Author: Judith Deutsch
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Lessons for the Climate Emergency
Rationing, Moratoriums, Ending War “The bad news is that if history teaches us one thing, it is that there never has been an energy transition… The history of energy is not … Keep reading »
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People Music: From Mozart to Climate Change
David Yearsley’s fine article “Disaster Music” in April 12 Counterpunch generates thoughts about what can be called People Music. At present, global political and environmental events unfold disastrously. Yearsley writes … Keep reading »
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Episode 14: Saudi Arabia, MBS, and Everlasting War w/ Medea Benjamin
In this wide-ranging interview, Oats speaks with celebrated activist and writer Medea Benjamin about Saudi’s Crown Prince Mohammad bin Salman (MBS), Saudi’s Twitter spat with Canada last year, and how to connect questions of everlasting war with climate and environmental issues. Listen to audio »
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Wealth and the Invisibility of Human Life
Judith Deutsch reviews Quinn Slobodian new book Globalists: The End of Empire and the Birth of Neoliberalism. Keep reading »
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Exterminators-in-Chief: Trudeau, Bolsonaro, et al, and Informed Consent
I read the Canadian news today: “Pipeline expansion should be approved: regulator.” Regulators ignorantly, negligently, criminally, and in contempt of life, yet again gave the go-ahead to money over incontestable science. Liberal democratic Canada is in league with Brazil’s military dictatorship and the Lima Group. Keep reading »
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A Tale of Two Toilets: Profiting from Necessity?
Charles Dickens’ A Tale of Two Cities famously opens with the lines “It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, … Keep reading »
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Siloed Thinking, Climate, and Disposable People
Thinking in siloes about the climate and about our planet’s people puts us at risk of increasing climate disruption and massive loss of life. This year the climate meeting, COP24, … Keep reading »
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Grieve the Beloved Children: Israel and the War on Children
The Palestinian Health Ministry reported on June 1st that a beautiful young woman medic, Razan Ashraf Najjar, 21, was the second medic to be killed by Israeli army fire since … Keep reading »
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The Canadian Pension Plan: The Deadly Hand of the Market
A recent article in the Toronto Star and its accompanying photo bear comment. The reaching hands are not of rioting, starving people grasping for food but of stockbrokers on the … Keep reading »
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Gaza: Who or What Has a Right to Exist?
Gaza: An Inquest into its Martyrdom (Verso, 2018), is an extraordinary book. It is also a difficult book to read. In his preface, Norman Finkelstein writes that this work “has … Keep reading »
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Justice for Hassan Diab and the Unbearable Banality of Evil
Great joy and relief came with the news this January 12th that French investigative judges issued an “order of final release” for Dr. Hassan Diab from a French maximum security prison. Dr. Hassan Diab is a Canadian citizen and sociology professor who lived in Ottawa. He was extradited from Canada to France in November 2014 even though the Canadian extradition judge Robert Maranger described the evidence presented against Dr. Hassan Diab as “very problematic,” “convoluted,” “illogical,” and “suspect. Keep reading »
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The Unimaginable: Canada, Missile Defence and Nuclear War
The Invictus Games, attended by Prince Harry and many celebrities in Toronto last month, overshadowed another big military story: a September 19 report in the Toronto Star that Prime Minister … Keep reading »