The Base Heather Stroud
Truth Before Reconciliation: Confronting Residential School Denialism Sean Carleton and Niigaanwewidam James Sinclair (Eds)
Wired for Authoritarianism: American Oligarchies and How to Re-Wire America for the People Charles Derber
The Political Economy of Dissent Peter Blunt
Obsolete: The AI Industry’s Trillion Dollar Race to Replace You–and How to Stop It Garrison Lovely
What I Saw in Ukraine: 2015-2022: Diary of an International Observer Benoit Paré
At the Lost and Found: Personal & Political Dispatches of Resistance and Hope Edward Curtin
Class War, Then and Now: Essays toward a New Left Chris Wright
America's Hijacked Peace Dividend: Long Overdue and Immediately Payable John Rachel
Mind Abuse: Media Violence and Its Threat to Democracy Rose Dyson
This visual summarizes the key findings of UN Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese’s new report, “Truth Under the Rubble: Media in the Time of Genocide.” The report examines how the targeting and silencing of Palestinian journalists, the construction of incitement and denial in Israeli media, restrictions on information, dehumanizing narratives, and biased international media coverage have enabled the ongoing genocide in Gaza, as well as human rights violations and ethnic cleansing in the occupied West Bank. Describing this systematic assault on journalism and the public’s right to information as “mediacide,” Albanese highlights how the suppression and elimination of Palestinian voices …
Does a single Canadian MP seek peace, or do they all want Ukraine wrecked?
On Saturday, the Financial Times reported on a 2023 proposal to end the devastating war by exchanging land for neutrality. Vladimir Putin endorsed a plan to withdraw troops from most of the four oblasts Russia declared “annexed” — to positions held before the February 2022 invasion — in exchange for Kyiv dropping its bid for NATO membership. As per the …
The phrase “socialism or barbarism” – which I sometimes paraphrase as “AI or barbarism” – is a deliberate provocation. I do not mean AI at any price.
Imagine waking up tomorrow and discovering that the machine on your desk can answer your emails, write music, design advertisements, create videos and even perform parts of the job for which you spent years preparing. Now imagine millions of people waking up to the same discovery. This is no longer science fiction. AI (artificial intelligence) has already entered our lives. The question is no longer whether it will change society. The question …
The persistent violence from Israeli settlers against Palestinians in the occupied territories of the West Bank has become such common fare it risks becoming banal. Unfortunately, it takes events such as those befalling veteran photojournalist Heidi Levine of The Washington Post and European diplomats to return the attention to something that is not only grotesque but programmatic.
On October 16, while covering the annual olive harvest in the West Bank Levine, fellow journalists and a group of Palestinians became the ripe targets of Israeli settlers. The auguries of violence were already present: over the course of 24 days since the …
The mayor of Canada’s most Jewish municipality plead guilty to a complaint regarding his racist, genocidal statements. Hampstead mayor Jeremy Levi offers a fascinating window into supremacism masquerading as victimhood.
During a hearing before the Quebec Chartered Accountants’ disciplinary body on Thursday Levi plead guilty to professional misconduct. The registered accountant agreed to pay $30,000, some legal costs and do a mandatory training course.
Quite active on X until stopping a year ago, Levi is also facing an outstanding defamation suit brought against him by Montreal city councillor Alex Norris. Levi spuriously labeled …
Since I was a little boy in Athens, I learned at school to cherish two words: integrity and parrhesia – the courage to speak frankly. Secretary of State Marco Rubio stood at the Pnyx and presented ancient Greece as the birthplace of a civilization defined by excellence, ambition, duty and the pursuit of truth. Interesting. He also presented individualism and nationalism as fundamental characteristics of ancient Greek civilization. But that is a selective reading of a far more complex history.
What kind of West was Rubio talking about in Athens, standing before the Parthenon in all its marble splendor? …
Canada-EU Summit, Montreal, October 29-30
Global Affairs Canada has announced that the Canada-EU Summit will take place in Montréal on October 29-30, 2026. Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney will host European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen and European Council President António Costa.
Global Affairs informs that Carney and EU leaders will meet to advance the Canada-EU Strategic Partnership, trade and economic security, defence and security cooperation, critical minerals, technology and the digital sphere. The meeting also intends to launch or define their strategic partnership framework called “The Canada-EU Alliance for the Future.”
None of this serves …
Remarks at #NoWar2026
Welcome to #NoWar2026 Beyond Borders. Welcome to people from the other sides of countless borders from where I am — borders often effortlessly and thoughtlessly crossed by live images and audio of us, yet sometimes absurdly turned into barriers to some of our physical bodies — turned into such absurdities at enormous financial and environmental and cultural costs. Might there be another way, slightly or radically different from the current way? This will be our topic for these three days.
