Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva greets supporters, October 19, 2022. Photo by Ricardo Stuckert/Twitter. Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva’s victory in Brazil’s October 30 presidential vote is worth celebrating. Indeed,…
The Canadian Surface Combatant project will replace both the Iroquois-class destroyers and the Halifax-class multi-role patrol frigates. Image courtesy Public Services and Procurement Canada. At this point, we should be…
Thousands take part in the Every Child Matters march in Toronto on July 1, 2021. Photo by Michael Swan/Flickr. On October 24, the Canadian Human Rights Tribunal (CHRT), the federal…
Climate and social justice advocate Anjali Appadurai was disqualified from running for the BC NDP leadership on October 19. Image courtesy Anjali For BC NDP Leader/Facebook. In British Columbia, the…
US Marines patrol the streets of Port-au-Prince, March 9, 2004. Photo from Wikimedia Commons. There is something astonishingly shameless about the way the global community treats Haiti. Its former colonizer,…
The world’s longest conveyor belt in Boucraa, a Moroccan controlled region of Western Sahara. Photo from Reddit. When it comes to Western Sahara, the West’s collective silence can be called…
This file photograph shows Thomas Sankara as he reviews troops in a street of Ouagadougou, during celebrations of the second anniversary of the Burkina Faso’s revolution. Photo by Daniel Lane/AP.…
Photo by Cliff Owen/IMF/Flickr On June 26, 2022, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau met with Zambian President Hakainde Hichilema. According to the prime minister’s office, the two leaders discussed the “close…
On September 18, Cuban citizens abroad voted in a popular referendum on the country’s proposed Families Code, a comprehensive revamp of social policy that includes some of the world’s most…
Lester Pearson at Germany’s accession to NATO, 1955. Photo courtesy NATO. In August 1968, the World Bank assembled a team of “stature and experience” to study the impact of twenty…
Colombian President Gustavo Petro at his inauguration on August 7, 2022. Photo courtesy USAID/Flickr. The progressive Colombian government of Gustavo Petro is drafting legislation that, if enacted, will require mining…
A large farm growing a variety of foods in Vietnam. Photo by Dennis Jarvis/Wikimedia Commons. Tiny Engines of Abundance: A History of Peasant Productivity and Repression Jim Handy Fernwood, 2022…
Queen Elizabeth II departing Australia in 1973, farewelled by then Prime Minister Gough Whitlam. Photo courtesy the National Archives of Australia. In Canada and throughout the Western world, the fêting…
Mourners attend a vigil for the victims of the Marikana massacre. Photo by Andreas Georghiou/Flickr. On August 16, 2012, the South African Police Service (SAPS) opened fire on striking miners…
Degrowth-Conference 2018 in Malmö, Sweden. Photo by Cindy Kohtala/Flickr. There is no time left. Entire regions of the Earth’s surface bake at regular intervals, killing thousands in brutal and now-routine…
Leonidas Iza Salazar, President of Ecuador’s Indigenous umbrella organization CONAIE, during nationwide protests in June 2022. Photo by Nico Kingman/Amazon Frontlines. This June, Indigenous-led protests erupted across Ecuador in rejection…
School for street working children, Mazar-e-Shariff, Afghanistan. Photo from Flickr. Since the Biden administration stole $7 billion from the Afghan central bank in February 2022, the United Nations has reported…
Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu pose for photographers at the Western Wall in Jerusalem’s Old City. Photo by Alan Santos/Planalto Palace. Across Latin America, the…
Barrick Gold’s Pueblo Viejo mine in the Dominican Republic. Photo courtesy Barrick Gold. In August 2022, the Canadian Mining Journal—a reliably pro-corporate industry magazine—published its list of Canada’s top 40…
Colombian President Gustavo Petro, left, and Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro. Photos courtesy Telesur. Colombia and Venezuela are two countries with unbreakable geographical, historical, and cultural ties. Indeed, they were once…
