The presence of evil
I have frequently explained that when I sat in the International Court of Justice and heard Israel’s lawyers tell lie after lie to justify or excuse the Gaza genocide, I could feel I was palpably in...
View ArticleDemocratic involution
Javier Milei’s government is sliding Argentina towards a crisis of unprecedented proportions.
View ArticleHow a giant corporate cover-up poisoned the planet—and everyone on it
In 1998, the head toxicologist at 3M estimated that a safe level of PFAS in human blood is about one part per billion. The average American’s blood has not double, not triple, but 30 times that amount.
View ArticleThis is the Haitian people’s chance to break their chains again
After connivance in the brutal assassination of Haiti’s President Jovenel Moïse three years ago and then imposing its first feckless de facto Prime Minister Ariel Henry and now his equally subservient...
View ArticleThe spy who kept notes
Pulling back the Cold War curtain on Canada’s ignominious history of anti-communism.
View ArticleMajdal Shams residents mourn martyrs, reject any Israeli presence
The Israeli news website Walla says Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich was met with rejection and protests upon his arrival in the town.
View ArticleSending unarmed responders instead of police: What we’ve learned
There are more than 100 response teams nationwide, but experts say more research on their impact is needed.
View ArticleGlobal South sees U.S. Congress hail Israeli killer of 39,000 of their people...
The Health Ministry in Gaza reports that as of the end of July, 2024, more than 39,000 Palestinians, mostly women and children, have been slaughtered in Gaza by the Israeli military using hegemon...
View ArticleBeware of flying on commercial airlines in racist USA
On July 15, in an Instagram post, Terrell Davis spoke out after he was handcuffed and escorted off a United Airlines plane by the FBI and law enforcement.
View ArticleHow Orangeism Paved the Way for British Capital
As the annual marches commemorating William of Orange's ascension to power draw to a close, Mark Hackett reflects on how the events of 1688 shaped the modern bourgeoise state.
View ArticleCapitalism’s New Age of Plagues (Part 8): Deadly heat
‘Climate change has already caused mass death on a pandemic-like scale’
View ArticleNicolás Maduro wins the presidential elections in Venezuela
As predicted, the right-wing opposition has refused to recognize the results and affirms that they won “with 70% of the vote”, the U.S. government meanwhile has called for a recount.
View ArticleNational Lawyers Guild electoral observers praise Venezuelan election process
National Lawyers Guild electoral observers praise fairness, transparency of Venezuelan election process; condemn the U.S. backed opposition’s refusal to accept the outcome of democratic election.
View ArticleDecolonisation, dependency and disengagement—the challenge of Ireland’s...
Advancing degrowth in Ireland requires an understanding of, and a reckoning with, the economic legacy of its colonised past, CUSP researcher Seán Fearon writes. A post-colonial economy within planetary...
View ArticleChina’s Third Plenum
The Third Plenum is a meeting of China’s Communist Party Central Committee composed of 364 members which discusses China’s economic policy for the next several years.
View ArticleCanada must comply with ICJ advisory opinion on Israel’s occupation
I am writing on behalf of Canadians for Justice and Peace in the Middle East (CJPME) to request that the Canadian government immediately take steps to align its policy with the Advisory Opinion of the...
View ArticleWinds of change in India-China relations
There is an expectation that Prime Minister Narendra Modi would prioritise a historic turnaround in India’s relations with China as a legacy of his 15 years in power. Things are indeed moving in such a...
View ArticleChina: The global trading giant
An extraordinary chart from 'The Pioneer' below compares nations whose largest trading partner was either the USA or China in the year 2000 and the year 2020. Over one short decade, it is a powerful...
View ArticleSonya Massey: Another tragic murder in the cops’ war on Black America
On July 6, Sonya Massey was brutally murdered by a Sangamon County, Illinois, sheriff’s deputy after she called the police to ask for assistance with a potential intruder. Like Breonna Taylor,...
View ArticleDelusions and paranoia in NATOland
It remains difficult to portray Canada’s increasingly assertive global deployments as a matter of national defence.
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