Al Qaeda Played Donald Trump And The American Media
Responsibility for the chemical event in Khan Sheikhoun is still very much in question.
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First Published: 2017
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Once upon a time, Donald J. Trump, the New York City businessman-turned-president, berated then-President Barack Obama, back in September 2013, about the fallacy of an American military strike against Syria. At that time, the United States was considering the use of force against Syria in response to allegations (since largely disproven) that the regime of President Bashar al-Assad had used chemical weapons against civilians in the Damascus suburb of Ghouta. Trump, via tweet, declared "to our very foolish leader, do not attack Syria - if you do many very bad things will happen & from that fight the U.S. gets nothing!"
- Free Speech and Unsafe Spaces
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Malik criticizes "the blinkered, self-centred, indeed narcissistic, attitudes that shape much contemporary discussion on speech and its limits. Free speech, from this perspective, requires not a robust exchange of ideas but the validation of my views. I should have the right to denounce anyone I wish, but criticism of my views is a denial of my free speech. Vigorously defending oneself against criticism is to deny safe space for one's critics."
- How to Access Digital Files from the Nineties
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
In this step-by-step, digital archivist Tim Walsh demonstrates how to access decades old files.
- The Russian Revolution and the Emancipation of Women
Part Two
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
- The Balance of Probabilities
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Unlike the famous chemical weapons "attack" portrayed by the BBC in Saving Syria's Children, it does appear that in the latest incident at Idlib there was real horror inflicted by chemical attack of some kind. The question is who did it and why?
- Is Assad to blame for the chemical weapons attack in Syria?
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
What possible motives that could link the Assad regime to a chemical attack in Northern Syria?
- The Spell Checker Poem
The Facts Behind "Candidate for a Pullet Surprise"
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
"The Spell Checker Poem." originally was composed in 1991, its first official appearance was in The Journal of Irreproducible Results in 1994. Since then, it has made its way around the Internet under various titles, including "Spell Checker Blues," "Owed to a Spelling Checker," and "Spellbound." Almost always the poem is attributed to Anonymous or, more playfully, "Sauce unknown."
- Another Dangerous Rush to Judgment in Syria
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
The U.S. government and the mainstream media have rushed to judgment again, blaming the Syrian government for a new poison-gas attack and ignoring other possibilities, reports Robert Parry.
- A common treasury for all: Gerrard Winstanley's vision of utopia
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First Published: 2017
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Gerrard Winstanley was the ideological force behind the Diggers, a left-wing movement during the English Revolution. The Digger movement of 1648-1650 arose out of the juncture of three processes, notably the transition from feudalism to capitalism.
- Devices that track, spy on cellphones found at Montreal's Trudeau airport
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
CBC Radio-Canada investigation already found electronic surveillance devices near Parliament Hill.
- Double standards: Do all journalist lives matter?
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Little attention is paid to reporters from the Global South who are killed, abused, or left stranded by foreign media.
- Engels, Neanderthals and the origins of the family
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Based on concrete evidence from genetics and archaeology, Friedrich Engel's theories well over a hundred years ago are still relevant to current disputes about the origins of the human family.
- Frantz Fanon: Decolonisation through revolution
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
A review of Peter Hudis, Frantz Fanon: Philosopher of the Barricades (Pluto Press, 2015); Lewis R Gordon, What Fanon Said: A Philosophical Introduction to His Life and Thought (Fordham University Press, 2015); and Leo Zeilig, Frantz Fanon: The Militant Philosopher of Third World Revolution (I B Taurus, 2016). The three books illustrate a renewed interest among activists and within academia in the life and work of Frantz Fanon. The three highlighted works demonstrate that Fanon has many lessons for current movements against racism, imperialism and capitalism.
- How Financial Transaction Taxes Make the Economy More Efficient
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First Published: 2017
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The efforts to implement a financial transactions tax (FTT) within the European Union (EU) seem to be finally coming to a head. While the EU is far from unanimous in support of a FTT, an effort to implement a joint FTT has been moving forward for the last six years under a provision that allows ten or more countries to act collectively.
- It's WMD all over again. Why don't you see it?
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First Published: 2017
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Today’s frenzy over alleged use of poison gas in Syria is the 2017 version of Anthony Blair’s WMD in Iraq. Why can you not see it? Did you think they would do it in exactly the same way again? You are being assailed through your emotions, to act first and think long after, and far too late.
- Lenin's April Theses and the Russian Revolution
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First Published: 2017
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In 1917 Lenin arrived from exile iin Petrograd, soon to give an outline of what were to be called the April Theses. Broadly, the theses can be summarised as follows: Only the overthrow of the provisional government and the fight for soviet power could secure a state of affairs that would bring bread to the workers, land to the peasants and peace to end the imperialist war.
- Marxism 2.0: New commodities, new workers?
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Book review of Ursula Huws, 'Labor in the Global Digital Economy: The Cybertariat Comes of Age' and Nick Dyer-Witheford, 'Cyber-Proletariat: Global Labour in the Digital Vortex'.
- Self-Censored Questions by Career Questioners
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First Published: 2017
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I've always been intrigued by the major questions not asked by reporters at press conferences, not asked by legislators at public hearings or even the questions citizens at town meetings don't ask public officials. It's not that they do not know about or could not easily become informed enough about a given issue and ask substantive questions. It's just that so many taboos are packed into these questioners' ideological mindset, career goals or concern with what other people over them might think. Maybe it is a culturally-rooted fear of challenging entrenched power brokers.
- The Sense of Art: In memoriam John Berger
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First Published: 2017
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In memoriam of the British writer and lecturer John Berger.
- System of a Down
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Book review of Michael Roberts 'The Long Depression'.
- World's Best Economist Tells All!
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
If you want to learn real economics instead of neoliberal junk economics, read Michael Hudson’s books. What you will learn is that neoliberal economics is an apology for the rentier class and the large banks that have succeeded in financializing the economy, shifting consumer spending power from the purchase of goods and services that drive the real economy to the payment of interest and fees to banks.
- Israel Steps up Dirty Tricks Against Boycott Leaders
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
The current obsession with the challnege posed by BDS (boycott, divestment and sanctions) reflects a changing political environment for Israel.
- Just Wait Until I Get Tenure
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
A Facebook friend, Steven Salaita, recently wrote a post about academe arguing that tenure-track professors are kidding themselves if they say they will become more radical once they get tenure. I agreed with his post, and I made a long reply. Here, I incorporate what I said into a more coherent commentary.
- CWF issues a Seven Day Challenge for National Wildlife Week April 9-15
Sources News Release
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
The Canadian Wildlife Federation (CWF) is urging Canadians to step it up for National Wildlife Week April 9-15, 2016 with a seven-day conservation challenge.
- Healthy soil is the real key to feeding the world
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Some of the more common myths regarding the modern agricultural industry are outlined, notably that large scale commercial farming provides higher yields and greater diversity of products. Indeed the author contests the coversation should move beyond conventional farming vs organic, and that it is regenerative farming practices that concentrate on soil health that will provide the best solution.
- More on the Red Chemist
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
More on the important role that the eminent chemist Carl Schorlemmer played in the development of Marx and Engels' understanding of the natural sciences.
- Journalists allege threat of drone execution by US
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Fearing assassination, Al Jazeera's Ahmad Zaidan and independent journalist Bilal Abdul Kareem file US legal complaint.
- 1,418 days of WWII viewed through lens of legendary Soviet photographer
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Profile of Soviet photographer Yevgeny Khaldei and a sample of his photographs captured during WWII.
- The Boy Without a Country
Tokyo's painful exclusion of immigrants
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Citizenship in Japan is jus sanguinis -- determined by blood, rather than by place of birth. Though Utinan qualified for Thai citizenship, Lonsan didn’t know how to register his birth from abroad, so he was rendered stateless.
- Jobs for Climate and Justice: A Worker Alternative to the Trump Agenda
A working paper from the Labor Network for Sustainability
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Jobs for Climate and Justice exposes and challenges the Trump agenda and proposes the kind of economic program we must fight for. It also offers examples of the great organizing efforts around the country – led by working people – that provide the foundation for the a transition to a just and climate-safe economy.
- Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - April 1, 2017
April 1 issue
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Other Voices always strives to present you with alternative views on important topics. This issue offers some really alternative perspectives and even some "alternative facts." As always, read critically - and enjoy.
- West Papua: the sago and the palm oil - The Yerisiam people fight
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
How Papua's Yerisiam people are fighting against palm oil expansion and protecting their last sacred sago forest.
- IFIC Supports Ontario Plans to Strengthen Financial Planning and Advice
Sources News Release
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Toronto, ON - March 31, 2017 - The Investment Funds Institute of Canada has commended Ontario Finance Minister Charles Sousa for his commitment to move ahead with several recommendations aimed at strengthening financial planning and advice.
- Land Day 2017: Israel's relentless land grab continues
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First Published: 2017
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As Israel resumes its settlement expansion with impunity, Palestinians have plenty to protest at this year's Land Day.
- IFIC Updates Monthly Statistics for February 2017
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Toronto, ON - March 29, 2017 - The Investment Funds Institute of Canada (IFIC) released updated sales data for the month ending February 28, 2017. The assets under management (AUM) for the mutual funds industry reached $1.38 trillion. Year-to-date
- The Neoliberalism Order Begins to Crack
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Western ruling classes are now beginning to suffer political payback for 40 years of neoliberalism and nearly ten years of economic crisis.
- Fake news about the Rojava revolution
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Sharply different opinions have developed among the radical left in recent years towards the Syrian radical democratic movement led by the Democratic Union Party (PYD) -- an initially Kurdish-based force which through a series of political and military struggles and alliances has recently formed the Democratic Federation of Northern Syria, as a model for a multi-ethnic, non-sectarian, federal and socially just alternative for the nation and the region.
- Fake News: the Unravelling of US Empire From Within
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
A war of opposing certitudes and denunciations is waged day to day between the long-ruling US corporate media and the White House. Both continuously proclaim ringing recriminations of the other's 'fake news'. Over months they both portray each other as malevolent liars.
- The guardians of the Andean potato
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
More than 2,800 types of potatoes are known to have originated in Peru. The existence of these varieties can be attributed to the high value the Quechua people place on their cultural traditions and biological diversity.
- India: Why are Suzuki automobile workers in jail?
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Why are automobile workers being jailed for murder? The story at Maruti is a familiar one in India's industrial scene.
- Memory Against Forgetting: the Resonance of Bloody Sunday
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
The museum John guards is a physical manifestation of the moral necessity of remembering that day’s cataclysmic violence. An attempt to remember the silences imposed on peoples’ experiences by time and traumatised memory, and, most of all, murderous rampage. And of course, if those left behind do not remember who will? It certainly will not be the guilty.
- Noam Chomsky: Trump's First 100 Days Are Undermining Our Prospects for Survival
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
No recent US president has demonstrated such an overwhelming ignorance about governing as the current occupant of the White House. But is Trump's apparent inability to govern and conduct himself in a remotely conventional manner an innate character flaw or part of a well-conceived strategy aimed at a society that loves reality TV? In this exclusive Truthout interview, Noam Chomsky shares his views about the first 100 days of the Trump administration.
- State Department Condemns Attacks on Russian Peaceful Protests, Ignores Those in America
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
On March 26, the State Department tweeted, "U.S. condemns detention of 100s of peaceful protesters in Russia today. Detaining peaceful protesters is an affront to democratic values."
- The UK Is Among the World's Largest Suppliers of Weapons -- and Is Making Arms Boycotts Illegal
Despite human rights abuses, the UK continues to sell arms to Israel and crack down on dissent.
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Through 'open' trade conventions such as the Security & Policing (S&P) exhibition and closed events such as the Defence and Security Equipment International (DSEI) fair, the UK allows local and international companies to showcase some of the world's most lethal weapons.
- Why ICE Raids Imperil Us All
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Millions of people who have been living and working in the U.S., contributing to their communities and to the economy, are now at risk simply for who they are: people "without papers."
- Campaign to Stop GE Trees Release Statement of Solidarity Following World Water Day
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
The Campaign to Stop Genetically Engineered Trees released this statement in solidarity with communities affected by the industrial forestry model. These tree plantations, which do not support biodiversity, are not forests, but more like laboratories.
- Digital Privacy at the U.S Border: A New How-To Guide from EFF
Sources News Release
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
A new guide released by the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) gives travelers the facts they need in order to prepare for border crossings while protecting their digital information.
- Disappeared on the Border: "Chase and Scatter" -- to Death
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
The inhuman tactics used by US Border Patrol Agents against people corssing the border are causing untold numbers of migrants to die in the desert.
- Ecologist Special Report: Why mining and violence are inextricably linked
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
The South African government is currently embarking on streamlining decision-making processes in mining. To many this sounds like more top-down decision-making at the expense of those communities that will have to host mines and paves the way for more violent conflict, warns Jasper Finkeldey.
- Global Gathering Takes Aim at Genetically Engineered Trees
Sources News Release
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Members of the Campaign to STOP Genetically Engineered Trees from around the world are gathered in Chile for 2 weeks to investigate impacts of industrial tree plantations & the potential future impacts of genetically engineered tree plantatations.
- Has the meaning of "organizing" been forgotten?
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Rising inequality, US anti-union laws crushing organized labour south of the boarder, and the slow unrelenting decline of union density here in Canada has renewed the focus on labour union organizing. The response from the leadership of the movement has been focused -- rightly -- on changes to law regulating labour unions that make it harder to organize. However, changing labour laws will not undo the slow decline in union density alone. Unions will also have to actually go out and talk to workers, sign them up, establish a local, bargain a first agreement, and enforce those terms.
- How French 'Intellectuals' Ruined the West: Postmodernism and Its Impact, Explained
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Postmodernism presents a threat not only to liberal democracy but to modernity itself.
- Impacts of mass coral die-off on Indian Ocean reefs revealed
Warming sea waters - caused by climate change and extreme climatic events - threaten the stability of tropical coral reefs, with potentially
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
New research by the University of Exeter shows that increased surface ocean temperatures during the strong 2016 El Niño led to a major coral die-off event in the Maldives, and that this has caused reef growth rates to collapse. They also found that the rates at which some reefs species, in particular parrotfish, are eroding the reefs had increased following this coral die-off event.
- John Bellamy Foster answers five questions about Marxism and ecology
Can Marxism strengthen our understanding of ecological crises? The author of Marx's Ecology replies to a critic on metabolic rift, sustainab
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
In the Anthropocene, we are faced with the eventual prospect, if society continues to follow the path of business as usual, of the end of civilization (in the sense of organized human society) and even potentially of the human species itself. But well before that hundreds of millions of people will be affected by increasing droughts, rising sea levels, and extreme weather events of all kinds.
- Letter to the World Anti Doping Agency and International Olympic Committee
Regarding the McLaren Report and the Politicization of Doping in Sports
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Russian track and field athletes, plus the entire Paralympics team, were banned from the Rio Games last summer. This was based on the first McLaren report commissioned by the World Anti Doping Agency (WADA).
- Migrant workers left behind in 2017 Federal Budget
Sources News Release
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Migrant workers and advocates are angered that the 2017 Federal Budget failed to deliver promised details on reforms to the Temporary Foreign Worker Program.
- Nepalese journalist attacked for timber smuggling report
Sources News Release
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) joins the Nepal Press Union (NPU) and the Federation of Nepali Journalists (FNJ) in condemning the attempted attack of a journalist by government employees in Bara district of Nepal on March 21, 2017.
- Online harassment and threats for Indian journalist exposing illegal sand mining
Sources News Release
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) expresses serious concern over the online harassment and threats over the telephone to independent journalist Sandhya Ravishankar over her reporting of illegal beach sand mining in Tamil Nadu, India.
- An Unholy Alliance
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Fleischmann looks at the reasons behind the unlikely alliance that has formed between Trump, the alt-right, and Israel, who have based their support for each other around shared enemies.
- Urban Homesteaders Win Cancellation of Bogus Trademarks
Sources News Release
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Urban homesteaders can speak freely about their global movement for sustainable living, after convincing the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) to cancel bogus trademarks for the terms "urban homesteading" and "urban homestead."
- The Value of Capital
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Roberts responds to David Harvey's review of his publication "Marx's Inferno: The Political Theory of Capital" by defending and opening up a discussion regarding the theories presented in Marx's "Capital," and how they connect with the rest of his oeuvre.
- What We Don't Talk About When We Talk About Rural Poverty
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Gurly analyzes the institutional reasons behind widespread poverty, depopulation, and unemployment in Jefferson County, Mississippi.
- Where the Anti-Russian Moral Panic is Leading Us
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
This is how the smear campaign scores points: you don't have to be on the Russian payroll -- you can be a "useful idiot" just because of your political views, which condemn you as an "unwitting" agent, as former CIA director Mike Morell described Trump. This is how the parameters of "respectable" opinion are policed: this is how the War Party criminalizes those who think that the cold war is over and shouldn't be revived.
- Ideological Violence and Sociopathic Rage
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
‘How can we distinguish violence driven by ideology from sociopathic rage?
- The 712-page Google doc that proves Muslims do condemn terrorism
When a classmate told 19-year-old Heraa Hashmi that “all terrorists are Muslims” she began to compile a dossier of all instances of Muslims
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Muslims are constantly denouncing atrocities that have been committed in the name of Islam. Yet many people seem to think Muslims don't condemn terrorism enough. So Heraa Hashmi decided to put the notion to the test.
- Trump Insults the Media, but Bush Bullied and Defanged It to Sell the Iraq War
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Bush was anything but a friend of the press during his presidency. Maybe he didn’t demonize it as much as Trump does -- but he actively manipulated it and bullied it far worse and far more effectively than Trump has, much of it in the service of selling his marquee policy: the war in Iraq.
- Trump's War on Terror Has Quickly Become as Barbaric and Savage as He Promised
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Although precise numbers are difficult to obtain, there seems little question that the number of civilians being killed by the U.S. in Iraq and Syria -- already quite high under Obama -- has increased precipitously during the first two months of the Trump administration.
- In the 19th and 20th centuries, Mexico proved that debt can be repudiated
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Mexico's past demonstrates that despite the domination of the major powers and international finance, a country can make major social advances.
- Why White Working Class Americans Are Dying "Deaths of Despair"
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Franklin examines the reasons behind the steadily growing mortality rates for working-class white Americans, which he attributes to both workplace hazards and mental illness resulting from joblessness, poverty, and despair.
- 'All Power to the Soviets?' - Biography of a slogan
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
The origins of one of the most famous slogans in revolutionary history: "All power to the Soviets!" in its original context of Russia in 1917.
- A Century Later, Namibia Demands Justice From Germany for Its First Holocaust
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Between 1904 and 1908, German colonialists committed a holocaust against the Herero and the Nama, exterminating as many as 65,000 Herero and 10,000 Nama. Now Namibia is demanding reparations.
- Lynne Stewart: 1939-2017
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Radical attorney Lynne Stewart died in Brooklyn on March 7, 2017 at the age of 77. The immediate cause was a series of strokes which, together with metastasized breast cancer, finally drained the life out of this tireless fighter for the oppressed. Lynne's death will be keenly felt by the incarcerated opponents of the U.S. government, for whom she fought until the end. Without her, the world is a lonelier, crueler place for these prisoners and their families.
- The Plant Next Door
A Louisiana Town Plagued by Pollution Shows Why Cuts to the EPA Will Be Measured in Illnesses and Deaths
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
When the Environmental Protection Agency informed people in St. John the Baptist Parish, Louisiana, last July that the local neoprene plant was emitting a chemical that gave them the highest risk of cancer from air pollution in the country, the information was received not just with horror and sadness but also with a certain sense of validation.
- The Russian Revolution and the Emancipation of Women
Part One
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
The Bolshevik Revolution of October 1917 was the greatest victory for the world's working people and for all of the oppressed. The spark for the revolutionary upsurge was a mass outpouring of women in Petrograd on International Women’s Day (IWD), March 8 (February 23 by the old Julian calendar). While in recent years bourgeois feminists have usurped IWD, in fact it is a workers' celebration that originated in 1908 among female needle trades workers in Manhattan.
- Aleppo boy versus ‘Mosul girl’: How the Western MSM peddles war propaganda
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
While much of the developed world knows of 'Aleppo boy' Omran Daqneesh, how many have heard of an equally tragic story involving a five-year-old girl named Hawraa, the sole survivor of a US-coordinated airstrike on her home in Mosul?
- The Dangers of Salting Under Trump
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Johnson analyzes the legal rights that a labour union 'salt' has -- or doesn't have -- in the wake of the anti-union of the U.S. government.
- IFIC Welcomes Budget Measure to Allow Tax-Deferred Merger of a Mutual Fund Corporation into Trusts
Sources News Release
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Toronto - March 23, 2017 - The Investment Funds Institute of Canada (IFIC) welcomes the government's decision, announced in yesterday's federal budget, to permit the tax-deferred merger of a mutual fund corporation into mutual fund trusts.
- Netizen Report: Why Did YouTube Censor Your Videos? You May Never Know.
Global Voices Advocacy's Netizen Report offers an international snapshot of challenges, victories, and emerging trends in Internet rights ar
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Amid an apparent shift in YouTube’s approach to monitoring for rules violations and staying in the good graces of advertisers, a wave of YouTube users have found their work either blocked or relegated to "restricted" mode in recent months.
- Scientists: protect vast Amazon peatland to avoid palm oil 'environmental disaster'
A recently discovered peatland in northeast Peru contains two years worth of US carbon emissions, writes Joe Sandler Clarke, but it's under
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
The peatland in Pastaza-Marañón Foreland Basin in northeast Peru - discovered in 2009 by Finnish scientist Outi Lähteenoja - is said to contain 3.14 gigatons of carbon, roughly equivalent to two years of CO2 emissions from the United States. Scientists have said that economic development in the region, like road-building and the arrival of commercial agriculture threatens the important ecosystem.
- Thou Shalt Not Give Offence
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Kenan Malik looks at the free speech debates around the Danish cartoons and Charlie Hebdo.
- Why Banning Laura Kipnis Would Betray Wellesley's Academic Mission
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Six professors at an elite American college insist that students will suffer "damage" or "injury" if speakers they may disagree with are allowed to speak on campus.
- Women Rise Up Against Gender Violence in the Caribbean
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Podur interviews Joan Joy Grant Cummings, a women's right activist, regarding the severity of sexual violence towards women and girls in Jamaica.
- Workers Hold the Keys
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
In a discussion of the history and practice of socialist ideas, Chibber and Farbman discuss precarity and the changing composition of the working class, how socialists should think about unions, and how the Left can get off the college campuses and into the workplaces and streets.
- Workers Hold the Keys
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First Published: 2017
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An interview with Vivek Chibber.
- World Bank claims 'sovereign immunity' to escape liability for its crimes against humanity
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
In arguing against the World Bank's attempt to declare itself a sovereign state that is above the law, Dolack brings attention to the large-scale crimes the World Bank has committed or been involved in over many decades.
- Al Qaeda Is Attacking Major Syrian Cities with US Weapons -- but You Wouldn't Know That from the Media
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Norton analyzes media coverages of attacks linked to Al-Qaeda in the West to highlight how this emphasis on Muslim extremism is used to justify Islamophobia.
- CWF encouraged by federal budget support for oceans and freshwater
Sources News Release
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
The Canadian Wildlife Federation (CWF) welcomes the federal government's investment in ocean protection, freshwater conservation and aquatic invasive species management in the new budget. However, CWF continues to urge governments to a
- The Enduring Myth Of Microfinance
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
When microfinance-provision of financial services tailored to fit the needs of low income people – made its first appearance, everyone was infatuated by its narrative.
- Real-Time Face Recognition Threatens to Turn Cops' Body Cameras Into Surveillance Machines
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
For years, the development of real-time face recognition has been hampered by poor video resolution, the angles of bodies in motion, and limited computing power. But as systems begin to transcend these technical barriers, they are also outpacing the development of policies to constrain them. Civil liberties advocates fear that the rise of real-time face recognition alongside the growing number of police body cameras creates the conditions for a perfect storm of mass surveillance.
- Russiagate and the Democratic Party are for Chumps
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Now Trump and the nation's 34 Republican governors get to wield the ever-expanding powers of the police state in a nation whose populace has lost faith in nearly every major U.S. institution but two: the military and the police. It's a militarized police-state the Democrats helped create.
- Bourgeois Feminist Bullshit
The Rebecca Traister view of gender and the world...
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
- FAO: Plantations are not forests!
Since 1948 the UN's Food and Agriculture has been clinging to an outmoded definition of 'forests' that includes industrial wood plantations
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
The FAO definition considers forests to be basically just 'a bunch of trees', while ignoring other fundamental aspects of forests, including their many other life-forms such as other types of plants, as well as animals, and forest-dependent human communities. Equally, it ignores the vital contribution of forests to natural processes that provide soil, water and oxygen.
- 'Liberal' Libel Law: Still a Disgrace to Democracy
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
In the age of social media, our allegedly liberal libel laws might pose more of a threat to unfettered free speech than ever.
- Playing Chicken: Discovering a Diverse Working Class in Trump Country
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Since the election of 2016, much has been written about rural working-class voters who helped elect Donald J. Trump to the presidency. Most of those stories have assumed that the rural working class is overwhelmingly white. But if we look at one of the most significant parts of the rural economy – the poultry industry – we get a different picture. Not only do we see more workers of color, we also see more exploitation and greater potential for resistance.
- Tasmania's Black War: a tragic case of lest we remember
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Tasmania’s Black War (1824-31) was the most intense frontier conflict in Australia's history. It was a clash between the most culturally and technologically dissimilar humans to have ever come into contact. At stake was nothing less than control of the country, and the survival of a people.
- UN's 1947 Partition Plan made Palestine a deal it had to refuse
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Weinroth analyzes the reasons behind Palestinians' refusal of the Partition Plan, reasons that have been largely dismissed in favour of casting their actions in an unfavourable light and thereby justifying Israeli colonization.
- What is Objective Journalism?
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First Published: 2017
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Despite objectivity being widely accepted as a norm in journalism, Edwards discusses how opinion and bias are still an inherent part of 'reporting the facts.'
- The Extraordinary Lynne Stewart
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First Published: 2017
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Remembering Lynne Stewart, who died on March 12, 2017.
- Israel's New Travel Ban
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First Published: 2017
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Weir calls attention to the bizarre state of affairs in which the recent Israeli travel ban denying entry to anyone supporting Boycott, Sanctions, and Divestment against Israel is denied entry to Palestine as well as Israel. What right does Israel have, asks Weir, to decide who may or may not visit Palestine?
- Occupation captured
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Photos of Palestinian life and Israeli occupation in the West Bank city of Hebron.
- Tears of Solidarity
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
The story of Ann Atwater and Claiborne Paul (C. P.) Ellis is beautifully told in Osha Gray Davidson's book The Best of Enemies: Race and Redemption in the New South. Atwater, a domestic worker whose parents were sharecroppers, was a civil rights activist in Durham, North Carolina. Ellis, the son of a millhand, was a janitor at Duke University and a local Klan leader. In 1971, after battling each other for years, Atwater and Ellis ended up co-chairing a ten-day public forum -- a "charrette," as it was called -- that brought together black and white community members to address problems in Durham's public schools. It was a fraught process.
- The Dead Don't Rest
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Rodgers reviews two novels by Han Kang, "The Vegetarian" and "Human Acts", and analyzes their shared themes dealing with humanity's struggle against its own most destructive qualities.
- Der öffentliche Personennahverkehr
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2024
Die öffentlichen Verkehrsmittel sind für das Funktionieren von modernen Städten unabdingbar.
- Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - March 18, 2017
Public Transit
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
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Public transit - good affordable public transit - is key to a liveable city. Around the world, there are movements of transit riders fighting for better public transit. A key perspective guiding many of these struggles is the idea that transit should be free, that is, paid for not by fares, but out of general revenues. This is how roads are normally funded: their construction and maintenance are paid for by taxes, rarely by user fees. Free public transit by itself would not be enough, however. We also need good transit, transit that runs frequently and goes where people want to go.
- Public Transit
Introduction to the March 18, 2017 issue of Other Voices
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First Published: 2017
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Public transit -- good affordable public transit -- is key to a liveable city.
- Public Transit - Arabic text
Introduction to the March 18, 2017 issue of Other Voices - Arabic translation
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
- The CIA's 60-Year History of Fake News: How the Deep State Corrupted Many American Writers
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First Published: 2017
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In this week's episode of "Scheer Intelligence," Truthdig Editor in Chief Robert Scheer interviews Joel Whitney, author and co-founder of Guernica magazine.Whitney's new book, "Finks: How the C.I.A. Tricked the World's Best Writers," explores how the CIA influenced acclaimed writers and publications during the Cold War to produce subtly anti-communist material. During the interview, Scheer and Whitney discuss these manipulations and how the CIA controlled major news agencies and respected literary publications.
- Israel and the A-Word
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First Published: 2017
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Israel's apartheid foundations were laid in its dispossession of the Palestinians in 1948. They were reinforced by the immediate erection of colonial constitutional structures that cemented the exclusion of the colonised. Since then, Israeli law and policy has only deepened the state apparatus of separation and segregation, discrimination and domination. Over the years, countless activists, authors and artists, as well as leading anti-apartheid figures from South Africa, have referred to Israel’s particular brand of structural discrimination as akin to apartheid. In the last decade, international lawyers have also begun to do likewise, but with reference to the definition of apartheid under international law rather than by analogy to southern Africa.
- The Most Moral Army?
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
War is the realm of killing and destroying. How is it possible to talk about a law of war when war itself breaks all laws? An army that trains its soldiers to kill, how can it demand from them to show mercy?
- Peter Maurin's Vision for the Catholic Worker, an Idea Whose Time has Come
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Today it seems obvious that a return to the land, to a proper relationship with creation and to meaningful, productive work is integral to the aims of the Catholic Worker movement. For much of its history, however, since its beginning in 1933, this aspect of its founder's original intentions was relegated to the margins of an already marginal movement.
- Propaganda, Fake News, and Media Lies
The Diabolical Business of Global Public Relations Firms
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
The PRP industry has experienced phenomenal growth since 2001. In 2015, three publicly traded mega PR firms -- Omnicom, WPP, and Interpublic Group -- together employed 214,000 people across 170 countries, collecting $35 billion in combined revenue. Not only do these firms control massive wealth, they also possess a network of connections in powerful international institutions with direct links to national governments, multi-national corporations, global policy-making bodies, and the corporate media.
- WikiLeaks Vault 7 Reveals CIA Cyberwar and the Battleground of Democracy
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
WikiLeaks dropped a bombshell on the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency. Code-named “Vault 7”, the whistleblowing site began releasing the largest publication of confidential documents that have come from the top secret security network at the Cyber Intelligence Center.
- Assessing Togliatti
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First Published: 2017
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Broder provides a historical perspective of Italian Communism, looking at longtime leader Palmiro Togliatti's concrete actions during his leadership and not just the party's Gramscian-inflected theoretical canon.
- Europe: Reactionary Working Class? "Could it be that the Left have failed their constituencies"
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
There is no lack of condemnation and moralizing to those who go to the far right. An increasing number of commentators, however, are now beginning to suspect that the march of large groups of workers toward the far right can be an expression of protest against the prevailing social development. Not all have received the benefits from the globalization success story.
- Image Copyright Infringement Scam
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
- 'Modi is God's gift to Pakistan security establishment'
Pakistani novelist Mohammed Hanif talks about shrinking freedoms, liberal voices and human rights in Balochistan.
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Published: 2017
Mohammed Hanif is a Pakistani journalist and writer. In an interview with Al Jazeera he talks about the shrinking freedoms in mainstream and social media in Pakistan, the role of liberal voices and the state of human rights in Balochistan.
- Fake News about Venezuela: A Simple Recipe
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
"Journalists" who want to write fake news about Venezuela, or about any other country or group that dares to stand up to US imperialism, only need to follow this simple recipe:
- Choose one or more countries/groups opposed to US imperialism
- If available, have a former official, now being paid by the US government, make the accusations
- Season well with doses of "war on terror" and/or "war on drugs"
- Sprinkle with opinions of "experts" who work in DC think tanks or US-funded NGOs
- How Zionist terrorism determined Palestine's fate
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First Published: 2017
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A book review on State of Terror: How Terrorism Created Modern Israel, Thomas Suárez, Olive Branch Press (2017).
- Is the Vault 7 Source a Whistleblower?
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Historically, the criminal justice system has been a particularly inept judge of who is a whistleblower. Moreover, it has allowed the use of the pernicious Espionage Act – an arcane law meant to go after spies – to go after whistleblowers who reveal information the public interest.
- It wasn't just Greece: Archaeologists find early democratic societies in the Americas
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Recent discoveries indicate that Tlaxcallan, Mexico is one of several premodern societies around the world that archaeologists believe were organized collectively, where power was shared and commoners had a say in the government that presided over them.
- A Letter from North America – Our Migrant Crisis
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First Published: 2017
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This is the third of Ernie Tate’s letters to Left Unity detailing and analysing the struggles against Trump as they emerge on the other side of the pond.
- Payment Processors are Still Policing Your Sex Life, and the Latest Victim is FetLife
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
The adult social network FetLife just lost its ability to process credit card payments because it offers a platform for members to discuss and to post depictions of consensual BDSM practices.
- When Canada Invaded Russia
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
The corporate media presents Russia as militaristic but ignores Canada’s invasion of that country.
- Breaking the Spell: A History of Anarchist Filmmakers, Videotape Guerillas, and Digital Ninjas
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Breaking the Spell offers the first full-length study that charts the historical trajectory of anarchist-inflected video activism from the late 1960s to the present. Video plays an increasingly important role among activists in the growing global resistance against neoliberal capitalism.
- Deadly weapon? Ottawa police assault gloves scrutinized after officer charged in death
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
A man dies after being struck by a police officer wearing assault gloves.
- The Death of Liam Tumilson, an Irish Anti-Fascist in Spain
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Murphy commemorates the life of Liam Tumilson, who fought against facism in the Spanish Civil War.
- Edward Snowden Has Some Advice for Donald Trump About Surveillance
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First Published: 2017
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Emmons interviews NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden about Trump's skewed priorities.
- In India Any Social Activist Can Be Arrested, Charged And Tried - Sans Evidence - For Terrorism: Kobad Ghandy's Case
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
In 2009, the Government of India announced a new nation-wide initiative viz. "Integrated Action Plan" (IAP) for broad coordinated operations to deal with the 'Naxalite' problem. This plan included increased funding for special police for better containment and reduction of Naxalite influence. Kobad Ghandy’s arrest in September 2009 was a direct fall out of this IAP.
- Jewish National Fund: Teaching Children an Exclusive, Religious/Ethnic Nationalism
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
The JNF has produced puzzles and board games as well as organizing a Youth Summer experience program. According to JNF Canada's Education Department, the group "educates thousands of young people in Israel and abroad, helping them forge an everlasting bond with the Land of Israel."
- Joy Kogawa in conversation with Ulli Diemer
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First Published: 2017
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Ulli Diemer spoke with Joy Kogawa in Toronto on March 14, 2017. Joy Kogawa is the author of Obasan, Gently to Nagasaki, and other works of fiction and poetry.
- Of Hegel and Bernie Sanders
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First Published: 2017
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My concern is not with Bernie Sanders (basically a New Deal liberal) but with the social dynamics of the Sanders phenomenon. What is going on when we see a surge of mass support for someone who identifies himself (however inaccurately) with socialism? What is the social process driving this unexpected shift in political goals and ideas toward the left? What lies behind the re-entry of socialism into the mass vocabulary of political life?
- Ontario man publishes coal-mining novel
William Pancoast recently published his fifth book, "The Road to Matewan."
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
William Pancoast likes to call his writing working-class literature for the working class. The Galion native recently published his fifth book, "The Road to Matewan." The novel includes history from a turbulent time in West Virginia history. The Battle of Matewan, also known as the Matewan Massacre, involved a May 19, 1920, shootout in Mingo County.
- Senate Dem Seeks Investigation of RT for Being Russian-Funded
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First Published: 2017
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Sen. Jeanne Shaheen (D – NH) is pushing a bill that would seek a Justice Department investigation of whether television station RT America is "coordinating with the Russian government."
- Truth Seeking, Democracy, and Freedom of Thought and Expression
A Statement by Robert P. George and Cornel West
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
- The Irish Potato Famine Was Caused by Capitalism, Not a Fungus
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
While the blight did strike and take down most of Ireland’s potatoes, the truth is that Ireland was exporting more than enough food to feed everyone at the same time as the famine was happening.
- Silence in NGO Discourse
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Non-governmental organizations (NGOs) maintain a ubiquitous presence in most peoples lives (whether they realize it or not). It therefore should be a commonsense act that we scrutinize NGO activities to ascertain their exact political function within the "our" neoliberal world order.
- UK exporting 67% of plastic waste amid 'illegal practices' warnings
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Britain's trade in waste plastic to the Far East is booming. The exported plastic is meant to be recycled under UK conditions and standards, but often is not, undermining bona fide UK recycling firms who face falling prices, reduced turnover, collapsing profits, and all too often, closure.
- The War Over Mangoes
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Growing mangoes in the southern Mexican state of Oaxaca has racked up an enormous socio-political expense for the region far greater than the price tag on the fruit in the supermarket. For a Mexican drug cartel desperate to move product, hiding illicit drugs in mango shipments is a risky but viable cover for getting them to the U.S. market. For the people of Oaxaca, however, the infiltration of one of the region’s most important industries indicates the threat of a life controlled by drug violence and its wide-ranging effects on society.
- Fascism and anti-fascism in 1930s Manchester
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An account of the growth of fascism in Manchester in the early 1930s, and working class resistance to it.
- How Fukushima gave rise to a new anti-racism movement
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Shaw examines the rise in anti-discrimination social activism in Japan after the environmental disasters in 2011 and lack of support from the government towards its non-Japanese citizens.
- The Need for a museum on British colonisation of India
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To support the establishment of a museum in India displaying the negative side to British colonialism, Tharoor brings to light various atrocities committed by Britian to India during the colonial period that have been given very little attention by both countries in the present day.
- Aliens, Antisemitism, and Academia
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Criticizing Enlightenment thought has become fashionable across the political spectrum. For the past several decades, more and more academics have called reason into question. This is especially true among left-leaning, postmodern, and post-structuralist thinkers. This coincides with one of the Alt-Right’s primary tactics: adopting leftist rhetoric as cover for its racialist, nativist, and often misogynistic agendas.
- How American History Erases Mass Killings Against Native Americans
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In the wake of recent American mass killings, the author reminds us of mass murders of indigenous people in American history.
- For bibliomaniacs, there is no cure
Literary hoarders were once seen as antiscocial but historians thank them now
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An essayist looks into the curious pastime of book collecting, as well as her own lifelong passion to grow her collection.
- A Homage to EC Pielou: One of the 20th Century's Most Accomplished Scientists
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Evelyn Chrystalla 'E.C.' Pielou (February 20, 1924 – July 16, 2016) – a towering figure in ecology – was a key pioneer in the incorporation of statistical rigor into biogeography and ecology. She devised many important statistical hypotheses tests for spatial arrangements and patterns ranging in scale from individual plants in a field through to elevational zonation of vegetation to ranges of groups of species distributed over regional through to continental-scale ranges. Her research has provided the impetus for biogeographical analyses for generations.
- A Forgotten Novel Reveals a Forgotten Harlem
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Wilson brings attention to Claude McKay's novel "Amiable With Big Teeth" which was never published until 70 years after it was written and holds valuable information about an overlooked African American Harlem.
- Formed by Megafloods, This Place Fooled Scientists for Decades
Geologists couldn't account for the strange landforms of eastern Washington State. Then a high school teacher dared to question the scientif
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Geologists couldn't account for the strange landforms of eastern Washington State. Then a high school teacher dared to question the scientific dogma of his day.
- Noise, the 'ignored pollutant': health, nature and ecopsychology
The sonic backdrop to our lives is increasingly one of unwanted technospheric noise, writes Paul Mobbs.
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For those who like to enjoy the natural environment, noise is something to be escaped from within the relative sanctuary of the landscape. These days that's getting harder and harder to accomplish. That's not only because of noise from all around - in particular from urban areas, roads and the increasing mechanisation of agriculture - but also due to the increasing level of air traffic overhead.
- Tomato pickers win higher pay. Can other workers use their strategy?
Florida's tomato pickers took on some of the country's biggest retailers and fast-food chains - and won, transforming working conditions in
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Tactics like this protest outside Wendy's, repeated in cities across the country, have helped make the Coalition of Immokalee Workers one of the most successful worker organizations in the country. By applying pressure to corporations at the top of the supply chain, the big retailers and fast-food chains that buy tomatoes, the CIW has helped tens of thousands of mostly Hispanic immigrant workers who pick the bulk of the nation’s winter tomato crop.
- Canadian Voice of Women for Peace - International Women's Day
Sources News Release
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Canadian Voice of Women for Peace wishes everyone a very Happy International Women's Day. This year the theme for International Women's Day is "Women in the Changing World of Work: Planet 50-50 by 2030". Women and other people in more
- Gaza's women of steel
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Gadzo interviews three different women in Gaza who have taken on difficult, yet culturally progressive, employment in the wake of the region's economic devastation.
- Heatwave frequency rises twice as fast in the poorest countries
New research proves that the countries least responsible for global warming, those least able to adapt, have already been hit much harder by
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A feature of most statements about climate change is the use of the future tense: the poorest countries will be worse-hit than the rich ones. But new research shows that the predicted unequal climate future has actually been with us for decades. The poorest countries have already experienced twice as great an increase in extreme temperatures as the rich ones, and the gap has been widening for more than thirty years.
- The Kurdish struggle - An interview with Dilar Dirik
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Dilar Dirik interviewed by George Souvlis.
- We Need to Talk about Women: The Problem with Western Liberal 'Feminists'
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Western women have fought hard and bravely for rights and privileges that were denied to generations of women before them and have made vast strides towards greater equality and representation in society. For this, western women and traditional feminism should be applauded. At the same time, the version of feminism that presently functions in the west -- liberal, consumer, mainstream feminism -- has become problematic.
- Farewell to the Guardian
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When a newspaper has arrived at the point of praising war criminals while deluding itself that it is holding the powerful to account, I know that it’s not a newspaper that I want to keep receiving.
- The global decline of extreme poverty - was it only China?
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The share of the world population living in extreme poverty has fallen very substantially in the last 200 years: from over 80% in 1820 to 10% in the latest estimates. In recent decades, extreme poverty has declined faster than ever before in human history. Often when I point this out – in conversation or on social media – I hear the response 'Yes, but this is only because of China.' This post asks whether this statement is true. Is the substantial decline of global poverty only due to the poverty decline in China?
- Despair is Not a Strategy: 15 Principles of Hope
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Brockman lists various methods to prevent feelings of cynicism, frustration, and grief for social activists and to inspire renewed hope in their efforts.
- Pharma Funded "Patient" Groups Keep Drug Prices Astronomical
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- Who Could Ever Feel Pride in the Balfour Declaration?
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Although the Balfour Declaration itself has been parsed, de-semanticised, romanticised, decrypted, decried, cursed and adored for 100 years, its fraud is easy to detect: it made two promises which were fundamentally opposed to each other -- and thus one of them, to the Arabs (aka "the existing non-Jewish communities"), would be broken.
- 5 of the worst atrocities carried out by British Empire, after 'historical amnesia' claims
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A YouGov poll found 43 per cent of Brits thought the British Empire was a good thing, while 44 per cent were proud of Britain's history of colonialism. The Independent looks at five of the worst atrocities carried out by the British Empire.
- Grasping Diversity, Embracing Democracy
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Can Diversity Embrace Democracy? Can Democracy Acknowledge Diversity?
- It's Not All Relative
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Can a devotion to cultural tolerance lead to the triumph of alternative facts?
- Baby remains found in mass grave at ex-Irish orphanage
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Remains of children ranging from new-born to three-years-old discovered in the sewers of a former children's home run by the Roman Catholic Church.
- Israel: Neither Democratic or Jewish
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After 50 years of Occupation, Israel is neither democratic, nor Jewish.
- Manifesto for the Green Mind
Jules Pretty sets out a plan to engage people with Nature and create more sustainable and enjoyable living for everyone.
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Jules Pretty sets out a plan to engage people with Nature and create more sustainable and enjoyable living for everyone. The first call to action is: "Every child outdoors every day".
- A Nazi Skeleton in the Family Closet
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Chrystia Freeland's dark family secret is that her grandfather, Mykhailo Chomiak, faithfully served Nazi Germany right up to its surrender, and Chomiak's family only moved to Canada after the Third Reich was defeated by the Soviet Union’s Red Army and its allies – the U.S. and Great Britain. Mykhailo Chomiak was not a victim of the war – he was on the side of the German aggressors who collaborated with Ukrainian nationalists in killing Russians, Jews, Poles and other minorities. Former journalist Freeland chose to whitewash her family history to leave out her grandfather’s service to Adolf Hitler. Of course, if she had told the truth, she might never have achieved a successful political career in Canada. Her fierce hostility toward Russia also might be viewed in a different light.
- Adorno's The Authoritarian Personality
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Vials reexamines Adorno's Authoritarian Personality, F-scale, and their implications for a Trump America.
- Arab Spring: Against Shallow Optimism and Pessimism
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Book review of Gilbert Achcar's Morbid Symptoms: Relapse in the Arab Uprising, and Joel Beinin's Workers and Thieves: Labor Movements and Popular Uprisings in Tunisia and Egypt.
- Attica: The Revolt and Afterwards
Blood in the Water: The Attica Prison Uprising of 1971 and Its Legacy
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Book review of Heather Ann Thompson's Blood in the Water: The Attica Prison Uprising of 1971 and Its Legacy.
- Erwin Baur (1915-2016)
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Erwin Baur, radical trade unionist and founding member of the Socialist Workers Party (SWP), died on November 30, 2016, in Alameda, California at the age of 101. Unlike many veteran unionists of the 1930s generation, Baur made a youthful contract with revolutionary socialism that he never broke.
- Birth of a New Movement
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I came back from the Women's March in D.C. exhausted but thrilled, convinced that we are seeing the birth of a new women's movement. Hearing about all the other Women's Marches around the world only confirmed that impression.
- Demythifying Native Americans
"All the Real Indians Died Off" And 20 Other Myths about Native Americans
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Book review of Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz's and Dina Gilio-Whitaker's "All the Real Indians Died Off" And 20 Other Myths about Native Americans.
- Enemies of the People
How hatred of the masses bridges our partisan divide
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As we veer into a brave new age of right-wing populism, a restive mood of contempt for the masses has seized the opposition. Demoralized liberals, still reeling from the debacle of the 2016 presidential ballot, are salving their wounds with reveries of metaphysical superiority.
- Florynce Kennedy & Black Feminism
Florynce "Flo" Kennedy: The Life of a Black Feminist Radical
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Book review of Sherie M. Randolph's Florynce "Flo" Kennedy: The Life of a Black Feminist Radical.
- The Freeland-Chomiak Connection
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What is truly impressive is how the ultranationalist Ukrainian diaspora, the Liberal government and the mainstream corporate media have managed to keep a lid on broader issues surrounding Ukrainian collaboration with the Nazis in executing mass murder and genocide, including the Holocaust.
- A Global Matrix of Control
War Against the People: Israel, the Palestinians and Global Pacification
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Book review of Jeff Halper's War Against the People: Israel, the Palestinians and Global Pacification.
- The Journeys of Julia de Burgos
Becoming Julia de Burgos: The Making of a Puerto Rican Icon
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Book review of Vanessa Perez Rosario's Becoming Julia de Burgos: The Making of a Puerto Rican Icon.
- Lessons from New Orleans
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Interview with author Kristen Buras.
- Making Trump's America Ungovernable
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The goal of opponents, including those of the far left, should be to make the Trump presidency ungovernable. In that struggle revolutionary change is possible.
- Marx and Engels and the 'Red Chemist'
The Forgotten Legacy of Carl Schorlemmer
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New studies of Marx’s long-unavailable notebooks, now being published in the massive Marx-Engels-Gesamtausgabe (Marx-Engels Complete Works), decisively refute claims that Marx was uninterested in the natural sciences or considered them irrelevant to his politics.
- Marxist and Feminist Interventions
Marxism and Feminism
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Book review of Shahrzad Mojab's edited volume Marxism and Feminism.
- The Ohio Vote in November
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Donald Trump won Ohio because the total Democratic vote declined more than the drop in the total two-party vote, and significantly more than the Republican increase.
- A Partial Peace in Colombia
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Colombia's peace accord serves capitalist interests, but may also open new space for the grassroots left.
- The Politics of Some Bodies
The Politics of Everybody: Feminism, Queer Theory and Marxism at the Intersection
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Book review of Holly Lewis' The Politics of Everybody: Feminism, Queer Theory and Marxism at the Intersection.
- Lillian Pollak
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Activist, revolutionary socialist and writer Lillian Pollak died in New York City at the age of 101.
- The Return of Engels
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After Marx's death in 1883, Engels prepared volumes two and three of Capital for publication from the drafts his friend had left behind. If Engels, as he was the first to admit, stood in Marx’s shadow, he was nevertheless an intellectual and political giant in his own right.
- Review: The Politics of Some Bodies - On "Feminism, Queer Theory and Marxism at the Intersection"
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At a time when Marxist politics is struggling more than ever against the current, queer Marxist scholarship is enjoying a slight, startling, heartening resurgence. Holly Lewis' The Politics of Everybody is a major contribution to the trend.
- Sanders' Campaign & the Democratic Party
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Despite his many flaws, the Sanders campaign had a working-class, implicitly anti-capitalist flavor that garnered considerable support among those who might otherwise have voted for Trump, as many perhaps did.
- Trump's Road to Ruin
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The editors address Trump's early assaults on democratic principles and institutions, from the snarling menace of his "America First" inaugural address, to his cabinet of multi-millionaire and billionaire reactionaries, to the pending removal of millions of people from health insurance, to assaulting women's reproductive rights and attempting to bar Muslim travelers, to attacking Black youth and every vulnerable population.
- The CIA Reads French Theory
On the Intellectual Labor of Dismantling the Cultural Left
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A recently unclassifed CIA documents reveals that in the 1980s, the agency had its analysts devote substantial time and resources to studying trends in French theory, and specifically, the work that writers like Michel Foucault, Jacques, and Roland Barthes were doing in undermining the Marxist left. The CIA saw this trend as beneficial to the maintenance of American power, and capitalism generally, because it undermind the idea that there could or should be fundamental revolutionary change.
- Guardian's day of shame, and the dark depths of liberal McCarthyism
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The liberal 'resistance' to Donald Trump has revealed a service media now plumbing its own dark, reactionary depths. A Guardian editorial has welcomed back to public prominence none other than George W Bush. Even for the Blair-protecting, war-apologising Guardian, it's a landmark day of shame.
- Shotgun Pointed at Black Children Trivialized as 'Confederate Flag Incident'
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How a story is framed is as important -- if not more so -- than the content of an article. Sixty percent of Americans don't read past the headline and 60 percent of Americans share articles on social media without reading them. How a story is teed up to the reader is an essential element in how our media shape our understanding of the news.
- Who is the biggest climate change villain?
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Here is an exclusive the Guardian has held back from its readers for 26 years. It is finally published on its pages today.
- Africa: Lessons From Africa Prove the Incredible Value of Mother Tongue Learning
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Using case studies of educational systems in Africa, Heugh defends the use of mother-tongue education in multilingual countries, whereby vernacular languages are used in primary schools to introduce official languages.
- How Brain Scientists Forgot That Brains Have Owners
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Five neuroscientists argue that fancy new technologies have led the field astray.
- Humans and Subhumans: Weill Cornell and the Death of the American Soul
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All patients that walk through the door of Weill Cornell are put into two categories: the humans, who are deemed by Cornell to have "good insurance," and the subhumans, who are deemed by Cornell to have "bad insurance." If you fall into the category of the former, they will generally make a grudging effort to provide you with good care. If you fall into the category of the later, they will literally bend over backwards to see to it that you are provided with truly awful and atrocious care.
- We need popular participation, not populism
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Wainright dissects the problems with liberal democracy and argues for real democratic self-government.
- 10 Questions for William Blum
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"God forbid we should not have a Revolution every 20 years," Jefferson wrote. "The world belongs to the living," he believed, and each generation holds the world in "usufruct." In the United States in 2017, in this whirling age of instantaneous communication, gratification and frustration, TJ would probably Twitter something like: "Make that every 10 years!"
- Antiwar.com vs. the Decline of American Journalism
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What is the "alternative" media? If we look at the phrase itself, it seems to mean the media that presents itself as the alternative to what we call the "corporate media," i.e. the New York Times, the Washington Post, your local rag – in short, the Legacy Media that predominated in those bygone days before the Internet. And yet this whole arrangement seems outdated, to say the least. The Internet has long since been colonized by the corporate giants: BuzzFeed, for example, is regularly fed huge dollops of cash from its corporate owners. And the Legacy Media has adapted to the primacy of online media, however reluctantly and ineptly. So the alternative media isn’t defined by how they deliver the news, but rather by 1) what they judge to be news, and 2) how they report it. And that’s the problem.
- The Bait and Switch of Public-Private Partnerships
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This being the age of public relations, the genteel term "public-private partnership" is used instead of corporate plunder. A "partnership" such deals may be, but it isn't the public who gets the benefits.
- Donald Trump and the death of the two-state solution
The demise of the two-state has been evident for some time.
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At his meeting with the US President Donald Trump at the White House on February 15, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu scored what in his eyes must be a spectacular diplomatic success: he got the new president to reverse the US' long-standing support for a two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and to give him a free hand to do more or less whatever he likes with the West Bank.
- Israel’s Terrible Problem: Two States or One?
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Israel has created a terrible problem which it is incapable of solving. That is why it has always been the case that the United States must pretty much dictate a solution, but it is unable to do so, paralyzed as it is by the heavy influence of Israel and America’s own apologists and lobbyists.
- The Nat Turner Rebellion and the Fight Against Slavery - Part One
Black History and the Class Struggle
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In 1831, American slaveowners learned what it means to have the fear of God put into them. In August of that year, an insurrection was launched by rebel slaves led by Nat Turner in Southampton County, Virginia. Before their suppression, the rebels killed up to 60 whites in the course of a few days -- the highest number to die in a slave uprising in the U.S. It was the unmistakable justice and vengeance of revolutionary terror. And it was met with the reactionary terror of the slaveowners.
- Palestinians decry West Bank industrial zone expansion
For years, Israel has increasingly taken control of Palestinian lands in Area C to build out its industrial zones.
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Israeli media outlets recently reported that 60 new companies have registered to relocate to the area, despite the threat of retaliation from the boycott, divestment and sanctions (BDS) movement.
- The Prophet: Deutscher's Trotsky
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The Old Testament prophets belonged to a religious order devoted to the study of sacred texts, which they interpreted, and from which they proclaimed the obligations of the leaders of their nation to the people. From these scriptures they envisioned the coming of the Messiah, who would usher in an era of justice and goodwill toward men.
- The Realist: Irreverence Was Their Only Sacred Cow
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First Published: 2017
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The Realist was a magazine both representative and counter to the times it existed in. Viciously satirical and usually aimed at power (like all good satire should be), it was neither liberal nor conservative, Democrat or Republican, communist, fascist or anything else in between. Its targets were religion, government, corporate America, popular and counter cultures, racism and imperialism. Very little was spared its pointed and often poison pen. The magazine lasted over forty years, from 1958 to 2001 and published a total of 146 issues.
- Three Years Since the Kitty Litter Disaster at Waste Isolation Pilot Plant
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There is a place in the United States, almost half-a-mile underground, in a salt mine, where radioactive waste leftover from the production of tens of thousands of nuclear bombs was to be held separate from all contact with humanity for 10,000 years, equivalent to the entire history of civilization. This separation of civilization from the byproduct of its folly had lasted one-tenth of one percent of that immense time when on Valentine's Day, three years ago, an explosion sent the deadly contamination back to the world of humans.
- The Trump-Netanyahu Circus: Now, No One Can Save Israel from Itself
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First Published: 2017
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The President of the United States can hardly be taken seriously, saying much but doing little. His words, often offensive, carry no substance, and it is impossible to summarize his complex political outlook about important issues. This is precisely the type of American presidency that Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, prefers.
- Israel Barring Palestinians From Entering for Medical Care Over Cellphones, Witnesses Say
Gaza women say they were turned back at border because they didn't have their cellphones, which were taken by Hamas.
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Palestinians from Gaza attempting to enter Israel claim that Israel's Shin Bet security service has recently begun demanding they hand over their cellphones when being questioned and that those who refuse are barred from entering.
- 100 Trump voters explain why they voted for him even though they think he 'could destroy the whole world'
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After the election, I decided to talk to 100 Trump voters from around the country. I went to the middle of the country, the middle of the state, and talked to many online.
- One State: Trump Has Reminded Palestinians What It Was Always About
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First Published: 2017
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For more than 15 years, the Middle East "peace process" initiated by the Oslo accords has been on life support. Last week, United States president Donald Trump pulled the plug, whether he understood it or not.
- Restricting People’s Use of Their Courts
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First Published: 2017
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In not so merry old medieval England, wrongful injuries between people either were suffered in silence or provoked revenge. Cooler heads began to prevail and courts of law were opened so such disputes over compensation and other remedies could be adjudicated under trial by jury.
- Ten Examples of Direct Resistance to Stop Government Raids
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Resistance to unjust government action is the duty of all people who care about human rights. As Dr. King reminded us in his letter from a Birmingham jail, "Never forget that everything Hitler did in Germany was legal."
- Why Did the US Use Depleted Uranium Weapons in Syria?
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First Published: 2017
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The recent confirmation by the US that DU ammunition was used in two attacks in Syria in late 2015 raises a number of troubling questions. Firstly, why was DU used? Has it been used again? Will it be used again?
- How Immigrants Built the American Left -- And Can Build It Again
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First Published: 2017
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The energy and upheaval unleashed by the Trump administration's assault on Muslims, Latinos, and other immigrants, documented or not, has been directed toward a restoration of their rights and dignity, toward the family reunions and free passage into our country that have been happily broadcast from airports all across the country -- and rightly so. But if our ambitions are simply to restore the old status quo or even recreate a liberalized version of the policies extant under President Obama, then we will be selling short the possibilities inherent in this moment.
- Liberals Beware: Lie Down With Dogs, Get Up With Fleas
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First Published: 2017
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An examination of the dishonesty in the New York Times' efforts to undermine President Trump, and broader criticisms of other tactics used by the liberal establishment to the same end.
- IFIC Releases Monthly Statistics for January 2017
Sources News Release
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Toronto, ON - February 22, 2017 - The Investment Funds Institute of Canada (IFIC) announces that for the month ending January 31, 2017, the assets under management (AUM) for the mutual funds industry totalled $1.34 trillion. Year-to-date, industr
- Open Letter on the Coming Crisis in Scientific Research
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First Published: 2017
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The US government threatens, by closing scientific programs, by muzzling its scientists, and possibly by distorting scientific facts, to inflict an intolerable loss to humankind’s collective understanding of crucial elements of planetary survival. Scientists in the US have shown their alarm at the threat by beginning a plan for a massive protest march in Washington this spring. In order to limit the damage, it is incumbent on the other nations of the world to expand their investment in science to maintain scientific integrity in the service of human and planetary well-being.
- Strategic Thinking and Organizing Resistance
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First Published: 2017
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Argues the need for strategy and vision, and effective organizing, in forming a resistance movement to the Trump presidency, and provides several suggestions for organizers.
- The 'Superficial, Arrogant Smugness' of BBC News - Peter Oborne Delivers Some Home Truths On BBC Radio 4 Today
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First Published: 2017
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In a recent media alert, we noted the occasional tell-tale signs of uncomfortable truths that slip through cracks in the propaganda façade of BBC News. Very occasionally, the propaganda nature is clearly highlighted and can be enjoyed for its directness and the flustered BBC response it provokes.
- The U.S. Forcibly Detained Native Alaskans During World War II
In the name of safety, Aleuts were held against their will under intolerable conditions in internment camps
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First Published: 2017
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A brief history of the internment of the Aleut people of Alaska during WWII.
- Why We Must Oppose the Kremlin-Baiting Against Trump
The Russia-connected allegations have created an atmosphere of hysteria amounting to McCarthyism.
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
The bipartisan, nearly full-political-spectrum tsunami of factually unverified allegations that President Trump has been seditiously "compromised" by the Kremlin, with scarcely any nonpartisan pushback from influential political or media sources, is deeply alarming. Begun by the Clinton campaign in mid-2016, and exemplified now by New York Times columnists (who write of a “Trump-Putin regime” in Washington), strident MSNBC hosts, and unbalanced CNN commentators, the practice is growing into a latter-day McCarthyite hysteria. Such politically malignant practices should be deplored wherever they appear, whether on the part of conservatives, liberals, or progressives.
- Finance as Warfare: the IMF Lent to Greece Knowing It Could Never Pay Back Debt
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First Published: 2017
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An interview with economist Michael Hudson, who argues that the International Monetary Fund provided loans to Greece with the deliberate intention that the country be forced to go into default and be forced to sell public assets and land.
- How the 'guerrilla archivists' saved history -- and are doing it again under Trump
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First Published: 2017
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On Inauguration Day, a group of students, researchers and librarians gathered in a nondescript building on the north side of the University of California, Los Angeles campus, against a backdrop of pelting rain. The group had organized in protest against the new U.S. administration. But, instead of marching and chanting, participants were there to learn how to "harvest," "seed," "scrape" and ultimately archive websites and data sets related to climate change.
- J is for Junk Economics: A Guide to Reality in an Age of Deception
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Michael Hudson's new book covers contemporary terms that are misleading or poorly understood as well as many important concepts that have been abandoned -- many on purpose -- from the long history of political economy.
- Joshua Kurlantzick, A Great Place to Have a War: America in Laos and the Birth of a Military CIA: Book Review
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Review of A Great Plaave a War: America in Laos and the Birth of a Military CIA, by Joshua Kurlantzick.
- VOW Appalled by Targeted Hate Mail and Threats
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Canadian Voice of Women for Peace (VOW) is appalled by the recent targeted hate mails and threats towards MP Iqra Khalid and other politicians. No one should be threatened or face any kind of discrimination based on faith. Khalid said she received mo
- What We'll Tolerate, And What We Won't
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
It wasn't that he told a woman there was something wrong with her for wearing a hijab in America. It wasn't that he encouraged people to "Purge the Illegals" and gave out ICE's hotline number at a presentation. It wasn't that he mocked a transgender college student in front of a crowd, saying he'd still almost bang her because she looked like a man. Instead, it was his discussion of the complexities of his sexual experiences with adults as a gay teenager that caused Milo Yiannopoulos to lose his $250,000 book deal with Simon and Schuster.
- Resistance and Resolve in Russia: Memorial HRC
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
An account of the current climate for political dissent in Russia, describing the activities of and challenges faced by the Memorial Human Rights Centre, a Russian NGO.
- Trump v. the Media: a Fight to the Death
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
At present, this is a golden era in American journalism, because established media outlets such as CNN, The New York Times and The Washington Post find themselves under unprecedented and open attacks from the powers that be. Richard Nixon may have felt persecuted by press and television, but he never counter-attacked with the same vigour and venom as Trump.
- CRAC-PC: take the arms and the destiny of our lives in Guerrero, Mexico
Resource Type: Film/Video
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
A documentary on the CRAC-PC (Regional Coordinator of Communitary Authorities - Communitarian Police), a police force of community volunteers elected by regional assemblies, operating in the Guerrero state in Mexico.
- Gene Drives: A Scientific Case for a Complete and Perpetual Ban
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
One of the central issues of our day is how to safely manage the outputs of industrial innovation. Novel products incorporating nanotechnology, biotechnology, rare metals, microwaves, novel chemicals, and more, enter the market on a daily basis. The majority of products receive no regulatory supervision at all.
- How Did It Start?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Every serious debate about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict raises the question: "When did it start?" Each side has its own date, proving that the other side started it.
- Ineffective 350.org divestment campaign should give way to direct corporate actions
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
While 350.org runs a number of important campaigns, such as "Resist Trump's Climate Agenda" , there are serious questions about whether divestment campaigning is effective or whether it should be replaced by direct action campaigning.
- Restoring the Heartland and Rustbelt through Clean Energy Democracy
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Al paper discussing ways to simultaneously fight climate change and create jobs.
- The Absurd Consequences of a "Right to Privacy"
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
British MP David Davis’s text messages poking fun at the appearance of a female colleague make him the latest whipping boy for those determined to root out sexism and misogyny in public life, the Daily Mail reports. Curiously, they also make him the latest poster boy for exponents of an expansive "right to privacy."
- Denmark's 'Land of Mine' Is a Harrowing Look at Life After War
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
A film review for Denmark's "Land of Mine," written and directed by Martin Zandvliet.
- Expansion of Renewable Energies in Mexico Has Victims, Too
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
An account of the impact of wind and solar projects in the Yucatan state of Mexico on the nearby communities, in particular farmers, and the failures of the government to consult or inform the community on the environmental impacts and contract terms.
- Migration to America took long enough for evolution to happen on the way
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Similarities in Native American genomes suggest adaptation in ancient history.
- Neighbors joining together to block Trump deportations
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
In neighborhoods across Chicago with large immigrant populations, people are banding together to form rapid response networks to support their neighbors in the event of expected deportation raids by President Donald Trump's administration. In the 35th Ward on the city's Northwest Side, Ald. Carlos Ramirez-Rosa has started what he calls the Community Defense Committee.
- Segregation Had to Be Invented
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
During the late 19th century, blacks and whites in the South lived closer together than they do today.
- 7 Ways Social Justice Language Can Become Abusive in Intimate Relationships
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
A list of signs that social justice language is being used abusively in a relationship
- IFIC Welcomes New Director and New Affiliate
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Toronto, ON - February 16, 2017 - The Investment Funds Institute of Canada (IFIC) today announced that Duane Green, President & CEO at Franklin Templeton Investments Corp., has joined IFIC's board and that WeirFoulds LLP has joined as an affiliate
- Media Review: Fake News
Resource Type: Film/Video
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Richard Seymour looks at the current debate around 'fake news'. What does the term refer to and is it as new as we think?
- Mainstream News And USA's Heroics In Vietnam
Why The Silence About The 7 Million Dead?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
An account of the media's role in suppressing information about US military actions in Indochina from the 1940s and onward, and how the same tactics persist in the present.
- Be the Change: Six Disabled Activists On Why the Resistance Must Be Accessible
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Six activists, leaders, and advocates on how we can all move forward, whether on our feet, on wheels, or online -- plus a resource list.
- Grassy Narrows Chief welcomes Wynne's clean-up promise and calls for swift results
Sources News Release
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Grassy Narrows Chief Simon Fobister is responding today to a new commitment made on Friday by premier Wynne to clean the English-Wabigoon River. The river has been highly contaminated since 1962 when a paper company in Dryden began dumping 9,000 kg
- How Labor and Climate United Can Trump Trump
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Co-operation between labour and climate groups may be possible in the Trump era.
- The John Lewis Conundrum: Caring for Justice or Carrying Water
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
What the author is writing about John Lewis is not so much a condemnation as it is a reflection of the very meaning of justice and how we can fight for it.
- ELI Phone Support Call with Matthew Chan
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
- A history of American anti-immigrant bias, starting with Benjamin Franklin’s hatred of the Germans
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
In the 1750s, the United States of America was not yet a country, but its trouble with immigrants already had begun. People of non-WASP (white Anglo-Saxon Protestant) descent were crossing the ocean to start new lives in the new world, and earlier Colonial settlers were none too happy about it.
- Political Prisoners Remain Behind Bars as Obama's Term Nears End
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
In the last full week of Barack Obama's eight year tenure as President of the United States of America, dozens of political prisoners still sit in cages across the nation's prisons, rotting away as Obama consciously chooses not to exercise the power to simply free them with the stroke of a pen.
- Race and Class
Introduction to the February 12, 2017 issue of Other Voices
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Class conflict -- first and foremost, the relationship between the capitalist class and the working class -- is the fundamental contradiction that defines capitalist society. Class is a reality which simultaneously encompasses and collides with other dimensions of oppression and domination, such as gender and race.
- Rasse und Soziale Klasse
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First Published: 2017
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Der Klassenkampf, in erster Linie die Beziehung zwischen der kapitalistischen Klasse und der Arbeiterklasse, ist der grundlegende Widerspruch, der die kapitalistische Gesellschaft charakterisiert. Die soziale Schicht ist eine Realität, die andere Dimensionen der Unterdrückung und Herrschaft wie Geschlecht und Rasse umfasst und simultan mit ihnen kollidiert.
- CIA awards Saudi prince medal for anti-terror efforts
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Crown Prince Mohammed bin Nayef, Saudi Arabia's deputy premier and interior minister, has been presented with a CIA award for his work fighting terrorism.
- Connexions Other Voices - February 12, 2017 - Race & Class
Sources News Release
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First Published: 2017
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The January 22, 2017 issue of Other Voices, the Connexions newsletter focues on Race and Class.
- Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - February 12, 2017
Race and Class
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Class conflict - first and foremost, the relationship between the capitalist class and the working class -- is the fundamental contradiction that defines capitalist society. Class is a reality which simultaneously encompasses and collides with other dimensions of oppression and domination, such as gender and race. The relationship between race and class, in particular, is the theme of this issue of Other Voices.
- Looming Climate Catastrophe: Extinction in Nine Years?
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Reports from the Arctic are getting pretty grim.
- Meet the man crowd-funding Gaza's first English library
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Mosab Abu Toha, works to expand his collection of English books to create a public library that will enrich the lives and society within Gaza during the Israeli occupation.
- Revolution and the Color Line
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
A review of the biography 'W.E.B. DuBois: Revolutionary Across the Color Line', by Bill Mullen, detailing the life of the influential author and organizer.
- The FBI: Silent Terror of the Fourth Reich
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Lately, there's been a lot of rhetoric comparing Donald Trump to Adolf Hitler. The concern is that a Nazi-type regime may be rising in America. That process, however, began a long time ago.
- Israel's New Land Law: Clearing the Path to Annexation
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
The Israeli parliament passed the legalisation law on Monday night, widening the powers of Israeli officials to seize the final fragments of Palestinian land in the West Bank that were supposed to be off-limits.
- Trump appeals to the military against the press and the courts
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Examining recent remarks by Donald Trump suggesting a presidential and military alliance in opposition to the press and the court system, and the broader impacts of this position.
- Israeli torture of Palestinian children 'institutional'
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Investigation of the practice of torture by Shin Bet interrogators, revealing the practice as systematic.
- Let's Get to Work
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Instead of asking "What is to be done?", we could start with a different question: "What should I do?" As it turns out, the right-wing hecklers we've all encountered are half right: we should get jobs. And then we should do what we tell workers to do all the time: organize our workplaces. This tactic has a name and a history. It's called "salting." Salting has deep roots in the history of the labour movement and the Left.
- 'Can you hear me?': New phone scam tricks you into answering 'yes'
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Describes a new telephone scam being run in North America, wherein a recording of one's voice saying the word 'yes' is used to defraud victims.
- Towards a Transformative Electoral Strategy
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
An essay on Electoral Strategy for the left in the United States.
- No Ban! No Wall! No War?
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
The corporate media avoids connecting our wars to Trump's ban because war and empire is a matter of agreement among the political elites, an elite that the corporate media is very much a part of.
- Undermining Democracy - Corporate Media Bias on Jeremy Corbyn, Boris Johnson and Syria
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Are we able to prove the existence of a corporate media campaign to undermine British democracy? Media analysis is not hard science, but in this alert we provide compelling evidence that such a campaign does indeed exist. Compare coverage of comments made on Syria by a spokesman for Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn in October 2016 and by UK foreign secretary Boris Johnson in January 2017.
- Why is the New York Times promoting the "black bloc"?
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
A New York Times article, which ran across four columns of the newspaper's front page under a huge photo of a black-masked individual preparing to break an office building window with an iron bar during Wednesday night's protests at the University of California, Berkeley, amounted to free publicity and promotion of the violent protests organized by elements identifying themselves as the "black bloc," anti-fascists and anarchists.
- Annex Chess Club What's My Name Swiss
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Annex Chess Club in Toronto is kicking off a new chess tournament on Monday February 6, 2017, called the "Annex What's My Name Swiss."
- Canadian Ethnocultural Communities Extend Condolences
Sources News Release
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
The Canadian Ethnocultural Council(CEC) and its member organizations extend their prayers, thoughts and condolences to the families and friends of the victims and injured in the Quebec City Mosque attack and deadly shooting.
- Les communautés ethnoculturelles du Canada offrent leurs condoléances
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Le Conseil ethnoculturel du Canada et ses organisations membres offrent leurs prières, leurs pensées et leurs condoléances aux familles et aux amis des victimes et aux personnes blessées dans l’attaque meurtrière à la mosquée à Québec.
- IFIC Stresses Importance of Robust, Consistent Suitability Process
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Toronto, ON - February 3, 2017 - In a submission filed today on IIROC's Proposed Guidance on Order Execution Only (OEO) Services and Activities, The Investment Funds Institute of Canada (IFIC) emphasizes the importance of ensuring that investor
- Unspeakable: the Black Book of Imperial Terrorism
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
American "mainstream" journalists who want to keep their paychecks flowing and their status afloat know they must report current events in a way that respects the taboo status of the nation's underlying inequality and oppression structures and its savage and relentless imperial criminality.
- Fake News Inquiry: Old Wine in New Bottles
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
A criticism of a recent investigation by the UK's Culture, Media and Sports committee into 'fake news' and public persuasion by false propaganda, describing the challenges of identifying or preventing the dissemination of fake news.
- IFIC Launches New Advisor Centre
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Toronto, ON - February 1, 2017 - The Investment Funds Institute of Canada (IFIC) today launched a new advisor portal on its website (https://www.ific.ca/en/pg/advisor-centre/) with insights on current topics and plain language tools to help advis
- Killing 'Schizophrenics': Contemporary U.S. Psychiatry Versus Nazi Psychiatry
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
In the United States in the earlier part of the twentieth century, there was widespread compulsory sterilization of those diagnosed with serious mental illness; and from the 1970s through the early 1990s, dehumanizing experiments that ignored the Nuremberg Code of research ethics were administered on this population by prominent American psychiatrists.
- VOW Statement on the Quebec City Mosque Attack
Sources News Release
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Canadian Voice of Women for Peace, offers its deepest condolences to the families who lost loved ones in the senseless act of violence. Our hearts are with the Muslim community in Quebec and across Canada. We stand in unity with people of all ethni
- Why the Anti-Trump Resistance Movement Should Not Initiate Violence
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
One hazard we must avoid in our struggle is to allow violence to be used in the movement. We can't afford to give our approval to this by green lighting the burning of limousines and the breaking of store windows, as happened in Washington, D.C. on January 20, 2017, or by punching the Nazi Richard Spencer in the face, which is satisfying but unproductive.
- Class, Party and the Challenge of State Transformation
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
An essay examining the challenges of changing the state and status quo following major crises of capitalism, and how the current neoliberal status quo has persisted through the various crises it has presented.
- The FBI's Secret Rules
President Trump has inherited a vast domestic intelligence agency with extraordinary secret powers.
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
A collection of articles exploring the contents and implications of a cache of internal FBI manuals, offering a rare window into the FBI’s quiet expansion since 9/11.
- The Fort Hood 43
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
A history of the 43 infantrymen who refused to be deployed against protestors at the 1968 Democratic National Convention.
- Please Stop Chanting That 'We' Won the Popular Vote!
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
"We" didn’t win the popular vote, because we weren't on the ballot. We are the ninety-nine percent.
- Trump's Muslim Ban Will Only Spark More Terrorist Attacks
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Donald Trump's travel ban on refugees and visitors from seven Muslim countries entering the US makes a terrorist attack on Americans at home or abroad more rather than less likely. It does so because one of the main purposes of al-Qaeda and Isis in carrying out atrocities is to provoke an over-reaction directed against Muslim communities and states.
- Deranged and Deluded: The Media's Complicity In The Climate Crisis
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
In an important recent book, the Indian writer Amitav Ghosh refers to the present era of corporate-driven climate crisis as 'The Great Derangement'. For almost 12,000 years, since the last Ice Age, humanity has lived through a period of relative climate stability known as the Holocene. When Homo sapiens shifted, for the most part, from a nomadic hunter-gatherer existence to an agriculture-based life, towns and cities grew, humans went into space and the global population shot up to over seven billion people.
- Industrial Production of Poultry Gives Rise to Deadly Strains of Bird Flu H5Nx
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Debunking the claims of industrial poultry producers that multiple outbreaks of bird flu are due to wild waterfowl, instead providing evidence that industrial farming practices are responsible for the outbreak.
- Obama Killed a 16-Year-Old American in Yemen. Trump Just Killed His 8-Year-Old Sister.
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
The U.S. continues to massacre Yemeni civilians, both directly and through its tyrannical Saudi partners.
- Shocked by Donald Trump's 'travel ban'? Israel has had a similar policy for decades
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Describing how President Trump's stances and policies on immigration, borders and torture draws heavily from existing policies and tactics of the Israeli state.
- Coopting the language of the left at the pro-life march on Washington
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First Published: 2017
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Examining the use of left wing rhetoric by a participant of the pro-life match on Washington to justify right wing ideologies and policies, and the broader impliciations of such tactics.
- We shouldn't weep for broke but lying mainstream media
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
A report from the Public Policy Forum of Montreal released on January 26 says the Canadian news industry "is reaching a crisis point as the decline of traditional media, fragmentation of audiences and the rise of fake news pose a growing threat to the health of our democracy." Whereas the 1970 report was entitled "The Uncertain Mirror", the new appeal for support is called "The Shattered Mirror."
- A Coalition of Scientists Keeps Watch on the U.S. Government's Climate Data
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Via memos leaked to the press, rogue tweets, and unnamed agency sources, the public learned of growing pressure on federal employees to avoid sharing their scientific work. Meanwhile, small but significant changes to federal web pages hinted at the demise of former president Barack Obama’s efforts to manage climate change.
- Liberalism as Class Warfare
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Liberals, as guardians of the status quo, are class warriors on the side of economic mal-distribution and the immiseration of the labouring classes and poor for the benefit of the rich.
- The Politics of a Punch: Richard Spencer and the Black Bloc
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Alt-right leader Richard Spencer was punched in the face by a man dressed in black bloc garb. Louis Proyect gives his interpretation of the punching incident.
- The ever-darkening shadow of Monsanto-fueled superweeds
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Investigating the agricultural impacts of use of Monsanto's herbicides, which has led to rapid development of herbicide-resistant weeds which pose difficulties for farmers and lead to further dependence on new herbicides.
- Manufactured Consent
Power, Media and Thinktanks
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Corporations don't just shape our politics or economics, they also seek to change public opinion to serve their interests. Which corporations play the biggest role in shaping knowledge and news? What do they fund? Who do they represent? What role have they played in the rise of authoritarian populists? This infographic for State of Power 2017 exposes those 'manufacturing consent'.
- Mnuchin Lied About His Bank's History of Robo-Signing Foreclosure Documents
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Treasury secretary nominee Steven Mnuchin lied in his written responses to the Senate Finance Committee, claiming that "OneWest Bank did not 'robo-sign' documents," when ample evidence proves that they did.
- Red cap terror at the moussaka line: West London ready-meal workers' report and leaflet
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Workplace report for WorkersWildWest no.5 and leaflet for future distribution. Main challenge will be the migrant status of workers - there have been various police raids in the plant - and the language and contract division.
- Seymour Hersh Blasts Media for Uncritically Promoting Russian Hacking Story
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Seymour Hersh said in an interview that he does not believe the U.S. intelligence community proved its case that President Vladimir Putin directed a hacking campaign aimed at securing the election of Donald Trump. He blasted news organizations for lazily broadcasting the assertions of U.S. intelligence officials as established facts.
- Hannah Arendt Explains How Propaganda Uses Lies to Erode All Truth and Morality
Insights from The Origins of Totalitarianism
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First Published: 2017
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Observations on Hannah Arendt's 1951 book "Origins of Totalitarianism" on the nature of Totalitarianism and the role of propaganda in its rise and support within societies.
- Reflections on DC: Promises and Pitfalls in the Anti-Trump Uprising
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
The first mass protests of President Donald Trump represent a historic moment – one worth reflecting on so we can understand where we are and where we're going as a nation.
- A Short History of Liberal Myths and Anti-Labor Politics
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
A history of how labour and working-class groups have been alienated or disserviced by the major US political parties, particularly by liberal policies which are primarily aligned with business interests.
- There's Nothing Parochial About the Issue of GMO Food Labeling
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
A criticism of the notion that the issue of labelling GMO foods is too narrow in focus, detailing the complexities of the issue and arguing for the broader importance of labelling.
- The Women's March Was a Dismal Failure and a Hopeful Sign
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Despite what pundits said, the Women’s March was not a movement. Nor was it the beginning of a movement. It was a moment: a show of hands: "I'm against Trump," these women (and men) told the world. Question was, who/what do they want to replace him?
- Want to Stop Trump? Take a Page From These Dockworkers, and Stop Work
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
On the day of Donald Trump's inauguration, many Americans wrung their hands. Some took to social media to express their discontent while others protested. But, perhaps, the most dramatic and important action was taken by dockworkers in Oakland, California: They stopped working. Their strike demonstrated the potential power ordinary people have on the job, when organized.
- Connexions Other Voices - January 22, 2017 - Disobedience
Sources News Release
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First Published: 2017
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Other Voices: #Disobedience. Once people start to disobey in significant numbers, the dynamic of power changes fundamentally. Disobedience, especially on a large scale, shakes the power of the rulers, and increases the power of those who disobey.
- Disobedience
Introduction to the January 22, 2017 issue of Other Voices
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Ultimately all power structures depend on the obedience of those over whom they rule. It helps if people believe in the legitimacy of those who wield power, but the crucial thing is obedience. Once people start to disobey in significant numbers, the dynamic of power changes fundamentally. Disobedience, especially on a large scale, shakes the power of the rulers, and increases the power of those who disobey.
- Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - January 22, 2017
Disobedience
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First Published: 2017
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Ultimately all power structures depend on the obedience of those over whom they rule. It helps if people believe in the legitimacy of those who wield power, but the crucial thing is obedience. Once people start to disobey in significant numbers, the dynamic of power changes fundamentally. Disobedience, especially on a large scale, shakes the power of the rulers, and increases the power of those who disobey. Disobedience is the theme of this issue.
- Fighting Fascism: the Irish at the Battle of Cordoba
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
A history of the role played by Irish citizens who enlisted to fight against General Franco's fascist forces in Spain in 1936.
- Globalization vs. Empire: Can Trump Contain the Growing Split?
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
A brief history of US policy supporting globalization and the growing divide it has created between US hegemony and global capitalism, and criticism of the Trump administrations capability to deal with the impacts of this divide.
- A human rights activist, a secret prison and a tale from Xi Jinping's new China
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Peter Dahlin tells the story of his incarceration and expulsion from the People's Republic of China, where he spent 23 days in a 'black prison' in Beijing and was deprived of sleep and questioned with a 'communication enhancement' machine.
- IFIC Releases Monthly Statistics for December 2016
Sources News Release
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Toronto, ON - January 19, 2017 - The Investment Funds Institute of Canada (IFIC) announces that for the month ending December 31, 2016, the assets under management (AUM) for the mutual funds industry reached $1.34 trillion. Year-to-date, industry
- Should You March Against Trump?
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First Published: 2017
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Yasmin Nair addresses the issue of whether or not to march against Donald Trump this week, or in the months and years following.
- The Dying Days of Liberalism
How Orthodoxy, Professionalism, and Unresponsive Politics Finally Doomed a 19th-century Project
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
It's not a small thing that has fallen here, not merely the defeat of Hillary Clinton and Americans rejecting Obama’s "legacy". We are dealing with a series of institutions, an expert class, and a network of political and corporate alliances, that is being shaken beyond repair. We are in the earliest days of a historical transition, so it's not clear what is coming next, and the labels that have been proliferating demonstrate confusion and uncertainty -- populism, nativism, nationalism, etc.
- Throw Sand in the Gears of Everything
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
A call for strategic and effective organizing against the Trump presidency, drawing on historical precedent of antiwar and other movements in the US.
- The Issue is Not Trump, It is Us
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Until real politics return to people's lives, the enemy is not Trump, it is ourselves.
- Jeremy Corbyn Accused of Being Russian 'Collaborator' for Questioning NATO Troop Build-Up on Border
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
The armed forces minister for Britain's right-wing government, Mike Penning, accused Corbyn of being a collaborator with the Kremlin.
- The CIA as Organized Crime: How Illegal Operations Corrupt America and the World
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Author of three books on CIA operations, Valentine’s research into CIA activities began when CIA Director William Colby gave him free access to interview CIA officials who had been involved in various aspects of the Phoenix program in South Vietnam.
- Presidio mutiny
Wikipedia article
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
The Presidio mutiny was a sit-down protest carried out by 27 prisoners at the Presidio stockade in San Francisco, California on October 14, 1968. The stiff sentences given out at courts martial for the participants (known as the Presidio 27) attracted attention to the extent of sentiment against the Vietnam War in the armed forces.
- The Case for Haitian Reparations
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
A history of France's exploitation of colonial Haiti, the aftermath of Haiti's independence, and the lasting social and environmental impacts, arguing for Haiti's recent demands of reparations from the French government.
- Facebook job ads suggest 'mind reading' social networks could soon be a reality
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Details job descriptions from the 'Building 8' group of facebook, which suggest engineering efforts in neuroscience, neuroimaging, artificial intelligence and augmented reality.
- Journalist hacked to death in Tamil Nadu, India
Sources News Release
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) joins its affiliate the National Union of Journalists (India) in condemning the murder of a journalist on the outskirts of Sattur in Tamil Nadu state, south India on Monday, 9 January, 2017.
- Journalist murdered in Balochistan, Pakistan
Sources News Release
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) joins its affiliate the Pakistan Federal Union of Journalists (PFUJ) in condemning the murder of a journalist in Kalat, Balochistan province in southwestern Pakistan
- Magazine editor among disappeared activists in Pakistan
Sources News Release
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) joins its affiliate the Pakistan Federal Union of Journalists (PFUJ) in expressing serious concern over the disappearance of a magazine editor and other activists in Pakistan.
- Marxism: an Introduction to a Misunderstood Philosophy
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
An introduction to fundamental principles of Marxism, and and examination of how these principles have been misrepresented by dictators and war criminals, leading to widespread misunderstanding.
- Militant Hope in the Age of Trump
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Debates over whether Donald Trump was a fascist or Hillary Clinton was a right-wing warmonger and tool of Wall Street were a tactical diversion. The real questions that should have been debated include: What measures could have been taken to prevent the United States from sliding further into a distinctive form of authoritarianism?
- The Russian Dossier Reminds Me of the Row Over Saddam's WMDs
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
The conclusions reached in the Trump dossier claim to be based on multiple sources of information where, in the nature of things, they are unlikely to exist.
- Turkey: journalists detained following reports on Erdogan's leaked emails
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
The International and European Federations of Journalists (IFJ-EFJ) are deeply concerned by the ongoing detention without any official explanation of journalists and media workers in Turkey.
- Who to Believe: The CIA and Corporate Media or WikiLeaks?
Without Substantiation, Media Integrity Suffers
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Imagine if justice were administered mainly on hearsay (ignoring the fact that justice is too often lacking in society). It is a cardinal rule of justice that rendering a decision of guilty must only be done when such guilt is beyond a reasonable doubt. Medical schools state they follow evidence-based practices. Nursing schools do the same. Science progresses through the scientific method which demands evidence. When observations and experimental results contravene theory, the theory is tossed. There is academia, and then there is politics and the corporate media. Politics and its corporate media has long since become risible within the sphere of serious contemplation.
- Why Ridiculous Official Propaganda Still Works
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Chief among the common misconceptions about the way official propaganda works is the notion that its goal is to deceive the public into believing things that are not "the truth" (that Trump is a Russian agent, for example, or that Saddam had weapons of mass destruction, or that the terrorists hate us for our freedom, et cetera). However, while official propagandists are definitely pleased if anyone actually believes whatever lies they are selling, deception is not their primary aim.
- Zimbabwe: China Demands Property Rights
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
China this week urged the Zimbabwean government to respect property rights, address concerns over policy inconsistency and clarify its indigenisation policy to attract investment into the country.
- A Comprehensive Map of American Lynchings
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
A look at the practice of lynching in the United States through to the 1960's, where thousands of non-white Americans, mostly black, were killed in public acts of terror. A new map project called 'Monroe Work Today', named after the pioneering sociologist, shows that lynching was not limited to the southern states.
- Fury at Azaria Verdict is Israel's Trump Moment
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Examining the popular reaction to the conviction in military court of Elor Azaria for manslaughter as demonstrating a deep social divide in the vein of Trump's election in the US and the Brexit vote in the UK.
- The Burn Pits: The Poisoning of America's Soldiers
Book Review
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
A review of the book, "The Burn Pits: The Poisoning of America's Soldiers" by Joseph Hickman.
- The Deep State Goes to War With President-Elect, Using Unverified Claims, as Democrats Cheer
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
There is a real danger here that this maneuver could harshly backfire, to the great benefit of Trump and to the great detriment of those who want to oppose him. If any of the significant claims in this “dossier” turn out to be provably false -- such as Cohen’s trip to Prague -- many people will conclude, with Trump’s encouragement, that large media outlets (CNN and BuzzFeed) and anti-Trump factions inside the government (CIA) are deploying "Fake News" to destroy him. In the eyes of many people, that will forever discredit -- render impotent -- future journalistic exposés that are based on actual, corroborated wrongdoing.
- Where's the Evidence?
The CIA-FBI-NSA report on the hacking of the 2016 election is pure baloney
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
We are told from the outset that the actual evidence that the Russians hacked the DNC and John Podesta's emails as part of a wide-ranging campaign to put Donald Trump in the White House cannot be revealed: "source and methods" must be kept secret. This in spite of DNI director James Clapper's pledge that he would declassify as much of the evidence as possible in the interests of transparency: but then again, Clapper is an admitted liar.
- The Crimes of Seal Team 6
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Officially known as the Naval Special Warfare Development Group, SEAL Team 6 is today the most celebrated of the U.S. military's special mission units. But hidden behind the heroic narratives is a darker, more troubling story of "revenge ops," unjustified killings, mutilations, and other atrocities -- a pattern of criminal violence that emerged soon after the Afghan war began and was tolerated and covered up by the command's leadership.
- A House Full of Females: Plural Marraige and Women's Rights in Early Mormomism, 1835-1870
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
A stunning and sure-to-be controversial book that pieces together, through more than two dozen nineteenth-century diaries, letters, albums, minute-books, and quilts left by first-generation Latter-day Saints, or Mormons, the never-before-told story of the earliest days of the women of Mormon "plural marriage," whose right to vote in the state of Utah was given to them by a Mormon-dominated legislature as an outgrowth of polygamy in 1870, fifty years ahead of the vote nationally ratified by Congress, and who became political actors in spite of, or because of, their marital arrangements. Laurel Thatcher Ulrich, writing of this small group of Mormon women who've previously been seen as mere names and dates, has brilliantly reconstructed these textured, complex lives to give us a fulsome portrait of who these women were and of their "sex radicalism"--the idea that a woman should choose when and with whom to bear children.
- How a 13-year-old Canadian girl ran the world’s fastest marathon
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
- The Lobby: Young Friends of Israel
Resource Type: Film/Video
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
In the first of a four-part series, Al Jazeera goes undercover inside the Israel Lobby in Britain. We expose a campaign to infiltrate and influence youth groups, including the National Union of Students, whose president faces a smear campaign coordinated by her own deputy and supported by the Israel Embassy.
- Watch How Casually False Claims Are Published: New York Times and Nicholas Lemann Edition
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
We have a perfect example of how this happens from the New York Times today, in a book review by Nicholas Lemann, the Pulitzer-Moore professor of journalism at Columbia University as well as a longtime staff writer for the New Yorker. Lemann is reviewing a new book by Edward J. Epstein -- the longtime neocon, right-wing Cold Warrior, WSJ op-ed page writer, and Breitbart contributor -- which basically claims Snowden is a Russian spy.
- Why you shouldn't trust Geek Squad ever again
The government reportedly pays Geek Squad technicians to dig through your PC
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
The Orange County Weekly reports that the company's repair technicians routinely search devices brought in for repair for files that could earn them $500 reward as FBI informants. That, ladies and gentlemen, is about as blatant a case of unconstitutional search and seizure as it gets.
- Allegations Against Russia Less Credible Every Day
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Swanson calls into question the US government-driven media accusations that the Russian government had direct involvement in swaying the 2016 US election for Trump, and exames the motivations behind these claims.
- Israel put up a £1,000,000 bounty for Labour insiders to undermine Corbyn
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
A second release from an Al Jazeera undercover sting operation has revealed the existence of a £1,000,000 plot designed by the Israeli government to undermine Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn.
- Resolutions Advocating a Boycott of Israel
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
The Modern Language Association (MLA) Delegate Assembly voted in Philadelphia on two resolutions, for and against, of an academic boycott of Israel.
- The CIA in Ukraine
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Edited excerpt from "The CIA as Organized Crime", by Douglas Valentine, detailing the CIA's activities in Ukraine and influence on political movements there.
- How many British MPs are working for Israel?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Investigating the revelations that UK embassy staff in Israel are cooperating with Israeli political parties to influence UK policy making.
- Letter From Mexico
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
The editors of Insurgent Notes sent a couple of articles on Mexico from the Financial Times to our Mexico correspondent to check their accuracy. The following is his reply.
- Against imperialist regime-change intervention in Syria and the Middle East
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
David Bush has published an appeal for reasoned and informed discussion in Canada of the war and humanitarian disaster in Syria. Roger and Courneyeur write this essay as a contribution to the discussion David suggests be opened.
- Ontario health-care reform and Community Health Centres
Re: Too Many Left Behind in Health Care Reforms
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
We already have a working model of primary care that targets these populations and that is very good at dealing with complex needs and providing holistic care. Community Health Centres (CHCs) have been in existence for decades all over Canada, providing care to communities that are not well served by other models of primary care.
- "Beyond Banksters" by Joyce Nelson
Book Review
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
A review of "Beyond Banksters: Resisting the New Feudalism" by Joyce Nelson.
- A Case Study in the Creation of False News
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Paul Craig Roberts discusses a classic case in the creation of false news.
- John Berger (1926-2017)
"He helped form a generation for whom he made it possible to discover a different, critical way of seeing"
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
John Berger's revolutionary insistence was that our reality could be seen differently, and altered by our intervention.
- Native Seeds Sustain Brazil's Semi-Arid Northeast
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
More than a thousand homes that serve as "seed banks", and 20,000 participating families, make up the network organised by ASA to preserve the genetic heritage and diversity of crops adapted to the climate and semi-arid soil in Brazil’s Northeast.
- On the hunt for illegal miners as a new gold rush hits New Zealand
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
A look at the black market in gold in New Zealand and the efforts to thwart opportunists who sneak onto private farm land and national parks without permits to mine illegally.
- US Spy Chief Presents Third-Party Debates as Proof RT Is Anti-US
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
The Office of the Director of National Intelligence’s latest report on the alleged "election hacking" by Russia includes a substantial section focused around the idea that Russian government-funded channel RT is overtly anti-American.
- Whose seeds are they anyway?
Real Farming Report
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
The new People Need Nature report - published to coincide with this week's annual Oxford Real Farming Conference - warns that modern farming practices are not good for wildlife. But they're not good for humans either. And with predictions that we will need to produce 70 per cent more food to feed a third more mouths by 2050 the question of seed ownership and diversity cannot be ignored.
- CSA/SRO Compensation Surveys Fail to Justify Ban on Embedded Fees
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Key to investor protection lies in quality of enforcement; not quantity of rules. In light of research issued by Canada's regulators in late December, The Investment Funds Institute of Canada (IFIC) today called
- Fighting Franco: the First Irish Casualties of the Spanish Civil War
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
A brief biography of Tommy Patten and Jack Barry focusing on their involvement in the Spanish Civil War.
- Inside The Scorpion
A Journalist's Ordeal in Egypt's Most Notorious Prison
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
The story of journalist Mohamed Fahmy's experiences during their two-year confinement in an Egyptian prison.
- Journalism and Pornography
Real crime is always organised
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
As long as we cannot name something that is bothering us, we have an enormous if not insurmountable impediment to action. The capacity for titillation, for erotic stimulation even with simultaneous pain, is enhanced by suspension of belief or cognition. This is what pornography does and it is also the function of compatible journalism.
- Toronto's gay archive getting an upgrade
Renovations will make it more accessible
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Reporting on the renovations to the Canadian Lesbian and Gay Archives in Toronto, which will expand the archive and improve accessibility.
- Toronto's gay archive getting an upgrade
Renovations will make it more accessible
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
The world's largest independent lesbian and gay archive — which happens to be right here in Toronto — is about to get a little bit larger.
- South Africa: Former Pharmacist Runs Children's Library Out of Shipping Container
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Reporting on the work of Muzi Nkosi, a South African former pharmacist who runs a library for children.
- In Syria, Western Media Cheer Al-Qaeda
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Khalek criticizes Western media for their failure to report on attacks in Syria because to do so would highlight how the West has been responsible for prolonging Al-Qaeda's bloodshed.
- Open Letter to "Human Rights Defenders" on Aleppo
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Syria is the legitimacy of the interventionist policies of the U.S. and its "allies", Europeans, Turkey, and the Gulf states in that country.
- The Safety Pin and the Swastika
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Examining the rise of the alt-right as being opposed to but also drawing from liberal identity politics, and how the two movements are not comparable, yet also compatible.
- The Trump Way
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Arun Gupta spoke to Leo Panitch about Trump's economic agenda, his relationship to transnational elites, and how neoliberalism's crisis could mean revitalization for the Left.
- The U.S. Government Thinks Thousands of Russian Hackers May Be Reading My Blog. They Aren't.
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
After the U.S. government published a report on Russia's cyber attacks against the U.S. election system, and included a list of computers that were allegedly used by Russian hackers, I became curious if any of these hackers had visited my personal blog.
- WashPost Is Richly Rewarded for False News About Russia Threat While Public Is Deceived
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
In the past six weeks, the Washington Post published two blockbuster stories about the Russian threat that went viral: one on how Russia is behind a massive explosion of "fake news," the other on how it invaded the U.S. electric grid. Both articles were fundamentally false.
- Debating the world revolution
Book Review
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
A review of "To the Masses: Proceedings of the Third Congress of the Communist International", edited and translated by John Riddell.
- Ecology and value theory
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
A review of Jason W Moore, Capitalism in the Web of Life: Ecology and the Accumulation of Capital.
- Good To Know You! - John Berger's ways of seeing
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
A tribute to the life and work of John Berger, author of the influential 'Ways of Seeing'.
- Marxism and the Earth: A defence of the classical tradition
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
A review of John Bellamy Foster and Paul Burkett, Marx and the Earth: An Anti-Critique.
- Marxism and the Earth: A defence of the classical tradition
Book review of Marx and the Earth: An Anti-Critique
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Marxist analyses of the natural world have been the focus of intense debate recently, and the publication of any book that further explores what Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels thought about the subject is something to be welcomed. John Bellamy Foster and Paul Burkett have proven track records of writing some of the clearest books on the subject, and while Marx and the Earth is not a specific response to some of their recent critics, it is an important defence of Marx’s and Engels’s original work.
- Seeing red: the wisdom of John Berger
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
A reflection on the life and work of critic John Berger.
- Striking back in the "world's factory"
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
A review of Hao Ren, Eli Friedman and Zhongjin Li (editors), China on Strike: Narratives of Workers' Resistance, which gives a history of labour struggles of Chinese migrant workers.
- Understanding the counter-revolution
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
A review of Gilbert Achcar, Morbid Symptoms: Relapse in the Arab Uprising (Saqi, 2016).
- Understanding the counter-revolution
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
A review of Gilbert Achcar, Morbid Symptoms: Relapse in the Arab Uprising (Saqi, 2016).
- Automated book-culling software drives librarians to create fake patrons to "check out" endangered titles
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Two employees at the East Lake County Library created a fictional patron called Chuck Finley and then used the account to check out 2,361 books over nine months in 2016, rescuing the books from automated purges of low-popularity titles.
- Consigned to the Memory Hole: The content of the DNC Leaks
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Examining the content of the DNC data leaks during the 2016 US elections, and the efforts by the Democratic party to distract from their content.
- Internet history is fragile. This archive is making sure it doesn't disappear
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
A report on the Internet Archive (archive.org) including an interview with its founder, Brewster Kahle.
- A Smuggling Operation: John Berger's Theory of Art
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Examining the theories put forth in 'Landscapes' by John Berger.
- Actually, I Am Anti-Police
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
The I'm not anti-police stance would work if, and only if, police brutality could be separated from the nature of policing. But it can't. That's because the major purpose of policing is to maintain the supremacy of the ruling class.
- Awake, A Dream from Standing Rock
Resource Type: Film/Video
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Awake, A Dream from Standing Rock captures the story of Native-led defiance that forever changed the fight for clean water, our environment and the future of our planet.
- Beautiful Rising
Creative Resistance from the Global South
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Follow up to 'Beautiful Trouble: A Toolbox for Revolution', Beautiful Rising showcases some of the most innovative tactics used in struggles against autocracy and austerity across the Global South.
- A Better World in Birth
The Socialist Imperative: From Gotha to Now
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Book review of Michael A. Lebowitz' The Socialist Imperative: From Gotha to Now.
- Birth of the Abolitionist Nation
The Slave's Cause: A History of Abolition
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Book review of Manisha Sinha's The Slave's Cause: A History of Abolition.
- The Black Lives Matter Response to Trump
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Our mandate has not changed: organize and end all state-sanctioned violence until all Black Lives Matter.
- Black and White
Images from the Archives of Liberation News Service Photographer Howard Epstein, 1968-1974
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Black and White is a book of 32 evocative images of political conflict and confrontations in the streets taken by Howard Epstein when he was a photographer for Liberation News Service.
- Bounty Hunters
A clandestine war on wolves
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
The centuries old killing of wolves has extirpated the species throughout most of the United States, yet there remains a strong anti-wolf lobby which continues to threaten even a modest recovery.
- Broken Homes
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
In East Jerusalem, home to 300,000 Palestinians, Israel has been using home demolition as a tool to control the population. Following what some have described as a "third Intifada" in 2015, Al Jazeera started monitoring the policy of home demolitions in occupied East Jerusalem and how it was being enforced -- 2016 was documented to be a record year. Al Jazeera presents an extensive month by month report with graphs, video and photographs.
- Bumpy ride
Why America's roads are in tatters
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
A look at America's negleced infrastructure of roads and bridges. Despite declining conditions, particularly on secondary roads, Republicans continued to press for less State funding- which they termed "devolution".
- Canada's State of Reconciliation
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
The brutal suppression of water protectors at Standing Rock, North Dakota and their ongoing resistance has also galvanized Canadian conversations about Indigenous land rights and environmental welfare.
- Chicago Teachers Settle Contract
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
While an almost 3-1 vote in favor is decisive, the vote against is significant in showing both dissatisfaction and anger among teachers. Who voted against the contract?
- Civil Rights Movement Is a Reminder That Free Speech Is There to Protect the Weak
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
The importance of First Amendment rights is examined, and even while those rights do protect actions of the powerful, the author argues that it is ultimately the poor and powerless who beneffit from it's protection.
- Class Dismissed
When a state divests from public education
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
A look at education in the state of Arizona where Empowerment Education Accounts (ESA's), money otherwise used to fund public education, are upheld by conservatives as a successful means of advancing private alternatives to traditional schooling.
- Connexions Calendar Expired Events 2017
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
- Connexions Information Sharing Services - Wikipedia Article - Filipino text
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
- Creating a Socialism that Meets Needs
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
There is widespread and growing understanding that the current social order cannot continue without catastrophe occurring - yet we lack a vision of what might replace it.
- Creating an Ecological Society
Toward a Revolutionary Transformation
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Because it aims squarely at replacing capitalism with an ecologically sound and socially just society, Creating an Ecological Society is filled with revolutionary hope. Fred Magdoff and Chris Williams, who have devoted their lives to activism, Marxist analysis, and ecological science, provide informed, fascinating accounts of how a new world can be created from the ashes of the old.
- Dangerous Grounds
Antiwar Coffeehouses and Military Dissent in the Vietnam Era
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
As the Vietnam War divided the nation, a network of antiwar coffeehouses appeared in the towns and cities outside American military bases. Owned and operated by civilian activists, GI coffeehouses served as off-base refuges for the growing number of active-duty soldiers resisting the war.
- Dolores
Resource Type: Film/Video
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Dolores is a 2017 documentary directed by Peter Bratt on the life of activist Dolores Huerta. The film focuses on Huerta's work to organize farmworkers in California to form the United Farm Workers (UFW), in alliance with such movements as the Chicano Movement, the Civil Rights Movement, LGBTQ social movements, and the late 20th century Women's rights movement.
- Down on the Seed: The World Bank Enables Corporate Takeover of Seeds
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Exposing how the World Bank's policies ignores and undermines farmer-managed seed systems and enables profiteering by agrochemical companies.
- East York Workers' Association
Connexipedia article
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
The East York Workers' Association (EYWA) was an unemployment movement that developed during the Great Depression in the township of East York, Ontario.
- EducationSources.ca
Resource Type: Website
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Web portal with sources of information about education and academia, including articles, documents, books, websites, and experts and spokespersons. The home page features a selection of recent and important articles. A search feature, subject index, and other research tools make it possible to find additional resources and information.
- EnvironmentSources.com
Resource Type: Website
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Web portal with information about environmental issues and resources, with articles, documents, books, websites, and experts and spokespersons. The home page features a selection of recent and important articles. A search feature, subject index, and other research tools make it possible to find additional resources and information.
- Eyewitness at Standing Rock
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Interview with Rebecca Kemble.
- Fair Play for Cuba Committee
Connexipedia article
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
- A Few Things About Nonviolence: A Response to Yoav Litvin
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
The goal of a true movement opposing American fascism should not be adrenaline-boosting brawls, it can only be the long and dedicated work of dismantling various engines of white supremacy within our socio-political landscape.
- Fighting Back for Survival
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
The editors reflect on the 2016 U.S. presidential election.
- Following the Levellers, volume One
Political and Religious Radicals in the English Civil War and Revolution, 1645–1649
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
This book reinterprets the Leveller authorships of John Lilburne, Richard Overton and William Walwyn, and foregrounds the role of ordinary people in petitioning and protest during an era of civil war and revolution.
- Forty Questions
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
An excerpt from Valeria Luiselli's book "Tell me How it Ends", a damning confrontation between the American dream and the reality of undocumented children in the United States.
- Framing The Shadows
The luminary vision of W. Eugene Smith
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
A look at the life and work of American photojournalist W. Eugene Smith, who is particularly noted for his brilliant photo essays that chronicled suffering and injustice.
- Ghost Nation
An ethnic-cleansing campaign by the government threatens to empty South Sudan
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Reporter Nick Turse provides a first hand acount of his time spent covering a refugee crisis in Southern Sudan, where the government's Sudan People's Liberation Army (SPLA) is committing atrocities that include mass rape, mutilation, torture, and the burning down of villages.
- The Green Party After the Election
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Until the Green Party has built a real power base of well-organized, dues-paying members and elected Green caucuses in city councils, state legislatures and the U.S. House, it will not be taken seriously in a presidential run by most media and most voters
- Grenfell Tower: A Disaster Waiting to Happen
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
The Grenfell tower disaster is a consequence of social housing policies dating back to the 1980's.
- The Group of Seven Guitar Project
Resource Type: Film/Video
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
The 2017 film The Group of Seven Guitar Project documents the story of seven luthiers who have come together to honour the work of Canadian painters the Group of Seven by creating seven original guitars inspired by their paintings.
- HealthSources.ca
Resource Type: Website
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
A web portal featuring information and resources about health, with articles, documents, books, websites, and experts and spokespersons. The home page features a selection of recent and important articles. A search feature, subject index, and other research tools make it possible to find additional resources and information.
- Hegemony How-To
A Roadmap for Radicals
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Hegemony How-To is a practical guide to political struggle for a generation that is deeply ambivalent about questions of power, leadership, and strategy.
- Historical Timeline: 1900-Present: History of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
- John Edgar Hoover
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
The life of JFBI Director J. Edgar Hoover.
- Hope in Dark Times
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
The most dynamic and emergent forces in U.S. politics today are on our side, and possibilities for a radical transformation of the system have not yet been foreclosed. Whether we make good on them is up to us.
- House Hunters Transnational
Israel's economic settlers in the West Bank
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Settlement developers in Israel are seizing upon the country's economic woes and high cost of living as an opportunity to expand housing on the disputed West Bank, putting further into question a two state solution.
- How Do We Organize A Hundred Million?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
The strategic considerations discussed in this series of posts assumes that it will take a hundred million activist in the US and many hundreds of millions more worldwide to make revolution. Real politics begin where there are millions, many millions.
- How "Race Neutral" Policy Failed
Managing Inequality: Northern Racial Liberalism in Interwar Detroit
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Book review ofKaren R. Miller's Managing Inequality: Northern Racial Liberalism in Interwar Detroit.
- Humber River, Old Mill, and Marshes
Discovery Walks
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
- "I am Here Only for Working"
Conversations with the petroleum brotherhood in the UAE
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
A look at the petroleum industry in the United Arab Emirates through conversations with workers and foreign labourers. Many of the labourers come from abroad, work for very low wages, and live in crowded worker's camps designed to service the oil industry.
- I Am Not Your Negro
Resource Type: Film/Video
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
I am Not your Negro explores the history of racism in the United States through James Baldwin's reminiscences of civil rights leaders Medgar Evers, Malcolm X, and Martin Luther King, Jr, as well as his personal observations of American history.
- In the Shadow of the Revolution
Resource Type: Film/Video
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
In the Shadow of the Revolution provides alternative perspectives on Venezuela's Bolivarian Revolution. Through interviews with academics, journalists and socal activists the film helps explain the rebellion against the corrupt authoritarian government that created a catastrophe in Venezuela.
- Inside Lindsay Shepherd’s heroic, insulting, brave, destructive, possibly naïve fight for free speech
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
- IntelligentSearch.ca
Resource Type: Website
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
A web portal featuring topics related to research and the Internet. The home page features a selection of recent and important articles. A search feature, subject index, and other research tools make it possible to find additional resources and information.
- Introduction to the Inside/Outside Strategy
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
The inside/outside strategy (IOS) is an approach to organizing and movement building that emphasizes learning from and coordination with resistance movements and political positions you do not completely agree with.
- Jane Does
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Conversations between journalist Madeleine Schwartz and members of the Abortion Counseling Service of Women's Liberation, later known as Jane, an underground reproductive care service that was started in 1969.
- Jeremy Corbyn campaign video
Resource Type: Film/Video
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
- Jewish Currents goes to heaven, Jewish Currents goes to hell
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
A collection of writings, poems and images reflecting the traditions of thought, activism, and culture of the Jewish left.
- JournalismSources.com
Resource Type: Website
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
A portal featuring news, articles, and resources about journalism, press freedom, free speech, censorship and related topics. The home page features a selection of recent and important articles. A search feature, subject index, and other research tools make it possible to find additional resources and information.
- Kill All Normies
Online culture wars from 4chan and Tumblr to Trump and the alt-right
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
How internet subcultures are conquering the mainstream, from from 4chan and Tumblr to Trump and the alt-right.
- Killing Bill O'Reilly
The disgraced broadcaster's distortions of history
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
A look at the biased, idealized and error-riddled historical accounts espoused by American broadcaster Bill O'Reilly. Despite the former broadcaster's distortions of history and recent public disgrace his books still remain popular among Americans.
- Kathe Kollwitz
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
The life of the German socialist artist Kathe Kollwitz.
- Labor's Schoolhouse
Lessons from the Paterson Silk Strike of 1913
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
The author recounts the Paterson Silk Strike, a 1913 labour dispute organized by mill workers and noted for its large size, duration, and non-violence. Central to the dispute was the requirement by overworked weavers to start running four large looms instead of two, an appropriation of technolgy for the bottom line which has particular relevance for us today.
- The Last Man in Europe
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Glover explores the creation of George Orwell's classic work, Nineteen Eighty-Four, which for millions of readers worldwide defined the twentieth century.
- Libertarian Socialism: Politics in Black and Red
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Explores the important, too often neglected left-libertarian currents that have thrived in revolutionary socialist movements. By turns, the collection interrogates the theoretical boundaries between Marxism and anarchism and the process of their formation, the overlaps and creative tensions that shaped left-libertarian theory and practice, and the stumbling blocks to movement cooperation.
- The Lost Traveller's Dream
A Memoir
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
A memoir of Kovel's first 80 years, from his early Jewish upbringing, his academic career, to his embracing of Marxist political economy and commitment to radical ecosocialism.
- MA Stops Charter School Expansion
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Despite their $24 million, the charter forces - which in March had more than a 20-point lead in the polls - lost by an amazing 24 points, 62% to 38%.
- Macaroni & Cheese and Revolution
The Anarchist Cookbook
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Book review of Keith McHenry's and Chaz Bufe's The Anarchist Cookbook.
- Mad Marx: The Class Warrior
Resource Type: Photo/Image/Poster
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
- The March on Everywhere
The ragged glory of female activism
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Leslie Jamison recounts her experience as part of the Women's March on Washington in protest of the new Trump Administration, which became the largest single day protest in U.S. history.
- Masterless Men: Poor Whites and Slavery in the Antebellum South
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Analyzing land policy, labour, and legal history, Keri Leigh Merritt reveals what happens to excess workers when a capitalist system is predicated on slave labor.
- A Matter of Life
The death penalty as a conservative conundrum
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
A look at the Death Penalty in the United States and a Republican's campaign to have the practice abolished in the more Conservative areas of the country.
- May 1998 riots of Indonesia
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
The May 1998 Riots of Indonesia, also known simply as The 1998 Tragedy, were incidents of mass violence of a racial nature that occurred throughout Indonesia, mainly in Medan in the province of North Sumatra (4–8 May), the capital city of Jakarta (12–15 May), and Surakarta (also called Solo) in the province of Central Java (13–15 May). The riots were triggered by economic problems including food shortages and mass unemployment, and eventually led to the resignation of President Suharto and the fall of the New Order government.
- MediaSources.ca
Resource Type: Website
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
A web portal featuring resources about media and the media industry, with articles, documents, books, websites, and experts and spokespersons. The home page features a selection of recent and important articles. A search feature, subject index, and other research tools make it possible to find additional resources and information.
- Momentum Activist Handbook
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
An activist training guide for members of People's Momentum, the campaigning group in the British Labour Party.
- Monumental Error
Will New York City finally tear down a statue?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
An examination of the Sims controversy in New York City, where authorities have long debated the removal of a statue in Central Park celebrtating 19th-century doctor J. Marion Sims, the 'father of gynecology' who experimented on black women.
- Mothers and Children First
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
An interactive report on mothers and child bearing in Bolivia where deaths are highest among indigenous populations. This report looks at the efforts by doctors, indigenous midwives and healers who are collaborating in what is being called 'intercultural health care'.
- My Lai
Vietnam, 1968, and the Descent into Darkness
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Jones shows how pivotal the My Lai massacre was in galvanizing opposition to the Vietnam War, playing a part nearly as significant as that of the Tet Offensive and the Cambodian bombing. For many, it undermined any pretense of American moral superiority, calling into question not only the conduct of the war but the justification for U.S. involvement.
- 93 media professionals killed in 2016
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
93 journalists and media professionals were killed in 2016 according to new statistics published by the world's largest journalists' organisation.
- The Number That No Man Could Number
Black America's civil war over gay rights
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
A look at the complex relationship between the Church and homosexuality among African-Americans. While many church leaders become the public face of resistance to homosexuality and same-sex marriage, behind closed doors the reality is very different.
- Obama's Legacy and the Rise of Trump
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
So much has been written about why Donald Trump won the presidency and the anger of the white working class. White supremacists are overjoyed by his victory. Much less is written or discussed about the failures of liberalism and the Obama presidency for Blacks and other minorities who voted for Hillary Clinton as a lesser evil.
- Oil's Deep State
How the petroleum industry undermines democracy and stops action on global warming - in Alberta, and in Ottawa
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
An insider's eywitness view of the oil industry, and how and why governments have failed to heed warnings despite substantial scientific evidence of global warming
- On Movement and Freedom
Tales of Enduring Transience
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Canada-based artist Gita Hashemi embarks on a ground journey from Germany to Greece along the so-called "Balkan route." In this written account Hashemi meets with others who are also on the move, as well as artists and activists who support freedom of movement and refugee rights. It is part of an art project called "On the Move" about freedom of movement.
- One Long Night: A Global History of Concentration Camps
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Drawing from exclusive testimony, landmark historical scholarship, and stunning research, Andrea Pitzer unearths the roots of this appalling phenomenon, exploring and exposing the staggering toll of the camps: our greatest atrocities, the extraordinary survivors, and even the intimate, quiet moments that have also been part of camp life during the past century.
- Ontario's health workers call for improved sick leave policies
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
- Over the River
Returning home to Flint
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Author Richard Manning returns to his childhood home of Flint, Michigan and recounts the city's decline from thriving industry into an economic depression, from which the city has never recovered. Flint is left with an eroded infrastructure, neighbourhoods rife with crime and public health emergencies, and the decades old question of how will it ever recover.
- Public Transit - Introduction to March 18, 2017 issue of Other Voices - Chinese text
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
- PublicitySources.com
Resource Type: Website
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
A web portal featuring publicity and PR resources, including articles, documents, books, websites, and experts and spokespersons. The home page features a selection of recent and important articles. A search feature, subject index, and other research tools make it possible to find additional resources and information.
- Putting the Racist Flyers at University of Michigan in Context
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
On Monday morning, September 26, 2017, students arrived to the U-M campus to find racist flyers plastered in Haven Hall, Mason Hall, and several other buildings
- Racism in Asia
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Racism in Asia exists for similar reasons that racism elsewhere exists, with roots in events that have happened anywhere from thousands of years ago to the present.
- Radical Digressions 8
Resource Type: Website
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
- The Reconciliation Manifesto
Recovering the Land, Rebuilding the Economy
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
A look at the historical and current relationship between indigenous and non-indigenous Canadians, and what needs to be done to accomplish true reconciliation.
- The Reichstag Fire Next Time
The coming crackdown
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
The article draws comparisons between the current climate in the Trump era with that of pre-Nazi Germany, in particular the Reichstag Fire of 1933, an event which Adolph Hitler exploited and launched a militant stance that eventually lead to a facist state.
- Remembering Lissa Donner
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Recollections of Lissa Donner, 1955 - 2017.
- The Rise of the Valkyries
In the alt-right, women are the future, and the problem
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
A look at strategies and recruiting practices of the extremist alt-right, particularly outreach efforts towards recruiting women into their ranks.
- The River of Consciousness
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
In these essays, Oliver Sacks takes on evolution, botany, chemistry, medicine, neuroscience, and the arts, and calls upon his great scientific and creative heroes -- above all, Darwin, Freud, and William James. For Sacks, these thinkers were constant companions from an early age; the questions, they explored -- the meaning of evolution, the roots of creativity, and the nature of consciousness -- lie at the heart of science and of this book.
- Sacred Cod
Resource Type: Film/Video
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Sacred Cod is a feature-length documentary that captures the collapse of the historic cod population in New England, delving into the role of overfishing, the impact of climate change, the effect of government policies on fishermen and the fish, and the prospect of a region built on cod having no cod left to fish.
- Science and its enemies - Vietnamese text
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
- Sex, Gender, and the New Essentialism
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
A series of essays on sex, gender, and sexuality.
- SexSources.ca
Resource Type: Website
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
A web portal featuring sexuality resources: articles, websites, books. The home page features a selection of recent and important articles. A search feature, subject index, and other research tools make it possible to find additional resources and information.
- "The Slave-Holding Republic"
Confronting Black Jacobins: The United States, the Haitian Revolution, and the Origins of the Dominican Republic
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Book review of Gerald Horne's Confronting Black Jacobins: The United States, the Haitian Revolution, and the Origins of the Dominican Republic.
- Snowden's Box
The human network behind the biggest leak of all
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Edward Snowden's disclosure of NSA secrets to the press as reported by the two journalists who literally had Snowden material mailed to them in a cardboard box. The article describes their experiences with encryption, codewords, government surveillance and extreme paranoia. The journalists also reveal that they were not the only people to have received Snowden's files.
- Song of the Lion
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
When a car bomb kills a young man in the Shiprock High School parking lot, Officer Bernadette Manuelito discovers that the intended victim as a mediator for a multi-million-dollar development planned at the Grand Canyon.
- Sons and Daughters
The village where girls turn into boys
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
An account of an isolated village in the southwestern Dominican Republic where children who are seemingly born female become male later in their childood; such cases are so prevalent in the village that it is no longer considered abnormal.
- Sources Calendar Expired Entries 2017
Resource Type: Website
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
- Sources News Release Archive 2017
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
News releases from 2017.
- States of Decay
A journey through America's nuclear heartland
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
The aftermath of the AEC procurement program (uranium) and the present state of yellowcake towns in the Colarado plateau.
- The Struggle Against the Chauvinist Hydra
Document of the Seventh International Conference of the International Communist League (Fourth Internationalist)
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Political statement announcing a sharp change of direction in the Trotskyist International Communist League.
- Surrogacy: A Human Rights Violation
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
According to Renate Klein, "pared down to cold hard facts, surrogacy is the commissioning/buying/ renting of a woman into whose womb an embryo is inserted and who thus becomes a 'breeder' for a third party."
- Survival is the Question
Facing the Anthropocene: Fossil Capitalism and the Crisis of the Earth System
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Book review of Ian Angus' Facing the Anthropocene: Fossil Capitalism and the Crisis of the Earth System.
- Sustainable Agriculture Versus Corporate Greed
Small Farmers, Food Security & Big business
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Examines the downfalls of profit-centred agriculture, and the struggle for a people-and-environment centred alternative in Australia.
- Symbols of Resistance
A Tribute to the Martyrs of the Chican@ Movement
Resource Type: Film/Video
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
The documentary looks at the history of the Chicano and Chicana Movement in the 1970's; with a focus on Colorado and Northern New Mexico it explores the struggle for land, the student movement and community struggles against police repression. Runtime: 75 min.
- The Syriza Wave: The Discussion Continues via Irish Marxist Review
The Discussion Continues via Irish Marxist Review
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
The article is review of Helena Sheehan's book "The Syriza Wave: Surging and Crashing with the Greek Left". Her book is an account of her polital activity and personal reflections during the surge of Syrzia from 2012 through 2015.
- Ten Myths about Israel
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
In this book published on the fiftieth anniversary of the Occupation, the outspoken and radical Israeli historian Ilan Pappe examines the most contested ideas concerning the origins and identity of the contemporary state of Israel.
- Terror in Britain: What Did the Prime Minister Know?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Why did the Manchester bombing occur? How does it relate to British relations with Middle Eastern countries?
- Terrorism: How the Israeli state was won
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Transcript of a speech by the author on December 14, 2016 at the House of Lords, giving a history of the conflicts and terrorist tactics of Zionists in the formation of the state of Israel.
- That Precious Strand of Jewishness that Challenges Authority
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Like so many of those others in Britain of Jewish lineage, songwriter and award-winning folk singer Leon Rosselson is descended from antecedents who fled pogroms in eastern Europe. Pertinently, he questions what being a Jew means -- is it adherence to Judaism as a religion, an ethnicity, a citizen of Israel, or someone who eats "chicken soup with knedlach"? He describes clearly and with historical insight how any concept of "Jewishness" can involve all of those things and more. In his own life, he has decided to pick and choose from this tradition and history and build on what he deems to be the progressive, humane, and universalist values of that Jewish background.
- Tomorrow's power
Resource Type: Film/Video
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
An award-winning documentary that follows stories of communities in Germany, Gaza and Colombia that are challenging current power structures, leading to possibilities of a future with both social and climate justice. Runtime: 76 min.
- Tribal Justice
Resource Type: Film/Video
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Documents an effective criminal justice reform movement in America: the efforts of tribal courts to return to traditional, community-healing concepts of justice.
- The Trouble with Defectors
What informants taught an intelligence officer
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Author and former U.S. Intelligence Officer Scott Ritter writes about his experiences working with informants and defectors. Recounting first hand experiences he discusses the problems and issues working with informants, notably their motivation, quality of information, and its reliabitlity and currency. While quality control is a recurring problem with informants Ritter further discusses why intelligence professionals still keep using them.
- Trump not "Exceptional"
Trump: A Graphic Biography
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Book review of Ted Rall's Trump: A Graphic Biography.
- Ulli Diemer - Selected Articles
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
- Unwanted Advances
Sexual Paranoia Comes to Campus
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Feminism is broken, argues Laura Kipnis. Anyone who thinks the sexual hysteria overtaking American campuses is a sign of gender progress is deranged.
- Via Campesina Declaration of the Forum on Food Sovereignty, Territories of Peace for a Dignified Life 2017
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
The participants of the Forum on Food Sovereignty held in the city of Buenos Aires on December 12th and 13th [2017] want to express our agreements regarding the construction of territories of peace for the people: the peasants of the world and every community struggling to remain in our ancestral territories and to continue feeding humanity, as we have done for the last ten thousand years, while at the same time fighting for a worthy life in the cities with healthy, locally produced food.
- Wartime
The First World War in a Canadian Town
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
What World War I meant to daily life in a Canadian community becomes clear in this book about the war years in Guelph, Ontario.
- The Weekly Package
How Cubans deliver culture without internet
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
With limited resources and government restrictions on internet access in Cuba, a thriving underground industry selling digital information has developed.
- When the Alt-Right Hits Campus
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Under the auspices of the "Alt Right" and its wannabe hipster version of white nationalism, the University of Michigan community was subjected to a bombardment of racist hate that many of us thought relegated to the pre-Obama past.
- Where Health Care Won't Go
A tuberculosis crisis in the Black Belt
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
A look at the outbreak of tubercolosis in Alabama, where a significant proportion of the population lacks proper health care. While State reaction was swift the lack of attention to some communities persists, as do the conditions for outbreaks to reoccur.
- Who Put Trump in the White House?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
The media story in the days following the 2016 election was that a huge defection of angry, white, blue-collar workers in the Rust Belt from their traditional Democratic voting patterns put Donald J. Trump in the White House in a grand slap at the nation's "liberal" elite. But is that the real story?
- With Ash on Their Faces
Yezidi Women and the Islamic State
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
A chronicle of ISIS' genocide of the Yezidis population in northern Iraq in 2014, including the enslavement and abuse of women and children, a persecution and tragedy that continues to this day.
- The World Must Learn From Cuba
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
On the anniversary of the Cuban Revolution, why has the small Caribbean nation outperformed many capitalist democracies in key ways despite fifty years of attack?
- Written in Blood: Courage and Corruption in the Appalachian War of Extraction
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Sociologist Wess Harris further examines the coal industry in Appalachia, and brings attention to how state government and the coal industry have strived to keep its troubling history buried from the public.
- W.W.E. the People
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
An excerpt from Naomi Klein's book "No Is Not Enough: Resisting Trump's Shock Politics and Winning the World We Need", published by Haymarket Books.
- The Young Karl Marx
Der Junge Karl Marx
Resource Type: Film/Video
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
A 2017 film about Karl Marx directed by Haitian Raoul Peck, co-written by Peck and Pascal Bonitzer, and starring August Diehl.
- Zapatistas urge scientists to join in building a better world
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
With all the damage that the capitalists have done to the people through their misuse of science, can we create a science that is truly human? Can we work collectively to defend life and humanity?
- The problem is more than integration
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Polls show that minorities, and Muslims in particular, have a greater attachment to Britain than does the population at large. They also show that nine out of ten Britons think that their community is cohesive, and local area a place where people from different backgrounds get on well together. According to Casey this figure has increased (from 80 per cent to 89 per cent) since 2003. Britons, in other words, have become more positive about social cohesion in the very period in which ‘uncontrolled immigration’ has supposedly eroded peoples’ sense of community and belonging.
- Left reformism, the state and the problem of socialist politics today
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
The recent calls for the British left either to “reclaim Labour” (Len McCluskey) or to build a new party capable of emulating Syriza’s successes in Greece (Ken Loach) demand serious consideration on these pages. At their core these proposals reflect a widespread desire, shared by members of the Socialist Workers Party, to fight the cuts, alongside revulsion at the Labour Party’s failure to do so. They also reflect a genuine excitement across the left about the prospects for new left formations such as Syriza and France’s similar Front de Gauche.
- Myles Horton and Paulo Freire
Conversations on Education and Social Change
Resource Type: Film/Video
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Myles, Horton, Paulo Freire, and friends gather at Highlander.
- Arnold Amber - IFJ mourns loss of true champion of working journalists’ rights
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Working journalists have lost a true champion and the IFJ has lost a dear friend.
- Bangladeshi journalist detained for reporting on dead goat
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) and the Bangladesh Manobodhikari Sambadhik Forum (BMSF) condemns the detention of a journalist for posting allegedly derogatory comments about a minister on Facebook. The IFJ demands immediate drop
- Canadian Ethnocultural Council partnering with ParticipACTION
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
The Canadian Ethnocultural Council is partnering with ParticipACTION, Canada's premier physical activity brand. ParticipACTION helps Canadians sit less and move more through innovative engagement initiatives and thought leadership.
- Canadian Voice of Women Making Waves from Coast to Coast!
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
This past weekend in both Toronto and Victoria, VOW members held Ban the Bomb events in protest of the current Canadian government boycotting the UN talks on nuclear weapons. VOW will be running peace leadership camps in BC, ON, and NS this August.
- CBSA-Red Cross monitoring contract a rebranded empty gesture says immigration detention watchdog
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
An agreement between Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA) and the Canadian Red Cross (CRC), announced last week to much government fanfare, is being described by opponents of Canada’s indefinite immigration detention regime as political spin.
- Celebrating Canadian Multiculturalism Day
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Driving this year’s celebration of Canada’s 150th, let us all together embrace Canada’s multiculturalism and make Canada a beacon of same and the instrument of world peace.
- China to further beef up internet control
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) calls on the Government of China to clarify the usage of privately-run VPNs (Virtual Private Network) in China. The IFJ also calls on the Government of China to end its attempt to control and stifle
- Connexions Other Voices - August 28, 2017 - Official Enemies
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
In the August 27 issue of Other Voices, we examine why and how some countries become ‘enemies’ and how and why governments and media work in tandem to demonize official enemies.
- Connexions Other Voices - December 17, 2017 - Collective Memory and Cultural Amnesia
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
From Canada to Palestine, from South Sudan to Burma, people are working to document their stories and bring them to the attention of the world.
- Connexions Other Voices - March 18, 2017 - Public Transit
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Public transit - good affordable public transit - is key to a liveable city. Other Voices explores what that means and how to bring it about.
- Connexions Other Voices - November 11, 2017 - Left Parties
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
In the November 11 issue, Connexions Other Voices looks at left parties which have emerged out of mass movements in countries like Spain (Podemos), Germany (Die Linke), and Greece (Syriza).
- Connexions Other Voices - Public Safety
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
The June 26, 2017 issue of Other Voices, the Connexions newsletter, is now out. This issue is about challenging injustice.
- Connexions Other Voices - Secrecy and Power
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Secrecy and Power; The July 22 issue of Other Voices, the Connexions newsletter, is now out. It sptolights the relationship of secrecy and power.
- CWF Calls for Nominations for Canadian Conservation Awards
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
The Canadian Wildlife Federation (CWF) is now accepting nominations for the Conservation Achievement Awards.
- CWF finds shocking numbers of dead turtles on the roads this summer and calls for more help to save these species at risk
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
The Canadian Wildlife Federation (CWF) and Scales Nature Park found hundreds of dead turtles on roads around Muskoka and Ottawa this summer and are calling for more help to save these species at risk.
- CWF Launches National Conservation Summit
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
A diverse range of experts from across Canada are meeting in Alberta this week to seek collaborative action for fish, wildlife, and biodiversity conservation.
- Discussions on new perspectives and challenges for the funds and asset management industry at the 31st IIFA Conference in Switzerland
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Zurich, 5 October 2017 - The 31st Annual Conference of The International Investment Funds Association (IIFA) was held this week in Zurich, Switzerland. Over 70 people representing 38 funds associations discussed the perspectives and challenges for
- Douglas Roche Featured Speaker at August 6th Hiroshima-Nagasaki Commemoration in Toronto
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Douglas Roche Featured Speaker at August 6th. Hiroshima-Nagasaki Commemoration in Toronto. Former Senator Douglas Roche, who also served as Canadian Ambassador for Disarmament.
- Emmanuel International Canada is mobilizing as an official drop off point for the Barbuda Relief Recovery
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Emmanuel International Canada is working with the Consulate of Antigua and Barbuda to collect needed items for the people of Barbuda
- Emmanuel International Canada and Emmanuel International Malawi commence training health-care providers
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Emmanuel International Canada and Emmanuel International Malawi commence training health-care providers
- Emmanuel International Canada is helping the families of Barbuda Island with emergency food kits and clean water
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Emmanuel International Canada is helping the families of Barbuda Island with emergency food kits and clean water
- Fearless and outspoken Indian journalist Gauri Lankesh shot dead in Karnataka
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) joins its affiliate the National Union of Journalists (India) in condemning the brutal killing of journalist Gauri Lankesh in Bengaluru, India on September 5.
- Freedom Flotilla Coalition Donates Materials to over 400 Fishers in Gaza
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The Freedom Flotilla Coalition (FFC), an international coalition composed of civil society groups demanding an end to the illegal and inhumane blockade of Gaza, recently sent fishing materials to Palestinian fishers in Gaza. In cooperation with sever
- Heather Taylor originally from Stouffville takes on the "World's Toughest Row" across the Atlantic Ocean
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Heather Taylor originally from Stouffville takes on the "World's Toughest Row" across the Atlantic Ocean in the 2018 Talisker Whiskey Atlantic Challenge to raise awareness and funds for Emmanuel International Canada’s PROMISE project in Malawi
- IFIC Annual Leadership Conference Showcases Innovation and Investor Choice
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Rapidly evolving innovation and unparalleled investor choice were the central themes of a day-long conference hosted by The Investment Funds Institute of Canada (IFIC) on Wednesday, September 27 in Toronto.
- IFIC Launches Investor Centre to Help Investors Make Informed Decisions
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The Investment Funds Institute of Canada (IFIC) today launched its new Investor Centre (https://investorcentre.ific.ca), with expanded content and contemporary features to help Canadians navigate their financial journeys.
- IFIC Releases Monthly Statistics for April 2017
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The Investment Funds Institute of Canada (IFIC) announces that for the month ending April 30, 2017, the assets under management (AUM) for the mutual funds industry reached $1.42 trillion. Year-to-date, industry AUM increased by $79.9 billion or 6
- IFIC Releases Monthly Statistics for February 2017
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Toronto, ON - March 23, 2017 - The Investment Funds Institute of Canada (IFIC) announces that for the month ending February 28, 2017, the assets under management (AUM) for the mutual funds industry reached $1.36 trillion. Year-to-date, industry
- IFIC Releases Monthly Statistics for July 2017
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Toronto, ON - August 22, 2017 - The Investment Funds Institute of Canada (IFIC) announces that for the month ending July 31, 2017, the assets under management (AUM) for the mutual funds industry totalled $1.4 trillion. AUM decreased by $12.3 bill
- IFIC Releases Monthly Statistics for September 2017
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Toronto, ON - October 23, 2017 - The Investment Funds Institute of Canada (IFIC) announces that for the month ending September 30, 2017, the assets under management (AUM) for the mutual funds industry reached $1.43 trillion. AUM increased by $16.
- IFIC Welcomes CRA Decision to Defer Application of Advantage Rules to Investment Management Fees
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Toronto, ON - September 29, 2017 - The Investment Funds Institute of Canada (IFIC) welcomes the Canada Revenue Agency’s recent decision to defer by one year, to January 1, 2019, application of the "advantage rules" to the tax treatment
- IFJ and EFJ condemn murder of Maltese journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia
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Maltese investigative journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia was murdered yesterday around 3pm by a car bomb in the town of Bidnija, near her family home. The International and European Federations of Journalists condemned today this killing.
- Investment Funds Industry Gathers for 30th IFIC Leadership Conference
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Canada’s pre-eminent networking and information event for the investment funds industry
- Iran: journalist loses eye and part of face after being refused cancer treatment in prison
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Association of Iranian Journalists board member and political prisoner Alireza Rajaee has lost his right eye and part of his face due to a cancer that was left untreated during his time in prison between 2011 and 2015.
- Israeli authorities must cease their routine abuse and harassment of journalists, says IFJ
Sources News Release
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The Palestinian Journalists Syndicate (PJS) recorded at least 15 incidents of journalists being attacked, abused or prevented from reporting by Israeli security forces while attempting to cover the Al-Aqsa Mosque protests over the weekend.
- It isn’t News until it's Newsworthy!
Sources News Release
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So, what makes a newsworthy story? 'News' is noteworthy information, especially about recent or important events. However, what might seem newsworthy to you may not appear newsworthy to a journalist. There are ways to make your story stand out!
- It’s Time to Ban the Bomb
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Canadian Voice of Women for Peace Asks Where is Canada? On July 7, 2017, 122 countries voted to adopt the historic Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons-- a landmark international agreement that outlaws, categorically, the worst weapons
- Join Canadian Voice of Women for Peace’s call for Ottawa to suspend arms sales to Saudi Arabia
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Canadian Voice of Women for Peace calls on the Canadian government to: Suspend arms sales and transfers to Saudi Arabia, including armoured vehicles, weapons, munitions, military equipment or technology (or logistical and financial support for
- Journalists harassed, detained by Pakistan’s investigation agency
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The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) condemns the harassment and detention of two reporters by the state agency in Islamabad, Pakistan on July 21. The IFJ demands action against the officials involved in the harassment and unlawful
- Lethal Arms Sale from Canada to the Ukraine
Sources News Release
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First Published: 2017
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The Canadian Voice of Women for Peace objects strongly to the Canadian Government's recent decision to break a twenty-six year de-facto embargo on lethal weapons sales to Ukraine. By adding Ukraine to the Automatic Firearms Country Control List
- Media Advisory - Event: June 15, 2017 - Safeguarding Access to Financial Advice for Canada’s Middle Class – Paul C. Bourque, Q.C. in Conversat
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Paul C. Bourque, Q.C., president and CEO of The Investment Funds Institute of Canada, and veteran journalist Tom Clark will explore why Canadian policy makers are thinking about travelling a road not taken by the majority of global regulators and how
- Media Release - IFIC Announces New Chair and Board Appointments and Welcomes New Member and Affiliate
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Toronto, ON - The board of directors of The Investment Funds Institute of Canada is pleased to announce that at its annual meeting on September 7, Ross Kappele (EVP & head of distribution, BMO Asset Management Canada) was elected chair
- Media Release - IFIC Releases Final Annual Fund Risk Classification Guidelines
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The Investment Funds Institute of Canada (IFIC) today released its 15th and final annual Voluntary Guidelines for Fund Managers Regarding Fund Volatility Risk Classification / Directives d’application facultative concernant
- Media Release - IFIC Releases Monthly Statistics for June 2017
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The Investment Funds Institute of Canada (IFIC) announces that for the month ending June 30, 2017, the assets under management (AUM) for the mutual funds industry totalled $1.41 trillion. AUM decreased by $13.6 billion
- Media Release - IFIC Releases Monthly Statistics for May 2017
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Toronto, ON - June 21, 2017 - The Investment Funds Institute of Canada (IFIC) announces that for the month ending May 31, 2017, the assets under management (AUM) for the mutual funds industry reached $1.43 trillion. Year-to-date, industry AUM inc
- Media Release - IFIC Releases Monthly Statistics for November 2017
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Toronto, ON - Dec 21, 2017 - The Investment Funds Institute of Canada (IFIC) announces that for the month ending November 30, 2017, the assets under management (AUM) for the mutual funds industry reached $1.48 trillion. AUM increased by $15.9 billion
- Media Release - IFIC Welcomes New Member – Equity Associates Inc.
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Toronto, ON - July 5, 2017 - The Investment Funds Institute of Canada (IFIC) today announced that Equity Associates Inc. has joined IFIC.
- Media Release - IFIC Welcomes Recommendations Addressing Vulnerable Investors
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Toronto, ON - November 16, 2017 - The Investment Funds Institute of Canada today congratulated FAIR Canada and the Canadian Centre for Elder Law on the thoughtful recommendations contained in their Report on Vulnerable Investors: Elder Abuse, Fin
- Media Release – IFIC Releases Monthly Statistics for August 2017
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Toronto, ON – September 21, 2017 – The Investment Funds Institute of Canada (IFIC) announces that for the month ending August 31, 2017, the assets under management (AUM) for the mutual funds industry reached $1.41 trillion. AUM increased by $8.3
- Media Release – IFIC Releases Monthly Statistics for October 2017
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Toronto, ON - November 21, 2017 - The Investment Funds Institute of Canada (IFIC) announces that for the month ending October 31, 2017, the assets under management (AUM) for the mutual funds industry reached $1.47 trillion. AUM increased by $40.7
- Meeting the Challenge of the Right
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Meeting the challenge of the Right requires not only anti-fascist actions in the street, but organizing to reach those who may be attracted the the appeal of the Right and offering an alternative social vision.
- Myanmar journalist arrested and blocked from leaving country
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The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) condemns the latest move by authorities in Myanmar, following the detainment of a journalist at Yangon International Airport on Sunday, July 30, 2017.
- No Tasers For Toronto Police, Communities Urge
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The Urban Alliance on Race Relations, working on civilian oversight of police since 1975, is joined by lawyers and academics to oppose the buying of more tasers at the Toronto Police Services Board (TPSB) public meeting on 'Conducted Energy Weapons'.
- North Korea: Canada’s First Test of Its Feminist Foreign Policy
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With the spectre of North Korea aiming long-range nuclear-tipped missiles at its neighbor the United States, never has the time been more right for Canada to be re-embracing global diplomacy. In January, Canada’s Foreign Affairs Minister Chrystia
- Open Letter to UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres
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Dear Secretary General, On your recent visit to Gaza, you saw with your own eyes some of the deplorable and inhumane conditions suffered by the Palestinians living in Gaza. You called it one of the most dramatic humanitarian crises that you had seen
- Other Voices - The April 1 issue
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The April 1 2017 issue of Other Voices, the Connexions newsletter, is out. Other Voices always strives to present alternative views on important topics. This issue offers some really alternative perspectives and even some "alternative facts."
- Pakistan: fourth journalist killed this year
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The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) strongly condemns the killing of a journalist in Swabi, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa in northwest Pakistan on Thursday, October 12.
- Peace Groups Hold Vigil at Chrystia Freeland's Toronto Constituency Office
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Peace Groups will hold a Ban the Bomb Vigil at the constituency office of Chrystia Freeland, Minister of Foreign Affairs, 344 Bloor Street West, on Saturday June 17 from 12 to 1 pm. The groups are protesting the government's boycott
- Peace Groups Issue an Emergency Appeal to Mayor John Tory to Examine the Dangers of Nuclear Weapons
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Peace Groups Issue an Emergency Appeal to Mayor John Tory to Examine the Dangers of Nuclear Weapons
July 19, 2017 (Toronto) Two weeks after the UN ratified a treaty banning nuclear weapons that was boycotted by Canada, thirteen peace, faith and env
- Philippines slaps libel suit to silence broadcast journalist
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The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) joins its affiliate, the National Union of Journalists of the Philippines (NUJP), in condemning the libel suit against ABS-CBN’s broadcast journalist Ted Failon and three members of his staff.
- Police seals TV channel in Siliguri, India
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The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) condemns the shutting down of a television channel based in Siliguri, West Bengal, India by the police on July 22. The IFJ demands the immediate restoration of the channel.
- Safety protocol with 16 points for journalists covering conflict zones
Sources News Release
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The Journalists Union of Turkey (TGS) in partnership with the European and International Federation of Journalists (EFJ-IFJ) successfully organised a 2-day Safety Workshop in Diyarbakir
- SOURCES.COM joins forces with MediaRelease.com for all the right reasons
Sources News Release
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MediaRelease.com will be the start of each and every press and media release sent by Media Release Canada or Media Release International.
- Stop the Violence Against Rohingya; End Discrimination and Protect Civilians
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Canadian Voice of Women for Peace is appalled by the persecution of Rohingya minority and calls on Myanmar’s authorities and its leader, Aung San Suu Kyi, to immediately and urgently: End the ongoing systematic persecution of Rohingya minority
- Syria: IFJ condemns killing of Russia Today journalist
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First Published: 2017
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A Russia Today (RT) correspondent was killed and a cameraman injured in a rocket attack by the Islamic State (IS) militants on Sunday 30 July in Homs province, Syria.
- Together in Canada- Ensemble au Canada
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The Canadian Ethonocultural Council (CEC) in proud collaboration with the Canadian Ethnic Media Association (CEMA) are delighted to announce that on June 24, 2017, will be holding a Dinner Gala and Award Event, Together in Canada- Ensemble au Canada
- Turkey: Cumhuriyet journalists face trial on 24 July
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The International and European Federation of Journalists (IFJ/EFJ) join their affiliates TGS and DISK Basin-Is in condemning the trial of the Turkish newspaper Cumhuriyet
- Unrelenting crackdown on critical voices in China
Sources News Release
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The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) is deeply concerned about the pressure applied by Chinese authorities which forced a prestigious University publication to block online access to more than 300 articles on its website.
- VOW Condemns Decision to Recognize Jerusalem as Israel's Capital
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Canadian Voice of Women for Peace strongly opposes the Trump administration’s decision to recognize Jerusalem as Israel’s capital, and begin the process of relocating its embassy to Jerusalem. VOW believes that the world’s governments should no
- We Must Keep the Internet Free and Open. EFF, Tech Giants, Startups and Internet Users Tell FCC: Don’t Sell Out Net Neutrality To Appease ISPs
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The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) and a broad coalition of user advocacy groups and major technology companies and organizations joined forces to protest the FCC’s plan to toss out net neutrality rules that preserve Internet freedom.
- Destabilisierung und Regimewechsel
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First Published: 2016
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- Line 9 pipeline is a risky business
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Article for the Toronto Field Naturalist newsletter on the risks to our natural environment posed by Enbridge's Line 9 pipeline project.
- Extortion Letter Info
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First Published: 2016
Published: 2017
- The City That Bleeds
Freddie Gray and the makings of an American uprising
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First Published: 2016
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The killing of black teenager Freddie Gray by six police officers resulted in a civic uprising, and spotlights a history of brutality and bloodshed by police in the city of Baltimore.
- Trump's People
Among the fans in Florida, New Hampshire, and Iowa
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First Published: 2016
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Journalist Paul Woods speks with supporters of Donald Trump prior to the 2016 election and examines the appeal and popularity of the candidate by speaking with various supporters during the campaign.
- The American Imperium
Untangling truth and fiction in an age of perpetual war
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First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
With the present-day US military overextended throughout the globe, this essay takes a look at past American military policy and actions in overseas conflicts, and how these events of the past century affect public perceptions and ultimately how the military continues to be used.
- Destroying Detroit Schools
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The Detroit Public School system (DPS) has been under state control for 15 years, the last decade under the direction of a series of Emergency Managers.
- Facebook will soon filter out RT news, so this is how you fix it… probably
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In light of recent changes to Facebook's news feed, this RT article demonstrates what is needed to secure access to RT content.
- Academic mobbing, or how to become campus tormentors
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If you’re a university professor, chances are fairly good that you have initiated or participated in mobbing. Why? First, because mobbers are not sadists or sociopaths, but ordinary people; second, because universities are a type of organization that encourages mobbing; and third, as a result, mobbing is endemic at universities. Unlike bullying, an individual form of harassment in which a typical scenario consists of a boss victimizing an assistant, mobbing is a serious organizational deficiency.
- Workers and Climate Change
Introduction to the July 23, 2016 issue of Other Voices
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Many elements of the environmental movement have been guilty of ignoring working people, while others actually blame ordinary working people for climate change and the injustices associated with it. Yet it is working people who are dying, in many places, even now, from excessive heat in factories, fields, construction sites, and homes. And million of working people stand to lose their jobs, homes, and communities in the transition to a low-carbon or no-carbon economy.
- Science and its enemies
Introduction to the April 23, 2016 issue of Other Voices
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Our society and its institutions, public and private, regularly tell us that science, and education in the sciences, are crucial to our future. These public declarations are strangely reminiscent of the equally sincere lip service they pay to the ideals of democracy. And, in the same way that governments and private corporations devote considerable efforts to undermining the reality of democracy, so too they are frequently found trying to block and subvert science when the evidence it produces runs counter to their interests. Real live scientists doing real live science, it seems, are not nearly as loveable as Science in the abstract.
- Corporate Crime
Introduction to the April 9, 2016 issue of Other Voices
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First Published: 2016
Published: 2015
Corporations have increasingly become legally unaccountable for their behaviour. All too often corporations break the law and engage in criminal acts which would be severely punished if they were committed by ordinary individuals. These illegal acts range from deliberate health and safety violations that cost lives, to land seizures, to environmental negligence that contaminates lands and waters. Most of these illegal acts are never prosecuted, and those that are, are usually dealt with by a fine that corporations can treat as a cost of doing business.
- 2894: reading of the report of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (2015)
List of readers in Toronto
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First Published: 2016
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- Cheshire, Ohio
An American coal story in 3 acts
Resource Type: Film/Video
First Published: 2016
Published: 2017
Follows a community devastated by coal, starting with American Electric Power's buyout and bulldozing of this Ohio River town, after exposing them to years of harmful emissions.
- Planet Earth II
Resource Type: Film/Video
First Published: 2016
Published: 2017
- After Trotskyism, what? Some personal thoughts
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First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Arash Azizi had been a member the International Marxist Tendency (IMT) for more than seven years. Recently Azizi left the organization. He outlines his decision to leave in this esssay at the request of many friends and comrades.
- Sources News Release Archive 2016
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News releases from 2016.
- Bringing up the bodies in Bosnia
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Using cutting edge scientific research, an international organization is digging up mass graves to give victims' families some sense of closure and justice.
- Debating Syria Productively
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First Published: 2016
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A collection of remarks on how the debate, within the left, over the Syrian conflict has been lacking and could be made more productive.
- ISIS and the Far Right: a Joint Assault on Multicultural Countries
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First Published: 2016
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ISIS's assaults on multicultural countries is to provoke the non-Muslim people of those countries to reject their millions of Muslim fellow-citizens.
- Jamaica's Culture of Fear Allows Police to Get Away With Murder
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First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
In the past decade, the Caribbean island nation's police have killed more than 2,000 people - until recently an average of four people every single week, mostly young men in inner-city, marginalized communities.
- The Seminole Christmas Gift of Freedom
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First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
A history of the Christmas Day battle of 1837 between the Seminole nation and the invading US army, adapted from the author's 'Black Indians: A Hidden Heritage'.
- Statistics in the Information War
An Instructive Example from Hama, 1982
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First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Examines the manipulation of information in the case of the 'Hama massacre' of 1982 to advance the US's regime change policies regarding Syria.
- IFIC Releases Monthly Statistics for November 2016
Sources News Release
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First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Toronto, ON - December 22, 2016 - The Investment Funds Institute of Canada (IFIC) announces that for the month ending November 30, 2016, the assets under management (AUM) for the mutual funds industry totalled $1.33 trillion. Year-to-date, indust
- On the Nature of Police
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Having a group of reluctant citizens charged with the enormous responsibility that came with being a cop was preferable.
- Connexions Other Voices: The Fake News issue
Sources News Release
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The Connexions newsletter, Other Voices, takes a closer look at the dominant actors in the fake news business: governments and the corporate and state media.
- "Fake News"
Introduction to the December 20, 2016 issue of Other Voices
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First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
"Fake news" is the latest mania to convulse the mainstream media. All at once, we're being subjected to an outbreak of hand-wringing articles and commentaries about obscure websites which are supposedly poisoning public opinion and undermining democracy by spreading "fake news."
- Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - December 20, 2016
Fake News
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First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
"Fake news" is the latest mania to convulse the mainstream media. All at once, we're being subjected to an outbreak of hand-wringing articles and commentary about obscure websites which are supposedly poisoning public opinion and undermining democracy by spreading "fake news." Since we don't like to be left out when a new fad comes on the scene, Other Voices is jumping on the bandwagon too, with this, our last issue of 2016, devoted to "fake news." Our focus, however, is not so much on the crackpots and trolls making mischief on the fringes, but on the dominant actors in the fake news business: governments and the corporate and state media.
- Wendell Berry's Radical Skepticism
The celebrated farmer and poet shares a message of love in a time of unrest
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When the celebrated writer, farmer, and elder statesman of the local food movement sat down in front of a sold-out audience at Johns Hopkins University last week, the crowd seemed even more eager than usual to soak in Berry's wisdom in this particularly fraught national moment. The event was a public conversation between Berry and Eric Schlosser, investigative journalist and author of Fast Food Nation, to mark the 20th anniversary of the Center for a Livable Future at the Bloomberg School of Public Health. And many in the audience -- made up of people who care about the work the Center does to study the intersections between food systems, the environment, and human health -- were likely feeling a great deal worried about the fate of the issues about which they care deeply.
- The Bad Losers (And What They Fear Losing)
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First Published: 2016
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If the 2016 presidential campaign was a national disgrace, the reaction of the losers is an even more disgraceful spectacle. And why is that?
- Clinton's Defeat and the Fake News Conspiracy
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First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Debunking the scapegoating of 'fake news' by the corporate media following the 2016 US elections as a tactic by the media and Democratic party establishment to avoid blame for Hillary Clinton's election loss.
- Here to stay, here to fight: How Asians transformed the British working class
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First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
During the blisteringly hot summer of 1976 a group of Asian workers, predominantly women, walked out on strike at a small factory in north west London. Most were recently arrived migrants from Uganda, Tanzania and Kenya and were as unlikely a group of militants as you were likely to find that year. The Grunwick strikers acted spontaneously, without a union to back them and without knowing whether they could count on any wider support. Yet their determination and courage during a dispute that would last until the summer of 1978 would transform the politics of race in the labour movement—and in doing so would have huge ramifications for British society in general.
- More Propaganda Than News Coming Out of Aleppo
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First Published: 2016
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The dominance of propaganda over news in coverage of the war in Syria.
- Demonetisation: Stories Of Flesh And Blood
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First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
An article about the demonetization announced by the Indian government on November 8th, 2016.
- Facebook’s 'anti-fake news' plan looks like effort to curb alternative media
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First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Examines the problems of how 'fake news' is defined, and how Facebook's strategy to limit exposure to 'fake news' might also impact any alternative media.
- 'Fake News' in America
Homegrown, and Far From New
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Details the hypocrisy of the media and Democratic party's recent outcry over 'fake news', as the loose definition encompasses well-established media practices, and may be used to attack any alternative media source.
- Five reasons why we don't have a free and independent press in the UK and what we can do about it
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Exposes the power structures and entities that exert influence over the UK press, and proposes ways that influence might be subverted.
- What would Rosa Parks do today?
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First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
If Rosa Parks was taking action against transit racism today, she likely wouldn’t talk about segregated seating. Instead, she would be calling attention to disappearing service and unaffordable fares in communities that need transit the most.
- The Senseless Death of Tobeka Daki
Auctioning Health and Life to the Highest Bidders
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Details the circumstances of the death of Tobeka Daki of South Africa, implicating the exorbitant drug prices of pharmaceutical corporations.
- Where is this Digital Watergate Propaganda Campaign Going?
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First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Intelligence sources point out Russian interference in recent elections. However, WikiLeaks-related sources say the Democratic Party’s mail leak was the working of a whistleblower within that institution.
- The New Red Scare
Reviving the art of threat inflation
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First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
An examination of miltary escalation through the Cold War, and how the United States continues to use 'threat inflation' as a means of increasing military spending by pointing towards China as well as renewing fears of Russia.
- On Toronto Tolls, Marxists Align with Auto Industrial Complex
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First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
To be "progressive" in 2016 must include a political commitment to upending a transport/urban planning system structured around the private automobile.
- Sorry, Not Sorry: Neither the Media Nor Their Owners are Going to Change
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Detailing the failures of the corporate media in coverage of the 2016 US election, and how these problems are systemic due to the corporate ownership structure.
- Censorship in Social Media Leaves Users in Frustration
Sources News Release
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First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Release of the whitepaper "Censorship in Context: Insights from Crowdsourced Data on Social Media Censorship," an analysis of content moderation by social media companies and impacts on users, by Onlinecensorship.org.
- Crime reporter brutally murdered in Myanmar
Sources News Release
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First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
The International Federation of Journalists joins its affiliate the Myanmar Journalists Association in deploring the murder of a crime reporter on Dec. 13, in Monywa in the Sagaing region of Myanmar (Burma), and demand an immediate investigation.
- EFF To Canadian Court: Order Allowing Worldwide Censorship of Google Search Results Violates Users' Free Speech Rights
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
On Dec. 6, 2016, the Electronic Frontier Foundation will tell Canada's highest court that an overbroad court order that censors Google search results for users everywhere violates our rights to freely search the web without government interference.
- Internet Archive Received National Security Letter with FBI Misinformation about Challenging Gag Order
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
The Internet Archive published a formerly secret National Security Letter (NSL), highlighting misinformation in the letter about the process for challenging the contents of the NSL, impacting many communications providers who have received such NSLs.
- New Privacy Badger Upgrades Help Protect Your Online Holiday Shopping from Sneaky Data Collection
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) today released Privacy Badger 2.0 - a free browser extension for Chrome, Firefox, and Opera with new upgrades to help protect shoppers from online tracking.
- It's time to judge Assad's Aleppo campaign by the standards that we set ourselves in Mosul
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First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
We judge Assad by one set of rules, and ourselves and our own allies by another.
- The Sharia debate in the UK: who will listen to our voices?
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First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Over 300 abused women have signed a statement opposing Sharia courts and religious bodies, warning of the growing threat to their rights and to their collective struggles for security and independence.
- Entrenching Capitalist Agriculture in India Under the Guise of Development
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First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
A criticism of the efforts by the IMF and World Bank to change India's agricultural system and its impact on the Indian economy and populace.
- Finding Cahokia
Finding North America's lost medieval city
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First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Recounting the author's experiences on an archaeological dig examining the city of Cahokia, found under the suburbs of St. Louis.
- The Media's Emphasis on Russian Hacking is a Diversion
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First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
It's highly likely that the flurry of reports on alleged Russian hacking has more to do with a rejection of the status quo than with the act of clandestine meddling.
- Scapegoating by the Political Right: A Mask for Privilege
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First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
A historical context for the role of scapegoating of minorities in the 2016 US election examining similar practices by privileged groups to maintain power in modern history.
- Why the Nazis studied American race laws for inspiration
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First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
On 5 June 1934, about a year and half after Adolf Hitler became Chancellor of the Reich, the leading lawyers of Nazi Germany gathered at a meeting to plan what would become the Nuremberg Laws, the centrepiece anti-Jewish legislation of the Nazi race regime. The meeting was an important one, and a stenographer was present to take down a verbatim transcript. That transcript reveals a startling fact: the meeting involved lengthy discussions of the law of the United States of America.
- Billions of litres of raw sewage, untreated waste water pouring into Canadian waterways
Conservatives introduced new rules in 2012, but problem was actually worse last year
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First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
More than 205 billion litres of raw sewage and untreated waste water spewed into Canada's rivers and oceans last year, CBC News has learned, despite federal regulations introduced in 2012 to try to solve the problem.
- Monitoring the Miners: Rio Tinto, Drones and Surveillance
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First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Management at the mining giant Rio Tinto have ambitions to take the technology of monitoring employees to another level – quite literally-drones.
- Anonymous Leaks to the WashPost About the CIA's Russia Beliefs Are No Substitute for Evidence
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First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
There are some basic facts about what is known and, more importantly, what is not known about the anonymous CIA leaks concerning the 2016 US Presidency Election.
- Human Chain to Surround Toronto Immigration Jail Against Indefinite Detention and Prison Expansion
Sources News Release
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First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Former immigration detainees and supporters of immigrants jailed indefinitely without charges or trial will surround the Toronto Immigration Holding Centre (TIHC), a medium security immigration prison, today to oppose the expansion of immigration
- Copyright Infringement Fraud: A Serious Problem
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First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Copyright infringement is serious business and true violations should be addressed as soon as possible. But what if it isn't a true violation? What if it is a ploy to make money? And, whether true or a scheme, how would one know the difference?
- How To Enable Two-Factor Authentication on Gmail and Google
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First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Instructions to enable two-factor authentication for improved security for users of Gmail and Google services.
- British Government-Funded Outlet Offered Journalist $17,000 a Month to Produce Propaganda for Syrian Rebels
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First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
The Revolutionary Forces of Syria media office, a major Syrian opposition media outfit and frequent source of information for Western media, is funded by the British government as a propaganda outlet.
- Don Weitz in conversation with Ulli Diemer
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First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Activist Don Weitz interviewed by Ulli Diemer, December 8, 2016.
- Israeli Army Admits Tweeted Hezbollah Map Actually Fake
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First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
The Israeli media has been forced to admit a map purported to contain information on Hezbollah positions, distributed to foreign diplomats and on twitter, is a fabrication.
- Dorothea Lange's Censored Photographs of FDR's Japanese Concentration Camps
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First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
A collection of photographs by Dorothy Lange, commissioned by the US government to record the process of relocating Japanese-americans into internment camps in 1942, along with accompanying quotations providing an oral history of the period and events.
- What We Talk About When We Talk About Class
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First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Professor of sociology at North Carolina State, Michael Schwalbe, reflects on the intrinsic contradiction of teaching and researching about class in the United States while benefiting from his own class position.
- Facebook, Twitter, Google and Microsoft team up to tackle extremist content
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First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Tech companies plan to create a shared database of 'unique digital fingerprints' that will able to identify images and videos promoting terrorism and extremist content.
- The Coming War On China
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First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
The Coming War on China, is a warning that nuclear war is not only imaginable, but a ‘contingency’, says the Pentagon. The greatest build-up of Nato military forces since the Second World War is under way on the western borders of Russia. On the other side of the world, the rise of China as the world’s second economic power is viewed in Washington as another ‘threat’ to American dominance.
- Fake News About 'Fake News' - The Media Performance Pyramid
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First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Following Brexit and Trump, mainstream media have focused on media bias and the implications of so-called fake news. The definition of fake news can be easily generalized to all corporate media, and applied to the recent focus on fake news itself.
- Patently Biased
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First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Journalists share responsibility for the increasing commercialization of scientific research.
- Say YES to the Abolition of Nuclear Weapons
Sources News Release
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First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Canadian Voice of Women for Peace calls on Canada to change its vote to yes, and support Resolution L.41 at the General Assembly, signalling its intent to contribute constructively to the discussions to be launched in March 2017.
- This is why everything you’ve read about the wars in Syria and Iraq could be wrong
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First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
A description of how much of the coverage of the wars in Syria and Iraq is second-hand reporting, due to the dangers posed, and subject to political bias and propaganda.
- Before Facebook Was The Coffee House
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First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Kenan Malik writes about the issue of fake news.
- Marx as a Food Theorist
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First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Marx developed a detailed and sophisticated critique of the industrial food system in Britain in the mid-nineteenth century, in the period that historians have called "the Second Agricultural Revolution." Not only did he study the production, distribution, and consumption of food; he was the first to conceive of these as constituting a problem of changing food "regimes" -- an idea that has since become central to discussions of the capitalist food system.
- With Child
The right to choose in Rapid City
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First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
A lack of abortion clinics, doctor shortages, high costs, and traditional values are among the significant obtacles and challenges facing women in Iowa and other rural mid-western states who seek the right to choose.
- The CIA and the Press: When the Washington Post Ran the CIA’s Propaganda Network
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First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Last week, the Washington Post published a scurrilous piece by a heretofore obscure technology reporter named Craig Timberg, alleging without the faintest evidence that Russian intelligence was using more than 200 independent news sites to pump out pro-Putin and anti-Clinton propaganda during the election campaign.
- The Untold Story of the Black Radical Tradition in Canada
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First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Looking back on the development of Black radical organizations in Canada.
- Why Chomsky and Zizek are wrong on the US Elections
Chomsky and Zizek clashed on voting in the US elections, but the views of both are critically flawed.
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First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Noam Chomsky and Slavoj Zizek, while both critical of Hillary Clinton, are opposed on whom they declare to vote for in the 2016 US election. In opting for Clinton or Trump, Chomsky and Zizek both avoid the crucial question of actual voters and how and why they voted the way they did, and are fixated on the abstract illusion of being on the left or right side of a vacuous argument.
- Prospects for an Alt-Left
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First Published: 2016
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Examining the limitations and issues with prevalent approaches of younger progressives and how a more effective 'alt-left' movement might be formed.
- The Real Link Between Israel's Forest Fires and Muezzin Bill
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First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Examines and contextualizes the discriminatory 'muezzin bill', which would ban the broadcasting of Muslim calls to prayer in Israel.
- The Revival of the Working-Class Concept
Trump, the Class Struggle, and the (Somewhat Overstated) Specter of Fascism
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First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Details how the concept of a working-class has been misused in the media to blame specific groups for Trump's success in the 2016 election, and how recognition of broader working-class issues is needed to enact positive political change.
- Confessions of an Alleged Russian Propagandist: A Pentagon Hit?
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First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
While our corporate media don't talk about it, the US does run a vast propaganda operation, which includes the spawning and spreading of, guess what?, fake news stories! This kind of thing has gone on for years abroad, but since 2001, under both the Bush and Obama administrations, both the Pentagon and the US Information Agency have done away with an earlier ban on spreading such lies posing as news inside the US. Now we’re all fair game for US propaganda, which by the way the mainstream media routinely parrot.
- Other Voices, the Connexions newsletter -- Special issue on alternative media
Sources News Release
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The November 27, 2016 edition of Other Voices, the Connexions newsletter, is devoted entirely to alternative media.
- The Witch-Hunters
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Washington Post pushes campaign to censor alternative media.
- Alternative Media
Introduction to the November 27, 2016 issue of Other Voices
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It's no wonder that the mainstream media are widely distrusted, and even held in contempt, by many people. They are seen, rightly, as part of the neoliberal system people are increasingly rejecting. On the other hand, the Internet has made it possible to launch a vast number of alternative media projects.
- The Coding Of 'White Trash' In Academia
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First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
As an academic from the U.S. Deep South, Holly Genovese has found herself between two worlds, not accepted in academia because of her background, and yet unable to 'go home again.'
- Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - November 27, 2016
Alternative Media
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A special issue on alternative media.
- Washington Post Disgracefully Promotes a McCarthyite Blacklist From a New, Hidden, and Very Shady Group
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First Published: 2016
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The Washington Post on Thursday night promoted the claims of a new, shadowy organization that smears dozens of U.S. news sites that are critical of U.S. foreign policy as being "routine peddlers of Russian propaganda."
- Steven Galloway is Innocent Until Proven Guilty
Everyone is owed due process
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First Published: 2016
Published: 2015
Yes, far too often women who are sexually assaulted are disbelieved. Which is why I understand and see the reasoning behind the "I Believe Women" slogan. It is a powerful statement. It is a strong political position. It is a rhetorical tool, but is not an actual, automatic truth. If we see it as such, it is an inherently tyrannical position that has historically been used to imprison and murder poor men of colour and Indigenous men. For these reasons I much prefer "I Listen to Women."
- F*** You, White Liberal: a Middle-Eastern American Glad Trump Won
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First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
- One Palestinian Man's Mission to Make Urban Agriculture More Sustainable
Life and Health are the most precious things humans can have
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First Published: 2016
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Introducing Said Salim Abu Naser, a proponent of sustainable agriculture living and working in Gaza City, Palestine, along the Mediterranean Coast. Abu Nasser has created a 200-square-meter (2,000-square-foot) micro-farm using a hydroponic system and homemade organic pest-control solutions consisting of garlic, pepper, soap and more.
- The Dangers of Anti-Trumpism
Silvio Berlusconi's tenure as Italian prime minister shows how not to resist an authoritarian demagogue.
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First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Comparisons between Donald Trump and former Italian prime minister Silvio Berlusconi abounded throughout the presidential election campaign. We can draw some important lessons if we move our attention away from the apparent similarities between Berlusconi and Trump, and focus instead on the analogies between anti-Berlusconism and the shape anti-Trumpism threatens to take.
- 'Fake news' & 'post-truth' politics? What about those Iraqi WMDs?
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First Published: 2016
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The people and the outlets warning of the dangers of 'fake news' and 'post-truth politics' have been the biggest peddlers of 'fake news' and 'post-truth politics' out there. It's like receiving lectures on the immorality of bootlegging from Al Capone.
- IFIC Welcomes New Members
Sources News Release
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First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Toronto, ON - November 21, 2016 - The Investment Funds Institute of Canada (IFIC) announces that Natixis Global Asset Management Canada and Picton Mahoney Asset Management have joined IFIC.
- Police Blast #NoDAPL Activists With Water Cannons in Sub-Freezing Temps
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First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Law enforcement unleashed concussion grenades, rubber bullets, tear gas, and water cannons in sub-freezing temperatures on peaceful water protectors battling the controversial Dakota Access Pipeline in North Dakota late Sunday.
- We Are All Deplorables
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First Published: 2016
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Those cast aside by the neoliberal order have an economic identity that both the liberal class and the right wing are unwilling to acknowledge. This economic identity is one the white underclass shares with other discarded people, including the undocumented workers and the people of color demonized by the carnival barkers on cable news shows. This is an economic reality the power elites invest great energy in masking.
- We Are All Deplorables
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First Published: 2016
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Chris Hedges on American life, politics and religion.
- Censorship in Social Media Leaves Users in Frustration
Sources News Release
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First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
EFF and Visualizing Impact Analyze Reports of Content Moderation Gone Awry
- IFJ/EFJ slam Investigatory Powers Bill which threatens journalistic sources and whistleblowers
Sources News Release
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First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
The International and European Federation of Journalists, (IFJ) and (EFJ), joined their UK affiliate, The National Union of Journalists (NUJ), in strongly condemning the Investigatory Powers Bill, which threatens the right to privacy, freedom of ex
- NYT Advocates Internet Censorship
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First Published: 2016
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The New York Times wants a system of censorship for the Internet to block what it calls "fake news," but the Times ignores its own record of publishing "fake news."
- Recording Police Is Protected by the First Amendment, EFF Tells Court
Sources News Release
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First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
EFF Supports Citizen Journalists' Role in Reporting on Law Enforcement Use of Force
- To escape Trump's America, we need to bring the militant labor tactics of 1946 back to the future
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First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Seventy years after the Oakland General Strike, we should talk about the relevance of the Oakland General Strike tactics for today. It seems do-able, and if it's presented right, could pull a lot of interest to prepare for the kind of labour movement we need - the kind that is ready to stand up to the state and the capitalists.
- If gender identity debate at U of T was about free speech, then the battle is truly lost
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First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
A recounting and criticism of the public debate over Bill C-16 and the Ontario Human Rights code, held in response to the remarks of University of a University of Toronto professor about transgender pronouns.
- Slime, Shorebirds, and a Scientific Mystery
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First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Examining the impact of large developments near the Fraser River estuary in British Columbia on migrating populations of shorebirds, which have been found to depend on a biofilm in the area to sustain their long flights.
- Breaking Yugoslavia: How the US Used NATO as Its Battering Ram
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First Published: 2016
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The United States used NATO to break up the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia.
- The Cashless Economy of Chikalthana
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First Published: 2016
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An article about the cash crisis in the Indian village Chikalthana.
- Filtering The Election
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First Published: 2016
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Examining the mainstream media's role in the 2016 US election of suppressing criticisms of Hillary Clinton and the Democratic party establishment.
- Hillary Clinton, The Vote, and Contemporary Feminism's Class Blindness
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First Published: 2016
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The feminist fight for libreration has been sidelined.
- IFIC Releases Monthly Statistics for October 2016
Sources News Release
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First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
The Investment Funds Institute of Canada (IFIC) announces that for the month ending October 31, 2016, the assets under management (AUM) for the mutual funds industry totalled $1.32 trillion.
