A caring world needs to share knowledge to end the Covid-19 pandemicGuest essay by Prabir Purkayastha, A Socialist In Canada, May 28, 2021. Originally published in Newsclick (India), May 15, 2021 A virus that mutates forever is a perpetual money-making machine for Big Pharma. Everyone else …
Heightened military tensions by NATO powers against Russia over false accusations of Russian threats against UkraineBy Roger Annis, A Socialist In Canada, April 23, 2021 (also published in Dissident Voice, Apr 23, 2021) A new round of disinformation and threats against Russia is being staged by the NATO military powers …
Degrowth: Socialism without growthBy Timothée Parrique and Giorgos Kallis, first published in Brave New Europe, Feb 9, 2021 (with an introduction by Roger Annis, further below) People appear to understand the abstract concept of “limitless”, but it is …
Coronavirus pandemic: To save the economy, save people firstBy Phillip Alvelda, Thomas Ferguson and John C. Mallery, published by the Institute for New Economic Thinking (New York), Nov 18, 2020 (13 page analysis) ‘This paper demonstrates not only that lockdowns do work but …
Vaccine nationalism and Canada’s negligent response to the SARS-CoV-2 pandemicThe following is a comment by Roger Annis submitted to The Tyee on Nov 24, 2020, in response to this article: Dr. Tam’s virus spread model is an air raid siren, by Crawford Kilian, The …
The ceasefire in Nagorno-Karabakh, brokered by Russia, should be welcomed by defenders of ArmeniaBy Roger Annis, Nov 15, 2020 (with postscripts, latest on Jan 14, 2021) The following is a letter by Roger Annis to the editor of Passage, a new online journal published in Toronto. The letter …
For a ‘Green New Deal’ without destructive growth: Jason Hickel responds to Michael Pollin and Noam Chomsky on degrowthA response to Pollin and Chomsky on degrowth: We need a Green New Deal without growth By Jason Hickel, published on his website Nov 2, 2020 (And see below a related essay by Jason Hickel …
Interview with journalist Aaron Maté: On Russiagate; false accusations against Syria of using chemical weapons; and the 2020 U.S. electionInterview broadcast on RT‘s ‘ICYMI’ program, with host Polly Boiko, Oct 23, 2020 (67-minute interview) Aaron Maté is an Izzy award-winning journalist in New York. He writes for The Grayzone and is the host of …
Julian Assange show trial in Britain: Why the U.S. government wants him silencedBy Ron Ridenour, published in Covert Action Magazine, Sept 7, 2020 (With an update below, containing analysis published in the final days of the Julian Assange extradition hearing. It ended on October 1; the presiding …
Pandemic, global warming emergency, rising threats against China and Russia: News and political analysis posted daily to A Socialist In CanadaSeptember 5, 2020 News and political analysis is posted daily to the three news headline pages on A Socialist In Canada: World, Canada, and Ecology. Much of the reporting on each of the three subject …
Defund the police, defund the militaryBy Nicolas Davies and Medea Benjamin, June 12, 2020 (The following essay appeared originally in CounterPunch, June 11, 2020. Nicolas Davies is author of Blood On Our Hands: the American Invasion and Destruction of Iraq …
Re-imagining a post-coronavirus future: New roots for a degrowth economyMay 15, 2020 The following is the text of an open letter initiated in Germany, circulating worldwide and signed by more than 1,100 academics, researchers and other advocates of ‘degrowth’. The open letter advocates a …
