Delusions and paranoia in NATOland
At NATO’s 75th Anniversary Summit in Washington, DC, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau pledged to increase Canada’s military spending to hit NATO’s defence spending target by 2032. Photo courtesy Justin Trudeau/X.…
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Israel’s drone age
Unmanned aerial vehicle in Israeli military service. Photo by the Israel Defense Forces/Wikimedia Commons. On January 3, 2020, Iranian commander Qassem Soleimani was assassinated by a US-operated drone attack in…
Broad front or false front?
Promotional artwork for the Rage Against the War Machine rally, held at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, DC on February 19, 2022. On February 19, no fewer than 1,000 protestors…
What was the Freedom Convoy?
Trucks in downtown Ottawa during the Freedom Convoy protest. Photo by Maksim Sokolov/Wikimedia Commons. It’s been a dizzying few weeks in Canadian politics. As the Emergencies Act is revoked, the…
The perils of left populism
Downtown Ottawa during the Freedom Convoy protest. Photo courtesy Freedom Convoy 2022/Facebook. This article is a response to “What the Left can learn from the ‘Freedom Convoy’,” by Emma Jackson,…
Why vote Communist?
A vote for the Communist Party of Canada is not going to send them to parliament anytime soon, but it will expand the political imaginary of this election, writes CPC…
Trump’s 1776 Commission: Cultural renewal by political repression
President Donald Trump speaks during a Constitution Day speech in which he said he would sign an executive order promoting “patriotic education,” September 17, 2020. Photo by Joyce N. Boghosian/The…
American Dharma does the devil’s work too well
American Dharma Errol Morris Utopia, 2019 Perhaps American Dharma, the new feature-length interview between filmmaker Errol Morris and right-wing propagandist Stephen Bannon, should never have been made. Across the world,…
CMHR: The Unbearable Lightness of Inclusion
Graphic by Krishna Lalbihaire. Few buildings in Winnipeg, or Canada, have been as contested prior to their construction, let alone their opening, as the Canadian Museum for Human Rights. Plagued…