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The primary public use of “anti-Semitism” today is to denigrate those defending a people facing the most aggressive ongoing European settler colonialism
Two weeks ago police shot and killed an individual at Pacific Wildcat Resources tantalum mine in central Mozambique. The incident received some…
The primary explanation for the gap between what’s said and done is that power generally defines what is considered reality
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Environmentalists and union activists should be making common cause by explaining how tar sands profits that go to the rich and powerful cost Canadian workers hundreds of thousands of jobs
Step one for everyone trying to make the world a better place should be listening to those they wish to help. This…
This past week may come to be seen as a watershed moment in the NDP's capitulation to neoliberal capitalism. The nominally social…
In Canada it is illegal to restrict the sale of property to certain ethnic or religious groups but many of our business…
There are no shades of grey, no nuance or even cause and effect in the simplistic world view proclaimed by the current…
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