Karim
@kareemkanuck.bsky.social
Canadian. Reads and listens a diversity of perspectives on those intersecting topics: Social justice, pol economy, imperialism & IR, Palestine & zionism, ecology, energy & complexity, gender and race, colonialism & indigenous struggles, intl Security.
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For Australians, the TDU should be an occasion for national pride and not a time of shame. We must ensure that iconic Australian sporting events are not used by political ideologies like Zionism. #auspol #TDU #cycling #zionism
Say no to sportswashing Israel's crimes
Our governments have long been aware of the importance of sport to the national psyche.
johnmenadue.com
August 20, 2025 at 11:31 PM
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Canada’s Foreign Enlistment Act makes it illegal to recruit for foreign armies on Canadian soil, yet Israeli military recruitment has taken place here for generations, often in plain sight. The law is clear. The political will to enforce it is not.
Why is the Israeli military still recruiting in Canada?
There’s a Canadian law that makes it illegal for the armed forces of any foreign state to recruit soldiers within our borders, but you’d never know it the way Israel and its supporters operate within ...
canadiandimension.com
July 23, 2025 at 5:00 PM
Canada’s Foreign Enlistment Act makes it illegal to recruit for foreign armies on Canadian soil, yet Israeli military recruitment has taken place here for generations, often in plain sight. The law is clear. The political will to enforce it is not.
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We must stop Israel. We must redouble our efforts and take every action possible to pressure the Albanese Government to take a stand at this late stage, to act, to uphold international law and the ICJ ruling. @petersc2u #auspol #Israel #Palestine #BDS
Israel's final Gaza solution
Reports of a shocking Israeli Gaza solution that aims to ethnically cleanse Gaza of all Palestinians by establishing so-called Humanitarian Transit Areas or concentration camps has surfaced in Israeli and other media.
johnmenadue.com
July 18, 2025 at 11:31 PM
We must stop Israel. We must redouble our efforts and take every action possible to pressure the Albanese Government to take a stand at this late stage, to act, to uphold international law and the ICJ ruling. @petersc2u #auspol #Israel #Palestine #BDS
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Carney ran against Trump’s ‘Conservative buddies,’ then governed as their collaborator. Military spending hikes, Big Tech tax cuts, and anti-Indigenous bills reveal the truth: his base was always capital, not Canadians.
Carney promised resistance and delivered retreat
Carney became prime minister on the backs of progressive voters desperate to stop a Trump–Poilievre axis from sweeping North America. But so far, his policies have served mainly to placate Trump and v...
canadiandimension.com
July 8, 2025 at 8:49 PM
Carney ran against Trump’s ‘Conservative buddies,’ then governed as their collaborator. Military spending hikes, Big Tech tax cuts, and anti-Indigenous bills reveal the truth: his base was always capital, not Canadians.
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Not to mention deep public service cuts, which will further weaken state capacity.
In comparative and Canadian political science, we have developed a good understanding of what nation-building is, and what it requires. All of this doesn’t fit the bill.
In comparative and Canadian political science, we have developed a good understanding of what nation-building is, and what it requires. All of this doesn’t fit the bill.
The gulf between what Mark Carney says, what many Canadians desperately want to believe about what he’s saying, and what Carney’s actually doing is enormous.
It makes analysis and evaluation of his government exceedingly difficult.
It makes analysis and evaluation of his government exceedingly difficult.
A major defence contract is set to favour U.S. supplier, despite Carney's promise to diversify | CBC News
The federal government is set to proceed with awarding a major defence contract despite industry concerns that its requirements are written in a way that all but assures a single American company is e...
www.cbc.ca
July 8, 2025 at 1:51 PM
Not to mention deep public service cuts, which will further weaken state capacity.
In comparative and Canadian political science, we have developed a good understanding of what nation-building is, and what it requires. All of this doesn’t fit the bill.
In comparative and Canadian political science, we have developed a good understanding of what nation-building is, and what it requires. All of this doesn’t fit the bill.
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Mark Carney rode anti-Trump rhetoric to power, only to cave to corporate interests, adopt MAGA-lite policies, and betray the very voters who put him in office.
NEW from @christoaivalis.bsky.social:
NEW from @christoaivalis.bsky.social:
Carney promised resistance and delivered retreat
Carney became prime minister on the backs of progressive voters desperate to stop a Trump–Poilievre axis from sweeping North America. But so far, his policies have served mainly to placate Trump and v...
canadiandimension.com
July 1, 2025 at 12:34 PM
Mark Carney rode anti-Trump rhetoric to power, only to cave to corporate interests, adopt MAGA-lite policies, and betray the very voters who put him in office.