- The real cause of Trump: rampant neoliberalism
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First Published: 2016
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Examining how the response from the traditional left to the 2016 US Election fails to recognize the failings of neoliberal policies and attitudes that contributed to the election of Trump.
- The general strike of 1842
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First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
A detailed history of the UK Chartist general strike of 1842 against pay cuts and for universal male suffrage.
- Listening to Trump
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Trump is a racist and misogynist. But the heart of his message spoke to legitimate working class concerns.
- Psychiatry Professor: 'Transgenderism' Is Mass Hysteria Similar To 1980s-Era Junk Science
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First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
While fair-minded people can agree that gays or people with gender confusion should not be discriminated against, the general public doesn’t appear to be ready to accept gender as simply a social construct or that people can be whatever gender they choose. These contentions, the conceptual foundation of transgenderism, fly in the face of reality: the biological difference between the sexes.
- The Working Class, Reconsidered
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First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
The central narrative of post-election analysis asserts that Trump won the election by riding a wave of white working class resentment; a wave that he'd activated and steered in dangerous directions. The narrative is partly right, but it needs to be subject to critical analysis, specifically regarding how we think about "the working class" and the role that "it" played in this election.
- How Trump Took Middle America
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First Published: 2016
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Examining the lives of Trump supporters in middle America and the conditions and perceptions that motivate their support.
- Out in the Open
Remarks on the Trump Election
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First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
With the Republicans' monopoly control over the government, even those who normally focus on electoral politics must realize that for some time to come the main struggle will be outside the parties and outside the government. It will be grassroots participatory actions or nothing.
- Dirty Fossil Fuel 'Business-As-Usual' Tactics Spew Out Of The International Maritime Organization At COP22
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First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
The shipping industry needs to clean up its CO2 emissions now. The IMO's own Third IMO Greenhouse Gas Study 2014 report stated that by 2050, CO2 emissions from international shipping could grow by between 50 percent and 250 percent, depending on future economic growth and energy developments.
- Liberal Condescension
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First Published: 2016
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In the wake of Donald Trump’s victory in the U.S. election, a debate has erupted on the liberal left about the best way to deal with working class people who voted for Trump. The disagreement, for many of the participants, appears to revolve around whether liberals ought to spend their time giving patronizing lectures about white privilege, or patronizing lectures about other aspects of reality. What people on both sides of the debate seem to share is the assumption that the job of middle-class liberals is to lecture the working class.
- Misrepresenting the White Working Class
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First Published: 2016
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In McDowell County -- the poorest county of West Virginia , people were open to, even preferred, a real alternative to Trump and Clinton.
- Neo-Liberalism Under Cover of Racism
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First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Brexit and Trump represent the continuance of neo-liberalism, but with popular discontent diverted into added racism.
- Occupying Trump?
Five years after its formation and demise, Occupy is mostly a study in what to avoid for the anti-Trump movement.
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First Published: 2016
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Instead of creating a movement that materially attacked the institutions of the 1 percent, many members of the Occupy movement vowed to transform themselves and raise awareness at the individual level. Some responses to Trumpism have fallen into the same trap - treating the election as an opportunity for soul-searching or a reason to rail against individual Trump voters.
- A Blueprint for a New Party
With the rise of Donald Trump, we need to think seriously about what it would take to form a democratic organization rooted in working class
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First Published: 2016
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A proposal for a national political organization that would have chapters at the state and local levels, a binding program, a leadership accountable to its members, and electoral candidates nominated at all levels throughout the country.
- Occupying Trump?
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First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Five years after its formation and demise, Occupy is mostly a study in what to avoid for the anti-Trump movement.
- Three Myths About Clinton's Defeat in Election 2016 Debunked
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First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
A debunking of the explanations for Hillary Clinton's defeat in the 2016 election commonly given by the Democratic party establishment and Clinton loyalists - in particular the role of racism, sexism, and the loss of key Obama-supporting counties.
- Trump in the White House: An Interview With Noam Chomsky
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First Published: 2016
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Noam Chomsky shares his thoughts on the aftermath of this election in an interview.
- Victorian Class War -- Bloody Sunday at Trafalgar Square
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First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Patrick Murfin recalls a part of UK history, Bloody Sunday at Trafalgar Square.
- Commercial Ships Could Be Quieter, but They Aren't
Shipbuilding economics and lack of regulations are getting in the way of a quieter ocean
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First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
As the ocean drowns in sound, the number of studies showing the harmful effects of noise on marine life has surged. And so, too, have the projections for how loud things might soon become.
- How the liberal class enabled the election of Donald Trump
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First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
In a filmed interview with Afshin Rattansi, John Pilger describes how the collusion and silence of America's 'enlightened' liberal elite, notably its journalists, helped create President Trump.
- The myth of the reactionary white working class
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First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
This identity-based presentation of Tuesday's election is a false narrative exploded by the most basic analysis of the data from the election.
- The myth of the reactionary white working class
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First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Following the victory of Donald Trump in the 2016 presidential election, the Democratic Party and media have attributed the results to the ignorance, backwardness and inherent racism and sexism of the "white working class." This identity-based presentation is a false narrative exploded by the most basic analysis of the data from the election.
- Are There Lessons for Canada's Elites in the US Election?
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First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
In the aftermath of the results of the US election the mix of emotions and analysis spans the spectrum from feeling sorry for the irrational and politically illiterate American voter to fear about the consequences of the election of a thuggish buffoon as president. But common to all reactions is a smugness rooted in our sense of superiority -- as if our elites are somehow more attentive to the public interest and the lives of ordinary Canadians.
- Blaming Everbody
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First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
The Democratic Party brought the 2016 election disaster on themselves.
- Class is More Intersectional than Intersectionality
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First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
The Left as it exists currently is often ashamed of and apologetic for its class struggle orientation, chasing after demographic-specific oppression issues. An approach that leans toward greater emphasis on a class struggle focus is actually more intersectional than a focus which gives more attention to demographic-specific issues than to class.
- For India's extremist Hindus, Trump is a hero
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First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
India's Hindu nationalists are celebrating Donald Trump's surprising victory in the US presidential election. Trump is being hailed as a "hero" for taking a tough line against Islamists and Muslim immigrants in the US.
- How Did We Get Here? What Lies Ahead?
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First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
We need to understand the reasons why Trump won the 2016 U.S. election. This requires recognizing the uniqueness of this election on multiple fronts. Trump’s victory was just as much about the Democratic Party's implosion as it was about the triumph of Trump's "outsider" political campaign. The Republican victory was not driven by the party's ascendance among the public at large. If anything, the party is in big trouble looking ahead.
- Inequality Among Women Is Crucial to Understanding Hillary's Loss
Working-class women who voted for Trump tell us a lot about feminism's relationship to class politics.
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First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
The outcome of the 2016 American election was, like any, multi-causual. In addition to factors of racism and sexism, economic inequality, specifically economic inequality among women, must be identified as an additional culprit.
- Roaming Charges: Whitelash, White Heat?
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First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Debunking Whitelash Theory in the context of the 2016 US presidential election and more.
- Americal Liberals Unleashed the Trump Monster
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First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Cook argues that Trump's victory was due to liberals losing rather than Trump winning.
- The Big Split
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First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
The article depicts how despite Trump being likened to the perfect wrong play, wrong director and wrong cast as in Mel Brooks' The Producers, he has managed to claim victory. The author argues that this was more due to the Democratic party's failure than it was Trump's success.
- Blame the Neoliberals: Democrats' Toxic Ideology Paved the Way for Trump
How corporate centrism has failed to defeat even the most incompetent figurehead of the nativist right
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First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
The Democratic Party is ideologically bankrupt. Neoliberalism, the party's driving force, is toxic, and it has failed not only much of the United States, but also much of the world, driving wealth into the hands of the few. Without a populist left offering an ambitious alternative to the status quo, the nativist right has thrived.
- Dumbass Democrats
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First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
The Democrats were oblivious to the deep discontent among the American people because that simply does not figure into their clever and cunning calculations. Why should it? Fear, lesser of two evils, scapegoating, palace politics -- all these things worked in the past, didn't they?
- Race, class and the election of Trump
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First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
An analysis on the 2016 US presidential election.
- President Trump: Big Liar Going to Washington or Tribune of the People?
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First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
An examination of Donald Trump's challenges to precepts of globalism, interventionist foreign policy, and special interests, how they resonated with public sentiment, and the challenges and potential outcomes of their implementation.
- Why Trump Won - And What's Next
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First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
The election of Donald Trump in 2016 shows that American voters wanted 'anything but the above' Obama policies of the previous eight years, policies which were just extensions of the neoliberal regime established in the 1980s in the US since Reagan. However, US Neoliberal policy may not change fundamentally in a Trump regime; just its appearance.
- Democrats, Trump, and the Ongoing, Dangerous Refusal to Learn the Lesson of Brexit
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First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Detailing how the Democratic party's response to their defeat in the 2016 election reflects a failure to recognize factors leading to the UK Brexit referendum result.
- Beltway to English Dictionary
Because sometimes words mean other words.
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First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
A list of words that have special meaning in the world of U.S. politics.
- I'll bet you didn't know you own billions of dollars in coal stocks
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First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Exposing the investments and other involvements of the Canada Pension Plan Investment Board in the fossil fuel industry.
- Land of the Free? Harvard Study Ranks America Worst in the West for Fair Elections
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First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
According to the EIP, U.S. elections scored lower than Argentina, South Africa, Tunisia, and Rwanda -- and strikingly lower than even Brazil. Specifically compared to Western democracies, U.S. elections scored the lowest, slightly worse than the U.K., while Denmark and Finland topped the list.
- Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - Depression and Joy
Sources News Release
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First Published: 2016
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The November 7, 2016 issue of Other Voices is now out. If you're not on the email list, you can find it online on the Connexions website www.connexions.org. The focus of this issue is Depression and Joy.
- Standing Rock and Imperialism Itself
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First Published: 2016
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An article about the Dakota Access Pipeline.
- Agencies of Fear
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First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
The article details an example of how little control the US administration can have over one of its agencies and the dangers and consequences of the situation.
- Depression and Joy
Introduction to the November 7, 2016 issue of Other Voices
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It's a difficult thing to measure, but there are strong reasons for believing that the number of people struggling with depression has increased significantly in recent decades. Despite the evidence that this is a social problem, and not merely an individual misfortune, the solutions and escapes on offer are almost all individual: pharmaceuticals and therapy, on the one hand; self-medication with alcohol, streets drugs, television, etc., on the other.
- Media Backgrounder: The Gamma Factor and the Value of Advice
Sources News Release
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This backgrounder highlights key findings from new landmark research from Dr. Claude Montmarquette and Ms. Nathalie Viennot-Briot (Centre for Interuniversity Research and Analysis of Organizations CIRANO)
- One woman's brush with Sharia courts in the UK: "It ruined my life forever"
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The UK government is conducting an inquiry into the operation of Sharia courts which is being boycotted by a number of women's organisations because its remit is too narrow, and the panel of judges is not seen as 'independent' enough. Parallel to this, the Home Affairs Committee has also launched an inquiry into whether the principles of Sharia are compatible with British law.
- Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - November 7, 2016
Depression and Joy
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It's a difficult thing to measure, but there are strong reasons for believing that the number of people struggling with depression has increased significantly in recent decades. Despite the evidence that this is a social problem, and not merely an individual misfortune, the solutions and escapes on offer are almost all individual: pharmaceuticals and therapy, on the one hand; self-medication with alcohol, streets drugs, television, etc., on the other. Certainly there are individual circumstances and individual causes, but when millions of people are experiencing the same thing, we need to be looking not only at the individual, but also at the society.
- Key to the Leap: Leave the oil in the soil
Movement Building
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Ian Angus and John Riddell argue that using the Leap Manifesto as the basis for building a new socialist movement in Canada must include confronting the climate crisis and the power of Big Oil.
- A miss bigger than a missed story: my final reflections on Trump and the press in 2016
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A shift in political culture away from journalism's grasp.
- Splendors and Miseries of the Antiracist 'Left'
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- Why the Jewish vote is to important to US presidential candidates
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Examining the reasons why US presidential candidates focus on the vote of the Jewish community despite US Jewry constituting only two percent of the electorate, and examining the alignment of the Jewish community with the American political parties and candidates.
- The Descent of the Left Press: From IF Stone to The Nation
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Just about fifty years ago when I was becoming politicized around the war in Vietnam, I began searching desperately for information and analysis that could explain why this senseless war was taking place. After taking out a subscription to I.F. Stone’s Weekly that an old friend had recommended, the scales began to fall from my eyes.
- How to Make Union Meetings Interesting and Useful
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Meetings should give members a sense of power by bringing them together. They can see and feel that they are not alone, that others have similar problems, and that others have found solutions. They can learn from each other, combine ideas, and build something bigger.
- Just How Gray Are the White Helmets of Syria?
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While thousands of humanitarian organisations around the world are struggling fiercely with diminishing support from governments and the public, one has achieved a surprising amount of support from Western governments in a surprisingly short period of time and gained a surprising attention from mainstream media and ditto political elites: The Syrian Civil Defence or White Helmets.
- The Trans Pacific Partnership Will Not Help Struggling Farmers
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A recent Associated Press article claimed that Wisconsin dairy producers "see nothing but advantages" if the Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP) were passed during the final session of Congress. A more accurate statement would be that some dairy producers see nothing but advantages. I am at a loss to understand how dairy producers would see any advantages to yet another "free trade" agreement.
- Syria and the Reemergence of McCarthyism
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Framing the rhetoric surrounding the Syrian conflict of 2016 as a reemergence of McCarthyism, with accusations of dictatorship being used to foster support for war.
- 1953 - 2002 - 2016: Syria and the Reemergence of McCarthyism
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A history of McCarthyism, or red-baiting, in US politics to justify or bolster foreign war efforts, and how the recent Syrian involvement has brought about a revival of McCarthyist discourse and tactics in the political and social realms.
- As Pipeline Construction and Repression Grows, DAPL Protest is Looking More Like a Mass Movement
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A look at the escalating conflict between the DAPL, Dakota Access Pipeline, and the native tribes and activists who are resisting it. The issue is centered around the construction of a pipeline which risks the destruction of a river that serves as a main water source to the Standing Rock Sioux tribe and the more than 17 million people downriver.
- 'Feels like blackmail': Canada needs to take a hard look at its piracy notice system
Copyright infringement notices spark fear and confusion among some Canadians
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Some anti-piracy firms routinely send out letters demanding hundreds of dollars from Canadians for alleged illegal downloads. And if they don't pay up, recipients are told they could face legal action and big fines. The problem is, people may be falsely accused and no one is under obligation to pay a settlement -- not even a penny.
- Indigenous rights are key to preserving forests, climate change study finds
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Leaving forests in communal hands cuts carbon emissions from deforestation, helps communities and offers long-term economic benefits: 'Everyone wins'
- Public Servants or Corporate Security?
An Open Letter to Law Enforcement and National Guard in North Dakota
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Detailing the role of the National Guard and law enforcement services as protecting corporate interests opposed to public safety in the context of the North Dakota pipeline protest action, and appealing to these public servants to consider the impact and implications of their role in the conflict.
- Allen Ginsberg and the '60s Movement
The Poetry and Politics of Allen Ginsberg
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Book review of Eliot Katz' The Poetry and Politics of Allen Ginsberg.
- Early U.S. Communism Revisited
The Communist International and US Communism 1919-1929
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Book review of Jacob A. Zumoff's The Communist International and US Communism 1919-1929.
- Innovation for What? The Politics of Inequality in Higher Education
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Williams discusses why American universities' current trend of advocating innovation ends up prioritizing corporate interests over the gola of accessible education.
- A Legless Veteran's Struggle
Discrediting the Red Scare: The Cold War Trials of James Kutcher, "The Legless Veteran"
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Book review of Robert Goldstein's Discrediting the Red Scare: The Cold War Trials of James Kutcher, "The Legless Veteran".
- Michael Ratner
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Michael Ratner was President Emeritus of the Center for Constitutional Rights and the Chair of the Board of the European Center for Constitutional and Human Rights. He practiced law for 45 years, dying on May 11, 2016 at age 72.
- Requiem for a Black Trotskyist
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News of the death of former United Auto Workers staff member Ernie Dillard came by way of a phone call on Bastille Day 2016. The subsequent silence about his passing in the radical and mainstream press is an accusatory reminder of the extent to which the memory of the Left has been confiscated from those who require it most.
- The Revolutionary Art of Failure
Vivas to Those Who Have Failed
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Book review of Martin Espada's Vivas to Those Who Have Failed.
- Glenn Shelton
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Glenn Shelton, a retired president of Michigan Mailhandlers Local 307 who never stopped fighting for the rights of working people, and a member of Solidarity, died March 24, 2016, after a battle with cancer.
- The Truth About Venezuela's Opposition
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Western journalists can't admit that Venezuela's opposition is neither democratic nor peaceful.
- Voting Under Socialism
It'll be more meaningful - but hopefully won't involve endless meetings.
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- When Chinese Labor Strikes
China on Strike
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Book review of Hao Ren's edited volume China on Strike.
- Why are our environmental groups supporting weak climate targets?
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The federal government's recently announced that all Canadian jurisdictions must adopt a carbon pricing scheme by 2018 with a minimum price of $10 per tonne. The price must rise to reach $50 per tonne by 2022. The goal of reducing emissions by 30 per cent below 2005 levels by 2030 will not get Canada anywhere close to its promises to the United Nations. Canadians probably believe that our major environmental groups are busy lobbying and pushing the federal and provincial governments to do much more. But no, this is not the case.
- Samhain to Halloween - The Sacred, the Profane, and the Silly
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Patrick Murfin review the orgin of Hallowe'en and the Celtic harvest festival Samhain.
- Show a Film, End Up on a Watch List
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On September 21, the Case Western Reserve University Radical Student Union showed a documentary titled "The Occupation of the American Mind: Israel's Public Relations War in the United States," to all members of the university community through the Kanopy streaming service. The chairman of the board of trustees of the Jewish Federation of Cleveland called out for a follow-up investigation of the screening.
- Israel paints fighter jet pink to raise breast cancer awareness while preventing cancer patients in Gaza from receiving treatment
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- Kill for the Cure: The U.S. and Israel Aim to Cure Breast Cancer With Tasteful Pink Fighter Jets
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- Legal case deserves support
Re: Chippewas of the Thames protest pipeline
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The case that the Chippewas of the Thames is taking to the Supreme Court of Canada strikes at the heart and soul of this country's relationship with the indigenous people and their rights and the government of Canada's duty to consult.
- Power naps and eating on the wing - how common swifts set 10-month flight record en route from Britain to southern Africa
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The common swift stays constantly airborne for up to ten months at a time, new research reveals. The bird, ubiquitous in the UK and Europe, conserves energy by riding currents of hot air and taking “power naps” as it slowly glides from high altitudes.
- The U.S. and Israel Are Trying to Cure Breast Cancer With Tasteful Pink Fighter Jets
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According to companies that manufacture pink doodads, we could totally cure breast cancer if it weren’t for all the people who are unaware of breast cancer. Since pink means women, and women mean breasts, pink things are the best way to make people aware of breast cancer, and thus cure it. Imagine all the awareness that will rise in the contrails of these two pink fighter jets, brought to you in honor of Breast Cancer Awareness Month by the U.S. Navy and the Israeli Air Force.
- Wolfe Erlichman in conversation with Ulli Diemer
October 26, 2016
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An interview with Wolfe Erlichman, who worked as a community worker/organizer in Trefann Court in Toronto in the late 1960s. An audio recording of the interview, and a transcript, are held in the Connexions Archive.
- The Iceland women's strike, 1975
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A short history of the strike, or day off, by the of women in Iceland for equality with men on 24 October, 1975.
- Why Progressives Love the New Cold War
The anti-Russian hysteria coming from the left isn't surprising
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The Clinton campaign's effort to turn the 2016 US election into a referendum on Vladimir Putin is causing some liberals to question how the tactic appears contradictory to Clinton's other goals and beliefs. Examining support for US war efforts since WWI shows the current Cold War tactics of Clinton have many precedents from liberal politicians.
- June Days: Paris 1848
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The euphoria that set in after the revolution in February was short-lived among the workers in Paris.
- Missak Manouchian
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Missak Manouchian (1906 - 1944) was a French-Armenian poet and communist activist.
- RT in UK: A brief history of establishment hysteria
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NatWest Bank, a subsidiary of Britain's majority state-controlled Royal Bank of Scotland, gives notice that it is closing RT's accounts – without explanation. In this article detailed information has been presented concerning the issue.
- Corporate climate risk is about profit, not fixing the problem
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Corporate 'risk management' is concerned with protecting profits, not with protecting the planet or human beings.
- Four Harsh Truths for Canada's Lovestruck Pipeline Politicians
A reality check for our bitumen-besotted leaders.
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There are four obvious (and very conservative) reasons why more pipelines don’t make any kind of economic, energy or climate sense. These truths also explain the growing opposition to the corrupt National Energy Board that still approves pipelines without due process and ignores their impact on global pricing, let alone the science on climate change.
- Israel's Bogus History Lesson
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It was presumably intended as an Israeli history lesson to the world. A video posted to social media by Israel's foreign ministry shows an everyday Jewish couple, Jacob and Rachel, in a home named the "Land of Israel". A series of knocks on the door brings 3,000 years of interruptions to their happiness. First it's the Assyrians, followed by the Babylonians, Hellenists, Arabs, Romans, Crusaders, Mamluks, and Ottomans – all straight out of Monty Python central casting. Jacob and Rachel are forced by the warring factions to relocate to ever smaller parts of their home until finally they have to pitch a tent in the garden. Their fortunes change only with the arrival of a servant of the British Empire, who returns the title deeds. A final knock disturbs their celebrations. On the doorstep are a penniless Palestinian couple, craning their necks to see what goodies await them inside.
- Mao: Monster or Model?
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The world’s premier business newspaper the Financial Times (Japanese owned) has the answer: Mao was the worst ever. The worst ever what? If he was a monster that would be fine because monsters don't exist. Revolutions do though and that's the gripe of the Financial Times. That's the story. Revolution or Maoism is back in the Chinese air – if it ever went away. So Mao is still a threat even if he has been dead for forty years. He's still a model.
- Rigged
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The 2016 Republican presidential primary was rigged. It wasn't rigged by the Republicans, the Democrats, Russians, space aliens, or voters. It was rigged by the owners of television networks who believed that giving one candidate far more coverage than others was good for their ratings. The CEO of CBS Leslie Moonves said of this decision: "It may not be good for America, but it’s damn good for CBS." Justifying that choice based on polling gets the chronology backwards, ignores Moonves' actual motivation, and avoids the problem, which is that there ought to be fair coverage for all qualified candidates (and a democratic way to determine who is qualified).
- Syria and the Left: Time to Break the Silence
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The cold, hard reality of the war in Syria is that the violence, bloodshed, and chaos continues unabated while the Left, such as it is, continues on in a state of schizophrenic madness. Different points of view, conflicting ideological tendencies, and a misunderstanding of the reality of the conflict are all relevant issues to be interrogated, with civility and reasoned debate in short supply. The Left does need to seriously self-reflect though about just how it responds to crises of imperialism and issues of war and peace.
- Why Is the Truth on Syria Difficult To Decipher?
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According to Steven Kinzer, the American media's misinformation on Syria is leading to the kind of ignorance which is enabling the American government to pursue any policy, however imprudent, in the war-torn Arab country. The US government can "decree the death of nations" with “popular support because many Americans - and many journalists - are content with the official story," he wrote.
- ACLU Wants 23 Secret Surveillance Laws Made Public
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The ACLU has identified 23 legal opinions that contain new or significant interpretations of surveillance law -- affecting the government's use of malware, its attempts to compel technology companies to circumvent encryption, and the CIA's bulk collection of financial records under the Patriot Act -- all of which remain secret to this day, despite an ostensible push for greater transparency following Edward Snowden’s disclosures.
- Derailing Neoliberalism
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Haines-Doran examines the British transit workers' stike against rail privitization with its lack of concern for safety, unions, and workers' rights.
- 1956: Hungary's lost revolution
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The 21st century anti-capitalist movement owes a debt to the heroic and inspiring working-class uprisings in Hungary.
- Notes on a Future Politics - Part I
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In the aftermath of the 2016 US election, Garvey argues that no variety of liberalism, progressivism or social democracy will be adequate for addressing the multiple global crises of capitalist society nor will they be adequate for providing a genuine alternative to the many millions of people who are drawn to varieties of populist or fascist politics.
- Quebec First Nations may try to block Algonquin land claim
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The Algonquins of Ontario are one step closer to assuming tens of thousands of acres of their ancestral territory in a historic treaty, but their counterparts in Quebec are vowing legal action to stymie the agreement and delay a deal decades in the making.
- How a Selective Boycott Can Boost External Support for Palestinians
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The pro-Palestine solidarity movement could enlarge its following, convince more influential supporters, and get past trivial, harmful and sectarian disputes -- if it wants to. A boycott must be humanist, as is the cause of supporting Palestinian self-determination. Boycotting humanism allows the cynical internal corrosion of any political movement of the left.
- On Activism and Organizing: There is a Distinction
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What's the difference between an organizer, an activist, and someone who is just plain fighting for their life, on a personal level? Often, there is no discernible distinction, as these roles often blend together in ways that could never be separated. But for some people, there is no such complexity. I point this out because, in recent years, there has been a verbal shift in social justice spaces towards referring to everyone involved as an organizer. As a person who believes that we too often negate the meanings of words by transforming them into umbrellaed concepts, I have to say my piece about the matter.
- Why You Shouldn't Use Transgender Pronouns
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You don't need to be a psychology professor to realize than an attempt to transplant pronouns from the body to the mind is an attempt to destroy our ability to communicate.
- Guardian front page channels Orwell's 1984
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Reading the "liberal" press has become a truly Orwellian experience. What was true yesterday is a lie today. What was black today will be white tomorrow. Two reports on today’s front page of the Guardian could easily be savage satire straight from the pages of the novel 1984.
- Petroleum Disaster in the Great Bear Rainforest
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Outrage is the only word for what people are feeling after a tug and fuel barge, owned by Texas-based Kirby Offshore Marine, crashed on rocks in the heart of B.C.’s Great Bear Rainforest on October 13, 2016. It’s been leaking 200,000 litres (59, 024 gallons) of diesel fuel into the sensitive marine ecosystem ever since.
- Canadian Taxpayers Federation has 5 members -- why should we care what they think?
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The Canadian Taxpayers' Federation has been around since the late 1980s, selling itself as a populist "citizens advocacy group" looking to cut waste and ensure accountability in government. They get acres of free coverage in newspapers and on local and national newscasts; their spokespeople regularly get more coverage than elected officials. Perhaps the CTF gets the coverage it does because it is seen as less biased than politicians — it is seen as advocating for taxpayers against all politicians, on the right and left. The CTF's media presence is truly remarkable when you consider it has a membership of five people. You read that correctly: five.
- Lurching to War
Introduction to the October 15, 2016 issue of Other Voices
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Capitalism hates competition, and the U.S., the world's dominant capitalist power, has never tolerated competitors, rivals, or leaders who dare to put their own country ahead of U.S. interests.
- Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - October 15, 2016
Lurching to War
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The risk of nuclear war is as great now as it was at the height of the Cold War. From the time the Warsaw Pact dissolved itself and the Soviet Union collapsed, the United States has single-mindedly pursued a hyper-aggressive strategy of surrounding Russia with hostile military forces and missiles aimed at the Russian heartland.
- The Ruling Class's Hatred of Trump is Different Than Yours
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The master class's fear and loathing of Trump – one of their own, sort of – can be detected in the normally Republican-leaning corporate elite.
- Dangerous idiots: how the liberal media elite failed working-class Americans
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Dangerous idiots: how the liberal media elite failed working-class Americans – and native Kansan Sarah Smarsh sets out to correct what newsrooms get wrong.
- Pentagon Video Warns of 'Unavoidable' Dystopian Future for World's Biggest Cities
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According to a startling Pentagon video obtained by The Intercept, the future of global cities will be an amalgam of the settings of "Escape from New York" and "Robocop" - with dashes of the "Warriors" and "Divergent" thrown in. It will be a world of Robert Kaplan-esque urban hellscapes - brutal and anarchic supercities filled with gangs of youth-gone-wild, a restive underclass, criminal syndicates, and bands of malicious hackers.
At least that's the scenario outlined in "Megacities: Urban Future, the Emerging Complexity," a five-minute video that has been used at the Pentagon's Joint Special Operations University.
- The Real Nuclear Threat
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The fact that Trump has so cavalierly raised concerns about nuclear weapons may have a silver lining. It underscores how dangerous and irrational our nuclear policies already are.
- The deadly racism of the 'anti-racist' liberal imperialist
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When it comes to hypocrisy, the pro-war Western ‘liberal’ is in a class of his own. While professing opposition to racism, the pro-war liberal is cheerleader for the most dangerous and deadly form of racism in the world today - contemporary US/Western imperialism.
- "Do Not Resist": The Police Militarization Documentary Everyone Should See
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On a sunny afternoon last summer, Craig Atkinson, a New York City-based filmmaker, stood in a front yard in South Carolina surrounded by several heavily armed police officers. Inside, they found a terrified family of four, including an infant. As the family members were pulled outside, Atkinson's camera captured a scene that plays out with startling regularity in cities and towns across the country, one of many included in his new documentary, "Do Not Resist," an examination of police militarization in the United States.
- Every 25 Seconds, Cops Arrest Someone for Drug Possession
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The war on drugs may have failed, but it certainly hasn't ended: Every 25 seconds in the U.S., someone is arrested for drug possession. Arrests for the possession and personal use of drugs are boosting the ranks of the incarcerated at astonishing rates - with 137,000 people behind bars for drugs on any given day, and 1.25 million every year.
- Racist of the year, Ian Khama: Not Botswana's finest
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General Ian Khama, the President of Botswana, and his frequent outbursts against the Kalahari Bushmen are among the most horrifying instances of racism of recent times. His sentiments are extremely troubling.
- Class War in the Confederacy
Why Free State of Jones Matters
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Free State of Jones may well be the most politically important film about the civil war and its aftermath to appear in a quarter century. Free State of Jones is a proper antidote to identitarian thinking, which has mystified popular understandings of the past, and how we approach political action in the present. In contrast to the prevailing view among so many nowadays that racism has always been and continues to be the main barrier to any progressive left politics, this film reminds us of a more complex history, where anti-slavery politics, Radical Republicanism and mass action created the short-lived progress of Reconstruction.
- The Countdown Clock Law is Ridiculous, and so is the Police Pedestrian Blitz
The pedestrian countdown clock law shows what's wrong with Toronto's approach to road issues.
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The Highway Traffic Act is a foolish law, and this crackdown is antithetical to council’s stated goals. Rather than wasting police resources on enforcing it, we should be appealing to the province to scrap it altogether, as they did in New York City.
- How the West's Economic Sanctions are Inflicting Suffering on Ordinary Syrians
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The US and EU economic sanctions on Syria are causing huge suffering among ordinary Syrians and preventing the delivery of humanitarian aid, according to a leaked UN internal report.
- No Shortcuts
Organizing for Power in the New Gilded Age
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Examines case studies of successes and failures of labour and social movements in recent history, arguing for the need for mass organization and bottom-up organizing which empowers ordinary people at the community level.
- Russkies at the Doorstep
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In a year noted for crude political discourse, eagerly serialized in the mainstream media, the MSM are themselves bellowing anti-Russian rhetoric, conspiracy theory, and fear-mongering.
- Socialist Register 2017
Volume 53: Rethinking Revolution
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This 53rd volume of the Socialist Register addresses the question of the meaning of revolution in the twenty-first century. Coming to terms with the legacy of 1917 is obviously one aspect of this. ‘October’ was a unique event that provided inspiration for millions of oppressed people, and also became an inevitable point of reference for socialist politics in the twentieth century. The twenty-first century left needs to both understand and transcend this legacy through a critical reappraisal of its broad effects – both positive and negative – on political, intellectual and cultural life everywhere as well as on the other revolutions that took place over the last century. But the main point of the volume is to look forward more than back. All revolutions emerge in conjunctures saturated with unique contra-dictions, contingencies, class alignments and struggles.
- U.S. Military Operations Are Biggest Motivation for Homegrown Terrorists, FBI Study Finds
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A secret FBI study found that anger over U.S. military operations abroad was the most commonly cited motivation for individuals involved in cases of "homegrown" terrorism. The report also identified no coherent pattern to "radicalization," concluding that it remained near impossible to predict future violent acts.
- Verizon Lawyer Argues for Greater Legal Protection for Customer Location Data
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Verizon's general counsel and head of public policy made a public case for reconsidering legal protections on customer data in light of evolving technology that allows companies to almost continuously track cell phone users' location.
- What is a Coup? Analysing the Brazilian Impeachment Process
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The debate over whether the regime change in Brazil constituted a coup hinges on whether the impeachment process used to depose President Dilma Rousseff had democratic legitimacy or was an illicit use of formal procedures to undermine the popular mandate granted to the Workers' Party (Partido dos Trabalhadores, PT) by the Brazilian people in the last presidential election. Proponents of the view that the impeachment was legal and that this legality confers democratic legitimacy tend to abstract the impeachment process from its lived context. This abstraction leaves the politics behind the regime change opaque and even irrelevant.
- WikiLeaks Bombshell: Emails Show Citigroup Had Major Role in Shaping and Staffing Obama's First Term
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According to emails released by WikiLeaks, which came from a hack of the email account of John Podesta, a co-chair of Obama's 2008 Transition Team, we learn that despite the obvious fact that Citigroup was both corrupt and derelict in handling its own financial affairs, Barack Obama gave executives of that bank an outsized role in shaping and staffing his first term.
- Hilary Clinton: Candidate of War
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The U.S. political/media establishment only permits the propaganda version of the Syrian conflict -- and Hillary Clinton fully embraced it in her belligerent comments in the second presidential debate.
- The Slippery Slope: Rolling Downward, No Brakes, Nuclear War
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Policy is not a discrete entity; indeed, instead, it is a cumulative force, broadening in scope and direction, as it -- in this case -- plunges toward self- and global-annihilation. Destruction is in the very air we breathe, as though Thanatos looming overhead, because exceptionalism is reaching a point of satiety and feelings of emptiness and alienation make other than war and dominance meaningless.
- Why the New Silk Roads terrify Washington
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Almost six years ago, President Putin proposed to Germany 'the creation of a harmonious economic community stretching from Lisbon to Vladivostok.' This idea represented an immense trade emporium uniting Russia and the EU, or, in Putin's words, "a unified continental market with a capacity worth trillions of dollars."
In a nutshell: Eurasia integration.
Washington panicked.
- Notes on a Future Politics? Part I
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This essay is intended to enable those of us associated with Insurgent Notes and others to imagine how we might contribute to the emergence of an emancipatory, anti-capitalist mass politics in the aftermath of the 2016 presidential election.
- President Trump?
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No matter what happens, the old US party system is broken. Donald Trump is like no major candidate in living memory.
- Review: Ashwin Desai, Reading Revolution: Shakespeare on Robben Island
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A book review: Ashwin Desai, Reading Revolution: Shakespeare on Robben Island.
- Strike Wave and Worker Victories in Cambodia
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First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
In Cambodia the class struggle has resulted in the enactment of a major anti-union labour law this year. Yet more is reported in the media on the long-gone Khmer Rouge than the frequent strikes that occur in the country. Still, the strikes are happening. And more often than not, they are winning.
- Donald Trump and the Vicious Culture of Neoliberal Mass Idiocy
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First Published: 2016
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The U.S. media and educational elites share responsibility for creating a world where a despicable idiot like Trump coud be president.
- Iceland Jail Top Bankers For 46 Years, Europe 'Outraged'
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First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Iceland has differed from the rest of Europe and the US by allowing bankers to be prosecuted as criminals, rather than treating them as a protected species.
- Beware Liberals: Ridicule Will Backfire
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First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
What a year for political satire. It's nourishing; it lowers our stress level; it breaks taboos. Every democracy needs satire but one wonders how much it will count when it comes to votes on November 8th.
- Myanmar's forgotten guerrillas in the mist
A battle for self - determination continues among the country's ethnic groups
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An examination of Myanmar's complex ethnic makeup and the rivalries that exist between these groups.
- The Trump Phenomenon, as Seen From Europe
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First Published: 2016
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Trump is berated as the latest incarnation of Evil (after Saddam, Gaddafi, Assad, the Brexiters): racist, sexist, Islamophobe, a friend of dictators, etc., in short the embodiment of all that arouses the righteous indignation of the human rights defenders. I would like to suggest a different way of seeing Trump. He is above all a capitalist, almost a caricature of the sort of man capitalism produces, encourages and celebrates. He makes money and is proud of it. For him, the bottom line is cost-benefit. Everything comes down to that ratio. Defend the Baltic States? What does it cost, what do we gain? Defend Japan? What does it cost, what do we gain?
- Beating the drums for war with Russia
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First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
The US ruiling establishment is considering an escalation of US intervention. Such an escalation carries the very real threat of provoking a wider war.
- The History Thieves - Review
How Britain covered up its imperial crimes
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First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
A review of Ian Cobain's book The History Thieves, an engrossing study which identifies secrecy as a 'very British disease', exploring how, as the empire came to an end, government officials burned the records of imperial rule.
- Operation Smoke and Mirrors: In the Chicago Police Department, If the Bosses Say It Didn't Happen, It Didn't Happen
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First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
On May 31, 2016, the city of Chicago agreed to settle a whistleblower lawsuit brought by two police officers who allege they suffered retaliation for reporting and investigating criminal activity by fellow officers. The settlement, for $2 million, was announced moments before the trial was to begin.
- Rigged: How Globalization and the Rules of the Modern Economy Were Structured to Make the Rich Richer
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First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
There has been an enormous upward redistribution of income in the United States in the last four decades. In his most recent book, Baker shows that this upward redistribution was not the result of globalization and the natural workings of the market. Rather it was the result of conscious policies that were designed to put downward pressure on the wages of ordinary workers while protecting and enhancing the incomes of those at the top. Baker explains how rules on trade, patents, copyrights, corporate governance, and macroeconomic policy were rigged to make income flow upward.
- Thousands Of Israelis Take To The Streets Calling For Palestinian Genocide
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First Published: 2016
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Massive rallies and Facebook campaigns calling for Palestinian genocide are ignored by Western mainstream media and Facebook despite concerns and collaborations aimed at stopping "calls to violence".
- To Sell Weapons, Defense Contractors Make War Seem Fun
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First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
At the Association of the United States Army's annual exposition at the new, cavernous Washington Convention Center, defense contractors are making their weapons seem fun where in order to score contracts with the Pentagon. AUSA features a who’s who of the military-industrial complex, and the extreme excess of money in the industry is evident everywhere.
- Watch Your Back: Chicago Police Bosses Targeted Cops Who Exposed Corruption
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First Published: 2016
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After Chicago police officers Shannon Spalding and Danny Echeverria filed a whistleblower lawsuit, retaliation against them only intensified.
- The Battle of Cable Street
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Eighty years ago this week, anti-fascists in East London confronted Oswald Mosley's Blackshirts as they tried to march though what was then a largely Jewish area. Mosley's British Union of Fascists was notorious for using marches and rallies as cover for vicious attacks on Jews. The confrontation has gone down in folklore as 'The Battle of Cable Street'.
- The Dreadful Chronology of Gaddafi's Murder
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First Published: 2016
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Since 2003, Gaddafi had worked hard to repair his reputation for financing terrorism; his proposal for a trans-African banking system never reached fruition. Freedom and justice were never part of the West's agenda.
- A History of Student Movements and Activism at Evergreen State College and the Greater Nation
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First Published: 2016
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Students and student movements have played a major role in struggles for reform and revolution in the United States and around the world. Before I turn to Evergreen, I will give a few examples, mainly from the United States in the 1960’s. I will also share a few conclusions based on many years of activism with student movements.
- The New York Times Suddenly Embraces International Law To Condemn Russia
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First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
As the Syrian Arab Army dug in for a fight against the self-declared Islamic State on September 17, they were struck by an air raid that killed 62 soldiers and injured 100 more. The culprit was a foreign military that has never been attacked by, and has not declared war on, Syria. Two weeks later, that same nation’s military killed 22 soldiers in a strike inside Somalia, another country which it had never been attacked by nor declared war on. The very next day the New York Times published a stinging editorial decrying flagrant violations of international law by an "outlaw nation."
- Southwest Airlines kicks Muslim off a plane for saying 'inshallah', meaning 'God willing' in Arabic
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First Published: 2016
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A Muslim man was told to leave a Southwest Airlines flight after another passenger overheard him speaking Arabic on his mobile phone.
- The 'White Helmets' and the Inherent Contradiction of America's Syria Policy
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First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
The danger faced by the White Helmets is not a fiction -- to date, 141 first responders affiliated with the Syrian Civil Defense have been killed while performing their duty. And although their claims of having saved more than 60,000 lives are unverifiable, there can be no doubt that many lives have, in fact, been saved as a result of their work. But let there be no doubt -- despite their oft-cited claims of being neutral and impartial, that the White Helmets are very partisan.
- WikiLeaks: 10 Years of Pushing the Boundaries of Free Speech
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First Published: 2016
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We are now entering WikiLeaks 10 year anniversary. The organization registered their domain on October 4, 2006 and blazed into the public limelight in the spring of 2010 with the publication of Collateral Murder. This video footage depicted the cruel scenery of modern war seen from an Apache helicopter gun-sight. It became an international sensation, with the website temporarily crashing with the massive influx of visitors.
- America's Deceptive Model for Aggression
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First Published: 2016
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Since NATO's 1999 war on Serbia, U.S. officials have followed a script demonizing targeted foreign leaders, calling ultimatums "diplomacy," lying about "war as a last resort" and selling aggression as humanitarianism.
- Destroying Syria: a Joint Criminal Enterprise
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First Published: 2016
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Everyone claims to want to end the war in Syria and restore peace to the Middle East. Well, almost everyone.
- Future Sex - Review
Future Sex by Emily Witt
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First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
In Future Sex, Emily Witt makes quick and effective references to the sex she has and the sex she witnesses. She mentions boyfriends, describes a hardcore porn shoot, goes to a sex party with polyamorists, and visits the orgy dome at Burning Man.
- The Great Libya War Fraud
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First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Coming so soon after the incomplete but still damning exposure of the Iraq deception - with the bloodbath still warm - the media's deep conformity and wilful gullibility on the 2011 Libyan war left even jaundiced observers aghast. It was clear that we were faced with a pathological system of propaganda on Perpetual War autopilot.
- Philippines secret death squads: officer claims police teams behind wave of killings
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First Published: 2016
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Thousands of people have been killed since Rodrigo Duterte became president and, according to one officer, secret police teams are partly responsible.
- Security experts urge clients to stop using Yahoo Mail after spying report
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First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Yahoo is once again under scrutiny after a report that at the behest of the U.S. government, its engineers had written software to scan every email message sent and received by its users.
- A Seismic Shift Toward Socialism in the U.K. Labour Party
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First Published: 2016
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Jeremy Corban's unexpected 2015 rise to the leadership of the U.K. Labour Party and his recent resounding victory over the right-wing forces within the party that tried to dislodge him are sending shockwaves throughout Europe - waves that could reach the shores of the U.S. if events continue to unfold in the same direction.
- 'Captain Elder Brother' and the Whirlwind Army
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First Published: 2016
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At 94, a forgotten hero of India’s struggle for freedom returns to the scene of his most daring exploit in the anti-British Raj uprising that saw a parallel government established in Satara, Maharashtra, in 1943.
- Inside the Shadowy PR Firm That's Lobbying for Regime Change in Syria
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First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Posing as a non-political solidarity organization, the Syria Campaign leverages local partners and media contacts to push the U.S. into toppling another Middle Eastern government.
- Unreliability, Spinelessness of the Western 'Left'
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First Published: 2016
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For years and decades, the so-called 'left' in the West has been moderately critical of North American (and sometimes even of European) imperialism and neo-colonialism. But whenever some individual or country rose up and began openly challenging the Empire, most of the Western left-wing intellectuals simply closed their eyes, and refused to offer their full, unconditional support to those who were putting their lives (and often even the existence of their countries) on the line.
- Cold War, today, tomorrow, every day till the end of the world.
The Anti-Empire Report #145
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First Published: 2016
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The first Cold War performed a lobotomy on Americans, replacing brain matter with anti-communist viral matter, producing more than 70 years of functional national stupidity. For all of you who missed this fun event there's good news: Cold War Two is here, as big and as stupid as ever. Russia and Vladimir Putin are repeatedly, and automatically, blamed for all manner of bad things.
- 50 Years Later, Protesters in Texas Reenact a Farmworker Strike That Is Scarcely Mentioned in History Books
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In the summer of 1966, hundreds of farm workers in Texas marched from Rio Grande City to Austin -- almost 500 miles over 90 days -- to demand change. They weren’t asking for anything fancy. They wanted better wages, restrooms and uncontaminated water for the people cultivating and picking melons and other crops. Now 50 years later, more than 100 people -- some who were at the original strike in Starr County -- are are marching again.
- How the White Helmets Became International Heroes While Pushing U.S. Military Intervention and Regime Change in Syria
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First Published: 2016
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Created by Western governments and popularized by a top PR firm, the White Helmets are saving civilians while lobbying for airstrikes.
- Pentagon Spent Over $500 Million Making Fake Al-Qaeda Videos
Troops Would Litter Videos Around Sites of Raids
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First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
It has already been well-documented that the Pentagon spent a substantial amount of money on propaganda during the occupation of Iraq, running pro-occupation commercials and also covertly getting pro-occupation news stories into the media around the region. It turns out that was just the tip of the iceberg. It has now been revealed that there was a third program ongoing, in which a London-based PR agency was paid $540 million to make fake al-Qaeda propaganda videos for Pentagon use.
- Propaganda Techniques of Empire
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Washington’s quest for perpetual world power is underwritten by systematic and perpetual propaganda wars. Every major and minor war has been preceded, accompanied and followed by unremitting government propaganda designed to secure public approval, exploit victims, slander critics, dehumanize targeted adversaries and justify its allies’ collaboration. In this paper Petras discusses the most common recent techniques used to support ongoing imperial wars.
- A Solution for Kashmir
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First Published: 2016
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What would justice for those suffering under Indian occupation in Kashmir look like?
- Hillbilly Elitism
The American hillbilly isn't suffering from a deficient culture. He's just poor.
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First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
J.D. Vance's Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis is not aimed at that underclass (few books are), but rather a middle- and upper-class readership more than happy to learn that white American poverty has nothing to do with them or with any structural problems in American economy and society and everything to do with poor folks' inherent vices.
- Marxism and the Dialectics of Ecology
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First Published: 2016
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The recovery of the ecological-materialist foundations of Karl Marx’s thought, as embodied in his theory of metabolic rift, is redefining both Marxism and ecology in our time, reintegrating the critique of capital with critical natural science. Marx's materialist conception of history is inextricably connected to the materialist conception of nature, encompassing not only the critique of political economy, but also the critical appropriation of the natural-scientific revolutions occurring in his day.
- Young activist is on the front lines of First Nations' fight against pipelines
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First Published: 2016
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Vanessa Gray’s hand shakes as she talks about the prison sentence dangling over her head. The 23-year-old activist says she's "a little scared," but also hopeful she won't be convicted of mischief endangering life when her case goes to trial next year. Crown prosecutors charged Gray and two others in December 2015 after they allegedly sabotaged a pipeline in Sarnia.
- Big Papers Want Foreign Companies, Not War Crime Victims, to Sue US
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First Published: 2016
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The editorial boards of the US’s four most influential newspapers joined President Barack Obama in opposition to the Justice Against Sponsors of Terrorism Act, a bill that makes suing Saudi Arabia for the 9/11 attacks markedly easier.
- The Biggest Heist in Human History
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First Published: 2016
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The only way stimulus can work is if its put where it’s needed. And we can now say with 100 percent certainty, that the Fed’s stimulus wasn’t put where it was needed which is why it hasn’t worked.
- Corrupted Science: the DEA and Marijuana
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First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
While I was on my book tour for Jesse Ventura's Marijuana Manifesto, I was shocked to discover how many Americans didn’t know our Founding Fathers grew cannabis.
- Dakota Access Pipeline and the Future of American Labor
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First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
As United States Energy Transfers Partners began building the Dakota Access Pipeline through territory sacred to the Standing Rock Sioux tribe, the tribe began an escalating campaign against the pipeline.
- Is renewable energy really environmentally friendly?
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Renewable energy sources may have low CO2 emissions at the point of use, but the mines that make the technology possible are often environmentally destructive.
- Israel and Academic Freedom: a Closed Book
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First Published: 2016
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It’s not by accident that free speech and association is under attack from coast to coast in ways unseen since the academic purges that targeted largely "radical" Jews of the 1950's brought to us by a guy named McCarthy. He too had this notion that good thought must necessarily adhere to a checklist of sanitized ideas. That safe speech and association demanded a line of logic dictated by the powerful and pervasive.
- Thoughtcrimes and Stupidspeak: Our Assault Against Words
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First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
We are tortured with repetitions. How many bloggers do we have in cyberspace, opining in a Duckspeak that gets a Bellyfeel response because those who have an opposing Bellyfeel response listen only to their Duckspeak bloggers. 152 million bloggers as of 2013. 500 million tweets per day. 1.71 billion active users on Facebook. 4 billion YouTube views per day. A Pandora’s Box opened that cannot be closed, perhaps because what cybertech installs can neither be abjured nor rejected. "It's all good" apparently. Perhaps not.
- US Propaganda Campaign to Demonize Russia in Full Gear over One-Sided Dutch/Aussie Report on Flight 17 Downing
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First Published: 2016
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If the danger of the anti-Putin, anti-Russian disinformation propaganda campaign out of the Pentagon and promoted by the US corporate media weren’t so serious, the effort itself might be laughable.
- Digital Disconnect and its adverse impact on how (or whether) we engage with nature
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First Published: 2016
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As the Digital Schoolhouse programme starts a national roll out to schools across the UK, scientists warn that digital disconnect can mean caring less - for each other and the environment.
- The Secret Struggle Against Apartheid
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First Published: 2016
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In the 1960s, a group of leftists risked everything to revive the anti-apartheid movement in South Africa.
- When Is Direct Military Intervention Not Direct Military Intervention?
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First Published: 2016
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Since 2014, according to official Pentagon figures, the US has carried out 5,337 airstrikes in Syria. Yet the New York Times continues to pretend that the U.S. has not intervened militarily in Syria.
- Apple Logs Your iMessage Contacts - and May Share Them With Police
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First Published: 2016
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Apple promises that your iMessage conversations are safe and out of reach from anyone other than you and your friends. But according to a document obtained by The Intercept, your blue-bubbled texts do leave behind a log of which phone numbers you are poised to contact and shares this (and other potentially sensitive metadata) with law enforcement when compelled by court order.
- The Politics of Bombing
Wholesale, Retail, and Improvised
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First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Bombs, domestic and foreign, are defining the nature of politics in the United States, the European Union and among radical Islamist groups and individuals. The scale and scope of bomb-politics varies with the practitioner. 'Wholesale bombers' are state actors, who engage in large-scale, long-term bombing designed to destroy adversary governments or movements. 'Retail bombers' are groups or individuals engaging in small-scale, sporadic bombings, designed to provoked fear and secure symbolic outcomes. In this paper we will focus on the nature of 'wholesale' and 'retail' bombings, their frequency, political consequences and long-term impact on global political power.
- Green by default - how a nudge and wink can save the planet
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First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
There's a simple way to induce us to make good environmental choices: make them the default setting. Whether it's selecting double sided photocopies or renewable electricity tariffs, defining easily-overridden 'green defaults' is by far the most efficacious means to influence consumer choices for the environment and the planet.
- The Memory Code: how oral cultures memorise so much information
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First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Long before the ancient Celts, Aboriginal Australians were recording vast scores of knowledge to memory and passing it to successive generations. Aboriginal people demonstrate that their oral traditions are not only highly detailed and complex, but they can survive -- accurately -- for thousands, even tens of thousands, of years.
- Peaceful warrior: Permaculture visionary Bill Mollison
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First Published: 2016
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Australian educator, author and co-inventor of Permaculture, Bruce Charles 'Bill' Mollison, died on the 24 September 2016 in Sisters Creek, Tasmania. He has been praised across the world for his visionary work, and left behind a global network of 'peaceful warriors' in over 100 countries working tirelessly to fulfill his ambition to build harmony between humanity and Mother Earth.
- Draw and you'll go to jail': the fight to save comics from the censor
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First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
From worried parents to policemen with built-in 'Satan detectors', underground comics have never lacked enemies. And for 30 years Neil Gaiman and his friends have fought back in the name of free speech.
- Workers in a lean world: unions in the international economy
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First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
In a comprehensive study of current labour relations worldwide, Kim Moody surveys both sides of the picket lines. A bracing riposte to the conventional wisdom concerning the irresistible power of globalization, Workers in a Lean World is a definitive account of contemporary labour relations on a global scale.
- A Walking Tour of New York's Massive Surveillance Network
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First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
So it felt a bit risky to be climbing up a street pole on Wall Street to closely inspect a microwave radar sensor, or to be lingering under a police camera, pointing and gesturing at the wires and antenna connected to it. Yet it was also entirely appropriate to be doing just that, especially in the company of Ingrid Burrington, author of the new book "Networks of New York: An Illustrated Field Guide to Urban Internet Infrastructure," which points out that many of the city's communications and surveillance programs were conceived and funded in response to the attacks.
- Anti-Palestine Media Bias Remains Untouchable Even to Canada’s Media Critics
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First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
A recent Canadaland podcast simultaneously highlighted anti-Palestinian media bias and the fear liberal journalists’ face in discussing one of the foremost social justice issues of our time.
- Kingdom of the Unjust
Behind the U.S.-Saudi Connection
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First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
The co-founder of CODEPINK's research on the sinister nature of the relationship between the U.S. and Saudi Arabia.
- Students Are Pulling a Kaepernick All Over America -- and Being Threatened for It
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First Published: 2016
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Students are being threatened with punishment for not participating in rituals surrounding the national anthem or Pledge of Allegiance -- and they are fighting back. Since NFL 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick sat during the national anthem in August to protest oppression of people of colour, many Americans, particularly professional athletes and students, have followed suit. But their constitutional right to engage in such gestures of dissent is not always being respected.
- 21st Century Trade Union Conspiracy Trial
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First Published: 2016
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It's fitting that the return of the trade union conspiracy trial would take place in Philadelphia, the city of the infamous Philadelphia Cordwainers Trial of 1805, the first known trade union conspiracy case in America.
- 21st Century Trade Union Conspiracy Trial
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First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
It's fitting that the return of the trade union conspiracy trial would take place in Philadelphia, the city of the infamous Philadelphia Cordwainers Trial of 1805, the first known trade union conspiracy case in America. Beginning with the genesis of the first combinations of wage labourers in eighteenth-century England, trade unionism has been perceived and prosecuted as a conspiracy against private property -- and rightly so. What is a trade union but a permanent conspiracy against private property and the inviolable right to private property? Friedrich Engels designated trade unions as schools of war in The Condition of the Working-Class in England in 1845, and the processes underlying workers' control and workers' power made manifest in trade unionism then remain in operation today.
- Against the Cultural Turn
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First Published: 2016
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The starting point of this debate is the failure of multiculturalism. It has become fashionable today to criticise multiculturalism. The trouble is, many of the criticisms are as problematic as multiculturalism itself. And I say that as someone who's been a critic of multiculturalism for more than 20 years, from well before it was fashionable to be so.
- Unreliable Informants: IP Addresses, Digital Tips and Police Raids
How Police and Courts are Misusing Unreliable IP Address Information and What They Can Do to Better Verify Electronic Tips
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First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
An explanation of the pitfalls of use of IP addresses as electronic evidence by law enforcement, and how law enforcement and courts can use IP addresses responsibly in criminal investigations with specific suggestions to assist each of them.
- What Are We Allowed to Say?
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First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Free speech is an aberration -- it is best to begin by admitting that. In most societies throughout history and in all societies some of the time, censorship has been the means by which a ruling group or a visible majority cleanses the channels of communication to ensure that certain conventional practices will go on operating undisturbed. It is not only traditional cultures that see the point of taboos on speech and expressive action. Even in societies where faith in progress is part of a common creed, censorship is often taken to be a necessary means to effect improvements that will convey a better life to all. Meanwhile, since the fall of Soviet communism, liberal bureaucrats in the North Atlantic democracies have kept busy constructing speech codes and guidelines on civility to soften the impact of unpleasant ideas.
- Accept Bill C-242: An Act to Amend the Criminal Code (inflicting torture)
Sources News Release
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First Published: 2016
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We,The Canadian Voice of Women for Peace (VOW), understand that presently Canadian legislation on torture (CC 269.1) only addresses torture inflicted by a State official or someone acting with the consent and acquiescence of such an official. Theref
- The Assassination of Orlando Letelier and the Politics of Silence
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First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
In 1976, agents working for the Chilean secret service attached plastic explosives to the bottom of Orlando Letelier's Chevrolet as it sat in the driveway of his family's home in Bethesda, Maryland, just outside Washington, D.C. There are still many unanswered questions about this time. Exactly how complicit was the U.S. in the overthrow of the Chilean government? Why did the CIA ignore a cable telling it that Chile's agents were heading to the U.S.? Why did Henry Kissinger, then Secretary of State, cancel a warning to Chile not to kill its overseas opponents just five days before Letelier was murdered?
- Evidence FBI Gathered While Running Porn Site Thrown Out Again
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First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
For the third time, a federal judge has ruled that a mass hack by the FBI - which ensnared thousands of computers based on only one warrant - was illegal. Like the previous ones, the decision was based on a jurisdictional technicality: Rule 41 of criminal procedure holds that magistrate judges can only authorize searches inside their jurisdiction - meaning a judge in one district cannot authorize a search in a different geographical location. The hack in question was part of an investigation into a child pornography website called Playpen. Playpen was hosted on the dark web, meaning that users could only access it through a service that concealed their IP address, making it impossible for the FBI to tell who was accessing the site and downloading child pornography.
- Why the Food Movement is Unstoppable
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First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Even today, in more than a few countries, food is the organising principle behind the main challengers of existing power structures. In El Salvador, the National Coordinator of its Organic Agriculture Movement is Miguel Ramirez who recently explained: We say that every square meter of land that is worked with agro-ecology is a liberated square meter. We see it as a tool to transform farmers’ social and economic conditions. We see it as a tool of liberation from the unsustainable capitalist agricultural model that oppresses farmers.
- Responsible advertisers must boycott climate-sceptic Mail, Sun, Times, Telegraph, Express
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First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
A handful of right wing media billionnaires have been using their newspapers as propaganda rags to attack climate science and oppose climate action, writes Donnachadh McCarthy. Yet even 'climate leader' companies like M&S are fuelling their profits by advertising with them. Now a new #Deadvertisment campaign is demanding them to stop, right now.
- World's oldest library reopens in Fez: 'You can hurt us, but you can't hurt the books'
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First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
After years of restoration, the ninth-century Qarawiyyin library in north-eastern Morocco is finally set to reopen – with strict security and a new underground canal system to protect its most prized manuscripts
- New Film Tells the Story of Edward Snowden; Here Are the Surveillance Programs He Helped Expose
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First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Oliver Stone's latest film, "Snowden," bills itself as a dramatized version of the life of Edward Snowden, the NSA whistleblower who revealed the global extent of U.S. surveillance capabilities.
- Why capitalism causes oppression
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First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
An examination of capitalism and how the aggressive competitive drive to accumulate wealth exploits and marginalizes individuals and social groups.
- Assad's Death Warrant
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First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
The war in Syria did not begin when the government of Bashar al Assad cracked down on the uprisings in the spring of 2011, but rather the war began in 2009, when Assad rejected a Qatari plan to transport gas from Qatar to the EU via Syria.
- Who is appropriating what?
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First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Last week the novelist Lionel Shriver gave the keynote address at the Brisbane Writers Festival. It did not go well. She addressed the question of 'Fiction and identity politics' (apparently the organizers had originally asked her to talk about 'community and belonging', but she had submitted to them a different topic), providing a robust critique of identity politics and of the idea of ‘cultural appropriation’.
- The Deep State: The Fall of the Constitution and the Rise of a Shadow Government
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Every four years, tempers are tested and marriages fray as Americans head to the polls to cast their votes. But does anyone really care what we think? Has our vaunted political system become one big, expensive, painfully scriped reality TV show? In this cringe-inducing expose of the sins and excesses of Beltwayland, a longtime Republican party insider argues that we have become an oligarchy in form if not in name.
- I Was a CIA Whistleblower. Now I'm a Black Inmate. Here’'s How I See American Racism.
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First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
From the moment I crossed the threshold from freedom to incarceration because I was charged with, and a jury convicted me of, leaking classified information to a New York Times reporter, I needed no reminder that I was no longer an individual. Prison, with its "one size fits all" structure, is not set up to recognize a person's worth; the emphasis is removal and categorization. Inmates are not people; we are our offenses. In this particular prison where I live, there are S-Os (sex offenders), Cho-Mos (child molesters), and gun and drug offenders, among others. Considering the charges and conviction that brought me here, I'm not exactly sure to which category I belong. No matter. There is an overriding category to which I do belong, and it is this prison reality that I sadly "compare unto the world": I'm not just an inmate, I'm a black inmate.
- Menwith Menace: Britain's Complicity In Saudi Arabia's Terror Campaign Against Yemen
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First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
The 'mainstream' Western media is, almost by definition, the last place to consult for honest reporting of Western crimes. Consider the appalling case of Yemen which is consumed by war and an ongoing humanitarian catastrophe. Since March 2015, a 'coalition' of Sunni Arab states led by Saudi Arabia, and supported by the US, Britain and France, has been dropping bombs on neighbouring Yemen. The scale of the bombing is indicated in a recent article by Felicity Arbuthnot - in one year, 330,000 homes, 648 mosques, 630 schools and institutes, and 250 health facilities were destroyed or damaged.
- Facebook Is Collaborating With the Israeli Government to Determine What Should Be Censored
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Last week, a major censorship controversy erupted when Facebook began deleting all posts containing the iconic photograph of the Vietnamese "Napalm Girl" on the ground that it violated the company's ban on "child nudity." Facebook even deleted a post from the prime minister of Norway, who posted the photograph in protest of the censorship. As outrage spread, Facebook ultimately reversed itself - acknowledging "the history and global importance of this image in documenting a particular moment in time" - but this episode illustrated many of the dangers I've previously highlighted in having private tech companies like Facebook, Twitter, and Google become the arbiters of what we can and cannot see.
Having just resolved that censorship effort, Facebook seems to be vigorously courting another. The Associated Press reports today from Jerusalem that the Israeli government and Facebook have agreed to work together to determine how to tackle incitement on the social media network.
- How Israel aims to redefine 'ethnic cleansing'
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Netanyahu’s controversial comments have thrown another obstacle in the way of Palestinian statehood, analysts say.
- Long-Secret Stingray Manuals Detail How Police Can Spy on Phones
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Harris Corp.'s Stingray surveillance device has been one of the most closely guarded secrets in law enforcement for more than 15 years. The company and its police clients across the United States have fought to keep information about the mobile phone-monitoring boxes from the public against which they are used. The Intercept has obtained several Harris instruction manuals spanning roughly 200 pages and meticulously detailing how to create a cellular surveillance dragnet.
- Don't believe the rumours. Universal Grammar is alive and well.
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
According to a recent article in Scientific American, however, the community I just described doesn’t exist, and maybe couldn’t possibly exist in linguistics today, because the kind of work that I just described has long since shown the Universal Grammar hypothesis (UG) to be flat-out wrong. But such a community does exist.
- Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - September 10, 2016
Back to School
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Education - about the world, and about social change in particular - is a key element in the work that Connexions does. In this issue of Other Voices, we explore a few aspects of the ways in which education and educational institutions are changing. We also look at ways in which education is used to bring about change.
- Containing the United States
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
With Hillary Clinton about to be elected and some advanced cadres of the war party preparing to take charge, who is going to contain the United States? The U.S. political system has failed its populace and the world and has imposed no brakes on the war machine. The UN and EU are still too much under the U.S. thumb. Russia and China are too weak and with too flimsy an alliance system to threaten U.S. hegemony and do more than make direct U.S. aggression against themselves very costly.
- Bata’s footprint in Africa: The dark story of Canadian shoe giant
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
The Toronto-based shoemaker took advantage of European colonialism to rapidly set up across the continent, squeezing out local footwear producers, working with apartheid South Africa and even reaching out to Uganda’s Idi Amin.
- No way to remember anything
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
An analysis of the 2011 Egyptian revolution reproduces the same mistakes on the left that led to the revolution’s defeat in 2013.
- Another Response to May '68 Revisited
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
The significance of the May Events is not to be found in the question of state power. Like other recent movements such as Occupy, it changed the discourse in the public sphere. May 68 changed people's expectations in their social life and their utopian hopes.
- Between Rage and Terror
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
On the nature of comteporary terror.
- Beyond Bernie: The Hidden Potential of Progressive Third Parties
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
What Bernie no longer articulates, and what relatively few of his new fans may realize, is that left third parties can be effective. Resisting the two-party system, even against the so-called odds, is not futile or irrational. Contrary to popular myth, it is a proven and still relevant method for advancing progressive change in the United States.
- Checking Out
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
In mid-June of 2016, tension between workers and their boss in a small New York City retail shop reached the boiling point. The result was chaos for a hated overseer, and the sweet aftertaste of an assertion of people power all too rare in their line of work.
- Good nutrition begins in healthy soils
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
There's no such thing as 'healthy food' if it's not produced by sustainable farming systems on living soils, Patrick Holden told the recent 'Food: The Forgotten Medicine' conference. But after 70 years of industrial farming, there's a huge job to be done to restore our depleted soils and the impoverished genetic diversity of our seeds and crops.
- UK police will soon start bagging people's heads during arrests
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Metropolitan Police officers will soon be able to use specially designed bags, known as spit hoods, to cover suspects’ heads during arrests and in police stations. The mesh bags are used to restrain suspects and protect the police from those who might try to bite or spit at them. The Met insists the hoods prevents exposure to diseases and serious infection.
- What's Class Got to Do With It?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Unsettled by Donald Trump's bigotry and xenophobia, liberal pundits have struggled to understand his improbable anointment as the nominee of the Republican party. Many have sought answers in the experience and behaviour of the white-working class, the bedrock of Trump support.
- Among the Pipeline Fighters in Central Iowa
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Iowans protest the Bakken pipeline, fighting against Big Carbon and 21st century petro-capitalism.
- An open letter to the Peel Catholic School Board from Jewish Canadians in support of Nadia Shoufani
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Jewish Canadians writing in support of Nadia Shoufani, a teacher in the Peel Catholic School Board who was suspended pending an investigation by the Ontario College of Teachers.
- Public Relations Firm Claims to Have Ghost Written Thousands of Op-Eds in Major U.S. Newspapers
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Laura Bentz of Keybridge Communications describes her company as "a boutique PR firm -- founded by a former writer for the Wall Street Journal -- that specializes in writing and placing op-eds. With some of the country's most influential trade groups and global corporations as clients, we run many of the major op-ed campaigns in the U.S. We place roughly 3,000 op-eds per year."
- Abortion Victory
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
On June 27, 2016 the U.S. Supreme Court, in Whole Women's Health vs. Hellerstedt, not only struck down key provisions of a 2013 Texas law restricting abortion, but also set a standard by which similar legislation can be measured.
- Acceptable Losses
Aiding and abetting the Saudi slaughter in Yemen
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
A close look at the crisis in Yemen, a country rife with povery and water shortages and further devastated by a prolonged campaign of bombing and military action.The military campaign, supported by the United States, is an effort by the Saudi governemnt to oust a tribal group in north Yemen who follow Zaidism, an off-shoot of Shia Islam.
- BLM Movement Grows Stronger
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
The vanguard leadership of the young women who started the Black Lives Movement with the #Blacklivesmatter on Twitter, after the killings of Trayvon Martin in Florida and Michael Brown in Missouri, continues to advance and has led to similar formations in other countries.
- China's Climate of Repression
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
With secret trials and lengthy prison sentences imposed on human rights lawyers after forced and humiliating "confessions," the abduction of Hong Kong booksellers under circumstances that remain obscure, and new legislation that sharply restricts the work of independent organizations, the climate of repression in China is clearly sharpening.
- Detroit's Tax Foreclosure Crisis
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Given the history of housing discrimination in Metro Detroit over the last 100 years, it is hardly surprising that the illegal over-assessments of property values has a greater impact on African-American homeowners.
- A Giant, Flushing Sound
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
The editors discuss the anti-TPP rhetoric of Sanders, Trump, and Clinton, as well as the pro-TPP positions of both the Democratic and Republican parties.
- Land of Sod
Southern California Homeowners vs Nature
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
A look at the water crisis in Southern California, where fifty-percent of water is used to irrigate the lawns and gardens of residential properties. The freshwater shortages has brought about close media scrutiny, highlighting the differences between have and have-not neighbourhoods, as well as instances of 'water-shaming'.
- The Living Legacy of Cornel West
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
To some of his critics, West is a bitter intellectual prizefighter past his prime who feels the need to broadcast his paroxysms of rage over feeling snubbed by Obama.
- Memorial Essay: Benedict Anderson
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
The reception of Imagined Communities took its author by surprise. Anderson was like a person who posts a home video online and then discovers the next morning that she is an international celebrity.
- The Queer Movement Today
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
A year after marriage equality was legalized nationwide in the United States, and two months since the June 12, 2016 massacre at a gay club in Orlando, the LGBT movement confronts a contradictory future.
- The RNC Comes and Goes
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Throughout the week, journalists got plenty of newsworthy stories, from Melania Trump's plagiarism of Michelle Obama’s speech to the arrests of 18 protestors at Public Square.
- Socialists Discuss During the DNC
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
On the steamy evening of July 27, 2016 in Philadelphia a raucous audience of close to 800 gathered to discuss electoral politics and movement-building. This was day three of Socialist Convergence, organized by a coalition of left organizations to create a socialist presence during the Democratic National Convention.
- Victory in Shutting Down Oakland Coal Port
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
On July 19, 2016, the Oakland City Council voted unanimously to turn down the application for export of coal to Asia through a bulk commodities terminal under construction at the city's port.
- War Against the Kurds Renewed
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
For show, Erdogan's airforce carried out a few symbolic raids against ISIS, but in reality the aerial offensive was against the Kurdish fighters in northern Iraq.
- Was Brexit a Working-Class Revolt?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
The malevelant genius of the Leave campaign was that it managed to go one step further and direct the anger of many previous working-class targets of derision at the even more vulnerable immigrants.
- Where Did Our Red Love Go?
Red Love Across the Pacific: Political and Sexual Revolutions of the Twentieth Century
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Book review of Paula Rabinowitz's, Ruth Barraclough's, and Heather Bowen-Struyk's Red Love Across the Pacific: Political and Sexual Revolutions of the Twentieth Century.
- Why "Lesser Evilism" Is A Loser
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Interview with Jill Stein, the 2016 presidential candidate of the Green Party.
- Workers of the World
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Trade unionists in the 1920s didn't have much reason for optimism. Labour membership, which had shot upwards amid postwar unrest, crested and then plunged. A decade later, strikes were blocking production across the country, and union density was skyrocketing.
After years of malaise in the labor movement, is a similar upsurge possible today?
- The Thiaroye massacre, 1944
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
A short history of the mass killing of black soldiers in the Free French Forces who were protesting against non-payment of wages towards the end of World War II.
- A Different Kind of Safe Space
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Words are dangerous, but not as dangerous as efforts to suppress them, be it by government or dean -- and certainly not as insidious as self-censorship.
- Ideas for the Struggle: required reading for activists in these challenging times
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Arguing why the ideas presented in Marta Harnecker's collection of essays, 'Ideas for the Struggle', are essential and important for present-day activists and organizers.
- How could our country lie so completely?
Meet the North Korean defectors
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Describing the efforts of North Korean defectors engaing in a propaganda to inspire others to flee the country.
- Australia: 1966 Aboriginal Stockmen's Strike
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
2016 marks the 50th anniversary of the courageous Aboriginal stockmen's strike at the Wave Hill cattle station in the Northern Territory (NT). On 23 August 1966, head stockman Vincent Lingiari led 200 workers out on strike against the appalling conditions under which they were forced to live and work. They walked off with their families to a nearby welfare settlement and later set up camp at Daguragu (also known as Wattie Creek). This strike by Aboriginal workers for equal pay and conditions, and protesting the abusive treatment of Aboriginal women, provided an opportunity for class-struggle unity between Indigenous and white workers.
- Could urban farming provide a much-needed oasis in the Tulsa food desert?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Oklahoma is one of the most food insecure states in the US, where families struggle to buy enough healthy food. Locals are trying to ease poverty with community farming, but face difficulty in a city with a complex racial history
- Echoes From the Past: Creating the Underclass
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Kenan Malik explores the late twentieth century 'underclass' debate, and what it tells us about the changing character of the perceptions of race and class.
- Genocide in Plain Sight: Shooting Bushmen From Helicopters in Botswana
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
In a healthy democracy, people are not shot at from helicopters for collecting food. They are not arrested, stripped bare and beaten while in custody without facing trial. Nor are people banned from their legitimate livelihoods, or persecuted on false pretenses. Sadly in Botswana, southern Africa's much-vaunted ‘beacon of democracy', all of this took place late last month in an incident which has been criminally under-reported. Nine Bushmen were later arrested and subsequently stripped naked and beaten while in custody.
- How Not To Fund Infrastructure
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Recycling is supposed to be a good thing, so when the federal Liberals quietly announced that "asset recycling" would be part of their strategy for meeting their much-ballyhooed infrastructure promises, not many eyebrows were raised. They should have been. Asset recycling is an obscure code word for selling our public goods for private profit. It's privatization by another name.
Don't have the taxes to pay for new buses? It's okay, you can sell your electricity utility to pay for them instead. In fact, this is precisely what the Ontario Liberal government is doing. Already 30 per cent of the profitable Hydro One have been sold and another 30 per cent will be sold before 2018. A public Hydro One could more directly fight climate change, lower energy costs for the poor or work with First Nations on whose lands generation often happens. A private Hydro becomes an instrument for profit first with other goals secondary.
What the Liberals have started in Ontario will soon be rolled out across Canada. Here are the problems with these schemes.
- How to spot hazardous 'rip currents' at the beach -- before you get in the water
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Five men tragically died this week at Camber Sands in East Sussex, making holiday makers are increasingly fearful of the dangers of sea bathing. One of the biggest dangers comes from so-called 'rip tides' which carry swimmers out to sea on fast-moving 'rivers' of water, writes MARTIN AUSTIN. So here's how to recognise the dangers - before you even get in the water.
- India's Dalit cattle skinners share stories of abuse
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First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
From hospital wards to skinning fields, India's Dalit cattle skinners share stories of abuse and fears for their future.
- The Birth of Agro-Resistance in Palestine
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Canaan Fiar Trade, a co-operative farming project with a model of self-sufficiency and dignity, has grown rapidly, and now assists some 2000 small-hold farmers in the West Bank, but it still receives little more than ambivalent support from the compromised Palestinian national leadership.
- Greek Debt and the New Financial Imperialism
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Describes how the Greek goverment is forced to extract income and wealth from its workers and small businesses resulting in a new form of financial imperialism that smaller states and economies, planning to join larger free trade zones and 'currency unions' should avoid at all cost.
- Israel armed Argentina to deadly effect during Falklands War, secret files show
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First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Newly released documents suggest the supply of arms and military equipment from Israel to Argentina may have been fuelled by an old hatred of the British harboured by then Israeli Prime Minister Menachim Begin -- himself a former Irgun terrorist who fought against British troops in Palestine. Israeli exports included Skyhawk jets that were responsible for bombing and sinking the RFA Sir Galahad, a troop ship, leaving 48 dead and numerous horrific injuries.
- Provoking Nuclear War by Media
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
The exoneration of a man accused of the worst of crimes, genocide, made no headlines. Neither the BBC nor CNN covered it. The Guardian allowed a brief commentary. Such a rare official admission was buried or suppressed, understandably. It would explain too much about how the rulers of the world rule.
- US Lost Track of Nearly a Million Guns in Iraq, Afghanistan
Officials: Records Remain for Only 48% of the Guns Sent to Warzones
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Early in the occupations of Afghanistan and Iraq, the go-to policy for the US in trying to prop up new allied security forces was to dump weapons, en masse, into the countries. It's only now that people are really starting to ask what happened to the 1.45 million guns shipped into those countries.
- Fear of the light: why we need darkness
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Light pollution conceals true darkness from 80% of Europe and North America. What do we lose when we can no longer see the stars?
- Israeli museum transfer sets 'dangerous precedent'
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
A recent court ruling sanctioned the move of a rare archaeological library from East to West Jerusalem.
- The vanguard of India's assertive patriotism is a 3 million-member student group
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
In India rightwing group combs campuses to weed out voices critical of state.
- The Working Class: Saskatchewan's Political Orphan
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
We all suffer from the absence of working class politics. We are smothered in the business-oriented, neoliberal 'consensus' instructing us to reconcile ourselves to 'the new reality' -- rollbacks in social welfare and universal publicly funded programs; huge tax cuts to business and the rich, driving up public debt and enriching finance capitalism; an end to secure employment and guaranteed benefits; surrendering our dreams of home ownership unless we are prepared to accept a lifetime of debt enslavement; a future of uncertainty and endless personal struggle to sustain ourselves and our children. Flippant commentators now tell us the proletariat has been replaced by 'the precariat', and this will define the future of this new capitalism.
- Charter Schools Increase Fraud, Corruption, Chaos, and Anarchy
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First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Charter schools, which barely make up seven percent of U.S. schools, are often accused of taking all the antisocial, antipublic, and antipeople practices of medieval autocrats and opportunuties to new extremes. Shawgi Tell looks into the issue of privatization of education that will intensify in the months ahead.
- The Perilous Lure of the Underground Railroad
Hardly anyone used it, but it provides us with moral comfort-and white heroes.
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
The Underground Railroad entered our collective imagination in the eighteen-forties, and it has since been a mainstay of both national history and local lore. But in the past decade or so it has surged into "the popular literature of this nation" -- and the popular everything else, too.
- Arctic Death Rattle
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
The warming of the Arctic negatively affects the entire Northern Hemisphere by altering jet streams at 30,000-40,000 feet altitude, which turns normal weather patterns upside down, wreaking havoc throughout the hemisphere. Even more significantly, loss of Arctic ice exposes the planet to risks of a crushing blow to the planetary ecosystem, without warning.
- Western Propaganda: So Simple But So Effective
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Western propaganda is actually a perfect apparatus! It is effective and it is almost fully 'bulletproof'. It 'works'!
- An Activist Actor's Climate Group Is Moving Rapid Grassroots Grants
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Mark Ruffalo's the Solutions Project has quickly grown into a legit national clean energy campaign, and in the past year, a grantmaker. It continues to impress with its new plan to deploy nimble community-based grants.
- Crimea, Georgia and the New Olympic Sport: Russia Bashing
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
- Sarah Schulman's 'Conflict is not Abuse' is Essential Reading For Activist Communities
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
In her 18th book, writer and Distinguished Professor of English at CUNY Staten Island Sarah Schulman takes on the weighty topic of interpersonal conflict, abusive behavior, the "overstatement of harm," and how the continued mistaking of conflict for abuse leads to unnecessary escalation of various problems -- often leading to cruel acts of isolation, shunning, scapegoating, and other manifestations of in-group bullying that are used to justify keeping certain people out of families, circles of friends, affinity groups, and activist communities.
- Charged with murder, but they didn’t kill anyone -- police did
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
A Reader investigation found ten cases since 2011 where police killed a civilian in Chicago and charged an accomplice with the murder.
- Echoes From the Past: the Racial View of Class
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
How the Victorian elite saw class in racial terms. Malik challenges conventional ways of thinking about the historical roots of racial ideas, and demonstrates how much of racial thinking originated not in the context of perceptions of non-Europeans but to a large extent at home out of the relationship between the elite and the masses. And that is what makes this material important in thinking about contemporary discussions of the working class. Today, elite views of the working class are rarely racialized, at least in an overt fashion. Yet, many of the themes, especially about the character of the 'unrespectable' working class, remain, though they necessarily have to be expressed in a different language. What is of interest here is to understand what has changed as well as what remains the same in thinking about democracy and the working class.
- The Tragic Transgender Contagion
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Anguished parents note that entire peer groups seem determined to 'transition' together.
- Western Media Responds to Latest Ukrainian Sabotage of Crimea
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Western governments and media have a problem with the right-wing regime that is governing Ukraine. The country's economy is a shambles. Even the regime's own backers in the West acknowledge the country and its economy are hopelessly mired in corruption.
- Climate justice and the prospect of power
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
A balance sheet of the movement to block the cross-Toronto 'Line 9' pipeline project. With notes on the meaning of "climate justice" and the relationship of socialism to social movements.
- Lost cities #7: how Nasa technology uncovered the 'megacity' of Angkor
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Recent laser surveys have revealed traces of a vast urban settlement, comparable in size to Los Angeles, around the temples of Angkor in the Cambodian jungle. The ancient Khmer capital was never lost … it just got a bit overgrown.
- Election Meddling
Bad if Done to USA, Bad to Complain About if Done by USA
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First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Describing the contradictions in media coverage of, and attitudes toward, outside meddling in US elections versus US interference in foreign elections.
- Gender is not an identity, it is a tool of patriarchy
Gender hurts
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First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Gender is a set of societally-imposed, socially-constructed norms which are the structure through which all males and females are boxed in, but which, in particular, are the building blocks of the hierarchy between males and females. From a very early age, almost birth, these gender expectations are imposed through the clothes we wear, the toys we play with, the colours that are considered appropriate, the behaviour that is expected of us, the attitudes expressed towards us. They may vary from culture to culture and throughout history but their purpose is the same, to mould us into roles in society. Let’s not swallow patriarchy’s lies, let’s keep asserting that the objective definition of us as a female or a male based on biological reality will never define our personality, our attitudes, our abilities, our desires, our behaviour, our place in the world.
- Lost cities #6: how Thonis-Heracleion resurfaced after 1,000 years under water
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Ancient Egypt's gateway to the Mediterranean – submerged and buried under layers of sand – is an eerie reminder of how vulnerable cities are to nature's forces. Thonis-Heracleion is returning to the surface once again.
- Echoes From the Past: Fear of the Masses
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
- Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - August 13, 2016
Sports and Politics
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Sports and politics have always been intertwined, though perhaps never as much so as in the current era. In the modern sports era, survival and success depend largely on the favour of corporations, whose power to provide or withhold funding and sponsorships now shape every aspect of sport, including athletes' incomes and lifestyles. It is now difficult to remember that only a few decades ago, corporate logos were strictly forbidden at Olympic events, while athletes were prohibited from accepting any kind of payment for their involvement in sports. The corporate conquest of sports closely parallels the corporate colonization of nearly all aspects of modern life. Accompanying this in recent years has been the increasing injection of militaristic content into sports spectacles. In Canada, hockey games are now commonly preceded by rituals honouring militarism. In the United States, similar spectacles have been staged for years. In this issue, we feature resources which remind us that resistance to the commercialization, corporatization, and militarization of sports is also part of our heritage.
- Sports and Politics
Introduction to the August 13, 2016 issue of Other Voices
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Sports in general, and the Olympics in particular, have never been free of politics. Allegations of bribery and cheating had already been part of the Olympics for centuries before that noteworthy day in 67 AD when the judges proclaimed the Emperor Nero winner of the Olympic chariot race even though he had been thrown from his chariot and failed to complete the race.
- Doubling Down in Atlantic City
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
The casino workers' strike at the Trump Taj Mahal Casino is a defining battle for American labor.
- In the Stars? Personal Investigations of Astrology
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Nickell details his experience with the "science" (actually pseudoscience) of astrology.
- Royal greed and oppression sold as culture in Swaziland
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Swaziland’s King Mswati III passes suppression, unaccountability and royal opulent spending in the face of drought, starvation and poverty, as traditionally "Swazi" values. Sonkhe Dube, a young exiled activist, begs to differ.
- Killer Instincts: When Police Become Judge, Jury and Executioner
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Those responsible for this policing crisis are none other than the police unions that are helping police officers evade accountability for wrongdoing; the police academies that are teaching police officers that their lives are more valuable than the lives of those they serve; a corporate military sector that is making a killing by selling military-grade weapons, equipment, technology and tactical training to domestic police agencies; a political establishment that is dependent on campaign support and funding from the powerful police unions; and a police state that is transforming police officers into extensions of the military in order to extend its reach and power.
- The Nauru files
Cache of 2,000 leaked reports reveal scale of abuse of children in Australian offshore detention
Resource Type: Unclassified
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Describing the traumatic conditions in the Nauru asylum camp as revealed by internal reports.
- Why America's Judges Should be Chosen by Citizen Juries
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Judges should not be chosen by popular vote, nor by politicians. Both approaches are undemocratic and deeply flawed, perhaps even absurd, despite the fact that the former is in widespread use at the state level, and the latter has always been used at the federal level (in the form of appointment by the President and confirmation by the Senate). A far better option is for judges to be chosen by juries drawn from the public by random selection.
- Bernie Sanders and the New Class Politics
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
An interview with Adolph Reed, a political scientist and Bernie Sanders supporter, who dicsusses assumptions about black voters, the legacy of the Sanders campaign, and the tasks ahead.
- Delta says 740 flights cancelled after worldwide system outage
Flights already en route operating normally, U.S. airline says
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Delta Air Lines says it has cancelled 740 flights after a power outage that began overnight knocked out its computer systems and operations worldwide.
- Former Fox boss Roger Ailes spent millions on 'Black Room' op to smear journalists
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Roger Ailes, the former CEO and co-founder of the conservative TV network who resigned last month after several sexual harassment allegations, now faces accusations of spending millions of Rupert Murdoch's money to set up a 'Black Room' and take down his enemies, both personal and political. The network’s $1 billion profits were also used to settle lawsuits brought by its employees. Fox executives have since discovered that Ailes used his budget to target journalists reporting negatively about him, according to New York Magazine.
- Exhuming history: censored Jewish text brought to light by Library and Archives Canada
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Words that were once lost to history have been brought into the light by book conservationists at Library and Archives Canada. The 16th-century collection of sermons were by a rabbi and philosopher who sought to keep the faith alive during a dark era of persecution and censorship, when Jews were facing possible expulsion from their homes if they did not convert to Christianity.
- France's National Front Draws Strength From Brexit
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
The party has long shrouded racism in the language of "self-determination" -- now, they feel vindicated.
- Liberal Antiwar Activism is the Problem
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First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Every election season, veterans and their families are used as political pawns. During the Democratic National Convention in Philly, the Khans, the mother and father of a Marine Captain who was killed in Iraq, conveniently filled the role for Hillary Clinton and the Neoliberals. At the Republican National Convention, Patricia Smith gladly took the stage for the Neofascists and talked about the death of her son and the non-scandal that is, Benghazi. In the meantime, anyone who opposes U.S. Empire is shit-out-of-luck when it comes to presidential elections and the two major parties. Here, we should commend Gary Johnson and Jill Stein for remaining principled in their views surrounding foreign policy, militarism, torture and surveillance. They’re the last of a dying breed.
- The shocking story of Israel's disappeared babies
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First Published: 2016
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New information has come to light about thousands of mostly Yemeni children believed to have been abducted in the 1950s.
- Tharparkar: Pakistan's ongoing catastrophe
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First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
More than 1,500 children under the age of five have died in the Tharparkar district of Pakistan's Sindh province since 2011. Each year, as the death toll climbs, reports are sought, commissions created and emergency plans announced by the provincial government. But none of these seem able to stop the recurring problems plaguing this vast 20,000sq km district.
- Is this Europe's best secret museum?
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First Published: 2016
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In a small German town, a museum dedicated to life in the GDR – with everything from crank-handled calculators to Communist doilies – exists, virtually undiscovered, in one man's attic.
- My Mother, Stopped for Driving While Black
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First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
When the police pulled their guns on my mother, I reached for my phone and told her to be calm and do as they say. My parents and I had just been swarmed by police cars, sirens blaring, as we drove on I-64 through Virginia. Shock and fear consumed my family as we came to a stop and were ordered out of the vehicle at gun point. A third car even showed up to stop traffic. The officers then arrested my mother without any explanation. I felt helpless.
- Files linking Britain to Israel's nuclear weapons go missing from National Archives
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First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Official documents on Britain's relationship with Israel, including papers on "military and nuclear collaboration" in the 1970s, have disappeared from the National Archives in the last four years.
- Our 10 pledges to rebuild and transform Britain
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Jeremy Corbyn - 10 Pledges to Rebuild and Transforme Britain: Full employment and an economy that works for all; A secure homes guarantee; Security at work; Secure our NHS and social care; A national education service, open to all; Action to secure our environment; Put the public back into our economy and services; Cut income and wealth inequality; Action to secure an equal society; Peace and justic at the heart of foreign policy.
- Cities Need More Public Transit, Not More Uber and Self-Driving Cars
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First Published: 2016
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In the near future, it is likely that cities will come under intense pressure to sacrifice public transportation in favor of new, private, car-dependent alternatives, even at a time when city planners are suggesting reducing or even eliminating car use in cities.The article looks into the benefits of the new technologies, as well as benefits of public transit.
- Milosevic exonerated, as the NATO war machine moves on
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First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
When Slobodan Milosevic, the former Present of Yugoslavia, was put on trial in 2002 for alleged war crimes, the Western mainstream media went into full hue-and-cry mode in denouncing the man they called "The Butcher of the Balkans." Milosevic's guilt was taken as a given. Anyone who dared to challenge the NATO line was labeled a Milosevic apologist, or a genocide denier, Now, fourteen years later, and ten years after Milosevic died in a prison cell in The Hague without ever having been convicted of anything, the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) has quietly issued a report which states that, er, well actually, Milosevic was not guilty. That piece of news has been met with complete silence in the same media that trumpted Milosevic's guilt.
- The New York Times Outrage at Trumps Refusal to Demonize Russia
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Donald Trump is criticized by the American media for behaving in a diplomatic manner towards Russia, as opposed to vilifying Russia.
- Brazen, extortionate: Photographer sues Getty Images for $1bn after copyright claim on her work
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First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Photographer Carol M. Highsmith is suing Getty Images for $1 billion in damages for using her images after she was slapped with a lawsuit from a company which screamed infringement after she published one of her own photos on her website. It turns out Highsmith had no idea Getty was making any money off of her 18,755 photos, which, as she specified on her website, were donated "copyright-free" to the US Library of Congress. This means they were to be available to the public freely.
- The doctor who is besting big tobacco
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First Published: 2016
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When Dr Bronwyn King discovered her pension fund was investing in the cigarette companies that were killing her cancer patients, she was staggered. And she knew she had to act
- Political correctness demands diversity in everything but thought
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First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
For 50 years I've been painstakingly cataloguing the brutal militarism and human-rights violations of US foreign policy, building up in the process a very loyal audience. To my great surprise, when I recently wrote about the brutal militarism and human-rights violations of the Islamic State, I received more criticism from my readers than I've gotten for anything I've ever written. Dozens of them asked to be removed from my mailing list, as many as I'd normally get in a full year. Others were convinced that it couldn’t actually be me who was the author of such words, that I must have been hacked. Some wondered whether my recent illness had affected my mind. Literally! And almost all of the Internet magazines which regularly print me did not do so with this article.
- America's hidden homeless: Life in the Starlight Motel
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First Published: 2016
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A motel in Massachusetts reveals the extent of the US' hidden homelessness problem. Residents share their stories.
- How to Understand Someone With Chronic Pain
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First Published: 2016
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Chronic pain is pain that continues for weeks, months and even years. The experience of acute pain is the nervous system’s natural response to possible injury. With chronic pain, however, pain signals continue abnormally. This can be both distressing and exhausting for chronic pain sufferers. In some cases of chronic pain, there was an injury, illness or infection that first caused the pain. In other people, though, chronic pain appears and continues without a history of these events. To understand chronic pain sufferers, you should learn about chronic pain, be supportive and know what to say and what not to.
- Russia misses out while former drug cheats take their place in Rio
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First Published: 2016
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While Russia’s track and field team, including athletes with no doping history, sit out the Rio 2016 Olympic Games, there's a host of athletes who will be allowed to compete in Brazil despite having had their own issues with banned substances. In addition to International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) decision to ban entire Russian track and field team from Rio Olympics (with only one exclusion – the long-jumper Darya Klishina, who lives and trains in USA), the International Olympic Committee (IOC) stated that Russian athletes with any doping history will not be allowed to compete in Rio, even if they have served a penalty. Here's a look at some of the drug-tainted athletes from other countries, who meanwhile will be able to take their place in Rio.
- Sources HotLink - July 30, 2016
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This issue centres around the theme of injustice. The injustice of mass murder in Nice, France, the injustice of police violence against African Americans and the injustice of imprisoning those who stand up to police violence. Around the world, we look at Oligarchs who have the power to not only control the world’s money but also the world’s information.
Media professionals get old school with newspaper advertisements and interviews. Film buffs learn about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and bookworms learn about American elections.
- European Unification Divides Europeans: How Forcing People Together Tears Them Apart
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First Published: 2016
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Unification of Europe has brought about radical new divisions within Europe. The most significant split is between the people and their political leaders.
- Breedlove Network Sought Weapons Deliveries for Ukraine
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First Published: 2016
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Working with dubious sourcing, a group close to NATO's chief military commander Philip Breedlove sought to secure weapons deliveries for Ukraine, a trove of newly released emails revealed. The efforts served to intensify the conflict between the West and Russia.
- Brexit: the British Working Class has Just Yawned Awake
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First Published: 2016
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The referendum has engaged all kinds of people who were politically indifferent 6 months ago.
- Civil unrest leads to media crackdown in Kashmir, India
Sources News Release
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The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) joins its affiliates the Indian Journalists' Union (IJU) in strongly condemning the ongoing media crackdown by the state in Jammu and Kashmir, in north-western India.
- EFF Lawsuit Takes on DMCA Section 1201: Research and Technology Restrictions Violate the First Amendment
Sources News Release
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First Published: 2016
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The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) has sued the U.S. government on behalf of technology creators and researchers to overturn onerous provisions of copyright law that violate the First Amendment.
- Online crackdown sees online sites shut down en-masse in China
Sources News Release
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First Published: 2016
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The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) strongly criticises the recent crackdown by the Cyberspace Administration of China on online media, with several online outlets shut down. The IFJ demands an immediate investigation into the actions
- Professor Homa Hoodfar -- detained in Iran
Sources News Release
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First Published: 2016
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On the arrest in Iran of renowned anthropologist and Concordia University Professor Homa Hoodfar.
- The Real Secret of the South China Sea
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The South China Sea is the ultimate geopolitical flashpoint of the 21st century. The future of Asia is at stake.
- Turkey: EU must hold Turkish President accountable for press freedom violations
Sources News Release
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First Published: 2016
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As arrests of journalists and media closure continue the International and the European Federation of Journalists (IFJ/EFJ) call on the European Union to take additional steps to hold Turkish president Erdogan accountable for press freedom breaches
- Turkey: Press Freedom in the grip of major crackdown following failed coup
Sources News Release
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First Published: 2016
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An ongoing crackdown on the media in Turkey has led to the arrests of more journalists and raids on their homes. The International and the European Federation of journalists (IFJ/EFJ) today denounced the deterioration of democratic rule
- Ban of Russian Olympic Team: Cold War at its "Best"!
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First Published: 2016
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The West is using both old and new tactics to demonize and discredit all of its opponents, in what is becoming a new Cold War.
- Hackers can record everything you type on certain wireless keyboards
Some low-end wireless keyboards send keystrokes to your computer completely unencrypted, say researchers
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First Published: 2016
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A computer security research team has identified a weakness in several brands of low-cost wireless keyboards that could allow hackers to view and record every word, number and password typed by a user from up to about 75 metres away. According to Bastille, an Atlanta-based research team, eight wireless keyboards made by companies such as Hewlett-Packard, Radio Shack and Toshiba send keystroke data from the board to the USB dongle that connects to your computer without the encryption needed to mask what someone is typing.
- In Solidarity with Imprisoned Poet, Ashraf Fayadh
Sentenced to death on charges of apostasy and promoting atheism, Ashraf had his sentence reduced to eight years and 800 lashes
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First Published: 2016
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Countless people, including the poet Ashraf Fayadh, are imprisoned because of things they wrote.
- Smartphone addiction is part of the design
The Slot Machine in Your Pocket
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First Published: 2016
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Examining the methods by which smartphone apps are created to demand constant, repeated attention, and offers a proposal to promote apps which avoid these pitfalls and promote better use of user's time.
- TTIP: The most dangerous weapon in the hands of the fossil fuel industry
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Looks into the impact that the TTIP papers will have on the fossil fuel industry and Climate Action.
- Climate Migrants Lead Mass Migration to India's Cities
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South Asia will be severely impacted by climate change and cause challenges that the government must resolve.
- Forests and Crops Make Friendly Neighbors in Costa Rica
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First Published: 2016
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The ways to better agricultural development is to promote co-existence of farming and forestry, and encourage farmers to be productive and competitive.
- The Importance of Making Trouble: In conversation with Frances Fox Piven
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Coversation with Frances Fox Piven, a Distinguished Professor of Political Science and Sociology at the City of University of New York Graduate Centre and the past president of the American Sociological Association, about the importnace of social movements and upcoming 2016 US election.
- The Scourge of Youth Detention
The Northern Territory, Torture, and Australia’s Detention Disease
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First Published: 2016
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Australia tolerates gulags that house intrepid asylum seekers, and other similarly deemed undesirables.
- US must stop playing with nuclear hellfire
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First Published: 2016
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The chances of nuclear destruction are higher than in the Cold War due to recent US foreign policy actions, including the positioning of armed forces positioned on Russia's borders.
- Baldur
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First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
The Baldur (854/16) is a Box camera made by Zeiss Ikon from 1934 onwards.
- Erdogan is Strengthened by the Failed Coup, But Turkey is the Loser
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First Published: 2016
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Looks into the impact of the recent (2016) coup attempt in Turkey and President Recep Tayyip Erdogan's counter-coup.
- FSNL, 1979 and today: Nicaragua's compromised revolution
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First Published: 2016
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The Sandinista revolution happened over 30 years ago, but FSLN has completely altered within the past few years to a neoliberal organization.
- Guardian tries to silence Democrat Leak Scandal
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First Published: 2016
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The Democratic National Convention had their emails leaked which proved their attempt at swinging the vote for Hillary Clinton. The Guardian newspaper seems to show bias for Hillary Clinton in their response.
- Millions of people yearning for a "Brexit" from destructive trade deals
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First Published: 2016
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While the votes for Brexit, and the support for Trump, may not always choose the best political framing, politicians and elites would be arrogant to dismiss the widespread discontent with the status quo.
- Open Source Software: a necessary tool to build our movements | What's Left
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First Published: 2016
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Software companies are exploitative and other companies should invest in unionized products, condem work to lower wages and act in solidarity with other workers in the software industry.
- The Political Is Political: In Conversation With Yasmin Nair
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An activist and writer based in Chicago, Nair is one of the founders of Against Equality, a group that was born in 2009, initially as an online archive of pieces that were critical of the gay-marriage movement and mainstream gay politics.
- Workers and Climate Change: July 23, 2016 issue of Other Voices
Sources News Release
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Workers and Climate Change is the focus of the July 23, 2016 issue of Other Voices, the Connexions newsletter.
- Neoliberalism Is a Political Project
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David Harvey gives his views on what neoliberalism is, how it unfolds, and what resistance to it looks like.
- Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - July 23, 2016
Workers and Climate Change
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First Published: 2016
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Working people -- and most of us are workers -- are affected by climate change in every aspect of our lives. As climate change worsens, our lives will worsen. If we are successful in bringing about the needed rapid change away from a fossil fuel based economy, working people are the ones who stand to bear most of the costs, including the cost, for millions of workers and their families, of losing their jobs.
Many elements of the environmental movement have been guilty of ignoring working people, while others actually blame ordinary working people for climate change and the injustices associated with it. Yet it is working people who are dying, in many places, even now, from excessive heat in factories, fields, construction sites, and homes. And million of working people stand to lose their jobs, homes, and communities in the transition to a low-carbon or no-carbon economy.
- Extinction
A Radical History
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First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Some thousands of years ago, the world was home to an immense variety of large mammals. From wooly mammoths and saber-toothed tigers to giant ground sloths and armadillos the size of automobiles, these spectacular creatures roamed freely. Then human beings arrived. Devouring their way down the food chain as they spread across the planet, they began a process of voracious extinction that has continued to the present. This relentless extinction, Ashley Dawson contends in a primer that combines vast scope with elegant precision, is the product of a global attack on the commons, the great trove of air, water, plants and creatures, as well as collectively created cultural forms such as language, that have been regarded traditionally as the inheritance of humanity as a whole.
- Political Correctness: Handle with Care
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First Published: 2016
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Racial, gender, and ethnic diversity matters, of course, but political correctness (PC) tied to bourgeois identity politics can be deadly to left thinkers and activists and to the causes of peace and social justice.
- Race and class in the United States: J. Sakai and the politics of revolution
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First Published: 2016
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Doug Greene offers a critique of J. Sakai's 1989 work, Settlers: The Mythology of the White Proletariat.
- Social Media for Academics
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An introduction to Mark Carrigan’s how-to guide, Social Media for Academics, with its lessons on how to be aware of your audience.
- Why Black Lives Matters Is Taking on Police Unions
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First Published: 2016
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Black Lives Matter argues that the police associations have to be challenged head-on because of their power in preventing change.
- Why Corbyn so terrifies the liberal elite
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First Published: 2016
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Most Labour MPs would rather destroy their own party than let Jeremy Corbyn and his backers make it fit for its 21st century purpose.
- Before the parade
A History of Halifax's Gay, Lesbian, and Bisexual Communities, 1972-1984
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First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Halifax's first generation of gay and lesbian elders forged a rainbow path that LGBTQIA and Two-Spirited activists continue to march down today.
- Former Cleanup Workers Blame Illnesses on Toxic Coal Ash Exposures
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First Published: 2016
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There have been numerous cases of workers getting sick after exposure to ash.
- Interactive map of Latino urban riots and social unrest
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A map that displays Latino riots in the United States from 1964 to 2016.
- Charting Environmental Conflict - The Atlas of Environmental Justice
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First Published: 2016
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Another tool supporting the growing movement and better global awareness is the Atlas of Environmental Justice. The EJAtlas is packed with qualitative information about almost 1800 environmental conflicts.
- Turkey: A War of Two Coups
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First Published: 2016
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On 15 July 2016 a huge section of the Turkish armed forces attempted to take power from the government of Recep Tayyip Erdogan and the AKP, came very close to its objective, but was ultimately defeated. This article examines the causes of the failed coup and its social and political effects on the Turkish society from a Marxist perpective.
- Full of holes
Why Australia's mining boom will leave permanent scars
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First Published: 2016
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Describing the environmental impact following the end of Australia's coal boom.
- Green transformation is a political project, not an economic one
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There is a need for public policy in order for green initiatives to be tangiblem in-depth projects.
- In the US, money talks when it comes to Israel
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Investigates the 2016 Democratic and Republican presidential candidates and their allegiance to Israel.
- The Attempts to disappear Garifuna people
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First Published: 2016
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Development projects pushed by the government in the Atlantic coast threaten the survival of afro-descendant communities.
- The Unfair Narrative on Global Warming and Development: Why it must be challenged
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First Published: 2016
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Industries that majorly contribute to climate change are being subsidized, while more marginalized industries receive vey little to mitigate the impact of climate change.
- Israel seeks to 'publicly shame' human rights groups
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The Israeli government is being accused of implementing a campaign that criminalizes human rights groups.
- Pemulwuy
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Pemulwuy (aka Pimbloy, Pemulvoy, Pemulwoy, Pemulwye) (c1750 - 2 June 1802) was an Aboriginal Australian man born around 1750 in the area of Botany Bay in New South Wales. He is noted for his resistance to the European settlement of Australia which began with the arrival of the First Fleet in 1788. He is believed to have been a member of the Bidjigal (Bediagal) clan of the Eora people.
- Polyamory and Polygamy: Is the Media Right?
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First Published: 2016
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There are a few of repeated themes emerging in many of the articles railing against polyamorous marriage.
- After Nice, Don't Give ISIS What It's Asking For
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Not much is yet known about Mohamed Lahouaiej Bouhlel, the 31-year-old man French police say is responsible for a horrific act of mass murder last night in the southern city of Nice. In the wake of the killings, French President Francois Hollande has denounced the attack as "Islamist terrorism" linked to the militant group the Islamic State. Supporters of ISIS online have echoed these statements, claiming responsibility for the attack as another blow against its enemies in Western Europe. While the motive for the attack is still under investigation, it is worth examining why the Islamic State is so eager to claim such incidents as its own.
- Canada's Liberal Government Joins NATO's War Escalation
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First Published: 2016
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Canadians who hoped the October 2015 federal election would usher in changes to the aggressive, foreign policy of the defeated Conservative government are wondering what happened to their wishes. The transition in imperialist foreign policy from the Harper Conservatives to the Justin Trudeau-led Liberals has been utterly seamless, if not predictable.
- For 90 years, lightbulbs were designed to burn out. Now that's coming to LED bulbs
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First Published: 2016
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In 1924, representatives of the world's leading lightbulb manufacturers formed Phoebus, a cartel that fixed the average life of an incandescent bulb at 1,000 hours, ensuring that people would have to regularly buy bulbs and keep the manufacturers in business. But hardware store LED bulbs have a typical duty-cycle of 25,000 hours -- meaning that the average American household will only have to buy new bulbs ever 42 years or so.
- The "Fundamentalism" in Police Operations
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First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
As police murders accumulate, and police chiefs get fired and replaced because they cannot stop it (as in Oakland and San Francisco), the notion that this represents a political crisis becomes a truism. It is not a "crisis of policing," which would suggest a situation beyond the capacities of the police. It is the police who have become the crisis. In Oakland, on July 7, 2016, 5000 people came to demonstrate on one day's notice against the two police killings that had occur the previous two days out of a profound awareness of the malignity afoot – and they shut down the Interstate. The magnitude of this crisis is represented by its insidious repetitiveness.
- LGBT: a Dissection
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First Published: 2016
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"LGBT" is everywhere these days. But is it here to stay, or is it a passing fad? Where did it come from? Why was it promoted? By whom? And to what end? How did it acquire its seemingly endless variants? The acronym, in its many permutations, designates a movement very different from the gay liberation movement it evolved from. Some might see it as progress, expansion, and greater inclusivity, others as a tombstone for what was once a radical sexual liberation movement.
- The Life and Resistance of a Chinese Worker
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First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Under China's labour management system, independent unionism is strictly banned, and the state's official trade union body monopolizes worker representation. That means that all of China’s 806,498,521 workers are barred from forming independent organizations to agitate for their interests -- in an economy where the poorest 25 percent of households own just 1 percent of the country’s total wealth, and where long hours, safety hazards, and authoritarian management define life in the factories. This official antagonism has not stopped the emergence of workers' resistance. The number of strikes has been increasing over the past two decades, and as Eli Friedman wrote last year, "on a typical day anywhere from half a dozen to several dozen strikes are likely taking place."
- No Unity of the Police and the Community is Possible or Desirable
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First Published: 2016
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After the police murders of Alton Sterling, 37, of Baton Rouge, Louisiana, and Philando Castile, 32, of St. Paul, Minnesota, we are asked to embrace the police, to form a partnership, to work together. From President Barack Obama on down, Democratic and Republican party politicians have called upon the police and communities to unite to solve our common problems.
- Teamsters and Cops
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First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Minneapolis teamsters in 1934 knew something we should remember -- police enforce the ruling class's unjust order.
- They Throw Us Out of Our Homes But We Get Ice Cream
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First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
If there were any doubt that gentrification has come to my corner of Brooklyn, that was put to rest last weekend with the appearance of an ice cream truck. An ice cream truck painted with the logo and red color of The Economist. Yes, it was just as this reads. Free scoops of ice cream were being given out as a young woman with a clipboard was attempting to get people to sign up for subscriptions to The Economist.
- A Travesty of Financial History: Bank Lobbyists will Applaud
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First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Debt mounts up faster than the means to pay. Yet there is widespread lack of awareness regarding what this debt dynamic implies. From Mesopotamia in the third millennium BC to the modern world, the way in which society has dealt with the buildup of debt has been the main force transforming political relations.
- What's Driving Got to Do With It? How the DMV is Conscripted to Do the Dirty Work of the Criminal Justice System
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First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
In the aftermath of the Ferguson, Missouri protests of the death of Michael Brown in 2014, articles were written about the exorbitant fines assessed against residents of Ferguson, mostly minorities, and how these fines both led to and exacerbated a cycle of incarceration and poverty.
- Jeremy Corbyn's supporters are so dangerous they took over the Labour Party before they were even born
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First Published: 2016
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If you were cynical you might wonder if, despite their ability to reach out to people, Corbyn's opponents feel they'd be unlikely to beat him in a straight vote of members.
- Open Letter To Minister Goodale
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First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
We are doctors, nurses, and healthcare providers working in Canada. It has come to our attention that over 50 men on immigration hold are once again engaging in a hunger strike. They are determined to remain without food until they are granted a meeting with you, Minister Goodale. They have been calling for an end to indefinite immigration detention and inhumane conditions and are now asking to bring their concerns to you in person.
- See You at the Barricades! Three Books That Revive the Memory of the Paris Commune
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First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
For socialists and communists of over a century, the Paris Commune was a defining event. From March 18 to May 28 in 1871, following the collapse of the French Republic and the Prussian siege of the capital, the Communards swore to defend Paris until they were overwhelmed by the French army itself. Karl Marx himself called the temporary self-government of the population the "dictatorship of the proletariat."
- Amazing Brexit: Identity and Class Politics
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First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
This shell of a once fighting left embraces the culture of identity but excludes the entity of class. As a result poverty has become the P-word, and the poor the pariahs of neoliberal dystopic utopia. When we talk about class in a Marxist, materialist, scientific sense, we are talking about a relation of power, specifically about who does and who doesn’t have power to shape society. Identity politics makes this conflict of interests in society invisible. Neoliberal economics, however, is class war. It has advanced in part because identity politics depoliticized the public.
- Billionaires in Brazil: Understanding How Extreme Wealth and Political Power Overlap Everywhere
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First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Alex Cuadros spent years covering the billionaire class of Latin America for Bloomberg. A Portuguese-speaking American journalist who spent years based in Brazil, he has now written a highly entertaining and deeply insightful book about the particularly powerful, flamboyant, assertive, and often-crazed class of Brazilian billionaires. Titled Brazillionaires: Wealth, Power, Decadence, and Hope in an American Country, his new book was released yesterday. Brazillionaires contains important lessons far beyond Brazil.
- Democracy was never intended for degenerates
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First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
This is not a left vs right debate -- today, as a century ago, the anti-democratic impulse comes from both left and right, from both reactionaries and self-defined progressives.
- Gilead Avoided $10 Billion In Taxes On Over Priced Hepatitis C Drugs
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First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
A new drug called Sovaldi, intended to treat Hepatitis C, is incredibly unaffordable and inaccessible for Americans.
- Law Professor's Response to Black Lives Matter Shirt Complaint
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First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
A first year law school student wrote a complaint about her professor having worn a Black Lives Matter T-shirt during class. Here is the professor’s response.
- The Network
Leaked Data Reveals How the U.S. Trains Vast Numbers of Foreign Soldiers and Police With Little Oversight
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First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
- The ABCs of Socialism
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First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
A slim, accessible, inexpensive, irreverent introduction to socialism by the writers of Jacobin magazine.
- Brexit: It's Not About the EU, It's About the EZ
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First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
"Politics is the concentrated essence of economic forces in motion."
Forget the politics of the June 23 Brexit referendum for a minute. Let's take a look at the money.
- Israeli rabbi who advocated rape of 'comely gentile women' during war becomes chief army rabbi
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“New IDF Chief Rabbi: in times of war it is permissible for soldiers to "have sex with comely gentile women against their will".
- MyseumIntersections
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First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
- The Repression in Bahrain
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First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Bahrainis are calling their government's intensified repression of all opposition "the Egyptian strategy", believing that it is modelled on the ruthless campaign by the Egyptian security forces to crush even the smallest signs of dissent.
- Vanishing the People's Wealth to Make the Bosses Richer
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First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Imagine you are a shareholder in a big company and the top executives are sitting on huge amounts of cash and are not interested in putting it to work through productive capital investments, research and development, reducing company debt or paying employees a higher wage. What would you want done about it? Since you and other shareholders are the owners of the company, you'd likely say "give us back our money in cash dividends."
- Genocide by Prescription: The "Natural History" of the Declining White Working Class in America
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First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
The white working class in the US has been decimated through an epidemic of 'premature deaths' -- a bland term to cover-up the drop in life expectancy in this historically important demographic. This is the first time in the country's 'peacetime' history that its traditional core productive sector has experienced such a dramatic demographic decline -- and the epicenter is in the small towns and rural communities of the United States.
- Hunger in Venezuela? A Look Beyond the Spin
Special Report
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First Published: 2016
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Venezuala has food shortages when it comes to specific foods, but there have been grassroots and governmental responses.
- Images of Militarized Police in Baton Rouge Draw Global Attention
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First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Photographs and video of heavily armed police officers wearing body armour and helmets arresting protesters in Baton Rouge over the weekend reverberated on social networks and in the world's media, focusing new attention on the militarization of police forces across the United States.
- In Africa, the U.S. Military Sees Enemies Everywhere
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First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
From east to west across Africa, 1,700 Navy SEALs, Army Green Berets, and other military personnel are carrying out 78 distinct "mission sets" in more than 20 nations, according to documents obtained by The Intercept via the Freedom of Information Act.
- Murray Bookchin's New Life
Whatever their limits, Murray Bookchin's ideas should be studied by today's left
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First Published: 2016
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Murray Bookchin spent fifty years articulating a new emancipatory project, one that would place ecology and the creative human subject at the centre of a new vision of socialism. Here is a thinker, who in the early sixties, declared climate change as one of the defining problems of the age. Bookchin saw the environmental crisis as capitalism's gravedigger.
- Race, class and police murder in America
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First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
In the aftermath of the mass shooting of police officers in Dallas, Texas on July 7, 2016, the American media and political establishment has sought to portray the police killings of unarmed people and widespread protests against police violence as proof of deepening and unbridgeable racial divisions in the United States.
- Robot Cops Are Racist, Too
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First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
As an institution, the police is racist through and through -- irrespective of whether or not particular cops harbor racist views. This is because, among other reasons, as an institution the police is an appendage of the larger institution of property. And property, in the US at the very least, is inextricable from racist dispossessions, and reproductions, of wealth. That is, in addition to manifesting other aspects of domination, property is racist.
- Vladimir Putin Is the Only Leader the West Has
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First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
A Reuters news report under the names of presstitutes Robin Emmott and Sabine Siebold shows how devoid the West is of honest, intelligent and responsible journalists and government officials.
- I Was Sick for a Year After an Oil Spill. Five Years Later, Pipeline Accidents Are Worsening
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First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Early in the morning on July 2, 2011, I walked down the gravel road on our Montana farm to let the goats out to graze for the day. I found an oily rainbow sheen on the Yellowstone River flowing through our hay fields and pasture, plus large clumps of crude oil sticking to trees, cattails and brush. The oily water was in our sloughs, our pond and the creek that runs along the eastern edge of the farm. I checked the local news on my phone and found that an Exxon oil pipeline had ruptured underneath the Yellowstone River upstream. More than 300 people upstream from us were evacuated, but no one had thought to notify those of us further from the spill. The smell of hydrocarbons was overwhelming. In the end, more than 63,000 gallons of crude oil spilled into the Yellowstone River from what we later learned was a "guillotine cut" in Exxon's Silvertip pipeline, which lay in a trench only four to five feet under the Yellowstone River.
- Noam Chomsky and Over 100 Intellectuals Denounce 'Savage' Media Treatment of Britain's Jeremy Corbyn
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First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
"We do not expect journalists to give any elected leader an easy ride," a letter published in The Guardian and signed by more than 100 intellectuals reads, "but Corbyn has been treated from the start as a problem to be solved rather than as a politician to be taken seriously."
- Class Is in Session
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First Published: 2016
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Millennials are better educated than ever. They also overwhelmingly identify as working class.
- The Media Against Jeremy Corbyn
The British media has launched an unprecedented campaign of disinformation against Jeremy Corbyn
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First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
The British media has never had much time for Jeremy Corbyn. Within a week of his election as Labour Party leader in September, it was engaging in a campaign the Media Reform Coalition characterized as an attempt to "systematically undermine" his position. In an avalanche of negative coverage 60 percent of all articles which appeared in the mainstream press about Corbyn were negative with only 13 percent positive. The newsroom, ostensibly the objective arm of the media, had an even worse record: 62 percent negative with only 9 percent positive.
- Toward a socialist future: Children's picture books after the Bolshevik Revolution
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First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
The Russian Revolution of 1917 was the defining event of the 20th century. Its influence extended across virtually every aspect of human society the world over. The scope for study of the revolution and of the social order that emerged from it is immense, though generally overlooked in contemporary art curation. It comes as a welcome exception to see the attempt by London's House of Illustration art gallery in its exhibition, A New Childhood: Picture Books from Soviet Russia, to bring to light the artistic impetus lent by the revolution to children's book illustrations in early Soviet society.
- As Police Killings of Minorities Mount, Attacks on Police Like the One in Dallas, While Awful, Are Also Sadly Predictable
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First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
The tragedy that is America has deepened with the news of a sniper attack targeting police in Dallas during a protest march and rally against police brutality and killings of black people in that city. The murder of anybody, whether it's a police officer or someone who is simply stopped by a cop for a minor traffic violation and is then shot because a jumpy officer mistakes reaching for a wallet to be reaching for a gun, as happened just two days ago in Minnesota, is a dreadful thing.
- The Gatekeepers Aren't Gone
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First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Viral content seems democratic. But it's still mostly controlled by big media companies.
- Guide to the UFW Canadian Boycott: Toronto Office Audio-Visual Collection LAV002473
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First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
The UFW Canadian Boycott was part of a series of U.S. nation-wide boycotts that the United Farm Workers spearheaded during the mid 1960s and 1970s. These boycotts alerted the national consumer of the grape and lettuce strikes that had erupted in California, Texas, Arizona and other states. The main duties of the Toronto Boycott office were to enlist support for the striking farm workers by soliciting donations, spreading information and organizing marches and rallies.
- An Immediate End to Police Brutality and Murder of Black People by Police
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First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
The Black Panther Party remains unfulfilled fifty years after the Party's founding. This truth is a tragic acknowledgement of both the failure of US capitalism to resolve its greatest disgrace and an admission that it may not be able to. The unpunished murders of Black men by police are just the most graphic proof of this truth.
- NATO Prepares for War: Confrontation and Insanity
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First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
The US-NATO military alliance is gearing up for war, and its meeting 8-9 July, 2016 is yet another step to nuclear confrontation and a gigantic leap backwards in world sanity. The gathering in Warsaw, capital of implacably anti-Russia Poland (NATO member since 1999, when the US-inspired military push towards Russia's borders gathered further momentum), is a symbol of Western determination to menace Moscow.
- Some Pundits Think the Solution to Right-Wing Populism Is Less Democracy
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First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
The core orthodoxies of neoliberalism are under attack by populist forces, and commentators are scrambling for a response. Some are suggesting more left-wing red meat. Others, a moment of self-reflection. But a number of pundits are doing that most noxious of political commentary pastimes -- equating right and left responses to the failures of globalization and advocating that "elites" should fight back against the forces of inconvenient democracy.
- How Hitler's Rise to Power Explains Why Republications Accept Donald Trump
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First Published: 2016
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To watch Donald Trump rant and rave uncontrollably on the stump and on Twitter -- praising Saddam Hussein for his disregard for civil liberties, insisting the anti-Semitic propaganda he inadvertently borrowed from neo-Nazis is as innocent as a Disney poster -- is to ponder the psychology of a party that would entrust supreme executive authority to a racist, nationalistic, power-worshiping demagogue.
To be perfectly clear, Trump is not Hitler or a Nazi. Trump’s racism is not of the genocidal variety, and he is committed neither to a program of Darwinian racial conquest nor the principled imposition of one-party rule. If President Trump does start a world war, it would probably be as a result of blundering rather than a long-term master plan. But the two figures do have certain traits in common relative to the political environments they inhabit.
- If You Like Obama, You'll Love Trump!
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Oh, what fun we have with the nonsense that flows out of the mouth of Donald J. Trump. The man is suffocatingly banal, racist, dishonest, inarticulate, uninformed, uneducated, narcissistic, a bully, just plain stupid, and an asshole (or in the immortal words of my people -- a schmuck!) I would guess that as the boss of his own enterprises for many years, with the power and the habit of firing people, he eventually became deeply accustomed to not having his thoughts seriously questioned or challenged, to the extent that he really believes the crap that comes out of his mouth and doesn’t really understand what others actually think of him.
- Iraq's Weapons of Mass Destruction: Who Said What When
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This is a list of quotations is excerpted from Imperial Crusades: a Diary of Three Wars.
- Prominent groups to portage red canoe with over 35,000 signatures calling on Wynne to clean up Grassy Narrows mercury poison
Sources News Release
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Prominent groups to portage red canoe with over 35,000 signatures calling on Wynne to clean up Grassy Narrows mercury poison
- Rainbow Capital, Queerness, and Black Lives Matter's Shocking Reformism
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Though I support BLM’s policy goals and shock-tactics, their lack of analysis of the forces behind the oppression of Black and other people seems to put them in an awkward place. Their use of shock tactics makes them too radical for the reformists, while their emphasis on piece-meal reforms and little else alienates the radicals. It puts them in a kind of activist nether-space that makes unity difficult.
- Why They Left
Brexit wasn't the first time Europeans rejected the EU, and it won't be the last. Here's what the Left should do.
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The Leave victory in the British referendum represents a moment of political confusion -- a hiatus in the opposition between social classes. No class appears capable of directing events. The ruling class has no clear plans for the future, and seems temporarily stunned.
- Elie Wiesel: Poseur for Peace
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First Published: 2016
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In the midst of another Israeli operation in Lebanon, this one in 2006, Wiesel stood in front of a crowd in Manhattan (along with then Senator Hillary Clinton) and declared "Israel defends herself, and we must say to Israel 'Go on defending yourself.'" His final years didn't slow him down. Wiesel took out a full page ad in newspapers across the country during the 2014 Israel-Gaza conflict fully supporting Israel's effort (Human Rights Watch went on to document several instances of war crimes by the Israeli military) without a syllable about diplomacy except that 'before diplomats can begin in earnest the crucial business of rebuilding dialogue…the Hamas death cult must be confronted for what it is'.
- The Iraq War Was an Act of Military Aggression Launched on a False Pretext: Remarks on the Chilcot Inquiry Report
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The following is a transcript of Jeremy Corbyn's remarks in the House of Commons.
- An Open Letter to the British Left
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Dear friends and comrades, To a foreigner who has been living and working in the United Kingdom for the last sixteen years, the immediate post-referendum situation appears highly paradoxical. It seems as if the shock has been of such a magnitude that even the most celebrated British virtues -- sense of humour, understatement and, above all, solid common sense -- have faded away.
- As Temperatures Climb Across the Country, Workers Will Suffer
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The summer of 2016 is barely two weeks old, but this year is already on track to break high temperature records in the United States. On June 20, cities across the Southwest and into Nevada reached all-time triple-digit highs. Meanwhile, every single state experienced spring temperatures above average, with some in the Northwest reaching record highs. These temperatures have already proved deadly, killing five hikers in Arizona earlier this month. Triple-digit heat earlier that same week is also being blamed for the deaths of two construction workers, 49-year old Dale Heitman in St. Louis, Missouri, on June 15 and 55-year old Thomas F. “Tommy” Barnes on June 14 at the Monsanto campus in nearby Chesterfield, Missouri.
- The elites hate Momentum and the Corbynites - and I'll tell you why
The movement that backed the Labour leader challenges MPs and journalists alike - because it's about grassroots democracy
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As the rolling catastrophe of what's already being called the "chicken coup" against the Labour leadership winds down, pretty much all the commentary has focused on the personal qualities, real or imagined, of the principal players. Yet such an approach misses out on almost everything that's really at stake here. The real battle is not over the personality of one man, or even a couple of hundred politicians. If the opposition to Jeremy Corbyn for the past nine months has been so fierce, and so bitter, it is because his existence as head of a major political party is an assault on the very notion that politics should be primarily about the personal qualities of politicians.
- Ghostbusters, GMOs and the Feigned Expertise of Nobel Laureates
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Last week a controversy erupted just as the Roberts-Stabinow Digital Divide GMO labeling law was being discussed in the Senate. It involves a letter signed by 100+ Nobel laureates attacking Greenpeace for being "anti-scientific" in its stance against the proliferation and continued use of genetically engineered organisms.
- How The Guardian Undermines Jeremy Corbyn and the Left
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First Published: 2016
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teleSUR spoke to David Cromwell and David Edwards, co-editors of Media Lens, about The Guardian and corporate media's bias against Labour party leader Jeremy Cobyn.
- Labor Organizing Across Israel's Apartheid Line: An Interview with Israeli Labor Activist Yoav Tamir
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First Published: 2016
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Yoav Tamir is an organizer with the new Israeli labour union, Workers Advice Center, or WAC-MANN. WAC-MAAN was founded in the late 1990s as (as its name might suggest) a workers' advice center, and began organizing unions and negotiating contracts in 2010. A product of both deepening austerity within Israel as well as the wave of uprisings in the Arab world in 2011, WAC-MAAN organizes both across the racial line and across the Green Line, doing what no other labor organization in Israel or Palestine's history has done: create a multi-ethnic, bi-national workers' movement.
- Democracy and Popular Sovereignty instead of Neoliberal Integration and a failed Euro-System
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This document was commonly developed by people from the Lexit Network. It was written and agreed before the Brexit referendum and was not intended to influence the popular vote one way or another. With the implementation of the European single market and the Maastricht Treaty, European integration was established as a neoliberal project for the long run. The Stability- and Growth Pact, the fundamental freedoms of the single market and the European monetary union, among other elements, constituted a framework that has fueled austerity policies, the dismantling of workers’ rights and the welfare state and imposed privatization throughout the EU member states.
- From political coups to family feuds
how WhatsApp became our favourite way to chat
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How the WhatsApp messaging app has grown in popularity due to it's security and privacy benefits.
- Why we voted leave: voices from northern England - documentary
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A short look at why those in the north of England mainly voted to leave the EU - from Guerrera Films.
- Brexit, Jeremy Corbyn, and Contempt for Democracy
Sources News Release
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The July 2, 2016 issue of Other Voices, the Connexions newsletter, is now out. This issue focuses on Brexit, the British vote to leave the European Union, and on contempt for democracy that has marked the elite reaction and media response to that vote.
- Brexit, Jeremy Corbyn, and Contempt for Democracy
Introduction to the July 2, 2016 issue of Other Voices
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A constant theme in elite reaction to the Brexit referendum, expressed especially through the mainstream media, has been a visceral contempt for democracy. Ordinary working people are portrayed as stupid and reactionary, incapable of understanding how wonderful the European Union project is. Again and again, one hears the comment that the great unwashed should not be allowed to vote on issues which they are incapable of understanding. This reaction is not new: ruling classes for centuries have loathed democracy, which is seen as an existential threat to the wealth and privileges of the elite.
- Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - July 2, 2016
Brexit, Jeremy Corbyn, and Contempt for Democracy
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Brexit, the British vote to leave the European Union, has thrown the political elites into turmoil and confusion. The referendum was supposed to be a safe political manoeuvre, a way to produce an appearance of democratic legitimacy for the profoundly undemocratic structures of the EU. The gambit turned out to be a spectacular miscalculation, as millions of people turned out to express their opposition to a state of affairs that is leaving the majority worse off while enriching a small minority. This issue of Other Voices looks at the Brexit referendum, elite loathing for democracy, and the related attempt to get rid of Labour's leftwing leader, Jeremy Corbyn.
- Brexit: the English and Welsh Enlightenment
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By voting for Brexit the English and Welsh have switched on the light. And, as usual, when the light suddenly conquers the dark the cracks become obvious and the cockroaches scatter. It’s a beautiful sight. The speculators and the hoarders are running for cover. And their liberal apologists are blinded.
- Converging on Philadelphia
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First Published: 2016
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At the "Socialist Convergence" and other spaces in Philly the weekend before and week of the DNC, socialists should argue for an orientation toward movements rather than narrow electoralism.
- The Domestic Workers' Movement
Household Workers Unite: The Untold Story of African American Women Who Built A Movement
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First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Book review of Premilla Nadasen's Household Workers Unite: The Untold Story of African American Women Who Built A Movement.
- Electoral Strategy After Bernie's Campaign
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First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Supporters of Bernie Sanders wagered that his campaign would be the most important event in the development of socialist politics in decades. There is at least some evidence to suggest that this prediction was correct.
- Fascinating Antifascism
Fire and Blood: The European Civil War, 1914-1945
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Book review of Enzo Traverso's Fire and Blood: The European Civil War, 1914-1945.
- Get out there and organise
The excitement of activism has supplanted slowly organized structures working for social and political change
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First Published: 2016
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While there has been an explosion of activism over the past couple of decades, the left must better cultivate organizing to make activism more sustainable and effective.
- Greece is sold off and sold out
Greece's public assets, including ports and airports, went at discount prices to predatory buyers who will deprive the state of much - need
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First Published: 2016
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A recent study has concluded that privatisation in Europe has undermined wage structures, made working conditions worse and increased income inequality; nowhere is this exemplified more than in Greece.
- Happy Activism
Six ways to make our movement strong and feed our spirit.
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First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
How do we make environmental organizations attractive to large numbers of people? And how do we keep these folks engaged for the years, even decades that it will take to create a sustainable society? My interest here is not to enumerate people’s reasons for activism but rather, based on these reasons, to articulate principles that movement organizers should follow to bring people to the cause.
- Keep your mouths shut
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The media coverage of union and Nuit Debout protests in France are evidence that publications and channels now serve only the wealthy and influencial.
- Making Green Jobs Good Jobs
Unions organize the clean energy sector
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First Published: 2016
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Jobs versus the environment -- it's an old dilemma that pits unions seeking work for their members against activists rallying against projects like the Keystone XL. An expanding renewable energy sector might provide a way out of this quandary. Solar and wind energy projects can put people to work without imperiling the planet. But will these jobs be friendly to workers, as well as the environment?
- Marx on Financial Bubbles: Much Keener Insights Than Contemporary Economists
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First Published: 2016
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While paying homage to Marx for his profound understanding of "the laws of motion of the capitalist mode of production," most contemporary economists argue that, nonetheless, his economic analysis cannot be of much service when it comes to the study of modern banking and big finance, since these are relatively recent, post-Marx developments. I will argue in this essay that, in fact, a careful reading of his work on "fictitious capital" reveals keen insights into a better understanding of the instabilities of today's financial markets.
- Muhammad Ali: Free Black Man
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Muhammad Ali spoke truth to power. Even after he became ill with Parkinson's disease and eventually lost much of his verbal skills, he stood by his militant spirit and youth. He never apologized for his words or action.
- Orlando: Home-Grown Terror
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In some ways the most shocking thing about Orlando may be that it's hardly shocking at all, in context. Only the scale is unusual.
- Political Revolution -- What Is It?
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The editors discuss Bernie Sanders' concept of a political revolution, as well as the terror attack in Orlando.
- Radioactive waste and the nuclear war on Australia's Aboriginal people
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Australia's nuclear industry has a shameful history of 'radioactive racism' that dates from the British bomb tests in the 1950s. The same attitudes persist today with plans to dump over half a million tonnes of high and intermediate level nuclear waste on Aboriginal land, and open new uranium mines. But now Aboriginal peoples and traditional land owners are fighting back.
- Rainbows and Weddings
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It is utterly ironic that not a hundred years ago the West tried to "civilize" us by criminalizing homosexual conduct, and now the West wishes to "civilize" us by decriminalizing the homosexual conduct that it criminalized in the first place, all the while producing us as the "barbarians" that they have the duty to correct.
- Rape as Colonial Legacy
The Beginning and End of Rape
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First Published: 2016
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Book review of Sarah Deer's The Beginning and End of Rape.
- Rasmea Odeh's Appeal Gains
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First Published: 2016
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Palestinian activist and Chicago community leader Rasmea Odeh is gaining ground in her struggle for a new trial, following her 2014 conviction for "unlawful procurement of naturalization."
- Reactionary Tide in Latin America
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First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
The oligarchic reaction against the leftist governments never ceased during the past 15 years, but now it has achieved some very substantial victories.
- Refugees and Capitalism
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First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
The process of escaping violence has turned into a "journey of death" for millions of refugees. For Syrian refugees it is also a journey of "no return."
- Reimagining the Harper's Ferry Revolt
The Good Lord Bird
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First Published: 2016
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Book review of James McBride's The Good Lord Bird.
- A Response to Rebecca Hill
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Timothy Messer-Kruse responds to Rebecca Hill's review of his book The Trial of the Haymarket Anarchists: Terrorism and Justice in the Gilded Age.
- The Silence of the Left: Brexit, Euro-Austerity and the T-TIP
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First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
The media in the United States have treated the British vote against remaining in the European Union (EU) as if it is populist “Trumpism,” an inarticulate right-wing vote out of ignorance at being left behind by the neoliberal economic growth policy. What is left out of this picture is that there is a sound logic to oppose membership in the EU.
- Terrifying Prospects
This Muslim American Life: Dispatches from the War on Terror
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First Published: 2016
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Book review of Moustafa Bayoumi's This Muslim American Life: Dispatches from the War on Terror.
- Time for an Independent Party
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More than in most presidential cycles, there is reason to hope for a mass breakaway in 2016. Sanders' campaign has revealed that a mass base exists now for an independent party of the left.
- Truth and Fiction in Elie Wiesel"s "Night"
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First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
When in trouble, head for Auschwitz, preferably in the company of Elie Wiesel. It's as foolproof a character reference as is available today, at least within the Judeo-Christian sphere of moral influence.
- Turbulent 1970s Revisited
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First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Book reviews of Michael Simanga's Amiri Baraka and the Congress of African People: History and Memory, and Aaron J. Leonard's and Conor A. Gallagher's Heavy Radicals:
The FBI's Secret War on America's Maoists: The Revolutionary Union/
Revolutionary Communist Party, 1968-1980.
- Understanding the Cataclysm
Cataclysm 1914: The First World War and the Making of Modern World Politics
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First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Book review of Alexander Anievas' Cataclysm 1914: The First World War and the Making of Modern World Politics.
- "A warm reminder of humanity's less barbaric traits"
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Published: 2016
- Washington's Not-So-Invisible Hand: It's Not Economics, It's Empire
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First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Scottish philosopher Adam Smith famously noted the "invisible hand" of the market that supposedly shaped the character of economies near and far. The rightwing neoliberal capitalist movement, dominant in the West since the early Seventies, has turned this phrase into the sacrosanct dictum of its secular religion. All human behaviour must be submitted to the "free market." (This is the notional credo, but in practice corporate elites are subsidized, bailout out, and given every possible taxpayer benefit to ensure higher private profits.) So now, when nations fail, it is typically said in the media to be the product of a) a crazed dictator threatening counterintuitive genocide on his own people; or b) foolish state interventions by deranged socialist ideologues.
- What is the Next Left?
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I think it is going to be very difficult to build national organizations that function under the control and as an expression of grassroots movements at this point; however, I think there is some real possibility for accomplishing this at the local level.
- Whither the "Political Revolution"?
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A new generation is forming its political identity - large numbers of youth, the majority of whom belong to the working class or a collapsing "middle class," have been shaped by the Sanders phenomenon in ways that will last long after this election. They are open to socialist ideas, and many have gained experience in organizing.
- The Funny Business of Farm Credit
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First Published: 2016
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In May of 1998 we held a conference dedicated to two Government-sponsored Enterprises (GSEs) -- Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. In my statement to that assembly, I noted that both corporations had been enjoying good times, but cautioned that one of the unintended consequences of fat profits over a long period is the tendency of both government and private corporations to start believing in the fantasy of ever-rising profits. GSEs often escape the accountability that Congress or regulatory agencies should impose.
- Guardian sinks into gutter on Corbyn - again
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First Published: 2016
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Jeremy Corbyn today launched a review into the Labour party's supposed "anti-semitism crisis" -- in fact, a crisis entirely confected by a toxic mix of the right, Israel supporters and the media. I have repeatedly pointed out that misleading claims of anti-semitism (along with much else) are being thrown at Corbyn to discredit him.
- How a PR company manufactured the Labour coup - Part I
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First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
As the chaos surrounding Jeremy Corbyn continues at an unprecedented rate, The Canary can exclusively reveal more elements to the Labour coup that has been unfolding since the EU referendum result. In an overarching investigation, more links have come to light between Portland Communications, its subsidiaries and parent company, members of staff both there and at the Fabian Society and the Progress wing of the party.
- Liberals Need to Stop Writing Off Non-College Educated Workers -- Before the White Working Class Writes Off Liberals
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First Published: 2016
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Article focuses on American elections and candidate's strategy on providing economic security for the working class and uneducated citizens.
- Response to May '68 Revisited
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First Published: 2016
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"May '68 was another step in the modernization of French capitalism." So was 1789, but it was a lot more too.
- The right-wing, racialist attacks on the film Free State of Jones
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First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
The new film written and directed by Gary Ross, Free State of Jones, about a white farmer in Mississippi, Newton Knight, who led an insurrection against the Confederacy from 1863 to 1865, has come under sharp attack by right-wing elements in the American media. By right-wing elements, we mean the "new right" of identity politics advocates.
- Sources HotLink - June 30, 2016
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Articles about the FBI and the information it gathers, Donald Trump and the media, and the role of pharmaceutical companies in suppressing information.
- We must win back democracy, even if it takes Hedges' revolution
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
While the banks, elites, and the super-rich have been scrambling to try to hold onto their billions following the UK's shocking vote to exit from the European Union, the anger expressed by the leave side was another emotional cry to end the control that corporations and the elite have over everyday people in many Western countries.
- Birth-Control Wars: Two Centuries of Struggle
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
The birth-control wars have reached a new level of contestation. On June 27th 2016, the Supreme Court struck down a Texas law -- Whole Woman’s Health v. Hellerstedt -- that sought to restrict a woman’s right to an abortion and other birth-control medical services.
- Britain, Europe and the Real Crisis
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
The decision by British voters last week to leave the European Union has brutally exposed two features of contemporary British politics. The first is the depth of popular disaffection with mainstream political institutions. The second is the paralysis of the political class in the face of this disaffection.
The Brexit victory was buttressed by a coalition of disparate social groups. Traditional Conservative supporters in the shires and the suburbs have long been suspicious of the European project. Few were surprised that they voted in large numbers against EU membership. What shocked many politicians and pundits about the referendum result was the extent of hostility in traditional Labour Party heartlands, in the North of England, in the Midlands and in the Welsh valleys.
- Digitizing old radical publications
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
The libcom.org library hosts an enormous amount of material. Some of this was digitized and put online for the first time by either our users (thanks!) or one of us who run the site.
But there is still much work to do. Many older publications are in danger of being forgotten. Many more are deteriorating, victim to poor storage and fragile newsprint. We would like to change that.
Donating to our fund will allow us to be better able to digitize these pieces of radical history.
- Killing Corbyn
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
The 'Brexit' referendum vote, split 52% to 48% in favour of leaving the European Union, has been exploited by the 'mainstream' media to launch yet another assault on Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn.
- The Nonviolent History of American Independence
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Often minimized in our history books, the tactics of nonviolent action played a powerful role in achieving American Independence from British rule. Benjamin Naimark-Rowse wrote, "the lesson we learn of a democracy forged in the crucible of revolutionary war tends to ignore how a decade of nonviolent resistance before the shot-heard-round-the-world shaped the founding of the United States, strengthened our sense of political identity, and laid the foundation of our democracy.'
- To My Less-Evilism Haters: A Rejoinder to Halle and Chomsky
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
John Halle has taken to calling my CounterPunch article, No Lesser Evil, Not This Time, "idiotic" and part of the "lunatic and sociopathic left". These pathetic and childlike insults are part of a left that spends more time giving itself a thousand cuts than one good jab at the common enemy. I was even more hurt to read that Chomsky, quoted by Halle, thinks my article represents "left…self-destruction" that is "adding new dimensions" through "contemporary irrationality and refusal to think".
- Free State of Jones: Three cheers!
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
From 1863 to 1865, Newton Knight (1837-1922), a white, antislavery farmer in Jones County in southern Mississippi, led an insurrection against the Confederacy. Inspired by Knight's life and struggle, Free State of Jones, written and directed by Gary Ross, is a fictional account of an enormously compelling, but little known chapter in American history.
- How Western Military Interventions Shaped the Brexit Vote
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Michael Hudson argues that military interventions in the Middle East created refugee streams to Europe that were in turn used by the anti-immigrant right to stir up xenophobia.
- Rescuing Memory: the Humanist Interview with Noam Chomsky
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
- The truth behind the Labour coup, when it really began and who manufactured it
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
An exclusive investigation by The Canary can reveal that the current Labour 'coup' being instigated against Jeremy Corbyn appears to have been orchestrated by a PR company where Tony Blair's arch spin-doctor, Alastair Campbell, is a senior advisor.
- Why bad ideas refuse to die
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
How disproven or easily dismissed ideas and beliefs can still endure in the population.
- Brexit: Establishment Freak Out
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
The "masters of the universe" are shocked and displeased. Increasing numbers of voters are registering their anger, most recently by voting for Brexit in Great Britain. But many who voted for Bernie Sanders and Donald Trump during the recent US primary season were motivated by similar frustrations. And before that, there was Occupy Wall Street, los Indignados in Spain, Syriza in Greece, and other massive protests elsewhere in Europe as well. The reason is simple.
- Brexit and the EU implosion
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
The article looks into the construction of the European Union, Britaint's Brexit choice and Germany's hegemony, particularly in the euro zone.The author talks about a range of ways that financialised monopolies of the imperalist triad (Inited States, Europe, Japan) implement to dominate over the nations of the peripheries and force developing counties into the plunder of their national resources.
- 41 Years Since Jumping Bull (But 500 Years of Trauma)
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Leonard Peltier writes about his own case and about the 500 years of violence and injustice directed at indigenous peoples.
- The Reaction to Brexit Is the Reason Brexit Happened
If you believe there's such a thing as "too much democracy," you probably don't believe in democracy at all
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
"This isn't democracy; it is Russian roulette for republics," Kenneth Rogoff recently wrote in the 'Boston Globe,' of last week's Brexit vote.
- Being African in India: 'We are seen as demons'
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
After a year in India, Zaharaddeen Muhammed, 27, knows enough Hindi to understand what bander means. Monkey. But it isn't even the daily derogatory comments that make him doubt his decision to swap his university in Nigeria for a two-year master's degree programme in chemistry at Noida International University. Nor is it the questions about personal hygiene, the unsolicited touching of his hair or the endless staring. It is his failure to interact with Indian people on a deeper level.
- Brexit and the Diseased Liberal Mind
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
The enraged liberal reaction to the Brexit vote is in full flood. The anger is pathological -- and helps to shed light on why a majority of Britons voted for leaving the European Union, just as earlier a majority of Labour party members voted for Jeremy Corbyn as leader.
- A Children's Book Introduces German Kids to the True Story of Syrian Refugees
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Germany has received more than 1 million refugees, mostly from Syria and Iraq. Despite supporters initially celebrating Chancellor Angela Merkel's actions, many Germans have begun voicing concerns about when this acceptance of migrants will come to an end. But while the adults in Germany have expressed mixed reactions to the refugees, German author Kirsten Boie wants children at least to realize that a refugee child is just like any other kid in the world.
- How the left should deal with the referendum results
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
With many of the old political certainties breaking up, the left have to rise to the challenge.
- It's a Question of What Unites Us
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
An interview with Harold Lavender on accountable structures, systemic change, and the peril and promise of alliances against gentrification.
- It's Still the Iraq War, Stupid.
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
No rational person could blame Jeremy Corbyn for Brexit. So why are the Blairites moving against Corbyn now, with such precipitate haste? The answer is the Chilcot Report. It is only a fortnight away, and though its form will be concealed by thick layers of establishment whitewash, the basic contours of Blair’s lies will still be visible beneath. Corbyn had deferred to Blairite pressure not to apologise on behalf of the Labour Party for the Iraq War until Chilcot is published.
- Leonard Peltier: 'My Last Hope for Freedom'
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Leonard Peltier is a political prisoner and Native freedom fighter who has been unjustly incacerated for 40 years. The International Leonard Peltier Defense Committee is ramping up efforts for Peltier's clemency under U.S. President Obama’s last year in office. This may be his last chance at freedom and justice. Find out how you can help achieve Peltier's freedom here: whoisleonardpeltier.info.
- UK after the rain
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Shabbir Lakha looks beyond the media blizzard surrounding last week's referendum result and identifies anti-racist work as a campaigning imperative.
- Brexit Is Only the Latest Proof of the Insularity and Failure of Western Establishment Institutions
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
The decision by U.K. voters to leave the EU is such a glaring repudiation of the wisdom and relevance of elite political and media institutions that -- for once- their failures have become a prominent part of the storyline.
- Brexit and the new hostility to participatory democracy
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
The reaction to Brexit illustrates the desperate need for the Left to return to first principles. For, as the result broke on social media, a remarkable number of progressives directed their anger not at anti-immigrant demagogues and opportunist politicians but against the voters themselves and the very idea of a referendum in which they might express their will. It's merely the most recent illustration of a growing estrangement from democracy, not only on the mainstream Right but also on the Left.
- Building a progressive majority
Left strategy after the Brexit vote
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
After the EU referendum we are seeing both horror at anti-migrant sentiment and pandering to it -- but only a radical economic offer can carve a way through.
- Israel lawfare group plans 'massive punishments' for activists
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
"Why are we using the word Palestinian? There’s no such thing as a Palestinian person," Brooke Goldstein declared to enthusiastic applause at a meeting of key Israel lobby operatives in New York earlier this month. Goldstein is the director of the Lawfare Project, a legal group that aims, in her words, to "make the enemy pay" -- that "enemy" being mainly comprised of Palestine solidarity activists and students.
The Lawfare Project was founded with the support of the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations, an important forum for anti-Palestinian organizing in the US.
- Private Banks: Creating Money Out of Thin Air
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
In his book The Joy of Tax: How a Fair Tax System Can Create a Better Society, Richard Murphy, UK Tax Justice Network co-founder, offers a radically pioneering approach to tax and fiscal policy. Murphy is one of the first economists to link tax policy to the 400- year-old reality that nearly all money is created by private banks out of thin air.
- The Revolt of the Fragments
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
It was, without question, a bloody nose for the political establishment, the biggest it has received for decades. And many have read the unexpected success of the Leave camp in the British EU referendum straightforwardly as a revolt against the political class and as a victory for democracy. Yes, it was a revolt against the political class in London and in Brussels. But the referendum result was also far more complicated than that.
- This vote was about far more than immigration
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
The vote to leave the EU was fuelled by class divisions, argues Alastair Stephens.
- The Battle of Oaxaca
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
This is not just another of the many Oaxacan wars. It is part of a much more profound and extensive war that is by no means contained within the national territory itself. But the battle being waged in Oaxaca has a special meaning in that war, in the larger war.
It is a battle long overdue. In Oaxaca people knew that many aspects of the ongoing confrontation were being postponed due to the elections. It was evident that after the elections, the attacks, provocations, and the final assault would intensify. Everywhere, preparations began.
- A Blow for Peace and Democracy
Why the British Said No to Europe
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
The majority vote by Britons to leave the European Union was an act of raw democracy. Millions of ordinary people refused to be bullied, intimidated and dismissed with open contempt by their presumed betters in the major parties, the leaders of the business and banking oligarchy and the media.
- Canadian mining giant Barrick Gold fired whistleblower. Then it spilled cyanide into five rivers
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Toronto-based mining giant, Barrick Gold, spilled cyanide solution into five Argentina rivers shortly after firing an engineer who raised serious safety concerns about the mining operation responsible for the contamination.
- How Israel Uses Water as a Weapon of War
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Entire communities in the West Bank either have no access to water or have had their water supply reduced almost by half. This alarming development has been taking place for weeks, since Israel’s national water company, "Mekorot", decided to cut off – or significantly reduce – its water supply to Jenin, Salfit and many villages around Nablus, among other regions. Israel has been 'waging a water war' against Palestinians.
- In or out of the European Union? A tale of two referenda
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Andrew Burgin argues for a 'Remain' vote in the Brexit referendum.
- Mikmaq say Bay of Fundy developments could harm endangered fish
Resource Type: Film/Video
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
In Nova Scotia, people are concerned about the impacts of big projects on endangered fish in one of the world’s most famous waterways. Two projects are being considered by the province on the Bay of Fundy. Its high and low tides are also home to a number of fish that are on the endangered species list.
- The roots of Israel's most racist law
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Israel’s most draconian laws may have been passed by the current right-wing government, but the stage was set long ago by the Israeli Left. With a majority of 65 votes, the Knesset approved last week the extension of an order to prevent family reunification in Israel. Of Palestinian families, of course. Jews are welcome to continue and reunify as much as they please.
- A Story from El Salvador: Julio Molina, Saving Historic Memory
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Julio Molina dedicates himself to preserving the "historic memory" of the generation that was involved in the 12-year civil war that took place in El Salvador from 1980 to 1992 between the rightwing government of the oligarchy and the revolutionaries of the FMLN. "We have many tasks today," he says, "but one of them is the preservation of the historic memory."
- Unimpeded Rivers Crucial as Climate Changes: New Study
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Gravel-bed rivers and their floodplains are the lifeblood of ecosystems and need to be allowed to run and flood unimpeded if species are to be protected and communities are to cope with climate change.
- Cuadrilla versus The Nanas - #IamTinaRothery
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Thanks to fracking company Cuadrilla, grandmother Tina Rothery will be in court tomorrow over a £55,000 'debt' imposed on her for joining a peaceful occupation of a fracking site in Lancashire. But as she explains, she can't pay, she won't pay, and even if she could pay, she wouldn't. Someone has to stand up to corporate vandalism and abuse of justice - and in this case, it's her, no matter what the consequences.
- A History of the Barricade
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
The barricade is the iconic tactic of historic class struggles, and its history is engagingly explored in Hazan's history, finds William Booth.
- Hong Kong media forced to leave Mainland after covering protest
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) strongly criticizes the recent actions by the Government of Shanwei, Guangdong, against journalists covering protests in Wukan village. The IFJ calls on the local government to end its attack on
- IFJ demands immediate release of jailed Turkish journalists
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
The International and European Federations of Journalists (IFJ-EFJ) have strongly condemned the arrest of Turkish journalists.
- Iran: new attacks by authorities on journalism
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
The International Federation of Journalists has called for a halt to the 'relentless attack by Iranian authorities on journalism" following new legal threats against an Iranian newspaper.
- Lies, Damned Lies, and Statistics... and U.S. Africa Command
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
One of the strangest news developments of our time is the way the media now focus for days, if not weeks, 24/7, on a single event and its ramifications. Omar Mateen's slaughter of 49 people at the Pulse nightclub in Orlando is only the latest example of this. If no other calamitous or eye-catching event comes along (“‘Unimaginable’: Toddler’s body recovered by divers after alligator attack at Disney resort"), it could, top the news, in all its micro-ramifications and repetitions, for three or four weeks. Such stories -- especially mass killings, especially those with an aura of terrorism about them -- are particularly easy for strapped, often downsizing news outfits to cover. They are, in a sense, pre-packaged.
- Die Linke: Ten Years On
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Political organizations, particularly those committed to radical change, face their greatest tests in times of crisis. In 1914, German social democracy, the international socialist movement’s crown jewel, was brought to its knees by its inability to confront the outbreak of World War I. Two decades later, German Communism’s ultra-leftism proved similarly impotent in the face of the growing Nazi threat, and Europe's most powerful laboUr movement was decimated within a couple of years.
- Media worker detained for eight months, released to Hong Kong
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) expresses concern following the revelation that Lam Wing Kee, one of the five Hong Kong Causeway Bay bookstore employees detained in 2015, was detained by the Central Task Force in Mainland China.
- Palestine's 'Prayer for Rain': How Israel Uses Water as a Weapon of War
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Israel has been 'waging a water war' against Palestinians, according to Palestinian Authority Prime Minister, Rami Hamdallah. The irony is that the water provided by "Mekorot' is actually Palestinian water, usurped from West Bank aquifers. While Israelis, including illegal West Bank settlements, use the vast majority of it, Palestinians are sold their own water back at high prices.
- Two Views on Marxist Ecology and Jason W. Moore
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
On June 6, 2016, Climate & Capitalism published an interview with John Bellamy Foster, in which he for the first time responded to nearly a decade of criticism from Jason W. Moore, who accuses Foster of "Cartesian dualism" and who promotes what he calls "world-ecology" as an alternative to the approach Foster is most associated with, metabolic rift theory and Ecological Marxism.
- Your EU vote is crucial because it won't count
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Here is a prediction about the outcome of today’s UK referendum on leaving the European Union. Even in the unlikely event that the remain camp loses, the UK will still not Brexit. Europe's neoliberal elite will not agree to release its grip on a major western nation. A solution will be found to keep the UK in the union, whatever British voters decide. Which is one very good reason to vote Brexit.
- Can we combine intersectionality with Marxism?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Neoliberal austerity is impacting particularly hard on women. Capitalism relies on women not just directly as workers who generate surplus value but also to provide the primary carers for the next generation of workers and increasingly for the sick and elderly as social service cuts bite. Reproductive rights face serial attacks and domestic violence and other forms of endemic sexism in capitalist society mean that the fight for women's liberation and, in the shorter term, the fight to defend those rights women have won so far from being rolled back remain key issues for socialists.
- Capital in context
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Deciphering Capital by Alex Callinicos is the impressive balance sheet of some 30 years of research. Its starting point is a thesis completed at Oxford in 1978 entitled "The Logic of Capital", which distanced him at one and the same time from both the surrounding Hegelian Marxism and the empiricism of Ernest Mandel.
- Disability, resistance and revolution
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
The number of disabled people has grown from around 10 percent of the world population in the 1970s to 15 percent, 1 billion people, today. The World Health Organisation predicts that this figure will continue to grow as the world's population ages and chronic diseases such as diabetes, heart disease, respiratory disease and stress related illness increase. Severe physical injury in warfare and road traffic accidents as well as industrial injury, malnutrition and insanitary living conditions also remain major causes of serious impairment. Around the world disabled people are among the most marginalised -- suffering poorer health outcomes, lower levels of educational achievement and higher levels of unemployment and poverty than non-disabled people.
- History of the Equals
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Mahdi Ganjavi interviewed Professor pETER Linebaugh during his visit with a special focus on two of his major contributions to a Marxist study of "history from below": The Many Headed Hydra: Sailors, Slaves, Commoners and the Hidden History of the Revolutionary Atlantic, and The London Hanged: Crime and Civil Society in the Eighteenth Century.
- Imperial silences: From Rhodes to Surabaya
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
The campaign last year to have the statue of Cecil Rhodes removed from Oriel College, Oxford, has provoked more discussion of the British Empire and its crimes than we have seen for many years. Rather than keeping quiet about Britain's imperial past, the Rhodes Must Fall campaign has actually flushed establishment apologists out into the open. They have been forced to defend the legacy of a man who, if he had not been British and had not given a substantial bribe to Oxford University, would today be generally acknowledged by everyone as a corrupt fraudster, thief, liar and killer for profit, as someone marked out only by the enormity of his crimes. The hypocrisy that the debate over Rhodes Must Fall has occasioned has been very instructive in itself, but what is intended here is an examination not just of the part played by hypocrisy in the defence of British imperialism, but of the other strategies employed: suppression and amnesia.
- Is there a vast cowspiracy about climate change?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Cowspiracy movie review: Cowspiracy's argument is based on badly flawed and almost unanimously rejected interpretations of science. Actual science and scientists are practically absent among the many talking heads in the film.
- The Left and the EU
Why Cling to This Reactionary Institution?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Why is it that many people who consider themselves left-wing have such difficulty grasping that the EU is a deeply reactionary institution? The mere fact that those running the EU present it as an internationalist venture dedicated to the creation of a world free of nationalist enmities does not make it so. If we want to examine the EU in its proper light, then we should ignore the high-flown rhetoric in which its supporters indulge, and consider its actual record. And what is the record of the EU, once we penetrate the obfuscatory rhetoric about ‘internationalism’ that surrounds EU policy? Without a doubt, that record is one that should cause those on the left now defending it acute embarrassment, as it starkly contradicts the ideals that the left has always claimed to uphold.
- Marxism and the Anthropocene
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
As you read this article every breath you take in contains about 400 parts per million (ppm) of carbon dioxide, around a third more than your great grandparents breathed 100 years ago. As well as leading to potentially catastrophic global warming, carbon dioxide in the atmosphere has changed the way plants photosynthesise and has also made seas and lakes more acidic, more so than they have been for the last 800,000 years. The effect human activity is having in the world is on such a huge scale that, for a growing number of thinkers, Earth has entered a new geological epoch defined by human activity. Using the Greek word Anthropos (human) they propose to name this epoch the Anthropocene.
- Sound & Fury
Just What Does Brexit Signify?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Not since Y2K thretened to plunge the planet into chaos has a story provoked overwrought handwringing comparable to that triggered by Britons voting to withdraw from the European Union. By common assessment, Brexit signifies something profound. History itself has seemingly gone off the rails. Darkness threatens to cover the earth.
- The stagnation of the Dutch Socialist Party
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
The Socialist Party (SP) is one of the parties that emerged to the left of traditional social democracy in the last decade of the 20th century. In electoral terms, it is one of the most successful. At its peak in 2006, the SP got 25 out of 150 seats (16.6 percent of the vote), becoming the third party in the House of Representatives. With the European Parliament (2014) and provincial (2015) elections it eclipsed the Labour Party (PvdA) for the first time, becoming the biggest party of the left in the Netherlands. Until Syriza's election victory in 2015 the Dutch SP was the only left reformist party in Europe to win a bigger share of the vote than the traditional social democratic party.
- State, power and bureaucracy
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First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
The theory of bureaucratic state capitalism in Russia and elsewhere characterises the International Socialist Tendency and distinguishes us from most other Marxist parties worldwide. So a study of the development of Leon Trotsky's ideas on the Russian bureaucracy is of particular interest. This book reveals one of the greatest Marxists struggling to come to terms with a wholly new phenomenon, the Stalinist bureaucracy.
- War from above, resistance from below
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
A review of Donny Gluckstein (ed), Fighting on all Fronts: Popular Resistance and the Second World War. As Donny Gluckstein points out in the introduction to this book, understanding the nature of the Second World War is fundamental to our understanding of the world today. Liberal and left wing opinion sees it as a war between democracy and fascism, or "progress and reaction" as Eric Hobsbawm described it. This leads some to see the Allies' victory as the straightforward triumph of democracy and ushering in American prosperity for all. For example, the Confederation of German Trade Unions has suggested, without any hint of irony, that workers today should get behind the idea of "a new Marshall plan" as the basis for a "progressive strategy" for the crisis-ridden European Union.
- Where does ISIS come from?
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First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
A review of Abdel Bari Atwan, Islamic State: The Digital Caliphate.
Rosa Luxemburg said that capitalism would end in either socialism or barbarism. Looking at the Middle East, as hopes of democracy and social justice have been dashed by counter-revolution and violence, and at the West’s depictions of Islamic State or ISIS, barbarism might seem to have triumphed. Abdel Bari Atwan, editor for 25 years of the Arabic daily AlQuds AlArabi and now running the news website Rai al-Youm, is well placed to give an informed account of the origins, ideology and spread of ISIS.
- Beyond the brexit debate
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First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Whatever the result of the Brexit referendum, of one thing we can be sure: Britain will neither be invaded by marauding Turks, as anti-EU campaigners suggest might happen if the country votes 'Yes', nor will Western civilization collapse, as EU president Donald Tusk fears after a 'No' vote. There will undoubtedly be economic and political turbulence, but Britain will not be staring into the abyss, however it votes.
- Brazil's Crisis and the New Right
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
The impeachment process against President Dilma Rousseff resulted from the conjunction of three factors: the rupture of the alliance with business owners, the rise of a new militant right, and the PT's serious mistakes after abandoning the streets. What remains is a wounded society and an extractive model that went unquestioned by the left and undermined the hegemony of the Lula current.
- The Great Seed Piracy
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
A great seed and biodiversity piracy is underway and it must be stopped. The privateers of today include not just the corporations -- which are becoming fewer and larger through mergers -- but also individuals like Bill Gates, the "richest man in the world". When the Green Revolution was pushed in India and Mexico, farmers' seeds were "rounded-up" and locked in international institutions, which used these seeds to breed green revolution varieties which responded to chemical inputs.
- Africa: Cultural Appropriation - When 'Borrowing' Becomes Exploitation
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
The idea of "cultural appropriation" has recently entered mainstream debates about the ways in which African cultural creations are used, borrowed and imitated by others. In fashion, art, music and beyond, some people now argue that certain African cultural symbols and products are off-limits to non-Africans.
- Connexions Other Voices - June 18, 2016 - Homophobia, Cultural Appropriation, Liberation Theology
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
This issue of Other Voices features a wide range of issues. The topic of the week is homophobia, the hate that led to 49 deaths in Orlando last week, but which is present in greater or lesser form in every part of the world.
- Strike strategy today
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Why has the use of the strike in the US become so scarce? While subjective factors are more difficult to quantify, certain basic reasons seem more readily evident. Union membership, particularly in the private sector, is at an all-time low. Most of the unions are heavily bureaucratized, and central labor councils ossified. "Sympathy strikes," long ago outlawed by Taft-Hartley, militate against the sort of broad-based solidarity so essential to an industrial victory. Moreover, many unions have accepted no-strike clauses for the duration of their contracts, effectively tying one hand behind their backs.
- Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - June 18, 2016
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
This issue of Other Voices features a wide range of issues. The topic of the week is homophobia, the hate that led to 49 deaths in Orlando last week, but which is present in greater or lesser form in every part of the world.
We are always concerned, not only with what is wrong with the world, but what to do about it.
This issue carries an excerpt from Umair Mohammed's book 'Confronting Injustice: Social Activism in the Age of Individualism' in which he warns against the pitfalls of individualist and consumer-oriented approaches and argues in favour of collective action to build an effective movement.
Derrick Jensen considers some of the arguments in favour of pacifism and finds them wanting. He agrees that creative approaches to social change can oftentimes make violence unnecessary, but that sometimes violence is a necessary response to violence.
Another article looks at the decline of liberation theology, targeted as a threat by both the Vatican and secular power structures.
Kenan Malik considers the issue of "cultural appropriation" and asks why so many on theso-called left are more interested in criticizing Justin Bieber's hairstyle than in fighting capitalism.
- Workers Profiles: Below the Minimum Wage
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
An endless supply of alcohol, good music, pool tables, and friendly strangers -- these elements seem like a recipe for a fun time. For those of us who frequent bars and pubs, this kind of environment is exactly what we look forward to at the end of a long day or work week. Imagine working at a bar. It seems natural that bartenders would enjoy their upbeat surroundings at work as much as their customers. Now, imagine being the only worker at a bar. You alone are responsible for cleaning the bar, controlling drunk customers, serving food, buying supplies -- everything all alone during an overnight shift.
- Foreclosure Fraud Is Supposed to Be a Thing of the Past, But It Happens Every Day 1
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Recruiters are hiring for a job that shouldn't exist: finding "missing" documents required to "complete" broken chains of title on mortgages entering foreclosure. Since all assignments of mortgage should have been prepared and recorded within days of the transfer or sale -- and the failure to do so irreparably ruptures chain of title -- the companies would seem to be looking for time travelers or magicians. Or maybe they want to manufacture false evidence to introduce into courts as a means to take away people's homes.
- Mortgage Companies Seek Time Travelers to Find Missing Documents
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Recruiters are hiring for a job that shouldn’t exist: finding "missing" documents required to "complete" broken chains of title on mortgages entering foreclosure. Since all assignments of mortgage should have been prepared and recorded within days of the transfer or sale -- and the failure to do so irreparably ruptures chain of title -- the companies would seem to be looking for time travelers or magicians.
- TISA 'free trade' deal to force draconian social, environmental, financial deregulation
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
A leaked text from the 'Trade In Services Agreement' negotiations shows that TISA is set to unleash a massive wave of deregulation affecting social, environmental and financial standards, and force the privatisation of state-run enterprises. So it's not just TTIP, CETA and TPP we have to fight - TISA could be the biggest corporate power grab of them all.
- As Corruption Engulfs Brazil's "Interim" President, Mask Has Fallen Off Protest Movement
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Momentum for the impeachment of Brazil's democratically elected president, Dilma Rousseff, was initially driven by large, flamboyant street protests of citizens demanding her removal. Although Brazil's dominant media endlessly glorified (and incited) these green-and-yellow-clad protests as an organic citizen movement, evidence recently emerged that protests groups were covertly funded by opposition parties. Still, there is no doubt that millions of Brazilians participated in marches demanding Rousseff's ouster, claiming they were motivated by anger over her and her party’s corruption. But from the start, there were all sorts of reasons to doubt this storyline and to see that these protesters were (for the most part) not opposed to corruption, but simply devoted to removing from power the center-left party that won four straight national elections.
- The Black Student Rebellion of 1976
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
A defining feature of the 1976 uprising was the decisive entry of black students onto the stage of history. Until the 1960s, the number of Africans in schools remained relatively low. But the urban African population was growing, especially the number of young people. And industry required a larger pool of industrial labour. So there was a rapid expansion of schooling for Africans. In 1976 there were 3.8 million Africans in schools. Nearly 10% percent of those were in secondary schools. In Soweto alone the number of secondary school students increased from approximately 12,500 to more than 34,000.
- A historic turning point in Brazil
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
President Dilma Rousseff's suspension is a historic turning point in Brazil -- the end of an era of Workers' Party (PT) national governments that began in 2002 with the election of Lula. The PT won four presidential elections, two with Lula (2002 and 2006) and two with Dilma (2010 and 2014). This political crisis and historic turning point is intertwined with an equally deep economic crisis -- in 2015 GDP shrank by 3.8 percent in Brazil and, taking into account IMF projections for 2016, GDP might shrink by a further 3.5 percent. These data suggest that now there is an economic crisis similar to the crisis of 1929-31, when Brazilian GDP shrank by 8.1 percent.
- Old New York Police Surveillance Is Found, Forcing Big Brother Out of Hiding
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
From the mid-1950s to the early 1970s, police surveillance of political organizations in New York was extensive enough to require more than half a million index cards, simply to catalog and cross-reference the many dossiers. But over the ensuing decades, the dossiers themselves were presumed missing or lost. Police Department lawyers said they had no idea where the files had gone.
Now, a significant portion of the missing files have been discovered during what the city said on Thursday was a routine inventory of a Queens warehouse, where archivists found 520 brown boxes of decades-old files, believed to be the largest trove of New York Police Department surveillance records from the era.
- A queer take on Safe Schools and identity politics
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
In recent weeks, the debate over the Safe Schools Coalition anti-bullying program has intensified, taking what is in many ways a bizarre turn. The brief suspension of program architect Roz Ward from her position at La Trobe University has reopened the debate about whether Safe Schools is 'cultural Marxism' by stealth, the program once again coming under fire from conservatives across the country. Even trans advocate and member of the ADF Catherine McGregor has weighed in. One of the more interesting elements of this, however, has been the debate it has created about the role gender and sexual politics can and should play within Marxism. Here enters Guy Rundle. In the pages of Crikey, Rundle penned a treatise on the program and what he considers the failures of 'queer theory'. Rundle believes Safe Schools (via queer theory) presents the view that 'gender and sexuality are infinitely fluid'. He argues, however, that such a view denies the material realities of sexuality and gender, not to mention his view that 'almost no-one really believes it -- and they certainly do not let it shape their lives'.
- Victory Assured on the Military's Main Battlefield -- Washington
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
When it comes to Pentagon weapons systems, have you ever heard of cost "underruns? I think not. Cost overruns? They turn out to be the unbreachable norm, as they seem to have been from time immemorial. In 1982, for example, the Pentagon announced that the cumulative cost of its 44 major weapons programs had experienced a "record" increase of $114.5 billion. Three decades later, in the spring of 2014, the Government Accountability Office (GAO) reported that the military’s major programs to develop new weapons systems -- by then 80 of them -- were a cumulative half-trillion dollars over their initial estimated price tags and on average more than two years delayed.
- DuPont May Dodge Toxic Lawsuits By Pulling a Disappearing Act
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
First DuPont spun off much of its environmental liability into a new company known as Chemours. Now the company plans to merge with Dow.
- Halle/Chomsky: An Eight Point Brief for LEV (Lesser Evil Voting)
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Among the elements of the weak form of democracy enshrined in the constitution, presidential elections continue to pose a dilemma for the left in that any form of participation or non participation appears to impose a significant cost on our capacity to develop a serious opposition to the corporate agenda served by establishment politicians. The position outlined below is that which many regard as the most effective response to this quadrennial Hobson's choice, namely the so-called "lesser evil" voting strategy or LEV. Simply put, LEV involves, where you can, i.e. in safe states, voting for the losing third party candidate you prefer, or not voting at all. In competitive "swing" states, where you must, one votes for the "lesser evil" Democrat.
- The Way to the Spring
Life and Death in Palestine
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Over the past three years, American writer Ben Ehrenreich has been traveling to and living in the West Bank, staying with Palestinian families in its largest cities and its smallest villages.
- Naturism booms in France as young eager to ditch clothes
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Why are more and more people, especially the young, opting to get naked in France?
Indeed, over the past three years, the phenomenon has begun to attract a younger audience according to the the FNN (French Federation of Naturism), seeing many more young families showing up to camps with their children.
- Stop Exploiting LGBT Issues to Demonize Islam and Justify Anti-Muslim Policies
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
In the late 1990s, Eric Rudolph -- raised Catholic and affiliated for a time with a Christian Identity sect -- bombed abortion clinics and a gay bar, insisting they were venues of immorality and evil. Last July, an Orthodox Jewish Israeli attacked the marchers in the Jerusalem LGBT pride parade, stabbing six of them, and one of them, a teenager, died of her wounds; justifying his attacks by appealing to Talmudic punishments for homosexuality, he had just been released from a 10-year prison term for doing the same in 2005. Yesterday, a Christian pastor from Arizona, Steven Anderson, praised the slaughter of 49 people in an Orlando LGBT club on the ground that "homosexuals are a bunch of disgusting perverts" and are "pedophiles."
- Why changing our diets won't save the Earth
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Received wisdom says that to save the planet we have to change our eating habits. Elaine Graham-Leigh explains why the received wisdom isn't just wrong, it blames working people for a crisis they didn’t cause.
- 'Badass Librarians' Foil al Qaeda, Save Ancient Manuscripts
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Scholars used donkey carts, boats, and teenage couriers to smuggle a priceless collection out of Timbuktu.
- May '68 Revisited
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Mitch Abidor recently spent weeks in France tracking down people who came of age politically in May 1968, to ask them how they viewed that experience, then and now. He went out of his way (with 1–2 exceptions) to talk to people "unknown," in contrast to the "stars" who feature in so many accounts of May. He talked with anarchists, Trotskyists, Stalinists, and even anarchists who had become Stalinists later. We publish this short summary of his results in Insurgent Notes because we like his direct, unvarnished access to participants, while taking our distance from some of his interpretations, which are subject to debate. We (the editors of Insurgent Notes) found Mitch's results sobering, if not downright deflating, because his subjects across the board say that the French working class in May 1968 was not revolutionary.
- NSA learning how to snoop on pacemakers
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
The NSA is seeking new ways to satisfy its hunger for raw data by exploiting the so-called internet of things, an emerging network connecting objects such as vehicles, home appliances and biomedical devices. "We're looking at it sort of theoretically from a research point of view right now," the spy agency's Deputy Director Richard Ledgett told a conference on military technology at Washington's Newseum on Friday.
