Category: War/Peace
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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 »
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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 ‘One Democratic State Campaign’ for a Multicultural Democratic State in Palestine/Israel
Jeff Halper introduces the One Democratic State Campaign, a concept both democratic and just acknowledges the multicultural character and the collective rights of all the people living in the country. Keep reading »
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The Great March of Return and Israel’s Attack on Gaza: Canadian Opposition
Six statements by Canadian organizations condemning Israel’s violent response in Gaza against the Palestinian march of Return. Keep reading »
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Solidarity with the Great Return March in Gaza
The members of the Socialist Project wish to express solidarity with the Palestinian “Great Return March” in Gaza, in addition to the ongoing non-violent movement in the West Bank against … 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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The Geopolitics of the Kurds and the case of Rojava
How does the military cooperation of the Kurds in Rojava and Northern Syria with the USA, Russia and other forces affect their standing in the larger Syrian context? Keep reading »