NEW from @christoaivalis.bsky.social:
NEW from @christoaivalis.bsky.social:
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NEW: While Ottawa considers spending 5% of GDP on defence, it should ask itself why we spend only 0.2% of GDP on our universities.
This isn’t just budget math, it’s a statement of values and priorities, writes @ericrwilkinson.bsky.social.
This isn’t just budget math, it’s a statement of values and priorities, writes @ericrwilkinson.bsky.social.
Rebuilding Canadian post-secondary education
Canada could be an educational superpower. Taking advantage of the brain-drain from the US, we could recruit the best and brightest to fill our labs, faculty lounges, and classrooms. By leading the wo...
canadiandimension.com
July 7, 2025 at 9:03 AM
NEW: While Ottawa considers spending 5% of GDP on defence, it should ask itself why we spend only 0.2% of GDP on our universities.
This isn’t just budget math, it’s a statement of values and priorities, writes @ericrwilkinson.bsky.social.
This isn’t just budget math, it’s a statement of values and priorities, writes @ericrwilkinson.bsky.social.
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A real, politically meaningful counterculture has been born in the Western world, and our rulers are already showing us that they’re afraid of it. This is the generation that will be poorer, sicker and not own homes. @caitoz #BobVylan #Glastonbbury #Israelpalestine
The Empire has accidentally caused the rebirth of real counterculture in the West
Everyone’s still talking about Bob Vylan, and rightly so. A crowd full of Westerners happily being led through a chant of “Death, death to the IDF” at the 2025 Glastonbury Festival was a historical landmark moment for the 21st century, and the group’s persecution at the hands of Western governments is once again highlighting the way our society’s purported values of free thought and free expression go right out of the window wherever Israel is concerned.
johnmenadue.com
July 7, 2025 at 11:58 PM
A real, politically meaningful counterculture has been born in the Western world, and our rulers are already showing us that they’re afraid of it. This is the generation that will be poorer, sicker and not own homes. @caitoz #BobVylan #Glastonbbury #Israelpalestine
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The Liberal platform’s plan to cut $13 billion annually from federal operations would gut the public services Canadians rely on. By @davidmaccdn.bsky.social #cdnecon #cdnpoli @policyalternatives.ca troymedia.com/viewpoint/li...
Liberal plan to cut $13B a dangerous fantasy
David Macdonald • Cuts this deep would cripple the services Canadians depend on
troymedia.com
June 30, 2025 at 7:35 PM
The Liberal platform’s plan to cut $13 billion annually from federal operations would gut the public services Canadians rely on. By @davidmaccdn.bsky.social #cdnecon #cdnpoli @policyalternatives.ca troymedia.com/viewpoint/li...
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Canada’s push to hike defence spending to 5% of GDP isn’t driven by strategic necessity—it’s political theater. The government can’t point to credible threats justifying this massive expenditure, nor explain how it would make Canadians safer.
The empty case for Canada’s 5% defence pledge
The priorities of our political leaders can be very hard to understand. Western countries are suffering years of economic stagnation, deteriorating public services, and a host of other problems. Yet o...
canadiandimension.com
June 27, 2025 at 10:47 AM
Canada’s push to hike defence spending to 5% of GDP isn’t driven by strategic necessity—it’s political theater. The government can’t point to credible threats justifying this massive expenditure, nor explain how it would make Canadians safer.
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Reminder that Carney has a minority government that has not tabled a budget in parliament. Just committing us to a massive increase in military spending that will be paid for through extractive industries and cuts to public services.
Mark Carney just committed Canada to spend 5% of GDP on defence—more than double NATO’s target.
No serious debate. No scrutiny. Just consensus from a political class sleepwalking into permanent militarization while public services decline.
No serious debate. No scrutiny. Just consensus from a political class sleepwalking into permanent militarization while public services decline.
Military spending groupthink and Canada’s left
The vast majority of Western politicians have boxed themselves into too much of a corner after having demonized Russia to such an extent to really raise serious questions about the need for increased ...
canadiandimension.com
June 26, 2025 at 12:20 PM
Reminder that Carney has a minority government that has not tabled a budget in parliament. Just committing us to a massive increase in military spending that will be paid for through extractive industries and cuts to public services.
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From Betar to Shomrim, re-emergence of Zionist private militias in the West
@alonmizrahi.bsky.social ICYMI www.presstv.ir/Detail/2025/...
@alonmizrahi.bsky.social ICYMI www.presstv.ir/Detail/2025/...