- Convict and Immigrant Detainee Struggles Converge in Strike Wave
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
There was a time in the United States when it was not only common knowledge, but commonly reported, legislated, and adjudicated that crime is a function of poverty. This went out sometime during the Carter Administration, its demise heralded by the appearance in 1975 of James Q. Wilson's Thinking About Crime, where he first aired the broken-windows theory,which holds that punishment has to be harsh for minor violations of public order to incentivize criminals against larger violations.
- Convict and Immigrant Detainee Struggles Converge in Strike Wave
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
The ongoing struggle of us convicts to preserve and enhance their humanity has been taking on an explicit labor aspect, connected to and conscious of such struggles outside the prison walls, and it appears to be intensifying hand in hand with the convicts' traditional struggles for human dignity.
- Dorothy Day Refuses To Duck-And-Cover
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
On June 15th, 1955, Catholic Worker founder Dorothy Day joined a group of pacifists in refusing to participate in the civilian defense drills scheduled on that day. These drills were to prepare the citizenry in the event of a nuclear attack, and involved evacuations of city centers, taking shelter in subway tunnels, and, for schoolchildren, "duck-and-cover" to hide under their school desks. Such actions would be futile if a nuclear attack were underway, but the drills were part of a government propaganda program to convince Americans that nuclear weapons were a necessary part of the US arsenal, and that it would be possible to survive a nuclear war.
- Things My Students Don't Know
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
One of the discussion exercises I use in my course on corporate power begins with the bare text of the First Amendment projected on screen at the front of the room. I tell students that this is a recently proposed piece of federal legislation and invite their comments. I also say that if anyone has heard of the proposal, they should remain quiet for the time being and let others speak first.
- U.S. Elites
The Original Gangsters
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Donald Trump is at home in the underworld. Tom Robbins writes that the de facto GOP nominee "has encountered a steady stream of mob-tainted offers that he apparently couldn't refuse" in his decades in business. He "worked with mob-controlled companies and unions" while building his empire, the Washington Post reports. So the man has presidential cred. U.S. elites, since the colonial era, have shown contempt for the law: if they weren't ignoring their own codes, they were violating those of other nations or international statutes, or partnering with avowed outlaws. It's not clear, in other words, what distinguishes politicians and businessmen from career criminals.
- Why Israel is blocking access to its archives
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Israel is concealing vital records to prevent darkest periods in its history from coming to light, academics say.
- Authoritarianism Means Never Having to Apologize Over Spilled Milk
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
In Virginia a middle school student named Ryan Turk was arrested and then suspended from school for allegedly stealing a $0.65 carton of milk. Officials claim that the student tried to conceal the carton of milk and are also charging him with larceny. But there’s a problem: Ryan Turk is on the free lunches program.
- Eritrea commits crimes against humanity, UN says
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Eritrea's government is guilty of committing crimes against humanity since independence a quarter-century ago with up to 400,000 people "enslaved", the UN has said. The crimes committed since 1991 include imprisonment, enforced disappearance, extrajudicial killings, and rape and murder, said the United Nations Commission of Inquiry (COI) on human rights.
- Forsaken
The Persecution of Christians in Today's Middle East
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Across the Middle East, Christian communities today find themselves the victims of widening repression: massacres, expulsions, and brutally enforced restrictions on the right to worship have all become commonplace. Such persecution has now reached the point where, in the region that was once its birthplace, Christianity's very existence is under threat.
- How the Media Manipulated the Democratic Primary
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Though it might not always seem like it, the news media is composed of human beings. Humans aren't, can’t be, and possibly shouldn't be, objective. Still, there's a reasonable expectation among consumers of political news that journalists of all political stripes strive to be as objective as possible. At their minimum, media outlets ought to be straightforward about their biases. They certainly shouldn't have, or appear to have, their thumbs on the scales.
- How The Press Hides The Global Crimes Of The West: Corporate Media Coverage Of Chad
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
One of the essential functions of the corporate media is to marginalise or silence acknowledgement of the history -- and continuation -- of Western imperial aggression. The coverage of the recent sentencing in Senegal of Hissène Habré, the former dictator of Chad, for crimes against humanity, provides a useful case study. The verdict could well have presented the opportunity for the media to examine in detail the complicity of the US, UK, France and their major allies in the Middle East and North Africa in the appalling genocide Habré inflicted on Chad during his rule - from 1982 to 1990. After all, Habré had seized power via a CIA-backed coup.
- Ireland Continues to Remember 1916 and Continues to Betray It (With Some Canadian Help)
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Do you remember Ireland’s 1916 commemorations in late March? Do you remember the spectacle? Do you remember all those fighting words and strong images of national independence and national justice? The attention of the world was on Dublin for a few days and Dublin played the part of the rebel city. Well it was all a bit too real and too popular. And for that reason it had to be officially repressed as soon as possible.
- American Wasteland
The Most Urgent Challenge for America is Its Poorly Hidden Mental Health Crisis
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Hearing the phrase "mental health crisis," one may think of the epidemic of mass shootings plaguing the country since the Reagan era. Or, images may erupt of home grown terrorist attacks or the plunge toward right-wing extremism in contemporary politics. Yet, suicide outranks both homicides and car accidents as the number one killer of our fellow citizens.
- Faulty update breaks Lexus cars' maps and radio systems
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
A faulty data broadcast is causing problems for Lexus car owners in the US. The buggy update - which was delivered via a wireless transmission - is causing affected vehicles' infotainments systems to stop working. This prevents drivers from getting navigation directions, climate controls and digital radio.
- Snowden leak: MI5 has gathered so much data it may actually be missing 'life-saving intelligence'
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
British spies may have missed potentially "life-saving intelligence" because their surveillance systems were sweeping up more data than could be analyzed, a leaked classified report reveals. The document, given to The Intercept by NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden, was sent to top British government officials, outlining methods being developed by the UK’s domestic intelligence agency, MI5, to covertly monitor internet communications.
- A Leap Toward Radical Politics?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
The Leap Manifesto is, in a way, Canada's version of the burst of Left and socialist energies that have come with the Bernie Sanders campaign in the Democratic Party in the U.S. and the Jeremy Corbyn leadership win in the Labour Party in Britain. As with these, the explosion of popular interest reflects general disquiet about the limits of recent protests demanding changes from the state but having no strategy to transform it, on the one hand; and disappointments with electoral politics and social democratic parties that only seem to reinforce neoliberalism, on the other.
- The Wages of Neoliberalism
Poverty, Exile and Early Death
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Economist Michael Hudson says neoliberal policy will pressure U.S. citizens to emigrate, just as it caused millions to leave Russia, the Baltic States, and now Greece in search of a better life. A research team from Columbia University’s Mailman School of Public Health in New York estimates 875,000 deaths in the United States in year 2000 could be attributed to social factors related to poverty and income inequality.
- When Phoenix Came to Thanh Phong
Bob Kerrey and War Crimes as Policy in Vietnam
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
On May 16, 2016, former Nebraska Senator Bob Kerrey was named chairman of Fulbright University, a US-backed college with ties to the State Department in Ho Chi Minh City. During his recent visit to Vietnam, President Barack Obama heaped praise on Kerrey, a former Navy SEAL who served in Vietnam from 1967 to 1969. What Obama failed to mention is that Kerrey also supervised one of the most atrocious war crimes of that ghastly war.
- Ancient bison fossils offer hints about 1st humans in southern Canada
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
The fossils of bison that roamed near what is now Edmonton 13,000 years ago are helping solve the mystery of the earliest humans in southern Canada, including how and when they got there and where they came from.
- Employment Lies
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
On June 3, 2016, the Bureau of Labor Statistics announced that the US economy only created 38,000 new jobs in May and revised down by 59,000 jobs the previously reported gains in March and April. Yet the BLS reported that the unemployment rate fell from 5.0 to 4.7 percent, a figure generally regarded as full employment. The May jobs increase only covers a small fraction of the monthly growth in the labor force and, therefore, cannot account for the drop in unemployment.
- In Defense of Ecological Marxism: John Bellamy Foster responds to a critic
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
One of the most important books of Marxist theory published in recent years is Marx’s Ecology: Materialism and Nature, in which John Bellamy Foster rediscovered and expanded on Marx’s understanding of the alienation of human beings from the natural world, crystallized in the concept of metabolic rift. In a recent conversation, Climate & Capitalism editor Ian Angus asked Foster about Moore’s criticisms of ecological Marxism.
- John Pilger on Class Vs "Identity"
Resource Type: Film/Video
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Award-winning journalist & film-maker, John Pilger describes the corrosive impact of "identity" politics and the loss of "class" as a tool to understand the world we live in.
- Ali knew his job - to inspire people
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Describing Muhammad Ali's role as a symbol of resistance to power and the inspiration provided by his acheivements.
- I Don't have to be what you want me to be
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
'A strange fate befell Muhammad Ali in the 1990s', Mike Marqusee writes in Redemption Song, his wonderful, illuminating study of 'Muhammad Ali and the Spirit of the Sixties'. ‘The man who had defied the American establishment was taken into its bosom. There he was lavished with an affection which had been strikingly absent thirty years before, when for several years he reigned unchallenged as the most reviled figure in the history of American sports.' The global outpouring of grief, affection and tribute to Ali this weekend has been moving and heart-warming. Yet, there is a part of me that thinks that, as affection has washed away the old contempt with which he once was greeted by large sections, especially of American society, we have also lost something of the sense of Ali's true greatness.
- Countering Pro-GMO Deceptions in the British Press
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
In his recent piece for The Times newspaper in the UK, Viscount Matt Ridley argues that a new report from the American National Academies of Sciences (NAS) leaves no room for doubt that genetically engineered crops are as safe or safer, and are certainly better for the environment, than conventionally bred crops.
- Anti-Intellectualism, Terrorism, and Elections in Contemporary Education: a Discussion with Noam Chomsky
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Washington DC based History Teacher Dan Falcone and New York City English Teacher Saul Isaacson sat down with Professor Noam Chomsky to discuss current issues in education and American domestic and foreign policy issues. They also discussed the place of the humanities in education and how it relates to activism, definitions of terrorism, and how education impacts the perceptions of the political process in the US.
- The Body Cam Trade-Off
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Ever since the Snowden revelations, both liberals and conservatives have become increasingly convinced that government surveillance and encroachment into Americans lives has spiraled out of control. That the government should play some role in providing safety and security for its citizens is accepted, but how the government achieves these goals is not as clear. We want security, but not at undue cost to our privacy.
- Crime or Punishment Why Wall Street Elites Don't Do Time
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Illicit financial behavior has been decriminalized in the United States -- for all practical purposes. Despite the revelations of massive misconduct by banks and other financial services businesses, criminal investigations are rare, indictments exceptional and guilty judgments extraordinary. Most potentially culpable actions are overlooked by authorities, slighted, reduced from criminal to civil status when pursued, individuals evade penalties much less punishment, and the appeals courts take extreme liberties in exonerating culprits when and if the odd conviction reaches them. The last mentioned are establishing new frontiers in the formulation of ingeniously sophistic arguments to justify letting financial malefactors off the hook.
- Let's Stop Google from Gobbling Up Our Schools
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
In October of 2006, Google launched its Apps for Education, with Arizona State University being its first client. Today there are more than 25 million individual users in both K-12 and higher ed institutions, and 74 of the top 100 universities use Google apps for their university communications and software applications.
- Poverty, Militarism and the Public Schools
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
What's the difference between education and obedience? If you see very little, you probably have no problem with the militarization of the American school system -- or rather, the militarization of the impoverished schools ... the ones that can't afford new textbooks or functional plumbing, much less art supplies or band equipment. My town, Chicago, is a case study in this national trend.
- The 'slow genocide' of Brazil's Guarani people must stop
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Land theft, agribusiness and violence pose an existential threat to Brazil's Guarani people. They maintain a powerful resolve to regain their historic lands, and even have the law on their side - but the tribe will need international support to prevail against murderous ranchers and farmers, corrupt politicians and a paralysed legal system.
- Toxic Curve Ball: Why Outdated Assumptions to Determine "Safe Levels" of Toxicants Forfeit the Game
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
By now, a large number of consumers are aware of the hazards of the synthetic compound bisphenol-A (BPA). Effective May 11, 2016, under California state law Proposition 65, products containing BPA must possess a warning label indicating that exposure could result in female reproductive impairment. Independent research on the endocrine disrupting effects of the chemical, commonly used in plastic bottles, the lining of metal cans, and customer receipts, among other applications, has consistently demonstrated toxic effects at low dose exposures. Two recent robust studies from Denmark concur, finding deleterious effects in rats exposed to BPA at doses lower than those considered safe for human ingestion, yet not at several higher doses. Nevertheless, regulatory agencies such as the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) conclude that BPA is safe at the levels at which it is currently in use.
- A Very Brazilian Coup
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
On one level, the impeachment of Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff seems like vintage commedia dell’arte. For instance, the lower house speaker who brought the charges, Eduardo Cunha, had to step down because he has $16 million stashed in secret Swiss and U.S. bank accounts. The man who replaced Cunha, Waldir Maranhao, is implicated in the corruption scandal around the huge state-owned oil company, Petrobras.
- African-American Women Now Top the List of Most-Educated Group in the Country
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Statistics on black women and education have shown them leading all other gender and racial groups for a few years now. More than half of all black women specifically between the ages of 18 and 24 are enrolled in college, and black women overall outpace other race and gender groups in terms of college enrollment, according to the National Center of Education Statistics/U.S. Census numbers.
- Generation Revolution
How Egypt's military state betrayed its youth
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
An account of the violent end of the Islamic youth uprising in Cairo and the treatment of the movement by the military and populace in its aftermath.
- Redeeming Chávez's Dream
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
The world press, suddenly aware of the deepening crisis in Venezuela, is relishing in the Bolivarian Revolution's woes. But its coverage rarely goes deeper than images of poor people clamoring for food. The photos index the situation's seriousness, but they do not capture its complexity.
- Google voice search records and keeps conversations people have around their phones - but the files can be deleted
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
How google search can record and store conversations picked up by a phone's microphone, as well as how to prevent this and delete the stored files.
- The great train robbery
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Privatised networks of European railways have neglected safety, community and environmental issues in pursuit of profit.
- Marxism and LGBT politics: a new wave of discussion
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Colin Wilson reviews Peter Drucker's book Warped: Gay Normality and Queer Anti-Capitalism.
- The return of the "grand narrative"
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Throughout the world, a rising tide of social struggle is upending the proclamations by anti-Marxist intellectuals that the "grand narratives" of working-class struggle and socialist revolution have been superseded.
- Russia's truckers protest
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Russian government leniency towards protesting truckers indicates that the country's social crisis could overshadow its noisy diplomacy.
- 45 Days of Solidarity
How Verizon workers outmatched the country's largest telecommunications company.
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
The strike by 39,000 Verizon workers -- members of the Communications Workers of America (CWA) and International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers (IBEW) -- ended after forty-five days with a tentative agreement announced late last week.
- Good News of the Day: Army of 1,000 Ducks Used as Brilliant Pesticide Alternative
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
South Africa's Vergenoegd vineyard in Stellenbosch keeps a flock of over 800 Indian Runner ducks to help combat tiny white dune snails that would otherwise destroy the budding vines. The ducks' upright and slender posture allow them to navigate the rows of plants, clearing up to a hectare a day.
- The bookseller saving Jerusalem's Palestinian identity
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Stripped of their rights, the last wall of Palestinian resistance is culture, says owner of a Jerusalem bookshop.
- From Albrecht to Monsanto: A System Not Run for the Public Good Can Never Serve the Public Good
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
- Guaranteed income's dangerous outcome
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
The Ontario Liberal government of Kathleen Wynne is talking about a guaranteed basic income for all residents. It sounds great; in fact it sounds too good to be true. There are a number of very different models of guaranteed annual income (GAI) out there, and there are proponents on both the right and left. In Canada, most GAI proposals have come from the right and, importantly, at times when capitalism is experiencing crises.
- OCCRP Launches New Search Engine for Investigative Journalists
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
The Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project (OCCRP), a non-profit network of investigative journalism centers in Europe and Eurasia, has launched a new data platform to enable journalists and researchers to sift more than 2 million documents and use the findings in their investigations. People using the new data platform, called ID Search, will be able to set up email alerts notifying them when new results appear for their searches or for persons tracked on official watchlists. They can also create their own private watchlists.
- The State of the Left: Many Movements, Too Many Goals?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
The Sanders campaign has proven a couple of important things about today's political reality in the United States.
1) A substantial number of Americans are interested in redistributing wealth and making government work for the 99 percent
2) That is impossible within the current electoral system in the United States.
- Still Wavy After All These Years: Flower Geezer Turns 80
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
- When Soldiers Resist
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Let's remember the courageous war resisters who said no to the slaughter in Vietnam.
- White Rose Begins Leaflet Campaigns June 1942
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
In June 1942, a pair of German university students formed The White Rose, a German resistance movement that used a series of leaflets to decry Nazi militarism and call for an end to the war. Hans Scholl and Alexander Schmorell wrote the first four leaflets between the end of June and beginning of July. In the fall, Hans' sister, Sophie Scholl, discovered that her brother was one of the authors of the pamphlets, and joined the group. Shortly after, Willi Graf, Christoph Probst, and Kurt Huber became members.
- Why Scientists Are Amazed at Oilsands Smog Levels
Air pollution report in Nature shocks even Canada's top researchers
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
On any hot day Shell and Syncrude tour guides used to call the gasoline-like vapours that wafted from Fort McMurray's huge open-pit bitumen mines "the smell of money." But a new study in Nature has another name for the stench: air pollution and megacity volumes of it.
- Henri Alleg
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Henri Alleg (20 July 1921 – 17 July 2013), born Henri Salem, was a French-Algerian journalist, director of the "Alger républicain" newspaper, and a member of the French Communist Party. After Editions de Minuit, a French publishing house, released his memoir La Question in 1958, Alleg gained international recognition for his stance against torture, specifically within the context of the Algerian War (1954–1962).
- EFF Asks Court to Reverse Chelsea Manning's Conviction for Violating Federal Anti-Hacking Law
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
EFF Asks Court to Reverse Chelsea Manning's Conviction for Violating Federal Anti-Hacking Law. Wikileaks Prosecution Included Unfair Charge Under CFAA
- EFF to FCC: Prevent ISPs From Following Your Every Internet Move
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) urges the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to update privacy rules to prevent broadband Internet access service providers from recording and sharing their customers' every move online.
- Food sovereignty and climate change
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Climate change has become, in a short time, one of the "global affairs" of critical importance in our times. It has now penetrated every sphere of our social and political life to the point of acquiring a centrality that dangerously makes it seem natural.
- The Missing Piece
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
A strong, independent labour movement could lead the struggle for democracy and justice in the Philippines. Rodrigo Duterte's revolution, at least so far, looks like nothing more than a reshuffling of the country's political elite. The election seems to mark a period of continuity, not progressive change, in Philippine politics.
- Safer, Smarter Journalism: Digital Security Need for South Asia's Journalists
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) and the South Asia Media Solidarity Network (SAMSN) have launched Safer, Smarter Journalism, a week-long digital security campaign to build digital security awareness and skills for South Asia's jou
- Yemen: IFJ calls on UN to exert pressure for release of 10 journalists on hunger strike in Houthi jails
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) calls on the United Nations envoy in Yemen to act to help secure the immediate release of 10 jailed journalists amid growing concerns about their health and allegations of torture.
- Amid corruption, poverty and violence, Paraguay's rural poor fight for land and freedom
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
The closing down of a community radio station in eastern Paraguay is the latest example of political repression in the country with the most unequal land distribution in Latin America, and in which the media are dominated by a tiny elite of the super-rich. As small farmers begin to reclaim the land that is rightfully theirs, landowners and the state they control are striking back.
- Blatant Hypocrisy: the Latest Late-Night Bailout of Greece
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
The new late night deal in the Eurogroup on the new bailout for Greece is another blatant hypocrisy by the dominant European Union powers, their partner-cum-competitor IMF (aka the US) and the Greek establishment (now represented by the SYRIZA government). The new deal is an uneasy compromise subject to a continuing tug-of-war between the US (through its proxy, the IMF) and the EU.
- Calibrated with precision. How is GPS changing our world?
A review of Greg Milner's Pinpoint
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
The satellite navigation system we all live by is still controlled by the US military.
- Face recognition app taking Russia by storm may bring end to public anonymity
Big Brother is watching...
Resource Type: Unclassified
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
FindFace, new app developed by 26-year-old Artem Kukarenko and 29-year-old Alexander Kabakov,compares photos to profile pictures on social network Vkontakte and works out identities with 70% reliability.
- Google's upcoming Allo messaging app is 'dangerous', Edward Snowden claims
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Using Google's upcoming messaging app is "dangerous", according to Edward Snowden. In a tweet, the whistleblower advised against using Allo, the search giant’s latest app, saying: "Google's decision to disable end-to-end encryption by default in its new Allo chat app is dangerous, and makes it unsafe. Avoid it for now."
- Nine Out of 10 Americans Tested Positive for Monsanto's Cancer-Linked Weedkiller Glyphosate
A probable human carcinogen is found in far too many foods
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
If you participated in the glyphosate test project launched last year by the Detox Project (formerly Feed The World) and Organic Consumers Association, you probably failed. A staggering 93 percent of Americans tested positive for glyphosate, according to the test results, announced on May 25, 2016.
- The Old Braceros Fight On
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Dozens of men assemble to remember their lives as contract guest workers in the United States and discuss the latest news or lack thereof in their decades-old movement to recover the 10 percent that was deducted from their paychecks and supposedly deposited in a savings account created for the return to Mexico under the old Bracero Program.
- Recession led to 260k extra cancer deaths, experts claim
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Unemployment and austerity were associated with more than 260,000 extra deaths of cancer patients in countries belonging to the Organisation for Economic Development (OECD), a study has shown. Those countries with universal health coverage , such as the UK, and a record of increased public health spending had fewer casualties.
- The Seemingly Endless Indignities of Air Travel: Report from the Losing Side of Class Warfare
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
For most of my alleged adult life I have wanted to live in a third world country, and now that my native United States has kindly accommodated this wish, all I do is bitch. It's bad enough that our income and wealth disparity rivals that of Guatemala, now our tax dollars are actively promoting this ever-deepening caste system.
- Silencing America as It Prepares for War
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
The 2016 election campaign is remarkable not only for the rise of Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders but also for the resilience of an enduring silence about a murderous self-bestowed divinity. A third of the members of the United Nations have felt Washington’s boot, overturning governments, subverting democracy, imposing blockades and boycotts.
- Close Calls: We Were Much Closer to Nuclear Annihilation Than We Ever Knew
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
The proposition that nuclear weapons can be retained in perpetuity and never used -- accidentally or by decision -- defies credibility. This unanimous statement was published by the Canberra Commission in 1996. Among the commission members were internationally known former ministers of defense and of foreign affairs and generals.
- Holocaust survivor and activist for justice Hedy Epstein dies at 91
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Holocaust survivor Hedy Epstein, 91, died at her home in St. Louis, Missouri, USA, on May 26, 2016. An internationally renowned, respected and admired advocate for human and civil rights, Hedy was encircled by friends who lovingly cared for her at home.
- The Looting Stage of Capitalism: Germany's Assault on the IMF
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Having successfully used the EU to conquer the Greek people by turning the Greek "leftwing" government into a pawn of Germany's banks, Germany now finds the IMF in the way of its plan to loot Greece into oblivion.
- Pan-Africanism, feminism and finding missing pan-Africanist women
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
There are numerous women in the African Diaspora who have worked for the liberation of Africans under the banner of Pan-Africanism. They must be rescued from political obscurity. Pan-Africanism as a revolutionary ideology must firmly embrace feminism.
- Sources HotLink - May 26, 2016
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
This issue takes a look at the good and bad of governments. Stateside, the NSA and CIA are at it again. Repeating mistakes in spite of media scandals and public outcry. Spies will be spies. In Uganda, censorship flexes its muscles and free elections become less free. In the Russian cyberspace, a though provoking debate is being had over the limitations of free speech. Finally, in the Middle East, we have a bit of hot and cold. The Pakistani Senate celebrates a victory for democracy and the freedom of speech.
- Time to End the 'Hasbara': Palestinian Media and the Search for a Common Story
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Merely being in the company of hundreds of Palestinian journalists and other media professionals from all over the world has been an uplifting experience. For many years, Palestinian media has been on the defensive, unable to articulate a coherent message, torn between factions and desperately trying to fend off the Israeli media campaign, along with its falsifications and unending propaganda or 'hasbara'.
- Planetary Crisis: We are not all in this together
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Liberal environmentalists insist that we are all passengers on Spaceship Earth, sharing a common fate and a common responsibility for the ship's safety. In reality, a handful of Spaceship Earth's passengers travel first-class, in plush air-conditioned cabins with every safety feature, including reserved seats in the very best lifeboats. The majority are herded into steerage, exposed to the elements, with no lifeboats at all. Armed guards keep them in their place.
- The Financial Invasion of Greece
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Greece's economic crisis has perhaps been eclipsed by Europe's refugee crisis, terrorist attacks, and by the forthcoming Brexit referendum. But it has not gone away. Greece's Syriza coalition faced violence on the streets and a 3-day general strike last week that brought much of the country to a halt. In spite of the protests the government of Alexis Tsipras pushed through legislation to amend the country's tax and pension system with the backing of 153 MPs, a measure required by the lenders in order to continue the debt negotiations.
- Free Speech
Ten Principles for a Connected World
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Ash offers a manifesto for global free speech in the digital age.
- Organic Farmers Are Not Anti-Science but Genetic Engineers Often Are
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Henderson argues that biotechnologists conflate anti-science with anti-genetic engineering, and that genetically engineered crops are being commercialized without proper testing.
- Organic Farmers Are Not Anti-Science but Genetic Engineers Often Are
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
- Religious Zealots Ready for Takeover of Israeli Army
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
In a surprise move, Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu last week forced out his long-serving defence minister, Moshe Yaalon. As he stepped down, Yaalon warned: "Extremist and dangerous elements have taken over Israel." He was referring partly to his expected successor: Avigdor Lieberman, leader of the far-right Yisrael Beiteinu party, whose trademark outbursts have included demands to bomb Egypt and behead disloyal Palestinian citizens.
- This is What Insurgency Looks Like
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
The call to Break Free from Fossil Fuels envisioned "tens of thousands of people around the world rising up" to take back control of their own destiny; "sitting down" to "block the business of government and industry that threaten our future"; conducting "peaceful defense of our right to clean energy." That's just what happened.
- The FBI's secret biometrics database they don't want you to see
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) wants to prevent information about its creepy biometric database, which contains fingerprint, face, iris, and voice scans of millions of Americans, from getting out to the public. The Department of Justice has come up with a proposal to exempt the biometric database from public disclosure. It states that the Next Generation Identification System (NGI) should not be subject to the Privacy Act, which requires federal agencies to give people access to records that have been collected concerning them, "allowing them to verify and correct them if needed."
- Transit Activism and the Urban Question in Belo Horizonte, Brazil
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
The demand for free transit has been an important starting point of recent mobilizations in Brazil, notably those that shook the whole country in the summer of 2013. This interview with local activists and researchers João Tonucci and André Veloso zeroes in on transit organizing in Belo Horizonte, the third largest metropolitan area in Brazil.
- Connexions Other Voices - Tax Evasion
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
The May 21, 2016 issue of Other Voices, the Connexions newsletter, is now out. The theme of this issue is Tax Evasion. Employing a network of accountants, tax lawyers, corporate shells, tax havens, secret bank accounts, and other methods, the 1%
- Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - May 7, 2016
Tax Evasion
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Employing a network of accountants, tax lawyers, corporate shells, tax havens, secret bank accounts, and other methods, the 1% have become extremely adept at evading even the low rates of taxation they are subjected to.
- Steuerhinterziehung
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2024
- Tax Evasion
Introduction to the May 21, 2016 issue of Other Voices
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First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
The essence of the capitalist economic system is the drive to accumulate as much as possible, by any means possible. It is almost inevitable, therefore, that those – individuals or corporations – whose existence revolves around accumulating capital will seek to avoid paying taxes.
- The new 140-character war on India’s caste system
Social media gives India's Daltis a voice
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Twitter users highlight caste issues ignored by mainstream media
- Penny dreadfuls: the Victorian equivalent of video games
Wild stories that caused a moral panic
Resource Type: Unclassified
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
The story of how in 1880s and 1890s, penny dreadfuls were blamed for youth violence and suicide.
- RoboCop is real -- and could be patrolling a mall near you
K5 robot, the new sheriff in the valley
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Automated security has cameras, microphones and costs $7 an hour.
- Secret Armies, Shadow Wars, Silent Unaccountability
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
We live today in an era of postmodern war. It's a two-front war -- the first being the virtual front of threats, posturing, and arms buildups we persist in waging, Cold War-style, against state-based mirror-images of ourselves (Russia and China); the second being the dirty front we wage in the shadows against irregular, non-state thugs and pygmy tyrants who use their weaknesses as strengths, asymmetrically, to turn our strengths into weaknesses.
- Joy Kogawa
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Joy Kogawa is a Canadian writer.
- Warning: This May Injure Your Modesty
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Ahmed Naji is an Egyptian novelist and journalist who, in February, was sentenced to two years' imprisonment for "injuring public modesty". In August 2014, Akhbar al-Adab, a state-funded literary magazine, had published an excerpt from his third novel, Istikhdam al-Hayah (Using Life), which had been previously approved by Egypt's censorship authority. In the excerpt, the narrator smokes hashish, drinks alcohol with his friends, and enjoys a sexual relationship with a woman. Hani Saleh Tawfik, a 65-year-old Egyptian, filed a case against Naji, alleging that reading the excerpt had caused him to experience heart palpitations, sickness, and a drop in blood pressure.
- Foreclosure Fraud Is Supposed to Be a Thing of the Past, But It Happens Every Day 2
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Every day in America, people continue to be kicked out of their homes based on false documents. The settlements over allegations of robosigning, faulty paperwork, and illegal mortgage servicing didn’t end the misconduct. And law enforcement, along with most judges and politicians, have looked away in the mistaken belief that they wrapped up a scandal that just goes on and on.
- We can dream, or we can organize
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
The swift rise, and swift crumbling, of the Occupy movement brings to the surface the question of organization. Demonstrating our anger, and doing so with thousands of others in the streets, gives us energy and brings issues to wider audiences. Yes spontaneity, as necessary as it is, is far from sufficient in itself. For all the weeks and sometimes months that Occupy encampments lasted, little in the way of lasting organization was created and thus a correspondingly little ability to bring about any of the changes hoped for. Nor is social media a substitute for mass action.
- Anatomy of a Propaganda Blitz - Part 2: 'Hitlergate'
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
As with so many propaganda blitzes, intense media coverage was triggered by 'dramatic new evidence'; namely, the discovery of a graphic posted by Naz Shah two years ago, before she became a Labour MP. The graphic shows a map of the United States with Israel superimposed in the middle, suggesting that a solution to the Israel-Palestine conflict would be to relocate Israel to the US.
- C.L.R. James's "Critical Support" of Fidel Castro's Cuba
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
C.L.R. James's "critical support" of Fidel Castro’s Cuba is little understood among scholars of his life and work. This essay explores James’s 1967–1968 visit to Cuba and reconstructs private debates and discussion on Cuba within his revolutionary organizations, based in Detroit, in the 1950s and 1960s, and among anti-imperialist movements. Many of James's commentaries and disputes were consistent with his attempts to reconcile anti-colonialism with direct democracy and workers self-management.
- Donald Trump and the New American Nationalism
An Exhausted Democracy
Resource Type: Unclassified
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
There have been moments in this election campaign that have brought back dark memories. In Mississippi, Florida and elsewhere, presumed Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump asked his supporters to raise their right hands and pledge their allegiance to his cause: "I do solemnly swear that I, no matter how I feel, no matter what the conditions, if there's hurricanes or whatever. Will vote on or before the 12th for Donald J. Trump for President." Tens of thousands raised their right arms and repeated the oath after him. The America media drew comparisons to Adolf Hitler.
- IFIC Releases Monthly Statistics for April 2016
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
The Investment Funds Institute of Canada (IFIC) announces that for the month ending April 30, 2016, assets under management (AUM) for the mutual funds industry totalled $1.24 trillion. AUM increased by $7 billion or
- Chomsky on Trump's Climate Denialism
He wants us to march toward the destruction of the species
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Transcript of an interview with Noam Chomsky discussing Donald Trump's denial of climate change and the dangers it poses.
- Crowdsourcing Cultural Heritage
'Citizen Archivists' for the Future
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Jan Zastrow looks at some of the exciting ways crowdsourcing is being used to increase online access to unique resources in cultural heritage collections, reflect on the ROI of such activities, discuss the challenges, and hypothesize possible future directions.
- Dear "Skeptics," Bash Homeopathy and Bigfoot Less, Mammograms and War More
A science journalist takes a skeptical look at capital-S Skepticism
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First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
So I'm a skeptic, but with a small S, not capital S. I don’t belong to skeptical societies. I don’t hang out with people who self-identify as capital-S Skeptics. Or Atheists. Or Rationalists. When people like this get together, they become tribal. They pat each other on the back and tell each other how smart they are compared to those outside the tribe. But belonging to a tribe often makes you dumber.
- Dear "Skeptics," Bash Homeopathy and Bigfoot Less, Mammograms and War More
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
A science journalist takes a skeptical look at capital-S Skepticism
- Landless Workers' Movement on the True Origins of Brazil's Political Crisis
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Brazil's Landless Worker's Movement, MST, takes a profound look at Brazil's political crisis, how it affects the working class and how they must respond.
- Migrant workers testify on Parliament Hill today, call for permanent immigration status, open work permits, and real reforms
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Four migrant workers will testify at the Standing Committee on Human Resources, Skills and Social Development and the Status of Persons with Disabilities (HUMA) today calling for permanent immigration status, open work permits & comprehensive reform
- Unsafe at any Dose? Diagnosing Chemical Safety Failures, from DDT to BPA
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Piecemeal, and at long last, chemical manufacturers have begun removing the endocrine-disrupting plastic bisphenol-A (BPA) from products they sell. Sunoco no longer sells BPA for products that might be used by children under three. France has a national ban on BPA food packaging. The EU has banned BPA from baby bottles. These bans and associated product withdrawals are the result of epic scientific research and some intensive environmental campaigning. But in truth these restrictions are not victories for human health. Nor are they even losses for the chemical industry.
- Congo's Environmental Paradox
Potential and Predation in a Land of Plenty
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Congo has natural resources the world needs. Its forests count in the fight against global climate change and Congo's farmers could feed all of Africa's population. The Inga hydroelectric site has the potential to light up the entire continent. Congo's incredible natural wealth has the potential to contribute to development in this troubled central African country -- but structural problems, cultural factors, poor governance and predation remain serious challenges.
- Gay imperialism: Postcolonial particularity
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Since her refusal to accept the Berlin Pride Civil Courage Award, Judith Butler has been a leading critic of "homonationalism" and the closely related phenomenon of so-called "pinkwashing." Homonationalism is understood here as an ideology which uses a nation's liberal attitudes toward homosexuality as a means of encouraging racist attitudes toward other nations, on the grounds that they are supposedly less enlightened. Butler stated in a May 2010 address on "Queer Alliance and Antiwar Politics" in Ankara, Turkey that "in some parts of Europe and surely in Israel as well, the rights of homosexuals are defended in the name of nationalism."
- Sex, Needs, and Queer Culture
From Liberation to the Post-Gay
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
The belief of many in the early sexual liberation movements was that capitalism's investment in the norms of the heterosexual family meant that any challenge to them was invariably anti-capitalist. In recent years, however, lesbian and gay subcultures have become increasingly mainstream and commercialized -- as seen, for example, in corporate backing for pride events -- while the initial radicalism of sexual liberation has given way to relatively conservative goals over marriage and adoption rights. Meanwhile, queer theory has critiqued this homonormativity, or assimilation, as if some act of betrayal had occurred.
In Sex, Needs and Queer Culture, David Alderson seeks to account for these shifts in both queer movements and the wider society, and he argues powerfully for a distinctive theoretical framework. Through a critical reassessment of the work of Herbert Marcuse, as well as the cultural theorists Raymond Williams and Alan Sinfield, Alderson asks whether capitalism is progressive for queers, evaluates the distinctive radicalism of the counterculture as it has mutated into queer, and distinguishes between avant-garde protest and subcultural development. In doing so, the book offers new directions for thinking about sexuality and its relations to the broader project of human liberation.
- Climate Justice Transitions
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
The devastating fires in Fort McMurray show the urgent need to transition to an economy that supports people and the planet, and this is part of a transition in climate justice politics.
- Burying the White Working Class
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Liberal condescension towards white workers is code for a broader anti-working class agenda. The white working class is a zombie that doesn't know it's dead. Or if it's not fully zombified yet, its members are all too busy cleaning their AR-15s and posting racist comments on YouTube to vote for a progressive. That is, if they're not already on the Trump bandwagon, which they probably are. At least that's what the Democratic Party wants you to believe.
- Desire to Kill the Streetcar
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
The author analyzes the conspiracy by large corporations to monopolize the American transit system and its fuel system.
- A fossil free world must be founded on a Just Transition for workers and their communities
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Climate impacts hit working people first and with extreme weather events, changing seasons and rising sea levels, whole communities stand on the frontlines. The challenge of industrial transformation is both an imperative and an opportunity. We know there are jobs in action on climate, millions of jobs. With infrastructure investment projected to be up to US$90 trillion by 2030. This means jobs.
- Syria: Armed opposition groups committing war crimes in Aleppo city
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
A detailed account of attacks carried out by opposition groups in Aleppo city between February and April 2016, which indiscriminately struck civilian targets with heavy civilian casualties.
- Anatomy of a Propaganda Blitz - Part 1
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
We live in a time when state-corporate interests are cooperating to produce propaganda blitzes intended to raise public support for the demonisation and destruction of establishment enemies. Here we will examine five key components of an effective propaganda campaign of this kind.
- Feeding body and soul - an exploration of Britain's new age landworkers
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
There is a change being made in food production that have individual reaping healthier and energy preserving benefits.
- 100,000 California Indians Killed During Gold Rush Genocide
Bloody Gold; the California Gold Rush and state sponsored genocide
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Legislation with roots in Manifest Destiny and dehumanization helped lead Euro-Americans to commit the greatest act of genocide in American history.
- Share if You Think Every School Should Have a Year-Round Organic Gardening Program!
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
A few years ago the children at our school grew, harvested and, ultimately, ate a giant, two-pound carrot. Our organic gardening program at the Waldorf School of Cape Cod has come a long way since then. We now have a unheated hoop house and a program where middle school gardeners lead first through fifth graders as they learn to build soil, plant, transplant, tend, water and harvest food year round. Our harvests are transformed by our school chef into amazing meals served at lunch.
- What Principles Rule the World?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
According to Chomsky, the Global War on Terror sledgehammer strategy has spread jihadi terror from a tiny corner of Afghanistan to much of the world, from Africa through the Levant and South Asia to Southeast Asia. It has also incited attacks in Europe and the United States.
- Beyond Panama: Unlocking the world's secrecy jurisdictions
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First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
The 21 jurisdictions covered by the Panama Papers data vary from the rolling hills of Wyoming to tropical getaways like the British Virgin Islands. But all have at least one thing in common - secrecy is the rule.
- IFIC Comments on Ontario Securities Commission's 2016-2017 Statement of Priorities
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Toronto, ON - May 9, 2016 - In a submission filed today on the Ontario Securities Commission's (OSC) 2016-2017 Statement of Priorities, The Investment Funds Institute of Canada (IFIC) notes that several key trends and challenges that will influ
- Mother's Day Message: Protect the Children
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Last week Houston. This week Fort McMurray. Next week: where on earth? The climate crisis knows no bounds and its hallmark is unpredictability. We know the general trends, as the carbon dioxide levels rise in the atmosphere, but we don't know
- Women in Politics: Fast Forward - An International Women's Conference in Jordan
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Participants were filled with energy and enthusiasm; sounds of optimistic laughter echoed under the dome of Parliament of Jordan. Instead of men in black, grey or blue suits, the place was filled with finely dressed women. Some of them wore their tra
- Hippalos: Early Navigation of Deep Sea Routes Between India and Egypt - Part I
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
On the south-east or Coromandel Coast of India, about two miles (3.2km) south of the former French enclave of Pondicherry, there is a tract on the east known locally as Arikamedu, near the village of Virampattanam. After 1937 it was gradually revealed as an Indo-Roman trading station.
- Connexions Other Voices - Destabilization and Regime Change
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
The May 7, 2016 issue of Other Voices, the Connexions newsletter, is now out. The theme of this issue is Destabilization and Regime Change.
- Destabilization and regime change
Introduction to the May 7, 2016 issue of Other Voices
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First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
People looking at the United States from the outside tend to assume that life is easy when you're an imperialist superpower in command of the world's largest military forces, backed by the world’s most powerful economy. With so much power concentrated in your hands, what could possibly go wrong?
- Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - May 7, 2016
Destabilization and Regime Change
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
When governments get too far out of line -- the most outrageous offence, from the point of view of imperial power, is pursuing policies that help ordinary people at the expense of transnational corporations and local elites -- then they have to be overthrown. The preferred method is a destabilization campaign followed by a coup. This issue of Other Voices focuses destabilization and regime change.
- Divine wilderness: John Muir's spiritual and political journey
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First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
For John Muir, founder of America's national parks, immersion in nature was a blessing providing direct communion with divinity,and the cause of a spiritual awakening that inspired his life's work: to preserve wilderness and communicate the beauty, wonder and fragility of nature, sharing widely the source of his own enlightenment.
- Mother's Day and nuclear weapons abolition
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Card companies, florists, and drugstores with perfumes and lotions galore, are urging us to celebrate and honour our mothers with the perfect gift. It's a commercial bonanza! Everyone feels bound by social convention to show respect through gifts
- Goodbye to democracy if TTIP is passed
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
The leaked chapters of the EU-US TTIP 'free trade' deal reveal a shredding of health, environmental and other protections for consumers and citizens. It's a wet dream for corporate monopolists and profiteers, and the elite bureaucrats that serve them. But for civil society it represents an irreversible destruction of democracy itself.
- IFIC's President and CEO to Chair Second Annual Canadian Funds Summit
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
The Investment Funds Institute of Canada (IFIC) announced today that its president and CEO, Joanne De Laurentiis, will chair the second annual Canadian Funds Summit in Toronto on May 10-11, 2016.
- IFIC's President and CEO to Chair Second Annual Canadian Funds Summit
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
The Investment Funds Institute of Canada (IFIC) announced today that its president and CEO, Joanne De Laurentiis, will chair the second annual Canadian Funds Summit in Toronto on May 10-11, 2016.
- Zionism and Anti-Semitism
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
What is the meaning of Zionism today, almost 70 years after the formation of Israel, and why is it such a buzzword? Are we talking here about a particular form of nationalism or is it something a little bit more complex? What is its agenda?
- Baiting the Bear
Russia and NATO
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
"Aggressive," "revanchist," "swaggering": These are just some of the adjectives the mainstream press and leading U.S. and European political figures are routinely inserting before the words "Russia," or "Vladimir Putin." It is a vocabulary most Americans have not seen or heard since the height of the Cold War. The question is, why?
- From Hillsborough to pesticides
Establishment cover-ups, lies and corruption
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
The British establishment does nothing quite so well as lies, cover-ups and high-level corruption - whether it's the Hillsborough disaster or permitting polluters to poison us. Georgina Downs won her own High Court legal victory protecting rural residents from pesticide exposure as long ago as 2008 - only to have it snatched away as Court of Appeal judges closed ranks.
- Hanford's Leaky Nuke Tanks and Sick Workers, A Never-Ending Saga
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
It's been a toxic few weeks at the Hanford nuclear reservation in Eastern Washington. Not that this is exactly news -- Hanford is the most radioactive site in North America and is thereby always toxic. But what is news is how dangerous and negligent the remediation efforts at Hanford continue to be.
- An introduction to the Indian Ocean slave trade
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
The Indian Ocean slave trade encompassed Africa, Asia and the Middle East, with people from these areas involved as both captors and captives. The numbers of people enslaved and the exact length of the trans-Indian slave trade have not been definitively established, but historians believe that it preceded the transatlantic enslavement by centuries. Even though it is largely ignored as an international slave trade, examples of its impact abound. Writing on Indian Ocean slavery frequently mentions African people in China and Persia as well as in the Muslim holy cities of Mecca and Medina, which also served as central slave markets.
- Remembering Nonviolent History
Freedom Rides
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
By May 1961, federal law had already ruled that segregation on interstate public buses was illegal. Southern states, however, maintained segregation in seating, and at bus station bathrooms, waiting rooms and drinking fountains and the Interstate Commerce Commission refused to take action to enforce federal law. To change this, the Civil Rights Movement (CORE, SNCC, NAACP) began a series of Freedom Rides on May 4th, 1961.
- TIPP
Advancing American Imperialism
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Greenpeace has done that part of the world whose representatives are so corrupt or so stupid as to sign on to the Trans-Pacific and Trans-Atlantic "partnerships" a great service. Greenpeace secured and leaked the secret documents that Washington and global corporations are pushing on Europe. The official documents prove that my description of these "partnerships" when they first appeared in the news is totally correct.
- TTIP is on the rocks. Let's defeat these toxic trade deals!
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
The TTIP EU-US trade deal has finally hit the rocks with massive popular opposition on both sides of the Atlantic gaining serious political traction. There's now a good chance that TTIP will be defeated - but first we must make sure that CETA, the equally toxic EU-Canada 'Trojan Horse' deal, bites the dust.
- The American Jewish scholar behind Labour's 'antisemitism' scandal breaks his silence
Norman G. Finkelstein talks Naz Shah MP, Ken Livingstone, and the Labour 'antisemitism' controversy.
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First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
An interview with author Norman Fikelstein on the Labour 'antisemitism' scandal.
- Anarchism's Mid-Century Turn
A Review & Response: Unruly Equality: U.S. Anarchism in the Twentieth Century,
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
No matter how one feels about it, the current state of anarchism has represented something of a mystery: What was once a mass movement based mainly in working class immigrant communities is now an archipelago of subcultural scenes inhabited largely by disaffected young people from the white middle class.
- Destroying Detroit Schools
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
The Detroit Public School system has been under state control for 15 years, the last decade under the direction of a series of Emergency Managers. The result has been a staggering debt, now more than half a billion dollars, with a 50% decline in the number of students served. More students attend charter schools than the public system, but as there is no oversight over charters, poorly run schools continue year after year.
- A Dweller in Peace
The Life and Times of Daniel Berrigan
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First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Rev. Daniel Berrigan, the renowned anti-war activist, award-winning poet, author and Jesuit priest, who inspired religious opposition to the Vietnam war and later the U.S. nuclear weapons industry, died at age 94.
- the Jews, Israel, and the Holocaust - Key Texts
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
The Blairites' crocodile tears are about defending empire, writes David Moyles in this introduction to The Jews, Israel and the Holocaust by Tony Cliff.
- Leaked TTIP papers reveal 100% corporate sellout
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Secret documents leaked to Greenpeace from the EU-US TTIP negotiations show that environmental protection, climate change mitigation, consumer protection, public health and sustainability are sacrificed throughout to corporate profit and commercial interests.
- The Mythology Of Trump's 'Working Class' Support
His voters are better off economically compared with most Americans.
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
It's been extremely common for news accounts to portray Donald Trump's candidacy as a "working-class" rebellion against Republican elites. Narratives like these risk obscuring an important fact about Trump's voters: As compared with most Americans, Trump's voters are better off.
- Tracing ancient Asia-America migration in language
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Kets are Siberia's last hunters and gatherers with linguistic links to Native North Americans as far away as Arizona.
- What is the "Nuit Debout"?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
In late February the Michael Moore-style documentary "Merci Patron!" debuted in a few small cinemas in France. The sleeper hit caught a representative of Bernard Arnault, the CEO of the luxury-goods conglomerate LVMH (Louis Vuitton Moet Hennessy) forking over 35 thousand euros in hush money to a couple who were threatening to go public with their layoff from a garment factory.
- Celebrating Mother Jones
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First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
This week commemorates the anniversary of the Haymarket Affair, International Workers' Day, and the claimed birthday of Mother Mary Harris Jones. While the United States' official Labour Day falls in September, the international community celebrates workers and workers rights on May 1st, in recognition of actions taken by Americans in 1886, and the events that led up to the Haymarket Massacre.
- Communities at Risk
Hazards of LNG
Resource Type: Film/Video
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
The proposed LNG Terminals and Tanker Routes for BC put coastal communities at risk. Know the Hazards of LNG Transportation and advocate for the adoption of the SIGTTO safety standards.
- On the Frontlines of Peace
The Life of Daniel Berrigan
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Certain events in one's life often determine the choices made later in that same life. These crucial events can be of a personal nature -- a romance, a family death, the birth of a child, or something less universal -- or they can be events that take place in the public sphere. One such event of the latter category in my life occurred May 17, 1968.
- American Literature and the First World War
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Given that the United States entered the First World War much later than any other major belligerent, declaring war on Germany in April, 1917 - over two and a half years after the war began - one might expect that the war had less impact here than on other countries. American literature, however, argues otherwise.
- Auto's Permanent Temporaries
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
In the auto industry, temporaries were once students who covered auto jobs over a clearly defined summer vacation period. Today temps can work a full week year after year, never becoming permanent workers.
- The Contested Haymarket Affair: 130 Years Later
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
On May 4th, 1886 someone threw a bomb into a file of Chicago police dispatched to break up a workers' protest rally at the city's Haymarket Square. The blast and ensuing gunfire killed seven cops and at least four civilians, and wounded many more.
- Defending the Faith
The Catholic Church waged a century-long war against the Irish left.
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Ireland's foremost socialist knew that the British Empire and Irish capitalists weren't the only challenge he and his comrades faced. "In dealing with Ireland," James Connolly wrote in 1910, "no one can afford to ignore the question of the attitude to the clergy." Connolly's subject of discussion was a 1830s Owenite cooperative that enjoyed brief success, in large part because nearby clergymen didn't oppose it.
- Disasters in Seria and Yemen
An Interview with Gilbert Achcar
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First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Interview with author Gilbert Achcar.
- An enemy within
There are terrible precedents for attacking immigrant culture - like the well organised and sponsored US campaign during the first world war
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
A look at the persecution and campaign against Americans of German origin within the United States during WWI.
- Fatema Mernissi: A Pioneering Arab Muslim Feminist
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Remembering sociologist Fatema Mernissi.
- Front Runner
Marine Le Pen's campaign to make France great again
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First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
A look at Marine Len Pen, leader of the far-right National Front Party (FN), and the events and circumstances that led to her party's rise in popularity from a fringe movement to the forefront of French politics.
- The Habits of Highly Cynical People
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
A look at the consequences and dangers of 'naive cynicism', where complex issues are oversimplified and the future and past is flattened out, reducing motivations to engage in intelligent dialogue, and to participate and act.
- Homonationalism and Queer Resistance
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
For most young queers today, still, the image of a "worker" is white, male and straight. You can't understand the realities of class without an intersectional approach - an intersectional approach fused with some of the key insights of contemporary radical queer theory.
- Inside/ Outside the Campus Box
The Cutting Edge
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First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Book review of David Lanksy's The Cutting Edge.
- Messer-Kruse's Haymarket History
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Book reviews of Timothy Messer-Kruse's two works The Trial of the Haymarket Anarchists: Terrorism and Justice in the Gilded Age and The Haymarket Conspiracy: Transatlantic Anarchist Networks.
- Politics of the New Normal
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
For those of us on the socialist left, the biggest issue is what will come from the passion and commitment of millions of voters and tens of thousands of activists who are feeling the Bern.
- Red Light Therapy
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First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
A traffic light experiment in the Netherlands forms the basis of a discussion on how we interpret 'rules' and morality and what they mean to us.
- Russia's Intervention and Syria's Future
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
There's a lot of hypocrisy in the present complaint by the Obama administration that most Russian strikes are directed against the non-ISIS Syrian opposition. And yet, Washington's hope is that Putin will not only prevent the regime's collapse and consolidate it, but also help in reaching some kind of political settlement of the conflict. For the time being this is more wishful thinking than anything else.
- Standing Against Counterrevolution
The Two Trotskyisms Confront Stalinism: The Fate of the Russian Revolution, Volume 2
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Book review of Sean Matgamna's The Two Trotskyisms Confront Stalinism: The Fate of the Russian Revolution, Volume 2.
- "This Deportation Business": 1920s and the Present
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
This article examines the growth of the deportation regime during the 1920s, and explores the enduring ramifications of early deportation practice and the renegotiation of the state's coercive power over migrants.
- Trouble Down in Texas (and Elsewhere)
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First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
The U.S. Supreme Court, on March 2nd, 2016, heard arguments in the case of Whole Women's Health vs. Hellerstedt. The judges will be deciding the constitutionality of a 2013 Texas bill (HB2) that places restrictions on clinics where abortions are performed - most within the first eight weeks of pregnancy.
- U.S. Labor - What's New, What's Not?
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First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
An analysis of the changing and unchanging elements of the working-class in the contemporary U.S.
- U.S. Labor: What's New, What's Not?
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First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
We all know that there's something different about today's working class. One obvious difference is that today's working class produces fewer things "you can drop on your toe," as The Economist famously put it, and more that you can't. What’s actually changing in capitalist production in the United States?
- Water in a World of Crisis
The Price of Thirst: Global Water Inequality and the Coming Chaos
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Book review of Karen Piper's The Price of Thirst: Global Water Inequality and the Coming Chaos.
- Why Blacks Vote for "Pragmatism"
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
African Americans are probably the most pragmatic voting bloc in the country. African Americans more than any other ethnic group understand white supremacy, racism and class exploitation.
- Disobedience
The rise of the global fossil fuel resistance
Resource Type: Film/Video
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Disobedience is a film about a new phase of the climate movement: courageous action that is being taken on the front lines of the climate crisis on every continent, led by regular people fed up with the power and pollution of the fossil fuel industry.
- Brutal, opaque, illegal: the dark side of the Tres Santos 'mindfulness' eco-tourism resort
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
A small fishing community in Mexico's Baja California is playing involuntary host to a gigantic tourism and real estate development. And while the branding of the Tres Santos resort is all about mindfulness, ecology and sustainability, the reality is one of big money, high level politics, and the unaccountable deployment of state violence against those who dare oppose it.
- Daylighting (streams)
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
In urban design and urban planning, daylighting is the redirection of a stream into an above-ground channel. Typically, the goal is to restore a stream of water to a more natural state. Daylighting is intended to improve the riparian environment for a stream which had been previously diverted into a culvert, pipe, or a drainage system. In the UK, the practice is also known as deculverting.
- Statement on "Labour's problem with antisemitism"
Sources News Release
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First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Antisemitism and anti-Zionism are not the same. Zionism is a political ideology which has always been contested within Jewish life since it emerged in 1897, and it is entirely legitimate for non-Jews as well as Jews to express opinions about it
- What are the components of an innovative economic transformation?
Where to find new competitive models
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
- World Press Freedom Day 2016
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
There must be no hiding place for those who attack journalists or undermine media freedom. That's the strong message from journalists unions across the world to mark the World Press Freedom Day
- Beinart's Jewish double-bind: Support oppression or you're out of the family
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Even when he's serving up a soul-crushing ultimatum, you have to give Peter Beinart some credit. By comparing Israel to "your violent, drug-addicted brother," but saying that if you call the cops -- i.e., support Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) -- to "make them change their destructive and self-destructive behavior” you are putting your “personal morality" ahead of family loyalty, he's enraged Israel defenders and anti-Zionists alike. In this way, he becomes the personification of the untenable situation he writes about.
- Call to act against torture and free Yemeni journalists
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) has welcomed the release of two kidnapped Yemeni journalists - and backed calls for all those still held captive to be freed immediately.
- The Commons and the Centennial of the Easter Rising
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First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
A hundred years ago today in Dublin the Easter Rebellion commenced. This was an urban insurrection, in the revolutionary tradition. Not more than a thousand participated. It lasted five days, before the British military killed hundreds, and executed sixteen including those who had signed the Proclamation of the Republic.
- The Devil Capitalism Makes Us Destroy Our Planet
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First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Capitalism is asking us to choose between jobs and the future livability of our planet. Capitalism tells us it makes sense to flood some of the best food growing land in B.C. and build a dam to provide electricity for Alberta's tar sands; capitalism says build more pipelines across B.C. and allow hundreds more oil tankers every year to sail through pristine waters; capitalism doesn’t care that more carbon extraction will guarantee our planet is cooked.
- Editor of Bangladesh's first LBGTI magazine hacked to death
Sources News Release
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First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) joins the Bangladesh Manobadhikar Sangbadik Forum (BMSF) condemn the murder of the editor of the country's first and only LBGTI magazine in Dhaka on April 25, 2016.
- The Evolution of Union Co-ops and the Historical Development of Workplace Democracy
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
- Gambia: IFJ calls for the immediate release of jailed journalist
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) has backed calls by the Gambia Press Union (GPU) for all charges against jailed radio journalist Alhagie Ceesay to be dropped and for his immediate release.
- How Israel lobby manufactured UK Labour Party's anti-Semitism crisis
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Last year, socialist stalwart Jeremy Corbyn won the leadership of the UK’s Labour Party by a landslide. Since then, there has been a steady flow of claims by Israel’s supporters that Corbyn has not done enough to combat anti-Semitism.
- IFJ calls on Palestinian journalists' leader to be set free
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
The IFJ condemned the arrest yesterday of Palestinian journalist Omar Nazzal, member of the board of IFJ affiliate, the Palestinian Journalists' Syndicate, while he crossed the al-Karameh border.
- New Study Shows Mass Surveillance Breeds Meekness, Fear and Self-Censorship
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First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
A newly published study from Oxford's Jon Penney provides empirical evidence for a key argument long made by privacy advocates: that the mere existence of a surveillance state breeds fear and conformity and stifles free expression. Reporting on the study, the Washington Post this morning described this phenomenon: "If we think that authorities are watching our online actions, we might stop visiting certain websites or not say certain things just to avoid seeming suspicious."
- Puerto Rico: a Junta By Any Other Name
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Empire is once again fashionable. The financial crisis that is presently gutting the island of Puerto Rico plays out like the world's worst case of botched assisted suicide. The sell of its municipal funds and its constitutionally guaranteed promise of repayment to investors has plunged the island into a very precarious situation for its millions of citizens and the opportunity of a lifetime for hedge fund vultures.
- Turkey: foreign press correspondents increasingly banned
Sources News Release
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First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
The International and European Federations of Journalists have today condemned the entry ban imposed by Turkish authorities against Russian journalist Tural Kerimov, the Turkey bureau chief for Sputnik news agency, who is the 10th foreign press
- The 'war on drugs' is a war on culture and human diversity
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First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
The 'war on drugs' is presented as a necessary battle against social evils. But from the Andes to the Caribbean, prohibition has criminalised both religious and cultural expression. And it's a war that is strictly for the global poor: people in Colorado can grow pot - so why not Colombians?
- Who's downloading pirated papers? Everyone
In rich and poor countries, researchers turn to the Sci-Hub website
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First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Researchers are increasingly turning to Sci-Hub, the world's largest largest 'pirate' website for scholarly literature. Sci-Hub is becoming the world's de facto open-access research library.
- Workers' Memorial Day: North Dakota deadliest state in US
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Tyler Erickson was a floor hand with Heller Casing in Williston, North Dakota, from 2012 until 2014. He specialised in maintaining the casing, which would be lowered into drill holes in what back then were the state’s booming oil fields. Accidents, he says, were a regular occurrence.
- Eight Challenges Indian-Language Wikipedias Need to Overcome
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First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Even after a decade of existence, Indian language Wikipedias are not yet known to many Indian language speakers. Wikipedia, the largest available encyclopedia made in the human history, is what it is today because of the hundreds and thousands of volunteer editors. But while native-language Wikipedias are becoming game-changers in other corners of the world, the scenario in India is skewed.
- Exxon Knew CO2 Pollution Was A Global Threat By Late 1970s
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First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Throughout Exxon’s global operations, the company knew that CO2 was a harmful pollutant in the atmosphere years earlier than previously reported. Exxon corporate documents from the late 1970s state unequivocally "there is no doubt" that CO2 from the burning of fossil fuels was a growing "problem" well understood within the company.
- Fossil Capital: the rise of steam power and the roots of global warming
Book Review
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First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
We all know that coal and steam vanquished over water power in Britain's - and the world's - industrial revolution, writes Irma Allen. But as Andreas Malm sets out in his fascinating new book, the deciding factors in that victory were the unconstrained mastery over people and nature that coal provided mill owners. And so the model was set for the fossil age that may only now be coming to an end.
- How Big Oil seeps into Canadian academia
Canada's oily universities
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
For years, Royal Dutch Shell has tried to portray itself as one of the good guys in the battle against climate change. It recently completed improvements to an oil upgrader in Fort Saskatchewan, near Edmonton, to capture up to a third of its greenhouse gas emissions - equivalent to removing the annual pollution of about 250,000 cars.
- Luxembourg Puts Journalist and Whistleblowers On Trial for Ruining Its "Magical Fairyland" of Tax Avoidance
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First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Luxembourg istrying to throw two French whistleblowers and a journalist in prison for their role in the "LuxLeaks" exposé that revealed the tiny country’s outsized role in enabling corporate tax avoidance.
- A Pen to Battle Fascism
Remembering George Seldes (1890-1995)
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First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
During the course of his life, George Seldes repeatedly accused the American Press of "covering itself in filth" when glorifying fascist regimes, no matter how brutal and undemocratic, as long as it was in the name of anti-Communism.
- Preventable Deaths 2016 Infographics
Resource Type: Photo/Image/Poster
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Infographics from the National COSH report Preventable Deaths 2016, released on April 27, 2016 for Workers' Memorial Week.
- Study: NSA Surveillance Has Chilling Effort on Internet Browsing
Users Feared Reading About 'Sensitive' Topics
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First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
A new study in the Berkeley Technology Law Journal found that traffic on Wikipedia articles considered "sensitive" or terror-related plummeted drastically in the immediate wake of revelations about broad NSA surveillance of Internet use.
- Teenage Girls Increasingly Requesting Labiaplasty to Get the Perfect Designer Vagina
Very young women are going under the knife to sculpt parts that are still growing and changing.
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Never underestimate the power of beauty myths to manufacture inadequacies where before there were none. A little over a decade ago, labiaplasty -- the partial or wholesale removal of parts of the labia minora, aka the inner vaginal lips -- was a relatively obscure plastic surgery, compared with nips, tucks and lifts to various other parts. In more recent years, the number of women opting for the surgery has grown exponentially. Now very young women -- girls still in their teens -- are requesting the procedure in numbers growing so quickly that even some practitioners are concerned.
- Toxic Range: the BLM's Growing Chemical Addiction
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
BLM is escalating herbicide use on public lands. A primary agency excuse for forsaking sage-grouse ESA protection is the pipe dream that new habitat will be created through radical deforestation, and that fuelbreaks will stop fires.
- Austerity vs. the Planet:The Future of Labour Environmentalism
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Last December members of the International Trade Union Confederation joined other civil society activists in a mass sit-in at the COP21 talks in Paris. Unionists and their allies, some 400 strong, filled the social space adjacent to the negotiating rooms for several hours, in defiance of a French ban on protests that remained in effect in the wake of the November 13 terrorist attacks. The ITUC delegation demanded the negotiators go back to the table and make a serious effort to incorporate labour's demands for a just transition – which, at its heart, is concerned with making sure workers in environmentally unsustainable industries are retrained and put to work building a new, sustainable economy.
- Big Loser in Wente Plagiarism? Globe's Reputation
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First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Margaret Wente has been busted, again, for plagiarism. The paper's response, again, has been wholly inadequate. The first scandal, in 2012, damaged the Globe's credibility, largely because of the way it mishandled the affair.
- IFIC Welcomes New Member and New Affiliate
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Toronto, ON - April 26, 2016 - The Investment Funds Institute of Canada (IFIC) is pleased to announce that Canso Fund Management Ltd. has become a member of IFIC and Versacom Inc. has joined as an affiliate.
- More Than a Few Rogue Cops: the Disturbing History of Police in Schools
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Another week, another video of police abuse surfaces. This time the video shows San Antonio school resource officer Joshua Kehm body-slamming 12-year-old Rhodes Middle School student Janissa Valdez. Valdez was talking with another student, trying to resolve a verbal conflict between the two, when Kehm entered and attacked her. "Janissa! Janissa, you okay?" a student asked before exclaiming, "She landed on her face!" In a statement on the incident, co-director of the Advancement Project Judith Browne Davis wrote, "Once again, a video captured by a student offers a sobering reminder that we cannot entrust school police officers to intervene in school disciplinary matters that are best suited for trained educators and counselors."
- The Return of the Coup in Latin America
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Venezuela and Brazil are the scenes of a new form of coup d'etat that would set the continent's political calendar back to its worst times. Meanwhile, in Argentina, the brutal model for the demolition of democracy is set forward by the continental oligarchic right and the hegemonic forces of US imperialism who wish to impose their model in the region.
- Washington Launches Its Attack Against BRICS
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Having removed the reformist President of Argentina, Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner, Washington is now disposing of the reformist President of Brazil, Dilma Rousseff.
- Defending Exxon's Denial: It's Their Right to Free Speech!
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First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
In the world of science denial, Money is Speech, corporations are people, Donald Trump is Galileo, and apparently, lying to your customers and shareholders is exercising your constitutional rights.
- Electoral Politics and the Illusion of Control
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
We have all been told a lie. The lie that says democracy can be maintained only through voting, through purely representative, parliamentarian means. When the founding fathers set up the Constitution and Bill of Rights, they were wary of any truly popular, working and middle class control of the United States. Our government was to be run as a republic, designed by elites, for the elites. Our three branches of government were not simply invented for checks and balances: another reason was to stymie any massively popular mandates that would go against the interests of the oligarchy.
- In Israel, an Ugly Tide sweeps over Palestinians
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
In Israel's evermore tribal politics, there is no such thing as a "good" Arab -- and the worst failing in a Jew is to be unmasked as an "Arab lover". Or so was the message last week from Isaac Herzog, head of Israel's so-called peace camp.The shock waves of popular anger at the recent indictment of an Israeli army medic, Elor Azaria, on a charge of "negligent homicide" are being felt across Israel's political landscape.
- The Lost Partisans
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Italy's April 25 holiday marks the anniversary of the country's liberation from fascism. This day in 1945, antifascist partisan units freed the northern industrial centers of Milan and Turin from the grip of Hitler and Mussolini's remaining loyalists, after Allied forces had swept through the country. Just three days later, in a humiliating epitaph to the twenty-year regime, partisans captured and executed il Duce and his entourage, hanging them upside down in Milan's Piazzale Loreto. Now the resistance is remembered more as representing 'national unity' than working-class resistance to fascism.
- Moving forward while celebrating Palestinian art's past
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First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Unlike Other Springs, on display at the Birzeit University Museum in the occupied West Bank through the end of June, pulls off the heavy feat of looking back while moving forward. Conceived as both a celebration and retrospective, the exhibition is guest curated by the museum's formidable founder, the renowned artist Vera Tamari, who oversaw its transformation from the Ethnographic and Art Museum at Birzeit University into the center of contemporary Palestinian and international art that it is today.
- Remembering Argentina's Mothers of the Disappeared
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First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Campaign Nonviolence is a movement to build a culture of active nonviolence. We share the stories of nonviolent action, drawing lessons, strength, and strategy from the global grassroots movements for change. This week commemorates the 39th anniversary of the first protest of the Argentina's Mothers of the Disappeared.
- The Rise and Fall of Liberation Theology in Latin America
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First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Liberation Theology in Latin America has been an integral part of progressive movements. The Vatican, with the support and guidance from the United States, has sabotaged Liberation Theology in Latin America. Their aim has been to maintain the status quo and stop the progressive forces from taking control.
- Securing communal land rights for Tanzania's Indigenous Peoples
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First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Commuting between land rights negotiations in the city and herding goats on the plains, Edward Loure is at once a traditional Maasai and a modern urbanite. That ability to straddle the two very different worlds he inhabits has been key to his success at having 200,000 acres of land registered into village and community ownership.
- Revolution für soziale Gerechtigkeit und Demokratie!
Vorschläge für eine offensive Strategie der LINKEN
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First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
In den nächsten Jahren wird sich entscheiden, in welche Richtung sich diese Gesellschaft bewegt. Sie steht an einem Scheideweg: Zwischen rechter Hetze und neoliberaler Konkurrenz auf der einen Seite, Demokratie, Solidarität und sozialer Gerechtigkeit auf der anderen Seite. Werden größere Teile der Erwerbslosen, Prekären, Geringverdienenden und die abstiegsbedrohte Mittelschicht sich den Rechtspopulisten zuwenden und damit den Weg für eine noch unsozialere, autoritäre und antidemokratische Entwicklung bereiten? Oder gelingt es, Konkurrenz und Entsolidarisierung zurückzudrängen und ein gesellschaftliches Lager der Solidarität zu bilden?
- Brazil: Social movements reject coup, take to streets
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First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
In response to a recent vote in the lower house of Brazil's parliament in favour of impeaching Workers' Party (PT) President Dilma Rousseff, Brazil's two main coalitions of social movements issued the statement below on April 17, 2016.
- Ciência e seus inimigos
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First Published: 2016
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- Connexions Other Voices -- Science and its enemies
Sources News Release
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First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
The April 23, 2016 issue of Other Voices, the Connexions newsletter, is now out. The focus of this issue is science and its enemies.
- Die Wissenschaft und ihre Feinde
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First Published: 2016
Published: 2024
Unsere Gesellschaft und ihre Institutionen, sowohl öffentlich als auch privat, erzählen uns oft, dass die Wissenschaft und die wissenschaftliche Ausbildung unabdingbar für unsere Zukunft sind.
- Nauka i jej wrogowie
Polish translation of Science and its Enemies
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First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
- Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - April 23, 2016
Science and its enemies
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First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Our society and its institutions, public and private, regularly tell us that science, and education in the sciences, are crucial to our future. These public declarations are strangely reminiscent of the equally sincere lip service they pay to the ideals of democracy. And, in the same way that governments and private corporations devote considerable efforts to undermining the reality of democracy, so too they are frequently found trying to block and subvert science when the evidence it produces runs counter to their interests. Real live scientists doing real live science, it seems, are not nearly as loveable as Science in the abstract.
- Science and its enemies - Farsi text
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First Published: 2016
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- La science et ses ennemis
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- Science and its enemies - Chinese text
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Published: 2016
- Beware of Basic Income
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First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Wouldn't it be great to get a cheque every month just for being you? This is the sweet, fuzzy vision the Ontario and federal Liberals are counting on to sell their latest idea, a basic income. Just this year, the Ontario government laid the groundwork for a pilot project to test the idea. Any actual large-scale program is far off into the future, however, and that's a good thing. We need to take a hard look at the idea, especially in Liberal clothing.
- Defend Brazil!
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First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Enough weeping! Latin America has wept incessantly, continuously, for years, decades and centuries. Its people robbed of everything since the days of Columbus, since Potosi. Tens of millions, perhaps hundreds of millions have been slaughtered here, in the last five centuries; first by the conquerors, then by their descendants and serfs, and finally by the Empire of Lies as well as the treasonous local 'elites'.
- Ethnic Cleansing in Palestine: Home Demolitions on the Rise
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First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
According to the Israeli Committee against House Demolitions, an Israeli NGO, the Israeli government has demolished 28,000 Palestinian structures since the Occupation of the West Bank and Gaza began in 1967, resulting in the homelessness and suffering of untold numbers of people. There is little ambiguity about the morality of this form of ethnic cleansing, and even most Israeli legal scholars agree that it is in contravention of international law.
- The Fire Each Time
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First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Prometheus stole fire from the gods and gave it to mankind, and suddenly there was light, and warmth, and the gathering at the hearth. The gods never forgave, and ever since periodically they thrust a torch into villains' hands and watch the hearths burn and bring the roofs down. Civilization weeps, in Troy, Hiroshima, Vietnam, Iraq, Libya, Syria.
- Getting Serious About Keeping Fossil Fuels in the Ground Means Getting Serious About a Just Transition
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First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
If the climate movement is going to get serious about keeping fossil fuels in the ground, the movement needs to get serious about cultivating a real vision for a just transition. If we’re going to see coal-fired power plants and oil refineries and chemical plants shut down we need to have a real vision about what the future looks like for those workers, their families and their communities.
- Global pitbulls: the US military mission to support corporate colonialism
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First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
With its 800 bases in 80 countries, the US's global military domination is often seen as an altruistic exercise to ensure world peace and harmony. It is, of course, the opposite: the essential underpinning of the US's predatory economic power, always ready to strike down any challenge to the rights and privileges of its corporate conquerors and financial oligarchy.
- James Connolly: The Irish Rebel
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First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
The Graphic History Collective is pleased to release GHC member Sean Carleton’s comic book, "James Connolly: The Irish Rebel." Written and illustrated by Sean, the comic book commemorates the life of Irish socialist James Connolly and the 100th anniversary of the 1916 Easter Rising in Dublin.
- Journalism, Pro-GMO Triumphalism and Neoliberal Dogma In India
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First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
- Military Spending is the Capitalist World's Fuel
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First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
It is common for activists to decry the enormous sums of money spent on the military. Any number of social programs, or schools, or other public benefits could instead be funded. Not least is this the case with the United States, which by far spends the most of any country on its military. The official Pentagon budget for 2015 was $596 billion, but actual spending is far higher. (Figures for 2015 will be used because that is the latest year for which data is available to make international comparisons.) If we add military spending parked in other portions of the U.S. federal government budget, we’re up to $786 billion, according to a study by the War Resisters League. Veterans benefits add another $157 billion. WRL also assigns 80 percent of the interest on the budget deficit, and that puts the grand total well above $1 trillion.
- On the Uprisings in France
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First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
At the beginning of March 2016, France's now ultra-liberal Socialist Party (PS) government officially revealed a labour reforms bill whose objective was to promote the competitiveness of businesses operating in France. The bill, commonly referred to as the El Khomri (the country's Labour Minister) law, was instantly perceived by most leftist factions as a fundamental attack on workers rights and a downright sabotage of the French Labour Code ("Code du Travail"), considered one of Europe's most progressive. The law allows for companies to reach "agreements" with its staff over working conditions without the need to negotiate with trade unions, subjecting workers to employers' arbitrary decisions (in regards to longer hours and lower overtime pay) without any legal protection. It also facilitates mass sackings and individual lay-offs by relaxing French law's constraint on firing and hiring, and casts aside the sacrosanct 35-hour work week in favour of a lengthened, more "flexible" one.
- Six steps back to the land: an agricultural revolution for people and countryside
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First Published: 2016
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What's the point of farming? To produce an abundance of wholesome food, writes Colin Tudge, while supporting a flourishing rural economy and a sustainable, biodiverse countryside. Yet the powers that be, determined to advance industrial agriculture at all costs, are achieving the precise opposite. It's time for a revolution in our food and farming culture, led by the people at large.
- The Strange Death of Hugo Chavez: an Interview with Eva Golinger
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First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
I believe there is a very strong possibility that President Chavez was assassinated. There were notorious and documented assassination attempts against him throughout his presidency. Most notable was the April 11, 2002 coup d'etat, during which he was kidnapped and set to be assassinated had it not been for the unprecedented uprising of the Venezuelan people and loyal military forces that rescued him and returned him to power within 48 hours. I was able to find irrefutable evidence using the US Freedom of Information Act (FOIA), that the CIA and other US agencies were behind that coup and supported, financially, militarily and politically, those involved. Later on, there were other attempts against Chavez.
- Here's How To Craft A Winning Climate Message
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First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
A guide to fighting back against dirty energy industry spin when discussing the climate crisis. The Climate Solutions for a Stronger America messaging guide is based on data from a repeat national survey of likely voters. Researchers examined the data to determine how to successfully communicate climate issues and identified three top-performing messages.
- The myth of the 'brutal savage' and the mindset of conquest
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First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
The 'brutal savage' meme has enjoyed a resurgence in popular culture and establishment narratives, despite abundant evidence that it's fundamentally wrong. But it suits today's dominant mindset of conquest, conflict and colonialism all too well, and serves to justify the ongoing genocide and expropriation of surviving Indigenous Peoples today.
- New GMOs are 'not GM' -- EU folds under US pressure
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First Published: 2016
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The EU Commission has caved in to US pressure in TTIP trade talks by deciding to consider organisms modified by new "gene editing" techniques as non-GM -- in violation of the EU's own laws. The move could make the 'new GMOs' exempt from labeling and from health and environmental testing.
- The smug style in American liberalism
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First Published: 2016
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The smug style in American liberalism has been growing these past decades and in 2016 it has even found expression in media and in policy, in the attitudes of liberals both visible and private.
- Sources HotLink - April 21, 2016
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First Published: 2016
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In this issue of Sources Hotlink: The Panama Papers are out and they’re reaking havoc to governments all around the world. They’ve already take down the Icelandic Prime Minister but he won’t be the only one to fall. Meanwhile, in Sudan, the women’s movement struggles and Germany sells out one of their own citizens. Also in this issue, we take a little look at what computer automated journalism looks like and the business value of Reddit.
- Top Shale Fracking Executive: We Won't Frack the Rich
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First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Fracking companies deliberately keep their wells away from the "big houses" of wealthy and potentially influential people, a top executive from one of the country's most prominent shale drilling companies told a gathering of attorneys at a seminar on oil and gas environmental law.
- We Can't Save the Economy Unless We Fix Our Debt Addiction
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First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Our economy has increasingly been financialized, and the result is a sluggish economy and stagnant wages. We need to decide whether to stop the cycle and save the economy at large, or to stay in thrall to our banks and bondholders by leaving the debt hangover from 2008 intact. Without a debt writedown the economy will continue to languish in debt deflation, and continue to polarize between creditors and debtors.
- Can we shop our way to a better world?
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First Published: 2016
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In this article Umair Mohammad summarizes arguments from the introduction and first chapter of his book Confronting Injustice: Social Activism in the Age of Individualism. Mohammad argues that lifestyle change and 'ethical consumerism' are not bridges to effective social change, but barriers to it. To build effective social movements, he says, we must begin by rejecting individualist approaches.
- Corbyn's Millions - Blair's Millions
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First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
While 'social media' like Facebook and Twitter are forms of corporate media, it is unarguable that they and other web-based outlets have helped empower a serious challenge to traditional print and broadcast journalism. For the first time in history, uncompromised non-corporate voices are able to instantly challenge the filtered 'mainstream' version of events. This certainly helps explain the rise of Labour's Jeremy Corbyn, Podemos in Spain, and now Bernie Sanders in the US.
- Hybrid War Hyenas Tear Brazil Apart
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First Published: 2016
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The gloomy and repulsive night when the female President of the 7th largest economy in the world was the prey of choice fed to a lynch mob of hyenas in a drab, provincial Circus Maximus will forever live in infamy.
- The path to power: 'Let's commit to the long haul'
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First Published: 2016
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The following discussion of strategy for social change, by Umair Muhammad, was first published under the title "An Altered Position," as an afterword to the second edition of his book Confronting Injustice: Social Activism in the Age of Individualism.
- Talking about radicalization
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First Published: 2016
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One of the problems with discussing the concept of radicalization is that it can mean all things to all people. In one sense it simply means 'the process by which terrorists become terrorists'. But, radicalization, particularly as it is discussed in political and popular discourse, has also come to embody certain ideas about how that process takes place: For instance, that the acceptance of extremist religious ideas is the first step in leading people to violence; that there are certain stages through which people move from belief to terror; that there are certain tell tale signatures of radicalization; and so on.
- Venezuela's Opposition: Attacking Its Own People
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First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
The corporate media would have you believe that Venezuela is a dictatorship on the verge of political and economic collapse; a country where human rights crusaders and anti-government, democracy-seeking activists are routinely rounded up and thrown in jail. Indeed, the picture from both private media in Venezuela, as well as the mainstream press in the US, is one of a corrupt and tyrannical government desperately trying to maintain its grip on power while the opposition seeks much-needed reforms. In fact, the opposite is true.
- The hidden treasures of Gaza
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First Published: 2016
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A small room on a rooftop in the occupied Gaza Strip’s crowded Beach refugee camp resembles a miniature archaeological museum. It is the workshop of Nafez Abed, 55, who studies archaeological artifacts in order to replicate them in exquisite detail. Abed copies antiquities photographed in history books and ones he’s seen during visits to archaeological sites across Gaza, which many a civilization has passed through, as well as in other Arab countries and Europe.
- How Did We Get Into This Mess?
Politics, Equality, Nature
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First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
This selection from George Monbiot's journalism, assesses the state we are now in: the devastation of the natural world, the crisis of inequality, the corporate takeover of nature, our obsessions with growth and profit and the decline of the political debate over what to do.
- Scientists reveal Jewish history's forgotten Turkish roots
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First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Israeli-born geneticist believes the Turkish villages of Iskenaz, Eskenaz and Ashanaz were part of the original homeland for Ashkenazic Jews.
- Sharing the Intense Experience - VOW attends UNCSW60
Sources News Release
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First Published: 2016
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Over 20 women from Canadian Voice of Women for Peace (VOW) attended the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women (CSW60) in March along with 4000 other NGOs from around the world - all ages, religions, and ethnic backgrounds.
- Truth Is The First Casualty Of War: Nagorno-Karabakh And Media Misinformation
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First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
The Crimean War, in mid-19th century, introduced the world to the cardigan, the raglan jersey, and the balaclava headdress. It also introduced a new profession: the foreign correspondent. And almost immediately after the war the axiom "truth is the first casualty of war" was born because of the falsehoods spread by foreign correspondents on both sides.
- The Precautionary Principle: the basis of a post-GMO ethic
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First Published: 2016
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GMOs have been in our diets for about 20 years. Proof that they are safe? No way - it took much, much longer to discover the dangers of cigarettes and transfats, dangers that are far more visible than those of GMOs. On the scale of nature and ecology, 20 years is a pitifully short time. To sustain our human future, we have to think long term.
- Beth Macy, Factory Man: How One Furniture Maker Battled Offshoring, Stayed Local -- and Helped Save an American Town (2014) (Review)
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First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
- In Service to Scarcity: The Pursuit of Value as the Production of Poverty
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First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
This essay argues that exploring the roots and subsequent development of capitalist value theory over the course of the nineteenth century reveals a Janus-faced project:on the one hand, the development of a popular narrative which insists upon the "natural" inevitability of the scarcity which both backs value and precludes socialism, and on the other, an esoteric discussion of the need to channel the labor-power of society in directions that maintain the scarcity of the goods for which the majority exchange their time.
- On Lenin and the Right to National Self-Determination
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First Published: 2016
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I’d suggest that the Leninist formulations of policy on the national question do not deserve to be taken seriously as poles of debate on the matter. More precisely, they should be viewed as all but completely hypocritical.
- US Party Elites Hemorrhage at the Edges
Editorial
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First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
American party politics have been dominated for so long by the "same old, same old" that with months to go until November, 2016 already stands out as an exception. Most clearly in the case of the Republicans, but palpable as well with the Democrats, the "center-right" and "center-left" elites, who have graciously taken turns administering year-in, year-out misery for more than forty years, have lost control. It appears that Washington and Wall Street are loathed by a majority of people across the spectrum.
- Australian police access journalists' metadata without a warrant
Sources News Release
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First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) joins its affiliate the Media, Entertainment & Arts Alliance (MEAA) in condemning the actions of the Australian Federal Police (AFP) in secretly accessing a journalists' metadata without a warrant.
- The Case Against Glyphosate
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First Published: 2016
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On 13 April, 2016, the EU Parliament called on the European Commission to restrict certain permitted uses of the toxic herbicide glyphosate, best known in Monsanto's Roundup formulation.
- Crime & Public Shaming
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Shaming is one of the oldest forms of social regulation and, in the U.S., has long been employed to enforce social order -- specifically to fight crime and suppress unacceptable beliefs and practices. Today, there is an apparent rise of public shaming either as an alternative or supplement to incarceration. On February 8th, 2016, Pres. Obama signed the “International Megan’s Law to Prevent Demand for Child Sex Trafficking” (H.R. 515), the first law in U.S. history in which a special symbol will be placed on a citizen's U.S. passport to identify that the individual was convicted of a sex crime.
- The Easter Rising, My Grandfather and the Untold Story of Sir Roger Casement
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First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
The 100th anniversary of the Easter uprising of 1916 saw the beginnings of a deeper appreciation of the achievements of Sir Roger Casement who was hanged as a traitor in Pentonville prison on 3 August 1916. Over the following century he has never lacked for notoriety, famous as an Irish patriotic martyr, but discussion of his life has frequently focused on his sexuality and revolved around the "Black Diaries" that were covertly used by the British government to blacken Casement's name and sabotage the campaign against his execution.
- Fiction v nonfiction - English literature's made-up divide
Fiction v non: an English affliction?
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First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Some cultures do not distinguish between fiction and nonfiction - and instead talk of 'stories'. Is that a barrier to English-language writers and publishers? Or should they just learn to enjoy telling stories?
- The Perfect Organizer - Almost
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First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Fred Ross, Sr. was as close to the perfect embodiment of the myth of the organizer as is humanly possible. Cesar Chavez called him "my secret weapon". In "Finding and Making Leaders," Nicholas Von Hoffman, Saul Alinsky's favorite organizer, said, "The good organizer ... judges his work a success when he can leave the organization without even being missed. He is rare, rarer than first-rate leadership, but he exists ... and he can work in almost any situation."
- Revolution Never Sleeps: Nuit Debout in France and Beyond
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First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
The movement Nuit debout -- 'night on our feet' or 'stand up night!' -- is a potent reminder of the existence of an indefatigable global struggle against the neoliberal credo and all of its devastating consequences. Although it has deep roots, like all sociopolitical movements, it has come into its own since the prolongation of a March 31st, 2016 general strike (grève générale) and mass protest against French labor reforms, which aim at further consolidating class power and rendering the status of the labor force even more precarious. It quickly mutated like so many other recent movements from a circumscribed protest into an extended and rapidly spreading occupation.
- Save the Tiger, Keep the People
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First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
On the fate of India’s forest-dwelling peoples: and how many will be aware that so many of them are being illegally evicted as part of the drive to conserve flora and fauna? Despite having co-existed with tigers and other animals for centuries, many of India's tribal peoples are currently being persecuted in the name of conservation.
- "The Term has Become Meaningless to Me": on Violence, Social Change, and Nonviolent Communication
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First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Violence means different things to different people. While some people find it important to show their opposition to acts like touching someone against their will or supporting an oppressive regime, others mill about in confusion around the middle of the space when facing supposedly unambiguous statements such as "murder is violent." Participants from the same family or the same activist group disagree on the classification of certain acts as violent. In our context, two important questions arise out of this apparent incoherence of the term: what are the implications for Nonviolent Communication? And, what does this mean about nonviolence as a political strategy for social change?
- There's No Place for Clean Water Under 'Free Trade'
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First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Yet another standoff between clean drinking water and mining profits has taken shape in Colombia, where two corporations insist their right to pollute trumps human health and the environment. As is customary in these cases, it is clean water that is the underdog here.
- Away with the gatekeepers!
The bane of cultural appropriation
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First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
On the the controversies over 'cultural appropriation' and what they reveal about the degradation of contemporary campaigns for social justice.
- The Disneyfied Narrative of the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia
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First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Pinocchio and Little Red Riding Hood still believe in the impartiality of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY). I have yet to meet either a partial or an impartial Serb that shares their sentiments. Toward the political bazaar in Hague the Serbs feel what has been hurled at them by the institution’s creators since the early 1990s -- disdain, occasional profanity, and boiling resentment. Those are the only self-defense tools available to the tired citizens of a small, impoverished country.
- The Logic of Murder in Israel: A Culture of Impunity in Full View of the Entire World
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First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
"Whether he made a mistake or not, is a trivial question," said an Israeli Jewish man who joined large protests throughout Israel in support of a soldier who calmly, and with precision, killed a wounded Palestinian man in al-Khalil (Hebron). The protesting Jewish man described Palestinians as 'barbaric', 'bestial', who should not be perceived as people.
- Revolutionary Feminism, Communist Interventions vol. 3
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First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
The third volume of the Communist Interventions reader series, on Revolutionary Feminism. A century of debates between communist, anarchist, and radical feminist militants on women's oppression and capitalism.
- Latest Corbyn Hit-Piece: He earns MP's Salary
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First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
If I hadn’t seen for myself that this article "exposing" Jeremy Corbyn was published on the Daily Telegraph’s website, I would have assumed it was a spoof from The Onion – an even more preposterous one than normal.
- The Logic of Murder in Israel: A Culture of Impunity in Full View of the Entire World
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
"Whether he made a mistake or not, is a trivial question," said an Israeli Jewish man who joined large protests throughout Israel in support of a soldier who calmly, and with precision, killed a wounded Palestinian man in al-Khalil (Hebron). The protesting Jewish man described Palestinians as 'barbaric', 'bestial', who should not be perceived as people.
- 2,500 Years of Class Hatred
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First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Class struggle never existed without hatred of the poor. And neither has racism. Boots Riley's recent article, posted in The Guardian, systematically dispels the myth of black-on-black crime advocated by Bill Clinton. Rather than pointing the image of failure at black people in the US, Riley insists, the mirror should be redirected to class war and the failure of liberal democracy. The condition of black people will advance with economic prosperity, not punitive drug laws.
- UC Davis spent $175,000 to scrub online pepper spray references
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First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
The University of California, Davis, contracted with consultants for at least $175,000 to scrub the Internet of negative online postings following the November 2011 pepper spraying of students and to improve the reputations of both the university and Chancellor Linda P.B. Katehi, newly released documents show.
- What is to be done with the banks? Radical proposals for radical changes
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First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Nine years after the outbreak of the financial crisis that continues to produce damaging social effects through the austerity policies imposed on victim populations, it's time to take another look at the commitments that were made at that time by bankers, financiers, politicians and regulatory bodies. Those four players have failed fundamentally in the promises they made in the wake of the crisis – to moralise the banking system, separate commercial banks from investment banks, end exorbitant salaries and bonuses, and finally finance the real economy. We didn't believe those promises at the time, and for good reason.
- Capitalism and Freedom
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First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
In the United States, many take for granted that freedom and democracy are inextricably connected with capitalism. Milton Friedman, in his book Capitalism and Freedom, went so far as to argue that capitalism was a necessary condition for both.
- Pipeline Rights vs Private Property Rights
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First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
The U.S. natural gas industry views private property with less reverence than it did when the shale gas revolution began 10 years ago. Companies are chomping at the bit to build new pipelines that will move natural gas and natural gas liquids to profitable markets. However, building a single long-haul pipeline is a timely and costly endeavour that often requires working with hundreds of individual private property owners to create a right of way.
- The War on Savings: the Panama Papers, Bail-Ins, and the Push to Go Cashless
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First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
The bombshell publication of the "Panama Papers," leaked from a Panama law firm specializing in shell companies, has triggered both outrage and skepticism. In an April 3, 2016 article titled "Corporate Media Gatekeepers Protect Western 1% From Panama Leak," UK blogger Craig Murray writes that the whistleblower no doubt had good intentions; but he made the mistake of leaking his 11.5 million documents to the corporate-controlled Western media, which released only those few documents incriminating opponents of Western financial interests.
- Climate justice movement shakes Canada's New Democratic Party
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First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
The impact of the Leap Manifesto at the party convention, argues Richard Fidler, opens major opportunities to deepen the debate on climate justice and to build an ecosocialist left in and around the NDP.
- EFF to Copyright Office: Improper Content Takedowns Hurt Online Free Expression
Sources News Release
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First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Safe Harbors Work for Rightsholders and Service Providers. Content takedowns based on unfounded copyright claims are hurting online free expression, says Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF).
- The Nagorno-Karabakh Story the US Does Not Want You to Know
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First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
In the early morning hours of April 1-2, 2016, Azerbaijan launched a major military offensive into the disputed region Nagorno-Karabakh (NK) that's been controlled and defended by NK Armenian forces since the Russian brokered truce ended a bloody three year war in 1994. While Azeri President Ilham Aliyev was flying back to Baku after meeting 24 hours earlier with John Kerry in Washington who claimed "an ultimate resolution" had been reached, Azerbaijan was already once again at war with the NK Armenians.
- Panama Papers show that capitalism is working perfectly
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
While corporate fraud is gargantuan in its scale, it is not the expression of a system that "isn't working". In fact, this is the way the system is designed to work.
- Connexions Other Voices - Corporate Crime
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Other Voices, the bi-weekly newsletter published by Connexions, focuses on Corporate Crime in its April 9, 2016 issue.
- Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - April 9, 2016
Corporate Crime
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Corporations have increasingly become legally unaccountable for their behaviour. Yet all too often corporations break the law and engage in criminals acts which would be severely punished if they were committed by ordinary individuals. These illegal acts range from deliberate health and safety violations that cost lives, to land seizures, to environmental negligence that contaminates lands and waters. Most of these illegal acts are never prosecuted, and those that are, are usually dealt with by a fine that corporations can treat as a cost of doing business.
There are movements demanding that corporations be held accountable for their crimes in a serious way, and, specifically, that corporate executives should face jail time when the corporation they are in charge of engage in behaviour that causes death, injury, and illness. Our topic of the week for this issue of Other Voices is Corporate Crime, and a number articles, as well as a book, a film, and a website, explore aspects of the problem.
- Why Sitting Bull was right about Washington's lack of integrity
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
That integrity is a foreign land where Washington is concerned is an inarguable fact. In the latest example, the failure to complete the construction of a nuclear disposal plant agreed with Russia once again leaves Washington's credibility in tatters.
- Wirtschaftskriminalität
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2024
- Australia's rebel heritage of poetry and song
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Ballads like the one published in Borough, London, by the famous printer HP Such, had been sold on the streets of the towns and cities from which convicts were transported to Australia from the First Fleet onwards. This street literature was hawked for less than a penny and was sung, or "chaunted" by the seller to a large audience, many of them poor. HP Such's ballad provides us with a sample of the early industrial working class' emotional and political understanding of the rising empire.
- The Communist Manifesto is a pamphlet that refuses to die. As incendiary as the day it was published, Paul Vernell unpacks this founding document
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
The striking thing about re-reading Marx's Communist Manifesto is how each time you return to it, it seems more not less relevant than the last time. Chillingly, it seems to be describing the globalised, war-torn, crisis-ridden world of the 21st century. In many ways this is because it is a document ahead of its time, whist being firmly rooted in it. Its predictive power and vision are central to its resonance.
- Philanthropic colonialism: embedding agribusiness and GMOs into African agriculture
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Perhaps all the 'do gooders' busy forcing industrial models of agriculture onto poor but independent African farmers really do think they are helping them. But if so they are deeply deluded. All they will achieve is the takeover of export-oriented agribusiness and GMOs, the destruction of agroecological farming systems, and a future of debt and landlessness.
- The Empire Strikes Back
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
If you argue a case strongly on the internet you must expect to receive robust argument back. Plus the odd insult. There has been plenty of both in reaction to my posts about corporate media control of access to the data in the Panama Papers. But I believe it is fair to say that the overwhelming public feeling I have picked up through monitoring online discussion worldwide, is that the full data should be made available online in searchable form so that the public can look through it and form their own conclusions.
- Fishers and plunderers: The tragedy of the commodity
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Overfishing, pollution and warming water have pushed the world’s oceans into crisis. If nothing is done the results will be catastrophic for marine systems and the billions of humans who rely on them. To stop this destruction our society has to be organized in a completely different way.
- Israel: The Broken Silence
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Book review - Israel: The Broken Silence.
- Philosophy journal spoofed, retracts hoax article
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
A philosophy journal that focuses on the teachings of philosopher Alain Badiou has apparently fallen victim to yet another Sokal hoax, and has retracted a fake article submitted by authors trying to expose the publication's weaknesses. The paper, "Ontology, Neutrality and the Strive for (non-)Being-Queer," attributed to Benedetta Tripodi of the Universitatea Alexandru Ioan Cuza in Romania, is apparently the work of two academics, who submitted the absurd article to Badiou Studies to expose its lack of rigor in accepting papers.
- Reading Eduardo Galeano Through Palestinian Eyes
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Uruguayan writer Eduardo Galeano is best remembered for chronicling five centuries of colonialism, genocide, pillage, and structural inequality in the Americas. His pen dug through the bleeding heart of Latin America, unearthing forgotten stories of resistance, exploring the roots of injustice and exploitation, and amplifying the voices of the outcasts and misfits.
- Nest's move to stop supporting Revolv smart hub leaves customers with costly 'brick'
Internet of Things customers need to be aware what will and will not work without internet
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Here's a major downside to the so-called Internet of Things -- companies can potentially disconnect your smart devices and leave them essentially useless at any time.
- Turning darkness to light in rural Romania
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Amidst reports of bribery and corruption in the energy sector, an estimated 100,000 households in Romania, a member state of the European Union since 2007, lack electricity.
- World Bank Orders Venezuela To Pay Crystallex $1.4 Billion For Gold Mine
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
The World Bank's International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID) has ordered the government of Venezuela to pay $1.386 billion to Crystallex, a bankrupt Canadian gold mining company, for canceling a 2002 permit to mine for gold in the Imataca Forest Reserve.
- Chimney swift project asks Manitobans to preserve habitat for sooty bird
Threatened species has undergone massive population declines over last 60 years, biologist says
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
It used to be the case that chimney swifts nested deep inside the rotten, hollowed-out trunks of dying old growth trees. They build bracket nests using twigs and saliva, which they stick to the sides of vertical surfaces. As forests were cleared for developments, the birds adapted to urban environments by nesting in chimneys but that habitat is disappearing as well.
Modern furnace guidelines generally suggest building owners cap or line old chimneys to prevent anything from getting inside. Over time, chimneys have also been torn down, replaced or fallen into varying states of disrepair, jeopardizing the future of the chimney swift species.
- Days of Rage
America's Radical Underground, the FBI, and the Forgotten Age of Revolutionary Violence
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
An account of the decade-long battle between the FBI and the homegrown revolutionary movements in the United States in the 1970s.
- Nest Reminds Customers That Ownership Isn't What It Used to Be
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Nest Labs, a home automation company acquired by Google in 2014, will disable some of its customers' home automation control devices in May. This move is causing quite a stir among people who purchased the $300 Revolv Hub devices -- customers who reasonably expected that the promised "lifetime" of updates would enable the hardware they paid for to actually work, only to discover the manufacturer can turn their device into a useless brick when it so chooses.
- The Occupation of the American Mind
Israel's Public Relations War in the United States
Resource Type: Film/Video
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
An eye-opening look at pro-Israel public relations efforts within the U.S. Narrated by Roger Waters and featuring leading observers of the Israeli–Palestinian conflict, the film explores how the Israeli government, the U.S. government, and the pro-Israel lobby have joined forces, often with very different motives, to shape American media coverage of the conflict in Israel's favour.
- Spies and shadowy allies lurk in secret, thanks to firm’s bag of tricks
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Panama Papers reveal how spies and CIA gun-runners use offshore companies to stay hidden. Offshore world blurs the line between legitimate business and the world of espionage.
- Academics can change the world -- if they stop talking only to their peers
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Public outreach or engagement is not valued enough in universities where the emphasis is on research journal articles with tiny readerships for communication. The "publish or perish" culture is a reality at universities all over the world.
- "All changed, changed utterly": The historical significance of the Irish Revolution
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
The problem with political anniversaries is that they often focus on specific dates in the past without any recognition that they are part of a longer process. Easter Monday 1916 is an iconic date in Irish history that all and sundry seek to appropriate, but it can only be understood by what preceded and followed it.
- At the forefront of revolution
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
The gains won by the women's liberation movement during the 1960s and 1970s, such as the right to divorce and increased reproductive rights, are real material gains. Women are told that in Britain we have never had it so good. And on the surface that can appear to be true. But, as Judith Orr points out in Marxism and Women's Liberation, "much has changed for women, but too much has not".
- Emerging workers' movements
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Since the 1980s the institutionalisation of global neoliberalism has been pursued based on a range of ideological claims which have been advanced (or at least accepted) across the political spectrum. These claims include the arguments that the working class is increasingly a thing of the past, both structurally (as industry gives way to services and information) and politically (as traditional left parties embrace varieties of neoliberalism); that globalisation is reducing world poverty and that as a result the global middle class is expanding rapidly; and, seemingly logically, that radical politics are a thing of the past.
- Genetically Modified Crops Can Thrive as the World Warms
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Genetically engineering photosynthesis in plants could take advantage of rising global temperatures and increased levels of carbon dioxide, US scientists say. They believe this could achieve much higher yields on the same amount of land and help to stave off the prospect of widespread hunger as human populations increase.
- The Great Acceleration
An Environmental History of the Anthropocene since 1945
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Since the mid-twentieth century, the accelerating pace of energy use, greenhouse gas emissions, and population growth has thrust the planet into a massive uncontrolled experiment. The Great Acceleration explains its causes and consequences, highlighting the role of energy systems, as well as trends in climate change, urbanization, and environmentalism.
- In the belly of the beast
Book Review
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
In these days of intense state and media racism, any book that offers a deeper understanding of the role of anti-racist and black liberation struggles is invaluable. Høgsbjerg’s book provides a thorough and engrossing account of such struggles in the colonial world and in the belly of the imperial beast -- where C L R James lived from 1932 to 1938. James left Britain ten years before the Windrush docked in London; the story of his time in the UK is a valuable insight into the vibrant political organisations built by black people in Britain before what is generally considered to be the start of "Black British History".
- Katrina, Climate Justice and Fish Dinners: Social Justice Lawyer Colette Pichon Battle
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Colette Pichon Battle gave up a great job working as a corporate immigration lawyer in Washington DC to live in a tent in front of her flooded family home 50 miles from downtown New Orleans. She is now a much honored director of a small but powerful non-profit climate justice human rights firm advocating all along the Gulf Coast. Why the big change in her life? Katrina, climate justice and fish dinners.
- The meaning of the school testing obsession
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
This article focuses on the new frontiers for the calculation of human productivity in its earliest forms, in early years education in Britain; but the general points are applicable across continents and educational age-phases. It will be argued that the English baseline test is just one example of the policing of capital's interests in our classrooms, but a particularly pernicious one for the way it reaches deep into the experience of the youngest children.
- PostCapitalism: A reply to Pete Green
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
- Reassessing Podemos
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Podemos has come an immense distance in a very short time. It represents a clear choice by millions of people in the Spanish state to vote against corruption, institutionalised greed and contempt for voters, but also against austerity. As such, it weakens the ruling class in the Spanish state and strengthens the anti-austerity side in Europe. The success of Podemos in December is a cause for celebration and a source for lessons and parallels.
- Revolutionary workers' movements and parliaments in Germany 1918-23
A reply to Tony Phillips
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
- Shakespeare belongs to us
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
We don’t know a great deal about William Shakespeare’s life. The records are scant and, in the absence of personal testimony, we know nothing of his intimate feelings or thoughts.
- Some questions about the lost German Revolution
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
- Tatchell's reply: "A new left-wing McCarthyism"
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
The future of progressive politics is under threat, again. But this time from the left. Historically, socialists and greens have made gains by building broad alliances around a common goal, such as the campaigns against the poll tax and the bombing of Syria. We united together diverse people who often disagreed on other issues. Through this unity and solidarity, we won. Nowadays, we are witnessing a revival of far 'left' sectarian politics and it is infecting the Green Party too. Zealous activists, seemingly motivated by a desire to be more 'left' and pure than rivals, are putting huge energy into fighting and dragging down other campaigners.
- 'Zionism is nationalism, not Judasim,' a former Hebrew school teacher explains
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Former Hebrew school teacher, Tziva Thier clarifies the distinction between Zionism as a political movement and Judaism as a religion, and explains why Israel's acts cannot be condoned by the religion.
- Corporate Media Gatekeepers Protect Western 1% From Panama Leak
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Whoever leaked the Mossack Fonseca papers appears motivated by a genuine desire to expose the system that enables the ultra wealthy to hide their massive stashes, often corruptly obtained and all involved in tax avoidance. These Panamanian lawyers hide the wealth of a significant proportion of the 1%, and the massive leak of their documents ought to be a wonderful thing.
Unfortunately the leaker has made the dreadful mistake of turning to the western corporate media to publicise the results. In consequence the first major story, published today by the Guardian, is all about Vladimir Putin and a cellist on the fiddle. As it happens I believe the story and have no doubt Putin is bent.
But why focus on Russia? Russian wealth is only a tiny minority of the money hidden away with the aid of Mossack Fonseca. In fact, it soon becomes obvious that the selective reporting is going to stink.
- Giant Leak of Offshore Financial Records Exposes Global Array of Crime and Corruption
Millions of documents show heads of state, criminals and celebrities using secret hideaways in tax havens
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
A massive leak of documents exposes the offshore holdings of current and former world leaders, politicians , public officials, and wealthy individuals around the world.
- How the One Percenters Divorce: Offshore Intrigue Plays Hide and Seek with Millions
Firm that practices no matrimonial law nonetheless plays big role when the superrich around the globe decide to split
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Offshore companies used 'in a game of hide and concealment' after marriages break down
Documents list luxury cars and yachts, lavish homes, and art collections. Spouses face a costly battle to prove ownership of offshore assets in protracted divorce proceedings.
- Key findings: The Panama Papers by the numbers
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
The largest cross-border journalism collaboration ever has uncovered a giant leak of documents from Mossack Fonseca, a global law firm based in Panama.
- Leak Ties Ethics Guru to Three Men Charged in FIFA Scandal
Secret documents show how deeply the world of soccer has become enmeshed in the world of offshore havens
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Four of the 16 FIFA officials indicted in the United States used offshore companies created by Mossack Fonseca. Files show offshore companies used by some soccer players to hold money from image rights deals. Offshore revelations extend beyond soccer to other sports including hockey and golf.
- The Panama Papers
Politicians, Criminals and the Rogue Industry That Hides Their Cash
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
The Panama Papers is a global investigation into the sprawling, secretive industry of offshore that the world’s rich and powerful use to hide assets and skirt rules by setting up front companies in far-flung jurisdictions. Based on a trove of more than 11 million leaked files, the investigation exposes a cast of characters who use offshore companies to facilitate bribery, arms deals, tax evasion, financial fraud and drug trafficking.
- Panama Papers: The Power Players
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
This interactive presentation produced by the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ) explores the stories behind the use of offshore companies of politicians and their relatives and associates -- more than 100 in all. Among them are 12 current or former country leaders and 33 other politicians and public officials with direct connections to structures in tax havens. Their names appeared inside a cache of 11.5 million leaked files from Panama's Mossack Fonseca, one of the biggest offshore service providers.
- Panamanian Law Firm Is Gatekeeper To Vast Flow of Murky Offshore Secrets
Files show client roster that includes drug dealers, Mafia members, corrupt politicians and tax evaders - and wrongdoing galore
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Founding partners of Mossack Fonseca had international pedigrees and backgrounds in the worlds of money, power and secrets. The law firm helps clients respond swiftly to changes in laws, shifting business from one secrecy jurisdiction to another. Among additional services offered are yacht and plane registrations, and, for some clients, handling of finances. Mossack Fonseca kept a low profile -- until recent scandals brought international attention.
- Stairway to Tax Heaven
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
A news role-play game featuring three fictitious characters: Juan Penalti (Soccer Player), Polly Tissien (Politician) and Edmund von Kronen (Business Executive). Welcome to the secret world of offshore. Your goal is to navigate this parallel universe and hide your cash away. Don’t worry! Lawyers, wealth managers and bankers are there to help you. Pick a character and don't get caught.
- How can we destroy capitalism?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Corporate Watch's new publication, 'Capitalism, What is it and how can we destroy it?' provides an accessible introduction to capitalism and explores how we might bring about its ending. What is capitalism? An economic system built on private property, markets, exploitation and profit, enforced by state violence. But also, digging deeper, a culture of fear and passivity, in which we learn to see the natural world, other people, and even ourselves, as objects to be owned and managed, bought and sold.
- The Zionist educator we should have listened to
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
At a time when Israel's education minister sees only Jews as moral, it is worth remembering a prominent Zionist educator who taught us that things could have turned out differently.
- The Cowards' Wars
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
The condemnation of Radovan Karadzic to forty years of imprisonment by the International Crime Tribunal-Yugoslavia occasions these reflections.
- The cyber arms race
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
A look at cyber warfare between nations, a militarisation of cyberspace that is advancing far faster than the creation of positive peace keeping mechanisms.
- Down the Tube
Television, turnout, and the election-industrial complex
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Examining the election industry as comprised of media outlets and super PACs, and the diminishing effects of TV advertisements and coverage on voter turnout and engagement.
- Indicting the System with Noam Chomsky
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
In this interview Noam Chomsky brings once more to bear on current and historical events his eviscerating analysis of power systems.
- Krankenkassenvergleich - Gesetzliche Krankenversicherung im Vergleich
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Während es in den meisten Ländern mit einem gesetzlichen Krankenversicherungssystem nur eine zentrale Krankenkasse gibt, sind es in Deutschland viele Kassen, die sich trotz gleicher gesetzlicher Grundlage in ihren Leistungen und Beiträgen unterscheiden. Viele Versicherte überrascht, dass es so viele verschiedene Krankenkassen gibt (aktuell sind es etwa 150 Kassen).
- Left Behind by Good Friday
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
In 1969 Bernadette Devlin traveled to the United States on a fundraising tour. At age twenty-two, she was the youngest woman ever elected to Westminster and already a veteran of the Northern Irish Civil Rights Movement and the radical student group People's Democracy.
- Legalize it All
How to win the war on drugs
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Arguing for complete legalization as a means of dealing with substance problems in America.
- The Lies of Neoliberal Economics (or How America Became a Nation of Sharecroppers)
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Michael Hudson and Chris Hedges talk about how America become a nation of 'sharecroppers'.
- Marx's Theory of Working-Class Precariousness
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
In the last decade and a half the concept of worker precariousness has gained renewed currency among social scientists. This trend grew more pronounced after the Great Financial Crisis of 2007–2009, which left in its wake a period of deep economic stagnation that still persists in large parts of the global economy. Most scholars define precariousness by reference to what workers lack, including such factors as: ready access to paid employment, protection from arbitrary firing, possibility for advancement, long-term job stability, adequate safety, development of new skills, living wages, and union representation.
- The security - digital complex
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
With the rise of the Internet and the globalisation of electronic data, there has been a shift in the university-military-industrial complex to a new security-digital complex -- a public-private hybrid that is both narrower and more far-reaching.
- Suing for Justice
Your lawsuits are good for America
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Arguing for the importance of tort law to protect the populace and the importance of restoring and maintaining the tort system after past reforms that have placed it at risk.
- To spread the revolution: anarchist archives and libraries
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Notes on why anarchists have created libraries (past and present) and some of the challenges they face, drawing on a survey of current anarchist libraries, anarchist history, and the author's own experiences at the Kate Sharpley Library.
- Agroecology Case Studies
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
The thirty-three case studies shed light on the tremendous success of agroecological agriculture across the African continent. They demonstrate with facts and figures how an agricultural transformation respectful of farmers and their environment can yield immense economic, social, and food security benefits while also fighting climate change and restoring soils and the environment.
- Bloggers Under Fire: The Fatal Consequences of Free Thinking in Bangladesh
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Six secular Bangladeshi writers have been killed since November of 2014: Rajshahi University professor AKM Shafiul Islam, literary publisher Faisal Arefin Dipan, and bloggers Avijit Roy, Oyasiqur Rahman Babu, Ananta Bijoy Das and Niloy Neel. At least a dozen more bloggers and progressive activists have been killed and scores of others attacked or threatened with death for their progressive and secular views since 2005.
- How Propaganda (Actually) Works
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Political propaganda employs the ideals of liberal democracy to undermine those very ideals, the dangers of which, not even its architects fully understand.
- Kunduz Killers Go Free
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
On the night of October 3, 2015, a United States Air Force AC-130 gunship repeatedly attacked a Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) hospital in Kunduz, Afghanistan. Forty-two people were killed and dozens wounded. The US military plane conducted five strafing runs over the course of more than an hour despite MSF pleas to Afghan, US and Nato officials to call off the attack.
- Brazil, like Russia, Under Attack by Hybrid War
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Colour revolutions would never be enough; Exceptionalistan is always on the lookout for major strategic upgrades capable of ensuring perpetual Empire of Chaos hegemony. The ideological matrix and the modus operandi of color revolutions by now are a matter of public domain. Not so much the concept of Unconventional War (UW).
- International Injustice: the Conviction of Radovan Karadzic
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Last Thursday, news reports were largely devoted to the March 22, 2016 Brussels terror bombings and the US primary campaigns. And so little attention was paid to the verdict of the International Criminal Tribunal for (former) Yugoslavia (ICTY) finding Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic guilty of every crime it could come up with, including "genocide".
- Is This Class Warfare?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Is there a conspiracy to keep wages from rising or is it just plain-old class warfare? Well, what do you know? Everywhere the global bank cartel has its tentacles, wages are either flatlining or drifting lower."Coincidence", you say? Not bloody likely, I say. There's either policy coordination between the various heads of state and their central banks or wealthy elites have secretly seized the levers of power and imposed their neoliberal dogma when no one was looking.
- Islamic Extremism is a Product of Western Imperialism
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
So what happened to bring Islamic fundamentalism to the forefront of global politics? While there are many factors involved, undoubtedly one of the primary causes is Western imperialism.
- Police Go on Fishing Expedition, Search the Home of Seattle Privacy Activists Who Maintain Tor Network
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Seattle police descended on the Queen Anne condo of two outspoken privacy activists with a search warrant early this morning, leaving them shaken and upset. Jan Bultmann and David Robinson, a married couple and co-founders of the Seattle Privacy Coalition, said they were awakened at 6:15 a.m. by a team of six detectives from the SPD knocking on the door. Bultmann said were made to sit outside as the officers, who had a search warrant, examined their equipment.
- Reflections on the Brussels Attacks
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Debate and reflection are urgently needed with respect to the political violence that is being unleashed in various forms in the West and non-West.
- Revealed: how Associated Press cooperated with the Nazis
German historian shows how news agency retained access in 1930s by promising not to undermine strength of Hitler regime
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
The Associated Press news agency entered a formal cooperation with the Hitler regime in the 1930s, supplying American newspapers with material directly produced and selected by the Nazi propaganda ministry, archive material unearthed by a German historian has revealed.
- Trump and the Liberal Intelligentsia: a View from Europe
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
A new specter haunts the American elites: the candidacy of Donald Trump in the US President election and his success so far in the Republican primaries. The Republican establishment itself hopes to block his rise, even as he is drawing huge crowds into the party. As for the Democrats, they are hoping that his repugnant image will make the election of Hillary Clinton that much easier.
- Why do the Tories want to hide who owns British land?
Selling off the Land Registry could lead to an increase in house prices as a private monopoly hoards information on property sales
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Like an embarrassed child trying to hide a broken lamp behind a curtain, Sajid Javid last Thursday, hours before the Easter break, sneaked out the news that the government wants to privatise the Land Registry. Perhaps he hoped nobody would notice.
- The Case Against Bombing ISIS
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
The military campaign against ISIS is just the latest phase of US imperialism in the Middle East.
- Global Agribusiness, Dependency and the Marginalisation of Self-Sufficiency, Organic Farming and Agroecology
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Is organic-based farming merely a niche model of agriculture that is not capable of feeding the global population? Or does it have a major role to play? In addressing these questions, it would be useful to consider a selection of relevant literature to see what it says about the role of organic farming, how this model of agriculture impacts farmers and whether or not it can actually feed the global population.
- Growing International Movement Seeks to Place Arms Embargo on Saudi Arabia
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
A lawsuit filed in Canada in March 2016 is seeking to halt a major $15 billion sale of light-armoured vehicles to the government of Saudi Arabia, part of a growing international movement to stop arms sales to the Saudi government over its alleged war crimes in Yemen.
The suit, filed by University of Montreal constitutional law professor Daniel Turp, argues the vehicle sales to Saudi Arabia violate a number of Canadian laws.
- How the Easter Rising changed the world
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Chris Bambery argues that the Easter Rising relaunched the struggle for independence in Ireland and inspired national liberation movements globally.
- Interview with director of "Like"
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
The director of a documentary about Bangladeshi workers who get paid to "like" Facebook posts discusses the people and ideas behind her film.
- 'It's No Longer About Saying No': How B.C.'s First Nations Are Taking Charge With Tribal Parks
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
On June 26, 2014, the Tsilhqot’in Nation's 25-year court battle came to an end when the Supreme Court unanimously ruled the nation holds title to approximately 1,900 square kilometres of its traditional territory.
- People power: how Montana stopped the biggest coal mine in North America
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Campaigners are celebrating after defeating plans to build America's largest open pit coal mine. In an epic 'David and Goliath' battle, Montana activists challenged the project, and all the politicians and businessmen that supported it, with fierce opposition, protests and demonstrations. The outcome spells hope for all in the fight against dirty energy.
- Spain in Our Hearts
Americans in the Spanish Civil War, 1936-1939
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Hochschild shares tales of some of the roughly 2,800 Americans who participated in the Spanish Civil War. He shows how the war was a brutal, cruel mismatch from the beginning, with Franco's fascist forces strengthened by 80,000 Italian troops supplied by Mussolini, as well as weapons and airplanes provided by Hitler in exchange for war-related minerals. Additionally, Hochschild uncovers the story of how Texaco, headed by an admirer of Hitler, Torkild Rieber, provided Franco with unlimited oil on credit, shipped it for free, and supplied invaluable intelligence on tankers carrying oil to the Republican forces.
- Study: Fracking, Not Just Fracking Wastewater Injection, Causing Earthquakes in Western Canada
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
A groundbreaking study published in Seismological Research Letters has demonstrated a link between hydraulic fracturing ("fracking") for oil and gas and earthquakes.
- Surprise Syrian showdown: 'Pentagon-backed rebels fighting CIA-backed rebels'
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
American soldiers never used to shoot at CIA agents, and vice-versa, but that's what’s reportedly happening in the northern part of Syria, former CIA officer Ray McGovern says. In February, the CIA-armed group 'Fursan al Haq', or Knights of Righteousness, were apparently forced out of their positions by the so-called 'Syrian Democratic Forces', backed by the Pentagon.
- Trump and Clinton: Censoring the unpalatable
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
A virulent if familiar censorship is about to descend on the US election campaign. As the cartoon brute, Donald Trump, seems almost certain to win the Republican Party's nomination, Hillary Clinton is being ordained both as the "women's candidate" and the champion of American liberalism in its heroic struggle with the Evil One.
- Witness to a War Crimes Trial: My Heart is Sepur Zarco
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
A frail, elderly woman, covered from head to toe in bright, colorful clothing approaches the witness chair. Her face is almost entirely covered. She is no more than five feet tall, and under all that clothing she can't weigh more than 100 pounds. She sits next to her translator. She speaks only Q’eqchi, one of Guatemala’s 24 officially recognized languages – no Spanish.
The witness speaks quietly into a microphone, and her testimony is harrowing.
- Bring on the Crackup: Hoping for a Trump - Sanders Election
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
There is every reason to think that electoral "politics" in the United States (and most places) is bullshit. For people who yearn for a very different world to get involved in this "process" -- which is almost entirely scripted by people who absolutely do not yearn for a very different world -- is a big waste of energy and commitment. The arguments here are addressed to the yearners, who I will call "radicals" -- people who recognize that the only real solution to the many problems facing humanity today is a qualitative, even epoch-making, change. When I say "we," I mean those of us who yearn for and work for such a change.
- CIA photographed detainees naked before sending them to be tortured
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
The CIA took naked photographs of people it sent to its foreign partners for torture, the Guardian can reveal. A former US official who had seen some of the photographs described them as “very gruesome”.
- The Culture That Created Donald Trump Was Liberal, Not Conservative
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Now that Donald Trump, the candidate, has become both widely popular and deeply loathsome, we're seeing a cataract of editorials and commentary aimed at explaining how it happened and who's to blame. The predictable suspects are trotted out: the Republican Party, which had been too opportunistic and fearful to stand up to its own candidate, Fox News, which inflamed the jingoes, and white working-class voters, unhinged by class envy and racial resentment.
- Does the United States Still Exist?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
To answer the question that is the title, we have to know of what the US consists. Is it an ethnic group, a collection of buildings and resources, a land mass with boundaries, or is it the Constitution? Clearly what differentiates the US from other countries is the US Constitution. The Constitution defines us as a people. Without the Constitution we would be a different country. Therefore, to lose the Constitution is to lose the country.
- Here We Go Again, Trash-Talking The Working Class
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
This column begins with a brief story about the author's two grandmothers who lived in trailer homes.
- Ireland's Unfinished Revolution
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
The revolutionary period sparked by the 1916 Easter Rising offered a vision of a truly democratic Ireland.
- Medic Who Killed Palestinian Being Portrayed as 'National Hero'
DM Slams Coalition Members for Backing Execution
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Tensions within Israel's extremely narrow right-far-right coalition continue to grow, as the military's investigation into an Israeli medic who shot and killed an already wounded and disarmed Palestinian has become a cause célèbre for the settler movement and for hawks in general.
- The Realist's Dilemma
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Brazil's Workers' Party thought accommodating capital could save them. That was a grave mistake.
- Statement on Another Attack by the Far Right on Christians and Democracy in Pakistan
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
More than 72 people including children were killed, and more than 200 injured, in a suicide bombing in Lahore’s Gulshan-e-Bagh.
- Connexions Other Voices - The Forest and the Trees
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Other Voices, the bi-weekly newsletter published by Connexions, looks at threats to forests worldwide, and at the ways in which people are resisting and defending the forests.
- EFF and Partners Support Media Monitoring Service in Fight for Fair Use
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
A media monitoring service that creates a text-searchable database of television and radio content is defending its fair use rights before a federal appeals court.
- IFJ / EFJ condemn scandalous ban on media at Turkey media trial
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
IFJ/EFJ today condemned the decision to hold the trial of Can Dundar and Erdem Gul behind closed doors. All diplomats, journalists, members of the public were evacuated from the court room.
- What Die Linke Should Do
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
The German right made stunning gains in this month's regional elections. The Left must rise to the challenge.
- Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - March 26, 2016
Forests and trees
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
For countless centuries, forests, and the trees in them, have been seen as sources of life, livelihood, and spiritual meaning. For capitalism, however, forests are sites of extraction and profit-making, or obstacles in the way of 'development.' In this issue, we look at some of the threats to forests worldwide, and the ways in which people are resisting and defending the forests.
- US man's bank payment denied because of his dog's 'terrorist' name
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Sometimes terrorists move on all fours. That's what Chase Bank apparently decided when it wouldn't clear a payment for a disabled man's dog walker. It was the dog's name that led to the payment being bounced and the Treasury Department being involved.
- The Great Ponzi Scheme of the Global Economy
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Chris Hedges has a discussion with the economist Michael Hudson (author of Killing the Host: How Financial Parasites and Debt Destroy the Global Economy) on a great Ponzi scheme that not only defines not only the U.S. but the global economy, how we got there and where we’re going.
- Navajo Diné Fight Uranium Resources Inc. Mining Permits In New Mexico
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
The Navajo Diné community have notched up a victory over Uranium Resources Inc. decades old plan to dig for uranium at Crownpoint and Churchrock, New Mexico, by successfully appealing a state permit for the Colorado company to dump waste into the Westwater Canyon aquifer.
- Revealed: how facial recognition has invaded shops – and your privacy
New in store: facial recognition devices
Resource Type: Unclassified
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Retailers are using ever more sophisticated software to watch how consumers shop.
- The War on Democracy in Latin America: Interview with John Pilger
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Journalist, writer and filmmaker John Pilger granted this exclusive interview where he talks about the US war on democracy in Latin America. "Modern era imperialism is a war on democracy. Genuine democracy is a threat to unfettered power and cannot be tolerated", he says.
- The Conquest of Bread
Review article
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Kropotkin’s classic, The Conquest of Bread, reveals problems of radical politics and organisation that remain vital today, argues Dominic Alexander.
- A History of Silencing Israeli Army Whistleblowers: From 1948 Until Today
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
One might expect that only historians would care to revisit the 1948 war that created Israel. And yet the debate about what constitutes truth and myth from that period still provokes raw emotions.
- The hubris of investigators
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
A now-vacated hearing over whether to require Apple to undermine the security of its users prompted an ongoing controversy over government access to encrypted devices. While the court in San Bernardino may never rule on the flood of arguments supporting Apple's defense of user security, observers-- especially members of Congress-- should pay close attention to a few themes that have emerged in the public debate.
- The War on Memory Begins in Argentina
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Within less than a month of the inauguration of the new Macri/Cambiemos government in Argentina, the new leadership, or gestión (management) as they prefer to be called, acted in a great sweeping hurry. Argentine congress, full of opposition parliamentarians from the Frente Para la Victoria Party that lost the presidential race by 2% of the vote, was closed for the summer holidays that take place in the ardent month of December, as much of the urban population of Argentina seeks to carelessly flock to the seaside.
- Al pi tehom
At the Edge of the Abyss
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
On the Israeli occupation of Palestinian territory.
- Can You Figure Out What This Chart Means?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
The U.S. economy is in the throes of the lousiest recovery since World War 2. The so called monetary stimulus has failed to lift the economy out of the doldrums or produce the robust recovery that they promised. Instead, US gross domestic product, (GDP) has been plodding-along at an abysmal 2.2% since 2009, which is far below the 3.6% average of the prior 60 years.
- International arms companies make a killing in Turkey: a case study of the Roboski Massacre
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Today, Turkey continues its brutality in its war against its Kurdish population. The state is imposing new curfews daily in the south-east of the country. Hundreds of citizens have been killed so far, whilst the western mainstream media and politicians remain largely silent about the massacres. Anti-militarist activists in the UK, however, are taking action against atrocities carried out by states such as Turkey.
- Junk Economics and the Parasites of Global Finance
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Justin Ritchie intervieww Michael Hudson about economics and global finance.
- They Came for the Children: Truth Commission Sheds Light on Canada's Genocide Against Indigenous Peoples
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Imagine a village with all its children gone. For aboriginal peoples all across Canada, this was their lived reality, not the stuff of imagination. The story of what happened to the children -- who were forcibly removed from their families and sent to military-style camps that were euphemistically called "schools" -- has at last been told, compiled in the monumental six-volume Truth and Reconciliation Report on residential schools for aboriginal children released in 2015.
- A World War has Begun: Break the Silence
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
How many people are aware that a world war has begun? At present, it is a war of propaganda, of lies and distraction, but this can change instantaneously with the first mistaken order, the first missile.
- The Crusade in Favor of GMO: Falsehoods and Vilification Will Not Fool the Public
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Pro-GMO campaigners often attack critics of the technology by claiming their negative views of it emanate from well-funded environmentalist groups or commercial interests in the organic food sector. The assertion is that such bodies promote falsehoods and scaremongering about GM to protect their own interests and that the GMO agritech sector has fallen victim to this.
- A Terrible Beauty: Remembering Ireland's Easter Rebellion
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
It's a hundred years since some 750 men and women threw up barricades and seized key locations in downtown Dublin. They would be joined by maybe 1,000 more. In six days it would be over, the post office in flames, the streets blackened by shell fire, and the rebellion's leaders on their way to face firing squads against the walls of Kilmainham Jail. And yet the failure of the Easter Rebellion would eventually become one of the most important events in Irish history - a 'failure' that would reverberate worldwide and be mirrored by colonial uprisings almost half a century later.
- While you were distracted climate change warning arrived
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
With dire warnings of catastrophic sea level rise and superstorms capable of pitching 1,000 tonne mega-boulders onto shorelines, scientist James Hansen sounded an alarm over continued global warming.
- Sources HotLink - March 21, 2016
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Refugees, censorship and North American politics. This issue looks at nine of the most influential whistleblowers in modern history. In France, instances of police violence increase tension in the refugee crisis. Cyberspace sees an unprecedented move in advertising as AdBlock lowers its walls for Amnesty International and Reporters Without Borders to raise awareness about censorship and government cyber-spying. Media professionals get expert insight on the state of earned media. Film buff activists learn about life in the Favelas. Bookworms are invited to read Chomsky on the mass media.
- NSW protesters: 'We will break these laws'
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
"This is a law to protect the rich. We will need to break these laws to protect our democratic rights," Aboriginal activist and lead NSW Senate candidate for the Socialist Alliance team in the federal elections Ken Canning, said on March 15, 2016. Canning was addressing protesters who had occupied the road outside State Parliament following a rally, called by Greens MLC David Shoebridge, against the state government's new laws attacking the right to protest.
- Apartheid in the fields: From occupied Palestine to UK Supermarkets
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Articles and interviews with Palestinian agricultural workers and farmers in the West Bank and Gaza, together with information on many of the Israeli exporters and UK supermarkets, as a resource for campaigners seeking to follow the call to boycott Israeli goods, companies and state institutions.
- Are These the Keystone Cops?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
The CIA owes its vaunted reputation to one source: Hollywood’s movie studios. The way the movies portray America's clandestine services goes so far beyond mere "exaggeration" or embellishment, it verges on outright hero worship, stubbornly confusing James Woolsey with James Bond. Alas, if our intel-gathering networks were a fraction as accomplished as Hollywood portrays them to be, we wouldn’t have been mired in Vietnam or Iraq.
- The FBI Wants Teachers To Go Stasi On American Kids
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
While Apple and the federal government duke it out over the encrypted phone of a dead terrorist, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) is keeping things old school by advocating that educators start paying close attention to any radical leanings among their students.
- Government media crackdown in China continues as a journalist disappears
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) raises serious concerns over actions by the Chinese government this week, which lead to one journalist been suspended from duty and a second disappearing while travelling.
- Help Needed to Produce Rosa Luxemburg's Complete Works
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
The effort to issue The Complete Works of Rosa Luxemburg has reached a critical phase, and we appeal for your help in enabling future volumes to be published.
- On eve of Iranian New Year, concern about fate of imprisoned journalists
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Reporters Without Borders (RSF) reiterates its concern about the conditions in which journalists are being detained in Iran, especially Afarine Chitsaz of the daily newspaper Iran.
- Renewed calls for Bassel Khartabil's release on 4th anniversary of detention
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Syria's authorities should reveal the whereabouts of Bassel Khartabil, a software developer and free speech activist, and release him immediately, 32 organizations said on the fourth anniversary of his detention.
- Drug War Capitalism: An Interview with Dawn Paley
Resource Type: Unclassified
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Dawn Paley’s book, Drug War Capitalism, provides a provocative thesis. The drug war is not about crime nor security. Rather, it enables global capitalist expansion through enclosure. In our hour-long interview Dawn elaborates on how elites collude across borders for their own benefit at the expense of their populations. She describes the consequences of this collusion as militarism, human rights abuses, and insecurity. As the interview develops, Dawn brings optimism back into the equation, with a discussion of resistance in everyday life, activism, and grassroot, peoples’ movements.
- They Came to Take a County: Land Seizure Agitators, Propagandists, Politicians
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Thanks to the Bundy Gang, public lands advocates became aware of elements of the Land Seizure movement that had been operating in the shadows. The curtain was drawn back on networks of agitators and propagandists: Constitutional "experts" and sheriffs, "patriot" legislators and self-centered sovereign citizens.
- Two justice systems?
Letter to the editor
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
It seems that we have two justice systems: one for the police, and one for the rest of us.
- Age of Austerity
Capital, the Financial Crisis and the State in Canada
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
The financial and economic crisis of 2008 has left a continuing legacy on social welfare, showing up in slow economic growth, unemployment and underemployment, and increasing social conflict. In the debate over the future of the world economy, many foresee a long depression, and the intensification of neoliberal austerity. Geoffrey McCormack and Thom Workman's new book is concerned with Canada's unique economic and social history over the period of neoliberalism, including the financial and economic crisis of 2008.
- Canadian Voice of Women for Peace at the Canadian Mission in New York for UNCSW60
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
More than 20 members of the Canadian Voice of Women for Peace (VOW) are currently in New York City attending the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women. Thursday, March 17,2016, they will meet with Giles Norman, Government Relations and Legal
- GMOs, Development and the Politics of Unhappiness
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Modern state-corporate capitalism is stripping the environment bare through unsustainable levels of consumption. It is legitimised by a deceitful ideology that attempts to justify and sell a system which by its very nature is designed to benefit a minority at the expense of the majority.
- Human nature
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
A review of Jason W Moore's book on world-ecology, Capitalism in the Web of Life.
- Integrating cannabis into clinical cancer care
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Literature review of contemporary (2016) understanding of the efficacy of cannabis and cannabis derived drugs in treating cancer symptoms.
- Collateral Freedom #2: RSF unblocks six more censored sites
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
To mark World Day Against Cyber-Censorship, Reporters Without Borders (RSF) is launching Operation Collateral Freedom #2, in which it is unblocking access to websites that are censored in five countries and is unveiling the RSF Censorship Detector
- The End of Protest: A New Playbook for Revolution
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Don't protest the same way twice. If there's a single message to be gleaned from Occupy Wall Street co-initiator Micah White's idea-packed polemic against conventional protest, The End of Protest: A New Playbook for Revolution, that's probably it.
- I Found My Voice in Spanish, a Language Once Used to Subjugate My Ancestors
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Author Shirley Campbell explains how her Afro-Caribbean parents decided not to speak to her and her siblings in English, perhaps as an attempt to give them one less reason to be different in Spanish-speaking Costa Rica.
- RSF calls for end to harassment of The Online Citizen
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Reporters Without Borders (RSF) calls on Singapore's authorities to stop trying to intimidate The Online Citizen (TOC), a community news website that is being harassed by the interior minister over its coverage of a Singaporean teenager's suicide
- The Socialism of the Black Panthers
A new documentary on the Black Panther Party overlooks the group's socialist core.
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
An analysis on the documentary on the Black Panther Party, "Up From Liberalism".
- Biofuel or Biofraud? The Vast Taxpayer Cost of Failed Cellulosic and Algal Biofuels
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
In November 2014, cellulosic biofuel company KiOR filed for bankruptcy, having shut down their refinery in Columbus, Mississippi earlier that year. There have been many unsuccessful biofuel ventures of this type, but KiOR's stands out for several reasons.
- The Case Against Ratifying the TPP
The Case Against Ratifying the Trans Pacific Partnership
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
- Dear Sisters, They Are Killing Our Trees
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
People in the Thrissur district of Kerala, India, are fighting to keep their forests in the face of a threatened dam project which would submerge their ancestral lands.
- Iceland's Revolution
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
After its financial crisis, Iceland put bankers in jail. But it didn't rein in capital. In reality the responses to the 2008–9 Icelandic banking crash were only modestly progressive and failed to bring about any kind of shift to the left. They have also been much more contested locally than most international media accounts reflect.
- Misrepresenting the White Working Class: What the Narrating Class Gets Wrong
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Most of the time the white working class is invisible in the U.S. But during elections there is a flurry of attention to this "demographic" among political reporters and operatives.
- Why Qaddafi had to go: African gold, oil and the challenge to monetary imperialism
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
What was NATO's violent intervention in Libya really all about? Now we know, writes Ellen Brown, thanks to Hillary Clinton's recently published emails. It was to prevent the creation of an independent hard currency in Africa that would free the continent from economic bondage under the dollar, the IMF and the French African franc, shaking off the last heavy chains of colonial exploitation.
- Tracking retractions as a window into the scientific process
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
The world, it seems, cannot get enough of Sokal-type hoaxes. A French journal, Sociétés, has retracted an article allegedly penned by one Jean-Marc Tremblay but actually written by two sociologists, Manuel Quinon and Arnaud Saint-Martin, who spoofed the work of the journal's editor, Michel Maffesoli.
- Bias in the Media: the Result of Corporate Ownership
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
There may still be, perhaps in the quiet countryside somewhere, people who believe that news programs present news. It is unlikely that this is true; rather, those who rely on the corporate-owned press for information probably enjoy finding sources that support what they want to hear. And, if they are unsure of just what it is that they want to hear, their 'trusted' source will tell them.
- Media Release - IFIC Acknowledges OBSI's Improvements, Notes Additional Measures are Needed
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Toronto, ON - March 11, 2016 - The Investment Funds Institute of Canada (IFIC) today acknowledged that the Ombudsman for Banking Services and Investments (OBSI) has improved several of its practices in recent years and suggested additional measur
- "They Fear Us Because We Are Fearless:" The Life and Legacy of Berta Cáceres
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
I began writing a eulogy for Berta Isabel Cáceres Flores years ago, though she died only last week. Berta was assassinated by Honduran government-backed death squads on March 3, 2016.
- Who the Hell is Supporting Donald Trump?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Somehow the Trump shell game has gained followers. So the question is now, who the hell are these people voting for Trump?
- Death In Honduras - The Coup, Hillary Clinton And The Killing Of Berta Cáceres
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
- The Nation is Not Divided and Still Prefers Bernie Sanders
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
The reportage of the presidential primaries has been heavy on personalities and the latest numbers, and light on information useful to voters. Comparisons to a horse race are apt. Were the news to take a documentary approach instead, the campaigns would be revealed as they are: something existing contrary to the public's interests.
- The Organized Left and the Death of "Pragmatic" Politics
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Shifting political winds are battering the establishment, as the breeze flows to the back of the populists. The left-populist Bernie Sanders didn't conjure the hurricane but adjusted his sails to it. As the political storm grows apace with rising income inequality, new social attitudes are bringing fresh expectations, transforming politics as we know it.
- Spelling mistake prevented hackers taking $1bn in bank heist
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
New York Fed reveals spelling of 'foundation' as 'fandation' prompted bank to seek clarification and stop transfer, but hackers still got away with about $80m.
- A Warning From the B.I.S.: the Calm Before the Storm?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
The Bank for International Settlements (BIS) is worried that recent ructions in the equities markets could be a sign that another financial crisis is brewing. In a sobering report titled "Uneasy calm gives way to turbulence" the BIS states grimly: "We may not be seeing isolated bolts from the blue but the signs of a gathering storm that has been building for a long time."
- What is Meant by 'Single-Payer' in the Current Discussion of Health Care Reforms During the Primaries?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Single-payer means that most of the funds used to pay for medical care are public, that is, they are paid with taxes. The government, through a public authority, is the most important payer for medical care services and uses this power to influence the organization of health care. The overwhelming majority of developed countries have one form or another of a single-payer system.
- A Century of Theft From Indians by the National Park Service
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
The Mojave National Preserve is run by the National Park Service, which, in contrast to previous times, has been including more Indian history in its displays and programs.
- A Citizen's Guide to Combating Election Propaganda: Debunking Anti-Welfare Myths
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
The goal moving forward must be to create a critical citizen consciousness, so the masses don't simply "accept what they're told" once every four years by the pretty faces running for office. What follows is a primer for readers to help in their conversations with friends, neighbors, acquaintances, and family, to fight back against the racist, classist propaganda so often employed against disadvantaged groups in the U.S.
- The Financial System is a Larger Threat Than Terrorism
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Trillions of dollars have been added to the taxpayers' burden and many billions of dollars in profits to the military/security complex in order to combat insignificant foreign "threats," such as the Taliban, that remain undefeated after 15 years. All this time the financial system, working hand-in-hand with policymakers, has done more damage to Americans than terrorists could possibly inflict.
- How Defamation Law has Developed and is Applied in Canada
Canadian Defamation Law is Noncompliant with International Law (Part Two of a Two Part Series)
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
This article was prepared for the Ontario Civil Liberties Association (OCLA). Overall Defamation law in Canada is contrary to international law, in both design and practice.
Also, Canada’s practice of its defamation law materially aggravates the noncompliance with the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (eleven impugned rules and practices are described).
- How Most Aid to the Palestinians Ends up in Israel's Coffers
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
While Europe may think of itself as part of an enlightened West, using aid to defend Palestinians' rights, the reality is less reassuring. The aid may actually be making things significantly worse.
- IFIC Comments on CSA Approach to Fund Risk Classification
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Toronto, ON - March 9, 2016 - In a submission filed today, the Investment Funds Institute of Canada (IFIC) expressed broad support for the proposed CSA Mutual Fund Risk Classification Methodology for Use in Fund Facts and ETF Facts, and suggested
- Paid Off in Passion: The Life Lessons of John Ross's Rebel Reporting
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
A book review of Rebel Reporting, written by Cristalyne Bell and Norman Stockwell.
- Pentagon's War on the Earth
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
We are waging war. We are the Nation of War. We destroy. We kill. Everyone fears us. Fewer and fewer admire us. But our fighting forces -- and their attendant industries which manufacture the bombs, bullets, and ballistic delivery devices -- also wage a war on the clean air, clean water, and clean soil many Americans falsely regard as protected by legislation fought for by those trying to protect our environment.
- Scandal! Exxon knew about climate change, boosted denialism, misled shareholders, went carbon heavy
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
One of the world's biggest energy companies has been caught out in what may be the biggest ever climate scandal. Way back in the 1980s ExxonMobil knew of the 'potentially catastrophic' and 'irreversible' effects of increasing fossil fuel consumption, but chose to cover up the findings, spread misinformation on climate change, and go for high carbon energy sources.
- Academics can change the world -- if they stop talking only to their peers
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Heleta discusses the limited audience that academics publish for and the lack of real-world impact their ideas have as a result.
- Berta Cáceres: her fight for human rights in Honduras continues
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Last week the environmental and human rights activist Berta Cáceres was murdered by gunmen in an early morning attack on her home which may have been carried out by or in collusion with state agents. Now her friend and colleague Gustavo Castro, himself wounded in the attack and the only witness to Berta's murder, has been detained for questioning.
- Colonialism and Nationalism in the Building of Liberation Movements
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
This is an excerpt from It's Not Over: Learning From the Socialist Experiment.
- A History of Violence
Living and Dying in Central America
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
This is a book about one of the deadliest places in the world: Central America.
- Investing in the care economy: a gender equitable alternative to austerity
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
A new report by the United Kingdom (UK) Women’s Budget Group for the International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC) shows that sustained investment of public funds in childcare and eldercare services is worthwhile and that it is more effective in reducing public deficits and debt than austerity policies.
- Protest Against Closing Down the Lukács Archiv
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
We, the undersigned, wish to express our deepest worries about the resolution of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences to close down the Lukács Archives in Budapest. Görgy Lukács was one the significant philosophers of the 20th century, an author of modernity outstanding not only in philosophy but also in the fields of political mindedness, theory of literature, sociology and ethics An author of international renown, Lukács represented one of the intellectual peaks in Hungary's history of civilisation, his works constitute a part of the treasures of humankind. For decades, the Lukács Archives has facilitated academic and non-academic circles to have access to the documents related to the philosopher's life and professional achievements. As it is located in the philosopher's home of his late years, it has also served as a memorial place devoted to a decisive personality of our era. Based on the above, we call on the authorities in charge to re-consider their decision, which took the international community of science and art by consternation and sorrow.
- They Want to Prohibit Us from Dreaming
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
A 2014 interview with renowned Honduran activist Berta Cáceres, who was assassinated last week.
- Women Activists Lobby MPs
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
On this International Women's Day our priorities must be human development and communities free of violence.
- Iraq's greatest danger yet: collapse of 'world's most dangerous dam'
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
As if Iraq has not suffered enough under Saddam Hussein, the vicious UN sanctions regime, the US-UK occupation and the depradations of Daesh, a new threat looms that could kill a million people or more, and destroy Baghdad and a string of other cities along the Tigris river. The porous rocks beneath the Mosul dam are dissolving away and the entire edifice could collapse at any moment, releasing 11 cubic kilometres of water.
- Racist housing? How postwar suburban development led to today's inner-city lead poisoning
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
The lead poisoning crisis in Flint, Michigan is just the tip of a vast iceberg of lead contamination afflicting mainly urban black communities. A rigid 'race bar' on postwar suburban housing and mortgages left black families in inner cities, exposed to flaking lead paint in run down housing, leaded gasoline residues and lead pipework. Now is the time to correct this shocking historic injustice.
- Reverse Robin Hood: Six Billion Dollar Businesses Preying on Poor People
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Many see families in poverty and seek to help. Others see families in poverty and see opportunities for profit. Here are six examples of billion dollar industries which are built on separating poor people, especially people of colour, from their money, the reverse Robin Hood.
- Why Survival International has made a formal complaint to the OECD against WWF
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
WWF's support for 'fortress conservation' has led to serious human rights abuses for indigenous peoples, and nowhere more so than in Cameroon, where the Baka are considered trespassers and poachers in their own ancestral forests. A formal complaint against WWF's behaviour is now in process.
- China: New regulations aimed at foreign media
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) expresses strong concern for new administrative regulations aimed at China-based foreign media outlets and joint ventures.
- Despotic Erdogan seizes control of leading daily
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
President Recep Tayyip Erdogan today orchestrated an Istanbul court decision to place Zaman, a leading daily newspaper that supports the opposition Gulen movement, under state control.
- EFF and 46 Technology Experts Ask Court To Throw Out Unconstitutional Apple Order
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Forcing Apple to Write and Sign Code Undermining iPhone Security Violates First Amendment
- Media ethics breached with televised confession on state-owned TV
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) condemns the continued airing of 'confessions' by state-owned media in China. The IFJ calls on the government to immediately end the practice that violates media ethics.
- Other Voices: the Connexions newsletter - International Women's Day Issue
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
The March 5, 2016 issue of Other Voices, the Connexions newsletter, is now out. This issue focuses on International Women's Day.
- Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - March 5, 2016
International Women's Day
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
In this issue of Other Voices, we mark International Women's Day. An article written by Alexandra Kollontai in 1920 talks about the early history of this event, which grew out of a proposal put forward by Clara Zetkin at the 1910 International Conference of Working Women. A key focus at that time was winning the vote for women, with the slogan "The vote for women will unite our strength in the struggle for socialism". The link between women's rights and socialism became even clearer a few years later, in 1917, when a Women's Day march in St. Petersburg turned into a revolutionary uprising which led to the overthrow of the Czar and the Russian Revolution.
- Review: Kate Evans, Red Rosa: A Graphic Biography of Rosa Luxemburg (2015)
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Red Rosa does not aspire to be an authoritative biography but, perhaps as a result, it is a more compelling book. What's compelling about it? The graphics have a lot to do with it; it's an extended comic strip (although the author might take offense with that characterization). The events, both intimate and very public, of Luxemburg’s life and the words and deeds of her political activity are portrayed in vivid graphics. When reading the book, it's impossible to feel detached from them. At the same time, those events, words and deeds are presented seriously, without trivialization. This is no "Rosa Luxemburg for Dummies."
- Tibetan writer sentenced to three years imprisonment
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) condemns the conviction and sentencing of a Tibetan writer on February 17, 2016. The IFJ demands the Chinese government ends its attack on media freedom.
- Berta Cáceres, Honduran eco-defender, murdered
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Berta Cáceres, Honduran indigenous and environmental rights campaigner, has been murdered, days after she was threatened for opposing a hydroelectric project. Her death has prompted international outrage, and a flood of tributes to a courageous defender of the natural world.
- IFIC Welcomes New Member - Greystone Managed Investments Inc.
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Toronto, ON - March 4, 2016 - The Investment Funds Institute of Canada (IFIC) announces that Greystone Managed Investments Inc. has joined IFIC.
- Indigenous Communities in Guatemala Fight Against the Privatization of Sacred Sites
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
In recent years, the popular tourist attraction of Semuc Champey in the Guatemalan department of Alta Verapaz has become a point of social conflict for the indigenous Q'eqchi' Mayan communities surrounding the site. On February 8, tensions erupted and led to the occupation of the municipality building of Lanquín by over 200 members of the communities near the tourist attraction. Community members demanded the recuperation of the site. Since that day, residents have maintained management of the park.
- Mozambique's Movement to End Land Grabs
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
To corporations, the forest is only business. To communities, the forest is everything: trees, medicine, culture, spirituality. Land-grabbing and the removal of communities from forests and land breaks the community, displaces access to food and water, and uproots the connection to nature and [local] knowledge. There is an old saying in Africa: the land doesn’t belong to us; it belongs to our children, and the children of our children.
- 'Dalit movement has to see itself as part of a class-wide movement'
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Following the death of Rohith Vemula, the Dalit scholar from Hyderabad Central University, several thousand students in India came together in protest. The incident also sparked spontaneous, nationwide mobilisation of Dalits, many of whom were already engaged in local struggles. Around the same time a strong criticism of the mainstream Left emerged that pointed to its perceived indifference to Dalit causes and, more broadly, caste-based discrimination in India. Here in the U.S., we see Black Lives Matter — a campaign against violence targeting black people in the U.S. — that has become a prominent movement in the last few years, drawing enormous attention and support. All the same, some activists within the movement are said to be questioning the exclusive emphasis on racial identity. Are there any parallels?
- The Invention of Nature: adventures of Alexander Humboldt, lost hero of science
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Andrea Wulf's book about the remarkable 19th century explorer and naturalist Alexander von Humboldt is welcome, opportune and a pleasure to read, packed as it is with high adventure and amazing discoveries. We have much to learn from him today in tackling the world's environmental crises; reading this book is an excellent - and enjoyable - way to begin.
- Many European Pesticide Approvals Are 'unlawful' Says EU Ombudsman
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Many current pesticides in the European Union appear to have been approved illegally the Ombudsman of the EU has said. This judgment was reached on Feb 22nd by the EU Ombudsman, Emily O’Reilly, following an official complaint against the European Commission’s Directorate responsible for public health and consumer safety (DG SANTE).
- Monarch butterfly decline can only be stopped by a ban on glyphosate
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Monarch butterfly numbers are dwindling despite protection of their wintering forests in Mexico, and voluntary schemes to restore their food plant, milkweed, in US field margins, writes Eva Sirinathsinghji. These measures alone are insufficient: no less than an end to the mass spraying of glyphosate on crops, predicated by 'Roundup-ready' GM corn and soy, will do.
- Why the Newberry Library Is Collecting Black Lives Matter Artifacts
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Archivists hope to crowdsource historical documentation of today's civil-rights movements.
- Why Trump?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Donald Trump is winning Republican presidential primaries at such a great rate that he seems likely to become the next Republican presidential nominee and perhaps the next president. Democrats have little understanding of why he is winning -- and winning handily, and even many Republicans don't see him as a Republican and are trying to stop him, but don't know how. There are various theories: People are angry and he speaks to their anger. People don’t think much of Congress and want a non-politician. Both may be true. But why? What are the details? And Why Trump?
- An Extraordinary Moment
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
In the end, the one sure prediction about the 2016 election is that the power of corporate capital will not be touched. That's the nature of what's called "bourgeois democracy." But almost everything else is up for grabs.
- Florida Today: "Worse Than Mississippi"
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
If Emancipation means the right to breathe clean air and drink clean water, then Florida falls short. In the 20th century we were a leader in environmental racism.
- Fukushima After Five Years
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
In the five years since the triple meltdown at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant, at least 100,000 people remain displaced; 80 people have committed suicide in Fukushima alone over the loss of their families.
- The Hidden Rivers of Brooklyn
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
A look at the extensive drainage and sewer system under the streets of Brooklyn, NY. When pipes fill up and plants reach capacity, untreated water containg sewage flows into local rivers and bays. However a bold green infrastructure initiative hopes to reduce such overflows by 3.8 billion gallons a year.
- Hip-Hop Ain't Dead
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Many rap artists used their words to question oppression. This is where hip-hop began, a radical middle finger to the system that created the need for such an outlet.
- Jerusalem: Colonized City
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
An interview with author Thomas Abowd.
- Killer Bunny in the Sky
A drone war begins between vegans and hunters
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
A look at how animal rights activists are using drones to the detriment of hunters.
- Lessons of the Egyptian Struggle
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
I almost cannot believe that five years have passed since the chants of "the people want to bring down the system" and "Bread...Freedom...Social Justice...Human Dignity..." Maybe this is because even in my cell I am filled with dreams of freedom and with hope.
- Long Distance High Tech State Terror
Kill Chain: The Rise of the High-Tech Assassins
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Book review of Andrew Cockburn's Kill Chain: The Rise of the High-Tech Assassins.
- Mahmoud Darwish, A Poet's Complex Trajectory
Mahmoud Darwish: The Poet's Art and His Nation
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Book review of Khaled Mattawa's Mahmoud Darwish: The Poet's Art and His Nation.
- Making Race Disappear
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Black lives are discounted in the eyes of whites and official arms of the state. It is not conspiracy theory to say this. It is hard fact.
- Only in America: an Indiscreet Selfie Can Put A Kid in Prison
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Did you know that if you are an American under 18 years old and you use your cell phone to send a nude "selfie" of yourself to a friend, you can be convicted of manufacturing and distributing "child pornography" and sent to prison? This is how expansively prosecutors, whose main purpose in life is to ruin as many people as possible, interpret laws passed to protect children from sexual exploitation.
- Our Guns, Our Rights
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
For the past several decades, this country has been periodically caught up in anti-gun fear and hysteria, some generated deliberately by self-serving political forces and some by presumably well meaning liberals whose knowledge of firearms - and of hunting and sensible individual/family self-defense - usually adds up to Zero.
- The Promise of a Revolution
Working-Class Politics in the German Revolution: Richard Müller, the Revolutionary Shop Stewards, and the Origins of the Council
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Book review of Ralf Hoffrogge's Working-Class Politics in the German Revolution: Richard Müller, the Revolutionary Shop Stewards, and the Origins of the Council.
- Raising Hell for Labor
Raising Expectations (And Raising Hell): My Decade Fighting for the Labor Movement
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Book review of Jane McAlevey's Raising Expectations (And Raising Hell): My Decade Fighting for the Labor Movement.
- Reading and Returning to Denise Levertov
A Poet's Revolution: The Life of Denise Levertov
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Book review of Donna Hollenberg's A Poet's Revolution: The Life of Denise Levertov.
- The Rogue Agency
A USDA program that tortures dogs and kills endangered species
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
A look at the disturbing and cruel animal control practices of the USDA, a branch of the US Fish and Wildlife Service at the time, which has included accidental poisonings of domestic animals as well as endangered species.
- Rosa Luxemburg for Our Time
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Does Rosa Luxemburg leave feminists a theoretical and political legacy? That is, does she give us any theoretical guidance as to how to understand women's oppression? If so, what is it?
- Rosa Luxemburg of Our Time
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Does Rosa Luxemburg leave feminists a theoretical and political legacy? That is, does she give us any theoretical guidance as to how to understand women’s oppression? If so, what is it?
- Salvadoran Women Combatants
Women in War: The Micro-processes of Mobilization in El Salvador
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Book review of Jocelyn Viterna's Women in War: The Micro-processes of Mobilization in El Salvador.
- Save Our Public Universities
In defense of America's best idea
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
This essay looks at the role of public universities in democratizing diverse and thoughtful thinking, and why the importance of these institutions seems to be getting lost in the aggressive capitalism of modern America.
- Thinking About Suffragette
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Alison Baldree responds to the 2015 flim Suffragette.
- Towards Workers' Climate Action
Workers and Trade Unions for Climate Solidarity: Tackling Climate Change in a Neoliberal World
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Book review of Paul Hampton's Workers and Trade Unions for Climate Solidarity:
Tackling Climate Change in a Neoliberal World.
- Turn on tune in - hippie photos unseen for decades
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
A recent visit to the Chronicle's basement archives to look for hippie-related photos paid off with some wonderful images that have not been seen in several decades. Many of them were taken in San Francisco and the Bay Area.
- Undeceiving the World
Can a staged photograph tell the truth?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
A historical look at how photographs have been staged and manipulated, and the meaning of "truth" as it relates to photo-journalism and documentary film making.
- Women of the Dada and Their Timnes
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Thinking about Dada today, it is astonishing that such a small, obscure group should have become such an influence. It was the laboratory for new ideas and unrestrained, uninhibited, playful activity and their works still find joyful resonance in our hearts.
- Women's Monumental Struggle
Suffragette
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Barbara Winslow and Alison Baldree respond to Sarah Gavron's controversial 2015 film Suffragette.
- Ellen Meiksins Wood (1942-2016)
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Remembering Marxist scholar Ellen Meiksins Wood.
- A Word Warrior for Freedom
Word Warrior: Richard Durham, Radio and Freedom
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Book review of Sonja D. Williams' Word Warrior: Richard Durham, Radio and Freedom.
- Workshop Talks: Do job, get fired
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Under the Affordable Care Act, it’s standard HMO practice to offer patients the opportunity to fill out an advance directive as an exercise in considering one's quality of life, not just its prolongation. Frontline healthcare providers have a concrete reason for quality-of-life care concerns. But in the HMO business campaigns promoting quality of life over quantity, things are not really what they appear.
- The Arctic Turns Ugly
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Runaway global warming is far and away humankind's biggest nightmare, and the Arctic is the likely perpetrator. If it happens, it'll blister agricultural foodstuff before it can reach the outstretched arms of the multitudes.
- Canadian Voice of Women for Peace Moves to the Beach
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Canadian Voice of Women for Peace have moved their national office.
- The Centrality of Seed: Building Agricultural Resilience Through Plant Breeding
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Five of the global issues most frequently debated today are the decline of biodiversity in general and of agrobiodiversity in particular, climate change, hunger and malnutrition, poverty and water. Seed is central to all five issues. The way in which seed is produced has been arguably their major cause. But it can also be the solution to all these issues.
- Oscar Hangover Special: Why "Spotlight" Is a Terrible Film
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
I am astonished (though I suppose I shouldn't be) that, across the past few months, ever since Spotlight hit theatres, otherwise serious left-of-centre people have peppered their party conversation with effusions that the film reflects a heroic journalism, the kind we all need more of. I was in Boston in the Spring of 2002 reporting on the priest scandal, and because I know some of what is untrue, I don't believe the personal injury lawyers or the Boston Globe's "Spotlight" team or the Catholic "faithful" who became harpies outside Boston churches, carrying signs with images of Satan.
- A Chilean Ex-Soldier Guiltily Recalls His Unit's Atrocities
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Guillermo Padilla was part of a commando unit that spent months combing towns and remote outposts in southern Chile in late 1973, searching for suspected opponents of the military dictatorship of Gen. Augusto Pinochet and for weapons. The unit raided homes, arrested and tortured suspects, and killed at least 30 people, he said. He admitted to participating in several executions as part of a firing squad.
- Clinton Manipulates Language of Intersectionality to Preserve Support from Minority Voters
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
The presidential campaign of Hillary Clinton has been a master class in how to divorce economic issues from issues of race and gender by pushing the language of "intersectionality," which enables the political class to head off threats to their power and protect the status quo.
- Siberia's Heavenly Lake and 'small peoples' of the High North at risk from oil drilling
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
A vital nature preserve in western Siberia, and the indigenous peoples that inhabit it, are at risk from oil development. Oil giant Surgutneftegas is already active in the Numto Park, but now they want to extend operations into its fragile wetlands, putting at risk snow cranes, the Heavenly Lake, and the survival of the Nenet and Khanty peoples.
- Trident rally is Britain's biggest anti-nuclear march in a generation
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Thousands of protesters including Jeremy Corbyn and other party leaders gather in London for CND march and rally.
- The Wanted 18
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
A claymation comic that showcases the BDS movement through the establishment of a Palestinian dairy co-operative in Beit Sahour.
- Blood on the Marias
The Baker Massacre
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
An in-depth depiction of the 1870 Baker Massacre in a small Piegan town by the Euro-American Major Eugene Baker who attacked the wrong town killing 173 innocent citizens.
- It's Not Over: Learning From the Socialist Experiment
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
The path to a better world can't be found without knowledge of history. "It's Not Over" analyzes attempts to supplant capitalism in the past in order to draw lessons for emerging and future movements that seek to overcome the political and economic crises of today. This history is presented through the words and actions of the men and women who made these revolutions, and the everyday experiences of the millions of people who put new revolutionary ideas into practice under the pressures of enormous internal and external forces. This is history that can be applied to today's struggles to shape our world, in which new ideas are emerging to bring about the economic democracy that is indispensable to a rational and sustainable future.
- Coal companies trying to revive 'zombie' open cast mines in Wales
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
A tangle of undercapitalised companies are coming forward to cash in on old deep coal mines in Wales - by digging them all out from above from huge open cast pits. But local communities, alarmed at the noise, pollution and destruction of landscape, increasingly see coal as an industry that's best consigned to the scrapheap.
- The noble cause of the Heathrow 13
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
With the 'Heathrow 13' protestors expecting custodial sentences today for their occupation of a Heathrow runway last July, Shadow Chancellor John McDonnell MP writes that their direct action followed years of official lies and broken promises, and forms part of a long tradition of direct action protests in defence of democracy.
- Richard Levins: Scientist, Activist and Friend
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
American scientist Richard Levins, philosopher of science, titan of ecology, forebear of agroecology, renowned authority on the social and ecological dimensions of disease, and friend of Puerto Rico, has passed away.
- After Malheur, the end of the beginning: war for America's public lands rages on
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Those who value public lands - for economic, environmental, recreational and aesthetic values - owe a debt of gratitude to Harney County, Oregon, writes Peter Walker. A violent branch of the Sagebrush Rebellion came to town, and the community told it to go away: the decisive factor in the occupiers' defeat. But the greater war for America's public lands has only just begun.
- London tube posters
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Israel and its supporters are used to having the mainstream media repeat their talking points. We put up around 150 posters on the tube to shine a spotlight on the support Israel gets from the UK: the government, arms industry, and companies like G4S. Turns out the world loves/hates our tube ads.
- Race, Gender, and Class Politics in the US Primaries
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
The US has some of the largest feminist organizations in the Western world. I should also add that it has the largest organization for the elderly, the AARP. In spite of this, the US is the country where African Americans, women, and the elderly have fewer political, civil, and social rights. African Americans, women, and the elderly have the least health benefits among their equivalents in other developed countries. The primary reason for this underdevelopment of human rights is the absence of powerful socialist forces and parties, rooted historically in the working class. This reality, however, is rarely mentioned in the US. It is presented as too "ideological" or antiquated.
- Israeli fury at unofficial ads on London Underground
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Activists from London Palestine Action put up these posters criticizing Israel’s apartheid policies against Palestinians all over London's underground train network early Sunday morning. An activist from the group told The Electronic Intifada that they posted 150 copies around at least four different lines on the network.
- Key evidence in EU's risk assessment of glyphosate must not remain 'trade secret'
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
The chemical industry and the European Food Safety Authority are refusing to disclose key scientific evidence about glyphosate's risks, citing 'trade secrets' protection, writes Corporate Europe Observatory. They must be compelled to publish the 'mysterious three' scientific studies EFSA used to assess glyphosate as 'unlikely' to cause cancer to humans - contradicting the IARC's view.
- Most US Jewish students don't see Israel as 'civilized' or a 'democracy,' Luntz tells secret anti-BDS conference
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Minister Gilad Erdan has organized a secret conference in Jerusalem, with 150 top supporters of Israel.
- Sources HotLink - February 22, 2016
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
We start off our year with a review of the last. According to the report, 2015 was a dangerous year for journalists overseas. In North America, we re-explore the debate between privacy and security and the curious case of Donald Trump. In South America, the issues with impunity remain ever prevalent.
For our media relations professionals, we feature a fun guide to press releases and the words of thought leaders in digital media.
Bookworms get The Man Who Recorded the World and film buffs get Control Room.
- What is socialism?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
The word socialism is the English language's answer to Madonna: consistently topping the popular charts and maintaining its appeal across generations and among ever changing new audiences. It is, according to the Miriam Webster dictionary, the seventh most looked up English word of all time, and in 2015 had more people seeking out its meaning than any other word.
- Bangladeshi editor faces legal barrage
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
The International Federation of Journalists joins the Bangladesh Manobadhikar Sangbadik Forum (BMSF) in expressing serious concerns over a barrage of legal cases filed against the editor and publisher of an English daily newspaper in Bangladesh
- Corporate power and the moulding of truth
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
The corporate dominance of 'free' media in western democracies imposes deep structural constraints on what may be reported, and how. Syria is now the latest example of skewed reportage - and even journalists seeking to analyse the problem must carefully avoid the real reasons for it.
- Eleven years of protesting Israel's occupation
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Al Jazeera spoke with 11 villagers on the anniversary of Bilin's weekly protests against Israel's separation wall.
- In search of the unseen: an investigation into plastics in our oceans
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
One of the biggest threats facing marine life is the 'microplastic' particles found in ocean ecosystems from bottom to top of food chains. Just back from a voyage of environmental exploration in the tropical Atlantic sampling the waters to build up a global picture of this ubiquitous pollutant, Ana Stanic writes of the joys and trials of life on the waves, and the need to keep our oceans clean.
- Journalists covering court hearing attacked in India
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) joins its affiliate the Indian Union of Journalists (IJU) in condemning the attack on journalists at the Patiala House Court premises in New Delhi, India on Monday, February 15,2016.
- Maple syrup farmers lose fight against fracking pipeline
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
A family of maple syrup farmers in Susquehanna County, Pennsylvania cannot stop their trees being cut down to make way for a new fracking pipeline project owned by billion dollar oil companies, a federal judge ruled Friday. The Holleran family opposes the seizure of their maple grove to make way for the new 124-mile-long Constitution Pipeline. The group faced contempt of court charges for obstructing tree cutting on their property.
- More tear gas in in Artvin, Turkey as anti-mining protests enter 7th day
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Hundreds of activists gathered in the Black Sea province of Artvin, Northwest Turkey, to oppose plans to build a gold mine in the area. Police again used tear gas and batons to disperse the angry crowd.
- RSF accuses Malaysia government of endangering general interest
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Reporters Without Borders condemns the government's decision, after a series of corruption scandals, to prioritize the intimidation of journalists and whistleblowers, who just do their duty to inform the public.
- RSF calls for release of four US journalists detained in Bahrain
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Reporters Without Borders (RSF) condemns the arbitrary arrest of four US journalists in Bahrain on 14 February. They were there to cover the fifth anniversary of the 2011 protests in Bahrain.
- RSF delivers Jeffrey Sterling's petition to the White House
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Reporters Without Borders (RSF) delivered yesterday with the wife of CIA whistleblower Jeffrey Sterling a petition for his pardon to the White House. The petition has now gathered over 150,000 signatures. Sterling, a former CIA operative
- Worldwide call to demand Netanyahu to release journalist on hunger strike
Sources News Release
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The IFJ called today on its affiliates worldwide to join their sister union in Palestine, the Palestinian Journalists' Syndicate, to demand that the Israeli authorities release journalist Muhammad al-Qiq
- Canada's wild rice wars
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How a conflict over wild ricing on Pigeon Lake is drawing attention to Indigenous rights and traditional foods.
- Lesbian and Gay Liberation in Canada: A Selected Annotated Chronology, 1976–1981
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This authoritative reference guide is a continuation of Lesbian and Gay Liberation in Canada: A Selected Annotated Chronology, 1964–1975. It starts where the first volume left off, and highlights some of the seminal events and people involved in the fight for gay rights in Canada to the end of 1981.
- Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - February 20, 2016
Connexions Enters Its Fifth Decade
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This issue of Connexions Other Voices falls on the 40th anniversary of the publication of the very first Connexions newsletter, which was published in February 1976. That first issue carried the title "Canadian Information Sharing Service", which was also the name of the collective which compiled it, from submissions from across Canada. Within a couple of years, the name of the publication became "Connexions" and then, a little later, "The Connexions Digest".
In addition to our own history, in this issue we spotlight black history as our topic of the week. We look at the Haitian revolution, when slaves confronted the French empire and won; black resistance against the Ku Klux Klan in the American South, and the meaning and limits of anti-racism. We also look at the Kurdish liberation movement in Rojava, the dangers posed by geoengineering, and we mark the publication of the Communist Manifesto on February 21, 1848.
- Why This Radical Leftist is Disillusioned by Leftist Culture
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I will always believe in "The Revolution". But I am becoming very frustrated with modern "activist" culture.
- 'Call me a terrorist, but I'm no different from Israeli troops defending their homeland'
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Some thoughts on the true source of incitement against and hatred of Israelis from a Palestinian who spent 23 years in jail for killing one. In 1990, Muqbel was sentenced to life imprisonment for the murder of Yaakov Shalom in the Jerusalem neighborhood of Ein Karem. Released after 23 years, he is now a key activist in Fatah, talking on the movement's behalf in West Bank schools.
- Climate Justice and Palestine: the New Intersectionality
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The repeated failures of international and governmental agencies to effectively deal with the disastrous changes that threaten the entire planet have sparked local indigenous and small farmer activism from Bolivia to Palestine.
- Dark history of Canada's First Nations pass system uncovered in documentary
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Little known policy restricted people living on reserves, enforced for nearly 60 years.
- IFIC Releases Monthly Statistics for January 2016
Sources News Release
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Toronto, ON - February 19, 2016 - The Investment Funds Institute of Canada (IFIC) announces that for the month ending January 31, 2016, the assets under management (AUM) for the mutual funds industry totalled $1.21 trillion. Almost all (99.6%) of
- The Mad Violence of Casino Capitalism
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American society is morally bankrupt and politically broken, and its vision of the future appears utterly dystopian. As the United States descends into the dark abyss of an updated form of totalitarianism, the unimaginable has become imaginable in that it has become possible not only to foresee the death of the essential principles of constitutional democracy, but also the birth of what Hannah Arendt once called the horror of dark times.
- The New Global Financial Cold War
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Interview with Dr. Michael Hudson, a financial economist and historian.
- Nor a Lender Be
Hillary Clinton, liberal virtue, and the cult of the microloan
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A criticism of the rhetoric of the modern liberal class' rhetoric of idealism and virtue, as embodied by the efforts of Hillary Clinton.
- Palestinian villagers tilled their land so well, Israel is now confiscating it from them
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The separation barrier will cut residents of Al-Walaja from their lands by the end of the year; the beauty of the terraces they cultivated for decades was used as one of the main reasons for announcing the area a national park.
- South Africa's conservation success story: the 'Black Mambas' mean business!
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A unique, all female anti-poaching unit has transformed the conservation picture in South Africa's Kruger National Park. In just three years the Black Mambas have cut poaching by more than 75%, removed over 1,000 snares, and become role models for local youth. And this weekend they arrive in the UK to collect Helping Rhinos' 'Innovation in Conservation' Award.
- A Technical Perspective on the Apple iPhone Case
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The legal dispute between Apple and the FBI might prove pivotal in the long-running battle to protect users' privacy and right to use uncompromised encryption. The case has captured the public imagination. Of course, EFF supports Apple's efforts to protect its users. The case is complicated technically, and there is a lot of misinformation and speculation. This post will offer a technical overview, based on information gleaned from the FBI's court motion and Apple's security documentation.
- The US Economy Has Not Recovered and Will Not Recover
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The US economy died when middle class jobs were offshored and when the financial system was deregulated. Jobs offshoring benefitted Wall Street, corporate executives, and shareholders, because lower labour and compliance costs resulted in higher profits. These profits flowed through to shareholders in the form of capital gains and to executives in the form of "performance bonuses." Wall Street benefitted from the bull market generated by higher profits.
- Why India's first 100% organic state matters
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In a mountainous region in eastern India, Sikkim is now a 100% organic state, with no chemical pesticides or fertilizers and no GMOs. This matters because it shows that organic food in an entire region is possible. Now, other people in India and throughout the world are learning from Sikkim's success, and beginning to ask, "Could organic food succeed in other areas, too?"
- The Dark Side of Clean Energy: Industrial Wind Plantations in Mexico
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- This Is the Real Reason Apple Is Fighting the FBI
If the FBI wins, it could open the door to massive surveillance
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The first thing to understand about Apple’s latest fight with the FBI -- over a court order to help unlock the deceased San Bernardino shooter's phone -- is that it has very little to do with the San Bernardino shooter's phone.
- War crime? Israel destroys Gaza crops with aerial herbicide spraying
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Gaza farmers have lost 187 hectares of crops to aerial spraying of herbicides by Israel hundreds of meters within the territory's borders. The action, carried out in the name of 'security', further undermines Gaza's ability to feed itself and may permanently deprive farmers of their livelihoods. It may also represent a war crime under the 1977 Protocol to the Geneva Conventions.
