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IMF refuses Barbuda debt relief after hurricane, Cuba dispatches medical staff across Caribbean
Latin America and the CaribbeanThe IMF’s refusal to converse about funds owed by the tiny Caribbean island was made clear by Christopher Lane, the financial institution’s special representative to the UN. “Our general view is that we’d rather put new money in than to have a moratorium,” Lane said. He exemplified the IMF’s position by stating that the institution may borrow funds from the US and loan them to Antigua.
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B’nai B’rith’s Shameful Attack on Niki Ashton
Canadian PoliticsB’nai B’rith’s reaction to Khatatba’s historically inaccurate comments explain them. When Zionists repeatedly use 70-year old Jewish suffering in Europe to justify their ongoing oppression of Palestinians is it any wonder some Palestinians seek to minimize Nazi crimes against Jews? The attack on Niki Ashton is a stark example of the “Holocaust Industry” Finkelstein outlined 15 years ago. B’nai B’rith should be ashamed.
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Fighting for Climate Justice
EnvironmentA year before the devastating floods in India, Bangladesh and Texas, a little-noticed UN report revealed extraordinary figures about the effects of climate change worldwide. Climate-related catastrophe is now not just an additional hazard for the world’s poor, but a central factor in their oppression and poverty. This will eventually lead to a cascade of millions of climate change refugees, a process already starting.
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One NDPer’s Position on the Leadership Contest
Canadian PoliticsThis list and its rationale is my personal opinion and should be taken as such. Nevertheless, it is my hope that this helps participants shore up their list, even if they disagree with my ultimate interpretation. Any of the four hopefuls will make a great leader, and will have three people willing to help them implement their vision for a just Canada.
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Where does Trudeau stand on racial equality?
Canadian PoliticsTrudeau has promised a renewed nation-to-nation relationship with Indigenous peoples, and has made gender equity a focal piece of his platform. He has created a ministerial portfolio for persons with disabilities. Conspicuously missing from his “sunny ways,” however, is any commitment to bring about racial equality and the elimination of barriers facing communities of colour in Canada.
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World’s 8 Richest Have as Much Wealth as Bottom Half, Oxfam Says
Economic CrisisOxfam bases its figures in part on Forbes’s annual list of billionaires and the magazine’s estimates of their wealth. This year, Oxfam said, new data gathered by Credit Suisse about the global poor led it to lower its estimates of their assets, and revise its findings about how few rich men — the eight are all men — were needed to equal the wealth of 3.6 billion people.
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A Murderous History of Korea
Asia‘If it would be appropriate for me to meet with [Kim Jong-un], I would absolutely; I would be honoured to do it.’ There’s no telling whether this was serious, or just another Trump attempt to grab headlines. But whatever else he might be, he is unquestionably a maverick, the first president since 1945 not beholden to the Beltway. Maybe he can sit down with Mr Kim and save the planet.
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More floods are coming and we’re making them worse
EnvironmentRestoring natural areas costs much more than protecting them in the first place, more intense and frequent storms and floods can still overwhelm natural defences, and growing human populations will further stress resources. We must work with nature to prevent problems such as flooding, water scarcity, wildfires and climate disruption. When we work against nature, we work against ourselves.
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Dancing With the Devil
USA PoliticsThe militarization of police has resumed, while the United States continues to wage its imperial wars across the planet regardless of the fact that climate change has begun to ravage our world. Every conceivable method of shoring up the police state that began to take definitive shape under the presidencies of George W. Bush and Barack Obama is once again being implemented.
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A Resistance Movement for the Planet
EnvironmentClimate change is out of control. It is already too late to avoid soaring temperatures, scarce water, and extreme weather. But the financial structure of capitalism is tied to fossil fuels. Market-based solutions are ineffectual. John Bellamy Foster, a professor of sociology at the University of Oregon and the editor of Monthly Review, speaks about the kind of program necessary to stop this catastrophe.
