Chris Hedges: Joe Biden’s parting gift to America will be Christian fascism
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by Chris Hedges
1w ago
“Onward Christian Fascism.” Illustration by Mr. Fish. Joe Biden and the Democratic Party made a Trump presidency possible once and look set to make it possible again. If Trump returns to power, it will not be due to Russian interference, voter suppression or because the working class is filled with irredeemable bigots and racists. It will be because the Democrats are as indifferent to the suffering of Palestinians in Gaza as they are to immigrants, the poor in our impoverished inner cities, those driven into bankruptcy by medical bills, credit card debt and usurious mortgages, those discarded ..read more
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Freedom for Boris Kagarlitsky
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by Free Boris Kagarlitsky
1w ago
Boris Kagarlitsky is a Russian Marxist theoretician and sociologist who has been a political dissident in the former Soviet Union and the Russian Federation. He was a regular contributor to Canadian Dimension. Sign the petition to free Boris Kagarlitsky and all other Russian anti-war political prisoners. We, the undersigned, were deeply shocked to learn that on February 13 the leading Russian socialist intellectual and anti-war activist Dr. Boris Kagarlitsky, 65, was sentenced to five years in prison. Dr. Kagarlitsky was arrested on the absurd charge of “justifying terrorism” in July last yea ..read more
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Open letter: Stop manipulating sexual assault
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by Stop Manipulating Sexual Assault
1w ago
Street art in Tel Aviv criticizing international women’s organizations for ignoring the testimony of Israeli women who were victims of sexual violence on October 7, 2023. Photo by Nizzan Cohen/Wikimedia Commons. All too often in the fog of war, the brutality of sexual assault and rape is lost in the public eye, and bringing these abuses to light is something for which feminists have fought for decades. Complicating this issue, however, is the fact that accusations of sexual assault have also been wielded as a tool of war—and as an (often lethal) weapon of racism and colonialism. In its curren ..read more
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Prospects for Canadian pharmacare
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by Ken Collier
1w ago
Any federal pharmacare program will be judged by how complete, accessible and efficient it is, argues Ken Collier. Photo from Wikimedia Commons. Until February 2024, Canada did not have a pharmacare program. Even then, proposals for a universal pharmacare program were remarkably vague in political parties, media reports, and campaigning groups. Earlier federal interest in a universal drug program seemed to be fading, ostensibly on cost grounds. Just in time, the Trudeau government announced a rather weak and diluted pharmacare proposal a few days before the March 1, 2024 deadline to save the ..read more
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Mulroney: Not all good
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by Gordon Laxer
1w ago
Canadian Prime Minister Brian Mulroney and US President Ronald Reagan in the mid-1980s. Photo by AP. Much deserved praise has been heaped on Brian Mulroney’s legacy, but the universal lauding of NAFTA misses the mark. Mulroney made major contributions by pushing Washington to cut acid rain wafting across the border, was key to fixing the ozone layer in the Montréal protocol and took international leadership in helping end apartheid in South Africa. But bringing Canada into NAFTA was a huge mistake. It made us too vulnerable to economic coercion by Washington, something we may well regret now ..read more
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The Online News Act has been like MAiD for emerging media in Canada
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by Marc Edge
1w ago
Cartoon by Greg Perry The hare-brained Online News Act has only been in effect for a few months, but already it has proved a disaster for small and emerging news media in Canada, with the country’s Indigenous media perhaps the hardest hit. Just last month, Saskatchewan’s Eagle Feather News, which once covered Indigenous affairs across the province, announced that it was pressing pause after almost 27 years of publication. “Since June, we have seen an alarming and steady decline in ad sale revenue, which coincides with the introduction of the Online News Act,” wrote Editor-in-Chief Kerry Benjo ..read more
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Green Québec: a whiter shade of pale
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by Richard Swift
1w ago
Québec Premier François Legault announces funding support for a $7 billion gigafactory for electric vehicle batteries in Montérégie. The facility will be built by Swedish manufacturer Northvolt AB. Photo from X. And although my eyes were open They might as well have been closed —Procol Harem The Québec state is currently presided over by the Coalition Avenir Québec (CAQ) and piloted by former airline boss François Legault who won the last provincial election in a landslide and holds 90 seats in a 125-member house. A steamroller majority—yet rooted in only slightly over 40 percent of the vote ..read more
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Direct action confronts Canada-Israel arms trade
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by Kirsten Francescone and Irene Suvillaga
1w ago
Peace activists block a driveway entrance to the Safran Electronics & Defense Canada Inc. facility in Peterborough, Ontario. Photo by Irene Suvillaga. Just after dawn on February 26, a group of approximately 40 activists blocked both driveway entrances to the Safran Electronics & Defense Canada Inc. facility located in the south-end of Peterborough. The company is a subsidiary of the Safran Group, a French multinational that manufactures defence-related equipment and components, and has contracts with the Israeli military to provide it with telemetry equipment and battlefield targetin ..read more
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‘Stop the War’ means ‘Death to the Dictatorship’
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by Russian Socialist Movement
2w ago
Anti-war picketers assemble at the 1905 Square in Yekaterinburg, Russia, immediately following the country’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, February 24, 2022. Photo by Vladislav Postnikov/Wikimedia Commons. Two years ago, Vladimir Putin launched a full-scale invasion of Ukraine. This decision by Russia’s leaders was not a response to any military threat posed by Ukraine or NATO—it was an attempt to subjugate a neighbouring country that Vladimir Putin simply believes should not exist. Putin’s original plan in Ukraine seems to have been for a “special operation” of regime change: troops would ..read more
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Did Mulroney really ‘lead the fight’ against apartheid?
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by Owen Schalk
2w ago
Prime Minister Brian Mulroney speaks after a visit to the United States, 1984. Photo from Wikimedia Commons. On February 29, former Prime Minister Brian Mulroney passed away at the age of 84. A champion of free trade and neoliberal economics, Mulroney’s premiership resulted in widespread deregulation, the privatization of more than 20 Crown corporations, and Canada’s entry into the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), a treaty that proved ruinous for workers, especially in Mexico. Mulroney’s time in office represented a major phase in Canada’s neoliberal turn, and he is often grouped ..read more
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