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December 2016
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1 December 2016, by Chris Hedges
It’s Worse Than You Think
Widespread social unrest will ignite when Donald Trump’s base realizes it has been betrayed. I do not know when this will happen. But that it will happen is certain. Investments in the stocks of (…) -
1 December 2016, by Saib Bilaval
Hillary Clinton Is Not Simply A Symptom Of Our Corrupt System, She Is A Leading Cause
Since the results of the US Presidential election were announced, media focus has been on how Donald Trump won, rather than how Hillary lost. In the two days after the results, most of the media (…) -
1 December 2016, by Immanuel Wallerstein
"The U.S. Election: It’s over at last, or is it?”
Almost everyone is astonished at Trump’s victory. It is said that even Trump was astonished. And of course now everyone is explaining how it happened, although the explanations are different. And (…) -
1 December 2016, by Yanis Varoufakis
Trump Victory Comes With A Silver Lining For The World’s Progressives
The election of Donald Trump symbolises the demise of a remarkable era. It was a time when we saw the curious spectacle of a superpower, the US, growing stronger because of – rather than despite – (…) -
1 December 2016, by Martin Lukacs
Justin Trudeau’s Giant Corporate Giveaway
A privatization spree in Canada could cost regular people billions, erode democracy and undermine the fight against climate change While prime minister Justin Trudeau flogged our public assets (…) -
1 December 2016, by Matthew Behrens
Armed Drones Part of Trudeau’s New Military
A proposed Canadian Mission Sequence of Events takes readers through the log of a drone mission, with demonstrators referred to as “moving targets” and drones employed to “assist ground security (…) -
1 December 2016, by Jean Drèze
The New Abnormal In Kashmir
Continued repression is likely to intensify the alienation in Kashmir. It would be much wiser for the government to realise the futility of stonewalling and initiate unconditional talks with all (…) -
1 December 2016, by Antoine Khalili
Montreal Convergence Assembly on Rojava and the Kurdish Struggle for World Kobane Day
On Tuesday, November 1st 2016, World Kobane Day, activists and allies of the inspiring social movements in Rojava (the northern region of Syria) gathered in a large number of cities across the (…)