Category: War/Peace
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Nuclear Weapons and Extreme Threats
A Tale of Two Men Handling Emergency One man reacted to emergency and the other one didn’t. The two men are Richard Feynman (1918 – 1988), the highly revered Nobel Prize … Keep reading »
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US Abandons Open Skies for New Age Space Weapons
The US walking out of the Open Skies agreement is a clear signal that it seeks global dominance. As other countries are unlikely to surrender, we are back to hair-trigger nuclear alerts and the Doomsday Clock inching toward midnight. Keep reading »
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Can the World’s Second Superpower Rise From the Ashes of 20 Years of War?
A stronger, more committed and more determined global peace movement could tame the US war machine. Keep reading »
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Statement on Assassination of Qasem Soleimani and its Aftermath
The US military’s assassination of Qasem Soleimani, one of the top military commanders of the Islamic Republic of Iran’s (IRI) expansionist regional policies and its proxy wars in the Middle … Keep reading »
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Oppose US and Iran War
The most worrisome aspect of these developments is that they might lead to catastrophic consequences and full-scale war. That would in turn overshadow the wave of uprisings that have broken out in the Middle East and North Africa, from Sudan and Algeria to Iraq, Lebanon and Iran. Keep reading »
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Revolution and Counterrevolution in Rojava
As I write, the revolution in Rojava is under existential threat. This threat was aggravated by a controversial roller coaster of recent events. After a late Sunday night phone conversation … Keep reading »
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Ways of Seeing Children: The Facile Psychology of Capitalism
The majesty and burning of the child’s death…After the first death, there is no other. – Dylan Thomas The sniper who shot at Muhammad the childBeneath his father’s armWasn’t acting … Keep reading »
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Oppose Canada-Saudi arms deal
Open Letter to CLC President Hassan Yussuff on labour opposition to Canada-Saudi arms deal #StopSaudiArmsDeal 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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NATO: 70 Years Too Many
Since the Cold War, NATO has massively expanded territorially and embarked on a series of agressive wars. Keep reading »
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A More Dangerous World: The Nuclear Arms Race, the INF Treaty and Canada
On October 20, 2018, President Donald Trump announced that the United States would withdraw from the bilateral Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty (INF) with Russia. The INF was signed by former U.S. President Ronald Reagan and former USSR President Mikhail Gorbachev in December 1987. Keep reading »
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UN Office Calls for Probe Into Human Rights in Kashmir
A conference in Mississauga July 7, convened by the Kashmir Welfare Society, marked the first organized response in Canada to a United Nations report calling for an investigation of human … Keep reading »