Rosemary Frei Darlington has been poised to produce about 10 kilograms of radioactive plutonium-238 a year as fuel for spacecraft in NASA’s mushrooming space pipeline. The 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 mission added momentum to the new push to go farther into outer space than humans have ever gone before. Ontario’s nuclear industry could receive…
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Communiqué from Human Rights Organizations & Social Movements Against the Implementation of the Inter-American Treaty of Reciprocal Assistance (TIAR) Against Venezuela
On September 11, 2019, the Permanent Council of the Organization of American States (OAS) approved the validity and application of the Inter-American Treaty of Reciprocal Assistance (TIAR) to the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela. The express objective of this action is to increase the economic blockade against Venezuela, as well as to generate the legal and…
Mexico: Mining, Murder, and Impunity
Katarina Sabados A memorial to Mariano Abarca Roblero. 2010. (Credit: Dawn Paley) A Mexican activist’s family has been looking for answers for a decade, even in Canadian courts. In a small town in southern Mexico, a public square is decorated with the bust of Mariano Abarca Roblero, a beloved father whose violent death remains unsolved….
USMCA Pits Rural People in Each Country Against One Another
Numerous sections of the [US-Mexico-Canada] agreement propose trade policy changes that will worsen the social, economic, and environmental crises facing rural communities across North America. Many of problem areas in the agreement include: the privileging of corporate interests over those of laborers and family farmers; the focused attempt to attack Mexico’s ability to protect its…
Canada Hires Hitman to Overthrow Venezuelan Government
Yves Engler Meet the hired gun Ottawa is using to overthrow the Venezuelan government. The brazenness of Ottawa’s intervention in the South American country’s affairs is remarkable. Recently Global Affairs Canada tendered a contract for an individual to coordinate its bid to oust President Nicolás Maduro. According to buyandsell.gc.ca, the Special Advisor on Venezuela needs…
“Who’s Land?” The Trials and Tribulations of Territorial Acknowledgement
Rowland “Ena͞emaehkiw” Keshena Robinson During the autumn of 2016, in October, my sister and I, both of us Indigenous Ph.D. students in philosophy and sociology respectively, attended a conference held at St. Paul’s University College, an affiliate of the University of Waterloo, in Ontario, entitled Decolonizing Education/Integrating Knowledges. The summit was part of a broader…
North American, European Public: Wake Up!
Andre Vltchek Year after year, month after month, I see two sides of the world; two extremes which are getting more and more disconnected. I see great cities like Homs in Syria, reduced to horrifying ruins. I see Kabul and Jalalabad in Afghanistan, fragmented by enormous concrete walls intended to protect NATO occupation armies and…
The Global Waste Trade
Varkey The landfills used for burying electronic waste result in lead seeping into the ground and eventually into the local water supply. The dumping of first world waste has formed a billion dollar global industry that is directly linked to arms trafficking and money laundering. Third world workers, who lack essential equipment needed for working…
The West: Full Spectrum Dementia
Stephen Sefton “The American fascist would prefer not to use violence. His method is to poison the channels of public information.” Henry Wallace, New York Times, April 9th 1944. Journalism has never been free of propaganda. News has always been produced and marketed like any other commodity, satisfying and shaping consumers’ opinions, loyalties and taste….
Tricontinental Briefing No 1: Canadian Mining Companies
Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research Introduction Of the world’s mining companies, 60% are headquartered in Canada. In February 2019, 216 companies were listed on the Toronto Stock Exchange (TSX) and 961 companies were listed on the TSX-Venture Exchange (TSXV). Mining accounts for 53% of the composite index. This kind of industry dominance suggests that investors…
Conference: The West’s War on Venezuela
April 24, 2019: Canada’s decision to seek regime change in Venezuela along with the US and other Western countries, the anti-Maduro bias prevailing in the mainstream Canadian and western news media and the potential for the confrontation between western powers and others, such as Russia and China, are the key issues that were discussed in…
Growing Resistance to NATO in the Small Canadian City of Regina
Andre Vltchek For Ed Lehman, ‘peace’ is not just a pretty word or a slogan, and he is not the only one in Regina, who think this way. He believes that “Today’s progressives need to unite the fight for peace with the fight for social and economic advance with the fight against climate crisis and…
