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No Justice on Stolen Land: No Surrender at the Oshkimaadziig Camp
By Alex Hundert - January 15, 2013
Decolonization is a process in which that domination is challenged. Myths are unlearned, and Indigenous governance models are revised. It is also a process of restoring balance to the land, and seeking more meaningful forms of justice. That is why, following the Idle No More movement from a cell in the Penetang prison, the words from the Oshkimaadziig Camp banner could not ring more true: No Surrender, indeed.
Russian Government Intensifies Witch-Hunt of Migrant Workers
By Clara Weiss - 18 January 2013
Against a background of growing social tensions, the Russian government is stepping up its anti-immigrant measures in close collaboration with fascist groups. The opposition parties, whether liberal, nationalist or pseudo-left, have also joined the calls for tightening immigration controls.
Israeli Apologist Benny Morris
Morris' worldview is racist. It's fanciful, fabricated, and disturbing.
Aaron Swartz: Suicide or Murder?
Advocates of online openness and freedom lost a committed champion. The Economist said to call him "gifted would be to miss the point. As far as the internet was concerned, he was the gift."
Obama v. Netanyahu Round Two
They've gone at each other before. Neither one likes the other.
France Launches Ground Offensive in Mali
By Ernst Wolff - 17 January 2013
French warplanes and ground units continued their offensive yesterday against Islamist-led rebels in the impoverished African country of Mali...French ground troops began an attack on the rebels in the small border town of Diabaly, 220 miles north of the Malian capital of Bamako. It has reportedly been surrounded and blocked off by French and Malian soldiers and is witnessing hand-to-hand fighting.
