Archive | July, 2024

It remains difficult to portray Canada’s increasingly assertive global deployments as a matter of national defence.

On July 6, Sonya Massey was brutally murdered by a Sangamon County, Illinois, sheriff’s deputy after she called the police to ask for assistance with a potential intruder. Like Breonna Taylor, Charleena Lyles and Atatiana Jefferson, Massey was a Black woman tragically murdered by police in her own home.

An extraordinary chart from ‘The Pioneer’ below compares nations whose largest trading partner was either the USA or China in the year 2000 and the year 2020. Over one short decade, it is a powerful visualization of how the world’s economic centre shifted.

There is an expectation that Prime Minister Narendra Modi would prioritise a historic turnaround in India’s relations with China as a legacy of his 15 years in power. Things are indeed moving in such a direction. 

I am writing on behalf of Canadians for Justice and Peace in the Middle East (CJPME) to request that the Canadian government immediately take steps to align its policy with the Advisory Opinion of the International Court of Justice (ICJ), titled the Legal Consequences arising from the Policies and Practices of Israel in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem.

The Third Plenum is a meeting of China’s Communist Party Central Committee composed of 364 members which discusses China’s economic policy for the next several years.

Advancing degrowth in Ireland requires an understanding of, and a reckoning with, the economic legacy of its colonised past, CUSP researcher Seán Fearon writes. A post-colonial economy within planetary boundaries must break with relationships of dependency and structures of unsustainability.

National Lawyers Guild electoral observers praise fairness, transparency of Venezuelan election process; condemn the U.S. backed opposition’s refusal to accept the outcome of democratic election.

As predicted, the right-wing opposition has refused to recognize the results and affirms that they won “with 70% of the vote”, the U.S. government meanwhile has called for a recount.

‘Climate change has already caused mass death on a pandemic-like scale’

As the annual marches commemorating William of Orange’s ascension to power draw to a close, Mark Hackett reflects on how the events of 1688 shaped the modern bourgeoise state.

On July 15, in an Instagram post, Terrell Davis spoke out after he was handcuffed and escorted off a United Airlines plane by the FBI and law enforcement.

The Health Ministry in Gaza reports that as of the end of July, 2024, more than 39,000 Palestinians, mostly women and children, have been slaughtered in Gaza by the Israeli military using hegemon U.S.A.’s mighty weapons of mass destruction.

There are more than 100 response teams nationwide, but experts say more research on their impact is needed.

The Israeli news website Walla says Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich was met with rejection and protests upon his arrival in the town.

Pulling back the Cold War curtain on Canada’s ignominious history of anti-communism.

After connivance in the brutal assassination of Haiti’s President Jovenel Moïse three years ago and then imposing its first feckless de facto Prime Minister Ariel Henry and now his equally subservient successor, Garry Conille, U.S. imperialism in cahoots with the Haitian oligarchy is presently working to set in place a Provisional Electoral Council (CEP) with the same actors and sectors from Haiti’s political landscape that it has been using for decades.

In 1998, the head toxicologist at 3M estimated that a safe level of PFAS in human blood is about one part per billion. The average American’s blood has not double, not triple, but 30 times that amount.

Javier Milei’s government is sliding Argentina towards a crisis of unprecedented proportions.

I have frequently explained that when I sat in the International Court of Justice and heard Israel’s lawyers tell lie after lie to justify or excuse the Gaza genocide, I could feel I was palpably in the presence of evil.