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Two centuries ago: Tecumseh’s freedom speech to the Muscogee people
On September 20, 1811, Tecumseh rode into Tuckhabatchee, in present day Alabama, the capital of the Muscogee people. Twenty warriors, members the Shawnee, Kickapoo and Winnebago nations, rode with him. The last months of a tense peace between the United States and the native peoples led by Tecumseh were quickly passing. And the U.S. and Britain were well down the path to war.
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Libya, the Lie
When the U.S. invaded Iraq riding a pack of lies and monstrous manipulation, the entire U.S. elite, including major news services, academics, and politicians from both “sides” of the spectrum, lined up to cheerlead and off they went to war. It was one of the most shameful chapters in the long history of shameful acts of U.S. imperial foreign policy.
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To Supporters of “Progressive” Parties: You Need Movements
If NDPers and Greens want to have even a chance of realizing the core elements of the political hopes and desires that motivate them, they are going to need to shift at least some of their energies to movements that are not tied to any party.
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Can the NDP thrive after Jack? And save the country?
Canadians who maintain the dream of a more equal, democratic and civilized society may no longer be reeling from the death of Jack Layton. But they are surely stuck in a kind of political limbo, trying not to think of the damage Stephen Harper can do whenever he wants, as they try to imagine how this catastrophic situation can be turned around.
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Why the Tar Sands are Destructive for Canada: “Ethical” Oil and Other Resourceful Fantasies
The Harper government’s Big Idea for the future of the Canadian economy is that Canada should become an “energy superpower”. What will make it so is the gargantuan development of the Alberta tar sands, which the Harperites and their friends depict as “ethical oil.” In truth, the development of the tar sands is reducing northern Alberta to a stinking hell.
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Daniel Tanuro: The Delusion of Green Capitalism
Daniel Tanuro’s new book, L’impossible capitalisme vert, is a major contribution to our analytical understanding of ecosocialism.
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Daniel Tanuro: Foundations of an ecosocialist strategy
The following article by a leading European ecosocialist, Daniel Tanuro, was written especially for the latest issue of the Montréal-based journal Nouveaux Cahiers du Socialisme (NCS), which features a number of articles on what is commonly referred to as the ecological crisis (not yet on-line). I have translated below the French text of this article as published by NCS.
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Transitions
Some notes on a personal transition, and on the everyday politics of the new journey upon which I’m about to embark. (Hint: This post is relevant to all who are returning to school, as students or teachers, in the coming couple of weeks.)
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Québec Solidaire: A Québécois Approach to Building a Broad Left Party (Part II)
In Part I, I outlined how this party originated. In this, the concluding part, I describe how it functions and explore some major challenges it faces and how it is confronting them.
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When the Rich and Powerful Overplay their Hand
We are in the grip of a socio-economic crisis in which the rich and the powerful in the United States, the United Kingdom, the Euro Zone countries and Canada refuse to share the burden of coping with the economic disaster they did so much to unleash.
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