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Quebec
State of Play
The opposition between the government and an important social movement like the student movement is reminiscent of a game of chess. Two organizations face off, each unravelling complex strategies both to confound their adversary and to reach their objectives.
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Environment and Climate Change
Bella Bella: Peaceful protest unnerves regulators
The federal government’s review panel was scheduled to begin hearings on the pipeline in Bella Bella on April 2. The video below shows the welcome organized by residents, and the regulators’ cowardly response. Here’s an eyewitness account by a long-time environmental activist.
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Social Movements
The Enigma of David Harvey
David Harvey does not look at capitalism as simply an economic system with geographic consequences. Drawing directly from Marx’s dynamic mode of thought, Harvey looks at capitalism as a highly intricate and interconnected social and productive system and offers remarkable insights by looking at it in this dynamic way.
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Canadian Politics, Economy and Foreign Policy
Rogues Like These
It has the makings of a B-grade political thriller: a mysterious “Pierre Poutine” uses a disposable “burner” cell phone and an anonymous prepaid credit card to buy a series of automated outbound phone calls designed to harass voters in key ridings and mislead them about where they should vote in the May 2011 federal election. The drama here lies in the sheer scale of the skulduggery.
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Indigenous Politics
Reproducing Order
In its interim Report, the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TR C) noted that “Canadians have been denied a full and proper education as to the nature of Aboriginal societies. They have not been well informed about the nature of the relationship that was established initially between Aboriginal and non- Aboriginal peoples and the way that relationship has been shaped over time by colonialism and racism.”
Recent articles
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Do No Harm?
“Do no harm,” an ancient injunction in the field of medicine, is at risk of being forgotten in the delivery of health care in North America today. In fact, medical errors, pharmaceutical errors and hospital acquired infections (HAIs) combined are a scandalously significant annual cause of death for Americans and Canadians. (more)
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The Syrian saga
The Syrian situation is extremely complex this being the result of its history, its diverse ethnic groups, its long-lasting repressive regime, and compounded by a decade-long desire of the USA and other Western countries for regime change in that country. And because of the latter factor, much of the mainstream media for the past year or more have misrepresented the turmoil and conflict in Syria, almost in the way it was done in preparation for the war on Iraq. (more)
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Defiant Quebec students reject shabby government offer
Quebec college and university students are now in the 13th week of their militant province-wide strike while voting by overwhelming majorities to reject a government offer that met none of their key demands. (more)
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Guatemala: Decriminalization?
Guatemalan President Otto Pérez Molina has made headlines around the world for his suggestion that the U.S. led “War on Drugs” has failed, and that other options should be explored. Media fanfare around his position at the Summit of the Americas in Colombia has re-cast the retired hard line general as a progressive, innovative president. But according to analysts who spoke to Upside Down World, the President’s decriminalization plan is a smokescreen for increased militarization, and the rearrangement of Guatemala’s drug trafficking elite. (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.
- The UN “Green Economy Plan” is a Destructive Illusion by Pablo Solon
- Canadian Human Rights Report on Columbia, a Sick Joke: Mining Watch Canada
- Palestininian Prisoners Score Heroic Victory – Popular Struggle
- Majority of oil and gas profits sent out of Canada, study finds by Mike De Souza – The Vancouver Sun
- Ayn Rand: Her Psychopathic Ideas Idolize the Rich,brainwash the poor by George Monbiot – The Guardian
- The Triumph of the Radical Left in Greece by Haris Golemis – The Socialist Project
- Update on the class war: 1% winning, 99% regrouping by Gerald Caplan – The Globe and Mail
- Game over for the Planet by James Hansen – New York Times
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