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Trump’s dangerous bluster on Iran
February 14, 2017
Iran has been formally PUT ON NOTICE for firing a ballistic missile. Should have been thankful for the terrible deal the U.S. made with them!” – @RealDonaldTrump tweet, 2 Feb. 2017. On 21 January Iran test-fired a ballistic missile for, in their words, “legitimate defensive purposes”. From Iran’s perspective, this was a reasonable claim. There […]
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Invisible wars in the Age of Trump
February 6, 2017
Paul Rogers warns that the near invisibility of modern warfare will make democratic accountability in the age of Trump even more difficult. See Theresa May, Donald Trump and the wars to come (Open Democracy, 3 February 2017). The main reason why the current war is getting so little coverage in the western media is that […]
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Revitalized Canadian journalism essential for democracy
January 30, 2017
The Public Policy Forum has released a report, The Shattered Image: News, Democracy and Trust in the Digital Age (January 2017), on the increasingly dire state of Canadian media and the deleterious impact of declining “civic-function” journalism on democracy. The report defines civic-function news as: the coverage of elected officials and public institutions, from legislatures, […]
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Take action now to ensure justice is done for Afghan detainees
January 24, 2017
This blog post is to remind readers of a very important parliamentary petition, Petition e-608 (Access to Information), which has just surpassed the 500 signatures required to trigger a formal, written, and public response by the government. This petition is an attempt to stop the government from censoring documents sent to an important review body, […]
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