"Canada’s Liberal government is pushing through sweeping new legislation targeting refugees that observers fear will usher in a new era of US-style border policies, fueling xenophobia and the scapegoating of immigrants." www.theguardian.com/world/2025/d...

Same thing afoot in Canada "Crisis narratives sustain a political economy of fear, and have driven far-reaching transformations of Europe’s border architecture and migration policy" www.theguardian.com/world/commen...

Timothy Snyder in The Globe and Mail: "In the U.S., too, the connection between domestic repression and foreign aggression is coming into focus" www.theglobeandmail.com/gift/197efda...

"If humanity is now defined by the presence of casual errors, American-centric colloquialisms, and a certain informal, conversational rhythm, then where does that leave the rest of us?"

In his introductory essay to the 2025 Austin Clarke Prize for Literary Excellence, Matthew Monrose excavates the contradictions of Austin Clarke and bears down on what we can learn from his refusal to "stop scratching." ex-puritan.ca/dont-scratch...

Insightful piece. The long project of AI only pretends at broadening our future while in fact hemming it in

"History has proven that ‘Big Stick’ white supremacy—now allied with subordinate Hindu supremacist ideology—will only ever deny justice, peace and a dignified existence to the working class and marginalized communities of Our Americas." www.blackagendareport.com/why-caribbea...

“.. As the smoke cleared, they got a jolt: Two survivors were clinging to the smoldering wreck. “The Special Operations commander .. ordered a second strike to comply with Hegseth’s instructions .. The two men were blown apart ..” @washingtonpost.com www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

"The most common national issue that is said to be made worse by immigration is the housing crisis. Yet its main causes have little to do with immigration."

"One of the things we did get is a doubling down on the scapegoating of migrants, international students, refugees when it comes to the housing and affordability crisis, and this budget really represents a retreat from the humanitarian obligations that Canada has to refugees."

Genocide resumes, reads this weekend's cover of @thecontinent.org, as El Fasher falls to the Rapid Support Forces after a year long siege. Gruesome images of their killing spree that is estimated to have killed thousands, make the rounds. What Sudanese activists warned would happen is playing out.

Read @thecontinent.org article on the fall of El Fasher and how it fits into the longer advance of Hemedti and the RSF

Capital concentration is a primary goal of the long project of AI "Without policy action, AI will not deliver the transformational productivity gains Canada needs; instead, it will preserve stagnation with higher profits for those already at the top"

The one call to action people could amplify is a trade and arms embargo on the UAE until they stop arming and supporting the RSF. The UAE is one of Canada and the US’ biggest trading partners in the MENA region. #KeepEyesOnSudan #KeepEyesOnDarfur

“Communications have been cut off. The situation is chaotic. In this context, it is difficult to estimate the number of civilians killed. Despite commitments to protect civilians, the reality is that no one is safe in El Fasher.” www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...

The Caribbean boat strikes are egregiously illegal under both US domestic law and US-ratified international treaties. Anyone carrying them out is following an illegal order. (Is that why Adm. Holsey resigned?) Trump will not be in power forever, and will not save war criminals from accountability.

Trump has deployed an aircraft carrier to the Caribbean and launched a series of missile strikes that have killed dozens. From Colombia to Mexico, leaders are calling it a war crime—and warning that the U.S. is reviving its old habit of gunboat diplomacy. Read the story here.

Maurice Bishop speaking in 1983 “The destiny of your English-speaking Caribbean is inextricably linked with that of our Spanish-speaking brothers and sisters. Not only Simón Bolívar, but also other great thinkers of our time have recognized that our future lies in the unity of our peoples...

This is truly obscene

mask off imperialism “The B-1 strategic bomber is designed to penetrate enemy airspace to deliver 37 tonnes of ordnance onto its target. Neither jet is in any way useful for stopping drug-smuggling" www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/10...

"This is not the first time Puerto Rico has been used as a military springboard. Its bases have served as logistical hubs for interventions across the hemisphere, from the US invasion of the Dominican Republic in 1965, to Grenada in 1983, and Panama in 1989."

