Still Hopeful: Lessons from a Lifetime of Activism Maude Barlow ECW Press, 2022 Hope is a multi-faceted phenomenon. In some situations, it can be vital in coping with, and improving on, an unhealthy status quo. On the other hand, it can lead us to be passive in times when decisive
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Canadian Dimension: Why the ‘New Corporation’ is bad news for democracy
The New Corporation: How “Good” Corporations Are Bad for Democracy Joel Bakan Allen Lane, 2020 Joel Bakan begins his latest book, The New Corporation, by noting that, in 2019, “…the Business Roundtable, led by JPMorgan Chase’s Jamie Dimon and composed of more than two hundred of America’s top CEOs, heralded
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Itineraries: An Intellectual Odyssey Philip Resnick Ronsdale Press, 2020 Although Philip Resnick did not run into any cyclopses in his life’s journey, the tale that he recounts is as fascinating as that of Odysseus. Part of the reason is that, like Homer’s Odyssey, his writing is also quite poetic, both
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Social Ecology and the Right to the City: Towards Ecological and Democratic Cities Edited by Federico Venturini, Emet Değirmenci and Inés Morales Bernardos Black Rose Books, 2019 This collection, published last year by Black Rose Books, is based on the theme of a conference held in Greece in 2017—“The Right
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Social Ecology and the Right to the City: Towards Ecological and Democratic Cities Edited by Federico Venturini, Emet Değirmenci and Inés Morales Bernardos Black Rose Books, 2019 This collection, published last year by Black Rose Books, is based on the theme of a conference held in Greece in 2017—“The Right
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The mass media tend to paint a simplistic, “good guys versus bad guys” picture of complex events in other countries, such as Iraq, Afghanistan, Venezuela and Iran. This has also been the case regarding the crisis in the Ukraine, where the story is often presented as a one-sided demonization of
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