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If there is a single false claim to “nonviolent” struggle that has most powerfully captured the imagination of the world, it is…
Justin Podur
Justin Podur is a professor (of environmental science at York University in Toronto), a writer on international politics (books - Haiti's New Dictatorship and America's Wars on Democracy in Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of Congo), a fiction writer (Siegebreakers, the Path of the Unarmed) and a podcaster (The Anti-Empire Project, and The Brief).
Two interesting things happened at the BRICS summit in South Africa in August. Several new members were invited to join BRICS in…
Until recently, the global economy accepted the U.S. dollar as the world’s reserve currency and the currency of international transactions. The central…
In January 2023, after five police officers killed Tyre Nichols, President Joe Biden quickly issued a statement calling on protesters to stay nonviolent. “As Americans…
Finding a path from here to an education system that meets social needs while respecting the freedom of its members remains to be done. Illich challenges us to make sure our ideas pass the test of freedom
After mass graves full of Indigenous children have been found, how can Canada justify ongoing land theft?
Corporations, not wildlife, stand to benefit from the emptied lands
The default counterinsurgency mode is a consequence of being ruled by an elite that sees the whole population as the enemy
Joe Emersberger interviewed Justin Podur regarding his new book about a conflict few understand thanks to, among other things, “Africanist” scholars.
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