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E. Wayne Ross
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Professor. Social Studies Educator. Journal Editor. American Canadian. Antifascist.
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Razing Palestine: Punishing Solidarity and Dissent in Canada
Punishing Solidarity and Dissent in Canada

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Razing Palestine: Punishing Solidarity and Dissent in Canada - Baraka Books
As the Israeli Army pummelled Gaza, those who spoke about the carnage were punished by censure, sanction, smearing and worse.
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November 11, 2025 at 4:24 AM
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Remember the Hillel BC‘Contractor’ Who Spread “I ❤️ Hamas” Stickers Framing the SJC at UBC? Turns Out He Had Been Hillel BC’s Advocacy Officer & President of UBC’s 'Israel on Campus'

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Remember the Hillel BC‘Contractor’ Who Spread “I ❤️ Hamas” Stickers Framing the SJC at UBC? Turns Out He Had Been Hillel BC’s Advocacy Officer & President of UBC’s 'Israel on Campus'
A BC Supreme Court ruling reveals how a former Hillel BC advocacy officer orchestrated a deceptive Hamas-smear hoax that triggered threats, fear, and a failed defamation case.
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November 11, 2025 at 4:22 AM
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UBC Geography Colloquium Series – Avery Everhart and Jasbir K Puar: You Can’t Pinkwash a Genocide: Sex/Gender/Fascism

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UBC
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November 11, 2025 at 1:43 AM
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Israeli soldiers have described a free-for-all in Gaza and a breakdown in norms and legal constraints, with civilians killed at the whim of individual officers, according to testimony in a TV documentary.
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Israeli soldiers speak out on killings of Gaza civilians
IDF soldiers tell documentary of opening fire unprovoked and arbitrary designations of who was an enemy
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November 10, 2025 at 6:19 PM
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MMA gym owners, coaches ID’d at secretive neo-Nazi event in Vancouver

Expert says event exemplifies worrying overlap between martial arts and extremism

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MMA gym owners, coaches ID’d at secretive neo-Nazi event in B.C. | CBC News
This summer in Vancouver, dozens of people gathered to attend a conference organized and attended by some of Canada’s most prominent white supremacist organizations. CBC’s visual investigations team l...
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November 10, 2025 at 6:02 PM
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Governments that silence teachers hurt students

What these premiers don’t understand or are unwilling to acknowledge is that teacher strikes are rarely about pay alone. They are acts of advocacy for the conditions that make real learning possible.

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Opinion: Governments that silence teachers hurt students
What these premiers don’t understand or are unwilling to acknowledge is that teacher strikes are rarely about pay alone.
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November 10, 2025 at 3:17 AM
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Palestine Under (Cease) Fire: The Struggle Continues

TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 25 | 5:00–7:00 PM
LEW FORUM, ALLARD HALL (UBC)

#freepalestine #UBC #UBCFaculty4Palestine
November 9, 2025 at 9:52 PM
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Trump's authoritarian economics -- the marketplace of obedience and the merger of political and economic coercion.

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When the Market Bows to Power: Trump’s De Facto Nationalization of Private Enterprise
The Steady State | Steven A. Cash
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November 8, 2025 at 4:57 PM
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When you desperately want to starve Americans:
November 6, 2025 at 11:06 PM
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"Authoritarianism doesn’t arrive as a thunderclap. It arrives as a series of adjustments the public learns to live with."

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Autocracy: The Warning Signs I Saw in Panama Are Emerging in America.
The Steady State | by Martha Duncan
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November 6, 2025 at 11:13 PM
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Zachary Foster: The eugenist history of the Zionist movement

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The eugenist history of the Zionist movement — Palestine Nexus
The Zionist leadership rejected persecuted, disabled, destitute, sick, diseased and elderly Jews because they were persecuted, disabled, destitute, sick, diseased and elderly. This is the eugenist h...
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November 6, 2025 at 5:26 PM
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This really hasn’t gotten enough attention this week.

@wired.com #ICE
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November 5, 2025 at 11:09 PM
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China-critical UK academics describe ‘extremely heavy’ pressure from Beijing - Reliance on overseas students’ tuition fees under scrutiny as scholars describe chilling effect of being targeted

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China-critical UK academics describe ‘extremely heavy’ pressure from Beijing
Reliance on overseas students’ tuition fees under scrutiny as scholars describe chilling effect of being targeted
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November 6, 2025 at 6:04 AM
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Canada: Budget cuts international student permit targets by 65 per cent in 2026 -- Carney government also proposes $1.7 billion to recruit international researchers.