Thank you to …
Joseph Kishore ran as the Socialist Equality Party presidential candidate in the 2020 and 2024 United States presidential elections -- and he spends an hour with Finding Fringe: Voices from the Edge!
Kishore:
Derived from the Sanskrit word kiśora (किशोर), the term carries connotations of freshness, vitality, and early life potential.…
Orientation
Why socialists should care
Why should Marxist materialists give a hoot about how consciousness arose from matter? After all, aren’t there more pressing issues to consider? I want to remind these skeptics that in their early years Marx and Engels were interested in this subject. They read Hegel’s great work, the Phenomenology of Spirit with enthusiasm. I also want to remind them that Engels was not shy about insisting that dialectics needed to include events that occurred in prehuman nature. Unfortunately, many Marxists lost interest in the subject of the …
The very public execution of my professorship and reputation continues in Norway. Today’s media article about me makes three claims that are misleading and/or false.
1) The article dismisses my claim that my research is being criminalized as the journalists merely cite the dismissive comments from the university – no arguments are apparently required.
It is not possible for an academic anymore to analyse the policies of rival powers by assessing their security concerns, as it will be smeared by the government, the government’s NGOs and the media as “legitimizing” the enemy and supporting their narratives. The current Defence Minister singled me …
The Russian president has ridiculed claims that Moscow poses a threat, arguing that neither Russia nor the people of Europe want war with each other
Shen Yaoyi (China), The Red Army conquers the Luding Bridge from the album The Red Ribbon on the Earth, 1993.
This month, ninety years ago, the Long March came to an end. On 22 October 1936, at Huining and Jiangtaibao, on the plateau where Gansu meets Shaanxi, the First, Second, and Fourth Front Armies of the Red Army joined forces. The last of the columns had arrived. After two years of fighting and walking – traversing more than nine thousand kilometres, eighteen mountain ranges, twenty-four rivers, pursued from the air and by …
Letters published this week by Time magazine and republished in the Israeli newspaper Haaretz show Israel facilitated the funding of Hamas to the tune of billions of dollars. It was done using Qatar as an intermediary in the years prior to October 7th, 2023.
“A letter from Qatar’s Foreign Ministry… says Qatar will transfer payments of $300 each to the accounts of 20,000 beneficiaries, as agreed between a senior Qatari official and the head of COGAT’s Civil Department [a department within the …
If you promote Jewish supremacy, you can aggressively deny genocide and still counsel government on “rights, equality and inclusion”. The latest example of Jewish exceptionalism highlights left anti-Palestinianism.
On Monday, Canadians for Justice and Peace in the Middle East put out an action alert critical of Marc Gold’s membership on the government’s nine-member Advisory Council on Rights, Equality and Inclusion. Last month the former senator signed an open letter calling it a “lie” that deserves “revulsion” and “contempt” to say Israel has committed genocide in …
The Trump administration’s recent assault on the International Criminal Court (ICC) may be an abominable disgrace, but there’s no reason to panic—this is an American tradition. Washington has been treating international law like an inconvenient parking regulation for decades. The only novelty is how openly we’re admitting it.
Secretary of State Marco Rubio recently announced that “President Trump will never allow the International Criminal Court to prosecute Americans,” explaining that Washington would “ban transactions with this rogue court, cutting off their resources and crippling their ability to operate against us.” Rubio declared that Americans “are not subject to the …
It was bound to come. With the relentless, remorseless march of artificial intelligence (AI) chatbots pullulating the internet and snatching the attention and mindless devotion of unwitting users, the legal suit is becoming common fare. These initially lay in the field of copyright breaches and intellectual property violations. Attention is now turning to matters of safety and misrepresentation. In the United States, the states of Iowa, Kansas, Nebraska, West Virginia, Arkansas, Arizona, Idaho and Montana have coordinated lawsuits alleging violations of consumer protection laws and common law precedents.
This follows in the steps of Florida’s Attorney General, Jame Uthmeier, who …
Perhaps one of the most revealing developments of our time is the growing number of young people questioning the priorities of the societies in which they live.
#ClimateStrike #NYC 09 2019 (Image by David Andersson)
In France, a wave of student protests has spread across the country, beginning with demands for better educational conditions and developing into a broader challenge to government priorities. Students are demanding sufficient teachers, properly maintained buildings, modern technological equipment, and adequate public funding.
But their concerns go beyond education. Speaking to NPR, French student Emile Varsta Kim questioned the priorities of political leaders: “They don’t invest in us. We are the future.” (NPR, October 6, 2026)
His words capture a …
Livestreamed Genocide -- Reconfiguring the Mediatization of War: Palestinian Citizen Journalism and Instagram Publics
Listen to the interview here: KYAQ to be aired …
This August, Nodutdol – a diaspora Korean anti-imperialist organisation based in the United States – brought a delegation of 26 organisers representing anti-war and progressive organisations from the United States, Hawai’i, Guåhan (Guam), Puerto Rico, the Philippines, and India to the Republic of Korea (ROK).
