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Life endures. But it needs a little help.
Governments come and go. But life endures, as long as earth, water and air can sustain it. All of these face escalating assaults by powerful corporations whose twin obsessions, power and profit, are...
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DAPL and DNB: good news
Resisting the machine DNB, the largest bank in Norway, has just sold its assets in the Dakota Access Pipeline (DAPL). Reports are unclear on the extent and nature of these assets (or maybe I just...
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Oil crimes: Who needs a Trump?
In Saskatchewan’s second major oil spill, crews are still trying to identify where the rupture occurred in a tangle of pipelines from the Alberta tar sands that cross this land. Oil Pipeline Spills...
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In a tiny country far, far away…
Yemen. It’s in the news, briefly. But not enough, not nearly enough. Ruling regimes in the US, UK and Saudi Arabia continue to rain down mass murder on this tiny country far, far away, on the...
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And yet, grounds for hope. Real hope.
Against impossible odds: Ecuadoreans’ Legal Fight Against Chevron Continues in Canada. Texaco/Chevron vs Ecuador. Photo: La Hora. On South America’s teleSur, journalist Joe Emersberger interviews...
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Growing up: Three rivers get legal rights
Whanganui River, New Zealand Glimmers of hope. Details here. Mind you, human rights tend to be honoured a lot more on paper than in practice. So it will be with river rights. Rivers, lakes, oceans...
View Article“There is a crack in everything…”
“…That’s how the light gets in.” (from Anthem, by Leonard Cohen). In the closed, murky realm of democracy-for-sale and rent-a-politician, a huge, astonishing crack has just opened up in British...
View ArticleJerusalem bleeding
Al Quds. Jerusalem. Yerushalayim. It is all of these, and it is bleeding. President Trump performing at the western wall, Jerusalem This week the US regime announced it would move its Israel embassy...
View ArticleStolen Children: a tribute to Cristián Orrego
Cristián Orrego is in the final stages of a struggle with ALS (amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, also known as Lou Gehrig’s disease). Based at the Human Rights Center, University of California in...
View ArticleIn our name…
…the war against the earth and its defenders goes on. Photo: StarMetro Vancouver Currently one of the most vital front lines is on Wet’suwet’en First Nation land in “British Columbia,” Canada....
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