John Clarke

I notice that #Trump is now asking other countries for help he didn't need to finish a way he's already won. #Iran

After 5 years of no clean drinking water, Oneida pipeline project approved | CBC News Construction to extend the Lake Huron Primary Water Supply System pipeline to the Oneida Nation of the Thames will soon be underway after a London, Ont., company won a bid for the federal contract las...

This is an #Indigenous community in SW Ontario and there can be no excuses about the remoteness of their location. The lack of clean #drinkingwater they have endured is quite simply the racist face of Canadian colonialism.
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What imperialism gains from the #Israeli settler-colonial project.
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‘Stunned, sidelined and disunited’: how war in the Middle East paralysed the EU Amid fears the conflict will strengthen Russia, Ursula von der Leyen’s embrace of US-backed regime change already looks like a doomed strategy

Carney's 'middle powers' are a pretty craven bunch who have grown used to the role of junior partner subservience in their dealings with the US. They remain rudderless in the face of the new America First reality. #EU #Iran
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That #Israel's political and military spokespersons are still treated as credible sources is evidence of the total moral bankruptcy of the Western media. #Lebanon

Hegseth ignored military officials when he slashed offices that limit risk to civilians The Defense secretary’s decision to cut offices that mitigate civilian harm faces renewed attention as the Pentagon investigates a strike that killed hundreds of Iranian children.

Will #PeteHegseth follow Kristi Noem over the side of the ship?
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The context in which #Carney's austerity will unfold.
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#Israel is on an utterly deranged trajectory but so too is its main imperial sponsor. #Lebanon

Adam Smith: 250 years This week 250 years ago, Adam Smith published An Inquiry Into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations – and invented economics. Made up of five ‘books’ over 1000 pages, the Wealth of Nations…

#AdamSmith's legacy is far more complicated and contradictory than the free market cheering section would have us believe.
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Setting the stamp on the humiliation of #Trump and of US imperialism. #Iran

Toronto Video Activist Collective Your tax dollars at work in occupied Toronto. G20-level deployment to contain Palestinian solidarity as the expanding war and genocide continue throughout the region. Police and authorities...

The Ford government's attempt to get an injunction against the #AlQudsDay march failed miserably but the backup plan was this massive exercise in state intimidation.
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Trump says he may order more attacks on Iran “just for fun” In a half-hour telephone interview with NBC News today, President Trump said that today’s US attacks on Kharg Island “totally demolished” most of the island but that “we may hit it a few more times ju...

#trump #fun #bombing-iran #USA #US #america #iran

People are getting killed. US soldiers and airmen are getting killed. Iranian schoolgirls are being killed by the dozen. The US military is spending billions of dollars. Gas prices are going up. But Trump is having fun!

Fourth-quarter GDP revised down to just 0.7% growth; January core inflation was 3.1% The PCE price index for January was expected to show headline inflation at 2.9% and core at 3.1%.

In his first year back, Trump slammed the brakes on the #BidenBoom.

In 2024, the economy rose at a 2.8% pace.

In 2025, growth slowed to just 2.1%

www.cnbc.com/2026/03/13/f... #TrumpIsntWorking

Let us hope that they will never get the chance. It the UK electorate is stupid enough to vote in a Reform government, we are lost.

Americans are demanding refunds from the $180 billion in tariffs they paid for, and they’re suing companies like Costco to make it happen | Fortune A Costco shopper sued the big-box retailer, saying a proposed class of plaintiffs could top 100, and they’re demanding $5 million in tariff refunds.

Good luck with that!

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Mass pilot whale stranding in Indonesia raises questions about ocean health Villagers in central Indonesia rescued 34 short-finned pilot whales following a mass stranding on March 9, but despite their overnight efforts were unable to save 21 others. Mongabay Indonesia’s Ebed ...

#whales

There was a mass stranding of #pilotwhales (Globicephala macrorhynchus) near Deranitan, #Indonesia on March 9th. 34 animals animals were rescued, 21 died.

Necropsies were done. Article does not list cause of death

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FCC chair threatens broadcasters over Iran war coverage FCC Chair Brendan Carr said news broadcasters coverage of Iran war could impact their license renewal.

Shocking. 😒

FCC Chair Brendan Carr said news broadcasters coverage of Iran war could impact their license renewal. www.usatoday.com/story/news/p...

Tasmanian government went against advice from police chief on gun limits In the push for gun law reform in the wake of the Bondi attack, Tasmania's Police Commissioner urged the state government to limit the number of firearms a person can own, citing the murder of an offi...

The Tasmanian government won't even listen to the advice of the state's Police Commissioner. How I hate this government and the spineless, pathetic politicians that run it. #politas

WAR!!!

#Iran

#Epstein

#EpsteinFiles

8 accused of antifa ties convicted on terrorism charges over shooting at Texas immigration facility A federal jury has convicted eight people accused of having links to antifa on terrorism charges over what prosecutors called an attack on a Texas immigration detention center.

8 defendants in Prairieland Detention Center case found guilty of providing material support to ‘terrorists’. “A federal jury on Friday convicted 8 people on terrorism charges over a shooting at a Texas immigration facility that federal prosecutors tied to antifa..." apnews.com/article/prai...

Stripped of life: the deadly South Australian algal bloom is still spreading one year on More than 20,000 sq km of coast has succumbed to Australia’s first bloom of toxic Karenia cristata algae – and scientists worry it could explode again

This is our lifeblood
SA is under threat because greed, political mileage and personal wealth are treated as important, while climate, species decimation and the health of our entire ecosystem are completely ignored.
#GreensAreOurOnlyHope
#auspol
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As #Trump's adventure in #Iran goes off the rails.
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Twin Threats to Public Medicare Attack One Alberta’s Danielle Smith government launches frontal assault on the Canada Health Act to end single-tier Public Medicare and bring in US private healthcare. The threat to the future of Publ...

'If the private clinics are allowed to expand into orthopedics and gynecologic surgeries and more, the unfettered expansion of patient charges will cause widespread suffering and inequality.' socialistproject.ca/2026/03/twin...

This theory has been empirically verified.

Why the Iran war has caught Gulf states in a bind Facing the consequences of U.S. military dependence, the GCC is still reluctant to criticize Washington — but public anger will not be easily contained.

The attack on #Iran increases tensions between the US and the #GulfStates. Their rulers are quite prepared to be vile collaborators with US imperialism but they do have their own interests and subservience has limits.
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I confess that I didn't notice the faces but, in terms of what I was putting across, the authenticity of the photo isn't really decisive. I'll just let it stand.

RFK Jr. Appointee Reviewing Vaccines Has No Medical Background, Questionable Research History One expert said Kennedy’s pick once met with her to discuss his research, but came with his own “agenda” instead.

Kennedy is only there to make the people running the War Department seem rational by comparison. #RFKJr
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#Trump is burning the military candle at both ends. #Iran

The sun and thousands of its twins migrated across the Milky Way just in time The sun rode a massive galactic migration wave to the Milky Way’s suburbs

'Our sun was born 4.6 billion years ago near the crowded center of the Milky Way and then migrated roughly 10,000 light-years outward to the peaceful galactic suburbs it currently occupies.' www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-...

#KarlMarx died on this day in 1883 but the contribution he would make was just getting started and the main event still lies ahead of us.