- The God that fails: C-51, review committees and the dangers of window dressing
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Among the Harper era's most destructive legacies is a toxic stew of repressive "anti-terror" laws that, in building on similarly repressive measures brought in under Jean Chrétien and Paul Martin, extended major new powers to Canadian state security agencies Canadian Security and Intelligence Service (CSIS), Communications Security Establishment Canada (CSEC), Canadian Border Services Agency (CBSA) and the RCMP, among numerous others.
- Clickbait v Political Impact: Alternative Journalism as Social Media Becomes the New News Source
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In first world countries, Facebook and Twitter are fast becoming the main places where people come across their news -- ahead of television and news sites. "Success" is becoming about the number of reads, shares, likes, upvotes, and re-tweets -- making it easy to lose sight of what really defines the usefulness of an article: political impact.
- Greatest Threat to Free Speech in the West: Criminalizing Activism Against Israeli Occupation
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The U.K. government has announced that it is will be illegal for "local [city] councils, public bodies, and even some university student unions ... to refuse to buy goods and services from companies involved in the arms trade, fossil fuels, tobacco products, or Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank." Thus, any entities that support or participate in the global boycott of Israeli settlements will face "severe penalties."
- Marxism and the Petition
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Many petitions operate only on the reformist appeal to authority (this is especially true of the many online petitions from sites like Change.org), which fits perfectly within the liberal democratic framework. But the petition can operate on more than one level. Its dual nature means that it is often an indispensable tool in building collective power for more radical ends.
- Arms, agribusiness, finance and fossil fuels: the four horsemen of the neoliberal Apocalypse
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The world is in the grip of a structural war against people, land, economies and ecosystems, writes Colin Todhunter. It is being waged by a quartet of organised criminal interests bent on monopolizing energy, money, food and violence across the globe. But a deep-rooted resistance against their 'neoliberal' doctrine of death and destruction is fighting back.
- Bahrain's Government Continues to Strangle Dissent Five Years After Uprising Began
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Five years after the eruption of what came to be known as the "Arab Spring" protests that spilled over from Tunisia, Bahrain's regime continues to lock up opposition leaders, sending a message of its refusal to reform or change.
- The Department of Defense Is the Third Largest Polluter of US Waterways
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Advocacy group Environment America has "crunched the numbers" in an effort to reveal who the largest polluters of American waterways are. The culprits that crack the top-15 list may very well surprise you.
- Homes Demolished in the South Hebron Hills
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Israeli authorities have destroyed 24 homes in the South Hebron Hills. The homes lie within an area which Israel claims as Firing Zone 918, in which approximately 1000 Palestinian civilians live in 8 villages.
- Psychiatry's 'Defect Model of Mental Illness:' a Path for Those it Has Failed
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For some depressed, anxious, and substance-abusing people, it feels better to believe that they are essentially defective, as it provides them with a defense of sorts against insulting accusations that they are malingering. But the defect model of mental illness doesn't work for everyone.
- Public transit is a women's issue
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Drimonis highlights the problem of sexual harrassment of female passengers and the failure of transit officials to address this problem.
- Uranium Mine and Mill Workers are Dying, and Nobody Will Take Responsibility
In the Southwest, poisoned uranium workers are still seeking justice
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To talk to former uranium miners and their families is to talk about the dead and the dying. Brothers and sisters, coworkers and friends: a litany of names and diseases. Many were, as one worker put it, "ate up with cancer," while others died from various lung and kidney diseases.
- Asia-Pacific the deadliest region for journalists globally
Sources News Release
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The International Federation of Journalists and its Australian affiliate the Media, Entertainment & Arts Alliance (MEAA) launched the IFJ 25th Killed List report, Journalists and Media Staff Killed 1990-2015: 25 years of contribution towards Safer Journalism
- Barriers to love in Israel and Palestine
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Love Under Apartheid and IMEU released a new video "Palestinians Daring to Love" highlighting four married couples struggling to maintain love and family relationships despite the restrictions imposed by Israel's policies that systematically discriminate and segregate Palestinians.
- Greece: A journalist brutally attacked during public rally
Sources News Release
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A radio journalist has been brutally injured on 4 February, 2016 by unknown assailants while covering a massive rally in the capital, Athens.
- In the footsteps of Gandhi: an interview with Vandana Shiva
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Vandana Shiva is more than just a leading scientist, author and campaigner on green issues and anti-globalisation. She is also among the most prominent of Mahatma Ghandi's intellectual heirs. In this interview, she discusses how this led her to be an outspoken voice on such crucial environmental issues as seed legacy, biopiracy and economic injustice.
- Indian journalist threatened and attacked for reporting
Sources News Release
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The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) joins its affiliate the National Union of Journalists (India) in condemning the attack on journalist Malini Subramaniam in Bastar, Chhattisgarh, India on Sunday, February 7, 2016.
- Meet the Robin Hood of Science
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The tale of how one researcher has made nearly every scientific paper ever published available for free to anyone, anywhere in the world. On September 5th, 2011, Alexandra Elbakyan, a researcher from Kazakhstan, created Sci-Hub, a website that bypasses journal paywalls, providing access to nearly every scientific paper ever published immediately to anyone who wants it.
- Palestinians' access to water in 2015
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Thirsting for Justice finds that Palestinians' access to water was worse in 2015 than in 1995 due to Israel’s discriminatory water regime.
- RSF demands immediate withdrawal of new charges against editor
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Reporters Without Borders calls on Moroccan authorities to drop the absurd and iniquitous charge of harming the country's territorial integrity brought against website editor Ali Anouzla on the basis of a translation error, and to abandon the trlal
- Television offices attacked in Lahore, Pakistan
Sources News Release
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The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) joins its affiliate the Pakistan Federal Union of Journalists (PFUJ) in condemning the attack on the office of the City 42 News television channel on Sunday, February 6, 2016, in Lahore, Pakistan.
- Time to Call US Aid to Africa by Its True Name: Bribery
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Aid, what is it good for? While many Bono-loving, bleeding heart liberals would be appalled at the very thought of questioning the importance of giving money to charity or to the less fortunate, such a belief is rooted in pure fiction. In fact, the seemingly innocuous act of transferring money abroad in voluntary Robin Hood fashion is at the root of most political problems wreaking havoc across the developing world.
- When They Lock Up the Truth: Khadija Ismayilova and the Latin America Connection
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Azerbaijan, a former Soviet country with remarkable oil and gas reserves has been controlled for decades by the Aliyev family.
- Why I Choose Optimism Over Despair
An Interview With Noam Chomsky
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Noam Chomsky explores the possibilities for a better human society.
- Finally, a Wall to Unite People, Not Divide Them
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Throughout history, walls have been a symbol of separation, segregation, and division. However, a new phenomenon called "walls of kindness" (Deewar-e-Meherbani) is doing just the opposite. Faced by cold weather, Iranians began outdoor charity drives for the homeless and needy by building "walls of kindness." The walls feature clothing hooks beside the phrase, "Take one if you need it. Give one if you don't." Iran's campaign to clothe the poor has developed into an international onslaught of donations, coats, hats, trousers, and warm apparel.
- Salvadoran Women Respond to Violence with Community Service, Music, and Individual Efforts
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Outside of the peace negotiations that resound in the media and governmental organizations, one of the strongest solutions to the scourge of gang violence in El Salvador has come from individual initiatives and groups dedicated to women. This work with female youth and ex-gang members, both in and outside of prison, is part of a movement that seeks to collaborate with peace processes in which women have rarely been taken into account. At the same time, it addresses the social structure that intensifies violence against women.
- Branding Tradition: a Bittersweet Tale of Capitalism at Work
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It's almost sugaring time here in Vermont. On our homestead we tap about 25 trees, boil down the sap on the kitchen cookstove, and - in a good year - end up with 4 or 5 gallons of maple syrup. That may sound like a lot, but since it represents our family's main source of sweetener it's rarely enough to get us through the year. By mid-winter we're usually buying syrup from a neighbor -- someone who makes his living from his sugar bush.
- Cap and Clear-Cut
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Jerry Brown basked in adulation during his whirlwind trip to Paris, and the evening of December 8 figured to offer more of the same. Standing alongside governors of states and provinces from Brazil, Mexico, and Peru, California's governor planned to tout his state's leadership role on global climate policy. The event was one of 21 presentations that Brown delivered during a five-day swing through France during the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP 21). His busy schedule included a stately private meeting with UN Secretary General Ban Ki Moon and presentations at events organized by the French, German, Chinese, and US governments.
- Coming Cutthroats and Parting Pirates
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"Shoot them down!" That’s one answer to the problem of refugees and immigrants flooding into Germany, clearer even than any Trump-wall. It was offered by Frauke Petry, head of Alternative for Germany (AfD), the fast-growing party which, now at 12 percent nationally, has moved up into third place, outstripping the Greens and the Left party (LINKE).
- The Flint River Lead Poisoning Catastrophe in Historical Perspective
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By now the main facts of the Flint River lead poisoning are pretty well known and essentially undisputed. A spectacular regulatory failure by all levels of government -- enabled by Michigan Governor Snyder's unprecedented "emergency management" policies for African-American majority cities. The big remaining question is why this disaster happened?
- Israeli Myths: An Interview with Ramzy Baroud
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For many years, much of the Western world understood Israel based on a cluster of myths, from the early fables of the Zionists making the desert bloom, to Palestine supposedly being a land without people for a people without land. That intricately constructed and propagated mythology evolved over time, as Israeli hasbara laboured to provide a perception of reality that was needed to justify its wars, its military occupation, its constant violations of human rights and its many war crimes.
- Living the Spanish Language as the Descendant of Afro-Caribbean Migrants in Costa Rica
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Several generations of the black population have been forced to fight in order to conserve the language they brought with them, and with it all of their accumulated history, wisdom, and identity. They struggle against the rejection of the mestizo majority as well as the governments in office, who have for years denied them Costa Rican nationality, despite being born in the country.
- Obama to sign AIPAC-promoted trade bill that legitimizes Israeli occupation and fights BDS
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The U.S. Senate has passed the Trade Facilitation and Trade Enforcement Act of 2015 by a 75-20 veto proof margin. The large trade policy bill includes anti- BDS trade legislation promoted by AIPAC and introduces new U.S. policy language by including all "Israeli-controlled territories" as part of Israel.
- The Opposite of Transparency: What I Didn't Read in the TIPP Reading Room
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TTIP, the EU-US free trade deal, has secrecy written all over it. Those responsible for it live in dread of any public scrutiny. If it was up to me, I would give everyone who's interested the chance to make up their own minds on the text of the agreement in its current form.
- When Thoughtful People Think Illogically
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This man with whom I corresponded believes Sandy Hook and the Boston Marathon were staged and that those involved, even the children, are "crisis actors" -- employed by a government whose aim is seizing guns, passing gun control laws, and creating a climate of fear. I asked about hospital staff, those who treat the injured and the spokesperson that provides information about a patient's condition. His answer, "Crisis actors."
- Beware the GMO Trojan horse! Indian food and farming are under attack
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Global oilseed, agribusiness and biotech corporations are engaged in a long term attack on India's local cooking oil producers. In just 20 years they have reduced India from self-sufficiency in cooking oil to importing half its needs. Now the government's unlawful attempts to impose GM mustard seed threaten to wipe out a crop at the root of Indian food and farming traditions.
- Fighting the TPP
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Canada has a choice and should decide to reject the TPP. We shouldn’t sign. In that, the new government would have a solid argument – the agreement was concluded in secret by the previous Conservative government in the midst of the election.
- 'I KNEW I WAS WITNESSING A TERRIBLE EVIL'
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Today marks 50 years since the South African apartheid government declared District Six, in the heart of Cape Town, a 'whites only' area from which all non-whites would be forcibly removed.
- New York Police Have Used Stingrays Widely, New Documents Show
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The NYPD has used cell-site simulators, commonly known as Stingrays, more than 1,000 times since 2008, according to documents turned over to the New York Civil Liberties Union. The documents represent the first time the department has acknowledged using the devices.
- The NYPD Is Kicking People out of Their Homes, Even If They Haven't Committed a Crime
And it's happening almost exclusively in minority neighborhoods.
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The morning of May 4, 2011, Jameelah El-Shabazz watched out the window of her Bronx apartment as a team of police officers fanned across the rooftop of Banana Kelly High School. The 43-year-old mother of five said she didn’t think much of the scene -- drug raids were common in her neighbourhood.
- Pharma Greed Run Amuk
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Congress, especially its GOP members, created the Martin monster. Martin Shkreli is only one of the monsters the GOP Congress has created. Probably our best hope is that one or many, like Shkreli, will overreach in an outrageous greed that our government has condoned for decades. Like errant spoiled children, pharmaceuticals (Pharma) have run roughshod over an obliging Congress and a consuming public since politicians -- in effect -- gave them license to steal.
- What's Yours Is Mine
Against the Sharing Economy
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The news is full of their names, supposedly the vanguard of a rethinking of capitalism. Lyft, Airbnb, Taskrabbit, Uber, and many more companies have a mandate of disruption and upending the "old order." But this new wave of technology companies is funded and steered by very old-school venture capitalists. And in What’s Yours Is Mine, technologist Tom Slee argues the so-called sharing economy damages development, extends harsh free-market practices into previously protected areas of our lives, and presents the opportunity for a few people to make fortunes by damaging communities and pushing vulnerable individuals to take on unsustainable risk. Drawing on original empirical research, Slee shows that the friendly language of sharing, trust, and community masks a darker reality.
- The Flowers of Rojava: A Feminist Revolution in Northern Syria
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Janet Biehl speaks about her recent visit to Rojava, Kurdistan where Kurdish men and women have organized themselves into a democratic autonomous region.
- A Last Chance for the World's Forests?
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An alarming new study has shown that the world’s forests are not only disappearing rapidly, but that areas of 'core forest' -- remote interior areas critical for disturbance-sensitive wildlife and ecological processes -- are vanishing even faster.
- Leamington, Ontario: Growing Tomatoes in the Era of Free Trade
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Southwestern Ontario is the historic home of Canadian tomato growers. The bulk of the crop goes to processing, and since 1909 the dominant corporation had been H. J. Heinz, a food giant based in Pittsburgh. But in 2013 the Heinz Corporation was bought by Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway (26%) and 3G Capital (51%), based in Brazil. It was soon announced that they were planning to close their plant in Leamington. The story has been a snapshot of what has happened to the manufacturing industry in Ontario following the "free trade" agreements with the United States.
- MPAA May Like Donuts, but They Shouldn't Be the (Copyright) Police
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The companies and organizations that run the Internet's domain name system shouldn't be in the business of policing the contents of websites, or enforcing laws that can impinge on free speech. The staff of ICANN, the organization that oversees that system, agrees. That's why it’s not surprising that the Motion Picture Association of America, which has consistently sought power to edit the Internet, is now bypassing ICANN and making private deals with domain name registries.
- Nazi Zombies Ate Gloria Steinem's Brain!
Why US Politics Turns Ordinary People into Drooling Morons
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The problem, in a nutshell, is this: when people decide to support a prospective candidate in the US primary races they are putting themselves in the position of defending the indefensible. The very nature of this politico-Darwinist death match means that once you pick your chosen leader you must reject all criticism and suppress all doubt. You must become aggressively defensive and you must, above all, prevent your own wayward brain from thinking those bad thoughts that weaken the image of the immaculate leader. Any chink in their armour will be exploited by the enemies that surround them. Loyalty must be automatic and unconditional. Vigilance must be constant.
- 1965-1975 Another Vietnam
Unseen images of the war from the winning side
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Many famous images of the war were taken by Western photographers and news agencies, working alongside American or South Vietnamese troops.But the North Vietnamese and Viet Cong had hundreds of photographers of their own, who documented every facet of the war under the most dangerous conditions.
- Pakistan: The hell of sexual harassment in the workplace
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In increasingly competitive Pakistani work situations, women continue to be targets for men with power.
- The Return of Crisis: Everywhere Banks are in Deep Trouble
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Financial markets the world over are increasingly chaotic; either retreating or plunging. Our view remains that there’s a gigantic market crash in the coming future -- one that has possibly started now.
- Crowds and Party
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Dean argues that class struggle and the party form are not obsolete, and this renewal has caused great enthusiasm in left politics.
- The government just admitted it will use smart home devices for spying
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Many consumers are wholly unaware that the smart devices making their home more custom and responsive are making data that can be hacked or collected.
- Opposing street thuggery in Dublin and incitement to violence
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The peaceful protest against the planned Pegida rally in Dublin on Saturday was a positive demonstration of how citizens should respond when they believe that a political movement is threatening our democracy. The street thuggery that happened beside it does not reflect the aims or methods of the peaceful protesters, and it undermines the campaign against Pegida. Violence, and incitement to violence, cross a dangerous line for human rights and democracy.
- These Quakers Are Asking Tougher Questions Than Many in the Press
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American Presidential candidates these days are accustomed to mainstream reporters quizzing them on process and politics, with a typical media scrum filled with questions about the latest polls, repeated demands for a response to the most recent attack from rival campaigns, and sometimes even vapid inquiries about workout routines or favorite foods. A group of Quakers has been trying to fill the substance vacuum - by training hundreds of activists to stalk the candidates in early primary states and ask them tough questions on issues ranging from immigrant detention to nuclear weapons to the role of money in politics.
- Beating the fascists? The German Communists and political violence 1929-1933
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Eve Rosenhaft examines the involvement of Communist Party militants in political violence against Nazis during the years of Hitler's rise to power in Germany (1929-33). Specifically, she aims to account for their participation in 'street-fighting' or 'gang-fighting' with National Socialist storm-troopers.
- 'Land Grabbing': exposing the impacts of large-scale agriculture on local communities
Film review
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Agriculture is big business and with the EU pumping money at the sector, the corporate profiteers are holding all the aces. The documentary 'Land Grabbing' investigates what happens when well-financed agro-investors take over rural communities' land and water.
- Water War Against the Poor: Flint and the Crimes of Capital
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If ever one wondered about the efficacy of a state government agency imposing officials on local governments, Flint has answered that question forever. In April, 2014, the state-appointed emergency manager, in order to save money, ordered that the city's water source be changed from Lake Huron to the notoriously polluted Flint River.
- Former students allege psychological, physical and sexual abuse at Ont. Christian school
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Alumni of Grenville Christian College in Brockville, Ontario recount disturbing stories, including allegations of physical, sexual and psychological abuse during the 1970s, 80's and 90's.
- Lies about Assange and UN human rights jurists imperil us all
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The defence secretary, 'comedians' on BBC Radio's News Quiz, and the entire media commentariat have ganged up this weekend up to pour mockery and poisonous lies over Julian Assange and the UN's human rights jurists. As they attempt to fight off the UN's 'guilty' verdict against the British state, they are putting dissidents at risk everywhere.
- These Senior Citizens Are Destined to Die in Prison -- For Marijuana
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There are drug war excesses remaining to be rectified. Here are some of the most outrageous.
- Freeing Julian Assange: the Final Chapter
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One of the epic miscarriages of justice of our time is unravelling. The United Nations Working Group on Arbitrary Detention -- the international tribunal that adjudicates and decides whether governments comply with their human rights obligations -- has ruled that Julian Assange has been detained unlawfully by Britain and Sweden.
- Israel Moves to Check Its Artists
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First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
As a writer/photographer and a tax-paying American citizen, a story in the New York Times about Israel's culture wars made me cringe. It seems the powerful, militarist right in Israel -- so committed to expansion and settlements in the West Bank -- is now trying to suppress ideas among the nation's artistic and literary minds.
- The Liberal Hounding of Julian Assange: From Alex Gibney to The Guardian
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
At what point do we cry foul when we witness the abuse of a political dissident, one who dares to take on mighty vested interests? When his own state, the local legal system and the media all turn on him? When he is forced to seek sanctuary in a foreign embassy for many years, surrounded by state security forces threatening to arrest him if he leaves? When the world’s highest arbiter on the matter of his confinement, the United Nations Working Group on Arbitrary Detention, supports his case? When the state, legal authorities and the media ignore the ruling and continue to demand his arrest?
- "Lies, Lies and More Lies" - GMOs, Poisoned Agriculture and Toxic Rants
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
As as been well documented, it is the pro-GMO lobby/industry that distorts and censors science, captures regulatory bodies, attacks scientists whose findings are unpalatable to the industry and bypasses proper scientific and regulatory procedures altogether.
- US Foreign Trade Zones: Connecting Labor Exploitation in a Global Race to the Bottom
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
As the debate over the Trans-Pacific Partnership trade agreement continues, many Americans are unaware that hundreds of foreign trade zones are already entrenched within the US, and most likely in their own part of the country.
- When economists ignore the human factor, we all pay the price
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
The Guardian recently asked nine economists whether we’re heading for another global financial crash and they gave many different answers. Yet still we turn to economists as if they were physicists, armed with scientific predictions about the behaviour of the body economic. We consumers of economics, and economists themselves, need to be more realistic about what economics can do. More modesty on both the supply and the demand side of economics will produce better results.
- At least 2,297 journalists and media staff have been killed since 1990: IFJ report
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
International Federation of Journalists publishes its 25th report on journalists and media staff killed since 1990.
- Free Speech and Double Standards
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
- An Idiot's Guide to Prosecuting Corporate Fraud
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
A new group called Bank Whistleblowers United have just pushed out a comprehensive plan they think would put the executive branch in the United States back in the business of enthusiastically identifying, indicting, and convicting financial fraudsters -- restoring accountability while protecting the public.
- Israeli Military Censor Seeks to Expand Control to 'Prominent' Facebook Users
High-Profile Critic Ordered to Submit All Writing to Censors in Advance
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
The Israeli military censor usually tries to stay out of the headlines. It's not always easy, as several times high-profile Israel-related stories have broken in the US media first, and aren’t "allowed" in Israeli papers for days after.
- Progressive Movement Security and Self-Defense
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
A comprehensive list of security measures organizers should take to protect themselves and their groups from government, corporate and right-wing surveillance and persecution.
- Rebranding The Conquistadors As Social Justice Warriors - The Guardian, Corporate Sponsorship And 'Branded Content'
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Like most newspapers, the Guardian is struggling financially and is desperately worried about a dwindling stream of advertising revenue. The paper's declared intent of becoming 'the world's leading liberal voice', with rapid expansion in the US and Australia, has backfired, leading to the need for significant cuts including likely job losses. As a result, the paper is heading ever deeper into the murky world of 'branded content' to raise much-needed funds from corporate advertisers.
- Report released: China's Great Media Wall: The Fight For Freedom
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) releases its annual China Press Freedom Report, China's Great Media Wall: The Fight For Freedom.
- Involuntary Medication
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
This study examines the possible effects of the TPP on how Canada regulates medicines and how much the country spends paying for them. It finds that the TPP would require Canada to extend patent terms to compensate brand-name pharmaceutical firms for regulatory delays in approving drugs. This policy change alone could add hundres of millions of dollars annually to the price of drugs in Canada. The agreement will restrict future policy options in these areas in ways that benefit brand-name producers over consumers and the broader public interest. The TPP could also have profound effects on the criteria that Canada uses to decide on drug safety and effectiveness, how new drugs are approved (or not) for marketing, post-market surveillance and inspection, the listing of drugs on public formularies, and how individual drugs are priced in the future.
- ISIS Was Born In An American Detention Facility (And It Wasn't Gitmo)
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
The US seems to have a knack for creating, incubating, and training its future enemies. As the late Chalmers Johnson showed in BLOWBACK, this pattern goes back quite far and includes recent struggles with Islamist terrorists. In the 1980s, of course, the US armed and trained the Taliban as well as Osama Bin Laden as part of a proxy war with Russia. Years later, Bin Laden's criminal network, sheltered by the Taliban, attacked the US in Yemen, Kenya, New York, and more. In response to those attacks, the US invaded Afghanistan and Iraq, killing and detaining hundreds of thousands of men. At the time, many people wondered -- none more forcefully than Johnson -- whether the US response to blowback would engender more blowback.
- An Open Letter to Ta-Nehisi Coates and the Liberals Who Love Him
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Ta-Nehisi Coates recently criticized the Bernie Sanders campaign for Sanders’ pessimism regarding black reparations for slavery and Jim Crow segregation. When asked during a campaign event whether he would support reparations, Sanders responded with characteristic bluntness, saying that "its likelihood of getting through Congress is nil," before adding that a push for formal reparations for slavery would be politically divisive.
- Find out how these 800 ducks contribute to wine making
Resource Type: Film/Video
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Find out how these 800 ducks contribute to wine making.
- First Steps of Participatory Research Project: Indigenous Languages and Digital Media
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
The rapid development of digital media, which began during the last decade of the 20th century, has had unanticipated effects at the beginning of the 21st century. Peoples, whose cultures and languages were marginalized and displaced by the Nation-State, have appropriated -- slowly, but surely -- these media to reassert their cultural and linguistic presence in cyberspace.
- The Flint Water Crisis is Not Without Parallel in Michigan History
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
In the days, weeks, and months following a disaster people feel uncertain about real and perceived risks. The parties directly involved a disaster as well as other organizations such as public agencies, governmental bodies, corporations, the media, and environmental groups release a cacophony of information and disputations that the affected population and the general public see as conflicting and confusing. In the process victims and the general public struggle to gain credible sources of information in an attempt to make sense of an event and unpack the truth in order to assign, meaning, blame, and responsibility as well as develop coping strategies and effective remedies. This informational uncertainty can also result in the lack of an effective response between responding governmental agencies on all levels as witnessed in the ongoing crisis in Flint, Michigan.
- Liberals' interim pipeline measures fall short
Band-aid solutions cannot fix deeply flawed pipeline reviews, environmental assessments
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
The Harper government’s 2012 environmental law rollbacks were a blunt-force trauma to the environmental assessment of pipelines. Last week, the new federal Liberal government prescribed band-aids for an ailing patient that needed more.
- MEDIA IN CRISIS - 1: Why feds should step in to help democracy's watchdogs
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
A flourishing, capable news media is the oxygen of democracy. In Canada, our traditional oxygen-providers, the mainstream corporate-owned newspapers, are dying. We need to come up with something better to serve our communities.
- MEDIA IN CRISIS - 2: Citizens, government need to plan now to have quality media in future
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Canada's mainstream media are in a state of incipient meltdown. They no longer deliver the volume or quality of news that Canadians need to be informed about important happenings in their communities, let alone to participate in a healthy democratic process.
- Politics on the Plate: Mob Wives, GMOs and Salt
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
How can we broaden our movement to appeal to and involve the majority of people out there who do not seem to be aware, do not seem to care or are just too apathetic?
- VW, GM and Takata: the Case for Jailing Corporate Executives
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Making the case that executives at VW, Takata and General Motors should be jailed for corporate crime. The crimes committed by the corporations they head are extremely serious, and have caused and will cause hundreds of deaths. Why are the perpetrators allowed to get off simply by writing a cheque to cover the fine, instead of going to jail the way other criminals do?
- Bernie and His Critics
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Bernie Sanders has provided an opening that we can't squander.
- Demonstration model for the 'democratic deficit'
National decisions made by Brussels technocrats
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Exposing the technocrat-led bureaucracy within the EU and its impact on national decisions by member states.
- Disunified Front
The chaotic, underfunded battle against the Islamic State
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Journalist Charles Glass and photographer Don McCullin toured the Kurdish and Arab Shiite front lines that facing Islamic State Territory. In interviews with embattled leadership against ISIS, they discover an underfunded resistence, shortage of weapons and ultimately America's refusal to coordinate which has prolonged the fighting.
- Is Law Enforcement "Going Dark" Because of Encryption? Hardly, Says New Report
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Unbreakable encryption -- which prevents easy, conventional surveillance of digital communications-- isn’t a big problem for law enforcement, says a report published by Harvard's Berkman Center for Internet and Society. The report, titled "Don’t Panic," finds that we are probably not "headed to a future in which our ability to effectively surveil criminals and bad actors is impossible" because of companies that offer end-to-end encryption, such as Apple.
- I've changed my mind on the gay cake row. Here's why
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Like most gay and equality campaigners, I initially condemned the Christian-run Ashers Bakery in Belfast over its refusal to produce a cake with a pro-gay marriage slogan for a gay customer, Gareth Lee. I supported his legal claim against Ashers and the subsequent verdict – the bakery was found guilty of discrimination last year. Now, two days before the case goes to appeal, I have changed my mind. Much as I wish to defend the gay community, I also want to defend freedom of conscience, expression and religion.
- Left of Bernie
You say you want a revolution
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
A commentary on the state of the far Left in America, and a look back at the formation of the anti-capitalist Revolutionary Communist Party (RCP) by Bob Avakian in the late 20th century.
- Marx's Ecological Notebooks
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
This article investigate Marx's natural-scientific notebooks, especially those of 1868, which will be published for the first time in volume four, section eighteen of the new Marx-Engels-Gesamtausgabe(MEGA). As Burkett and Foster rightly emphasize, Marx's notebooks allow us to see clearly his interests and preoccupations before and after the publication of the first volume of Capital in 1867, and the directions he might have taken through his intensive research into disciplines such as biology, chemistry, geology, and mineralogy, much of which he was not able fully to integrate into Capital.
- Pandora's box: how GM mosquitos could have caused Brazil's microcephaly disaster
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
In Brazil's microcephaly epidemic, one vital question remains unanswered: how did the Zika virus suddenly learn how to disrupt the development of human embryos? The answer may lie in a sequence of 'jumping DNA' used to engineer the virus's mosquito vector - and released into the wild four years ago in the precise area of Brazil where the microcephaly crisis is most acute.
- The Trouble with Iowa
Corn, corruption, and the presidential caucuses
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
While a state of only three million Iowa plays an outsized role in American politics, speaking to such central issues as healthcare and obesity, poverty and income inequality, waste and pollution, and the entrenchment of corporate oligarchy.
- We Don't Have Rights, But We Are Alive
A gay soldier in Assad's army
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Considered more of a safe haven for homosexuals than other places in the Middle East, the author speaks with a military member in Syria about being a gay man in Assad's army as well as the future of his country.
- The year it all went down the tubes for the TTC
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Flack analyzes the provincial budget cuts imposed by the Mike Harris Conservatives and the resulting lack of funding that led to the Toronto Transit Commission having to increasingly rely on revenue from ridership to fund transit, leading to a decrease in customer satisfaction, a lack of opportunity for expansion, and general decline.
- The "Bernie Bros" Narrative: a Cheap Campaign Tactic Masquerading as Journalism and Social Activism
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
The concoction of the "Bernie Bro" narrative by pro-Clinton journalists has been a potent political tactic -- and a journalistic disgrace. It's intended to imply two equally false claims: (1) a refusal to march enthusiastically behind the Wall Street-enriched, multiple-war-advocating, despot-embracing Hillary Clinton is explainable not by ideology or political conviction, but largely if not exclusively by sexism: demonstrated by the fact that men, not women, support Sanders (his supporters are "bros"); and (2) Sanders supporters are uniquely abusive and misogynistic in their online behavior. Needless to say, a crucial tactical prong of this innuendo is that any attempt to refute it is itself proof of insensitivity to sexism if not sexism itself (as the accusatory reactions to this article will instantly illustrate).
- Koch Brothers View Universities As Propaganda Machines
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
New Yorker reporter Jane Mayer’s new book, "Dark Money," includes details that bolster concerns publicized by UnKoch My Campus, and students and professors across the USA who have blown the whistle on Charles Koch’s co-optation of higher education programs. Universities are the spine of Charles Koch's lobbying model, which after four decades of finance has grown into an integrated network of professors, public relations agents, lobbyists, pundits, and politicians. Koch foundations started investing in campuses at an exponential pace, starting with just seven campuses in 2005.
- Line 9 pipeline needs review
Re: Pipelines face new environmental rules
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Line 9 is a disaster waiting to happen and the climate crisis disaster is already unfolding. Indeed no tar sands pipeline can pass a serious climate test if Canada is to keep its commitment to a limited warming to 1.5 degrees C.
- UK Tax Dodgers PLC - Google outrage is the tip of an iceberg
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Why are we so surprised at the Google tax heist? It's not because there's anything new about it. It's because our own political class have long had their noses in the trough, and the tax-dodging billionaires that own our mainstream media are anxious to hide the swindle that's keeping them rich, and us poor.
- The West Is Reduced To Looting Itself
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Third World countries were and are looted by being enticed into development plans for electrification or some such purpose. The gullible and trusting governments are told that they can make their countries rich by taking out foreign loans to implement a Western-presented development plan, with the result being sufficient tax revenues from economic development to service the foreign loan.
- Behind Israel's campaign to vilify peace groups
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Far-right activists spying on Israeli human rights community received hidden funds from Netanyahu government.
- CIA planned rendition operation to kidnap Edward Snowden
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First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
The US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) prepared to kidnap Edward Snowden, the whistleblower who exposed illegal and unconstitutional mass spying by the National Security Agency (NSA), documents obtained by the Danish media outlet Denfri show.
- Digital Labour and Imperialism
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First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
A century has now passed since Lenin's Imperialism, the Highest Stage of Capitalism (1916) and Bukharin's Imperialism and World Economy (1915), as well as Rosa Luxemburg's 1913 Accumulation of Capital. All spoke of imperialism as a force and tool of capitalism. It was a time of world war, monopolies, antitrust laws, strikes for pay raises, Ford's development of the assembly line, the October Revolution, the Mexican Revolution, the failed German revolution, and much more. It was a time that saw the spread and deepening of global challenges to capitalism.
- Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - January 30, 2016
Conflict of interest
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
This issue of Other Voices shines a light on the murky world of conflict of interest, the hidden reality that often underlies appearances of neutrality, objectivity, and due process. Conflicts of interest are inherent in capitalism, a system founded on the premise that the state and society should be subordinated to economic self-interest and the accumulation of private wealth. Scientists who are supposed to be studying the effects of GMOs are funded by agribusiness corporations. Doctors who receive money from pharmaceutical companies write articles promoting the drugs produced by those companies. Decisions about pipelines are made by regulators who have spent years working in the oil industry, and who will be heading back to jobs in the industry after their stint 'regulating' it. Politicians receive campaign funds from corporate lobbyists.
- Our attitude towards Rojava must be critical solidarity
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Many articles from different people about Rojava have expressed different views. The vast majority of them have covered the positive and bright sides of this experiment. I too have written many articles, in both Kurdish and English. In addition, I have given many interviews to Kurdish and non-Kurdish media. I have attended and addressed several meetings, both in the UK and abroad. I travelled once to Rojava and twice to Bakur (the Kurdistan part of Turkey).
- Racialism, art and the Academy Awards controversy
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Should artwork be categorized and presumably appreciated according to whether it represents a male or female, black or white perspective? Many critics, influenced by the prevailing ideology, set up this basic standard: women gain more from art produced by women, Jews from work created by Jews, African-Americans from "African-American art," etc. In ideological terms, these critics, in their obsession with race, are spouting a conception of society and art identified historically with the extreme right.
- 7 Places to Find Porn You Actually Like
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
It's not hard to find porn online, but it is hard to find good porn online. The mainstream industry tends to produce a lot of wham-and-bam content, and while that might sell, there are a whole lot of people who don't find it all that appealing. Fortunately, the Internet is a huge space, and tucked away in its unseen corners is a lot of sexy stuff. Here are 7 places to look for porn that's a little more interesting.
- Moving Target
Resource Type: Film/Video
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Ruby rides in the backseat of an armoured car while a bodyguard rides shotgun. As a human rights advocate working in Colombia, she speaks out onbehalf of victims of the long-running conflict between government paramilitaries and FARC guerrillas, and dedicates her life to justice despite having to live in fear.
- Rosa Lives
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
The revolutionary thought of Rosa Luxemburg continues to inform and inspire anticapitalist movements today.
- "Black Americans for a Better Future" Super PAC 100% Funded by Rich White Guys
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
New FEC filings show that all of the $417,250 in monetary donations to a Super PAC called "Black Americans for a Better Future" comes from conservative white businessmen-- including $400,000, or 96 percent of the total, from white billionaire hedge fund manager Robert Mercer.
- A Food Renaissance
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Colin Tudge reports on The College of Real Farming and Food Culture; a project designed to tackle the current issues in global food production. The current system is not fit for purpose but through a holistic approach and an overhaul of current mainstream agriculture, achieving a balance between feeding the world and conserving the environment is within grasp.
- The Great Inequality
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
A growing inequality in income and wealth marks modern capitalism, and it negatively affects nearly every aspect of our lives, especially those of the working class. Michael Yates explains what inequality is, why it matters, how it affects us, what its underlying causes are, and what we might do about it. This book was written to encourage informed radical action by working people, the unemployed, and the poor, uniquely blending the author’s own experiences with his ability to make complex issues comprehensible to a mass audience.
- Outrage as plant bosses acquitted over fatal toxic spill in Hungary
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Prosecutors had demanded prison terms for those on trial after alumina works disaster killed 10 and wrecked villages.
- The Seeds of Spin: Decoding Pro-GMO Lies and Falsehoods
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
If you are in some way critical of genetically modified food and agriculture or have some concerns that remain unaddressed, here is a brief interpretive (satirical) guide for navigating the seedy world of pro-GMO spin.
- Conversations about Resistance
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
At first, the scene appears tense. Twenty-one Israeli soldiers in full combat gear are arrayed in a neat line across the main road of the small village of Al Ma’sara, just south of Bethlehem in the West Bank. Several of the soldiers wear partial balaclavas which obscure their features, leaving their faces visible only from the eyes up. They stand expectantly, some with their hands resting casually on the butts of their rifles.
- Don't build Jew-only towns on the rubble of Bedouin villages
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Israel's government is now free to expel 1,200 of its Bedouin citizens from their 'unrecognised' villages in the Negev desert, following a Supreme Court decision not to hear their appeal. Now only one thing can save the Bedouin, their communities and their way of life: an international outcry.
- Ethiopian Protesters Endure Brutality and Censorship Amid Land Struggle
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Students in Ethiopia's largest administrative region, Oromia, have been braving state-sponsored violence and censorship since November 2015 to protest a government development plan.
- Five Revealing Facts About Homeless Youth
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
The federal government has set a goal of ending youth homelessness by 2020 with Opening Doors, a strategic plan released in 2010. But as the plan acknowledges, figuring out how many youth are homeless is no easy task.
- Israel continues to sow the seeds of discontent
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Israel, it seems, has found a new weapon against Palestinian attacks -- the humble cucumber seed. Soldiers have been handing out seeds at checkpoints with advice to Palestinians -- a nation of farmers until their lands were swallowed up by Jewish settlements -- to stop their recent knife attacks on Israelis and invest in a peaceful future.
- Making the Promises Real: Labor and the Paris Climate Agreement
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
As nearly 200 nations gathered in Paris approved the UN Climate Change Agreement, the AFL-CIO issued a statement that broke new ground on climate. While the AFL-CIO opposed the Kyoto climate agreement and never supported the failed Copenhagen agreement, it applauded the Paris climate change agreement as "a landmark achievement in international cooperation" and called on America "to make the promises real."
- Media More Outraged by Possible Murder by Putin Than Definite Murder by Obama
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
The British government, whose foreign policy is overtly hostile to their Russian counterpart, declared last week that their investigation into the killing of a former Russian intelligence agent in London nearly a decade ago concluded there is a "strong probability" the Russian FSB security agency was responsible for poisoning Alexander Litivenko with plutonium. They further declared that Russian President Vladimir Putin "probably approved" of the act.
- The specter of geoengineering haunts the Paris climate agreement
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
in a capitalist framework negative emissions technologies appear to offer the only possible way out. Geoengineering is the specter that haunts the text adopted in Paris and gives it meaning. The fact that the Agreement does not mention "energy transition" is not a regrettable lapse in generally good text, but proof by omission that the negotiators have chosen to bet on geoengineering instead of confronting fossil capital.
- Flint's poisoned water and capital's second contradiction
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
The politicians who poisoned the water supply in Flint are as bad as they come, but it's the system they serve that makes such disasters inevitable.
- The JFRP: For a New Communist Party
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Real change, the kind of change that Occupy Wall Street had hoped to start, can be achieved through -- I know you’re going to find this hard to believe -- a political party. I found it hard to believe, until I read Jodi Dean's book Crowds and Party. Jodi is here to explain to us how a political party can bring about real change.
- Why Do We Expose Ourselves?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Among critics of technological surveillance, there are two allusions so commonplace they have crossed into the realm of cliché. One, as you have probably already guessed, is George Orwell's Big Brother, from 1984. The other is Michel Foucault’s panopticon -- a vision, adapted from Jeremy Bentham, of a prison in which captives cannot tell if or when they are being watched. Today, both of these touchstones are considered chillingly prophetic. But in Exposed: Desire and Disobedience in the Digital Age, Bernard Harcourt has another suggestion: Both of them are insufficient.
- Australia's Day for Secrets, Flags and Cowards
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
In my lifetime, non-indigenous Australia has changed from an Anglo-Irish society to one of the most ethnically diverse on earth. Those we used to call "New Australians" often choose 26 January, "Australia Day", to be sworn in as citizens. The ceremonies can be touching. Watch the faces from the Middle East and understand why they clench their new flag.
- The Cowliphate and Poisoned Kids: Twin Assaults on The Commons
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
When I opened up my Facebook feed today, 90 percent on the items on my feed were equally divided between the Bundy Cowliphate here in Oregon and the poisoning of the water supply in Flint, my hometown. Given my decades of Public Lands’ Conservation activism, both topics are dear to me.
- Deadly week for media in Pakistan - two journalists killed in KP province
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) and its affiliate the Pakistan Federal Union of Journalists (PFUJ) condemn the killing of two journalists in the past week in the troubled Khyber-Pakhtunhkhwa province in Pakistan's north-west.
- Flint drinks lead-laden water; Republicans attack Clean Water Act
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
To save a small amount of money residents of Flint, Michigan, have been forced to consume hazardous levels of lead in their drinking water. Just the moment for the Republican House Speaker to attack the Clean Water Act.
- The Genius of Huey P. Newton
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
To those of us who were alive -- and sentient, the name Huey P. Newton evokes an era of mass resistance, of Black popular protest and of the rise of revolutionary organizations across the land. To those of subsequent eras, youth in their 20s, the name is largely unknown, as is the name of its greatest creation: The Black Panther Party.
- How the West Creates Terrorism
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Terrorism has many forms and many faces, but the most terrible of them is cold cruelty.
And so the West linked terrorism with Islam, which is one of the greatest cultures on earth, with 1.6 billion followers. In order to make Islam a worthy enemy, the Empire had to first radicalize and pervert countless Muslim movements and organizations, then create the new ones, consequently training, arming and financing them, so they could really look frightening enough.
- Hunger strike threatens health of Palestinian journalist in Israeli jail
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) and its affiliate the Palestinian Journalists' syndicate (PJS) are deeply concerned over the health of a Palestinian journalist who has been on hunger strike for almost 50 days.
- Iran must stop denying medical care to imprisoned journalists
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Reporters Without Borders (RSF) condemns the appalling conditions in which journalists are detained in Iran and calls on the authorities to stop denying them medical attention.
- Kuwait: New Cyber Crimes Law restricts free expression and targets online activists
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Kuwait: New Cyber Crimes Law restricts free expression and targets online activists
- Migrant farmworkers ask Trudeau for Permanent Residency in Canada as they announce caravan to Ottawa
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Migrant farmworker group Justice for Migrant Workers is launching Harvesting Freedom, a year-long campaign for immigration status upon arrival for migrant farmworkers to mark the 50th anniversary of the Seasonal Agricultural Workers Program (SAWP).
- Outrage Against Big Pharma! Activists Protest "Obscene" Conference
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
It was in their fancy tailored suits and with suspicious eyes that Big Pharma CEO's and investors got interrupted by protestors as they came and went from the (too-big-to-fail) JP Morgan-sponsored conference on "health care" (read: profit care) at the elite Westin St. Francis hotel on Union Square in San Francisco on Monday, the 11th of January 2016.
- Protecting the Choice to Speak Anonymously Is Key to Fighting Online Harassment
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
EFF Urges Department of Education to Uphold First Amendment Rights in University Anti-Harassment Policies
- Rabbis deny 1 in 10 Jews the right to marry in Israel
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Supreme religious body faces growing backlash as critics compare Israel's religious freedoms to Saudi Arabia and Afghanistan.
- Rabbis deny 1 in 10 Jews the right to marry in Israel
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Supreme religious body faces growing backlash as critics compare Israel's religious freedoms to Saudi Arabia and Afghanistan.
- RSF reiterates call for EU sanctions against CCTV and Xinhua
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Reporters Without Borders (RSF) calls for European Union sanctions against state-owned China Central Television (CCTV) and the official news agency Xinhua for broadcasting and publishing what are presumably forced "confessions."
- Spearheading the Neo-liberal Plunder of African Agriculture
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation (BMGF) is dangerously and unaccountably distorting the direction of international development, according to a new report by the campaign group Global Justice Now. With assets of $43.5 billion, the BMGF is the largest charitable foundation in the world. It actually distributes more aid for global health than any government. As a result, it has a major influence on issues of global health and agriculture.
- TV office attacked in Islamabad
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) condemns the attack on the Islamabad office of the Pakistani television channel ARY News on Wednesday, January 13, 2016. The IFJ demands an immediate investigation into the attack by authorities.
- Yemen: journalist killed in an air raid by the Saudi-led coalition
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Yemeni journalist Almigdad Mojalli was killed on 17 January in an air raid by the Saudi-led coalition in the capital, Sana'a, according to news reports.
- Noam Chomsky tells Al Jazeera "I'm not an absolute pacifist"
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
In an interview with Al Jazeera English’s flagship current affairs show, 'UpFront', MIT professor emeritus Noam Chomsky, a long-standing critic of US foreign policy and overseas interventions, said he supported U.S. air strikes against ISIL.
- A Revolutionary Speech: Patrice Lumumba and the Birth of the Republic of Congo
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Patrice Lumumba, the Congolese independence leader and first democratically elected Prime Minister, was executed on 17th January, 1961. He had been beated and tortured in a culmination of two assassination plots by the Belgian government and the CIA, ordered directly by President Dwight Eisenhower to 'eliminate' the charismatic leader, with the cooperation of British intelligence and Katangan authorities.
- Women on the frontlines of Kurdish struggles: An interview with JI.NHA women's news agency
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
In 2015, Corporate Watch visited Bakur (meaning 'North' in Kurmanji), the Kurdish region within Turkey's borders. We interviewed two journalists from JI.NHA, an all-women news agency made up of mostly Kurdish women, based in Amed. Our meeting with JI.NHA took place just after the Turkish election in June 2015. Since our interviews, the Turkish state has begun a new war on its Kurdish population. Cities have been attacked by the police and military with mortars, tanks and helicopters and every day Kurdish citizens are being murdered. People in cities across Bakur have erected barricades in their neighbourhoods to defend themselves against the violence and are trying to organise autonomously from the state.
- The Battle to Unionize Starbucks in Chile: an Interview with Andrés Giordano Salazar
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
After six years of intense battles, two strikes, a hunger strike, and four legal sentences for anti-union activities, Starbucks reluctantly agreed to sign a collective agreement with unionized workers in Chile in May 2015. This was a huge concession for the world’s largest coffee shop chain that has long aggressively fought off unionization efforts among its 150,000 workers in 64 countries.
- Conflict of Interest and the Israel Lobby: a Junket for State Senators
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Last December, the Jewish Community Relations Council of Greater Boston (JCRC), a pro-Israel lobbying organization, provided an expense-paid, ten-day trip to Israel for ten Massachusetts senators (including Senate President, Stanley Rosenberg).
- Don't weep for censoring, right-wing Postmedia newspapers
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Another 90 dedicated journalists in Vancouver, Calgary, Edmonton and Ottawa lost their jobs Tuesday as cutthroat Publisher Paul Godfrey slashed away again in an effort to turn Postmedia into a profit-making business. In a bizarre move, two competing papers will continue to be separate entities, but there will be one set of editors and most journalists will be shared.
- A Drone Protestor Heads to Jail
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First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Fifty-nine-year-old Mary Anne Grady Flores will serve six months for photographing a protest of an airfield in upstate New York where drone pilots are trained and from where missions are carried out.
- Media Release - IFIC Releases Monthly Statistics for December 2015
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Toronto, ON - January 20, 2016 - The Investment Funds Institute of Canada (IFIC) announces that for the month ending December 31, 2015, the assets under management (AUM) for the mutual funds industry totalled $1.23 trillion. Year-to-date, industr
- The Mine Wars: West Virginia's Coal Miners March on Public Television
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First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
This riveting history of southern West Virginia's coal industry eventually caught the eye of a national television network.PBS is premiering a two-hour documentary called The Mine Wars as part of American Experience, the network's flagship history series.
- Race Without Class: the "Bougie" Sensibility of Ta-Nehisi Coates
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
- Connecting with nature through wildlife, place and memory
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Some of us are fortunate enough to have close relationships with the nature around us. But what about everyone else? We must find ways to make people feel like old friends with wildife near and far, and feel that their wild homes and habitats are extensions of our own. And hence, that they are as deserving of our care as human neighbours - if not more so.
- Feral 'Roundup Ready' GM alfalfa goes wild in US West
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
A USDA study shows that a GM alfalfa has gone wild in alfalfa-growing parts of the West. This may explain GMO contamination incidents that have cost US growers and exporters millions of dollars - and it exposes the failure of USDA's 'coexistence' policy for GMOs and traditional crops.
- Global unemployment projected to rise in both 2016 and 2017
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First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Recent analyses coming from the ILO suggests that the global unemployment crisis is not likely to end, especially in emerging, and developing countries.
- Israel spraying toxins over Palestinian crops in Gaza
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Khan Younis, Gaza Strip - On January 7, 2016, a low-flying agricultural aircraft sprayed herbicides on to Palestinian farmlands along the eastern border, eradicating or damaging up to 162 hectares of crops and farmland along the Israeli border fence. The sprayed areas belong to Israel's unilaterally imposed and poorly delineated "buffer" or "no-go zone".
- Israel's Occupation Continues Because Economic and Political Elites Around the World Benefit From It
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
American-Israeli scholar and activist Jeff Halper, co-founder of The Israeli Committee Against House Demolitions, sought to discover the source of Israel's seeming immunity. He focused on Israel's arms trade, and argues that it was "parlaying its military prowess into political clout," as he writes in a book entitled War Against The People: Israel, the Palestinians and Global Pacification. Halper spoke with In These Times about the book.
- Kids pay the price of transgender politics
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First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Dr. Zucker was the latest victim of the raging battles in gender-identity politics. Critics say CAMH’s decision has sacrificed science to ideology, and put children on the front line. They think it’s a disaster for science, and for kids.
- The Retreat of the Intellectuals
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Ellen Meiksins Wood saw a great danger in the reluctance of today's intellectuals to criticize capitalism.
- Marx and the Earth
An Anti-Critique
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2016
Published: 2017
John Bellamy Foster and Paul Burkett respond to recent ecosocialist criticisms of Marx, offering a full-fledged anti-critique. They thus extend their earlier pioneering work on Marx’s ecology, providing the basis for a new red-green synthesis.
- Fury at Israeli plan to build town on historic Muslim village
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First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Netanyahu government agrees to first new Palestinian community in 68 years -- exclusively for the Druze -- on refugees' land
- Fury at Israeli plan to build town on historic Muslim village
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Netanyahu government agrees to first new Palestinian community in 68 years -- exclusively for the Druze -- on refugees' land.
- Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - January 16, 2016
Working class organizing
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Working to change things for the better, fighting to prevent things from getting worse, remembering the past to illuminate possibilities for the future: as always, that is the focus of Other Voices. In this issue, we pay special attention to working class organizing. There can be no meaningful change without the active participation of the majority of the population: working people. Yet much activism ignores this obvious reality, while the organized labour union movement has put much of its reliance on 'professionals' who see organizing as a top-down technique rather than a grassroots movement. Several articles in this issue look at aspects of these issues. We also delve into the relationship between feminism and socialism, and look at the so-called 'sharing economy,' which produces increasingly exploited and precarious work, and immense profits for super-rich corporate owners.
- Why Occupy Wall Street Must Include Deamdn for Honest, Observably Counted, Unrigged Elections
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Too many critical parts of our electoral process are controlled by private partisan corporations. The counting of our votes is now controlled by these corporations' software inside computerized "black boxes" – entirely in secret.
- Big Crony CEO Pay Grab: Effects Beyond Greed!
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Over the past fifty years, the pay gap between many highly-paid CEOs and their employees has increased dramatically. In 1965, when they also liked to be rich, CEOs made approximately twenty times as much as their average employee, meaning they would earn their workers' average pay by the third week of January, and since the 1980s, the average difference and greed have increased. Highly-paid CEOs now make 303 times as much as their employees in a year, according to a study by the Economic Policy Institute.
- Chávismo and Its Discontents
International Left Intellectuals Respond to Venezuelan Government's Legislative Election Setback
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First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Five hours after the polls had closed, the National Electoral Council (CNE) announced a landslide victory for the opposition in Venezuela's the National Assembly elections. The response of international left intellectuals has ranged from critical support to outright rejection of the socialist project in Venezuela. We argue for the importance of recognizing the overarching influence of US imperialism and for the acceptance of using the state as an instrument of popular power by the international solidarity movement.
- Class War in the British Labour Party
Tories, Blairites Turn the Screws on Jeremy Corbyn
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First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Ever since Jeremy Corbyn was elected leader of the British Labour Party last September, the party has been in a state of internal class warfare. Corbyn is a decades-long member of old Labour’s left wing and is hugely popular among working people. Pitted against Corbyn and his followers are the vast majority of Labour Members of Parliament (MPs) who uphold the legacy of Tony Blair and are unashamedly committed to "free-market" capitalist exploitation and imperialist military slaughter in Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria and elsewhere.
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James Bronterre O’Brien, an Irish-born leader of the Chartists, gave voice to the need for the working class to fight in its own interests instead of begging its oppressors:
"My motto is... 'What you take you may have.' I will not attempt to deal with the abstract question of right, but will proceed to show that it is POWER, solid, substantial POWER, that the millions must obtain and retain, if they would enjoy the produce of their own labour and the privileges of freemen."
- Full Democratic Rights for Transgender People!
"Bathroom Bill" Bigotry
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First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Transgender and gender non-conforming people -- that is, anyone whose appearance, behavior or dress falls outside of bourgeois gender norms -- face an exceptionally high degree of harassment. Around 75 percent of transgender students report being verbally harassed at school and more than 30 percent physically assaulted. Transgender individuals are vulnerable in public spaces, especially if the difference between their preferred gender identity and their biological sex is apparent. Barring them from bathrooms would turn them into criminals while inviting further harassment and physical violence. Everyone -- regardless whether they match the skirt-clad or pants-clad signage on the door -- should be able to go about their business in peace.
- Rosa Luxemburg and the Growth of the Labor Movement
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First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Today is the 97th anniversary of the assassination of Rosa Luxemburg and Karl Liebknecht, two of the leading exponents of revolutionary socialism in Germany in the early 20th century. Both were prominent figures in the German Social Democratic Party (SPD) up to the First World War and, alienated by the reformist and pro-war politics of the SPD, founders of the Spartacus League in 1916. Both were killed by right-wing Freikorps death squads -- which had support from the Social Democratic government -- on January 15, 1919. The following is an excerpt from Gerald Friedman's Reigniting the Labor Movement (Routledge, 2007). Friedman describes Rosa Luxemburg's revolutionary politics and her understanding of the role of the mass strike -- not as the means for a decisive “one hit” victory for the working class, but as part of what Friedman terms a "long-term process of consciousness-building through participation in class struggle."
- Pakistan's Gramsci: Remembering Sibte Hasan (1916-1986)
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First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
2016 marks the birth centenary of Pakistan's own Gramsci, the pioneer of the Progressive Writers' Association (PWA) in undivided India and of the Communist Party in Pakistan, Sibte Hasan. Like the famed Italian thinker and activist, Hasan endured repeated jail terms, first during his sojourn in the United States, and then in Pakistan in 1951-55, and again during the Ayub dictatorship. It's surprising that despite Hasan’s iconic stature in the Indian subcontinent, very little is known about his biographical details.
- The Compelling Memoirs of Ali Abumghasib
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Ali Abumghasib knows little about the current intrigues of the Fatah Movement, or, perhaps, he is just not interested. Now living in an old, rusty and tiny caravan somewhere in Gaza, Ali has no money, no family, but also no regrets. We spoke at length about his life. He wanted to share his story, and I wanted to understand what went wrong in what was once Palestine's leading movement.
- David Bowie, rock star groupies and the sexually adventurous '70s: "Labeling us as victims in retrospect is not a very conscious thing to do"
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First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Salon speaks to sexologist Carol Queen about the shifts in morality around an era of sex, drugs & rock 'n' roll.
- EFF To Court: Cisco Must Be Held Accountable For Aiding China's Human Rights Abuses
Sources News Release
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First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Company Built Customized Golden Shield System to Identify Falun Gong Members Who Were Later Tortured.
- European Commission launches action against Poland following EU-wide protest
Sources News Release
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First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
The International and European Federation of Journalists have welcomed the action against Poland's restrictive media law.
- 'Our Only Fear Was That He Might Pull His Punches' - BBC Caught Manipulating The News
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
The position of BBC political editor plays an important role in this propaganda system. His or her function is essentially to tell the public what leading politicians say or even 'think'. It is certainly not to question power or challenge government authority in any meaningful way.
- Police Intimidation: From Dalton Trumbo to Deep Green Resistance
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First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Federal Bureau of Investigation and Department of Homeland Security agents have contacted more than a dozen members of Deep Green Resistance (DGR), a radical environmental group, including one of its leaders, Lierre Keith, who said she has been the subject of two visits from the FBI at her home.
- Recolonized by the Past
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First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
It began as a campaign at the University of Cape Town to remove the statue of Cecil Rhodes that stood on the campus. For the protestors, the statue represented everything that Rhodes himself stood for: racism, colonialism, plunder, white supremacy, and the oppression of black people.
- SOS Media Burundi's dangerous reporting mission
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Almost the only relief for those in search of news in Burundi is to be found at SOS Media Burundi, a collective of journalists that emerged spontaneously within 48 hours of the destruction of the radio stations during the May 2014 coup attempt
- What the Catastrophic Aliso Canyon Methane Leak Teaches Us About Our Addiction to Fossil Fuels
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First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
It’s early December, and I'm sitting in a mega-church packed with more than 500 people. They're here to listen to an update on the efforts to contain an enormous natural gas blowout that occurred more than a month before. Gas from the leak is being blown by prevailing winds right into their community of Porter Ranch, in Los Angeles County, CA.
People are mad.
- The 800k Protest
How UW student Rachel Thevenard ran the Enbridge Line 9 in protest of its violation of the Canadian Constitution
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First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
While some may have spent their holidays bundled up inside, Rachel Thevenard, a second-year knowledge integration student at UW, was out running the length of Enbridge’s Line 9 pipeline. The pipeline runs roughly 800 kilometres from Sarnia to Montreal, and transports 300,000 barrels per day (bpd) of bitumen and crude oil.
- Fire and Blood
The European Civil War, 1914-1945
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Europe's second Thirty Years' War -- an epoch of blood and ashes.
- Fossil Capital
The Rise of Steam Power and the Roots of Global Warming
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
The more we know about the catastrophic implications of climate change, the more fossil fuels we burn. How did we end up in this mess? In this masterful new history, Andreas Malm claims it all began in Britain with the rise of steam power.
- In Patent Litigation, Justice Delayed Ensures the Entire Public Can Be Denied
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First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
When courts fail to quickly address serious defects in a patent litigation complaint, it can harm not only the parties to the case, but also the public at large. EFF and Public Knowledge have filed a friend-of-the-court brief with the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit in a case where the Eastern District of Texas is allowing expensive litigation to drag on even though the defendant has already fully briefed validity issues that almost surely will dispose of the case, and stop the patent owner from suing on them in the future.
- Total terrorism solution
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First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Hoax highlights failures of military, security approaches to terrorism.
- Welcome to Israel's version of apartheid
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First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
A small scene from the Israeli-Palestinian conflict unfolded last week on a Greek airport runway. Moments before an Aegean Airlines flight was due to take off, three Israeli passengers took security into their own hands and demanded that two fellow passengers, from Israel’s Palestinian minority, be removed from the plane. By the end of a 90-minute stand-off, dozens more Israeli Jews had joined the protest, refusing to take their seats.
Like a parable illustrating Europe's bottomless indulgence of Israel, Aegean staff caved in to the pressure and persuaded the two Palestinian men to disembark.
- Welcome to Israel's version of apartheid
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Moments before an Aegean Airlines flight was due to take off, three Israeli passengers took security into their own hands and demanded that two fellow passengers, from Israel's Palestinian minority, be removed from the plane. By the end of a 90-minute stand-off, dozens more Israeli Jews had joined the protest, refusing to take their seats.
- Why I had to face down the bullies trying to silence my supposedly 'offensive' stance on Islam
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
This week marked the first anniversary of the Charlie Hebdo massacre in Paris. The atrocity was a brutal attack not just on human life but also on the principle of free speech, one of the pillars of human civilisation. In the aftermath of the killings, people across the world united to express their support for that essential liberty.
- Why Israel has silenced the 1948 story of Nazareth's survival
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
A rarely told story of the 1948 war that founded Israel concerns Nazareth's survival. It is the only Palestinian city in what is today Israel that was not ethnically cleansed during the year-long fighting. Other cities, such as Jaffa, Lydd, Ramleh, Haifa and Acre, now have small Palestinian populations that mostly live in ghetto-like conditions in what have become Jewish cities. Still others, like Tiberias and Safad, have no Palestinians left in them at all.
Nazareth was not only an anomaly; it was a mistake.
- Why Israel has silenced the 1948 story of Nazareth’s survival
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
A rarely told story of the 1948 war that founded Israel concerns Nazareth's survival. It is the only Palestinian city in what is today Israel that was not ethnically cleansed during the year-long fighting. Other cities, such as Jaffa, Lydd, Ramleh, Haifa and Acre, now have small Palestinian populations that mostly live in ghetto-like conditions in what have become Jewish cities. Still others, like Tiberias and Safad, have no Palestinians left in them at all.
- The Boy Who Could Change the World
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Remembering the brief life of Aaron Swartz: programmer, activist, entrepreneur, community builder.
- Leading news website blocked in 3 Arab countries
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) has expressed its deep concerns today following the blocking of news web site al-Araby al-Jadeed and its English counterpart The New Arab, in Saudi Arabia, UAE, and Egypt.
- RSF alarmed by journalist's arrest on terrorism charges in Bahrain
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Reporters Without Borders (RSF) is worried by the terrorism charges brought against Mahmood Al Jazeeri, a journalist with the independent daily newspaper Al Wasat, who has been held for the past 11 days.
- RSF calls for firm EU stance if Poland does not abandon new media law
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Reporters Without Borders (RSF) calls on the European Commission to be firm with Poland if the two-month-old national-conservative 'Law and Justice' (PiS) government fails to abandon the media law that was adopted last week.
- Trump: the Ultimate Blowback for American Foreign Policy?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
When the late Chalmers Johnson introduced the word "blowback" to describe the adverse consequences of Washington’s actions in the world, he wasn't referring simply to the victims of U.S. imperial interventions striking back on American soil. More importantly, he saw the resulting destabilization of the American democratic process as the most dangerous blowback of all.
- A year after Charlie, RSF warns against "religious correctness"
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
On the eve of the first anniversary of the Charlie Hebdo tragedy in Paris and amid controversy about the satirical weekly's latest cover, Reporters Without Borders (RSF) cautions against the insidious imposition of a "religious correctness"
- Essential reading on the Paris climate agreement
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First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
An annotated guide to thirty-four of the best articles on the COP21 Paris Agreement on climate change published in the immediate aftermath of the agreement.
- BDS in the Crosshairs
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First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
That project in dispute is BDS, the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement, promoted by civil society throughout the Western world. BDS is directed at Israel due to its illegal colonization of the Occupied Territories and its general apartheid-style discrimination against non-Jews in general and Palestinians in particular.
- How a Nearly Successful Slave Revolt Was Intentionally Lost to History
More than 500 slaves fought for their freedom in this oft-overlooked rebellion
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First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
on the night of January 8, 1811, more than 500 enslaved people took up arms in one of the largest slave rebellions in U.S. history. They carried cane knives (used to harvest sugar cane), hoes, clubs and some guns as they marched toward New Orleans chanting "Freedom or Death."
- One by One, South Sudan Tries to Name Its War Victims
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First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
In South Sudan, where a vicious civil war has been raging, no government office or nongovernmental organization has kept a tally of the names of those killed by government forces, rebels, and other armed groups. But in a country in which automatic weapons are more plentiful than civil rights, and local journalists are regularly under assault, a tiny civil society group is trying to step into the breach by naming all of the names. It began on the first anniversary of the civil war's outbreak, when a small group of volunteers unveiled a list of 568 names of the people - from toddlers to centenarians - killed in the war to that point. Naming the Ones We Lost was a first step in what the organizers knew would be a long journey to grapple with the immense loss of South Sudanese life over the previous year. Today, the project goes by a slightly different name, Remembering the Ones We Lost, and has a radically expanded mission with a recently launched website [http://rememberingoneswelost.com/main]. The goal of the website is nothing short of remarkable - it aims to name all victims of conflict and armed violence in South Sudan since 1955.
- A reservation town fighting alcoholism, obesity and ghosts from the past
Blackwater: Arizona town fighting obesity and gohsts
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First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Chris McGreal completes his series on the most disadvantaged towns in the United States by finding out how life in a Native American community has been affected by modern eating habits and revenue from newly built casinos.
- We're not having it! $15bn KXL lawsuit shows what's wrong with 'trade deals'
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First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
TransCanada has just made a big mistake by bringing its $15 billion lawsuit against the US government for refusing the Keystone XL pipeline, writes Sam Cossar-Gilbert. The move has exposed the real nature of 'trade deals' like TTIP and TPP - and why all democrats must rally to defeat them.
- Your Apps, Please? China Shows how Surveillance Leads to Intimidation and Software Censorship
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Now China has taken the next step. In November, a select group of Xinjiang residents found their mobile phone service abruptly terminated. Their phone service providers told them to visit their local police station to have the service restored. When contacted, the police told them that they had been detected using a VPN, or downloading foreign messaging software. Remove the software, the police said, and you'll get your connection back.
- IFIC / IFSE Launches CRM2 Module for Financial Advisors
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Toronto, ON - January 7, 2016 - The Investment Funds Institute of Canada (IFIC) together with its education arm, IFSE Institute, announce the launch of a new continuing education module designed to teach financial advisors about disclosure requirEMENTS
- More employers are changing the terms of termination notices in contracts that limit more generous payouts
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
More employers are changing the terms of termination notices in contracts that limit more generous payouts. Employment Lawyer Shelley Brown warns many judges are refusing to set aside these limitations.
- Philippines islanders unite to resist 'land grab' palm oil companies
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Farmers on Palawan are being tricked into giving land away to palm oil companies with local government support, writes Rod Harbinson. Under the palm oil company 'leases' the farmers lose all rights to their land, never receive any money, and are saddled with 25 years of debt. Those who resist the land grabs are now in fear for their lives following the murder of a prominent campaigner.
- State of emergency in US city after water poisoned
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First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Flint has faced a lead-saturated drinking water disaster affecting almost 100,000 residents over the past 18 months.
- Between Marx and Freud: Erich Fromm revisited
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First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
More than three decades after his death, the ideas of Erich Fromm are enjoying something of an intellectual renaissance.
- Fruit Walls: Urban Farming in the 1600s
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First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
We are being told to eat local and seasonal food, either because other crops have been tranported over long distances, or because they are grown in energy-intensive greenhouses. But it wasn't always like that. From the sixteenth to the twentieth century, urban farmers grew Mediterranean fruits and vegetables as far north as England and the Netherlands, using only renewable energy.
- The Guangdong Six and the rule of law (of value): Preliminary theses on the December 3 crackdown
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Information about the December 3, 2014 crackdown on Chinese labour activists is now widely available in English and several other languages, but there has been little satisfactory analysis of its significance -- in relation to business as usual in China, to comparable situations in other countries, or to workers' struggles as such.
- A house divided: Jeremy Corbyn and the Labour Party
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First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Something remarkable happened over the summer of 2015. Immediately after Ed Miliband resigned following Labour's defeat in the general election, the grip exercised by Blairism over the Labour Party had seemed set to continue grimly on. The field competing for the Labour leadership was confined to various shades of uninspiring Blairites, with the supposedly "left" candidate, Andy Burnham, rushing to distance himself from the unions. Even after Jeremy Corbyn threw his hat in the ring, most (including Corbyn himself) assumed he would be soundly beaten.
- Humans will be remembered for leaving a 'plastic planet'
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First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
- Radical economics, Marxist economics and Marx's economics
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
The major global crises of the mid-1970s and 2008-9 provoked debates among the ruling class about the best economic policies to manage capitalism. For socialists and activists the question was different, and debates about whether and to what extent capitalism could be reformed to avert crisis and instil a more humane and fair system became even sharper.
- Was the German Revolution defeated by January 1919?
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First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
John Rose argued in his talk at Marxism 2014 that the German Revolution had effectively suffered terminal defeat by January 1919. The National Congress of Workers' and Soldiers' Councils voted in December 1918 to hand power to the National Assembly after elections to be held in January 1919.
- The Boy Who Could Change the World
The Writings of Aaron Schwartz
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
In his too-short life, Aaron Swartz reshaped the Internet, questioned our assumptions about intellectual property, and touched all of us in ways that we may not even realize. His tragic suicide in 2013 at the age of twenty-six after being aggressively prosecuted for copyright infringement shocked the nation and the world.
- Poor fetishes, poor critiques: gentrification as violence
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Hating on hipsters is not the answer to gentrification. If we want to reclaim our cities, we should organize for genuinely affordable housing in common, argues Gloria Dawson.
- The Postmodern Left and the success of neoliberalism
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
The international Left promotes its own image rather than engaging in the bitter reality of resistance against neoliberalism. It does not need to believe in postmodernism because it is postmodernism.
- The postmodern left and the success of neoliberalism
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
The rise of neoliberalism across the globe for decades, and its continued resilience since the 2007-2008 financial crisis in particular, forces us to ask why there has not been a more successful resistance against it.
- Sacred Trees, Christmas Trees and New Year Trees: A Vision for the Future
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Trees are a very important part of world culture and have been at the centre of ideological conflict for hundreds of years.In the current debates over climate change, trees have an immensely important role to play on material and symbolical levels both now and in the future.
- Showdown in the Malheur Marshes: the Origins of Rancher Terrorism in Burns, Oregon
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
During the spring of 1995, shortly after the bombing of the Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City, James Ridgeway and I spent a couple of weeks traveling across the West for a series of stories in the Village Voice that chronicled the rise of militant new rightwing movements of militias, white supremacists, Christian Identity sects and anti-government groups, including a profile of central Oregon rancher Dwight Hammond, now at the centre of the armed seizure of the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge headquarters near Burns.
- US sued over tax-exempt donations for illegal Israeli settlements
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
A group of American citizens is suing the US Treasury because they say the agency is allowing billions of dollars of tax-exempt charitable donations to flow to the Israeli army and support the expansion of illegal Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank and East Jerusalem.
- The New Far-Right Government in Poland
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
IN asked a European comrade who spends a lot of time in Poland to comment on a recent article, "Poland: Anti-government rallies continue as Lech Walesa warns of civil war," in the (Trotskyist) World Socialist Web Site.
- "Small really is beautiful", claims new report on England's farming
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
A report on the benefits of small-scale farming practices in England, arguing that land size should not be used to exclude farms from receiving subsidies.
- Marx the Feminist?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
In the face of global economic crisis and the dismantling of social programs under austerity policies, many feminists are re-engaging Marx's critique of capitalism. This return to Marx is necessary if we are effectively to overcome gender oppression, especially since the latest trends in feminism -- or at least those "fit to print" and discussed in the popular press -- place the onus of equal treatment squarely on women's shoulders. Newfound feminists like Sheryl Sandberg advise women to "lean in" and adjust their behaviour to suit the aggressively entrepreneurial norms rewarded in the real world that men lead. As Nancy Fraser aptly puts it, these tendencies within feminism serve as "capitalism’s handmaiden": such identity-centered, cultural critiques have helped obscure capital's dependency on gendered oppressions.
- The May 18 Gwangju democratic uprising
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
The text is by the official May 18 History Compilation Committee of Gwangju. A detailed account of the May 18 popular uprising in Gwangju, South Korea, against the dictatorship's declaration of martial law and for workers' rights in 1980.
- Abundance for everybody
'Conscious food' supports a thriving urban activist community in Bolivia
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
A group of Bolivian activists engage in 'conscious eating' while resisting capitalism and climate change and valuing everyone's work.
- Against Activism
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
"Activism" stands in contrast to organizing. Organizing aims to bring people together to build and exercise power, informed by a strategic vision for acquiring power and changing society. To be an "activist" now merely means to advocate for change, and the hows and whys of that advocacy are unclear. Activist is a generic category associated with oddly specific stereotypes: today, the term signals not so much a certain set of political opinions or behaviours as a certain temperament. Worse, many activists seem to relish their marginalization, interpreting their small numbers as evidence of their specialness, their membership in an exclusive and righteous clique, effectiveness be damned.
- Alternatives to Neoliberal Capitalism
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Neoliberal capitalism today has become unpopular, but imagining alternatives is difficult nonetheless.
- American Nuremberg: Putting Washington's War Criminals on Trial - Book Review
Book Review of "American Nuremberg: Putting Washington’s War Criminals on Trial" by Gar Smith.
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Any honest review of the aggregating crimes of America’s political leaders gives rise to a nagging question: Isn’t it time someone threw the book at them? Well, the wait is over. We now have the book.
- America's poorest border town: no immigration papers, no American Dream
Colonia Muniz: a world cut off from rights and citizenship
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Chris McGreal visits one of the Texas border townships that are home to hundreds of thousands of often-undocumented Latino immigrants and where the Amarican dream seems a remote fantasy.
- America's Social Arsonist
Fred Ross and Grassroots Organizing in the Twentieth Century
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Gabriel Thompson provides a full picture of Fred Ross,this complicated and driven man, recovering a forgotten chapter of American history and providing vital lessons for organizers today.
- Archives Association of British Columbia Toolkit
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
The AABC Archivist's Toolkit offers access to a wide range of on-line and published resources for archivists and archives workers at all levels. Special care is taken to provide resources for small and medium-sized archives.
- Autonomist Marxism and Workplace Organizing in Canada in the 1970s
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Accordin to John Huot, Autonomist Marxism, from its headwaters in the early 1960s workers’ struggles and Marxist circles in Italy to multiple, diverse social movement/Marxist/feminist spaces in many countries, has developed into a significant current in the global anti-capitalist, anti-oppression project for social transformation. Huot examines this current in the context of the 1970s "New Tendency" in Canada.
- Bank of Canada Lawsuit
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
One of the most important legal cases in Canadian history is slowly inching its way towards trial. Launched in 2011 by the Toronto-based Committee on Monetary and Economic Reform (COMER), the lawsuit would require the publicly-owned Bank of Canada to return to its pre-1974 mandate and practice of lending interest-free money to federal, provincial, and municipal governments for infrastructure and healthcare spending.
- Beijing highway: $600m road just the start of China's investments in Caribbean
Jamaica's $600m highway kickstarts Chinese investments in the Caribbean
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Road connecting north and south Jamaca will be lined with luxury hotels and is China's largest investment in the Caribbean.
- Beyond Banksters
Resisting the New Feudalism
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Beyond Banksters explores how the powers of the Bank of Canada were appropriated in the 1970s, resulting in billions of dollars in public debt. From Milton Friedman to Justin Trudeau's Canada Infrastructure Bank, from BlackRock to crappy trade deals to Bilderberg, Nelson exposes the major players privatizing the world and creating a new state of feudalism. Icelanders resisted. Nelson says Canada must too.
- The Biased Report that led to Banning Russians at the Olympics
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Canadian lawyer Richard Mclaren's report infuenced the World Anti-Doping Agency to call for the banning of all Russian athletes from the Rio Games.
- Big Farms Make Big Flu
Dispatches on Influenza, Agribusiness, and the Nature of Science
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
An examination of the relationships between infectious disease, agriculture, economics, and the nature of science.
- Big Three Contracts: Who Won?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
The 2015 UAW/Big Three contracts took 67 days and multiple attempts to ratify, resulting in what most autoworkers see as a partial victory.
- Bigotry vs. Black Lives, Muslims, Immigrants
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Donald Trump and other Republican presidential candidates use hate and fear of these "others." Could this strategy win the 2016 presidency?
- Bil'in and the Nonviolent Resistance
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Tells how the farming village in Bil'in, located in Palestine's West Bank, has been facing its occupier, Israel, head-on. Side by side with Israeli and civil rights activists the world over, the people of Bil'in and their protests have been standing against the injustices imposed by the Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF) since 2004. That was when the IOF's raids began to uproot the village's ancient olive trees and confiscate its farmlands, the main sources of its livelihood. All of it to build their separation wall and illegal settlements.
- Black History and the Class Struggle
#25
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
- Black Women's Writing Recovered
An Interview with Mary Helen Washington
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Interview with Mary Helen Washington.
- Blood on the Border: A Memoir of the Contra War
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Seamlessly blending the personal and the political, Blood on the Border is Dunbar-Ortiz's firsthand account of the decade-long dirty war pursued by the Contras and the United States against the people of Nicaragua.
- Bone metastases
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Bone metastasis is cancer that started in another part of the body and spread to the bone. It's sometimes called secondary bone cancer or metastatic bone disease. Bone metastasis is not the same as cancer that starts in the bone (called primary bone cancer).
- Bracero program
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
The Bracero Program (named for the Spanish term bracero, meaning "manual laborer" or "one who works using his arms") was a series of laws and diplomatic agreements, initiated on August 4, 1942, when the United States signed the Mexican Farm Labor Agreement with Mexico. The agreement guaranteed basic human rights (sanitation, adequate shelter and food) and a minimum wage of 30 cents an hour.
- Bucharest's housing crisis: post-Communist restitution victimises Roma
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Twenty-five Roma families were evicted from an apartment block in Vulturilor Street, Bucharest, in 2014, turned out of homes they had rented from the state for nearly 20 years. The entrance to their alleyway was sealed off with a metal sheet.
- California Drought and Global Warming
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Global warming is not only exacerbating the drought, it has likely transformed the ecology of the state well into the future.
- Canada Since 1960: A People's History
A Left Perspective on 50 Years of Politics, Economics and Culture
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
An account of the most important developments in Canadian history from the 1960s to today, seen through the eyes of Canadian Dimension magazine.
- The Candidate
Jeremy Corbyn's Improbable Path to Power
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Chronicling Jeremy Corbyn's rise to the position of leader of Britian's Labour Party. An insider's look at the events that led to his appointment.
- Cataclysm 1914
The First World War and the Making of Modern World Politics
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
This collection argues that the First World War -- and its consequences -- was perhaps the defining moment of 20th century world-politics.
- Celebration and Fresh Inquiry
Lineages of the Literary Left: Essays in Honor of Alan M. Wald
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Book review of Howard Brick's, Robbie Lieberman's, and Paula Rabinowitz's Lineages of the Literary Left: Essays in Honor of Alan M. Wald.
- Chain of Title
How Three Ordinary Americans Uncovered Wall Street's Great Foreclosure Fraud
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
The account of how a car dealership worker, a nurse, and a forensic expert discovered the foreclosure fraud perpetrated by America's biggest banks.
- China on Strike
Narratives of Workers' Resistance
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Through first person accounts, the book details the growing unrest, destabilization and strikes in factories that are gripping China.
- Climate Change: A Radical Primer
Capitalism and Climate Change: The Science and Politics of Global Warming
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Book review of David Klein's Capitalism and Climate Change: The Science and Politics of Global Warming.
- Comintern Congress Revisited
To the Masses: Proceedings of the Third Congress of the Communist International, 1921
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Review of John Riddell's To the Masses: Proceedings of the Third Congress of the Communist International, 1921.
- Connexions Calendar Expired Events 2016
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
- Crises, Craziness, and "Security"
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Trump himself is not so important - a vicious demagogue, but not a mass organizer or leader. What matters, following the carnage of the "Islamic State" attack in Paris and the San Bernardino mass shooting, is the climate in which the priority target of opportunity for racist reactionaries has become Muslim refugees, immigrants, communities and mosques.
- Marie Curie
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
A pocket biography of Marie Curie.
- Debs for His Time and Ours
Eugene V. Debs Reader: Socialism and the CLass Struggle
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Book review of William A. Pelz's Eugene V. Debs Reader: Socialism and the CLass Struggle.
- Deep in the Swamps, Archaeologists Are Finding How Fugitive Slaves Kept Their Freedom
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
The Great Dismal Swamp was once a thriving refuge for runaways. Archaeologists are learning more about their free communities.
- Digital Labor and Imperialism
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
This article reviews the role of the international division of labour in classical Marxist concepts of imperialism, and extends these ideas to the international division of labour in the production of information and information technology today. Sigital labour, as the newest frontier of capitalist innovation and exploitation, is central to the structures of contemporary imperialism.
- Disabled parking spot hologram
Resource Type: Film/Video
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
If there's one thing drivers hate having to deal with, it';s parking. But there's one type of person that is a real ass, the type that isn't handicapped and will take up one of those spaces anyways. This problem is so bad in Russia, that 30% of all drivers will take up a handicap space. To combat this, a nifty little surprise has been added to some of the spaces, take a look down below and let us know what you think!
- Edge Effect
Permaculture Design Principles
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
- 8 Things Vietnam War Movies Leave Out (By an Enemy Soldier)
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
- Everyday Exposure
Indigenous Mobilization and Environmental Justice in Canada's Chemical Valley
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Surrounded by Canada's densest concentration of chemical manufacturing plants, members of the Aamjiwnaang First Nation have expressed concern about a declining male birth rate and high incidences of miscarriage, asthma, cancer, and cardiovascular illness. Everyday Exposure uncovers the systemic injustices they face as they fight for environmental justice.
- Evicted
Poverty and Profit in the American City
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Matthew Desmond examines the impact on the poor in the United States of rising housing costs and declining/stagnating incomes in the aftermath of the 2008 economic crash. Many tenants in the U.S. now pay more than 50 per cent of their incomes in rent -- over 70 per cent with the soaring costs of utilities included -- challenging their ability to survive on a daily basis.
- Excerpts from Endgame: Pacifism
Part 1 of 3
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Derrick Jensen looks at the main arguments normally presented by pacifists and examines them to see if they make any sense.
- A Farewell to Ice
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
A Farewell to Ice is a report from the frontline of planetary change in the Arctic and Antarctic by a leading authority, presenting incontrovertible scientific data, but always in clear language which the layman can easily understand. It is one of the most important books published in recent years about the existential challenge which human civilization now faces.
- Future Sex
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
In Future Sex, Witt explores Internet dating, Internet pornography, polyamory, and avant-garde sexual subcultures as sites of possibility.
- A Future Without Hate or Need
The Promise of the Jewish Left in Canada
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Driven from their homes in Russia, Poland, and Romania by pogroms and poverty, many Jews who came to Canada in the wave of immigration after the 1905 Russian revolution were committed radicals. A Future Without Hate or Need brings to life the rich and multi-layered lives of a dissident political community, their shared experiences and community-building cultural projects, as they attempted to weave together their ethnic particularity -- their identity as Jews -- with their internationalist class politics.
- Gatekeeper
Resource Type: Film/Video
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
In 2015, there were 24.025 documented suicides in Japan. A retired police detective dedicates his life to preventing deaths at Japan's suicide cliffs, providing emergency assistance and counseling even as tourists flock to the site, attracted by its notoriety as a popular suicide destination.
- Gently to Nagasaki
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
An exploration both communal and intensely personal, Gently to Nagasaki is a spiritual pilgrimage. Set against the backdrops of Vancouver, Toronto, the Slocan and Caoldate Valleys, the streets of Nagasaki and the high mountains of Shikoku, Japan, this book from Joy Kogawa is also an account of a remarkable life.
- The Great Class War
1914-1918
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
In this critical, revisionist account, historian Jacques Pauwels shows how the First World War was rooted in class strife that begin with the French Revolution in 1789 and continued long past the war itself. As Pauwels sees it, war seemed to offer major benefits to the European upper classes of the early twentieth century, who felt threatened by the seemingly irresistible process of democratization or, as they saw it, the "rise of the masses." War was expected to serve as an antidote to social revolution, causing workers to abandon socialism's focus on overthrowing the established order via international worker solidarity in favour of nationalism and militarism.
- A Hero in France
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
- The History Thieves
Secrets, Lies, and the Shaping of a Modern Nation
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Ian Cobain uncovers the role of secrecy in the British state - and the lies, omissions and misrepresentations we've been fed to maintain the facade of a fair and just Britain.
- Hungary: Politics and the Refugee Crisis
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Long before Daesh/ISIS appeared, climate change and globalization had shoved over 1.5 million Syrians off the land and out of their villages. Today over eight million have been displaced, along with 1.5 million Iraqis who came to Syria looking for refuge.
- The Hypocrisies of Terror Talk
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
The religious identity of terrorists and the place where terror strikes shapes the rhetoric that media uses to describe the perpetrators and places.
- I, Daniel Blake
Resource Type: Film/Video
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
I, Daniel Blake is a 2016 drama film directed by Ken Loach and written by Loach's frequent collaborator Paul Laverty. It stars Dave Johns as Daniel Blake, who is denied employment and support allowance despite his doctor finding him unfit to work. Hayley Squires co-stars as Katie, a struggling single mother whom Daniel befriends.
- I Spent 5 Years With Some of Trump's Biggest Fans. Here's What They Won't Tell You.
How Donald Trump took a narrative of unfairness and twisted it to his advantage.
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Trump masculinizes benefits, but with a key proviso: restrict government help to real Americans.
- I'm Right and You're an Idiot
The Toxic State of Public Discourse and How to Clean it Up
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
- In new book, Ilan Pappé says settler colonialism and apartheid best explain Israeli-Palestinian conflict
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
An analysis of Ilan Pappe's new book, Israel and South Africa - The Many Faces of Apartheid, and how Israel's settler colonization of Palestinians is similar to apartheid in South Africa.
- The Incomplete, True, Authentic, and Wonderful History of May Day
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
This book's reflections on the Red and the Green -- out of which arguably the only hope for the future lies -- are populated by the likes of Native American anarchocommunist Lucy Parsons, the Dodge Revolutionary Union Movement, Karl Marx, José Martí, W. E. B. Du Bois, Rosa Luxemburg, SNCC, and countless others, both sentient and verdant.
- The Internet and Monopoly Capitalism
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
A review of Robert W. McChesney's Digital Disconnect: How Capitalism Is Turning the Internet against Democracy.
- Jeff Sharlet (activist)
Wikipedia article
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Jeff Sharlet (1942–1969), a Vietnam veteran, was a leader of the GI resistance movement during the Vietnam War and the founding editor of Vietnam GI.
- Labor in the Age of Climate Change
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Climate change must be stopped. But who will do the stopping? Who, in other words, could be the political subject of an anticapitalist climate revolution? Stefania Barca argues that this social agent could be, and indeed must be, the global working class. Yet to play this role, the working class must develop an emancipatory ecological class consciousness.
- Legislation on Chinese Indonesians
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
An overview of Indonesia's anti-Chinese legislation throughout the country's history.
- Life Sentence
Stories from four decades of court reporting - or, how I fell out of love with the Canadian justice system (especially judges)
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Through an examination of notable trials she has covered, Chrisitie Blatchford makes the case that Canada's judicial system is out of control and often inept. Judges, she says, are the new senators, unelected, unaccountable and overly entitled, while lawyers are often self-satisfied and contemptuous of anyone who is not a member of the club.
- The man reconstructing Palestine's lost villages
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Abu Sitta has diligently reconstructed and mapped the future for all Palestinians laying the groundwork for their homecoming.
"Our plan is to reconstruct the destroyed Palestinian villages. The plans are derived from a massive database. We are creating a file for every village, its house plans before 1948, its features and characteristics, its economies and its status of education. Young architects are now working on the reconstruction of these destroyed villages to be built in the same locations with the same beautiful old features, but with modern amenities."
- Mapping American Social Movement Through the 20th Century
Resource Type: Website
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
This collaborative project features maps and other visualizations showing the chronological geography of dozens of social movements that have influenced American life and politics during the 20th century, including radical movements, labor movements, women's movements, many different civil rights movements, environmentalist movements, and more. Includes interactive maps of more than 1,500 underground, alternative, and other kinds of unorthodox publications from the decade between 1965 and 1975.
- Mapping American Social Movements Through the 20th Century
Resource Type: Website
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
These interactive maps below more than 1,500 underground, alternative, and other kinds of unorthodox publications from the decade between 1965 and 1975.
- Maps of Britain and Ireland's ancient tribes, kingdoms and dna
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Looks into the various territories and DNA evidence in Britan and Ireland and analyzes maps of these territories.
- Marxism.ca
Resource Type: Website
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
A gateway to resources about Marxism compiled by Connexions.
- Narrating American Antifascism
Haunted by Hitler: Liberals, the Left, and the Fight against Fascism in the United States
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Book review of Christopher Vials' Haunted by Hitler: Liberals, the Left, and the Fight against Fascism in the United States.
- New videogame gives you a tough course in capitalist theory
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
The video game Crisis Theory aims to teach players about capitalism.
- A New Wave of Climate Insurgents Defines Itself as Law-Enforcers
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Grassroots movement organizations from every continent will hold a global week of action called Break Free From Fossil Fuels in May 2016. They envision tens of thousands of people mobilizing worldwide to demand a rapid transition to renewable energy. Events will include nonviolent direct actions targeting extraction sites or infrastructure; pressure on political targets to shift policies around fossil fuel development; and support for clean energy alternatives.
- Noam Chomsky Announces Las Vegas Residency
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
- Not Such A Lonely Crusade
The Black Cultural Front: Black Writers and Artists of the Depression Generation
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Book review of Brian Dolinar's The Black Cultural Front: Black Writers and Artists of the Depression Generation.
- Novel about Jewish-Palestinian love affair is barred from Israeli curriculum
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
A novel about a love affair between a Jewish woman and a Palestinian man has been barred from Israel's high school curriculum, reportedly over concerns that it could encourage intermarriage between Jews and non-Jews.
- Nuremberg Code
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
The Nuremberg Code is a set of research ethics principles for human experimentation set as a result of the subsequent Nuremberg trials at the end of the Second World War.
- Off the Rails - The Rise and Fall of the Streetcar
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
A history of the streetcar in the United States, beginning with the need for a modern, cost-efficient form of public transit, to its surging popularity, and ending with the General Motors conspiracy that sought to destroy rail-based public transit.
- Organizing In Mexico: It's Tough, Often Brutal, And It Means Taking On The State
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
The system in Mexico operates to the detriment of independent unions. Although the Mexican system of labour relations initially conferred real benefits on workers and peasants whose organizations supported the government, it now functions to maintain a status quo where benefits flow only to corrupt union leaders.
- The Other Slavery
The Uncovered Story of Indian Enslavement in America
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Since the time of Columbus, Indian slavery was illegal in much of the American continent. Yet it was practiced for centuries as an open secret. There was no abolitionist movement to protect the tens of thousands of Natives who were kidnapped and enslaved by the conquistadors.
- Ours to Hack and To Own
The Rise of Platform Cooperativism, A New Vision For the Future Of Work and A Fairer Internet
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
The activists who have put together Ours to Hack and to Own argue for a new kind of online economy: platform cooperativism, which combines the rich heritage of cooperatives with the promise of 21st-century technologies, free from monopoly, exploitation, and surveillance.
- Perspectives From Exile
Lucine Kasbarian
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Examines the political cartoons of Lucine Kasbarian, whose work unflinchingly chronicles the intergovernmental relationship between Armenia, Turkey and the United States of America, the history of the Armenian Genocide, and the persistent denial of those crimes against humanity of over one hundred years ago.
- Power Games: A Political History of the Olympic Games
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
- Principles and Guidelines for Interfaith Dialogue
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
A compendium of resources for and about the interfaith movement.
- Private Profits vs Public Policy
The Pharmaceutical Industry and the Canadian State
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
According to Joel Lexchin, "Given the central role that medicines play in keeping us healthy, it is essential that we understand the policy environment that governs drug development, from the initial basic research to the sale of the manufactured produces to the patients that use them."
- Queer Progress
From Homophobia to Homonationalism
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
A political memoir by a leading gay rights and AIDS activist.
- Racial Liberalism: The Case of Interwar Detroit
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
The paradox at the heart of contemporary racial politics is what sociologists and political scientists call "colorblind racism:" How is it that the United States is a country where racism is supposed to be politically, socially, and morally unacceptable yet simultaneously where inequalities are quite neatly organized along racial lines?
- Rebuilding A Class Movement
In Solidarity: Essays on Working-Class Organization in the United States
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Book review of Kim Moody's In Solidarity: Essays on Working-Class Organization in the United States.
- Remembering Ahmad Rahman and Ron Scott
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Addressing the lives and accomplishments of Ahmad Rahman and Ron Scott.
- Revisit the province's royalty regime and make De Beers compensate Attawapiskat fairly.
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Last month, the remote Cree community of Attawapiskat was front-page news. The community has been grappling with a devastating suicide crisis -- and more than 100 residents -- as young as 11 and as old as 71 -- have attempted suicide. This crisis reflects the despair facing the community over dilapidated housing, lack of mental health services and social infrastructure. But it is roots are in colonialism -- and worsened by corporate greed.
- Rojava: reality and rhetoric
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
A detailed critical analysis of the "Rojava revolution".
- Snoops in the Reading Room
F. B. Eyes: How J. Edgar Hoover's Ghostreaders Framed African American Literature
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Book review of William J. Maxwell's F. B. Eyes: How J. Edgar Hoover's Ghostreaders Framed African American Literature.
- Socialism.ca
Resource Type: Website
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
A gateway to resources about socialism, socialist history, and socialist ideas, compiled by Connexions.
- Socialist Register 2016
Volume 52: The Politics of the Right
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Today the left faces new challenges from political forces amassing on the radical right. The 52nd volume of the Socialist Register presents a serious calibration and a careful political mapping of these forces. It addresses pivotal questions on the reordering of the new right. These essays - very broad in terms of themes and places - speak to the global challenges the new right poses for the left at this historical moment.
- Sources Calendar Expired Entries 2016
Resource Type: Website
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
- Sources Calendar RSS Feed page
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
RSS news feed for the Sources Calendar, which lists items of interest to journalists and the media.
- A statement against the immigration detention of children
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
As organizations and individuals that care about children, we believe that Canada should immediately cease the practice of placing children in immigration detention. These detainees include asylum seekers, refugees, Canadian citizens and non-citizens. Children range in age from newborns and toddlers to pre-teens and teenagers, some of whom are unaccompanied.
- Stop Line 9
Respect the Treaties. Protect the Land, Air and Water We All Share
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
- Studs Terkel
Politics, Culture, but Mostly Conversation
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Drawing from over one hundred interviews of people who knew and worked with Studs, Alan Wieder creates a multi-dimensional portrait of a run-of-the-mill guy from Chicago who, in public life, became an acclaimed author and raconteur, while managing, in his private life, to remain a mensch.
- The Syriza Wave
Surging and Crashing with the Greek Left
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
An account of the rise and fall of the Greek left party Syriza.
- To Laugh That We May Not Weep
A nearly forgotten cartoonist we need to look at -- right now!
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Among the greatest American political cartoonist, Art Young had the ability to boil complex social issues down to memorable symbols, drawn with justifiable anger but permeated with genial warmth. His work would be an immeasurable asset today in explaining the realities of class war to its casualties.
- Toronto's Poor
A Rebellious History
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Toronto’s Poor reveals the long and too often forgotten history of poor people’s resistance. It details how the homeless, the unemployed, and the destitute have struggled to survive and secure food and shelter in the wake of the many panics, downturns, recessions, and depressions that punctuate the years from the 1830s to the present.
- Towards Workers' Climate Action
Book review
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
A review of a book and a pamphlet by Paul Hampton, both on the urgent need for workers' action on climate change.
- Ukraine on Fire - The Real Story
Resource Type: Film/Video
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
A documentary film that provides historical perspective for the deep divisions in the Ukraine, and the violent events leading up to the overthrow of democratically elected President Viktor Yanukovych. While covered by Western media as a revolution by the people, the film demonstrates that it was in fact a staged removal from power that was ulitimately crafted by the US government. Runtime: 95 min.
- The Ultimate Terrorist Factory
Are French prisons incubating extremism?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Since the passage of the broad anti-terrorism statute in France, authorities claim that it has prevented dozens of terror killings; yet arrests under the controversial statute also assumes guilt before any crime has taken place as well as inferring guilt by mere association. Are French prisons ultimately pushing those who are unjustly jailed into associations with those with extremist views?
- Unruly Equality
U.S. Anarchism in the Twentieth Century
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Unruly Equality traces U.S. anarchism as it evolved from the creed of poor immigrants militantly opposed to capitalism early in the twentieth century to one that today sees resurgent appeal among middle-class youth.
- Viva la Revolucion
Eric Hobsbawm on Latin America
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Viva La Revolucion is Hobsbawm's magisterial work on Latin America, the fruit of forty years' writing about the continent.
- What's Yours Is Mine
Against the Sharing Economy
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Through original empirical research, What's Yours is Mine shows that the friendly language of the sharing economy actually masks a darker reality.
- Why Patrick Moore calls GMWatch "a bunch of murdering bastards"
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
According to Patrick Moore, GMWatch are "low-life" "murdering creeps", "profiteering on ignorance". Not to mention, "a bunch of murdering bastards" with an "anti-human, murderous agenda." How come?
- Why the Working Class?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Workers are at the heart of the capitalist system. And that's why they are at the centre of socialist politics.
- Witnessing revolution in Rojava
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
In Rojava, who is the enemy is real simple: the Turkish government. Everyone knows that the Turkish government has supported Daesh [also called ISIS]. If the outside world wants to support Rojava, it's not money they primarily need, it's opening the border.
- Realities of Zionism - Book Review
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Review of "Israelis and Palestinians: Conflict and Resolution" by Moshe Machover and "False Prophets of Peace Liberal Zionism and the Struggle for Palestine" by Tikva Honig-Parnass.
- The NGO-Industrial Complex - Book Review
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Review of "Paved with Good Good Intentions: Canada's development NGOs from idealism to imperislism" by Nikolas Barry-Shaw and Dru Oja Jay.
- Reading CAPITAL - Book Review
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Review of "An Introduction to the Three Volumes of Karl Marx’s Capital" by Michael Heinrich.
- The brief summer of anarchy: the life and death of Durruti
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Hans Magnus Enzensberger’s non-fiction "adventure novel" about Buenaventura Durruti and the Spanish anarchist movement (ca. 1917-1937), first published in Germany in 1972, consisting of a more or less chronological “collage” of "translated, abridged and rearranged" excerpts from "reports and speeches, interviews and proclamations … letters, travel narratives, anecdotes, pamphlets, polemics, newspaper articles, autobiographical texts, flyers and propaganda leaflets" (including extensive selections from the eyewitness accounts of Simone Weil, Ilya Ehrenburg, H. E. Kaminski, Mikhail Koltsov, Ricardo Sanz and Jesús Arnal Pena), punctuated by the author's "Commentaries".
- Bangladeshi secular blogger brutally murdered
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) and the Bangladesh Manobadhikar Sangbadik Forum (BMSF) condemn the murder of a secular online activist in Bangladesh. The IFJ urge the Bangladesh government to expedite investigation to punish
- Barcelona Hosts Women’s Boat to Gaza (WBG) for their inaugural journeyâ€
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Barcelona, Spain – From September 12-14, the sailing vessels Amal-Hope and Zaytouna-Oliva will dock at Bosch i Alsina in the port of Barcelona where various events (concerts, talks, nonviolent workshops, a street parade and visits to the boats) wil
- Canadian Voice of Women for Peace having its annual conference at Saint Mary’s University
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
(Halifax) – The Canadian Voice of Women for Peace (VOW) is holding its annual Conference in Halifax, with delegates coming from as far away as Victoria, British Columbia. The theme is “Women Taking Action for Peace: Personal, Political, Global.
- Celebrating Canadian Multiculturalism Day
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
On this Canadian Multiculturalism Day we recognize and acknowledge Canada's rich diversity and the significant contributions that ethnocultural communities have made and continue to make in shaping our great country, Canada.
- Conseil des fonds d’investissement du Québec (CFIQ)
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Montreal, QC – August 29, 2016 – The board of governors of the Conseil des fonds d’investissement du Québec (CFIQ) announced today that Stéphane Blanchette (Vice-President, Finance and Operations, Investia Financial Services) has been elected
- First Peoples Worldwide Closure
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
First Peoples Worldwide plans to close over the course of this year.
- From Preventive Diplomacy to Sustainable Peace
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
The Canadian Voice of Women for Peace’s submission to the Defence Policy Review public consultations. A Gender-Based, Eco-Feminist and Nonviolent Approach to Canadian Defence and Security Policy.
- Government media crackdown in China continues as a journalist disappears
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) raises serious concerns over actions by the Chinese government this week, which lead to one journalist been suspended from duty and a second disappearing while travelling.
- IFIC Commends Ministers for Historic Agreement on Pension Reform
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Toronto, ON - June 21, 2016 - The Investment Funds Institute of Canada (IFIC) today issued a statement commending the Ministers of Finance from Canada and most provinces across the country for reaching a historic agreement-in-principle on pension
- IFIC Proposes Federal Budget Measures to Strengthen the Economy and Support the Middle Class
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Toronto - August 5, 2016 - The Investment Funds Institute of Canada (IFIC) today proposed federal budget measures that would contribute to Canada’s economic growth, support the middle class, enhance retirement savings, and enable Canadians with
- IFIC Releases Guide to Help Dealers Prepare New CRM2 Client Reports
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Toronto, ON - June 23, 2016 - The Investment Funds Institute of Canada (IFIC) today released a guide for mutual fund dealers. Preparing CRM2 Reports for Your Clients (https://www.ific.ca/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/Preparing-CRM2-Reports-for-Your-
- IFIC Releases Monthly Statistics for February 2016
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Toronto ON - March 18, 2016 - The Investment Funds Institute of Canada (IFIC) announces that for the month ending February 29, 2016, assets under management (AUM) for the mutual funds industry totalled $1.20 trillion. AUM decreased by $11 billion
- IFIC Releases Monthly Statistics for March 2016
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Toronto, ON - April 19, 2016 - The Investment Funds Institute of Canada (IFIC) announces that for the month ending March 31, 2016, assets under management (AUM) for the mutual funds industry totalled $1.23 trillion. AUM increased by $37 billion
- IFIC Releases Monthly Statistics for May 2016
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Toronto, ON - June 20, 2016 - The Investment Funds Institute of Canada (IFIC) announces that for the month ending May 31, 2016, assets under management (AUM) for the mutual funds industry totalled $1.27 trillion. AUM increased by $28 billion or 2
- IFIC Releases Monthly Statistics for September 2016
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
The Investment Funds Institute of Canada (IFIC) announces that for the month ending September 30, 2016, the assets under management (AUM) for the mutual funds industry totalled $1.32 trillion. Year-to-date, industry totalled $1.32 trillion.
- IFIC Releases Updated Fund Volatility Risk Classification Guidelines
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Toronto, ON - June 28, 2016 - The Investment Funds Institute of Canada (IFIC) today released its updated Voluntary Guidelines for Fund Managers Regarding Fund Volatility Risk Classification.
- IFIC Response to CCIR Consultation Endorses Greater Harmonization
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
The Investment Funds Institute of Canada (IFIC) today submitted comments in response to the Segregated Funds Working Group Issues Paper published on May 16, 2016 by the Canadian Council of Insurance Regulators (CCIR)
- IFIC Urges Ontario to Lead National Collaboration on Financial Planning Rules
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Toronto, ON - June 17, 2016 - The Investment Funds Institute of Canada (IFIC) has urged the Ontario government to take a leadership role with its provincial counterparts to create nationally harmonized rules governing financial planning.
- IFIC/IFSE Welcome ETF Proficiency Standard
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Toronto, ON – September 28, 2016 – The Investment Funds Institute of Canada (IFIC) and its educational arm, IFSE Institute, today expressed support for the new ETF proficiency standard proposed by the Mutual Fund Dealers Association (MFDA).
- IFJ calls for international laws protecting journalists to be enforced after another deadly year of killings
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
2015 has been another deadly year for journalists, with at least 109 journalists and media staff killed in targeted killings, bomb attacks and cross-fire incidents, according to the annual report published by the IFJ.
- IFJ condemns media clampdown in Kenya
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) today backed its Kenyan affiliate, the Kenya Union of Journalists (KUJ), which accused the authorities of a major clampdown of media in the past few months, after a series of arrests of journalists
- IFJ women move forward struggle for gender equality
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
The IFJ Gender Council held on 9 January, 2016, its statutory mid-term conference on the theme Gender and Media: Women Taking the Lead.
- IIFA Marks 30th Anniversary and Focuses on Better Serving Investors in Changing Global Economic and Regulatory Environment
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Osaka, Japan - October 26, 2016 - Leaders of the global investment funds industry gathered in Osaka, Japan this week to discuss challenges and opportunities in today’s global economic environment, as they celebrated the 30th anniversary of the
- Lurching to War - Octber 15 issue of Connexions Other Voices now available
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Lurching to War: The United States and its NATO allies increasingly see war, not as a disaster to be avoided, but a normal tool of foreign policy. Getting the public to acquiesce in regarding war as inevitable and justifiable requires propaganda
- Malaysian official calls for harsher penalties for whistle blowers
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) joins its affiliate the National Union of Journalists Peninsular Malaysia (NUJM) in strongly criticising proposed changes to the Official Secrets Act (1972) (OSA) by the Malaysian Attorney General.
- Media Advisory – EVENT – IFIC Presents Claude Montmarquette: The Gamma Factor and the Value of Financial Advice
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Dr. Claude Montmarquette (from the Centre for Interuniversity Research and Analysis of Organizations (CIRANO)) will present his research findings on the impact of a financial advisor in building household wealth and the factors that contribute to wea
- Media Release - IFIC Releases Monthly Statistics for August 2016
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Toronto, ON – September 19, 2016 – The Investment Funds Institute of Canada (IFIC) announces that for the month ending August 31, 2016, assets under management (AUM) for the mutual funds industry reached $1.31 trillion. Year-to-date, industry AUM
- Media Release - IFIC Releases Monthly Statistics for July 2016
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Toronto, ON - August 19, 2016 - The Investment Funds Institute of Canada (IFIC) announces that for the month ending July 31, 2016, assets under management (AUM) for the mutual funds industry totalled $1.30 trillion. AUM increased by $37 billion
- Media Release - IFIC Releases Monthly Statistics for June 2016
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Toronto, ON - The Investment Funds Institute of Canada (IFIC) announces that for the month ending June 30, 2016, assets under management (AUM) for the mutual funds industry totalled $1.27 trillion. AUM decreased by $2 billion
- Media Release - IFIC Welcomes New Affiliate
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Toronto, ON - July 8, 2016 - The Investment Funds Institute of Canada (IFIC) is pleased to announce that Prometa Fund Support Services Inc. has joined IFIC as an affiliate.
- Messina, Italy welcomed the participants on board Zaytouna-Oliva
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Messina, Italy – This morning the community of Messina, Italy welcomed the participants on board Zaytouna-Oliva as they arrived following their voyage from Ajaccio, France. The sailing boat will leave Messina when? for its final destination, the sh
- National Ethnic Press and Media Council of Canada 2016 Recognition Awards
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
The National Ethnic Press and Media Council of Canada is pleased to present its 2016 Recognition Awards on November 4, 2016, in Toronto
- New Infographic Helps Investors Understand What Services They Receive for Their Mutual Fund Fees
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
The Investment Funds Institute of Canada (IFIC) today released an infographic that highlights the services that investors receive for the fees they pay through their purchase of mutual funds.
- Sexual Harrassment & Investigations. Why are the foxes still guarding the hen house?
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Sexual harassment complaints will be met with inertia, apathy or tepid response until corporations fully realize the financial impact and negative consequences of their actions and more women are in the boardroom and in leadership positions.
- Sports and Politics: August 13, 2014 issue of Other Voices
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Sports and politics have always been intertwined, though perhaps never as much so as in the current era.
- Suspend the $15-billion sale of LAV IIIs to Saudi Arabia and sign the Arms Treaty (ATT)
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
The Canadian Voice of Women for Peace is deeply concerned that the newly- elected Canadian government seems intent on completing the $15-billion sale of Canadian-made LAV III vehicles to Saudi Arabia initiated by the former government.
- Ukraine: IFJ/EFJ condemns arson attack on TV station
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
The International and European Federation of Journalists, (IFJ) and (EFJ), today joined their Ukrainian affiliates in condemning an arson attack that set ablaze the headquarters of private broadcaster Inter TV in Kiev, Ukraine.
- Wage Theft--Allow legal professionals to enforce pay orders.
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Provide employees with the option of using an independent legal professional. This would minimise the burden on the government to collect. Random audits are not the answer.
- White Poppies for Peace: Peace Women VOW to End War
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Canadian Voice of Women for Peace will distribute free White Poppies in Halifax on Friday, November 4 from 12pm - 1pm at the Central Library in Halifax. The white poppy campaign started in Britain in 1933 by women in the Women’s Co-operative Gui
- Will the legalization of recreational marijuana cause difficulties for employers?
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Will Legalization of recreational marijuana in the workplace cause difficulties for employers?
Employment Lawyer Shelley Brown explains-- Probably not- it will be treated like smoking and drinking in the workplace.
- Zaytouna-Oliva leaves Ajaccio, Corsica for Messina, Italy - its final European port before sailing to break the illegal blockade of Gaza
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Ajaccio, Corsica, France:
The Women’s Boat to Gaza (Zaytouna-Oliva)
left the port of Ajaccio at 09:30 this morning. It is due to arrive later this
week in Messina, Sicily, Italy, w
- Zaytouna-Oliva departs for Gaza
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Messina, Italy: This morning at 9:50 am, women representing 13 countries spanning five continents began their journey on Zaytouna-Oliva to the shores of Gaza, which has been under blockade since 2007. On board are a Nobel Peace Laureate, three parli
- Why Nonprofits can't lead the 99%
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
A seasoned movement elder examines what happens left organizations are led exclusively by college-educated professionals answerable to self-perpetuating boards and philanthropic funders, what happens when union leaderships free themselves from their memberships, and when community organizations become government contractors. Only membership supported and membership-driven organizations, he suggests, can actually lead the 99%.
- A Marxist critique of the theory of 'white privilege'
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2020
Candace Cohn outlines the origins and problems of privilege theory. She aruges that In holding white workers co-responsible for systemic racism, the privilege model attributed a power to white workers they manifestly do not have: control over the institutions of American capitalism – schools, jobs, housing, factories, banks, police, courts, prisons, legislatures, media, elections, universities, armed services, hospitals, sports, political parties – all of which function in a racist manner. These institutions are owned and controlled by the capitalist class.
- Don't toss out your pumpkins
Re: Are pumpkins wasteful?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
We don't have to throw out our Hallowe'en. We can remove the seeds and bake them, and after Hallowe'en the flesh of the pumpkin can be cooked.
- New Fight to Save Mumia Abu-Jamal
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
In 2011, after years of international protest, Mumia's 1981 death sentence (following his wrongful conviction for killing a Philadelphia police officer) was rescinded allowing him to enter the general prison population. Although this was a major victory for the movement to win his freedom, it brought its own set of issues.
- Spain: Madrid and Barcelona show -- the greater the unity on the left, the bigger the win
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Once the results of Spain’s May 24, 2015, local and regional elections became known the main lesson for the anti-austerity and anti-capitalist left was simply and starkly obvious: the more united and more involving of ordinary people its election campaigns were, the greater its gains and the greater the losses for the Spanish Socialist Workers Party (PSOE) -- its main rival for the popular and working-class vote -- and for the ruling conservative People's Party (PP).
- Bibi Netanyahu's War Dream
An interview with Moshe Machover
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Suzi Weissman interviews Moshe Machover, a founder of the Israeli Socialist Organization (Matzen) in the 60's. They discuss the reasons behind Israel's campaign against the Iran nuclear deal.
- El Salvador Feminists Fight for Justice
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
The 1997 Salvadoran law banning abortion under all circumstances is one of the most punitive in the world.
- Spain on Edge
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
An interview with Podemos spokesperson Pablo Iglesias.
- Uyoku dantai
Wikipedia article
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2017
Uyoku dantai are Japanese nationalist right-wing groups. Uyoku dantai are well known for their highly visible propaganda vehicles – converted vans, trucks and buses fitted with loudspeakers and prominently marked with the name of the group and propaganda slogans.
- Postmedia, Paul Godfrey and the demise of journalism
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
A criticism of the right-wing political bias expressed by outlets of the Postmedia group under direction of CEO Paul Godfrey.
- Missing from the Paris Agreement: the Pentagon's monstrous carbon boot print
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
How much of the mainstream media coverage given to COP21 and the Paris Agreement mentioned the mysterious exemption given to the US's massive military and security machine? None, writes Joyce Nelson. Not only are these emissions entirely outside the UNFCCC process, but a 'cone of sillence' somehow prevents them from even forming part of the climate change discourse.
- The Complete Works of Rosa Luxemburg, Volume 2
Economic Writings 2
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2015
Published: 2016
Rosa Luxemburg’s theoretical masterpiece
- How Propaganda Works
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2015
Published: 2016
Jason Stanley argues that more attention needs to be paid to propaganda. He examines how propaganda operates subtly, how it undermines democracy -- particularly the ideals of democratic deliberation and equality -- and how it has damaged democracies of the past.
- Rogue Lawyer
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2015
Published: 2016
On the right side of the law -- sort of -- Sebastian Rudd is not your typical street lawyer. His office is a customized bulletproof van, complete with Wi-Fi, a bar, a small fridge, and fine leather chairs. He has no firm, no partners, and only one employee: his heavily armed driver, who also happends to be his bodyguard, law clerk, confidant, and golf caddie.
- Sources News Release Archive 2015
Resource Type: Website
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
News releases from 2015.
- Alan Gross's Improbable Tales on 60 Minutes
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
In a dramatic segment on CBS News' 60 Minutes titled "The Last Prisoner of the Cold War," former United States Agency for International Development (USAID) subcontractor Alan Gross tells of horrifying experiences in captivity: "They threatened to hang me, they threatened to pull out my fingernails, they said I'd never see the light of day."
- Inside the Paris Climate Agreement: Hope or Hype?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
It has become a predictable pattern at the annual UN climate conferences for participants to describe the outcome in widely divergent ways.
- A Brief for Equality
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
If it is believed that equality reflects and affirms what we most value in human social life, then the only politically coherent stance is to insist on it as a goal to aim for. This article takes a look at why equality is more desirable than inequality.
- Why is the Canadian Media Ignoring Evidence of 1948 Massacres?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
The better part of a decade ago, I described the Toronto Star's Mitch Potter as "a canary in the mineshaft of liberal Canadian racism." A piece on 1948 Palestine published in a recent edition of the Toronto Star shows the canary very close to asphyxiating.
- Chaos Computer Club: Europe's biggest hackers' congress underway in Hamburg
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Some 12,000 hackers are challenging the power of Google, Facebook and Youtube to filter information and shape users' view of the world. One of them demonstrated how to hack into VW's cheating software.
- Letter from Nazareth
The forgotten Palestinians
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
The city's Christians and Muslims continue to struggle against Israel's divide-and-rule policies
At 26 metres, Nazareth's artificial Christmas tree is the tallest in the Middle East, or so city officials boast. Its glinting red, silver and golden baubles have brought a temporary, but much-needed cheer to the city of Jesus' childhood. Despite the festive mood, friends and neighbours in what is Israel's largest Palestinian city struggle to sound hopeful about the future. Even the inflatable Father Christmases hanging from shop awnings look forlorn.
- Letter from Nazareth: The forgotten Palestinians
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
The city's Christians and Muslims continue to struggle against Israel's divide-and-rule policies.
- Caught in the act: German state channel accused of faking Russian soldiers in Ukraine
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
A Russian television channel alleges a German state broadcaster hired actors to show Russian involvement in the eastern Ukraine conflict. The scandal centers around a Russian '‘volunteer' paid by the German company to say he was fighting in Ukraine.
- U.S. Cold War Nuclear Target Lists Declassified for First Time
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
U.S. Cold War Nuclear Target Lists Declassified for First Time. According to 1956 Plan, H-Bombs were to be Used Against Priority 'Air Power' Targets in the Soviet Union, China, and Eastern Europe. Major Cities in Soviet Bloc including East Berlin
- What Really Caused the Implosion of the Occupy Movement - An Insider's View
Taking a hard look at some of the self-sabotaging behaviors of the left
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
It's a cool night in early October of 2011, the height of Occupy Wall Street. Two months ago I had just moved into my parents' basement, feeling deflated after the end of Bloombergville (a two-week street occupation outside city hall to try to stop the massive budget cuts of that same year), convinced this country wasn't ready for movement. Now I'm in this living room with some of the most impressive people I've ever met, at the shaky helm of a movement that has become part of the mainstream's daily consciousness.
- Climate Deniers are More Dangerous Than Trump and More Deadly Than ISIS
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
So Rep. Lamar Smith (D-Tx.) finally got his NOAA emails. What he really should get is a jail sentence for crimes against humanity. He, and the other climate deniers like him who hold positions of power, are arguably more dangerous than Donald Trump and more deadly than ISIS.
- The Digital Dark Ages: Movies and Books Get Deleted as Selfies Pile Up
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Historians and archivists call our times the "digital dark ages." The name evokes the medieval period that followed the collapse of the Roman Empire, which led to a radical decline in the recorded history of the West for 1000 years. But don't blame the Visigoths or the Vandals. The culprit is the ephemeral nature of digital recording devices. Remember all the stuff you stored on floppy discs, now lost forever? Over the last 25 years, we've seen big 8" floppies replaced by 5.25" medium replaced by little 3.5" floppies, Zip discs and CD-ROMs, external hard drives and now the Cloud -- and let's not forget memory sticks and also-rans like the DAT and Minidisc.
- Gaza in Ruins
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Gaza is a ruin, populated by nearly two million people. The July-August 2014 bombardment of this tiny enclave by Israel resulted in over 2,500 dead Palestinians and an infrastructure -- already weak -- utterly destroyed. A garrotted sliver of land that sits on the Mediterranean Sea, Gaza cannot import goods to survive, let alone to reconstruct the damage. Oxfam says that it would take over a hundred years to bring Gaza back to the conditions in June 2014 because of the ongoing Israeli siege. The United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA), an agency tasked with the provision of relief to the Palestinian refugees, complained that "people are literally sleeping amongst the rubble; children have died of hypothermia." Pledges for relief are not delivered, and even if they would be handed over to the United Nations (UN), the Israeli embargo makes it impossible for goods to enter Gaza. Gaza, like the rest of Palestine, is condemned to purgatory.
- An Idiot's Guide to Why They Hate Us
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Nobody who is reasonably knowledgeable and honest about the long and ongoing history of U.S.- and Western-imperial policy in the Middle East, Southwest Asia, and Africa has any business claiming to find the origins of anti-American and anti-Western terrorism in the Muslim world mysterious.
- RSF decries Saudi citizen-journalist's jail term and writing ban
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Reporters Without Borders (RSF) condemns the four-year jail sentence and 15-year writing ban that a Saudi court passed yesterday on writer and citizen-journalist Zuhair Kutbi as "unjust and disproportionate."
- SAC Nuclear Planning for 1959
U.S. Cold War Nuclear Target Lists Declassified for First Time
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
The SAC [Strategic Air Command] Atomic Weapons Requirements Study for 1959, produced in June 1956, published December 22, 2015. According to the Plan, H-Bombs were to be used against priority "Air Power" targets in the Soviet Union, China, and Eastern Europe
Major cities in Soviet Bloc, including East Berlin, were high priorities in "Systematic Destruction" for atomic bombings. Plans to target people (“Population”) violated international legal norms.
- War Is Realizing the Israelizing of the World
Divide, Conquer, Colonize
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
As US-driven wars plummet the Muslim world ever deeper into jihadi-ridden failed state chaos, events seem to be careening toward a tipping point. Eventually, the region will become so profuse a font of terrorists and refugees, that Western popular resistance to "boots on the ground" will be overwhelmed by terror and rage. Then, the US-led empire will finally have the public mandate it needs to thoroughly and permanently colonize the Greater Middle East.
- Warped
Gay Normality and Queer Anti-Capitalism
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Recent victories for LGBT rights have gone faster than most people imagined possible. Yet the accompanying rise of gay 'normality' has been disconcerting for activists with radical sympathies. This book shows how the successive 'same-sex formations' of the past century and a half have led both to the emergence of today's 'homonormativity' and 'homonationalism' and to ongoing queer resistance.
- The Canada Revenue Agency Needs an Overhaul
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Canada misses out on billions of dollars in revenue due to the Canada Revenue Agency's failure to pursue tax evasion by rich companies and individuals.
- Israeli attacks on a dissident soldiers' group could backfire
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Yehuda Shaul was an infantryman in the Israeli army in Hebron during the second intifada. But in recent weeks, he and his group of veterans have been vilified by right-wing organizations and mainstream politicians in a public campaign against Israeli groups critical of their country's occupation of Palestinian territories.
- Militarizing the Environment
Climate Change and the Security State
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
In this extensive historical study of scientific, military, political, and economic formations across five centuries, Robert P. Marzec reveals how environmentality has been instrumental in the development of today's security society -- informing the creation of the military-industrial complex during World War II and the National Security Act that established the CIA during the Cold War.
- Talks in the city of light generate more heat
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Rather than relying on far-off negative-emissions technologies, Paris needed to deliver a low-carbon road map for today.
- COP21: in spite of the show, the glass is 80% empty
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
The COP21 Paris Climate Conference has, as expected, led to an agreement. It will come into effect from 2020 if it is ratified by 55 of the countries which are signatories to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change and these 55 countries account for at least 55% of global emissions of greenhouse gases. In the light of the positions taken in Paris, this dual condition should not raise any difficulty (although the non-ratification of Kyoto by the United States shows that surprises are always possible).
- EFF to Court: Posting 3-D Design Files Online Is Free Speech
Sources News Release
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First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
The U.S. government cannot require Americans to go through an export licensing scheme prior to posting and sharing 3-D printer design files online, because publishing technical information is a form of speech protected by the First Amendment.
- The KKK Has Infiltrated U.S. Police Departments for Decades
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
During the Civil Rights movement, one of the KKK’s first orders was to infiltrate police departments around the country.
- Other Voices - The Connexions Newsletter - Utopias
Sources News Release
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First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
The December 19 issue of Other Voices, the Connexions newsletter, is now out. This issue of Other Voices peers into the world of utopian visions, practical or otherwise: our topic of the week is Utopias.
- Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - December 19, 2015
Utopia
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Utopian visions, be they practical or not, free our imaginations, if only for a little while, from the daily grind of struggle and worry, and allow us to dream about the kind of world we would hope to live in. Such dreams can inspire us and guide us, even if they are not always quite practical. This issue of Other Voices peers into the world of utopian visions, practical or otherwise.
- Test Your Online Privacy Protection with EFF's Panopticlick
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
The Electronic Frontier Foundation launched new online tracker-testing in its Panopticlick tool today, helping you analyze the privacy protections in your Web browser. New Feature Analyzes Your Web Browser and Add-Ons for Successful Tracker Block
- Utopias
Introduction to the December 19, 2015 issue of Other Voices
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Utopian visions, be they practical or not, free our imaginations, if only for a little while, from the daily grind of struggle and worry, and allow us to dream about the kind of world we would hope to live in. Such dreams can inspire us and guide us, even if they are not always quite practical.
- Reversing Enbridge & Big Oil's Pipeline Plans
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
The National Academy of Sciences is skewering the industry's 'oil is oil' talking point -- making it clear that diluted bitumen is a different beast altogether and needs to be treated as such. The agonizingly slow and costly Kalamazoo River spill cleanup in Michigan made many of these points clear. Yet, the tar sands industry has continued to insist that diluted bitumen creates no deeper environmental threat as they push for unsustainable growth. While Keystone XL is off the table, there are numerous other projects being considered that extend the unique pipeline problems of dilbit into communities across North America.
- Open Your Mind, Change Your Life and Get Hypnotized for the 12th Annual World Hypnotism Day, January 4, 2016
Sources News Release
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First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Hypno Healing Institute is offering an open house and a workshop to celebrate the 12h Annual World Hypnotism Day. The public is invited to attend the event, which will be held Monday, January 4, 2016. The open house is from 2:30 p.m. to 5:30 p.m.
- Assange's Battle: A Fight for Democracy
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Whistle-blowers have become dissidents of the West. In the US, the crackdown on journalists and publishers has reached its height. Despite his campaign pledge to be "the most transparent administration", President Obama engaged in unprecedented persecution of whistle-blowers, worse than all other previous administrations combined. Those who communicate with the press and reveal the secrets of the deep state are seen as insider threats. They have become enemies of the state, often treated as traitors and criminalized.
- Everyone is the Mother of Victory
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First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Everyone is the mother of victory; No one is the father of defeat. Do we claim COP21 as a success, and risk watching it being used by fossil fuel failures to carry on burning humanity, and so become complicit in defeat?
- Poisoning the Well
Special Report: Toxic Firefighting Foam Has Contaminated U.S. Drinking Water With PFCS
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First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Lori Cervera had always been an active person. She liked camping, playing outdoors with her kids, and practically lived in her running shoes. She didn’t have much patience for illness. So when she developed a dull ache on her right side in May 2014, Cervera took a few Tylenol and did her best to ignore it. But after a few days in which the pain grew sharper and more intense, she went to the hospital, where a CT scan revealed a mass. To her complete surprise, Cervera, a mother of four and grandmother of two who was 46 at the time, was diagnosed with stage 2 kidney cancer. That July she underwent surgery to remove both the tumor and almost half her right kidney.
- Rally demands end to Toronto Police racial profiling & unwarranted 'status checks'
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Three weeks after the Toronto Police Services were caught red handed doing the work of immigration enforcement, concerned residents are gathering at the Toronto Police Service Board meeting calling for an end to racial profiling and status checks.
- The IFJ and Al Jazeera sign historical international framework agreement
Sources News Release
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First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) hailed the signing yesterday in Geneva of an historical International Framework Agreement with Al Jazeera Media Network - the first of its kind in the media sector.
- Is Saudi Women's Vote a Step Forward?
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First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
The global press has been heralding the December 13, 2015, vote in Saudi Arabia as a breakthrough for women, since it's the first time in history that Saudi women have been allowed to vote. But is this vote really a significant step forward?
- Paris Climate Deal: How Could They Do This to Us?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
On Sunday morning, 13 December 2015, the 2015 Paris Climate Summit (COP21) finally wound to close as the last decisions were agreed. At almost 1 a.m. observers representing youth, women, labour unions, research centers, indigenous peoples, and business were asked their opinion. Most media had already left COP21. Cleaners were dismantling the massive structures that had been erected to house thousands of conference participants for two weeks plus two overrun days. The Conference of the Parties of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change had finished their work, late as usual and with an usual outcome.
- RSF calls for boycott of China's World Internet Conference
Sources News Release
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First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Reporters Without Borders (RSF) calls on the international community to boycott the second World Internet Conference (WIC) being organized by China, the world's leading "Enemy of the Internet."
- The Secret Behind Donald Trump's Popularity
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
What if I told you about a nativist rally in which a charismatic white man drew a massive crowd of avid followers, using hate speech to whip them into a racist frenzy before pledging to cleanse America of a foreign threat -- all while 1,300 local policemen stood guard outside the building?
- Six Questions About Your Class Location that EverydayFeminism.com Isn't Asking You to Think About
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Solidarity doesn’t exist, like a material object, the way tables and chairs do. Solidarity is the confidence we can sometimes have that others, sharing with us a common enemy and a core of overlapping aspirations, will have our back when we find ourselves under attack, or when we need their support to win a crucial struggle. We don't stumble upon solidarity when poring over statistics; we won't find it by comparing our pay stubs with that of the worker down the street. We forge it in common struggle
- U.S. May Be Salvaging Victory For Jihadists In Syria: How & Why
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First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
According to Britain's Telegraph, in a recent report, the U.S. Tow antitank missiles that U.S. President Barack Obama sent in October to the Islamic Sunni fighters in Syria to use against the forces of the non-sectarian Shiite ruler there, Bashar al-Assad, have been so effective against Russia's forces that Assad had invited in, that Russia-- defending (upon Syria's legal request) President Assad's forces, and attacking the jihadists imported into Syria by the Saudis and the rest of the West -- is now being forced to send into the battle Russia's costly T-90 tanks, which are less vulnerable to America's missiles.
- Why Can't Capitalism Go Green?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
It is more than a quarter of a century since the ruling classes of the world began serious discussions on global warming, in preparation for the 1992 UN-sponsored ‘Earth Summit’ in Rio. Yet no meaningful steps have been taken to tackle the problem, even though the majority of the capitalist establishment has come to understand that something needs to be done. The Paris summit looks very unlikely to break from this pattern. So how can the lack of action be explained?
- Winners and Losers in Our New Media Moment
Donald Trump, Mass Shootings With an Islamic Terrorist Flavor, and the Rise of the "Spectaculection"
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First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Sometimes what matters most takes up every inch of space in the room and somehow we still don’t see it. That’s how I feel about our present media moment.
- Ya'alon Bans "Breaking the Silence"
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First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Israeli Defense Minister Moshe Ya'alon said, on Tuesday, that he had banned Israeli veteran group Breaking the Silence from participating in any official activities with Israeli forces, Israeli media reported.
- Climate deal lacks strategies critical to achieving promised results
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
It's easy to be swept-up in the feeling of accomplishment the COP21 agreement promises, especially with the enthusiastic response of the media, politicians, and celebrities involved. Unfortunately, while it is a victory for so many countries to come together and unanimously agree that something should be done, this is not the first time such promises have been made.
- The computer virus that blackmails you
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Ransomware is the fastest growing form of computer malware, experts warn.
- Failing the Trump Test: Cops for Fascism
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First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Donald Trump just picked up his latest big endorsement: from the New England Policeman’s Benevolent Association, “the fastest-growing law enforcement organization in the northeastern United States” (according to the NEPBA’s website). Addressing the group in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, last Thursday, Trump told his audience that their support represented the most important honor he could possibly receive.
- On Victimless Crime Laws: And a Call to Release All Who Have Been Victimzed by Them
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First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
In recent months, a Seminar on Prisoners' Writings has been meeting in Oakland. The idea of this seminar is to take some of the writings of people politicized by imprisonment, and make their insights available to the movements and the general public.
- TPP a Gift to Plutocrats? Canada's Trade Minister Wrote the Book on Them
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First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Canada's new trade minister has sitting on her desk the sweeping Trans-Pacific Partnership, a deal some say will accelerate the gap between rich and poor by protecting corporations' interests over those of workers and governments.
- The Trans-Pacific Partnership: Implications for Canadian Public Health
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First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
- Uber and the Luddites
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First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
The fight against the sharing economy, and Uber in particular, can be disorienting. Opposition is often painted as techno-phobia. The good guys in this story are Uber and progress; on the other side are opponents afraid of flexibility and smartphones, kicking and screaming against a future already here. In many ways, this is like the fight of the Luddites (machine smashers) 200 years ago at the dawn of the Industrial Revolution. While the Luddites were fighting the way technology was used to further exploit rather than liberate workers, they were and are misrepresented as simply afraid of and opposed to technology.
- At COP21, the world agreed to increase emissions
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First Published: 2015
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Some countries will reduce emissions a little, but other countries will increase them a lot. You would never know this from UN and media reports.
- COP21 An Opportunity For Climate Justice, If We Mobilize
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First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
The COP21 resulted in an agreement that was 25 years in the making, beginning with the Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro in June 1992. Until now the world had been unable to reach an agreement on combating climate change. Now it is up to the people to push for policies at all levels of government to make the Paris Accord effective. We have the potential to use this deal to create a turning point in humanity's struggle for climate justice and end the fossil fuel era, but only if the people mobilize to make it so.
- Why we should feel positive about Paris
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First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
As the final text of the Paris deal was being wrestled into shape, we were standing near the Arc de Triomphe, underneath a huge red line. This stretch of scarlet fabric was one of many held aloft by chanting and singing members of a 15,000-strong crowd. They - we - were there to demand climate justice; to condemn an international deal that we already knew would cross crucial red lines for the climate. Though the deal was a dud, this was no Copenhagen, argue Jess Worth and Danny Chivers.
- WTO is back. And this time, no more Mr Nice Guy
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First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Overtaken by massive regional trade agreements like TPP, TTIP, CETA and TINA, the World Trade Organisation has slipped into the background. But this week it's back with a vengeance, with its first big meeting in two years. The US's plan is to globalise the investment protection regime set out in the TTP, and open a new era of corporate rule and the eradication of democracy.
- Are cows destroying the climate?
Film Review:
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First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
How not to change the world. ‘Cowspiracy’ ignores capitalism and rejects Indigenous peoples’ concerns, while denouncing everyone who eats meat.
- The GMO Dark Act Cannot Survive the Light
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First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
An ardent attempt is afoot on Capitol Hill to prevent states from requiring the labeling of genetically engineered foods – made especially urgent by the fact that Vermont’s labeling bill is set to take effect July 1st.
- How to Change Everything
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Naomi Klein's This Changes Everything is a vital book whose limitations should spark discussion about where we go from here.
- The Urban Green Wars
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Struggling for working-class control of cities is crucial to bringing down carbon emissions.
- What Comes After Capitalism?
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First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Naomi Klein's incisive critique of capitalism is blunted by her unwillingness to point to its replacement.
- Why the Real Target in the Attack on Stop the War is Jeremy Corbyn
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First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Stop the War, of which I am a founder member, was created to oppose the crude war of revenge against Afghanistan in 2001. I remember arguing at the time that the war would be a disaster for Afghans, it would destabilise neighbouring Pakistan and would end without solving anything.
- Citizen-journalist Nguyen Van Dai badly beaten
Sources News Release
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First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Reporters Without Borders (RSF) is shocked by the severe beating that citizen-journalist and cyber-activist Nguyen Van Dai received from plainclothes policemen in Vietnam.
- Coal plant threatens world's largest mangrove forest - and Bangladesh's future
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First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
As COP21 reaches its endgame, there are plans to build 2,440 coal-fired power plants around the worl. Their completion would send global temperatures, and sea levels, soaring. Yet Bangladesh, the world's most 'climate vulnerable' large country, has plans for a 1.3GW coal power plant on the fringes of its World Heritage coastal wetlands.
- RSF decries government inaction in face of attacks on media
Sources News Release
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First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Reporters Without Borders (RSF) condemns the government's failure to respond to a wave of attacks on media outlets throughout Pakistan in recent weeks and the absence of effective measures to protect news organizations and journalists.
- Climate 'academics for hire' conceal fossil fuel funding
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First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Investigative reporters working for Greenpeace UK's Energydesk have uncovered a nexus of senior academics willing to accept large sums of money from fossil fuel companies to write reports and newspaper articles published under their own names and university affiliations, without declaring the funding.
- Community groups and First Nations demand the shutdown of Enbridge's Line 9
Sources News Release
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First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
More than 80 organizations in southern Ontario and Quebec, impacted indigenous communities, as well as national organizations have released a statement letter to the Prime Minister condemning the recent National Energy Board (NEB) approval of Line 9
- Manufacturing Consensus - Hilary Benn's Speech
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First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Everyone laughs when dictators claim 'Victory!' having secured fully 99 per cent of the vote. The deception is so naked, so obvious - nobody is fooled by this supposed 'national consensus'.
- Plusieurs groupes de la société civile et des Premières Nations demandent l’arrêt de la ligne 9 d’Enbridge.
Sources News Release
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First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Plus de 80 groupes de la société civile au Québec et en Ontario, ainsi que des Premières Nations, ont diffusé une lettre adressée au premier ministre qui condamne l’approbation récente du projet de renversement de la ligne 9 d’Enbridge par l’Office national de l’énergie (ONÉ).
- Google Deceptively Tracks Students' Internet Browsing, EFF Says in FTC Complaint
Sources News Release
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First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
EFF Launches 'Spying on Students' Campaign to Raise Awareness About Privacy Risks of School Technology Tools
- Green Parties, Green Future: lessons from history for Green politics
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First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
How can Green parties acquire real political power? A new book by Per Gahrton, founder of the Swedish Green Party, is much more than a useful reference text on the history of Green Parties around the world. It's also a valuable manual in realpolitik that resonates here and now.
- IFIC Welcomes New Member - Fondaction CSN
Sources News Release
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First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Toronto, ON - December 8, 2015 - The Investment Funds Institute of Canada (IFIC) announces that Fondaction CSN has become a member of IFIC, effective today.
- IFJ condemns threats by Libyan official authorities against the journalism community
Sources News Release
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First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) has condemned the threats by the Director of Media and Culture Commission in the Libyan Transition Government, Omar Quary, against the Libyan Cloud News Agency (LCNA)
- The Insanity of the COP: We Must Adopt a Different Vision
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First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
- Iraq: 'Islamic State' atrocities fuelled by decades of reckless arms trading
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First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Decades of poorly regulated arms flows into Iraq as well as lax controls on the ground have provided the armed group calling itself Islamic State (IS) with a large and lethal arsenal that is being used to commit war crimes and crimes against humanity on a massive scale in Iraq and Syria, Amnesty International said in a new report today.
- The Long Game for the Long War
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First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Fourteen years in, and the Terror War is raging on, mass-producing exactly what it was supposed to eliminate: terrorism and chaos. Western intervention has racked up at least six jihadi-overrun failed states throughout the Greater Middle East: Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, Syria, Somalia, and Yemen. The scope and scale of the imposed civilizational meltdown have become so great that the West itself has been increasingly inundated by its wreckage (in the form of refugees) and stung by its shrapnel (in the form of terrorist attacks).
- Other Voices - The Connexions Newsletter - Ecosocialism, environment, and urban gardening
Sources News Release
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First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
The December 5, 2015 issue of Other Voices is now out. This issue of Other Voices covers a wide range of issues, from the climate crisis and the ecosocialist response, to terrorism and the struggle against religious fundamentalism, as well as items on urban gardening, the destruction of olive trees, and how the police are able to use Google's timeline feature to track you every move, now and years into the past.
- RSF launches a change.org petition to pardon Jeffrey Sterling
Sources News Release
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First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Reporters Without Borders (RSF) has launched a petition for Jeffrey Sterling's pardon on change.org. Sterling, a former C.I.A. operative and the latest victim in the Obama administration's war on whistleblowers, was convicted in January.
- Wednesday Hearing in Facebook Case Against Power Ventures
Sources News Release
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First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) will urge a federal appeals court Wednesday to reject Facebook's claims that it's a crime to workaround an IP address block -- an interpretation of the law that could criminalize routine online behaviour.
- The Collaborative Model Takes Root in Alberta's Tar Sands
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First Published: 2015
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Relationship between Big Oil, Enviromental Groups and Government in Alberta Tar Sands.
- Evolving Geopolitical Economic Framework: US vs. China
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First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
The Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank is a game changer in what had been since World War II and Bretton Woods American global financial dominance in facilitating US unilateral market penetration via the preponderant voice in IMF and World Bank operations and policy making, and, equally significant, integrating expanding economic power with an interventionist military underpinning.
- Iraq: Taking stock: The arming of Islamic State
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First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
The armed group calling itself Islamic State (IS) deploys a substantial arsenal of arms and ammunition, designed or manufactured in more than 25 countries. Their military campaign has relentlessly targeted civilians with small arms, artillery fire and improvised explosive devices. This report catalogues the array of weapons, ammunition and other military equipment observed in the possession of IS. Supplier states and the Iraqi authorities urgently need to implement far stricter controls on the transfer, storage and deployment of arms to avoid further proliferation to armed groups and abuses of human rights.
- Letter to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau regarding Line 9
Climate Change and the Line 9B Reversal Project
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First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
A letter from community organizations in southern Ontario and Quebec, impacted Indigenous communities, and national organizations that would like to express adamant opposition to the recent 'Leave to Open' status granted to the Enbridge Line 9B reversal project by the National Energy Board (NEB) of Canada.
- More than equality: reasons to be a feminist socialist
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First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Equality? Feminist socialism has something better in mind: using power to transform hierarchies.
- Playing Right Into ISIS's Hands
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First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Now that we're all supposedly involved in the world battle against the worst enemy since Hitler - not climate change, of course, but Isis - it's time to understand just how the forces of law, order and security, who are supposed to protect us, can do more to recruit European Muslims to the Islamist cause than all the Isis videos combined.
- Israel’s cynical approach is feeding unrest
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First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Once it fell to politicians and diplomats to solve international conflicts. Now, according to Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu, responsibility lies with social media.
- Israel’s cynical approach is feeding unrest
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First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Once it fell to politicians and diplomats to solve international conflicts. Now, according to Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu, responsibility lies with social media.
- Pentagon Hypes 'Surging Sales' for US Missile Makers
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First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
The massive US military industrial complex is struggling to keep up, according to officials, with ever-escalating attacks on various targets across the planet, and growing demands from its various customers looking to build up their assorted missile arsenals for assorted wars.
- Why big NGOs won't lead the fight on climate change
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First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
The cowardly response of prominent climate organizations like 350.org and Avaaz to the protest ban during COP21 demands accountability.
- Hilary Benn's speech The media's war footing on Corbyn and Syria
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First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Britain's media is on a double-war footing. The first war is against Jeremy Corbyn, and is countering the threat that Corbyn's more popular policies may gain even wider support. The second war is for Britain's ongoing right to bomb somewhere whenever elites want.
- I fit the description....
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First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
On my way to get a burrito before work, I was detained by the police. I noticed the police car in the public lot behind Centre Street. As I was walking away from my car, the cruiser followed me. I walked down Centre Street and was about to cross over to the burrito place and the officer got out of the car. "Hey my man," he said. He unsnapped the holster of his gun.
- Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - December 5, 2015
Ecosocialism, environment, and urban gardening
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
This issue of Other Voices covers a wide range of issues, from the climate crisis and the ecosocialist response, to terrorism and the struggle against religious fundamentalism, as well as items on urban gardening, the destruction of olive trees, and how the police are able to use Google's timeline feature to track you every move, now and years into the past.
- Defense Contractors Cite "Benefits" of Escalating Conflicts in the Middle East
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First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Major defense contractors Raytheon, Oshkosh, and Lockheed Martin assured investors at a Credit Suisse conference in West Palm Beach this week that they stand to gain from the escalating conflicts in the Middle East.
- 'Only I and my paper were prosecuted'
Journalist who exposed Turkey's hospitality for jihadists
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First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Jihad fighters are treated in Turkey with state complicity; Journalist Dogu Eroglu of the opposition daily BirGun (One Day) was prosecuted.
- Racism in Australia: from 1788 to stopping the boats
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First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
When the First Fleet sailed into Port Jackson on January 26, 1788, it carried more than the physical paraphernalia for European settlement. Along with tools, agricultural implements, chains, handcuffs, the cat-o'-nine-tails and gunpowder, the colonists brought with them an entrenched world-view.
- Advancing Food Sovereignty to Transform Economies
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First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Food sovereignty can transform local, national, and regional markets to support countries’ domestic economies and allow us to create wealth, both in production and knowledge.
- Gun Industry Executives Say Mass Shootings Are Good for Business
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First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Behind closed doors, speaking with investors and Wall Street analysts, the gun industry views mass shootings as an opportunity to make lots of money.
- Horror Beyond Description: Noam Chomsky on the Latest Phase of the War on Terror
An interview with Noam Chomsky
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First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Does the "war on terror" make sense? Is it an effective policy? And how different is the current phase of the "war on terror" from the two previous phases that occurred under Ronald Reagan and George W. Bush's administrations, respectively? Moreover, who really benefits from the "war on terror"? And what's the link between the US military-industrial complex and war making?
- Murray Bookchin -- Anarchism without the Working Class
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First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Murray Bookchin was an influential and prolific writer and thinker on anarchism. While he made significant contributions, Wayne Price agrues that he made a major error in rejecting the working class as important for an anarchist revolution. This article reviews why he believed this and why, on the contrary, the working class must be a major force for a successful anarchist revolution.
- The Rise of the Illegitimate Authority of Transnational Corporations
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Transnational corporations are demanding the right to what they call "competitiveness": lower taxes, control over lawmaking, and the right to sue governments for affecting profits. In her new book, Shadow Sovereigns: How Global Corporations are Seizing Power, Susan George shines a light on the secret corporate coalitions that are influencing critical government decisions and posing a direct threat to democracy.
- Ian Angus: COP21, the climate crisis, and ecosocialism
An interview with Ian Angus
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First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
An interview with Climate & Capitalism editor Ian Angus. Angus says 'The environmental question is the most important problem that we face in the 21st century: If we don’t recognize its centrality, our politics will be irrelevant.'
- Today's Trumbo: Try telling academic critics of Israel McCarthyism is behind us
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
"Trumbo," starring Bryan Cranston as Academy Award-winning Hollywood screenwriter Dalton Trumbo, tells the sordid and tragic story of the anti-communist witch hunt commonly referred to as the "Red Scare," which involved the interrogation and prosecution of suspected communists. Its instrument in Congress was the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC), created in 1938 and not officially disbanded until 1975, which subpoenaed individuals, put them on the stand, and demanded that they answer one key question, "Are you, or have you ever been, a member of the Communist Party?"
- Activists Track Down Racist Trolls Who Thought They Were Anonymous and Brilliantly Embarrass Them
A Brazilian group is turning racist social media messages into signs everyone can see.
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Recently, the Cleveland Plain Dealer announced it had turned off comments on stories about Tamir Rice because "just about every piece we published about Tamir immediately became a cesspool of hateful, inflammatory or hostile comments."
- Climate Technofix: Weaving Carbon into Gold and Other Myths of "negative emissions"
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First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
When the IPCC (International Panel on Climate Change) published their most recent fifth assessment report, something surprising and deeply disturbing was lurking in the small print in chapter three on “mitigation”.
- LA Theses
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Notes on class struggles, conflicts and unification.
- Reconstructing Marx's Critique of Political Economy from His London Notebooks
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Book review: Lucia Pradella, Globalization and the Critique of Political Economy: New Insights from Marx’s Writings (London: Routledge, 2015), 218 pages, $160, hardback.
- Deadliest Terror in the World: The West's Latest Gift to Africa
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Nigeria's Boko Haram are now officially the deadliest terror group in the world. That they have reached this position is a direct consequence of Cameron and Co's war on Libya - and one that was perhaps not entirely unintended.
- Facts Back Russia on Turkish Attack
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First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Turkey claims its November 24, 2015 shoot-down of a Russian warplane along the Syrian border was justified -- and the Obama administration is publicly siding with its NATO ally -- but a review of the evidence supports Russian accusations of an "ambush." The evidence from the Turkish authorities themselves thus leaves little room for doubt that the decision to shoot down the Russian jet was made before the Russian jets even began their flight.
- 70,000 Kalashnikovs: Cameron's "Moderate" Rebels
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First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Not since Hitler ordered General Walther Wenck to send his non-existent 12th Army to rescue him from the Red Army in Berlin has a European leader believed in military fantasies as PR Dave Cameron did last week. Telling the House of Commons about the 70,000 "moderate" fighters deployed in Syria was not just lying in the sense that Tony Blair lied - because Blair persuaded himself to believe in his own dishonesty - but something approaching burlesque. It was whimsy - ridiculous, comic, grotesque, ludicrous. It came close to a unique form of tragic pantomime.
- TD Visa customers' browsing activities open to 'surveillance' by bank
Bank denies collecting general information about what customers do online
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First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
A B.C. man decided to Go Public after discovering Canada's second-biggest bank can access and collect information on all of its customers' online activities, including those that aren't banking-related.
- Zionist Power: Swindlers and Impunity, Traitors and Pardons
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Over two decades ago, Harvard political science professor, Samuel Huntington, argued that global politics would be defined by a 'clash of civilizations'. His theories have found some of the most aggressive advocates among militant Zionists, inside Israel and abroad.
- Arthur Topham's Political Beliefs May Just Be Illegal
The Extraordinary Trial of Arthur Topham: Part 3
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First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
On November 7, 2015, Arthur Topham was convicted of inciting hatred against a racial group, the Jewish people. Mr. Topham maintains a website, Radical Free Press, in which he publishes and comments upon various documents. These documents include The Elders of the Protocols of Zion, various anti-Zionist texts, and a tract entitled Germany Must Perish, first published in 1941 and then satirized by Mr. Topham as Israel Must Perish.
- Ayatollah BBC and #ExMuslimBecause
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First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Whilst we mourn our dead in Paris, we must not forget the countless others killed by ISIS and Islamists, including this very month in Lebanon, Nigeria, Mali, Iraq, Egypt, Bangladesh, Pakistan, Afghanistan... as well as those executed perfectly legally via Sharia laws in Iran, Saudi Arabia... The refugee crisis is in large part due to this unbridled brutality. In fact, if there ever was a "right" time to challenge Islam and Islamism, it is now.
- Bahraini photographer sentenced to ten years in prison
Sources News Release
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First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
A Bahraini criminal court has sentenced freelance photographer Sayed Ahmed Al Mousawi to 10 years in prison on a terrorism charge and has stripped him of his nationality. Reporters Without Borders condemns this arbitrary trial of a journalist who just covered pro-democracy demonstrations.
- Black November for journalists in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Reporters Without Borders condemns Pakistani journalist Hafeez Ur Rehman's murder on 22 November in Kohat, a city in the northwestern province of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. He was the second journalist to be murdered in this province in less than a month.
- EU urged to press Erdogan to free newspaper editor
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Reporters Without Borders (RSF) appeals to the European Union and to all its member states to use a summit with Turkey in Brussels on 29 November to demand the release of Can Dündar, the editor of the daily Cumhuriyet, and Erdem Gül, his Ankara bur
- Gen. John Campbell, Commander in Afghanistan and Serial Liar
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
After weeks of lies, the Obama administration and the Pentagon, unable to find any way to explain their murderous hour-long AC-130 gunship assault on and destruction of a Doctors Without Borders-run hospital in Kunduz, Afghanistan, have turned to a new lie: they bombed the wrong building.
- How Cops Use 'Psychopaths and Liars' and Often Become Them to Achieve Their Goals
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Does using criminals or actually becoming them, justify the path to security? American law enforcement tends to think so.
- I know Isis fighters. Western bombs falling on Raqqa will fill them with joy
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Militants in Syria dream of a big showdown with the US and Europe. There are other ways to defeat them.
- IFJ condemns cyber-bullying against female journalists ahead of the UN Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Each year, the International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) and its Gender Council stand in solidarity with the UN Campaign to Eliminate Violence Against Women on Nov 25 by highlighting its campaign to eliminate violence against women journalists
- The IFJ denounces the use of anti-terrorism law against Tunisian media
Sources News Release
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First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) and its affiliate the National Union of Tunisian Journalists (SNJT) have expressed their concerns over the use by the Tunisian government of the anti-terrorism law to muzzle media.
- IFJ and EFJ urge Turkey to immediately release journalists Can Dündar and Erdem Gül
Sources News Release
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First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
The International and European Federations of Journalists (IFJ and EFJ) today called on the Turkish authorities to immediately release journalists Can Dündar and Erdem Gül and to drop all charges against them.
- IFJ joins Palestinian journalists in discussing the role of media in covering conflicts
Sources News Release
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First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
A delegation of the International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) joined yesterday in Ramallah city the national conference organised by the Palestinian Journalists' Syndicate (PJS) on the 'Role of Media in Covering Conflicts'.
- Onlinecensorship.org Tracks Content Takedowns by Facebook, Twitter, and Other Social Media Sites
Sources News Release
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First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) and Visualizing Impact launched Onlinecensorship.org on November 19, 2015, a new platform to document the who, what, and why of content takedowns on social media sites.
- Other Voices - The Connexions Newsletter - Climate Change and Social Change
Sources News Release
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First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
The November 21, 2015 issue of Other Voices is now out. This issue spotlights climate change, the escalating crisis that the upcoming Paris climate conference is supposed to address.
- Police Ripped Off More Stuff Than Burglars Did Last Year
Civil asset forfeiture is big business for cops
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First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Law enforcement use of asset forfeiture laws to seize property -- often without a criminal conviction or even an arrest -- has gone through the roof in recent years, and now the cops are giving the criminals a run for their money, and winning.
- Rosa Luxemburg - From Street Organizer to Street Name
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First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Overview of the life of Rosa Luxemburg.
- Shock, outrage as Saudi Arabia sentences Palestinian poet to death
Sources News Release
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First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
PEN International, English PEN and PEN American Center strongly condemn the Saudi Arabian authorities' decision to sentence Palestinian poet Ashraf Fayadh to death for apostasy, and call for his immediate release.
- Climate and competitiveness in the tar sands
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First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Anytime the oil barons and baronesses are smiling for the cameras with NGOs and politicians, we should at least be interested, if not outright worried. Was the release of Alberta’s new climate change strategy just an occasion for the oil execs to ham it up for the cameras pretending all is well or do they have truly something to be smiling about?
- The spread of Wahhabism, and the West's responsibility to the world
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First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
In 2013, the European Union declared Wahhabism the main source of global terrorism. But it's not just a "Middle East problem"; it is our problem, too.
- Turkish newspaper editor in court for 'espionage' after revealing weapon convoy to Syrian militants
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First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
The prosecution has asked to imprison Editor-in-chief of Cumhuriyet newspaper pending trial for espionage and treason. In May, the outlet published photos of weapons it said were then transferred to Syria by Turkey's intelligence agency. Turkish national intelligence is smuggling weapons into Syria and has been caught in the past.
- Challengers vow to publish Anne Frank diaries as foundation moves to keep control of copyright
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First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Charity that guards world-renowned account of a Jewish girl's life in hiding from the Nazis says copyright - which some argue ends this year - extends from father's death.
- NGOs condemn sentencing of Bahraini photographer to ten years in prison
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First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Award-winning photographer Sayed Ahmed al-Mousawi was sentenced on Monday, 23 November 2015, to 10 years in prison and had his nationality revoked, along with 12 others, after covering a series of demonstrations in early 2014.
- 1904-1924: 'The North American Indian'
One man's vision of a continent of cultures
Resource Type: Photo/Image/Poster
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
With J. P. Morgan's funding, Edward Sheriff Curtis spent more than 20 years crisscrossing North America, creating over 40,000 images of more than 80 different tribes. They conceived a 20-volume series, called The North American Indian.
- Orange the World: End Violence Against Women and Girls
Sources News Release
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First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Today, on International Day to End Violence Against Women and Girls, the International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) stands in solidarity with its Asia Pacific affiliates on the issue of violence against women working in the media.
- The Soothsayers of Eternal War
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First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Eisenhower famously sent some brusque advice to Anthony Eden in 1956 when he decided that Britain's deceitful war in Egypt should come to an end. "Whoa, boy!" were his words. And they should be repeated now to the politicians, historians and other nincompoops who regard themselves as the soothsayers of eternal war.
- State of Emergency in Crimea
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First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Late on November 21, 2015, right-wing extremists in Ukraine severed the four electricity lines which transmit electricity from Ukraine to Crimea. The terrorist attacks, using explosives, cut domestic electricity service to much of Crimea's population of 2.3 million.
- Stronger Locks, Better Security
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First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
What if, in response to the terrorist attacks in Paris, or cybersecurity attacks on companies and government agencies, the FBI had come to the American people and said: In order to keep you safe, we need you to remove all the locks on your doors and windows and replace them with weaker ones. It's because, if you were a terrorist and we needed to get to your house, your locks might slow us down or block us entirely. So Americans, remove your locks! And American companies: stop making good locks!
- 'They know how it’s done': Turkey violated Greek airspace 2,244 times in 2014 alone
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First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Turkish claims that the downed Russian Su-24 jet "violated" its airspace have sparked outrage among Greeks, who took to social media to say it is a clear-cut case of double standards as Turkish jets breached Greek airspace 2,244 times in 2014 alone.
- Brussels 'Revolving Door' Keeps Relationship Cozy Between Big Energy and EU Decision Makers
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First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
The Brussels 'revolving door' has allowed Big Energy to remain close to European climate and energy decision makers ahead of December's Paris COP21 climate talks, a new report shows.
- Five tests for action in Syria that fail the challenge of beating Isis
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First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
'We are alarmed that the government appears to be ready to embark on a campaign of airstrikes in Syria ... that does not seem to be part of a thought-through military, political and social strategy for the region,' write professors from the University of Oxford and Soas, University of London.
- How 'twisted' early childhood education has become - from a child development expert
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First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Nancy Carlsson-Paige is an early childhood development expert who has been at the forefront of the debate on how best to educate -- and not educate -- the youngest students. She is a professor emerita of education at Lesley University in Cambridge, MA, where she taught teachers for more than 30 years and was a founder of the university’s Center for Peaceable Schools. She is also a founding member of a nonprofit called Defending the Early Years, which commissions research about early childhood education and advocates for sane policies for young children.
- The incredible plan to make money grow on trees
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First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
One of the most cutting-edge projects to tackle climate change is being pioneered in one of the most remote, undeveloped countries on earth. Does it have any hope of succeeding?
- 'It's a New Day': Why Environmentalists Need to Change Their Strategy Under Trudeau Government
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First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Now that Justin Trudeau and the Liberals have taken the helm, advocates have high hopes for a course correction on the environment and energy files. But after nearly a decade of working under hostile conditions, environmentalists need to make a course correction of their own if they want to effectively influence public policy, experts say.
- Stupid Patent of the Month: Infamous Prison Telco Patents Asking Third-Parties for Money
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First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Plenty of businesses rely on third-party payers: parents often pay for college; insurance companies pay most health care bills. Reaching out to potential third-party payers is hardly a new or revolutionary business practice. But someone should tell the Patent Office. Earlier this year, it issued US Patent No. 9,026,468 to Securus Technologies, a company that provides telephone services to prisoners. The patent covers a method of "proactively establishing a third-party payment account." In other words, Securus patented the idea of finding someone to pay a bill.
- The tawdry fall of the Postmedia newspaper empire
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First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
It was the morning of Friday, June 22, 2012. Murphy, The Province's long-time staff cartoonist, was meeting with Moriarty in the editor's office on the fifth floor of the paper's headquarters on Granville Street in downtown Vancouver. The discussion between Murphy and Moriarty was heated; after all, Moriarty was informing Murphy that an animation the cartoonist had produced was being pulled off the web.
- WTO Ruling on Dolphin-Safe Tuna Labeling Illustrates Supremacy of Trade Agreements
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First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
International trade deals like the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) need to be carefully examined piece by piece because they can take precedence over a country's own laws.
- #BrusselsLockdown - When a hashtag is hijacked
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First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
When police in Belgium asked Brussels locals to stop tweeting about police activities, they accidentally started a grassroots campaign that ended up destroying a hashtag. The culprit: cat pictures.
- ISIS Thrives on the Disunity of Its Enemies
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
The aftermath of terrorist attacks such as the massacre in Paris are a bad time to produce new policies, but they provide ideal political conditions for a government to take radical, if ill-thought-out, initiatives. Leaders are carried away by a heady sense of empowerment as a worried or frightened public demands that something be done in response to calamity and to prevent it happening again. The moment of greatest risk is not when the bombs explode or the guns fire, but when governments react to these atrocities.
- They Sow the Cyclone - We Reap the Blowback
How Uncle Sam Seeded Global Jihad & Cultivates It to This Day
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First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
It may be surprising to hear, but it is a plain historical fact that modern international jihad originated as an instrument of US foreign policy. The "great menace of our era" was built up by the CIA to wage a proxy war against the Soviets.
- Anger rises as Brazilian mine disaster threatens river and sea with toxic mud
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First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Conservationists and engineers battle to reduce the ecological fallout as mud and iron-ore residue from the BHP Billiton-Vale dam collapse flows down the Rio Doce to the Atlantic.
- Why Do Jihadis Seem So Evil?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
The day before the Paris carnage, two suicide bombers killed at least 40 people in a Shia district of Beirut. The week after, two suicide bombings of street markets in Nigeria killed 49 people. Faced with such atrocities, we can often do little but reach for adjectives such as 'barbarous', 'depraved', or even 'evil'. But what is it that makes people act in such depraved, evil ways?
- Climate change and social change
Introduction to the November 21, 2015 issue of Other Voices
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First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Climate change is not a single problem: it is a product of an economic system whose driving force is the need to grow and accumulate. Nor does it affect everyone equally: those with wealth and power can buy themselves what they need to continue living comfortably for years to come -- everything from air conditioning to food to police and soldiers to protect their secure bubbles -- while those who are poor and powerless find their lives increasingly impossible.
- Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - November 21, 2015
Climate Change and Social Change
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
This issue of Other Voices spotlights climate change, the escalating crisis that the upcoming Paris climate conference is supposed to address. But climate change is not a single problem: it is a product of an economic system whose driving force is the need to grow and accumulate. Nor does it affect everyone equally: those with wealth and power can buy themselves what they need to continue living comfortably for years to come - everything from air conditioning to food to police and soldiers to protect their secure bubbles - while those who are poor and powerless find their lives increasingly impossible. A serious effort to address climate change therefore means social change and economic change.
- Paris terrorists operated "in plain sight"
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First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Reports over the past several days have revealed that most of the Islamists who engaged in the suicide attacks in Paris were known to the French and Belgian security services well before November 13. But no intelligence or police agency took action against them to prevent the murderous rampage.
- The tremendous success of agroecology in Africa
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First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
A quiet revolution has been working its way across Africa. Agroecological farming, constantly adapting to local needs, customs, soils and climates, has been improving nutrition, reducing poverty, combatting climate change, and enriching farmland.
- Why the United States Leaves Deadly Chemicals on the Market
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First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Scientists are trained to express themselves rationally. They avoid personal attacks when they disagree. But some scientific arguments become so polarized that tempers fray.
- Zionist Theatre
From Zundel to Topham
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First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
The trials of Arthur Topham, Canadian journalist and publisher of Radical Press, for "hate crime" (2007) and "hate propaganda" (2012) under new Criminal Code "Hate Propaganda" legislation, have resulted in exactly the opposite of what the prosecution and B'Nai Brith, wanted. Instead of quietly muzzling the gadfly critic, the result has been the highlighting of past Jewish hate crimes, and the increasing control by Zionist groups of Canadian politics to promote Israel and censor anti-Zionist criticism.
- Climate crisis: seaweed, coffee and cement could save the planet
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First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Greenhouse gas levels are on track to exceed the worst-case scenario. But, as world leaders meet in Paris for the UN climate summit this month, Tim Flannery argues that there are still realistic grounds for hope.
- Energy Revolution Is Possible... And It Would Only Take 782 Rich People To Pay For It
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First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Fewer than 800 of the world's wealthiest people could power half the world with 100 percent renewable energy within 15 years, report says.
- Hang Onto Your Wallets: Negative Interest, the War on Cash and the $10 Trillion Bail-in
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
If you’re an ordinary saver with your money in the bank, you may soon be paying the bank to hold your funds rather than the reverse.
- Restoring a safe climate: Impossible dream or dangerous distraction?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Green house gases are at a level where drastic and far-reaching measures need
to be implemented; however authors caution against invoking emergency measures
that involve geo-engineering.
- Shock, outrage as Saudi Arabia sentences Palestinian poet to death
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
PEN International, English PEN and PEN American Center strongly condemn the Saudi Arabian authorities' decision to sentence Palestinian poet Ashraf Fayadh to death for apostasy.
- What's really at stake at the Paris climate conference now marches are banned
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First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
The decision to ban demonstrations at the Paris Climate Conference in the wake of the attacks will marginalize those who are most affected by climate change.
- The Dignity of Chartism
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First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Dorothy Thompson's writing on Chartism showed early working-class politics as it really was, a real challenge to the ruling class of the time, says John Westmoreland.
- Former Drone Operators Say They Were "Horrified" By Cruelty of Assassination Program
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First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
U.S. drone operators are inflicting heavy civilian casualties and have developed an institutional culture callous to the death of children and other innocents, four former operators said at a press briefing in New York.
- Israel divides the Jews
Reform Judaism vs Israel
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First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Something significant recently happened in the ongoing political-ethical drama that grips Israel. Rabbi Rick Jacobs, the president of the Union for Reform Judaism publicly broke with Israel's political and religious leadership.
- 'Shooting to Kill:' Operation Get Corbyn
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First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
As David Cameron talks tough on shooting terrorists on Britain's streets, bombing Syria, shooting off nuclear weapons at unnamed enemies, over half of the Labour Party's MPs in the House of Commons gaze in admiration, open mouthed, wondering why their leader couldn't be more like that.
- Anti-Syrian Muslim Refugee Rhetoric Mirrors Calls to Reject Jews During Nazi Era
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First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
During the 1930s and early 1940s, the United States resisted accepting large numbers of Jewish refugees escaping the Nazi terror sweeping Europe, in large part because of fearmongering by a small but vocal crowd. In recent days, similar arguments are being resurrected to reject Syrian refugees.
- From Paris to Boston, Terrorists Were Already Known to Authorities
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First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Whenever a terrorist attack occurs, it never takes long for politicians to begin calling for more surveillance powers. Officials in the United Kingdom and the United States have been among those arguing that more surveillance of Internet communications is necessary to prevent further atrocities.
- NYT Editorial Slams "Disgraceful" CIA Exploitation of Paris Attacks, But Submissive Media Role Is Key
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First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
A truly superb New York Times editorial this morning mercilessly shames the despicable effort by U.S. government officials to shamelessly exploit the Paris attacks to advance long-standing agendas.
- Overwhelmed NSA Surprised to Discover Its Own Surveillance "Goldmine" on Venezuela's Oil Executives
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First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
A top-secret National Security Agency document, dated 2011, describes how, by "sheer luck," an analyst was able to access the communications of top officials of Venezuela's state-owned oil company, Petróleos de Venezuela.
- Prelude to Paris: Four Tragic Tactics by President Obama and Four Climate Justice Proposals He Must Support
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First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
In December 2015 the world's governments meet in Paris for a truly historic event -- the United Nations Framework Climate Change Conference. (UNFCCC). The objective of the conference is to protect Mother Earth from the assault of its most ungrateful inhabitants. The challenge is whether Homo sapiens, especially those of the ruling classes of the United States and Europe, can be civilized by the rest of the world before it is too late for all of us.
- Some popular fallacies about Islamism
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First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Al-Qaeda and its most recent clone, the so-called "Islamic State" group, did not come about as a result of the invasion of Iraq or the civil war in Syria. It was born out of the unholy alliance between America and the Wahhabi zealots of Saudi Arabia to defeat communism and bring down the Soviet Union.
- COP21, Paris: 'Another world is possible, necessary and urgent'
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First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
The greatest danger of the Paris conference is that the global South will be bullied into to accepting a terrible deal rather than leave with none at all. That gives civil society an essential role - to support the resistance of developing country representatives inside the summit to an unjust and ineffective agreement imposed on them by the rich, powerful, high-emitting nations.
- Islamic State's Goal: "Eliminating the Grayzone" of Coexistence Between Muslims and the West
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
In a statement published in its online magazine, Dabiq, this February, the militant group the Islamic State warned that "Muslims in the West will soon find themselves between one of two choices." Weeks earlier, a massacre had occurred at the Paris offices of the satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo. The attack stunned French society, while bringing to the surface already latent tensions between French Muslims and their fellow citizens.
- Shadows of Algeria: the Lost Context of the Paris Attacks
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First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
It wasn't just one of the attackers who vanished after the Paris massacre. Three nations whose history, action - and inaction - help to explain the slaughter by Isis have largely escaped attention in the near-hysterical response to the crimes against humanity in Paris: Algeria, Saudi Arabia and Syria.
- U.S. Mass Surveillance Has No Record of Thwarting Large Terror Attacks, Regardless of Snowden Leaks
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First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Despite the intelligence community's attempts to blame NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden for the tragic attacks in Paris on Friday, the NSA's mass surveillance programs do not have a track record of identifying or thwarting actual large-scale terrorist plots.
- The Agony of Saada
U.S. and Saudi Bombs Target Yemen's Ancient Heritage
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First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
In addition to the growing number of civilian casualties in the country's seven-month-long war, U.S.-made bombs dropped by fighter jets from a Saudi Arabian-led coalition are pulverizing Yemen's architectural history. These airstrikes are tearing villages apart, forcibly displacing thousands and erasing the country's inimitable heritage, according to the world heritage body, UNESCO.
- Corporate Sycophants and the TPP
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First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
The hypocrisy of "free market" advocates is astounding. While they trumpet increased competition and the elimination of state imposed barriers as a means of spurring economic advancement, they ignore how the Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP) and other "free trade" accords increase monopolistic intellectual property provisions.
- John Cusack and Arundhati Roy: Things That Can and Cannot Be Said
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
A conversation With Arundhati Roy.
- Living in Pitiless Times: Baghdad, Beirut and Paris
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First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
A week of horrible carnage -- bomb blasts in Beirut and Baghdad and then the cold-blooded shootings in Paris. Each of these acts of terror left dead bodies and wounded lives. There is nothing good that comes of them – only the pain of the victim and then more pain as powerful people take refuge in clichéd policies that once again turn the wheel of violence. How does one react to these incidents? Horror and outrage come first. They are instinctual.
- Only When We See the War Criminals In Our Midst Will the Blood Begin to Dry
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
In transmitting President Richard Nixon's orders for a "massive" bombing of Cambodia in 1969, Henry Kissinger said, "Anything that flies on everything that moves". As Barack Obama ignites his seventh war against the Muslim world since he was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, the orchestrated hysteria and lies make one almost nostalgic for Kissinger's murderous honesty.
- Paris terror attacks - who profits?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
The attacks in Paris are placed in a geo-political context of France, Saudi Arabia, Russia and Syria.
- Terrorist Attacks in Paris: Can Tragedy Bring Change?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Paris has now suffered the sort of attacks that are familiar to Beirut or to Russia. The big question is: what next? Will this fear cause people to wake up to reality and think clearly?
- Time for a national conversation on TPP's Investment Chapter
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Now that the legal text of the Transpacific Partnership Agreement (TPP) has been released it is time for a national discussion to begin. The new Liberal government has announced that there will be a 'full and open public debate in Parliament' regarding its terms. Much of the controversy has turned on questions of supply management and the auto sector. Yet there is much more in this pact that is not about trade and this includes conferring upon foreign investors special rights, many of which are well beyond those available under Canadian law. For investors making their home in TPP signatory countries outside of Canada, they are entitled to sue Canada for damages when their rights are adversely affected.
- Why States of Emergency and Extreme Security Measures Won't Stop ISIS
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
There is little sign that the G20 leaders gathered in Turkey have understood the nature of the conflict in which they are engaged. ISIS's military strategy is a unique combination of urban terrorism, guerrilla tactics and conventional warfare. In the past, many states have used terrorism against opponents, but, in the case of ISIS, suicide squads focusing on soft civilian targets at home and abroad are an integral part of its war-making strategy.
- After Paris
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Some have seen the terrorism as the consequence of French foreign policy in Syria. Yet we should be wary of seeing these attacks as a response, however perverted, to French, or Western, foreign policy. The terrorists did not target symbols of the French state, or of French militarism. They did not even target tourist spots. They targeted, rather, the areas and the places where mainly young, anti-racist, multiethnic Parisians hang out. What the terrorists despised, what they tried to eliminate, were ordinary people, drinking, eating, laughing, mixing. That is what they hated - not so much the French state as the values of diversity and pluralism.
- Exploiting Emotions About Paris to Blame Snowden, Distract from Actual Culprits Who Empowered ISIS
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Whistleblowers are always accused of helping America's enemies (top Nixon aides accused Daniel Ellsberg of being a Soviet spy and causing the deaths of Americans with his leak); it's just the tactical playbook that's automatically used. So it's of course unsurprising that ever since Edward Snowden's whistleblowing enabled newspapers around the world to report on secretly implemented programs of mass surveillance, he has been accused by "officials" and their various media allies of Helping The Terrorists.
- The Neoconservative Threat to World Order
Washington's Perilous War for Hegemony
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Paul Craig Roberts explores the extreme dangers in Washington's imposition of vassalage on other countries and Washington's resurrection of distrust among nuclear powers, the very distrust that Reagan and Gorbachev worked to eliminate. Roberts explains how the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991 removed the only check on Washington's ability to act unilaterally.
