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Environment and Climate Change
What Happens When the Shale Boom Goes Boom?
Recent headlines in the US press about the coming economic boom heralded by the shale gas revolution would lead you to think we are literally swimming in oil. But is the shale revolution all it’s fracked up to be?
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Indigenous Politics
The Rise of the Native Rights-Based Strategic Framework
We have come too far as Indigenous peoples to give up who we are. We have always been kind and we will share the wealth and abundance of our homelands with our relatives from across the pond. Instead of lessons on how to survive the harsh winters of our lands, today we are offering lessons on how to be resilient and to overcome the oppression from the archaic oil sector and in our own government who have lost their minds with power.
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Indigenous Politics
The Dissociative State of Nunavut
The story of how Nunavut was opened up to the nuclear industry stands as a warning to Indigenous peoples elsewhere: the settlement of Indigenous rights claims can result in the emergence of a managerial and petty bourgeois elite whose class instincts are to cozy up to capital.
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Latin America and the Caribbean
Libertarian left and ‘people’s governments
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Indigenous Politics
More Idle No More
For the moment to become a sustained movement it will have to develop a stronger analysis and better organizational capacity, but the breadth and depth of the social support it has already generated show an enormous hunger for social change pointed towards social justice.
Recent articles
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Washington and the Breakdown of the Colombia-Venezuela-FARC Peace Process
Washington has devised a dual strategy toward Latin America. This involves a new set of ambitious imperial initiatives designed to undermine the principal anti-imperialist governments (Venezuela), social movements and armed insurgency (Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia), while dismantling Latin America-centered integration and regional alliances, such as ALBA, Petro-Caribe, UNASUR and MERCOSUR. (more)
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Liberals or NDP need to take control from all-powerful ‘corporate elite’
With the next federal election a little more than two years away, it is time we started asking the Liberals and New Democrats what kind of government they will deliver if either one can bounce the Conservatives from power. (more)
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Harper takes on Environmental Terrorists
Soon after the 2011 election, with his majority government at last in hand, Prime Minister Harper decided that nothing, but nothing, was more important to Canada’s entire future than a pipeline to carry oil from Alberta to the Pacific. This came as a shock to many Canadians, first because it hadn’t been raised in the election, second because many believe that to combat global warming we must reduce, not expand, our reliance on fossil fuels. (more)
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Alter Summit: A People’s Manifesto
Europe stands on the edge of a precipice, looking into the abyss. Austerity policies drive the people of Europe into poverty, undercut democracy and dismantle social policies. Rising inequalities endanger social cohesion. Ecological destruction is worsening while acute humanitarian crises devastate the most affected countries. Women and young people are hardest hit. (more)
Episode 214 (May 3rd) — On Mayday Noam Chomsky urges activists to focus their attention not simply on the economy and the environment, but how the market system underlies the fiscal and environmental crisis. Clayton Thomas Muller discusses the diverse strategies of First People’s against colonial structures that destroy their livelihoods and their environment. Nae Burrows describes the successful living-wage campaign in British Columbia.
- Sliding Down the Syrian Slope by Marc Lynch
- Gezi Park Evacuated, Istanbul and Turkey Explode by Sungur Savran
- Canadians should be demanding answers about secret surveillance programs by Michael Geist |
- Noam Chomsky: Are we on the verge of total destructon?
- The Oslo Illusion by Adam Hanieh
- Mongolia, Canada, Israel and the UNited States: Colonialism & Shale by Macdonald Stainsby
- ‘It can’t happen here’ just did by Gene Healy
- Edward Snowden: the whistleblower behind the NSA surveillance revelations by Glenn Greenwald et al
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