"The island that has lived under US rule since 1898 is once again being used as a staging ground for US militarism, this time for Washington’s latest “war on drugs” narrative, masking a campaign of coercion against Latin America’s independent governments." www.commondreams.org/opinion/puer...

When Canada puts its particular spin on surveillance capitalism

Really can't get over Canada's AI minister saying this. Might as well have said that AI is here so that we can apply market logic to the very deficits created by capitalism

"On Thursday, Trinidad’s prime minister, Kamla Persad-Bissessar, who has previously expressed strong support for a US military operation in the region, avoided questions from reporters about the US airstrike that is thought to have killed Joseph and Samaroo." www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...

This was delightful "If there is terror in small things, there is safety, too."

The fundamental premise of data enclosure is what remains consistent

The extrajudicial killings by the US continue unchecked www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...

This is Claudia Jones speaking on the detention and planned deportation of herself and others in 1950 under the McCarran Act. I take this from Left of Karl Marx: The Political Life of Black Communist Claudia Jones, by Carole Boyce Davies.

"we need to be able to ask what the best ideas and movements for serious change have been and how we should tell the story of what became of them and how, if at all, they might connect to our world now"

Such a powerful reorientation by Marisa J. Fuentes: "From a single runaway advertisement we cannot know Jane's ultimate fate--whether she was harbored by friends, relatives, or strangers, caught, or continued her journey in danger...

A clear display of how techno-utopian fantasies have anti-worker sentiment baked in "the alternative would be a kind of indentured labour...a company could say, we'll train you...but once you're fully trained, you're going to need to stick with us for 10 years" www.youtube.com/watch?v=IeTF...

So many women have been talking, writing and warning people of the dangerous ideologies and biases of tech in Silicon Valley, for decades, and it’s so infuriating that so many men (not OP here) just flat out ignore it and act surprised at the technofascists infecting it now

"It is time for the State and the private sector, together, to establish an arts-funding agency that will not be a political football and is properly constituted with strict funding rules to avoid nepotism and other forms of corruption." trinidadexpress.com/opinion/colu...

My article on Sam Selvon and his post-indentureship narratives is now out in the latest issue of the journal Anthurium. Pleased to have my work alongside that of Cornel Bogle, Ronald Cummings, Nalini Mohabir, Simone Dalton, and Ramabai Espinet. It's open access:  anthurium.miami.edu/35/volume/20...

Must read www.bostonreview.net/articles/a-g...

This makes clear how irresponsible David Eby's recent comments in Surrey were

the mendacity here is galling: "We can't have an immigration system that fills up our homeless shelters and our food banks."

Irene Bloemraad with the right call here: "focusing on immigrants is an easy way, to be totally frank, to turn the attention away from deep structural problems such as a lack of affordable housing"

widespread austerity measures, the omni-presence of the US military, and the unfettered deployment of everything AI are united in the aim of reining in all that might coordinate change

US boosts military presence in region: fighter jets coming trinidadexpress.com/news/local/u...

More perverse rhetoric from Trinidad's PM: apnews.com/article/trin...

So the US military is now at war with a vaguely defined enemy (drug cartels) across a vast area (the Caribbean) with no specific goal (“winning” and “defeating them”) and accusing a regional government (Venezuela) of sponsoring that vague enemy without showing proof? Sounds pretty forever warish.

Nine grafs deep into the article and we find out: "Pentagon officials were still working Wednesday on what legal authority they would tell the public was used to back up the extraordinary strike in international waters."

My op-ed in the @chicagomaroon.bsky.social on the University of Chicago’s appalling plans to gut the humanities and possibly eliminate the South Asian studies department chicagomaroon.com/48353/viewpo...

Looking for some good reading about AI in education? Check out this new special issue "Theorizing the Future of Generative AI in Education" just out @lmt-journal.bsky.social www.tandfonline.com/toc/cjem20/5...