Cam Laforest

No to War, No to Empire: An Anti-Imperialist Reading List “The real enemy of my people is here. I will not disgrace my religion, my people or myself by becoming a tool to enslave those who are fighting for their own justice, freedom and equality.” —Muhammad ...

“The real enemy of my people is here. I will not disgrace my religion, my people or myself by becoming a tool to enslave those who are fighting for their own justice, freedom and equality.” —Muhammad Ali on refusing to fight in Vietnam

No to War, No to Empire: An Anti-Imperialist Reading List

anyway as someone grappling with very fresh grief over the loss of a parent, can I just say read more poetry, folks. For millennia, we've been feeling pain and grief, and translating it into art and poetry, and its all there, waiting for us.
There can be a kind of healing and comfort in that.

I hope Carney's statement in response to the attacks on Iran have disspelled any illusions among Liberals and social democrats that he is a politician with progressive principles, or that there is anyone in the Liberal cabinet with the principle to stand up for a principled foreign policy. #cdnpoli

i’m tired of every paper (even critical ones) on societal impact of AI starting by both-siding the “benefits” and risks/harms of AI

in academia, i would like us to arrive at a collective reckoning that we don’t need to play both sides. it's totally legit to clearly state just the harms. period

“Rejecting or resisting a commercial technology designed to attempt a mass wealth transfer and to erode public institutions is a valid political position.”

YouTube video by The Electronic Intifada Resistance reveals commander behind high-profile ambushes, with Jon Elmer

My Resistance Report day 860: Qassam Brigades salute Ahmed al-Yazji, fallen company commander in Beit Hanoun Battalion; I breakdown series of ambushes Yazji led vs IDF troops in Dec/Jan '25; fallen DFLP fighters; Abu Obeida on collaborators & US/IL aggression vs Iran. youtube.com/watch?v=et5yjddELk0

Instead of "the left isn't paying enough attention to these machine gods" they're claiming to build, perhaps we should write an article about how effective altruists brand themselves "left", ask who is writing these articles, and trace their cults and sources of funding.

You shouldn't buy what they say just because someone claims to be in your camp.

We can learn from the way race scientists sought legitimacy and got it through the academy, as detailed in Superior: The Return of Race Science, by Angela Saini.

That's what has happened here.

We shouldn't need Epstein level depravity to reject TESCREALism.

THEY ARE BUYING UP WAREHOUSES TO HOLD HUMAN BEINGS IN DETENTION INDEFINITELY.

I feel crazy at how everyone is acting like this is normal. These are concentration camps being built right before our eyes. These buildings are not meant to house human beings. People will be caged like cattle and die.

The essays are remarkably similar: insightful and well informed histories of capitalism, fintech, etc that point to an all-encompassing form of extraction, abuse, racism, and so forth. But rather than plot a form of resistance they imagine a fantasy world in which AI becomes a public good.

This is Smartwashing AI. Many know that the econ & political conditions that enable the tech industry to infiltrate every sector of public & private life are unsustainable & dangerous. But bc resistance is cast as emotional or archaic a cottage industry of wishful thinking from the left has emerged.

I think part of this is academic-brain. We've disciplined ourselves into believing that refusal or simply identifying something as irredeemable are not respectable intellectual positions. Instead, the clever posture is to wishcast a scenario on to which we can project our own smart version of sthing

I cannot sufficiently underline how despicable it is that the IOC has required Haitian Olympic athletes to remove an image representing the leader of the Haitian Revolution (against SLAVERY) from their uniforms.

The colonial imperialist west shouldn’t be forgiven for a lot of things, and the crimes against Haiti and her people are one of them.

The nazis redistributed the stolen property of deported Jews to the German population. It was called Aryanization.

This is no different.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aryaniz...

A caregiving social movement IS political.

Reminder: journalists get arrested in Canada too.

In fact, The Narwhal is in court right now challenging the RCMP for arresting photojournalist Amber Bracken. Our editor-in-chief,Carol Linnitt, testifies today and Monday, and court is open to the public if you're in Vancouver.

Mistaken identity leads to police drawing weapons and handcuffing school trustee in her own vehicle | CBC News Prince George, B.C., school trustee says she's shaken and scared after being surrounded by police with their guns drawn and then put in handcuffs, in what RCMP say was a case of mistaken identity.

Erica McLean is a Gitxsan member and Prince George school trustee, and she and the whole community are failed by over-resourced and under-useful police who seem unable to assess risk. Or identify cars. Or people. Or stop being racist bullies. Disband RCMP, start w BC fr www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Versions of ‘1984’ and ‘Book of Genesis’ Banned in Alberta Schools | The Tyee Graphic novels are the focus of the full list of prohibited books, revealed through FOI.

The great folks at @thetyee.ca were kind enough to republish today's Orchard scoop identifying the books banned by the Calgary and Edmonton public school boards to comply with a provincial order.

thetyee.ca/Opinion/2026...

Empire, ecology, and Canada’s foreign policy ‘reset’ We may hold out hope for this government to take new directions, but we cannot rely on hope—and certainly not on faith that does not stem from a sober reading of the historical record. We must be rele...

My contribution to the interpretation of Carney's Davos speech (so much more to be said, but there is a word limit 😉) :
canadiandimension.com/articles/vie...

More Than 100 Gazans Have Been Accepted to Canadian Universities. Canada Isn’t Letting Them In. See a map of the graduate programs they're planning to attend, if the government finally processes their visas

New from me: More Than 100 Gazans Have Been Accepted to Canadian Universities. Canada Isn’t Letting Them In.

Canada is a muder state.

Fuck yeah

I couldn't agree more. I thought "Department of Homeland Security" was a dystopian name for it the moment I heard it.

I remember snarking to a friend, "so is this the Fatherland now?"

They want assurances that keeping the doors and blinds shut as the screams in the streets grow louder will protect them. And that all will be fine if they keep their eyes down and always do what the men in uniform tell them to.

A person wearing a blue winter coat and gloves holds a cardboard sign that reads, “Denied the right to defend ourselves bc the state thinks we have no legit selves to defend.” Snow covers the ground and nearby bushes.

A friend shared this picture of someone holding this sign as part of yesterday's Chicago protests. I'm always humbled when people bring my ideas along with them.

We expect @mayor.nyc.gov to keep his promise to fund our NYC libraries at 0.5% of the city's operating budget in his preliminary budget that should be released soon.

Billy Bragg, fuck yeah.