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Colin Kaepernick who changed the American sports history when he knelt during the national anthem before games to protest social injustice, and in particular the large number of police killings of African-Americans is filing a collusion grievance against National Football League (NFL) owners.
Mirza Yawar Baig writes "As long as we continue to glorify war and plunder, we will continue to be plundered. That is the paradigm and conversation that we must change."
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Kaepernick Seeks Arbitration Over NFL Blacklisting
by Alan Gilman
Free-agent quarterback Colin Kaepernick is filing a collusion grievance against National Football League (NFL) owners, according to a document obtained by ABC News. The filing, which demands an arbitration hearing on the matter, says the NFL and its owners “have colluded to deprive Mr. Kaepernick of employment rights in retaliation for Mr. Kaepernick’s leadership and advocacy for equality and social justice and his bringing awareness to particular institutions still undermining racial equality in the United States.”
Trump’s Iran Deal
by Dr Binoy Kampmark
Bad deals. Very bad – unless, of course, they are minted in the United States, with Make America Great Again credentials. Hardly the stuff of presidential clout and oratorical flair, but the US president is making good his word to rain on the Iran nuclear deal, otherwise known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) with an overbearing enthusiasm.
Shattered Glass Houses of Zionist Pawns
by Dr Vacy Vlazna
Western governments that have servilely abrogated to a foreign power, i.e. Israel, their responsibilities to uphold international law can no longer claim national sovereignty nor a moral high-ground. These states have become bystanders to Israeli war crimes and genocide and are corrupt mouthpieces parroting Zionist platitudes that undermine Palestinian rights, particularly the right to resist and to defend Palestine’s freedom and land from its brutal occupier/ land-thief. Two recent typical examples of glass house hypocrisy are Belgium and Norway.
Cancer Metaphor Lessons For Climate Mitigation
by Bill Henderson
This spring I was diagnosed with cancer and I have just finished a treatment consisting of seven weeks of radiation aided by chemo therapy. Things look good now. I had a very treatable cancer; I have had effective treatment as quickly as possible. As a long time climate activist totally preoccupied with trying to get to effective climate mitigation my cancer has proven a very useful metaphor that’s grown like topsy. I’ve used the cancer metaphor to build a vehicle to try and move key decisions about effective climate mitigation from ‘too radical to consider’ into the Overton Window as ‘reasonable and worth consideration’. I hope to reach informed Canadians about what effective mitigation needs to be now
Walk The Walk And Don’t Just Talk The Talk!
by Sally Dugman
I am very firm and clear on this point: Unless someone takes the moral and the ethical high-ground regarding his particular religion or philosophical belief, he is merely paying lip-service to his religion or belief system. In short, he is likely a hypocrite or has some sort of mental deficiency.
Where Are We Headed?
by Mirza Yawar Baig
As long as we continue to glorify war and plunder, we will continue to be plundered. That is the paradigm and conversation that we must change.
Remembering Samar Sen In Centenary Year
by Chaman Lal
I regard Samar Sen as one of most significant writer and editor, who has contributed immensely to promote leftist/Marxist ideology and helped in growth of movement based on these ideas. His contribution is perhaps more than many of movement’s leaders, as he had provided an open platform to all groups to share their ideas and programmes without any bias for any particular group.
Martyr’s Futile Tenure
by Daipayan Nair
Let’s not extend it to an ‘end’; your lips, thirty two barricades for my fleet
I once had whiskeys of your sigh, I had laughed off the ice
Beyond the border, two hundred lovers in order
Your desire for the garment martyred mine, my gun shot your soul thrice
