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 [Surveillance] is how corporations find out intimate details about us that they use for marketing purposes, it’s how governments determine whether we’re a risk or a good citizen or a threat to the nation, and so forth. They call it ubiquitous surveillance. It’s just everywhere, all the time, in theContinue Reading

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Poulson resigned his Google gig in China over the plan to launch a censured version of Google’s search engine in China. In his letter of resignation he states that he quit, ‘due to my conviction that dissent is fundamental to functioning democracies.’ He objected to,  ‘our intent to capitulate toContinue Reading

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 Jackie Wang is a young poet, musician and PhD student at Harvard. A review in LARB introduces the reader to a scholar compelled to create a comprehensive condemnation of an odious system. A primary motivater can be found in her brothers incarceration in Florida and the resulting trauma the familyContinue Reading

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Walking with Cheryl part way to Dawson this morning we passed the CCA museum and she pointed out a series of colourful small text panels attached to the front gate. She mentioned the artist, author Douglas Coupland, and his series, Slogans for the 21st Century. He has been making themContinue Reading

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It ensured that center-left governments would share the outlook of the financial elite at the expense of ordinary people” who would come to understand that whether they voted for “Clinton, Bush, or Obama, or Trump, they somehow got Goldman Sachs.” Continue Reading

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Manon on her campaign, ‘Let me tell you it’s going to rock’!  Her party platform is proposing many very progressive changes for Quebec society. Her personal story is special and then there is her intelligence and charm. She is a game changer.Continue Reading

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Gitmo and ‘The War Terror’ compliments the historical narrative on Race Wars with the white man’s deep drive to colonize. Debi Cornwall’s recent series of photographs speak volumes to America’s ongoing geopolitical ambitions in the Arab world.   Inside Guantanamo Bay: A Photographer Documents America’s Most Heavily Guarded Prison  Continue Reading