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Voices Against War
Read Parts 1 and 2. The sooner the war in Ukraine is over, the sooner the U.S. and Russia can get down to the business of preserving arms control as a viable part of the relationship between the two nations. By seeking to extend the Ukraine conflict, however, the U.S. is in effect engaging in […]
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India’s Education Market: The Next Neo-Colonial Frontier
Over the last week or so, Australian politicians and representatives of the university sector got busy pressing flesh in India, hoping to open avenues that have largely remained aspirational. It was timed to coincide with G20 talks in New Delhi, which has seen a flurry of contentious meetings traversing security, economics and education, all taking […]
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Ron DeSantis: Dogmatist Extraordinaire
Certainty closes the minds of those possessing the Truth from on High. These darlings of the gods may even feel sorry for those benighted Unfortunates with the temerity of disagreeing with them and try to persuade them to see reason to save them from themselves. As the blood-stained pages of history amply attest, dogmatists may […]
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Saving Fauci’s Life?
There’s a disturbing dynamic that occurs on every Manhattan street corner — virtually every minute of every day. By simply watching the typical New York City pedestrian as they reach the corner at a red light, you get a pretty good idea of what it’s like to deal with an overcrowded, rancorous metropolitan area on […]
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Green Death: Love in a Time of Green Pornography
Source: Oxford Learner’s Dictionaries I was calling it many variations on the theme, greenwashing, many many propagandistic things, like green-scamming, green-sheening, and eco-porn. Here, a 1992 article, man, so long long ago, almost forgotten : Eco-pornography is the advertising of a product as “environmentally friendly,” when in fact, some unmentioned aspect of the product (or […]
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Halifax School’s Anti-Palestinian Racism
During a cross-cultural activity, a Park West School in Halifax forced Palestinian-Canadian students to remove the Kufiyahs they had worn as part of the activity. The principle justified banning the kufiyah (Palestinian scarf) saying it represented “war colors.” Students who did not comply were sent to the principal’s office. Such anti-Palestinian racism must be rejected: […]
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Local Officials Become Influencers
This week’s News on China in 2 minutes. • Local officials become influencers • Schools strengthen digital education • Expanding GM soybean and corn areas • Iraq will use yuan in oil trade with China The post Local Officials Become Influencers first appeared on Dissident Voice.
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What Would Charles Bukowski Say Today?
The post What Would Charles Bukowski Say Today? first appeared on Dissident Voice.
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To See Real Foreign Influence, Check out Canada’s Military
If you believe the Canadian Security Intelligence Service and Conservatives, the Chinese own a backbench Liberal MP, which has been front page news recently. But no one mentions Washington’s possession of our military. According to a leak reportedly from CSIS, the Chinese consulate in Toronto assisted Han Dong win the Liberal party nomination for the […]
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Those Who Die for Life – like Hugo Chávez – Cannot Be Called Dead
On 28 October 2005, a special event was held in Caracas at the National Assembly of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela. At this gathering, held on the birthday of Simón Rodríguez (Simón Bolívar’s teacher), the Venezuelan government announced that nearly 1.5 million adults had learned to read through Mission Robinson, a mass literacy programme that […]
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