Julian Assange show trial resumes in Britain: Why the U.S. government wants him silencedBy Ron Ridenour, published in Covert Action Magazine, Sept 7, 2020 (with weblinks to related readings further below) Julian Assange has been held in isolation (23 hours per day) at Belmarsh high-security prison since he …
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 …
A call for a better world following the SARS-CoV-2 pandemicA Socialist In Canada, April 22, 2020 The statement re-published below has been issued by some 170 academics from eight universities in the Netherlands. The English translation of the statement is originally published on Climate …
News and analysis on A Socialist In Canada: World, Canada, ecologyMay 2020 News and political analysis is posted daily to the three news headline pages on A Socialist In Canada: World, Canada, and Ecology. The reporting is focused on the ‘SARS-CoV-2’ coronavirus pandemic (‘Covid-19’ illness) …
Essay by David Wallace-Wells: ‘America is broken’By David Wallace-Wells, re-published from New York Magazine (‘Daily Intelligencer’), Mar 13, 2020 What we are seeing right now is the collapse of civic authority and public trust at what is only the beginning of …
The imperialist war drive against Iran, its people and its governmentBy Roger Annis, published in A Socialist In Canada, Feb 4, 2020 (Read the article here in pdf format: The imperialist war drive against Iran) On January 3, 2020, the Trump-led U.S. government carried out the …
The world according to the Sustainable Development IndexThe Sustainable Development Index: Measuring the ecological efficiency of human development in the anthropocene, research paper by Jason Hickel, (University of London), published in Ecological Economics, January 2020 Read the paper (ten pages) here in …
What Christmas means, by Chris HedgesBy Chris Hedges, originally published in his weekly column in Truthdig, Dec 24, 2017 (see additional, related readings further below) In the early 1980s, I was in a refugee camp for Guatemalans who had fled …
Building socialism in Venezuela and the worldBy Roger Annis, A Socialist In Canada, Feb 24, 2019 In a new interview on Venezuela Analysis, Argentine philosopher Néstor Kohan examines the evolution of politics and imperialist intervention in Latin America (Confront imperialism and …
World news headlines on A Socialist In Canada, August 2020This is an archived newsroll page on A Socialist In Canada, consisting of headlines and weblinks, with occasional news summary and brief analysis, for the indicated month(s) and year. See the current, ‘World news’ website …