- Why China's super-rich are now eager to invest in philanthropy
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
The country's wealthy elite chase recognition and status by splashing cash on museums and schools, but there may also be a less idealistic motive behind their largesse.
- The Extraordinary Trial of Arthur Topham
Part II
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
On November 12th, 2015 the jury found Arthur Topham guilty of "inciting hate." This leads to a few questions.
- The one thing that won't stop terror is more war
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First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Provoking retaliation is a key part of the jihadists' strategy, writes Alex Nunns - we need a different approach.
- Down With U.S. Imperialism's Anti-China Trade Pact!
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
If it is ratified, the TPP will be the largest trade agreement in history, encompassing at least 40 percent of the world’s gross domestic product and one-third of all global trade. Japan and the more minor imperialist countries Canada and Australia have been cut in on the deal -- and competing European powers cut out -- but it is the U.S. rulers who hold the whip hand. Under the banner of "free trade," the TPP aims to drive up the exploitation of labour across the board while increasing imperialist domination of dependent countries. Above all, this agreement targets China, escalating the U.S. bourgeoisie's drive to promote capitalist counterrevolution there through economic pressure and military encirclement.
- Information is Everywhere and Everywhere We are Ignorant
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
An international survey of young people in the US and other countries asked 56 questions about geography and current events. The organization’s survey discovered that about 87% of Americans could not place Iraq on the map. Americans could find on average only seven of the 16 countries in the quiz. Only 71% of the surveyed Americans could locate the Pacific Ocean, the world’s largest body of water.
- America's poorest white town: abandoned by coal, swallowed by drugs
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First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Chris McGreal reports from one of the most economically deprived places in the United States, and talks to people who are trying to cope with being left behind by the American Dream.
- A Call For A Fair Shares Agreement: Will Justice Prevail in Paris?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
For most people the word justice conjures up images of superheroes and supreme courts. It seems a grand notion with little bearing on the practicalities of daily life. And when applied to the climate crisis it seems even less comprehensible. But the shocking thing about climate justice is that not only can it be calculated -- it can be achieved.
- Fightback in Korea
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
In a climate of increasing repression, the Park Geun-hye government in South Korea is launching the latest in its series of attacks on working people. A retrograde labour reform plan is being set in motion that promises to drive down wages and undermine job security. There is broad and determined resistance to the plan, and workers and farmers are taking the battle to the streets.
- Fossil Fuel Industry Benefits from $20 Billion in Subsidies in the U.S.
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First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
A new joint investigative report by Oil Change International and the Overseas Development Institute reveals that, in the United States alone, the fossil fuel industry has benefited from over $20 billion per year in government subsidies between 2008-2015.
- Marc Morano's Climate Hustle Film Set For Paris Premiere With Same Old Denial Myths
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Marc Morano is never short of a superlative or two, but when it has come to promoting his long-gestating documentary Climate Hustle, the climate science denialist extraodinaire has been outdoing himself.
- Environmental racism in the US - black communities fight for justice
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Landfill sites, giant hog farms, incinerators and other 'bad neighbor' industries in the US tend to be situated in African American communities. The Environmental Protection Agency is legally obliged to prevent 'environmental racism', but from California to Michigan, low-income communities of color have been waiting years for it to take a stand. Now, backed by Earthjustice, they are forcing the issue - in the courts.
- Lest We Forget: Tar Sands and War
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Over the past decade, Canada has been a war profiteer and fuel tank for the US military, who have killed well over a million people since the turn of the new millennium.
- Police Torture and the Real Militarization of Society
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
What rights can we still say we have, if we find ourselves trapped in a military structure? A person has the right to remain silent if arrested, but one does not have the right to remain silent if approached by the police on the street with the demand that one respond. That would constitute being "uncooperative." Neither does one have the right to protect one's property from the police.
- The Wages of Whiteness is Early Death
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First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
The white working class has never had it easy in American history. It's been viciously exploited, disrespected, deceived, divided, repressed, and otherwise and generally abused from the United States' colonial origins through the present day.
- Jeremy Corbyn is right to reject Trident
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First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Jeremy Corbyn has come under attack yesterday for his refusal to countenance the use of nuclear weapons. But his stance is honourable and both legally and strategically correct - especially with his opposition to renewing the Trident nuclear missile system.
- Only Edward Snowden Can Save James Bond
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Bond is doomed because early in the movie Spectre, the otherwise benevolent Q, muttering something about nanotechnology and microchips, injects him with "smart blood."
- When We Fight, We Fuck Shit Up: Keystone XL and Delegitimizing Fossil Fuels
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Keystone XL had become a household name when over 1200 people participated in two weeks of sit-ins at the White House demanding that Barack Obama reject the pipeline.
- Annex Chess Club Bonfire Swiss
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
From Guy Fawkes celebrations to Irish Samhain to Indian Diwali, it is a good time of year for a bonfire! At Annex Chess Club we're lighting up Monday evenings with our Bonfire Swiss Tournament
- FAJ Condemns the Arrest and Intimidation of Three Journalists in Zimbabwe
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
The Federation of African Journalists (FAJ), the Africa Group of the International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) has condemned the arrest of three journalists from The Sunday Mail in Harare, Zimbabwe on Monday, 2 November, 2015
- Health for All Welcomes Liberal Plan to Reinstate Refugee Health Care
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Health for All applauds the new federal government's pledge to fully restore the Interim Federal Health Program (IFHP) in response to years of public pressure. We look forward to a quick reinstatement of the original program, and hope it is a first step towards providing health coverage for everyone who is uninsured in Canada.
- How Class Kills
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First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
A recent study showing rising mortality rates among middle-aged whites drives home the lethality of class inequality.
- IFJ backs Iraqi affiliate's legal action against closure of media houses in the Kurdistan region
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) today backed its Iraqi Kurdistan affiliate, the Kurdistan Journalists Syndicate (KJS), and its legal action against the security forces in Kurdistan Region of Iraq (KRG), following the shutting down
- IFJ, EFJ and TGS demand an end to oppression of journalists in post-election Turkey
Sources News Release
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First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
The International and European Federations of Journalists (IFJ and EFJ) and their affiliate the Journalists Union of Turkey (TGS) reviewed the implications for journalists and trade union rights following the victory of the Justice and Development
- The phantom election
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First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
The author criticises the elections took place on 1 November 2015 in Turkey.The ruling party AKP took away two millon votes from the fascist party MHP, one million from HDP the predominantly Kurdish party. half a million from SP a fundamentalist Islamist party, the predecessor of the AK, another million from new strata that came to vote at a higher rate this time. The author questions and attempts to explain the discrepancy between the opinion polls and the electoral results.
- Connexions Postcard
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First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
A two-sided Connexions postcard. One side features the Connexions website; the other side features the Connexions Archive.
- Destruction of Palestinian olive trees is a monstrous crime
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First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
The uprooting and cutting down of over a million olive and fruit trees in occupied Palestine since 1967 is an attack on a symbol of life, and on Palestinian culture and survival. A grave crime under international humantarian law, the arboricide is also contrary to Jewish religious teachings.
- The Extraordinary Trial of Arthur Topham
Part I
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First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Five security guards, members of the RCMP, two in bulletproof vests, all entrants pass through metal detectors, undergo a wand search, check all electronics including cell phones and have their bags meticulously scrutinized. Why all the security? The crown was presenting its criminal case against Arthur Topham, for the crime of "hate."
- India's Indigenous Peoples organise to protect forests, waters and commons
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First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
India's neoliberal government is attempting the mass seizure of indigenous lands, commons and forests in order to hand them over for corporate exploitation with mines, dams and plantations. But tribal communities are rising up to resist the takeover, which is not only morally reprehensible but violates India's own laws and international human rights obligations.
- Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - November 7, 2015
Corporate rights treaties
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Our focus is on the corporate rights treaties that are misleadingly sold as trade agreements. In particular, the spotlight is on the Trans-Pacific Partnership, negotiated in secret, and now scheduled to be rubber-stamped by national governments on a take-it-or-leave-it basis. The TPP is best understood as a major milestone in the long-term war waged by the corporate elite against any form of democracy.
- Trade agreements and the corporate war on democracy
Introduction to the November 7, 2015 issue of Other Voices
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First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
The Trans-Pacific Partnership, negotiated in secret, and now scheduled to be rubber-stamped by national governments on a take-it-or-leave-it basis, is best understood as a major milestone in the long-term war waged by the corporate elite against any form of democracy. It gives corporations the power to block any environmental protections or health and safety legislation that could be interpreted as interfering with a corporation's 'right' to make a profit by doing whatever it wants.
- How Law Enforcement Can Use Google Timeline To Track Your Every Move
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First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
The recent expansion of Google's Timeline feature can provide investigators unprecedented access to users' location history data, allowing them in many cases to track a person's every move over the course of years. The expansion of Google's Timeline feature, launched in July 2015, allows investigators to request detailed information about where someone has been -- down to the longitude and latitude -- over the course of years.
- 17 Year Old Canadian Documentary Filmmaker Awarded Kim Phuc Youth Award for Peace
Sources News Release
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First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Kasha Sequoia Slavner, 17 year old filmmaker, writer & advocate for peace was selected as the recipient of the first ever KIM PHUC YOUTH AWARD FOR PEACE by The Canadian Voice of Women for Peace, for her commitment to lead
- TPP Trade Pact Would Give Wall Street a Trump Card to Block Regulations
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First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Banks and other financial institutions would be able to use provisions in the proposed Trans-Pacific Partnership to block new regulations that cut into their profits, according to the text of the trade pact released this week.
- Trumbo
Resource Type: Film/Video
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Trumbo is a 2015 American biographical drama film directed by Jay Roach and written by John McNamara. The film stars Bryan Cranston, Diane Lane, Helen Mirren, Louis C.K., Elle Fanning, John Goodman and Michael Stuhlbarg. The film follows the life of Hollywood screenwriter Dalton Trumbo and is based on the biography Dalton Trumbo by Bruce Alexander Cook.
- U.S. Journalists Who Instantly Exonerated Their Government of the Kunduz Hospital Attack, Declaring it an "Accident"
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First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Shortly after the news broke of the U.S. attack on a Doctors without Borders (MSF) hospital in Kunduz, Afghanistan, there was abundant evidence suggesting (not proving, but suggesting) that the attack was no accident.
- Batteries and renewables - believe the hype!
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First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Discusses one of the biggest technological developments of our climate-stressed times: the large-scale storage of renewable energy.
- 'Let's Bring In Our Pentagon Spokesman' - Bombing Syria
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First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
If you want to get close to the 'defence' establishment, you better be close to the 'defence' establishment: ideologically, sympathetically, 'patriotically'.
- Release of the Full TPP Text After Five Years of Secrecy Confirms Threats to Users' Rights
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First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Trade offices involved in negotiating the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) agreement have finally released all 30 chapters of the trade deal today, a month after announcing the conclusion of the deal in Atlanta. Some of the more dangerous threats to the public's rights to free expression, access to knowledge, and privacy online are contained in the copyright provisions in the Intellectual Property (IP) chapter. Now that the entire agreement is published, we can see how other chapters of the agreement contain further harmful rules that undermine our rights online and over our digital devices and content.
- 'Worse Than We Thought': TPP A Total Corporate Power Grab Nightmare
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First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
On issues ranging from climate change to food safety, from open Internet to access to medicines, the TransPacific Partnership (TPP) is a disaster.
- The forgotten history of how automakers invented the crime of "jaywalking"
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First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Stromberg provides a historical overview of how jaywalking was pushed to become a crime by automotive companies in order to normalize the reign of automobiles over pedestrians in the streets.
- How California police are tracking your biometric data in the field
Agencies are using mobile fingerprint scanners, tattoo and facial recognition software
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First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
EFF and MuckRock got together to reveal how state and local law enforcement agencies are using mobile biometric technology in the field by filing public records requests around the country. Thousands of pages of documents were obtained from more than 30 agencies.
- How Zionism's brutality reaches from Gaza's beaches to US academia
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First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Read one way, Steven Salaita's new book is about lies and children. (Uncivil Rites: Palestine and the Limits of Academic Freedom by Steven Salaita, Haymarket Books). There are the persistent lies about Israel's continued attacks on Palestinians, and in particular its lies about how it kills children.
- Secular publisher hacked to death in Bangladesh by religious group
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) deplores the brutal murder of a secular publisher in the Bangladeshi capital of Dhaka on Saturday October 31, 2015.
- Senior journalist gunned down in Pakistan
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) joins the Pakistan Federal Union of Journalists (PFUJ) in strongly condemning the killing of senior tribal journalist in the Tank district of Khyber Pahktunkhwa province in Pakistan on November 3, 2015.
- The Anti-Empire Report #140
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First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Are you confused by the Middle East? Here are some things you should know. (But you'll probably still be confused.)
- Climate change: It's going to take a revolution
Resource Type: Film/Video
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
A new video by Suhail Ilyas: The growing strength of the climate movement around the world gives us great hope, but it's going to take a revolution to make the world inhabitable for future generations.
- How one of the most obese countries on earth took on the soda giants
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First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
As debate rages about whether to introduce a sugar tax, this is the story of how Mexico defied its own powerful fizzy drinks industry to impose a tax on soda.
- Red Rosa
A Graphic Biography of Rosa Luxemburg
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
A giant of the political left, Rosa Luxemburg is one of the foremost minds in the canon of revolutionary socialist thought. Red Rosa gives Luxemburg her due as a radical and human being. In this beautifully drawn work of graphic biography, writer and artist Kate Evans has opened up her subject’s intellectual world to a new audience, grounding Luxemburg’s ideas in the realities of an inspirational and deeply affecting life.
- Special Focus: Israeli Occupying Forces Assault Journalists in the OPT
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First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
As Israeli violations escalate against Palestinians in the Occupied Palestinian Territory (OPT), journalists and media professionals have also been the subjects of Israeli attacks.
- Stop & search app will 'hold police to account'
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First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Individuals who are stopped and searched by police will now be able to record and report their experience using a new app designed to hold officers to account.
- White Poppy Campaign distribution
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Canadian Voice of Women for Peace will distribute free White Poppies in Toronto on Sunday, November 9, 2015 at the corner of King and John Streets from 1pm - 1:30pm. Members will be making white poppies at our conference events this weekend.
- How will we get to an ecological civilization?
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First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Capitalism's infrastructure, which is designed to dominate nature, cannot simply be taken over and used for an ecological transformation. Only a complete, root-and-branch change will do the job.
- Terrorizing School Children in the American Police State
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Americans live in an age, to rephrase, W.E.B. Dubois, in which violence has become the problem of the twenty-first century. As brutalism comes to shape every public encounter, democratic values and the ethical imagination wither under the weight of neoliberal capitalism and post-racial racism.
- Anti-Capitalism and Queer Liberation
Warped: Gay Normality and Queer Anti-Capitalism
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First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Book review of Peter Drucker's Warped: Gay Normality and Queer Anti-Capitalism.
- The Art of Carnage
Nothing But the Clouds Unchanged: Artists in World War I
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First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Book review of Gordon Hughes' and Philipp Blom' Nothing But the Clouds Unchanged: Artists in World War I.
- BLM: A Movement and Its Critics
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First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Recent studies, once again, show that being Black makes life more difficult than for those with white skin. It is more difficult to get good paying jobs, education and housing (even for those with equal or better qualifications than whites). Blacks pay more for loans than whites, even if they have higher incomes.
- Bombast Bursting in Air
The story, so far, of the 2016 election
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First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
An essay on the 2016 election as a money-driven spectacle.
- Can Chicago Teachers Win Again?
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First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Three years ago Chicago teachers defied the corporate-led attack on public education and went on a successful strike, widely supported by the public and parents, to support public education in all neighborhoods of the city.
- China's villages revive
A few migrants have begun to return from China's cities to its neglected countryside, and have been joined by artists and advocates of
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First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
A look at a movement towards rural reconstruction in China, which has gained fresh impetus from an economic slowdown as well as poorer urban living conditions and pollution.
- Chomsky and His Critics
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First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Noam Chomsky on ISIS, his foreign policy critics, and why socialist ideas are "never far below the surface."
- Down on the disappearing bayou
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First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
A look at the destruction of wetlands along the Louisiana Coast as a result of rising sea levels and the practices of the hydrocarbon industry.
- Global Lessons of A Catastrophe
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First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
It is doubtful that Syria as a country will survive in anything like its pre-war form, that the millions of its citizens who have fled will have a place to return, or even whether seven million internally displaced Syrians will be able to remain.
- Help IFEX mark 2 November by saying 'No' to Impunity
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
2 November marks the United Nations International Day to End Impunity for Crimes against Journalists. Currently, 9 out of 10 cases of journalist killings go unsolved and unpunished. This leads to a culture of impunity where critical voices are silenced
- Hitler Wasn't Inevitable
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First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
The 70th anniversary of the Nuremberg Trials is cause to reflect on the forces that failed to halt Nazism’s rise.
- How to Promote a Just Transition and Break out of the jobs vs. environment trap
A Superfund for Workers
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First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
A strategy has been emerging to protect workers and communities whose livelihoods may be threatened by climate protection policies. Protecting those who lose their jobs due to necessary environmental policies has often been referred to as a "just transition."
- Incarceration and Resistance
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First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Book reviews of Dan Berger's two works Captive Nation: Black Prison Organizing in the Civil Rights Era and The Struggle Within: Prisons, Political Prisoners, and Mass Movements in the United States.
- Insurance and the orgin of big data
Between the ledger and the computer was the card index - the basis of the mass commodification of personal insurance
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First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
A historical look at the origins of 'Big Data' and the collection of personal information by corporate America in the early 20th century.
- A Memoir of Life in Struggle
Revolutionary Activism in the 1950s & 60s: A Memoir, Volume One, Canada 1955-1965
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First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Book review of Ernest Tate's Revolutionary Activism in the 1950s & 60s: A Memoir, Volume One, Canada 1955-1965.
- Moral Combat: The Right to Vote
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First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
In June 2013, substantial sections of the Voters' Rights Act of 1965 - a promise to African Americans that they could finally register and vote without fear of intimidation, retaliation, violence, and death - had expired. They were in fact those protective provisions put in place after hundreds in the South were killed in the name of voter suppression.
- Police Unions Sustain Police Violence Epidemic
Since when did we decide that police officers should be above the law?
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First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Two of the biggest police unions in the country are now on record in opposition to free speech. They are on record against constitutionally protected free speech that opposes the epidemic of police violence across America (more than 900 killed by police so far in 2015).
- A Response on Trotsky
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First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Paul Le Blanc's reponse to Alan Wald's book review of his work on Leon Trostsky.
- Review Essay: Reaching for Revolution
Radicals in America: The U.S. Left Since the Second World War
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First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Book review of Howard Brick's and Christopher Phelpss Radicals in America: The U.S. Left Since the Second World War.
- The Search for Negative Evidence
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Everyone loves a mystery. Solve one in science, and accolades are forthcoming. Not so, however, in the realm of the paranormal, where evidence, logic, and theories are often stood on their heads. Whereas forensic scientists, say, begin with the evidence and let it lead to the most likely solution to a mystery, "parascientists" typically begin with the desired answer and work backward to the evidence, employing confirmation bias: They look for that which seems to confirm their prior-held belief and seek to discredit whatever -- or whoever -- would argue against it.
- A System That Makes You Breakable
Between the World and Me
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First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Book review of Ta-Nehisi Coates' Between the World and Me.
- Teachers in the Crosshairs
The Teacher Wars: A History of America's Most Embattled Profession
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First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Book review of Dana Goldstein's The Teacher Wars: A History of America's Most Embattled Profession.
- U.S. Workers and Puerto Rico's Crisis
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Puerto Rico has been in the news lately, particularly the financial news. The possibility that its government may default on part of its $73 billion public debt has drawn the attention of Wall Street analysts.
- When Marxism is Kids' Stuff
Little Red Readings: Historical Materialist Approaches to Children's Literature
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First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Book review of Angela Huber's Little Red Readings: Historical Materialist Approaches to Children's Literature.
- When Radicals Beat the Two-Party System
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Today, you cannot vote for peace, justice, and environmental sanity within a system predicated on serving the war industry, the wage system sustained by the prison-industrial complex, and deliberate obliviousness to the natural world. Slavery presented the abolitionists with exactly the same problem.
- The end of carding?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
The Ontario government has announced that it intends to bring in regulations to stop the police practice of stopping people at random and demanding their information. Of course this form of harassment, known as "carding" in Ontario, is far from random: everyone knows who is likely to be stopped, and what the colour of their skin is likely to be.
- IFJ and EFJ condemn UK police for using anti-terror laws to seize journalist's laptop
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
The International and European Federations of Journalists (IFJ and EFJ) joined their member union in the United Kingdom and Ireland, the National of Journalists (NUJ), to condemn the use by the UK police of special powers under the Terrorism Act
- IFJ launches Strengthening Media in the Pacific report
Sources News Release
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First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) has launched Strengthening Media in the Pacific - an insight into the media landscape and working conditions for media workers in Papua New Guinea, the Solomon Islands and Vanuatu.
- IFJ welcomes release of Iranian journalist and repeats its appeal for freedom of association in Iran
Sources News Release
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First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) welcomes the release of journalist and Association of Iranian journalists (AoIJ)'s board member Aliezra Rajaee on 26 October.
- Police storm opposition media outlets four days ahead of Turkish elections
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Reporters Without Borders condemns an all-out government offensive against a media group whose parent company, Koza Ipek Holding, is owned by an ally of Fethullah Gülen, an influential Muslim preacher who once backed President Recep Tayyip Erdogan
- Pumpkins are food!
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
What is really unfortunate about the tradition of pumpkin carving is the waste of food as the vast majority of these pumpkins are destined for destruction. Pumpkin is a highly nutritious vegetable. The seeds and the flesh are packed with vitamins &
- Radicalising the rank and file
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A discussion with U.S. labour historian Kim Moody focusing on the labour movement and rebuilding workplace organisation.
- RSF calls for the UN to appoint a Special Representative for the Safety of Journalists
Sources News Release
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Reporters Without Borders (RSF) is launching a call to the UN to take concrete action by creating the position of a Special Representative of the United Nations Secretary General for the Safety of Journalists
- Saudi king urged to pardon Sakharov Prize laureate
Sources News Release
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Reporters Without Borders (RSF) reiterates its appeal to Saudi Arabia's King Salman to pardon Raif Badawi, a Saudi blogger sentenced to 1,000 lashes and 10 years in prison who has just been awarded the European Parliament's prestigious Sakharov
- Second Indian journalist killed this month
Sources News Release
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The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) condemns the murder of an Indian journalist in Bihar in northern India on October 24. The IFJ demand immediate action from the Indian government to end the attacks and violence against the country's
- Syrian citizen-journalist murdered in Turkey
Sources News Release
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Published: 2015
Reporters Without Borders calls on the Turkish government to do everything possible to identify those responsible for murdering Syrian citizen-journalist Ibrahim Abd al-Qader in the southeastern city of Sanliurfa, where he had lived as a refugee
- Dark Humor: Western Media Makes Light of Political Repression in Ukraine
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First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Political repression and violence are allegedly incompatible with Western liberal democratic values. Respect for human rights, freedom of expression, and protection of the rights of minorities are all purportedly the hallmarks of "free societies," the goals toward which all nations should be striving. And yet, such standards of freedom and democracy are only selectively applied, and only when beneficial to the Western (US-UK-EU-NATO) agenda.
- EU-Canada CETA trade deal is a back door for US to sue EU - even if TTIP fails
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First Published: 2015
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There's been a big fuss about the 'ISDS' clauses in the TTIP trade deal that would allow US corporations to sue the EU and its member states for 'lost profits', writes Maude Barlow. But ISDS is already in CETA, the already negotiated EU-Canada trade deal - and nothing would be easier than for US companies to use it as their 'back door'. We must make sure CETA is rejected at its final hurdle.
- The German Left and the Weimar Republic
A Selection of Documents
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First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
The German Left and the Weimar Republic illuminates the history of the political left by presenting a wide range of documents on various aspects of socialist and communist activity in Germany. Separate chapters deal with the policy of Social Democracy in and out of government, the attempts of the Communist Party to overthrow the Weimar Republic, and then later to support it. Later chapters move away from the political scene to deal with the attitudes of the parties to key social issues, in particular questions of gender and sexuality.
- Indonesia is burning. So why is the world looking away?
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Fire is raging across the 5,000km length of Indonesia.It is hard to convey the scale of this inferno, but here’s a comparison that might help: it is currently producing more carbon dioxide than the US economy. And in three weeks the fires have released more CO2 than the annual emissions of Germany.
- Do Indian Lives Matter? Police Violence Against Native Americans
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First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
With all our talk about police violence aimed at poor and minority communities, we have yet to talk about the group most likely to be killed by law enforcement: Native Americans.
Native American men are incarcerated at four times the rate of white men and Native American women are sent to prison at six times the rate of white women.
- Indigenous peoples in Latin America fight to safeguard their knowledge
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Equal Times met up with William Park just a few months after he had completed a project of mammoth proportions: a 500-page encyclopaedia compiling, in collaboration with the community, a large portion of their medical knowledge. "The aim is to help the community to preserve and pass on their knowledge without it being pillaged by foreign businesses. If they decide to share it one day, that is their choice. It isn't up to us to decide for them," explains the specialist in sustainable agriculture.
- What is Nonviolence Anyhow?
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What is it, this nonviolence? Who gets to define it? A kindergarten teacher is nonviolent when she puts a vase of fresh flowers on her desk and smiles at her little students, right? A young man who publicly refuses to be drafted during an invasion of another country is nonviolent, certainly. How about an old man who writes a letter to the editor arguing for peace on Earth?
- Why Is The Daily Beast's Russia Critic Silent About So Many Hideous Abuses?
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A comprehensive review by The Intercept of the writings of Sam Charles Hamad - author of this Daily Beast article accusing the "global left" of remaining "silent" on abuses by Russia - reveals that he has been completely silent, shockingly and appallingly so, about the following wide array of severe global injustices, never once writing about, let alone condemning...
- Workers of America, Unite! Racism is a Trade Union Issue
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First Published: 2015
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The American working class is the most powerful in the world, is the most productive in the world and we operate the largest and most profitable economy in the world. American workers are also represented by national unions that have the most resources, the biggest staffs and the largest bank accounts, greater than any other trade unions in the world. Yet, without question, American labour is politically the weakest in the world among the large economies, largely because we remain so violently divided.
- Are Myanmar secret agents still playing 'dirty tricks'?
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Al Jazeera investigates whether crushing dissent and monitoring the opposition has continued after military rule.
- Canada-wide migrant worker coalition calls on Trudeau to MoVE for Real Change
Sources News Release
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Canada-wide migrant worker coalition calls on Trudeau to MoVE for Real Change. Newly launched Coalition for Migrant Worker Rights - Canada calls for end to discrimination against migrant workers.
- 'Freedom of the Seas' Means American Global Hegemony
The US should stay out of the South China Sea dispute
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There ain't no mountain high enough, ain't no valley low enough to keep us from our sacred duty to protect the world from itself. From the South China Sea to the shores of the Black Sea, America stands guard over Freedom. This tweet from Foreign Policy magazine, the organ of the Council on Foreign Relations, states our mission bluntly: "The Obama administration will finally send a destroyer to uphold freedom of navigation in the South China Sea."
- 'I Would Have Refused Such An Order' - Former RAF Pilot Gives His View of US Bombing Of MSF Hospital In Kunduz
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First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
In our previous media alert, 'Sick Sophistry', we examined media coverage of the deliberate US bombing of a Médecins Sans Frontières hospital in Kunduz, Afghanistan on October 3, 2015. In particular, we exposed the BBC's Pentagon-friendly reporting of the hospital as having been 'mistakenly' bombed.
- Inside the Sensational Business of "Rescuing" Sex Workers
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Published: 2015
For years, the sex worker movement has been at odds with a conservative wing of the anti-human trafficking movement.
- 'Strong evidence' of genocide in Myanmar
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Al Jazeera investigation reveals government triggered deadly communal violence for political gain.
- UN General Assembly in One Voice (Almost) Rejects U.S. Cuban Blockade
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The United Nations General Assembly on October 27, 2015 voted on a Cuban resolution calling for "an end to the economic, commercial, and financial blockade imposed by the United States of America against Cuba." Approval was all but unanimous: 191 nations voted in favour and two voted against, the United States and Israel. There were no abstentions for the first time since the voting on the resolution began in 1992.
- Why Exxon Executives Deserve the Ultimate Punishment
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First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
In a series of articles based on internal documents from Exxon Mobil going back to the 1970s and on interviews with former company scientists and employees, ICN shows that Exxon's "own research confirmed fossil fuels' role in global warming decades ago." Yes, decades ago -- during the late 1970s to be precise.
- Women for Peace Applaud Prime Minister Designate Trudeau
Sources News Release
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We applaud the decision of Prime Minister Designate Trudeau to withdraw from Syria the six Canadian fighter jets. We strongly encourage you to re-align Canada's responses to violent conflict, threats of war, and war with actions grounded in the Uni
- Corporations Undermined Public Transportation
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Over the past eighteen months two of the world's largest automakers have been found responsible for deadly conspiracies. But, recent revelations can’t compete with the industry's previous scandals.
- Corporations Undermined Public Transportation
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Engler analyzes the largest conspiracies committed by automotive manufacturing companies, specifically General Motors' role in eliminating the trolley as America's most used form of public transportation.
- The Deciders
The disastrous Iraq policies that led to ISIS were not President Bush's
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In May 2003, in the wake of the Iraq War and the ousting of Saddam Hussein, events took place that set the stage for the current chaos in the Middle East. Yet even most well-informed Americans are unaware of how policies implemented by mid-level bureaucrats during the Bush administration unwittingly unleashed forces that would ultimately lead to the juggernaut of the Islamic State.
- EFF Wins Petition to Inspect and Modify Car Software
Sources News Release
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The Librarian of Congress has granted security researchers and others the right to inspect and modify the software in their cars and other vehicles, despite protests from vehicle manufacturers.
- The fight again tar sands is about more than the environment
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Indigenous rights defender Eriel Deranger explains how the struggle against tar sands mining is about protecting her people's rights and culture.
- IFJ launches 2015 global campaign to end impunity for crimes against journalists
Sources News Release
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The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) has launched its annual global campaign to hold world governments and de facto authorities accountable for impunity records for crimes targeting journalists.
- IFJ welcomes action plan on media safety from the international gathering on Yemen
Sources News Release
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A one-day international meeting agreed on an action plan to address the horrific situation facing journalists in Yemen.
- Journalists threatened and news website hacked in the Maldives
Sources News Release
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The International Federation of Journalists strongly criticizes the hacking of Maldivian news website, Addu Live, and the threats made against its journalists. The IFJ calls on the Maldivian government to condemn the threats and ensure the safety
- 'Like a poison': how anti-immigrant Pegida is dividing Dresden
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Published: 2015
A year since its launch, German protest group has evolved into slick operation whose polarising rhetoric is increasingly blamed for attacks on refugees.
- Lockdown: the end of growth in the tar sands
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Published: 2015
Climate change is here and now. And if world leaders had heeded scientific warnings 30 years ago, 20 years ago, 10 years ago, or even as recently as the Copenhagen climate conference in 2009 -- it's possible we would be well on our way to securing the decarbonized future that the world desperately needs.
- MEAA concerned by media restrictions on asylum seeker policy
Sources News Release
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The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) joins its affiliate, the Media, Entertainment & Arts Alliance (MEAA) in raising strong concerns about the media restrictions that surround Australia's asylum seeker policy and its offshore immigration detention centres.
- Netanyahu: Have You No Shame?
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Israel’s Prime Minister attributing the Holocaust to Palestinian influence over Hitler is a "Blood Libel" level lie.
- NYT Hypes Russian Threat to the Internet
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As if Americans didn't already have enough to worry about in regards to the recently resurrected Red Menace, we can now add the fear that those devious Russians are threatening to -- horror of horrors -- bring down the Internet.
- On Israel's colonial narrative
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Analysis: Palestinian novelist Susan Abulhawa deconstructs Israel's insidious language of power.
- The Police and Court System: Neoliberal America's Tax Collectors
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Last week Biloxi, Mississippi became the latest city to be sued by the ACLU for running a "modern-day debtors’ prison."
- The Police and Court System: Neoliberal America's Tax Collectors
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The criminal justice system has increasingly become the preferred way to fund city governments in the modern neoliberal nightmare that is the United States. The police target the poor for petty infractions that produce fines. When predictably these fines cannot be paid additional fines are piled on top and the person is thrown in prison.
- Putin's Question and the Ambassador's Answer
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A fascinating, if brief, verbal exchange recently took place between Russian President Vladimir Putin and the former U.S. Ambassador to the Soviet Union (1987 – 1991), Jack Matlock.
- Robert Lepage virtual-reality show fetes 10th birthday of the Grande Bibliothèque
Inspired by author Alberto Manguel's The Library at Night, Lepage uses Oculus Rift for immersive adventure
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In what Robert Lepage calls the most ambitious use of Oculus Rift virtual-reality technology to date, a new exhibition celebrating the 10th anniversary of Montreal's Grande Bibliothèque takes visitors on a tour of ten of the world's most interesting libraries.
Inspired by writer Alberto Manguel's book, The Library at Night, Lepage worked with the theme of the night to create virtual visits of libraries.
- Saudi Warplanes Destroy MSF Hospital in Yemen
At Least Two Staff Hurt in Attacks
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Adding to concerns about Saudi attacks on civilians in Yemen, an overnight air raid against the capital city of Sanaa pounded a residential district, hitting several homes, a girl's school, and destroying a Doctors Without Borders (MSF) hospital. MSF reported the facility was struck multiple times and left in "wreckage."
- Threatening email orders Bangladeshi media to fire women
Sources News Release
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Reporters Without Borders condemns the threats against news media and bloggers contained in a email that was sent to a score of Bangladeshi print and broadcast media outlets on 19 October, and calls on the authorities to take concrete measures
- The "War Scare" in the Kremlin, Revisited: Is History Repeating Itself?
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The Washington Post on October 25, 2015 published an important story based on a recently-published U.S. intelligence review from 1990 that confirmed Soviet leaders in 1983 believed the Reagan administration was using a mobilization exercise to prepare a nuclear surprise attack.
- 'Yes, I Lied': Vindicating Villagers, Star Chevron Witness Busted for Perjury
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Chevron has taken the people of Ecuador and the U.S. court system on a ride, full of lies, deliberate delay, and obstruction of justice, says Amazon Watch.
- New Evidence Shows Main Chevron Witness Lied In $9.5 Billion Ecuador Lawsuit
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A key witness has admitted under oath that he lied on behalf of Chevron, the California oil multinational, when the company sued to overturn a $9.5 billion verdict for pollution of the Ecuadorian Amazon.
- The Okinawa missiles of October
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John Bordne, a resident of Blakeslee, Pennsylvania, had to keep a personal history to himself for more than five decades. Only recently has the US Air Force given him permission to tell the tale, which, if borne out as true, would constitute a terrifying addition to the lengthy and already frightening list of mistakes and malfunctions that have nearly plunged the world into nuclear war.
- The Passing of Bhaskar Save
What The 'Green Revolution' Did for India
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Bhaskar Save died on 24 October 2015 at age 93. Emphasising self-reliance at the farm/village level, Save was regarded as the 'Gandhi of natural farming'.
- The True Costs of Driving
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Cortright highlights the costs behind building and maintaining roads as well as what part of public taxes fund such an expensive venture.
- Hebron Activist Who Died of Tear Gas Showed Israel's Crimes to the World
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Hebron resident and anti-occupation activist Hashem al-Azzeh died Wednesday after inhaling tear gas fired by Israeli forces.
- In 1983 'war scare', Soviet leadership feared nuclear surprise attack by U.S.
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A nuclear weapons command exercise by NATO in November 1983 prompted fear in the leadership of the Soviet Union that the maneuvers were a cover for a nuclear surprise attack by the United States, triggering a series of unparalleled Soviet military responses, according to a top-secret U.S. intelligence review that has just been declassified.
- Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - October 24, 2015
Whistleblowers and national security
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This issue sheds light whistleblowers and the murky world of national security. Governments may often pay lip service to the importance of protecting whistleblowers, but in reality they are almost always persecuted. Repercussions can range from being fired to being imprisoned.
- The U.S. Army Lost Track of 27 Ballistic Missiles
Military didn't know old Lance rockets were in storage igloos in Alabama
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For 30 years starting in 1962, the U.S. Army deployed Lance ballistic missiles in Europe. Twenty feet long and weighing a ton and a half, an atomic-tipped Lance could zoom 75 miles at Mach 3 and explode with a force of up to 100 kilotons of TNT. The Army retired its last Lances in 1992 … and ultimately lost track of 27 of them at Redstone Arsenal in Alabama.
- By Accepting Chinese Censorship of Domains, Registry xyz.com Invites More
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First Published: 2015
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Industry news site Domain Incite has reported that this puts perhaps close to 12,000 banned words and expressions onto the blacklist, thereby preventing terms such as the Chinese words for 'democracy' and 'human rights' from being registered within any of the company's top-level domains"
- Israel Calls a Man Its Soldiers Killed a 'Terrorist': Until They Realized He Was an Israeli Jew
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The Jerusalem Post today describes the killing of a man by two IDF soldiers after, the soldiers claim, he was acting erratically and tried to grab one of their guns. When he was fatally shot by the IDF, says the paper, he was "believed to be an Arab terrorist." As it turns out, he was not an Arab Palestinian but rather an Israeli Jew. Upon learning this, the "terrorist" designation was officially and "immediately" rescinded.
- 'Radical Academia: Beyond the Audit Culture Treadmill'
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First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
It was not just in economics that the radicals retreated; it happened in all the social sciences and humanities. And not just because of political timidity; they had been outflanked. Knowledge production had changed in ways that disadvantaged radicals.
- Why Is Benjamin Netanyahu Trying To Whitewash Hitler?
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First Published: 2015
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Benjamin Netanyahu has publicly asserted that Adolf Hitler had no intention of exterminating Europe's Jews until a Palestinian persuaded him to do it.
- Why the Left Isn't Talking About Rural American Poverty
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First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Within the popular American conscience there are two favoured focal points for discussing the problem of poverty. The first is within the urban, inner city context and the second is the poverty of the Global South: Sub-Saharan Africa, Latin America, South Asia, and the rest of the developing world. What seldom gets talked about -- and when it is, often with irreverent humor and contempt -- is the poverty of rural America, particularly rural white America: Appalachia, the Ozarks, the Mississippi Delta, the Dakotas, the Rio Grande Valley, the Cotton Belt. So why is the poverty of rural America largely unexamined, even avoided?
- Before Parliament Hill attack, RCMP got 3 warnings, reduced patrols
Documents show Mounties reduced patrols prior to shootings, despite 3 separate warnings
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Mounties received at least three warnings of potential terrorist attacks on uniformed officers before last year's shootings on Parliament Hill, yet the RCMP wound down extra patrols around the parliamentary precinct just days before the tragedy, newly disclosed documents show.
- Canadians Choose a Clean Start: Bury the Tar Sands Along With Harper's Tenure
Sources News Release
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The ousting of the Conservative Government from Ottawa by the Canadian public in Monday's election is also a repudiation of the continued, unrestrained development of the Athabasca tar sands.
- Confronting the Ecological Emergency
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First Published: 2015
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In April 2014, two different teams of American glaciologists, specialists in the Antarctic, reached -- by different methods, based on observation -- the same conclusion: because of global warming, a portion of the ice sheet has begun to dislocate, and this dislocation is irreversible.
- Global Investment Funds Leaders Plan to Unleash Growth Opportunities
Sources News Release
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RIO DE JANEIRO - October 21, 2015 - Leaders of the global investment funds industry gathered in Rio de Janeiro this week to discuss recent trends in local and regional markets and consider the new drivers of growth for investment funds worldwide.
- No to 'Climate Smart Agriculture', yes to agroecology
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First Published: 2015
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Climate Smart Agriculture sounds like a great idea. But in truth it's a PR front for international agribusiness to promote corporate agriculture, pesticides and fertilisers at COP21, with a heavy dose of greenwash. Countries must resist the siren calls - and give their support to true agroecology that sustains soil, health, life and climate.
- On the Defeat of Megan Leslie & Peter Stoffer
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What happened on Monday is proof of how divorced from reality we are. Progressives, radicals, the Left, whatever you call the people who believe in and strive for deep social change - we are disconnected from the majority of people. We are insulated in our communities of like-minded activists, surrounded by people with similar beliefs and thoughts.
- Twenty-First-Century Fascism: Private Military Companies in Service to the Transnational Capitalist Class
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First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Globalization of trade and central banking have propelled private corporations to positions of power and control never before seen in human history. Under advanced capitalism, the structural demands for a return on investment require an unending expansion of centralized capital in the hands of fewer and fewer people.
- Catastrophe: The NDP lost because it deserved to
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It is, ultimately, astounding how facile and false political narratives come back to haunt those who insist on their veracity.
- Sick Sophistry: BBC News On Afghan Hospital "Mistakenly" Bombed by United States
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First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
One of the defining features of the corporate media is that Western crimes are ignored or downplayed. The US bombing of a Médecins Sans Frontières hospital in Kunduz, Afghanistan, on the night of October 3, 2015, is an archetypal example.
- The Syrianisation of Turkey
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First Published: 2015
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On 10 October 2015 hundreds of thousands people marching in the streets of Ankara in solidarity with Kurdish people and to stop the civil war were struck with two bombs, which exploded and killed a hundred people and hundreds wounded. In this article the author questions Erdogan's policies over Syria such as finding an excuse to send the Turkish military into Syria, setting up home-grown Islamist militia forces to keep Erdogan in power, to help warring Sunni militia groups in Syria always bear a risk of Syrianisation of Turkey.
- Tony Mazzocchi Lives: Blue-Green Organizer Takes Up 'Just Transition' Mantle
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Union and environmental activist Alex Lotorto believes environmentalists should be working more closely with organized labour and following the advice of some of labour's more enlightened leaders.
- The Useful Altruists: How NGOs Serve Capitalism and Imperialism
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First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
NGOs are far from revolutionary organizations, but many of us would think that their work still seems more helpful than not. Political differences with them aside, it seems dogmatic to denounce free health care and anti-poverty programs. Short of more radical measures, NGOs seem to serve an important interim function. In fact, though, it can be argued that many NGOs are destructive, both in their current work and in their preclusion of an alternative future beyond the capitalist present. They undermine, divert, and replace autonomous organizing and erase working class struggle and organizing.
- IFIC Releases Monthly Statistics for September 2015
Sources News Release
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Toronto, ON - October 19, 2015 - The Investment Funds Institute of Canada (IFIC) announces that for the month ending September 30, 2015, the assets under management (AUM) for the mutual funds industry totalled $1.19 trillion.
- Remembering Rosalyn Baxandall
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Rosalyn Fraad Baxandall was a pioneering figure of socialist feminism in the United States.
- Who, or What, Is Behind Postmedia's Election Endorsements?
When hedge funds own newspapers, it's difficult to know
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First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Did thoughtful editors at Postmedia's daily newspapers across Canada consider the needs of their communities and then unanimously decide to endorse the Conservatives in election editorials?
- The Imaginary Cuban Troops in Syria
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First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Fair-and-balanced Fox News reported on Wednesday that "Cuban military operatives reportedly have been spotted in Syria, where sources believe they are advising President Bashar al-Assad’s soldiers and may be preparing to man Russian-made tanks to aid Damascus in fighting rebel forces backed by the U.S." Fox's claim of an imaginary enemy alliance relies on two sources: the University of Miami's Institute for Cuban and Cuban-American Studies and an anonymous U.S. official.
- Vietnam: From National Liberation to Trans-Pacific Vassalage 1975-2015
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First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
In 1975 the people of Vietnam successfully ended one of the longest and bloodiest anti-colonial wars in world-history – defeating the US, the world's biggest imperial power, after 20 years of struggle.
- Australia: Journalists' sources under threat with data retention regime
Sources News Release
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First Published: 2015
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The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) joins its affiliate the Media, Entertainment & Arts Alliance (MEAA) in condemning the commencement of new data retention laws in Australia.
- Forty years on: Balibo victims remembered with scholarship
Sources News Release
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First Published: 2015
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The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) and its affiliate the Media, Entertainment & Arts Alliance (MEAA) today, commemorate the 40th anniversary of the killing of the Balibo Five in East Timor, with the establishment of a scholarship
- Freedom of information essential for peace in Turkey
Sources News Release
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First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
At a time of alarming developments centred on the Kurdish issue, Reporters Without Borders is publishing a report exploring the relationship between this issue and media freedom in Turkey.
- The Harper Years: Tough Times For Reporters In Canada
Sources News Release
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First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
As federal elections will be held in Canada on October 19, Reporters Without Borders (RSF) reviews the evolution of freedom of the press and information during Prime Minister Stephen Harper's tenure. It is not a pretty picture.
- Why Hillary Won the Debate (Even though She Didn't)
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First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
CNN and Facebook co-sponsored last week’s Democratic presidential frontrunners' "debate." After the event, CNN conducted a poll. "Who won the debate?" it asked. The result: 83% Bernie Sanders; 12% Hillary Clinton.
- The Black Panthers: Movie Review
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First Published: 2015
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With its powerful archival footage and interviews with former Black Panther Party members, Stanley Nelson’s documentary The Black Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolution reopens a chapter of black history that has long been distorted, hated and feared by the racist rulers of America.
- Canada Should 'Get Tough' on Political Crimes, Say Watchdogs
Four needed crackdowns, starting with illegal surveillance and electoral crime.
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Published: 2015
A new round of Conservative Party advertisements return to a familiar tough-on-crime refrain.
- Leninism vs. Debs's Socialist Party
The Communist Fight Against Black Oppression
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First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Articles by Eugene Debs, written as polemics against racists within the Socialist Party, are eloquent in defending black people against racism, in calling for working-class unity across racial lines and in emphasizing that the Socialist Party should open its ranks to black people. In "The Negro in the Class Struggle," Debs stressed, "The history of the Negro in the United States is a history of crime without a parallel." Debs stands out favorably against most of his contemporaries in the labor movement -- including within the SP. Debs's writing remains a powerful denunciation of white workers' racism. Debs recognized that black oppression, rather than making white workers privileged, degrades them, thus providing a refutation of the later concept of "white skin privilege."
- Russia's Fantasy "Stray Missiles," America's Real Ones
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First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Even to those who do not watch closely it has to be apparent that Washington's vast disinformation machine is finally out of control, seriously awry, or desperate.
- Snowden and Ellsberg hail leak of drone documents from new whistleblower
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First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
American whistleblowers hailed the release of a collection of classified documents about US drone warfare as a blow on behalf of transparency and human rights. The documents anchored a multi-part report by the Intercept on the Defense Department assassination program in Yemen and Somalia.
- Study Reveals Corporate Media's Refusal to Acknowledge Civilian Victims of US Wars
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First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Mainstream media outlets are systematically disregarding the hazardous health impacts of widespread U.S. military burn pits on civilians in Iraq and Afghanistan, thereby playing a direct role in "legitimating the environmental injustices of war," a harrowing new scholarly report concludes.
- Videos Challenge Israeli Police Account of Shootings
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First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
It has been called the "smartphone intifada". After a sharp escalation in violence between Palestinians and Israelis in recent weeks, shocking scenes captured on video have spread across social media.
- The Assassination Complex
Secret military documents expose the inner workings of Obama's drone wars
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First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
There has been intense focus on the technology of remote killing, but that often serves as a surrogate for what should be a broader examination of the state's power over life and death.
- Elections Canada bungled its investigation of Michael Sona and the 2011 robocall scandal
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Because the 'robocalls' fraud of Canada's 2011 federal election was insufficiently investigated by state authorities and underreported by the corporate media, Canadians have yet to understand its scale, focus, and impact.
- FDA Nominee Helped Medical Industry Find and Pay Faculty for "Regulatory Consulting"
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Dr. Robert Califf, whose nomination by President Obama to lead the Food and Drug Administration has come under scrutiny over his extensive ties to the pharmaceutical and medical device industries, previously directed a business that specializes in helping health care companies hire faculty members and other academic researchers to influence regulatory decisions.
- Find, Fix, Finish
For the Pentagon, creating an architecture of assassination meant navigating a turf war with the CIA
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Obama was urged by Michael Hayden, the CIA director, and his counterterrorism adviser, John Brennan, to adopt small footprint counterterrorism operations and drone strikes. In one briefing, Hayden told Obama that covert action was the only way to confront al Qaeda and other terrorist groups plotting attacks against the U.S.
- Firing Blind
Flawed Intelligence and the Limits of Drone Technology
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Classified Pentagon documents reveal that the U.S. military has faced "critical shortfalls" in the technology and intelligence it uses to find and kill suspected terrorists in Yemen and Somalia.
- The Fog of Intelligence
Or How to Be Eternally "Caught Off Guard" in the Greater Middle East
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
The phrase "the fog of war" stands in for the inability of commanders to truly grasp what's happening in the chaos that is any battlefield. Perhaps it's time to introduce a companion phrase: the fog of intelligence.
- The Kill Chain
The lethal bureaucracy behind Obama's drone war
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Secret military documents offer documentary evidence of the process by which the Obama administration creates and acts on its kill lists in Yemen and Somalia.
- The Life and Death of Objective Peckham
Stripped of British citizenship and killed by an American drone
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Documentation of the final years of Bilal el-Berjawi's life, a British-Lebanese citizen suspected of being a terrorist. The story raises questions about the British government's role in the targeted assassination of its citizens, and provides an insight into covert U.S. military actions.
- Manhunting in the Hindu Kush
Civilian casualties and strategic failures in America's longest war
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
U.S. military forces set out to destroy the Taliban and al Qaeda forces that remained hidden in Hindu Kush. Dubbed Operation Haymaker, the campaign has been described as a potential model for the future of American warfare. Devereaux explains how this looks.
- Target Africa
The U.S. military's expanding footprint in East Africa and the Arabian Peninsula
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
The U.S. military has engaged in a largely covert effort to extend across Africa with a network of low-profile camps. These facilities allow U.S. forces to surveil and operate on large areas of the continent and to strike targets with drones and manned aircraft.
- A Visual Glossary
Decoding the language of covert warfare
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Along with illustrations, Begley explains some of the terminology employed in the drone warfare.
- Back-Talk from the "Old Stock"
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Stephen Harper has been talking recently about "old stock" Canadians -- and at the same time stirring up fear and loathing against more recent arrivals in this country, notably those of Muslim faith, in order to mobilize electoral support for his Conservative Party.
- Rosalyn Baxandall, Feminist Historian and Activist dies at 76
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Rosalyn Baxandall, a feminist historian who was among the first to bring scholarly attention to the historical role of women in the workplace and to expand the meaning of "women's work," has died.
- Human Rights Watch investigator among those attacked by Israeli forces
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
"We didn't see any soldiers near us. That's why we felt safe. No one was throwing rocks or anything. Soldiers just started shooting."
- Internet Companies: Confusing Consumers for Profit
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
In the age of information, companies are hungry for your data. They want it - even if it means resorting to trickery.
- The strange death of the antiwar movement
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
After over 14 years of unending US wars of aggression waged in the name of fighting terrorism, humanitarian intervention and promoting "democracy," the threat posed to mankind by the eruption of American militarism has never been so acute.
- Top 1 percent own more than half of world's wealth
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
A new report issued by the Swiss bank Credit Suisse finds that global wealth inequality continues to worsen and has reached a new milestone, with the top 1 percent owning more of the world’s assets than the bottom 99 percent combined. Of the estimated $250 trillion in global assets, the top 1 percent owned almost exactly 50 percent, while the bottom 50 percent of humanity owned collectively less than 1 percent. The richest 10 percent owned 87.7 percent of the world's wealth, leaving 12.3 percent for the bottom 90 percent of the population.
- Whoa Canada
Resource Type: Film/Video
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
- Afghan media respond to Taliban threats against TV channels
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
In an alarming statement published on the group's website on Monday 12 October, 2015, the Taliban said the two TV channels are legitimate targets and no employee, anchor, office, news team or reporter associated with either station is safe henceforth.
- All Rights Reserved: Now We Know the Final TTP is Everything We Feared
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
The release by Wikileaks of what is believed to be the current and essentially final version of the intellectual property (IP) chapter of the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) confirms our worst fears about the agreement.
- GOP Creates Perverse Online Voter Registration, Making It Harder for People to Vote
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
The bill will ultimately reduce voting by senior citizens, people with disabilities and minorities.
- Horrid Carcass of Indonesia - 50 Years After the Coup
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Indonesia has matured into perhaps the most corrupt country on Earth, and possibly into the most indoctrinated and compassionless place anywhere under the sun.
- How Dogs Forge a Bond with Rio's Homeless That Is Life-Saving for Both
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Homelessness in Rio is, in many ways, virtually identical to how it manifests in other large cities: it entails unimaginable material and emotional deprivation, hopelessness, societal invisibility, and utter isolation. But one aspect of Rio's homeless population stands out: A huge number of them have dogs that were previously living as desperate, unwanted strays on the street.
- In the Matter of the International Community v Israel
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
In its first full week of a "new" get tough policy, almost 500 young Palestinian demonstrators were injured, shot and maimed, and at least three teens murdered in response to what Israel sees as a rising tide of "militant" resistance against the illegally occupied and, by now, almost completely annexed West Bank.
- Israel is a Terrorist State
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
The violence rocking the occupied West Bank, East Jerusalem and now Gaza is on the verge of spilling into Israel, Palestinian leaders in Israel warned.
- Manipulating Reality: Facebook is Listening to You
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
One thing we have become all too used to is that our reality can be manipulated to create the appearance of something else entirely. Invading another country is defensive, rigged elections are passed off as democracy in action, more guns (or more nuclear weapons) ensure the peace, trade and foreign investment increase jobs at home. Orwellian logic has become commonplace.
- The Politics of Prisons and Prisoners
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
They are getting ready to activate another super-max prison. Like Pelican Bay, Marion, and Florence, this prison will be dedicated to holding people in solitary confinement. They say it is for "the worst of the worst" , but we know it refers to political prisoners.
- US Dispatched a Murderous AC-130 Airborne Gunship to Attack a Hospital
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Evidence continues to mount that the US committed a monstrous war crime in attacking and destroying a fully operational hospital in Kunduz, Afghanistan on the night of Oct. 3, 2015, killing at least 22 people including at least 12 members of the volunteer medical staff of Medicine Sans Frontieres (Doctors Without Borders), the French based international aid organization that operated the hospital.
- Why NGOs and Leftish Nonprofits Suck (4 Reasons)
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
NGOs have proliferated like mushrooms all over the world. First deployed in social formations dominated by imperialism, they've now taken over the political scene in capital's base countries as well. They've become the hot new form of capital accumulation, with global reach and billions in revenue. So while ostensibly "non-profit," they serve as a pretty sweet income stream for those at the top, while fattening up large layers of the petite bourgeoisie and draping them like a warm wet blanket over the working class, muffling their demands.
- 'Israel is a terrorist state'
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
The violence rocking the occupied West Bank, East Jerusalem and now Gaza is on the verge of spilling into Israel, Palestinian leaders in Israel warned. A wave of unrest has swept Palestinian towns in Israel over recent days, with repeated clashes with Israeli police in Nazareth, Jaffa, Lod, Ramle, Taibeh, Sakhnin, Rahat, Kfar Qassem and elsewhere. Dozens of protesters have been arrested.
- No Grades in Higher Education Now!
Is the Revolution any closer?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Author and social scientist Stuart Tannock has recently published a historical and critical overview of the practice of grading in education.
- Scenes From a Wonderful Parade Against the TPP
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
A quarter of a million people protested against the "Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership", TTIP, and its equally spurned Canadian sister, CETA.
- Turkey's Double Game and the US's Double Standards
What the bombings in Ankara tell us about Turkey's true motives in Syria.
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
On Saturday morning, in the Turkish capital of Ankara, two suicide bombers targeted a Kurdish-Turkish trade union peace march, killing over a hundred civilians and wounding hundreds more.
- Turkey's Tiananmen in Context
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
At 9:30 Saturday morning Turkish citizens opposed to their government’s war policies gathered at the Ankara Train Station for a demonstration organized by a broad alliance of organizations.
- Welcome to the Orwellian world of Wildrose, where keeping your promises makes you a liar
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Notwithstanding the unexpected election of a New Democratic Party majority government in Alberta last May 5, 2015, it's pretty obvious a lot of Albertans -- especially the business crowd in Calgary -- still don’t really get this democracy thing.
- The Demonology School of Journalism
Putin and the press
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
The major influential western print media are engaged in a prolonged, large-scale effort to demonize Russian President Putin, his politics and persona. There is an article (or several articles) every day in which he is personally stigmatized as a dictator, authoritarian, czar, 'former KGB operative' and Soviet-style ruler; anything but the repeatedly elected President of Russia.
- The Bro Job: Why 'Straight' Men Secretly Have Sex With Each Other
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
The term "bro job" generally refers to sex acts taking place between heterosexual men. The phenomenon was recently explored by Dr. Jane Ward in her book Not Gay: Sex Between Straight White Men, who suggests it's a lot more common than most people may think.
- A moment in the polling station
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
I’m in the queue waiting to vote in the advance poll in the federal election. I’m ambivalent, as always when I vote, since I don’t support any of the political parties, but I want to get the vile Harper Conservatives out.
- Opinion: It's gettin' hot in here... so take back all your carbon
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
In Africa rapidly rising temperatures foreshadow increased drought, famine and disease. The most vulnerable populations -- of which millions are smallholder farmers -- need solutions, and they need them now.
- The White Man in That Photo
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Sometimes photographs deceive. Take this one, for example. It represents John Carlos and Tommie Smith's rebellious gesture the day they won medals for the 200 meters at the 1968 Summer Olympics in Mexico City, and it certainly deceived me for a long time.
- America's Latest War Crime
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
The best that Nobel Peace Laureate President Obama can do after the US bombs and destroys a hospital in Afghanistan, killing 22 people, including 12 volunteer doctors from Doctors Without Borders, is to say, "We're sorry"? No wonder people around the globe hate the US.
- Children Suffer as World Bank's Borrowers Upend Their Lives
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Evictions, loss of family income and other hardships associated with dams, roads and other projects can be especially harmful to young people. The bank's social and environmental safeguards forbid sudden, strong-arm evictions. But as the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists, The Huffington Post and other media partners revealed in April, the bank is failing to enforce those rules, with devastating consequences for adults and children who live on or near land targeted for development.
- Class Struggle at Air France
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
On Monday, about 100 employees stormed an Air France management and union official meeting that was discussing dramatic job cuts. As the negotiations had been making no progress, the staff became angry, and tussled with some company officials.
- The End of Academic Freedom in America: the Case of Steven Salaita
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
In the years I spent at Columbia University, there was always some professor or another coming under attack from the Israel lobby. But no matter the intensity of the witch-hunt, I was always proud to see my employer stand up for the free speech rights of the faculty.
- Even Wars Have Rules: a Fact Sheet on the Bombing of Kunduz Hospital
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Doctors Without Borders is calling for an independent fact-finding investigation to ascertain the truth about the events that led to the killing of our colleagues and patients by US.airstrikes on one of our hospitals in Kunduz, Afghanistan.
- Israelis Shoot Motionless Arab Woman - Video
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
In the age of phone cameras, we have become increasingly used to photos and videos of Palestinians in the West Bank being shot by soldiers in unjustifiable circumstances.
- Mouths Wide Shut: Obamas War on Whistleblowers
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
The Obama administration has been ruthless in its prosecution of whistleblowers.
- The Six Most Disastrous Interventions of the 21st Century
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
On October 2, 2015, President Barack Obama, alluding to Russia's decision to launch air strikes in Syria, told reporters at the White House that for Russia to view the forces targeted "from the perspective they're all terrorists [is] a recipe for disaster, and it's one that I reject."
- These Salvadoran Women Went to Prison for Suffering Miscarriages
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
For many expectant mothers in El Salvador, a largely Catholic Central American country of around 6 million, pregnancy losses -- unexpected, frightening, and tragic -- have been declared intentional and criminal. Some of these mothers are doing hard time.
- WikiLeaks Reveals How the US Aggressively Pursued Regime Change in Syria, Igniting a Bloodbath
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
In 2010, WikiLeaks became a household name by releasing 251,287 classified State Department cables. The essays that make up The WikiLeaks Files shed critical light on a once secret history.
- The Canadian Elections: Cover-Up and Steal (Again)
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
The opposition parties in Canada's 2015 federal election are sticking to a careful PR-driven script, refusing to even mention the fact that Stephen Harper's Conservatives broke the law and committed fraud in winning the 2006, 2008, and 2011 elections. The mainstream media and the political parties scrupulously ignore this reality.
- Genes of Most Ashkenazi Jews Trace Back To Indigenous Europe, Not Middle East
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
A genetic study of Ashkenazi Jews shows a "whiter" heritage drawn more from prehistoric Europe than from the Levant, home to the modern state of Israel.
- Harper's Relationship With the Jewish Defense League Is Disturbing
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
With Canada's federal election less than two weeks away, Levitan addresses a highly topical matter: the Conservatives' close relations with the controversial Jewish Defense League (JDL).
- Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - October 8, 2015
Elections
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Elections are the topic of the week, with items related to the October 19 Canadian federal election, and also to broader issues of parliamentary democracy, voting and whether voting can bring about change, and the neo-liberal attack on democracy. Articles look at the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement, the financial takeovers of Ukraine and Greece, and debt bondage. Also: a discussion of James Hansen's fossil fuel exit strategy, and a critique of Alinsky-style organizing.
- Canadian Voice of Women wants to Make for Space for Peace this election
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Canadian Voice of Women wants to Make for Space for Peace this election. National peace organization calls on leaders to take pledge for peace and supports its twelve priorities.
- Harvard's prestigious debate team loses to New York prison inmates
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Prisoners participating in Bard College initiative to provide them a liberal arts education beat Ivy League students who won national title only months ago.
- ISIS Slave Market Puts Women and Girls on Same List as Cattle
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
I am thinking of the price list leaked out from the ISIS Sex Slave Market that included women and girls on the same list as cattle. ISIS needed to impose price controls as they were worried about a downturn in their market.
- Mercenary of Reaction
Lynton Crosby in Canada
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Lynton Crosby has a full schedule. He is the modern electoral PR hitman for parties in dire straits. He is hired to stir the pot of resentment and undermine hopes for change. His very existence suggests that democracies are shadows of their actual function, operating on traditional platforms of populism when required.
- A Short History of U.S. Bombing of Civilian Facilities
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
The U.S. has repeatedly attacked civilian facilities in the past. This is a sampling of such incidents since the 1991 Gulf War.
- TPP: Big Pharma's Big Deal
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
We still don't know all the details of the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) trade deal tentatively agreed to on Oct. 5 by negotiators from 12 Pacific Rim countries, but already critics are slamming it for many reasons, including its generous concessions to the pharmaceutical industry.
- TPP is "Worst Trade Agreement" for Medicine Access, Says Doctors Without Borders
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
The TPP [Trans-Pacific Partnership] will…go down in history as the worst trade agreement for access to medicines in developing countries, said Doctors without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) in a statement following the signing of the TPP trade deal.
- US Lies and Excuses for Bombing Hospital
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Here is the US changing its story for the FOURTH time of why it launched an air strike on the Doctors without Borders hospital in the Afghan town of Kunduz at the weekend, massacring at least 22 patients and hospital staff.
- Why Is the U.S. Refusing an Independent Investigation If Its Hospital Airstrike Was an "Accident"?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
In Geneva , Doctors Without Borders (MSF) demanded a formal, independent investigation into the U.S. airstrike on its hospital in Kunduz. The group's international president specified that the inquiry should be convened pursuant to war crime-investigating procedures established by the Geneva Conventions and conducted by The International Humanitarian Fact-Finding Commission.
- Bombing Hospitals: 22 People Killed by US Airstrike on Doctors Without Borders Hospital in Kunduz, Afghanistan
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
A group of activists living in Baghdad would regularly go to city sites and string large vinyl banners between the trees outside these buildings which read: "To Bomb This Site Would Be A War Crime." We encouraged people in U.S. cities to do the same.
- The Canadian Election and the Global Climate Crisis
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
The environmental stands of all the main parties in this election amount to climate change denial.
- The James Brown Theory of Black Liberation
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
After decades of frustration with what Selma filmmaker Ava DuVernay calls "white saviour" narratives, antiracist progressives appear to have settled on an ideologically more appealing alternative - what Adolph Reed calls the James Brown Theory of Black Liberation.
- October 19, 2015 is Voting Day: Are You Registered To Vote?
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Check, update or complete your voter registration at elections.ca or call Elections Canada at 1-800-463-6868. You can register in advance until October 13 at 6 pm local time. After that, you must register when you vote.
- 170,000 iconic pictures of Depression-era America released by Yale (Photos)
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Gallery with pictures of the Great Depression in the US, depicting the everyday lives and struggles of people.
- Shades of Grey -- A Left Chapter look at strategy, tactics and endorsements in the 2015 election
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
With just under two weeks to go until election day, anti-capitalist leftists are in something of a quandary.
- Top 5 Reasons Eaters should be Worried about Obama's New Trade Deal
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
The Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) is a wide-ranging deal that would expand corporate rights across member states to the detriment of worker rights, the environment, and public health.
- The Volkswagen Scandal Wasn't Exposed by Regulators, but by Two Engineers Working at a Small Non-Profit Lab
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
German automaker Volkswagen was recently exposed for perpetrating a massive deception by installing a small device on as many as 11 million diesel-powered vehicles designed to cheat emissions tests.
- Wangari Maathai was not a good woman. Kenya needs more of them.
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
25 September, 2015 marked four years since the passing of Kenyan environmentalist and feminist icon, Wangari Maathai. In Kenya, the celebrations were notably muted as her standing in the country has been ambiguous. Maathai challenged the notion of Kenyan women, who are forced to pretend to be "good" to satisfy societal expectations.
- Yes, There is an Imperialist Ruling Class
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Contemporary history is neither a series of random occurrences nor the predetermined plaything of a small cabal of super-empowered conspirators. The truth is somewhere in-between.
- Grace Lee Boggs, Legendary Activist, Dead At 100
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Boggs spent her life actively supporting causes ranging from civil rights and labour to the Black Power and feminist movements.
- Grace Lee Boggs R.I.P.
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Grace Lee Boggs, founding member of the Johnson-Forest Tendency (where her party name was Ria Stone), has died at the age of 100 in Detroit. She was born on June 27, 1915 and passed away October 5, 2015.
- CNN and the NYT Are Deliberately Obscuring Who Perpetrated the Afghan Hospital Attack
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Much of the world spent the last 48 hours expressing revulsion at the U.S. airstrike on a hospital in Kunduz, Afghanistan. It was quite clear early on that the perpetrator of the attack was the U.S., and many media outlets and other organizations around the world have been stating this without any difficulties.
- Fantasy technology won't stop climate change
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Climate negotiators are promising 'negative emissions' using a risky and unproven technology called BECSS. It's the wrong way to go.
- Global Coalition to Facebook: 'Authentic Names' Are Authentically Dangerous for Your Users
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Facebook claims its practice of forcing users to go by their "real names" (or "authentic identities" as Facebook spins it) makes the social network a safer place. In fact, the company has often claimed that the policy protects women who use the social media platform, even when faced with community advocates pointing out that the policy facilitates harassment, silencing, and even physical violence towards its most vulnerable users.
- GMO Propaganda and the Sociology of Science
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
In August of 2014, the website Gawker revealed documents that demonstrated the lengths to which the global chemical giant Monsanto would go in order to control the narrative about their products – in particular, their genetically modified crops. While we all like to believe that our scientific/rational brains see through the transparent marketing, public relations rhetoric exists because it greatly sedates critical thought.
- The internationalist case against the European Union
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
For the first time in a generation Britain will vote on its membership of the European Union. How to vote in that referendum is a difficult choice for anyone on the left. Since the 1990s the anti-EU camp has been dominated by the chauvinist and racist right, initially on the Thatcherite wing of the Tory party, but now enjoying separate and increasingly powerful representation in the shape of the UK Independence Party. But anyone who contemplates therefore voting Yes in the referendum is confronted with the reality of the EU as a neoliberal club currently busy nailing the people of Greece to the cross of austerity.
- Media Are Blamed as US Bombing of Afghan Hospital Is Covered Up
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
After the US airstrikes that hit an MSF (Medecins Sans Frontières) hospital, many news outlets have depicted the event in a way that evades any American responsibility.
- Monsanto and Its Promoters vs. Freedom of Information
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Next year, the federal Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) will celebrate its 50th anniversary as one of the finest laws our Congress has ever passed. It is a vital investigative tool for exposing government and corporate wrongdoing.
- No Safe Harbor: How NSA Spying Undermined U.S. Tech and Europeans' Privacy
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
The spread of knowledge about the NSA's surveillance programs has shaken the trust of customers in U.S. Internet companies like Facebook, Google, and Apple: especially non-U.S. customers who have discovered how weak the legal protections over their data is under U.S. law.
- Nuclear War And Corbyn - The Fury And The Farce
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
The British media is outraged that La bour leader Jeremy Corbyn won't press the nuclear button under any circumstances.
- Parasites in the Body Economic: the Disasters of Neoliberalism
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Michael Hudson discusses his new book, "Killing the Host: How Financial Parasites and Debt Bondage Destroy the Global Economy."
- The Radically Changing Story of the U.S. Airstrike on Afghan Hospital: From Mistake to Justification
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
When news first broke of the U.S. airstrike on the Doctors Without Borders hospital in Kunduz, Afghanistan, the response from the U.S. military was predictable and familiar. It was all just a big, terrible mistake, its official statement suggested.
- Sosialisme Otoritarian atau Libertarian?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
- Two faces of reformism
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
In our last issue we advised the radical left in Britain to be open to the sudden fissures that the crisis of the British state can…unexpectedly open up, perhaps making possible a qualitative advance. And the unexpected came very quickly, and in a particularly surprising form.
- Up against the clock: Climate, social movements and Marxism
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
The time frame is incredibly short. The problem is not one for future generations but for our generation, those of us who are alive now. If we continue to produce greenhouse gas emissions at the rate we have been we will have used up the carbon needed to take us to 2°C warming in the next 30 years.
- Users Have Been Betrayed in the Final TPP Deal -- Help Us Tell Washington How You Feel
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Trade negotiators from the U.S. and its 11 Pacific Rim partners announced their agreement on the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPP) today, concluding the final round of closed negotiations in Atlanta and marking the culmination of seven years of secrecy.
- Why did Syriza fail?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
How has Syriza ended up this way? This is a question that is tormenting a big part of the left and that all the forces that situate themselves on the left must answer.
- For true liberation, Black Lives Matter is not enough
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
A movement that held true to a goal of liberation would challenge the fundamental assumptions of social, economic, and political organization under capitalism.
- Having the Hard Conversations
Jane McAlevey on Fight for 15, labour's crisis of strategy, and the difference between organizing and mobilizing
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
An interview with labour organizer Jane McAlevey on labour's crisis of strategy and the difference between organizing and mobilizing. McAlevey discusses what ails the labour movement, problem with the terms "public" and "private" sector, and why we need to stop ignoring the rank-and-file.
- Israel's new police chief emerges from shadowy world
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Palestinian minority in Israel worried by top cop's twin-track as interrogator for secret police and hardline settler.
- NDP campaign enters panic mode
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
If in politics a week can be a lifetime, a month can be an eternity -- especially in an election campaign.
- Activists Arrested at ArborGen GE Trees World Headquarters
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
A new organizing initiative called "GE Trees Fall" launched with a four day GE trees action training camp outside of Asheville North Carolina, over September 24th to the 27th, 2015.
- Earning a Profit from Global Warming
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
As evidence mounts that a warming world is hurtling toward the point of no return, the plan of the world's governments is to make adjustments to the ability of corporations to profit from polluting. Short-term profits continue to be elevated above the long-term health of the environment.
- Israeli exports hit hard by Palestinian boycott, World Bank says
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
The Palestinian campaign to boycott Israeli goods has exacted a major cost on Israel's exports to the occupied West Bank and Gaza Strip. Even though the World Bank's report has modestly recognized so, they have failed to address any trace of occupation.
- Pesticides, Neoliberalism and the Politics of Acceptable Death
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
In 1900, cancer killed three people in America out of every hundred. Today, it's 33 out of every 100 -- more than one-in-four Americans die from cancer. These figures come from Dr. Joseph Weissman, a professor of medicine at UCLA. Weissman reckons that a fair slice of this explosion in cancer mortality can be laid at the door of petro-chemicals, particularly those used by the food industry.
- A Useful Prep-Sheet on Syria for Media Propagandists
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
State Department talking points on Syria for cable news anchors.
- Big media versus the people
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
A look how "Big Media" shapes public attitudes, the economy, culture, leisure and education, and how governments have developed close relationships with the press in a way which has not been in the public interest.
- Getting Jobbed
The real face of welfare reform
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
A report on the impacts of the US welfare reforms of the 1990s under the Clinton administration.
- Lifting as we Climb
A progressive defense of respectability politics
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
A defense of the morality and utility of respectability politics for black americans.
- Marxism and Ecology: Common Fonts of a Great Transition
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Socialist thought is re-emerging at the forefront of the movement for global ecological and social change.
- The Money Crisis: How bankers grabbed our money -- and how we can get it back
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
A historical analysis exposing the flaws in the system that led to financial crisis.
- Poor Housing
A Silent Crisis
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Across Canada, there is a severe shortage of decent quality housing that is affordable to those with low incomes, and much of the housing that is available is inadequate, even appalling. The poor condition of housing for those below the poverty line adds to the weight of the complex poverty they already endure.
- Seven Points Not on the Arab Media Agenda – What Is There to Celebrate?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
As media experts plan to establish an 'Arab Media Day', Baroud criticizes in seven points the censorship and repression of Arab journalism and media.
- The unspun Jeremy Corbyn
Nobody expected a veteran, rebel leftwing MP to be elected to lead the UK labour Party. It's going to be hard for him to manage his own
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
A look at the rise in popularity of Jermey Corbyn as leader of the Labour Party, and the challenges he faces from the broader British public and from within his own party.
- Volkswagen and the Quandary of Hidden Code
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
After Volkswagen's emissions-rigging scandal, Blunden states that this company is not the only one engaging in the practice of secretly modifying technology. Rather, systematic hidden codes are embedded in society and promoted by both companies and governments.
- Why Logging Forests After Wildfires is Ecologically Destructive
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Bond exposes three prevailing falsehoods about logging that the U.S. Forest Service disseminates.
- Adblockers and Innovative Ad Companies are Working Together to Build a More Privacy-Friendly Web
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Eckersley and Toner talk more about the coalition between tracker and ad-blocker companies that will respect a 'Do Not Track' policy.
- America's Capitalist Religion has Little Room for Science
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
The US mainstream press accuse the Pope of being leftist. Evidence? Well, they make the claim that he is leftist because he supports the theory of global warming. My guess is that the Pope also supports the theory of gravity, which, like global warming, has a great body of scientific evidence to support it. But is science now a part of the leftist realm of influence?
- A Brief History of Penis Worship
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
- British journalists face five years in prison for filming without permit
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Reporters Without Borders (RSF) condemns the prosecution of British journalists Rebecca Prosser and Neil Bonner, who were arrested by the Indonesia navy in the Malacca Strait on 28 May for filming without a press visa and whose trial began yesterday.
- Canadian military explored plan to fully integrate forces with U.S.
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
The Canadian military effort to formally create integrated forces with the US for expeditionary operations included a plan to fully integrate military forces.
- Climate Change, Capitalism, and Corporations
Processes of Creative Self-Destruction
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
The authors examine the intricate relationship between corporations and climate change, while also looking at how corporations shape political and social responses to climate change.
- Joe Oliver: Sign the ClimateFast Pledge!
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Fast and Vigil at Finance Minister Joe Oliver's office. 7 am to 7 pm, Thursday October 1st, candlelighting 7 pm. ClimateFast members will hold a fast and vigil for climate action outside the office of Federal Finance Minister Joe Oliver
- Online Ad Company Adopts New 'Do Not Track' Standard for Web Browsing
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Adzerk Joins Coalition Delivering Stronger Privacy and a Way Forward in the Ad Blocking Impasse
- Press freedom dealt a serious blow as two AFP reporters are attacked by Israeli soldiers in Nablus
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Condemnation of the appalling attack on two AFP reporters by Israeli soldiers and calling for end of impunity enjoyed by Israeli army which undermines freedom of information.
- The Realpolitik of President Jimmy Carter
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
- The Revolutionary Act of Telling the Truth
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Pilger discusses the challenges that we encounter as Western governments and media actively seek to supress any political consciousness and independent thought.
- RSF calls for release of six journalists sentenced to life imprisonment
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
While Egypt's president has just claimed on CNN that his country enjoys unprecedented freedom of expression, Reporters Without Borders (RSF) points out that tomorrow a court will begin hearing the appeals of six unjustly detained journalists
- RSF tells Netanyahu attitude of Israeli soldiers towards media is unacceptable
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
In response to recent cases of violence against journalists by members of Israel's security forces, Reporters Without Borders writes to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu asking him to end the climate of impunity enjoyed by the Israel Defenc
- Shatila: Remembering the Massacre
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Shatila is probably the most well-known of all the Palestinian refugee camps. In September of 1982, a local Christian militia, known as the Phalange, aided by its Israeli allies, entered Shatila and bordering Sabra, engaging in an orgy of torturing and killing that lasted several days.
- Single-Payer Health Care and the Case Against Clicktivism
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
What’s the next step in the campaign for single-payer universal health care in the United States? Single Payer Now's Don Bechler says we have to hit the streets.
- Supremacy, oppression, and power
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
It is the structures of domination and power, that create racism, sexism, etc., in order to justify the existence of unequal wealth, power and the oppression that goes with them. Racism didn't create slavery and the slave trade; racism was created to justify slavery. US/NATO aggression against the Middle East and the Islamic-majority countries aren't a result of Islamophobia; Islamophobia was born out of the need to justify imperialist aggression.
- Turkey: Kurdish daily attacked and 32 journalists interrogated
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
The offices of the Kurdish daily newspaper Azadiya Welat and Kurdish news agency DIHA in Diyabakir (Turkey) have been attacked on 28/09/2015 by police forces and 32 journalists and media workers were taken into custody for interrogation
- US-Funded NGO in Syria Uses Old Photo to Claim Civilian Death in Russian Airstrikes
Group Lashes Russian Official on Twitter for Noting Picture Wasn't Real
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
The "White Helmets" organization, heavily funded by the US State Department, has claimed that Russia killed 33 civilians in its attacks. The NGO attached a photo to the story which was pointed out to be from an incident five days prior and not related to Russia.
- Zunar targeted again under Malaysia's Sedition Act
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) strongly criticizes the Malaysian governmen's continued attack against freedom of expression, following the investigation into political cartoonist, Zunar's latest book.
- Agroecology leading the fight against India's Green Revolution
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
For the women farmers of Tamil Nadu life has long been a struggle, all the more so following the advent of 'Green Revolution' industrial agriculture. So now women's collectives are organising to restore traditional foods and farming methods, resulting in lower costs, higher yields, improved nutrition, and a rekindling of native Tamil culture.
- Learning Activism
The Intellectual Life of Contemporary Social Movements
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
What do activists know? Learning Activism is designed to encourage a deeper engagement with the intellectual life of activists who organize for social, political, and ecological justice.
- Police Taser and Beat Innocent Disabled Vet, Hold Quadriplegic Wife at Gunpoint, Demand She Stand
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Mr. and Mrs. Hayes filed a lawsuit against the Delaware state police for raiding their home. Officers were looking for their nephews, who faced a charge for possession of the drug paraphernalia.
- Tomorrow on NY Radio We'll Be Dropping a Bomb on Facebook
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
I've been asked to speak for Narco News and the nonprofit Fund for Authentic Journalism, and I'll announce that we're taking our 27,000+ Facebook users to Tsu as our response to Facebook and Instagram owner Mark Zuckerberg banning links to his upstart competitor last weekend.
- The Big Secret That Makes the FBI's Anti-Encryption Campaign a Big Lie
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
McLaughlin discusses how hacking techniques and their increasing use are justified in a prevalent way by the American government.
- Brainless in Washington
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Washington's IQ follows the Fed's interest rate -- it is negative. Washington is a black hole into which all sanity is sucked out of government deliberations. Washington's failures are everywhere visible. We can see the failures in Washington's wars and in Washington's approach to China and Russia.
- Bubbles Always Burst: the Education of an Economist
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Spouting ostensible free market ideology, the pro-creditor mainstream rejects what the classical economic reformers actually wrote. One is left to choose between central planning by a public bureaucracy, or even more centralized planning by Wall Street’s financial bureaucracy. The middle ground of a mixed public/private economy has been all but forgotten, denounced as "socialism." Yet every successful economy in history has been a mixed economy.
- Lobbyists Mourn House Speaker John Boehner's Departure
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
House Speaker John Boehner’s surprise resignation on Friday was reason to celebrate for members of his own party who often complained that he let corporate lobbyists exercise undue influence over Congress. For lobbyists, Boehner's announcement was a reason to mourn.
- 10 Ways Monopoly Airlines Use 'Calculated Misery' to Make Flying an Increasingly Overpriced Nightmare
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
In the three months of last quarter, America's commercial airlines collectively made $5.5 billion, up 53 percent over the same period a year before and the highest tally since the pre-Recessionary days of 2007. And yet, customers have never been more unhappy.
The airline industry profits by having you pay extra to be treated like a human being.
- After the Sands
Energy and Ecological Security for Canadians
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
After the Sands outlines a vision and a road map to transitioning Canada to a low-carbon society. Despite its oil abundance, with no strategic reserves, Canada is woefully unprepared for the next global oil supply crisis. There's no good reason for Canadians to use much more oil per capita than people in other sparsely populated, northern countries like Norway, Finland and Sweden -- nations that use 27 to 39 percent less oil per person. In After the Sands, Alberta-based political economist Gordon Laxer proposes a bold strategy of deep conservation and a Canada-first perspective to ensure that all Canadians have sufficient energy at affordable prices.
- The Alinksy Method: a Critique
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
The Alinsky approach involved focusing on local issues and not asking basic questions about the economy or about broader social structures.
- Markets Gone Mad
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Until recently, stocks had been on a tear that pushed valuations into the stratosphere. Volatility stayed low because Bernanke's easy money and QE made investors more placid, serene and mellow. They ventured further out on the risk curve and took more chances because they were convinced that the Fed "had their back" and that there was nothing to worry about. Then things began to fall apart.
- Profiled
From Radio to Porn, British Spies Track Web Users' Online Identities
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Amid a renewed push from the U.K. government for more surveillance powers, more than two dozen documents being disclosed by The Intercept reveal for the first time several major strands of GCHQ’s (Government Communications Headquarters) existing electronic eavesdropping capabilities.
- Selling Modernity: How Global Greenwashing is Destroying Tribal People
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
The Aurora Pacific Economic Zone and Freeport (APECO) in Casiguran, the Philippines, is a 12,923 hectare area currently being developed into a self-sufficient commercial hub and special economic zone.If completed, APECO will strip 3,000 small farms and indigenous Agta households of their land.
- Ten Reasons to Oppose the Saudi Monarchy
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
During the discussion on the Iran nuclear deal, it has been strange to hear US politicians fiercely condemn Iranian human rights abuses while remaining silent about worse abuses by US ally Saudi Arabia. Not only is the Saudi regime repressive at home and abroad, but US weapons and US support for the regime make Americans complicit. So let's look at the regime the US government counts as its close friend.
- Beijing imposes its propaganda beyond its borders
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
As Chinese President Xi Jinping continues a week-long official visit to the United States that began on 22 September, Reporters Without Borders condemns China's policy of exporting its information control and censorship model to the four corners of the world.
- Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - September 24, 2015
Voter Suppression
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Featuring information and articles related to the October 19, 2015 Canadian election. The topic of the week is Voter Suppression, with articles about voter suppression in Canada and the United States.
- A Secret War in 135 Countries
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Turse discusses the U.S. global engagement strategy of covert operations conducted on every continent but Antarctica.
- Turkey's journalists call for solidarity in struggle for their right to report
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
During a conference hosted by the Journalists Union of Turkey (TGS) and the Journalists Association of Turkey (TGC) leading journalists from across the political spectrum united in condemning the surge in attacks on press freedom led by the governmen
- The Power of a Dollar
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Microcredit is nothing more than a socially validated way for financial elites to exploit the poor.
- Yemen as Laboratory: Why is the West So Silent About This Savage War?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
What is at stake in Yemen that far more systematic violations of the Geneva Conventions than in any of the recent wars which Western powers have supported in the Arab world (Iraq, Syria, Libya and Gaza) are met with resounding silence? For six months there has been a blockade of food and fuel, and management of aid (even that through the UN) as part of war strategy, bombing of civilian, historical, educational, religious and medical targets, destruction of infrastructure from roads to electricity and water, and use of prohibited weapons.
- Canada's Election Needs Outside Observers To Ensure Fairness: Report
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Canada needs outside observers to monitor the federal election for fairness due to the rise of big money, nasty attack ads and new voting laws, says a report based on a survey of civil society groups.
- Racist Terror, Then and Now
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
African-Americans have been murdered by white mobs, vigilantes, and "law enforcement" from the time of slavery to, quite possibly, this morning. The fundamental reason for the killing of African-Americans by whites has been fear by many whites of all classes that the existing rules of racial hierarchy, that is, white supremacy, are endangered.
- Deep Diversity: Overcoming Us vs. Them
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Deep Diversity explores how the interactions with individuals different from us are strongly influenced by things happening below the radar of awareness. Choudhury argues that "us vs. them" is an unfortunate but normal part of the human experience due to reasons of both nature and nurture.
- Down the Memory Hole: NYT Erases CIA's Efforts to Overthrow Syria's Government
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
FAIR has noted before how America's well-documented clandestine activities in Syria have been routinely ignored when the corporate media discuss the Obama administration's "hands-off" approach to the four-and-a-half-year-long conflict.
- Benign State Violence vs. Barbaric Terrorism
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
The US and UK target for assassination civilians that allegedly have a connection with ISIS. Such operations are performed without a trial. Peppe discusses how the governments of these countries justify one form of extrajudicial killing while demonizing the murders that ISIS commits.
- Class-Struggle Road to Black Freedom: Part Two
Marxism vs. the Myth of "White Skin Privilege"
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
The victory of the socialist revolution in this country will be achieved through the united struggle of black and white workers.
- Gambian community project helps women turn waste to worth
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
With the level of waste rising fast in Africa, the Gambia's first recycling training centre is teaching women to use rubbish as a means of economic empowerment. The training gives hard-working women another option as they struggle to earn enough money for their families.
- On Imperialism and Refugees
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
The call to "open the borders" and its variants are hopelessly utopian. The modern nation-state arose as a vehicle for the development of capitalism and will remain the basis for the organization of the capitalist economy until the world capitalist order is shattered through a series of workers revolutions. Policing its borders is vital to the very existence of the capitalist state power. Moreover, "open the borders" can have a reactionary content, from advancing imperialist economic penetration of dependent countries to obliterating the right to national self-determination.
- A comment on John Holloway's 'Read Capital: The First Sentence, Or, Capital starts with Wealth, not with the Commodity'
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
John Holloway has written an article entirely devoted to the first sentence of Marx's Capital, a sentence which he claims is key to the whole book. Ulli Diemer thinks Holloway is misguided.
- Corbyn and confronting media power
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Corbyn may be right not to respect a media establishment that has shown little signs of respecting him but he urgently needs a strategy with which to confront it.
- Harper's Stolen Majority: Voter Suppression
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Beit Zatoun is sponsoring a talk by Prof. Michael Keefer on Conservative voter suppression in 2011 and 2015. The talk is at Beit Zatoun in Toronto of Friday October 2.
- Important Win for Fair Use in 'Dancing Baby' Lawsuit
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
A federal appeals court in San Francisco today affirmed that copyright holders must consider whether a use of material is fair before sending a takedown notice. The ruling came in Lenz v. Universal, often called the 'dancing baby' lawsuit.
- The Leap Manifesto
A Call for a Canada Based on Caring for the Earth and One Another
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
We start from the premise that Canada is facing the deepest crisis in recent memory. so we need to Leap.
- Renewable Energy
Cleaner, Fairer Ways To Power The Planet
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Few people doubt the threat of climate change and the urgent need to conquer fossil fuel addiction. But can renewable sources of energy ever be sufficient to provide modern societies with a decent quality of life? This book is clear. They can. And it outlines the strategies to break the barriers to a 100% renewable world.
- TIFF's corporate mentality
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
The Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) tries to prevent anyone from handing out flyers to people standing on the sidewalk waiting for a film.
- Turkey and its Kurds at war: Recep Tayyip Erdogan's personal quest for survival
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Examining the ongoing civil war between the Turkish government and Kurds, focusing especially on the recent plight of Cizre, a south eastern town with a massive Kurdish population. The author criticises the Turkish government which waged war against its own citizens in the Kurdish regions of the country.
- With Virtual Machines, Getting Hacked Doesn't Have To Be That Bad
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Lee explains how to install and use a virtual machine, a fake computer running inside the real computer.
- Can Mulcair work a miracle and gain unlikely victory?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
The big sleeper in the campaign that could mean victory for the Conservatives depends on whether hundreds-of-thousands of people who favour the NDP or the Liberals can manage to vote. According to the Council of Canadians, the so-called Fair Elections Act makes it more difficult for at least 770,000 people to vote.
- Disaster Capitalism: Making a Killing out of Catastrophe
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Journalist Antony Loewenstein travels across Afghanistan, Pakistan, Haiti, Papua New Guinea, the United States, Britain, Greece, and Australia to witness the reality of disaster capitalism.
- Popular Protest in Palestine
The History and Uncertain Future of Unarmed Resistance
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Popular Protest in Palestine provides an overview and analysis of the role and significance of unarmed civil (popular) resistance in the Palestinian national movement. The main focus is on the contemporary popular resistance movement in the Occupied Palestinian Territories (OPT), but it is prefaced by a historical review of the thread of unarmed civil resistance that has run throughout the history of the Palestinian liberation struggle.
- Thoughts about the "college-educated left"
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Today, in the neo-liberal phase of capitalism, neo-liberal ideology is dominant in the universities. Neo-liberalism denies the idea of class, denies that there are any alternatives to capitalism, and rejects so-called ‘grand theories’ which view capitalism as a historical period with a beginning and an eventual end.
- Women and Socialism
Essays on Women's Liberation
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
More than forty years after the women's liberation movement of the 1960s, women remain without equal rights. If anything, each decade that has passed without a fighting women's movement has seen a rise in blatant sexism and the further erosion of the gains that were won in the 1960s and 1970s. This fully revised edition examines these issues from a Marxist perspective, focusing on the centrality of race and class. It includes chapters on the legacy of Black feminism and other movements of women of colour and the importance of the concept of intersectionality. In addition, Women and Socialism: Class, Race, and Capital explores the contributions of socialist feminists and Marxist feminists in further developing a Marxist analysis of women's oppression amid the stirrings of a new movement today.
- Working-Class Politics in the German Revolution
Richard Müller, the Revolutionary Shop Stewards and the Origins of the Council Movement
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Richard Müller, a leading figure of the German Revolution in 1918, is completely unknown today. As the operator and unionist who represented Berlin's metalworkers, he was main organiser of the 'Revolutionary Stewards,' a clandestine network that organised a series of mass strikes between 1916 and 1918. With strong support in the factories, the Revolutionary Stewards were the driving force of the Revolution. By telling Müller's story, this study gives a very different account of the revolutionary birth of the Weimar Republic. Using new archival sources and abandoning the traditional focus on the history of political parties, Ralf Hoffrogge zooms in on working class politics on the shop floor and its contribution to social change.
- Keys, comb and a plant: Palestinians tell of their past through cherished belongings
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
The first national museum for the geographically dispersed and exiled Palestinian people is taking shape, not only physically but conceptually. The goal is "to connect the Palestinians and present different narratives to the world of who we are, where we come from and what we aspire." Since the Israeli occupation authorities prevent many Palestinians from travelling to their homeland, the Palestinian Museum seeks to become the hub connecting a network of institutions in Jordan, Beirut, Gaza, Haifa and elsewhere.
- The past belongs to everyone: British Library calls on public to help piece together history
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
As the British Library thrusts itself into the digital age, more than a million images from its archives are available online. And it wants the public's help to expand what is known about them.
- Stephen Harper's Covert Evangelicalism
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
How an apocalyptic strain of Christianity guides Stephen Harper's policies and campaigning.
- What is Stephen Harper doing to Canada? How can we stop him?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
The Harper regime has had a toxic effect on Canada. The wealthy are better off, but most Canadians are worse off, and rights and freedoms, democracy, access to information, and science have suffered. How can we stop him? Here is a factsheet which can be downloaded, printed, and distributed as a two-sided flyer.
- The Age of Finance Capital -- and the Irrelevance of Mainstream Economics
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Despite the fact that the manufacturers of ideas have elevated economics to the (contradictory) levels of both a science and a religion, a market theodicy, mainstream economics does not explain much when it comes to an understanding of real world developments. Indeed, as a neatly stylized discipline, economics has evolved into a corrupt, obfuscating and useless -- nay, harmful -- field of study.
- Nothing Succeeds Like Failure
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
The U.S. has been warring with the Islamic State (IS) for more than a year now. The centerpiece of that war has been an ongoing campaign of bombings and air strikes in Syria and Iraq, thousands upon thousands of them.
- The Amazon tribe protecting the forest with bows, arrows, GPS and camera traps
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
With authorities ineffective, the 2,200-strong Ka'apor, in the Brazilian state of Maranhão, are taking on the illegal loggers with technology and direct action. Now the Ka'apor are seeking support through NGOs and the media.
- Contest: Guess the date of Harper's next 'terrorist plot'
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
With the polls suggesting that the Conservatives might be headed for defeat in the next election, Stephen Harper and his inner circle are undoubtedly searching their bag of dirty tricks for something that will turn things around.
- Contest: Guess the date of Harper's next 'terrorist plot'
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
What are the odds that a 'terrorist plot' will be 'uncovered' in the late stages of the election campaign, so that Harper can spend the final days of the campaign talking about terrorism, terrorism, and more terrorism?
- Invisible War Crimes - The Corporate Media On Yemen
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Anyone struggling to understand the violent upheaval in Yemen this year might be tempted to consult the country's 'most important source of news' -- the BBC.
- Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - September 10, 2015
Labour Day issue
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Labour Day issue, with articles examining the relentless pressure put on workers to work ever longer hours, at the cost of their health and family life; anti-worker legislation, Zapatista popular education, and the Greek crisis.
- How We Changed Toronto
The inside story of twelve creative, tumultuous years in civic life, 1969-1980
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
By the mid-1960s Toronto was well on its way to becoming Canada's largest and most powerful city. One real estate firm aptly labelled it Boomtown. Expressways, subways, shopping centres, high-rise apartments, and skyscraping downtown office towers were transforming the city. City officials were cheerleaders for unrestricted growth.
- Potential Conservative Environment Minister?
Resource Type: Unclassified
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
It’s a pity that the Conservative candidate caught peeing into a customer's coffee cup has resigned. He’d make a perfect Environment Minister in the Harper government.
- Harper's Worst Offense against Refugees May Be His Climate Record
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
The Middle East drought between 2006 and 2011 was without precedent since modern record keeping, killing over 80 per cent of livestock and driving up local food prices. Already poor populations had to contend with higher temperatures that dried soil and failed rains during the normally wet season due to weaker winds from the Mediterranean. A key long-term driver of this unfolding humanitarian catastrophe is climate change. And on that front, Canada’s record of contributing to this crisis is far more significant than our wretched record so far in resettling Syrian refugees.
- The Measure of a Revolutionary: Remembering Eugene V. Debs
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Debs was an articulate, far-reaching critic of American society, staunchly anti-capitalist and opposed to both Democratic and Republican parties, which he saw as controlled by Wall Street. In his five campaigns as the Socialist Party candidate for President of the United States, Debs excoriated the economic exploitation of workers, including the then rampant abuses of child labor, with rare oratorical skill. He advocated for unions in all major industries and promoted a vision of socialism as grassroots economic democracy. In a deeply racist, patriarchal society, he was also staunchly anti-racist and pro-women's rights. When war hysteria swept the country, Debs openly defied the warmongers to oppose U.S. entry into World War I. He did so not as a pacifist, but because he saw the world war as an inter-imperialist dispute among the ruling classes of competing capitalist nations.
- US accuses China of 'using sea to hide its submarines'
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
The U.S. Navy is demanding billions of dollars in extra funding to counter the latest Chinese technical innovation. China, it seems, has come up with the devious idea of hiding its submaries under the sea. Darn, why didn't we think of doing that?
- Is intersectionality just another form of identity politics?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Feminist Fightback has for many years described itself as seeking to practice an 'intersectional' form of feminism, whereby we argue that the struggle for gender liberation must take account of, and join with, struggles against all other forms of oppression and exploitation around the axis of class, racism, homophobia, transphobia, ableism etc. We began to use 'intersectional' in place of 'socialist feminist' in about 2007-8 because we felt that the latter term implied an interest in gender and class but did not give due emphasis to race. We continued to be inspired by a variety of Marxist and class-struggle anarchist currents, and we did not feel these to be in contradiction to a commitment to intersectionality.
- Israel hopes 'lost tribes' can boost Jewish numbers
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Facing Palestinian majority, Israeli officials seek way to loosen legal definition of 'Jew' so millions more can qualify for immigration.
- Work Overload: Time for a Union Strategy
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Talk to workers in any sector, in any workplace and sooner or later they’ll get to their frustrations with their ever-increasing workloads: ‘I’m struggling’, they’ll lament to fellow workers or anyone ready to listen, ‘to just do the job, never mind do it well’. And yet even though few work-related issues seem to generate more passion, the relentless intensification of every-day work life rarely surfaces as a union priority. Why?
- Class-Struggle Road to Black Freedom: Part One
The Roots of Black Oppression
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
The purpose of this talk is to motivate a Marxist materialist program for the fight for black freedom as opposed to the idealism embodied in both black nationalism and guilty white liberalism, including the concept of “white skin privilege,” which falsely substitutes individual psychology for struggle against the racial oppression rooted in the capitalist profit system. We fight for black freedom on the program of revolutionary integration including mobilizing the working class against every manifestation of racial oppression. This approach is counterposed to liberal integration, which is premised on the utopian notion that equality for black people can be attained within the confines of this class society founded on black oppression.
- Come Again? Second Thoughts on My Ashley Madison Affair
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
- What America can learn from Europe's high-speed trains
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Adler examines the lagging state of high-speed rail technology in America while analyzing Germany's approach to transit and urban planning as a model for improvement.
- EU diplomats reveal devastating impact of Ethiopia dam project on remote tribes
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
A controversial World Bank-funded scheme to dam a major Ethiopian river and import up to 500,000 people to work in what is planned to be one of the world's largest sugar plantations has led to tens of thousands of Africa's most remote and vulnerable people being insensitively resettled. According to reports by two teams of British, American and EU diplomats who visited the resettlement areas in the Lower Omo Valley in southern Ethiopia last year, the lives of 20,000 Mursi, Bodi and other semi-nomadic tribespeople are being "fundamentally and irreversibly" changed by the mega-project.
- Tracking Harper's 9-year-long assault on unions
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Stephen Harper has been Prime Minister of Canada for almost a decade. In that time, the system of protections that were put in place by decades of advocacy by labour organizations and unions has been partly dismantled. The attacks have been extremely strategic. Ground Zero for these attacks has been the House of Commons, where piece after piece of legislation has taken aim at unions and collective bargaining.
- Anger over China's Deadly Workplaces after Warehouse Explosion
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
A series of chemical explosions on August 12, 2015 at a warehouse in the northern city of Tianjin is shining a spotlight on dangerous workplace conditions and precarious employment relations in China.
- Enbridge Line 9 Work Disrupted as Demonstrators Demand an End to Tar Sands, Fracking
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Opponents of Enbridge's Line 9 Tar Sands and fracking pipeline are in Port Hope at the site of testing operations of the controversial pipeline.
- Fish habitat protection waning under Harper government, analysis finds
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
A statistical analysis of the Conservative government's changes to environmental laws and procedures suggests Ottawa has "all but abandoned" attempts to protect Canada's lakes and rivers.
- Silence on police carding of White working-class
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
a majority of the people who are carded are Whites. The cops in the city of Hamilton and other municipalities have pointed to this fact to make the incorrect claim that carding is not racist. Why haven’t we universally raised class profiling to a similar level as racial profiling?
- Strong voter registration campaign could mean the end for Harper
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
The primary objective of Stephen Harper's absurdly-named Fair Elections Act is to prevent hundreds-of-thousands of Canadians from voting for the NDP, Liberals, Greens, etc. But efforts to help people to register to vote are not as strong as they could be. There needs to be close co-operation among groups to make sure that as many people as possible - particularly people in some 70 ridings where the Conservatives are vulnerable - have the identification they need to vote.
- Between the Power and the Dream
Leon Trotsky
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Book review of Paul Le Blanc's Leon Trotsky.
- The Brussels lobbyists
Major firms seek to influence EU laws for thire own advantage long before they reach the European Parlament
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
A look at the lobbyists who target the bureaucrats who control research budgets and make decisions for the EU's technical agencies.
- Capitalism vs. Democracy in Europe
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
The governments of Europe are indifferent to public protest, strikes and mass demonstrations, and don't care about the opinion or the feelings of the population; they are attentive - extremely attentive - only to the opinion and the feelings of the financial markets, and their employees, the ratings agencies.
- China: Workers Rising?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Book review of Lu Zhang's Inside China's Automobile Factories: The Politics of Labor and Worker Resistance and Eli Friedman's Insurgency Trap: Labor Politics in Postsocialist China
- Flight and Freedom
Stories of Escape to Canada
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Authors present a collection of thirty interviews with refugees, their descendants, or their loved ones to document their journeys of flight. The stories span two centuries of refugee experiences in Canada.
- Greece, Austerity & Europe's Future
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Easily lost in these political gyrations is the immense suffering of the Greek people. Unemployment continues to be 25% for the general population and 60% for younger people. One result has been that 300,000 Greeks, or 3% of the total population, has emigrated in the past few years.
- Horizons for a New Left
The Next New Left: A History of the Future
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Book review of Alan Sears' The Next New Left: A History of the Future.
- Household Worker Organizing, Its Lessons for Labor Today
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Domestic work is representative of a paradigmatic shift in labour, as the conditions of labour for other workers seem to converge with and more closely resemble those of private household workers.
- I am not that Woman in a burqa
A Palestinian novelist remembers the liberated, educated women of her life, and how their freedom has been, and is being, curtailed.
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Palestinian novelist Sahar Khalifeh discusses growing up as a girl and woman in Arab culture, and how Arab women are represented in Western culture.
- Joelito's Big Decision
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Story of ten-year old Joelito, who learns about the struggle for economic justice as he heads toward the door of MacMann’s Burger Restaurant for his regular Friday-night family dinner.
- Making It Visible to Ourselves
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Cheryl Harris reflects on Ferguson and the current and persisting issues Black people are facing in the U.S.
- Memory as paying business
Getting a battlefield, the site of tragedy or a memorial museum onto Unesco's World Heritage List is now a shrewd way to increase tourist
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
A look at how memorials and sites of great tragedy are now being exploited for financial gain as tourist destinations.
- Mexico's Deepening Crises
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
The "democratic transition" has brought little democracy and great disappointment. And the "war on drugs" has not diminished the production and export of drugs but increased violence and provided political cover for the government's escalation of repression.
- Neoliberalism and the New Lynching
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
I don't think it's a coincidence that they would raise mass Black and Brown incarceration as being a counterinsurgency tactic. I think we've seen that out there on the streets, out there in Baltimore and Ferguson lately.
- NY Public Workers Under Attack
Enough Blame to Go Around: The Labor Pains of New York City's Public Employee Unions
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Book review of Richard Steier's Enough Blame to Go Around: The Labor Pains of New York City's Public Employee Unions.
- NoNonsense Globalization
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Explains and examines globalization from all angles - and explores strategies for redesigning the global economy in the common interest.
- On Bernie Sanders' Campaign
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
We strongly disagree with Bernie Sanders' approach of running in the Democratic primary and his pledge to support the party nominee. However, it would be a mistake for the left not to recognize the enormous significance and potential inherent in the millions of people rallying around his campaign looking to fight against corporate America and what they perceive as the hijacking of the democratic process.
- Ontario Teachers Face Austerity Drive
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Although conditions for teachers and students in Ontario, and Canada more broadly, remain far better than they are for their counterparts in the United States, concessionary austerity demands similar to those being more aggressively advanced in the United States have been rolled out in one guise or another across Canada too.
- Poisoned Fruits of Austerity
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
The most dramatic advance of the far right is that of the National Front in France. It is not unusual that such forces prosper, with some working-class support, in the absence of well-articulated progressive alternatives.
- Racist Terror, Then and Now: Many Ways to Die
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
African Americans have been murdered by white mobs, vigilantes, and "law enforcement" from the time of slavery to, quite possibly, this morning.
- Rise and Fall of "Proletarian Art," Part II
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
A historical overview and analysis of working class art during the twentieth century, including Mike Gold, Philip Reisman, and Raphael Soyer. [Part 2 of 2]
- Slavery and the American Revolution
The Counter-Revolution of 1776: Slave Resistance and the Origins of the United States of America
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Book review of Gerald Horne's The Counter-Revolution of 1776: Slave Resistance and the Origins of the United States of America
- Weed Whackers
Monsanto, glyphosate, and the war on invasive species
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
On a Friday evening in January, a thousand people at the annual California Native Plant Society conference in San Jose settled down to a banquet and a keynote speech delivered by an environmental historian named Jared Farmer. His chosen topic was the eucalyptus tree and its role in California's ecology and history. The address did not go well.
- Why Black Lives Matter Is Game Change
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
The Cleveland Black Lives Matter Convening was a "game changer" because it made clear the Movement is long term. Whether its next step will add a call for a break with the two-party system, time and struggle will tell.
- In Paraguay's remote north guerrillas are still at large, armed and dangerous
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
In the heart of South America, a relative latecomer to armed struggle is running rings around the authorities – provoking dark mutterings that the state itself is complicit in the group's existence. The Paraguayan People's Army (EPP) have killed more than 50 people in the last two years but some wonder if the government is really trying to defeat them.
- What Black Lives Matter means for Labor
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
An account and analysis of the centrality of the Black freedom struggle to the working class movement as a whole, arguing that the struggle for Black liberation is a precondition for human liberation generallyand recognizing the deep historical thread connecting the centuries-old struggle for Black freedom in the U.S. and the struggle to organize the working class to fight for workers' power.
- The Wikileaks Files: The World According to US Empire
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
A compilation of contributions from WikiLeaks editor-in-chief Julian Assange, WikiLeaks section editor Sarah Harrison, and a team of journalists, professors, and writers. The book is full of eye-opening scholarly analysis of the diplomatic cables made public by the WikiLeaks group, focusing on the 2010 - 2011 'Cablegate' disclosures. It takes on a huge amount of data and delivers a thorough introduction to the narratives of U.S. policy that the cables reveal.
- The Great Canadian Tax Dodge
Resource Type: Film/Video
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
It is estimated that between 100 and 170 billion dollars leaves Canada every year, untaxed. Much of it is siphoned off to Canadian-made offshore tax havens. "The Great Canadian Tax Dodge" documents the birth of the Canadian Tax Fairness movement and examines the issue of tax avoidance, exposing the sophisticated corporate strategies and tax loopholes commonly used to legally avoid tax.
- Nature's last refuge: climate change threatens our most fragile ecosystem
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
An Arctic voyage through the awe-inspiring Northwest Passage shows that, with oil drilling in the far north on the way, rapid action is needed to protect the region.
- Palestine overwhelmed by Illegal American Immigrants
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Israel illegally annexed part of the Palestinian West Bank to its district of Jerusalem and then settled it with squatters, not only Israeli but also American.
- In an endless war on terror, we are all doomed to become Palestinians
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Jeff Halper's new book sheds light on the arms industry, arguing that Israel is now the go-to nation for armies and police forces around the world.
- The new colonialism: Greece and Ukraine
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
According to Jack Rasmus, aA new form of colonialism is emerging in Europe. Not colonialism imposed by military conquest and occupation, as in the 19th century. Not even the more efficient form of economic colonialism pioneered by the U.S. in the post-1945 period, where the costs of direct administration and military occupation were replaced with compliant local elites allowed to share in the wealth extracted in exchange for being allowed to rule on behalf of the colonizers. In the 21st century, it is 'colonialism by means of financial asset transfer.' It is colony wealth extraction by colonizing country managers, assigned to directly administer the processes in the colony by which financial assets are to be transferred. This new form of colonialism by direct management plus financial wealth transfer is now emerging in Greece and Ukraine.
- Canada's prime minister wants to make it harder for people to vote against him
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First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Stephen Harper, who won by an uncomfortably small margin in the last election, has passed laws designed to keep voters who oppose him from the polls.
- Free Speech in an Age of Identity Politics
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Transcript of Malik's TB Davie Memorial lecture on academic freedom at the University of Cape Town.
- US pressured Norway to arrest & extradite Snowden, seize all devices - documents
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
The US repeatedly asked Norway to detain and deport whistleblower Edward Snowden if he tried to enter its territory in the aftermath of his leaks on mass US global surveillance, Norwegian media revealed citing formal requests.
- Western hypocrisy over convictions in Russia of Oleg Sentsov and Alexander Kol’chenko
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Shapinov advocates against the Western disregard for hundreds of criminal cases against oppositionists in Ukraine.
- When Will the Media Really Get Polyamory?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Why do the media so often miss the mark when they write articles or do a feature on polyamory? Why do so many approach the subject with a ready-made idea of what they are looking for?
- Alarm sounded as TransCanada set to drill in Bay of Fundy
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
An open letter was released by 20 groups in New Brunswick opposed to TransCanada's plans to begin drilling in the Bay of Fundy. The procedure has the potential to hurt resident's foundations and drinking water, along with the natural environment.
- Towards a two-tiered knowledge society
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
On the Conservative government's actions to reduce Internet access and library access to a large portion of the population.
- The Catastrophic International Consequences of the Capitulation of Syriza and the Criminal Responsibility of Mr. Tsipras
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Syriza's betrayal comes at a very critical historical moment, when the racist extreme right is advancing almost everywhere in our continent, which already makes immediate and direct the threat that many of the citizens Europeans disappointed by Syriza will fall prey to this racist and neo-fascist self-proclaimed "anti-systemic" extreme right.
- Sources HotLink - August 26, 2015
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Read about unethical corporate behaviours and the impotence in the SEC in regulating the U.S. stock exchange. In media, we find more evidence to support what we already suspect: Fox News is heavily biased. International trade and copyright laws are exploited to the detriment of disabled persons and a civil rights group has taken an ideological about-face. For marketers, publishers and content creators, we feature a guide to viral advertisements and an article expressing the need and some basic guidelines for data security. We also feature a book on Internet censorship.
- Against Charity
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Snow criticizes the growing social movement 'Effective Altruism', which is characterized by calculating where expendable income is best spent and by encouraging the relatively affluent to channel their capital accordingly.
- Base Nation: How U.S. Military Bases Abroad Harm America and the World (American Empire Project)
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Examination of the perils of American military bases overseas.
- The Conflict Shoreline
Colonization as Climate Change in the Negev Desert
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
The village of al-'Araqib has been destroyed and rebuilt more than seventy times in the "battle over the Negev," an ongoing Israeli state campaign to uproot the Bedouins from the northern threshold of the desert. Unlike other frontiers fought over during the Israel–Palestine conflict, however, this threshold is not demarcated by fences and walls but advances and recedes in response to cultivation, colonization, displacement, urbanization, and climate change.
- Household Workers Unite
The Untold Story of African American Women Who Built a Movement
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2015
Published: 2016
Telling the stories of African American domestic workers, this book resurrects a little-known history of domestic worker activism in the 1960s and 1970s, offering new perspectives on race, labour, feminism, and organizing.
- Ashley Madison's Owners Give In to Temptation To Misuse The DMCA
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Ashley Madison's owners have been sending numerous DMCA (Digital Millennium Copyright Act) takedown notices to platforms like Twitter, Reddit, and others in an attempt to stop the dissemination of millions of names and email addresses of the site's users.
- Email from a Married, Female Ashley Madison User
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
The private lives and sexual choices of fully formed adults are usually very complicated and thus impossible to understand -- and certainly impossible to judge -- without wallowing around in the most intimate details, none of which are any of your business. That's a very good reason not to try to sit in judgment and condemn from afar.
- The Age of Imperialistic Wars
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
There is no question that wars and military threats have replaced diplomacy, negotiations and democratic elections as the principal means of resolving political conflicts. Throughout the present year (2015) wars have spread across borders and escalated in intensity.
- Breaking the Media Blackout in Western Sahara
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Zurutuza describes how the Moroccan authorities repress journalists and media coverage of occupied Western Sahara.
- Silent blight in a countryside of empty homes and shut shops
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Young people are leaving rural areas of Europe for the cities at a time when birth rates are at historic lows. As the countryside empties, should rising immigration be seen as a solution, not a problem?
- Think California's drought is bad? Try Palestine's
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
While Israelis water their lawns, irrigate crops and swim in Olympic-sized pools, Palestinian communities a few kilometers away face drought and water scarcity issues. Their roughly equal proximity to water resources theoretically allows for equal consumption.
- The Devil Is In the Details: How Patients' Mental Health Data Is At Risk
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
It seems like "Patient doctor confidentiality" doesn’t apply to other doctors. Overly diligent doctors are free to snoop around in the psychiatric medical records of their patients. As if that weren't bad enough, non-psychiatric doctors can highlight this psychiatric history on their patient's medical records. For Julia, doctors will only ever know her as the "woman with bipolar disorder". Not the "mother with a master’s degree".
- Inside the Spyware Campaign Against Argentine Troublemakers
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Alberto Nisman, the Argentine prosecutor known for doggedly investigating a 1994 Buenos Aires bombing, was targeted by invasive spy software downloaded onto his cellular phone shortly before his mysterious death. The software masqueraded as a confidential document and was intended to infect a Windows computer. An investigation by The Intercept indicates that this targeting was likely not an isolated event.
- MI5 spied on Doris Lessing for 20 years, declassified documents reveal
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
MI5 targeted the Nobel prize-winning author Doris Lessing for 20 years, listening to her phone conversations, opening her mail and closely monitoring her movements, previously top secret files reveal. The files show the extent to which MI5, helped by the Met police special branch, spied on the writer, her friends and associates.
- Once Again, Megaupload User Asks Court for His Files Back
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
When the government seized Megaupload's assets and servers, Goodwin, like many others, lost access to video files containing months of professional work. After years he hasn't been able to get them back.
- Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - August 21, 2015
Canadian federal election, mining and the environment
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Featuring the Canadian federal election, mining and the environment, failure of Syriza in Greece, refugees, veterans of India's struggle for independence.
- Romania's 'occupy forests' movement demands clampdown on corporate crime
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
A growing protest movement is demanding strong controls on international investors and logging companies buying up Romania's forests. In its sights is Austria-based Schweighofer, which stands accused of criminal malpractice and accepting illegal timber shipments. The popular outrage stirred up by corporate misdeeds is now stimulating a wider democratic revival.
- The Black Belt Communists
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
During the Great Depression, black sharecroppers and the Communist Party waged war against tenant farming in the South.
- India's acid attack victims unite against the horror of their past
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Last year, 349 people in India, mostly women, had acid thrown on them in deliberate assaults. A groundbreaking cafe allows some of them a new start. Sheroes (run by an NGO in the city of Agra, home of the Taj Mahal) is a rare beacon of hope where the aim is to help change perceptions of the survivors of acid attacks and to allow them to regain some confidence.
- The Puritanical Glee Over the Ashley Madison Hack
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
High school students have long read The Scarlet Letter, the 1850 novel by Nathaniel Hawthorne set in a Puritanical Massachusetts town in the mid-17th century. As The Atlantic noted in 1886, "the punishment of the scarlet letter is a historical fact." To see just how current is the mentality driving the scarlet letter, observe the reaction to the Ashley Madison hack.
- The Secret History of Jaywalking: The Disturbing Reason It Was Outlawed - And Why We Should Lift the Ban
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Mangla narrates the origins of jaywalking and the reason why it was made illegal.
- What publishers should do to implement data privacy protection
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
With advancing technology, increased cloud integration and general increased reliance on vulnerable networks, keeping information away from skilled 'hacktivists' and tech-savvy malicious misfits is becoming harder by the day.
- Why Al Jazeera will not say Mediterranean 'migrants'
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
There is no "migrant" crisis in the Mediterranean. There is a very large number of refugees fleeing unimaginable misery and danger and a smaller number of people trying to escape the sort of poverty that drives some to desperation.
- Canada's top medical journal says Harper is undermining public health care
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
The current issue of the Canadian Medical Association Journal features an editorial written by Deputy Editor Dr. Matthew Stanbrook slamming the Harper Conservatives for weakening public health care in Canada. "For much of the last decade, Canadian federal health policy has been conspicuous by its absence," Stanbrook says, adding "in recent years, the federal government has neglected [its health care] responsibilities, even when courts have ordered them to do otherwise." The Conservatives are undermining and under-funding Canada's public healthcare system, spurning collaboration with the provinces and essentially removing the federal government from the health care business, Stanbrook suggests.
- The Organised Suppression of Kurdish Journalists in Iran
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
It has been nearly 120 years since the first Kurdish newspaper, 'Kordestan' was published – a publication which did not in come into existence here in Kurdistan, but in exile in Egypt, its later life being in Europe. In 1909, 'Kordestan' was banned from publishing by the Ottoman Empire. Despite the ban being placed over a century ago, with its founders and journalists having been arrested and prosecuted, it seems that even today the fate of Kurdish journalism is intertwined with that of 'Kordestan'.
- Sympathy for Stephen Harper: Imagine that everyone you trusted had lied to you
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
You will be familiar with the picture we have created of him: suspicious, paranoid, controlling, a leader who trusts no one, leaves nothing to others, insists on taking a hand in even the smallest matter. Well, you'd be suspicious, paranoid and controlling, too, if everyone around you was lying to you all the time.
- Think the Left Won the Culture War? Think Again
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
With the recent AshleyMadison leak and Gawker.com's notorious naming and shaming of an obscure, married publishing executive, deBoer questions who really won in this culture war.
- Agroecology as a Tool for Liberation: Transforming Industrial Agribusiness in El Salvador
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
"We say that every square meter of land that is worked with agro-ecology is a liberated square meter. We see it as a tool to transform farmers''social and economic conditions. We see it as a tool of liberation from the unsustainable capitalist agricultural model that oppresses farmers."
- Game of trolls: the hip digi-kids helping Putin's fight for online supremacy
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
The inner workings of St Petersburg's "troll factory" have been exposed by Lyudmila Savchuk, a former employee.
- The Peruvian "Stalker Law" Will Be Reviewed By Congress, We Can Still Stop It
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Bogado and Rodriguez discuss the new decree in Peru known as "Ley Acosadora", or "the Stalker Law", allows warrantless access to Peruvians' location data and creates a new power for the government to track the movements of vulnerable mobile and Internet users.
- "Sovereign" Deportations: The Dominican Republic deportations cannot occur without US blessing
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
People born to undocumented Haitian parents in the Dominican Republic have left under threat of violence. "Voluntary" deportations have had a strong US influence given the political and economic power that the North American country exerts on the island.
- Australian Court Bans “Surreal” Copyright Demands from Dallas Buyers Club, Case Shows Need For Reform of US Copyright Law
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
- Ethiopia's Zone9 Bloggers Head Back to Court After 15 Months Behind Bars
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Five members of Ethiopia's Zone9 blogging collective expect to learn their fate this Wednesday, August 19, 2015, when a panel of three judges will meet at Addis Ababa's Lideta High Court to rule on whether the defendants will walk free or or face another round of trial.
- Human Rights Protections Weaken as Tunisia Fights Terror
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
The Tunisian government is cracking down on civil and political rights as it fights a rise in Islamist insurgency, in the aftermath of the deadliest terror attack in the country's history.
- The Long Sad Slide From Leading Civil Rights Organization to Anti-Black Lives Matter Group
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
When you place someone on the seat of power, it can corrupt them.
- Russian Censors Falsify Evidence Against Newspaper to Uphold Ban on Political Coverage
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Almost a year ago, the Kremlin's media watchdog agency, Roskomnadzor, warned a series of news outlets against publishing reports about a protest that took place in Siberia on August 17, 2014. Last weekend, in an appeals case by one newspaper against the government, state censors finally revealed specifically why they banned several news stories last year about the rally in Siberia.
- Scott Walker's False Promise of Racial Unity
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Scott Walker's solution for racial injustice? Ignore it. Acknowledging systemic problems like the documented wave of police killings of unarmed black men, or the racial wealth gap, or disparities in sentencing and incarceration, creates "discord."
- White and Guilty of the Crime of History?
No. I'm Not Going to the Reeducation Camp
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
I don't think I’m White. I think I am a human being. I don’t know what it is like to be rich and in the top 20 percent of money makers in the USA. I know that I'm color-labeled as White and class-labeled as Middle by the identity and false consciousness hunters that roam the American landscape.
- Why the federal government must lead in health care
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
For much of the last decade, Canadian federal health policy has been conspicuous by its absence. During that time, the federal government has walked away from collaborating with the provinces through the Council of the Federation and declined to renew the First Ministers’ Accord on Health Care; dithered on public health measures of glaringly obvious benefit, such as tobacco control and asbestos elimination; ignored and disbanded expert advisory panels on health issues; weakened the authority of the public health agency; muzzled scientists; eliminated the long form census, the best source of information on regional disparities relevant to health; and eroded research support, while increasingly tying what remains to business interests rather than health benefits.
- A year after James Foley and Steven Sotloff murders, more awareness of risks
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Journalists who regularly cover violence are considered a hard-boiled bunch. But a year ago this month, even the toughest were crying. There was no emotional body armour to deflect the horror of the beheading videos of freelancers James Foley, Steven Sotloff, and other Westerners held hostage in Syria by the self-styled Islamic State, also known as ISIS, ISIL, or IS.
- Iranians Coordinate a Global Event to Support the Iranian Nuclear Deal
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
A group of ten to fifteen people dressed in Israeli Defence Force (IDF) t-shirts and waving Canadian, Israeli and IDF flags slowly encircled a large group of Iranians holding posters reading "#SupportIranDeal" and "we choose peace".
- Rising Up Against Police Violence, From the Black Panthers to #BlackLivesMatter
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
I turned away more than once while watching Stanley Nelson's documentary The Black Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolution. I averted my eyes from the screen when FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover's nefarious mug first appeared. I turned away once more when the charismatic and admirable Fred Hampton was first shown, knowing that eventually he would be murdered by Chicago police and federal agents.
- Godavari: and the police still await an attack
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Rural Indians were both the foot soldiers of freedom and the leaders of some of the greatest anti-colonial uprisings ever seen. Countless thousands of them sacrificed their lives to rid India of British rule. And many who lived through great suffering to see a free India were mostly forgotten soon after. From the 1990s onwards, p. Sainath recorded the lives of several of the last living freedom fighters.
- Kalliasseri: In search of Sumukan
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
The village that battled on all fronts, fighting the British, local landlords, and caste.
- Kalliasseri: Still fighting at 50
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
When the God of the Hunters sheltered the communists in Kerala from the Raj.
- The last battle of Laxmi Panda
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Rural Indians were both the foot soldiers of freedom and the leaders of some of the greatest anti-colonial uprisings ever seen. Countless thousands of them sacrificed their lives to rid India of British rule. And many who lived through great suffering to see a free India were mostly forgotten soon after. From the 1990s onwards, p. Sainath recorded the lives of several of the last living freedom fighters.
- New Documents and Reports Confirm AT&T and NSA's Longstanding Surveillance Partnership
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Reports today in the New York Times and ProPublica confirm what EFF's Jewel v. NSA lawsuit has claimed since 2008 -- that the NSA and AT&T have collaborated to build a domestic surveillance infrastructure, resulting in unconstitutional seizure and search of of millions, if not hundreds of millions, of Americans' Internet communications.
- Nicaraguans Fight to Save Land and Sovereignty from Canal Development
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
There has been a popular storm gathering to protest the proposed cross-Nicaragua canal.
- Panimara's foot soldiers of freedom - 2
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Rural Indians were both the foot soldiers of freedom and the leaders of some of the greatest anti-colonial uprisings ever seen. Countless thousands of them sacrificed their lives to rid India of British rule. And many who lived through great suffering to see a free India were mostly forgotten soon after. From the 1990s onwards, p. Sainath recorded the lives of several of the last living freedom fighters.
- Puerto Rico's default is fine, as long as Wall Street is repaid
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
On August 1, 2015, Puerto Rico defaulted on part of its enormous $72 billion debt, paying back only $628,000 on a relatively small $58 million loan that was due at the start of the month. The default, which marks the most serious credit event in US public bond markets since the city of Detroit filed for bankruptcy in 2013, has led many to draw obvious comparisons to Greece – and understandably so.
- Sherpur: big sacrifice, short memory
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Rural Indians were both the foot soldiers of freedom and the leaders of some of the greatest anti-colonial uprisings ever seen. Countless thousands of them sacrificed their lives to rid India of British rule. And many who lived through great suffering to see a free India were mostly forgotten soon after. From the 1990s onwards, p. Sainath recorded the lives of several of the last living freedom fighters.
- Sonakhan: When Veer Narayan died twice
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
In Chhattisgarh, Veer Narayan Singh sought no charity, but gave his life fighting for justice
- When 'Salihan' took on the Raj
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Rural Indians were both the foot soldiers of freedom and the leaders of some of the greatest anti-colonial uprisings ever seen. Countless thousands of them sacrificed their lives to rid India of British rule. And many who lived through great suffering to see a free India were mostly forgotten soon after. From the 1990s onwards, p. Sainath recorded the lives of several of the last living freedom fighters.
- Zombie neoliberalism threatens Ecuador's 'citizen's revolution'
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Ecuadorian President Rafael Correa and social movements behind Ecuador's "Citizens' Revolution" are engaged in yet another battle against the South American country's elites.
- ARTICLE 19 to UN Watchdog: Whistleblowers and Journalists' Sources must be protected
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
ARTICLE 19 has responded to the call for comment on the protection of journalists' sources and whistleblowers, made by the UN special rapporteur on the right to freedom of expression.
- Biodiversity is the best defence against corn pests
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Farmers' first line of defence against pests is the ecosystem in and around their fields. With widespread or indiscriminate use of pesticides essential biodiversity is lost - and the result is more frequent and serious infestations, and a decline in food security.
- Cue Collective Eye Roll: Harper Appoints Kinder Morgan Consultant to Pipeline Regulator
Resource Type: Film/Video
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
The purpose of the National Energy Board, like any regulator, is to be unprofitable. In fact, over half of NEB's board members are pipeline mommies, a.k.a. oil industry professionals.
The NEB refuses to take climate change into consideration in their review, even though scientists have made clear that more pipelines will lock us into a very hot, very grim future.
- Hong Kong must identify, prosecute the mastermind of 2014 attack on journalist Kevin Lau
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
The Committee to Protect Journalists calls on authorities in Hong Kong to work quickly and efficiently to identify the mastermind of the February 2014 attack on newspaper editor Kevin Lau Chun-to and ensure there is full justice in the case. Two men identified as Yip Kim-wah and Wong Chi-wah were found guilty today of "causing grievous bodily harm and stealing a motorcycle" in the assault, but have refused to say who ordered the attack, reports said.
- Journalists and media outlets hounded as tension mounts
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Reporters Without Borders (RSF) and Journalists in Danger (JED) are worried about a decline in the environment for journalists as Democratic Republic of Congo holds local elections, starts early campaigning for national elections, and overhauls its system of government.
- Romania faces $2.56bn claim for failed gold mine
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Canadian mining company Gabriel Resources is seeking over $2.5 billion damages from Romania after it rejected a vast gold mine at Rosia Montana.
- "Shawkan" in very poor health after two years of provisional detention
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Reporters Without Borders calls for Egyptian photojournalist Mahmoud Abu Zeid's immediate release and the withdrawal of all the charges against him at his next court appearance on 17 August, three days after he will have completed his second year
- South African Copyright Review is Overdue, Pioneering, and in Parts Completely Absurd
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
In our campaign against the TPP's Copyright Trap, we are fighting back against a proposal to extend the term of copyright in six countries around the Pacific rim from 50 to 70 years after the death of the author. But there is one country that is currently proposing to extend the copyright term to last even a bit longer than that. To be precise, as part of a wholesale review of its Copyright Act, South Africa is proposing that copyright should last... forever. This goes one better than Jack Valenti of the MPAA asked for -- he only asked Congress to extend copyright to last forever less one day.
- Two years since Rabaa massacre, impunity still reigns in Egypt
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
On this day two years ago, the Egyptian army and riot police launched a deadly onslaught on supporters of ousted President Mohamed Morsi, leaving hundreds dead and thousands injured.
- Why a Future Ride in a Self-Driving Car Could Be a Trip to Advertising Hell
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
There's nothing marketers love more than a captive audience. And people don't get any more captive than when they're sitting in a car. That's a powerful motivation for companies developing automated cars, beyond the technical innovation that has made such a vision possible.
- After "Grossly Distorting" UN Views on the Internally Displaced Ata-Manobos, the Philippine Military Apologizes
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Human rights activists and politicians have criticized the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) for distorting a statement by Chaloka Beyani, United Nations Special Rapporteur on the Human Rights of Internally-Displaced Persons (IDPs).
- Canada After Harper
His Ideology-fuelled Attack on Canadian Society and Values, and How We Can Resist and Create the Country We Want
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Essays documenting the breadth and depth of the Harper government's attack on institutions, policies, and programs that embody values and principles shared by most Canadians: education, health care, women's rights, science and research, the economy, labour unions, water and natural resources, and Aboriginal affairs.
- Ethiopia: Hacking Team Lax on Evidence of Abuse
Leaked Documents Show Need to Regulate Surveillance Sales
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
The Italian spyware firm Hacking Team took no effective action to investigate or stop reported abuses of its technology by the Ethiopian government against dissidents.
- Forced to Love the Grind
Passion is the new workplace requirement - and one that should be resisted
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
In this world, legendary figures are the ones who remain in the office for one hundred hours straight, working through their children's musical recitals and 104-degree fevers. The idea is that workers become superhuman through the refusal of self-care. This phenomenon isn't merely depressing; it's outright dangerous.
- Fourteen organizations of the Greek Left call for mobilizations around the country against the new memorandum
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
The full text of the call signed by the leading figures of the 14 organizations of the Greek radical Left.
- My Journey from Racism
And how we can best end it
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
A white individual's experience of racism growing up in America in the 1940's and 1950's.
- San Diego's Facial Recognition Program Shows Why We Need Records on Police Use of Mobile Biometric Technology
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
The New York Times has a story out on how San Diego police use mobile facial recognition devices in the field, including potentially on non-consenting residents who aren't suspected of a crime. One account from a retired firefighter is especially alarming.
- SEC Admits It’s Not Monitoring Stock Buybacks to Prevent Market Manipulation
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
- What We Don't Know Will Hurt Us: Ignorance In The Information Age
Canada Has Changed
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
The war on knowledge is a war on the health of Canadians. We need a government that will embrace the information age and use evidence to improve our lives. We need a government that has the health of Canadians as its greatest priority. Ten years in, it’s clear that that government is not Stephen Harper’s.
- Argentina: lack of ID leaves hundreds of thousands living in the shadows
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
A survey conducted between October and December 2011 found that the births of 1.6% of children under 17 (168,000) were not registered. The survey was conducted by the Catholic University Social Debt Observatory and the Instituto abierto para el desarrollo y estudio de políticas públicas (Iadepp), a group dedicated to the analysis of public policies.
Birth registration is a hurdle for many families in marginalised communities even though documents are needed to access healthcare, justice and education.
- As Turkey Bombed Anti-ISIS Fighters, It Hired Lobbying Firm Tied to 2016 Candidates
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
On July 24, 2015, Turkey launched a massive military campaign that included sweeping attacks against Kurdish forces as well as minor strikes on Islamic State positions south of Turkey’s border. Just five days later, the Turkish government inked a contract to hire a team of prominent lobbyists to add to its already formidable army of influence-peddlers in Washington.
- CIA Torture Tactics Reemerge in New York Prison
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Over 60 inmates at New York’s Clinton Correctional Facility have complained of abuse by prison guards in the wake of the June escape of convicted killers David Sweat and Richard Matt.
- CIA Torture Tactics Reemerge in New York Prison
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Over 60 inmates at New York's Clinton Correctional Facility have complained of abuse by prison guards in the wake of the June escape of convicted killers David Sweat and Richard Matt.
- Ecuador's New Indigenous Uprising
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Ecuador's Indigenous movements have launched an uprising to challenge the government's opposition to bilingual education and its support for an extractive-based economy.
- Greece and Tsipras' policy: Provoking a split with the working class
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
An interview with Panagiotis Lafazanis.
- Hillary Clinton on the Sanctity of Protecting Classified Information
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
It turns out that at least two of the emails which traversed Hillary Clinton’s personal email account and server were "top secret," according to the inspector general for the Intelligence Community. To describe that as reckless is an understatement given that, as AP notes, "There is no evidence she used encryption to shield the emails or her personal server from foreign intelligence services or other potentially prying eyes." The FBI has now taken possession of that server.
- Honduras: Garifuna communities resist eviction and theft of land
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Pristine beaches, clear Caribbean waters, coral reefs, fertile land ... such is the homeland of the Garifuna people, writes Jeff Abbott. It's so lovely that outsiders are desperate to seize ever more of their territory to develop for mass tourism, oil palm plantations, illicit drug production ... and the land grabs have the full support of Honduras military government, backed to the hilt by Uncle Sam.
- How the 'SlutWalk' Has Transformed the Rape Culture Conversation
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
It is amidst this wider rape culture, and the ways feminists are fighting back, that SlutWalk not only emerged, but exploded as a global grassroots movement. What is significant about SlutWalk is not the premise; after all, women have been protesting against sexual violence for decades. What is striking about SlutWalk was its ability, despite its feminist roots, to capture the mainstream media's attention.
- IS and climate change - an inconvenient truth for Republicans
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
US Democratic presidential contender Martin O’Malley sparked controversy last month by saying that the conditions for the rise of the so-called Islamic State (IS, also known as Isil, Isis or Da'esh) were set by the impact on Syria of climate change, which drove farmers from their land into slums around cities and created extreme poverty.
- The Pentagon's Half-Billion-Dollar Drone Boondoggle
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Rivalry between the Army and Air Force over Predator drones may have cost the Pentagon over $500 million in wasteful spending, according to a report released under the Freedom of Information Act.
- Sources HotLink - August 12, 2015
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
This issue features articles that are centred around the theme of the big overpowering the small; through physical violence, deception, law and slander. Those who are powerful have always exerted their strength to control the thoughts and behaviours of the weak. In the past, it was straightforward -- through force. In modern times, however, this control is much less obvious. For our marketers and public relations specialists, we offer guides in internet marketing: one article on the current state of internet communications and another article on search engine optimization. Also included in this issue is a film about corporate abuse of power and a book on news stories that stand the test of time.
- Stemming the tide together: Soil, not oil
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
We are living in a rapidly changing world. The changes that we are witnessing have not come about by accident; they have been carefully orchestrated and the price has been dire. Today, a handful of corporations and entities control the global supply of food, water and other resources. They operate without any sense of responsibility and the space for people to seek redress is becoming continually more constricted.
- GM cotton really is helping to drive Indian farmers to suicide
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
A new study finds that Indian farmers in rain-fed areas are being driven to suicide from the increased cost of growing Bt GMO cotton varieties that confer no benefits to them. The extra expenses arise from buying new seeds each year, along with increased chemical inputs, while suffering inadequate access to agronomic information.
- Marx & Engels papers completely available online
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
The original papers of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, World Classics, are digitized and now online accessible. The papers can be consulted from anywhere and by anyone who logs into the catalogue website of the International Institute of Social History. Access is open and free.
- Opposition radio and TV station's regional office ransacked
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Reporters Without Borders is concerned about an attack on a regional branch of Viva, a radio and TV broadcaster owned by former transitional President Andry Rajoelina, the leader of the opposition party Mapar.
- Revolution and counter-revolution in Syria
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
A large part of the Western left and radical media have written off the struggle against the totalitarian Assad regime in Syria as irretrievably lost. Effectively, for them, the counterrevolution has triumphed. And alongside them, there are also those who never supported the revolutionary uprising against the regime of Bashar al-Assad in the first place.
- Something to Offer
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Eugene V. Debs was one of the country's most prominent socialists when the socialist movement was a major force in American politics. Unlike many in his party, Eugene V. Debs believed the struggle for black equality was critical to realizing the promise of socialism.
- Turning an issue into a campaign
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
As an organizer, your goal is not just to help members solve their workplace problems but to help them build collective self-confidence and power. A campaign is just a series of steps that help people focus on a common issue, identify a solution, and build pressure on the person with the power to solve the problem.
- Victory for the Press: Germany Drops “Treason” Investigation of Digital Rights Blog (But Investigation of Sources Still Ongoing)
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
After much public outcry, the treason investigation into German blog Netzpolitik.org was paused late last week. Yesterday, we were glad to hear that it had been officially dropped.
- Where Did the Antiwar Movement Go?
War, Sunny Side Up, and the Summer of Slaughter (Vietnam and Today)
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Let me tell you a story about a moment in my life I'm not likely to forget even if, with the passage of years, so much around it has grown fuzzy. It involves a broken-down TV, movies from my childhood, and a war that only seemed to come closer as time passed.
- Zapatista Communities: "Resistance and Rebellion Are Our Weapons"
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
From May 2nd to May 9th the Zapatistas hosted a tribute to fallen comrades, a celebration of resistance, and a seminar to "provoke thought, reflection, critique." This article presents some of the words of Subcomandante Insurgente Moisés in the event.
- Agbogbloshie: Ghana's 'trash world' may be an eyesore - but it's no dump
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Most accounts of Agbogbloshie, the e-waste site in Accra, Ghana, persistently miss the point. Far from being a simple 'dump' for the world's trash, it is a huge recycling operation that pays for the wastes it receives, employs thousands of young men who would otherwise lack jobs, and plays a huge role in the national and global economy.
- The Failed Strategy
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
The failure of Syriza in Greece, and the timidness of other left-social-democratic parties and formations tells us that we must learn the dangers of political shortcut and focus on building radical movements outside of government.
- Harper, Serial Abuser of Power: The Evidence Compiled
The Tyee's full, updated list of 70 Harper government assaults on democracy and the law.
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Stephen Harper and his Conservatives have racked up dozens of serious abuses of power since forming government in 2006. From scams to smears, monkey-wrenching opponents to intimidating public servants like an Orwellian gorilla, some offences are criminal, others just offend human decency. Here are 70 instances of abuse of power by the Stephen Harper government.
- IPI World Press Freedom Hero Mazen Darwish released from prison
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Renowned Syrian journalist Mazen Darwish, the International Press Institute's 2015 World Press Freedom Hero, has been freed after spending nearly three-and-a-half years behind bars on spurious terrorism charges.
- On the shocking death of Azerbaijani journalist Rasim Aliyev
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Institute for Reporters' Freedom and Safety is in shock over the murder of our longtime employee and board member, current Chairman Rasim Aliyev. On August 8, 2015, unknown persons beat Aliyev to within inches of his life. He died several hours later in a hospital after doctors failed to provide necessary medical treatment.
- The real reason American public transportation is such a disaster
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Stromberg dissects socials attitude regarding public transit in the United States, where infrastructure in most cities was designed with automobile dependency in mind, thereby causing transit to be been viewed and designed, as a form of social welfare rather than a public utility.
- Revolutionary Greece
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
The small town of Distomo is just 150 kilometers from Athens, positioned in the heart of Greece, literally squeezed between two great world heritage sites: Delphi, the cradle of the European democracy, and a stunning Byzantine monastery of Hossios Luckas. But Distomo is much more than some picturesque village surrounded by mountains and history.
- Two arrested five years after journalist's disappearance
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) and its affiliate the Free Media Movement (FMM) welcome the arrest of two former military officials over the disappearance of Prageeth Eknaligoda. The IFJ and FMM urge the government to ensure the investigation is thoroughly completed and all those responsible are brought to justice.
- Public Transit Struggles in London and Toronto: P3s, Transit Workers and Alternatives
Resource Type: Film/Video
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Using the fight against transit privatization practices in London, England, Rosenfeld presents a model for reform in Toronto that prioritizes rider concerns such as reduced fares and increased accessibility.
- Religious extremists murder fourth blogger in Bangladesh
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) strongly deplores the murder of Niladri Chattopadhyay on August 7 in Dhaka, Bangladesh. The IFJ demand immediate action from the Bangladeshi Government to end the continued and systematic attacks on freedom of expression in Bangladesh.
- Cyber-security workshop held successfully, despite police harassment
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Reporters Without Borders (RSF) condemns repeated attempts by local police to harass and interrupt a digital security workshop that RSF and Defend the Defenders (DTD), a Vietnamese human rights group, successfully organized for 23 Vietnamese rights activists near Hanoi last weekend.
- Donald Trump Says He Can Buy Politicians, None of His Rivals Disagree
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Donald Trump bragged Thursday night that he could buy politicians — even the ones sharing the stage with him at a Republican presidential debate.
- Greece: Was, and Is There, an Alternative?
The Left confronts Greece's financial crisis
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Addresses three major aspects of the Greek crisis of 2015: the debate over strategy and program within and around Syriza and how that was reflected in the months since the January election; the prospects for a recovery and revitalization of the Greek left in the coming period; and some promising initial reactions to the Greek events in the European left.
- International rights groups call for release of seriously ill Chinese journalist Gao Yu
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Fifteen human rights and press freedom organizations are urging Chinese President Xi Jinping to immediately release seriously ill journalist Gao Yu from prison. In a letter, the organizations also called for the release of all those held for the peaceful expression of their political views and in need of medical attention, as well as access to adequate medical care for all prisoners.
- Are Americas Games a Nuclear Weapons-free Zone?
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Ground Zero to Global Zero: Hope After 70 Years will commemorate the 70th Anniversary of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Every August the Hiroshima/ Nagasaki Day Coalition organizes
- Medical Privacy Under Threat in the Age of Big Data
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Medical privacy is a high-stakes game, in both human and financial terms, given the growing multibillion-dollar legal market for anonymized medical data. The threats to individuals seeking to protect their medical data can come externally, from data breaches; internally, from "rogue employees" and others with access; or through loopholes in regulations.
- Conserving soil: precious, finite and under threat
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Human existence relies on healthy soils. But all over the world soils are being lost and degraded by inappropriate land use, reducing their capacity to produce food and store water, nutrients and carbon. Sustainable land management must be incentivised to conserve this essential resource.
- 5 Ideas that Really Matter But FOX Won't Address Them in the Presidential Debate
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Iimportant issues – issues that affect millions of American families – are going unacknowledged entirely in the current election campaign.
- IFIC Congratulates OBSI's New Ombudsman and CEO
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
The Investment Funds Institute of Canada (IFIC) issued a statement today congratulating Sarah P. Bradley on her appointment as the next ombudsman and chief executive officer of the Ombudsman for Banking Services and Investments (OBSI).
- Indigenous Community Wins Land Rights Victory in Guatemala After 200 Years of Struggle
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Success is rare among indigenous peoples' struggles for land rights in Guatemala. But the nearly 300 Poqomchi' Maya families that make up the Primavera communities in the department of Alta Verapaz have just won a significant victory.
- International press freedom organizations call on Burundi authorities to investigate attacks on journalists and human rights defenders
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Press freedom, media development and human rights organizations denounce the continued attacks on and threats to journalists, media workers and human rights defenders in Burundi, most recently the serious incidents in which human rights defender Pierre Claver Mbonimpa survived an attempt on his life while journalist Esdras Ndikumana was the victim of a brutal attack by police and intelligence officials.
- The Biggest Threat to Mexican Journalists Aren't Drug Cartels Anymore
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Northern Mexico and the drug cartels have dangerous reputations; especially for journalists. This should come to a surprise to no one. This year, however, the danger seems to have shifted in both location and source. Of the six journalists that were killed in Mexico this year, all of them were killed in the south; most likely at the hands of police officers and politicians.
- China's Cyberspying Is 'on a Scale No One Imagined' -- if You Pretend NSA Doesn't Exist
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Stories about cyberespionage -- like the data theft at the US Office of Personal Management believed but not officially stated to have been carried out by China -- are weird. For one thing, they include quotes about how "we need to be a bit more public" about our responses to cyberattacks -- delivered from White House officials who speak only on condition of anonymity.
- Foodies and farmworkers: Allies or enemies?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Fred Magdoff reviews Labor and the Locavore. Can the 'buy local food' movement support both sustainable farming and justice for farmworkers?
- Give Us the Ballot
The Modern Struggle for Voting Rights in America
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Countless books have been written about the civil rights movement, but far less attention has been paid to what happened after the dramatic passage of the Voting Rights Act (VRA) in 1965 and the turbulent forces it unleashed. Give Us the Ballot tells this story for the first time.
- Toronto Will Not Wait Until 3 Minutes to Midnight
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
On Thursday August 6, 2015 at the Church of the Holy Trinity (10 Trinity Square, behind the Eaton Centre), Torontonians and their international guests will join to say "Not This City, Not Any City". Canadian Co-president of Parliamentarians for
- How Iran Used WikiLeaks to Attack a Human Rights Defender
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
In their latest attempt to discredit "terrorist" human rights defenders, Iran has accused and slandered Ahmed Shaheed, Special Rapporteur on the human rights situation in Iran, of accepting bribes. Though the issue has been resolved, Iran's crusade against human rights activists neither began nor ended with Shaheed and Shaheed isn't the biggest fish they are frying -- not by a long shot.
- Koch Political Machine Focuses on "Freedom" to Pollute and Pay Less Taxes
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Billionaire conservative activist Charles Koch on Sunday likened his political efforts to the struggles of Martin Luther King Jr. and Frederick Douglass, saying that "we, too, are seeking to right injustices that are holding our country back."
- Outsourcing the Kill Chain: Eleven Drone Contractors Revealed
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Reporters have named eleven companies that have won millions of dollars in contracts to plug a shortage in personnel needed to analyze the thousands of hours of streaming video gathered daily from the remotely piloted aircraft that hover over war zones around the world.
- Puerto Rico Is an Artificial Economy
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
CounterSpin interview with Ed Morales on Puerto Rican debt crisis.
- Report: Hundreds of Civilians Killed by U.S.-Led Bombing of ISIS in Iraq and Syria
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First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
A new report from a group of journalists and researchers says that hundreds of civilians have died during airstrikes by the U.S. and other nations fighting the Islamic State, a marked contrast to the Pentagon’s official admission of just two civilian deaths.
- Europe's Moment of Truth
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Greek Premier Alexis Tsipras' acceptance of an "austerity package" on July 13, which contained measures rejected by the Greek people in a referendum barely a week before, represents not just an abject surrender by the Syriza government, or a sign of contempt on the part of German finance capital for the Greek electorate; it marks a decisive turning point for Europe (and indeed for the rest of the world), and the end of the road for a whole way of thinking on the Left, especially the European Left.
- Social Democracy or Revolutionary Democracy: Syriza and Us
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Lebowitz discusses the construction of Syriza, its Thessaloniki Programme, and the potential for revolutionary democracy in Greece.
- A Camera on Every Cop
Taser International cashes in on police misconduct
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First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
On December 1, 2014, after several months of protests against police brutality that began with the death of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri, President Obama pledged $75 million in federal funds to help purchase 50,000 police body cameras.
- A century of sugar and tears
Guadeloupe has bulit a slavery memorial centre on the site of a gigantic sugar refinery, believing it's necessary to acknowledge
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Present day Guadeloupei s coming to terms with a grim past through the Caribbean Centre of Expression and Memory of Slavery and the Slave Trade (MACTe), a new museum and memorial built symbolically on a waterfront site associated with slavery, segregation and conflict.
- Fire Ants Are Being Laced with Homosexual Chemtrails to Bite Christians And Convert Them To Homosexuality
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
The homosexual chemtrail concoction contains a high concentration of gay endorphins. Sources confirm that several exclusive gay clubs collected the spent sweats of late-night homosexuality, then sent them to a laboratory where in-vitro techniques were used to create this potent new form of biological homosexual chemtrail. Various Christian neighborhoods in Texas have been reporting a sharp increase in these chemtrail laced fire ants and the CDC is reporting a higher incidence of homosexuality in Texas. This is all likely part of Obama’s Jade Helm invasion, but the Texas Chaper of the Christian Defense League suggests homeowners spray all of their doorways with bug guard and be vigilant in not becoming victimized by one of these ants.
- Fire Ants Are Being Laced with Homosexual Chemtrails to Bite Christians And Convert Them To Homosexuality
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Fire ants are being laced with homosexual chemtrails and then dumped in neighborhoods with higher per capita rates of Christianity. The homosexual chemtrail concoction contains a high concentration of gay endorphins. Sources confirm that several exclusive gay clubs collected the spent sweats of late-night homosexuality, then sent them to a laboratory where in-vitro techniques were used to create this potent new form of biological homosexual chemtrail.
- In the Shadow of the Storm
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Ten years ago this month, on the day Hurricane Katrina struck the Gulf Coast, I was at Camp Casey, an informal encampment outside George W. Bush's Crawford ranch, listening to a group of veterans talk about their opposition to the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. By chance, it was also the day my first feature for Harper's Magazine went to press, an essay about how people react in the wake of major urban disasters.
- Old Poison, New Battles
The ongoing struggle for voting rights
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
- Bombs explode outside offices of two newspapers in Ecuador
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
This morning, Fundamedios condemned the explosion of two pamphlet bombs. One across the offices of the newspaper El Universo and the second at the entrance of the state-controlled newspaper, El Telégrafo. "We must condemn violence wherever it comes from."
- How to Dismantle the NHS in 10 Easy Steps
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
The story of how the British National Health Service (NHS) has been gradually converted into a market-based healthcare system over the past 25 years. This process is accelerating under the Coalition government and the very existence of a National Health Service is in danger.
- How China's Online Civilization Army Turned a Youth Street Fight into a Patriotic Struggle
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
A bystander would tell you that it was just a fight between two teens but, watching the news from home, you'd think it was a patriot defending his country. This is a story about a propaganda campaign that turned into a fist fight which was subsequently manipulated into a more effective propaganda campaign. If there's a story to be spun, China will be there to spin it.
- "Yes, We're Corrupt": A List of Politicians Admitting That Money Controls Politics
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Schwarz gives a list of examples where politicians acknowledge that money has an impact on what they do.
- Any future for Burundi's media after presidential election?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Burundi's privately-owned radio stations are still silent although President Pierre Nkurunziza succeeded in forcing the country to hold an election giving him a third term. Reporters Without Borders calls for the rapid and unconditional reopening of the media and guarantees for the safe return of all journalists who fled abroad.
- For NYT, US Labor Abuses Abroad Are a Thing of Decades Past
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Does foreign investment make the US economy more vulnerable? Apparently the New York Times believes it does.
- Why Greece Doesn't Matter
We have to stop talking about Greece. What must emerge from the calamity of SYRIZA-ANEL is a renewed call for democracy
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Change in Greece will not come from short-term strategies and tactics of seeking power, but from a long process of coordinated and planned immanent critiques. This political organization will not aim to represent itself in the machinery of parliament -- where the watchful eyes of the IMF and ECB will determine policy -- but will emerge from an organized movement comprising the disenfranchised, the working class, and the intellectual vanguard. It will not compromise. It will instead operate under an ideology for an emancipatory alliance of humanity removed from the spreadsheet, removed from the NATO, and removed from free-market directives. It will not seek to claim power in an election, it will be given it by the people themselves when the movement is ripe.
- The anguish of migrants in Macedonia
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Milevska talks about the difficulties that migrants and refugees have to endure as cross Macedonia in their way to Western Europe.
- IFJ condemns killing of third Syrian journalist
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) has today condemned the killing of Syrian journalist Thaer al-Ajlani who died covering fighting between the Syrian army and rebels in Jobar, east of the capital, Damascus.
- Nigerian media seek to cope with Boko Haram threat
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
This spring, everyone who knew of Adeola Akinremi's plans to travel to northeast Nigeria to report on the tens of thousands displaced by Boko Haram told him to be extremely careful. Some urged him not to go at all. But Akinremi, features editor of the independent daily ThisDay, was set on telling the victims' stories and he set out for Adamawa state the first week of May.
- Ostula and Mexican Army Hold to Clashing Versions of Recent Attack
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
In Mexico, the independent investigation agency SubVersiones has published a compilation video that chronologically shows what events that took place on July 19, 2015, in the indigenous Nahua community of Santa María de Ostula. That day ended with a child dead and four people wounded.
- Neoliberal Ebola: The Agroeconomic Origins of the Ebola Outbreak
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First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Wallace describes the rise of Ebola, connecting its outbreak to capital-driven shifts in land and changes in the agroeconomic context.
- The Syriza Dilemma
What would constructive pressure on the Syriza government look like?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
The radical Syriza government was elected in January 2015 based on its promise to try to bargain a better deal than the severe neoliberal austerity imposed through the memoranda signed by previous governments. At the same time, it promised to remain in the eurozone monetary system, in which Greece’s financial system is embedded, as well as within the framework of the European Union, into which its economy has been integrated.
- TPP Undermines User Control and That's Disastrous for Accessibility
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
The Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) threatens all users' ability to access information and participate in culture and innovation online, but it's especially severe for those with disabilities or who otherwise depend on content in accessible formats. That's because it doubles down on broken policies that were heavily lobbied for by Hollywood and other major publishers that impede the distribution of accessible works.
- US: The State Murder of an Activist
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
The murder of Sandra Bland, an activist with the Black Lives Matter movement, exposes the impunity of U.S. police.
- Anatomy of a Copyright Coup: Jamaica's Public Domain Plundered
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
A bill extending the term of copyright by an additional 45 years -- almost doubling it, in the case of corporate and government works -- sailed through the Jamaican Senate on June 26, after having passed the House of Representatives on June 9.
- Mastermind behind murder of human rights lawyer, journalist, sentenced to life in prison
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First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
The Committee to Protect Journalists welcomes the sentencing to life in prison today of a Russian nationalist leader in connection with the 2009 fatal attack on human rights lawyer Stanislav Markelov, in which Novaya Gazeta journalist Anastasiya Baburova was also killed.
- Three journalists suspended after hosting Ugandan opposition leader on radio show
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Three journalists were suspended over hosting an opposition presidential hopeful who is also the former Forum for Democratic Change (FDC) leader, Dr. Kizza Besigye, on Baba FM radio, without permission from the radio management. The radio was switched off about 15 minutes into the hour-long talk show, in which Besigye was to discuss his political campaign in Busoga.
- Changes to voting system leave Canada worse off
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First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
How did we end up with this convoluted and discriminatory method of voting when we once had perhaps the best method in the world - door-to-door enumeration and no hard-to-get voter ID requirement?
- How Boko Haram Is Changing International Politics in Western and Central Africa
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Two suicide attacks on June 22 in Maroua, northern Cameroon, left several people dead and many others wounded. Ten days earlier, 15 people were killed in a suicide bomb attack at a crowded market in N'Djamena, the capital of Chad. The attack came exactly three weeks after a similar bombing claimed the lives of 27 people in the same town.
- NBC News Releases the Long-Awaited Trailer for its Summer Horror Film About ISIS
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First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
ISIS now officially poses a bigger threat to the "U.S. homeland" than the one posed by former title-holder Al Qaeda.
- Tunisia charges editor with complicity in terrorist attack
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First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Tunisian authorities should drop charges against an editor accused of complicity in the June 27 terrorist attack on Sousse beach that killed at least 39 people.
- UN slams UK surveillance law, calls for privacy reforms in Canada, France and Macedonia
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First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
In yet another blow to the UK's surveillance proponents, the UN Human Rights Committee has criticised the British legal regime governing the interception of communications, observing that it allows for mass surveillance and lacks sufficient safeguards.
- Sources HotLink - July 22, 2015
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
This issue features articles on censorship and violence. Closer to home, we look at media and public interpretations of the Charleston massacre. Overseas, we explore brutal police tactics and violent suppression of free expression. For our marketers, feature an expert interview on the current state of print media. Following the tone of the interview, we also feature a guide on incorporation social media into your marketing strategy. Also featured in this article, is a book on environmental exploitation and a movie on worker exploitation.
- Mental Illness Doesn't Explain Mass Violence -- but Neither Does 'Islamic Extremism'
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
With the latest mass shooting in Chattanooga, corporate media followed the usual pattern of being ready and willing to label violence as "terrorism" so long as the suspect is Muslim.
- Pakistan: Intelligence agency sought to tap all communications traffic, documents reveal
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First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Every government seems to want to spy in Pakistan. The US National Security Agency (NSA) tapped the fibre optic cables landing in Karachi, among others, and used 55 million phone records harvested from Pakistani telecommunications providers for an analysis exercise. The United Kingdom's Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ) had a store of SIM keys from Mobilink and Telenor networks, two of the country's biggest providers.
- The Sad Story of Canadian Geographic
Former employees say the nature magazine became a paid mouthpiece for oil companies and others.
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First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Staff at Canadian Geographic magazine report that it publishes articles financed and vetted by companies without disclosing it as sponsored content.
- Barter Networks: Lessons from Argentina for Greece
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First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
"How did Argentina survive their economic crisis?"; "Are they doing better now?"; "What happened to the factory takeovers?"; "Did millions of people really participate in the barter network? Did they actually invent new money?" These are some of the many questions I have been asked by Greeks, especially over the past few weeks, related to their economic crisis and the potential for self-organization and survival.
- IFIC Releases Monthly Statistics for June 2015
Sources News Release
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First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Toronto, ON - July 17, 2015 - The Investment Funds Institute of Canada (IFIC) announces that for the month ending June 30, 2015, the assets under management (AUM) for the mutual funds industry totalled $1.22 trillion. Year-to-date, industry AUM
- Leaders who publicly threaten journalists
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First Published: 2015
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As a state leader, public criticism is inevitable. How you deal with it, however, is entirely up to you. When journalists put leaders in a negative light, they can choose to correct their mistakes or the can choose to respond with violence and repression. They can also react emotionally with insults, defamation and racism. This is the state of global leaders who, instead of permitting the freedom of speech, decide to slander journalists who were just doing their job.
- Ruthless Power and Deleterious Politics
From DDT to Roundup
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First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
The mix of power and politics in the proliferation of pesticides from DDT to Roundup.
- Defamation cases quashing press freedom in Indonesia
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First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) joins its affiliate Aliansi Jurnalis Independen (AJI) in expressing strong concern for a growing number of criminal defamation charges against the media and public officials. The IFJ and AJI express concerns for the impact such charges have against freedom of expression and call on the government to ensure such charges do not become a tool to silence critics.
- Investigation Reveals 'Environmental Ruin' And Workers Rights Abuses
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First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Broken promises to impoverished communities, serious environmental concerns and poor health and safety records linked to Australian mining companies have all been revealed by Africa’s largest ever collaborative journalistic investigation.
- Syriza and Sanders: "Just Say 'No'" to Neo-liberalism
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Hopes for Syriza's negotiations with the banking troika in the EU simmered and even boiled over among elements of the left, especially after the vaunted "No" referendum vote suggested that the Greeks would not succumb to another wave of austerity measures but would instead stand firm, even if this meant potentially leaving the EU. We have seen these hopes dashed by the subsequent "negotiations," in which Tsipras seemed to have negotiated backwards, arriving at an agreement that was worse than the one rejected by the Greek voters in the referendum vote.
- UK Fracking Task Force calls for improved safety standards
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First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
A report by the UK Task Force on Shale Gas has called for greater safety and transparency measures to be implemented before widespread fracking occurs across the country.
- Argentina Replaces Columbus Statue with Indigenous Heroine
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First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Bolivian President Evo Morales’ visit to his Argentina counterpart Cristina Fernandez Wednesday will focus not only on bilateral agreements between the two nations, but also South America's independence history. The two South American leaders will inaugurate a monument to independence heroine and South American guerrilla military leader Juana Azurduy. The 15-meter high (52 feet) bronze statue has been erected outside the presidential palace in Buenos Aires in the place that a monument to Christopher Columbus once stood.
- Free Speech - Earth Liberation Front Press Office April 5, 2001: Communications Equipment Seized by FBI Released 14 Years Later
Returned Objects: A Multimedia Art Installation
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First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Gallery Note: This installation was displayed in Buffalo's ¡Buen Vivir! Gallery from the 15th to the 26th of July 2015. It received, due to the subject matter and the absurdity of the FBI holding these objects for 14 years, good print media coverage in Buffalo, NY. The opening of the show was packed, and former Earth Liberation Front Press Officer, Leslie James Pickering – now co-owner of Burning Books in Buffalo – and Civil Rights attorney Michael Kuzma, both spoke.
- Bangladesh volunteers learn to make a life-or-death difference in a disaster
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First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
In the wake of the Rana Plaza collapse, civilians - often first on the scene of disasters in poorer countries - are being trained to support emergency teams.
- The Canadian Social Gospel: 1880-1960
What is the social gospel?
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First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
What is the social gospel? It is an attempt to apply Christianity to the collective ills of an industrializing society, and was a major force in Canadian religious, social and political life from the 1880s to the 1960s.
- Chinese Efforts to Quash Human Rights Campaigns Rippling Out of Control, says PEN
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First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
A string of disappearances and arrests of over 100 human rights lawyers in China in the past week is the boldest move yet in Beijing's sprawling campaign to destroy China's human rights movement.
- The problem of Greece is not only a tragedy. It is a lie.
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
According to John Pilger, the leaders of Syriza are revolutionaries of a kind - but their revolution is the perverse, familiar appropriation of social democratic and parliamentary movements by liberals groomed to comply with neo-liberal drivel. Like the Labour Party in Britain and its equivalents among former social democratic parties such as the Labor Party in Australia, still describing themselves as “liberal” or even “left”, Syriza is the product of an affluent, highly privileged, educated middle class, schooled in postmodernism.
- Australian Mining Companies Digging A Deadly Footprint in Africa
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First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Schilis-Gallego discusses Australian mining companies' involvement in violence and human rights violations in Africa.
- Australian Mining Companies Digging A Deadly Footprint in Africa
Fatal Extraction: Australian Mining's Damaging Push Into Africa
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First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
A pattern of links between mining activities and deaths, disfigurement, environmental destruction and displacement suggests a troubling track record for Australian companies seeking wealth from Africa's minerals.
- IFIC Welcomes Two New Members
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Toronto, ON - July 10, 2015 - The Investment Funds Institute of Canada (IFIC) announces that Botica Capital Management Inc. and TWMG Inc. have become members of IFIC, effective today.
- A window to hell in Gaza
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First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Spending the day of 17 August in Khuzaa was like peering through a window to hell. But what we witnessed in the landscape of apocalyptic oblivion paled in comparison to the experience described to me by two Palestine Red Crescent volunteers who had attempted to break through the Israeli military cordon during the siege of the town.
- Fighting On All Fronts
Popular resistance in the Second World War
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Gluckstein explores the impact of mass popular movements during World War Two.
- A Practical Guide to Tackling Factory Hazards
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
A review of a "Workers' Guide to Health and Safety", a comprehensive work of ten years, which organizers can use to empower workers and "encourage" bosses to do the right thing.
- The Gaza Platform
Resource Type: Database
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
The Gaza Platform is an interactive map of attacks by Israeli forces on Gaza between 8 July and 26 August 2014. It enables its users to explore a vast collection of data, collected on the ground by the Al Mezan Center for Human Rights and the Palestinian Centre for Human Rights (PCHR), as well as Amnesty International, during and after the conflict.
- How the British Government subjected thousands of people to chemical and biological warfare trials during Cold War
Historians had previously thought that such operations were much less extensive
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First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
During the Cold War, the British Government used the general public as unwitting biological and chemical warfare guinea pigs on a much greater scale than previously thought, according to new historical research.
- Shell-Shocked
On the Ground Under Israel's Gaza Assault
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Operation Protective Edge, launched in early July 2014, was the third major Israeli assault on the Gaza Strip in six years. It was also the most deadly. By the conclusion of hostilities some seven weeks later, 2,200 of Gaza's population had been killed, and more than 10,000 injured. In these pages, journalist Mohammed Omer, a resident of Gaza who lived through the terror of those days with his wife and then three-month-old son, provides a first-hand account of life on-the-ground during Israel’s assault.
- Surveillance company Hacking Team's relationships with repressive regimes exposed
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First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
A 400 gigabyte trove of internal documents belonging to surveillance company Hacking Team has been released online. Hacking team sells intrusive hacking tools that have allegedly been used by some of the most repressive regimes in the world.
- Agrica's Tanzania Rice Scheme Has Devastated Local Farmers, Say NGOs
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
A flagship rice plantation in Tanzania run by UK investors has allegedly destroyed the livelihoods of local smallholder farmers, driven them into debt and impacted the local environment, according to a new report published by the Oakland Institute.
- If the 'product' is wrong, a rebrand won't help Israel
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First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Cook discusses Israel's attempt to rebrand itself. Specifically, he addresses "hasbara", translated as "public diplomacy", a campaign that calls for Israelis to justify and defend any policy regarding occupied territories.
- IFJ and EFJ oppose media restrictions in the newly-enacted Spanish Public Security Law
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) and its regional organisation, the European Federation of Journalists (EFJ), have joined their Spanish affiliates FAPE, FESP, FSC-CC.OO. and ELA-Gizalan in criticising the Public Security Law
- Luxemburg, Müller and the Berlin workers' and soldiers' councils
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First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Rose reviews and discusses two important books about the German Revolution, "Working-Class Politics in the German Revolution: Richard Müller, the Revolutionary Shop Stewards and the Origins of the Council Movement", and "The German Left and the Weimar Republic: A Selection of Documents".
- Manoeuvres from above, movements from below: Greece under Tsipras
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First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
The Syriza left is at a crossroads. For all the belief that Syriza is a different kind of party, one that transcends the division between reform and revolution and therefore should be the home for the entire left, its left faces exactly the same problem as the reformist left in social democracy -- the trap of impotence. This article is written in the spirit of offering an alternative, around which the left as a whole can unite.
- New National Security Law in China suppresses media freedom: IFJ says
Sources News Release
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First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) expresses strong concern for the National Security Law that was passed by the Chinese National People's Congress yesterday, on July 1, 2015.
- 'But the banks are made of marble' -- how banks screw the world
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First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Across Africa, western Asia and Latin America in the 1980s, the growth of per capita GDP was brought to a halt. This was not a recession, it was a severe depression. And its cause was reckless lending by banks in the ’70s. A decade earlier, the euro currency had been invented. US dollars deposited in non-US banks and held there to avoid restrictions of US laws became negotiable financial instruments. These formed the basis for an unregulated market specialising in short-term loans.
- Ecuador: Mass marches defend democracy amid coup plot
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First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
President Rafael Correa called a rally on July 2, 2015 in defence of democracy and the pro-poor Citizens' Revolution his government leads after plans by the right-wing opposition for a violent coup were exposed.
- The Gladys We Never Knew
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First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
According to the Vital Statistics Act document entitled ''RETURN OF DEATH OF AN INDIAN,'' Gladys Chapman was 12 years, 10 months, and 12 days old on April 29, 1931, when she died in Royal Inland Hospital in Kamloops. Occupation of the deceased was listed as ''Schoolgirl.'' On her death certificate, Dr. M.G. Archibald reported ''acute dilation of heart'' as the cause of death, with tuberculosis as the secondary cause. The duration of death was “several days.”
- Ecuador Fights against Elitism
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First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
It is great news for majority of Ecuadorian citizens -- but a terrible nightmare for the 'elites'.
Lately, in Ecuador, right-wing 'elites' are continuously protesting against the administration, accusing it of corruption and other ills.
- Laos After the Bombs
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First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
From 1964 to 1973, the US dropped two million tons of bombs on Laos. The horrendous effects are still being felt.
- Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - July 3, 2015
Greece and thd debt crisis
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Our spotlight this issue is on the debt crisis facing Greece. To understand the crisis, one has to look beyond the mainstream media to alternative sources of information. We've done that, with articles that set out to analyze the nature of the debt burden that has been imposed on the citizens of so many countries, not just Greece. Also: celebrating Grace Lee Bogg’s 100th birthday.
- The Riot That Changed Canada
How rampagers against Asians in Vancouver helped launch a famous PM
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First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
The race riots of September 1907 have been Vancouver's embarrassing little incident for over a century. Most of us know very little about them, and still less about the consequences -- which, Julie Gilmour shows us, were immense and persist to this day.
- This dome in the Pacific houses tons of radioactive waste - and it's leaking
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First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
The Runit Dome in the Marshall Islands is a hulking legacy of years of US nuclear testing. Now locals and scientists are warning that rising sea levels caused by climate change could cause 111,000 cubic yards of debris to spill into the ocean.
- What Does It Mean to Call Dylann Roof a 'Terrorist'?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
It would have been unfathomable a year ago for the phrase "white terrorism" to be used by the mainstream media. This shift in discourse is just one effect of the post-Ferguson moment in which there is a halting national discussion of systemic racism. Terminology matters because changing ideological frames is part and parcel of changing policies, institutions, and structures.
- Amnesty International Responds to U.K. Government Surveillance
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
A British tribunal admitted on Wednesday that the U.K. government had spied on Amnesty International and illegally retained some of its communications.
- ARIPO Protocol is a tool for foreign takeover of Ghana's agriculture
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Ghanaian citizens have so far prevented the passage of the Plant Breeders Bill, a UPOV-91-compliant law that would strip Ghanaian farmers of their rights to their own seeds. But there is worse coming from the African Regional Intellectual Property Association (ARIPO). To Ghana’s great credit, and despite determination and pressure from the G7, USAID and its contractors, despite the willing and enthusiastic cooperation of Ghana’s ministers, Attorney General, and both major political parties, Ghana has refused to pass a farmer destroying, sovereignty busting, UPOV law.
- Challenging the 'refugee-victim' narrative
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First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
With looming refugee and forced migration crises in the Mediterranean, Kenya, Burma, Syria, Burundi and elsewhere hitting international headlines, public attention is rightfully drawn to those people immediately affected by war, poverty, and persecution. For many, internally-displaced persons (IDPs), refugees, and asylum-seekers are above all unfortunate souls, devastated, and stripped of their humanity by seemingly never-ending civil wars, dictatorships and economic stagnation at home.
- Hiroshima and Nagasaki Commemoration in Toronto August 6th, 2015
Sources News Release
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First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Toronto's Hiroshima/ Nagasaki Day Coalition presents "Ground Zero to Global Zero: Hope After 70 Years" to commemorate the 70th anniversary of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki - Thursday August 6, 2015 (Hiroshima Day) at The Church
- Israel seizes Flotilla ship to Gaza and deports 2 Human Rights advocates to Canada
Sources News Release
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First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Two Canadians, Robert Lovelace and Kevin Neish, who were on board the Freedom Flotilla III boat Marianne, headed towards Gaza when it was seized by Israeli forces early Monday morning, are returning to Canada today. Israeli forces used an electric
- Seed freedom!
A last chance to thwart the great African seed grab
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Nineteen African nations meet this week (July 2015) in Arusha, Tanzania, to finalise a 'plant protection' protocol that would open up the continent's seeds to corporate interests, taking away farmers' rights to grow, improve, sell and exchange their traditional seeds, while allowing commercial breeders to make free use of the biodiversity in traditional seeds to sell them back to farmers in 'improved' form.
- Albert Woodfox, Gary Tyler
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First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Albert Woodfox, Gary Tyler - two examples among many of what the racist and bureaucratic "carceral state" in America is about.
- Art and Aesthetics on the Left
An interview with Andrew Hemingway
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First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Andrew Hemingway is an art historian and Professor Emeritus at University College London. His books include Artists on the Left. American Artists and the Communist Movement 1926-1956 (Yale University Press, 2002) and The Mysticism of Money: Precisionist Painting and Machine Age America (Periscope Publishing, 2013).
