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Migration to Germany

Migration to Germany

Once it was clear the number of refugees arriving in Germany would top one million, reactions varied dramatically. Months later, a divided society is still debating its role as a refuge for the second time since the end of the cold war.

Flood on the Levee

Flood on the Levee

Last fall I rode 1500 miles from Taos, New Mexico to New Orleans on a 1983 Yamaha xs-650. It was my first solo, long distance bike trip and New Orleans — a legendary city — seemed like a good destination.

Shuhada Street

Shuhada Street

Checkpoint 56, in Israeli-occupied Hebron, is a fearsome sight to behold. Flashed before your eyes in a Rorschach test, it could be taken for a high-voltage substation, or an industrial meat grinder.

Shakydad

Shakydad

Rob Kendrick — aka Shakydad — is a highly successful guy with Parkinson’s Disease. Listen to him reflect on the challenges and changes Parkinson’s has offered up, for worse and for better.

Temperature Rising

Temperature Rising

A mild mid-March in Canada’s notoriously frigid prairie capital cannot be definitively pinned on global climate change. Still, for anyone willing to listen, read and watch, the writing is on the wall. Earth is warming — and fast.

Camphill

Camphill

Camphill residents would never describe their community as an institution. It’s home, community, and a way of life.

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David Phillips

David Phillips

As Earth’s climate changes and weather extremes become more frequent, no one has his finger on Canada’s weather pulse more squarely and firmly than Canada’s chief climatologist, David Phillips.

Dinah & Zack

Dinah & Zack

Who coined the phrase “Think globally, act locally” is a matter of dispute. Dinah Ceplis and Zack Gross certainly exemplify the philosophy in action.

Jessica Ernst

Jessica Ernst

Imagine what it would be like to have your home water supply morph into a fire hazard — the liquid flowing from your tap liable to explode if you light a match.

Ken Lewenza

Ken Lewenza

Looking back over a 42-year career in the Canadian trade union movement — from a Chrysler assembly line to the national presidency of the Canadian Autoworkers — what strikes Ken Lewenza the most?

The Good Food Club

The Good Food Club

John K. Sampson’s poignant song about Winnipeg captures the cold anonymity of Prairie Canada’s capital on a grey dismal day. But there are as many reasons to love this town as to hate it. The Good Food Club is one.

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Battered, Bloodied & Victorious

Battered, Bloodied & Victorious

Beaten and bloodied by US and Israeli bombs and missiles, and a largely ineffective US maritime blockade, Iran appears to think it’s thwarted Israel-USA’s unlawful war of aggression. It may be right. Donald Trump and Benjamin Netanyahu seem to think so. For wisdom on who won Gulf War III, and rapidly evolving events in Iran today, the GPM spoke with a distinguished scholar on all matters Iranian, Ervand Abrahamian.

Techno-Fascist Manifesto

Techno-Fascist Manifesto

Israel-USA’s February 28 assault on Iran constituted a flagrant breach of the UN Charter, but don’t expect Western powers and the corporate media to say so. Has Iran now turned the tables on Trump? The GPM explores this idea with Iran scholar Arang Keshavarzian. And, shades of Dr. Strangelove. An obscure tech titan wants to rule the world, and has even come up with a Manifesto. All hail the Republic of Palantir. The GPM speaks about Alex Karp’s weird manifesto with U. Ottawa scholar David Murakami Wood.

Carceral Continuum

Carceral Continuum

Apartheid Israel’s all-encompassing system for surveilling and jailing Palestinians. A conversation with UN Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese. And, the current status of the settler-colonial apartheid state’s most famous prisoner, Marwan Barghouti. The GPM speaks with Barghouti’s lawyer.

Bankrolling Israeli Crimes

Bankrolling Israeli Crimes

New report: The Canadian financial sector is deeply involved in supporting Israel’s unlawful occupation of Palestine, bankrolling unlawful Jewish settlement, apartheid and genocide there, as well as internationally wrongful Israeli acts in Lebanon and the illegally annexed Syrian Golan Heights.

Lethal Loopholes

Lethal Loopholes

In Ottawa, legislation that would have halted Canadian military support for US-Israeli genocide in Gaza fails. The GPM speaks with Rachel Small, Canada Organizer for World Without War. And, the second part of a conversation about critical education with Canadian academic, Henry Giroux.