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What do you expect?
If the diaspora really wants to take a shot at making things “normal” in Israel, it has two paths: to either fully back genocide or give up on Zionism and push Israel towards reconciliation and integration. I know it’s useless to type all this out. I don’t have much faith in the second option happening. My Zionist diaspora isn’t into it at all.
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Palestinians speak the language of violence Israel taught them
The indiscriminate shootings of Israelis by Hamas and other Palestinian resistance organizations, the kidnapping of civilians, drone attacks on a variety of targets from tanks to automated machine gun nests, are the familiar language of the Israeli occupier. Regimes implanted and maintained by violence engender violence.
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Hamas campaign recalls Tet Offensive: Could this also be a turning point?
As in Vietnam in 1968, the lessons are there to learn, if people are prepared to learn them. When history presents us with parallels, albeit imperfect ones, we need to pay heed. One thing is for sure: Israelis and their allies can no longer ignore Palestine, pretending that the brutal occupation can continue with impunity.
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The conservative ‘debate’ over trans rights is no debate at all
To debate someone’s very existence, their right to live, their right to dignity, is to dehumanize them. It’s why the conservative ‘debate’ over trans policy and trans-specific health care is not a debate—it is a thinly veiled attempt to seize control of individual bodies, shaping them in a way that aligns with reactionary interests.
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“You’re what this war is all about”—or not
Israel’s policies and practices have sought to erase the presence and the lives of Palestinian children (and adults). In the last two decades, some 2,171 Palestinian children have been killed by Israeli military actions. As Or Kashti writes, Israel continues “to plaster over any crack in the dehumanization of the Palestinians, from the first grade to the grave.”
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The conservative attack on gay life
As we bear witness to the multiple assaults on us once again, an assault that is coordinated, state and policy driven, and heading towards even more severe forms of violence, we know what we must do. In fact, we have only one option. It is our tradition now. We will fight back. We will also shoot back if that is what is required. And we will win. It is our destiny.
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The settler colonial origins of food insecurity in Canada’s North
While many Canadians have felt the pinch of inflation, northern Canada’s grocery prices have always been extreme. The exorbitant cost of food on the North is thought to be a naturally occurring phenomenon blamed on free-market forces, but authors Kristin Burnett and Travis Hay argue that it is the direct result of government policies and corporate monopolies.
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Alpha dog of extractivism pushes status quo
Coups, colonialism, and various forms of political subterfuge are important elements in explaining the unequal terms of global exchange. Reducing global inequities requires economic interventions irrespective of “free-market” ideology or WTO rules. It is unsurprising that Canadian capital is hostile to measures that chip away at inequities they benefit from.
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Violence surrounds Canadian mining projects in Ecuador
Two Canadian mining companies have drawn the ire of activists and Indigenous groups in Ecuador, where the government is using Toronto-based Adventus Mining’s Curipamba copper-gold project in Las Naves and Atico Mining’s La Plata project in Sigchos as test sites to impose a new and controversial process for environmental consultation under Decree 754.
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Canadian Dimension calls on Vladimir Putin to free Boris Kagarlitsky
We at Canadian Dimension join our voices with the many left organizations, including Rabkor, the media outlet founded by Kagarlitsky, as well as Green Left, The Nation, Counterpunch, and the Transnational Institute, calling for Kagarlitsky’s immediate release and we urge our readers to support this international solidarity campaign.