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Earlier this month Prime Minister Mark Carney, Alberta Premier Danielle Smith and five largely U.S.-owned oilsands companiesĀ proclaimedĀ a leap forward in ācarbon management.ā…
The Israeli militaryās Orwellian use of artificial intelligence for surveillance, targeting, and execution of attacks against Palestinians in Gaza and the West…
J.D. Scholten, in his recent piece in Barn Raiser [āAmerica Can Grow Its Own Food Again,ā July 17], argued that one of the problems…
Life is a bit of a tradeoff, isnāt it? On one hand, we have our individual autonomy and collective autonomy as a…
Antifascism can be served with a pot of overcooked pasta. On July 25, 1943, after twenty-one years of dictatorship, Benito Mussolini was…
Elon Musk is officially the richest man on Earth. The source of his wealth is not his own cunning. Nor can it…
āWeāre used to people saying āfuck noā and doing it anyway.ā These words were seemingly spoken by our very own Governor Gretchen…
As Gaza is gripped by a water crisis, Israel has reportedly attacked a facility that provided safe drinking water to thousands of…
āā¦sensitivity toward destructiveness-cruelty is rapidly diminishing, and necrophilia, the attraction to what is dead, decaying, lifeless, and purely mechanical, is increasing throughout…
On 24 June, Venezuela was celebrating two important holidays: the 205th anniversary of the Battle of Carabobo, the battle that sealed the…
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