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Biking Hamilton’s trails
Hamilton is a biker’s paradise. Even the inevitable ribbons of death (Hwys 403 and 407) slicing through it haven’t killed it. It is disparaged as Hammertown/ Steeltown for its attack of rust-beltiti...
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Impact of Iranian revolution in world
https://www.irna.ir/news/83341502 Interview for IRNA on 30th anniversary of Ayatollah Khomeini's death Summary Iran's 1979 revolution created a seismic shift in world politics. At the same time as the socialist world teetered and would soon collapse, renewing predato...
IRNA interview (Persian): Trump's antisemitism envoy vs BDS
نویسنده کانادایی: لابی صهیونیست ها در پی ارعاب مخالفان است نیویورک – ایرنا – یک نویسنده کانادایی به تلاش لابی رژیم صهیونیستی در کانادا و آمریکا برای جلوگیری از گسترش جنبش بایکوت و تحریم این رژیم اشاره کرد و گفت: آنها به ارعاب مخالفان خود روی آورده اند 'اریک والبرگ' روز جمعه در گفت وگوی اختصاصی ب...
Kayhan interview: Macron's Comeuppance
Interview with Eric Walberg and Rodney Shakespeare, author of Binary Economics: the new paradigm (1999)1) What is the major problem of the French yellow vests that has pushed them into the streets?This protest started not in Paris, but among motorists across the country, especially farmers, whose li...
Russia and Soviet Union
Putin and Russia, the world’s ‘heartland’
Russia has always fascinated me--the mystical orthodox faith brought to Kievan Rus in the ninth century, the stern heroes who defended Muscovy against the Golden Horde in the 13--15th centuries, the vast spaces, the remarkable literature of Pushkin and Tolstoy, the Bolshevik Revolution again...
Gorbachev’s legacy: Russia's 9/11 or Let a hundred weeds bloom
Perestroika is like an airplane that takes off without knowing where it will land. (Bondarev)Reading Taubman’s exhaustive biography of Gorbachev, Mikhail Sergeevich, I was rivetted time and again, marvelling (as did Shultz and everyone who cared): how did this guy get from collective farm winner of ...
Europe, Canada & U.S.A.
Tehran slams Canada for ‘unlawful’ sale of Iran properties
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1I4dH5wwGIA
Trump, Russiagate and the deep state
I have avoided getting caught up in what can only be described as the insanity gripping the US media and political elite since even before Trump's astounding victory in 2016 -- the claim that poor, weak Russia somehow orchestrated the defeat of Hillary Clinton and the election of the clownish, loose...
Middle East
Morsi's legacy: unlikely democrat, reluctant martyr
Mohamed Morsi (1951–2019) was the fifth President of Egypt (30 June 2012 to 3 July 2013), deposed by General Abdel Fattah el-Sisi in a coup d'état July 3, 2013. In his last words, Morsi accused the government of "assassinating" him through years of poor prison conditions. Morsi is survived by h...
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Review: Tamim Ansary, Destiny Disrupted: A History of the World Through Islamic Eyes (2009)
Reviving the ‘House of Peace’ as the peace movement's guiding principle Tho...
Peace & Socialism
Toronto Climate Strike: Let a hundred posters bloom
The culmination of Toronto’s Global Climate Strike on Friday September 27, 201...
Grossman’s A Socialist Defector: Back in the GDR - you don’t know how lucky you are
I finished Victor Grossman/ Stephen Wechsler’s* A Socialist Defector: From Har...
Whittaker Chambers or Alger Hiss: Who’s the real traitor?
Though #1 on the New York Times Bestseller list for 13 weeks in 1952, beloved of...
Orwell: Neocon icon
How do you explain the fact that the John Birch Society used 1984 as its main ...
