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How a nationalization threat shook Canadian oil interests in Libya

How a nationalization threat shook Canadian oil interests in Libya
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Canada flying in lockstep with the United States

Schalk: Carney’s defence choices will deepen dependence and weaken sovereignty

22.10.2025 7

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Mark Carney’s silence on Venezuela reveals complicity

The prime minister’s inaction on a US massacre in the Caribbean echoes his past role in undermining Venezuela’s sovereignty

23.09.2025 9

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Canada dismissed Kyrgyzstan’s environmental concerns as ‘pretext’ in mine dispute, documents reveal

Internal files show Ottawa cast Kyrgyzstan’s environmental warnings as a cover for seizing a Canadian-run gold mine

14.08.2025 5

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What is BRICS and where is it going?

How internal divisions and geopolitical realities are shaping the bloc’s role in a rapidly transforming global order

24.07.2025 7

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Panama’s revolutionary youth are confronting imperialism and dictatorship

As protests shake Panama, youth-led JR-16 stands at the forefront of resistance to US-backed repression and neoliberal rule

13.07.2025 10

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Carney’s military buildup benefits the US, not Canada

Despite the PM’s lofty claims, Canada’s increased military spending will only deepen its entanglement with the US war machine

18.06.2025 3

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As election looms, Poilievre threatens Trump-like attack on Canadian universities

The Conservatives plan to follow Trump’s lead and cut funds to universities and organizations they say “subsidize antisemitism”

27.04.2025 3

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Yale professors flee US for Toronto school linked to massive human rights abuses

The Munk School was founded in 2000 by one of Canada’s most infamous oligarchs

12.04.2025 9

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Israel and the US resume their war of extermination in Gaza

Prior to Monday’s bombings, Israel had violated the ceasefire at least 962 times

26.03.2025 10

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Cuba, Canada, and the second Trump administration

As the Cuban Revolution enters its 66th year, the island is in its most difficult hour

11.03.2025 4

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Free Yves Engler

In today’s Canada, offending Zionist influencers is enough to land you behind bars

04.03.2025 4

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Will Poilievre’s pro-Trump past boost an ailing Liberal Party?

Tory leader’s sinking political fortunes show that his history of MAGA-style politics may be rubbing the public the wrong way

14.02.2025 10

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Forced disappearances in Kandahar show need for Canadian Afghanistan Papers

New research shows the Canadian military was involved in the ‘enforced disappearances’ of hundreds of Afghan detainees

28.01.2025 6

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Sidelined in Mali, Barrick turns Tanzania mine into ‘armed encampment’

Barrick has been accused of human rights abuses at its North Mara gold mine in Tanzania

21.01.2025 7

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Why be a doormat?

Canadian leaders are falling over themselves to placate the incoming Trump administration. It doesn’t have to be this way

09.01.2025 20

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Remembering Canada’s support for the US invasion of Panama

Canada was the only country in the Americas to openly support the illegal operation

03.01.2025 4

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Israeli historian accuses Canadian media of enabling Gaza war crimes

Lee Mordechai says Israel’s war has been “enabled and facilitated by massive media efforts to shape discourse” in the West

25.12.2024 30

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Mali’s arrest of Barrick employees shows continued push for sovereignty in West Africa

Transnational mining interests have long benefitted from Mali’s mineral wealth

08.12.2024 5

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Assassination plot in Bolsonaro’s office raises question—why did Canada support him?

Ottawa has a long history of supporting anti-democratic forces in Brazil

26.11.2024 4

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Why socialists need to understand the legacy of Malcolm Norris and Jim Brady

For the two influential Métis leaders, the struggle for socialism was inextricable from the struggle for Indigenous rights

18.11.2024 5

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In West Africa, Canadian mining firms come up against bloc of independent states

An increasingly assertive group of African nations are constraining the ability of Canadian companies to profit from resources

31.10.2024 30

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Why doesn’t Canada want Mexicans to elect their own judges?

Reforms have reshaped Mexico’s judicary from an appointment-based system to one where judges are elected by popular vote

27.09.2024 3

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Serbia’s ‘green transition’ undermining local interests

Could lithium extraction slowly transform Serbia into a mining colony?

04.09.2024 1

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JNF’s loss of charitable status a win for international law and Palestinian rights

The charity has been openly flouting Canadian law with impunity for decades

08.08.2024 3

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