Articles by The Globe and Mail
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Brazil’s Deepening Malaise
Robert Rotberg - The Globe and Mail,
2 Dec 2019
25 Nov 2019 – With the Amazon burning and politicians regaining impunity after corruption scandals recede, Brazil’s rule of law is suffering sharp blows. Although President Jair Bolsonaro campaigned as an anti-corruptionist, and as someone who would crack down on crime, Brazil slides rapidly into a slough of deceit. Modern day brigands are pillaging Brazil’s environment.
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Do Not Turn Away from the Horrors That the Rohingya Face
Bob Rae - The Globe and Mail,
5 Aug 2019
2 Aug 2019 – Two years ago this August, the world was shocked by brutal, tragic images coming out of Myanmar–a deep humanitarian crisis: systematic violence, rape, burning of villages and the killing of some 10,000 Rohingya who make up the largest percentage of Muslims in Myanmar. More than 700,000 were forced to abandon their homes and villages, joining an earlier exodus of refugees to Bangladesh – and those refugees are still there, in a crowded muddy camp in a town on Bangladesh’s southeast coast known as Cox’s Bazar.
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Paul Meyer and Ramesh Thakur - The Globe and Mail,
9 Oct 2017
More than 120 states, parties of the 1968 Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, deemed it important for the survival of the planet to conclude a comprehensive prohibition on nuclear weapons and the use or threat of use of these devastating and indiscriminate arms. But Canada opted to join a “dissenting minority” of nuclear-armed states and U.S. allies
→ read full articleHow to Stand Up to Online Trolls – and Profit – with Humour
Amira Elghawaby – The Globe and Mail,
4 Sep 2017
We have observed that humorous counter-speech can shift the dynamics of communication, de-escalate conflict, and draw much more attention to a message than it would otherwise garner. The authors point to a social media campaign that included pasting pictures of rubber ducks onto images of Daesh fighters, and to sarcastic responses to their calls for violence.
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Tony Keller – The Globe and Mail,
7 Sep 2015
It is seeking out something rare and beautiful and alive – and killing it. It is searching for this beautiful thing not for the joy of being awestruck at its existence, but to be able to say that you ended its life. It is the worst of the human impulses, which is in each of us: the impulse to destroy and to glory at the destruction we have wrought.
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James Adams – The Globe and Mail, Canada,
3 Aug 2015
Growing up absurd came easily in North America in the 1950s and ’60s when nuclear war would alternate from sinister diplomatic bargaining chip to “the end of civilization as we know it.”… If there’s a particular feeling you’re left with at the exhibition, it’s unease. On one hand, it’s hardly a clarion call to the anti-nuke barricades; on the other, it’s no apologia for the nuclear-industrial complex, no plea to cozy up to “our friend, the atom.”
→ read full articleIn France, Post-Charlie Debate Hits a New Level of Vitriol
Konrad Yakabuski - The Globe and Mail,
1 Jun 2015
The marches were an act of “domination” and a warning to marginalized members of society to stay in line. They were the act of a deeply insecure elite reclaiming as “its highest priority the right to spit on the religion of the weak.” All the talk of freedom of expression, Mr. Todd concludes, was a “sham.”
→ read full article[Nobel Peace Laureate] Aung San Suu Kyi Plays Down Role as Myanmar’s Conscience
Nathan Vanderklippe - The Globe and Mail,
13 Apr 2015
Ms. Suu Kyi has faced withering disapproval over her unwillingness to offer a strong repudiation of Myanmar’s treatment of the Rohingya, a Muslim group the country does not recognize as citizens and which the United Nations has called one of the most persecuted minorities on earth. Some have called for her Nobel Prize to be rescinded, while others have accused her of trading her moral standing for calculated politics.
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Francis Fukuyama - The Globe and Mail,
5 Nov 2012
Is America a plutocracy? The rich throughout American history have manipulated government in such a way as to protect and expand their own wealth and influence at the expense of others. Many observers have noted that Americans are much less bothered than Europeans by unequal economic outcomes, being far more concerned about equality of opportunity.
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Paul Koring -The Globe and Mail,
19 Mar 2012
In the ‘War of the Worlds’ the Martians used them to incinerate pesky humans more than a century ago. The Pentagon plans are more modest: crowd control of pesky humans. Still, after more than a century, the ‘heat ray’ has made the leap from fiction to reality with the U.S. military demonstrating the so-called ‘goodbye effect’ of directing electromagnetic waves at people. It delivers sudden, unbearable heat, like the invisible wave when a hot oven door is opened but far more powerful – an intense, enveloping but non-lethal blast.
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The Globe and Mail – TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Oct 2011
Ontario Provincial Police Constable Peter Leon said Saturday [22 Oct 2011] the number of dead waterfowl is estimated to be between 5,000 and 6,000. The dead birds are scattered along a nearly three-kilometre stretch north of the community of Wasaga Beach.
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Patrick Martin – The Globe and Mail,
21 Mar 2011
The Islam-is-down, secularism-is-up theme is one of three common notions about what the aftermath of the upheavals will bring. The second assumption is that greater democracy will emerge. The third is that, as far as the two non-Arab states that compete for influence in the region are concerned, the Iranian regime’s fortunes are looking brighter, and Israel’s much darker. It’s too soon to tell what exactly will emerge from this remarkable revolutionary period, but it’s not too soon to question some of these popular notions.
→ read full articleCanada Enlists in America’s Permanent War for Peace
Gerald Caplan – The Globe and Mail,
6 Dec 2010
Gerald Caplan charts the bloodthirsty history of ‘the most awesome military power the world has ever known’. ‘Look forward to a future of permanent war in the pursuit of peace,’ he writes.
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