University of Toronto Students Score a Win for the Climate — and Campus...
When the University of Toronto’s School of the Environment announced in October that it will no longer accept donations from the fossil fuel industry, the news sent waves through the growing movement...
View ArticleHolding Duke Energy Accountable for Decades of Climate Deception and Harm to...
The town of Carrboro sued Duke Energy Corp. today for the company’s decades-long role leading a nationwide climate deception scheme that has worsened the climate crisis, harmed the community and cost...
View ArticleA Time of Few Certainties
Both personally and collectively, the certainties of the present always carry with them the germ of future uncertainties. But there are moments or eras in which certainties are more pronounced and...
View ArticleTruce in Lebanon: Can Diplomacy Rise from the Ruins?
On November 26th, Israel and Lebanon signed an agreement for a 60-day truce, during which Israel and Hezbollah are both supposed to withdraw from the area of Lebanon south of the Litani River. The...
View ArticleThe Syrian Civil War: New Phases, Old Lies
A new bloody phase has opened up in Syria, as if it was ever possible to contemplate another one in that tormented land. Silly terms such as “moderate” are being paired with “rebels”, a coupling that...
View ArticleJoin the Resistance? Yes, But…
Count on one thing: the next four years are going to be tough. If you can muster the energy for political action while Donald Trump and his minions rule Washington, it will have to be channeled in two...
View ArticleNiger Resists in the Crosshairs of Sanctions and Climate Catastrophe
Aboubakar Alassane of the West Africa Peoples Organization (WAPO) explains how Nigeriens are enduring the consequences of unprecedented floods that have devastated their economy already crippled by...
View ArticleBiden And Starmer Are Destroying International Law To Protect Israel’s Genocide
For more than a year, those calling for an end to Israel’s slaughter of civilians in Gaza have been relentlessly vilified: as apologists for Hamas, as antisemites, even as supporters of a genocide...
View ArticleA Sober Assessment
It is very difficult to assess where we are regarding negotiations to end the war in Gaza and to bring the hostages home. In September, two Hamas leaders from the Hamas politburo, one of them a member...
View ArticleA Better Resistance to Trump Is Possible
“I do not want to do four more years of ‘Resistance’ nonsense under Donald Trump. Good God,” democratic socialist congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez said a few weeks before the election. “Does...
View ArticleIn Conversation with Michael Albert
Online Talk for MIT Coalition Against Apartheid by Michael Albert, a radical political economist who was MIT student body president and a member of Students for a Democratic Society. In January 1970,...
View ArticleBernie’s Call to Reflect/Speak Out/Build
“I have long believed that we need an alternative to the Democrat and Republican parties, and since 1974 I have acted on that belief via involvement in various organizations with that objective. All...
View ArticlePost-Catastrophe Counselling . . . with Henry Giroux
Where do we go from here? . . . Perhaps a good way to start is to pose questions to one of our contributors, American-Canadian scholar and cultural critic, Henry Giroux — who, wrote journalist Keith...
View ArticleThe Tectonic Shift: The Gaza Genocide and the Limits of Israeli Hasbara
The ongoing war and genocide in Gaza is unprecedented. Nothing that Israel and its supporters can say or do will avoid the historical accountability of the extermination of the Palestinian people in...
View ArticleWhat Is Happening in Syria?
In just a few days, after having remained relatively static for a few years, Syria has turned anew into a theatre of war of movement, in what looks like a resumption of the last major displacement of...
View ArticleThe Legacy of Fred Hampton
On December 4, 1969, Black Panther Party leaders Fred Hampton and Mark Clark were drugged and murdered by the Chicago Police Department. There have been documentaries and a feature film about the...
View Article‘Burn In Hell’ Henry Kissinger – Social Media Warrior Mode And The Case For...
Left-progressives writhe in agony when the usual suspects to the right of the ‘mainstream’ media ‘spectrum’ continue to pour bile and abuse on the likes of Howard Zinn, Edward Herman, Harold Pinter,...
View ArticleVenezuela: Tense Calm Reigns Ahead of Threats of Dual Presidential Inaugurations
A tense calm reigns in Venezuela as inauguration day approaches, with two candidates vowing to be sworn in as president. Incumbent president Nicolás Maduro has declared he will attend the official...
View ArticleConnecting the Dots Behind the Chaos in Syria
Lebanese journalist Ghadi Francis joins for the first half of the stream to reveal the truth about Israel’s agreement to a ceasefire and the condition of Hezbollah following the weeks of ground war...
View ArticleChilling Protest with Designations of Terrorism
The moment Jada-Gabrielle Pape saw an online National Post report calling her “one of Samidoun’s most active organizers,” she was gripped with fear. The Canadian government had declared the Samidoun...
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