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05/11/23
Author: 
John Woodside
Illustration by Ata Ojani/Canada's National Observer

Nov. 3, 2023

Nuclear proliferation experts are warning that 50 years of policy designed to limit the spread of nuclear weapons is unravelling as governments invest in certain small modular reactors that could be misused to build bombs.

The concerns are aimed at Moltex, a Saint John, N.B., nuclear startup building small modular reactors (SMRs) that will be powered with spent fuel from CANDU reactors. To make the fuel, Moltex plans to separate plutonium from uranium in CANDU waste and use the extracted plutonium to power new SMRs.

04/11/23
Author: 
George Monbiot
‘Rishi Sunak now seems to have discovered his purpose: trashing the planet on behalf of corporate power.’ Photograph: Peter Nicholls/AP

Oct. 31, 2023

When Rishi Sunak granted 27 new North Sea licences this week, he wasn’t thinking about the survival of the living world

Can you see it yet? The Earth systems horizon – the point at which our planetary systems tip into a new equilibrium, hostile to most lifeforms? I think we can. The sudden acceleration of environmental crises we have seen this year, coupled with the strategic uselessness of powerful governments, rushes us towards the point of no return.

30/10/23
Author: 
 Sam Gindin
Bidenomics

October 29, 2023  • 

“There’s something happening here
But what it is ain’t exactly clear.”

– “For What It’s Worth,” Buffalo Springfield.

22/10/23
Author: 
Kiley Price
A small herd of Woodland Caribou on the tundra, Mackenzie Mountains, Yukon, Canada. Credit: by DeAgostini/Getty Images.

Oct. 19, 2023

As new areas become suitable for planting, researchers predict that vast swaths of biodiversity will be at risk, particularly in northern regions and the tropics.

Climate change has the potential to restructure the world’s agricultural landscapes, making it possible to plant crops in places where they have never been viable historically. Within the next 40 years, these new growing regions could overlap with 7 percent of the world’s wilderness areas outside Antarctica, putting those ecosystems at risk, scientists reported Thursday. 

21/10/23
Author: 
The Rational National
Rashida Tlaib Gives Impassioned Plea For Peace | Leftist Mafia

Oct. 21, 2023

Democratic Rep. Rashida Tlaib passionately calls for a ceasefire. This is a clip from The Leftist Mafia, which streams live on this channel every Thursday at 8:30pm ET. Full episode: https://www.youtube.com/live/hSjW-rvS...

Watch here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hxTEJHYbqT4

21/10/23
Author: 
Omar Barghouti
‘Those who have failed to condemn the original and ongoing violence of oppression have no moral right to condemn illegal or immoral acts of violence that the oppressed may commit in resisting oppression.’ Photograph: APAImages/Shutterstock

Oct. 16, 2023

The most profound ethical obligation in this time of carnage is to act to end complicity

t times of carnage, herd-like agitation and tribal polarization, many may dismiss ethical principles as a nuisance or an intellectual luxury. I cannot and shall not. I desire nothing more than seeing an end to all violence in Palestine and everywhere else, and this is precisely why I am committed to struggling against the root causes of violence: oppression and injustice.

21/10/23
Author: 
Raffy Boudjikanian, Darren Major
Smoke rises after an Israeli airstrike in the Gaza Strip, as seen from southern Israel, Tuesday, Oct. 17, 2023. Israel has been striking targets throughout Gaza since a bloody, cross-border attack by Hamas militants killed over 1,400 and captured many Israelis on Oct. 7. (Ariel Schalit/The Associated Press)

Oct. 20, 2023

One former minister and several Parliamentary secretaries say Trudeau should advocate for a ceasefire

More than 30 MPs — 23 of them Liberals — have written a letter to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau calling on him to advocate for a ceasefire between Israel and Hamas.

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