The Daily Shaarli

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December 6, 2023

Trilateral missile defense system a step toward Asian NATO
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The United States, Japan, and South Korea will fully operationalize a missile warning system “by the end of December.” While justified as a means to counter North Korea’s missile launches, more worrisome, it escalates tensions in the region with China through the “NATOification” of all three countries, agreed upon in the "Spirit of Camp David" agreement.

Canadian Health Workers Rally For Palestine
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“Israel is trying to destroy every chance of Palestinians to even look after their wounded and their dead.”

Naomi Klein to Heather Reisman: Charges must be dropped against Indigo 11
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The extraordinary raids, arrests and property seizures of Palestine solidarity activists represent an extreme attack on political speech not seen in a generation

After years of public pressure, Panama finally closes Canadian copper mine
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On November 28, Panama’s Supreme Court ruled unanimously that the 20-year contract granted to Canadian mining company First Quantum is unconstitutional. The decision came after weeks of nationwide protests forced the government to announce a referendum on First Quantum’s contract for December 17. Now, however, the court seems to have decided the fate of the mine.

ExxonMobil Wants to Start a War in South America
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Neither the Venezuelan nor the Guyanese people will benefit from ExxonMobil’s political intervention in the region. That is why so many Venezuelans who came to cast their vote on December 3 saw this less as a conflict between Venezuela and Guyana and more as a conflict between ExxonMobil and the people of these two South American countries.

Big Tech Is Exploiting the Mental Health Crisis to Monetize Your Data
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Tech giants like Apple, Google, and Amazon are increasingly developing apps and services offering mental health treatment. The value of these products for users is dubious — but they do promise the companies lucrative new sources of highly personal data.

Google’s promised $100 million a year brings hope for Canadian news
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Canadian Dimension | Online media are relieved, but some newspaper publishers are still not happy

Someone knew: Stock traders made millions short-selling before Oct. 7th Hamas attacks
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People's World | C.J Atkins | Some traders at the New York and Tel Aviv Stock Exchanges (NYSE and TASE) apparently knew in advance that Hamas militants were about to launch their attack on Israel before Oct. 7th and that a war would follow.

Anti-gay crackdown looms after Russian Supreme Court bans ‘LGBT movement’
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People's World | C.J. Atkins | Russia effectively outlawed queer people on Thursday when the country’s Supreme Court declared any act of LGBTQ activism or advocacy to be “extremist” and illegal.

Canada's open secret: International students are here to be exploited
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Minister Marc Miller said the quiet part loud: Big business needs international students for cheap labour