Articles

  • Indigenous People: A Key to Environmental Rescue

    Indigenous Peoples play a key role in having a vision for the economic paradigm of the future that will allow us, as human beings, to understand our role in the sacred circle of life.

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  • Tom Kent’s unfinished business

    Canadian democracy lost one of its most vigilant sentries last month. Tom Kent was 89.

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  • Where’s my friend?

    Walid was taken into custody and transported in the bone-chilling cold of the night to Israel’s Ofer Military Detention Center where hundreds of Palestinians are detained, the vast majority with absolutely no knowledge of why. Help me get Walid back to his family and his desk so we can get back to the work of improving the Palestinian health care system.

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  • The Assault on Public Services

    Today, the message is that if you don’t like the way things are, tough — you have no alternative. The real lesson of course is that if the present economic system can’t offer us a better life, then it is that system, not our expectations that needs changing.

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  • The 1% solution in Europe

    Last month a Super Committee (12 Members of Congress) failed to decide—fortunately—our economic destiny: where our tax money would go—or not. Yes, capitalism failed again. And with it went democratic procedures in the political arena.

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  • The Left’s Responses to the Crisis in Europe and North America

    A Panel discussion chaired by Greg Albo including Stephanie Ross, Leo Panitch, Bill Fletcher on the Left’s Response to the Crisis in North America and Europe.

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  • The Second Wind of the Worldwide Social Justice Movement

    We have to think of the world struggle as a long race, in which the runners have to use their energy wisely, in order not to become exhausted while always keeping their eye on the end goal—a different kind of world-system, far more democratic, far more egalitarian than anything we have now.

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  • Thomas Mulcair—Israel, Right or Wrong

    Thomas Mulcair is well known in Quebec. But except for readers of pro-Israel newspapers like the Canadian Jewish News and the Jewish Tribune, people in Quebec and English Canada are not familiar with his unquestioning support for Israel.

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  • The Harper Offensive

    An Oil Sands team, headquartered in London, has been run by the Department of Foreign Affairs (DFAIT) and is spread across eight foreign missions. They have monitored green activism, hired a PR company to try to improve “significant negative media coverage,” and shared “intelligence” with BP, Shell, Total and Norwegian Statoil, who they call “like-minded allies.”

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  • Durban COP17

    Nothing will be different in Durban, but in the meantime all the worst tendencies in world capitalism have conjoined to prevent progress on the two main areas of COP17 decisions: financing and technology.

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Rick Salutin, playwright and columnist, Toronto Star

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