People living in remote First Nations north of Sioux Lookout, Ont., are experiencing acute rheumatic fever at a rate that is among the highest in the world, according to new research from the College of Family Physicians of Canada. Read the rest of this post on the original site at …
When it comes to automotive technology, self-driving cars are all the rage. Read the rest of this post on the original site at Why Self-Driving Cars Must Be Programmed to Kill
The mother of a black Baltimore man whose death in police custody prompted charges against police officers has attempted suicide, WJZĀ television is reporting. Read the rest of this post on the original site at Report: Freddie Gray’s mother attempts suicide
In the past several years, settler colonial theory has taken over my field, Native American studies. Comparative indigenous histories focused especially on British-descended āsettler coloniesāāCanada, New Zealand, Australia, and the United Statesāhave proliferated. Read the rest of this post on the original site at A Typology of Colonialism
Thomas Moreās Utopia, a book that will be 500 years old next year, is astonishingly radical stuff. Not many lord chancellors of England have denounced private property, advocated a form of communism and described the current social order as a āconspiracy of the richā. Read the rest of this post …
A small note ā not the stuff of headlines, obviously ā appeared in the newspapers on 3 February. Read the rest of this post on the original site at The Two Totalitarianisms
āFascism should more properly be called corporatism because it is the merger of state and corporate power.ā ā Benito Mussolini It is generally attrributed to an article written by Mussolini in the 1932 Enciclopedia Italiana with the assistance of Giovanni Gentile, the editor. Read the rest of this post on …
The Ferguson uprising started the development of a revolution here in the United States. There is no question that Ferguson was much different and more radical than anything weāve seen here in this country. Read the rest of this post on the original site at The Fergu$on Hijacking ā Hands …
#Palestine #Unity / #DisunityAsRadical: ‘Eurocentric / colonial identity politics’ (*my definition below) is tearing apart and dividing ally from ally, sister/brother from brother/sister. Read the rest of this post on the original site at IDENTITY POLITICS IS DOING THE IMPERIALIST DIVIDE AND RULE FOR THE ENEMY
The vast majority of women surveyed who wear the niqab in Canada are not only willing to remove their veils to be identified, but feel it is part of their responsibility to do so, according to the most extensive research of its kind. Read the rest of this post on …