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24/11/24
Author: 
Jason Wilson
Pete Hegseth speaks to the media at the capitol in Washington DC on 21 November 2024. Photograph: Aaron Schwartz/EPA

Nov. 22, 2024

Defense secretary pick said in 2020 that should Democrats win election the military ‘will be forced to make a choice’

Pete Hegseth, Donald Trump’s pick for defense secretary, has written in a book that he could imagine a scenario in which the US armed forces would be used violently in American domestic politics.

Hegseth, a former elite soldier turned rightwing Fox television personality, is Trump’s choice to lead the Pentagon which controls the gigantic American military – by far the largest armed force in the world.

23/11/24
Author: 
Leadnow

Nov. 23, 2024

19/11/24
Author: 
Stéphane Leman-Langlois, Aurélie Campana and Samuel Tanner
The COVID-19 pandemic further served as a platform to peddle globalist conspiracy theories and cultivate contempt for governments, news media, science, racialized people and any form of speech that might contradict the white supremacist discourse of the far right. Photo by Stepan_ via Wikipedia, Creative Commons licensed.

Nov. 19, 2024

Our new book, ‘The Great Right North,’ takes a close look at how extremism is progressing in our national discourse.

In early 2022, thousands of Canadians descended on Ottawa as part of the so-called “Freedom Convoy” in protest of the government’s pandemic-related restrictions. Many were opposed to the government’s power to impose lockdowns, masking and vaccine mandates.

Wittingly or not, they were also taking part in a vast communications effort from various groups and individuals on the far right.

18/11/24
Author: 
The Breach
Screenshot:  UN expert slams Canada’s complicity in Gaza assault

Nov 13, 2024 

UN expert slams Canada’s complicity in Gaza assault

Francesca Albanese, the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the Occupied Palestinian Territories, sits down with Desmond Cole to discuss Canada’s ‘crystal clear’ complicity in the Israeli destruction of Gaza and the ‘hope that remains in this darkness.’

Watch here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tR9_cWkt-HA

13/11/24
Author: 
Raphael Fischler
The rear of 114-120 Elizabeth St., a dilapidated building used as housing in Toronto. Photo by Arthur Goss via Flickr, Creative Commons licensed.

Nov. 11, 2024

In North America, we chose right-wing solutions that haven’t worked. What we need to do instead.

Housing is an important political issue. Politicians and experts now talk about it as a major crisis that could threaten our economic and social well-being. But this is nothing new. Another housing crisis raged at the beginning of the 20th century.

11/11/24
Author: 
Michael Harris
Cartoon by Greg Perry.

Nov. 6, 2024

Donald Trump’s victory provides a vivid snapshot of what really mattered to most US voters.

11/11/24
Author: 
Bernie Sanders
Supporters of Kamala Harris and Donald Trump campaigned outside a polling place in McAllen, Texas, on Nov. 5.Joel Martinez/Associated Press

Nov. 10, 2024

They can’t represent both.

The results of the 2024 election have confirmed a reality that is too frequently denied by Democratic Party leaders and strategists: The American working class is angry — and for good reason.

They want to know why the very rich are getting much richer, and the CEOs of major corporations make almost 300 times more than their average employees, while weekly wages remain stagnant and 60 percent of Americans live paycheck to paycheck.

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