War/military

01/02/25
Author: 
Kai Nagata
Eby and Trump

Jan. 30, 2025

Clean energy offers peace, prosperity and political sanity. Oil companies plan to steal it.

British Columbia faces an urgent choice: renewable power or LNG? Our government claims we can have both.

But the absurd reality is that British Columbians are paying billions to build new electrical infrastructure — namely the Site C dam and North Coast Transmission Line — for the benefit of foreign oil and gas companies.

02/01/25
Author: 
Alex Cosh
Graphic assembled by The Maple staff.
Jan. 2, 2025

An assessment of the Trudeau government’s complicity in Israel’s genocide in Gaza.

 
19/12/24
Author: 
ML Cavanaugh
Mark Esper, right, who was secretary of defense in the first Trump administration, said the president was upset by Black Lives Matter protests in 2020 and asked Mark Milley, left, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs, “Can’t you just shoot them, just shoot them in the legs or something?” (Oiliver Douliery / AFP via Getty Images)

Dec. 15, 2024

Every American in the armed forces, and any veteran who has served, hopes and prays for peace and stability under the recently reelected, incoming commander in chief. Political leanings are no factor here. We salute and serve because that’s who we are — even as our oaths may soon be tested as the next frontline in the war for America’s soul.

13/12/24
Author: 
Associated Press
Mark Rutte: ‘Our deterrence is good – for now. But it’s tomorrow I’m worried about.’ Photograph: Olivier Matthys/EPA

Dec. 13, 2024

Russian president wants to ‘wipe Ukraine off the map’ and could target other European countries next, says Mark Rutte

The Nato secretary general, Mark Rutte, has said that Vladimir Putin wants to “wipe Ukraine off the map” and could come after other parts of Europe next, as he urged Europeans to press their governments to increase defence spending.

13/12/24
Author: 
Jeffrey D. Sachs
A boy carries an unexploded Rocket Propelled Grenade (RPG) at the site of the previous evening's Israeli airstrike that targeted shipments of weapons that belonged to Syrian government forces in Qamishli, in mainly Kurdish northeastern Syria, on December 10, 2024. The UN special envoy for Syria called on Israel on December 10 to halt its military movements and bombardments in Syria, after a war monitor reported 300 air strikes since the fall of president Bashar al-Assad. (Photo by DELIL SOULEIMAN/ (Photo by

Dec. 12, 2024

American interference, at the behest of Netanyahu’s far-right Israel, has left the Middle East in ruins, with over a million dead and open wars raging in Libya, Sudan, Somalia, Lebanon, Syria, and Palestine, and with Iran on the brink of a nuclear arsenal.

In the famous lines of Tacitus, Roman historian, “To ravage, to slaughter, to usurp under false titles, they call empire; and where they make a desert, they call it peace.”

29/11/24
Author: 
Allison Morrill Chatrchyan
UN Environment Programme Executive Director Inger Andersen and the COP29 President-Designate, H.E. Mukhtar Babayev the COP29 President-Designate address the press. (Photo: UNEP/Ahmed Nayim Yussuf)

Nov. 19, 2024

[Original Title: Why I’m not in Baku—and how to prevent further co-optation of UN climate summits]

27/11/24
Author: 
Alvin Finkel
A detail from a painting by Jean Froissart of Richard II meeting with the rebels of the Peasants’ Revolt of 1381. Image via Wikimedia.

Nov. 21, 2024

A quick history of common people rising up to make gains for justice and equality.

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