Note: This is a reprint of our Issue 230, first published in November 2020. As the US heads into another election season, the realities that were underlined in the original issue remain the same. The political elite remain unaccountable, unresponsive and unguided. Our realization of these facts has only become more painfully obvious after observing ...

We have witnessed a year of brutality at the hands of the IDF. The Zionist state has rendered all of Gaza unlivable. A quarter of all structures have been destroyed including over 200,000 homes and critical infrastructure. All of the hospitals, schools and universities and courts have been left in ruins. While the Gaza Health ...

Food prices have soared to their highest rates in almost half a century according to Statistics Canada, while average housing rent in Canada has surpassed its all-time high according to the latest national rent report from Rentals.ca and Urbanation. It is not a surprise that the cost of living and housing affordability are key issues ...

The past few months have been momentous in Bangladesh. What started at the beginning of July as a student protest with a relatively simple demand – an end to a quota for the children of those who died fighting in the 1971 war – turned into the death knell for Hasina’s decades long hold over ...

When our brothers and sisters are being openly slaughtered in places like Palestine, or being “shot on sight” by security forces in Bangladesh, we may feel overwhelmed with a sense of helplessness and despair at the prospects of stopping the horrific oppression and bloodshed. For example, we have witnessed many videos, of Muslims asking “Where ...

Since the start of July, the youth of Bangladesh have been taking a stand against the corrupt and oppressive regime of Sheikh Hasina. As of July 23, 2024, news outlets report that nearly 150 people – mostly demonstrators – have been killed by the regime. However, observers say that these numbers likely represent the floor ...

There is no need to describe the situation in Gaza. We have all seen and heard the stories of the tens of thousands of people killed, with a large proportion of them children. We know of the nearly 2 million displaced, with no place to call home. The names of Hind Rajab, Rafat al Areer, ...

 

 

For the past few weeks, we have witnessed an unprecedented level of carnage leveled against our brothers and sisters in Gaza. According to Al-Jazeera, the Zionist entity claimed that it dropped 6,000 bombs weighing 4,000 tonnes on Gaza in the first six days of its bombing campaign. Marc Garlasco (former U.N. war crimes investigator in ...