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Race, Civility, and a Good Cup of Tea
Despite decries of violence as “mindless vigilantism,” and self-aggrandizing volunteer clean-up squads, the London riots convey important ideas about race, civility, and the concept of the “political” in western liberal democracy.
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Imperialism and Democracy: White House or Liberty Square?
The relation between imperialism and democracy has been debated and discussed over 2500 years, from fifth century Athens to Liberty Park in Manhattan.
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Our successful democracy abroad
The United States, as we learn from first grade on, represents the world’s best economy and most successful democracy because we live by the rule of law. And we rightfully tell other countries how they too can measure up to our standards—including how to deal with our terrorist foes. And we help them.
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Unwelcome election
Hostility to electoral democracy and who do we think of? These days its Omar Gadhafi of Libya, Laurent Gbagbo of Cote d’Ivoire or, if you are really daring, maybe the Saudi royal family. But the discourse of our current election campaign here in Canada should give us pause.
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Getting smart: Catch 22 ‘super-voters’ can keep Harper humble
It is the strangest of elections. Nobody really has a feel yet for how many voters will show up or what the outcome will be. If voter turnout is low, the usual response to a flood of televised attack ads, and if there is no new issue which shakes up people’s voting tendencies, then the May 3 headline is: HARPER WINS MAJORITY.
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The Libyan Conflict: Peaceful Demonstrations to Armed Struggle
Why does the Empire’s political strategy in the Middle East matter to the Canadian Left—or to the Left at all? Because the Middle East lies at—no, is—the very heart of the Western Empire. Without the Middle East, Western capitalism dies: it really is that simple.
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Egypt: Social Movements, the CIA and Mossad
The image which most writers, academics and journalists project of the invincibility of the Israeli Mossad and of the omnipotent CIA have been severely tested by their admitted failure to recognize the scope, depth and intensity of the multi-million member movement to oust the Mubarak dictatorship.
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Web Exclusive: Critique of Impure Reason
It is a nightmare phenomenon that virtually every ‘leftist’ thinker and activist has, at one time or another, encountered. Engaged in mortal argumentative combat with agents of the ‘right’, they find themselves punching in a total intellectual vacuum.
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Web Exclusive: L’union fait la force
Joegodson didn’t vote on Sunday. He preferred to watch the proceedings. He sees the most inspiring and noble hint of Haiti’s future appear through the confusion, like a single ray of light that pierces dark and menacing clouds.
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Web Exclusive: Some Thoughts on Orwell and the Haitian Elections
In appealing to the ‘democracies’ to the North to allow free and fair elections in Haiti, the core imperialist countries appear to allow something at home that they prohibit abroad. In fact, American and Canadian voters have far less freedom than Haitians. It just looks different.
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