- The Black Infinity Complex
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
We're a group of UCLA grad students, and our vision of the Black Infinity Complex is inspired by the boundlessness and sustainability of Black creativity and imagination. It's a collective of organizers coming together as a liaison to create a united front of existing structures of grassroots organizations and community institutions, and organizers like you, or scholars.
- Boricua's Revolutionary Inspiration
Black Flag Boricuas: Anarchism, Antiauthoritarianism, and the Left in Puerto Rico 1897-1921 (Book Review)
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Book review of Kirwin R. Shaffer's Black Flag Boricuas: Anarchism, Antiauthoritarianism, and the Left in Puerto Rico 1897-1921.
- Brazil: Journalist Evany José Metzker Murdered While Investigating Drugs and Child Exploitation in Minas Gerais
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
- Capital Crimes of Fashion
Stitched Up: The Anti-Capitalist Book of Fashion (Book Review)
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Book Review of Tansy E. Hoskins' Stitched Up: The Anti-Capitalist Book of Fashion.
- Deborah Cunningham, 1945-2015
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Deborah Cunningham was an ADAPT activist and Executive Director of the Memphis Center for Independent Living (MCIL). When she died on May 7, the movement lost a tireless, creative, committed activist, feminist and thinker.
- Detroit's Foreclosure Disaster
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
In early 2015 the Wayne County Treasurer's office announced that 62,000 Detroit properties were slated for foreclosure, with probably 38,000 occupied. This could result in the displacement of as many as 100,000 Detroiters, or about one seventh of the city's population.
- Drug War Winners and Losers
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
A review of Dawn Paley's book "Drug War Capitalism."
- Drug War Winners and Losers
Drug War Capitalism (Book Review)
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
State officials are portrayed as wholly separate from criminal groups. To the contrary, Paley shows that the worlds of state officials, large business interests and drug lords are in fact thoroughly integrated. Far from being inimical to business investment and the modern state, illicit drug economies and drug-related violence are simply a part of capitalism-as-usual.
- From Ferguson to Baltimore
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Combined with racial profiling, combined with the practice of predatory profiling and predatory policing, police departments are using parking and traffic tickets as a revenue base to increase their budget. All these bring us to a place where police violence is rampant. The more contacts you have with the police, the more possibilities you have of being subject to a violent interaction.
- Greece again Can Save the West
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
The 'Greek crisis' is not about debt. Debt is the propaganda that the Empire is using to subdue sovereignty throughout the Western world.
- How Photography Can Destroy Reality
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
It may be that some of the great philosophical work of our time is taking place, hidden and unheralded, in the field of image forensics. Where but under the scrutiny of digital experts who draw a line separating false representations of the world from truthful ones are contemporary questions of perception and reality brought so keenly to bear? Who but these detectives of the real pursue as explicitly-- as intricately-- our crime wave of the fake, the contrived, the uncanny, the exponential image?
- Imperialism in the Twenty-First Century
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
An excerpt from John Smith's book "Imperialism in the Twenty-First Century", in which he examines the relationship between the core capitalist countries and the rest of the world in the age of neoliberal globalization.
- Israel Continues to Cripple Gaza with its Sea Blockade
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
The Jerusalem Post reports that the Swedish boat Marianne with 18 passengers has been "interdicted" by Israeli commandos 85 miles from the Gaza coast and towed to Ashdod. The three other vessels in the flotilla turned back and another big-hearted mission ended "with a whimper". Defence Minister Moshe Ya'alon called his operation to deprive desperate, poverty stricken Gazans a "success". The Marianne‘s passengers would be be deported. "There is no humanitarian crisis in Gaza," he added.
- John Reed Clubs and Proletarian Art - Part I
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
The writings of Marx and Engels provide no support for the idea, frequently associated with Marxism, that the movement of the working class to emancipate itself from capitalism and build a classless society requires a proletarian or revolutionary art as an aid to its struggles.
- Let Them Eat Climate Change
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
The winds are changing for the energy giants. And so the black plumes of smoke emitted by the climate deniers in an attempt to provide cover for the coal, oil and gas industry have already been refined.
- Life After Death for Labor?
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
A review of Stanley Aronowitz's book "The Death and Life of American Labor: Toward a New Workers’ Movement."
- Life After Death for Labor?
The Death and Life of American Labor: Toward a New Workers' Movement (Book Review)
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
In his new book, veteran labour activist/academic Stanley Aronowitz offers a critique of what is wrong with the labour movement in the United States, as well as a 10-point manifesto for the steps "Toward a New Workers Movement."
- A Majority Black Police Force - It's Not Enough
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Although 61% oF Detroit's police force is Black - and headed by a Black police chief - between 1995-2000 police shot 47 people; from 2009-14 there were 18 additional shootings. Perhaps the most publicized case has been the SWAT-like raid on a home that resulted in the death of 7-year-old Aiyana Stanley-Jones, killed as she lay sleeping on the couch next to her grandmother.
- Mass Incarceration for Profit
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
In the face of growing public criticism and improved technologies, companies like Securus search for new ways to remain competitive while marketing themselves as providers of a quality service that keeps the public safe. Yet with the involvement of global financial houses in the prison industrial complex, the pressure mounts to produce value for shareholders. Ultimately, this systematically incentivizes mass incarceration. While we often hear about the activities of private prison providers like Corrections Corporation of America (CCA) and the GEO Group, corporate interests are immersed in every aspect of criminal justice.
- Moral Appeals Aren't Enough
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
The wonderful thing about Black Lives Matter is that they're saying you cannot use moral suasion to win this. You've got to disrupt, and make sure that things don't work in order to make the demand for change.
- The Movement Has a History
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
I was born in the '70s in East Oakland. All of our parents are Panthers, or Black Power organizers, or organizers. We come out politicized.
- Our Movement Is Global
an interview with Alice Ragland
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Against the Current interviewed Alice Ragland, who has been central to organizing Black youth in Cleveland against the police murder of Tamir Rice, the 12-year old shot to death two seconds after the police arrived at the park where Rice was playing with a toy gun.
- Paradoxes of Politics
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Is there a viable presence for genuine independent politics, whether it’s a political party formation or broader coalition? What's needed is a force embracing the rising social insurgencies around race and national oppression, mass incarceration, immigrant rights, Fight for Fifteen, confronting the environmental disaster and endless imperialist wars - along with labor's traditional economic issues - capable of attracting thousands or tens of thousands of activists out of the corporate two-party trap.
- Pioneers of Women's Liberation
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
A review of Hal Draper's book "Women and Class: Toward a Socialist Feminism."
- Pioneers of Women's Liberation
Women and Class: Toward a Socialist Feminism (Book Review)
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Hal Draper (1914-1990) was both a master polemicist and an erudite scholar of Marxism and of socialist history, often combining these talents in withering critiques of alternative analyses. These qualities are fully manifested in Women and Class: Towards a Socialist Feminism, now released by the Center for Socialist History, a collection of essays some of which were written in connection with his multivolume Karl Marx's Theory of Revolution.
- Police Violence in the Spotlight
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Our investigation concluded that there is reasonable cause to believe that CDP [Cleveland Division of Police] engages in a pattern or practice of using unreasonable force in violation of the Fourth Amendment.
- The Prophet Alarmed
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
A review of Tariq Ali's book "The Extreme Centre: A Warning."
- The Prophet Alarmed
The Extreme Center: A Warning (Book Review)
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Review of Tariq Ali's The Extreme Center: A Warning. In The Extreme Center, Ali gives more than just a pungent and entertaining smack-down of corruption in British politics.
- A Recipe for Killing a School System
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
The level of corruption and willingness to subject children to unproven educational methods is shocking, all the more so given that Detroit has more children living in poverty than any of the country's 50 largest U.S. cities.
- Reflections After Ferguson
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
I am a white man with a Black son. I did not have or get him young and fill his head with illusions of diversity and colorblindness, the way some white parents do. I met him when he was a young teen, living in the housing projects, well on his way to having a reality-based world view built around the urban litany of poverty, gangs, drugs, murder, jail, dysfunctional schools and police abuse - and very much not about diversity and colorblindness.
- Research Shows Internet Shutdowns and State Violence Go Hand in Hand in Syria
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
When an oppressive regime blocks Internet access during social unrest, violence usually follows. This is a pattern that has become famous with the Arab Spring but is the violence that follows a response to the repression of free speech? Or is the repression of free speech a means to another end? New research suggests the latter. Using Syria as a case study, it seems that governments blackout the Internet as a means for security forces to gain some tactical advantage when they violently engage protesters.
- The Silencing Act and Mumia Abu-Jamal
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
The Revictimization Relief Act, which my lawyers at the Pennsylvania ACLU have appropriately dubbed the "Silencing Act," allows victims of personal injury crimes (and family members or prosecutors acting on their behalf) to petition a judge to stop criminal offenders from speaking or acting if their speech or action "perpetuates the continuing effect of" that crime, including by causing "mental anguish."
- South Africa's short memory
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
The migrants so recently attacked in South Africa almost all came from neighbouring countries that paid a high price in death and ruin for supporting anti-apartheid struggles.
- Wall Street and the Greek Financial Crisis
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Michael Hudson and Bill Black zero in on some of the key elements of the crisis. They point out that it is not really 'Greece', let alone the Greek people, who have contracted this debt and who have been bailed out until now.
- When workers' own time begins
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Marx took a long view of realizing freedom in a positive sense. Capitalism, in Marx’s day, used up three generations of workers in a single generation of working days without time limits. The struggle for the eight-hour day spread across the U.S. after the victory over slavery in the Civil War. Marx then traced the generations-long struggle for a normal working day.
- Will climate chaos reign in the Anthropocene?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
To judge by many accounts of climate change, the twenty-first century will gradually become a warmer, stormier, and less biodiverse version of the twentieth. There's an unspoken assumption that the Anthropocene will be less pleasant than the Holocene, but not fundamentally different, and that the transition will be smooth.
- A Window on Indigenous Life
Intimate Indigeneities: Race, Sex and History in the Small Space of Andean Life (Book Review)
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First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Book Review of Andrew Canessa's Intimate Indigeneities: Race, Sex and History in the Small Space of Andean Life.
- XKEYSCORE: NSA's Google for the World's Private Communications
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
The NSA's XKEYSCORE program, first revealed by The Guardian, sweeps up countless people's Internet searches, emails, documents, usernames and passwords, and other private communications. XKEYSCORE is fed a constant flow of Internet traffic from fiber optic cables that make up the backbone of the world’s communication network, among other sources, for processing.
- Harper's Rule Breaking Rush to Crush Unions
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Is there anything more undemocratic than Canada's most tainted organization -- the Conservative-controlled Senate -- breaking its rules and then overturning its own Conservative Speaker's ruling, all to hurriedly impose anti-union legislation before the federal election? That's what happened last week with Bill C-377, an odious private members' bill shepherded from beginning to end by Prime Minister Stephen Harper's own office, passed by Parliament's Conservative majority and sent to the Senate for approval.
- The Hijacking of the Marianne by "The Pirates of the Mediterranean"
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
In the early hours of the morning (local time) of June 29th, three Israeli Navy ships intercepted and hijacked a Swedish flagged ship, the Marianne av Göteborg on route to Gaza in the State of Palestine.
- Istanbul's LGBT pride march violently disbanded by police
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
As Americans celebrate a momentous step forward for the LGBT movement, Turkish gay pride marchers were met with rubber bullets and water cannons from the police. While uncharacteristic of the police force, these violent acts are, unfortunately, in line with the general atmosphere in Turkey. There is an ever-growing epidemic of violent homophobia and transphobia in the country.
- Keep our front gardens green!
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
It's time to halt the loss of the nation's front gardens to dreary paving, writes Jenny Jones. Green gardens protect against floods, provide homes for wildlife, keep cities cool in summer, and help us all feel happier. Now, with 7 million gardens already paved over, we must protect those that remain.
- Neoliberalism against capitalism?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Neil Davidson on how the current neo-liberal project has been almost too successful as a ruling class strategy, creating a form of capitalism which endangers the long-term security of capital itself and edges society ever closer to barbarism.
- Protect Students from Corporate Data-Mining in the Classroom
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Across the political spectrum there is debate as to whether data should be collected about students.
- Report from the Pvt. Manning Contingent at SF Pride, June 2015
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First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Sunday, June 28th started out cloudy, as one might expect in San Francisco, but the sun eventually came out, making it a good day for the Gay Pride event -- and a good day to honor Whistleblower Chelsea Manning. There was to be a parade, and one of the units would be the Pvt. Manning Contingent.
- Sources HotLink - June 30, 2015
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Propaganda, the suppression of free speech and campaigns against whistleblowers are global problems. Propaganda occurs in North America just as it happens everywhere else. This week, we focus on violations closer to home. American whistleblowers, western mainstream "news" propaganda outlets and how the people are fighting back from within the system. Our items of the week feature a website, book and topic focused on the theme of censorship. For our marketing enthusiasts, we include a book on upholding media relations along with guides to building effective internet and social media marketing campaigns.
- What Justice Breyer's Dissent on Lethal Injection Showed About the Death Penalty's Defenders
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First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Just after 2 a.m. on Monday, June 29, 2015 -- some seven hours before the U.S. Supreme Court would reject the latest challenge to the death penalty in Glossip v. Gross -- former death row prisoner Glenn Ford died in Louisiana. Ford, 65, left prison with stage four lung cancer in 2014, after spending almost 30 years facing execution for a crime he did not commit.
- Al-Jazeera cameraman killed in shelling in Syria
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Al-Asfar was a 19 year old cameraman who was killed by artillery fire as he was covering the war in Syria. Whether or not he was deliberately targeted remains a mystery.
- Florida Man, Accused of Terrorism Based on Book Collection, Set Free
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Robertson had been incarcerated since 2011 on charges of tax fraud and illegal gun possession. After his arrest and subsequent conviction, prosecutors sought to add a 'terrorism enhancement' to his sentence.
- Greece and the Future of European Democracy
Disfunction in the Eurozone
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First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Interview with Tariq Ali, author of "The Extreme Center: A Warning". Discussion addresses the current economic situation in Greece and the European Union's role in it.
- The Greek Debt Crisis and Crashing Markets
A New Mode of Warfare
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Greece has indeed become an example. But it is an example of the horror that the eurozone's monetarists seek to impose on one economy after another, using debt as a lever to force privatization selloffs at distress prices. In short, finance has shown itself to be the new mode of warfare. Resisting debt leverage andfinancial conquest is as legal as is resisting military invasion.
- Honduras Bleeding
The Coup and Its Aftermath
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
June 28 marked the six year anniversary of the military coup in Honduras -- the day that a democratically elected left wing government was ousted by a US-backed, US-trained cabal of generals and right wing politicians and landowners.
- Israel Intercepts International Gaza-Bound Freedom Flotilla
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
The Israeli Navy has intercepted the Swedish boat "The Marianne", part of the Freedom Flotilla Coalition, in International waters at 05:11 AM Gaza time (GMT +3) and forced it to redirect to the nearest Israeli port of Ashdod. The coalition was on its way to Gaza to deliver aid. In a statement immediately afterward, the Freedom Flotilla Coalition accused the Israeli government of “state piracy in international waters."
- Kyrgyzstan: Anti-LGBTQI law passes second reading
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
News that a law which will restrict positive discourse around sexual orientation has been passed in a second reading by the Kyrgyzstan parliament is deeply disappointing, PEN International and Central Asian PEN said today. PEN called on the Parliament not to pass the bill at its final reading.
- 17 journalists charged with contempt in Myanmar
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) and the South East Asia Journalists Unions (SEAJU) strongly criticizes the charges filed against 17 journalists in Myanmar (Burma) by the government.
- Slavery, Genocide, Abuse: The Dark Side of Asia's 'Tiger Economies'
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First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
From declining worker protections to violent labour trafficking and ethnic cleansing, the dark underbelly of Southeast Asia's "tiger economies" is on full display this year.
- Spirit of Truth and Reconciliation already broken
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
It is clear that the outcome of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission has at best, no consequence for the present lives of the First Nations peoples of Canada.
- Who Are the 5.5 Million Facebook Fans of Chinese State Newspaper People's Daily?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Facebook has been banned in China for six years yet the Facebook account for Chinese State Newspaper People’s Daily has over 5.5 million fans. What is a state run newspaper doing on a social network that none of its consumers can access? Or, better yet, how does a state run newspaper have 5.5 million fans on a website that none of its consumers can access?
- Don't be fooled: 'media watchdogs' are Israeli propaganda tools
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Consider yourself very lucky if you have never heard of "UK Media Watch" (formerly called "Comment is Free Watch" – CiF Watch), "BBC Watch", "HonestReporting" and "Committee for Accuracy in Middle East Reporting in America" (CAMERA).
- John Locke Against Freedom
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
John Locke's classical liberalism isn’t a doctrine of freedom. It's a defense of expropriation and enslavement.
- No Child Left Un-Mined? Student Privacy at Risk in the Age of Big Data
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Chideya discusses the implications of the compilation of big data trails containing information about children's performance in school.
- Orwell's Triumph: How Novels Tell the Truth of Surveillance
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Novels may be the best medium for describing a distopian world in which everyone is under constant surveillance.
- Tory right-to-buy plan threatens mass selloff of council homes
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Speculators circle as London councils could be forced to sell every new house they build, warns housing expert.
- Greece: A no vote against blackmail
Now is not the time for academic debates. It is time for struggle
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Our response to the blackmail of the lenders is that the struggle against austerity will not be governed by concerns about the euro system or by the consent of the rulers of Europe. the response should include stopping debt repayments to the lenders, with the goal of cancelling a majority of the debt; carrying out measures to improve the life of workers and poor; and financing all of this with heavy taxes on corporations and the rich, renationalizing large public enterprises and putting the banks under social control.
- Editor of Chinese website, missing for a month, arrested on anti-state charges
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
An editor and secretary-general of a human rights group in China has been was abducted and charged with "inciting subversion of state power" by the Chinese government. The chinese government is infamous for using this charge to silence dissenting journalists.
- Freedom Flotilla III sets sail: #NextPortGaza
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Today, June 27th 2015 (4 am in Gaza), four boats of the 2015 the Freedom Flotilla III set sail from their final European points of departure. Through nonviolent resistance they will challenge the illegal blockade of the Palestinian Gaza strip
- Freedom of speech, assembly, protest? All are nixed by new police powers
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
UK police now have free rein to create 'dispersal zones' in public places, writes Josie Appleton. This allows them to exclude people for anything from street drinking to looking suspicious, being homeless, protesting, or merely 'congregating'. This represents a serious breach of our Common Law and Magna Carta rights.
- In more innocent days, you could write about cocks and not be misunderstood
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
The BBC has changed Titty for Tatty in a remake of Swallows and Amazons. Much children's literature is a hazard for double entendres.
- Israeli War Crimes? Who, Us??
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
The concept of "war crimes" is dubious. The biggest crime is starting the war in the first place. This is not the business of soldiers, but of political leaders. Yet they are rarely indicted.These philosophical musings came to me in the wake of the recent UN report on the last Gaza war.
- The Atlantic Slave Trade in Two Minutes
315 years. 20,528 voyages. Millions of lives.
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Usually, when we say "American slavery" or the "American slave trade," we mean the American colonies or, later, the United States. But North America was a bit player. From the trade's beginning in the 16th century to its conclusion in the 19th, slave merchants brought the vast majority of enslaved Africans to two places: the Caribbean and Brazil. Of the more than 10 million enslaved Africans to eventually reach the Western Hemisphere, just 388,747 -- less than 4 percent of the total -- came to North America.
- Hiroshima and Nagasaki Commemoration in Toronto August 6th, 2015
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Toronto's Hiroshima Day Coalition presents "Ground Zero to Global Zero: Hope After 70 Years" to commemorate the 70th anniversary of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki - Thu August 6, 2015 (Hiroshima Day) at The Church of the Holy
- Hostile climate for Dominican media since start of 2015
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
The first half of 2015 has been arduous for journalists in the Dominican Republic, with physical attacks, threats, prosecutions and a murder. Freedom of information is also weakened by continuing impunity for crimes of violence against media personnel and the concentration of media ownership in few hands.
- The ICC is now an instrument of imperialism
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
The Rome Statute is the treaty that established the International Criminal Court (ICC). The ICC was to be an international tribunal and intergovernmental organisation that would prosecute all individuals for international crimes of genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity.
- The Jewish Voice for Peace Attack on Alison Weir: JVP Loses Its Balance
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
- The Parliament Streetcar (Deceased)
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First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
A history of the Parliament streetcar route in Toronto, including the eventual closure of the route.
- World Press Trends: What's behind the statistics?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Technology will always dictate the dominant form of communication. Just as the printing press took over written letters and the internet is taking over the printing press, desktop internet will soon be replaced by mobile internet. Marketers, whose primary job is to communicate, will always choose the most effective platform; meaning that traditional press will receive less advertising over time. In an interview, Milo Milosevic describes how the traditional press is dealing with this shift in technology and revenue.
- Charleston Massacre Media Coverage: Recognizing the Crime, Downplaying the Causes
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Dylann Roof is a white male who killed nine people; targeting African Americans. Elliot Rodger was a white male who killed six people; targeting women. Dzhokhar Tsarnaev (The Boston Bomber) is a non-white male who killed three people; targeting Americans. According to the media, only one is a terrorist. Can you guess which? Why is that that the media is so hesitant to call some people terrorists when they clearly are?
- Concern regarding the brutality of Montréal police against journalists
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
CJFE and the Canadian Association of Journalists (CAJ) are deeply concerned by the brutal actions taken by the Service de police de la Ville de Montréal (SPVM) to impede the work of journalists in the city over the last three years. The assault, detention, and arrest of reporters by the Montréal police is in violation of freedom of the press, as cited in Section 2(b) of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms, as well as Section 3 of the Québec Charter of Human Rights and Freedoms. To address these issues, CJFE and CAJ would like to arrange a meeting with you and SPVM Chief Marc Parent to discuss police policy on journalists covering protests in order to come up with a solution to end the existing practices.
- Detroit celebrates Grace Lee Boggs' 100th birthday
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
About the weeklong celebration of the life of Grace Lee Boggs, radical activist, political theorist, and revolutionary.
- On Atena Farghadani and the longstanding repression of artistic expression in Iran
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
It all started with a harmless political cartoon posted on Facebook. What followed was extreme retaliation to say the least; imprisonment, and physical abuse. Unfortunately, this is not an extraordinary story for artists in Iran.
- Pentagon rewrites 'Law of War' declaring 'belligerent' journalists as legitimate targets
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
The Pentagon has released a book of instructions on the "law of war," detailing acceptable ways of killing the enemy. The manual also states that journalists can be labeled "unprivileged belligerents," an obscure term that replaced "enemy combatant."
- Secretive contract reveals Ontario and Border Services jointly responsible for detention injustice
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
The End Immigration Detention Network is releasing a secretive contract between the Ontario and Federal government which shows joint responsibility for immigration detention violations. Ontario has denied the existence of this agreement
- Cape Town's death industry: 'If you’re buried here, it's as if they threw you away'
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
The Xhosa people make up the vast majority of Cape Town's black population, spending most or all of their lives in the South African city. Saverin narrates why the people living there don't want to be buried there.
- The 'Civic Death' of Dominicans of Haitian Descent
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Imagine being born in a country and then being told you have no rights as a citizen; that you're not wanted there. That is exactly what has been happening to Dominicans of Haitian descent.
- Don't Blame the Media for the Charleston Murders
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First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Featherstone argues that blaming the media for the Charleston Murders is an easy way to avoid doing any real thinking.
- MP & Mayor Launch The New Talking Book Library
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
The new Talking Book Library has been launched, providing hundreds of audio books for free! Read more about it, or visit the Talking Book Library online at www.talkingbooklibrary.org
- OceanaGold vs El Salvador: Foreshadowing 'Trade' Under the TPP?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
The Central American country of El Salvador could be forced to pay US$301 million to Canadian-Australian mining multinational OceanaGold as the two face off in a World Bank investor-state tribunal with proven tendency to favor corporate interests over arguments for protecting national sovereignty, the environment, and human rights.
- Another journalist burnt to death in India
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) and its affiliate the Indian Journalists Union (IJU) strongly condemn the brutal murder of a journalist in Madhya Pradesh on June 19. The killing is the second burning death of a journalist in India
- Beyond the Spectacle
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Our initial reaction to the Rachel Dolezal story was: what's the big deal? America has always been a land of shape shifters, and if she isn't stopped for "driving while black" or followed while shopping, and if her sons are not targeted by cops, then how is she different from the politician who is Italian on Columbus Day and Irish on Saint Patrick's Day?
- IFJ, UNESCO and UNWomen release report on women journalists across the Asia Pacific
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Today, the International Federation of Journalists (IFJ), UNESCO and UNWomen, released Inside the News: Challenges and Aspirations for Women Journalists in Asia and the Pacific. The report documents the issue of Gender Equity in the Media Industry
- Ontarians outraged by Wynne's acceptance of award from Israel lobby group
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Ontarians representing eight organizations have voiced their strong opposition to Ontario Premier Kathleen Wynne's acceptance of an award from the Centre for Israel and Jewish Affairs (CIJA), to be presented at a gala this evening.
- Police Shootings, Helicopter Crashes and Bystanders With Cameras: Weighing the Rights of Accidental Journalists'
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Accidental Journalist are everyday people who stumble across something news-worthy. Most commonly, these accidental journalists report on those who abuse their power.
- Pope Francis' Call to 'Hear Both the Cry of the Earth and the Cry of the Poor' Resonates in the Philippines
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
After Pope Francis' well publicized statement on the ecological crisis, his visit to Hurricane-stricken Philippines was met with applause and amazement. It's not everyday that a Pope breaks conservative conventions so publically.
- Popular Security Software Came Under Relentless NSA and GCHQ Attacks
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
The National Security Agency and its British counterpart, Government Communications Headquarters, have worked to subvert anti-virus and other security software in order to track users and infiltrate networks, according to documents from NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden.
- Spies Hacked Computers Thanks to Sweeping Secret Warrants, Aggressively Stretching U.K. Law
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
British spies have received government permission to intensively study software programs for ways to infiltrate and take control of computers. The GCHQ spy agency was vulnerable to legal action for the hacking efforts, known as "reverse engineering," since such activity could have violated copyright law. But GCHQ sought and obtained a legally questionable warrant from the Foreign Secretary in an attempt to immunize itself from legal liability.
- Those devious foreigners
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
The U.S. media (with help from the U.S. Navy PR department) has exposed another sneaky trick invented by wily Chinese. It seems that they may be hiding their submarines under the sea. "Why didn't we think of that?" appears to be the question the always-probing American media are asking.
- Uber Plans to Track Users Should Not Be Allowed, Says Privacy Group
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
A formal complaint has been filed against Uber, the car ride company, by the Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC), a non-profit advocacy group. The NGO says Uber plans to use their smart phone app to access user's locations at all times, and to send advertisements to user's contact lists.
- Golden Veneer: How McDonald's Empty CSR Promises Failed Workers at Taylor Farms
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
The report documents systematic and serious violations of workers' fundamental rights protected under international labor standards and McDonald's own Supplier Code of Conduct to freely associate and bargain collectively at Taylor Farms. Further, it finds that McDonald's approach not only failed to prevent or remediate grave violations of workers' rights, it helped undermine workers' free exercise of their rights.
- Building the Ark - small scale farming in Poland for a green future
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Poland is the front line for Europe's small scale family farming, under assault from the EU regulations, corporate agribusiness, and a hostile government. A popular campaign is fighting back from its base deep in the Polish countryside, a small organic farm that's developing new green technologies to enhance the sustainability of small farms everywhere.
- Muslims, Jews and Christians imposing an imagined past, with disastrous results
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
The truth is that there are millions of people – Muslims, Jews and Christians and others – who not only still idealise a religiously imagined past, but want, in one way or another, to import that past into the present – and not only their present but everyone else's as well. Whatever one might think of the teachings of the Bible and Quran, this is a highly problematic desire. In fact, it is downright dangerous.
- A novel oasis: why Argentina is the bookshop capital of the world
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Buenos Aires alone has more bookstores per person than any other city in the world - just enough for inquisitive Argentinians to indulge their literary cravings.
- Reflecting on the plight of African journalists on World Refugee Day
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Two Ethiopian writers in exile; two victims of the repression of freedom of speech.
- Revealed: How DOJ Gagged Google over Surveillance of WikiLeaks Volunteer
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
The Obama administration fought a legal battle against Google to secretly obtain the email records of a security researcher and journalist associated with WikiLeaks.
- Activists denounce conditional Leave to Open for Enbridge Line 9
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
A coalition of environmental and Indigenous solidarity activists has condemned the decision by the National Energy Board to grant Leave to Open for the controversial Line 9 reversal project.
- EFF Report Charts Companies on Next Frontier of User Privacy
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Annual Survey Delves Deeper into Practices of Apple, Google, Twitter, and More
- Eritrea - last in the World Press Freedom Index for the past eight years
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Reporters Without Borders (RSF) hails this week's report by the UN Commission of Inquiry on Human Rights in Eritrea. The report says some of the human rights violations by President Issayas Afeworki's government, which include the arbitrary detention
- Hunger-Striking Friends of Man Who Died in Immigration Custody Speak Out
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
One week after the death of a 39 year old, Abdurahman Ibrahim Hassan at the hands of Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA), immigrants imprisoned without trial or charges along with their families, and friends are refusing food today inside and out
- IFJ and EFJ condemn continuing attacks against journalists in Turkey
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
The European Federation of Journalists (EFJ) and the International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) condemn several attacks against journalists that took place in Diyarbakir, Turkey, in the past few days.
- IFJ hails the strike of Egyptian colleagues denouncing the stifling press freedom in the country
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) hailed the strike action taken on 10 June by Egyptian journalists in response to the call made by the Egyptian Journalists Syndicate's (EJS) Freedom Committee, to stop work in protest
- Kazakhstan: Investigative reporter held arbitrarily in northeastern city
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Reporters Without Borders condemns investigative reporter Yaroslav Golyshkin's arbitrary detention for the past month in a prison in the northeastern city of Pavlodar and calls on the judicial system to guarantee his right to due process.
- "Progressive" Obama: He's Melting, He's Melting
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Beneath progressive pretentions, Barack Obama the national political phenomenon has never been anything other than a tool of the US corporate and financial ruling class.
- Refusal to Call Charleston Shootings 'Terrorism' Again Shows It's a Meaningless Propaganda Term
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
In February 2010, a man named Joseph Stack deliberately flew his small airplane into the side of a building that housed a regional IRS office in Austin, Texas, just as 200 agency employees were starting their workday. Along with himself, Stack killed an IRS manager and injured 13 others. The attack had all of the elements of iconic terrorism, but it was explicitly declared inapplicable by media outlets and government officials alike.
- Saudi king urged to pardon blogger on third anniversary of arrest
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
On the third anniversary of Raif Badawi's arrest, Reporters Without Borders (RSF) reiterates its call to Saudi Arabia's King Salman bin Abdulaziz to demonstrate clemency and pardon this young blogger.
- Threats, attacks, obstacles, jail: what's coming between us and the Rohingya story
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
While images of the suffering of Rohingya migrants circulated around the world, local journalists and politicians faced restrictions in trying to report on and speak out on the issue.
- Twelve of the world's most beautiful bookshops
Resource Type: Photo/Image/Poster
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
From an underground carpark in China to a converted theatre in Argentina, take a look at some of the most stunning bookshops around the world.
- Will the government's counter-extremist programme criminalise dissent?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
From 1 July, a broad range of public bodies - from nursery schools to optometrists - will be legally obliged to participate in the U.S. government’s Prevent policy to identify would-be extremists. Under the fast-tracked Counter-Terrorism and Security Act 2015, schools, universities and health service providers can no longer opt out of monitoring students and patients for supposed radicalised behaviour.
- Fight to Defend Trans Fats Funded With Dark Money
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
A conservative Washington think tank that opposed a federal ban of trans fats has also actively campaigned against climate science and environmental regulation, and is funded by secret donors.
- Kenyan Blogger Bogonko Bosire is Still Missing, Nearly Two Years After His Disappearance
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Two years ago, a Kenyan blogger went missing. As a critic accusing government officials and celebrities of corruption, foul play is very much suspected. Kenyans have turned to social media to revive the search for Bogonko Bosire.
- Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - June 18, 2015
Corruption
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Corruption - or at least some types of corruption - are much in the news, with the ongoing scandals in the Canadian Senate and the recent U.S. targeting of the Swiss-based football federation FIFA for alleged bribery. In this issue, we look at these and other forms of corruption. Diana Johnstone writes about the double standards displayed by U.S. institutions, which happily target enemies and rivals, while ignoring the much greater corruption that underlies the power structures in Washington. We feature an article detailing how much money U.S. Senators received from corporations prior to their vote on the TPP negotiations, as well as materials on criminal conduct by some of the world's biggest banks, and an article on the work of investigative journalists in exposing corruption.
- The Whistleblower's Tale
How Jeffrey Sterling Took on the CIA-- and Lost Everything
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
This is how it ended for Jeffrey Sterling. A former covert officer for the Central Intelligence Agency, Sterling sat down in a federal courtroom with a lawyer on either side, looking up at a judge who would announce in a few moments whether he would go to prison for the next 20 years.
- Why Facebook Failed Our Censorship Test
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
If you click around Facebook's "Government Request Report," you'll notice that, for many countries, Facebook enumerates the number of "content restrictions" the company has fulfilled. This is a sanitized term for censorship.
- Jeremy Hon of Richmond Green Secondary School Lives in Poverty for a Week
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
"Poverty should not be an issue that limits people. It shouldn't hold them back." Jeremy Hon of Richmond Hill works to make a difference for those living in poverty in Malawi.
- IFIC Releases Monthly Statistics for May 2015
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
The Investment Funds Institute of Canada (IFIC) announces that for the month ending May 31, 2015, the assets under management (AUM) for the mutual funds industry totalled $1.23 trillion. Year-to-date, industry AUM in
- The strategic defeat of Recep Tayyib Erdogan
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
The author examines the causes of historic electoral defeat of Recep Tayyip Erdogan and his party AKP. The author emphasises the two recent events: The Gezi rebellion in Istanbul and the Kobane defence in Western Kurdistan. The author asks and attempts to answer "the reason why was that this defeat had taken so long to be registered in action even permitting Erdogan to climb to the presidency of the republic in August 2014."
- Stuxnet-Like Digital Attack on Iran Nuclear Talks May Have Come from Israel, Security Researchers Say
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Moscow-based technical security company Kaspersky Lab last week revealed evidence of a new cyber attack on both its own network and those of several European hotels that hosted nuclear negotiations between Iran and the P5+1 (US, Russia, China, Britain, France and Germany) last year.
- Talking Book Library Grand Opening
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
All Media invited to attend the Grand Opening of the Talking Book Library THIS SATURDAY in Stouffville, ON. The Talking Book Library provides free audio books to those with print disabilities across Canada.
- Egypt's civil society facing renewed government crackdown
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
If the Egyptian authorities are successful in their attempt to prevent non-governmental organisations from working, independent civil society in Egypt risks being wiped out.
- Former TV Producer Mostafa Azizi Sentenced to Eight Years in Prison in Iran
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Branch 15 of Tehran Revolutionary Court has sentenced Mostafa Azizi, a former Iranian television writer and producer imprisoned since February 1, 2015, to eight years in prison, according to his son, who spoke with the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran.
- From Jenner to Dolezal: One Trans Good, the Other Not So Much
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
As is ever clearer and ever more important to note, race politics is not an alternative to class politics; it is a class politics, the politics of the left-wing of neoliberalism. It is the expression and active agency of a political order and moral economy in which capitalist market forces are treated as unassailable nature. An integral element of that moral economy is displacement of the critique of the invidious outcomes produced by capitalist class power onto equally naturalized categories of ascriptive identity that sort us into groups supposedly defined by what we essentially are rather than what we do.
- Guilty Until Proven Innocent: The Outrageous Abuse of Civil Asset Forfeiture
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Civil asset forfeiture violates civil and property rights, not to mention fundamental notions of justice. Now, finally, it's under increasing fire.
- Dominican Republic to be 'Socially Cleaned' in two days
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
In two days about a quarter of a million people will be made stateless. They will have no homes, no passports, and no civil rights. There are several reasons for this, but the primary reason is racism. At issue is a ruling by the Constitutional Court in the Dominican Republic to strip away the citizenship of several generations of Dominicans. According to the decision, Dominicans born after 1929 to parents who are not of Dominican ancestry are to have their citizenship revoked. The ruling affects an estimated 250,000 Dominican people of Haitian descent, including many who have had no personal connection with Haiti for several generations.
- The Sunday Times' Snowden Story is Journalism at its Worst - and Filled with Falsehoods
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Western journalists claim that the big lesson they learned from their key role in selling the Iraq War to the public is that it's hideous, corrupt and often dangerous journalism to give anonymity to government officials to let them propagandize the public, then uncritically accept those anonymously voiced claims as Truth. But they've learned no such lesson. That tactic continues to be the staple of how major U.S. and British media outlets "report," especially in the national security area.
- What's Wrong with Cultural Appropriation? These 9 Answers Reveal Its Harm
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
A liberal feminist view of "cultural appropriation."
- Where Does ISIS Get Those Wonderful Toys?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Indeed where do ISIS and al-Qaeda get those wonderful toys we so often see these days triumphantly bedecked with black flags? The ultimate source of virtually all of the jihadists' gear are the deep pockets of the United States government and its client states. Uncle Sam is the veritable Bruce Wayne of Jihad. This was basically admitted in a recently disclosed Defense Intelligence Agency report. But anyone who bothered looking into it could have known this long ago, even if restricting one's self to mainstream sources.
- Investigative Reporters Held Abitrarily in Northeastern City
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
A reporter has being held on arbitrary charges in Kazakhstan. Reports Without Borders believes that he is being held as a scapegoat for a rape that took place in a governor's residence.
- Sex Workers in Nicaragua Break the Silence and Gain Rights
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
After living in the shadows, thousands of Nicaraguan sex workers have broken their silence, won support from state institutions and gained new respect for their rights.
- An Alternative for SYRIZA
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
In order to regain sovereignty, a country has to exit not only the EZ, if a member, but the EU itself. Liberated from the noose of the EU treaties and regulations, Greek people will have the freedom to follow a sovereign monetary and fiscal policy and form trade and international alliances to the best of their interests.
- Pakistan: 'Son, you brought electricity to the village and added 15 years to my life'
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
A micro-hydro programme bringing sustainable energy to a region of Pakistan ravaged by conflict and floods has won an Ashden award for lighting the future.
- Prostitution ban won't hit England, 'too many politicians' visit sex workers
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Northern Ireland’s sex trade ban has left prostitutes in fear of "danger and poverty." In an in-depth interview with RT, one sex worker challenged the idea of the law spreading to England, claiming "too many" influential people visit prostitutes.
- Boycott BP's Baku games
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Baku, the oil capital of Azerbaijan, is set to host the 2015 European games. However, it's not just fun and games in this city. Azerbaijan is a country famous for oppressing freedom of speech, abusing journalists and keeping political prisoners. Furthermore, the main sponsor for the European games is oil tycoon BP. The 2015 games are a slew of political and environmental controversies.
- "I think the dead are with us": John Berger at 88
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
A brief biography and recounting of a meeting by the author with the late author John Berger.
- The LAWG Library and Archives: A personal reflection by Caese Levo, LAWG's Librarian
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
From early research projects the Latin American Working Group Library evolved. The Library is a unique collection of material that reflects the areas of research undertaken by the LAWG staff and collective over the years. While always focusing on Canadian connections – especially government and corporate interests – the collection is especially strong on the countries of the Dominican Republic, Chile, Brazil and Central America.
- Russian Oligarch Wanted to Turn My Joke Into Reality
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
One of my core political beliefs is that there would still be a Soviet Union if they'd been smart enough to have two communist parties that agreed on everything except abortion.
Obviously that's a joke about the U.S., where we have two capitalist parties that largely agree on everything.
- Six Facts from Sudden Justice, A New History of the Drone War
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Sudden Justice: America's Secret Drone Wars, a new book by London-based investigative journalist Chris Woods, traces the intertwined technological, legal and political history of drones as they evolved on the battlefield in Iraq and Afghanistan and in the covert U.S. targeted killing campaign.
- Western Narrative of Crimea a Pack of Lies Born of Failed Policy and Historical Ignorance
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
The Western line on Crimea is so absurd that it actually requires mass historical ignorance to be believed.
- Big Oil's Ethical Violence
BP and the Armed Suppression of Dissent in Colombia
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
To challenge impunity is not just to attempt to confine abuses to the past. It serves to expose crimes committed, to preserve memory of the past within the present, and to highlight contradictions between corporate recognition of rights and an economic model that has implied the systematic violation and dispossession of workers and populations around the oilfields. It is part of a process of re-building communities and social organisations wiped out by the violence.
- Fracking Firm Encourages Industry to Imitate Taco Bell's Twitter Strategy
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Oil and gas companies are steadily increasing their footprint on social media, hiring specialized public relations firms and developing "visual shorthand" infographics that can be shared easily on Facebook and Twitter.
- Proposed Torture Ban Includes New Transparency and Oversight Mechanisms
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
The US senate has approved the ban for government torture. Along with this move, they have also implemented transparency and oversight policies into government agencies like the NSA and FBI.
- Reflections on a whistleblower: Two years after Snowden
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Two years after Snowden, the international state of surveillance and the ranks of whistleblowers both continue to grow.
- Time to Jail Auto Executives?
Still Unsafe at Any Speed
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Rather than allowing automobile industry debacles to float by without inspiring systemic change that will save lives, criminal prosecutions should become an integral part of -- even a priority for -- both federal and state governments.
- The Dignity of Chartism
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Groundbreaking studies of Britain's first major working-class movement.
- Police Violence Against Native People
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
In April 1974, three white high school students from Farmington, New Mexico murdered three Navajo men, Benjamin Benally, John Harvey, and David Ignacio. The brutal murders were nothing new in Farmington, where white high school students had been known to sever the fingers of inebriated Navajo men and display them proudly in their lockers at school.
- Sources HotLink - June 9, 2015
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
This issue features many stories related to the themes of journalistic standards and censorship. With increasing pressure from corporations and governments, reporters are finding it more and more difficult to report on issues that affect powerful interests. The problem lies not only with top-down pressure and control, but also with journalists themselves. Journalists often frame their stories to support particular narratives or points of view. Also in this issue: books, movies and other resources related to the theme of censorship, journalistic integrity, and acess to information.
- Beating Uncle Sam at His Own Game
The Skirmish in the Spratlys
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Washington has thrown down the gauntlet in the South China Sea. If Beijing wants to preserve its independence and surpass the US as the world's biggest economy, it's going to have to meet the challenge, prepare for a long struggle, and beat Uncle Sam at his own game. It won’t be easy, but it can be done.
- Brazilian deaths highlights need for safety training
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
The dangers that journalists face is Brazil is old news. The most recent deaths of two reporters have once again shown the sire situation for media workers in the South American country.
- Is Canada's government trying to kill off the wild salmon?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Matthews discusses how the Canadian government's actions and legal changes threaten the wild salmon.
- The Passing of Ronnie Gilbert
A Great Woman Has Died
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Ronnie Gilbert, an original member of the legendary folk group, the Weavers, has died .
- The Perpetual Punitive Machine Backfires
Not Very Smart
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Our nation has a penchant for creating unnecessary complexity and obstacles for its people in areas such as the tax, health insurance and student debt miasmas. The prison industry adds to this with what it euphemistically calls "collateral consequences."
- Tea Party Oddsmaker Has Best Campaign Finance Reform Idea Yet (Really)
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Liberals always say we need to get money out of politics. But there are three big problems with that: (1) the Supreme Court has made it near-impossible without amending the Constitution; (2) no matter what barriers you erect, money will always find ways to influence politics; and (3) maybe most importantly, politics costs money.
- Media Lessons from Snowden Reporting: LA Times Editors Advocate Prosecution of Sources
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
The LA Times editors want Snowden imprisoned, but not the leakers whose leaks make the U.S. government look good, much of which gets laundered in that particular paper.
- An ageing population isn't the reason for stunted economic growth - austerity is
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
In the 2015 World Economic Outlook, for example, the IMF says: "Potential employment growth is expected to decline further in advanced and emerging market economies compared to pre-crisis rates. This is a result of demographic factors negatively affecting both the growth of the working population and trend labour force participation rates."
But the reality is somewhat different. The IMF analysis is based on 16 countries that excludes more than one billion people from the African continent where half of the population is either 20 years of age or younger.
- The Big Lie at the Heart of the Myth of the Creation of Israel
An Interview with Lia Tarachansky
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Lia Tarachansky's heart-wrenching documentary, On the Side of the Road, reveals the Big Lie at the heart of the myth of the creation of Israel.
- Combat Proven: The Booming Business of War in Israel
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Arms fairs in Israel showcase the latest products the profitable Israeli weapons industry manufactures - and the demos are the perfect place to show those products off.
- Humanity in the Capitalist Cul-de-sac
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
As a result of 200 years of capitalism, humanity is deep in a very dangerous cul-de-sac which could result in barbarism on an unprecedented scale.
- Inaugural Golden Oldies Football Festival
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Golden Oldies World Football Festival will be held in Adelaide, South Australia, in October 2016.
- Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - June 5, 2015
Residential schools
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
This issue of Other Voices focuses on residential schools. As documented by the just-released report of Canada's Truth and Reconciliation Commission, residential schools were set up to forcibly 'assimilate' Native children by taking them away from their parents and communities, and depriving them of their language, culture, history, and emotional supports. Based as they were on a system of arbitrary power and cruelty, it is not surprising that they also fostered physical and sexual abuse of the children forced into the schools. We spotlight the report and the recommendations of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, as well as films, books, and survivor stories. Also in this issue: the Orwellian language and tactics being used to sell 'anti-terrorist' legislation, mind-boggling subsidies for the fossil fuel industry, and, on the other side of the ledger, stories of courage and resistance.
- Over-grazing and desertification in the Syrian steppe are the root causes of war
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Civil war in Syria is the result of the desertification of the ecologically fragile Syrian steppe, which began in 1958 when the former Bedouin commons were opened up to unrestricted grazing. That led to a wider ecological, hydrological and agricultural collapse.
- Censored book about corruption in Angola now available on RSF site
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Reporters Without Borders (RSF) is facilitating access to 'Blood Diamonds: Corruption and Torture in Angola,' the book by Angolan journalist Rafael Marques de Morais that is censored in his country.
- Defender of the Forests
Bonnie Phillips vs. the Timber Beasts, Gang Green and the Big Foundations
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Veteran forest advocate Bonnie Phillips passed away on May 4, 2015 in Olympia, Washington. This article is based on her final interview.
- EFF Battles Abuse of Site-Blocking Court Orders
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) urged a federal court in an emergency hearing and a written filing this week to block the recording industry's move to force Internet infrastructure companies into becoming copyright police with far-reaching
- Mississippi Family Faces Jail Time for Cheering at High School Graduation
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
When Ursula Miller attended her niece's high school graduation from Senatobia High School in northwestern Mississippi last month, she didn't expect to leave with an arrest warrant. But in a prime example of excessesive criminalization, Miller and three others were charged with disorderly conduct for cheering on their relatives during the ceremony held at Northwest Mississippi Community College.
- RSF backs Moroccan NGO targeted by interior ministry
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
It’s ironic. Moroccan journalists and human rights activists who have been the targets of government spying would be justified in bringing complaints against the authorities over the violation their privacy.
- RSF backs newspaper under attack from President Erdogan
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Reporters Without Borders condemns Turkish government pressure on the newspaper Cumhuriyet, which is under judicial investigation for publishing alleged evidence that Turkey's National Intelligence Organization (MIT) delivered arms to Islamists.
- Sad anniversary for Eritrean press freedom
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Dawit Isaak, a journalist with Swedish and Eritrean dual nationality who used to work for the Eritrean newspaper Setit in Asmara, is spending his 5,000th day in prison today, May 2, 2015. He has never been sentenced or even charged.
- Solar heat - transforming rural enterprises around the tropics
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Solar energy is not just about electricity. It's also about heat - and three innovative projects highlighted by the Ashden Awards are showing how solar heat can dramatically reduce the carbon footprint of food processing and farming, while helping agricultural businesses increase profits.
- TTIP will legalize cancer-causing chemicals banned by EU, trade union warns
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Britain could be flooded with harmful chemicals currently banned in the European Union if the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) deal is signed next week, a trade union has warned.
- Very Mention of Snowden's Name Makes Prosecutors Tremble
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden has become such a powerful symbol of government overreach that federal prosecutors in a terror case in Chicago are asking the judge to forbid defense attorneys from even mentioning his name during trial, for fear that it would lead the jury to disregard their evidence.
- Victory: Photo Hobbyist Prevails Over Junk-Patent Bully
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Patent bully Garfum has abandoned its lawsuit against an online photo hobbyist, just one day after a federal judge set the date for a face-off in court against lawyers for the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF).
- Saudi Arabia's Yemen Strategy: Divide and Destroy
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
While eleven weeks of airstrikes and a punitive naval blockade have laid waste to much of Yemen, most people remain resolute and what is a distinctly Yemeni sense of humour is intact. This is despite the fact that more than 2000 people have been killed, over half of whom are civilians, and billions of dollars of infrastructure have been destroyed since the Saudi led "Operation Decisive Storm" began on March 25, 2015.
- Some Israeli Leaders Do Sometimes Tell The Truth
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Still today, 48 years on, there are relatively few people who know the whole truth about how Israel set the stage for war in June 1967 to grab more Arab land. The single most decisive event that made war inevitable happened on Thursday 1 June, four days before Israel launched its attacks. What was it?
- Wikileaks releases 'largest trove of docs exposing secret TiSA trade deal
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
WikiLeaks has published 17 secret documents related to a controversial trade agreement currently being negotiated behind closed doors between the US, EU and over 20 WTO members.
- Auditing the Greek Debt: Unity of Place, Time, and Action
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
The recent debt currently being claimed presents features that make it irregular, illegitimate, illegal, unsustainable, and even odious. Allegedly Greek debts that were accumulated before 2010 were already to a large extent illegitimate and/or illegal.
- Crossing Rafah
Heading to Gaza
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
- The Forgotten Massacres
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Fifty years ago, in 1965, hundreds of thousands of Indonesian communists were slaughtered -- all with the support of the US. For decades, this version of the mass killings of 1965–66 has been reinforced by state propaganda and parroted by Western experts who saw the "spontaneous" eruption in murderous violence as confirmation of pre-existing racist ideas about fanatical and irrational "orientals."
- 40 Reasons Our Jails and Prisons Are Full of Black and Poor People
It's Not Just About Crime!
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Quigley provides a list of reasons why the majority of prisoners in US jails are Black and poor people.
- The Israeli War Crime That Goes Unmentioned
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Here set out in black and white in the Israeli media is a moral conundrum that western politicians, diplomats and international human rights organisations are resolutely failing to address -- and one I have been highlighting since 2006.
- The Politics of the California Drought
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
As if in compensation for a historic drought, California is being deluged by expressions of grim satisfaction that it is finally getting its comeuppance for environmental sins. Judgement was especially swift after California Gov. Jerry Brown imposed a 25 percent reduction in water usage for urban areas. The media asked if this is "The End of California?", as well as declaring "So Long, California," and "Dust Bowl 2.0."
- A quick note on neoliberalism and state capitalism
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
The key to understanding neo-liberalism, in my opinion, is power, not ideology.
- Still Surviving: Reconciliation Through Everyday Rebellion
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Residential school survivors rebuild through small acts of hope and resistance.
- The Tragedy of the Commodity
Oceans, Fisheries, and Aquaculture
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Although humans have long depended on oceans and aquatic ecosystems for sustenance and trade, only recently has human influence on these resources dramatically increased, transforming and undermining oceanic environments throughout the world. Marine ecosystems are in a crisis that is global in scope, rapid in pace, and colossal in scale. Longo, Clausen, and Clark explore the role human influence plays in this crisis, highlighting the social and economic forces that are at the heart of this looming ecological problem.
- University for Counterinsurgency and Imperialism?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
The United States has set aside one day in the year, Memorial Day, to remember those who died in military service. For the University of California-Irvine that is not enough. After reading the Chancellor's message of May 2015, a number of observations and questions came to mind.
- Why Police Kill So Often
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
The FBI reports 404 civilians were killed by police in 2011. All were listed as "justifiable homicides." Under more intense questioning, it was then revealed that figures are not actually kept for "unjustified" police murders and, remarkably, their statistics rely exclusively on incidents self-reported by the cops.
- How do you stop a pipeline when one family owns both the oil and the media?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Pipeline opponent’s op-ed rejected by Irving-owned newspaper in New Brunswick.
- Interview with Maryam Abdulhadi al-Khawaja
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Interview with Bahraini activist Maryam Abdulhadi al-Khawaja.
- Loitering With Intent
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Government propaganda, the news media, and Hollywood movies characterize drones almost exclusively as high-flying hunter-killers and all-seeing information machines. In fact, more than 90 percent of the world's drones are small, short-range, and unarmed. Only about 5 percent of the drones operated by the U.S. government are as large as manned airplanes. Predators, which garner so much of the public’s attention, make up an even smaller subset -- there are just a few hundred worldwide.
- Millennials and Political News
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Obama has often been dubbed 'the first social media president' but this title has more implications than you think. This report looks at the sources of political news across generations. Spoiler alert: Millennials get significantly more news from Facebook than local television.
- Muddying the waters
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
The by-products of aluminium extraction have been poisoning the Mediterranean for almost 20 years. But the closure of the plant that produces them would cost jobs in an underemployed region.
- Narrative of the dispossessed
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Discussion of conspiracies tends to be polarised: people see them everywhere, or nowhere.
- The Need is Still Great in Nepal
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Nepal's recent earthquake has shaken the nation with devastating, long-term effects. As the world seems to return to it's regular pace, Emmanuel International is working to support those in Nepal who are still reeling from the quake.
- Pakistani Journalists Left in Limbo Amid Vicious Media War
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Pakistani journalists working for BOL Network, a Pakistani media outlet co-owned by journalists, protest against the license cancellation of this organization. Protesters complain against violations of their rights.
- Poisoning the Democratic Well
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Opponents of so-called free trade deals have always struggled with the question of why these international treaties don't generate more alarm and vocal opposition from Canadians. These treaties, after all, trump all other Canadian authority to make laws -- provincial legislatures, Parliament, the courts and even the Constitution.
- A Polite Coup
Why one of Asia's most open societies keeps turning to military rule
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
As military coups go, Thailand's putsch on May 22, 2014, was rather polite -- no mass imprisonments, no stadiums full of students tortured and shot. The toppled prime minister, Yingluck Shinawatra, was detained for only three days. Before the coup, there had been months of street clashes between loyalist "red shirts" and opposition "yellow shirts," and now General Prayuth Chan-ocha's junta promised to "restore happiness to the people."
- Reclaim the Power! Climate protestors rout security with UK-wide fossil fuel strikes
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
The fossil fuel industry and its political backers have been left reeling by an unprecedented series of direct action strikes against targets across the country to protest at continuing investment in and official support for fossil fuels, inaction over fuel poverty and the systematic neglect of renewable energy despite the global climate emergency.
- Shooting Down Man the Hunter
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Sooner or later in conversations about who we are, who we have been, and who we can be, someone will tell a story about Man the Hunter. It's a story not just about Man but about Woman and Child too.There are countless variants. In every version, women are baggage that breeds.
- Thirty Million Gallons Under the Sea
Following the trail of BP's oil in the Gulf of Mexico
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
One morning in March of last year, I set out from Gulfport, Mississippi, on a three-week mission aboard the U.S. Navy research vessel Atlantis.
- TTIP: the Corporate Empowerment Act
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
The Transatlantic and Transpacific Trade and Investment Partnerships have nothing to do with free trade. "Free trade" is used as a disguise to hide the power these agreements give to corporations to use law suits to overturn sovereign laws of nations that regulate pollution, food safety, GMOs, and minimum wages.
- Ugandan TV Personality Sacked After Her Nude Photos Appear Online
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
On May 21 Anita Kyarimpa, popularly known as Anita Fabiola, the host of a reality dating TV show Be My Date on Nation Media's TV channel NTV Uganda, had nude photos leaked onto social media. Subsequently Anita was forced to resign.
- We must start 'shaming' those who lie to us, destroy our climate
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Given how powerless ordinary folk and public interest groups have become, I would like to see people embarrass the hell out of those who take advantage of the public by lying to us, cheating us, or destroying our priceless environment.
- Where the conspiracies are real
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
US expansionism in Latin America, sometimes violent, sometimes discreet, played such a large role in shaping the history of the continent that many still see the "black hand" of Washington behind every obstacle faced by progressive governments.
- Honouring the Truth, Reconciling for the Future
Summary of the final Report of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
The summary of the final report of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission: the product of a five-year process of hearing from survivors and compiling evidence. The report calls the schools agents of "cultural genocide" responsible for enormous abuses and lasting damage. It calls for education and reconciliation; according to commission head Murray Sinclair, "The survivors need to know that, having been heard and understood, that we will act to ensure the repair of damages is done."
- Odia Wikipedia Set to Celebrate 13 Years of Volunteer Contributions
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Odia Wikipedia, one of the first of several Indian language Wikipedia projects, is ready to celebrate 13 years of free knowledge contribution on June 3.
- California turns to fake grass in response to drought
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Despite objections from environmentalists, artificial turf is growing in Calinfornia.
- India's killer heatwave - a deadly warning of the world we face, without climate action
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
As delegates prepare for the Bonn climate talks, India is being struck by extreme heat with a long-delayed monsoon season and a death toll of thousands. If this is an indicator of the warming world to come, it's giving us all the reasons we could possibly want to act decisively before it's too late.
- A Nation of Millennial Entitlements
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
A student twice sued Misericordia College because she failed a nursing class. Why do significant numbers of people believe they are entitled to get the credentials they want even if they don't have the qualifications required?
- Communism and the Family (Part Two)
The Marxist Approach to Women's Liberation
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
The family is the primary institution through which bourgeois ideology in its various forms is transmitted from one generation to the next.
- South Korean Activists' Extraordinary Struggle to Save Jeju Island
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
South Korea's Jeju Island is a popular tourist destination full of spas, resorts, golf courses, sandy beaches, waterfalls and hiking trails. But if you really want to get rejuvenated, skip the tourist hotspots and go directly to the village of Gangjeong to support the extraordinary community that has been opposing the building of a naval base since 2007.
- Stalinists and Artists in the U.S. "Red Decade"
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
New York University's recent art show, "The Left Front: Radical Art in the 'Red Decade,' 1929-1940," was a bittersweet experience. In the present period, with successful workers struggles few and far between, the pro-working-class images -- photos, movies of mass May Day parades in New York City, pictures of Great Depression misery, protests, strikes, the fight against Jim Crow segregation -- were, of course, moving. But there was something wrong with this picture. It wasn’t the individual artworks themselves, but the sentimental, prettifying view of and narrow focus on the U.S. Communist Party (CP).
- BBC defends reality show involving poor, dubbed 'Hunger Games'
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Britain's Hardest Grafter will pit 25 of Britain's lowest-paid workers against each other for cash prize in series it claims is a 'serious social experiment'.
- Emails Reveal Dairy Lobbyist Crafted 'Ag-Gag' Legislation Outlawing Pictures of Farms
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Across the country, legislatures are responding to whistleblowers and activists who have exposed inhumane and at times unsanitary practices at farms by passing laws that criminalize the taking of photos or videos at agricultural facilities. Farming interests have publicly backed the campaign to outlaw recording: in fact, dairy industry lobbyists actually crafted the legislation that was later introduced by lawmakers.
- Inside NSA, Officials Privately Criticize 'Collect It All' Surveillance
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
As Members of Congress struggle to agree on which surveillance programs to re-authorize before the Patriot Act expires, they might consider the unusual advice of an intelligence analyst at the National Security Agency who warned about the danger of collecting too much data.
- Legendary Journalist in Private: 'It Is All Fraudulent, All of It, Everywhere'
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Politico recently ran a fantastic historical profile of journalist Theodore H. White by the writer Scott Porch... he wrote to a close friend on August 31, 1960 during the Kennedy-Nixon campaign: … it is all fraudulent, all of it, everywhere, up and down, East and West. The movies, radio and state and books and TV — all of them are fraudulent"
- Netizen Report: Rights at Risk Under Trans-Pacific Trade Deal
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
The controversial Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement may soon become reality after years of high-level trade deliberations that have been held almost entirely behind closed doors.
- U.N. Report Asserts Encryption as a Human Right in the Digital Age
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Encryption is not the refuge of scoundrels, as Obama administration law-enforcement officials loudly proclaim – it is an essential tool needed to protect the right of freedom of opinion and expression in the digital age, a new United Nations report concludes.
- Deforestation, exploitation, hypocrisy: no end to Wilmar's palm oil land grabs
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
With the deadline for the full implementation of Wilmar's 'No peat, no deforestation, no exploitation' promise, the oil palm giant is keen to push its green image in Europe. In Nigeria however, forest and farmland continue to be destroyed.
- First Look Media Publishes Warrant 'Canary,' Releases Software for Managing Canaries
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Today The Intercept’s parent company, First Look Media, published a warrant "canary" -- a statement that attempts to assure readers that the company has not been compelled to comply with a secret government order like a National Security Letter. In addition to this, First Look is publishing AutoCanary: simple, free, open-source software to easily create and manage warrant canaries.
- Golden Silences in the Propaganda System
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Propaganda shapes the flow of information in many different ways, including, obviously, the choice of the news fit to print, its placement, and the selection of authorities to make those facts credible. But equally important, and implicit in news choices, especially where there are political interests at stake and possible varying interpretations of the news, is omitting facts and ignoring sources that call the chosen (often official) perspective into question.
- Here's how much corporations paid US senators to fast-track the TPP bill
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Documenting the corruption of the U.S. political system.
- Peter Greste talks to INSI about media safety
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
After 400 days in Jail and public outcry, an Australian journalist has been released from a prison in Egypt. In his interview, Gretse emphasised the importance of making journalism safety a global conversation.
- Ten demonstrations that changed the world
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
It's worth remembering that mass marches have been crucial to all the most important struggles.
- Tsleil-Waututh First Nation rejects Kinder Morgan Trans Mountain expansion
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Kinder Morgan's pipeline project proposes almost 1,000 kilometres of new pipeline to carry diluted bitumen from Edmonton to Burnaby. The Tsleil-Waututh Nation announced that the project would not be allowed to proceed on the Nation's territory. It also released a scathing report on the Kinder Morgan Trans Mountain expansion, outlining the project's risks to health and environment.
- Huge Pipeline Company Kinder Morgan Hired Off-Duty Cops to 'Deter Protests' in Pennsylvania
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Kinder Morgan, the self-proclaimed "largest energy infrastructure company in North America," paid $50,000 for off-duty police officers from a Pennsylvania department to patrol a controversial gas pipeline construction site. The hiring came after a request from the corporation for uniformed officers that could "deter protests and prevent delays."
- Lies, damned lies, and energy statistics - why nuclear is so much less than it claims to be
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
It's odd how often the contribution of nuclear energy is overstated by mixing up 'energy' and 'electricity', while a similar trick understates the importance of renewables like wind and solar. Even odder is how the mistake always seems to go the same way, to make nuclear look bigger than it really is, and renewables smaller. Welcome to the nuclear 'X factor'!
- Mel Hurtig's new book designed to oust prime minister Stephen Harper
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Article on author Mel Hurtig and his new book criticizing Canadian prime minister Stephen Harper and his government.
- Up Ghost River
A Chief's Journey Through The Turbulent Waters Of Native History
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
A powerful, raw and eloquent memoir about the abuse former First Nations chief Edmund Metatawabin endured in residential school in the 1960s, the resulting trauma, and the spirit he rediscovered within himself and his community through traditional spirituality and knowledge.
- Media freedom in the Pacific - a double-edged sword
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
The issue of media freedom in the Pacific has come to the fore following recent international calls for Indonesia to allow foreign journalists access to West Papua and President Joko Widodo declaring a lifting of restrictions.
- Israel will imprison soldier, 19, for publicly criticizing the occupation
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
The Israeli government is imprisoning Israel Defense Forces (IDF) soldier Shachar Berrin for criticizing its illegal occupation of the Palestinian territories.
- Secret Pentagon Report Reveals US "Created" ISIS As A "Tool" To Overthrow Syria's President Assad
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
- Segregation is here, just look at Israel's legal system
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Although segregated buses provide a clear and obvious picture of discrimination, applying different laws to individuals living side by side may prove to have far greater legal, ethical and strategic consequences for Israel.
- Ghana's women farmers resist the G7 plan to grab Africa's seeds
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Sharing and saving seed is a crucial part of traditional farming all over Africa. Governments, backed by multinational seed companies, are imposing oppressive seed laws that attack the continent's main food producers and open the way to industrial agribusiness.
- Oversight Report on FBI's Use of Patriot Act Highlights Need for Intelligence Reform at Crucial Moment
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
We've all heard about the NSA mass surveillance scandal permitted by the Patriot Act but this is not the first time the NSA and other fedral agencies have violated our rights.
- Pipeline Company Paid Pennsylvania Police Department to 'Deter Protests'
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Between June and October 2013, Kinder Morgan, the largest energy infrastructure company in North America, paid a local Pennsylvania police department more than $50,000 to patrol a controversial pipeline upgrade. The company requested that the officers, though officially off-duty, be in uniform and marked cars. Kinder Morgan's aim, according to documents obtained by Earth Island Journal, was to use law enforcement to "deter protests" in order to avoid "costly delays."
- Six Banks Pay $5.6 Billion in Fines for Foreign Exchange Manipulation
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Six major international banks – Bank of America, Barclays, Citibank, JPMorgan Chase, Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) and Union Bank of Switerland (UBS) – have agreed to pay $5.6 billion in fines for rigging global foreign exchange markets.
- With limited independent press, Ethiopians left voting in the dark
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
In a country where journalists are often imprisoned or exiled for 'inciting terrorism', Ethiopians are finding it difficult to stay informed for the upcoming election.
- Africa's Worst New Internet Censorship Law Could be Coming to South Africa
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Only once in a while does an Internet censorship law or regulation come along that is so audacious in its scope, so misguided in its premises, and so poorly thought out in its execution, that you have to check your calendar to make sure April 1 hasn't come around again.
- Al Jazeera Journalist Responds to U.S. Labeling Him Aa Qaeda
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
A journalist is supposed to cover all sides of the story but when one does so with Al Qaeda, he is labelled a terrorist.
- The casual sexism of being a female journalist
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
One or two prejudicial remarks might not mean much but add several hundred together and it can weigh down your confidence. Women in journalism can attest to this fact.
- Climate Change Poses Huge Challenge To The Coast Guard, But Fox News Would Rather Dismiss It
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Climate change and national security are no laughing matters but Fox News thinks it's hilarious when you pair the two together. The scientific community would disagree with Fox News.
- The end of hasbara? NYT readers question US support for apartheid
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
The New York Times published a remarkable discussion yesterday. Alongside an article about Israel cancelling a plan to segregate buses going to the West Bank so as to keep Palestinians off settlers' buses, it published readers' comments, and in both the editors' selection and the readers' selection, the comments were running against Israel.
- Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - May 21, 2015
A Healthier Planet
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
With the start of the growing season in much of the Northern hemisphere, Other Voices digs up articles and resources related to urban agriculture and local food production. Urban agriculture - growing food in and around cities - is a response to the problems created by industrial agriculture, a chemical-dependent industry shipping food thousands of miles from where it is produced to where it will be consumed. We also mark the release of Omar Khadr, the former child soldier who was abused, tortured, and imprisoned first by the U.S. government and then by Canada. Other articles look at the advances made by women in Latin America, privilege politics, and the myths of peaceful protests.
- Pakistani Company Accused of Running Fake Degree Scam Has a History of Silencing Critics
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
On immoral companies and small voices. A Pakistani company has been silencing accusations of illegality through the intimidation of big law suits.
- Fabricated attacks by Colombian journalists mask real dangers
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
In a profession climate of threats, criminals and corrupt politicians, two journalists attempted to capitalize on the situation by sending fake death threats to their fellow reporters.
- Fox Attacks Obama For Calling Climate Change An Immediate National Security Threat
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
President Obama annouced that the climate change crisis is a matter of national security and Fox News mocked the claim by saying that the statement detracts from 'real threats'
- Investigative Journalist found beheaded in Minas Gerais
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
A journalist who was investigating child prostitution and drug trafficking in Brazil has been found murdered.
- Media Spike # 54 –Channel your customer
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Even with the introduction of the internet, the staying power and reach of television is unparalleled. This is why marketers still drool at the thought of television marketing.
- IFIC Releases Monthly Statistics for April 2015
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Toronto, ON - May 19, 2015 - The Investment Funds Institute of Canada (IFIC) announces that for the month ending April 30, 2015, the assets under management (AUM) for the mutual funds industry totalled $1.22 trillion. Year-to-date, industry AUM i
- In Mexico, reporters struggle to cover unrest over missing students
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Students have been kidnapped and mass graves have been uncovered but, with all the self-censorship of domestic journalists, Mexico will soon forget.
- In Search for Truth, CMD Files Public Records Lawsuit Against Scott Walker
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
The Governor of Wisconson is being prosecuted for altering public records on Wisconson State University.
- Marikana massacre: the untold story of the strike leader who died for workers’ rights
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
In 2012 a strike at the Marikana platinum mine in South Africa ended when police opened fire, killing 34 miners. Investigations have revealed one rebel leader died trying to broker a peaceful solution.
- Media freedom and regulation in Timor Leste
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
While free speech and press is legally free in East-Timor, every journalist knows that true freedom is nowhere to be seen. Journalists are regularly beaten, intimidated and regulated by the upper class.
- Police actions in Ferguson, U.S. interfere with freedoms of assembly, press
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Though the majority of the Ferguson protests were peacful, the police still responded with overwhelming military force. Journalists were one of thier specific targets.
- Return: A Palestinian Memoir
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Having grown up in Britain following her family's exile from Palestine, doctor, author and academic Ghada Karmi leaves her adoptive home in a quest to return to her homeland. She starts work with the Palestinian Authority and gets a firsthand understanding of its bizarre bureaucracy under Israel's occupation.
- Russia Launches 'Predictive System' for Monitoring Protest Activity Online
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
The Russian government is implementing a monitoring system which will identify and monitor protest groups and network on the Internet through analyzing blogs and social media.
- Finally! Victory for Free Speech in Garcia v. Google
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Free speech must remain free; regardless of how nasty the message may be. This is a story about the peservation of free speech and the abuses of copyright law.
- Fossil fuels subsidised by $10m a minute, says IMF
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Fossil fuel companies are benefitting from global subsidies of $5.3tn (£3.4tn) a year, equivalent to $10m a minute every day.
- Governments Giving Fossil Fuel Companies $10 Million a Minute: IMF
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
- Mine Wars Museum Opens, Revives Lost Labour History
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Mine Wars museum opens in Matewan to revive West Virginia’s labour history.
- Monsanto's Worst Fear May Be Coming True
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
The Chipotle restaurant chain decides to make its product lines GMO-free -- a trend that may be a threat to Monsanto's goal of controlling the food industry.
- Salvadorans Warn Canadians about World Bank's Kangaroo Court
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
In anticipation of an imminent ruling from the World Bank's little known investor-state arbitration tribunal that could force El Salvador to pay Canadian mining firm OceanaGold US$301 million, a Salvadoran delegation is in Canada to discuss how this arbitration process threatens democratic decision making, public health and the environment here and beyond.
- Communism and the Family (Part One)
The Marxist Approach to Women's Liberation
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Replacing the family with collective institutions is the most radical aspect of the communist program and will bring about the deepest, most sweeping changes in daily life, not least for children.
- Concocting a Crime-Ageddon to Promote Police Power
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Manhattan is overrun with criminals and nobody is safe! -- or that’s what certain tabloids and newspapers would have you believe. Through the use of misleading statistics and extraordinary exceptions, the Mayor of New York has been successfully depicted as 'soft-on-crime' even though the city's crime rate is at an all-time low.
- Fishers and Plunderers
Theft, Slavery and Violence at Sea
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Fishers and Plunderers focuses on the exploitation of fish and fishers alike in a global industry that gives little consideration to either conservation or human rights. In a business characterized by overprovisioned vessels and shortages of fish, young men are routinely trafficked from poor areas onto fishing boats to work under conditions of virtual slavery. Poverty and debt push many towards piracy and drugs -- although the criminality linked to the industry extends far beyond any individual worker, vessel, or fleet. Fishers and Plunderers provides strong evidence of industry-wide crimes and injustices and argues for regulations that protect the rights of fishers across the board.
- How to Fight Western Propaganda
Time for a Creative Revolution
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
The western propaganda apparatus is enormously efficient and effective. It is also brilliant in how it ensures that its inventions get channeled, distributed, and accepted in all corners of the world. The system through which disinformation spreads, is incredibly complex.
What are we, who oppose the regime, supposed to do?
- The Life, Loves, Wars and Foibles of Edward Abbey
Monkeywrenching the Machine
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Fifty-three years ago, long before I had heard of Edward Abbey and Abraham Polonsky, I saw a film titled "Lonely are the Brave" that was based on Polonsky's adaptation of Abbey's novel "The Brave Cowboy".
- Not Everyone in Nepal Is Happy with the Indian Media
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
After the earthquake, the Indian Army was quick to mobilize their relief effort. However, Nepalese have come to question whether the PR motivations outweigh the humanitarian impulse.
- Oil CEO Wanted University Quake Scientists Dismissed: Dean's E-Mail
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
The billionaire CEO of Continental Resources told a dean at the University of Oklahoma that he wanted earthquake researchers dismissed.
- Sudden closure of loggers' museum leaves workers high and dry
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Employees at the Loggers' Life Museum in Grand Falls-Windsor were shocked to learn the site is permanently closing, just days before it was set to open for the summer season.
- Time to celebrate real heroes, like the one just lost
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
If you want to meet the best Australians, meet Indigenous men and women who understand this extraordinary country and have fought for the rights of the world's oldest culture. Theirs is a struggle more selfless, heroic and enduring than any historical adventure non-Indigenous Australians are required incessantly to celebrate.
- Bahrain Court Upholds Six Month Sentence Against Rights Defender Nabeel Rajab Over Tweet
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Nabeel Rajaba has been sentenced to prison for a tweet accusing the Bahrain security agencies for incubating ISIS combatants.
- War crime: NATO deliberately destroyed Libya's water infrastructure
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
The military targeting of civilian infrastructure, especially of water supplies, is a war crime under the Geneva Conventions. Yet this is precisely what NATO did in Libya. Since then, the country's water infrastructure has only deteriorated further.
- Living in the Crosshairs
The Untold Stories of Anti-Abortion Terrorism
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Abortion is a legal, common, and safe medical procedure that one in three American women will undergo. Yet ever since Roe v. Wade was decided in 1973, anti-abortion forces have tried nearly every tactic to eliminate it. Legislative and judicial developments dominate the news, but a troubling and all-too-common phenomenon -- targeted vigilante action against individual abortion providers -- is missing from the national discussion, only cropping up when a dramatic story like the murder of an abortion provider pushes it to the forefront.
- New extremism laws would stifle free speech
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
New and vaguely defined counter-extremism laws threaten freedom of speech in the UK. Anyone who disagrees with the government can, theoretically, be banned from media exposure.
- Shot and gassed: Thousands of protected birds killed annually
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Reveal has obtained never-before-released data from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service showing more than 300 species of migratory birds -- from red-tailed hawks to American kestrels, turkey vultures to mallard ducks -- have been killed legally across the United States since 2011 to protect a wide range of business activities and public facilities under what’s called the "depredation permit" program.
- 'Wrong as Often as Right' Is Good Enough When Reporting on an Official Enemy
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
When reporting on enemy states, Washington Post would rather use misleading and flashy headline. A North Korean general has supposedly been executed by anti-aircraft weapons but he could just as well be safe and sound.
- Anthropocene Boosters and the Attack on Wilderness Conservation
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
A number of academics, commentators, and groups argue that humans have so completely modified the Earth that concepts such as 'wilderness' or 'nature' have become meaningless, and that therefore there is no point in talking about 'preserving' wilderness or natural areas. The idea of 'nature', they say, is just a human cultural construct. Those advancing these ideas use different progressive-sounding labels, such as "pragmatic environmentalists" or "green postmodernism," but their message is that we should forget about wilderness conservation and just get on with the business of 'managing' the planet for human benefit. Not surprisingly, corporate and industry leaders have been jumping on the bandwagon.
- Brazil's MST Pays Tribute to Landless Workers Killed by Police in 1996
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Landless workers occupy farms in Brazil to reclaim a sense of justice. The month of April - called "Red April" pays tribute and remembrance to the Landless Workers Movement's fallen comrades of the Eldorado dos Carajas massacre.
- The Edge Becomes the Center
An Oral History of Gentrification in the 21st Century
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
The groundbreaking oral history that tells the stories of New Yorkers effecting and affected by gentrification
- From Slavery to Debt-Bondage: Big Tobacco's Addiction to Cheap Labor
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Cigarette manufacturers and leaf buyers perpetuate a global system of inequity that bolsters corporate profits at the expense of those who labor at the bottom of the tobacco supply chain. It is long past time for that system to end, and be replaced by a more fair tobacco trade that respects the workers who harvest this toxic crop.
- Latin America's Social Policies Have Given Women a Boost
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Although they do not specifically target women, social policies like family allowances and pensions have improved the lives of women in Latin America, the region that has made the biggest strides so far this century in terms of gender equality.
- US Still Seeks Jail for 'Fighter' Captured at 15 in Afghanistan
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
The good news is that a judge in Canada has had the courage and good sense to uphold the release from jail on bail of Omar Khadr, a native of Canada who was captured as a child soldier at the age of 15 in Afghanistan by US forces back in 2002.The bad news is that Khadr, who spent 13 years in captivity, most of them in America's Guantanamo hellhole, should never have been imprisoned in the first place.
- The Wars on Vietnam
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
In the past month, the Pentagon, PBS, and the for-profit press took a three pronged approach to the Vietnam Wars: (1) praise the returned troops and promote the notion of a home-country stab in the back; (2) highlight the evacuees and the US heroes of the April ‘75 evacuations; and (3) focus on the post-war babylift and the Vietnamese babies now grown up.
- Land Grabbing
Resource Type: Film/Video
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Farmland is becoming more and more valuable and scarcer. Every year we lose about 12 billion hectares of farmland through soil sealing. After the financial meltdown in 2008 the global financial capital discovered the business segment of global farmland. Through land grabbing the rich of the world want to secure access to the world’s most important resources. Consequently, instead of farmers, profit is put before soil. If we don’t stop the raids, we will destroy our livelihood.
- Ottawa cites hate crime laws when asked about its 'zero tolerance' for Israel boycotters
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Blaney's office cites 'comprehensive' hate laws for new zero tolerance plans.
- Breaking the silence -- only in the Letters’ page
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Time to break silence on Gaza assault. So writes Dr.Miriam Garfinkle in Sunday’s Star. Both the Star and the Globe did not mention the story of the Israeli Defense Force's carte blanche to basically shoot anything that moves and they did.The rules of engagement seemed to be non-existent -- 500 children massacred to begin with
- Naomi Klein: To fight climate change we must fight capitalism
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Interview with Naomi Klein, the author of "This Changes Everything."
- Time to break silence on Gaza assault
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Previous reports from such groups as Physicians for Human Rights Israel have indicated clearly that civilians were indiscriminately targeted, including in hospitals and ambulances. Testimonies from soldiers given to Breaking the Silence give further evidence to the extreme criminal actions of the Israeli army last summer. The silence in North America media on this report is deafening. Even Israeli media has reported it. The suppression of the truth does not serve us well. It’s time for the North American media to break its silence.
- Capitalism is the West's Dominant Religion
Reflections on the Religion of the Market
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Welton describes capitalism as the dominant religion in the West, where Economics is the new theology of this global religion of the market and consumerism its highest good.
- The Myth of Peaceful Protest
The Patronizing Intransigence of Power
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Johnson discusses how peaceful protest is depicted as the way to speak out, and any kind of disorder or defiance of authority is presented not only unacceptable, but unnecessary.
- Profiting from Gaza Children's Agony
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
The shocking decision by the government-owned New Zealand Super Fund (NZSF) to NOT divest from Israel Chemicals Ltd (ICL), manufacturer of white phosphorus, blatantly violates the NZSF Responsibilities and Standards for Human Rights.
- Renewable Energy isn't a Shortcut to Reversing Global Warming
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Denmark has distinguished itself as the country moving the fastest toward the eventual replacement of fossil fuels. Its goal of 100 percent renewable energy by 2050 is laudable, but the assumption that this path will reverse global warming while otherwise continuing business as usual, is unrealistic.
- Semantic Warfare: Words as Guided Missiles
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Over half a century ago, the South Korean government banned the word "labour" from the Korean language. This is the back story.
- Ukraine Is Banning 'Communist Symbols' and the Kremlin Is Peeved
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Ukraine is pushing to erase all evidence the Soviet Union and its defeat of Nazi Germany from its history books.
- A Zapatista 'Seminar' in Chiapas
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
On the outskirts of San Cristobal de las Casas, famed colonial center of the southern state of Chiapas, over a thousand people from all over Mexico and beyond are attending a weeklong seminar "Critical Thinking Confronting the Capitalist Hydra." It was conceived and organized by the Zapatistas, the Chiapas-based armed insurgency.
- French surveillance law passes National Assembly, but it's not the last word
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
After the Chalie Hebdo and Hyper Catcher killings, the French National Assembly authorized clandestine intelligence operations for mobile devices and the internet. While the french patriot act has already been set in place, so too are movements to repeal these laws.
- Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - May 7, 2015
Urban agriculture and local food production
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
This issue of Other Voices ranges widely, from increasing worker activism and strikes in China, to advances in battery technology that make it much easier and cheaper to store solar and wind energy for future use, to testimonies from Israeli soldiers about the war crimes they committed routinely and as a matter of policy in last summer's attack on Gaza.
- Pakistani journalist Muhammud Rasool Dawar under threat
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
War correspondence has always been difficult. This is even more the case for journalists embedded with the Pakistani Army who are expected to do their job amidst heavy censorship and treats from criminals, militants and the government alike.
- The Computers are Listening
How the NSA Converts Spoken Words Into Searchable Text
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Top-secret documents from the archive of Edward Snowden show the National Security Agency can now automatically recognize the content within phone calls by creating rough transcripts and phonetic representations that can be easily searched and stored.
- Costa Rica's Energy Nearly 100 Percent Clean
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Arguedas Ortiz describes how Cost Rica's energy supply is based almost totally on clean sources.
- How Amsterdam became the bicycle capital of the world
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
The author provides an overview of how bicycle use has monopolized the streets in Amsterdam to create an overall safer and environmentally city.
- How ExxonMobil's Spending Bonanza Helped Two British Climate Sceptics Set-Up An International Free Market Think Tank
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Roger Bate and Julian Morris of the British free-market think tank, the Institute of Economic Affairs (IEA), decided to catch ExxonMobil's gravy train across the Atlantic as they began working for US think tanks.
- Increasing Legal Suppression of Freedom of Thought and Expression in So-called Free and Democratic Societies
As evidence for increasing totalitarianism
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
That freedom of speech is the foundational individual right for a truly democratic system to exist or emerge. And that this freedom must be defended without compromise, and without bias against any particular view, no matter how distasteful or disturbing the particular view might be to some or most people.
- Intag's Recurrent Nightmare: Adding Up The Costs Of Ecuador's Mineral Wars
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Intag is situated in Northwestern Ecuador. In the 1990s Bishimetal, a subsidiary of Mitsubishi, found evidence of a large copper deposit lying in the bowels of the biodiverse Toisan Range. In 1997 it was forced to abandon the project. In 2012 CODELCO, Ecuador’s state-owned mining company moved to revive the project as part of a government to government agreement. The nightmare returns.
- UN Battle to 'Shame' Israel Over Abuse of Children
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Palestinian solidarity groups have taken to social media to step up the pressure on United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon to include Israel for the first time on a "shame list" of serious violators of children's rights.
- Breaking the Silence: Army Deliberately Targeted Civilians in Gaza
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Breaking the Silence, an organization of veteran Israeli soldiers, harshly slammed the Israeli army for its operational policy during last summer’s attack on Gaza, saying it led to "immense and unprecedented harm to the civilian population and infrastructures in the Gaza Strip."
- Future dustbowl? Fracking ravages Great Plains land and water
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
The fracking boom has caused massive vegetation loss over North America's rangelands, as 3 million hectares have been occupied by oil and gas infrastructure and 34 billion cubic metres of water have been pumped from semi-arid ecosystems.
- Gunning for destruction in Gaza: 'You want to see people in pieces'
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
36,000 artillery shells, tank shells, mortars, anti-tank missiles and munitions, alongside an ubiquitous use of armored bulldozers, razed streets and districts to the ground during last summer's Gaza war. According to a newly published Breaking the Silence report, this is exactly what the Israeli army wanted.
- The Meaning of the Paris Commune
What can the Paris Commune offer to present struggles for emancipation?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Interview with Kristin Ross about her new book, Communal Luxury: The Political Imaginary of the Paris Commune.
- Samples of Israeli Horrific Brutality and War Criminality in Gaza
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
The Israeli group Breaking the Silence issued a report this morning containing testimony from Israeli soldiers about the savagery and criminality committed by the Israeli military during the attack on Gaza in the summer of 2014.
- America's trailer parks: the residents may be poor but the owners are getting rich
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
It's an unusual but potentially lucrative investment: Warren Buffett is prompting people to attend Mobile Home University, a 'boot camp' in trailer park ownership.
- Diary of Prison and Torture
Book review
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Book review of Mohamedou Ould Slahi's 'Guantánamo Diary.'
- France’s libraries discovering a new lease of life beyond just books
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Seminars, events and cafes are helping some formerly staid institutions reinvent themselves as social 'third spaces' beyond work and the home.
- Amnesia and the Armenian Genocide
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
A century after the methodically planned, organized, and executed destruction of the Anatolian Armenians, this article revisits the causes of this genocide and recognizes its importance for understanding the present.
- Canada for the People!: A Study of the Social Gospel in Canadian History
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
United Church of Canada's relation with the social gospel and the criticisms of the Social Gospel movement
- Canada's Creeping Police State
Capitalist Repression and War
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
The Conservative Harper government’s Bill C-51, the "Anti-Terrorism Act 2015," is a sweeping attack on free speech and other civil liberties. The bill targets publications, web postings and even private conversations sympathetic to causes that the capitalist rulers deem to be "terrorism." It authorizes the CSIS secret police to go after any activity that "undermines the sovereignty, security or territorial integrity of Canada" or interferes with the country's "economic or financial stability." And you don't have to actually do anything; the bill provides for "preventive detention" of individuals who the police claim "may commit" an offense.
- Capitalism as Robbery
Book review
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Review of Peter Linebaugh's 'The Commons, Enclosures, and Resistance."
- The Communist International and U.S. Communism, 1919-1929: A Review
Upholding the Revolutionary Legacy
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
The Communist International and U.S. Communism, 1919-1929 examines the founding, development and degeneration of the Communist Party (CP) in the United States in the broader framework of the struggle for international proletarian revolution. Available in both paperback and hardcover, this fully indexed book, with extensive footnotes and references, will be of enduring value as a reference work for avowed socialists as well as scholars of communism. It is also a fun and interesting read and belongs in the toolkits of everyone seeking a coherent revolutionary program and lessons on building an organization.
- The Courage of Cooperation
Book Review
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Book Review of Jessica Gordon Nembhard's ' A History of African American Cooperative Economic Thought and Practice.'
- The Crisis of World Labor
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Both the size and composition of the world working class have changed dramatically over the past four decades. But these massive shifts are not reflected in the strength of workers' organizations.
- Cuba: A New Era
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
The normalization of U.S.-Cuba political relations was possible due to the changed geopolitical situation, Obama, and the Cuban diaspora being open to dialogue.
- Decaying social order shows need for philosophy, revolution
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Draft for Marxist-Humanist Perspectives, 2015-2016.
- Doublethink Squared
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
The U.S. continues to ally with several conflicting parties in the Middle East.
- The Frameup of Purvi Patel
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Purvi Patel is accused of "feticide and neglect of a dependent" after suffering a miscarrage in Mishawaka, Indiana.
- Freedom Summer, 1964: An Overview
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
The Mississippi Summer Project of 1964, better known as "Freedom Summer," brought in volunteers to help with attempts to register Black voters who had long been prevented by chicanery and terror from doing so. At the same time, in view of the miserable conditions in the state's segregated public schools, the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) planned to create "freedom schools" in which volunteers (mostly the whites from the North) would, that summer, teach Black young people in subjects ranging from basic education to Black history and leadership skills.
- From the right-wing to the revolutionary left
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Tom Wetzel answers the question 'How were you radicalized?'.
- Inside the European Cataclysm
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
During this second Thirty Years War, from 1914-1945, Europe experienced an extraordinary fusion of conflicts.
- Intermarriage: A threat to Jewish continuity? Or an opportunity?
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Today, most Jews in the US and Canada are personally touched by intermarriage within their immediate families. According to the Canadian 2011 National Household Survey, within the Jewish population of 392,000, 26% of Jewish spouses/partners
- May Day: workers of the world unite and take over -- their factories
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
The co-operative movement is giving employees the chance to rebuild shuttered livelihoods.
- Middle East Imperial Meltdown
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
How U.S. drive for "stability" in the Middle East produces the opposite, and how these crises feed back into the peculiarities of U.S. domestic political culture.
- The Murder of Walter Scott
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
A video capturing the murder of Walter Scott, an unarmed black man killed by a white police officer, has gone virtal.
- Non-Movements as Social Activism
Book Review
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Book review of Asef Bayat's 'Life as Politics: How Ordinary People Change the Middle East.'
- Rasmea Odeh's Sentence/Appeal
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Rasmea Odeh, A Palestinian activist and Chicago community leader, faces 18 months in federal prison and deportation, following her March 12, 2015 sentencing in Detroit for "unlawful procurement of naturalization."
- Social Movements and the Left
Book Review
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Book review of 'Social Movements and Leftist Government in Latin America: Confrontation or Cooptation,' edited by Gary Prevost, Carlos Oliva Campos, Harry E. Vanden.
- Soft Power and the Case of Iraq
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Following the U.S. invasion of Iraq in 2003, pundits have touted the desirability of pursuing "soft power" as a supplement to military action in Iraq and other parts of the Muslim world.
- Tribes, Rights and Justice in India
Interview
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Sara Ahrahms interviews Indian writer and commentator Shashank Kela, author of 'A Rogue and Peasant Slave: Adivasi Resistance, 1800-2000.'
- The Two-Party System, Part IV
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
"Progressive" institutions, organizations, and ideologues have clung tenaciously to the faith that the two-party system remains an eternal, ultimately unchallengeable reality.
- University of Wisconsin's "Budget Crisis"
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Over $300 million in cuts to the University of Wisconsin system lead students and staff to speculate on the the future of the university.
- Unmasking The GMO Humanitarian Narrative
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Genetically modified (GM) crops are going to feed the world. Not only that, supporters of GM technology say it will produce better yields than non-GM crops, increase farmers' incomes, lead to less chemical inputs, be better suited to climatic changes, is safe for human consumption and will save the lives of millions. Sections of the pro-GMO lobby are modern-day evangelists who denounce, often with a hefty dose of bigoted zeal, anyone who questions their claims and self-proclaimed humanitarian motives.
- What's Next for Cuba?
Interview
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Interview with Janette Habel conducted by Jerome Latta and published online by the Left Front in France, December 26, 2014.
- Why Spain's new gag law is threat to free flow of information
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Spain plans to ban demonstrations in front of government buildings on the basis of 'disturbing public safety'. The people of Spain refuse to accept this censorship and move to repeal the law by the end of the year.
- Widodo's lifting of ban on foreign media in Papua is step in right direction
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Journalists and citizens celebrate freedom of press and speech as a 50-year blackout of international media is lifted in Papua, Indonesia.
- The World Bank Group's Uncounted
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
The World Bank has regularly failed to live up to its own policies for protecting people harmed by projects it finances. Over the last decade, projects funded by the World Bank have physically or economically displaced an estimated 3.4 million people, forcing them from their homes, taking their land or damaging their livelihoods.
- Cowardly Firing of Australian State-Funded TV Journalist Highlights the West's Real Religion
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
A TV sports commentator in Australia, Scott McIntyre, was summarily fired by his public broadcasting employer, Special Broadcasting Services (SBS), because of a series of tweets he posted about the violence committed historically by the Australian military.
- TransCanada Keystone 1 Pipeline Suffered Major Corrosion Only Two Years In Operation, 95% Worn In One Spot
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Documents obtained by DeSmogBlog reveal an alarming rate of corrosion to parts of TransCanada's Keystone 1 pipeline. A mandatory inspection test revealed a section of the pipeline's wall had corroded 95%, leaving it paper-thin in one area (one-third the thickness of a dime) and dangerously thin in three other places, leading TransCanada to immediately shut it down.
- Why the penis is having a moment in men's fashion
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Fashion has found a new obsession: nude men, specifically men with their penises out.
- In praise of tigers, conservation heroes of the Sundarbans
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
The presence of the tigers is the world's greatest mangrove forest vital to its survival, writes Joydip Kundu. It's the fear of the tiger that deters people from entering the forest to cut its trees and hunt its wildlife - and so these majestic predators protect its fisheries, and guard millions of people in south Bengal from the rising seas.
- Will ANC government ever prosecute South Africans in Israeli Army?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
When South African security services prevented a Cape Town girl from boarding a plane allegedly to join ISIS, many South Africans were pleased but at the same time surprised at how swift the reaction of our security services were. How come the same reaction is not applied to South African Zionist Jews serving in the Israeli Defence Force (IDF)?
- Assassination as Policy in Washington and How It Failed: 1990-2015
The Kingpin Strategy
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
The "kingpin strategy" refers to the elimination of the kingpins dominating cartels. Cockburn analyzes how this method was used by the U.S. government, how it failed to work in the "drug war," and how its adoption, in the form of targeted assassinations in the "war on terror," has similarly been a failure.
- AUSTRALIA: Some reflections on the Anzac Day 'cyber-lynching' of a journalist
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
The right of free speech v. the rightnot to be offended. A sports commentator has been fired over things he said on twitter, things unrelated to his job.
- Fractured Land
Resource Type: Film/Video
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
In Fractured Land, we follow Caleb Behn, a young Dene lawyer who may become one of this generation's great leaders, if he can discover how to reconcile the fractures within himself, his community and the world around him, blending modern tools of the law with ancient wisdom.
- An intergenerational event connecting women committed to a new and better world
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Women Building Connections Gala Dinner, May 14, 2015
- The Messenger
Resource Type: Film/Video
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Documentary. A powerful reflection and intimate investigation that reaches from the northern point of the Boreal Forest to the base of Turkey's Mount Ararat to the urban streets of New York. As songbirds take flight and fight to survive in our changing world, The MESSENGER delivers a visually thrilling ode to the beauty and importance of these imperiled creatures.
- Obama's role model to journalists — Dorothy Thompson — turned against Zionism and was silenced
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Dorothy Thompson, whose truly stellar career ended in false charges of antisemitism made by Zionists.
- La Prenda
Resource Type: Film/Video
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Documentary. Every day, a child is abducted in Guatemala, a country with a rate of impunity of 98%. Female victims and survivors hope to stem the tide of forced emigration from Guatemala, a country where too many women are still seen as "prendas." Also Known As: The Pawn.
- Choosing Our Future
Dr. Zofia Pakula Spring 2015 Lecture Series
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
- Deep Web
Resource Type: Film/Video
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
A documentary that explores the history and context of the world that these darkened online areas burgeoned from. Focusing on the recent court case of the alleged founder of the online market Silk Road, Ross Ulbricht, it's a far more complex and multifaceted story than the media portrays. Deep Web investigates the greater implications for how we will all experience the internet in the future.
- Deutsche Bank Pays $2.5 Billion Fine For Interest Rate Rigging
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Deutsche Bank has agreed to pay out $2.5 billion fine to settle U.K. and U.S. government investigations into allegations of fixing global interest rates, months after 6 other banks paid out $4.3 billion on similar charges. Activists say that the banks should have faced criminal charges.
- Ontario Surtax Amendments Ensure Fair Treatment for Investors in Mutual Fund Trusts
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Toronto, ON - April 27, 2015 - The Investment Funds Institute of Canada (IFIC) welcomes amendments announced by Minister Sousa in Thursday's budget (http://www.ontla.on.ca/bills/bills-files/41_Parliament/Session1/b091.pdf) that will prevent a p
- People Power
The Community Organizing Tradition of Saul Alinsky
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Saul Alinsky, according to Time Magazine in 1970, was a "prophet of power to the people," someone who "has possibly antagonized more people . . . than any other living American." People Power introduces the major organizers who adopted and modified Alinsky's vision across the United States.
- Citizen-Journalist Fined for Telling the Truth
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
The story of an injunction against against a journalist who dared to tell the truth.
- The War against The Lancet
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
"An Open letter to the people of Gaza" triggered a furious reaction within Lancet, with complainants suggesting that the publication has sided with the forces of "anti-Jewish bigotry".
- Zionists Seek to Silence the Lancet and Secure the Dismissal of its Editor, Richard Horton
Response to the Complaint to Reed Elsevier, Publishers of the Lancet, by Professor Sir Mark Pepys and 395 Colleagues
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
The involvement of 396 senior researchers in a mass effort to force Reed Elsevier to withdraw the letter is the latest in a series of heavy-handed interventions to stifle media coverage of the Israel-Palestine issue and should be resisted.
- A Diet of Austerity
Class, Food and Climate Change
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Deals with the reasons why the working class is blamed for climate change, and what it can actually do about it.
- Professors for Israel try to Shut Down Lancet
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Some 400 medical professors are blackmailing Reed Elsevier, publishers of The Lancet, by threatening to boycott its publications unless the company sacks editor Richard Horton - or as they duplicitously phrase it, "enforce appropriate ethical standards of editorship".
- Mass Surveillance is Driven by the Private Sector
The Lesson of Hacking Team's Malware
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
A report published by Privacy International as well as an article posted by Vice Motherboard clearly show that both the DEA and the United States Army have long-standing relationships with Hacking Team, an Italian company that’s notorious for selling malware to any number of unsavory characters.
- Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - April 23, 2015
Eduardo Galeano, Latin America, the Vietnam War
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
In this issue of Other Voices, we mark the death of Eduardo Galeano by featuring two of his books, as well as an article about his life and work. Galeano once wrote that he was "obsessed with remembering, with remembering the past of America and above all that of Latin America, intimate land condemned to amnesia." In his writing, especially Open Veins of Latin America and the mesmerizing Memory of Fire trilogy, Galeano contributed enormously to bringing alive, and keeping alive, the memories of Latin America, and especially of those whom he called the "nobodies" -- the people "who do not appear in the history of the world." Next week also marks the 40th anniversary of the final victory of the Vietnamese war of resistance against the American invasion and occupation.
- Remembering the Earth Day Wall Street Action
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
In 1989 the Greens held their national gathering in Eugene, Oregon. That was before they had entered national electoral politics, when they still focused on grassroots organizing, and what we now call 'movement from below.'
- The School Of The Americas Is Still Exporting Death Squads
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Although rebranded as WHINSEC, the School of the Americas uses the same brutal tactics to destabilize governments in Latin America.
- Step Up, Canada! Campaign launches on Earth Day with Human Hashtags and Joint Statement to Federal Government
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Representatives of more than 25 civil society groups and other organizations across the country, ClimateFast, People's Climate Movement and Toronto350 will deliver a joint statement (attached) to the Government of Canada on Earth Day
- Brazil: Challenges of a Landless People
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
In Brazil, to define oneself as landless implies agency and a commitment to a community made up of active subjects that are working towards the construction of their own history.
- China's Great Cannon: New weapon to suppress free speech online
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Chinese censorship of the internet is a well known fact but the tactics that the Chinese government uses -- and how similar those tactics are to the ones used by the NSA -- points to an international state of cyberwarfare.
- How the New Flexible Economy is Making Workers Lives Hell
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Whatever it's called – just-in-time scheduling, on-call staffing, on-demand work, independent contracting, or the "share economy" -- the result is the same: No predictability, no economic security.
- The Canadian Ministry of "Truth": "Reality Is Whatever We Say It Is"
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
The government and corporations operate as if truth and reality are what they say it is. Guerin analyzes and provides examples of this propaganda, including Canada's Bill C-51.
- How many more
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
New report shows killings of environmental activists are increasing, with indigenous communities hardest hit. Global Witness shines a spotlight on Honduras - the most dangerous country to be an environmental defender.
- Lead poisoning - fighting industrial pollution in Kenya is a dangerous business
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Lead poisoning from industrial pollution has imposed a terrible toll on Kenyans, and single mother Phyllis Omido is no exception -- lead from a nearby metal refinery badly damaged her own son's health. But it was when she decided to fight back against the polluters that a whole new realm of threats and dangers opened up.
- The most outrageous fraud ever perpetrated on the Canadian people
Can the Courts Liberate the Bank of Canada?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
You know the old aphorism -- "If a tree falls in the forest….?" Well, how about this one: if citizens win a significant victory in court against an autocratic government involving the fleecing of Canadians of billions of their hard-earned tax dollars and no one in the media actually covers it, did it really happen?
- Victory in Vietnam
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Forty years ago on April 30, 1975, the Vietnamese peopl were finally victorious in the long just struggle for national independence and unification against the United States and its puppet regime in Saigon.
- Zapatista women explain things
A review of Compañeras: Zapatista Women's Stories by Hilary Klein (Seven Stories, 2015)
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
- Plastics, tiny penises, and human evolution
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Setting aside the question of whether plastics (or obesity or carbonated corn syrup-laced beverages or the presence of step-dads or hormones in beef or any other factor) are behind changes in our patterns of sexual maturity, what about the possible future? Does evolutionary theory support the idea that xenoestrogens and other endocrine disruption could lead us limping to a kind of slow rolling human apocalypse?
- Chronicle of a death online: Hate campaign from Muslim fundamentalist groups from Tamil Nadu, Sri Lanka and West Asia against a Muslim woman writer
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
The case of Tamil Nadu journalist who was victim of online 'rape' and 'murder', perpetuated by Muslim fundamentalists.
- Dogs really do love us: Study finds first evidence of inter-species hormone exchange
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Dogs are found to make use of the "lovers' hormone," Oxytocin, to sneak their way into our hearts. That’s the first time the mechanism was observed between species.
- In China's Inner Mongolia, mining spells misery for traditional herders
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
China's relentless drive for minerals is wreaking havoc on pastoral lifestyles.
- Modi in Canada
What Canadians Should Know About Harper's New Guest
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
When Stephen Harper hosts Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi on his visit to Canada this week, they will be greeted with both adoring fans and with protests. Modi, an extremist Hindu nationalist, has a strong support base within a section of the Indian community. But his past comes back to haunt him. A human rights organization called Sikhs for Justice has appealed to the Canadian government to prosecute Modi for the massacre of Muslims in Gujarat.
- Owl in laundry basket
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Toronto Wildlife Centre's rescue team re-nested this baby great-horned owl after Saturday's windy weather blew him out his tree, nest and all. We made him a new home, and with the help of local arborists Paul and Dan, affixed it high in the tree.
- The Politics of Repair
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
The politics of repair are often invisible, hidden by the idea that repair is no more than the mundane practice of putting what is broken or worn-out back in good working order.
- 21 States Will Take Away Your Driver's License If You Can't Pay Your College Loans, But Activists Are Fighting Back
A grassroots project in Montana is a blueprint for activism across the country
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Thanks to the work of local organizers pressuring lawmakers, Montana residents will no longer have their drivers licenses suspended if they fall behind on their student loan payments. This April, a Montana law that allowed the state to revoke licenses for that infraction was scrapped. However, in at least 21 states, similar laws remain on the books.
- Ernst & Young Pays $10 Million To Settle Lehman Brothers Audit Failure Lawsuit
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Ernst & Young, one of the Big Four auditing firms, has agreed to pay a $10 million to New York state to settle a lawsuit for overlooking accounting gimmicks by Lehman Brothers, the defunct Wall Street bank. The scheme allowed Lehman to hide billions of dollars in bad deals.
- Evicted and Abandoned: The World Bank's Broken Promise to the Poor
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
The World Bank pledges to "do no harm." But over the past decade it has regularly failed to protect the world's most vulnerable people.
- How the World Bank Broke Its Promise to Protect the Poor
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
The World Bank has broken its promise. Over the past decade, the bank has regularly failed to enforce its rules, with devastating consequences for some of the poorest and most vulnerable people on the planet, an investigation has found.
- Improbable Libraries: A Visual Journey to the World's Most Unusual Libraries
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Improbable Libraries showcases a wide range of images and interviews with librarians who are overcoming geographic, economic, and political difficulties to bring the written word to an eager audience.
- World Bank Projects Leave Trail of Misery Around Globe
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
In developing countries around the globe, forest dwellers, poor villagers and other vulnerable populations claim the World Bank -- the planet's oldest and most powerful development lender -- has left a trail of misery.
- The right way to end terrorism
From armed resistance to jihadist networks
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Gresh discusses a way to end terrorism, by placing an emphasis on the term itself and the repercussions of its meaning and use.
- SA xenophobic attacks: A view from below
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
The attacks on African migrants in South Africa are connected to oppression of poor black people in general. To prevent the poor from organizing and standing up to their real enemies, the state is tacitly encouraging violence against foreigners.
- Survival Strategies for Local Journalism
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
In an attempt to draw readers and advertisers, the San Francisco Chronicle began printing on high-quality glossy paper in November, 2009. Its circulation had dropped by more than fifty per cent in less than a decade.
- We're facing a new Cold War
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
The linguist and philosopher on the warped coverage of Putin's Russia and the ways we whitewash our war crimes.
- Battlefield America: The War on the American People
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Police forces across the United States have been transformed into extensions of the military. Towns and cities have become battlefields, and the American people are now the enemy combatants to be spied on, tracked, frisked, and searched. For those who resist, the consequences can be a one-way trip to jail, or even death. Battlefield America: The War on the American People is constitutional attorney John W. Whitehead's terrifying portrait of a nation at war with itself. In exchange for safe schools and lower crime rates, we have opened the doors to militarized police, zero tolerance policies in schools, and SWAT team raids.
- Can you really make a living by selling used books on Amazon for a penny?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Secondhand book sales online not only make millions but also offer demanding customers rare – or simply cheap – titles that might otherwise rot in landfill.
- For every 1,000 people killed by police, one officer is convicted of a crime
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Out of thousands of people killed by police in the United States since 2005, only 11 officers have been convicted of any crimes.
- Eduardo Galeano, ¡Presente!
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
La Botz reflects on Eduardo Galeano's works and ideas.
- Africa rising? The economic history of sub-Saharan Africa
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
An overview of the economic history of sub-Saharan Africa since independence (around 1960 for most countries).
- Bureaucratic mass strikes: A response to Mark O'Brien
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
The mass strike of 30 November 2011 (N30) was the broadest and biggest ever British public sector strike and involved the largest number of women workers in any British strike. Dave Lyddon comments.
- Improbable libraries: unusual places to bury your head in a book
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Alex Johnson looks at the imaginative forms the modern library takes.
- Israeli occupation damages Palestinian health, human rights group shows
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Israeli group Physicians for Human Rights has released two reports documenting the deterioration of Palestinian health under occupation. Divide and Conquer documents the deterioration of Palestinian health in the West Bank and Gaza as the direct consequence of ongoing Israeli military occupation.
- The Biggest Source of Plastic Trash You've Never Heard of
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
How plastic waste is used on the farm for agriculture.
- Iranians Are Much Talked About on Sunday Morning TV, But Never Heard From
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Over the last couple months, the Sunday morning TV shows -- NBC's Meet the Press, CBS's Face The Nation, ABC's This Week, Fox's News Sunday, and CNN's State of the Union -- have focused on a deal with Iran as one of their principal topics. In doing so, they have repeatedly given a platform to fanatical anti-Iran voices.
- Marx rediscovered
A review of Heather A Brown, Marx on Gender and the Family: A Critical Study
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First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Sheila McGregor states that Heather Brown has written an important study of Marx’s writings on women’s oppression. Brown situates her book in the current economic and political context, noting the role that women play both in the world economy and in recent tumultuous struggles such as the Occupy movement and, not least, in the revolutions in the Middle East beginning in 2011. At the same time, parts of Brown's book are contraditory and frustrating.
- New headaches for tar sands pipeline proponents as oil fouls Vancouver harbour
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
A bad turn of events for the local environment and for some of the oil barons targeting their entire planet in their climate-wrecking plans. That's an apt summary of the oil spill that has fouled the beaches and harbour of Vancouver BC beginning on April 8, 2015.
- Tianjin, China: a village 'land grab' protest spells trouble for the Communist state
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Rising anger by China's dispossessed (those displaced from their homes, villages and farms to make way for expanding cities and infrastructure) is posing a threat to the ruling regime. At the root of the problem is the state's inability to tackle endemic official corruption and deliver justice to its citizens.
- Air pollution may be damaging children's brains - before they are even born
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Aside causing respiratory and cardiovascular damage, air pollution has also an impact on the brains and nervous systems of unborn children whose mothers suffer high levels of exposure.
- Colombia - indigenous defender murdered in gold mining frenz
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
An indigenous leader in Colombia's 'gold belt' has been killed by unknown gunmen as tensions grow between indigenous communities and outside gold mining interests, many of them linked to illegal armed groups and the drug trade.
- Former Press Club President arrested in the Philippines
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) and the National Union of Journalists of the Philippines (NUJP) are dismayed by the arrest of a former president of the National Press Club by the Manila Police District (MPD).
- How Corporations and Law Enforcement Are Spying on Environmentalists
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
In August 2010, the Federal Bureau of Investigation's Domestic Terrorism Analysis Unit distributed an intelligence bulletin to all field offices warning that environmental extremism would likely become an increasing threat to the energy industry. The eight-page document argued that, even though the industry had encountered only low-level vandalism and trespassing, recent "criminal incidents" suggested that environmental extremism was on the rise.
- Human Rights Watch Sues DEA Over Bulk Collection of Americans' Telephone Records
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
EFF Lawsuit Challenges Drug Enforcement Administration Surveillance of International Call Records
- Islamic Republic urged to free all detained journalists and online activists
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
In the wake of Iran's historic agreement with the United States on its nuclear programme, Reporters Without Borders calls on President Hassan Rouhani to keep another promise - the immediate release of all detained journalists and online activists
- Media concerns as "dictator law" replaces martial law in Thailand
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Journalists' organizations express strong concern over the issuing of a new order by the military regime to replace martial law.
- Omani authorities persecute online activists
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
The frequency with which bloggers and social network users are arrested and convicted in the Sultanate of Oman reflects the appalling state of online freedom of information and expression there.
- Rights activist arrested over tweet about prison torture
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Reporters Without Borders condemns renewed efforts by the Bahraini authorities to censor online information, including leading human rights defender Nabeel Rajab's latest arrest on 2 April and attempts to suppress information about the mistreatment
- Security agency raids Shabelle Media Network again, two held
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Reporters Without Borders condemns the latest raid by Somalia's National Security and Intelligence Agency (NISA) on Radio Shabelle and Sky FM, two Mogadishu-based radio stations
- Syriza and the crisis
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Interview with Garganas Panos about the election victory of Syriza (the Coalition of the Radical Left) in Greece.
- Chevron Whistleblower Videos Show Deliberate Falsification Of Evidence In Ecuador Oil Pollution Trial
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Chevron lost the lawsuit filed against the company by Indigenous villagers who say Texaco, which merged with Chevron, left hundreds of open, unlined pits full of toxic oil waste in the Amazon rainforest. Nevertheless, the company attempts to retry the case.
- Ocean 'dead zones' are spreading - and that spells disaster for fish
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Oxygen levels in our oceans are falling, producing growing 'dead zones' where only the hardiest organisms can survive. The causes are simple: pollution with nutrient-rich wastes, and global warming. But the only solution is to stop it happening - or wait for 1,000 years.
- Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - April 9, 2015
Resisting Neoliberalism
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Resisting neoliberalism: "free markets" and "free trade" are an ideological cover for what is actually a form of state capitalism in which working people subsidize and bail out corporations and the rich. In this edition of Other Voices, and more extensively on the Connexions website, we look at both neoliberalism and the resistance to it. The version of capitalism which became dominant by the 1980s has been given the name neoliberalism. The term refers to the global economic restructuring which has taken place, and to the accompanying shifts in the structures of power under which local and national governments have seen their ability to act independently curtailed by international treaties and by institutions which owe their ultimate allegiance to corporate capital. The essence of neoliberalism has been an unending campaign of class struggle by the rich against the rest. Yet resistance continues, and indeed continues to grow.
- Preservation or plunder? The battle over the British Museum's Indigenous Australian show
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Indigenous Australians are calling for the objects on show at the British Museum's new exhibition to be returned.
- The Racket
A rogue reporter vs the masters of the universe
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
While working at the Financial Times, investigative journalist Matt Kennard uncovered a scam - a deception and rip-off of immense proportions. The world as we know it is run by a squad of cigar-smoking men with big guns, big cash and a reach much too close to home.
- Resisting Neoliberalism
Introduction to the April 9, 2015 issue of Other Voices
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Neoliberalism is a fraud. The so-called free markets and free trade which it pretends to promote are in fact controlled by giant corporations, and massively subsidized by workers and ordinary citizens.
- Video of Shooting Caught Police Propaganda Machine in Action
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
A video supplied to The New York Times, showing the shooting death of 50-year-old Walter Scott at the hands of a South Carolina police officer, appears on first viewing to be the latest example of an unarmed black person killed unnecessarily by a white cop.
- Will El Salvador be forced to pay $301 million for valuing clean water over gold?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
The Central American state of El Salvador could be forced to pay US$301 million in damages to an Australian-Canadian mining company, OceanaGold, after the company's application for a mining license was rejected on the basis of the projected environmental damage it would cause.
- Tea Party's fake protestors for Big Sugar against Florida Everglades
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
The Tea Party of Miami put up a convincing demo last week to oppose a 'land grab' that would see 46,000 acres of sugar farm land restored for Everglades conservation. Just one problem - the 'protestors' were actors each being paid $75 for the two-hour shift.
- There is no Alternative Unless We Build One: Reinventing Socialist Politics
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Social democratic parties surrendered the countervailing power they had acquired during the long post-war boom to the imperatives of international competitiveness. New parties of the left that originally positioned themselves somewhere between social democracy and communism lost their points of reference and have proven, thus far at least, unable to invent a socialism for a world after Soviet communism and social democratic welfare-states.
- 'Water man of India' makes rivers flow again
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
The revival of traditional rainwater harvesting has restored flow to rivers in India's driest state, Rajasthan - thanks to the tireless efforts of Rajendra Singh, recent winner of a Stockholm water prize.
- When Free Speech Becomes Dead Silence - The Israel Lobby And A Cowed Academia
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
The sudden cancellation of an academic conference on Israel, as well as the lack of outcry from 'mainstream' media, demonstrates once again the skewed limits to 'free speech' in 'advanced' Western democracies.
- When Free Speech Becomes Dead Silence – The Israel Lobby And A Cowed Academia
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
The Israeli government works hard to shut down academic conferences on Palestine.
- Political Smears in U.S. Never Change: the NYT's 1967 Attack on MLK's Anti-War Speech
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
John Oliver's Monday night interview of Edward Snowden -- which in 24 hours has been viewed by 3 million people on YouTube alone -- renewed all the standard attacks in Democratic circles accusing Snowden of being a traitor in cahoots with the Kremlin.
- Repair cafés are about fixing things - including communities
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Repair cafés are a new global phenomenon that brings the two together, giving satisfaction to both, sharing skills, keeping stuff out of landfill, fighting 'designed obsolescence', and building communities sustained by mutual help.
- Vegetarians, ranchers and conscious omnivores of the world, unite!
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Thinking people of all stripes are agreed in their opposition to cruel, exploitative animal farming. Cummins suggests moving beyond sterile 'meat-eater versus vegetarian' debates, and unite in their opposition to the daily atrocities of industrial agriculture.
- Worker activism is now the new normal as strikes and protests erupt across China
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
China Labour Bulletin’s Strike Map logged record numbers of strikes and worker protests in the first quarter of 2015.
- Facebook, Google and McDonald's Canada to Deliver Keynote Presentations at the 2015 CFA National Convention
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Over 500 franchise industry leaders expected to attend Canada's premier franchise education and networking event from April 12-14 in Niagara Falls, Ontario
- Reclaiming Socialism
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
While honouring the legacy of Marx and American communists, a new generation in the United States is organizing under the 'socialism' banner.
- Restrict antibiotics to medical use, or they will soon become ineffective
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Antibiotics have saved hundreds of millions of lives since they came into use in the 1930s, but their power is running dry thanks to their massive use in factory farming, horticulture, aquaculture and industry.
- California drought: agribusiness, fracking untouched by water rationing
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
California has responded to the drought by rationing water, with $500 fines for domestic 'water wasters'. But agribusiness and water-intensive industries like fracking remain untouched by the restrictions, even though they consume over 90% of the state's water.
- The Hand That Feeds
Resource Type: Film/Video
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
A documentary portraying 12 undocumented immigrants who face an uphill battle and the threat of deportation when they take on the popular restaurant in New York City where they work.
- Israeli human rights organization highlights deterioration of Palestinian health under occupation
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Two reports from Physicians for Human Rights-Israel detail how Israeli occupation is harming the health of Palestinians.
- Israeli human rights organization highlights deterioration of Palestinian health under occupation
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Reports by Physicians for Human Rights - Israel document the deterioration of Palestinian health in the West Bank and Gaza as the direct consequence of ongoing Israeli military occupation.
- Toronto Council Moves to Protect City's Water from Pipeline Spills
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Toronto City Council's motion asking for emergency shut-off values on either side of the City of Toronto's major watercourses reflects increased resident pressure on the city to defend us all against environmental hazards.
- Dagong Diary, Part 2: Proper Hiring Begins
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
The following is part 2 of a seven part series recording a short excursion into the lives of dagongzai and dagongmei at the beginning of China’s working year.
- Attica: The Nightmare That Never Ends
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Today, the incarcerated population in the U.S. has mushroomed to some 2.4 million, seven times the number in 1971, not least as a result of the racist "war on drugs." The prison population grew massively in the 1970s and 1980s in direct proportion to the sharp decline in unionized manufacturing jobs, a measure of how the bourgeoisie has deemed whole layers of the ghetto and barrio masses "surplus." Prisons and jails represent, in concentrated form, the brutality of this racist capitalist society, with severe dehumanization and oppressive conditions directed against an already marginalized and demoralized population.
- Deskilling and the Terrain of Social Justice
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
A look at why it is important to form an understanding of what it means to be 'skilled', and why capitalist economies waste a vast amount of human potential.
- Five journalists arrested in crackdown on independent media in Malaysia
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Reporters Without Borders condemns the arrests of a total of five journalists in Malaysia in the past 48 hours with the aim of pressuring independent media to censor themselves and prevent them working freely.
- IFJ and FAJ demand release of journalist and lawyer jailed in Swaziland
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
The International Federation of Journalists and its African group, the Federation of African Journalists (FAJ), have together asked the release of Bheki Makhubu, editor of The Nation-Swaziland, and his lawyer Thulani Maseko
- IFJ Mediterranean unions demand action to combat intolerance and protect journalists rights and security
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) and affiliates from the Mediterranean called for a new regional campaign to promote a strong professional journalists culture across the region that reinforces the independence of journalists
- RSF fully supports journalists suing Ferguson police
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Arrests of journalists while gathering information and covering demonstrations are inadmissible in the country of the First Amendment.
- Abolish High School
Easy Chair
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Solnit says that we need to recognize that high school doesn't work for most young people, and suggests abolishing it.
- Chávez and the Communal State
On the Transition to Socialism in Venezuela
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Bellamy Foster examines Chávez's El Golpe de Timón (“Strike at the Helm”) speech where he insists on the need for changes at the top in order to promote an immediate leap forward in the creation of what is referred to as “the communal state.”
- The Communist International and U.S. Communism, 1919 - 1929
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Author documents the positive contribution of the Comintern (Communist International) in its early revolutionary years and its decline under Stalin.
- Government Action towards Ukraine Pose Danger to Canadians
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
The Canadian Voice of Women for Peace (VOW) are convinced that the actions and stated policies of the Canadian government towards Ukraine pose a danger to Canadians and the world. By supporting the present Ukrainian regime with non-lethal military
- Libya's second civil war
From armed resistance to jihadist networks
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
With the events that led to Gaddafi's fall, a civil war between local groups and rival militias started in Libya. Four years later IS has appeared, and the country seems on the brink of collapse.
- New Checklist from IFIC Helps Dealers with 2015 CRM2 Requirements
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Toronto - April 1, 2015 - The Investment Funds Institute of Canada (IFIC) has released a new document aimed at helping dealers prepare for Client Relationship Model Phase 2 (CRM2) rules coming into effect in 2015. Prepared by IFIC with input from
- Respect, not restraints, for workers in Thailand's seafood industry
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
A report on a year-long investigation into forced labour in the global seafood supply chain in Thailand.
- VOW Women Concerned by Rising Carbon Dioxide Emissions
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
As members of Canadian Voice of Women for Peace we are extremely concerned about the threat to our future from runaway temperature rise as a result rising carbon dioxide emissions in our atmosphere.
- Bhopal's Fight for Memory
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
In December, 1984, unknown poisonous gases burst out from a Union Carbide pesticide plant located in a vicinity of the city of Bhopal in central India. The plant, scheduled for possible closure, was understaffed, not maintained adequately, and had already seen prior deaths from exposure to leaks.
- Crossing a chasm slowly, in ten small steps? Sustainable living demands big changes
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
A call to re-engineer our infrastructure, re-imagine society and re-think the ways we live for disruptive, transformative change - rather than tinkering at the margins of 'normality'. Transitioning to sustainability will require profound changes in our everyday ways of living, particularly in westernised countries. It requires changes that are much more significant than simply doing the things that we currently do, but more efficiently.
- Gideon Levy Interview
Resource Type: Audio
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
An interview with Israeli journalist Gideon Levy. 28 minutes.
- Euro Banks vs. Greek Labor
Varoufakis is Proposing Austerity on the Banking Class
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Interview with Michael Hudson, professor of economics at the University of Missouri-Kansas City about the current economic situation of Greece.
- Global water crisis causing failed harvests, hunger, war and terrorism
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
The world is already experiencing water scarcity driven by over-use, poor land management and climate change. If we fail to respond to the warnings before us, major food and power shortages will soon afflict large parts of the globe.
- Strange Convergence
Billie Holiday and Ethel Rosenberg at 100
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
If Billie Holiday and Ethel Rosenberg were alive, they'd both celebrate their 100th birthdays this year. At first glance they may seem an unlikely couple, but a closer look reveals surprising parallels.
- Toronto's Annex Chess Club welcomes spring with 'Spring is Sprung' tournament
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Round 1 of Toronto's Annex Chess Club five-round Spring is Sprung tournament starts at 7:30 pm. Annex Chess Club always welcomes new members. Players who can't make it for the first round can still join the tournament in subsequent rounds.
- Algerian authorities step up harassment of print media
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Last week saw another attempt by the president's office to intimidate the opposition media, exacerbating what has been a difficult climate for the Algerian press since President Abdelaziz Bouteflika's reelection in April 2014.
- Carving up Africa - aid donors and agribusiness plot the great seed privatization
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
An elite group of aid donors and agribusiness corporations plan the takeover of Africa's seeds, replacing traditional seed breeding and saving by small farmers with a corporate model of privatized, patented, genetically uniform and hybrid seeds.
- Guatemala: Officials prevent indigenous radio station from reopening
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Reporters Without Borders is alarmed by the continuing persecution of community radio stations in Guatemala, where the mayor of Santa Eulalia, in the western department of Huehuetenango, forcibly prevented members of the indigenous Mayan community
- Human rights organisations alarmed by bill that will give surveillance agencies dangerous new powers
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Privacy International, Amnesty International, FIDH, the French League for Human Rights and Reporters Without Borders are alarmed by the expansive surveillance powers to be granted to surveillance agencies contained in a French bill.
- International Coalition Launches 'Manila Principles' to Protect Freedom of Expression Worldwide
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
An international coalition launched the 'Manila Principles for Intermediary Liability' today - a roadmap for the global community to protect online freedom of expression and innovation around the world.
- Journalists convicted of defamation in Myanmar
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) and the Myanmar Journalists Association (MJA) are outraged by the conviction of two journalists on charges of defamation.
- Lawyers, Activists Urge Ontario Courts to Step in on Immigration Detention
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
An innovative legal challenge is trying to force the Federal government to justify imprisonment of immigrants in a provincial court for the first time. The End Immigration Detention Network and lawyers for two long-term immigration detainees will
- Leaders urged to intercede on behalf of Saudi blogger
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Reporters Without Borders calls on the international community to maintain pressure on the Saudi authorities, who alone have the power to overturn the inhumane sentence passed on Saudi blogger Raif Badawi.
- Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - March 26, 2015
Sustainability, ecology, and agriculture
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
This issue features a number of items related to sustainability, ecology, and agriculture, including Vandana Shiva's article "Small is the New Big," the Council of Canadians' new report on water issues, "Blue Betrayal," the film "The Future of Food," the Independent Science News website, which focuses on the science of food and agriculture, and the memoir "Journey of an Unrepentant Socialist" by Brewster Kneen, a former farmer and long-time critic of corporate agriculture.
- Passphrases That You Can Memorize - But That Even the NSA Can't Guess
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
A passphrase is like a password, but longer and more secure. In essence, it's an encryption key that you memorize. Once you start caring more deeply about your privacy and improving your computer security habits, one of the first roadblocks you'll run into is having to create a passphrase. You can't secure much without one.
- Thai military leader threatens to execute journalists
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) and the National Union of Journalists, Thailand (NUJT) deplores the comments made by Thai military junta leader Prayuth Chan-ocha against journalists.
- Three emblematic victims of Syria's ruthless censorship
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
On the eve of a long-delayed decision in the trial of Mazen Darwish, the head of the Syrian Centre for Media and Freedom of Expression (SCM), and two of his assistants Reporters Without Borders reiterates its call for their release.
- Dagong Diary, Part 1: Job Hunting
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Part 1 of a seven-part series recording a short excursion into the lives of dagongzai and dagongmei at the beginning of China’s working year.
- Google's Ridiculous AdSense Morality Police Strike Again
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
The morality police at AdSense argued that this news story -- which was about a legal dispute concerning the video -- somehow violated AdSense's terms against putting the ads on content including "strategically covered nudity" and "lewd or provocative poses." Apparently, the AdSense team has no "newsworthy" exception to these idiotic policies.
- Greece's Golden Dawn: Fascists at the Gate
The party is deeply rooted in the political culture of Greece.
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
While Golden Dawn -- with its Holocaust denial, its swastikas and its Hitler salutes—looks like it might inhabit the fringe, in fact the organization has roots deep in the heart of Greece's political culture.
- Letter from Ecuador - where defending nature and community is a crime
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Ecuador's president attacked eco-defender Carlos Zorrilla in TV broadcasts for resisting a new copper mine in an area of pristine forest, and opposing the advance of oil exploration into the Amazon. Zorilla seeks international support for him and his battle for land.
- Some Things NPR Doesn't Tell Its Listeners About the "Iranian Nukes" Controversy
Lost in the Spin Zone
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Norr looks at Benjamin Netanyahu's speech in the Congress regarding Iran's nuclear program. Aside from the lack of coverage by media, he discusses the undisputed facts that are essential to understanding the situation, for instance Israel having nuclear weapons.
- Cambodia: local people risk everything to defend national park sold off to highest bidders
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Botum Sakor national park is one of Cambodia's biodiversity hotspots. Now indigenous people are being violently evicted as the park is being sold off to developers for logging, plantations, casinos and hotels. Local communities are defending themselves and their land.
- On "Sweet," "Yellow Head," and "Two-Spirit"
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
- Podemos: The People’s Hopes and Adaptation to the Regime
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Since the victory of Syriza in the general elections in Greece on 25 January, all eyes have turned to Spain in expectation of a "contagion". The fact that Spain will go to the polls for general elections at the end of this year brings this prospect even more alive.
- Documents Reveal Canada's Secret Hacking Tactics
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Canada's electronic surveillance agency has secretly developed an arsenal of cyberweapons capable of stealing data and destroying adversaries' infrastructure, according to newly revealed classified documents. Communications Security Establishment, or CSE, has also covertly hacked into computers across the world to gather intelligence, breaking into networks in Europe, Mexico, the Middle East and North Africa, the documents show.
- Reclaiming Socialism
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
The article reflects on the history and apperance of socialist movements from early 20th-century Russia, to today in the United States. It argues that the term "socialist" in a modern conception is dependent on a legacy of communist movements.
- Anishinabe Women, Youth & Elders Hold Ceremony, Public Event on Lake of the Woods, March in Kenora for World Water Day
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Grassroots Indigenous Water Defence host event at McLeod Park to raise awareness about threats to local waterways, in solidarity with Indigenous communities protecting water around the world.
- Bangkok's Big Brother is watching you
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Abigail Haworth charts the rise of General Prayuth Chan-ocha and his despotic regime.
- Swazi writers still in jail a year later
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
A year has passed since the respected journalist Bheki Makhubu was jailed in Africa's last absolute monarchy. Reporters Without Borders is appalled by his unjustified two-year prison sentence for contempt of court.
- Bangladesh and the shrinking space for free thinkers: 'Don't call me Muslim, I am an atheist'
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Writer Taslima Nasreen fled Bangladesh in 1994 when extremists threatened to kill her for criticizing Islam, and has been living in exile since. Her country has, in recent times, seen many intellectuals expelled or killed. In this interview, she speaks about the shrinking space for free thinkers in Bangladesh and says that Islam cannot be exempt from the critical scrutiny that other religions undergo.
- Pig Iron Bob
Resource Type: Film/Video
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
On the 75th anniversary of the Dalfram Dispute in Australia, reenactments capture the waterside dispute where 180 men prevented pig iron being loaded onto ships bound for the Japanese war machine.
- ADCO Kids Helping Kids Walkathon to take place May 4 to 15
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
From May 4 to 15, independent licensed child care programs belonging to the Association of Day Care Operators of Ontario will participate in a province-wide fundraiser benefiting Ontario's four regional children's hospitals.
- Cops Charge Black Activist with "Lynching"
Defend Maile Hampton!
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
On January 18, 2015, Maile Hampton, a young black woman and member of the ANSWER Coalition, was leading chants at a Sacramento, California, protest against a pro-cop rally. An online video shows the cops violently attacking several protesters, slamming a woman against a cop car and repeatedly throwing a man to the ground. While both were being handcuffed, the crowd chanted to let them go. Five weeks later, Hampton was arrested at her home. She now faces up to four years in jail on charges of felony "lynching"! A law supposedly intended to criminalize the extra-legal murder of black people, Mexicans and others by the racist terrorists of the KKK and their ilk, is now wielded by the police against those who actively protest the modern-day legal lynchings carried out by the cops.
- Jewish Voice for Peace conference - what solidarity looks like
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
When a Palestinian woman went to this Jewish group's annual conference, she found a growing movement of Jews and other allies.
- Lessons of the Civil Rights Movement (Part Two)
Police Terror and Black Oppression
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Formal, legal inequality in the South was susceptible to reform. But getting rid of the economic and social reality that is black oppression in America -- from de facto segregation and poverty to police brutality -- is not subject to reform because it is integral to the capitalist system.
- Conservationist murders threaten Costa Rica's eco-friendly reputation
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
The murder of Jairo Mora, who was trying to protect endangered turtle eggs, was the latest in a string of crimes against environmentalists in the country. Many worry activists will stay away if poachers continue to go unpunished.
- Israel's racist elections
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
I didn’t expect any good from the elections to the Israeli Knesset. Its results are decided a priori by the definition of the voters’ register.
- Obama's Double-Standard On Russia: He Attacks Russia, Then Condemn's Putin For Defending Russia From His Attack
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Obama overthrew the legal Government, and replaced it by this illegal one. But now he criticizes Putin as if he were the aggressor instead of the defender here. And Obama demands that the Soviet dictator's forced transfer of Crimea to Ukraine be legal and that Putin's defense of Crimeans' democratic self-determination in response to that coup be considered illegal.
- Occupy agriculture! Polish farmers sit in for land and freedom
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
At the heart of Poland's capital, Warsaw, farmers have founded a flourishing encampment known as the 'Green City', writes Julian Rose. It's a focus of protest against the sell-off of their land to agribusiness, the arrival of GMO crops, and the imposition of a failed 'Western' model of farming that's creating huge corporate profits while debasing food and bankrupting small farmers.
- Starbucks is a national joke: Why its #RaceTogether campaign is so self-righteous
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
University of Pennsylvania's Adolph Reed tells Salon why the corporation's new gambit is neoliberal self-parody
- TransCanada Whistleblower Spurs New Probe of Pipeline Giant's Safety Record
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Based on evidence provided by a whistleblower, Canada's National Energy Board (NEB) is investigating pipeline giant TransCanada for safety-code violations.
- Women up in Arms: Zapatistas and Rojava Kurds Embrace a New Gender Politics
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Resistance and strength manifest like weeds through cracks in Chiapas, Mexico and transnational Kurdistan where the respective Zapatista and Kurdish resistance movements are creating new gender relations as a primary part of their struggle and process for building a better world. In both places, women's participation in the armed forces has been an entry-point for a new social construction of gender relations based on equity.
- Brazil's right-wing protests: A warning to the working class
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Right-wing protests in Brazil called for the overthrow of Workers Party. While the number of participants was likely to be inflated for political reasons, the protests underscore the intense class polarization, as well as the political dangers posed to the working class.
- The Cross and the Sword: The Making of a Christian Taliban in Ukraine
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
The recruitment point for volunteers in Dmytro Korchynsky's holy war is located in the basement of a building in central Kiev, on Chapaev Street, in what used to be a billiard club. Anyone can sign up, and the location isn't secret -- its address and phone number is on the Internet.
- David Graeber's Utopia of Rules: Why Deregulation Is Actually Expanding Bureaucracy
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Book review: David Graebe, The Utopia of Rules: On Technology, Stupidity and the Secret Joys of Bureaucracy.
- Engineering consent for fracking: Chris Smith and the 'astroturf' consultancy
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Edelman, the global PR group, has a history of 'consent engineering' for the fossil fuel industry in North America.
- Google Disables All Ads on Antiwar.com (Updated)
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
- Gordon Campbell on the Vanuatu cyclone and media 'disaster porn'
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Campbell discusses the Vanuatu cyclone and how it has become a 'disaster porn,'a process that occurs when media exploits someone else's misery so that it look attractive as a form of entertainment.
- Mall of America Security Catfished Black Lives Matter Activists, Documents Show
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Documents indicate that security staff at the Mall of America in Bloomington, Minnesota used a fake Facebook account to monitor local Black Lives Matter organizers, befriend them, and obtain their personal information and photographs without their knowledge.
- Peasant Sovereignty?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
The Spain-based international agrarian organization, Grain, reported that small farmers not only "feed the world with less than a quarter of all farmland," but they are also the most productive farmers on Earth.
- The time has come for France to own up to the massacre of its own troops in Senegal
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
The truth about a massacre of sub-Saharans who fought on the French side in World War II must be acknowledged.
- The uncounted: why the US can't keep track of people killed by police
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
After a year of high-profile police killings, calls for a national database have gained traction. But how would that work? Tom McCarthy investigates the challenges for law enforcement and government officials alike.
- The Veggie Pride Talk I Didn't Give
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
For the first time in many years, I've declined an offer to be the lead speaker at the annual Veggie Pride Parade in NYC’s Union Square Park. I learned the hard way that although the cheers have been loud, the local vegan/animal rights scene wasn't actually hearing me. Since I've opted to no longer howl into an echo chamber, I'll share my thoughts here instead.
- Edits to Wikipedia Pages on Bell, Garner, Diallo Traces to 1 Police Plaza
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Wikipedia content can be freely changed by anyone. Unfortunately, this also seems to mean that Wikipedia can be freely censored. A police department is under investigation for altering pages related to cases of police brutality which they were involved with.
- Health Care and Immigration Policies that Kill
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Cuts to Canada's Interim Federal Health Program (IFHP), severely curtail access to health-care services for refugee claimants and refugees. Many beneficiaries and practitioners were already critical of the original IFHP because it provided inconsistent access to health care and many services were not covered. The situation only worsened after the cuts.
- NSA trying to map Rogers, RBC communications traffic, leak shows
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
The U.S. National Security Agency has been trying to map the communications traffic of corporations around the world, and a classified document reveals that at least two of Canada’s largest companies are included.
- Occupy Amazonia? Indigenous activists are taking direct action - and it's working
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
The native peoples of the Amazon are employing the tactics of the Occupy movement against oil companies, gold miners and illegal loggers. Lacking the protection of the state, they fight their own battles. Recent campaign successes owe much to outside support.
- Public's Access to Government Records Faces Roadblocks Aplenty
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Legally, all governent documents in the United States are supposed to be publicly accessible. It seems, however, that there is a work-around censor. Documents that prove embarassing to the organization or its members are effectively censored through bureaucratic inefficiency.
- What's Scarier: Terrorism, or Governments Blocking Websites in its Name?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
The French Interior Ministry ordered that five websites be blocked on the grounds that they promote or advocate terrorism.
- Zeroing out Zero Tolerance
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Urban districts are increasingly doing away with harsh, no-excuses discipline -- a tactic that was once seen as the only way to address misconduct at big, high-poverty schools.
- Chinese authorities must come clean on air pollution film ban
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) is concerned by the decision by the Cyberspace Administrative and Central Propaganda Department of China to ban the online documentary Under the Dome and the closing down of a number of websites.
- Grassy Narrows Protestors Remain Firm in Message: No Logging in Grassy Narrows Territory
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Kenora Today, Members of Grassy Narrows First Nation Youth groups, Band Councilors, Drum Groups, Elders and others, are engaging in a multi-stage protest against logging in their territory.
- IFJ launches gender campaign for Asia-Pacific's women in media
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) and its affiliates have begun a campaign of gender action and discussion aimed at recognizing the vital role of women in the media and the need for rights and representation in decision-making roles.
- Rail disaster strategy lacking
Re: Rail disaster plan falls short, critics warn
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
A rail disaster strategy should include an actual plan to save lives and the environment. It is impossible to compensate lost lives and damaged environment from highly toxic damaging crude oil and radioactive substances that are being transported.
- The Sting: How the FBI Created a Terrorist
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Informant-led sting operations are central to the FBI’s counterterrorism program. Of 508 defendants prosecuted in federal terrorism-related cases in the decade after 9/11, 243 were involved with an FBI informant, while 158 were the targets of sting operations.
- The Orwellian Re-Branding of 'Mass Surveillance' as Merely 'Bulk Collection'
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Just as the Bush administration and the U.S. media re-labelled "torture" with the Orwellian euphemism "enhanced interrogation techniques" to make it more palatable, the governments and media of the Five Eyes surveillance alliance are now attempting to re-brand "mass surveillance" as "bulk collection" in order to make it less menacing (and less illegal).
- Tobacco Gun for Hire James Enstrom, Willie Soon and the Climate Deniers Attack on Merchants of Doubt
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Climate denier Fred Singer, scientist working for tobacco companies, asks whether it would make sense to file a lawsuit to try and stop the release of the new documentary, Merchants of Doubt – a film tracing the tactics used by Big Tobacco to spread misinformation.
- Canada's Proposed Anti-Terrorism Law
An Assessment
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
A Statement to the Standing Committee on National Security & Public Safety regarding the dangers Bill C-51 poses to many of Canada's democratic freedoms.
- Collateral Freedom: RSF Unblocks 9 Censored Sites
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
To combat online censorship, Reporters Without Borders is unblocking access to 9 news websites in order to make them available in the 11 countries where they are currently banned.
- Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - March 12, 2015
Organizing
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
The focus of this issue is organizing. How can we challenge and overcome entrenched structures of economic and political power? Our own source of power is our latent ability to join together and work toward common goals, collectively. That requires organizing. Power gives way only when it is challenged by powerful movements for change, and movements grow out of organizing. In this newsletter, we feature a number of articles, books, and other organizing resources.
- Snowden's NSA Leaks Catalogued In First Searchable Database Of The Surveillance Documents
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Canadian journalists and researchers have teamed up to create the world's first fully-searchable index of the classified documents revealing NSA surveillance leaked by whistleblower Edward Snowden.
- The biggest threat to a free society is freedom of speech, says Canada’s Public Safety Minister
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Canada's "Public Safety" Minister Steven Blaney says that the Holocaust could have been prevented if only Germany hadn't suffered from an excess of freedom of speech.
- Sequencing fraud on 9 CIBC Visa cards like 'Groundhog Day' for Ottawa man
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Alex Pavlovic has been living what he calls "a Groundhog Day with the bank," after his CIBC Visa card was compromised and cancelled nine times in just a few months — sometimes before Pavlovic could activate or use it — and no one could explain why.
- Kill Chain: Drones and the Rise of High-Tech Assassins
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
History of drone warfare, a development in military technology that has its origins in long-buried secret programmes dating to US military interventions in Vietnam and Yugoslavia. Cockburn follows the links in a chain that stretches from the White House, through the drone command center in Nevada, to the skies of Helmand Province.
- Letter to the Lithuanian Government on Banning Russian Government-Controlled TV Channels
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
This is an open letter to the Lithuanian government. While broadcasts from Russian-controlled television channels may be propagandistic, banning them would be a violation of basic human rights and ultimately ineffective.
- Documents Shine Light on Shadowy New Zealand Surveillance Base
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
The documents, revealed Saturday by the Sunday Star-Times in collaboration with The Intercept, show how closely New Zealand has worked with the NSA to maintain surveillance coverage of the region. The files also offer an unprecedented insight into the Waihopai base, exposing how it's been integrated into a global eavesdropping network.
- Five wins for feminism
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Every activist has at some point been told that activism is pointless today, that it achieves nothing and hasn’t since the 1970s. Others say that there's no point to feminist activism in particular because we already have gender equality. A quick look at the issues feminists are struggling for, and the wins we've had recently, show that neither claim is true, nor are they likely to be for some time.
- It's Nato that's empire-building, not Putin
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Two sides are required for a New Cold War — and there is no obvious need for an adversarial system in post-Soviet Europe.
- Bangladeshi Tribals Evicted For Tea Plantation Expansion
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
A Bangladeshi company has been accused of using armed men to evict ethnic minority communities in order to expand a tea plantation in Sreemangal in northeastern Bangladesh.
- Downward spiral continues for Honduran media
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
The first two months of 2015 have very disturbing for journalists in Honduras. Five years after a 2009 coup détat, it is still one of the western hemisphere’s most dangerous countries for media personnel and respect for freedom of information continues to decline.
- International Women's Day: How surveillance is used to assert control
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Looking at some of the ways surveillance technologies can be used to control women and how the fight for women's equal rights and for privacy have more in common than you might think.
- It's here, and it's growing: the self-assembling Coalition of the Radical Left
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
The progressive left is drawing together diverse strands that encompass the fight for social and racial justice, the right to work, health, clean air and fresh water, and our freedom to be alive and thrive on this our one planet.
- Lessons of the Civil Rights Movement (Part One)
Police Terror and Black Oppression
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Police reform is a hoax and a hustle. Federal investigations go nowhere and the Democrats are simply the soft cops of the capitalist system. There is no road to black liberation and the liberation of all working people short of workers revolution.
- Reading Paine from the Left
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
A biography of the revolutionary Thomas Paine.
- The Rise of British Imperialism: Capitalism and Slavery (Part Two)
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
A presentation on the developments that made Britain the first modern imperialist power.
- Children of SA liberation icons condemn Israeli apartheid
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
The children of South Africa's anti-apartheid heroes speak out against Israeli apartheid, supporting the boycott, divestment and sanctions campaign against Israel and denouncing the Jewish state's brutal colonial occupation of Palestine.
- 'A Conspiracy Of Silence' -- HSBC, The Guardian and the Defrauded British Public
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
An investigator and anonymous whistleblower talk about the suspicious lack of coverage and attention to the HSBC tax evasion scandal. This article talks about the scandal itself and criticizes the British liberal media.
- Cricket, the war game
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Wherever England went, the army went. Wherever England left, cricket stayed. Schorr discusses the legacy of cricket after the British Empire travelled around the globe conquering territory.
- Honourable Friends? Parliament and the Fight for Change
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
From the NHS to corporate tax evasion, from climate change to immigration, Honourable Friends? tells the story of 5 years in Westminster and offers bold and practical suggestions for a fairer British political system.
- Life sentence for fighting Africas last colonial power
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Kenworthy talks about the systematic violence, abusive treatment and torture that political prisoners and activists undergo in Western Sahara.
- Tar sands campaigners are Canada's new 'terrorists'
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Canada's Harper government has targeted as a new crime being a member of an 'anti-Canadian petroleum movement', and equating such a stance with terrorism.
- Under the Radar, Big Media Internet Giants Get Massive Access to Everything About You
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
The Internet and digital media are becoming a pervasive and manipulative interactive surveillance system. U.S. online companies, while claiming to be supporters of a democratic Internet, are working to have an unlimited and unchecked power to "shadow" us online.
- What Was Missing From Coverage of Netanyahu's Speech
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Reading the lead stories on Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's speech to Congress about Iran in five prominent US papers – the New York Times, Washington Post, LA Times, Wall Street Journal and USA Today (all 3/3/15) – what was most striking was what was left out of these articles.
- The East India Company: The Original Corporate Raiders
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
For a century, the East India Company conquered, subjugated and plundered vast tracts of south Asia. The lessons of its brutal reign have never been more relevant.
- Edward Snowden's Warning to Canada
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Whistleblower Edward Snowden talks about Bill C-51 and the weak oversight of Canada's intelligence agencies.
- Holy Anal Beads! Christian Sex Industry Is Kinkier Than You'd Think
The market for Christian sex toys
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Sex is important to Christian couples. So long as you're heterosexual and married, you’re encouraged to have as much of it as you want.
- India's Daughter
Resource Type: Film/Video
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
The story of the brutal gang rape and murder in Delhi of 23-year-old medical student Jyoti Singh, which sparked outrage and protests in India, a country beset by extreme poverty and gender inequality.
- Revolutionary roots of women's suffrage: Finland 1906 - an International Women's Day tribute
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Eric Blanc traces the revolutionary roots of the suffrage victory of Finnish women. He focuses on the autonomous activities of the League of Working Women.
- The "Snowden is Ready to Come Home!" Story: a Case Study in Typical Media Deceit
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Most sentient people rationally accept that the U.S. media routinely disseminates misleading stories and outright falsehoods in the most authoritative tones. But it's nonetheless valuable to examine particularly egregious case studies to see how that works.
- Three Verona artists at the Grace Centre
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
- Chomsky on Cuba: After Decades of U.S. Meddling & "Terrorism," Restoring Ties is Least We Could Do
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Aaron Maté did an interview with Noam Chomsky on Democracy Now!. They talked about the thawing of U.S.-Cuba relations and U.S. meddling in Cuba.
- Farmer Cooperatives, Not Monsanto, Supply El Salvador With Seeds
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
In the face of overwhelming competition skewed by the rules of free trade, farmers in El Salvador have managed to beat the agricultural giants like Monsanto and Dupont to supply local corn seed to thousands of family farmers. Local seed has consistently outperformed the transnational product, and farmers helped develop El Salvador’s own domestic seed supply–all while outsmarting the heavy hand of free trade.
- I Was a Streetwalker for a Night
I did it for science
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
I became a prostitute for a night. Not a high-class escort (the logistics seemed too daunting for an amateur like me) just a regular hooker out on the street. I had no clue what to expect exactly, but that's what made it all so exciting.
- Patriotic Betrayal
The Inside Story of the CIA's Secret Campaign to Enroll American Students in the Crusade Against Communism
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
A multilayered, mystifying exposé of how the CIA infiltrated and ultimately directed the U.S. National Student Association in thwarting international communist goals from 1950 to 1967.
- Petraeus Plea Deal Reveals Two-Tier Justice System for Leaks
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
David Petraeus, the former Army general and CIA director, admitted today that he gave highly-classified journals to his onetime lover and that he lied to the FBI about it. But he only has to plead guilty to a single misdemeanor that will not involve a jail sentence thanks to a deal with federal prosecutors.
- The Weaker Sex? Violence and the Suffragette Movement
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Fern Riddell investigates the campaign of terror orchestrated by the Edwardian suffragette movement before the First World War and asks why it has been neglected by historians.
- Are Your Devices Hardwired For Betrayal?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Firmware-based attacks are real and their numbers will only increase. Cooper discusses the potential consequences if we don't address this issue now.
- Escalation is when Palestinians lose self-restraint
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Who is to blame for the escalation?
- Japan Is Getting An Anonymous Whistleblowing Platform, But Will Journalists Use it?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
In a country with a strong anti-whistleblower sentiment and strict state-secret laws, a university professor has created an annoymous whilstleblower website.
- Somebody Needs to Tell The NY Times: Israel Has The Bomb
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
The NY Times has talked about Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu's coming speech at which he will raise the alarm about Iran producing a bomb. Nevertheless, Israel has had the bomb since 1967 and it is counted as the world's 6th nuclear state.
- UK Media Regulator Again Threatens RT for "Bias": This Time, Airing "Anti-Western Views"
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
The U.K. Government loves to lecture the world about infringements of liberty generally and press freedom specifically. It does so as it threatens to revoke the broadcasting license of a media outlet for broadcasting "anti-western" views and other perspectives at odds with the U.K. Government, all while shielding (and venerating) the equally virulent biases from pro-state television in the U.K.
- Why Israel's Netanyahu Is So Desperate to Prevent Peace with Iran
The distinguished professor lays bare Israel's motives
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
For both Prime Minister Netanyahu and the hawks in Congress, the primary goal is to undermine any potential negotiation that might settle whatever issue there is with Iran, says Noam Chomsky.
- You Should Really Consider Installing Signal, an Encrypted Messaging App for iPhone
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
App maker Open Whisper Systems took an important step today with the release of a major new version of its Signal encrypted calling app for iPhones and iPads. The new version, Signal 2.0, folds in support for encrypted text messages using a protocol called TextSecure, meaning users can communicate using voice and text while remaining confident nothing can be intercepted in transit over the internet.
- Beginning a New Era
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Obama may succeed where previous U.S. administrations -- such as Nixon's and especially Carter's -- failed in their attempts at reestablishing diplomatic and economic relations with Cuba.
- Bigotry in the Guise of Secularism
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
The murder at Charlie Hebdo and the Paris kosher supermarket have unleashed a wave of attacks on French Muslim communities, their culture and religion.The analysis by Carmen Teeple Hopkins helps explain the background of the present dangers and tragedies.
- Blacklisted
The Secret War between Big Business and Union Activists
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Story of the illegal strategies that transnational construction companies resorted to in their attempt to keep union activists away from their places of work.
- Blue Betrayal
The Harper government's assault on Canada's freshwater
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Canadians have long taken their water heritage for granted. This is largely due to the myth that there is an abundance of water. While it is true that compared to many other parts of the world Canada is blessed with water, it is false that there is water to waste or sell.
- A Case of Police Violence Against Women
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
The police torture of a woman at Kalamadanga village, in the Bardhaman district of West Bengal, is a grim reminder that "normalization" of state violence, particularly violence on women, has continued unabated regardless of which party is in power.
- China: Rise and Emergent Crisis
Book Review
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Book review of Au Loong Yu's 'China's Rise: Atrength and Fragility.'
- December 17: Sources, Results & Prospects
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
After 50 years, Washington has had to recognize that if it wants any influence in Latin America, the road to Latin America leads through Havana, not around it.
- Defend Reverend Pinkney
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
An appeal hearing is scheduled for February 24, 2015 regarding the imprisonment of Reverend Edward Pinkney of Benton Harbor, MI. The American Civil Leaders Union has filed an "Amicus Curiae Brief" in support of Pinkney.
- Eslanda Robeson's Journey
Book Review
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
A book review of Eslanda: The Large and Unconventional Life of Mrs. Paul Robeson, by Barbara Ransby.
- Feminism, Marxism: Marriage or Divorce?
Book Review
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
A book review of Dangerous Liaisons: The marriages and divorces of Marxism and Feminism
By Cinzia Arruzza.
- Fifty Shades of Pulp
Book Review
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Book review of Paula Rabinowitz's 'American Pulp: How Paperbacks Brought Modernism to Main Street.'
- The Fourth Branch
How the CIA infiltrated student politics
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Article about the CIA's influence and control over the National Student Association, a relationship that was kept secret for years.
- Frank Fried (1927-2015)
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Frank Fried, a revolutionary U.S. socialist, passed away on January 13, 2015.
- From the Writings of Raya Dunayevskaya: Miners inspired Marxist-Humanism
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
The dialectic of the 1949-50 Miners' General Strike, as it transformed from a Lewis-authorized strike that already had lasted some six months into a challenge to John L. Lewis himself, laid the ground for new ways of thinking.
- A Grand Juror Speaks
The inside story of how prosecutors always get their way
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Lewis-Kraus recounts his inside story as a member of a grand jury in New York.
- Greece: postmodernism in power
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Yanis Varoufakis, the Finance Minister in Greece’s Syriza government, shows where postmodernist attacks on Marx lead politically. This self-declared "erratic Marxist" states forthrightly that the task of today's Left is to save capitalism from itself, which requires "forging alliances with reactionary forces."
- Hillary Clinton and Corporate Feminism
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Feminist enthusiasm for Hillary Clinton is reflective of a profound crisis of U.S. liberal feminism, which has long embraced or accepted corporate capitalism, racism, empire, and even heterosexism and transphobia.
- Honoring the Socialist Mary Marcy
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Withe the centenary of World War I underway, it does us well to recall the remarkable socialist militant, Mary Marcy (1877-1922).
- Jobs, Ecology, and Survival
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Lars Henriksson presents some thoughts about solving the old contradiction between jobs and the environment, ilooking specifically at the auto industry.
- Marx and the Family Revisited
Book Review
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
A book review: Marxism and the Oppression of Women Toward a Unitary Theory, by Lise Vogel.
- Mobile homes can't move on
Trailers are the cheapest available homes in the US, but thire owner - tenants are always at risk
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
The challenges and vulnerabilities facing mobile home owners and tenants is examined.
- The Murder of Shaimaa Al-Sabbagh
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Shaimaa Al-Sabbagh, 32 years old, a mother, poet and member of the Socialist Popular Alliance Party, was gunned down January, 2015 24 by black-clad snipers who were seen on video pointing rifles in her direction
- The Praxis Affair
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
A cautionary story of what might happen if we return to the bad old days of the RCMP Security Service, which was caught disrupting and using dirty tricks against a wide range of unsuspecting groups before it was eventually disbanded.
- The Praxis Affair
There's a reason we put limits on spying within Canada
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
This is a cautionary story of what might happen if we return to the bad old days of the RCMP Security Service, which was caught disrupting and using dirty tricks against a wide range of unsuspecting groups before it was eventually disbanded, its spying responsibilities handed to a newly formed Canadian Security Intelligence Service.
- Pushing Back Civil Rights
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
An examination of the roll back of civil rights in the context of police violence against African Americans.
- The Spy Who Fired Me
The human costs of workplace monitoring
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Kaplan discusses the growing practice of employers monitoring the internet use of their employees.
- The Two-Party System, Part III
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
This perceived marriage of "progressive" change and the Democratic Party grew from conditions that prevailed from the 1930s through the 1960s. The next half century sustained this faith less through positive policies than by comforting images. Integral to this has been the rise of a warfare state with its own logic. The implications of both have made a two-party political order unchanged by the end of either World War II or the Cold War.
- Vermont Healthcare Justice
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
An overview of legislation in Vermont to publicly fund health care.
- A Victory and Some Risks
Statement from the Fourth International
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
It is necessary to create the conditions of democratic debate in all the popular organizations in Cuba.
- Women Under the Gun, 2015
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
A discussion of violence against women.
- Workplace Violence: Silent Epidemic
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Workplace violence ranges from threats and curses to murder. Spitting on bus drivers is so common in New York City that their union won them DNA kits last year, to collect saliva.
- Workshop Talks: Reclaim our labor
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Lin discusses the precarious conditions under which healthcare labourers work.
- World Charter of Free Media
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
A charter for the democratization of communication.
- Under the Dome
Resource Type: Film/Video
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
A self-financed Chinese documentary film by Chai Jing, a former China Central Television journalist, concerning air pollution in China. It is narrated by Chai, who presents the results of her year-long research mostly in the form of a lecture.
- Venezuela: US, elite launch new attacks on democracy
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Venezuela is facing new attempts to subvert its democracy and roll-back the pro-poor process of social change known as the Bolivarian revolution.
- The worst thing for a journalist is being cut off from his audience
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Slovenian investigative journalist, writes about his experiences of working under pressure while he was investigating irregularities in the organs of repression.
- Atheist blogger hacked to death with machetes in Dhaka, Bangladesh
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Machete-wielding assailants hacked to death a blogger in the Bangladeshi capital of Dhaka, in the latest of a series of attacks on writers who support freethinking values in the Muslim-majority nation.
- Boiling Point: Why Do We Let Big Oil Send Workers to Their Deaths?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Refinery workers endure precarious labour conditions, yet the current system protects the companies economic interests. Recently, workers have started to mobilize.
- Clapper Calls for Arming Ukrainian Forces: Who Would That Actually Empower?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Russian President Vladimir Putin has long said that the Ukrainian coup of last year, and the subsequent regime in Kiev, is driven by ultra-nationalists, fascists, and even neo-Nazi factions. The Russian TV outlet RT also frequently refers to "the active role far-right groups have played on the pro-government side in Ukraine since the violent coup of the last year."
- Details Of Tax Avoidance Schemes For Wealthy HSBC Clients Revealed
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
A cache of secret documents has thrust HSBC into the limelight for helping international clients dodge taxes.
- Entertaining facts: what the news media do with expert information about environmental risks
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
This research aims to clarify why there is such a difference between expert understandings of the environmental risk of global warming and climate change, and social world understandings.
- Fossil Fuel Industry's Global Climate Science Communications Plan in Action: Polluting the Classroom
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
The Fossil Fuel Industry promotes a plan in U.S. schools to address global climate change. Their plan includes denial, doubt and promoting the merits of fossil fuel.
- '100 years to repair Gaza': Oxfam says blockade remains, aid almost non-existent
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Reconstructing Gaza could take an entire century, if Israel doesn't stop the siege, leading charity Oxfam warned. And that's just the time frame for essential projects. The NGO's regional director calls the situation "deplorable."
- "Gestapo" tactics at US police 'black site' ring alarm from Chicago to Washington
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Politicians and rights groups call for inquiries into interrogations at Homan Square. Mayor Rahm Emanuel faces questions as top supporters examine abuse.
- How Europe cancelled Germany's debt in 1953
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
The 1953 London Debt Accords show that European leaders know how to resolve a debt crisis in the interests of justice and recovery. Article discusses four key lessons for Greece's debt crisis today.
- Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - February 26, 2015
Ukraine
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Ukraine is spotlighted in this issue of Other Voices, with several articles on the events of the past year, from the overthrow of the government, to the rise of the far right, the armed conflict in the east, and aggressive US/NATO moves setting the stage for a possible nuclear war between the US and Russia. Also in this issue, #DomesticExtremists ridicule police state legislation in the UK, world inequality in one simple graphic, and people's history items about mass strikes in the First World War, and the new People's Archive of Rural India.
- Why Does the FBI Have to Manufacture its Own Plots if Terrorism and ISIS Are Such Grave Threats?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Article talks about FBI's terrorism strategies and their manipulation of information.
- Why the rise of fascism is again the issue
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Fascism is preserved as history, as flickering footage of goose-stepping blackshirts, their criminality terrible and clear. Yet in the same liberal societies, whose war-making elites urge us never to forget, the accelerating danger of a modern kind of fascism is suppressed; for it is their fascism.
- Arboricide in Palestine - olive orchard destroyed
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Israeli settlers in Palestine's South Hebron Hills last week cut down an orchard of 36 olive trees, in the latest attack of a decades-long war against Palestinian culture and survival in which has seen the cutting, burning and bulldozing of over a million olive, fruit and nut trees.
- CSE monitors millions of Canadian emails to government
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Canada's electronic spy agency collects millions of emails from Canadians and stores them for "days to months" while trying to filter out malware and other attacks on government computer networks.
- Netanyahu goes nuclear ... now wait for the fallout
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Israeli prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, has spent years trying to convince the international community and Israelis that Tehran is racing towards building a nuclear bomb, when evidence presented by his own spies show the opposite.
- Political activist Ken Stone takes CSIS to task for alleged harassment
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
What is it like to be targeted by Canada's spy agency? Veteran anti-war and environmental activist Ken Stone knows firsthand and is willing to talk about it.
- Why I'm Saying Goodbye to Apple, Google and Microsoft
I'm putting more trust in communities than corporations
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Gillmor discusses how we are losing control over the technology tools that once promised equal opportunity in speech and innovation.
- Drone Strikes and the Sanitization of Violence
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Van Dongen discusses the terminology that the drone campaign employs, in which the CIA and the Obama administration gloss over death and destruction of drones in Pakistan, Afganistan and Yemen.
- From a UK MP to Secret German Tax Investigations: Swiss Leaks Video Reports
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Along with dozens of print and online media partners, a number of broadcast journalists produced video packages that reached millions of viewers all around the world. Here are some samples from the United Kingdom, Canada, and Germany.
- The Danger of Being Neighborly Without a Permit
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Three years ago, The Los Angeles Times published a feel-good story on the Little Free Library movement.The idea is simple: A book lover puts a box or shelf or crate of books in their front yard. Neighbours browse, take one, and return later with a replacement.
- Mossad contradicted Netanyahu on Iran nuclear programme
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Spy cables reveal that Mossad concluded that Iran was not producing nuclear weapons, even though Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu told the UN the opposite.
- New Countries Seek HSBC Data and Undeclared Cash
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
A number of other countries have also announced new or expanded investigations variously into the bank's Swiss clients named on the French lists, into HSBC itself, and into the response from national regulators who may have had access to the data, or knew about it but did not request it.
- Airport expansion
Re: Billy Bishop expansion plan needs real scrutiny
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
The Toronto Island airport in its present configuration is already harmful to public health. Any expansion would contribute to climate change by increasing emissions and air pollution and decreasing green and recreational space.
- The long struggle of the Palestinians in Israel
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
An excerpt from the book "Chief Complaint: A Country Doctor's Tales of Life in Galilee." The essay talks about Palestinian social, economic and territorial displacement.
- Montreal: Campus Feminists Fail to Gag Marxists
For Women's Liberation Through Socialist Revolution!
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
The logic of feminism is class collaboration. It also means relying on the bourgeois state to "defend women." The role of the capitalist state is to defend the interests of the capitalists. It has nothing to do with ending the misery of the oppressed.
- The "Snipers' Massacre" on the Maidan in Ukraine
Resource Type: Unclassified
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
On the mass killing of the "Euromaidan" protesters and police in the Maidan area of Kyiv, Ukraine, on February 20, 2014.
- SYC Defends Marxism at Finkelstein Talk
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
- Toronto Star Supports the Perpetrators of War Crimes in Ukraine
Crazed Warmongers
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Toronto Star has distinguished itself for supporting the fundraising projects of Ukraine's extreme-right parties and militias.
- Why the Western Media Pushes for War on Russia
Operation Get Putin
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Author discusses the reasons why the western 'mainstream' media have sharply increased their campaign against Russia and President Putin.
- The Great SIM Heist: How Spies Stole the Keys to the Encryption Castle
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
American and British spies hacked into the internal computer network of the largest manufacturer of SIM cards in the world, stealing encryption keys used to protect the privacy of cellphone communications across the globe, according to top-secret documents provided by National Security Agency whistleblower Edward Snowden.
- The RCMP versus the 'anti-petroleum movement'
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Canada's political police serve the oil industry, citing lobbyists and rightist demagogues to slander environmental activists as potential terrorists.
- Spiked: Fighting In-House Censorship When Media Managers Can't Handle The Truth
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Working in mainstream print media can be very frustrating. Between the corporate and editorial red tape and censorship, it might be more worthwhile to become an independant journalist.
- Destroyed by the Espionage Act
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Story of why Stephen Kim, former U.S. State Department expert, was imprisoned for an Espionage Act charge.
- Thousands Join Legal Fight Against UK Surveillance — And You Can, Too
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Thousands of people are signing up to join an unprecedented legal campaign against the United Kingdom’s leading electronic surveillance agency.
- The Age of Acquiescence
The Life and Death of American Resistance to Organized Wealth and Power
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
A groundbreaking investigation of how and why, from the 18th century to the present day, American resistance to our ruling elites has largely vanished.
- Bill C-51: A Legal Primer
Overly broad and unnecessary anti-terrorism reforms could criminalize free speech
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Bill C-51, the Anti-Terrorism Act, 2015, would expand the powers of Canada's spy agency, allowing Canadians to be arrested on mere suspicion of future criminal activity.
- Researchers Find 'Astonishing' Malware Linked to NSA Spying
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Security researchers have uncovered highly sophisticated malware that is linked to a secret National Security Agency hacking operation.
- The struggle of Venezuela against 'a common enemy'
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
John Pilger discusses the reasons that the United States continues to work continuously to overthrow Venezuela's left-learning government. The U.S. government makes absurd claims that Venezuela poses a grave 'threat' to the United States, but the truth is the opposite: the U.S. government poses a grave threat to Venezuela and its people.
- Ethiopia: stealing the Omo Valley, destroying its ancient Peoples
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
A land grab is under way in Ethiopia, as the government pursues the wholesale seizure of indigenous lands to turn them over to dams and plantations for sugar, palm oil, cotton and biofuels run by foreign corporations.
- Hailed as a Model for Successful Intervention, Libya Proves to be the Exact Opposite
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Advocates of the U.S. intervention in Lybia regard the event as a proof of success. Greenwald discusses why things are working in the opposite way.
- Inside the Rapidly Growing Cam Industry That's Changing the Porn Industry as We Know It
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
The camming industry, also known as the live content industry, has blown up in the past few years. And it’s unique in the fact that it’s all but carved a space for every kink out there.
- Citizens worldwide mobilize against corporate water grabs
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
The US and other governments are pushing a failed model of water privatization, but water is a human right, not just a commodity to be traded for profit or monopolized by corporations. Citizens and communities are fighting back to reclaim their water commons.
- Did the US Accidentally Give the World's Most Powerful Cyberweapon to Terrorists?
Sony Hack: Made in America?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
- EFF Files FOIA Suit Over U.S. Marshals' Spy Planes
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) has filed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit to shine light on the U.S. Marshals Service's (USMS) use of small aircraft mounted with controversial cell-phone tracking systems.
- IFJ Welcomes Release on Bail of Al Jazeera Journalists in Egypt
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) has today welcomed the release on bail of Al Jazeera journalists Mohamed Fahmy and Baher Mohamed, imprisoned in Egypt since December 2013.
- Land and seed laws under attack as Africa is groomed for corporate recolonization
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Across Africa, laws are being rewritten to open farming up to an agribusiness invasion - displacing millions of small cultivators and replacing them with a new model of profit-oriented agriculture using patented seeds and varieties.
- New standards aim to protect freelancers at risk
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
A global network of freelance journalists, news media companies, advocacy organizations, and journalist safety groups today released a set of guidelines for freelance journalists working dangerous assignments and news organizations
- Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - February 12, 2015
SYRIZA
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
This week we're featuring the 40-point program which SYRIZA, the Greek coalition of the radical left, put forward to win the Greek election. Oliver Tickell writes about the mass media's latest campaign of pro-war propaganda, this time revolving around supposed "Russian aggression" in Ukraine, while Paul Edwards looks at another form of war propaganda, Clint Eastwood's 'American Sniper'. The Topic of the Week is Water Rights. Related items include the film "Blue Gold: World Water Wars," the featured website International Rivers, and articles on water-related struggles, past and present, including articles on the Walkerton water disaster and the Cochabamba water war.
- Prying Eyes? Sovereign Has You Covered
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Got a few million bucks you want to protect from the tax man, a nosey spouse or a greedy business acquaintance? Sovereign Management & Legal Ltd. says it has the answers.
- World Radio Day
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
February 13 is World Radio Day, a day to celebrate radio as a medium; to improve international cooperation between broadcasters; and to encourage major networks and community radios alike to promote access to information, free, independent and pluralistic media.
- Aaron Swartz and the Fight for Free Information
His Blood is on the Hands of the US Government
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
It’s been just over two years since computer prodigy Aaron Swartz took his own life. He was the target of a merciless witch-hunt by the Department of Justice, ultimately choosing death over 35 years behind bars for the crime of releasing information. As someone who transformed the way we all use and love the internet, Aaron should have gotten a medal of honour, not a death sentence.
- Citizens Mobilize Against Corporate Water Grabs
A Human Right, Not a Commodity
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
New Jersey became the latest state to subvert democracy by authorizing the fast-track sale or lease of water utilities without public notice, comment, or approval. The controversial decision highlights the intensifying struggle over who owns, controls, and profits from the most precious - and threatened - resource on Earth.
- Fire as U.S. Policy
Burning Truth
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
- No Weapons to Ukraine
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Canadian Voice of Women for Peace is deeply concerned about the civil war in Ukraine in which thousands of civilians and soldiers, as many as 50,000 according to a credible German source, have already been killed.
- Bank's Services for Arms Dealers in Conflict with Its Own Policy
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
HSBC Private Bank, operating out of famously neutral Switzerland, was a financial conduit for business operators and criminals who fueled and financed some of Africa's bloodiest wars and most corrupt arms deals.
- Files Open New Window on $182-Million Halliburton Bribery Scandal in Nigeria
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
British lawyer facilitated bribes through secret Swiss HSBC accounts in his name and names of family members; revelations may place Nigerian government under pressure.
- High-school youth to rally outside Ontario prison on Family Day
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
High school aged youth from Peterborough and Toronto are changing the way they celebrate Family Day (February 16th) this year, rallying outside a maximum security prison in Lindsay, Ontario.
- I was "part of a terror organization," says Israeli pilot turned activist
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Interview with Yonatan Shapira, former Israeli air force pilot and current supporter of the Palestinian-led call for boycott, divestment and sanctions (BDS) against Israel.
- Monsanto monarch massacre: 970 million butterflies killed since 1990
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
A shocking statistic released by the US Fish and Wildlife Service on Monday summed up the plight of the monarch butterfly: Since 1990, about 970 million of the butterflies – 90 percent of the total population – have vanished across the United States.
- TV News in the Age of the Super Anchor
Why Brian Williams is Just the Tip of the Scandal
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Super Anchor is often more actor than reporter. His or her role is to give the story a certain imprimatur, which it doesn’t always deserve. Much of the real work, digging, and investigation is done by others.
- Wretched US Journalism on Ukraine
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
The most dangerous violation of journalistic principles has occurred in the Ukraine crisis, which has the potential of a nuclear war.
- Diamond Dealers in Deep Trouble as Bank Documents Shine Light on Secret Ways
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Belgium, centre of the world diamond trade, charges HSBC's Swiss Private Bank with fraud; many dealers under investigation around the world.
- Is Peace or War at Hand?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Roberts discusses the outcomes of the meeting in Moscow between Merkel, Hollande, and Putin as a result of Washington's aggressive position toward Russia.
- NEB's green light for Line 9 sacrifices waterways, public health and the climate
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
The National Energy Board (NEB) gave the green light to Enbridge Inc.'s contentious Line 9B pipeline on Feb 6, 2015, despite the company's failure to make necessary safety improvements. The decision means that critical safety measures will not be implement.
- Sex Work Advocates Make Their Voices Heard While Ontario Considers Harmful New Sex Work Laws
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Sex worker advocates insist that Ontario Attorney General Meillleur must meet with them and consider the mounting opposition to the misguided laws.
