Tristan Graham Settle your quarrels, come together, understand the reality of our situation, understand that fascism is already here, that people are already dying who could be saved, that generations more will live poor butchered half-lives if you fail to act. Do what must be done, discover your humanity and your love in revolution. George…
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Canada: Trudeau Bans the Unvaccinated from Leaving the Country and from Earning a Living
The Justice Centre today responded to the federal government announcement that unvaccinated Canadians will lose their right to move and travel freely within Canada, their right to leave Canada, and their right to earn a living and participate in society without discrimination. “The government is seeking to have 100% of Canadians injected with the experimental…
Africa’s COVID-19 Vaccine and the Scandal of the Centuries
Salimah Valiani, PhD African nations might have produced a patent free vaccine that would have benefitted the whole world. Instead they purchased patented vaccines which enriched pharmaceutical corporations outside of the continent. This article is based on an interview conducted with Professor Christian Happi on August 30, 2021, as well as reports and articles hyperlinked…
South Africa: Not Even the Dead
New Frame Our history of violence accumulates into the present as time slips by, and taints the future too. There must be decisive action against all political murders, old and new alike. South Africa is one of the most violent countries on the planet. We have the highest rate of rape recorded anywhere in the…
Racist Stereotypes About Africa in the US Media Have Long Driven the Rape and Plunder of the Continent
Jeremy Kuzmarov Black Lives Matter should promote Pan-African solidarity and denounce U.S. imperialism in Africa The Black Lives Matter movement has had a major impact in raising awareness about police brutality and the ongoing persecution of Black people in the United States but has been remarkably parochial in evading discussion of U.S. imperialism in Africa…
Why Canada Must Confront the Myths of its Imperial Past
Yves Engler The Emin Pasha Relief Expedition (1886-1889) emerging out of the dense forest onto the plains of Africa. Led in part by Canadian William Grant Stairs, the expedition helped Belgian King Leopold II conquer the resource-rich Katanga region of the Congo. Image from Wikimedia Commons. Troubling history of the Royal Military College and its…
‘Woke’ Imperialism, Women’s Liberation and Afghanistan
Sharon Black Afghanistan’s socialist Vice President Anahita Ratebzad, standing at right, speaks with a group of activists. Ratebzad said, “Privileges which women, by right, must have are equal education, job security, health services and free time to rear a healthy generation.” There is no greater hypocrisy than the deceitful lies of imperialist propaganda. One of…
Identity in a “Phygital” World: Vaccine “Passports” and Machine-Readable Humans
Elizabeth M. Renieris Eighteen months into the COVID-19 pandemic, a palpable restlessness has set in as people everywhere are desperate to re-enter the world and resume their lives. But in this new reality, even old and familiar activities have a new digital dimension. Fancy a European holiday? Be prepared to present a mobile app or…
Hunger Is the Story of Our Time
Vijay Prashad, Prasanth R., Zoe Alexandra Hunger continues to take lives across the world, every day. This global failure stems from the very nature of capitalism itself. In May 1998, Cuba’s President Fidel Castro attended the World Health Assembly in Geneva, Switzerland. This is an annual meeting held by the World Health Organization (WHO). Castro…
Pandemic Truths and Questions: The Meltdown of U.S. Global Leadership
Mison Verdad “To position the United States as the first country to handle the pandemic is a disregard for history and even for human ethics,” say scientists (Photo: Liu Rui / Global Times). There are multiple measurable data that demonstrate how the leadership of the United States is in meltdown. The strongest indicator is its…
From the Invasion of Panama (1989) to Recolonization (2009): Other Forms of Imperial Terrorism
Stella Calloni On December 20, 1989, over 27,000 soldiers, including Special Forces and former combatants from Vietnam, part of the Fleet and dozens of helicopters, in addition to testing new planes and weapons on the small, practically defenseless country, delivered a brutal message to Central America and the entire region. The recently created Panamanian Defense…
Canada is Waging an All-Front Legal War against Indigenous People
Justin Podur Canada is developing a new image: one of burning churches, toppling statues, and mass graves. There are thousands more unmarked graves, thousands more Indigenous children killed at residential schools, remaining to be unearthed. There can be no denying that this is Canada, and it has to change. But can Canada transform itself for the better? If the revelation…
