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Why be a doormat?
Canadian leaders are falling over themselves to placate the incoming Trump administration. It doesn’t have to be this way.
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Israeli historian accuses Canadian media of enabling Gaza war crimes
Lee Mordechai says Israel’s war has been “enabled and facilitated by massive media efforts to shape discourse” in the West.
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Mali’s government issues arrest warrant for Canadian mining company CEO
On December 2, 2024, Mali’s popular anti-imperialist government issued an arrest warrant for Canadian mining company Barrick Gold’s CEO, Mark Bristow, a South African national who fought for the apartheid army in the 1970s.
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In West Africa, Canadian mining firms come up against bloc of independent states
An increasingly assertive group of African nations are constraining the ability of Canadian companies to profit from resources.
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As French embassy closes in Niger, West Africa charts a new course
Over the past few years, numerous West African states have taken steps toward greater economic and security sovereignty, often in opposition to Western (specifically French) designs on the region.
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Canada’s Militarization and the End of U.S. Hegemony
Owen Schalk details how Canada’s policies—the hostile moves toward geopolitical opponents, efforts to decrease economic ties to China through critical minerals exploration, and hundreds of billions of dollars in projected military spending over the next decades—do not make Canadians safer.
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Lancet: 186,000 Palestinians or more killed in Gaza
By denying the world access to the true death toll in Gaza, Israel is acting, once again, as a complete rogue state.
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Israel is stoking all-out war, and Canada is complicit
Far from ending the genocide in Gaza, Israel continues its assault with the military and diplomatic backing of Western states.
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As French embassy closes in Niger, West Africa charts a new course
Mali, Burkina Faso, and Niger are charting a new course—one of increased economic and security sovereignty.
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Thomas Sankara remains a global icon
His vision of a socialist, pan-Africanist model of development was not buried with him.
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AMLO’s push for environmental reforms angers Canadian mining sector
Ottawa has often criticized measures that would limit the ability of Canadian companies to profit from Mexico’s resource wealth.
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How Canada benefits from instability in Ecuador
Ottawa appears largely unconcerned by Ecuador’s social and institutional decay.
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As French embassy closes in Niger, West Africa charts a new course
Mali, Burkina Faso, and Niger are charting a new course—one of increased economic and security sovereignty.
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Refaat Alareer: Literature as resistance
His efforts to open space in global literature for Palestinian writers were a contribution to the struggle against apartheid.
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World War II revisionism on full display in Nazi’s visit to Parliament
Schalk: We are cynically rewriting history to serve contemporary political interests
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Niger coup will have global ramifications for the U.S., France, and Canada
This isn’t what Western countries wanted to sow in West Africa, writes Owen Schalk.
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Jens Stoltenberg’s global vision encourages conflict, militarization, and historical amnesia
Recent Foreign Affairs article unmasks NATO’s view on the shifting tides of global power.
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The ‘Chinese interference’ story is rooted in xenophobia, economic decline
Ottawa’s anxieties about a power to the East are neuralgic, irrational, and grimly familiar.
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Venezuela’s Seed Law should be a global model
For peasant farmers, the battle over seed rights is critical to their livelihoods.
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“If there is to be a livable future, it will be a future offline”
Jonathan Crary’s new book excoriates the digital world of late capitalism.