The Daily Shaarli
November 22, 2021
To date, the Canadian government has acted as a reliable ally in the U.S.’s New Cold War against China. The need for Canada to change course is dire, but prospects are grim. Canada needs to break with this dangerous path and set course for peace and cooperation with China.
The climate conference ended with a watered down promise to phase down rather than phase out coal-powered energy generation and only the most powerful countries got to finalize the pact.
In New Brunswick, 22,000 public-sector workers are struggling against austerity measures put in place by Tory premier Blaine Higgs. His actions are a portent of the austerity measures to come in a post-COVID world.
Movements across India celebrated the struggle by the farmers during which they faced great repression and vilification. Around 750 people are believed to have died during the agitation which saw thousands camp on the borders of Delhi
In its decision, the Wisconsin jury believed Kyle Rittenhouse acted in self-defense – not recklessness, as prosecutors alleged – when he shot three people, two fatally.
As the Second World War came to a close, the rise of Iran’s workers’ movement posed a growing threat to British capital – so a Labour government set about crushing it for a generation.
Cuba is far more complex, its citizens’ views far more nuanced, than the simplistic media caricature suggests.
Amber Bracken, reporting from Wet’suwet’en territory for The Narwhal, was among those arrested as RCMP tactical units advanced on the Gidimt’en occupation of a drill site above the Wedzin Kwa (Morice) River