Men walk along a street ravaged by Israeli bombing in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip on February 9, 2024. Photo by Mohammed Abed/AFP/Wikimedia Commons. On February 9, 2024, Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said that his army would advance into Rafah, the last remaining city in Gaza not occupied
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Canadian Dimension: The ‘no-state solution’ becomes more and more real as Israel’s permanent Nakba continues
Dozens of Palestinian captives are stripped down to their underwear and held by the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) in Gaza City, December 2023. Photo from War Reports/X. In 1948, the Syrian historian Constantin Zurayk used the Arabic word “nakba” (catastrophe) to refer to the forced removal of Palestinians from their
Continue readingCanadian Dimension: The everyday violence of life in occupied Palestine
Al-Jazeera correspondent Wael Dahdouh, centre, prays over the bodies of his wife, son, daughter, and grandson, killed in an Israeli airstrike on Nuisserat refugee camp, outside a hospital in Deir al Balah, south of the Gaza Strip. Driving along the Jordan River Valley in the Occupied Palestine Territory (OPT) of
Continue readingCanadian Dimension: The savagery of the war against the Palestinian people
Rubble of buildings hit by an Israeli airstrike, Gaza City, October 10, 2023. Photo by Hatem Moussa/AP. Who knows how many Palestinian civilians will be killed by the time this report is published? Among the bodies that cannot be taken to a hospital or a morgue, because there will be
Continue readingCanadian Dimension: What’s happening in Niger is far from a typical coup
On July 26, 2023, Niger’s presidential guard moved against the sitting president—Mohamed Bazoum—and conducted a coup d’état. A brief contest among the various armed forces in the country ended with all the branches agreeing to the removal of Bazoum and the creation of a military junta led by Presidential Guard
Continue readingCanadian Dimension: The World Bank and the BRICS Bank have new leaders and different outlooks
Russian President Vladimir Putin, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Brazilian President Dilma Rouseff, Chinese President Xi Jinping and South African President Jacob Zuma take a BRICS leaders family photo at the G-20 Leaders’ Summit in Brisbane, Australia. Photo courtesy the South African Government/Flickr. In late February 2023, US President Joe
Continue readingCanadian Dimension: Four straight years of non-stop street protest in Haiti
A man holds a weapon next to burning barricades during anti-government protests in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, February 14, 2021. Photo courtesy Catholic News Service. A cycle of protests began in Haiti in July 2018, and—despite the pandemic—has carried on since then. The core reason for the protest in 2018 was that
Continue readingCanadian Dimension: Speaking to Cuban doctors who heal the world
In 2004, Dr. José Armando Arronte Villamarín was posted to head a Cuban medical brigade in Namibia. Cuban medical personnel first came to southwest Africa in 1975 alongside Cuban soldiers; the soldiers had arrived there to assist the South West African People’s Organization (SWAPO) in the fight for the liberation
Continue readingCanadian Dimension: Agenda for the Global South After COVID-19
In 1974, the United Nations General Assembly passed a New International Economic Order (NIEO), which was driven by the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM). The resolution laid out a clear plan for the structural transformation of the world system, which was in the throes of a crisis at the time. However, the
Continue readingCanadian Dimension: Indian Government Going to War Against Its Own People
Narendra Modi, Prime Minister of India. Photo from Flickr. On December 13, the United Nations high commissioner for human rights released a powerful statement that criticized India’s new citizenship law. This “fundamentally discriminatory” Citizenship (Amendment) Act of 2019 would expedite citizenship for persecuted religious minorities from India’s neighboring countries. But
Continue readingCanadian Dimension: The IMF Is Utterly Indifferent to the Pain It’s Causing
Robert B. Zoellick, World Bank President (L) and Christine Lagarde, IMF Managing Director. Photo by Simone D. McCourtie/World Bank. Each year, the board of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) gathers at its headquarters in Washington, D.C. This year, the IMF will meet under the leadership of a new chief, Kristalina
Continue readingCanadian Dimension: Canada’s ‘Liberals’ Have a Disturbing Imperial Streak
Photo by Chrystia Freeland (Twitter) Canada’s embassy in Venezuela will—at the end of this month—close. The spur for this closure is an open attempt by Canada’s Justin Trudeau to overthrow Venezuela’s Nicolás Maduro. Canada is one of the leaders of the Lima Group, a network of countries that came together
Continue readingCanadian Dimension: Why Venezuela’s Election Matters—It Was Under Siege by U.S., Canadian and EU Influence
On May 20, half the people of Venezuela went to vote. They delivered a mandate to Nicolás Maduro, the 55-year-old successor to Hugo Chávez and the leader of the Chavista movement. Maduro won 68 percent of the vote. His closest challenger, Henri Falcón, who had been a Chavista until 2010,
Continue readingCanadian Dimension: By 2100, Refugees Would Be the Most Populous Country on Earth
Photo by Anthony Gale The UN Refugee Agency has announced the new figures for the world’s displaced: 65.9 million. That means that 65.9 million human beings live as refugees, asylum seekers or as internally displaced people. If the refugees formed a country, it would be the 21st largest state in
Continue readingCanadian Dimension: The Afghan toll
Photo by DVIDSHUB The U.S. has little to show for its long engagement in Afghanistan. And if the Taliban returns to power, it will be a major blow to U.S. prestige. Every contingency will be taken to prevent that outcome, even the destruction of Afghanistan. The American war in Afghanistan
Continue readingCanadian Dimension: The US-NATO Invasion of Libya Destroyed the Country Beyond All Recognition
A Libyan rebel celebrates in front of a tank belonging to loyalist forces • Photo by Patrick Baz/AFP On Friday, March 17, hundreds of Libyans came into Tripoli’s Martyrs’ Square. They wanted to make a simple statement: end the rule of militias. Since the NATO war of 2011, Libya has
Continue readingCanadian Dimension: When Will the US Confront Its Role in Fueling Terror Attacks Across the Planet?
Photo by DVIDSHUB The immensity of the tragedy of Iraq – the cause of great destabilization in West Asia and North Africa – has been utterly forgotten. It is easy to forget that the prime mover here is not Eastern culture or human nature, but a war driven by Washington,
Continue readingCanadian Dimension: Voters Just Delivered a Mandate to a Pack of Absolute Fiends and Monsters
Photo by Gage Skidmore ‘The old world is dying and the new world struggles to be born. Now is the time of monsters’, Antonio Gramsci. Donald J. Trump, the outsider billionaire, defeated Hillary R. Clinton, the insider politician, in a stunning upset for the US presidency. All polls and all
Continue readingCanadian Dimension: A Chill Wind From the North: the US Returns to Latin America
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Old familiar dangers lurk in the corners of Latin America. More than a decade of hope — enshrined in the experiments in Venezuela — now seems extinguished. The “pink tide” of electo…
Continue readingCanadian Dimension: Sanders, American Socialism and the Legacy of the Occupy Movement
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Four out of 10 people who went to participate in the Iowa Democratic Caucus told pollsters at the door that they identified themselves as socialists. It was perhaps this segment that gave Ber…
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