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@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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Latest posts by kareemkanuck.bsky.social on Bluesky

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Say no to sportswashing Israel's crimes Our governments have long been aware of the importance of sport to the national psyche.

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

20.08.2025 23:31 — 👍 23    🔁 7    💬 3    📌 1
Whitney Webb: Why The Elites Are TERRIFIED of Her Research
YouTube video by Kim Iversen Whitney Webb: Why The Elites Are TERRIFIED of Her Research

youtu.be/AMacQo51nuE?...

18.08.2025 15:20 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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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 ...

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.

23.07.2025 17:00 — 👍 77    🔁 23    💬 1    📌 0
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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.

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

18.07.2025 23:31 — 👍 101    🔁 53    💬 6    📌 6
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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...

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.

08.07.2025 20:49 — 👍 34    🔁 16    💬 4    📌 4

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.

08.07.2025 13:51 — 👍 18    🔁 11    💬 0    📌 0
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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...

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:

01.07.2025 12:34 — 👍 33    🔁 18    💬 3    📌 4
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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...

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.

07.07.2025 09:03 — 👍 66    🔁 22    💬 2    📌 2
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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.

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

07.07.2025 23:58 — 👍 19    🔁 5    💬 0    📌 1
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Liberal plan to cut $13B a dangerous fantasy David Macdonald • Cuts this deep would cripple the services Canadians depend on

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...

30.06.2025 19:35 — 👍 12    🔁 11    💬 1    📌 5
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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...

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.

27.06.2025 10:46 — 👍 24    🔁 10    💬 5    📌 2

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.

26.06.2025 12:20 — 👍 46    🔁 21    💬 2    📌 0
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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.

From Betar to Shomrim, re-emergence of Zionist private militias in the West

@alonmizrahi.bsky.social ICYMI www.presstv.ir/Detail/2025/...

30.06.2025 01:09 — 👍 10    🔁 7    💬 2    📌 1

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.

30.06.2025 11:22 — 👍 49    🔁 13    💬 1    📌 0
Interlinked Jewish responsibility and guilt, US oppression, and an approaching Iran catastrophe
YouTube video by The Mizrahi Perspective Interlinked Jewish responsibility and guilt, US oppression, and an approaching Iran catastrophe

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

12.06.2025 03:59 — 👍 13    🔁 8    💬 0    📌 1
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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...

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.

13.06.2025 10:57 — 👍 19    🔁 14    💬 1    📌 2
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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...

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.

06.06.2025 15:41 — 👍 33    🔁 18    💬 1    📌 2
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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

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

07.06.2025 06:49 — 👍 19    🔁 10    💬 7    📌 3
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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

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

06.06.2025 13:53 — 👍 40    🔁 27    💬 0    📌 2
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‘Watershed moment’: Provincial unions are coming together to support northern First Nations protesting Bill 5 The controversial Ontario legislation is expected to pass today

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

04.06.2025 15:19 — 👍 51    🔁 35    💬 0    📌 2
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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...

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.

05.06.2025 14:57 — 👍 13    🔁 3    💬 1    📌 0
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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...

"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...

05.06.2025 15:33 — 👍 1    🔁 3    💬 2    📌 0

Trudeau (+NDP/CPC...) condemned the strategic security (economic, military) of all canadians by choosing the imperial/neocolonial economic war on China + proxy war on Russia. Even Australian elites were more pragmatic and are working with Beijing. Unilateral suicide with DC is still suicide.

06.06.2025 12:48 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Pensions tied to the USD system are doomed. A brief look at asian bond markets vs the US, and DC self destructiveness in financial and monetary policies would force sovereign elites to act accordingly. But isn't the US embassy our real executive/legislative head? Trump is a last chance to wake up.

06.06.2025 12:41 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Of course this "journalistic" piece by our state propaganda outlet omits the broader context, the geopolitical economy and the ideological choices of our ruling class.
Canadian economy (industrial, extractive or fin) should decouple from the decaying empire ASAP.

06.06.2025 12:34 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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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...

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

06.06.2025 08:50 — 👍 123    🔁 52    💬 11    📌 1
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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.

Shamelessness and borderlessness in Palestine and the whole world

03.06.2025 19:23 — 👍 14    🔁 8    💬 2    📌 1
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Treaty rights at risk: How Alberta premier Danielle Smith is threatening Canada’s Indigenous foundation As separatists prepare to trigger a referendum, First Nation leaders prepare for a fight

Treaty rights at risk: How Alberta premier Danielle Smith is threatening Canada’s Indigenous foundation: ricochet.media/indigenous/t...

23.05.2025 01:00 — 👍 7    🔁 6    💬 0    📌 0
Bâtir la crise du logement : une longue descente aux portes de l’enfer – Pivot La crise actuelle n’est pas le fruit du hasard, et ce n’est pas la première dans l’histoire du pays, mais des éléments précis en font un cas unique.

« Il n’y a pas de crise. Il y a le marché, tel qu’il est censé fonctionner. Toute sa mise en place est faite pour bénéficier aux investisseurs et pour la recherche de profits », explique @ricardotranjan.bsky.social, économiste politique et chercheur principal au CCPA. pivot.quebec/2025/05/26/b...

26.05.2025 14:38 — 👍 3    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

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