This delegation was named the Jaju Solidarity Brigade – Jaju (자주) roughly translates to sovereignty, independence, or self-reliance. The brigade stood alongside Korean mass movements under the banner of ‘US Out of Korea’ – the slogan for this year’s National Liberation Day (15 …
What is the explanation for the brainwashing of so many Americans when it involves the nefarious, unspeakable deeds of their government? Why are so many so easily duped time and again? Why is there such a vast ignorance of the truth behind national and international affairs?
I would suggest that the answer lies not just with the specific issues themselves and the lies and propaganda used to befuddle people, but with the cultural and social background assumptions that frame their thinking. The latter serves to cut to the root of people’s belief …
This proposed settlement—designed to help end a conflict that has cost hundreds of thousands of lives and carries a continuing risk of confrontation—addresses the causes of the war rather than only its symptoms.
The war in Ukraine can be ended permanently on terms that protect Ukraine’s statehood, meet Russia’s security concerns, and lay the foundation for a durable European security order. As another round of negotiations gears up in Norway, I propose a settlement concluded as a single package, signed by Ukraine and Russia, adopted by a vote of the United Nations Security …
It is not a good time to be a politician. Prices are rising with extortionate speed. Foolish wars continue being waged. The banksters are in clover. Corporate oligarchies are humming along. The thieves in artificial intelligence are gloating about an end of civilisation they are happy to exploit for commercial reasons. But even in these situations there are certain figures who have distinguished themselves with quiet tenacity. They should be bottled and perfumed for posterity.
Helen Haines, the federal Member for the rural Victorian seat of Indi, baffled psephologists with her electoral victory in 2019, becoming the first independent to …
The claim that Israel has a ‘right’ to exist is not what it seems. It’s really the diabolical claim that Israel has a right to commit apartheid, ethnic cleansing and genocide against Palestinians
1. States exist. Some 200 of them.
2. States are the political arrangements in which a people express their self-determination. That arrangement can and does change.
3. States enjoy rights, but only against each other. For example, they have the right not to face unprovoked aggression from another state.
4. No state has some enduring, abstract “right” to exist. Otherwise, bad ones like apartheid South Africa would be unreformable.
5. Peoples, by contrast, do have a right to exist. That’s why states that commit apartheid, ethnic cleansing, and genocide are so gravely violating international law. Because they are violating a people’s right to exist….
I want the US, EU, and UK to look into what is happening in Ukraine and share their findings with us.
Every day I read articles about how important it is to help Kyiv and how heroically we sponsor it. Yet, at the same time, I see reports of political scandals, corruption investigations, high-ranking officials fleeing after being caught stealing, criticism of Zelensky by his former associates, and endless internal political infighting. The other day I saw news that yet …
Despite establishment and media hostility, Canada’s Palestinian solidarity movement has shown its strength in recent days. Here are ten gains:
In the Vancouver elections, the pro-genocide incumbent mayor was defeated on Saturday. The pro-Palestinian left party COPE won all four of their council seats, as well as school and parks board seats. Sean Orr, who played a central role in taking down anti-Palestinian provincial minister Selena …
It is as if a strange, toxic ailment has taken over European leaders today with regard to the Ukraine-Russia conflict. It is as if the EU has succumbed to an inexplicable anti-Russian fever, driving its leadership to accept an irrationality, a total illogic of reason, in joining the Ukrainian government in its death-defying spiral of succeeding in its futile quest to defeat Russia.
The Ukraine – Russia conflict is in its fifth year and promises to expand as the Europeans are threatening to increase their support on behalf of Ukraine – except the truth is that the Europeans have little to …
Several are dead, and dozens are injured in a horrific accident at a military base in Alberta. The incident should spark a debate about funding levels and the role of Canada’s armed forces.
According to initial reports, four soldiers were killed in a training mishap that sparked a fire at CFB Wainwright on Saturday. Several dozen remain in hospital in one of the worst military training tragedies in …
The Language of Extermination
The 80-minute documentary NAZA, directed by Yuval Abraham and Rachel Szor, is chastening. It examines the conduct of the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) during its ferocious, unremitting war in Gaza, drawing upon the interviews of 24 anonymised military and intelligence personnel. The interviews were filmed on Tel Aviv rooftops at night, with profiles and voices appropriately altered. The name of the documentary draws on a Hebrew acronym for nezek agavi or collateral damage, an obscene term used when counting the estimated number of civilians who will perish in a military strike. Last month, the film won the Special Jury Prize …