- U.S. Government Buys Surveillance Technology To Track Drivers in Real Time
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Local government officials have the ability to track individual drivers in the U.S. in real time and take pictures of the occupants of their vehicles, with new "truly Orwellian" technology purchased from companies like Vigilant Solutions, according to new documents uncovered by the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU).
- Banking Giant HSBC Sheltered Murky Cash Linked to Dictators and Arms Dealers
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Team of journalists from 45 countries unearths secret bank accounts maintained for criminals, traffickers, tax dodgers, politicians and celebrities. Secret documents reveal that global banking giant HSBC profited from doing business with arms dealers who channeled mortar bombs to child soldiers in Africa, bag men for Third World dictators, traffickers in blood diamonds and other international outlaws.
- Explore the Swiss Leaks Data
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
The Swiss Leaks project is based on a trove of almost 60,000 leaked files that provide details on over 100,000 HSBC clients and their bank accounts. Explore the data to see how different countries compare, and find out more about some of the clients of the bank.
- 500 rabbis urge Israel to stop demolition of Palestinian homes
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First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Over 500 rabbis from Israel, Britain, the US and Canada have called on the Israeli prime minister to stop demolishing Palestinian homes.
- Layers of Privacy on Swiss Bank Accounts
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
The files behind the Swiss Leaks project provide a rare glimpse inside the secretive world of a Swiss private bank, revealing a number of ways HSBC could help build layers of privacy around a client's wealth.
- The Most Terrifying Pressures Occur in Silence
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Ivancic narrates his prosecution by the Croatian government, which is one of the many examples of violence against Feral journalists.
- New Law, New Loophole, New Business for Giant Global Bank HSBC
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Selling ways to shield wealth from tax authorities - and setting off investigations the world over of both the bank and clients.
- 100,000 Clients, $100 Billion: The Swiss Leaks Data
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
The files at the foundation of the Swiss Leaks project are based on data secreted away by Hervé Falciani, a former HSBC employee-turned-whistleblower. He turned the data over to the French government in 2008 and its tax authority launched an investigation.
- The Real 'Housewives' of HSBC
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Housewives accounted for more than 7,300 of the clients listed by profession in HSBC's files, outweighing two other categories that suggest no paid compensation. "Without profession" and "student" together added up to fewer than 4,000.
- 60 Minutes: Stolen Data Shakes Swiss Banking to its Core
Resource Type: Film/Video
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
60 Minutes' Bill Whitaker investigates the biggest leak in Swiss banking history and examines HSBC's business dealings with a collection of international outlaws.
- 'Standards Were Significantly Lower Than Today:' HSBC's Response
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
The Swiss Leaks project is based on a trove of almost 60,000 leaked files that provide details on the names, professions and value of assets of over 100,000 HSBC clients.
- The Terror We Give Is the Terror We Get
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
The barbarism we condemn is the barbarism we commit. The line that separates us from the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) is technological, not moral. We are those we fight.
- Whistleblower? Thief? Hero? Introducing the Source of the Data that Shook HSBC
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Hervé Falciani’s long, strange journey from bank computer expert to jailed fugitive to candidate for office to spokesman for whistleblowers.
- Heavy Radicals: The FBI's Secret War on America's Maoists
The Revolutionary Union / Revolutionary Communist Party 1968-1980
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
A history of the Revolutionary Union/Revolutionary Communist Party -- the largest Maoist organization to arise in the US -- from its origins in the explosive year of 1968, its expansion into a national organization in the early seventies, its extension into major industry throughout early part of that decade, the devastating schism in the aftermath of the death of Mao Tse-tung, and its ultimate decline as the 1970s turned into the 1980s.
- The Right-Wing Doesn't Want to Talk About Christian Atrocities, So Let's Talk About Christian Atrocities
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
History is full of atrocities committed by Christians for Christ, against not just other religions but against Christians themselves.
- Book Review: This Nonviolent Stuff'll Get You Killed
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Book Review of "This Nonviolent Stuff'll Get You Killed: How Guns Made the Civil Rights Movement Possible" by Charles E. Cobb Jr.
- The Fallujah Option for East Ukraine
The Real Reason Washington Feels Threatened by Moscow
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Washington needs a war in Ukraine to achieve its strategic objectives.
- The Fiery Cage and the Lynching Tree, Brutality's Never Far Away
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
They burned him alive in an iron cage, and as he screamed and writhed in the agony of hell they made a sport of his death. After listening to one newscast after another rightly condemn the barbaric killing of that Jordanian air force pilot at the bloody hands of ISIS, I couldn’t sleep.
- Welcome to Ukraine, the most corrupt nation in Europe
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
While the conflict with Russia heats up in the east, life for most Ukrainians is marred by corruption so endemic that even hospitals appear to be infected.
- What is Lost in Poles' Memories
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Trukhachev reflects on Polish attempts to re-write the history of the Second World War.
- #DomesticExtremist trend mocks UK police surveillance of protesters
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Non-conformists across the UK are taking to social media to declare themselves #DomesticExtremists in a bid to raise awareness about secretive police powers.
- Florida Sheriff Tells Drivers to Run over Street Protesters
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Sheriff of Florida's Palm Beach County tells residents to use their vehicles as weapons against protesters who may be blocking their path.
- Four years later, still a graveyard of Chinese youth
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
In 2014, on the eve of China's national day celebrations, scenes recalling those of four years ago appeared in Chinese headlines. Foxconn became known to the world four years ago when thirteen of its young workers jumped to their deaths in quick succession.
- Information increasingly a rare commodity in Nigeria
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Reporters Without Borders is alarmed about the glaring gaps in domestic news coverage in Nigeria in the run-up to the 14 February presidential election, especially in the northeastern state of Borno.
- Monsanto Crops Pushing Monarch Butterfly to Verge of Extinction
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Herbicide-resistant genetically modified crops have brought the iconic monarch butterfly to the brink of extinction, according to a new report by the Center for Food Safety.
- Palestinian civil society condemns Canadian government disinformation and repression against boycott movement
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Palestinian BDS National Committee (BNC), the largest coalition of Palestinian civil society organisations that leads the boycott, divestment and sanctions (BDS) movement, has condemned the Canadian government's ramped up disinformation campaign
- Putin Prefers a Bad Peace
From Syria to Donbass, Russians Endorse Peace, Americans Push for War
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Putin can't cut off and forget about Donbass -- his people would not allow him anyway. A cautious man, he does not want to go to an open-ended war. So he has to navigate towards some sort of peace.
- Religious leaders urged to sign Declaration on Freedom of Expression
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
As part a campaign called "Freedom of expression has no religion," Reporters Without Borders is calling on leaders of all religions in France to sign its Declaration on Freedom of Expression.
- Two out of Three Investigative Journalists in US Believe They're Being Spied On
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
In the wake of the NSA mass surveillance scandal, a vast majority of investigative journalists believe that the U.S. government is spying on them, and large numbers say that this belief impacts the way they go about their reporting.
- The US/EU Manufactured Egyptian Nightmare has Arrived
The Ogre of Egypt Now Wants a Mandate for Wholesale Slaughter
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First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Article on the internationally-financed regime of Abdel-Fattah el-Sisi in Egypt.
- Burning Victims to Death: Still a Common Practice
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
The latest ISIS atrocity - releasing a video of a captured Jordanian fighter pilot being burned alive - prompted substantial discussion yesterday about this particular form of savagery. It is thus worth noting that deliberately burning people to death is achievable - and deliberately achieved - in all sorts of other ways.
- Conundrum - Syriza, Democracy And The Death Of A Saudi Tyrant
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
It's always a tricky moment for the corporate media when a foreign leader dies. The content and tone need to be appropriate, moulded to whether that leader fell into line with Western policies or not.
- Israel's road signs policy 'erases memory of place'
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Israeli authorities have long banned the Palestinian Authority (PA) from putting up its own road signs that refer to Palestinian towns and villages.
- It's The Blind Partisanship
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Why did the peace movement grow large around 2003-2006 and shrink around 2008-2010? Military spending, troop levels abroad, and number of wars engaged in can explain the growth but not the shrinkage. Those factors hardly changed between the high point and the low point of peace activism.
- Selling Sexual Services: A Socialist Feminist Perspective
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
The current debate about sex work among feminists generates more heat than light. Accusations of bad faith fly back and forth across the two sides, research findings are mobilized to undercut the other side even when the research itself is limited by its methods and scope, different sex worker voices are authorized by each side as either genuine or manipulated, depending on whose position those voices seem to support.
- The Sociopath as Hero
Clint Eastwood's War Prayer
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First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
American movie audiences have long loved violent heroes. Edwards discusses the box office hit of the moment, 'American Sniper', and the implications of the Hollywood War Porn industry.
- The Devil Is Here in These Hills
Virginia's Coal Miners and Their Battle for Freedom
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
From before the dawn of the 20th century until the arrival of the New Deal, one of the most protracted and deadly labour struggles in American history was waged in West Virginia. On one side were powerful corporations whose millions bought armed guards and political influence. On the other side were 50,000 mine workers, the nation's largest labour union, and the legendary "miners' angel," Mother Jones. The fight for unionization and civil rights sparked a political crisis verging on civil war that stretched from the creeks and hollows to the courts and the US Senate.
- Facebook Shut Me Down
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Peled describes how Facebook shut him down after he exposed an Israeli plant.
- The US arming of Ukraine and the danger of World War III
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
The Obama administration wants to arm the right-wing regime in Ukraine with billions of dollars in advanced weaponry, which may spark a direct conflict between the US and Russia, two nuclear-armed powers, and ignite a Third World War.
- Battle Over Google Subpoena Threatens Critical Online Free Speech Protections
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
A high-profile battle over whether Google must respond to an unusual and dangerous subpoena raises fundamental concerns about federal free speech law and the protections it affords hosts of online content.
- China's Media War: Censorship, Corruption & Control
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) yesterday released the seventh annual China Press Freedom Report, CHINA'S MEDIA WAR: Censorship, Corruption & Control.
- Coalition of organizations call for the reinstatement of long-form census
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
CJFE and 10 other organizations call on the Canadian government to pass Bill C-626 and reinstate the mandatory long-form census.
- Head of Burundi's most popular commercial radio station arrested
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Reporters Without Borders condemns leading radio journalist Bob Rugurika's arbitrary detention for the past week and the charges brought against him, which include complicity in the murder of three Italian nuns last September.
- The IFJ condemns the brutal murder of Mexican journalist Moises Sanchez Cerezo, from Veracruz
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Moises Sanchez Cerezo, editor of La Union, was found killed after 24 days without news of his whereabouts. The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) urges the Mexican authorities to solve all the responsibilities for the murder.
- The IFJ mourns the killing of two journalists in Iraq
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) and its regional affiliate the Iraqi Journalists Syndicate (IJS) have today condemned the killing of the Iraqi photographer Adnan Abdul Razzaq, allegedly murdered by the Islamic State (IS) in Mosul.
- January's Stupid Patent of the Month: A Method of Updating "Grass" in Video Games
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
U.S. Patent 8,529,350 - January's Stupid Patent of the Month. The patent -- titled "Method and System for Increased Realism in Video Games" - is owned by Utah-based troll White Knuckle LLC.
- Keeping It In The Human Family
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
What socialists set out to prove is that not only has "human nature" changed many times in the past but that there is no such thing as a static human nature. We are products of our environment, particularly of the economic system in which we live.
- New counterterrorism law in China deadly for online press freedom
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) expresses strong concern over the National Security Law Bill which is soon to be considered by the Standing Committee of National Congress in China in March, 2015.
- Police Raid Zunar's Office and Confiscate Books
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Malaysian cartoonist Zunar, on a speaking tour in England, got word in the early hours of Wednesday, January 28, that his office in Kuala Lumpur was being raided by police.
- Russia: the IFJ and the EFJ call for the release of Sergei Reznik
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ), the European Federation of Journalists (EFJ) and their Russian affiliate, the Russian Union of Journalists (RUJ) call for the release of imprisoned Russian journalist and blogger Sergei Reznik.
- Six Eritrean journalists released after nearly six years in prison
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Six Eritrean journalists (Bereket Misghina, Yirgalem Fisseha Mebrahtu and Basilios Zemo of Radio Bana, Meles Negusse Kiflu), who had been held since a wave of arrests in February 2009, were released probationally.
- Sri Lanka to reopen investigation into 2009 murder of Lasantha Wickrematunge
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Wickrematunge, the founder and editor of The Sunday Leader, was assassinated in January 8, 2009. According to reports, the new Sri Lankan government decided to reopen the investigation.
- Well-known Azerbaijan journalist gets five years on absurd charge
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
The latest victim of the crackdown that the authorities began last summer is the well-known journalist Seymour Khazi, who was sentenced to five years in prison on a trumped-up charge of aggravated hooliganism at the end of a sham trial yesterday.
- After the oil spill: ode to the Yellowstone River
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
In the face of environmental atrocities like the recent spill of crude oil into the Yellowstone River, quiescence be damned! To stop more of the same, we must reclaim from the corporate-captured state the rights of commons and community to decide on how local resources are used.
- Crossing the River of Fire
The Liberal Attack on Naomi Klein and This Changes Everything
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First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
A review of Naomi Klein's book "This Changes Everything" on climate change and its political enviroment.
- Execution of Paris Communards Foreshadowed Mass Murders of 20th Century
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
The short-lived Paris Commune of 1871 lasted only a little more than two months before being ruthlessly crushed. A new book by Yale Professor John Merriman, "Massacre: The Life and Death of the Paris Commune," provides a remarkably detailed account of an armed uprising that rejected oligarchical government.
- Forgotten February In The United States Of Aggression
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First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Since it appears so many folks need reminding that "USA" has always stood for "United States of Aggression," here are a forgotten few from February’s Files.
- The Great Republican Land Heist
Cliven Bundy and the politicians who are plundering the West
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Cliven Bundy and other politicans have seized public land and ravaged the area as they exploit it for their economic purposes.
- The tragedy of being a girl in India
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
India is the "most dangerous country in the world in which to be a girl". This is stated in a controversial United Nations finding based on a range of distressing social statistics rooted in gender and caste prejudice, much of which can be traced back to 18th century colonialism and the destructive 'divide and rule' methodology employed by the British.
- The War of the World
Easy Chair
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Solnit reflects on the environmental destruction that the world has been experiencing since the Second World War.
- Gunman as Hero, Children as Targets, Iraq as Backdrop
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
American Sniper, directed by Clinton Eastwood about Navy SEAL sniper Chris Kyle,
is not only the latest blockbuster but also a war propaganda.
- Life Support for Labor?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
The Debate Over how to save the labour movement suffers from a serious deficit of books written by organizers. Rarely do we get an entire book by someone who has been organizing for four decades, and is still actively engaged with union members, staff and leaders.
- Queer Activism in the Labor Movement
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
In the 1970s, Teresa Rankin kept her sexual orientation private while organizing textile workers at J.P. Stevens in North Carolina. When the Amalgamated Clothing and Textile Workers Union (ACTWU) offered her an organizing position in a small town in Virginia, Rankin, turned down the opportunity fearing isolation due to her sexual orientation.
- Red state, red power: Nebraska's publicly-owned electricity system
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Republican Nebraska's energy is all publicly owned or cooperative, and prices are among America's lowest, with great service standards and a strong commitment to renewables. Decentralised and locally accountable, this could be the model that replaces inefficient, unresponsive monopolies - both nationalised and corporate.
- Shaping 20th Century America
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Stating that "The world must be made safe for democracy,” president Woodrow Wilson asked Congress for a declaration of war against Germany on April 2, 1917. The United States formally entered World War I four days later.
- Unions and the Road to Socialism
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
The familiar model of union struggle has been ineffective in attempts to change capitalism. I will try to explain why unions have not shaken capitalism's foundations. The explanation will point to the failure to challenge inequalities in returns to labour and capital from production.
- The Way of the White Cloud
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
In his search for alternatives to consumerism and industrialism, Jules Pretty travelled around the world to find surviving nature-based cultures. In this extract from his book 'The Edge of Extinction', he tells of the Tuva people of the Siberian steppe - proud of their traditions and closeness to the land, but very much part of the modern world - strictly on their own terms.
- Is Democracy Dead In The West?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
This is the "New Democracy." It is a resurrection of the old feudal order. A few super-rich aristocrats and everyone else serfs obliged to support the ruling order. The looting that began in Greece has spread into Ukraine, and who knows who is next?
- Russian aggression and the BBC's drums of nuclear war
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
The drums of war are beating on the BBC and other mass media, writes Oliver Tickell -- naked propaganda about fictitious 'Russian aggression' intended to soften us up for a war that could wipe out life on Earth. We must refuse to fall for the endlessly repeated lies, and tell our politicians that our highest priority of all is peace.
- Spanish Peacekeeper Is the Latest Example of Israel Killing United Nations Personnel
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
On January 28th a barrage of Israeli artillery fire struck near the South Lebanese village of Ghajar, killing United Nations peacekeeper Francisco Javier Soria. Soria, 36, was a Spanish citizen deployed with the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon, a peacekeeping mission tasked with maintaining the ceasefire between Israel and Lebanon in the occupied Golan Heights.
- The American Sniper Was No Hero
Assassin-for-Hire
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First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Despite what some people think, hero is not a synonym for competent government-hired killer.
- Deep time: Aboriginal stories tell of when the Great Barrier Reef was dry land
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Stories told by Australia's Aboriginal peoples tell of the time, over 10,000 years ago, when the last Ice Age came to an end, and sea levels rose by 120 metres. The narratives tally with the findings of contemporary science, raising the question: what is it about Aborigines and their culture than so accurately transmitted their oral traditions across thousands of generations?
- Feral Journalism - Rewilding Dissent
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Media censorship from corporations and politicians are distoring our view of reality but most of us aren't so far gone that we can't recognize the need for non-corporate media.
- Killing the Messenger 2014
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Over the year of 2014, many reporters haev been victimized, injured and killed. This report looks at the circumstances behind some of the deaths and raises awareness for the general lack of impunity behind reporter deaths.
- Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - January 29, 2015
Land seizures and land take-overs
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
This issue of Other Voices focuses on the issue of land seizures and land take-overs. Also included: Greece's solidarity movement, and the challenges and opportunities it faces after the election of a Syrizia government. From the archives, there are interviews about the 1974 occupation of Anicinabe Park, an article about anti-dicrimination fighter Viola Desmond, and the publication, in 1929, of All Quiet on the Western Front.
- The seed saving rebellion is growing - and banging at the Commission's door
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First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
A year ago today, Europe-wide protests defeated an EU regulation that would have outlawed many seed saving activities. Now growers are taking matters into their own hands, saving and developing open-pollinated seeds - and campaigning for a seed regulation that supports them, not the monopolist seed corporations.
- US Announces Support of Neo-Nazis
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Pentagon officials confirmed last week that US troops will deploy to Ukraine in the spring to help build the Ukrainian National Guard. In addition to sending US troops, Washington has already sent heavy military equipment and has earmarked $19 million for Ukrainian forces. The Ukrainian National Guard includes the Azov Battalion, a pronounced neo-Nazi group that has reportedly been involved in the recent violence in Ukraine.
- Why Can't Public Transit Be Free?
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First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Pinsker analyzes perceptions of what "free" means when it comes to fare-free transit and how the public's worries regarding what type of people such an offer would attract is standing in the way of implementing progress.
- Canada Casts Global Surveillance Dragnet Over File Downloads
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Canada's leading surveillance agency is monitoring millions of Internet users' file downloads in a dragnet search to identify extremists, according to top-secret documents. The covert operation taps into Internet cables and analyzes records of up to 15 million downloads daily from popular websites commonly used to share videos, photographs, music, and other files.
- How to Leak to The Intercept
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Leaking can serve the public interest, fueling revelatory and important journalism. Here are instructions for how to leak safely.
- Mass surveillance program in Canada revealed on International Data Privacy Day
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
This morning Canadians learned of Levitation, a surveillance program run by Canada’s Communications Securities Establishment (CSE), which monitors documents being uploaded and downloaded on file-sharing websites around the world.
- Nigerian farmers face destitution from 300 sq.km land grab backed by UK aid
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Farmers in Nigeria's north eastern state of Taraba are being forced off lands they have farmed for generations to make way for US company Dominion Farms to establish a 300 square kilometre rice plantation.
- The Petulant Entitlement Syndrome of Journalists
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Jonathan Chait’s denunciation of the "PC language police" provoked intense reaction: much criticism from liberals and praise from conservatives.
- This is how a police state protects "secrets": Jeffrey Sterling, the CIA and up to 80 years on circumstantial evidence
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
- Under Fire: Documentary details attacks on journalists during Gaza offensive
Resource Type: Film/Video
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
In the summer of 2014, Israel launched a military operation on Gaza dubbed "Operation Protective Edge". By the time Israeli forces withdrew from the strip, 17 journalists were confirmed dead. No one has been held accountable for their deaths so far.
- Unite and Fight
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
The flim Pride isn’t just excellent labour history. It’s a reminder of what real solidarity looks like.
- Israeli Defense Force fires 43 elite reservists for protesting 'persecution' of Palestinians
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
The Israeli military has dismissed 43 members from the elite intelligence 8200 unit. In September 2014, they wrote an open letter protesting Israeli covert activities towards Palestinians, particularly the 2014 military operation in Gaza Strip. In the letter, written in the wake of the Operation Protective Edge, the 10 officers and 33 soldiers wrote that they "refused to take part in actions against Palestinians and refuse to continue serving as tools in deepening the military control over the Occupied Territories."
- Kill The Messengers
Stephen Harper's Assault on Your Right to Know
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Ottawa has become a place where the nation's business is done in secret, and access to information - the lifeblood of democracy in Canada - is under attack.
- Labor Law Won't Save Us
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
The strike is still labour's strongest weapon.
- Onetime Antiwar, Environmental Protester Veers Into the Seamy World of Anti-Semitism
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
While most American-born activists who become involved in defending Palestinian rights avoid becoming overt anti-Semites even while steadfastly criticizing Israel, Kenneth O'Keefe is not one of them.
- SYRIZA's 40-point program
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Here is the official program of the Greek coalition of the radical left, SYRIZA, which won the elections of January 2015.
- Torture If You Must, But Do Not Under Any Circumstances Call the New York Times
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Monday’s guilty verdict in the trial of former CIA officer Jeffrey Sterling on espionage charges -- for talking to a newspaper reporter -- is the latest milepost on the dark and dismal path Barack Obama has traveled since his inaugural promises to usher in a "new era of openness."
- Why Bosses Hate Unions
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Unions vastly improve the wages and working conditions of their members. No wonder they're still under attack.
- Will the Greek elections strengthen the hands of the Global South?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
The endorsement of a leftist party is a vote against global lenders imposing governance prescriptions on countries in crisis. If Greece successfully pushes back against its lenders, it will open the door to countries of the Global South to restructure their relationships with lenders such as the World Bank and IMF.
- Secret 'BADASS' Intelligence Program Spied on Smartphones
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
British and Canadian spy agencies accumulated sensitive data on smartphone users, by piggybacking on ubiquitous software from advertising and analytics companies, according to a document obtained by NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden.The document outlines a secret program run by the intelligence agencies called BADASS.
- 7 shocking facts about Saudi Arabia under ‘modernizing’ reign of King Abdullah
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Taken aback by the fulsome praise the recently deceased King Abdullah has garnered from world leaders, RT has decided to assess whether his record stands up to scrutiny.
- What austerity has done to Greek healthcare
"What I witnessed appalled me - and brought tears to my eyes"
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
The shocking 'austerity'-imposed destruction of Greece's once proud healthcare system is a key reason Greeks have turned to Syriza, finds London GP Louise Irvine in an eye witness account.
- Death By A Thousand Cuts: Earth Enters The 'Danger Zone'
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
2014 was the warmest year on record for the world; possibly the warmest in 5000 years. Even worse, this warming will soon double the pollution levels of our planet. Meanwhile, corporate media couldn't care less.
- Lancashire County Council under pressure from fracking lobbyists
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Lancashire County Council is coming under intense pressure from fracking lobbyists to approve two controversial shale gas sites in the county, a week after its own planning officers recommended refusal.
- Ferguson and After: Where Is This Movement Going?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
The movement that has erupted after non-indictments of the cop killers of Mike Brown in Ferguson, Missouri, and of Eric Garner in New York City, one further fed by relentless continued police killings of black and brown youth on a weekly basis around the country, is without doubt the deepest social movement to emerge in the United States in more than forty years.
- Greek lesson: let's show some initiative on the Left
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Kevin Ovenden provides some suggestions on initiatives that the European Left can take to deliver practical solidarity to the people of Greece.
- Trust can fix our future: lessons from the simplicity of island life on Palau
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
After spending twelve days on a small island in Palau without the ample resources of modern life in developed cities, Andrew Broadbent ponders the crucial role trust will - and must - play in restoring our communities.
- Greece's solidarity movement: 'it's a whole new model - and it's working'
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Citizen-run health clinics, food centres, kitchens and legal aid hubs have sprung up to fill the gaps left by austerity – and now look set to play a bigger role under a Syriza government.
- Nieman Reports: What’s the difference between activism and journalism?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
As technology changes how news is gathered and delivered, should journalism continue to be sharply distinguished from activism and other kinds of free speech? An extract by Joel Simon from his new book on global media freedom addresses this question.
- The Police and the 1918-19 German Revolution
A Correction to Our Militant Labour Pamphlet
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
After the SPD took the helm of the government, Emil Eichhorn, a member of the left wing of the USPD, became the Berlin chief of police, acting on the false view that this arm of the bourgeois state could be transformed into a revolutionary instrument. On 4 January 1919, the Prussian Ministry of the Interior dismissed Eichhorn in a deliberate provocation.
- Tom Tomorrow Collection Donated to The OSU Billy Ireland Cartoon Library & Museum
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Dan Perkins donates "Tom Tomorrow Collection" to The Ohio State University Libraries'
Billy Ireland Cartoon Library & Museum.
- How the CIA made Google
Inside the secret network behind mass surveillance, endless war, and Skynet - Part 1
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
How the United States intelligence community funded, nurtured and incubated Google as part of a drive to dominate the world through control of information. Seed-funded by the NSA and CIA, Google was merely the first among a plethora of private sector start-ups co-opted by US intelligence to retain "information superiority.'
- Is Marxism Eurocentric?
This reading of Marx is virtually hegemonic in some branches of academia
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Many activists today first encounter Marxist ideas in and around college campuses, where certain interpretations of Karl Marx and Marxism have solidified into a sort of conventional wisdom. One of these is the idea that Marxism is "Eurocentric" -- and therefore has little to say to the mass of people in the 21st century globalized world. This reading of Marx is virtually hegemonic in some branches of academia.
- It Runs in the Family
On Being Raised by Radicals and Growing into Rebellious Motherhood
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
It Runs in the Family is a book about how parents can create lasting and meaningful bulwarks between their kids and the violence endemic in our culture. It posits discipline without spanks or slaps or threats of violence, while considering how to raise thoughtful, compassionate, fearless young people committed to social and political change-- without scaring, hectoring or scarring them with all the wrongs in the world.
- Journalist Barrett Brown sentenced to 63 months in prison
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
A Dallas, Texas court has sentenced journalist Barrett Brown to 63 months behind bars for links to the hacktivist collective Anonymous.
- Penises on the fashion catwalk - a flesh flash too far?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
The sight of men's genitals at the Rick Owens menswear show in Paris on Thursday caused a bit of a stir on the front row.
- Accredition of journalists violates press freedom, says Philippine union
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) joins the National Union of Journalists of the Philippines (NUJP) in strongly criticizing the provision in House Bill 362, which seeks to amend Republic Act (R.A.) 53 "Sotto Law" to narrow the parameters of journalism by forcing the issue of accreditation.
- Authorities ramp up pressure on media over banking disclosures
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Bulgarian Financial Supervision Commission has imposed fines of up to 80,000 euros each on several newspapers for disclosing information about the banking sector. Reporters Without Borders deplores this political attempt to silence news organizations
- Bangladesh extends block to online voice and messaging services
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
The Bangladesh Telecommunication Regulatory Commission (BTRC) has ordered Internet Service Providers (ISPs) and mobile phone operators to block access to online voice and messaging services including, WhatsApp, mypeople and Line, while Viber and Tang
- Censorship not a solution to terrorism, IFJ & Pakistan media reject guidelines
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) and the Pakistan Federal Union of Journalists (PFUJ) expresses its strong concern over new press guidelines for Pakistan's television and print media.
- Charlie Hebdo And The War For Civilisation
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
There is so much more that could be said about just how little passion the corporate media have for defending the right to offend. Anyone in doubt should try, as we have, to discuss their own record of failing to offend the powerful.
- Chinese media worker detained for three months without charge
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) strongly criticizes the illegal detention of a Chinese media worker for three months without reason and threats to a German journalist that her visa would be revoked for not assisting police
- Concern about blogger's condition after second flogging postponed
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Reporters Without Borders is relieved that the Saudi authorities have postponed blogger Raif Badawiâ's second session of 50 lashes on medical grounds but is very concerned about his health and urges the authorities to abandon this barbaric punishment altogether.
- Cory Doctorow Rejoins EFF to Eradicate DRM Everywhere
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Leading digital rights champion and author Cory Doctorow has rejoined the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) to battle the pervasive use of dangerous digital rights management (DRM) technologies that threaten users' security and privacy.
- Dangerous comments by pope on freedom of expression
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Reporters Without Borders is shocked by the extremely disturbing comments about freedom expression that Pope Francis made to journalists last week, in which he put respect for religion and faith above free speech and even defended the possible use of violence when religion is mocked.
- IFIC Releases Monthly Statistics for December 2014
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
The Investment Funds Institute of Canada (IFIC) announces that for the month ending December 31, 2014, the assets under management (AUM) for the mutual funds industry totalled $1.14 trillion. Year-to-date, industry AUM increased by $142 billion
- IFJ and EFJ Call on Macedonian Authorities to Grant the Permanent Release of Journalist Kezarovski
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) and its regional group, the European Federation of Journalists (EFJ), together with their members in Macedonia the Association of Journalists of Macedonia (ZNM) and the Trade Union of Macedonian Journalists
- Journalist paralyzed in attack dies a decade on, waiting for justice
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) joins the National Union of Journalists of the Philippines (NUJP) in expressing our deepest sympathies over the tragic death of a senior journalist, paralysed in 2005 following a failed assassination
- Journalists and media attacked during general strike in Nepal
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) joins its affiliates, the Federation of Nepali Journalists (FNJ) and the Nepal Press Union (NPU), in condemning several incidents of attacks on journalists and media workers during the general strike
- Justice Department finally stops harassing New York Times reporter
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Reporters Without Borders is relieved to learn that New York Times reporter James Risen will not be called to testify in the trial of Jeffrey Sterling, a former CIA officer charged with leaking classified information for book about the CIA published in 2006.
- Niger police attack media instead of protecting them
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Reporters Without Borders deplores the fact that privately-owned media were attacked by police during demonstrations in Niamey on 17 and 18 January although President Mahamadou Issoufou has assured the international community he is committed to media
- RSF and JDS urge new president to end violence against journalists
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
In the wake of Sri Lanka's 8 January presidential election, Reporters Without Borders and Journalists for Democracy in Sri Lanka (JDS) call on the new president, Maithripala Sirisena, to end the policy of violence against journalists
- Subsidizing Contractor Misconduct: Alma's Story
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Story of Alma Aranda, employee at the customer call center operated by Verizon Communications, where she works an eight-hour shift fielding questions about billing statements or complaints about Internet service from the company.
- Ken Greenberg on Island Airport Expansion and Shared Values
People sometimes get amnesia - we forget the battles we fought to get where we are
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
We are once more on the verge of making one of those decisions that comes along every generation that will have a profound impact on the shape of the city.
- Appel aux candidatures pour la Bourse d'etudes commemorative Sarah Beth Therien
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
- Day Care Owner/Operators Welcome New Wage Enhancement for Staff
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
ADCO members were pleased by the announcement of wage enhancement funding for RECEs working in all licensed child care settings, hope it signals Provincial recognition of the importance of licensed programs that are run as small businesses.
- Wealth: Having It All and Wanting More
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Global wealth is increasingly concentrated in the hands of a small wealthy elite. These wealthy individuals have generated and sustained their vast riches through their interests and activities in a few important economic sectors, including finance and insurance and pharmaceuticals and healthcare. Companies from these sectors spend millions of dollars every year on lobbying to create a policy environment that protects and enhances their interests further.
- Mass extinction for Earths oceans probable, comprehensive study says
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
The first comprehensive study of its kind has determined that ocean life is facing mass extinction from human activity. But the record damage is still reversible – unlike our impact on land. American scientists say the effects can be mitigated.
- Assassination Nation
Drones and Targeted Killing
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Since the use of killer drones by the United States began, more than 3500 people have been killed. Many of those killed were civilians. The number of civilians killed depends on how one counts civilians.
- A Fetid Wind of Racism Hovers Over Europe
Je Suis Charlie Chaplin
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
After Charlie Hebdo's assassinations, is it obligatory to identify oneself with the victims' actions? Must people be Charlie because the victims were the incarnation of the 'liberty of expression'?
- From Libraries to Climate Change
Why Cindy Milstein Believes Anarchism is More Relevant Than Ever
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Anarchism as a word to capture a set of ethics and political philosophy is more interesting to me, Milstein says.
- How to Organize
15 Key Points
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
I would like to share with you this list of points on organizing. I'm by no means an expert organizer, but I have gained some experience in the past decade. This list is not definitive or faultless. If you think I got it wrong, or if you have more points to add, let me know.
- Intolerance, Saudi-Style
With Friends Like These...
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
What all of those victims of the Saudi criminal justice system have in common is that their offenses related strictly to intellectual activities and not physical violence.
- Police Behavior and Neoliberalism
Explaining Bill de Blasio's Inaction
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
One of the more important questions spinning out of the recent confrontation between NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio and the New York City Police Force has been why, in the face of public disobedience by the force, has there been no attempt by the mayor's office to prepare ground for significant changes in police policies.
- Striking Fear in Paris
Waving in the First Row
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
By committing two attacks, the three Islamic radicals managed to spread panic throughout France.
- Working Hard in America's Twilight Economy
The Gleaners
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Over in the west side of town, gleaners hustle toward the recycling center on Peralta which will pay them cash for their collected goods. They push and pull their rusty supermarket carts filled with bottles, cans and odd goods toward the building before the steel rollup door rumbles down and ends that day's possibility of cash transactions.
- How "Hate Crimes Against Police" Expose the Fatal Flaw Within Hate Crime Statutes
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Hate crime legislation lent legitimacy to a 40-year carceral program that has wrought immense damage on communities of colour. In an ironic twist, the police - who've been the main enforcers of this program - now want to invoke these laws for their protection.
- Method and Madness
The Hidden Story of Israel's Assaults on Gaza
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
In the past five years Israel has mounted three major assaults on the 1.8 million Palestinians trapped behind its blockade of the Gaza Strip. Taken together, Operation Cast Lead (2008-9), Operation Pillar of Defense (2012), and Operation Protective Edge (2014), have resulted in the deaths of some 3,700 Palestinians. As Norman G. Finkelstein sets out in this concise, paradigm-shifting new book, an examination of Israel's motives reveals a state whose repeated recourse to savage war is far from irrational. Rather, Israel's attacks have been designed to sabotage the possibility of a compromise peace with the Palestinians, even on terms that are favorable to it.
- Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - January 15, 2015
Workers' Health and Safety
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
The topic of the week is Workers' Health and Safety. Articles on why environmentalists should support working class struggles; whistleblowers; the appalling death rate from U.S. drone strikes; the murderous attack on Charlie Hebdo in Paris; and what humanity could learn from Bonobos. The feature from the archives is Traces of Magma. The International Labor Rights Forum is the group of the week, and Silkwood is the film of the week.
- Social justice is the only solution to global warming
The Climate is Ripe for Social Change
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
South African activist says only an alliance between unions and social justice movements can stop capital from destroying planetary life.
- Charlie-berte : liberons l'information !
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Les syndicats de journalistes (SNJ / SNJ-CGT / CFDT-Journalistes), avec leurs Fédérations FIJ (internationale) et FEJ (européenne), saluent les quelque quatre millions de citoyens qui ont participé aux marches et rassemblements dimanche à Paris
- Death on the Bakken shale
Resource Type: Film/Video
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
North Dakota's fracking industry has the highest worker fatality rates in the US. Why are so many dying and who should be held responsible?
- Death threats for pro-democracy newspaper Apple Daily in Hong Kong
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) and its affiliate the Hong Kong Journalist Association (HKJA) condemn death threats against a pro-democracy newspaper in Hong Kong.
- Fair Trade gold mining in the highlands of Peru
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Most gold mining in Peru causes serious environmental damage, but there is one exception - a Fair Trade certified mine close to the world-famous Nazca Lines. Now it's up to us to demand Fair Trade gold from the jewellery trade, rewarding responsible producers and expanding the market for new Fair Trade gold miners.
- Une famille réfugiée rom est menacée de déportation vers des violences néo-nazies en Hongrie dans deux semaines; la déportation séparera la fam
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Une famille réfugiée rom habitant à Montréal depuis trois ans pourrait être déportée avant la fin janvier, ce qui forcerait les membres de la famille à retourner vers un pays où ils ont fait face à des violences racistes avec leur fille
- Hamburg newspaper firebombed after reprinting Mohammed cartoons
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Reporters Without Borders is appalled by last nigh's arson attack on the Hamburger Morgenpost newspaper after it published several Mohammed cartoons as a tribute to the Charlie Hebdo journalists who were murdered last week.
- How Verizon and Turn Defeat Browser Privacy Protections
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Verizon advertising partner Turn is using Verizon Wireless's UIDH tracking header to resurrect deleted tracking cookies and share them, forming a vast web of non-consensual online tracking. The tehcnology makes it impossible for customers to control their online privacy.
- The IFJ supports its affiliate in Tunisia in its search for the two Tunisian journalists missing in Libya
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
The IIFJ has declared its full support to the National Trade Union of Tunisian Journalists (SNJT) in its efforts to investigate the claim made by the Islamic State (IS) in its efforts to investigate the claim made by the Islamic State (IS) in Libya
- Journalists prosecuted for covering murder case involving president's relatives
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Reporters Without Borders condemns the criminal defamation proceedings against two independent Korean journalists, Kim Ou-joon and Choo Chin-woo, that have been under way for more than a year.
- NAFTA's Chapter 11 Makes Canada Most-Sued Country Under Free Trade Tribunals
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
According to a new study, Canada is the most-sued country under the North American Free Trade Agreement and a majority of the disputes involve investors challenging the country's environmental laws.
- Obamas Sordid Record on Censorship and Secrecy
Blindfolding the Republic
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Obama’s failure to attend the Charlie Hebdo march in Paris and the condemnations of this press freedom omission.
- Roma refugee family facing deportation to neo-Nazi violence in Hungary in two weeks; deportation will separate family
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Roma refugee family settled in Montreal for over three years could be deported before the end of January, forcing them to return with their ten year old daughter to a country where they faced racist violence.
- Tribute to leading news site that was forced to close
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Reporters Without Borders pays tribute to Uznews, ten years after its creation. This leading independent news website closed down last month.
- The Turn-Verizon Zombie Cookie
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Discussion of Verizon's "supercookie," a header that tracks mobile subscribers, even if they have opted out, cleared their cookies, or entered private browsing mode.
- Why are we afraid of naming and confronting capitalism?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Many critics of capitalism suggest that capitalism is not the main problem in the world. They do not want to appear, in the eyes of the people and the ruling elite, as too radical or 'ideological'. But the forces for social change must embrace revolutionary engagement with robust ideological clarity: Capitalism is the problem.
- Zombie Cookie: The Tracking Cookie That You Can’t Kill
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
An online ad company called Turn is using tracking cookies that come back to life after Verizon users have deleted them. The information retrieved contains customers' habits on their smartphones and tablets.
- Je Suis Charlie - But I Have Others
"Brothers, Our Town is Burning!"
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
We must work to close gaps, clasp hands and work together for a better world. We dare not forget those countless bloody deeds recorded largely in dusty archives - and their urgent lessons! I may well join in with "Je suis Charlie!" but must add: "I am Gul Rahman! I am Abu Zubaydah! I am Charles Horman and Ken Saro-Wiwa! I am Ghassan Kanafani and Victor Jara!"
- American White Separatist Finds Shared Values with Israel
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
If America and Israel have "shared values," as their elected leaders often claim, then how can so many Americans reject ethnocracy in their own country, but support what is happening inside Israel?
- Canada's campaign to block NAFTA's oil sands tailings pond probe slammed by critics
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Reactions to the federal government's attempts to stop NAFTA's environmental oversight commission from investigating environmental damage caused by tailings ponds in Alberta's oil sands came fast and fierce from critics.
- How the Great Food War Will Be Won
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Thus the necessary shift in perception is to see that, as in most wars, the crucial struggle in the food war is the one inside people's heads. And that the great food war will be won by the side that understands that and uses it best.
- Message Development: Rules of Engagement
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
This blog is an instructional guide for dealing with media. It gives tips on how to speak in front of the reporter, organizing your message, what to say and what not to say.
- Atlanta: Notes on the Politics of Respectability
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
In Atlanta, Black politics is contained by the churches and civil rights officialdom in a way that is very peculiar compared with anywhere else I have lived.
- Activism: Marathon or Sprint?
#shifthappens
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
The 1% are killing the planet partly because the elite players have chosen to look no further into the future than the next fiscal quarter. Meanwhile, our culture exists to train and condition the 99% to maintain an equally narrow perspective.
- Arab newspapers around the world react to Charlie Hebdo attack
Resource Type: Drawing
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Arab newspapers around the world react to Charlie Hebdo attack
- As rivers re-open to shipping, oil threat to Bangladesh's Sundarbans forest continues
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Bangladesh's Sundarbans forest, home of incredibly rich biodiversity, is under unprecedented threat, writes ASMG Kibria. The recent oil tanker capsize on the Shela river puts the forest at risk of widespread biodiversity loss, but just this week, the authorities re-opened the Shela river to shipping with no restrictions on hazardous cargoes.
- Hands Up, Fast Food!
The Fight for $15
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Fast-food workers and supporters gathered late Tuesday evening to shut down the Phillips 66 convenience store in St. Louis. They chanted "hands up don't shoot" and did a die-in in remembrance of Mike Brown and Eric Garner.
- How Israel Covers Up Its Ugly Racial Holy War
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
As the incitement to violence by Israeli leaders ramped up, so did racist attacks by Israeli citizens.
- If Paris Killers Had Western Media on Their Side
Flip the Script
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Imagine if the Charlie Hebdo killings had been reported on in a slightly different manner, say in the manner that drone strike killings are reported.
- In Solidarity With a Free Press: Some More Blasphemous Cartoons
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Numerous writers thus demanded: to show "solidarity" with the murdered cartoonists, one should not merely condemn the attacks and defend the right of the cartoonists to publish, but should publish and even celebrate those cartoons. "The best response to Charlie Hebdo attack," announced Slate's editor Jacob Weisberg, "is to escalate blasphemous satire."
- The Internet: a Giant Job-Killing Machine?
Andrew Keen's "The Internet is Not the Answer"
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Andrew Keen's The Internet Is Not the Answer is the most frightening book I have read in years (perhaps in my lifetime), as frightful as the conservative Supreme Court justices and the deniers of climate change.
- Is the Islamic State Really Such a Psychological Enigma?
A Bizarre Excursion Into the Surreal
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
The costly debacle known as the Iraq War put the US government in a tough spot that's now exacerbated by the rise of the Islamic State in Anbar Province and western Syria.
A recent New York Times story referred to the Islamic State (also ISIS or ISIL) as a "conundrum" - "a hybrid terrorist organization and a conventional army."
- Maximum Horror
Where One Feeds on the Other
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
It was a horrific event. It was condemned in most parts of the world and most poignantly by many cartoonists. Those who planned the atrocity chose their target carefully. They knew that such an act would create the maximum horror. It was quality, not quantity they were after. The response will not have surprised or displeased them.
- Moral Clarity
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Shatz discusses the underlying meaning and implications of the slogan 'Je suis Charlie', an expression that became widespread after the shootings at the Charlie Hebdo's (French satirical magazine) office.
- NYC Cop Backlash
Amid Protests Against Racist Police Terror
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Weeks of mass protests that erupted after the policemen who killed Michael Brown and Eric Garner got off have left cops across the country seething. These hired guns of the capitalist rulers are howling over any criticism of how they do their job, which in racist capitalist America does include terrorizing and killing unarmed black people. Leading the pack in New York City are the Patrolmen’s Benevolent Association (PBA) and its ilk, which have seized on the December 20, 2014 killing of two Brooklyn cops to further push their agenda of bonapartism: that is, to stand above the law as judge, jury and executioner.
- Police and the American Mind
From "Broken Windows" to the "Thin Blue Line"
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Making sense of the events in Ferguson, Missouri, and Staten Island, New York, by understanding two concepts. Firstly, the police believing themselves to be the thin blue line between civilization and chaos. Secondly, the "broken windows" theory of policing.
- Q&A: On the Untouchable 'Lords of Secrecy'
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Horton, a lawyer, journalist and human rights advocate, makes the case in his book, Lords of Secrecy: The National Security Elite and America's Stealth Foreign Policy, that because the public is allowed to know so little, it has effectively been cut out of national security decisionmaking.
- Ranchers, the Real Eco Terrorists?
Malice Toward Wildlife
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Analysis on acts of "eco-terrorism" on public lands and towards wildlife.
- Three U.S. Lies About Israel and Palestine
The Last Guest at the Table of Justice
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
For decades United States' spokespeople, from presidents to members of Congress, have, with a straight face, told the most far-fetched lies about Israel and Palestine. Such things as Israel having a moral army, despite its ongoing genocide of men, women and children, or proclaiming it the only democracy in the Middle East, regardless of the institutional racism so prevalent there, have been staples of U.S. proclamations and news conferences.
- Unmournable Bodies
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
More than a dozen people were killed by terrorists in Paris this week. The victims of these crimes are being mourned worldwide: they were human beings, beloved by their families and precious to their friends.
- What is Going On in Spain?
The End of an Era and the Beginning of Podemos
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Something is happening in Spain. A party that did not exist one year ago, Podemos, with a clear left-wing program, would win a sufficient number of votes to gain a majority in Spanish Parliament if an election were held today.
- When History Knocks
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Naomi Klein is a longtime movement and media icon, a gifted synthesizer and popularizer who, over the past two decades, has been a leading chronicler of anti-corporate, anti-globalization, and anti-capitalist social movements.
- Je Suis Charlie? It's a Bit Late
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Hardly had news begun filtering out about the Charlie Hebdo shootings, than there were those suggesting that the magazine was a 'racist institution' and that the cartoonists, if not deserving what they got, had nevertheless brought it on themselves through their incessant attacks on Islam. What is really racist is the idea only nice white liberals want to challenge religion or demolish its pretensions or can handle satire and ridicule. Those who claim that it is ‘racist’ or ‘Islamophobic’ to mock the Prophet Mohammad, appear to imagine, with the racists, that all Muslims are reactionaries. It is here that leftwing ‘anti-racism’ joins hands with rightwing anti-Muslim bigotry.
- Leave most fossil fuels in the ground, or fry
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
For the world to meet its climate goals, a third of the world's oil, half its gas and 80% of its coal must stay underground.
- New copyright law is already being abused to threaten Canadian Internet users with ridiculous penalties for downloading
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Less than a week after new copyright rules went into effect in Canada, ISPs are already receiving notices from Big Media giants that contain misleading and threatening statements, according to top copyright expert Professor Michael Geist.
- Politicians Only Love Journalists When They're Dead
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
On Wednesday, 12 human beings were massacred in Paris. The motivation for the attack, it appears, was retaliation for the typically religiously offensive cartoons published by the satirical French magazine Charlie Hebdo. But if you listen to our leaders, they weren't the real targets here. It was something ineffable and harder to define: freedom of speech.
- Slain cartoonists at Charlie Hebdo were allies of anti-nuclear movement
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Several of the cartoonists at Charlie Hebdo were close allies of the French anti-nuclear movement, even providing cartoons to the French anti-nuclear network.
- Some Reflections on the Recent New York City Struggles
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Moving from specific events toward a larger understanding of the recent national wave of struggles, several questions remain: are the recent mobilizations in NYC part of the movement signified by #blacklivesmatter and its vague tactical imperative (#shutitdown)?
- A tale of two farming conferences: the future is 'real' and organic
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Lord Krebs, self-appointed spokesman for industrial agriculture, used the Oxford Farming Conference to attack organic systems for causing more climate change - a claim as demonstrably false as it is ludicrous, writes Peter Melchett. But across the city, the upstart 'real farming' conference was showing the way to a cleaner, greener and healthier future.
- Hashtag Activism Isn't a Cop-Out
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Using twitter is not just 'lazy activism'. It projects the voices of the small and it shows governments what the people truely support.
- IFJ Condemns Killings of Media Staff in Shocking Attack on French Magazine Charlie Hebdo' Office in Paris
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) today joined its French affiliates -- SNJ, SNJ-CGT and CFDT -- in condemning the shooting that has taken place today at the offices of the French satiric magazine Charlie Hebdo in Paris.
- In Dresden, PEGIDA meets opposition
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
PEGIDA's quick growth derives largely from the many fears, especially in eastern Germany, about the scarcity of decent, steady jobs, about constant rent hikes and dwindling hopes about having enough to live on when they retire. Echoing past fascists, today's "pied pipers" try to deflect such fears and resentment against refugees.
- Klein vs. Klein
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
This Changes Everything is a book capacious enough to allow Naomi Klein two positions at once. But a real climate-justice movement will at some point have to make choices.
- Oakland After Ferguson
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Already #BlackLivesMatter protests in Oakland are being likened to the sustained unrest following the videotaped murder of Oscar Grant by cops. But this time something is different.
- Philadelphia: The PPD's Strategic Response to the Movement Against Police Violence
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
A rebellion first began in early August 2014 in Ferguson, Missouri, following the police murder of black teenager Mike Brown. Militant solidarity protests spread across the country, and have since intensified following the non-indictment of the cops who killed Brown (also, Eric Garner in NYC). This wave of protests against the police represents the largest, most radical movement in this country since the 1960s.
- Report From Chicago
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
When the failure to indict Darren Wilson was announced about 200 Chicagoans marched from police headquarters at 35th and Michigan to Lakeshore Drive, and we confounded the cops by moving from southbound lanes to northbound.
- RWB appeals to media outlets to publish Charlie Hebdo cartoons
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
In response to today's shocking attack on the satirical weekly Charlie Hebdo that cost 12 lives, Reporters Without Borders issues an international appeal to media editors to begin publishing Charlie Hebdo's cartoons tomorrow.
- This Is What War Does
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Modern war is mass killing of civilians, always and everywhere, a practice which evolved in World War II and has done nothing but progress in that direction since. Even when they aren’t the actual targets, as in America’s nightmarish assassination-by-drone project, large numbers of dead or mangled civilians are the unavoidable consequence.
- Today's media language a little too much like 1984's Newspeak
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Canada is not Orwell's imaginary society where peoples' every thoughts and ideas are controlled by The Party, but our own powerful elite has pushed our media closer to censorship and a propaganda-feeding machine than I ever imagined possible.
- Trans-Canada sues US for $15 billion over KXL refusal
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
The US government is being sued for $15 billion for its cancellation of the Keystone XL tar sands pipeline last year in order to combat climate change. The legal challenge under NAFTA sends a warning to all countries contemplating similar 'free trade' agreements.
- Another brutal year for journalists in Pakistan
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) and the Pakistan Federal Union of Journalists (PFUJ) express deep concerns over the miserable condition of journalists in the country as the IFJ's annual List of Journalists and Media Staff Killed in 2014 puts Pakistan as the most dangerous country with 14 killings.
- Farmers join to save the seeds that feed us
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Farmers and growers in south-west England have united to reclaim the lost skill of seed saving. They are determined to grow, develop, share and disseminate open-pollinated seeds, and oppose EU laws granting commercial plant breeders a legal monopoly on the seeds that sustain our lives.
- FBI harassing fossil fuel activists in the Pacific northwest
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
A grassroots movement of eco-activists is achieving unprecedented success in challenging fossil fuel developments in the Cascadia region of the US's Pacific northwest, writes Alexander Reid Ross. And that has attracted the wrong kind of attention - from local police, FBI and right-wing legislators determined to protect the corporate right to exploit and pollute.
- From an IN Correspondent Overseas
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Insurgent Notes corresponent questions what has happened to the class struggle in the United States.
- Greenpeace 'peer review' climate sting's first scalp?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
A leading member of the climate change-skeptic Global Warming Policy Foundation has resigned from his post in the wake of a Greenpeace investigation that exposed its phoney 'peer review' process. But he insists: 'nothing going on here!'
- A Grim Very Tale: The Kehoe Paradigm
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
In the 1920s two employees of GM working in the research lab discovered that the addition of tetraethyllead - TEL - to gasoline would reduce engine 'knock'. It would take sixty years to stop industry from adding TEL to gasoline. During that time the lead contamination in the environment - globally - was raised by hundreds of times. Billions of tons of lead was dispersed into the environment.
- Los Angeles: Hands Up, Fight Back
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
A basic and incomplete chronological overview... Protests and marches continued throughout the fall in Los Angeles, linking the Ezell Ford, Michael Brown, Eric Garner and Antonio Martin murders together.
- The Police Were Created to Control Working Class and Poor Poeple, Not 'Serve and Protect'
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
On the history and origins of policing in the US.
- With Power of Social Media Growing, Police Now Monitoring and Criminalizing Online Speech
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Criminal cases for online political speech are now commonplace in the UK, notorious for its hostility to basic free speech and press rights. As The Independent's James Bloodworth reported last week, "around 20,000 people in Britain have been investigated in the past three years for comments made online."
- The challenge of Podemos
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
The emergence of so-called populist parties as a response to increasingly discredited political elites is a European-wide phenomenon. In most cases these parties have emerged on the right, if not the far-right. Not so in the Spanish state where Podemos, after barely ten months in existence, appears to be undermining the whole political set up in place since the end of the Franco dictatorship in the late 1970s.
- Food industry must get behind 'right to know' on GMO
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
The citizens 'right to know' campaign about GMOs has put the food industry on the defensive, big time. But that only creates the impression they have something to hide. if GMOs are as great as they claim, they should be only too glad. It's time they switched sides and got with the people they feed.
- ISIS and counter-revolution: towards a Marxist analysis
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
The article analyzes ISIS from a Marxist perspective and explores the Iraqi context in which ISIS first set down roots. Alexander further examines the interaction between the defeat of the Syrian Revolution and the consolidation of Nouri al-Maliki's authoritarian rule in Iraq.
- Make 2015 the Year of the Bonobo!
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
We humans have much to learn from our kissing cousins, the peaceful, empathic, playful, sensual and highly sexual Bonobo. Rather than play out the myth of ancestral 'killer apes', better follow the 'Bonobo Way', and extend our love to all living beings and Earth herself.
- The mass strike in the First World War
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
The mass strikes of the First World War displayed all the characteristics earlier described by Rosa Luxemburg. City and trade-wide strikes; national strikes; street fighting; demonstrations; the raising of economic demands and political demands, and of both.
- Radical Islam, Nihilist Rage
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Muslims are not the only religious group involved in perpetrating horrors. From Christian militias in the Central African Republic reportedly eating their foes to Buddhist monks organizing anti-Muslim pogroms in Myanmar, there is cruelty aplenty in the world. Nor are religious believers alone in committing grotesque acts. We need to ask why political rage against the West takes such nihilistic forms today. And why has radical Islam become its principal vehicle?
- Marx and Nature: A Red and Green Perspective - Book Review
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Essential reading for ecosocialists. Paul Burkett shows that humanity's relationship to nature is central to Marx’s critique of capitalism and vision of socialism.
- When will Palestinians learn? Turning to international law isn't the answer - just ask America and Israel
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Throw an old dog a bone and sure enough, he'll go chasing after it. So it is with "Palestine's" request to join the International Criminal Court.
- Who's the true enemy of internet freedom - China, Russia, or the US?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Beijing and Moscow are rightly chastised for restricting their citizens' online access – but it's the US that is now even more aggressive in asserting its digital sovereignty.
- Land concentration, land grabbing and people's struggles in Europe
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
The hidden scandal of how a few big private business entities have gained control of ever-greater areas of European land. How these land elites have been actively supported by a huge injection of public funds -- at a time when all other public funding is being subjected to massive cuts.
- We Are All Ayotzinapa
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Report on the kidnapping and murder of students in the Mexican state of Guerrero.
- About Canada: Women's Rights
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Introduces readers to some of the many women who changed Canada through their efforst to secure greater equality.
- The Above
Field of Vision
Resource Type: Film/Video
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
In Kirsten Johnson’s The Above a U.S. military surveillance balloon floats on a tether high above Kabul, Afghanistan. Its capacities are both highly classified and deeply mysterious.
- African-American Self-Defense
Guns and the Freedom Struggle
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
A Review of "This Noviolent Stuff'll Get You Killed: How Guns Made the Cvil Rights Movement Possible" by Carles E. Cobb. Jr.
- After the Last River
Resource Type: Film/Video
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Vicki Lean has crafted a stunning documentary about the community of Attwapiskat and its stories of risistance, following the impact that diamond mining and decades of government underfunding have had on the environment and the community.
- The Age of Aquiescenence
The Life and Death of American Resistance to Organized Wealth and Power
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
A groundbreaking investigation of how and why, from the 18th century to the present day, American resistance to our ruling elites has vanished. From the American Revolution through the Civil Rights movement, Americans have long mobilized against political, social, and economic privilege. Hierarchies based on inheritance, wealth, and political preferment were treated as obnoxious and a threat to democracy. Mass movements envisioned a new world supplanting dog-eat-dog capitalism. But over the last half-century that political will and cultural imagination have vanished. Why? Fraser sets out to solve that mystery.
- Alberta Oil and the Declince of Democracy in Canada
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
If reliance on oil production undermines democratic participation and governance in Canada, then what does the Alberta case suggest for the future of democracy in other industrialized nations?
- Altered Genes, Twisted Truth
How the Venture to Genetically Engineer Our Food Has Subverted Science, Corrupted Government, and Systematically Deceived the Public
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Drucker elucidates the scientific facts about genetically engineered foods that the PR myths have been obscuring.
- Amiri Baraka and the Congress of African People
History and Memory
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
This study of the Congress of African People (CAP) combines historical research and analysis with the author's first-hand experience with the organization, providing the first historical narrative of a consequential player in the Black Power Movement.
- Anti-African Racism in Israel
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
A collection of articles by David Sheen chronicling the racist attacks against non-Jewish African asylum-seekers in Israel.
- Apostasy, Blasphemy and Free Expression in the Age of ISIS
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
The right to religion comes with a corresponding right to be free from religion.
- The Art of Flying
Resource Type: Film/Video
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Watch the magnificent and hypnotic imagery of starlings and their flying patterns in the Netherlands countryside, in a rare season where they stayed North, instead of migrating.
- Beyond The Broken Window
William Bratton and the new police state
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Assistant chief Paul McDonagh was the man with the unenviable task of explaining the Seattle Police Department's drone program to the public. In October 2012, a lawsuit by the Electronic Frontier Foundation revealed that the department had secretly purchased a pair of camera-equipped Draganflyer X6 drones two years earlier. Soon after, McDonagh stood in a local community center before a roomful of citizens, who were shouting "shame" and "murderer" and "no drones, no drones, no drones!"
- Bikes vs Cars
Resource Type: Film/Video
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Bikes vs Cars is a documentary about the bike and what an amazing tool for change it can be. It highlights a conflict in city planning between bikes, cars and a growing reliance on fossil fuels.
- Birdie
Resource Type: Film/Video
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Birdie, who sleeps in trees and sells fruits and vegetables on the streets of Rio de Janeiro, loves the two abandoned dogs he now lives with. In Heloisa Passos' film, Birdie reads the minds of his two best canine friends.
- Black Flags: The Rise of ISIS
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Pulitzer prize-winning book about the origin of ISIS.
- Canada's Toxic Chemical Valley
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
About the effects of "Chemical Valley" in the Aamjiwnaang-Sarnia area.
- Canadian Lies
Resource Type: Audio
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
A parody song aimed at Canada's Conservative Prime Minister Stephen Harper.
- The Canadian Oral History Reader
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
A collection of work in oral history by Canadian scholars.
- Capitalism & Climate Change
The Science and Politics of Global Warming
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
An excellent primer, from a radical perspective, on what the ecological crisis is about and what is causing it.
- Captive Market
Why we won't get prison reform
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
The American prison system isn't broken; it's working exactly as designed. Seven million people may find their lives constrained, but according to the metrics that make America hum, their time served is also value added. Critics who mistake mass incarceration for a failure of social justice are oblivious to a stronger governing principle: Criminal justice is a business, and business is good.
- Children of the Broken Treaty
Canada's Lost Promise and One Girls's Dream
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Angus provides chilling insight into how Canada denies First Nations children their basic human rights.
- The Chinese Working Class in the Global Capitalist Crisis
Revolutionary Mass Strike or a New Bureaucratic Containment?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
By 2012, there were upwards of 100,000 “incidents” of popular unrest per year, ranging from strikes to riots to confrontations with local authorities over rural land seizures and real estate development. 2014 saw the highest number of strikes (12,000) ever, quite outside the control of the All-China Federation of Trade Unions (ACFTU), the discredited state-sponsored union. The regime has thus far been successful in keeping these struggles dispersed and localized, aimed at local authorities rather than the central government. Environmental destruction, pollution and health hazards are also increasingly at issue.
- Christians at risk across the globe
Pope has warned of a 'form of genocide' as threat of persecution grows, reports
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Christians are facing growing persecution around the world, fuelled mainly by Islamic extremism and repressive governments, leading the pope to warn of "a form of genocide" and for campaigners to speak of "religioethnic cleansing".
- Climate Insurgency
A Strategy for Survival
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Twenty-five years of human effort have failed even to slow climate change, let alone reverse it. Climate Insurgency lays out a strategy for protecting the earth s climate: a global nonviolent constitutional insurgency. This short book starts with a brief history of official climate protection efforts from above and non-governmental ones from below that explains why climate protection has failed so far. Then, it proposes a global nonviolent insurgency for climate protection to overcome that failure.
- The Communist International and U.S. Communism
1919 - 1929
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
For most commentators the Comintern's role in the development of American Communism is wholly negative. Zumoff challenges this narrative.
- Compañeras: Zapatista Women's Stories
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Story of women's involvement in the Zapatista movement, the indigenous rebellion that has inspired grassroots activists around the world for over two decades.
- The Complete Works of Rosa Luxemburg, Volume II
Economic Writings 2
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
This volume contains a new English translation of Luxemburg’s most important book, The Accumulation of Capital (1913) as well as her response to its critics. Taken together, they constitute one of the most important Marxist studies of the globalization of capital.
- Connexions Calendar Expired Events 2015
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
- Connexions mirror site
Resource Type: Website
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
This is a backup/mirror site for Connexions.org.
- Containment
Resource Type: Film/Video
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Containment is a thoughful observational essay filmed in Fukushima, weapons plants nuclear storage facilities and deep underground exploring the present and future challenges of nuclear wast storage.
- Continental Cultural Communication
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
A review of "Africa Speaks, America Answers" written by Robin D.G. Kelley.
- Daughter of the Lake
Resource Type: Film/Video
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Follow the powerful journey of Nelida a young Andean woman able to communicate with the spirits of the water. Nelida's fight takes her from the frontlines of resistance against gold mining in her village, to law school in Lima in efforts to save her community in the court system.
- Debunking Barrick
2015 Update
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
A updated annual report of the 2013 publication titled Debunking Barrick. The report outlines the abuses by the mining company Barrick Gold and the many communities around the globe that are affected by its operations.
- Dismantling Democracy
Stifling Debate and Dissent in Canada
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
An extensive dossier of the Harper government's attacks on democracy, debate, and dissent.
- Displaced In The D. R.
A country strips 210,000 of citizenship
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Even before Juliana Deguis Pierre became famous, or infamous, any Dominican who saw her would have guessed that she was of Haitian descent. Her dark skin, wide nose, and what is, in the Dominican Republic, called pelo malo -- "bad hair" -- immediately identify her as the child of Haitians, even though she was born in the Dominican Republic and has never been to Haiti.
- Disturbing the Peace
The Use of Criminal Law to Limit the Actions of Human Rights Defenders in Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territories
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
The first part of this report briefly reviews the criteria for recognizing the status
of human rights defenders, the development of the legal status of human rights
defenders and the legal tool formulated to protect them and allow them to
protect and promote these rights internationally. The second part of the report
focuses on the common practice of using criminal law to harm defenders, and
examines how human rights defenders in Israel are criminalized. The report
provides examples of cases that have taken place in Israel and in the Occupied
Palestinian Territories (OPT) in recent years, in which the authorities used criminal
law against defenders in an effort to restrict their freedom and limit their ability
to take action.
- Don't Waste Any Time In Mourning
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
In the many accolades Pete Seeger received in the days, weeks, and months after his death, there was often something missing -- as absent in tributes from admirers who share his revolutionary politics as in those aiming to reclaim him for respectability.
- Dr. Mike Carr passes at 73
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Dr. Mike Carr, community activist, academic and teacher, passed away amongst his Cuban family in Havana Cuba.
- The Drone Papers
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
The Intercept has obtained a cache of secret documents detailing the inner workings of the U.S. military's assassination program in Afghanistan, Yemen, and Somalia. The documents, provided by a whistleblower, offer an unprecedented glimpse into Obama's drone wars.
- Encyclical Letter Laudato Si' of the Holy Father Francis on the Care for our Common Home
Pope's statement on environment and exploitation
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
The human environment and the natural environment deteriorate together; we cannot adequately combat environmental degradation unless we attend to causes related to human and social degradation.
- Esraa's Stories
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
The illustrated children's book Esraa's Stories tells the tale of a girl who loves to write stories, and one day chooses to write about what everyone misses most from the camp in Syria. Through book distribution Kitabna seeks to develop reading, writing, and teaching skills with young people in refugee camps.
- EuroZone Profiteers: How German and French Banks Helped Bankrupt Greece
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
We should be clear: almost none of the huge amount of money loaned to Greece has actually gone there, says Joseph Stiglitz, former chief economist of the World Bank and a Nobel Prize winner in economics. It has gone to pay out private-sector creditors – including German and French banks.
- The Extreme Centre
A Warning
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Since 1989, UK politics has become a contest to see who can best serve the needs of the 'market', a competition now fringed by unstable populist movements. Tariq Ali looks at the people and the events that have informed the consistent victories for the Extreme Centre.
- The Failure of Nonviolence
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
The Failure of Nonviolence examines most of the major social upheavals following the Cold War to reveal the limits of nonviolence and uncover what a diverse, unruly, non-pacified movement can accomplish. Critical of how a diversity of tactics has functioned so far, this book discusses how movements for social change can win ground and open the spaces necessary to plant the seeds of a new world.
- Fatal Extraction
Australian Mining's Damaging Push Into Africa
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Australian-listed mining companies are linked to hundreds of deaths and alleged injustices which wouldn’t be tolerated in better-regulated nations. The stories are from people across Africa, and are rarely heard outside their communities.
- Feminism Unfinished
A Short, Surprising History of American Women's Movements
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
History of American women's movements. Starting from the 1920s, authors review a century of these social movements.
- The First Green Wave
Pollution Probe and the Origins of Environmental Activism in Ontario
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
O'Connor focuses on the first wave of activism -- the result of postwar ecology -- that originated in the late 1960s.
- A Folklorist of Black America
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
A review of Beuxw Conforth's book, "African American Folksong and American Cultural Politics:The Larry Gellert Story".
- For Workers' Climate Action
Climate Change and Working-Class Struggle
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
A new collection of articles and reviews on the fight against dangerous climate change, capitalism and workers' organisation and struggle. Urges the left to reach out to climate activists to make the case that being "anti-capitalist" is important but not enough.
- The Formula: How To Make A Video Go Viral
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Many people fail to realize that Youtube is also a social media platform. You use videos to get your message out and you read comments to get feedback and consumer interactivity.
- Foucault and Neoliberalism
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Michel Foucault has a reputation, especially in the academic world, as a radical. This collection of essays explores another, less acknowledged, side of Foucault's thinking: his embrace of some key elements of neoliberalism.
- Fractured Land
Resource Type: Film/Video
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
A Canadian feature documentary film profiling the Dene activist Caleb Behn as he goes through law school and builds a movement around greater awareness of hydraulic fracturing (fracking) on First Nations lands.
- Free Public Transit
Resource Type: Film/Video
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
This video focuses on accessibility when it comes to public transit in Tallinn, Estonia and how transit issues intersect with social justice issues.
- Freedom takes over from law and order
A squatted barracks is the HQ of Slovenia's underground scene, discovers.
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Across the river from the old-town of central Ljubljana - a delicate maze of cobbled streets, medieval fortifications and colourful churches that characterise the many cities of the former Austro-Hungarian Empire - lie the dozen or so dilapidated buildings that make up what has become known as Slovenia's second capital. On first glance, it is hard to believe it's actually occupied. There are no signs directing visitors to its gates: the rubbish-strewn streets are eerily empty in the daylight, the graffiti covering the walls unread. But after dark, it becomes the focal point of the country's alternative culture scene.
- Frontier Films
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Frontier films Inc. was a non-profit organization formed in March 1938 out of the Worker's Film and Photo League and Nykino, meant to continue the tradition of producing films for social change in a documentary format.
- The German War
A Nation Under Arms, 1939-1945. Citizens and Soldiers
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
- Global Warming's Unacknowledged Threat - The Pentagon
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
The Pentagon has admitted to burning 350,000 barrels of oil a day (only 35 countries in the world consume more) but that doesn't include oil burned by contractors and weapons suppliers. It does, however, include providing fuel for more than 28,000 armored vehicles, thousands of helicopters, hundreds of jet fighters and bombers and vast fleets of Navy vessels.
- Going Clear: Scientology and the Prison of Belief
Resource Type: Film/Video
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
A documentary film about the Church of Scientology, based on Lawrence Wright's book Going Clear: Scientology, Hollywood and the Prison of Belief (2013).
- Gratitude
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Essays written by Oliver Sacks in the last few months of his life.
- Guantánamo Diary
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Slahi's diary recounting his life as a detainee at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba.
- Harperman
Resource Type: Audio
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Harperman is a song lampooning Canada's Conservative Prime Minister Stepehn Harper, written and performed by Ottawa scientist and folk singer Tony Turner. Singing the song got him suspended from his job as a habitat planning scientist with Environment Canada.
- Headscarves and Hymens
Why the Middle East Needs a Sexual Revolution
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
A condemnation of the repressive political, cultural, and religious forces that reduce millions of women to second-class citizens.
- Headscarves and Hymens: Why the Middle East Needs a Sexual Revolution
Book Review
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
One afternoon earlier this year, I stepped into the carriage of a Cairo metro train. I was on the way home from interviewing female students - all of them devout, veiled Muslims - who had been snatched off the street and sexually assaulted by police for protesting against the military regime. It was hard for them to speak openly about the attacks for fear of shaming their families and destroying their own chances of marriage.
- A History of the Barricade
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
On the historical evolution of the French barricade, from the Wars of Religion to the Paris Commune.
- How Much Does Climate Change Change?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
A review Naomi Klein's book This Changes Everything.
- How Much Does Climate Change Change?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
A review of Naomi Klein's book This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. the Climate.
- How to ruin a good display
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
- If This Is a Woman: Inside Ravensbruck, Hitler's Concentration Camp for Women
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Ravensbruck is a camp relatively unknown because it doesn't fit the Holocaust narrative. The hundreds of survivors' stories in this account bear witness to the terrifying heterogeneity of Nazi crimes.
- In Vietnam War US deliberately bombed hospitals
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
- An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Dunbar-Ortiz challenges the founding myth of the United States and shows how policy against the Indigenous peoples was colonialist and designed to seize the territories of the original inhabitants, displacing or eliminating them.
- Insurrectional Black Power
CLR James on Race and Class
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
During the exhilarating and dangerous late 1960s and early 1970s, no world historical figure of older generations had a more militant defense of Black Power than CLR James. But it was always a vision within a context, and after all these years have passed (along with James himself who died in 1989), the context remains crucial.
- Intercept: The Secret History of Computers and Spies
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Gordon Corera's book takes us through the labyrinth of cyber-espionage, the development by American intelligence of "computer network attack" and realisation by its adversaries, hackers, that the secret services had created "a large attack surface" that rendered it vulnerable.
- International Development: Illusions and realities
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Explores the myriad shapes of development, and argues for an organic approach driven by the people it's meant to benefit.
- ISIS-Turkey Links
Research Paper
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Is Turkey collaborating with the Islamic State (ISIS)? Allegations range from military cooperation and weapons transfers to logistical support, financial assistance, and the provision of medical services. Columbia University's Program on Peace-building and Rights assigned a team of researchers in the United States, Europe, and Turkey to examine Turkish and international media, assessing the credibility of allegations.
- Keystone XL opponents need a jobs program
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
The victorious Keystone campaign also exposed the perennial Achilles' heel of those who are fighting against climate change: We are often painted by our opponents and perceived by the public as caring more about the environment than about jobs. The neglected half of the job for environmental advocates is to ourselves become the voice for job creation. We need to develop robust programs to put unemployed pipefitters, teamsters, and others back to work. Indeed, the prerequisite for every environmental campaign should be a plausible and detailed jobs program. The sustainability movement must be a voice for workers, students, and others who want to both save the earth and promote appropriate economic development.
- Killing the Host
How Financial Parasites and Debt Bondage Destroy the Global Economy
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
In Killing the Host, economist Michael Hudson exposes how finance, insurance, and real estate (the FIRE sector) have seized control of the global economy at the expense of industrial capitalism and governments.
- The Legacy of Rosa Luxemburg
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Norman Geras sets out to interrogate and refute the myths that have developed around Rosa Luxemburg's work.
- Life Support for Labor?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
A review of the book "Save Our Unions: Dispatches from a Movement in Distress" written by Steve Early.
- The Living Seed
Part 1 of The Living Farms series
Resource Type: Film/Video
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Testimonies of farmers, seed savers, agronomists and scientists from across India and abroad form the basis for their compelling investigation of GMOs, organic farming and the future of agriculture.
- Lynching in America: Confronting the Legacy of Racial Terror
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
A report documenting the lynching of millions of African Americans from the Civil War until the Second World War. The work maintains that America's legacy of racial terror must be more fully addressed if racial justice is to be achieved.
- The Man on the Operating Table
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Baynazar Mohammad Nazar was a husband and a father of four -- and a patient killed during the attack on the MSF hospital in Kunduz. This is his story.
- March to Freedom, 1963 and Beyond
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Charles Simmons recounts his participation in the Walk to Freedom with Martin Luther King, Jr. in 1963.
- Marxism and Women's Liberation
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Why are women more often to be found on the sticky floor of low pay than above the glass ceiling where the rich reside? Why is there an assault on the gains of the women's movement? As austerity bites and new debates about oppression rage, Judith Orr steers a path through the history and future of the fight for women's liberation.
- Merchants of Doubt (film)
Resource Type: Film/Video
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Inspired by the book by Naomi Oreskes and Erik Conway, Merchants of Doubt takes audiences on an illuminating ride into the heart of American spin, lifting the curtain on a secretive group of pundits-for-hire who present themselves in the media as scientific authorities - yet have the contrary aim of spreading maximum confusion about well-studied public threats ranging from toxic chemicals to pharmaceuticals to climate change. 1 hr 36 min.
- Midnight in Europe
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
- Mike Marqusee: A contender for the living
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Mike's humane socialism and his ability to express sophisticated ideas in an accessible way has enriched the left in the UK and elsewhere.
- Mike Marqusee's columns: a look back
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
As we remember Mike Marqusee, Nick Dearden highlights some of Mike's most timeless writing in Red Pepper
- Mining: Extracting the Future
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
A publication on the negative impact of the mining industry on local communities and the environment. Articles include a look at the opening of Canada's North to industry, mining exploitation in Peru and targeted assassinations in Mesoamerica, Indigenous Water Defence, and the efforts of mining companies to excerpt influence and undermine accountability.
- Mobile Friendly Web Design – Does It Really Matter?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
The times are changing. With the advancement of mobile technology, marketers not only have worry about how many people visit their website but also with what device. An effective internet marketing campaign relies on consumers feeling comfortable with your website. As more and more people begin to browse the internet on their smartphones, it's become imperative that websites become mobile-friendly.
- My Brother's Keeper: African Canadians and the American Civil War
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Risking their own freedom, many African Canadians returned to the United States to participate in the Civil War and fight for the rights and liberty for all.
- Naked at Lunch
The Adventures of a Reluctant Nudist
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
- The name's changed; the game's the same
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Google cannot even claim that much - at heart, it remains an advertising company that happens to employ a lot of computer scientists.
- Network like a Pro
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
One of the highest ranking reasons that attendees identify for visiting an exhibition or event is their ability to connect with high value people. This rationale is at the heart of any trade event which has buyers and sellers from a broad geographic reach under one roof for a finite amount of time. Networking always has been and will continue to be what trade shows are all about.
- The New Spymasters: Inside Espionage From the Cold War to Global Terror
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
What good timing for these books on espionage, just as ISIS - fruit of the worst "intelligence" lie of recent history, the Blair-Bush excursion into Iraq - surges on and spies for Britain and the US are said to be moving from Russia and China after revelations by whistleblower Edward Snowden. The British GCHQ is caught illegally spying on human rights groups and the American NSA bugging heads of state, including French president Francois Hollande.
- Nine decades of non-violence
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Rural Indians were both the foot soldiers of freedom and the leaders of some of the greatest anti-colonial uprisings ever seen. Countless thousands of them sacrificed their lives to rid India of British rule. And many who lived through great suffering to see a free India were mostly forgotten soon after. From the 1990s onwards, p. Sainath recorded the lives of several of the last living freedom fighters.
- 95% of Police Killings in 2015 Occurred in Neighborhoods With Incomes Under $100,000 ref 56685
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
- No Cheers For Anarchism
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
A successful movement requires compromise, organization, and yes, even leadership, to actually get things done, none of which appeal to anarchists.
- Nonviolent Communication
A Language of Life, 3rd Edition: Life-Changing Tools for Healthy Relationships
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
The latest edition of the communication guide that has sold more than 1,000,000 copies. An enlightening look at how peaceful communication can create compassionate connections with family, friends, and other acquaintances, this international bestseller uses stories, examples, and sample dialogues to provide solutions to communication problems both at home and in the workplace.
- On China's 1989 Tiananmen Upheaval
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
The bourgeois media falsely portray the events in the spring of 1989 as a movement for capitalist counterrevolution under the banner of Western-style "democracy." The social explosion was triggered by protests initiated by students in Beijing's Tiananmen Square, which increasingly drew in groups of workers and spread throughout the country. Far from seeking a return to capitalism, Chinese workers overwhelmingly directed their anger at the sharply rising economic inequalities, rampant corruption and inflation encouraged by Deng’s program of "building socialism with capitalist methods."
- On the Move: A Life
Will Self
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Oliver Sacks, the eminent neurologist and writer, whose many books have done perhaps more than any other body of work to explain the mysteries of the brain to a general readership, is a strong supporter of the "narrativity" theory of the human subject. Suitably enough - given this is an autobiography - Sacks restates the notion here: "Each of us...constructs and lives a "narrative" and is defined by this narrative." Elsewhere he asserts: "I suspect that a feeling for stories, for narrative, is a universal human disposition, going with our powers of language, consciousness of self, and autobiographical memory."
- Out of the Closet and Into Print: Gay Liberation Across the Anglo-American World
PhD Thesis, Queen's University, 2015
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
- Palestinian Memory and Hope
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
A group of activists are working to create a Nakba Museum of Memory and Hope in Washington, D.C. The project aims to tell the Palestinian refugee story, one that has been silenced or ignored for too long.
- Panimara's foot soldiers of freedom - 1
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Rural Indians were both the foot soldiers of freedom and the leaders of some of the greatest anti-colonial uprisings ever seen. Countless thousands of them sacrificed their lives to rid India of British rule. And many who lived through great suffering to see a free India were mostly forgotten soon after. From the 1990s onwards, p. Sainath recorded the lives of several of the last living freedom fighters.
- Patriotic Betrayal: The Inside Story of the CIA'S Secret Campaign to enroll American Students in the Crusade Against Communism
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
The revelations that the National Security Agency secretly gathered information on millions of us at home while the Central Intelligence Agency systematically tortured prisoners overseas have made it tempting to assume that such arrogant excesses are somehow novel. But Karen Paget's Patriotic Betrayal brings to life a similar scandal from half a century ago. It's a scandal that has great relevance today.
- Pete Seeger, Musical Revolutionary
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
On Seeger's banjo was printed the motto: "This Machine Surrounds Hate and Forces It to Surrender." With these words, Seeger plainly stated that he intended to use music as a means to facilitate social change. He believed that music held the potential to help people understand their troubles and to take action to change repressive circumstances.
- Planned Parenthood under siege
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Women, especially poor women, have already been severely impacted by an avalanche of laws that effectively strip them of being able to obtain what is a legal medical procedure. The Republican vow to defund Planned Parenthood would mean $500 million cut from two programs aimed at helping poor people: 75% from Medicaid; and the rest from Title X—the federal family planning program that serves poor Americans.
- Plutocracy
Political Repression In The U.S.A.
Resource Type: Film/Video
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Income inequality has become a key hot button issue in the modern day political spectrum. While these economic and class divides seem more pronounced than ever before, the impressive new documentary Plutocracy: Political Repression in the USA reveals that the core of these struggles pre-date the beginnings of the industrialized labor force. The long and painful journey towards achieving worker rights and fair wages has been marked by violence, discrimination, and inhumane exploitation.
- The Politics of Everybody
Feminism, Queer Theory and Marxism at the Intersection
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Holly explores the concepts of 'man', 'woman', and 'other' in the present political context. The book also attempts to reconcile queer theory and Marxist analysis.
- The Politics of Mass Incarceration
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
An interview with activist and author James Kilgore about his book, "The Politics of Mass Incarceration."
- Project La Macaza: A study of two Canadian peace protests in the 1960s
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Published in In Worth Fighting For: Canada's Tradtion of War Resistance from 1812 to the War on Terror, Laura Campbell, Michaell Dawson and Catherine Gidney eds. Toronto: Between the Lines, 2015
- Puffin Patrol
Resource Type: Film/Video
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Follow famlies and passionate environmentalists on Newfoundland's Puffin Patrol. It is spring on the North Atlantic and millions of puffins are making their way home to breed. They spend 8 months of the year living alone at sea, but they are extremely social when they return to land. On Gull Island, just south of St. John's, Newfoundland, it is breeding season for over 300,000 pairs of North Atlantic puffins.
- Queer Activism in the Labor Movement
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Smith's review of a book published on the history of LGBT activisim within the labour movement.
- Quote Banners - Ulli Diemer
Resource Type: Photo/Image/Poster
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
- The Radical Life of Rosa Luxemburg
A graphic novelization of the revolutionary life and legacy of "Red Rosa"
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
An excerpt from Red Rosa, a graphic biography of Rosa Luxemburg.
- Rasmea Odeh's Long Struggle
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
A report of Palestinian community leader Rasmea Odeh's arrest and ongoing immigration problems.
- Read Capital: The First Sentence, Or, Capital starts with Wealth, not with the Commodity
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
John Holloway claims that Marx, in Capital, does not start with the commodify.
- Rebel Youth
1960s Labour Unrest, Young Workers, and New Leftists in English Canada
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
- Reckoning with Apocalypse
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
A review of Jacqueline Foertsch's book, "Race, Place, and the Atom Bomb in Postwar America" on issues of race within the anti-war movement.
- Reclaiming the Don
An Environmental History of Toronto's Don River Valley
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Illuminates the impact of the Don River Valley on Toronto's development and unearths the missing story of the relationship between the river, the valley, and the city.
- Red Love Across the Pacific
Political and Sexual Revolutions of the Twentieth Century
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
This book examines the Red Love vogue that swept across the Asia-Pacific in the 1920s and 1930s as part of a worldwide interest in socialism and follows its trails throughout the twentieth century.
- Requiem For The American Dream
Resource Type: Film/Video
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
In his final long-form documentary interview - filmed over four years - Chomsky unpacks the principles that have brought us to the crossroads of historically unprecedented inequality. Tracing a half-century of policies designed to favor the most wealthy at the expense of the majority, Chomsky lays bare the costly debris left in its wake: the evisceration of the American worker, disappearance of the living wage, collapse of the dream of home ownership, skyrocketing higher education costs placing betterment beyond reach or shackling students to suffocating debt, and a loss of solidarity that has left us divided against ourselves.
- Romantic Outlaws: The Extraordinary Lives of Mary Wollstonecraft and Mary Shelley
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
The actual lives of Mary Wollstonecraft and her daughter Mary Shelley intersected only briefly, for Wollstonecraft died of septicaemia in 1797, shortly after giving birth. Yet as Charlotte Gordon's book makes clear, Shelley's life was inextricably bound to the mother she never knew.
- Rural India - a living journal, a breathing archive
The everyday lives of everyday people
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Project on rural India consisting of an archive which depicts its diverse and complex countryside.
- Saudi Royal Family: Protecting VIPs, While Letting Ordinary Pilgrims Die
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
In the wake of a stampede in Mecca which killed close to 1,000 Haj pilgrims, it is being reported that the columns of pilgrims ran into each other because Saudi police had closed off key roads in the vicinity so as to accommodate VIPs who are whisked through without having to mingle with the masses.
- SEO and Press Releases
How to Drive Search Visibility While Following Google Best Practices
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
The times are changing. With the advancement of mobile technology, marketers not only have worry about how many people visit their website but also with what device. An effective internet marketing campaign relies on consumers feeling comfortable with your website. As more and more people begin to browse the internet on their smartphones, it's become imperative that websites become mobile-friendly.
- Shadow of a Giant
Resource Type: Film/Video
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
This documentary focuses on the toxix legacy of arsenic, the final byproduct of the Giant gold mine, which used to feed Yellowknife's economy.
- Shadow Sovereigns
How global corporations are seizing more and more power over our lives
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Global corporations now demand control over decisions affecting labour laws, finance, public health, food and agriculture, safety regulations, taxes and international trade and investment. They even claim the right to private tribunals where they can sue governments for passing laws that could harm their present or future profits.
- Shaping 20th Century America
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Part of an ongoing series on the centennial of World War I.
- Slick Water
Fracking and One Insider's Stand Against the World's Mot Powerful Industry
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
A story of abuses by the fossil fuel industry and governments, telling the story of fracking rhough the lens of a legal battle to expose the truth. Nikiforuk raises stark questions about the role of Big Oil in government, society's obsession with mining low-grade oil and gas formations, and the future of democracy.
- So You've Been Publicly Shamed
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
As Ronson makes clear, all these people's punishments by far outweighed the gravity of their so-called crimes.
- Socialism ... Seriously
A Brief Guide to Human Liberation
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
- Socialism Taken Seriously
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
A review of Anatole Anton and Richard Schmitt's book "Taking Socialism Seriously".
- Socialist Register 2015
Volume 51, Transforming Classes
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
- Sources Calendar Expired Entries 2015
Resource Type: Website
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
- Southern Insurgency
The Coming of the Global Working Class
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
- Southern Insurgency The Coming of the Global Working Class (Book Review)
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
A review of Immanuel Ness's book Southern Insurgency The Coming of the Global Working Class.
- Struggles in Logistics in Italy
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
A sketch based on conversations in October 2015 with militants in and around the small Italian union SI Cobas (Sindicato Interprofessionale/Comites di Base), which has carried out and won militant strikes over the past few years with mainly immigrant logistics and warehouse workers.
- Sudden Justice: America's Secret Drone Wars
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Traces the growing use of armed drones. Woods examines the multiple legal and ethical issues that surround the drone wars.
- Suffragette (film)
Resource Type: Film/Video
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Suffragette is a 2015 British historical period drama directed by Sarah Gavron and written by Abi Morgan. The film stars Carey Mulligan, Helena Bonham Carter, Brendan Gleeson, Anne-Marie Duff, Ben Whishaw, and Meryl Streep.
- Swiss Leaks: Murky Cash Sheltered by Bank Secrecy
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
HSBC Private Bank (Suisse) offered services to clients who had been unfavourably named by the United Nations, in court documents and in the media as connected to arms trafficking, blood diamonds and bribery. HSBC served those close to discredited regimes such as that of former Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak, former Tunisian president Ben Ali and current Syrian ruler Bashar al-Assad. The bank repeatedly reassured clients that it would not disclose details of accounts to national authorities, even if evidence suggested that the accounts were undeclared to tax authorities in the client’s home country.
- A Tate Gallery for the New Left
Portraits, Landscapes, and Abstracts in the Revolutionary Activism of the 1950s and 1960s
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
A review essay on Ernie Tate's two-volume memoir on Revolutionary Activism in the 1950s and 60s.
- The Theology of Consensus
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Consensus decision-making has dominated social movements for forty years. Let’s try something different. Outside of small-group settings, consensus process is unwieldy, off-putting, tiresome, and ineffective. Many inclusive, accountable alternative methods are available for making decisions democratically. If we want to change the world, let's pick ones that work.
- They Know Everything About You
How Data-Collecting Corporations and Snooping Government Agencies Are Destroying Democracy
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Government and corporate surveillance; defence of privacy and democracy.
- They Will Have to Kill Us First
Resource Type: Film/Video
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
They Will Have To Kill Us First: Malian music in exile is a feature-length documentary following musicians in Mali in the wake of a jihadist takeover and subsequent banning of music. Music, one of the most important forms of communication in Mali, disappeared overnight in 2012 when Islamic extremists groups rose up to capture an area the size of the UK and France combined. But rather than lay down their instruments, Mali’s musicians fought back.
- This Benevolent Experiment
Indigenous Boarding Schools, Genocide, and Redress in the United States and Canada
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
A multi-layered comparative analysis of indigenous boarding schools in the US and Canada.
- This Changes Everything
Resource Type: Film/Video
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Directed by Avi Lewis, and inspired by Naomi Klein’s book This Changes Everything, the film presents portraits of communities on the front lines, from Montana’s Powder River Basin to the Alberta Tar Sands, from the coast of South India to Beijing and beyond. Interwoven with these stories of struggle is Klein’s narration, connecting the carbon in the air with the economic system that put it there. Klein suggests that we can seize the existential crisis of climate change to transform our failed economic system into something radically better.
- Through Blood & Sweat
A Remembrance Trek across Sicilly's World War II Battlegrounds
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
- Tomorrow (Demain)
Resource Type: Film/Video
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
A French documentary film built on the premise of showcasing climate change solutions rather than a focus on problems and catastrophe.
- Tomorrow's Battlefield
U.S. Proxy Wars and Secret Ops in Africa
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
U.S. military is fighting shadow wars in Africa and claims that Africa is the "battlefield of tomorrow".
- The Toronto Carrying Place
Rediscovering Toronto's Most Ancient Trail
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Glenn Turner retraces the ancient portage from Lake Ontario to Lake Simcoe and discucsses its role in the history of southern Ontario.
- Travel from Daejeon to Sejong by bike (Watch it from the air)
Resource Type: Film/Video
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Aerial view of the bicycle road between Daejeon and Sejong, both cities are located 2~3 hours south of Seoul. Solar panels not only generate power but also provide protection to cyclists from sun and rain. Taken by a drone camera in fall.
- The Two-Party System, Part II
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
The second part of an overview of the history and origins of the two-party system in the United States.
- Umsturz der Regierungen anderer Länder
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
- Unions and the Road to Socialism
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
A discussion of the labour movement's ineffectiveness against combatting capitalism.
- The use of encryption tools and the protection of anonymity online as safeguards for freedom of the press
Resource Type: Unclassified
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
David Kaye is the UN Special Rapporteur on the promotion and protection of the right to freedom of expression. In his latest report, he stressed that governments are obligated to protect encryption tools and guarantee the anonymity and privacy of users so as to safeguard the right to freedom of expression online.
- Voices of the Paris Commune
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
The Paris Commune of 1871 has been the subject of numerous interpretations. Voices of the Paris Commune contains a selection of eyewitness accounts providing a fascinating range of opinions on this historic event.
- Vulnerable get lost in 'secret' Chicago prisoner warehouse
Mainly black detainees interrogated without access to attorneys
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
At least 3,500 Americans have been detained inside a Chicago police warehouse described by some of those arrested as a secretive interrogation facility, records reveal.
- Wall Street's Think Tank
The Council on Foreign Relations and the Empire of Neoliberal Geopolitics, 1976-2014
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
The Council on Foreign Relations is the most influential foreign-policy think tank in the United States, claiming among its members a high percentage of government officials, media figures, and establishment elite. For decades it kept a low profile even while it shaped policy, advised presidents, and helped shore up U.S. hegemony following the Second World War.
- War Against the People
Israel, The Palestinians and Global Pacification
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Governments today are waging a 'war against the people' -- whether 'securitization' against asylum seekers in Fortress Europe, 'counterinsurgency' in Afghanisation, or the subliminal war of policy and surveillance arising everywhere. Israel's contribution to this is key: exporting the high-tech weaponry, security systrems and methods of pacification perfected on the Palestinians in the Occupied Territories.
- The Ward
The Life and Loss of Toronto's First Immigrant Neighbourhood
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
The story of the growth and destruction of Toronto’s first 'priority neighbourhood.'
- We Are All – Fill in the Blank
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
We should condemn violence and terror, and defend freedom of the press. We should do so on the basis of consistent principles -- in contrast to the mainstream media and politicians, who condemn acts directed at 'us' but condone or ignore crimes committed by 'our side'.
- We Believe the Children
A Moral Panic in the 1980's
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
A brilliant, disturbing portrait of the dawn of the culture wars, when America started to tear itself apart with doubts, wild allegations, and unfounded fears for the safety of children.
- We Call Them Intuders: Financing Canadian Mining in Africa
Resource Type: Film/Video
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
If you live and work in Canada, chances are you're connected to Candian mining companies through your savings, taxes, CPP contributions, RRSPs and other investments. We Call Them Intruders travels from Canada to Africa and back again to unearth stories from people negatively impacted by some of Canada's largest international mining projects.
- What do you say when you don't know the answer
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
One of my personal pet peeves happens I ask a sales person a question and they don't know the answer but give one of two responses:
1. They shrug their shoulders and go on and talk about something else, or
2. Invent an answer and then present it with absolute conviction.
- What Does Science Tell Us About Race?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Six points about the complex relation between scientific research and the reality of human group differences.
- What Is the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPP)?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
The Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) is a secretive, multinational agreement that, among other things, threatens to extend restrictive intellectual property (IP) laws across the globe and rewrite international rules on its enforcement.
- What's Behind Detroit Happy Talk?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
A critical analysis of Detroit's so-called recovery from bankruptcy.
- Whose Lives Matter in America?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
A discussion of Black Lives Matter and the murders of African Americans.
- Why the Right Loves Privilege Politics
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
The Right deploys privilege politics to avoid class politics, obscuring where the real power lies in our society.
- Why U.S.-Style Health Reform Does Not Work and What to Do about It
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Ending the corporate domination of healthcare is part of breaking the domination of the corporate class over our government and our lives. The task is to organize a mass movement that refuses to treat healthcare as a commodity.
- Why We Can't Breathe
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
On police racism and violence against blacks.
- The Wikileaks Files
The World According to US Empire
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
An introduction by Julian Assange exposes the ongoing debates about freedom of information, international surveillance, and justice. With contributions by Dan Beeton, Phyllis Bennis, Michael Busch, Peter Certo, Conn Hallinan, Sarah Harrison, Richard Heydarian, Dahr Jamail, Jake Johnston, Alexander Main, Robert Naiman, Francis Njubi Nesbitt, Linda Pearson, Gareth Porter, Tim Shorrock, Russ Wellen, and Stephen Zunes
- Wilson's Open Door to World War I
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Discussion of the underlying reasons for the United States' participation in World War I.
- Workers' Guide to Health and Safety
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Accessible guide to occupational safety. Provides essential tools to support employees, health promoters and union organizers in their efforts to create safer and healthier workplaces.
- Workers and Trade Unions for Climate Solidarity
Tackling climate change in a neoliberal world
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Paul Hampton, a Marxist trade union researcher in Britain, addresses the role of workers in the climate justice movement, as well as the tasks of revolutionaries.
- The world is my country
A Visual Celebration of the People and Movements that Opposed the First World War
Resource Type: Website
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
The First World War centenary (2014-2018) is being accompanied by a tidal wave of events, exhibitions, TV series, books and commemorations. However, one key aspect of the War’s history is receiving little or no attention: the history and stories of the people and organisations that opposed the conflict, and took action to stop it.
- Youth and Interfaith Dialogue -- A Directory of Organizations
Resource Type: Database
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
This compilation of organizations – all of them currently engaged in youth and interfaith work in the Greater Toronto Area – was created as a networking tool to facilitate and empower communication between local interfaith initiatives. In addition to the main directory, you will find educational resources, potential global partners, and other useful information.
- The Snowden Hoax
How a Lie Traveled Around the World Before the Truth Could Get Its Boots On
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
- Anishinaabe Water Ceremony to be held near Tracks to Protect from Oil and Gas Spills, other Industrial Threats
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
the Grassy Narrows Women's Drum Group will be hosting a traditional Anishinaabe Water Ceremony near the CN Mainline at Mile 106 near Highway 671 between Kenora, Ontario and Grassy Narrows First Nation in Treaty # 3.
- Annex Chess Club Dog Days Tournament
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
At Annex Chess Club, we’re celebrating the summer heat with our Dog Days Swiss. Running from August 17 to September 21, this regular club tournament is in three sections by CFC rating: Crown, Under-1800, and Under-1500.
- Another arrest in growing crackdown on 64Tianwang website reporters
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Reporters Without Borders condemns this week’s arbitrary arrest of Yang Dongying, the latest victim of the Chinese government’s systematic persecution of citizen-journalists working for 64Tianwang (64Skynet), a news website run by the cyber
- Anthony Bellanger appointed new IFJ General Secretary
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Anthony Bellanger, a French national and trade unionist, was appointed as the new General Secretary of the International Federation of Journalists (IFJ).
- Arrested in Thailand for carrying safety vest
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) joins its affiliate the Hong Kong Journalists Association (HKJA) in calling for the immediate release of a dual Hong Kong-Canadian journalist arrested at Bangkok airport on Sunday, August 23.
- Ayotzinapa delegation to testify before civil society and policy makers about human rights crisis in Mexico
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Ayotzinapa delegation to testify before civil society & policy makers about human rights crisis in Mexico. Family members & representatives of 43 missing students touring Canada calling for end to state violence and lack of accountability in Mexico
- Beirut riot police use violence against journalists
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Reporters Without Borders condemns the many cases of violence against journalists by security forces in recent weeks in Beirut during demonstrations in protest against the collapse of garbage collection.
- British cyber-activist sued by Thai fruit company
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Reporters Without Borders calls on the Thai pineapple processing company Natural Fruit and the Thai judicial authorities to abandon the three defamation cases still pending against British human rights defender Andy Hall
- Cameroonian authorities confuse journalism with spying
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Two journalists - freelance investigative reporter Simon Ateba and Radio France Internationale correspondent Ahmed Abba - are being held illegally by the Cameroonian authorities, who claim that their journalistic work constituted spying.
- Canadian Franchise Association Announces Finalists for the 2015 CFA Awards of Excellence in Franchising
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
The Canadian Franchise Association is pleased to announce the 12 finalists for the 2015 CFA Awards of Excellence in Franchising.
- Cartoonist Zunar could get 43 years in prison for nine cartoons
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Reporters Without Borders condemns well-known cartoonist Zunar’s trial on a sedition charge for posting nine of his cartoons on Twitter, and urges the Malaysian authorities to stop harassing him judicially and psychologically.
- Celebrating Canadian Multiculturalism Day
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Canadian Multiculturalism Day is a day to recognize and acknowledge Canada's rich diversity and significant contributions many ethnocultural communities have made and continue to make to the development of our great country, Canada.
- Chinese authorities continue attempts to control media
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
The International Federation of Journalists expresses concern regarding the recent directive issued to the Chinese media regarding reporting of the 70th anniversary of the end of World War II.
- Coalition Announces New ‘Do Not Track’ Standard for Web Browsing
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), privacy company Disconnect and a coalition of Internet companies have announced a stronger “Do Not Track” (DNT) setting for Web browsing - a new policy standard that, coupled with privacy software
- Competition period opens for this year's Sarah Beth Therien Memorial Scholarship
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Competition opens for the annual Sarah Beth Therien Memorial Scholarship for Canadian youth who serve the cause of safety.
- CPJ welcomes release of Al-Jazeera journalist Peter Greste
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Al-Jazeera journalist Peter Greste, who was serving a seven-year prison sentence in Egypt for "conspiring with the Muslim Brotherhood," was deported today, according to Egypt's state-run news agency.
- Currently in Turkey: online censorship, attacks against media and detention of journalists
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
The International Federation of Journalists (EFJ) and its European organisation, the European Federation of Journalists (IFJ), jointly call on the Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu to immediately lift all bans against news organisations
- EFF Files Supreme Court Amicus Brief Over Warrantless Searches of Hotel Records
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) has filed an amicus brief with the U.S. Supreme Court in a challenge brought by hotel owners against a Los Angeles city ordinance that allows police to access guest registers without consent, warrant, or
- EFF Sues Justice Department for Records About FBI’s Plans for Rapid DNA
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) has filed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit against the Department of Justice (DOJ) and the FBI to gain access to documents revealing the government’s plans to use Rapid DNA.
- EFF Wins Battle Over Secret Legal Opinions on Government Spying
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) has won its four-year Freedom of Information Act lawsuit over secret legal interpretations of a controversial section of the Patriot Act.
- Election fraud? Council of Canadians launches "VoteWatch" election fraud reporting service
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
The Council of Canadians is launching VoteWatch, a service to report voter suppression Canadians may experience or witness.
- Federal Election: Canadian Ethnocultural Council provides information about when, where and ways to vote
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
On behalf of Elections Canada, the Canadian Ethnocultural Council is doing outreach to inform voters about when, where and ways to vote.
- Feds waited 15 years to act on tainted tap water in Grassy Narrows daycare
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Feds waited 15 years to act on tainted tap water in Grassy Narrows. Daycare water had possible carcinogens above limit in 1999: Health Canada data. Chief Fobister calls on all candidates to make clean water commitments.
- Filipino journalist gunned down on way to work
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) joins its affiliate, the National Union of Journalists of the Philippines (NUJP) in condemning the murder of a Filipino journalist on the central island of Luzon.
- Fourth blogger on radical Islamist hit-list hacked to death
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Reporters Without Borders is appalled to learn that Niloy Neel, a secularist blogger and activist who had been threatened by Islamist militants, was hacked to death today in his Dhaka home by five intruders armed with machetes.
- Gambia Authorities use trial to continue persecuting radio journalist
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Reporters Without Borders condemns the continuing harassment of Teranga FM radio manager Alagie Sisay, who is being tried in Gambia on charges of sedition.
- Government directive restricts media reporting in China
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) expresses strong concern for a directive issued by China’s media regulator on June 19, restricting reporting about China’s Stock Exchange.
- Grassy Narrows declares state of emergency over unsafe drinking water
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Grassy Narrows declares state of emergency over unsafe drinking water. Turbidity exceeded limit by 120x, uranium and possible carcinogens found in samples.
- Harassing journalists is election campaign strategy in Guatemala
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Reporters Without Borders urges Guatemala’s political class to respect the freedom of journalists to work as they see fit.
- Helping to make Calgary a suicide-safer community
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Four Calgary Organizations have partnered to launch a campaign promoting suicide awareness, intervention skills training, and resources for those in distress. The campaign begins September 10th—celebrated each year as World Suicide Prevention Day
- Hundreds Expected at Rally to Mark Two Weeks since Alan Kurdi’s Death
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Marking 2 weeks since the deaths of Alan, Ghalib and Rehana Kurdi, Torontonians are joining cross-Canada campaign that has coordinated rallies, marches and forums in over 25 cities.
- Hungarian police violence against foreign journalists covering refugee crisis
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Reporters Without Borders is appalled to learn that the Hungarian police have obstructed foreign media coverage of the refugee crisis on the border between Hungary and Serbia and, in particular, that they have on three occasions in the past week
- IFIC Announces Board of Directors for 2015-2016
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Toronto, ON – September 10, 2015 – The Investment Funds Institute of Canada (IFIC) is pleased to announce its board of directors for the 2015-2016 year.
- IFIC Releases Monthly Statistics for February 2015
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
The Investment Funds Institute of Canada (IFIC) announces that for the month ending February 28, 2015, the assets under management (AUM) for the mutual funds industry totalled $1.22 trillion. Year-to-date, industry AUM increased by $76.5 billion
- IFIC Releases Monthly Statistics for January 2015
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
The Investment Funds Institute of Canada (IFIC) announces that for the month ending January 31, 2015, the assets under management (AUM) for the mutual funds industry reached $1.18 trillion.
- IFIC Releases Monthly Statistics for July 2015
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Toronto, ON – August 19, 2015 – The Investment Funds Institute of Canada (IFIC) announces that for the month ending July 31, 2015, the assets under management (AUM) for the mutual funds industry reached $1.24 trillion. Year-to-date, industry AUM
- IFIC Releases Monthly Statistics for November 2015
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Toronto, ON - December 22, 2015 - The Investment Funds Institute of Canada (IFIC) announces that for the month ending November 30, 2015, the assets under management (AUM) for the mutual funds industry totalled $1.23 trillion. Year-to-date, indust
- IFIC Releases Monthly Statistics for October 2015
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Toronto, ON - November 19, 2015 - The Investment Funds Institute of Canada (IFIC) announces that for the month ending October 31, 2015, the assets under management (AUM) for the mutual funds industry totalled $1.23 trillion. Year-to-date, industry
- IFIC welcomes completion of technology upgrades that pave the way for better investor disclosure
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
The Investment Funds Industry of Canada welcomes the announcement by FundSERV that it has completed important network upgrades that pave the way for investors to receive clear, new information about the cost and performance of their mutual funds.
- IFJ and EFJ ask for a full investigation into attacks on media workers by Police at a demonstration in Armenia
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) and its regional organisation the European Federation of Journalists (EFJ) have together condemned the actions of Armenian police who attacked and briefly detained at least 10 media workers
- IFJ and EFJ condemn "outrageous" 7.5 year jail sentence for Azerbaijani journalist Khadija Ismayilova
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) and its European organisation, the European Federation of Journalists (EFJ), have today condemned the sentencing of Azerbaijani journalist Khadija Ismayilova to 7.5 years in jail
- IFJ and EFJ launch a conference to tackle press freedom and labour rights in Turkey
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ), the European Federation of Journalists (EFJ), the Journalists Union of Turkey (TGS) and the Journalists Association of Turkey (TGC) jointly host the two-day international conference in Istanbul
- IFJ and EFJ urge Turkey to release two UK journalists facing terror charges
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) and the European Federation of Journalists (EFJ) have today backed their affiliate in Great Britain and Ireland, the National Union of Journalists (NUJ), in urging the Turkish authorities to immedia
- IFJ backs Univision’s journalist booted out of Donald Trump’s press conference over immigration policy
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
The International Federation of Journalists has supported its US affiliate The NewsGuild-CWA in condemning the attitude of the Republican presidential candidate, Donald Trump, after he ordered the removal from his press conference of Univision
- IFJ calls on Israeli authorities to allow PJS senior official travel out of Gaza
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) calls on Israeli authorities to allow a senior official of its affiliate the Palestinian Journalist Syndicate (PJS) to travel out of the Gaza strip to Ramallah.
- IFJ Condemns First Media Killing of 2015 in Yemen
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) and its affiliate the Yemeni Journalists' Syndicate (YJS) have today condemned the killing of Al-Masirah TV channel correspondent Khalid Mohammed al Washali
- IFJ condemns killing of journalist in Mozambique
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) has condemned the killing of Paulo Machava, a senior Mozambican journalist who was shot dead this morning in the capital Maputo by unknown gunmen.
- IFJ launches global campaign to promote International Press Card
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) has today launched an international campaign to promote the International Press Card (IPC), a global press pass delivered by the Federation and widely recognised by public officials in more than 134
- IFJ urges accountability for deliberate targeting of journalists in 2014 summer Gaza war
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) and its affiliate the Palestinian Journalists' Syndicate (PJS) today called for accountability for the deliberate targeting of journalists during the Israeli military offensive in the Gaza strip
- IFJ urges Hamas to release a Palestinian journalist held incommunicado
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) has today backed its affiliate, the Palestinian Journalists’ Syndicate (PJS), in urging Hamas to immediately release Palestinian journalist Shadi Ahmad Shaker Shaheen
- Israeli security forces use violence against journalists in East Jerusalem
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Reporters Without Borders condemns the violence used by Israeli police against journalists covering the clashes between security forces and Palestinian protesters that have been taking place in and around the plaza in front of East Jerusalem’s Al-A
- Journalist arrested over Facebook post in Bangladesh
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) joins the Bangladesh Manobadhikar Sangbadik Forum (BMSF) in expressing serious concern over the arrest and detention of a journalist in Dhaka over a Facebook post.
- Journalist missing after investigative report
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) and its affiliate the Indian Journalists Union (IJU) express serious concern following the disappearance of Indian journalist Chayan Sarkar in West Bengal.
- Journalists' safety in Ukraine: IFJ/EFJ deplore five casualties in Kiev protest
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) and its European organisation the European Federation of Journalists (EFJ) back their Ukrainian affiliates the National Union of Journalists of Ukraine (NUJU) and the Independent Media Trade Union
- July 5: Thousands to march in Toronto for Jobs, Justice and the Climate
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
March on July 5 comes on eve of the Pan American Climate and Economic Summits
- Kazakhstan Misusing Court Order to Censor Online Newspaper
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Online news publisher Respublika has asked a federal judge in New York to clarify that officials in Kazakhstan can’t use a U.S. court order in a battle over leaked emails to censor news stories that are critical of the Kazakhstan government.
- Keep it in the Ground
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
A campaign by The Guardian newspaper to stop climate change by keeping fossil fuels in the ground, featuring a series of articles on different aspects of the issue across the world.
- Media coverage curtailed after Burkina Faso coup
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Reporters Without Borders is alarmed by the situation in Burkina Faso, where the soldiers who staged a coup d’état yesterday have silenced most privately-owned radio and TV stations and are controlling the state-owned national TV broadcaster, RTB,
- Media Release - IFIC Releases Monthly Statistics for March 2015
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Toronto, ON – April 17, 2015 – The Investment Funds Institute of Canada (IFIC) announces that for the month ending March 31, 2015, the assets under management (AUM) for the mutual funds industry totalled $1.22 trillion. Year-to-date, industry AUM
- Members of Mishkeegogamang First Nation organize Toronto furniture drive in context of ongoing housing crisis
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
In the face of an ongoing housing crisis, members of Mishkeegogamang First Nation and union local CUPE 3903 are organizing a second drive to bring an 18-wheeler truck full of furniture, tools , building materials and youth sports equipment
- New anti-terrorism law takes Egypt into Orwellian territory
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Reporters Without Borders condemns a ban on media reports that conflict with official accounts of armed attacks and operations by Jihadi militants. The ban is part of an anti-terrorism law that President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi ratified yesterday
- New code of conduct lets Pakistani journalists ... censor themselves
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Reporters Without Borders is concerned about the restrictive nature of a new code of conduct for radio and TV stations that was drafted by the Pakistan Electronic Media Regulatory Authority (PEMRA), an information ministry offshoot, and took effect
- New multimedia report exposes discriminatory immigration policy
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
A new multimedia project sheds light on the drastically changed landscape for immigrants under the Harper government. Never Home: Legislating Discrimination in Canadian Immigration launches today at http://www.neverhome.ca
- New Street-Level Surveillance Project Tracks Spying Technologies Used by Local Law Enforcement
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
EFF Web Portal Provides In-Depth Resources About License Plate Readers, Biometric Collection, and Other High-Tech Surveillance Tools.
- One year on: #FindMoyameenaa
Sources News Release
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First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) and its affiliate the Maldives Journalists Association (MJA) express solidarity with the Maldivian media community as they mark the one year anniversary of the disappearance of local journalist
- Online newspaper editor gunned down on Maputo street
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Reporters Without Borders is alarmed to learn that Paulo Machava, the well-known editor of the online Diario de Noticias newspaper, was gunned down on a Maputo street today against a backdrop of tension for media personnel in Mozambique.
- Onlinecensorship.org
Resource Type: Website
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Onlinecensorship.org seeks to encourage social media companies to operate with greater transparency and accountability toward their users as they make decisions that regulate speech. We’re collecting reports from users in an effort to shine a light on what content is taken down, why companies make certain decisions about content, and how content takedowns are affecting communities of users around the world.
- Only Seven Days Left to Save The Humber River Clean-Up: Founder Seeking Local Business Sponsors
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Founder seeking local business sponsors for Humber River clean-up
- Outrage as Al-Jazeera retrial ends with three-year jail terms
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Reporters Without Borders is appalled by the three-year jail sentences that a Cairo court, after many postponements, finally passed today on Al-Jazeera journalists Mohamed Fadel Fahmy, Baher Mohamed and Peter Geste, who were convicted of disseminat
- Pakistan issues restrictive Code of Conduct for Electronic Media
Sources News Release
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First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) joins its affiliate the Pakistan Federal Union of Journalists (PFUJ) in expressing serious concerns over restrictive provisions of the newly introduced Code of Conduct for Electronic Media.
- Pakistani journalist killed in his home
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) deplores the brutal murder of a Pakistani journalist in Jaffarabad in Balochistan province on Sunday June 28. The IFJ calls on the Pakistani government to take immediate action to bring the assailan
- Photojournalist slain in Mexico City after fleeing threats in Veracruz
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Reporters Without Borders (RSF) is appalled to learn that photojournalist Rubén Espinosa Becerril has been found murdered in Mexico City, to which he fled in early June after receiving death threats in the southeastern state of Veracruz.
- Presidential pardon for Al Jazeera journalists jailed on "terrorism" charge
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Reporters Without Borders welcomes today’s presidential pardon for Al Jazeera English journalists Mohamed Fadel Fahmy and Baher Mohamed, who had been imprisoned since late August after being convicted of working without permission, broadcasting
- Privacy Badger 1.0 Blocks the Sneakiest Kinds of Online Tracking
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) today released Privacy Badger 1.0, a browser extension that blocks some of the sneakiest trackers that try to spy on your Web browsing habits.
- Refugee Rights Groups Denounce Canadian Government Complicity in Migrant Deaths, including Kurdi Brothers
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Migrant and refugee rights groups are demanding that Minister Alexander and Prime Minister Stephen Harper answer for the deaths of Galip Kurdi, five, and his three-year-old brother Aylan, after it was revealed that their application for private refug
- Religious extremists murder fourth blogger in Bangladesh
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) strongly deplores the murder of Niladri Chattopadhyay on August 7 in Dhaka, Bangladesh.
- Reporter gunned down three days after presidential license to kill
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Reporters Without Borders is appalled by the situation in South Sudan where President Salva Kiir, speaking at a news conference, threatened to have journalists murdered if they "work against their country" and where reporter Peter Moi was gunned dow
- Reporters Without Borders solidary with journalists from netzpolitik.org
Sources News Release
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First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Reporters Without Borders is shocked that the German Public Prosecutor General is currently considering treason charges (Landesverrat) against two German journalists who run the blog netzpolitik.org.
- Richard McGowan New Chairman of CCRDA
Sources News Release
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First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Richard McGowan has been declared the new chairman of the CCRDA Board of Directors. The CCRDA raises up to $750 million each year for their efforts to end poverty and provide relief, rehabilitation and developmental services for hurting nations.
- Sex and Gender: A Beginner's Guide
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First Published: 2015
An introductory overview to contemporary debates in sex and gender.
- Shooting attacks on media personnel leave two dead, two wounded
Sources News Release
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First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Reporters Without Borders is appalled by a spate of attacks on media personnel in Pakistan that has left two dead and two wounded in the past 24 hours.
- Sudanese journalist held without charge in Saudi Arabia, fears extradition
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Reporters Without Borders has learned that Walid Eldoud Elmakki Elhussein, a Sudanese journalist resident in Saudi Arabia since 2000, has been held without charge for the past six weeks and, according to his family, could be extradited to Sudan.
- Taken Offline: New EFF Project Shines Light on Coders and Bloggers Imprisoned For Online Free Expression
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) today launched the Offline project, a campaign devoted to digital heroes - coders, bloggers, and technologists - who have been imprisoned, tortured, and even sentenced to death for raising their voices online
- Targeted violence against journalists by police dispersing protest
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Reporters Without Borders condemns targeted Armenian police violence against journalists at dawn yesterday in Yerevan, when the authorities used force to disperse a sit-in by large crowd of demonstrators protesting against electricity price hikes.
- Toronto Nobel Peace Prize Nominee Addresses the World
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
2015 Nobel Peace Prize nominee, Torontonian Setsuko Thurlow, will broadcast her message of peace around the world. A retired social worker with the
- Turkey: Dangerous surge in censorship liable to exacerbate crisis
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
In the latest alarming development for freedom of information in Turkey, prosecutors in the Istanbul district of Bakırköy today began investigating one of the country’s biggest media groups, DoÄŸan, for alleged terrorist propaganda.
- TV journalists attacked by Indian railway police
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) joins its affiliate the National Union of Journalists – India (NUJI) in strongly criticizing the attack on journalists from a local television channel by local police in Bhubaneswar, Odisha of India
- Use Existing Levers to Spark Higher Retirement Savings Levels: IFIC
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Toronto, ON – September 9, 2015 – The Investment Funds Institute of Canada (IFIC) is urging the government of Canada to use its resources to encourage more Canadians to save through existing workplace and individual voluntary retirement saving pl
- Well-known Syrian cartoonist died in detention after being tortured
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Reporters Without Borders is stunned to learn that well-known Syrian cartoonist Akram Raslan died in detention in 2013, less than a year after his arrest in October 2012, and that his death was almost certainly the result of having been tortured by t
- What can you do if you feel your employers request is illegal, immoral , contrary to your conscience or religious beliefs
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Employment Lawyer Shelley Brown outlines what can you do if you feel your employers request is illegal, immoral, contrary to your conscience or religious belief.
- Will Claudia Duque obtain justice?
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Reporters Without Borders condemns judicial obstruction in the case against the former deputy head of the Colombian intelligence agency DAS, Jose Miguel Narvaez, and two other former intelligence chiefs on charges of psychologically torturing
- Women Building Connections Gala Dinner
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Celebrating Mother’s Day for Peace the Canadian Voice of Women for Peace (VOW) will hold a gala dinner, “Women Building Connections” on Thursday, May 14th, 6:00 pm at the Royal Canadian Yacht Club. Five outstanding women, Jean Augustine, Kim P
- Zaina Erhaim of Syria named 2015 Winner of Peter Mackler Award for Courageous and Ethical Journalism
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
he Peter Mackler Award, the US branch of Reporters Without Borders (RSF), and Agence France-Presse are pleased to announce that Syrian journalist is the 2015 winner of the Peter Mackler Award for Courageous and Ethical Journalism.
- Other Voices Introductions
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 2014
Published: 2021
Introductions to the Other Voices newsletters from July 2014 through to the end of 2021.
- Regent Park story not so simple
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Individuals and families already marginalized by poverty, poor health and barriers to accessing services, are being further marginalized by displacement.
- Radical Digressions 7
Resource Type: Website
First Published: 2014
Published: 2017
- The Search for General Tso
Resource Type: Film/Video
First Published: 2014
Published: 2017
A quest to understand the origins of this ubiquitous, spicy red chicken dish and to explore the history of Chinese-American food.
- Confronting Injustice
Social Activism in the Age of Individualism
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2014
Published: 2016
Confronting Injustice is a call for collective action against the social causes of poverty and climate change, written by a socialist organizer for activists.
- How the People's Climate March Became a Corporate PR Campaign
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
I've never been to a protest march that advertised in the New York City subway. That spent $220,000 on posters inviting Wall Street bankers to join a march to save the planet, according to one source. That claims you can change world history in an afternoon after walking the dog and eating brunch.
- Like a Dull Knife: The People's Climate "Farce"
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Even in a top-down format, one hopes the upcoming march could draw much-needed attention to the climate movement.
- The Two Apartheids
What are the similarities and differences between South African apartheid and the Israeli system?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2015
- Marxism and the Fight Against Native Oppression in Canada
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2015
Our political tendency has always emphasized the need to combat the special oppression of Natives, blacks, women and others. Such oppression is intimately connected with the “normal” capitalist exploitation of the workers and must be fought by means of the class struggle. Most of our opponents on the left these days reject historical materialism, just as they reject the perspective of working-class revolution and instead push variants of Native cultural nationalism and "ecosocialism."
- The Rise of British Imperialism
Part I: The Protestant Reformation to the English Revolution
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2015
Russell Stroker of the Trotskyist League goes back to the origins of the world capitalist system in the 16th century to explain how imperialism emerged out of the political and economic logic of capitalism.
- RWB publishes 2014 round-up of violence against journalists
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Reporters Without Borders is today publishing its round-up of abuses against journalists in 2014. According to RWB’s tally, 66 journalists were murdered this year, bringing to 720 the number of journalists killed in connection with their work in the past 10 years. A total of 119 journalists were kidnapped this year. Forty journalists are currently being held hostage.
- Gray Mountain
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2014
Published: 2015
The year is 2008 and Samantha Kofer's career at a huge Wall Street law firm is on the fast track -- until the recession hits and she is downsized, furloughed, and escorted out of the building. Samantha, though, is offered an opportunity to work at a legal aid clinic for one year without pay, all for a slim chance of getting rehired. In a matter of days, Samantha moves from Manhattan to Brady, Virginia, population 2,200, in the heart of Appalachia.
- Israel's anti-African dragnet tightens
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
The past year saw some of the most ruthless Israeli attacks on Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza since the territories were occupied in 1967. Israeli political leaders incited violence against Palestinians and soldiers and civilians carried out these commands, while the government’s parallel war on African refugees raged on.
- Polish farmers threaten uprising over opencast coalmine
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Heinz unites with farmers in rebellion against plan to build a vast lignite mine and power plant on farming land in western Poland.
- Sources News Release Archive 2014
Resource Type: Website
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
News releases from 2014.
- Saudi Star To Restart Rice Project on Disputed Anuak Lands in Ethiopia
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Saudi Star Agricultural Development plans to spend $100 million in a rice export project in Gambella region of Ethiopia despite allegations of human rights violations surrounding the "villagization" program.
- The bird that travels 29,000km a year
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
The Rufa red knot's epic annual migration from Tierra del Fuego to the Canadian Arctic risks being grounded by climate change.
- One year in jail and still no justice for Peter Greste
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) joins its Australian affiliate, the Media, Entertainment and Arts Alliance (MEAA) in calling for the immediate release of Australian journalist, Peter Greste, who will today mark 365 days in an Egyptian jail.
- Disused oil and gas wells wells a major source of methane
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Long-disused oil and gas wells in the US have been found to be a 'significant' source of the super greenhouse gas methane. The climate impact of oil and gas is underestimated, as this long term impact is not included in existing calculations.
- Diaries reveal Jewish suffering during Holocaust in Hungary
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Diary reveals how doctor hid Jewish boy and his aunt from Nazis in her Budapest home during the late stages of the Second World War.
- IMF policies contributed to the Ebola outbreak, weak response to it
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Policies advocated by the IMF have contributed to underfunded, insufficiently staffed, and poorly prepared health systems in the countries with Ebola outbreaks.
- Origins of the police
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Examining the creation of the first police forces, which took place in England and the US in just a few decades in the mid-19th century. And explaining that they were not brought into being to prevent crime or protect the public, but primarily to control crowds: the working class, white and black.
- IFJ calls for media freedom as Sri Lankan presidential election approaches
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) today called on the government of Sri Lanka and state forces to ensure media freedom and the safety of journalists as the country's Presidential Election approach next month.
- Cuba - A Personal Reflection
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
A brief history of the revolutionary period in Cuba's history told through the author's experiences.
- Female journalist attacked covering political protests in Pakistan
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) is concerned by the growing number of attacks against female journalists in Pakistan in recent months. On December 8, 2014, a female journalist was attacked covering a political rally in Faisalabad.
- IFJ/AJI condemn police intervention in Jakarta Post blasphemy matter
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) joins the Aliansi Jurnalis Independen (AJI) (Alliance of Independent Journalists, Indonesia) in criticizing and rejecting the naming of the chief editor of the Jakarta Post as a suspect in a blasphemy case.
- IFJ Condemns Deaths of Five Syrian Journalists
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) has declared December a deadly month for Syrian journalists as five more colleagues die in the first half of the month.
- IFJ condemns political cadre rampage against reporters in Pakistan
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) and the Pakistan Federal Union of Journalists (PFUJ) strongly condemn the attacks against journalists by the protestors of the Pakistan Teheek-e-Insaf (PTI) in Karachi, in Sindh province in Pakistan.
- IFJ/EFJ Condemn mass Arrest of Turkish Journalists
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
The International Federation of Journalists and its regional group, the European Federation of Journalists, today condemned the shock raid on Zaman newspaper and Samanyolu TV media resulting in the arrest of at least 31 persons including journalists.
- IFJ and FAJ Welcomes African Court's Landmark Decision in Favour of Freedom of Expression
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) and the Federation of African Journalists (FAJ) have welcomed the African Court on Human and Peoples Rights' landmark decision of 5 December in the case of journalist Issa Lohe Konate
- IFJ urges Imran Khan to call for end to attacks on media
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) has urged Imran Khan, the leader of one of Pakistan's opposition parties, the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaaf (PTI), to stop attacks against journalists during PTI demonstrations against the government.
- JED and RWB Ask To Stop Threats Against Journalist Jean-Paul Bisila
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Reporters Without Borders is extremely concerned about the threats that have been made by Jean Bamanisa, the governor of the Congolese northeastern Province Orientale, against Jean-Paul Bisila, a journalist with the Radio Okapi branch in the city of Bunia.
- Massacre witness ambushed in the Philippines
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) joins the National Union of Journalists of the Philippines (NUJP) in expressing concern over the attack on yet another witness in the trial against those accused of the Ampatuan Massacre.
- One Group Has a Higher Domestic Violence Rate Than Everyone Else - And It's Not the NFL
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
In families of police officers, domestic violence is two-to-four times more likely than in the general population -- from stalking and harassment to sexual assault and even homicide.
- Police withdraw protection to senior journalists' leader despite threats for life
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) expresses its serious concerns towards the safety of the senior leader of the IFJ affiliate, the Pakistan Federal Union of Journalists (PFUJ), in Lahore, Pakistan after the Punjab Police decided to
- Press Freedom, Free Expression Still Under Threat in Indonesia
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
An international delegation visiting Indonesia last week raised concerns about the current state of media freedom in the country, calling on the Widodo administration to take a new approach towards freedom of expression. Criminalisation of online spe
- RWB supports legal action against secrets law
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Reporters Without Borders regrets that on 10 December, 2014, when the entire world was celebrating the 66th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the Japanese government allowed a draconian law on state secrets, one that violates the constitution and limits media freedom, to take effect.
- Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - December 18, 2014
The Commons
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
From its beginnings, one of capitalism's prime imperatives has been an all-out and never-ceasing assault on the Commons in all its manifestations. Common land, common water, public ownership -- anything rooted in the ancient human traditions of sharing and cooperation is anathema to an economic system that seeks to turn everything that exists into private property that can be exploited for profit. This issue of the Connexions Newsletter focuses on the Commons.
- The Grinch Who Closed Child Care Programs
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
The Association of Day Care Operators of Ontario (ADCO) is inviting parents to join Operation Grinch at bill10.ca to send a strong message to Education Minister Liz Sandals to stop the closure of more child care programs in Ontario.
- E2014: A Basic (Chilling) Forensic Analysis
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Any comparative forensic analysis is only as "good" as its baselines. In Landslide Denied — our archetypal post-election comparative forensics study, in which the "red shift" (the rightward disparity between exit poll and vote count results) was identified and measured — a critical component of the analysis was to establish that the exit poll respondents accurately represented the electorate.
- Asbestos revealed as Canada's top cause of workplace death
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Asbestos exposure is the single largest on-the-job killer in Canada. Since 1996, almost 5,000 approved death claims stem from asbestos exposure, making it by far the top source of workplace death in Canada.
- The Once and Future Great Lakes Country
An Ecological History
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
A passionate, wide-ranging history of the landscapes around the Great Lakes.
- American drought: California's crisis
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
California is undergoing its worst drought in a generation. Chris McGreal explains how it is affecting the state.
- Product of Mexico: Child Labor
In Mexico's fields, children toil to harvest crops that make it to American tables
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
About 100,000 children under 14 pick crops for pay at small- and mid-size farms across Mexico, where child labor is illegal. Some of the produce they harvest reaches American consumers, helping to power an export boom.
- The Logic of Torture
It's About Domination, Not Intelligence
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Torture seems to have been as bureaucratic as any other government program, with the interrogators more obsessed about memos and ass covering and obscure turf wars than stopping the progress of ticking time bombs. Like all the other Beltway drones, the CIA’s team kissed up and kicked down, sucking up to their superiors while they tortured men to death.
- Product of Mexico: Company Stores
Company stores trap Mexican farmworkers in a cycle of debt
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
The company store is supposed to be a lifeline for migrant farm laborers. But inflated prices drive people deep into debt. Many go home penniless, obliged to work off their debts at the next harvest.
- 10 most shocking facts we found in CIA torture report
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
The so-called "torture report" released by the U.S. Senate this week contains only a fraction of the findings on how the CIA aimed to gather intelligence from detainees through interrogation. Still, it contains more than a few shocking revelations.
- This is NOT Recognition
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
As the recognition by European countries of a so called "State of Palestine" continues, it is becoming obvious that this is nothing but an old colonial trick dusted and reused. In the triangular relations between the Europeans, the colonial regime in Palestine – Israel, and the Palestinians, all remains the same.
- Torture Report Reveals CIA's Manipulation of US Media
Agency Used Classified Information As Currency For Deception
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
In essence, the CIA operated as a propaganda machine, utilizing classified information as part of a larger effort to deceive the American public about the shortcomings of its torture program.
- Torture and the Violence of Organized Forgetting
A Form of Moral Paralysis
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
With the release of the Senate Intelligence Committee’s report on torture, it becomes clear that in the aftermath of the loathsome terrorist attack of 9/11, the United States entered into a new and barbarous stage in its history, one in which acts of violence and moral depravity were not only embraced but celebrated.
- The Complicity of Psychologists in CIA Torture
What the APA Knew
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
James Mitchell and Bruce Jessen are two psychologists who played central roles in designing and implementing the CIA’s torture program. Now we also know how lucrative that work was for Mitchell and Jessen: their company was paid over $80 million by the CIA.
- EFF Joins Dozens of Groups in Call for Transparency in Trans-Pacific Partnership Talks
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) has joined dozens of civil society groups from around the world in calling for the release of the secret text of the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) -- a massive proposed trade agreement
- IFIC CMSA/PCMA Submission Focusses on Systemic Risk Deficiencies
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
The Investment Funds Institute of Canada (IFIC) has filed a submission on behalf of the investment funds industry that identifies a number of concerns with consultation drafts of the Capital Markets Stability Act
- The New Cold War Policy Has Backfired
How the US Created Its Own Worst Nightmare
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
The world’s geopolitics, major trade patterns and military alliances have changed radically in the past month. Russia has re-oriented its gas and oil trade, and also its trade in military technology, away from Europe toward Eurasia. The result is the opposite of America’s hope for the past half-century of dividing and conquering Eurasia: setting Russia against China, isolating Iran, and preventing India, the Near East and other Asian countries from joining together to create an alternative to the U.S. dollar area.
- Obama Administration Muzzling Its Scientists
Just Like Canada's Harper Government
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Muzzling of scientists matters because they make policy decisions with real-world impacts on society.
- Wind offers a healthy way to generate power
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
To reduce global greenhouse gas emissions at a pace and scale that experts agree is necessary to avoid increasing catastrophic effects of global warming, we need a mix of renewable energy. Wind power will play a large role.
- British journalist convicted of contempt for questioning death toll
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) is shocked by the Bangladesh court's conviction this week of Dhaka-based British journalist David Bergman on contempt for questioning the official death toll of 1971 liberation war.
- Can We Criticize Foucault?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Since his death in 1984, Michel Foucault's work has become a touchstone for the academic left worldwide. But in a provocative new book published in Belgium last month, a team of scholars led by sociologist Daniel Zamora raises probing questions about Foucault's relationship with the neoliberal revolution that was just getting started in his last years.
- Chinese authorities restrict journalists access to information
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) strongly criticizes the actions of Chinese authorities, withholding news of a case of public concern until after midnight in order to obstruct non-Mainland media from conducting further investigations.
- How the Obama Administration Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
US nuclear policy is undermining our safety and national security
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
When Barack Obama was campaigning for president in 2008, he famously pledged to place nuclear disarmament at the center of his national-security strategy. Why, then, we must ask, is the Obama administration moving forward with an ambitious nuclear-weapons modernization program that could dramatically raise the threat of nuclear war?
- IFJ and EFJ alarmed by the creation of 'Orwellian' information ministry
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) and the European Federation of Journalists (EFJ) are alarmed by the creation of a government body to control information and the media in Ukraine.
- IFJ and EFJ Sign a Memorandum with the Council of Europe to Create an Online Safety Platform for Journalists
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
The International Federation of Journalists' (IFJ) president, Jim Boumelha, signed yesterday a Memorandum of Understanding with the Council of Europe to promote the protection of journalism and safety of journalists.
- The IFJ and its US affiliates mourn the killing of US photographer in Yemen
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
The IFJ and its affiliates worldwide condemn this latest barbaric outrage and send their condolences to Luke's family. Like many other photojournalists, he decided to live amongst the men and women whose lives and suffering he wanted to portray.
- Journalists attacked covering student protests in Makassar, Indonesia
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
On November 13, hundreds of police raided the Makassar State University over protests with students. A number of journalists were covering the raids when they to came under attack. Iqbal Lubis from Koran Tempo had his memory card from his camera taken.
- Product of Mexico: No Way Out
Desperate workers on a Mexican mega-farm: 'They treated us like slaves'
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
A raid exposes brutal conditions at Bioparques, one of Mexico's biggest tomato exporters, which was a Wal-Mart supplier. But the effort to hold the grower accountable is looking more like a tale of impunity.
- Shut down the tarsands
Re: Pipeline projects need a rigorous review process,
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Present emissions are already too much and carbon released from extreme extraction such as the tarsands, experts say, will tip the planet over to become uninhabitable. The health impacts from such extraction is also unacceptable, suffered by indigenous people and workers, and the local environmental costs are huge. We need to find a better way for our world and we need to do it now.
- Tsunami, 10 years on: the sea nomads who survived the devastation
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Thailand's indigenous sea gypsies predicted the waves that swept their villages away in 2004, and most of them escaped unharmed. Now they are facing a new threat to their centuries-old way of life: tourism and the encroaching modern world.
- Why Sharing is a Common Cause that Unites Us All
The Common Cause
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
The demand for sharing wealth, power and resources is at the heart of visions for a better world. In fact, the principle of sharing is often central to efforts for progressive change in almost every field of endeavour. But this basic concern is generally understood and couched in tacit terms, without acknowledging the versatility and wide applicability of sharing as a solution to the world’s problems.
- Brooklyn Report
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Tonight, December 8, Lebron James came through on his promise to wear an "I Can’t Breathe" T-shirt during the warm-ups before the Cavaliers game with the Brooklyn Nets at the Barclay Center in Brooklyn.
- Israelis rattled by search for truth about the Nakba
First 'truth commission' avoids issue of reconciliation as veteran Israeli fighters due to confess to 1948 war crimes
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
The first-ever "truth commission" in Israel will feature confessions from veteran Israeli fighters of the 1948 war who are expected to admit to perpetrating war crimes as hundreds of thousands of Palestinians were expelled from their homes. The commission is the culmination of more than decade of antagonistic confrontations between a small group of activists called Zochrot, the Hebrew word for Remembering, and the Israeli authorities, as well as much of the Jewish-Israeli public.
- The Nature of Police, the Role of the Left
Learning From Ferguson
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Iit would be hard to deny that the police are a racist institution par excellence. They kill young Black, Latino, and Native people at a disproportionately higher rate than white youth, and the institution itself descended from the patrols created to capture fugitive slaves in the South and police urban immigrants in the North.
- The new conquistadors making their presence felt at COP20 in Peru
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
A new report released at COP20 by CEO, the Democracy Center and Transnational Institute shows how corporations causing social and environmental destruction in the Andes and Amazon are driving climate change, whilst enjoying influential seats at the climate-negotiating table.
- Police Say Tasering 8-Year-Old Native American Girl Was Justified
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
The mother of an 8-year-old Native American girl is suing police who maintain that they were justified in using a taser on the child. The family lives in Pierre, South Dakota and belong to the Rosebud Sioux community. Four police officers decided that this young girl who had a small paring knife was "a danger to herself," requiring them to taser her.
- Washington’s Frozen War Against Russia
Frack the EU!
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
For over a year, the United States has played out a scenario designed to (1) reassert U.S. control over Europe by blocking E.U. trade with Russia, (2) bankrupt Russia, and (3) get rid of Vladimir Putin and replace him with an American puppet, like the late drunk, Boris Yeltsin.
- Waterloo woman finds NEB e-mail lauding public's inability to question pipelines
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
A Waterloo "citizen investigator" finds NEB memo boasting about Harper government changes at pipeline hearings designed to speed project approvals.
- Dealing with PTSD in the newsroom
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Post-traumtic stress disorder doesn't just affect combat veterans and victims of war. Approximately 20% of war correspondants are diagnosed with PTSD.
- Major powers tailored Serbian media legislation for 'Balkan CNN'
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Regardless of different EU policies on the issue among different EU member states, the Serbian media practice to date does not leave room for optimism.
- 10 Reasons I Don't Have a Credit Card
Why Cash is Better
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
The ability of cash and checks to compete with the credit card industry and its strict controls on merchants. This obvious point becomes less obvious when one takes into account the expanding exclusion of cash/check payments due to the overwhelming expansion of goods and services that you cannot buy unless you have a credit card or a friend with one whom you can reimburse.
When sending some types of express mail, renting a car, or paying for the services of airlines/trains or hotels, you either cannot pay with cash/check or it is a real hassle of inquiries and conditions. The overall trend is to limit more and more what legal tender can actually buy in America because of exclusionary fine print contracts (see faircontracts.org).
- Product of Mexico: Harsh Harvest
Hardship on Mexico's farms, a bounty for U.S. tables
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Farm exports to the U.S. from Mexico have tripled to $7.6 billion in the last decade, enriching agribusinesses, distributors and retailers. But for thousands of farm laborers south of the border, the boom is a story of exploitation and extreme hardship.
- In the battle of people vs. pipelines, round one went to the people
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Last Wednesday I was arrested. I crossed a police line intended to mark the area where Kinder Morgan plans to drill into a mountainside as part of the survey work for an expanded Trans Mountain pipeline to carry diluted bitumen from the tar sands to the ocean.
- Over 60 organizations and agencies call for non-enforcement of C-36 and support full decriminalization of sex work
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Over 60 organizations and agencies call for non-enforcement of C-36 and support full decriminalization of sex work.
- The Death of the Fourth Estate
8000 Channels With One Corporate Message
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
According to a recent Gallup survey, only 40 percent of Americans believe what they read in newspapers. After scanning today’s tabloids, one only wonders why the percentage is that high.
- Evidence of Viking/Norse Metalworking in Arctic Canada
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
An object that was found by archaeologists a half-century ago has now been recognized as further evidence of a Viking or Mediaeval Norse presence in Arctic Canada during the centuries around 1000 A.D.
- Kill a Black Kid and Get Rich
An American Disgrace
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
This is America folks. Where you can kill a black kid and justified or not (NOT!) you will then become a millionaire through interviews and book deals and film rights. This is your capitalist system at work. No laws that make this illegal. A cop can actually kill someone on purpose if he wants, because cops get away with almost anything, with the knowledge that they can then quit their awful jobs and become rich.
- Resisting State Violence
Justice Or Just Us
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
None of the ambiguities that surrounded Mike Brown’s killing are present in the grotesque spectacle of Eric Garner’s murder. By now the whole world has watched the man die at the hands of police without betraying a trace of belligerence. The failure to indict Pantaleo and the officers who pinned Garner down as he repeatedly yelled, “I can’t breathe” is a reminder that antiblackness is not a technical problem and therefore cannot be remedied with a technical solution.
- War by media and the triumph of propaganda
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
The world is facing the prospect of major war, perhaps nuclear war -- with the United States clearly determined to isolate and provoke Russia and eventually China. This truth is being turned upside down and inside out by journalists, including those who promoted the lies that led to the bloodbath in Iraq in 2003. The times we live in are so dangerous and so distorted in public perception that propaganda is no longer, as Edward Bernays called it, an "invisible government". It is the government. It rules directly without fear of contradiction and its principal aim is the conquest of us: our sense of the world, our ability to separate truth from lies.
Why are young journalists not taught to understand media agendas and to challenge the high claims and low purpose of fake objectivity? And why are they not taught that the essence of so much of what's called the mainstream media is not information, but power?
- Long Jail Term for Website Editor Critical of Military Coup
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Reporters Without Borders condemns a Bangkok military court's political use of Thailand's lese-majeste legislation to sentence a journalist critical of the military, Thai E-News editor Somsak Pakdeedech, to nine years in prison on 24 November.
- New online platform launched to protect journalists
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
The European Federation of Journalists (EFJ) has joined forces with the Council of Europe (CoE) and media freedom partner agencies, in launching a new online 'rapid reaction' platform for journalists under threats.
- Practicing Hope
He's Just 17
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
It seems like teachers want to do the right thing and, along with most white people, they don’t want to say the wrong thing about race (or class or LGBT or adoption or disabilities) so they just don’t bring it up. Most white folks I know here don’t see any evidence of racism unless someone points to specific incidents or talks through the issues, like Driving While Black or Shopping While Black. Even then, some of my white friends, and many of my students, get exasperated, “Racism is so old-school,” I’ve been told. They don’t want to believe that racism exists. This essay is for them, and for my kids.
- Sharing as our common cause
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
A call for sharing underpins many existing initiatives for social justice, environmental stewardship, true democracy and global peace. On this basis, STWR argues that sharing should be more widely promoted as a common cause that can help connect civil society organisations and social movements under a united call for change.
- Why the Guardian axed Nafeez Ahmed's blog
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Nafeez Ahmed’s account of the sudden termination of his short-lived contract to write an environment blog for the Guardian is depressingly instructive – and accords with my own experiences as a journalist at the paper.
- Constraints on Expansion - Island Airport Master Plan Reveals Fatal - Facilities Can't Cope with Existing Volumes
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
The Toronto Port Authority yesterday released its new 'Master Plan' for the Island Airport. "This isn't so much a 'plan' as a list of unsolvable problems." said Brian Iler, Chair of CommunityAIR.
- "A kind of super-stress": The Experiences of a Temporary Agency Worker in Montreal
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Immigrant's experiences reflect the difficulties faced by temporary agency workers in Montreal.
- Level up: how PlayStation infiltrated youth culture
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Twenty years ago, new games consoles began appearing in nightclub chillout rooms, subversive TV ads and cutting-edge style magazines. Keith Stuart and Steve Boxer describe how Sony created the PlayStation generation based on the underground culture.
- Palestine is not an environment story
How I was censored by The Guardian for writing about Israel's war for Gaza's gas
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
After writing for The Guardian for over a year, my contract was unilaterally terminated because I wrote a piece on Gaza that was beyond the pale.
- Shlomo Sand banned from speaking
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Shlomo Sand, author of The Invention of the Land of Israel, The Invention of the Jewish People, and most recently How I Stopped Being a Jew, was prevented from speaking at the University of Nice.
- Why Not Jail for Corporate Criminals?
When Regulation Fails to Restrain Corporate Villainy
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
It's time to focus on corporate criminal prosecution. Get rid of deferred and non prosecution agreements. Criminally charge corporations and their top executives.
- Chas Abel Photo Service “Photo Finish”
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
CHARLES (CHARLIE) ABEL May 7, 1926 – November 24, 2014. Charlie was a dynamic businessman and president of Chas Abel Photo Service for almost forty years. The “Photo Finish” sign was a landmark for countless drivers on the Gardiner Expressway for decades. Charlie was a loving husband and father, a proud and generous grandfather and great-grandfather and always a devoted and loyal friend. He loved his place on the lake, fishing, boating, good wine, Stan Freeberg, big band jazz, boggie-woogie piano and, above all, the singing of Frank Sinatra. We will all sorely miss his warmth, his stories, his strong opinions, his sharp sense of humour, his good advice, his unwavering support – but most of all, just him. Visitation Sunday, November 30th from 3 to 7 p.m. and memorial service Monday, December 1st at 3 p.m. at the Turner & Porter “Peel” Chapel, 2180 Hurontario Street, Mississauga. Reception after the service at 5 p.m. at Delta Meadowvale, 6750 Mississauga Road North (Mississauga and Argentia). In lieu of flowers, donations to the Credit Valley Hospital Foundation would be warmly received.
- Gassing the American People
Fracking Democracy
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Last year the World Health Organization said over 7 million people died from air pollution, making it the largest killer on the planet – killing almost 80 times more people in one year than died of poison gas over the 4 years of WWI.
- "I have a concern about firearms. Who can I call?"
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
The Canada Safety Council has released a video PSA publicizing a national hotline Canadians can call with non-emergency firearms safety concerns.
- The Illusion of Debate
Consensus for the People that Matter
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
A recent article in FAIR reviewed the findings of its latest study on the quality of political “debate” being aired on the mainstream networks. It studied the run-up to the military interventions in both Iraq and Syria. Perhaps the arbiters of the study intended to illustrate what we’ve learned since the fraudulent Iraq War of 2003. Well, it appears we’ve learned nothing.
- J'ai des inquietudes à propos des armes à feu. Qui puis-je appeler? »
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Le Conseil canadien de la sécurité rediffuse son message d'intérêt public pour que les Canadiens sachent qui appeler en cas d'inquiétude à propos d'armes à feu.
- What needs to happen to save and rebuild the CBC
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Can the CBC be saved and restored? Probably. But it will take some time and some good luck, as well as some heavy duty political lobbying. It is important that CBC supporters, including those who have fallen by the wayside during the destructive Harper years, unite behind some common goals and pressure the two opposition leaders to commit themselves to restoring the Corporation to its proper role in the country.
- Why We Need A "No Compromise" Climate Movement
Between Empire And Its Subjects
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Successful campaigns against strip mining in the Appalachians have included peaceful legal tactics like petitioning, letters to the editor, education, marches and protests, as well as civil disobedience, industrial sabotage, armed defense of Appalachians’ property and other tactics that are viewed as insurrectionary and violent by today’s mainstream environmentalists.
- A Chinese alternative
Social democracy by the union route
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Dongfang discusses how changing undemocratic Chinese business enterprises, through active labour unions, would also change the social structure of the country.
- Gateway to Freedom
The origins of the Underground Railroad
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
An essay on the origins of the Undeground Railroad, excerpted from Foner's book 'Gateway to Freedom: The Hidden History of the Underground Railroad'.
- Inventing the future
A tradable commodity in the huge, globalised ideas market
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Experts and writers are competing publicly to offer their visions of what is to come in the future.
- Not Worth The Risk
A Community Report on the Line 9 International Energy Board Hearings
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Enbridge's Line 9 pipeline – a 38 year old pipeline that is almost identical in build and age to the Line 6B pipeline that ruptured into the Kalamazoo river – seeks to gain approval to reverse its flow, increase its capacity, and carry a dangerous heavy crude known as dilbit, or diluted bitumen. Line 9 runs through sensitive ecosystems and important farmlands throughout Southern Ontario and Quebec, and passes within 50 km of over 9 million people, including 18 First Nations communities.
- Paul Burkett's Marx and Nature Fifteen Years After
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Revisiting the content and contributions of Paul Burkett's book 'Marx and Nature', considering the changes in historical context and perceptions of environmental issues since its original publication.
- War Photography at the Tate Modern
Receding into Memory
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
If photography is a record of suspended death, a suggestion that the subject is both frozen in time and rendered lifeless in the broader sense of things, then the nature of war is, in many ways, a perfect medium to capture it. It delves into a grim subject more fitting of the dry morgue than the lively art studio.
- Why Not Jail?
Industrial Catastrophes, Corporate Malfeasance, and Government Inaction
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Analyzes five industrial catastrophes that have killed or sickened consumers and workers or caused irrevocable harm to the environment. Steinzor recommends innovative interpretations of existing laws to elevate the prosecution of white-collar crime at the federal and state levels.
- Burnaby Mountain battle: our notes from the courts, the woods and 100 arrests
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
History unfolded on Burnaby Mountain. This is the Vancouver Observer's account of what we saw.
- The Bizarre Compulsion of Black Men to "Reach for their Waistbands"
Waistband-Reaching Syndrome Could Get You Killed
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
If police accounts are to be believed, there is a bizarre urge among young, unarmed black men to provoke their own murder by "reaching for their waistbands" when cops are aiming service revolvers at them.
- Save the corporations… I mean children
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
When Save the Children chose to bestow the Global Legacy Award on Tony Blair, the charity inadvertently revealed the dark underbelly of NGO activity.
- The Shoot First Mentality of American Police
Ferguson, Reconsidered
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
The US justice system is no longer concerned with justice, but with the careers of prosecutors, punishing the powerless, and protecting the powerful. As justice has largely departed the justice system, it is hardly surprising that police lack any concept of justice.
- Which Way the Wind Blows
The Conditions of Power
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Billions of tons of air, moving relentlessly over the ground at 10 to 30 miles an hour (and at times gusting to higher speeds) shapes the new growth twigs, the twigs grow into limbs, the limbs become the secondary trunks and all bend to the direction of the wind. Where does the wind come from – this universally shaping presence?
- Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - November 27, 2014
Climate Change
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
The theme for this issue, and the topic of the week, is Climate Change. Groups and websites engaged in the fight for action on global warming and climate justice are featured. Book of the week is Magdoff and Foster's "What Every Environmentalist Needs to Know About Capitalism." In addition to articles on climate change, there are articles on Ebola, corporate tax evasion, and state terrorism, as well as a 1971 interview with John Lennon and Yoko Ono.
- The Song of the Shirt: Cheap Clothes Across Continents and Centuries by Jeremy Seabrook – review
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
A review of the book "The Song of the Shirt: Cheap Clothes Across Continents and Centuries", an account of the clothing industry and the exploitative conditions that workers undergo as they work for international firms.
- Militarism degrades, disrupts and destroys democracy
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
As the Canadian government plays at fighting wars in Iraq/Syria and in eastern Europe, we see daily examples of how militarism ultimately degrades, disrupts and destroys democracy.
- Save the Fat Cats
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Very few charities are in any sense independent any more. Save the Children Fund gets 176 million pounds – over half its income - in grants from various governments, including over 80 million from the British government. That compares to 106 million in donations from the public. In 2012 over 70 million pounds was spent by Save the Children UK on its own staff costs.
- 84-year-old ex-librarian arrested protesting Kinder Morgan, calls NEB a "sham"
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Barbara Grant criticized the NEB hearings of the Kinder Morgan pipeline expansion as a "sham" and spoke out about the danger before crossing the police line to be arrested. At 84, she's the oldest person arrested on Burnaby Mountain so far.
- Review: 'Revolutionary Activism in the 1950s & 60s - Ernest Tate, A Memoir'
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Ernie’s modesty leads him to describe his work as a memoir. It is that, but it is much more than that. It is rich in political lessons that apply to today’s circumstances and issues.
- Death Train: the earliest art to expose horror of concentration camps
The Mexican art collective Taller de Gráfica Popular used lino prints to transmit an explicit, committed political message
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
The Mexican art collective Taller de Gráfica Popular used lino prints to transmit an explicit, committed political message. A member of the collective, Leopoldo Mendez, working in 1943, was probably the first to depict the Holocaust.
- The Real Cost of Fracking: How America's Shale Gas Boom Is Threatening Our Families, Pets, and Food
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Many fracking chemicals are known carcinogens, endocrine disruptors or other classes of toxins. Studies carried out during the ongoing fracking boom, uncovered serious adverse effects including respiratory, reproductive, and growth-related problems in animals and a spectrum of symptoms in humans that they termed “shale gas syndrome”.
- US drone strikes kill 28 unknown people for every intended target
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
US drone strikes in Yemen and Pakistan have killed as many as 1,147 unknown people in failed attempts to kill 41 named individuals, a report by human rights charity Reprieve has found.
- Rising suicide rate for Indian farmers blamed on GMO seeds
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Monsanto, which has just paid out $2.4 million to US farmers, settling one of many lawsuits it's been involved in worldwide, is also facing accusations that its seeds are to blame for a spike in suicides by India farmers.
- A History of Political Terror
The Ritual of Beheading
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Decapitation is a public ritual of political theatre that dates from ancient times. It is designed not simply to gruesomely kill a victim, but to send a powerful message to adversaries, both local and foreign. It is designed not simply to gruesomely kill a victim, but to send a powerful message to adversaries, both local and foreign.
- Jerusalem: the Unholy City
A Long and Checkered History
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Jerusalem is called "the City of Peace". This is a linguistic mistake. True, in antiquity it was called Salem, which sounds like peace, but Salem was in fact the name of the local deity. It is also a historical mistake. No city in the world has seen as many wars, massacres and as much bloodshed as this one. All in the name of some God or other.
- Middle class would go to jail for what big corporations are allowed to do
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
The Institute for Policy Studies and the Center for Effective Government issued a report on November 18 which revealed that seven of the 30 largest US corporations paid more money to their CEOs last year than they paid in US federal income taxes. US corporations have enough profit to grease the wheels of Washington DC to have legislation that benefits them, and their workers which are becoming fewer and fewer, are shouldering the tax burden.
- The Punishment of Cuba
The USA as Judge, Jury and Executioner
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
For years American political leaders and media were fond of labeling Cuba an "international pariah". We haven’t heard that for a very long time. Perhaps one reason is the annual vote in the United Nations General Assembly on the resolution which reads: "Necessity of ending the economic, commercial and financial embargo imposed by the United States of America against Cuba".
- Secrets of the UK Nuclear Bomb Tests Revealed
The "Forgotten" Uranium Isotope
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Secret documents released reveal valuable evidence about uranium in fallout.The documents show that fallout from atmospheric nuclear testing contains enormous amounts of uranium. This should be no surprise as nuclear bombs contain a lot of uranium, and most of it remains unfissioned after a nuclear explosion.
- Washington Plays Russian Roulette
Seeing Red
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
The propaganda attack against Putin equating him with Hitler is so extreme that you have to think that the Russians cannot believe their ears and cannot trust the United States anymore under any circumstances.
- What Really Happened to the Wobblies
Macho Bravado, Disunity and Repression
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Many young radicals find the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) the most congenial available platform on which to stand in trying to change the world.
- Anti-snooping app: Amnesty & partners unveil tool that detects surveillance
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
In collaboration with privacy and civil rights organizations, Amnesty International launched Detekt, an app that enables people to scan their devices for traces of surveillance spyware, created with activists and journalists in mind.
- Capitalism is failing the planet
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
If we continue with capitalist business as usual, there will be disastrous consequences for humanity. Capitalism is in unavoidable conflict with environmental sustainability because of three key features that are inherent to the system.
- Explaining Burma's missing 9 million people - evaporation, or genocide?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
In Burma nearly one in five people is not alive who was expected to be alive based upon a modest estimate of the 2% population growth rate. Despite its significance, the figure is met with silence.
- Former NDP Comms Director Key Strategist on Edelman Energy East Astroturf Strategy
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
TransCanada has bought some unlikely support for the company’s public relations astroturf offensive aimed at winning support for the Energy East pipeline.
- How to Encrypt the Entire Web for Free
Resource Type: Unclassified
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
The benefits of using HTTPS are obvious when you think about protecting secret information you send over the internet, like passwords and credit card numbers. It also helps protect information like what you search for in Google, what articles you read, what prescription medicine you take, and messages you send to colleagues, friends, and family from being monitored by hackers or authorities. But there are less obvious benefits as well.
- Russia Invades Ukraine: Again. And Again. And Yet Again
The Missing Burden of Proof
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
- U.S. Firms Accused of Enabling Surveillance in Despotic Central Asian Regimes
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
U.S. and Israeli companies have been selling surveillance systems to Central Asian countries with records of political repression and human rights abuse, according to a new report by Privacy International. The U.K.-based watchdog charges that the American firms Verint and Netronome enable surveillance in Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan.
- Chances Are the FBI Has Files on Your Favorite Human Rights Activist
A Safe Bet
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
If you have ever openly challenged and mobilized against the structural inequality of capitalism and concomitant imperialism, you definitely have an FBI record.
- Decoding Harper's Terror Game beneath the Masks and Diversions
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Stephen Harper is the most deeply reviled Prime Minister in Canada's history. On the world stage, he is the servant of Big Oil boiling oil out of tar-sands to destroy major river systems and pollute the planet with dirty oil, while his attack dog John Baird leads the warmongering and bullying of nations like Iran and Syria.
- Ecosocialism: Why greens must be red and reds must be green
Resource Type: Film/Video
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Ian Angus argues for a movement based on socialist and ecological principles, to save humanity and the rest of nature from capitalist ecocide.
- Freedom of information in decline for past two years in Iceland
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
What with an interior ministry official seeking jail terms for two journalists in a criminal libel prosecution and major budget cuts for public TV and radio stations that the ruling coalition has accused of bias, the past two years have seen a marked decline in freedom of information in Iceland, one that began with the financial crisis in 2008.
- Gulf-Bound Tar Sands for Export?
Follow the Oiltanking Trail
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
The U.S. Senate failed to get the necessary 60 votes to approve the northern leg of TransCanada‘s KeystoneXL pipeline, but incoming Republican Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell already promised it will get another vote when the GOP-dominated Senate begins its new session in 2015.
- The KXL's Big Fail
An Empty Victory
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
The Keystone XL bill failed to pass Congress. The Big Fail marks a huge success for groups who have been struggling to expose the KXL for the dirty policy it represents. The actions taken on the day of the vote, including disrupting the Senate vote in the chamber and blocking Senators Bennet (D-Col.) and Carper (D-Del.) from leaving their offices, speak to the dedication and tirelessness of the movement to stop the pipeline.
- Metastasizing of the Police State of America
NY Times Report Documents
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
The latest news on the burgeoning police state in the US -- a page-one investigative report in the New York Times disclosing that at least 40 agencies of the US government from the Department of Health and Human Services to the Supreme Court (!) are using undercover agents to spy on and even to entrap law-abiding American citizens -- suggests that we have passed the tipping point.
- TransCanada hires controversial PR firm to derail opposition to Energy East pipeline
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
There are now multiple news articles that report Calgary-based TransCanada hired the controversial public relations firm Edelman in an attempt to derail growing public opposition to its proposed 1.1 million barrels per day Energy East tar sands pipeline.
- Fake grassroots advocacy part of TransCanada's plan to silence Energy East critics
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Documents show plans to "pressure" pipeline critics by working with third parties and industry-funded grassroots advocacy groups in favour of Energy East.
- 58 dead, 5 years, 0 justice in The Philippines
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) is joining its affiliate, the National Union of Journalists of the Philippines (NUJP) as they launch their week-long campaign to commemorate the fifth anniversary of the Ampatuan Massacre in Maguindanao, in the Philippines and calls on journalists and the media to join in the campaign for justice against the single biggest massacre of journalists in history.
- No More Missouri Compromises
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
I do have some ideas about the larger set of circumstances that resulted in Michael Brown’s murder and some suggestions for things that might be done to bring the fight where it needs to be fought beyond the streets of Ferguson.
- On Media Outlets That Continue to Describe Unknown Drone Victims As "Militants"
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Most large western media outlets continued to describe completely unknown victims of U.S. drone attacks as "militants" -- even though they (a) had no idea who those victims were or what they had done and (b) were well-aware that the term had been "re-defined" by the Obama administration into Alice in Wonderland-level nonsense. They count the corpses and they're not really sure who they are.
- Reclaim the power! Democratic energy must replace corporate capture
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Democratising energy would save thousands of lives a year in Britain alone -- releasing us from the clutches of corporate utilities, and building an energy commons in which we are all owners and participants, no longer captive, exploited consumers. More than that, it would be a big step forward in saving the planet.
- The Red Menace
A Striking Gallery of Anti-Communist Posters, Ads, Comic Books, Magazines & Films
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
By its very nature, propaganda distorts the truth or tells outright lies. It targets our basest impulses -- fear and anger, flight or fight. While works of pure propaganda may pretend to make logical arguments, they eliminate nuance and oversimplify complicated issues to the point of caricature. These general tendencies hold true in every case, but nowhere, perhaps, is this gross exaggeration and fear mongering more evident than in times of war.
- RE/MAX Cashes in on Israel's Illegal Settlements
End the sale of Settlement Properties
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
The Israeli government’s recent announcement that it had authorized the building of another 1,000 settlement homes in East Jerusalem left the US government seeing red, with State Department spokeswoman Jen Psaki calling the settlement activity 'illegitimate' and 'incompatible with the pursuit of peace.' But the announcement must have left the US-based real estate giant RE/MAX “seeing green,” ready to cash in on the sale and rental of more illegal settlement homes.
- Ten Illegal Police Actions to Watch for in Ferguson
Crackdown on the Constitution
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
When the Michael Brown verdict is announced, people can expect the police to take at least ten different illegal actions to prevent people from exercising their constitutional rights. The Ferguson police have been on TV more than others so people can see how awful they have been acting. But their illegal police tactics are quite commonly used by other law enforcement in big protests across the US.
- Bobby Hutton's Hands Were Up
The Search for Justice
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
The death of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri, has catalyzed intense U.S. anti-policing/ police demilitarization movement activity, with Ferguson serving as an urgent training ground and meeting point for anti-policing thinkers, writers, artists and activists.
- Democracy Works in Haiti
From the Bottom Up
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Haiti’s successful rebellion flew in the face of the order of empires built on slavery, colonisation, subjugation and dispossession.
- Edelman's TransCanada Astroturf Documents Expose Oil Industry's Broad Attack on Public Interest
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
The Edelman strategy documents and work proposals outline a "grassroots advocacy" campaign plan to build support for TransCanada's Energy East pipeline as well as to undermine public opposition to oil and pipelines generally. Documents obtained by Greenpeace detail a desperate astroturf PR strategy designed by Edelman for TransCanada to win public support for its Energy East tar sands export pipeline. TransCanada has failed for years to win approval of the controversial border-crossing Keystone XL pipeline, so apparently the company has decided to "win ugly or lose pretty" with an aggressive public relations attack on its opponents.
- How the U.S. Department of Justice Makes Murder Respectable, Kills the Innocent and Jails their Defenders
Redefining "Imminent"
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
In order to justify its global assassination program, the Obama administration has had to stretch words beyond their natural breaking points. For instance, any male 14 years or older found dead in a drone strike zone is a 'combatant' unless there is explicit intelligence posthumously proving him innocent.
- The Persecution of Julian Assange
The Farcical Siege of Knightsbridge
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
The siege of Knightsbridge is a farce. For two years, an exaggerated, costly police presence around the Ecuadorean embassy in London has served no purpose other than to flaunt the power of the state. Their quarry is an Australian charged with no crime, a refugee from gross injustice whose only security is the room given him by a brave South American country. His true crime is to have initiated a wave of truth-telling in an era of lies, cynicism and war.
- The political economy of hunger
Why is there hunger? It's nothing to do with a lack of food.
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
The fact there's enough food to feed everyone has slowly been acknowledged amongst the ruling institutions. The intuitive answer to this question is that there must be a lack of food. This explanation comes in two flavours. Chronic hunger is typically explained by the Malthusian argument that population growth perennially outstrips food production. Acute hunger, such as famines, is typically explained in terms of Food Availability Decline, such as crop failures due to drought.
- Profiting from Christian Credulity
Manufacturing the Jesus Legend
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
A brand-new book, entitled The Lost Gospel: Decoding the Ancient Text that Reveals Jesus’ Marriage to Mary the Magdalene, is receiving a lot of attention. How could it not? The authors of the book declare that it proves that Jesus and Mary Magdalene were married, with two children. The media eats this stuff up.
- We must keep the Arctic clean, wild and free!
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
The Arctic is a special place, teeming with life, but it is under threat like never before -- not just from climate change, but from oil drilling, industrial fishing and shipping, as receding ice creates now commercial opportunities. We must designate an Arctic Sanctuary where nature can reign undisturbed.
- $88 billion a year in subsidies for climate disaster
Global governments spend more than double what energy companies invest to find new regions for oil and gas drilling, despite climate change
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Despite pledging in 2009 to phase out public subsidies for the fossil fuel industry, G20 countries have disregarded those promises and are currently spending $88 billion a year in taxpayer money to fund the discovery of new gas, coal, and oil deposits around the world.
- Gate A-4
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Wandering around the Albuquerque Airport Terminal, after learning my flight had been delayed four hours, I heard an announcement: "If anyone in the vicinity of Gate A-4 understands any Arabic, please come to the gate immediately." Well -- one pauses these days. Gate A-4 was my own gate. I went there. An older woman in full traditional Palestinian embroidered dress, just like my grandma wore, was crumpled to the floor, wailing. "Help," said the flight agent. "Talk to her. What is her problem?"
- The siege of Julian Assange is a farce - a special investigation
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Article on Julian Assange's ongoing persecution by the US government.
- Palestine, Israel and 'Rockets'
The Increasing Isolation of Israel
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
It is with increasing frustration that one hears about Israeli atrocities in the West Bank, only through the skewed lens of the corporate-owned media.
- Sex and Consent on Campus
"Yes Means Yes" Law: Anti-Woman, Anti-Sex
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Amid an ongoing debate over sex and consent on college campuses, in September California passed "affirmative consent" legislation, which was followed by a slew of similar initiatives nationwide. The pretext is to curb a purported epidemic of sexual violence and have college administrations come clean on reporting sexual assault complaints. But legislating one form of consent as the only acceptable variant and branding all else as assault -- as these new policies do -- means that these administrations now have even greater power to enforce what is acceptable sexual activity among students.
- SFU scientist worries she'll lose home, over Kinder Morgan lawsuit
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
She was the woman everyone on Burnaby Mountain was waiting for. The accidental media star -- SFU professor Lynne Quarmby -- was immediately surrounded by cameras as she gave her reaction Friday to the injunction brought down against her and other pipeline protesters. She vowed to continue her fight.
- Tensions in the Arctic
The Big Chill
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Tensions in the region arise from two sources: squabbles among the border states -- Norway, Russia, the U.S., Canada, Denmark (representing Greenland), Finland, Iceland, and Sweden -- over who owns what, and efforts by non-polar countries-- China, India, the European Union and Japan -- that want access. The conflicts range from serious to somewhat silly.
- The Walls the West Won’t Tear Down
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Twenty-five years after the Berlin Wall, lethal borders remain. We must dismantle them.
- Arab Media on the Brink
The Age of TV Jokers
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
In the last year or so in Egypt, much of what has been achieved in terms of carving space for alternative voices in the Egyptian media was quickly and decisively reversed.
- Global Health Watch 4
An Alternative World Health Report
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Global Health Watch, now in its fourth edition, is widely perceived as the definitive voice for an alternative discourse on health and healthcare. It covers a range of issues that currently impact on health, including the present political and economic architecture in a fast-changing and globalized world; a political assessment of the drive towards Universal Health Coverage; broader determinants of health, such as gender-based violence and access to water; stories of struggles, actions and change; and a scrutiny of a range of global institutions and processes. It integrates rigorous analysis, alternative proposals and stories of struggle and change to present a compelling case for a radical transformation of the way we approach actions and policies on health.
- Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - November 13, 2014
Libertarian Socialism
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
The topic of the week is Libertarian Socialism. Articles on no-state solutions in Kurdistan; right-wing dirty tricks used to attack labour and environmental groups; scientists unravelling the risks of new pesticides; the terrors faced by fishermen in Gaza; and bringing books and seeking peace in Colombia. Film of the week is Even the Rain, and book of the week is Adolph Reed's Class Notes.
- Climate Crisis, the Deindustrialization Imperative and the Jobs vs. Environment Dilemma
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
So long as we live under capitalism, today, tomorrow, next year and every year thereafter, economic growth will always be the overriding priority till we barrel right off the cliff to collapse.
- How Big Oil Plans to Win Ugly in New York
Leaked Transcript from PR Maven Shows Energy Companies will be Told to Make the Fight Against Fracking Opponents Personal
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First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
A PR firm well known for its hardball tactics in defense of Big Tobacco will deliver the keynote address at tonight’s Independent Oil and Gas Association conference.
- How Protests Against Israeli Bombing of Gaza Stopped Zim Ships
With Longshore Workers Support
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Protests against the Israeli bombing of Gaza erupted around the world but none had a more powerful impact than picketers in the port of Oakland, California in August and September.
- Saudi authorities continue witchhunt against netizens
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Two more cyber-activists are now behind bars including one who was given another jail term on 3 November, just two days before Raef Badawi, a blogger and human rights activist serving a 10-year jail term, was awarded the Reporters Without Borders Press Freedom Prize in Strasbourg.
- Son of Stuxnet: The Digital Hunt for Duqu, a Dangerous and Cunning U.S.-Israeli Spy Virus
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
- Unfriendly fire: The casualty of war Ottawa would rather forget
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
On this Remembrance Day, I am remembering one Canadian peacekeeper in particular — someone the Harper government probably prefers to forget. Major Paeta Hess von Kruedener was killed (along with three other UN observers) by the Israelis in the 2006 Israel-Lebanon war
- Whale songs: shanties drag mysteries of whaling life back from the deep
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
A new album of songs chronicling the lost culture of whaling reminds new audiences a forgotten way of life.
- The Margins and the Center: For a New History of the Cultural Revolution
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Repost of an informative reflection on the lessons to be learned from China's "Cultural Revolution" in light of China's grim political situation circa 2014, centered on a review of Yiching's Wu's pathbreaking new book, Cultural Revolution at the Margins.
- This video and article are essential to understanding Israel
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Israeli police shot 22-year-old Kheir Hamdan, and subsequently published a false statement about the details of the incident. Cameras that documented the incident reveal that their account was a lie.
- 'Incapacitating' chemical weapons threaten a new arms race
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
December's meeting of the Chemical Weapons Convention offers the opportunity to control very dangerous and often fatal chemical agents deemed 'incapacitating'.Currently a legal gray area, it's essential to bring the development and use of these substances before a full blown arms race breaks out.
- Look back in joy: the power of nostalgia
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Long considered a disorder, nostalgia is now recognised as a powerful tool in the battle against anxiety and depression. Researchers prove that looking back can improve the outlook for today and tomorrow.
- Meet The Folks On The Front Lines Of Fracking In California
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
The oil and gas industry has worked very hard to push the narrative that fracking is completely safe, and that any opposition is led by a small group of full-time activists.
- A Network of Indigenous Language Digital Activists in Mexico
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
The Internet has emerged as a space where many in Mexico can communicate online using indigenous languages, as well as to create new digital content instead of being just consumers of content.
- Rick Berman Exposed in New Audio; Hear His Tactics Against Environmentalists and Workers' Rights
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Rick Berman, the king of corporate front groups and propaganda, has been caught on tape detailing his attacks on public interest groups in the labor and environmental movements. Berman specializes in setting up pro-corporate front groups to attack grassroots citizen groups. Berman advocates and practises a range of dirty tactics and propaganda techniques.
- Judge approves Detroit bankruptcy plan
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
The more than yearlong bankruptcy case in Detroit concluded Friday with a US judge sanctioning a savage restructuring plan for the city, which creates a new precedent for an assault on public workers throughout the United States.
- Community Police in Guerrero's Costa Chica Region to Celebrate 19 Years of a Better Way to Combat Crime and Corruption
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
The same southern Mexican state where 43 students were disappeared is also home to a grassroots movement that shows how people can police themselves when the state becomes criminal.
