After more than two weeks of chaotic protest, this week, the Canadian government pushed back. On Tuesday, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau invoked the country’s … How Facebook twisted Canada’s trucker convoy into an international movementRead more
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We need more public intellectuals(male and female)
Elif Shafak On populism and other threats to democracy
The Israeli Communist Party is at a crossroads
One-hundred years after it set down roots between the Jordan River and the Mediterranean Sea, the Communist movement in Israel, once the leading current of … The Israeli Communist Party is at a crossroadsRead more
Mother said, we are on the side of the underdog
John Pilger Unleashed Part 2 Global Empire – Fighting Back
Consciousness in a very dangerous time
John Pilger Unleashed Part 1 Global Empire – Fighting Back
Economics is the language in which politics is narrated
Yanis Varoufakis Yanis Belfast Event
Africa’s Che Guevara
On August 4, 1983, Marxist revolutionary Thomas Isidore Noël Sankara came to power in the French Upper Volta (present-day Burkina Faso). A fighter for freedom … Africa’s Che GuevaraRead more
Heeding James Joyce’s ‘Ulysses’
One hundred years ago this week, Sylvia Beach, who ran the bookstore Shakespeare and Company on 12 rue de l’Odéon in Paris and nurtured a … Heeding James Joyce’s ‘Ulysses’Read more