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Budget cuts international student permit targets by 65 per cent in 2026 - University Affairs
Carney government also proposes $1.7 billion to recruit international researchers.
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November 5, 2025 at 10:07 PM
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Michael Kazin on the Socialism’s Far-Reaching Influence on American Thought

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A Brief History of American Socialism
“America will never be a socialist country,” declared Donald Trump in his 2019 State of the Union Address, given to a joint session of Congress. The president clearly believed that fear of such a r…
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November 5, 2025 at 5:30 PM
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Carney and the Liberals table a Conservative budget with big cuts for public programs and big gains for foreign defense contractors.
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The Military Wins and Public Programs Lose in Carney’s Budget | The Tyee
But will the Liberals find enough support to survive a non-confidence vote?
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November 5, 2025 at 5:00 PM
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F4P is a voluntary association of over 100 UBC full and part-time faculty and staff who share a commitment to support the struggle for Palestinian liberation from Israeli Apartheid and Occupation based on the principles of anticolonialism, anti-racism and social justice. #UBC #FacultyForPalestine
November 3, 2025 at 6:06 PM
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UK university halted human rights research after pressure from China -- Leading professor at Sheffield Hallam was told to cease research on supply chains and forced labour in China after demands from authorities #SheffieldHallamUniversity

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UK university halted human rights research after pressure from China
Exclusive: Leading professor at Sheffield Hallam was told to cease research on supply chains and forced labour in China after demands from authorities
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November 3, 2025 at 5:20 PM
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New Article! What do high school students learn about rightwing history? Not very much. www.tandfonline.com/eprint/C7MT4...
The modern political right in United States history standards
The last decade has seen a global rise in the power of the political Right. In some countries, that has meant a shift towards centre-right traditional conservativism. In others, more radical rightw...
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September 2, 2025 at 11:30 AM
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Top 10 US billionaires’ collective wealth grew by $698bn in past year – report

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Top 10 US billionaires’ collective wealth grew by $698bn in past year – report
Oxfam warns Trump policies risk driving inequality to new heights – but Democrats have also exacerbated wealth gap
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November 3, 2025 at 4:47 PM
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'There's no due process': ICU nurse, army veteran among U.S. citizens caught in ICE dragnet
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'No due process': L.A. nurse, veteran among citizens forcefully arrested by ICE amid immigration crackdown | CBC News
Two U.S. citizens whose forceful arrests by ICE were caught on video say federal agents violated their constitutional rights. As backlash against the administration's escalating immigration raids grow...
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November 1, 2025 at 3:54 PM
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COV axes important and extremely important community event for no good reason.
#allsouls #rememberingthedead

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City of Vancouver axes Mountain View Cemetery memorial event after 20 years
The All Souls event began in 2005 but is not being held this year. Find out more
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November 1, 2025 at 4:00 AM
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Pete Hoekstra Needs to Go
#gangsterdiplomacy

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Charlie Angus / The Resistance
Stories and strategies of resistance in this new dark age. Click to read Charlie Angus / The Resistance, a Substack publication with tens of thousands of subscribers.
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October 31, 2025 at 5:42 PM
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WELL GENERAL, WHAT ARE YOU THINKING?

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WELL GENERAL, WHAT ARE YOU THINKING?
IT IS FAIR AND REASONABLE TO WONDER ABOUT THE STATE OF WORRY AMONG OUR SENIOR OFFICER CORPS, AND WHERE THEY THINK THE COUNTRY IS HEADED.
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October 31, 2025 at 2:45 PM
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Rogers execs on Sportsnet+ World Series crash: “You can’t expect a streaming service that only costs $30 a month to work every time”
Rogers execs on Sportsnet+ World Series crash: "You can't expect a streaming service that only costs $30 a month to work every time"
TORONTO – With the Sportsnet+ app failing for many viewers during the Blue Jays victory in Game 4 of the World Series, Rogers execs have come forward to say that “honestly, this is kinda your guys fau...
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October 29, 2025 at 1:11 PM