War/military

31/01/26
Author: 
Chauncey K. Robinson
People's World composite - Doomsday

Jan. 30, 2026

WASHINGTON—The popular 1984 song “2 Minutes to Midnight” by Iron Maiden—which highlighted humanity’s march toward nuclear war—needs an update to 85 seconds. Because that’s how close the world now stands to human-made global catastrophe, according to the experts behind the Doomsday Clock. The update might not be the catchiest tune, but the alarm has to be raised somehow, as scientists say the situation facing the world is more dangerous than ever. 

28/01/26
Author: 
Marc Fawcett-Atkinson
Businessman Jim Pattison returns to his seat after speaking during a Canada's Walk of Fame ceremony honouring him in Vancouver on Friday Feb. 15, 2019. File photo by: Darryl Dyck / The Canadian Press

Jan. 26, 2026

Activists are urging BC billionaire Jim Pattison — Canada's fifth-richest person — not to sell a warehouse his company owns in Virginia to US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) for use as a detention centre. 

Last Thursday, officials from Hanover County, VA said they had received a letter from the Department of Homeland Security, which is responsible for ICE, about purchasing the 17.6 hectare property, the Lewiston 95 Logistics Centre, "in support of ICE operations." 

24/01/26
Author: 
Peter Oborne
Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney speaks at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, on 20 January 2026 (Fabrice Coffrini/AFP)

Jan. 23, 2026

After failing to stand up for Gaza or Venezuela, the Canadian prime minister took umbrage when US imperialism hit home

ours before Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney’s call for a new world order in Davos, Switzerland, Israeli forces stormed Unrwa headquarters in occupied East Jerusalem.

09/01/26
Author: 
John Woodside Darius Snieckus
Art by Ata Ojani/Canada's National Observer

Jan. 7, 2026

The dramatic takeover of Venezuela and its oil industry is sparking more talk of pipelines and a fossil fuel bonanza in Canada. But climate experts, economists and others say don’t bet on it.

The geopolitical drama doesn’t change climate realities, energy forecasts showing oil’s decline or Indigenous legal rights that could block new projects, these observers note.

06/01/26
Author: 
Nathan Colquhoun
Naomi Klein \\ Yves Engler

Jan. 5, 2026

Naomi Klein’s silence on the disqualification of Yves Engler represents a betrayal of her intellectual legacy that protects a political dynasty at the expense of the radical left.

To Naomi Klein,

I am writing this as someone who has immersed himself in your work not as academic theory, but as a manual for survival and a lexicon for resistance. For decades, you have given us the language to name our oppressors and their tactics, and I'll be forever grateful.

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