Cuba, the Media, and the Challenge of Impartiality Salim Lamrani Monthly Review Press, 2015 Salim Lamrani is a French journalist and academic. His 2013 volume on Cuba and the West, The Economic War on Cuba (reviewed in CD 49:2, March/April 2015), performed a concise and careful demolition of pro-embargo myths,
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Canadian Dimension: The dehumanizing power of institutions
Human on the Inside: Unlocking the Truth About Canada’s Prisons Gary Garrison University of Regina Press, 2014 Writing prescriptively about incarceration is to wrestle with abstractions. Contained in each statistic – suicides, recidivism, inmates per cell – is a thousand voices, separate cockpits of despair or detachment or energy or
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The scrawled note that evaded the redactor’s pen – unlike so many Afghan detainee files – did more than to cast Kairos into the ever-growing pile of Canadian organizations and individuals that have been, to borrow Jason Kenney’s…
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