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…
Idi Amin served as the third president of Uganda from 1971 to 1979. Photo from Wikimedia Commomns. Following the fiftieth anniversary of President Idi Amin’s expulsion of South Asians from…
Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador. Photo by Eneas De Troya/Flickr. President of Mexico Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) is currently embroiled in an international dispute that has pitted his…
An organopónicos farm near Alamar, Cuba. Photo by Melanie K. Reed/Flickr. Canada’s current model of agriculture is failing. It is an unsustainable, pro-agribusiness, anti-smallholder model that has brought a steady…
Jeremy Corbyn, former Leader of the Labour Party, speaking at the 2018 Local Elections Launch in Trafford, Greater Manchester, March 22, 2018. Photo by Sophie Brown/Wikimedia Commons. Jeremy Corbyn is…
Saskatchewan Premier Tommy Douglas speaking at the opening of the University Hospital in Saskatoon, May 14, 1955. Photo courtesy Provincial Archives of Saskatchewan. In early July, Ottawa-based author and former…
Protest led by the Panama is Worth More Without Mining Movement in Panama City. Photo courtesy Radio Temblor. Since July 1, nationwide protests have rocked the Central American country of…
“Debwe,” led by Mushkiiki Nibi Kwe (Lindsey Lickers) with artists Leah Roberts, Maybella King Reynolds, and Shaneixqui Brown, forms part of the art installation Red Embers, now on display in…
Pedro Castillo, the president of Peru, speaks during a rally in Lima. Photo from Shutterstock. On July 7, 2022, Florida-based market research firm Americas Market Intelligence (AMI) released a report…
Image from Pixabay From July 3 to 5, the heads of states of 15 Caribbean countries gathered in Paramaribo, Suriname for the forty-third regular meeting of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM),…
Piles of refined potash are seen in a storage barn at the Nutrien Ltd. Cory potash facility in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan. Photo courtesy courtesy Nutrien. With commodity prices soaring as a…
Miners working underground at Acacia Mining’s North Mara site, Tanzania. Photo supplied by Acacia Mining. In May 2022, Ottawa-based researcher Ken Rubin obtained a collection of internal government emails detailing…
HMCS Winnipeg and sails past the Greater Victoria Shoreline en route to Hawaii with their embarked Royal Canadian Air Force CH-148 Cyclone helicopters for the Rim of the Pacific exercise…
A Fairy Creek land defender being carried off by RCMP officers. Photo by Arvin Singh. On April 29, 2022, the United Nations Committee for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD)…
Police in Ecuador’s capital, Quito, fire tear gas to disperse Indigenous protesters rallying against soaring fuel prices and living costs, June 2022. Photo by Ivan Alvarado. Since mid-June, protests have…
A LAV III participates in a NATO training mission. Photo courtesy the 32nd Canadian Brigade Group/Flickr. Recently released data quantifying Canada’s 2021 exports of military goods mark the continuation of…
Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro delivers a press conference, June 14, 2022. Photo from Twitter. Since June 7, Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro has been engaged in a so-called “Eurasian Tour” aimed…