From Betar to Shomrim, re-emergence of Zionist private militias in the West
Betar, Shomrim, and other Zionist militias are re-emerging in the West, blending paramilitary training with political influence, raising concerns over law enforcement complicity and abuses.
www.presstv.ir
June 30, 2025 at 1:09 AM
From Betar to Shomrim, re-emergence of Zionist private militias in the West
@alonmizrahi.bsky.social ICYMI www.presstv.ir/Detail/2025/...
@alonmizrahi.bsky.social ICYMI www.presstv.ir/Detail/2025/...
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To be clear, the problem isn’t the digital services tax.There are *always* irritants in the Canada-US relationship. If it wasn’t the DST, it would’ve been something else.
Carney is negotiating outside the USMCA with an untrustworthy partner, for temporary relief. It’s a foolish disastrous strategy.
Carney is negotiating outside the USMCA with an untrustworthy partner, for temporary relief. It’s a foolish disastrous strategy.
NEW POST: The Carney Honeymoon is Over
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The Carney Honeymoon is Over
Donald Trump resumed his attacks on Canadian sovereignty this past week, withdrawing from trade talks because someone apparently told him the Canada’s digital services tax were due to kick in.
emmettmacfarlane.substack.com
June 30, 2025 at 11:22 AM
To be clear, the problem isn’t the digital services tax.There are *always* irritants in the Canada-US relationship. If it wasn’t the DST, it would’ve been something else.
Carney is negotiating outside the USMCA with an untrustworthy partner, for temporary relief. It’s a foolish disastrous strategy.
Carney is negotiating outside the USMCA with an untrustworthy partner, for temporary relief. It’s a foolish disastrous strategy.
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With war with Iran about to break out any minute, growing oppression in the US, a continued genocide, and no Jewish opposition, it looks unbelievable that we have reached this point, but we have
Interlinked Jewish responsibility and guilt, US oppression, and an approaching Iran catastrophe
YouTube video by The Mizrahi Perspective
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June 12, 2025 at 3:59 AM
With war with Iran about to break out any minute, growing oppression in the US, a continued genocide, and no Jewish opposition, it looks unbelievable that we have reached this point, but we have
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NEW: Despite Mark Carney’s lofty claims that our old relationship with the United States is “over,” Canada’s massive planned increases in military spending will only deepen its entanglement with the US war machine, writes Owen Schalk.
Carney’s military buildup benefits the US, not Canada
Carney’s foreign policy stance reflects a broader trend: in an era of renewed great-power competition, Canada’s political and economic elite have chosen to deepen their alignment with the US—an increa...
canadiandimension.com
June 13, 2025 at 10:57 AM
NEW: Despite Mark Carney’s lofty claims that our old relationship with the United States is “over,” Canada’s massive planned increases in military spending will only deepen its entanglement with the US war machine, writes Owen Schalk.
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NEW: Contrary to his assertions, Carney’s housing plan does not replicate WWII-era housing policies. In fact, it does just the opposite. It continues the legacy of corporate welfare that replaced this nation’s heroic wartime housing efforts.
Mark Carney is no wartime homebuilder
Over the past three decades our governments have once again walked away from direct housing provision and, for the third time in a century, allowed the private sector to make a mess of our housing sys...
canadiandimension.com
June 6, 2025 at 3:41 PM
NEW: Contrary to his assertions, Carney’s housing plan does not replicate WWII-era housing policies. In fact, it does just the opposite. It continues the legacy of corporate welfare that replaced this nation’s heroic wartime housing efforts.
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Should anti-Zionism address or deny Jewish responsibility and guilt for Zionism’s crimes? My opinion on this issue is very clear, and I’m happy to share it with you
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My Clash with Dan Cohen
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My Clash with Dan Cohen
My Clash with Dan Cohen
Should anti-Zionism criticize Jews or should it try to create a distinction between Jews and Israelis? An online skirmish presented an opportunity to clarify my position on a cardinal issue
open.substack.com
June 7, 2025 at 6:49 AM
Should anti-Zionism address or deny Jewish responsibility and guilt for Zionism’s crimes? My opinion on this issue is very clear, and I’m happy to share it with you
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My Clash with Dan Cohen
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My Clash with Dan Cohen
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Mining camps ‘like a frat house’ — The silencing of Native women in #mining boomtowns.
In #Arizona, where the Apache Stronghold is fighting to #saveOakFlat, ‘green’ mining supporters don’t want to hear about #MMIWG.