- Darknet Sweep Casts Doubt on Tor
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
When news broke of Silk Road 2.0’s seizure by law enforcement a lot of people probably wrote it off as an isolated incident. Silk Road 2.0 was the successor to the original Silk Road web site and like its predecessor it was an underground bazaar for narcotics, fueled by more than $8 million in Bitcoin transactions and operated as a hidden service on the Tor anonymity network.
- Grand Council Treaty #3 supports Grassy Narrows in their stand for mercury justice and their stand against clear cut logging
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
The Chiefs of Treaty #3 First Nations in assembly voted unanimously to support Grassy Narrows First Nation in their demands for mercury justice and an end to clear cut logging on their Homeland.
- Israeli Company 'Doing Good' Using Luxembourg Outpost
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
The international business and philanthropic group led by Israel's richest woman includes a Luxembourg subsidiary that shares its address with more than 1200 other companies, and uses complex financial structures like internal loans and hybrid tools, according to analysis of secret tax documents by Israeli newspaper Haaretz.
- #KMFace photos mock Kinder Morgan claim that facial expressions are a form of "assault"
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Anti-pipeline protestors took to social media to post their best #KMFace, following Kinder Morgan's court case against residents this week, where the company's lawyer stated that the protestors' angry snarls are "not just intimidation," but "actually assault."
- Ontario finally allows Red Cross investigation of immigration jails, but deaths and indefinite imprisonment continues
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
End Immigration Detention Network welcomes the decision to allow Red Cross access to Ontario’s provincial prisons for the first time since 2008. However, the lack of any real oversight of prison conditions of immigration detainees adds to the dire
- Reporters Without Borders - TV5Monde Prize for Press Freedom
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
The 2014 Reporters Without Borders - TV5Monde Prize for Press Freedom has been awarded to Mexican journalist Sanjuana Martínez, Liberian newspaper FrontPage Africa and Saudi blogger Raef Badawi.
- The rise and rise of sexology
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First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Christopher Turner examines some of the objects found in the Institute of Sexology and finds that the pioneers of the study of sex were not just campaigners but political activists and collectors.
- World condemns impunity while another Pakistan assassination takes toll to 14
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) and its affiliate the Pakistan Federal Union of Journalists (PFUJ) deplore the brutal assassination of a journalist in Sindh province yesterday and demand the immediate arrest and persecution of the
- Burkina Faso: climate change, land grabs, and revolution
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
The economic tensions between local producers and international powers that have contributed to the revolutionary dissatisfaction with the establishment in Burkina Faso can be found in virtually any country subject to the harsh and cruel conditions of the global land grab and the crisis of climate change.
- "Delegitimize Zionism," says Israeli filmmaker
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
An interview with Israeli filmaker Lia Tarachansky, whose film "On the Side of the Road" confronts the reality of the 1948 ethnic cleansing of Palestine, and examines how Israelis deal with that past today, how it is taught to youth, as well as which facts are included or deliberately ignored.
- 'Enough is enough!' Corruptopolis board game satirizes sleazy Spanish politicians
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First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
A Spanish student has created a new board game, Corruptopolis, satirizing the corrupt practices of Spain's economic and political elite. In Corruptopolis, players work in teams to answer questions about major corruption scandals to have rocked Spain over the years.
- Becoming Natalie Davis
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First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
As a young historian, she treated obstacles as things to understand rather than to skirt. The attitude persisted during her entire, stellar career.
- Explore the Documents: Luxembourg Leaks Database
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First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
ICIJ's Luxembourg Leaks investigation is based on a confidential cache of secret tax agreements approved by Luxembourg authorities, that provide tax-relief for more than 340 companies around the world. These private deals are legal in Luxembourg.
- Gates Foundation 'feeds the world' with corporate agriculture
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
The Gates Foundation is spending half a billion dollars a year to 'feed the world', most of it aimed at Africa. But as GRAIN discovers, it is imposing a model of high-tech, high-input 'green revolution' farming, complete with GMOs, agro-chemicals and a pro-business neoliberal agenda, all in in alliance with corporate agriculture.
- Harper government silences pain of Gazan children
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
This past summer Israel's advanced military bombarded the tiny, impoverished and overpopulated Gaza Strip for a third time in six years...Nowhere was safe as schools, hospitals and mosques were targeted...Ignoring pleas from hospitals, health-care workers, the Ontario government and a petition by over 40,000 Canadians, his government refuses to grant the 100 visas Dr. Abuelaish needs.
- The IPCC report: Between nightmare and revolution
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First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Belgian ecosocialist Daniel Tanuro says the latest IPCC report has sounded an alarm that we must not ignore. Only radical change can avert climate disaster.
- Israeli Cease Fire Violations and Media Propaganda
The Conquest of Palestine
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First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
The Israeli conquest of Palestine has always been a difficult issue for Western mainstream media to cover. The difficulty lies not in the task of reporting the facts on the ground and transmitting an accurate depiction of them to the public, but in refraining from doing so.
- Leaked Documents Expose Global Companies' Secret Tax Deals in Luxembourg
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Pepsi, IKEA, FedEx and 340 other international companies have secured secret deals from Luxembourg, allowing many of them to slash their global tax bills while maintaining little presence in the tiny European duchy, leaked documents show.
- A touch of Newfoundland entices holiday shoppers in Verona
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First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
One table stood out for me – it was laden with cozy and colorful knit booties that their creator, local Verona painter Elaine Farragher, calls Newfoundland thrummed slippers.
- Tricks of the Trade
Resource Type: Film/Video
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
They are everyday brand names, products and services we all know and use -- but where does all the money go and how much tax do these companies pay? Find out some of the strategies many corporations use to drastically cut their tax bills.
- 'War crimes': Israeli bombs wiped out entire families in Gaza, Amnesty says
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Israel used disproportionate military force during its summer operation in Gaza. Entire Palestinian families were killed when their homes were leveled by Israeli bombs falling with no warning and for little military gain, Amnesty International said.
- Why American Financial Markets Have No Relationship to Reality
An Economic House of Cards
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
The bullion banks (primarily JP Morgan, HSBC, ScotiaMocatta, Barclays, UBS, and Deutsche Bank), most likely acting as agents for the Federal Reserve, have been systematically forcing down the price of gold since September 2011. Suppression of the gold price protects the US dollar against the extraordinary explosion in the growth of dollars and dollar-denominated debt.
- Conflict and Climate: Changing Course NOW
Sources News Release
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First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Toronto, Ontario: Canadian Voice of Women for Peace (VOW) present Conflict and Climate: Changing Course NOW, Sunday, November 9, at 9:30 a.m. at Metro Hall, 55 John Street, Rooms 308/309.
- Court Upholds Ruling to Reinstate Refugee Health Care
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Health for All welcomes the Federal Court of Appeal's decision to uphold a ruling from earlier this summer demanding that the Conservative government reverse its 'cruel and unusual' cuts to refugee health care.
- EFF Fights for Common Sense, Again, in DMCA Rulemaking
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) filed six exemption requests with the U.S. Copyright Office today, part of the elaborate, every-three-year process to right the wrongs put in place by the Section 1201 of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act.
- EFF to Librarian of Congress: Let Car Owners Look Under the Hood
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
The reach of copyright law has expanded so far that it now threatens people's ability to repair their own cars and protect them against malware. Yesterday, EFF launched a legal campaign to fend off that threat.
- FAJ Calls on African Union and Governments to Protect Journalists
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
The Federation of African Journalists has called on the African Union to adopt the resolution on the safety of journalists in Africa and the African Governments to end impunity for all crimes against journalists.
- IFJ & SEAJU call for investigation into journalist murder in Myanmar
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) joins the South East Asia Journalist Unions (SEAJU) in calling for a thorough investigation into the murder of a journalist detained by the Burmese Army in Myanmar early last month.
- Investigative journalist receives threats from EU Kosovo mission
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
An investigative journalist with the Kosovan newspaper Koha Ditore, says he was directly threatened by members of the European Union Rule of Law Mission in Kosovo (Eulex) over his reports that senior mission officials were suspected of corruption.
- Reporters Without Borders condemns the hunt for French journalists’ confidential sources
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Reporters Without Borders is outraged by Indian authorities' brutal search, aimed at members of the Karen community in the Andaman Islands, for those who helped two French documentarians gain access to the prohibited lands of the Jarawa tribe.
- P. Sainath has won the World Media Summit Award
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First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
P. Sainath is the winner of World Media Summit Global Award for Excellence 2014 in the Public Welfare category. The WMS awards are described as the "first comprehensive news awards covering multiple media formats, including press, photo, video and integrated media to honour “truth, objectivity and excellence” in journalism".
- SEAJU calls for recognition of Labour laws and 'right to form' in Thailand
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
The South East Asia Journalist Unions (SEAJU) and the International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) have called for urgent attention to the current labor situation facing journalists in Thailand.
- SEAJU & IFJ call on new Indonesian President to tackle country’s impunity record
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) joins the South East Asian Journalist Unions (SEAJU) in urging Indonesia's government to push for justice for journalists killed in the line of duty.
- SOS Alternatives to Capitalism: A discussion with Richard Swift
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Montreal Serai had the opportunity to discuss SOS: Alternatives to Capitalism – a handy, slim compendium of vital, essential thoughts and discussions on the concept of an alternative economy and society – with Richard Swift.
- Investment Funds Industry Launches Online Magazine to Educate Investors
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Canada's investment funds industry is launching an online magazine - http://informedinvestor.ific.ca - to educate investors about current and upcoming changes in the industry.
- The Leading Terrorist State
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First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
"It's official: The U.S. is the world's leading terrorist state, and proud of it." That should have been the headline for the lead story in The New York Times on Oct. 15, which was more politely titled "CIA Study of Covert Aid Fueled Skepticism About Helping Syrian Rebels."
- Making a Sow's Ear from Palestinian Protest
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
The recent decision by the Congress of South African Students (COSAS) to place a pig's head in what was assumed to be the kosher section of Woolworths, and then, in fact, turned out to be the halal section, could be written off as a mere "fail of the week."
- 100 years ago: Two calls to struggle against the world war
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First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Shortly after the outbreak of the First World War, 100 years ago, two Russian socialist leaders, V.I. Lenin and Leon Trotsky, published antiwar manifestos that greatly influenced the international socialist response to the conflict.
- The No State Solution: Institutionalizing Libertarian Socialism in Kurdistan
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First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
In what many outside of the territory are referring to as the Rojava Revolution, a major shift in political philosophy and political programmatics has taken place in Kurdistan.
- Beat off the vulture's swoop
The judge who took an economy hostage
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First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Emerging economies need to issue their state bonds in financial centres where the law blocks vulture funds from profiting from financial woes. New York is off the list.
- Democracy rezoned
Republicans fix polls in US elections
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First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
By employing techniques that take advantage of the extreme polarisation of the US electorate, the Republican Party is able to fix polls.
- From Sykes-Picot to "Islamic State": Imperialism's Bloody Wreckage
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First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
When the Jihadist group Islamic State (formerly known as ISIS) changed its name and declared the establishment of the Caliphate, it did so with the release of a promotional video entitled "The End of Sykes-Picot." This was a reference to the 1916 Sykes-Picot Agreement that marked the end of the Ottoman Empire and the establishment of two zones of influence, British and French.
- Mass Incarceration and the Left
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First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Thompson opens up a discussion regarding the American criminal justice system and why incarceration does not lead to rehabilitation back into society.
- The Middle East's "World War"
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
The editors compare the reasons driving the United States' involvement in Iraq and Syria with those behind the decision to invade Afghanistan.
- Off the Land
What subsistence really looks like
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Short essay on the Leech Lake Indian Reservation and their subsistence activities.
- Otherwise Occupied / The genius of Israeli evil: It poses as concern
How to murder human beings without using an explosive or a knife, how to empty them from within
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First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Israeli evil is not at all banal. Abundant in inventions and innovations as well as in age-old techniques, it trickles like water and bursts out from hidden places. But unlike floods, it does not reach an end, and it affects some while being invisible, undetectable and non-existent for others. The genius of Israeli evil is in its ability to disguise itself as compassion and concern.
- Russia's other October revolution
How did we get from perestroika to Putin?
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First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Explaining contemporary Russia as the product of Boris Yeltsin's insistence to enforce a neoliberal economy.
- Two Years After the CTU Strike
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First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
In light of the Chicago Teachers Union's strike that changed the discourse on education in the United States, Bartlett analyzes the persisting problems with public education systems, such as school closings, privitization, and poor allocation of funding.
- We've got our eye on you
US wants to control, and own, the world online
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First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Edward Snowden not only told the world about US state surveillance of national and personal secrets, he reminded us that almost all the companies surveying us for commercial gain are American.
- Why a Killer Cop is Not Arrested
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First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Miah analyzes the grand jury system and police conduct in the United States to explain why the large number of African Americans killed by police are considered justifiable homicides in court.
- Bringing Books and Seeking Peace in Colombia
Bringing Peace to a Beleaguered Country
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First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
A teacher, two donkeys, and a big pile of books are working to enrich the lives of the children in a small community in Colombia.
- Detained journalist murdered by Burmese Army
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) condemns the murder of missing journalist Aung Kyaw Naing by the Burmese Army earlier this month.
- Don't watch RT!
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First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
As RT UK launches, attacks on the channel in the British media have stepped up. The latest is a piece by Mr. Cyril Waugh-Monger, a very important newspaper columnist for the NeoCon Daily, a patron of the Senator Joe McCarthy Appreciation Society and author of 'Why the Iraq War was a Brilliant Idea' and 'The Humanitarian Case for Bombing Syria.'
- Fascism, American-Style
One-Step from the Third Reich?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Unbeknownst to most Americans the United States is presently under thirty presidential declared states of emergency. They confer vast powers on the Executive Branch including the ability to financially incapacitate any person or organization in the United States, seize control of the nation’s communications infrastructure, mobilize military forces, expand the permissible size of the military without congressional authorization, and extend tours of duty without consent from service personnel.
- The FBI Can Bypass Encryption
Why Cyber Security is a Magic Act
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
- Governments fall short in efforts to combat impunity in journalists' murders
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Ninety percent of murderers walk free, threatening press freedom, CPJ report finds
- The great Hallowe'en pumpkin rescue
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First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Every Hallowe'en the UK throws away enough pumpkin to make 360 million portions of pumpkin pie, soup, or cake - a shocking waste in these hungry times. Hence a bold new initiative to rescue all those pumpkins from landfill, and turn them into delicious food we can all enjoy as part of our seasonal festivities.
- Harper, The Ottawa Shooter, and Selling of War
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
The sensationalized media coverage of the police and military responses to the violent actions of one or more shooters in the Canadian capital of Ottawa Canada on Oct. 22 was truly global in scope. Among the newspapers that used on their front pages dramatic photographs of the elaborate militarization on Canada’s Parliament Hill were the New York Times.
- IFIC Announces Board Appointments (October 31, 2014)
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
The Investment Funds Institute of Canada is pleased to announce its board members and executive for the 2014-15 year.
- IFJ Demands Full Investigation Following Israeli Police Attack on Photographers
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) has condemned an attack by Israeli police on photographers near Silwad in the West Bank on Sunday, 26 October. According to reports, Israeli police fired rubber bullets at the photographers at close
- IFJ and SAMSN call on Pakistan Prime Minister to end culture of impunity
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) and the South Asian Media Solidarity Network (SAMSN) have joined the Pakistan Federal Union of Journalists (PFUJ) in marking November 2 as a National Day of Action Against Impunity in Pakistan.
- Journalist detained for reporting on political corruption in Pakistan
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) and its affiliate the Pakistan Federal Union of Journalists (PFUJ) express concerns over the detention of a senior journalist and blogger in tribal area of Waziristan, Pakistan.
- Journalists are not informants
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Two Cameroonian journalists face military court charges of failure to report a destabilization plot. Journalists Felix Cyriaque Ebole Bola of the daily Mutations and Rodrigue Tongue of Le Messager, were charged following a 28 October military court
- The Media and the Paranoid State
Das Bild to FoxNews
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
In 1975, West Germany was often under varying degrees of lockdown. Roadblocks were set up at autobahn exits and identification was checked; groups of heavily armed police were seen in city centers holding machine guns and looking menacing; and airports were under armed guard. The reason given for this military-like presence was the existence of a leftist terror group known as the Rote Armee Fraktion.
- Mexico: Community Police and the War on Drugs
Self-Defense vs. Vigilantism
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Various "self-defense" groups or “community police” have emerged in rural areas, mainly in the states of Guerrero and Michoacán. The embrace of such "alternative security" schemes by nearly all of the left is rooted in a sub-reformist liberal perspective. As long as capitalism is not overthrown, any group dedicated to "fighting crime" will act as an auxiliary of the capitalist state and will have, in the final analysis, a fundamentally reactionary character.
- More from the Greatest [sic] Generation
This is What We Are Up Against
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First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
The Nazi-CIA connection is ancient news but is finally getting play some seven decades later when it’s safe to file it under "Mistakes, well-intentioned." Here’s my “scoop”: The Nazi-CIA connection should be filed under "Policy, standard operating."
- NATO Expands to Border of Russia, Then Blames Russia for Being On NATO's Doorstep
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First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Russia at the gates? US State Dept, Pentagon grilled over NATO expansion. Watch the video or read the transcript: with clowns like these, it is no wonder that the USA has lost wars in Viet Nam, Afganistan, Iraq, etc.
- No to Crackdown on Prostitution!
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
In eight years, the Harper Tories [Conservative Party under Prime Minister Stephen Harper] have waged war on pretty much everyone. Now it is prostitutes and their clients who, if the government has its way, are to be abolished.
- Oil and Gas Industry's "Endless War" on Fracking Critics Revealed by Rick Berman
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Leave it to Washington's top attack-dog lobbyist Richard Berman to verify what many always suspected: that the oil and gas industry uses dirty tricks to undermine science, vilify its critics and discredit journalists who cast doubt on the prudence of fossil fuels.
- Reflecting on the International Day to Protect Journalists
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
The United Nations General Assembly adopted Resolution (A/RES/68/163) of December 18, 2013 on The Safety of Journalists and the Issue of Impunity. This landmark Resolution - the first of the General Assembly on the issue -- "condemns unequivocally all attacks and violence against journalists and media workers".
- South East Asian Media Unite to Combat Impunity, Censorship and Wage Insecurity
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
The South East Asian Journalists Unions (SEAJU) have taken a united stand to combat the rampant state of impunity for journalist attacks in the region and to bring their unions together to advocate on the common issues central to the craft.
- UN Day to End Impunity: Governments Must Protect Media Workers as Attacks Spiral Out of Control
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
The International Federation of Journalists is marking the inaugural UN Day to End Impunity by calling on governments worldwide to address the issue of impunity for violence against journalists as intimidation, abuse and violence of media workers
- The X-Rated Free Market
On Pornography, Royal Spermatozoa and the Free Market
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Is the pornography market the only free one? The question might seem provocative. Or a gross oversimplification. But it might also shed some light on certain points, namely those related with the political shaping of markets.
- The American Deep State
Wall Street, Big Oil, and the Attack on U.S. Democracy
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Scott makes a compelling case for a hidden "deep state," a second order of government behind the public or constitutional state, that influences and often opposes official U.S. policies.
- Canadian lawyers and Chevron's court battle over environmental damage in Ecuador
Iler, Kirsten
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
A storm of controversy erupted amongst Canadian lawyers when the Canadian Bar Association (CBA) decided to intervene in Chevron's appeal to the Supreme Court of Canada. The appeal is part of Chevron's battle against Ecuadorian Indigenous peoples who seek to enforce a massive court judgment against the company for environmental damage in Ecuador.
- Good for the gander? As Alaska warms, a goose forgoes a 3,300-mile migration
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Scientists have documented that increasing numbers of black brant are skipping that far southern migration and staying in Alaska instead. Fewer than 3,000 wintered in Alaska before 1977. In recent years, however, more than 40,000 have remained north, with as many as 50,000 staying there last year, during the most ice-free winter that Izembek had seen in more than a decade.
- I'm Bengali and I'm black - in the same way that my parents were
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Asians may be seen as a distinct today but in the 1980s they and other immigrants identified as Black due to common struggles with racism and discrimination.
- Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - October 30, 2014
Refugees
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Topic of the week is Refugees. Featured articles look at migration, counter-surveillance resources, farmers in Ghana fighting to retain the freedom to save their own seeds, and rebuilding communities faced with mining companies in Ecuador. The website of the week is Mediamatters. From the archives we've got Socialist Feminism: A Strategy for the Women's Movement.
- Canada: Decoding Harper's Terror Game.
Beneath the Masks and Diversions
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Stephen Harper is the most deeply reviled Prime Minister in Canada’s history. On the world stage, he is the servant of Big Oil boiling oil out of tar-sands to destroy major river systems and pollute the planet with dirty oil, while his attack dog John Baird leads the warmongering and bullying of nations like Iran and Syria targeted by the US-Israeli axis.
- Canada's Largest Franchise Show Returns to Vancouver
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Aspiring entrepreneurs can find out how to become small business owners at The Franchise Show in Vancouver on November 8 & 9, 2014
- The Canadian Franchise Association (CFA) Helps Small Businesses Become National Brands at Full-Day Seminar
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
CFA's How To Franchise Your Business Seminar in Vancouver on November 10 guides entrepreneurs to become successful franchisors.
- The Intractable Marginality of the Activist Left
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Strikes are only one form of struggle, and perhaps less and less important as the years pass. But the disappearance of strikes is not an anomaly. It reflects a pattern of diminishing overall levels of oppositional social mobilization. Although there aren't (as far as I know) statistics on it, it is obvious that levels of social struggle generally, in the Canadian state, are lower now than at any time since written records have been kept.
- Landowner refuses to surrender property for Energy East pipeline
A landowner fights a big corporation for his forest
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Rick Verge was shocked when a TransCanada land agent knocked on his door in Titusville, N.B., last year and offered him $1000 to conduct a land survey in exchange for his signature. He refused. He said the land agent showed him a photo in a brochure of what his land would look like after TransCanada was finished with construction.
- Obama's Hypocritical Crusade Against Extremism
Will the Feds Soon be Targeting People With a "Bad Attitude"?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
In his speech last month to the United Nations, President Obama summoned foreign leaders to join his "campaign against extremism." Obama has repeatedly invoked the "extremist" threat to justify attacking abroad and seizing more power at home since taking office in 2009. But the president's own record makes it tricky for him to pirouette as the World Savior of Moderation.
- Recyclers Battle Waste Management... and the Teamsters Union
With Friends Like These
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
It’s 4 AM. The air is cold and damp on 98th Avenue in deep East Oakland, down along the San Francisco Bay’s industrial waterfront. This is a hard geography of concrete and dust and pot-hole riddled roads latticed by train tracks. Much of the earth is landfill, crowded for miles with scrap metal yards, bakeries, machine shops, and warehouses.
- This is Your Ocean on Acid
The Big Picture
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
More than 40 percent of the world’s oceans are heavily impacted by human activities with few areas — if any — left unaffected by anthropogenic factors. This means we humans (and what we deem civilization) have played a primary role in the despoiling of the waters of the earth. The relentless quest for profit, however, has distracted us from the plight of the deep blue sea and how it impacts all forms of life.
- Under Israeli Apartheid, Palestinians Cannot Ride Israeli Buses
Never Equal
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Israeli Defense Minister Moshe Ya’alon has officially banned Palestinians from traveling on Israeli-run public transportation in the West Bank. The new apartheid law dictates that Palestinians cannot take buses that go from central Israel to the West Bank.
- How Rich Are the 400 Richest Americans?
And What They Do With Their Money
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
According to Forbes, a leading business magazine, the combined wealth of the 400 richest Americans has now reached the staggering total of $2.3 trillion. This gives them an average net worth of $5.7 billion – an increase of 14 percent over the previous year.
- IRS seizes hundreds of perfectly legal bank accounts, refuses to give money back
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
The Internal Revenue Service has been seizing bank accounts belonging to small businesses and individuals who regularly made deposits of less than $10,000, but broke no laws. And the government is refusing to return all the money taken. The practice - called civil asset forfeiture - allows IRS agents to seize property they suspect of being tied to a crime, even if no charges are filed, and their agency is allowed to keep a share of whatever is forfeited.
- On Morality and Moralism
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Comments in a discussion about moralism at the recent Battle of Ideas conference.
- Political Prisoners in the Sacrifice Zone of Empire
Mumia Abu-Jamal and Jeremy Hammond
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Recently, two cases concerning the constitutional rights of people in prison came to public light. They involve two U.S. political prisoners: Mumia Abu-Jamal who is serving a life sentence at a facility in Frackville, Pennsylvania and Jeremy Hammond, who is serving a ten year sentence at a federal prison in Manchester, Kentucky.
- Watch your attachments: Microsoft Office bug lets hackers take over computers
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
A dangerous new security vulnerability has been discovered in Microsoft's Office software, threatening to hijack users of virtually every existing version of Windows. The bug in question affects programs like Word, PowerPoint, and Excel – and could allow an intruder to gain access to and control over a user's entire computer.
- Why Do Banks Really Want Our Deposits?
Hint: It's Not to Finance Loans
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Many authorities have said it: banks do not lend their deposits. They create the money they lend on their books.
- Latin American progressives and environmental duplicity
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Left wing governments across the Americas are faced with a dilemma - high social spending programs financed by income from destructive mining and hydrocarbon extraction - or a slower but sustainable development path that puts ecology, equity and justice first. Their answer - a constant pushing back of the resource frontier.
- Mumia Abu-Jamal and Jeremy Hammond; Political Prisoners In The Sacrifice Zone Of Empire
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Recently, two cases concerning the constitutional rights of people in prison came to public light. They involve two U.S. political prisoners: Mumia Abu-Jamal who is serving a life sentence at a facility in Frackville, Pennsylvania and Jeremy Hammond, who is serving a ten year sentence at a federal prison in Manchester, Kentucky.
- Uruguay's legalization of marijuana leads the world
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Next year Uruguay will create a state marijuana monopoly. Supplying high quality product in limited per person quantities, and at controlled prices that undercut the black market, the initiative will safeguard public health, cut off funds from criminals, and finance social programs. So why don't we all do it?
- AIG shareholders sue government claiming their $182 bn bailout wasn't favorable enough
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
- Another round of death threats for journalists in Sri Lanka workshops
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) joins its affiliates the Free Media Movement (FMM) and the Sri Lanka Working Journalists Association (SLWJA) in condemning death threats issued to journalists in Columbo.
- Australian media outraged by failure of justice to Balibo Five
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
The International Federation of Journalists joins the Australian Media, Entertainment & Arts Alliance in condemning and expressing strong outrage over the Australian Federal Police (AFP abandoning their war crimes investigation into the murder
- Economics As If Future Generations Mattered
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
We have turned a corner on climate change-- a wrong turn-- and it is happening more rapidly than we have predicted. Climate change is already disrupting society, ecosystems, and national economies. We have altered so much of our Earth that we now threaten our own survival.
- Germany and Britain: Memory and Myopia
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Ernst Barlach was one of Germany's great expressionist artists of the early twentieth century. A virulent nationalist in the run-up to the First World War, Barlach found that his experience of the Western Front stripped him of his jingoism. Much of his subsequent work explored the sorrow and suffering that he saw as the human condition.
- Ghana's farmers battle "Monsanto law' to retain seed freedom
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Ghana's government is desperate to pass a Plant Breeders Bill that would remove farmers' ancient 'seed freedom' to grow, retain, breed and develop crop varieties - while giving corporate breeders a blanket exemption from seed regulations. But the farmers are fighting back.
- Here come the thought police
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper has declared his intention to fast-track legislation expanding CSIS and police powers of “surveillance, detention and arrest.”
- Justice and Freedom Must Prevail for Macedonian Journalist Tomislav Kezarovski
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Macedonian authorities must ensure that all the 'absurd' charges against the journalist Tomislav Kezarovski are dropped so that justice and freedom of expression can prevail.
- Murderers of Paraguayan Journalist, Pablo Medina Velasquez, Must Be Punished
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
The International Federation has joined its regional group, the Federation of Journalists in Latin America and the Caribbean (FEPALC), to express its deep shock at the murder of Paraguayan journalist, Pablo Medina Velasquez.
- Pakistan suspends ARY News TV licence
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
in strongly critcising the decision by the Pakistan Electronic Media Regulatory Authority (PERMA) to suspend the broadcasting license of ARY News TV channel
- Prisoners' Pictures review -- exploring science and propaganda amid conflict
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
A photography exhibition in Frankfurt examines first world war propaganda attempts to stir revolt among Muslim soldiers.
- Protect Yourself from Electronic Spying with Surveillance Self-Defense
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) has launched its updated "Surveillance Self-Defense" report, a comprehensive how-to guide to protecting yourself from electronic spying for Internet users all over the world.
- Ebola: don't blame the bats!
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Bats serve as a natural reservoir for the Ebola - but we cannot blame them for the epidemic. In Ghana alone people eat over 100,000 fruit bats a year as 'bushmeat', yet the country has escaped the epidemic. Much more research is needed to discover the mechanisms of transmission, and to devise effective, appropriate interventions.
- The Forgotten Coup
How America and Britain Crushed the Government of Their "Ally" Australia
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Across the political and media elite in Australia, a silence has descended on the memory of the great, reforming prime minister Gough Whitlam, who has died. His achievements are recognised, if grudgingly, his mistakes noted in false sorrow. But a critical reason for his extraordinary political demise will, they hope, be buried with him.
- How I Became Radicalized
It Can Happen To Anyone
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
I’m not exactly sure when I became radicalized, but it was sometime in the mid 1980s. I purposely use the term radicalize because, with the rise of globalized insurgency in general and al Qaeda and now ISIS in particular, the word has become a favorite in the media, especially for those on the right.
- Licensed Child Care Owners Respond to Ombudsman's Report
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
In the wake of Ombudsman's report on unlicensed care, licensed child care operators caution legislators not to paint all child care programs with the same brush. Bill 10 won't fix broken child care system, they say, urging amendments.
- Reflections on a violent day in Ottawa
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
After a long day focused on these gripping events in the nation's capital, I have to wonder if this direct experience of fear and trauma will force us to examine our own addiction to violence as the solution to conflict. Last week's events provide us with an opportunity to reflect on our insidious contribution to the climate of hate, and the chance to disengage from our increasingly militarized culture.
- Sources HotLink - October 23, 2014
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Featuring George Lakoff's book Don't Think of an Elephant, persecution of journalists in various countires, the BBS as a propaganda outlet, and articles on what makes a good story and what is public relations.
- UN urged to recognize cultural significance of Palestine posters
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
An interview with Palestine Poster Project founder Dan Walsh, recorded by the Institute for Palestine Studies, gives a in-depth look into the history and contents of this collection of 10,000 posters.
- Why Pro-War Pundits Are Always Wrong
Always Erasing the Victims
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
There is no shortage of men and women – but mostly men, typically white – willing to write 800- to 1,000-word editorials on the need for Decisive Action or Continued Resolve in Whereverthehellistan. Some of these people are historians, some are journalists, but all have attained material success in the field of arguing about war without ever once having to go through the trouble of being right.
- The Berlin Wall: Another Cold War Myth
A Response to Economic Sabotage
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
November 9 marks the 25th anniversary of the tearing down of the Berlin Wall. The extravagant hoopla began months ago in Berlin. In the United States we can expect all the Cold War clichés about The Free World vs. Communist Tyranny to be trotted out.
- Blackwater Founder Remains Free and Rich While His Former Employees Go Down on Murder Charges
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
A federal jury in Washington, D.C., returned guilty verdicts against four Blackwater operatives charged with killing more than a dozen Iraqi civilians and wounding scores of others in Baghdad in 2007.
- Canada, At War For 13 Years, Shocked That 'A Terrorist' Attacked Its Soldiers
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
The national mood and discourse in Canada is virtually identical to what prevails in every Western country whenever an incident like this happens: shock and bewilderment that someone would want to bring violence to such a good and innocent country, followed by claims that the incident shows how primitive and savage is the “terrorist ideology” of extremist Muslims, followed by rage and demand for still more actions of militarism and freedom-deprivation.
- Secwepemc Tribes Fight New Mines and Old Laws in British Columbia
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Indigenous activists burned down a bridge in British Columbia, Canada, to prevent Imperial Metals from starting a lead and zinc mine on the lands of the Secwepemc peoples. Local tribes say that the mine may severely impact the one of the largest remaining sockeye salmon populations in the world.
- Ten ways your nonprofit can start - or might already be - delivering content marketing
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
This is a list of several ways in which non-profits can promote their message. This article also contains some information on the effectiveness of each method. There are some tips on creating a marketing plan as well.
- Bolivians Demand Justice for 2003 Gas War Massacre
Thousands March in El Alto
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Thousands of people marched in El Alto, Bolivia on October 17th, 2014 to demand justice for the 2003 massacre of over 60 people during the country’s Gas War under the Gonzalo Sanchez de Lozada (Goni) administration. Sanchez de Lozada is currently living freely in the US, and marchers demanded he and others in his government be brought to Bolivia to be tried for ordering the violence.
- The Death of a Reporter
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Serena Shim, who leaves behind a family that includes her two young children, found herself chasing the truth in a highly charged situation.
- Financial Terrorism
The Wonga Payday Lending Experiment
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Keeping people poor in a world of seedy abandonment. Borrowing at phenomenal rates. Loan sharks running wild, dressed by the language of assistance and salvation. All of this should be the stuff to be binned and repelled by governments, but in an age when governments forfeit, rather than affirm responsibility in the face of the economy, the phenomenon of Wonga, a deferred deposit loan operator, has come to thrive. Private indebtedness has become both a condition and a lifestyle.
- From Israel to ISIS
Harper's 'Orwellian' Foreign Policy
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
It’s getting difficult to remember a time when the Canadian Parliament actually tried to make principled decisions regarding foreign policy and our place in the community of nations.
- How the UAE Tried to Silence a Popular Arab Spring Activist
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Earlier this year (2014), as a wave of counterrevolution and repression continued to roll back popular democratic uprisings across the Middle East, one of the Arab Spring’s most popular online activists found himself sitting in a jail cell.
- Questions for the APA Board Regarding Claims in James Risen's Book "Pay Any Price"
Colluding With the CIA on Torture?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
In his new book Pay Any Price: Greed, Power, and Endless War, James Risen, two-time Pulitzer Prize winning New York Times reporter, documents apparent collaboration between (American Psychological Association) APA leadership and the CIA to support psychologist participation in torture.
- Saudi Arabia: Imprisoned editor Raef Badawi to be flogged 1,000 times
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
According to PEN’s Information, Raef Badawi, who was sentenced by a Saudi Arabian court to 10 years in prison, 1,000 lashes , a fine, a 10-year travel ban and 10-year media participation ban for “insulting Islam” and “founding a liberal website”, will be flogged 1,000 times in November 2014.
- Surprise: U.S. Drug War In Afghanistan Not Going Well
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
A new report has found the war on drugs in Afghanistan remains colossally expensive, largely ineffective and likely to get worse. This is particularly true in the case of opium production, says the U.S. Office of the Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction.
- 31 Years After the U.S. Invasion of Grenada
A Lovely Piece of Real Estate
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
As I'm sure everyone knows, we're fast approaching the 31st anniversary of a truly momentous American victory — a crucial military operation that not only warmed Ronald Raygun's cold, cold heart but was also deemed film-worthy by the former mayor of Carmel, California.
- Digital Media Asia Awards, hackathon and conference drive innovation in news media
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
WAN-IFRA's rolling series of global digital media events will come to Asia in November when Digital Media Asia 2014 brings publishers and editors together with hackers, designers, producers and other new media professionals to explore the latest tr
- EFF Launches IFightSurveillance.org and Counter-Surveillance Success Stories
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Sites Highlight How Opponents of Mass Surveillance Around the World Lead by Example
- Ethiopia Should Free Journalists from Jail and Exile
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
The Federation of African Journalists (FAJ), the Africa regional group of the International Federation of Journalists (IFJ), has today called on the Ethiopia Government to free all journalists jailed and to allow the exiled journalists to come back
- Hungarian journalists work in climate of self-censorship, fear
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
On a rare mission to a European Union country, a CPJ delegation led by board member Kati Marton was in Hungary this week to meet with journalists, media lawyers, managers, rights defenders, policy analysts, and government officials to discuss Hungary
- IFJ Calls on Korean Government to Reinstate Dismissed YTN and MBC Journalists
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) has joined its Korean affiliate, the Journalists Association of Korea (JAK) to express its continued anger at the case of the reporters who have been dismissed from YTN and MBC
- Indian Journalist Offers Harsh Critique of Globalization
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
- Kurdish paper distributor gunned down in southeastern Turkey
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Kadri Bagdu's death follows a week of violent rioting sparked by fighting in a Kurdish city near the Syrian border
- New Zealand journalist harassed by police to name sources
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) has joined its affiliate the EPMU New Zealand in criticising the police harassment of an investigative journalist Nicky Hager and has called on police to abandon their harassment and investigation
- Reporter shot dead while investigating illegal logging
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Cambodian journalist Taing Try was shot dead yesterday while investigating illegal logging in the southern province of Kratie with five other journalists. Three suspects have been arrested.
- RWB calls on Turkish judiciary to drop charges against German photojournalists
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Reporters Without Borders calls on the Turkish judiciary to immediately drop all charges against the three German journalists arrested in Diyarbakir on Saturday and allow them to continue their work without restrictions.
- Self-censorship concerns in Hong Kong after bashing of journalist and protesters
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) is deeply concerned that Hong Kong police beat up a journalist and brutally attacked a pro-democracy protester while breaking up a demonstration. With pressure mounting on media in its coverage
- Shadow Facts About Shadow Government
The Era of "Tiny Wars"
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Tom Engelhardt keeps churning out great books by collecting his posts from TomDispatch.com. His latest book, Shadow Government, is essential reading.
- Stop harassment and legal action against leading investigative journalist
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
The Azerbaijani authorities should immediately lift the travel ban imposed on Khadija Ismayilova and cease all legal proceedings against her. Against the backdrop of the unprecedented crackdown on civil society, Khadija Ismayilova's arrest on crimi
- Supreme Court of Pakistan to indict TV chief and anchor for contempt
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) joins the Pakistan Federal Union of Journalists (PFUJ) in expressing deep concern over the legal course against ARY News channel's CEO and its anchor over a broadcasting of a program that challenged
- 39 years on and still no justice for Balibo Five
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) joins its affiliate the Media, Entertainment & Arts Alliance (MEAA) expressing strong concern that the Australian Federal Police (AFP) hasn’t yet asked Indonesian authorities to help prosecute
- World Digital Media Awards Honour 'Best of the Best'
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
The World Association of Newspapers and News Publishers (WAN-IFRA) honoured eight news media companies on Tuesday with the inaugural World Digital Media Awards, which recognise publishers who have created ground breaking digital products that engage
- Wrenched
Resource Type: Film/Video
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Wrenched captures the passing of the monkey wrench from the pioneers of eco-activism to the new generation who are carrying Edward Abbey's legacy into the 21st century. The fight continues to sustain the last bastion of the American wilderness - the spirit of the West.
- Data Secrecy Company Accused of Sharing Information with Media and Military
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Whisper -- a new social network that claims to provide anonymity -- has been accused of secretly tracking users. The allegations were made by the Guardian newspaper, provoking renewed scrutiny of a multitude of data privacy claims made by software companies.
- FBI director wants access to encrypt Apple, Google users' data, demands law 'fix'
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
The FBI director has slammed Apple and Google for offering their customers encryption technology that protects users’ privacy. "Deeply concerned" James Comey wants to push on Congress to "fix" laws to ensure police can still access private data.
- Israel ignoring "tectonic change" in public opinion
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
World public opinion is important. More than that, it is vital. The British parliament’s resolution may be non-binding, but it expresses public opinion, which will sooner or later decide government action on arms sales, Security Council resolutions, European Union decisions and what not.
- The Anti-Semitic and Pro-Terror Myths
The Politics of Distraction
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Past victimization does not excuse current victimizing. Because Jews in Europe had to carry identification cards, use separate streets, live in segregated neighborhoods, etc., does not justify Israel in forcing Palestinians to suffer these same indignities.
- California Leads the Way in the "Block the Boat" Movement
Fighting the Occupation on the West Coast
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
In organizing theory, activists often emphasize the importance of formulating what they call an "escalation plan." When pushing for social change, they explain, it is important that one's methods of exerting pressure on power slowly grow in strength, not remain stagnant. Block the Boat is the next step in the escalation plan of US Palestinian solidarity activists. The idea of Block the Boat is quite simple: Hundreds of activists organize a protest in a local dock and prevent Israeli ships from unloading cargo.
- Ethnic Cleansing by All Means: The real Israeli 'peace' policy
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
This policy of ethnic cleansing, by different means since 1948, is a consensual issue in Israel and thus leaves very little hope for peace and reconciliation. The current Israeli left, the self-acclaimed 'peace bloc', is willing to oppose new settlements but refuses to acknowledge the historical injustice inflicted on Palestinians in 1948 and denies displaced Palestinians their right to return to their homes and their homeland.
- Eye in the Sky
Surveillance and the Art of Arnold Mesches
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Round about the turn of this century Arnold Mesches, who is neither monk nor medievalist nor Christian, began illuminating manuscripts from the world that long since had killed God but appropriated or accommodated to a version of His all-seeing eye. The manuscripts in question: Mesches’ FBI file, 1945 to 1972.
- The FBI Director's Evidence Against Encryption Is Pathetic
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
FBI Director James Comey gave a speech Thursday about how cell-phone encryption could lead law enforcement to a “very dark place” where it “misses out” on crucial evidence to nail criminals. To make his case, he cited four real-life examples — examples that would be laughable if they weren’t so tragic.
- Follow the Truth Brings Vision TV Conspiracy Show to Life
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
For the first time anywhere in the world, a unique TED-style conference based on the popular TV hit, The Conspiracy Show, investigating the dramatic rise in conspiracy theories - from documented White House cover-ups around extraterrestrial visits
- IFIC Releases Monthly Statistics for September 2014
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
IFIC Releases Monthly Statistics for September 2014 - Toronto, ON - October 16, 2014 - The Investment Funds Institute of Canada (IFIC) announces that for the month ending September 30, 2014, assets under management (AUM) for the mutual funds ind
- My Last Talk with Gary Webb
"I Knew It Was the Truth and That's What Kept Me Going"
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
The 'Dark Alliance' series in the Mercury News came under fire by other news organizations, and the paper’s own investigation concluded the series did not meet its standards. Mr. Webb resigned a year and a half after the series appeared in the paper. He then published his book, 'Dark Alliance: The CIA, the Contras and the Crack Cocaine Explosion.'
- New Seeds, Old Pesticides
A Farmer on 2,4-D and Next Gen GMOs
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
I doubt very many people have ever heard or seen a "tank mix." Simply put, it is a mix of several crop chemicals used together to control a variety of weeds. I have not looked into a swirling mix of chemicals in a crop spray rig for probably 20 years – that's about how long it has been since we have used any herbicides on our farm.
- Overlooking the Obvious With Naomi Klein
Climate, Capitialism and the Left
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
The lesson that Naomi Klein overlooks seems clear. Climate chaos is just one DEVASTATING symptom of our dysfunctional society. To survive catabolic capitalism and germinate an alternative, movement activists will have to anticipate and help people respond to multiple crises while organizing them to recognize and root out their source.
- PEN Honduras appeals to Supreme Court in final attempt to halt ban on practising journalism
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Journalist and founding member of PEN Honduras, Julio Ernesto Alvarado, is appearing along with other journalists and PEN Honduras members before the Constitutional Section of the Supreme Court of the country in a final attempt to fight the reinstatement of a 16-month ban on practising journalism.
- 'Shariafication by stealth' in the UK
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Access to justice is being denied in the UK in the shadow of neoliberalism and religious fundamentalism. Minority women are being denied the right to participate in the wider political community as citizens rather than subjects.
- What 'Democracy' Really Means in U.S. and New York Times Jargon: Latin America Edition
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
One of the most accidentally revealing media accounts highlighting the real meaning of "democracy" in U.S. discourse is a still-remarkable 2002 New York Times Editorial on the U.S.-backed military coup in Venezuela, which temporarily removed that country’s democratically elected (and very popular) president, Hugo Chávez.
- New Zealand Cops Raided Home of Reporter Working on Snowden Documents
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Agents from New Zealand's national police force ransacked the home of a prominent independent journalist earlier this month who was collaborating with The Intercept on stories from the NSA archive furnished by Edward Snowden. The stated purpose of the 10-hour police raid was to identify the source for allegations that the reporter, Nicky Hager, recently published in a book that caused a major political firestorm and led to the resignation of a top government minister.
- Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - October 16, 2014
Arms Trade
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Topic of the week is the Arms Trade. Featured resources include The No-Nonsense Guide to the Arms Trade, an article on Israel's War Business, and the Coalition to Oppose the Arms Trade. A new feature in Other Voices is the Film of the Week: to start off, we spotlight The Corporation, an exploration of the dominant institution of our time. Plus: Lying to ourselves about the air war, Karl Marx's critique of modern agriculture, and a challenge to Montreal's anti-protest bylaw.
- Revealed: how Whisper app tracks ‘anonymous’ users
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
The company behind Whisper, the social media app that promises users anonymity and claims to be “the safest place on the internet”, is tracking the location of its users, including some who have specifically asked not to be followed.
- The Salaita Affair
Lessons Heard and Lessons Learned
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Professor Steven Salaita was to begin his new faculty appointment in Fall 2014 as a tenured Associate Professor in the American Indian Studies Program at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC). His appointment was vetted through the multi-layer levels that are a mainstay of North American universities faculty appointment process. However, on August 1, 2014, the chancellor of UIUC Phyllis Wise informed Salaita that he did not have a faculty job at UIUC. The storm this di-hiring created amongst North American academics was unprecedented.
- The Vanishing of the Aral Sea
From Lake to Wasteland
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
The Aral Sea has reached a new low, literally and figuratively. New satellite images from NASA show that, for the first time in its recorded history, its largest basin has completely dried up.
- Who Supported the Khmer Rouge?
How the US Backed a Regime of Unrivaled Barbarism
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
With the conviction of former Khmer Rouge officials Khieu Samphan and Nuon Chea for crimes against humanity, the subject of Khmer Rouge rule in Cambodia from 1975 to 1979 received a small amount of attention in the Western mass media. What the media failed to mention was how the Khmer Rouge was maintained as a military and political force long after its fall from power.
- ISIS and the IDF: Canada's Double Standard
Who are the Real Terrorists?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Why can westerners join the Israeli Defense Forces while westerners joining Islamic State are despised and killed? In what sense is the IDF scenario any less reprehensible than the IS one?
- Scientists refute lower emissions claim for fracking
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
As advanced technology triggers the boom in extraction of natural gas, a new study warns that market forces mean the cheaper fossil fuel could replace not just coal, but also low-emission renewable and nuclear energy.
- Illegal loggers remain hidden in Peru's forest but timber finds global buyers
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
State exercises little control over remote Amazon region blighted by poverty and illiteracy, and organised crime fills the vacuum.
- Inside El Salvador's Military Blacklist
The Yellow Book
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
The Yellow Book (Libro amarillo) is a 270 page document from 1987 that the National Security Archive in Washington DC made public on September 28th, 2014. The Yellow Book includes 1,975 photographs that the Salvadoran Armed Forces and the State Department of Intelligence of El Salvador used to catalogue people as “terrorists” and “enemies” of the state. The Yellow Book is the only military document that has been made public to this day.
- The Lie Machine
The Media and the TTIP
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
I have come to the conclusion that the West is a vast lie machine for the secret agendas of vested interests. Consider, for example, the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership and the Transpacific Trade and Investment Partnership.
- Pay Any Price
Greed, Power, and Endless War
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
The book examines what Risen calls the "homeland security industrial complex", the effects of the War on Terror and the resulting financial malfeasance during the American occupation of Iraq.
- Broad consensus that violent media increases child aggression
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2015
It seems that children can not only learn violence from adult role models but also through the media.
- Chevron Wins Ecuador Arbitration But Money May Go To Amazon Communities
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
The Dutch Supreme Court recently upheld an arbitration tribunal judgment requiring the Ecuadorean government to pay Chevron $106 million for breach of contract. Ironically, activists say Ecuador is now free to hand this money to indigenous communities who have sued the oil giant for pollution in an unrelated case.
- Cuba leads fight against Ebola in Africa as west frets about border security
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
The island nation has sent hundreds of health workers to help control the deadly infection while richer countries worry about their security – instead of heeding UN warnings that vastly increased resources are urgently needed.
- Free Trade Explained In An Excellent Comic
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
The Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) and Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) are the latest in a long line of international free trade agreements. But why are they bad for the majority of people and the planet and what are the justifications given by politicians, economists and big corporations for pushing them? This fanstastic comic explains.
- 'Hostile to privacy': Snowden urges internet users to get rid of Dropbox
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Edward Snowden has identified Dropbox and other services as 'hostile to privacy." He urges web users to abandon unencrypted communication and adjust privacy settings to prevent governments from spying on them in increasingly intrusive ways.
- In Pictures: The toll on Gaza's children
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
A picture essay on Palestinan children. After losing their homes and watching family members die, many children in Gaza require psychological support.
- Palestinians torn over contact with Israelis
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
A Palestinian university’s decision to bar from its campus an Israeli journalist and outspoken critic of the occupation has exposed a growing rift among Palestinian activists about the merits of contact with Jewish Israelis.
- Core Secrets: NSA Saboteurs in China and Germany
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
The National Security Agency has had agents in China, Germany, and South Korea working on programs that use “physical subversion” to infiltrate and compromise networks and devices, according to documents obtained by The Intercept.
- Lise Vogel and the politics of women's liberation
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
A review of Lise Vogel, Marxism and the Oppression of Women: Toward a Unitary Theory.
- Boston Pizza to Share Expert Insights at CFA's How to Franchise Your Business Seminar
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
CFA's How To Franchise Your Business Seminar in Toronto on October 30 guides entrepreneurs to become successful franchisors
- Canadian mining firm Pacific Rim and El Salvador's struggle against corporate impunity
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
The controversial legal case that Canadian mining firm Pacific Rim has launched against El Salvador has added fuel to the growing international debate on the balance of corporate rights and responsibilities and the need for new legal international frameworks to address corporate impunity.
- Over 120 Opportunities to Discover as Canada's Largest Franchise-Only Show Returns to Toronto
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
With over 100 franchise opportunities and experts, aspiring entrepreneurs can find out how to become small business owners at The Franchise Show in Toronto on October 25 & 26, 2014
- When oil is more important than life
Oil exploitation leaves trail of pollution and death in the Peruvian Amazon
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
The dumping of oil waste into the waters of the Marañón, Corrientes, Pastaza and Tigre rivers and the Amazon forest is producing fatal consequences for the local population, mostly to the Kukama ethnic group. The responsible are well-known oil companies, but the Peruvian authorities have not acted with timeliness, making them responsible as well. For years, victims have protested against pollution and violence, but the oil business has always had the upper hand.
- Fracking company teams up with Susan G. Komen, introduces pink drill bits "for the cure"
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
- Twiga Farm: The story of a Kenyan land grab
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
On Tuesday, September 23, 2014, the residents of Twiga Farm marched through the streets of Nairobi to hand in a petition to the National Assembly. Their demand was an investigation in the unlawful eviction from their lands, the Twiga Farm, and recognition of their right to return.
- Confirmed: California Aquifers Contaminated With Billions Of Gallons of Fracking Wastewater
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
It has now been revealed that California regulators with DOGGR permitted hundreds of wastewater injection wells and thousands more wells injecting fluids for 'enhanced oil recovery" into aquifers protected under the federal Safe Drinking Water Act.
- Israel's occupation is more complex than a genocide
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Israeli officials were caught in a revealing lie late last month as the country celebrated the Jewish New Year. Shortly after declaring the most popular boy’s name in Israel to be "Yosef", the interior ministry was forced to concede that the top slot was actually filled by "Mohammed".
- Mois national de la securite communautaire et de la prevention de la criminalite: Entretenez de bonnes relations de voisinage
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Le Mois national de la securite communautaire et de la prevention de la criminalite qui se déroule et le Conseil canadien de la securite aimerait encourager tous les Canadiens à aller à la rencontre de leurs voisins.
- National Community Safety and Crime Prevention Month: On Being Neighbourly
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
November is Community Safety and Crime Prevention Month, and the Canada Safety Council reminds Canadians that one of the most powerful defences against crime is a resilient and caring community of neighbours.
- Responsabilite lors des sorties scolaires - une voie à double sens
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
À l'occasion de la Semaine nationale de la sécurité scolaire qui a lieu cette année du 17 au 23 octobre, le Conseil canadien de la sécurité tient à rappeler aux parents de participer activement à la gestion des risques d'incidents lors des so
- Love in the Time of Israel's War on Africans
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Sheen discusses the unchecked popular hostility and racism towards Africans in Israel.
- Millions Missing From DEA Money-Laundering Operation
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
At least $20 million went missing from money seizures by law enforcers, critical evidence was destroyed by a federal agency, a key informant was outed by a US prosecutor — contributing to her being kidnapped and nearly killed — and at the end of the day not a single narco-trafficker was prosecuted in this four-year-long DEA undercover operation gone awry.
- Time to Unfence our view of Migration
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Instead of pretending that fence-building will solve anything, it is high time that we 'unfence' our views of migration. On the one hand, this means seeking other, more humane responses to human movement, including orderly refugee resettlement. On the other, it means not seeing migration as a self-contained 'problem' in need of a security response - but rather as an intrinsic part of a world inexorably on the move.
- The Comic Book Simplicity Of Propaganda
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
The referendum campaign on Scottish independence heightened many people's awareness of the pro-elite bias of the 'mainstream' news media. The grassroots power of social media in exposing and countering this bias was heartening to see. But the issue of independence for Scotland is just one of many where the traditional media consistently favour establishment power.
- John Holt: Homeschooling Pioneer and Visionary Progressive
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
The stereotype of homeschooling as the haven for conservative, religious ideologues overshadows the movement's radically progressive roots. One of the movement's foremost pioneers, John Holt, was an egalitarian atheist who explicitly opposed patriarchy, corresponded with progressive thinkers including Paul Goodman and Noam Chomsky, and helped initiate the still emerging children’s rights movement.
- Headscarf ban turns France's Muslim women towards homeworking
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Headscarf ban in French public service jobs turns many Muslim women towards self-employed e-trading.
- Revolutionary Teamsters: The Minneapolis Truckers' Strikes of 1934
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Minneapolis Teamster strikes overlapped with a similarly hard-fought 83-day strike by West Coast longshoremen and maritime unions, a battle that culminated in a four-day general strike in San Francisco. Both strikes were part of a wave of labour struggle that swept the country as the working class, shaking off the paralysis that had accompanied the onset of the Great Depression in 1929, began to fight. What distinguished these two strikes, along with one by auto parts workers in Toledo, from other 1934 labor battles is that they won big.
- Revolutionary Teamsters: The Minneapolis Truckers' Strikes of 1934
A Review and Commentary by E. Tanner (Part Two)
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
A review and dicussion of Bryan Palmer's in-depth study of the truckers strikes in Minneapolis in 1934.
- Drawing a line in the tar sands
A Line in the Tar Sands: Struggles for Environmental Justice
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
The fight over the tar sands is among the epic environmental and social justice battles of our time. The very active tar sands struggle is no less than a life-and-death battle for the future of the planet. It is a battle that pits these peoples' movement against the largest and most destructive industrial project -- a project driven by the big the most profitable and powerful transnational energy corporations.
- Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - October 2, 2014
Climate Change
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
This issue of Other Voices looks at why so many people deny or ignore the very real and very near threat of climate change. We also look into the ways on how NGOs tame and undermine grassroots movements. Other Voices also shares an article detailing how a $182 billion bail-out of tax-payer money was not enough for one bank. Finally, in this issue, we look into the horrors of American slavery and how it shaped the United States into the economic power it is today.
- Rebuilding communities: a type of resistance
Communities in the Amazon resort to constitutional rights to recover territories granted to mining companies.
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
In Tundayme, a parish located in the Cordillera del Cóndor in Ecuador's southern Amazon, the indigenous and peasant communities have decided to recover the territories of abandoned or forcefully evicted communities in order to oppose mining megaprojects. The first few steps have been successful, but they fear that the government and the affected companies will respond aggressively.
- The 'Yellow Book' of the Armed Forces
Confidential document of military top officials reveals persecution of government opponents during armed conflict.
Resource Type: Unclassified
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
The existence of a document, the 'Yellow Book', used by the El Salvador military to identify and target those believed to be opposed to the regime, has been revealed. Many of the individuals named in the document were subsequently killed, or arrested, imprisoned, and tortured.
- Author Donald Gutstein reveals extent of Stephen Harper revolution in new book Harperism
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
In Harperism: How Stephen Harper and His Think Tank Colleagues Have Transformed Canada (James Lorimer & Company Ltd.), Gutstein makes the case that neoliberalism is far more sinister than simply having a desire for smaller government. A central tenet of his new book is that Harper is undermining democracy by marshalling the power of government to create and enforce markets where they’ve never existed before.
- Can Civilization Survive "Really Existing Capitalism"? An Interview With Noam Chomsky
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
On the occasion of the release of his latest book, Masters of Mankind: Essays and Lectures, 1969-2013, Noam Chomsky gave an exclusive and wide-ranging interview to C.J. Polychroniou.
- Devil and the deep blue sea: how Mediterranean migrant disaster unfolded
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Desperate migrants from Gaza and Syria tell how they put themselves at the mercy of people smugglers in their voyage to cross the Mediterranean.
- The Emergence of Marx's Critique of Modern Agriculture
Ecological Insights from His Excerpt Notebooks
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Examining Marx’s notebooks, one realizes that he first attained a truly critical and ecological comprehension of modern agriculture in the middle of the 1860s. Although Marx was at first optimistic about the positive effects of modern agriculture based on the application of natural sciences and technology, he later came to emphasize the negative consequences of agriculture under capitalism precisely because of such an application, illustrating how it inevitably brings about disharmonies in the transhistorical “metabolism” (Stoffwechsel) between human beings and nature.
- Israel’s Fascistization of Judaism
A Nation in Authoritarian Lockstep
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
- Opinion: Lakota values soar with the eagles
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
In the defense of eagles, people came together. In respect of them, they remembered their values. In sight of them, they felt the pride of a nation.
- Opinion: We must hear - and heed - the nightingale's warning
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
These threatened species continue to sing, but their songs aren't poetic or musical -- they are alarm songs. The good news is that when we listen to the birds, when we notice their diminished presence and when we change our behaviour even slightly to accommodate their needs, they respond spectacularly.
- You Are Not Alone Across Time
Using Sophocles to treat PTSD
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Article on "Outside the Company," a theatre company that performed in a project called Theatre of War, where actors played the Greek drama "Ajax" by Sophocles.
- China hopes to revive the Silk Road with bullet trains to Xinjiang
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
China hopes high-speed rail link will help pacify Xinjiang province.
- Everyone on the Bus: Rider-Driver Alliances
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Kann sheds light on the increasingly desperate state of transit in Detroit as number and frequency of buses and entire routes are experiencing increasing cuts and riders join in a union with drivers to protest these affairs.
- Americas Radical, Underground Climate Change Countermovement
Smoking Out the Kochs
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
The year is 2050; rising seas have inundated Miami, America’s most recent ghost city since Detroit. A deadly heat wave scorches Chicago, killing thousands of elderly, and a mega-drought has farmers in the Southwest on their knees, praying for relief, as a dreadful dustbowl blankets the fields. America goes hungry.
- Brazil's highest court takes stand against prior censorship
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Reporters Without Borders hails last week's ruling by the Federal Supreme Court overturning a ban on distribution of the latest issue of the leading national newsweekly Istoe, which a lower court had ordered at the request of Cid Gomes, governor
- Christian Evangelicals Increasingly Support Palestinian Human Rights
David Brog, the Attorney Behind CUFI
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Support for Israel is eroding among American evangelical Christians, with only 30 percent in a recent survey stating support for Israel above Palestinians.
- ClimateFast Annual Fast and Vigil Sept 28-Oct 2 - Conversations and Action on Climate
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
For the third year in a row dedicated ClimateFasters are holding vigil on Parliament Hill, carbon fasting or food fasting, Hungry for Climate Leadership. Canada’s failure to take responsibility for our contributions in destabilizing the climate is
- Hong Kong police use force to block reporting of pro-democracy rallies
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) has strongly criticised the abuse of power by Hong Kong Police when they attacked journalists, students and citizens at pro-democracy demonstrations on September 27 and 28, 2014.
- Illegal logging behind deaths of indigenous leaders
Assassination of forest defenders highlights extensive network of logging and the illegal timber trade.
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
"In the forest, the silence at night is absolute," says Sara, a settler who owns a plot of land in the middle of Peru's central jungle. "But suddenly, at 9 p.m. you start hearing chainsaws in the distance. I get up immediately and go quietly with my gun and my dogs to see where they are cutting down my trees. But I don’t find the loggers. They hide. In the morning I find felled trees and cut planks that they were unable to take away."
- Migrant Justice Groups Call for Overhaul of Immigration Detention after Secret Red Cross Report Released
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Migrant justice coalition the End Immigration Detention Network (EIDN) is calling for an end to maximum security imprisonment of immigrants without trial or charges after a secret Red Cross report on deplorable detention conditions became public.
- A perilous journey: Seabird runs gauntlet of hazards on 40,000-mile annual trip
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Right around now, flocks of sooties are finishing up their summer vacations feasting in the rich, upwelling currents of the Northern Pacific and are heading south to breed. En route, they'll run a gauntlet of manmade obstacles in the ocean: fisheries that deplete their prey and snare them with hooks and long lines, drifting continents of trash and noxious industrial spume.
- Security laws attack Australia's press freedom
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) joins its affiliate the Media, Entertainment & Arts Alliance (MEAA) in describing the National Security Legislation Amendment Bill No 1 an outrageous attack on press freedom in Australia.
- 2014 Toronto Junior Chess Championship
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
The Toronto Junior Chess Championship starts October 20, 2014, at the Annex Chess Club.
- 2014 Toronto Women's Chess Championship
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
The Toronto Women's Chess Championship starts October 20, 2014, at the Annex Chess Club.
- Washington’s Secret Agendas
Imperial Rot
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
One might think that by now even Americans would have caught on to the constant stream of false alarms that Washington sounds in order to deceive the people into supporting its hidden agendas.
- When Deep States Collide
Turkey's Hesitancy Exposes Its Agenda
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
It's no secret that members of the so-called coalition against ISIS have been less than enthusiastic about substantive military action as the bulk of the airstrikes so far have been executed by the United States.
- For an easy win on carbon emissions - cut global trade!
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
If the world's leaders really cared about climate change, there's one easy way to reduce emissions -- drop the obsession with increasing trade, and all the pollution that goes with it. A world based on local production, consumption and finance will be a better one for people and the environment.
- Lying to Ourselves About the Air War
The Killers
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Most US citizens have never been subjected to an air raid. They have never heard the roar of planes flying high above them while an air raid siren wails, its whine competing with the planes’ roar and piercing the audio centers of the brain making sequential thought difficult if not impossible. Nor have they heard the sound of bombs — canisters filled with high explosives and fire — whistling as they fall through the air toward their targets on the ground. Nor have most US citizens ever sat in a bomb shelter wondering if their homes will survive the aerial assault they are hoping to survive themselves.
- Obama's House of Cards
Will Russia and China Hold Their Fire Until War Is the Only Alternative?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Barak Obama's September 24 speech at the UN is the most absurd thing I have heard in my entire life. It is absolutely amazing that the president of the United States would stand before the entire world and tell what everyone knows are blatant lies while simultaneously demonstrating Washington's double standards and belief that Washington alone, because the US is exceptional and indispensable, has the right to violate all law.
- Toward the Agro-Police State
You'll Need an iPad if You Want to be a Farmer
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
The main problem with precision agriculture -- and the hype that surrounds it -- is the faulty assumptions that it rests on. The problems of agriculture are not caused by a lack of technology, or even by a lack of productivity (overproduction has as a matter of fact been a more frequent problem for farmers). The root problems are political and economic in nature.
- Denver students stage mass walk-out over US history 'censorship'
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Hundreds of Denver-area high school students walked out their classrooms in a mass protest against what they call an attempt to censor their history curriculum by refocusing it on topics that promote citizenship, patriotism and obedience.
- New generation: Growing up reading Rachel Carson, scientists unravel risks of new pesticides
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Like biologist Rachel Carson, whose 1962 book Silent Spring warned about the devastating effects of DDT, a new generation of scientists is trying to figure out if new pesticides -- which are being used in ever-increasing numbers, quantities, and combinations -- are harming living things they’re not intended to kill, including birds.
- Sources HotLink - September 25, 2014
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Items include increasing government control of the Internet and other media, as well as the violence faced by journalists globally. We also present articles regarding the journalistic coverage of the Ray Rice abuse scandal and the importance of women in top editing jobs. The featured topic of the week is cancer.
- 24 reasons ISIS are wrong: Muslim scholars blast Islamic State
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
A large group of Islamic theologians addressed the head of the Islamic State in an open letter, articulately accusing the movement of practices that have nothing to do with Islam, even rejecting the extremists’ right to call themselves jihadists.
- The weird afterlife of the world's subterranean 'ghost stations'
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
With plans afoot to transform disused London tube stations into tourist attractions, Drew Reed digs into how they get abandoned in the first place and what could become of them in the future.
- Why our brains are wired to ignore climate change
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Is our inability to tackle climate change the fault of politicians? Corporations? Governments? Or is it because that's the way our brains have evolved, able to hold six contradictory ideas at once, and believe them all?
- Gary Webb: Vindicated
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Family Members of the Intrepid Investigative Journalist — Soon To Be Immortalized By An Upcoming Hollywood Movie — Share Their Story With The World.
- Magnum force cops: 'If you're holding a hammer, everything looks like a nail'
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
US law enforcement is increasingly using military weapons for everyday tasks. Instead of hiding behind heavy armor, they should be building trust with the community, Peter Bibring, attorney for the ACLU of Southern California, told RT.
- Obama Launches an Illegal War in Syria
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
President Obama’s decision to bomb Syria stands in stark violation of international law, the UN Charter, as well as the requirements of the U.S. Constitution.
- Pirate Fishing
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
An interactive online game from Al Jazeera places users in the role of an investigative journalist uncovering the story of illegal fishing operations off the coast of Sierra Leone.
- The Purpose And The Pretence - Bombing Isis
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Traditionally, claims that an Official Enemy is uniquely Evil rise to a deafening crescendo just prior to an attack on that enemy.
- Scary! Annex Chess Club hosts the "Frankenstein" Chess Tournament
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Annex Chess Club in Toronto is kicking off its “Frankenstein” chess tournament on September 29. The Annex Club regular features ‘themed’ tournaments: the “Frankenstein” tournament wryly acknowledges the occasions, familiar to most chess p
- Tungsten: The perfect metal for bullets and missiles
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Imagine a lump of iron the size of a tennis ball. Weigh it in your hand. Now let it drop on to your foot. How does that feel? Now imagine an identical object three times as dense. How would that feel if you dropped it? Would you ever walk again?
- The Occupation's Dark Underbelly Exposed
The Revelations of the Israeli Refuseniks
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
A letter signed by 43 veterans of an elite Israeli military intelligence unit declaring their refusal to continue serving the occupation has sent shockwaves through Israeli society.
- Scrambling birds' brains: Could this toxic algae offer clues to human diseases?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
In humans, researchers suspect that a neurotoxin may be linked to Lou Gehrig's disease, or amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), a lethal neurodegenerative disease that destroys parts of the brain. No one knows whether any human neurological diseases are related to the bird disease, but new clues about the poisoned birds are emerging.
- Eating your ethics: Halal meat
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Halal ritual slaughter has raised huge controversy in the UK press. But the far greater issue is farm animals' entire quality of life - as reflected in the Qu'ranic principle that meat must be 'tayyib' - good, wholesome and from well-treated, healthy animals. Is this something we can all agree on?
- I think explicit consent laws are a mistake
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
I want to talk a little bit about the burgeoning movement for explicit consent laws. These laws change the typical standard from "no means no" to "only yes means yes." As the article puts it, "Students are now required to have 'unambiguous communication and mutual agreement' -- that's verbal consent - before sexual acts, or risk consequences."
- ISIS Destroys Memorial & Church of Armenian Genocide in Der Zor, Syria
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
ISIS has destroyed the on-site monument to the Armenian people who perished in the deserts of Der Zor in the Genocide of 1915. The church and memorial contained irreplaceable bones of the martyred dead.
- NGOs Are Cages
How Capitalists Control Mass Movements
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
We really need to understand the methods used by NGOs to undermine radical political organizing efforts and divert us into political dead ends.
- The Carbon Underground: reversing global warming
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
As millions join in climate marches and other actions around the world, the mainstream focus on energy is missing the 55% of emissions that come from mismanaged land and destroyed forests. The key is to replace industrial agriculture worldwide with productive, regenerative organic farming that puts carbon back in the soil.
- Academic Fraud and the Ponzi Scheme of 'Higher Learning'
Higher Education in Crisis
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
It’s sad to say, but U.S. higher education increasingly resembles a pyramid scheme. The schools at the top continue to compete for elite students, by appealing to prospective applicants via the creation of a slew of amenities (the "climbing wall" phenomenon) and offering a unique college "experience." Non-elite colleges and universities are the losers in this process, fighting with each other for a dwindling number of state tax dollars amidst huge increases in tuition costs.
- Arsenic-Laced Coffee is Good for You
Would You Like Sugar With That?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
The Environmental Protection Agency, in 2013, identified about 1,000 chemicals that the oil and gas industry uses in fracking operations, most of them carcinogens at the strengths they shove into the earth.
- Germany's African Genocide
The Namibia Legacy
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
How outrageous, how heartbreaking, how truly grotesque! Windhoek City – the capital of Namibia – is, at one extreme full of flowers and Mediterranean-style villas, and at the other, it is nothing more than a tremendous slum without water or electricity.
- How Stieg Larsson Exposed the Swedish Far Right
Kicking the Hornets' Nest
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
But after reading Jan-Erik Pettersson’s “Stieg Larsson: the real story of the man who played with fire”, I felt a keener loss, that of a man who I never met but now miss as a comrade in the fight against a decaying capitalist system.
- Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - September 19 2014
Spying, terrorism, and protest
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Coverage of spying, terrorism, and protest. Articles on how the ISIS (Islamic State group) comes to be using American weapons; the U.S. government's secret plans to spy for American corporations; the insidious power of propaganda; how to spot and defeat disruption on the Internet, and steps to sustainable livestock production. Topic of the week is War Crimes; book for the week is Berkeley: The New Student Revolt, and website of the week is LabourStart.
- Revolutionary Teamsters: The Minneapolis Truckers' Strikes of 1934
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Minneapolis Teamster strikes overlapped with a similarly hard-fought 83-day strike by West Coast longshoremen and maritime unions, a battle that culminated in a four-day general strike in San Francisco. Both strikes were part of a wave of labour struggle that swept the country as the working class, shaking off the paralysis that had accompanied the onset of the Great Depression in 1929, began to fight. What distinguished these two strikes, along with one by auto parts workers in Toledo, from other 1934 labor battles is that they won big, establishing union representation for masses of previously unorganized workers and opening the road to the upsurge later in the decade that forged the industrial unions of the Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO). Key to the victory of all three strikes was the leadership provided by "reds" -- labour militants who considered themselves socialist or communist.
- Revolutionary Teamsters: The Minneapolis Truckers' Strikes of 1934
A Review and Commentary by E. Tanner (Part One)
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
A review and dicussion of Bryan Palmer's in-depth study of the truckers strikes in Minneapolis in 1934.
- How the Media Gets It Wrong
On Asking the Wrong Questions and Mapping Media Dead Zones
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
- Mass murder by botulism: Surge in Great Lakes bird deaths driven by invaders
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
The botulism bacterium "is the most toxic natural substance on Earth. Just one gram could kill off like two million people. And for these birds it's essentially just widespread food poisoning."
- The Anti-Empire Report #132
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Each of you I’m sure has met many people who support American foreign policy, with whom you’ve argued and argued. You point out one horror after another, from Vietnam to Iraq. From god-awful bombings and invasions to violations of international law and torture. And nothing helps. Nothing moves this person. Now why is that? Are these people just stupid? I think a better answer is that they have certain preconceptions. Consciously or unconsciously, they have certain basic beliefs about the United States and its foreign policy, and if you don’t deal with these basic beliefs you may as well be talking to a stone wall. The most basic of these basic beliefs, I think, is a deeply-held conviction that no matter what the United States does abroad, no matter how bad it may look, no matter what horror may result, the government of the United States means well.
- Canada more at risk from environmentalists than religiously inspired terrorists: RCMP
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Recent RCMP report warns that Canada's energy sector is more at risk from domestic environmental extremists than from religiously inspired terrorist organizations like Al Qaida and ISIS.
- IFIC Releases Monthly Statistics for August 2014
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Toronto, ON – September 16, 2014 – The Investment Funds Institute of Canada (IFIC) announces that for the month ending August 31, 2014, assets under management (AUM) for the mutual funds industry reached $1.13 trillion. Year-to-date, industry AUM
- An Indigenous People's History of the United States
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Historian and activist Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz offers a history of the United States told from the perspective of Indigenous peoples and reveals how Native Americans, for centuries, actively resisted expansion of the US empire.
- Investment Funds Industry Leaders Gather to Explore Global Insights, Canadian Viewpoints
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Media Advisory – 2014 Leadership Conference – Canada’s pre-eminent networking and information event for the mutual funds industry, with international experts and Canadian industry leaders is taking place on Wednesday, October 1, 2014 at The Car
- Is Israel singled out for its human rights violations?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Some people assert that human rights activists and the international community are disproportionately – and unjustifiably – focusing their attention on the Jewish state. They are "ignoring" human rights violations elsewhere — Myanmar, Uzbekistan, Chad, wherever — in order to unfairly vilify Israel. This bias, the argument usually goes, is motivated by anti-Semitism.
- Life in Timbuktu: how the ancient city of gold is slowly turning to dust
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Mali's ancient city is disempowered, suffering the effects of desertification and slowly disappearing. Despite this, little is being done to ensure the city has a future.
- The So-Called Scientific "Consensus": Why the Debate on GMO Safety is Not Over
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Biotechnology seed companies, aided by advocates from academia and the blogopsphere, are using their substantial resources to broadcast the myth of a "scientific consensus" on the safety of GMOs, asserting that the data is in and the debate is over. The public relations campaign, helped along by industry groups, has caught the attention of some of the most visible news outlets in the country, with biotech advocates portraying GMO critics as akin to climate change deniers, out of step with science.
- Twisted beaks: Scientists exploring mysterious deformities focus on new virus
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Today, deformed beaks have been discovered in more than 2,500 of Alaska's chickadees, or 6.5 percent of captured adults, and in 29 other species in south central Alaska. For crows, the disfigured beaks are even more prevalent, at 17 percent, the "highest rate of gross deformity ever documented in a wild bird population," according to the USGS.
- National Liberation and Bolshevism Reexamined
A View from the Borderlands
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
A view from the Czarist empire's borderlands obliges us to rethink many long-held assumptions about the revolutions of 1905 and 1917, as well as the development of Marxist approaches to national liberation, peasant struggle, permanent revolution, and the emancipation of women.
- Film Review: Revolutionary Medicine - A Story of the First Garifuna Hospital
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
A review of the provocative documentary Revolutionary Medicine, which tells the story of the first Garifuna hospital, in Honduras.
- Technocreep
The Surrender of Privacy and the Capitalization of Intimacy
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
"Technology is rapidly moving into our bodies," writes cyber expert Keenan, "and this book gives a chilling look ahead into where that road may lead us -- on a one way trip to the total surrender of privacy and the commoditization of intimacy." Keenan presents a definitive dissection of privacy-eroding and life-invading technologies, coming at you from governments, corporations, and the person next door.
- IFJ Led Delegation Visits Gaza to Provide Solidarity and Support to Journalists
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Leaders of the International Federation of Journalists (IFJ), its affiliate the Palestinian Journalists Syndicate (PJS), and a number of leading Egyptian journalists have concluded a two-day solidarity visit to journalists in Gaza
- Independent journalism pays off with truth and results
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
A highlight perhaps because our journalistic effort covering the people and politics of Alberta’s oil sands, as well as the industry’s pipeline and tankers offshoots into B.C., is one of Kickstarter’s most funded journalistic endeavours. 741 people like you pledged $53,040 and powered up this project!
- The journalists who never sleep
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Automated 'robot writers' could soon be personalising daily data feed.
- Malaysian website reporter arrested and charged under Sedition Act
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Malaysiakini news website reporter Susan Loone is facing a possible three-year jail term under the 1948 Sedition Act following her arrest in George Town, the capital of the northwestern state of Penang, Malaysia.
- Turkey's parliament approves even more Internet censorship and surveillance
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Turkey: Government agency given more power to block websites and gather user data.
- Breaking the last taboo - Gaza and the threat of world war
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Pilger discusses the attack on Gaza and the denial of justice to Palestinians. He warns against the threat of a new world war growing by the day.
- 5,000km Unicycle Ride for Climate Action Culminates on Parliament Hill
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Campaign calls for political action and unity to address climate change as Parliament reconvenes.
- The hunt for Spinosaurus
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
A chance meeting in Morocco and a trip to Milan joined pieces of the Spinosaurus, the world's first semi-aquatic dinosaur.
- 'Poison pill' privatisation contracts could cost £300m-£400m to cancel
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Taxpayer stands to lose millions if probation contracts are cancelled.
- Sources HotLink - September 11, 2014
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Featuring Micahel Riordon's Bold Scientists: Dispatches from the Battle for Honest Science, plus China continuing attempts to control and regulate media in Hong Kong, and attempts to free three imprisoned Al Jazeera journalists in Egypt.
- The Aftermath of Israel's Latest Assault on Gaza
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
On August 26, a ceasefire between Israel and Hamas was agreed upon, bringing a fragile end to a war that killed 2,150 Palestinians (mostly civilians) and 73 Israelis (mostly soldiers). Since then Hamas has not fired a single rocket, attacked an Israeli target, or done anything to break the terms of the ceasefire.
- Azov fighters are Ukraine's greatest weapon and may be its greatest threat
The battalion's far-right volunteers' desire to 'bring the fight to Kiev' is a danger to post-conflict stability
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
The Azov battalion, a volunteer militia that has been doing much of the frontline fighting in Ukraine's war against Russian-speaking rebels in the east, may pose a serious threat to the Ukrainian government and the state itself. Many of the battalion's members belong to neo-Nazi groups or adhere to neo-Nazi ideology.
- Hamas Rocket Launches Don't Explain Israel's Gaza Destruction -- Israeli Forces' Manipulated Figures and Fake Evidence
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Israel and its supporters abroad have parried accusations of indiscriminate destruction and mass killing of civilians in Gaza by arguing that they were consequences of strikes aimed at protecting Israeli civilians from rockets that were being launched from very near civilian structures.
- Hollywood's Gary Webb Movie and the Message that Big Media Couldn't Kill
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Gary's email arrived quite by surprise. I knew about his Dark Alliance series, five years prior, documenting the CIA's trafficking of cocaine to fund paramilitary squads in Central America. I also knew he had been pummeled by corporate media and had lost his job over it. "They're trying to turn you into me," he said, “but you can win because you don't have a boss who can sell you out."
- Metal madness: Lead doesn't just poison birds, it scrambles everything they need to survive
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
It's well-known that high levels of lead kill birds. But now it's becoming clear that amounts commonly encountered by waterfowl and raptors can mess up their digestion, brains, hearts, vision and other body processes critical for their survival in the wild.
- Researcher loses job at NSF after government questions her role as 1980s activist
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Valerie Barr was 22 and living in New York City in 1979 when she became politically active. A recent graduate of New York University with a master’s degree in computer science, Barr handed out leaflets, stood behind tables at rallies, and baked cookies to support two left-wing groups, the Women’s Committee Against Genocide and the New Movement in Solidarity with Puerto Rican Independence. Despite her passion for those issues, she had a full-time job as a software developer that took precedence.
- The Astounding Violence Of Israeli Colonialism
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Recently the world watched the horrific violence perpetrated inside Gaza, as 2,159 Palestinians - including 577 children, 263 women and 102 elderly - were killed during Israel's Operation Protective Edge over the course of 50 days. Zionist supporters, as usual, managed to rationalize the killing by blaming the victims, best exemplified by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's nauseating claim that Hamas "want(s) to pile up as many civilian dead as they can because ... they use telegenically-dead Palestinians for their cause."
- A Brief History of Women in Quebec
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
A Brief History of Women in Quebec examines the historical experience of women of different social classes and origins (geographic, ethnic, and racial) from the period of contact between Europeans and Aboriginals to the twenty-first century to give a nuanced and complex account of the main transformations in their lives.
- Ceasefires in Which Violations Never Cease
What's Next for Israel, Hamas, and Gaza?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
On August 26th, 2014, Israel and the Palestinian Authority (PA) both accepted a ceasefire agreement after a 50-day Israeli assault on Gaza that left 2,100 Palestinians dead and vast landscapes of destruction behind. The agreement calls for an end to military action by both Israel and Hamas, as well as an easing of the Israeli siege that has strangled Gaza for many years.
- Medical programs for homeless
Re: Too stigmatized to find a doctor
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Community health centres provide services for homeless.
- Rosa Luxemburg on the Socialist Civic Virtues
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
One of Rosa Luxemburg's most striking and least well-understood contributions was to draw on the classical "republican" notion of "civic virtue," as a vital part of her analysis of working-class democracy.
- Terrorism, COINTELPRO, And The Black Panther Party
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
- Bill C36: A Dangerous Way Forward
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
In Ottawa this week between September 9-11th, sex workers, sex worker rights organizations and allies of sex workers will be appearing as witnesses before the Senate's Legal and Constitutional Affairs Committee to speak to Bill C36
- China's tightening grasp on Hong Kong's press freedom
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) is deeply worried that Hong Kong’s media managers lack sufficient independence to face ongoing political pressure from China.
- Dairy - the case for greener, healthier, lower performing cows
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
With supermarket milk cheaper than spring water, it's time to rethink the modern dairy industry. It's not just the milk that's become a throwaway product - the high-octane Holstein cows that produce it are also in the knackers yard after just two or three lactations, the living waste of a loss-making, environment-trashing industry.
- IFJ calls on Pakistan government, political parties to respect media rights
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) today issued letters to Pakistan’s Prime Minister, Nawaz Sharif, and opposition leaders Imran Khan, of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) and Dr Muhammad Tahir-ul-Qadri, of Pakistan Awami Tehreek (PAT)
- IFJ/EFJ Stand in Solidarity with Russian Journalists to Remember Fallen Colleagues
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) and the European Federation of Journalists (EFJ) have sent a message of solidarity and support to their affiliate, the Russian Union of Journalists (RUJ)
- IFJ-FAJ Delegation Urges Egyptian Prime Minister to Release Al-Jazeera Jailed Journalists
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
The International Federation of Journalists welcomes the meeting this morning in Cairo between an IFJ-FAJ delegation and Egypt's Prime Minister Ibrahim Mahlab to discuss the imprisonment of the three Al Jazeera journalists
- Loon, interrupted: Chicks dying, social chaos. Is their comeback unraveling?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
It’s a scenario playing out across North America -- loons are raising fewer chicks to fledgling stage than they were two decades ago. Researchers suspect that hormone-disrupting pollutants such as flame retardants may have eroded the birds' delicate social structure and contributed to a mysterious drop in Squam Lake’s loon population. In other parts of the Northeast, scientists have implicated acid rain and mercury in declining numbers of chicks.
- Made in the USA: Report Shows ISIS Using US Arms from 'Syria Rebels'
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
From the moment the US began sending lethal arms to Syrian rebel factions, there was a chorus of people expressing fears that those arms would end up in the “wrong hands,” and US officials insisted they were going to carefully vet everyone who got those weapons.
- The Other 9/11
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Whether or not activists will ever mount a serious threat to U.S. hegemony and propaganda remains to be seen. One thing is certain, however: Without such organizing, action, and sacrifice, there will be many more wars and interventions and many more lies told to obscure the truth about them.
- The Price We Pay
Resource Type: Film/Video
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
This documentary, inspired by Brigitte Alepin's book La Crise fiscale qui vient, shines a light on the dark history and dire present-day reality of big-business tax avoidance, which has seen multinationals depriving governments of trillions of dollars in tax revenues by harbouring profits in offshore havens.
- Then and Now
1934 Strikes, Class-Struggle Leadership Made the Difference (Part Two)
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Second part of an analysis on the differences between strike action today and that of six years ago during the onset of the economic crisis.
- Then and Now Part Two
1934 Strikes -- Class-Struggle Leadership Made the Difference
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
In 1934, four years into the Great Depression, the victory of three citywide strikes -- centered on the Teamsters in Minneapolis, auto parts workers in Toledo and longshoremen in San Francisco -- would open the door to a mass upsurge of working-class struggle and the organization of powerful industrial unions.
- The U.S. Government's Secret Plans to Spy for American Corporations
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Throughout the last year, the U.S. government has repeatedly insisted that it does not engage in economic and industrial espionage, in an effort to distinguish its own spying from China's infiltrations of Google, Nortel, and other corporate targets. Turns out that isn't true.
- Bold Scientists
Dispatches from the Battle for Honest Science
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Accounts of scientists working in the public interest despite powerful opposition.
- The CIA's Mop-Up Man: L.A. Times Reporter Cleared Stories With Agency Before Publication
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
A prominent national security reporter for the Los Angeles Times routinely submitted drafts and detailed summaries of his stories to CIA press handlers prior to publication, according to documents obtained by The Intercept.
- The Insidious Power of Propaganda
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
To study the effects of political propaganda in what used to be called the 'free world' there could hardly be a better time than now. We are living through an instance of insidious propaganda that has clean contours. It fills a common need. In a period of large-scale slaughter and other man-made disaster the morally conscious person can do with some clear categories of good and bad, desirable and despicable.
- Loss of night: Artificial light disrupts sex hormones of birds
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Around the world, scientists seeking to answer that question have gathered mounting evidence that city lights are altering the basic physiology of urban birds, suppressing their estrogen and testosterone and changing their singing, mating and feeding behaviors. One lab experiment showed that male blackbirds did not develop reproductive organs during the second year of exposure to continuous light at night.
- Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - September 4, 2014
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Information about the Connexions Alternative Media List and the Labor Film Archive. Articles on corporations spying on non-profits, workplace deaths, Monsanto and Ukraine, and liberal environmentalism. Topic of the week is Violence Against Journalists. Book of the week is Bold Scientists.
- Fake cell phone 'towers' may be spying on Americans' calls, texts
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
More than a dozen 'fake cell phone towers' could be secretly hijacking Americans' mobile devices in order to listen in on phone calls or snoop on text messages, a security-focused cell phone company claims. It is not clear who controls the devices.
- Missing Russian journalist Andrey Stenin confirmed dead in Ukraine
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Russian journalist Andrey Stenin, missing in eastern Ukraine for a month, has been confirmed dead, RIA Novosti, the news agency where he worked, reports. He was in a vehicle traveling in a convoy of escaping civilians when it came under heavy fire.
- Toxic gulls: Quebec's contaminated bird colony offers clues about flame retardants
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Research on Deslauriers and in Canadian laboratories indicates that flame retardants are altering birds’ thyroid hormones, reducing their clutch sizes, damaging their eggs, changing their behavior, shifting their gender ratio toward males and weakening their bones.
- Ukraine: the Ugly Truth
Kiev's War Against Freedom of Speech
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
The US State Department has given its support to the military operation undertaken by Kiev in Donbass.
- The Zero-Sum Game of Perpetual War
Why the Deep State Always Wins
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Readers with a morbid sense of curiosity can visit a web site called NukeMap that allows visitors to witness the devastation caused by nuclear weapons of varying yields on a city of their choosing.
- Allan Sekula, Against the Grain
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
A tribute to the photographer, film-maker, cultural theorist, political activist, and Marxist intellectual, Allan Sekula.
- An alternative media list
Getting the news - and getting behind the news
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2017
A selective list of English-language alternative media.
- August 1914 and World War I
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Smaldone analyzes the political circumstances during WWI to explain why socialism as an international movement failed to take hold and ultimately collapsed.
- Death in the Eagle's Shadow
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Loewenstein details the circumstances surrounding her friend Anwar Za'aneen's death by an Israeli drone in Gaza, to highlight the severity of the dangers that Palestinians must live with in everyday life.
- De-colonizing North America
Book Review
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
A book review of King's "The Inconvenient Indian: A Curious Account of Native People in North America," and Dunbar-Ortiz's "An Indigenous People's History of the United States."
- Detroit: Your Pension and Your Life!
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Amidst the ongoing bankruptcy of Detroit, workers are faced with having their pensions involuntarily reduced.
- Ferguson on Center Stage
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Miah examines race relations in Ferguson, Missouri after the recent police murder of Michael Brown as a result of racial profiling and police brutality.
- Florida's sugar barons grow fat on subsidies, diabetes and Everglades destruction
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Big Sugar is the new Big Tobacco, writes Alan Farago - lethal to human health, wreaking environmental devastation, gouging huge public subsidies, and with the political clout to stop First Lady Michelle Obama from breathing a word against it. Only an alliance of green, health and taxpayer campaigners can kill the beast.
- Fred Ho, Presente!
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
A tribute to saxophonist, composer, and revolutionary Marxist activist Fred Ho, who was an active member of the Jazz and radical left-movements.
- A Green New Deal for New York
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
The Green Party outlines its revised goals for their campaign plan in the election for governor and lieutenant governor of New York.
- Is Water a Human Right in Detroit?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Feeley examines the questionable actions of the Detroit Water and Sewage Department's recent decision to shut-off the water of residents with outstanding bills, a process that penalizes the large portion of the population that is low-income in a city that is undergoing bankruptcy.
- Making the Rulers Obey
Book Review
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
A book review of "Until the Rulers Obey: Voices from Latin American Social Movements" edited by Clinton Ross and Marcy Rein.
- Military Emancipation
Book Review
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
A book review of Levine's "The Fall of the House of Dixie: The Civil War and the Social Revolution that Transformed the South," and Oakes's "Freedom National: The Destruction of Slavery in the United States, 1861-1865."
- One Historian's Journey
Book Review
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
A book review of "A Contest of Ideas: Capital, Politics, and Labor" by Nelson Lichenstein.
- One Step Up, Three Steps Down
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
In an interview with author Barbara Garson, Against the Current examines the economic meltdown surrounding the Occupy movement and the effect it has had on working-class Americans.
- Our Planet, Our Movement
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
In response to recent activist activity regarding climate change in New York City, the editors examine the dimensions of the global environmental crisis and how to confront it.
- Palestine's Unfolding Horror
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Weissman interviews Dr. Hisham Ahmed regarding the Israeli bombing of Gaza in 2014, its underlying causes, and possible impact on the political prospects for the future of Hamas and Israel.
- Piketty on Capital and Inequality
Book Review
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
A book review of "Capital in the Twenty-First Century" by Thomas Piketty.
- A place in the sun
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
An extract from Laurent Cordonnier's futuristic novel 'La Liquidation.'
- Putin on the Ritz
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Forgive the word-play; colossal demonization notwithstanding, I’ll go with Putin and Russia over Obama, the US, Rasmussen, Cameron, friends and allies everywhere. America has an unerring nose for smelling Fascism and quickly joining ranks. Today Putin used the political “F” word correctly, and for that I honor him.
- Resisting the New McCarthyism
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Against the Current interviews Professor Abdulhadi regarding recent accusations by the rightwing McCarthyist AMCHA Initiative that she secured university funding on a false pretext of attending a conference in Beirut. It is believed that this accusation is part of a greater objective targetting pro-Palestinian activities.
- Return of the Evil Empire
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
You have to hand it to them. The United States media machine is unequaled at producing and disseminating misinformation. It begins in the bowels of the State Department or White House or Pentagon and is filtered out through the government’s front organizations, otherwise known as Mainstream Media (MSM).
- Spotlighting Inequality and Injustice
Book Review
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First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Swerdlow reviews Naison's "Badass Teachers Unite!", Heckman's "Giving Kids a Fair Chance", and Marsh's "Class Dismissed: Why We Cannot Teach or Learn Our Way Out of Inequality" in order to discuss whether more education is the solution to income inquality in the United States.
- Tailbacks in Panama
China sponsors rival east-west canal routes
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Despite the expansion works in the Panama Canal, the number and size of ships are getting too large for it. Other Latin American countries, backed by China, want some of the action.
- Toward Energy Democracy
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
As energy systems are beginning to transition towards greener alternatives to fossil fuels, a debate surrounding its production emerges.
- Why the Ukraine Crisis Is the West's Fault
The Liberal Delusions That Provoked Putin
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
The taproot of the trouble is NATO enlargement, the central element of a larger strategy to move Ukraine out of Russia's orbit and integrate it into the West. At the same time, the EU's expansion eastward and the West's backing of the pro-democracy movement in Ukraine -- beginning with the Orange Revolution in 2004 -- were critical elements, too.
- How the NSA Helped Turkey Kill Kurdish Rebels
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
On a December night in 2011, a terrible thing happened on Mount Cudi, near the Turkish-Iraqi border. One side described it as a massacre; the other called it an accident.
- More chance of dying from work than going to war
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Going to war may seem one of the most hazardous ordeals on the planet, but perhaps not. The International Labor Organization (ILO) says there is more chance of dying from work than fighting for your country on the battlefield.
- Police State: US Government-Funded Database Created to Track "Subversive Propaganda" Online
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
The creation of the Truthy database by Indiana University researchers has drawn sharp criticism from free-speech advocates and others concerned over government censorship of political expression.
- In Scotland or Catalonia, the pitch is for difference without much difference
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
In the referendums in Scotland and Catalonia, the idea is for bracing, defining change that won't be greatly noticed.
- The liberal climate agenda is doomed to failure
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Liberal environmentalism represents a dangerous delusion, writes Scott Parkin - that 'playing nice' with Earth-destroying corporations and politicians can yield results worth having. Radical change on climate will only result from bold, confrontational direct actions against the fossil fuel industries and their apologists.
- Losing Toronto: How Olivia Chow and the left may be giving away an election
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
As we head into the Labour Day weekend that may be accurately deemed to be the start of the homestretch of Toronto's very long mayoral and council election season, the news is not good for leftists or progressives in the city.
- Organizing "The Organized"
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
For many years, American unions have been trying to “organize of the unorganized” to offset, and, where possible, reverse their steady loss of dues-paying membership. In union circles, a distinction was often made between that "external organizing" – to recruit workers who currently lack collective bargaining rights – and "internal organizing," which involves engaging more members in contract fights and other forms of collective action aimed at strengthening existing bargaining units.
- Poisoned: A dying bald eagle and its healers fight for a second chance
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Nearly three-quarters of the 22 lead-poisoned birds that had reached the Teton Raptor Center in recent years either died or were so far gone they had to be euthanized. But this eagle had so far survived what could have been a lethal dose.
- Washington Piles Lie Upon Lie
One After Another After Another
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First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
The latest Washington lie, this one coming from NATO, is that Russia has invaded Ukraine with 1,000 troops and self-propelled artillery.
- White privilege masquerades as anti-racism
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Why does a demonstration of hundreds of people against "anti-Semitism" in Toronto seem more like a march for white supremacy than a rally against racism?
- Biology Fortified, Inc. misleads the public on GMO safety
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
- Heavy metal songs: Contaminated songbirds sing the wrong tunes
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Scientists have long known that mercury is a potent toxicant: It disrupts the architecture of human brains, and it can change birds' behavior and kill their chicks. But after extensive research in Virginia, scientists have shown that mercury also alters the very thing that many birds are known for -- their songs.
- Israeli Company Targeted by Oakland Blockade Imports Ammunition Into US
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Israeli-owned shipping company Zim, the target of recent port blockades organized by Palestinian solidarity activists in California, is importing millions of rounds of small arms ammunition into the United States each year.
- The Jihadis Return
ISIS and the New Sunni Uprising
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Though capable of staging spectacular attacks like 9/11, jihadist organizations were not a significant force on the ground when they first became notorious in the shape of al-Qa'ida at the turn of century. The West's initial successes in the 2001 invasion of Afghanistan weakened their support still further. Today, as Middle East commentator Patrick Cockburn sets out in this new book, that's all changed. Exploiting the missteps of the West's wars in Afghanistan, Iraq and Libya, as well as its misjudgments in relation to Syria and the uprisings of the Arab Spring, jihadist organizations, of which ISIS is the most important, are swiftly expanding.
- Several journalists attacked while covering Freedom March in Pakistan
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Committee to Protect Journalists calls on all sides to respect the role of journalists and media workers covering an anti-government demonstration in Pakistan. Journalists from various news outlets have been attacked while covering the Freedom March
- Sources HotLink - August 28, 2014
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Featuring news on Internet freedom and censorship, killings of journalists by the Israeli military, and a cross-Canada ride for climate action.
- Turkey, enemy of the Internet?
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
The 9th annual Internet Governance Forum will be held in Istanbul from 2 to 5 September. Reporters Without Borders will be there to denounce the increasing violations of freedom of information in Turkey and to argue that respect for this freedom
- TV presenter slaughtered in Bangladesh
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) and the Bangladesh Manobadhikar Sangbadik Forum (BMSF) deplore the slaughter murder of a television host in Dhaka on Wednesday night, August 27.
- Empty nests of the North: "Massive chick deaths" in seabird colonies; climate, oceanic changes blamed
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Iceland, circled by the food-rich currents of Atlantic, Arctic and polar waters, is the Serengeti for seabirds. But the nests have gone empty in the past few years, and colonies throughout the North Atlantic are shrinking.
- Factory and Lab: Israel's War Business
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Israel invests more money in research than most other countries -- and in no other place are research institutes, the defense industry, the army and politics as interwoven. The result is a high-tech weapons factory that successfully exports its goods globally.
- The Latin Americanization of U.S. Police Forces
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
A call to white Americans to unite with suppressed minorities who are incarcerated daily, killed in the streets, and who hold little political power against these militarized police forces.
- Media spies put all journalists in danger
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
The increasing tendency of the Central Intelligence Agency and other U.S. intelligence agencies to disregard previous prohibitions against the use of journalists as agents puts every legitimate reporter around the world in jeopardy.
- The Picket of the Zim Piraeus
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
- Sanctions & the Dollar
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
The recent round of sanctions aimed at Moscow over the crisis in the Ukraine could backfire on Washington by accelerating a move away from the dollar as the world’s reserve currency. While in the short run American actions against Russia’s oil and gas industry will inflict economic pain on Moscow, in the long run the U.S. may lose some of its control over international finance.
- The Fun of Empire: Fighting on All Sides of a War in Syria
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Now the Obama administration and American political class is celebrating the one-year anniversary of the failed “Bomb Assad!” campaign by starting a new campaign to bomb those fighting against Assad – the very same side the U.S. has been arming over the last two years.
- Osprey whisperers: Deciphering decades of clues from the sea hawk
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Ospreys tell a story, and Elliott, Lee and the other scientists who track them are trying to decipher their messages. For more than two decades in North America, particularly in the Pacific Northwest, the osprey has revealed disturbing tales about DDT, PCBs, pulp mill dioxins, flame retardants, stain-resistant compounds, urban runoff, mining wastes, prescription drugs, mercury and more.
- Slavery and the Making of American Capitalism - Book Review
Edward E. Baptist’s "The Half Has Never Been Told"
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First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
A review of Edward E. Baptist’s examination of slavery, presented in an entirely new way, extensively through the voices of the slaves themselves.
- Ultra-Zionists protest Muslim-Jewish wedding saying miscegenation is 'gravest threat to the Jewish people'
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
As even mainstream Israeli politicians threaten the Palestinians of Gaza with ethnic cleansing and genocide, Israel's far-right figures take to the street to rile up racist supporters and to chase Palestinians out of public spaces and enforce racial-religious separation.
- Corporations Spy on Nonprofits with Impunity
Dow Chemical vs. Greenpeace
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Here's a dirty little secret you won't see in the daily papers: corporations conduct espionage against US nonprofit organizations without fear of being brought to justice.
- NATO - New York Times Convoy Fabrications
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
On Saturday, the entire humanitarian convoy of 227 trucks crossed back into Russia without incident after having successfully delivered its contents to the Luhansk distribution centre. The unwavering round trip project from Russia surmounted considerable bureaucratic delays and political obstacles including wild assertions that the convoy’s true purpose was to ‘smuggle weapons’ to the east Ukraine rebels.
- Tim's + BK = $ for Canada right? Wrong! (in one table)
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Big news today that Burger King, a US company, is planning to buy Tim Horton's, a Canadian one. This is another in a string of 'tax inversion' deals where US corporations move their corporate headquarters from the US to elsewhere to avoid US taxation. They don't actually change anything or move anyone outside of their accounting fairyland. Instead, they just check some different boxes on their income tax forms and 'poof' save millions in taxes.
- Winged Warnings: Built for survival, birds in trouble from pole to pole
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Globally, one in eight -- more than 1,300 species -- are threatened with extinction, and the status of most of those is deteriorating, according to BirdLife International.
- Monsanto and Ukraine
GM Food, Ukraine and the Return of Hill + Knowlton
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First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
The World Bank and the International Monetary Fund (IMF), under terms of their $17 billion loan to Ukraine, will force that country to permit genetically-modified (GM) crops and genetically-modified organisms (GMOs) in agriculture.
- A Hundred Years Gone: The Sack of Louvain
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Marie-Therese Delcom sits at an outdoor cafe in the Belgian town of Leuven, rustling through faded family photos from the First World War. In one of them, her paternal grandfather is digging his own grave, invading German soldiers standing at the ready.
- Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - August 21, 2014
Killings by Police
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Topic of the week is Killings by Police. Articles on the way the Ebola crisis illuminates the moral bankruptcy of capitalism; Responding the capitalist crisis, in 1914 and 2014; Globaling Gaza: Israel's leading role in undemining international law; and Marinaleda, a town in Spain attempting to create alternatives based on democracy, co-operation, and mutual aid. Group of the Week is Librarians and Archivists with Palestine.
- We Blocked The Boat - Oakland 2014
Resource Type: Film/Video
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
For four days straight the San Francisco Bay Area community blocked the Israeli ZIM ship from unloading at the SSA. And today, we salute the rank and file workers of ILWU local 10 for standing with us against Israeli Apartheid by honoring our pickets.
- Black market boom lays bare a social divide in Colorado's marijuana market
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Inside Colorado's black market for pot, segregation and resentment flourish.
- Army Detonates Two Homes In Hebron, Seals One With Concrete Blocs
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Israeli soldiers wired and detonated two Palestinian homes in Hebron city, in the southern part of the occupied West Bank, and sealed the home of a third Palestinian with concrete. A Palestinian home was also demolished in occupied East Jerusalem.
- The Crisis in Investigative Journalism
The Case of James Risen
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Investigative journalists are the vanguard of the so-called Fourth Estate, bearing the formidable task of watchdogging the other three estates
- Globalizing Gaza
How Israel Undermines International Law Through "Lawfare"
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
At the same time as it engages in repeated massive military assaults on a primarily civilian popuation in Gaza, Israel is also engaged in an ongoing assault on international humanitarian law by a highly coordinated team of Israeli lawyers, military officers, PR people and politicians. It is an effort not only to get Israel off the hook for massive violations of human rights and international law, but to help other governments overcome similar constraints when they embark as well on “asymmetrical warfare,” “counterinsurgency” and “counter-terrorism” against peoples resisting domination. It is a campaign that Israel calls “lawfare” and had better be taken seriously by us all.
- Marikana, Gaza, Ferguson - 'You Should Think of Them Always As Armed'
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
In colonial wars the occupying power invariably reaches a point where it has to acknowledge that its true enemy is not a minority - devil worshipers, communists, fanatics or terrorists - subject to external and evil manipulation, but the people as a whole. Once this point is reached every colonised person is taken as a potential combatant and the neighbourhood and the home are cast as legitimate sites of combat.
- Missouri's Legacy of Violent Racism
Quantrill's Raiders Come to Ferguson
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
What is clear about the murder of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri is that the cop murdered Michael Brown pretty much in cold blood. What is also clear is that if Michael Brown was a suspect in this shoplifting case and regular procedures were followed, then he should have been arrested and gone to court. What is less clear is whether or not this killer cop will ever see justice.
- Palestinian Arrested After Filming Settlers Throwing Stones
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Yesterday, August 17, 2014, at approximately 5:30 PM in the old city in al-Khalil (Hebron), settlers from the illegal settlement of Beit Hadassah threw rocks and water at Palestinians living on Shalala Street.
- US farm fatalities: An unpublicized epidemic
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Hundreds of agricultural workers, including many child labourers, die in farming accidents across the US each year. With an official workplace fatality rate of more than 21 per 100,000, farming is the most dangerous occupation in America. It is also among the lowest paid and least regulated.
- Eyeless in Gaza
Locked in an Embrace
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
The trouble with war is that it has two sides. Everything would be so much easier if war had only one side. Ours, of course.
- The ICC Must Investigate Israeli War Crimes in Gaza
The Credibility of the Court is at Stake
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Regardless of the efforts of Israel or its closest ally, the United States, to prevent the International Criminal Court from seeking justice for the Palestinians and international aid workers killed and wounded in Gaza, the Court has a duty to at least open an investigation. The credibility of the ICC hangs in the balance. No individual who violates international law should escape justice. If Israeli officials are not investigated for possible war crimes in Gaza, then the tragic lessons learned from the last century about failures in international criminal justice and the consequences of inaction will have been in vain.
- The Right-to-Farm Scam
Third Wave Corporatocracy
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
When Monsanto’s home state of Missouri passed the “Right to Farm” on August 5, 2014 the third noose of corporate control tightened around the neck of the US. Unlike the first two steps of corporate domination of public life, this was a constitutional amendment that would block the state legislature or voters from passing future laws for environmental protection, animal welfare or labeling of contaminated food. This third wave corporatocracy could well spread across US and globally as it becomes a new form of mass disenfranchisement.
- When Water is a Commodity Instead of a Human Right
The Agony of Detroit
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
The shutoff of water to thousands of Detroit residents, the proposed privatization of the water system and the diversion of the system’s revenue to banks are possible because the most basic human requirement, water, is becoming nothing more than a commodity.
- Review: Nick Turse, Kill Anything That Moves. The Real American War in Vietnam (2013)
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Review of Nick Turse's book Kill Anything That Moves. The Real American War in Vietnam.
- After the massacre: life in South Africa's platinum mining belt
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Two years ago 34 striking miners in South Africa were shot dead by security forces. The ensuing cover-up was a national scandal. Will the wage protests herald a major force for change and loosen the African National Congress' grip on power?
- An Online Tracking Device That’s Virtually Impossible to Block
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
A new kind of tracking tool, canvas fingerprinting, is being used to follow visitors to thousands of top websites, from WhiteHouse.gov to YouPorn.
- The Threat of Just-in-Time Scheduling
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
One of the most unnoticed labour trends in the past few decades has been the rise of "just-in-time scheduling," the practice of scheduling workers' shifts with little advance notice that are subject to cancelation hours before they are due to begin.
- Gaza: Whole Villages Have Been Wiped Off the Map
A VIsit to Khuza'a
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
I’m writing now from my home, but I still feel dizzy from shock and nauseated by the sights and smells on my visit to Khan Younis and Khuza’a.
- Police Militarism in America
In Many Communities Cops are the Terrorists
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
The apparent murder by a white police officer in Ferguson, Missouri, of Mike Brown, an unarmed 18-year-old black youth who was shot a number of times while he was allegedly on his knees with his hands up in the air, pleading “Don’t shoot, I’m not armed,” is exposing everything that is wrong with policing in the US today. What we need today is community resistance to police abuse, and a demilitarization of policing.
- The Need for Clear Demands at the Peoples' Climate March
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
In New York City on September 21st, a major climate march is planned. It will take place two days before UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon's UN Climate Summit -- a one-day closed door session where the world's "leaders" will discuss "ambitions" for the upcoming climate conference (COP20) in Lima Peru.
- The United States and Torture
We Tortured Some People and Probably Still Are....
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Two of the things that governments tend to cover-up or lie about the most are assassinations and torture, both of which are widely looked upon as exceedingly immoral and unlawful, even uncivilized. Since the end of the Second World War the United States has attempted to assassinate more than 50 foreign leaders and has led the world in torture; not only the torture performed directly by Americans upon foreigners, but providing torture equipment, torture manuals, lists of people to be tortured, and in-person guidance and encouragement by American instructors, particularly in Latin America.
- Agri-Terrorists Accuse Seed Bank of Agri-Terrorism
The Terror of GMOs
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Since their beginnings, the USDA and state departments of agriculture have heavily subsidized, and acted as the enforcement arm of, the corporate agribusiness crime syndicate, terrorizing people who presume to feed themselves without paying tribute to their corporate crime lords.
- America's Recruitment of Nazis -- Then and Now
Any bastard, so long as he's anti-communist
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
The most prominent feature of the Nazi political philosophy was extreme anticommunism and particularly fanatic hatred of the USSR. That hatred set the world ablaze, and, yet, after the war, the Nazi administrators, chief intelligence officers, generals, police chiefs, and intellectuals of that regime of hatred and war were recruited to continue their work in the bosom of our secret National Security State, advising, influencing, and promoting our foreign policy in the Cold War. Did that policy change with the fall of the Berlin Wall? No, it intensified -- still absolutist, still aggressive, still dedicated to political warfare. Russia is still in our crosshairs.
- Police want right to see medical records without consent
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Police want new and expanded rights to access medical records and other confidential data without an individual's consent.
- Responding to capitalist disaster, in 1914 and today
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
World War I began 100 years ago. Today's ecosocialist movement has much to learn from the revolutionaries who campaigned to stop that catastrophe.
- Bolivian reality versus the 'extractivism' debate
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Some left critics of progressive governments in South America point to differences between 'pro-extractivists' and 'anti-extractivists.' Federico Fuentes says that framework hinders real understanding of the issues.
- Cotton trade: where does your T-shirt grow?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Growers of the world's most important non-food crops are learning how to raise it without harmful chemicals.
- DAM LINE 9! Concert! Saturday Afternoon August 9
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Blockaders have arranged for 'Tunes Against the Tar Sands' to take place from 5pm until 7:30 pm Saturday, August 9. Activists Have Confirmed Several Musical Acts to Play Show at Blockade Site.
- Washington Threatens The World
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
The consequence of Washington’s reckless and irresponsible political and military interventions in Iraq, Libya, and Syria has been to unleash evil. The various sects that lived in peace under the rule of Saddam Hussein, Gaddafi, and Assad are butchering one another, and a new group, ISIS, is in the process of creating a new state out of parts of Iraq and Syria.
- Israel's atrocities in Gaza prompt unprecedented political fallout
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
"Carnage" in Gaza – "the killing of children and the slaughter of civilians". Not the words of a Palestinian spokesperson but rather French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius. Australia's FM Julie Bishop condemned what she called "shocking" and "indefensible" incidents, with "hundreds of innocent people" killed.
- Size matters: What Berlin's rapid transit would look like in Toronto
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Young contrasts her experiences using the transit systems in Berlin and Toronto so as to offer ideas for improving the TTC's comparatively underwhelming service.
- Size matters: What Berlin’s rapid transit would look like in Toronto
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Berlin has about 600,000 more people than Toronto and encompasses about 250 more square kilometers, so it's reasonable to expect there to be more subway lines. But not this many: Berlin has 25 subway and urban rail lines; Toronto has three – four, if you include the Scarborough RT. That's 403 kilometres of track in Berlin, compared to Toronto's 68.3 km.
- Then and Now
1934 Strikes, Class-Struggle Leadership Made the Difference (Part One)
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Today, six years after the onset of the biggest economic crisis since the Depression, what remains of organized labour in the U.S. continues to be a one-sided class war while strike action is at a historic low. What accounts for the difference between then and now?
- Then and Now Part One
1934 Strikes- Class-Struggle Leadership Made the Difference
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
In 1934, four years into the Great Depression, the victory of three city-wide strikes -- centered on the Teamsters in Minneapolis, auto parts workers in Toledo and longshoremen in San Francisco -- would open the door to a mass upsurge of working-class struggle and the organization of powerful industrial unions.
- Bangladesh Journalist attacked with harpoon at home
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) joins the Bangladesh Manobadhikar Sangbadik Forum (BMSF) in condemning the attack on journalist Nasrul Anwar on August 2.
- Bill Clinton's Most Abominable Freedom Fighters Uncloaked
Return to Kosovo
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Unfortunately, Bill Clinton will never be held liable for killing innocent Serbs or for helping body-snatchers take over a nation the size of Connecticut. Clinton is reportedly being paid up to $500,000 for each speech he gives nowadays. Perhaps some of the well-heeled attendees could flourish artificial arms and legs in the air to showcase Clinton’s actual legacy.
- China Deprives Uyghur Prisoner Right to Legal Counsel
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) is concerned that undue political pressure has been applied to a defence lawyer to make her withdraw from defending a Uyghur scholar accused of separatism.
- Community radio host's 12-year-old son killed in shooting
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
The son of radio La Calentana Mexiquense's founder and presenter, Indalecio Bentez Mondragon, was killed on the night of 1 August when masked gunmen fired on Benez's car at the entrance to the community radio station, located in his home
- Emergency Rally at TSX today - Imperial Metals Mount Polley Tailings Spill
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
In response to the devastating Mount Polley Imperial Metals tailings spill in the Secwepemc Territory in BC earlier this week, Secwepemc Women Warrior Society Member Kanahus Manuel and allies are gathering at the Toronto Stock Exchange to voice
- Enraged hacker resorts to aggressive methods against French journalist and website
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Gregory Chelli, a French hacker living in the Israeli city of Ashdod, has been using extraordinarily aggressive methods to harass Benoit le Corre, a journalist with the French news website Rue89
- The evidence that Israel deliberately targeted hospitals and ambulances
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Amnesty International has published evidence that Israeli Defence Forces (IDF) specifically targeted hospitals, health workers and ambulance personnel during the attack on Gaza.
- 40 people stage 'die-in' in front of Israeli consulate in Toronto - Friday August 8, 8:30 am
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Canadians call on government to end weapons sales to Israel. At least 40 people are disrupting rush hour traffic on one of Toronto's busiest roads this morning in protest against Israeli war crimes in the Gaza Strip.
- "A Hideous Atrocity": Noam Chomsky on Israel's Assault on Gaza & U.S. Support for the Occupation
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Hideous. Sadistic. Vicious. Murderous. That is how Noam Chomsky describes Israel’s 29-day offensive in Gaza that killed nearly 1,900 people and left almost 10,000 people injured. Chomsky has written extensively about the Israel/Palestine conflict for decades.
- IFJ expresses concern for Afghanistan's media after spate of threats and attacks
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) joins its affiliate, the Afghanistan Independent Journalist Association (AIJA) in expressing concern over a series of recent threats and intimidations issued at journalists
- Jail terms for defaming officials online under new law
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Madagascar's National Assembly has quietly adopted a cybercrime law that provides for prison sentences for anyone insulting or defaming a state representative online. Debated and passed without anyone knowing
- Mounting evidence of deliberate attacks on Gaza health workers by Israeli army
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
An immediate investigation is needed into mounting evidence that the Israel Defense Forces launched apparently deliberate attacks against hospitals and health professionals in Gaza, which have left six medics dead, said Amnesty International as it released disturbing testimonies from doctors, nurses, and ambulance personnel working in the area.
- Palestinian media death toll reaches 13
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
12 Palestinian journalists and one media worker have been killed since the start of Operation Protective Edge.
- 13 Journalists Killed in Gaza: Palestinian Protest Rally Demands End Attacks
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) has joined its affiliate, the Palestinian Journalists Syndicate (PJS), to express its outrage and condemnation at the 13 media workers who have to date been killed in the Gaza region.
- What If the Children Dying in Gaza Were Jews?
They Made Them Do It....
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Let’s do a thought experiment and imagine that the Arabs had gotten the better of the Israelis in the 1948 Arab–Israeli War and after years of conflict, all that was left of Israel was the Gaza strip. Assume for a moment that instead of Palestinians, over 1.8 million Jews were crammed into the 11 mile Gaza strip and the state of Palestine, subsidized and supported by a superpower, was administering the calories to the Jews in Gaza, keeping them to a limit of 2,300 a day.
- Health experts question handling of songbird-killing Superfund site
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Health experts are questioning the Environmental Protection Agency and Michigan state officials for their decades-long delays in cleanup of a Superfund site that is killing songbirds in yards, possibly leaving people at risk, too.
- Hiroshima and Nagasaki Day 2014
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
From Despair to Hope: Preventing Catastrophic Harm marks the 69th anniversary of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki on Wednesday August 6, 2014 (Hiroshima Day) at Nathan Phillips Square, Toronto City Hall.
- Ian Birchall reviews Ernie Tate's 'Revolutionary Activism in the 1950s & 60s'
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Anyone who was active in Britain's Vietnam Solidarity Campaign (VSC) in the late 1960s will remember Ernie Tate, whose energy and enthusiasm made such a contribution. Now, 45 years later, he has published two volumes of memoirs from the 1950s and 1960s.
- DAM LINE 9! Occupation of Line 9 Construction Site Begins
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Individuals from affected communities throughout south-western Ontario have interrupted work on a section of Enbridge's Line 9 pipeline. Activists stopped the work this morning, asserting that Line 9 poses a danger to people, animals, land, and water
- Scholarship recipient announced
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
The Canada Safety Council is very pleased to announce Ellie Donohue-Miller of St. Catharines, ON, as the 2014 recipient of the Sarah Beth Therien Memorial Scholarship.
- Toronto's Mayor for Peace
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
The 69th anniversary of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki will be marked in Toronto in the midst of a municipal election. Toronto, a member of Mayors for Peace since 1983, is part of a global movement of solidarity between cities working
- The Ballad of Rivka and Mohammad
A song for Gaza
Resource Type: Audio
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
- Could You Be the Victim of a Copyright Scam?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Some tips for avoiding scammers that try to make people pay them money for supposed copyright infringement.
- Eyeless in Gaza
Israel's Deceptions
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
A single incident at the weekend – the reported capture by Hamas on Friday of an Israeli soldier through a tunnel – illustrated in stark fashion the layers of deception Israel has successfully cast over its attack on Gaza.
- Gaza: Israeli Soldiers Shoot and Kill Fleeing Civilians
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Israeli forces in the southern Gaza town of Khuza’a fired on and killed civilians in apparent violation of the laws of war in several incidents between July 23 and 25, 2014. Deliberate attacks on civilians who are not participating in the fighting are war crimes.
- New Stops Planned for Toronto, Kingston, on 5,000km Unicycle Ride for Climate Action
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Joseph Boutilier returns to Canada for home stretch to the Nation's Capital
- The Attack on the People of Gaza
Go ahead and stop us...
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
According to the conventional wisdom, the purpose of Israel’s assault on Gaza is self-defense, i.e., to stop rocket fire and to destroy “terror tunnels”. However, the facts include repeated attacks on hospitals, an open air market, UN schools designated as safe refuges, playgrounds, zoos, Gaza’s only power plant, etc.) by means of high-tech “smart weapons”, and these attacks are inconsistent with the notion of self-defense. These are calculated, deliberate attacks on civilians and the numbers speak for themselves: about 80% of Israel’s victims are non-combatants, including at least (for now) 318 kids.
- Australian court imposes generalized news blackout on bribery case
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
WikiLeaks has revealed the existence of a blanket gagging order applying to all citizens and news media throughout Australia.
- Call for release of jailed Pakistani journalist
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) joins Pakistan Federal Union of Journalists (PFUJ) in urging Afghanistan government to pardon the Pakistani journalist jailed for crossing the border into Afghanistan without complete documentation.
- Eighth Journalist Killed in Gaza: Israel Must Answer for Crimes
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Two Palestinian journalists were killed while reporting in a market in Gaza yesterday – an appalling incident which means eights journalists have now lost their lives since the Israeli bombardment of the region began nearly one month ago.
- Every Israeli Missile Strike is a War Crime
The Experts' Verdict
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
When are going to hear Human Rights Watch or the United Nation’s Navi Pillay stop talking about proportionality or Israel’s potential war crimes, and admit Israel is committing war crimes by definition – right now, as you read this?
- The Future of Israel and the Decline of the American Empire
The Wages of Hubris and Vengeance
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Israel is in the grip of a kind of collective schizophrenia. Not only its governors but the majority of its Jewish population have delusions of both grandeur and persecution, making for a distortion of reality and inconsistent behaviour. Israeli Jews see and represent themselves as a chosen people and part of a superior Western civilization.
- Gaza and the Press
Dress the Gaza Situation Up All You Like, But the Truth Hurts
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
The latest bloodbath in Gaza, which is being so graphically covered by journalists that our masters and our media are suffering a new experience: not fear of being called anti-Semitic, but fear of their own television viewers and readers – ordinary folk so outraged by the war crimes committed against the women and children of Gaza that they are demanding to know why, even now, television moguls and politicians are refusing to treat their own people like moral, decent, intelligent human beings.
- IFJ condemns dismissal of respected Indian journalist and activist
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Condemning the illegal dismissal of respected union leader Geetartha Pathak from the Assam Bani
- IFJ and SAMSN condemn threats to Sri Lankan journalist
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) and South Asia Media Solidarity Network (SAMSN) join Sri Lanka Working Journalists Association (SLWJA) in strongly condemning death threats issued to Sunil Jayasekara, convener of Free Media Movement.
- Israel's Exterminatory Impulse Toward Gaza
A Protracted Genocide
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Disproportionate power yields the psychopathology of sadism.
- Moral bankruptcy of capitalism': UK's top public doctor shames western society over Ebola
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Western countries should tackle drugs firms' "scandalous" reluctance to invest in research into the virus which has already killed over 700 people in West Africa, the UK's top public doctor said, adding, “They'd find a cure if Ebola came to London.”
- National Press Club awardee held for past 18 months in Bahrain
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Call for the release of the internationally-known Bahraini photographer Ahmed Humaidan
- Palestinian Journalist and Teenage Daughter are Latest Victims of Israeli Attacks
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
International Federation of Journalists has issued a renewed demand for safety and freedom of journalists in Gaza to be upheld following news of today’s latest media violations, including the killing of a Palestinian journalist and his daughter
- The Pariah State
A Short History of Israeli Impunity
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Hasbara has elevated the manipulation of language to a new plateau. This is a qualitative leap. Moving beyond the difficulty of seeing the stye in our own eye, the Hasbara upends linguistic conventions. Black becomes white, evil is translated into righteousness. Victims of murderous ethnic cleansing become terrorists. The conventions of language go completely out the door. Mass murder is self defense. The Great Wall is a barrier or a mere fence. Land grabs are voluntary relocations into disputed territories.
- Pro-democracy website closed amid claims of commercial pressure and threats
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) is deeply concerned about press freedom in Hong Kong after a pro-democracy news website was suddenly closed.
- Record Label Lawsuit Could Jeopardize Online Content Communities
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) and a coalition of advocacy groups have asked a US federal appeals court to block record labels' attempt to thwart federal law in Capitol v. Vimeo—a case that could jeopardize free speech and innovation
- RWB Americas correspondents voice support for colleague Dina Meza, still threatened in Honduras
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Reporters Without Borders’ correspondents in the Americas have written to the Honduran authorities urging them to finally provide protection to RWB's correspondent in Honduras, journalist and human rights defender Dina Meza
- SAMSN 2014: Impunity, Gender and Digital Safety key focus areas for South Asia
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) joins the South Asia Media Solidarity Network (SAMSN), a network of IFJ affiliates and partners in the region, in its commitment to work towards ending the environment of impunity and minimizing attacks
- Stop Sneaky Online Tracking with EFF's Privacy Badger
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) has released a beta version of Privacy Badger, a browser extension for Firefox and Chrome that detects and blocks online advertising and other embedded content that tracks you without your permission. See https://www.eff.org/privacybadger
- To the family of the one thousandth victim of Israel's genocidal slaughter in Gaza
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
This is 2014 — the destruction of Gaza is well documented. This is not 1948 when Palestinians had to struggle hard to tell their story of horror; so many of the crimes Zionist committed then where hidden and never came to light, even until today. So my first and simple pledge is to record, inform and insist on the truth. But surely this is not enough. I pledge to continue the effort to boycott a state that commits such crimes.
- Two journalists among 17 killed in Israeli raid on Gaza market
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Two Palestinian journalists were killed July 30 in an Israeli air raid on a crowded market in the Shijaiyah neighbourhood, east of Gaza City.
- US Provides Israel Weapons Used on Gaza
Blood on American's Hands
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
The United States exported to Israel a substantial amount of the same types of weapons Israel is using to kill Gazans. For example, in 2013, the United States sent Israel at least $196 million in parts for military airplanes and helicopters, a category that includes F-16 fighter jets and Apache helicopters, both of which Israel is currently using to attack Gazan homes, offices and farmland. Between January and May 2014, the United States had already exported $92 million in parts for military airplanes and helicopters.
- Lenin: Yes! Leninism: No?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
It is currently a commonplace on the left and not-so-left to announce that Leninism is dead. Indeed, one might wonder why it is necessary to keep repeating the point. Nobody is writing articles to explain that alchemy or social credit are dead. The enthusiasm to bury Leninism tells us that this is something that people want to be dead.
- Violent, Genocidal Anti-Palestinian Rhetoric Moving to US?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Earlier this week the Times of Israel published a post, written by American Yochanan Gordon, titled "When Genocide is Permissible," which concludes with the following question:
"If political leaders and military experts determine that the only way to achieve its goal of sustaining quiet is through genocide is it then permissible to achieve those responsible goals?"
- Costa del Cam Ranh
250,000 Russian budget tourists hit Vietnam's beaches
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Expat Russian entrepreneurs, budget Russian tourists, and a government hoping the post-Vietnam war exiles will come back home rich to retire: Vietnam is a demonstration model for change.
- How much for your data?
What you whistle in the shower
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Rapacious financialisation risks turning everything we are and have into a productive asset. And the foremost asset is our personal data, mined by digitalised technology.
- Introduction to the Israel Lobby
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
The Israel lobby is one of the most powerful and pervasive special interest groups in the United States. It consists of a multitude of powerful institutions and individuals that work to influence Congress, the president, academia, the media, religious institutions, and American public opinion on behalf of Israel.
- Latin American coups upgraded
These days the military go back to their barracks
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
The classic Latin American coup used to put the military in direct command and control of a country. That doesn’t work well on the world stage, and is being replaced by more clever manipulation, however the same people end up in power.
- The Price of Books, The Value of Civilization
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
I have come to think that books occupy this valuable position in our civilisation because they are the only medium for thick descriptions of the world that human beings possess. By ‘thick’ description, I mean an extended, detailed, evidence-based, written interpretation of a subject. If you want to write a feature or blog or wikipedia entry, be it about the origins of the first world war; the authoritarian turn in Russia; or the causes and effects of the 2008 financial crisis, in the end you will have to refer to a book. Or at least refer to other people who have referred to books. Even the best magazine pieces and TV documentaries – and the best of these are very good indeed – are only puddle-deep compared with the thick descriptions laid out in books. They are ‘thin’ descriptions and the creators and authors of them will have referred extensively to books to produce their work.
- Reign of Error
The Hoax of the Privatization Movement and the Danger to America's Public Schools
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
From one of the foremost authorities on education in the United States, former U.S. assistant secretary of education, an incisive, comprehensive look at today's American school system that argues against those who claim it is broken and beyond repair; an impassioned but reasoned call to stop the privatization movement that is draining students and funding from our public schools.
- This is Genocide
On Israel/Palestine
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
To call what is going on in Israel and Palestine a “conflict” is to partake in the racist and blatantly false narrative that is being pushed by Israel. When one side fights with stones and homemade rockets, and the other side fights with a military backed by the full force of the United States military industrial complex, it is not a “conflict.” When civilian casualties – including hundreds of children – amass on only one side, it is not a “conflict.” When one side sets up with lawn chairs and popcorn to watch and cheer as their government bombs another country, it is not a “conflict.”
- Bug spotting: Germans hold 'nature walks' to observe rare NSA spy
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
'Nature' walks leading protests against digital surveillance.
- Canada's journalists cowed into silence while colleagues die in Gaza
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Rami Rayan, a young Palestinian photojournalist, was the latest reporter to be killed. He was among at least 16 people reportedly killed after an Israeli air strike on a crowded market during a supposed four-hour "truce." The Canadian Association of Journalists (CAJ), which claims to be "the national voice of Canadian journalists", has been noticeably silent. If you check the CAJ's website you won't find so much as a perfunctory statement denouncing the killing of their colleagues in Gaza. Instead, the top item on its website is a story written by members of the association's 'ethics' committee about that old saw: reporters getting too close to their sources.
- Canada's Pro-Israel Zealots
Racist at Its Core
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
From a left-wing community once at the forefront of struggles against racism, unconditional support for Israel has turned a significant proportion of Toronto Jews into promoters of hatred against "Arabs" and into allies of right wing, bigoted, homophobic Christian Bible literalists.
During 15 years of activism in Montréal, Ottawa and Vancouver I haven’t seen anything equivalent to the racist, militarist pro-Israel movement experienced recently in Toronto. And sadly the quasi-fascistic organization driving the charge seems increasingly enmeshed within a community that once led the fight against racism and fascism in the city.
- The Children of Gaza
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
A poem
- Gaza - is annexation Israel's 'permanent solution'?
The real estate of Gaza would be an additional boon - and a highly valuable one, releasing 365 square kilometres of prime development land,
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
As Israel pursues its war on Gaza with ever-increasing ferocity, and with 25% of Gaza's people forced from their homes, what's the final objective? It's unthinkable that Israel's aim is to 'cleanse' the territory of its people, seize its vast gas reserves, and annex some of the Med's hottest real estate. Isn't it?
- Gaza: water crisis grows as Israel targets essential infrastructure
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Israel's war on Gaza has seen the systematic and widespread destruction of civilian infrastructure essential for human survival. This represents an apparently deliberate 'cutting off of life support' to those that survive the bombardment now under way.
- It's Raining Bombs and Shells
A Doctor's Notes From Gaza
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
I’m still alive. I don’t know what this means, but I can say that most of the time I can still walk and do some work with people who need help. It all depends on my luck. And here, for people living in Gaza, luck means how close to you the bombs fall from Israel’s tanks, planes, or warships. Some hours it’s raining bombs. Americans say “It’s raining cats and dogs.” In the new Gaza idiom, we say “It’s raining bombs and shells.”
- Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - July 31, 2014
Truth, justice and reconciliation
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Articles on truth, justice and reconciliation efforts in countries affected by civil war or internal conflict; Bone Collectors: the fate of the remains of Australian aboriginal people stolen from their burial grounds and dispersed to museums; the Galway children's mass grave; and Which came first: Palestinian rockets or Israeli violence? The topic of the week is the Israeli military.
- Thousands imprisoned, some executed, based on false FBI lab reports
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
A major inquiry conducted by the US Justice Department (DOJ) and the Federal Bureau of Investigation has found hundreds instances in which FBI forensic units charged with gathering data on cases involving violent crimes provided false information. The doctored FBI lab reports led to the imprisonment of thousands of innocent people, some of whom were executed, according to a report in the Washington Post.
- USA: Stop arms transfers to Israel amid growing evidence of war crimes in Gaza
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
The US government must immediately end its ongoing deliveries of large quantities of arms to Israel, which are providing the tools to commit further serious violations of international law in Gaza, said Amnesty International, as it called for a total arms embargo on all parties to the conflict.
- Israel's Gaza backlash targets Arab minority
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Israel's large Palestinian minority is facing an unprecedented backlash of incitement and violent reprisals as Israeli Jews rally behind the current military operations in Gaza, human rights groups and political activists have warned.
- Pesticide safety research shouldn't be left to the pesticide companies
If the research is to command public confidence, independent controls need to be maintained at every step.
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Pesticide companies are responsible for assessing the safety of their products - and this situation cannot continue. The research should be carried out independently, subjected to peer review, and published.
- Recruiting To Kill - It Is Not Just An Israeli War On Gaza
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
To some, US secretary of state John Kerry may have appeared to be a genuine peacemaker as he floated around ideas during a Cairo visit on 25 July about a ceasefire between Israel and resisting Palestinian fighters in Gaza. But behind his measured diplomatic language, there is a truth not even America's top diplomat can easily hide. His country is very much involved in fighting this dirty war on Gaza that has killed over 1,050, injured thousands more, and destroyed much of an already poor, dilapidated space that is barely inhabitable to begin with.
- Rio Tinto's 'sustainable mining' claims exposed
Rio Tinto uses its sustainability reporting to bolster the argument that it is a responsible company and therefore entitled to a license to
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Global mining giant Rio Tinto markets itself as a 'sustainable company'. But serious failures in its reporting, and its attempt to hold an Australian indigenous group to ransom, reveal a very different truth: the company is driven by a reckless pursuit of profit at any cost.
- The Cultivation of Hate
The Lies Grow More Audacious
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
If there were any doubts that Western “leaders” live in a fantasy make-believe world constructed out of their own lies, the G-7 meeting and 70th anniversary celebration of the Normandy landing dispelled the doubts.
- Gaza Crisis: Far-Right Israelis Chant 'There's No School Tomorrow, There's No Children Left in Gaza!'
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Right-wing Israelis have been filmed chanting "There's no children left there [in Gaza]" and "Gaza is a cemetery" in celebration of their military's attacks on Gaza.
- Hunger strike launched by Grassy Narrows mercury survivor at Queens Park
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
A former Grand Chief of Treaty 3 and respected Grassy Narrows Elder is launching a hunger strike at Queens Park today to demand justice for mercury survivors. Steve Fobister Sr., a leader in the fight for indigenous rights and mercury justice
- Lancet: an Open Letter for the People of Gaza
The Massacre Must Stop
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
A public letter from doctors and scientists to stop the massacre.
- Stakes rising for Israel as rockets reach airport
Temporary air blockade of Israel reveals deeper issues to its citizens
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Israel’s effective loss of its only international airport for a couple of days last week — and the cloud of uncertainty that continues to hang over its operation in the future — has deeply unsettled Israelis.
- WikiLeaks, Corruption and the Super Injunction
Suppression and Information
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
In Australia, whose institutions still pride themselves on an antiquated obsession with aspects of English gagging, suppression orders do retain a certain mystique. They certainly do in the Australian state of Victoria, which is said to throw “suppression orders around like confetti”.
- Cambodia: indigenous protests repel dam builders - so far
We don't need any compensation because we are staying here on the lands of our ancestors. Our children will never forgive us if we move.
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Since the 1980s Cambodia has lost 84% of its primary forests, and the remote Cardamom mountains are the country's last great natural treasure. Just the place for grandiose dam projects? 'No way!" say indigenous people and young eco-activists.
- "Gaza is a graveyard," sing joyful Israeli youths
Resource Type: Film/Video
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
This video shows an Israeli mob actually singing in celebration of children’s deaths in the style of a soccer fans’ song: “In Gaza there’s no studying, No children are left there, Olé, olé, olé-olé-olé.”
- Hiroshima and Nagasaki Commemoration in Toronto August 4th- 10th, 2014
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Toronto's Hiroshima Day Coalition presents FROM DESPAIR TO HOPE: PREVENTING CATASTROPHIC HARM to mark the 69th anniversary of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki on Wednesday August 6, 2014 (Hiroshima Day) at Nathan Phillips Square
- How Israel Spins War Crimes
The Secret Report That Helps Israelis Cover Atrocities
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Israeli spokesmen have their work cut out explaining how they have killed more than 1,000 Palestinians in Gaza, most of them civilians, compared with just three civilians killed in Israel by Hamas rocket and mortar fire. But on television and radio and in newspapers, Israeli government spokesmen such as Mark Regev appear slicker and less aggressive than their predecessors, who were often visibly indifferent to how many Palestinians were killed.
- Israel/Palestine Lexicon For Mainstream Media
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
If you are writing for mainstream media, you need to learn special uses of words and phrases that are specific to Israel/Palestine. If you use common usage, you will run into confusions, paradoxes, and hostile responses from pro-Israel people. Please follow these guidelines and you will have no problems with editors, politicians, or organized pro-Israel groups. For each phrase, this guide will present first (a) the common usage, and then (b) the specific Israel/Palestine usage that you must use in order to write for major US (and UK and Canadian of course) media (NYT, Toronto Star, BBC, CBC, etc.)
- It's not just radicalised Islamists - what about foreign fighters who flock to the IDF?
Is the Government interested in UK citizens who have been fighting in Israeli uniform in Gaza in the past couple of weeks?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Let us hope and pray that no UK citizens have been involved in such terrible deeds. But it wouldn’t be a bad idea, would it, if the lads in blue had a friendly word with them when they arrive back at Heathrow – and insist on knowing exactly what they were up to when they wore another country’s uniform.
- Joint Declaration by International Law Experts on Israel's Gaza Offensive
The International Community Must End Israel's Collective Punishment of the Civilian Population in the Gaza Strip
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
The indiscriminate and disproportionate attacks, the targeting of objectives providing no effective military advantage, and the intentional targeting of civilians and civilian houses have been persistent features of Israel’s long-standing policy of punishing the entire population of the Gaza Strip, which, for over seven years, has been virtually imprisoned by Israeli imposed closure.
- The new strikes in China
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
An article by "friends of gongchao" describes the development of strikes in China in recent years as well as the strike at Yue Yuen shoe factories in Dongguan, South China, in April 2014.
- 1934: American workers in revolt
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
In 1934 three mighty strikes brought the bosses and bankers to their knees and ushered in a new era of labour-capital relations in the United States writes Sean Ledwith
- Palestine, War and the Lethal Role of Journalists
Two Films by John Pilger
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
John Pilger first made the film ‘Palestine Is Still The Issue‘ in 1977. It told how almost a million Palestinians had been forced off their land in 1948, and again in 1967. Twenty five years later, in 2002, John Pilger returned to the West Bank of Jordan and Gaza, to make another film, giving it the same title. The film asks why the Palestinians, whose right of return was affirmed by the United Nations more than half a century ago, are still caught in a terrible limbo – refugees in their own land, controlled by Israel in the longest military occupation in modern times.
- The Pattern (Musically Annotated)
From the Annals of Occupation
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
The war of words heats up. Israeli and US leaders are all over the airwaves, saying Israel has a right to defend itself and that Hamas is responsible for all deaths on both sides. The news organizations feel they have to have some reporters in Gaza for a change. They keep trying to spin the news in Israel’s favour, but once they’re showing even a little bit of the reality on the ground, it all starts looking really bad for the Israelis with each new dead Palestinian child buried beneath the rubble.
- Relevance of Hannah Arendt's "A Report On The Banality Of Evil" To Gaza
Self-Deception, Lies And Stupidity
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Hannah Arendt, philosopher, writer, academic of Jewish heritage, went to Jerusalem in 1961 to cover the trial of Eichmann, one of the actors in the Final Solution, for the New Yorker magazine. Her account of the trial became a basis for the book, Eichmann In Jerusalem: A report on the banality of evil.
- Songbirds dying from DDT in Michigan yards; Superfund site blamed
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
The neighbourhood's songbirds are being poisoned by DDT, a pesticide that was banned in the United States more than 40 years ago. Lethal concentrations were found in the birds' brains, as well as in the worms they eat.
- Watch: Al Jazeera’s "Massacre at Dawn" Gives Glimpse of Horror in Shujaiya
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Thinking that the footage contained in Massacre at Dawn is just a fraction of the horror makes it even worse. No wonder Israel prevented media from covering the brutality that our people endured there.
- Gaza, Israel and 'Human Shields'
The People Putting Innocents in Danger are the Israelis
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
What does it mean to use human shields? Employed by the Germans and Japanese in the Second World War, the tactic is premised on an underlying trust in your enemy’s humanity. It appeals to the compassion and mercy of the combatant that they not slaughter the innocent in order to avenge their target. The ‘shield’ is not the human bodies surrounding the ‘guilty’ party, the shield is the clemency that mankind instinctively affords the innocent. The shield evaporates only when confronted by an enemy who is not merely a fellow solder locked in a power battle, but a psychopath unconcerned with the pain of others.
- Grassy Narrows exposes government neglect of mercury survivors
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Thirty Grassy Narrows First Nation people will travel 1,800 km to Toronto to demand justice for mercury poisoning survivors, clean water, and respect for indigenous rights.
- Israeli Forces Must Be Held accountable for Attacks on Journalists in Gaza, says IFJ
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) has joined increasing international calls for the Israeli government and its forces to be held accountable for the atrocities that are being carried out against journalists covering events in Gaza.
- Obama food aid ravages Third World farmers
Despite uplifting rhetoric, Obama is perpetuating a program that sabotages foreigners' self-sufficiency
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
The US taxpayers who finance foreign food aid surely believe they are feeding starving people. But the truth is the reverse - it is undermining indigenous agriculture in recipient countries - creating famine and chronic malnutrition, while sabotaging self-sufficiency.
- Russia Bashing: Hatred, Hysteria and Humbug
A Tale of Three Aircraft Tragedies
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
It’s OK for the US to shoot down an Iranian airliner and kill 290 people — there’s never been an apology to the Iranian people for that war crime — but when there’s an opportunity to claim, to shriek, to propagandise at cyclone-level, that a disaster has occurred in which there just might be the tiniest chance to blame Russia, then there is clamour for investigation.
- The Seminole-African Alliance
World News Trust
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First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
The Native American Indian people that comprised the Seminole Nation grew out of the Creek Nation in Florida. Multilingual and diverse, the Seminoles (from a word meaning “runaway”) became infamous for intermingling with runaway slaves from Georgia and the Carolinas… slaves that built prosperous, free, self-governing communities since 1738.
- Catch your dreams - utopia is possible!
While Marinaleda has its flaws, it reminds us that alternative economic models are not only possible, they already exist.
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First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Amid Spain's general depression, Marinaleda - an Andalucian town sometimes dubbed the 'communist utopia' - is bucking the moribund trend with a heady mixture of direct action, community-level democracy, cooperation and mutual aid.
- Dijon adapts its urban thinking to the needs of an ageing population
The French city is at the forefront of an urban network aiming to actively improve the lives of its older residents
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First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Dijon, a city in France is taking an innovative approach adressing the needs of it's ageing population. Research has suggested that movement, and minimizing isolation are the leading methods in the slowing of ageing, and are the forefront of thought while implementing novel changes to the city center.
- Google doesn't want you to limit its ability to follow you around the internet
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First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Behind our screens, tech companies are racing to extract a price for what we read and watch on the web: our personal information.
- Open Letter by 50 Israeli Army Reservists on Why They Refuse to Fight in Gaza
Petition By Israeli soldiers and reservists
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First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
- When BBC Calls, Don’t Answer..
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First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
In any event, my advice to the media savvy, is that if you have caller ID, and you can tell that it is BBC calling, don’t bother answering. I hope I have the good sense to follow my own advice should the phone ever ring again!
- 'Disgustingly Biased' - The Corporate Media On The Gaza Massacre
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First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
The bias in failing to report the brutalisation of a trapped, impoverished people under occupation is staggering.
- Five Israeli Talking Points on Gaza - Debunked
Israel claims that it is merely exercising its right to self-defense and that Gaza is no longer occupied. Here's what you need to know about
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First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Israel has killed almost 800 Palestinians in the past 21 days in the Gaza Strip alone; its onslaught continues. The UN estimates that more than 74 percent of those killed are civilians. Israel does not deny that it killed those Palestinians using modern aerial technology and precise weaponry courtesy of the world’s only superpower. In fact, it does not even deny that they are civilians.
- London, Ontario peace and human rights advocates occupy office of Conservative MP
Sources News Release
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First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Five London peace and human rights advocates are now occupying the office of the Conservative MP for London North Centre.
- Mobilizing Temporary Migrant Workers
A Compendium of Forms and Preliminary Discussion
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First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
While labour migration has been a recurring phenomenon in human history, what is new in the post-1970 period of restructuring in the world capitalist economy is the increased use of temporary migrant labour by employers around the world. The widespread rise of employer use of temporary migrant workers in various economic sectors internationally can be dated from circa 1990.
- Radio programme a beacon of hope for Afghans searching for lost relatives
In Search of the Missing tries to track down some of the 1 million people who have disappeared during three decades of war
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First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
An Afghani radio station has started a semi-weekly segment entitled "In Search of the Missing", aimed at reuniting missing loved ones. Citizens are invited to call the 10-year-old radio programme and leave a 20 second message reaching out to their loved ones.
- Armed robbery in Gaza - Israel, US, UK carve up the spoils of Palestine's stolen gas
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First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Israel desperately covets Gaza's gas as a 'cheap stop-gap' yielding revenues of $6-7 billion a year, writes Nafeez Ahmed. But first Hamas must be 'uprooted' from Gaza, and Fatah bullied into cutting off its talks with Russia's Gazprom.
- Continuous protest at Israeli consulate in Toronto starts July 24
Sources News Release
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First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
On July 24 people of conscience including Muslims, Jews, and Christians, are coming together at the Israeli consulate in Toronto for a three day continuous vigil to call attention to the frightening slaughter of the Palestinian people in Gaza
- The government owns your DNA. What are they doing with it?
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First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Some US states have created biobanks of genetic material left over from patient screening tests, with specimens potentially used for purposes that have not granted informed consent, bringing up disturbing ethical and privacy concerns.
- Sources HotLink - July 24, 2014
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First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Featuring news on imprisoned journalists in Egypt and Burma, the bias in media coverage of Israeli deaths versus Palestinian death, newspaper closures in Canada, and topic-fo-the-week focuses on Gaza, Surveillance, and Prostitution.
- Israel's War Against Gaza's Women & Their Bodies
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First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
As Gaza is pummeled, the level of anti-Palestinian racist incitement from top Israeli political, religious and cultural figures continues to ring at peak pitch, and has taken on a dangerous misogynistic tone.
- Now it's Israel's IDF Leveling Gaza
Once it was Nazis Leveling the Warsaw Ghetto
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First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Once it was Nazis Leveling the Warsaw Ghetto, Now it’s Israel’s IDF leveling Gaza.
- Questions about Israel's attack on Gaza
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First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Why do these terrible outbreaks of violence keep happening? Written during the Israeli attack on Gaza in July 2014.
- The Telegenic Dead
A poem
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First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
- The deafening silence around the Hamas proposal for a 10-year truce
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First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
The Western media have ignored the proposal from Hamas and Islamic Jihad for a 10-year-truce on the basis of 10 - very reasonable - conditions.
- If Gaza's Dead Were America's Dead
Imagine the Outrage Over 27,000 Dead Kids...
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First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Imagine the Outrage Over 27,000 Dead Kids...
- Why Israel Needs Anti-Semitism
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
It would be ironic indeed if fear of Muslim neighbors in Paris suburbs should lead French Jews to move to a country totally surrounded by millions of hostile Muslim neighbours.
- The Arrest and Detention of Amer Jubran
This is Not News
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First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Amer Jubran might sit indefinitely in detention without charges. Or he may be brought up at any time and charged with “terrorism” before the State Security Court, a rubber stamp court. If so, his lawyer might be told the charges a day or two before the sham trial, which then leads to inevitable conviction–a mere formality. Only a concerted political campaign that gets widespread international attention can make any difference. It’s up to us to create enough visibility to make that possible.
- On 'Human Shielding' in Gaza
How the Israeli Army has Tried to Justify Striking Civilian Areas
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First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
All fighting within cities and all bombardments of urban spaces, even the most “precise and surgical”, is a potential death trap for civilians. Consequently, the permeation of war into cities inevitably transforms their inhabitants into potential human shields.
- Netanyahu's Operation Stupidity
Who is Winning in Gaza?
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First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Who is Winning in Gaza? Which must be answered, the Jewish way, with another question: how to judge?
- The rise of data and the death of politics
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First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Why is it that the infomation collected from our ever-smarter devices can only measure effects, and not deal with causes?
- Gaza headline absurdly inaccurate
Re: Palestinians flee Gaza as ceasefire pleas fail
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First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Targeting civilians is always wrong. We speak out against Hamas when it does so, but our Canadian government applauds the Israeli government when it does so on a much greater scale. As human beings, as Canadians, as a Palestinian and Jew, we condemn this horrific collective punishment.
- I, spy: Edward Snowden in exile
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First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
The Guardian interviews Edward Snowden, the former NSA contractor who leaked thousands of classified documents to media outlets. Snowden shares his views on the events that have occured since his exile, and describes his life in Moscow.
- Bethlehem: 'No matter how many olive trees they destroy, will will plant more!'
The destruction of these ancient trees is the destruction of both the history and future of the Palestinian people.
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First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Since 1967, Israeli soldiers and 'settlers' in occupied Palestine have destroyed 800,000 olive trees in an attempt to force Palestinian farmers from their land, writes Megan Perry. 'Our response to this injustice will never be with violence, and we will never give up and leave.'
- Gaza: Israel's $4 billion gas grab
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First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
The purpose of Israel's escalating assault on Gaza is to control the Territory's 1.4 trillion cubic feet of gas - and so keep Palestine poor and weak, gain massive export revenues, and avert its own domestic energy crisis. If Palestinians develop their own gas resources, the resulting economic transformation could in turn fundamentally increase Palestinian clout.
- Israel Gaza Conflict: The Innocent Children Paying The Terrible Price Of War
The Innocents Caught Up In The Israel Gaza Conflict
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First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Report (with graphic pictures) of children injured in Israeli attacks in Gaza.
- Guernica, 1937 / Gaza, 2014
Only the Insignias Change
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Published: 2014
I invoke the Guernica example, not for spurious comparison or analogy, but because its occurrence is inscribed in the very DNA of modern historical oppression, in this case possessing precisely the same elements of overwhelming force on a largely defenseless population, in this case, having less to do with stopping rockets than a) terrorizing a people into abject submission, and b) testing out aerial warfare to soften an enemy and perhaps even clear the way for ground action—beyond consolidating settlement gains in the territories, also serving notice on Iran and whomever else (viz., Arab democracy) is viewed as a real or potential threat down the road.
- It's not just the bees! 'Neonic' pesticides linked to bird declines
The higher the imidacloprid concentration the more severely the bird populations dropped.
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First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
A study published today in Nature shows a strong correlation between concentrations of a popular neonicotinoid pesticide in water, and bird declines. Regulators are under pressure to tighten up, but the industry still claims there's 'no substantiated evidence'.
- The Monster That Israel Helped Create
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First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
There is a terrible irony in Israel’s current assault on Gaza. More than 200 Palestinians have died in an onslaught supposedly aimed at weakening Hamas and degrading its capacity to fire rockets into Israel. It was Israel itself, however, that helped Hamas to power in Gaza.
- NBC News Pulls Veteran Reporter from Gaza After Witnessing Israeli Attack on Children
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First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Ayman Mohyeldin, the NBC News correspondent who personally witnessed yesterday’s killing by Israel of four Palestinian boys on a Gazan beach and who has received widespread praise for his brave and innovative coverage of the conflict, has been ordered by NBC executives to leave Gaza immediately.
- Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - July 17, 2014
Gaza
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Topic of the week is Gaza, which was under attack by Israel as this issue appeared. Articles on surveillance capitalism, the tactics and successes of the movement for same-sex marriage in the United States, and profiles of alternative archives. Website of the week is Democracy Now!
- Six Nations and allies Interrupt work on Enbridge's Line 9 pipeline
Sources News Release
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First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Individuals from Six Nations and their allies have interrupted work on a section of Enbridge's Line 9 pipeline. The work stoppage began around 10am Thursday morning. Individuals involved asked workers to leave.
- Gaza: Israel bombs water and sewage systems
If this situation continues Gaza residents will be subjected to a humanitarian crisis even worse than the immediate one of trying to survive
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First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Israel's armed forces have destroyed vital water and sewage infrastructure in their bombing campaign of the besieged territory. This constitutes a severe breach of the 1977 Protocol to the 1949 Geneva Conventions on the part of Israel and all those conceiving, planning, ordering and perpetrating the attacks.
- Israeli calls for Palestinian blood ring at fever pitch
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First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Concerned humanists may have hoped that when a group of Jewish Israelis confessed to kidnapping and killing Muhammad Abu Khudair, a Palestinian teenager in Jerusalem — forcing him to drink gasoline and torching him to death from inside his body — that top Israeli legislators and rabbis would have been horrified at what their revenge rhetoric had triggered.
- Israel's War Echo Chamber
Lost Voices of Dissent
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First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
For several days now, some of my neighbours have suggested that the time has come to “destroy them”- meaning either Hamas or Palestinians – “once and for all”. Government ministers, members of Knesset and leading media commentators have also been consistently pouring oil onto the fire. Indeed, it seems the only vocal criticism against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is that he is too soft on the Palestinians. There is no public debate about the necessity of another war, but only about how punitive Israel should be.
- Journalists and civil society must join forces to engage the public with health news
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First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
A call for journalists to reach out to a broader audience and "team up" with civil society in orer to force attention onto topics that matter. "Exploring ideas that move the audience to think and act."
- Which is more important - what to sell or where to sell it?
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First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Recent research sought to determine which variable determined the greatest circulation results: frequency, zip code, or offer price.
- Zoia Horn, librarian jailed for not testifying against protesters
Zoia Horn refused to testify against antiwar activists accused of plotting to kidnap Henry Kissinger.
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First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Zoia Horn refused to testify against antiwar activists accused of plotting to kidnap Henry Kissinger.
- Chomsky, Pilger and Loach call on BBC to reflect reality of Gaza's occupation
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First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Noam Chomsky, John Pilger and Ken Loach are among 45,000 signatories who have signed an open letter to the BBC calling on its journalists to reflect the reality of Gaza’s occupation while reporting on Israel’s current assault.
- Cynicism, Israeli National Policy
From Victim to Super-Mensch
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First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Israel has become the worst-case scenario of the degradation of Torah, and worst-case scenario of what was once the deep unadulterated humaneness of worldwide Jews.
- Hacking Online Polls and Other Ways British Spies Seek to Control the Internet
Is GCHQ awesome and 100% legal?
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First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
The secretive British spy agency GCHQ has developed covert tools to seed the internet with false information, including the ability to manipulate the results of online polls, artificially inflate pageview counts on web sites, “amplif[y]” sanctioned messages on YouTube, and censor video content judged to be “extremist.”
- India, Where Corporate Socialism is a Growth Industry
$608 Billion in Write-Offs
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First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
It was business as usual in 2013-14. Business with a capital B. This year’s budget document says we gave away another $88.6 billion to the corporate needy and the under-nourished rich in that year.
- Israel showed restraint in Gaza before attacking? You must be kidding
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First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Israeli journalist Amira Hass, writing in the Israeli newspaper Haaretz, demolishes some myths.
- Native advertising: What is it, and why now?
Call it a breakthrough or sellout, native advertising has ushered in a new era of customer-centric advertising defined by unlimited bandwidt
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First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Native advertising is the act of placing ads in the middle of an article. It has become far more common these days. This article outlines why.
- Total recall: Print and digital magazine ads equally memorable
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First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Ads in print and online versions of magazines are enjoyed equally between formats. Also ability to remember the ads is equal in both formats.
- Activist Endurance
A Look Back at the 2004 RNC
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First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Even in the face of urgent, ecocidal issues, dissent is a marathon, not a sprint. With authentic solidarity, a daily ego check, and an enduring willingness to evolve, we can each find our pace and help make a difference.
- The Atrocity
Where's the Outrage Over a Boy Burnt to Death?
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First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Bombs are raining on Gaza and rockets on Southern Israel, people are dying and homes are being destroyed...Again without any purpose. Again with the certainty that after it’s all over, everything will essentially be the same as it was before.
- Which came first? Palestinian rockets or Israeli violence?
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First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Since US media are reporting the latest Israeli massacre in Gaza as though it is a defensive action, I thought I would set the record straight. Israeli forces shelled and invaded Gaza BEFORE the rockets began. Rockets were fired only after numerous Palestinians, including many children, had been killed.
- Gaza's Torment, Israel's Crimes, Our Responsibilities
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First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
It is important to understand what life is like in Gaza when Israel’s behavior is “restrained,” in between the regular manufactured crises like this one. When Israel is on “good behavior,” more than two Palestinian children are killed every week, a pattern that goes back over 14 years. The underlying cause is the criminal occupation and the programs to reduce Palestinian life to bare survival in Gaza, while Palestinians are restricted to unviable cantons in the West Bank and Israel takes over what it wants, all in gross violation of international law and explicit Security Council resolutions, not to speak of minimal decency.
- In Brazil, football has taken a hit, but not as much as press freedom
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First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Reporters Without Borders is using the 2014 World Cup in Brazil as a peg for an awareness campaign about the constant violations of freedom of information and violence against of journalists in Brazil.
- Canadian hands involved in Gaza bombings
Details on Canadian complicity in Israeli apartheid
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First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Aside from sustained Conservative diplomatic cheerleading for Israel, one key element of Canada's implication less in the public eye but very important, is the key role that many Canadian companies are playing in creating the military devices and technologies now involved in carrying out the deadly bombing raids in Gaza.
- Five Burmese mediamen sentenced to hard labor
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First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Five Burmese media workers are sentenced to 10 years hard labour for violating Burma's State Secrets Act.
- Five journalists get ten-year jail terms in Burma for 'violating state secrets'
Sources News Release
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First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
In the latest in a series of reverses for media freedom in Burma, a court in the central region of Magway today sentenced five newspaper journalists to ten years in prison with hard labour on charges of violating state secrets.
- Germany: Are online user comments protected by press freedom laws?
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First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
A local newspaper in the western German city of Darmstadt is at the centre of a legal case that will measure whether readers’ comments are protected by Germany’s press freedom laws.
- Grassy Narrows' fight for rights and against clearcut logging continues despite legal setback at Supreme Court
Sources News Release
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First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
The leadership and members of Grassy Narrows are disappointed by today’s Supreme Court of Canada decision refusing to recognize the special role that the federal government has in protecting our Treaty 3 from provincial and corporate actions.
- How Social Movements Can Win More Victories Like Same-Sex Marriage
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First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
The rapidly expanding victory around same-sex marriage defies many of our common ideas about how social change happens. This was not a win that came in measured doses, but rather a situation in which the floodgates of progress were opened after years of half-steps and seemingly devastating reversals. It came about through the efforts of a broad-based movement, pushing for increased acceptance of LGBT rights within a wide range of constituencies.
- IFJ urges China's media regulator to withdraw new rules
Sources News Release
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First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
International Federation of Journalists urges China’s major media regulator to withdraw new rules which will interfere with journalists’ right to work and prevent media workers from properly exercising their duties to report in the public interes
- The Mississippi Summer Project 50th Anniversary Reunion
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First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Greenwood was the place where the first major cracks in the wall of Mississippi racism were broken open.
- Newspaper revenue experiment throwdown: Crowdfunding versus underwriting
Crowdfunded beats might not work, but there are good reasons for newspapers to give them a try
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First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Article weighing the pros and cons of acquiring funding through crowdfunding versus underwiting for newspapers.
- On Israel, Ukraine and Truth
The Return of George Orwell and Big Brother's War
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First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
As advanced societies are de-politicised, the changes are both subtle and spectacular. In everyday discourse, political language is turned on its head, as Orwell prophesised in 1984. "Democracy" is now a rhetorical device. Peace is "perpetual war". "Global" is imperial. The once hopeful concept of "reform" now means regression, even destruction. "Austerity" is the imposition of extreme capitalism on the poor and the gift of socialism for the rich: an ingenious system under which the majority service the debts of the few.
- The Revolving Door at Human Rights Watch
An Open Letter to Kenneth Roth
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First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
- China puts Tibetan writer and husband under house arrest amid Kerry Visit
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First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Chinese Authorities placed Tsering Woeser and her husband, Wang Lixiong, under house arrest on July 9 during US Secretary of State John Kerry's visit to China.
- Deciphering Capital: Marx's Capital and its destiny
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Callinicos tackles the question of Karl Marx's method, his relation to Hegel, value theory and labour.
- Global data journalism resources
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First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
An list of resources that have been compiled by IJN using their readers' suggestions. This list is organized by country, and covers a variety of subtopics under data journalism.
- Israeli airstrike destroys press car, killing Palestinian media worker
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The Committee to Protect Journalists condemns the Israel Defense Forces' airstrike on a car clearly marked as a press vehicle in Gaza City in early July, 2014.
- Terrifying tweets of pre-Army Israeli teens
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First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
On Thursday, July 10, 2014, I entered the Hebrew word for "Arabs", ARAVIM, into Twitter and searched for uses of the word over the previous few hours. What I found was young Israelis proclaiming their desire for all Arabs to die and in some cases be tortured to death.
- The True Gaza Backstory
It's About Land, Stupid
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First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
How come all those Palestinians – all 1.5 million – are crammed into Gaza in the first place? Well, their families once lived, didn’t they, in what is now called Israel? And got chucked out – or fled for their lives – when the Israeli state was created.
- The Flood From the North
Washington's Role in Triggering the Child Migrant Crisis
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First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
International law and basic morality demand that the children of Central America are treated with the care and dignity that they and previous generations have been robbed under several decades of US foreign and immigration policy. Achieving this end would require overcoming the convenient myths of power and the culture of indifference in which they take root.
- Forward Secrecy Brings Better Long-Term Privacy to Wikipedia
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First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Wikipedia readers and editors can now enjoy a higher level of long-term privacy, thanks to the Wikimedia Foundation's rollout last week of forward secrecy on its encrypted connections.
- From Somaly Mam to ''Eden'': How Sex Trafficking Sensationalism Hurts Sex Workers
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First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Most activists, regardless of ideology, are trying to do the right thing. But when it comes to human rights and sex work, doing the right thing is often much more complicated than calling the cops or donating 75 cents a day to a starving child on TV.
- Gawker's so far successful experiment in making office chat public
Are group chat rooms a waste of time or essential to running a modern newsroom?
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First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Article describing the events that led up to the creation of a space, called Disputations, where journalists and other newsroom members can share their opinions (often on unimportant topics).
- The Global Battle for Free Speech
WikiLeaks: Bringing the First Amendment to the World
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First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Since 2011, waves of global uprisings have been erupting as never before. The crisis of representation helped spawn decentralized movements as a manifestation of people’s aspiration to take the reins of their own destinies. For many, the presumption of legitimacy of their governments has been crumbling. What triggered this widespread global crisis? WikiLeaks was a game changer. Their publication of disclosed documents along with established media reaction showed the true face of liberal institutions and the waning effectiveness of the politics of representation.
- A New Way of Life and the New Underground Railroad
Making a Break for Freedom During the Era of Mass Incarceration
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First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
This radio documentary is the third segment in Truthout's serialization of Chris Moore-Backman's Bringing Down the New Jim Crow based on Michelle Alexander's book of the same name. The series explores and gives voice to the continuing struggle for racial justice in the United States during the era of mass incarceration.
- A Range of Abuses
The Invisible Deaths of Lebanon's Migrant Domestic Workers
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First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Migrant domestic workers generally get very little protection from the Lebanese government and remain under-reported in the media, while the deaths of these workers are rarely discussed in the news. Despite the high incidence, domestic workers’ deaths are not investigated or documented by the Lebanese authorities.
- And More Fraud Is in the Works
Virtual Economy's Phantom Job Gains are Based on Statistical Fraud
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First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Washington can't stop lying. Don't be convinced by a recent job report that it is your fault if you don't have a job. Those 288,000 jobs and 6.1% unemployment rate are more fiction than reality.
- Battle to Preserve Palestine's History Rages in New Novel
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First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
A review of Radwa Ashour's novel The Woman from Tantoura: A Modern Palestinian Novel (American University in Cairo Press, 2014).
- Destroyed by Violence
War, Not Deserting, Is Demoralizing
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First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Morale is destroyed by war. War’s objective reality always blows to smithereens not just the civilians it is supposed to protect, but the political, economic and chauvinistic rationalizations that get soldiers to kill in the first place.
- The Failure Of The Left
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First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Leftists have been late to the party when it comes to raising the alarm on climate change. The reliance on corporate media makes it difficult for anyone questioning the narrative of consumerism and progress to get their message out.
- Israeli army deliberately targeting news professionals
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First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Continuing confrontations in the Palestinian Territories and many cities in Israel are marked by Israeli authorities’ flouting of basic rights, including freedom of information.
- Israelis have the Upper Hand when it Comes to Vengeance
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First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
As Human Rights Watch warned, Israel’s recent actions – mass arrests; armed raids; the killing of Palestinians, including minors; lockdowns of cities, house demolitions; and air strikes – amounted to “collective punishment”, international law’s euphemism for revenge, against Palestinians. In the face of the enduring violence of Israel’s occupation, and the licence it provides soldiers to humiliate and oppress, ordinary Palestinians have a stark choice: to submit or resist. Ordinary Israelis, on the other hand, do not need to seek revenge on their own account. The Israeli state, military and courts are there every day doing it for them.
- Let's talk about Gaza, Sderot and the racist valuation of lives
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First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
A frank discussion about everything we don’t mention when talking about rockets and bombs and Gaza. Let’s talk about fear, about poverty, about angst and about racism.
- More than 40 journalism groups urge president to stop excessive controls on public information
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First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
46 journalism groups (as of July 8) supported a letter that was signed by 38 groups urging U.S. President Obama to stop excessive controls on public information.
- Nazeeha Saeed - Raising her voice for journalists in Bahrain
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First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Nazeeha Saeed was detained and tortured for 13 hours while covering the 2011 uprisings in Bahrain along with her colleagues. She is now raising awareness for journalists in Bahrain.
- New Bank Leak Shows How Rich Exploit Tax Haven Loopholes
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First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
The identities of thousands of wealthy offshore clients of a major Jersey, Channel Isles private bank have been leaked to the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists.
The data leaks reveal how the very richest families dip in and out of British jurisdiction as it suits them, exploiting what academic experts call Jersey's 'fictitious space.'
- 2014 Fellowship of Reconciliation with Dr. Peter Phillips
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First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Dr. Peter Phillips delivered a keynote address at the 2014 Fellowship of Reconciliation’s event in celebration of their 100th anniversary, covering several topics, including corporate media propaganda.
- A View from Gaza
This Is a Brutal Attack, Not a "Military Operation"
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
In Gaza, recent Israeli military attacks by sea, air and via artillery shells are not part of a war or a military operation though it may look so. It is collective punishment and it is a brutal attack against all Palestinian people, and mainly civilians are paying the price.
- Virtual Economy's Phantom Job Gains are Based on Statistical Fraud
And More Fraud Is in the Works
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First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Washington can't stop lying. Reports of job gains are more fiction than reality.
- Designing a journalism curriculum for millennials
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
This article explores what skills are needed to succeed in freelance journalism, and about how some universities are adjusting their curricula to adapt to this rising form of journalism.
- Selling the Silver
The Enclosure of the UK's Fisheries
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Fishing quotas were meant to conserve stocks and support fishing communities. But they have achieved the reverse - rewarding the most rapacious fishing enterprises and leaving small scale fisherfolk with nothing.
- A Shameful Situation
Millions of Soldiers and Veterans in Serious Trouble
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Millions of US soldiers and veterans are in serious trouble, in the areas of suicide, homelessness, unemployment, poverty, disability, medical care, and mental health.
- The Sledgehammer Worldview
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
The U.S.-U.K. invasion of Iraq was a textbook example of aggression. Apologists invoke noble intentions, which would be irrelevant even if the pleas were sustainable. The destructive consequences of such aggression are clear, as evidenced in numerous historical examples of violent imperialism.
- Kavita Krishnan: 'Women's Liberation, Everyone's Liberation'
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Kavita Krishnan, a socialist organizer and a well-known international spokesperson for the movement against sexual violence in India, speaks on sexual violence, everyday sexism, protest, solidarity, and public space in India.
- America's Use of Terror in Vietnam
The Evil That Was Phoenix
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
There’s a reason the CIA wanted to prevent the publication of Douglas Valentine’s 1990 book, The Phoenix Program: America’s Use of Terror in Vietnam. This masterwork is more than an exposé of the US pacification program in Vietnam the book is titled after. It is an indictment of a cynical and bloody plan to kill Vietnamese.
- Five tips for creating a more gender-balanced newsroom
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
A discussion the state of gender equality in the newsroom. Provides tips on how to improve gender balance.
- India - Now Nuclear and Environmental Dissent is a Crime
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
In modern India any form of dissent from the neoliberal corporate model of development is being criminalised. Opponents of nuclear power, coal mines, GMOs, giant dams, are all under attack as enemies of the state and a threat to economic growth.
- Israel does not want peace
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Rejectionism is embedded in Israel's most primal beliefs. There, at the deepest level, lies the concept that this land is destined for the Jews alone.
- Let's Just Pretend
We Didn’t Offshore Manufacturing?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Is an iPhone made in China and exported to Europe a U.S. export? Is an Apple executive a manufacturing worker? Yes, and yes. At least those could become the answers if a new proposal afoot among some in the administration is allowed to take effect. Federal agencies grouped under the bland-sounding Economic Classification Policy Committee (ECPC) are proposing to radically redefine U.S. manufacturing and trade statistics. The proposal would deceptively deflate the size of reported, but not actual, U.S. manufacturing trade deficits, while artificially inflating the number of U.S. manufacturing jobs overnight.
- We Must Support Detroit's Fight for the Right to Water
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Detroit is shutting off water to 40% of residents to prepare the water system for a corporate buyout. Residents are organizing to resist the water shuttoffs, anti-democratic rule and the demands of Wall Street - but they need our help.
- Borneo's Killer Dams
Mega-Dams in Sarawak Threaten Indigenous Tribes with Ethnocide
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Sarawak, Malaysia, is home to thousands of endemic species, forty indigenous groups, and one of the largest transboundary rainforests remaining in the world. The state is also suffering from one of the world's highest rates of deforestation; only 5% of its primary forests remain. Now, Sarawak's forests and their inhabitants face another threat: the damming of its rivers for hydroelectric power.
- First half of 2014 sees more magazine launches than closures
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
MediaFinder, the largest online database of American and Canadian publications is reporting that in the first half of 2014, 93 magazines launched and 30 closed.
- Newspapers in Canada versus USA
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Newspapers Canada has released a one-page Fact Sheet outlining some of the key differences between the Canadian and U.S. markets.
- Nine tips for talking with potential investors
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Tips on how journalists, or teams of journalists can generate interest from venture capital are provided.
- Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Connexions is pleased to announce the publication of Other Voices, the new bi-weekly Connexions newsletter.
- Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - July 3, 2014
Surveillance
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
The first issue of Other Voices, the Connexions newsletter. Topic of the week is Surveillance. Articles on climate politics, 21st-century land grabs, and the destruction of Canada's science libraries. Plus items from the Connexions Calendar and Seeds of Fire.
- Scientists Write: EPA, Ban 'Agent Orange' Herbicide Mix and GMO Crops!
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Thirty-five distinguished scientists urge the US-EPA not to register new mixtures of the herbicides 2,4-D and glyphosate, intended for use on herbicide-tolerant GMO crops. Approval of the herbicide mixtures would endanger both human and environmental health.
- Torontonians lose a vital weekly newspaper
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
The Grid, an award-winning Toronto weekly newspaper, was shut down in early July 2014.
- Neonicotinoids are Poisoning Entire Farmland Ecosystems
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
The widespread use of neonicotinoid insecticides is causing a neurotoxic overload afflicting entire farm ecosystems from earthworms to bees, other pollinators and birds. A collapse in food production may inevitably follow.
- Seven Reasons Police Brutality is Systemic
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Darrin Manning's unprovoked "stop and frisk" encounter with the Philadelphia police left him hospitalized with a ruptured testicle. Neykeyia Parker was violently dragged out of her car and aggressively arrested in front of her young child for "trespassing" at her own apartment complex in Houston. A Georgia toddler was burned when police threw a flash grenade into his playpen during a raid, and the manager of a Chicago tanning salon was confronted by a raiding police officer bellowing that he would kill her and her family, captured on the salon's surveillance. An elderly man in Ohio was left in need of facial reconstructive surgery after police entered his home without a warrant to sort out a dispute about a trailer. These stories are a small selection of recent police brutality reports, as police misconduct has become a fixture of the news cycle.
- Some Deaths Really Matter
The Disproportionate Coverage of Israeli And Palestinian Killings
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Israeli deaths matter much more than Palestinian deaths. This has long been a distinguishing feature of Western news media reporting on the Middle East. The recent blanket coverage afforded to the brutal killing of three Israeli teenagers highlights this immutable fact.
- Some death
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