New from @odetteauger.bsky.social:
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#landback
In #Arizona, where the Apache Stronghold is fighting to #saveOakFlat, ‘green’ mining supporters don’t want to hear about #MMIWG.
New from @odetteauger.bsky.social:
ricochet.media/indigenous/m...
#landback
Mining camps 'like a frat house’: The silencing of Native women in mining boomtowns
In Arizona, ‘green’ mining supporters don’t want to hear about missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls
ricochet.media
June 6, 2025 at 1:53 PM
Mining camps ‘like a frat house’ — The silencing of Native women in #mining boomtowns.
In #Arizona, where the Apache Stronghold is fighting to #saveOakFlat, ‘green’ mining supporters don’t want to hear about #MMIWG.
New from @odetteauger.bsky.social:
ricochet.media/indigenous/m...
#landback
In #Arizona, where the Apache Stronghold is fighting to #saveOakFlat, ‘green’ mining supporters don’t want to hear about #MMIWG.
New from @odetteauger.bsky.social:
ricochet.media/indigenous/m...
#landback
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In what is being called a ‘watershed moment,’ provincial unions are now coming together to support northern #Ontario First Nations protesting #Bill5.
The controversial legislation is expected to pass today.
The latest from @jonthompson.bsky.social:
ricochet.media/indigenous/w...
#onpoli #Labour
The controversial legislation is expected to pass today.
The latest from @jonthompson.bsky.social:
ricochet.media/indigenous/w...
#onpoli #Labour
‘Watershed moment’: Provincial unions are coming together to support northern First Nations protesting Bill 5
The controversial Ontario legislation is expected to pass today
ricochet.media
June 4, 2025 at 3:19 PM
In what is being called a ‘watershed moment,’ provincial unions are now coming together to support northern #Ontario First Nations protesting #Bill5.
The controversial legislation is expected to pass today.
The latest from @jonthompson.bsky.social:
ricochet.media/indigenous/w...
#onpoli #Labour
The controversial legislation is expected to pass today.
The latest from @jonthompson.bsky.social:
ricochet.media/indigenous/w...
#onpoli #Labour
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The constant comparisons to Hitler or Putin or Mussolini are inadvertent cop-outs: As if Trump is such an aberration that his pathology must originate from foreign sources. In reality, authoritarianism, viciousness, and violence are part and parcel of the American schema.
The All-American Boy
The constant comparisons to Hitler or Putin or Mussolini are inadvertent cop-outs: As if Trump is such an aberration that his pathology must originate from foreign sources. In reality, authoritarianis...
www.counterpunch.org
June 5, 2025 at 2:57 PM
The constant comparisons to Hitler or Putin or Mussolini are inadvertent cop-outs: As if Trump is such an aberration that his pathology must originate from foreign sources. In reality, authoritarianism, viciousness, and violence are part and parcel of the American schema.
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"Just like the U.S. is totally willing to blow up the international trade order, they're totally willing to blow up international tax rules," said senior economist @davidmaccdn.bsky.social. @policyalternatives.ca www.cbc.ca/news/politic...
Trump's 'big, beautiful' tax reform bill could cost Canadians billions | CBC News
A small, obscure section in U.S. President Donald Trump's One Big Beautiful Bill Act could cost Canadians and Canadian companies billions of dollars, CBC News has learned. It could also put pressure o...
www.cbc.ca
June 5, 2025 at 3:33 PM
"Just like the U.S. is totally willing to blow up the international trade order, they're totally willing to blow up international tax rules," said senior economist @davidmaccdn.bsky.social. @policyalternatives.ca www.cbc.ca/news/politic...
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We need a public inquiry to expose the influence of the Zionist Lobby and particularly its intimidation of journalists. The IDF has murdered over 300 Palestinian journalists but our media owners don't care. JM #Auspol
Media shortcomings in covering terrorist Netanyahu’s daily Gaza mass murders
Opposition by former high officials in Israeli’s military and national security establishment and Israeli allies – France, England, and Germany – to the aimless killing of civilian families in Gaza is...
johnmenadue.com
June 6, 2025 at 8:50 AM
We need a public inquiry to expose the influence of the Zionist Lobby and particularly its intimidation of journalists. The IDF has murdered over 300 Palestinian journalists but our media owners don't care. JM #Auspol
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Shamelessness and borderlessness in Palestine and the whole world
Shamelessness and borderlessness in Palestine and the whole world
A normal movement with normal people would have been at least somewhat ashamed and regretful by now. Zionists are decidedly not.
open.substack.com
June 3, 2025 at 7:23 PM
Shamelessness and borderlessness in Palestine and the whole world