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Nerdy organization, based in Toronto, engaged in education and research on such existential threats as nuclear weapons, militarism and climate change. www.scienceforpeace.org

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Science for Peace @science-for-peace.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
The UN designated today, Gandhi's birthday , as International Day of Nonviolence. In dark times, in many lands, citizens are confirming Gandhi's view that "nonviolence is the greatest force at the disposal of mankind" - against tyranny, domination, injustice and war. #nonviolence
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Science for Peace @science-for-peace.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
In 1960, a scientific report concluded that humanity would become extinct on Nov. 13, 2026 owing to overpopulation. Whew! One prediction proven wrong. Paraphrasing Mark Twain, the reports of humanity's extinction are highly exaggerated. Or are they? theconversation.com/scientists-p...
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Science for Peace @science-for-peace.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
APOCALYPSE SOON Insider trading on the $24 billion #PredictionMarket is a security threat. You can bet on how the world will end - climate apocalypse, nuclear war, pandemic, AI agents gone rogue - and make a killing.
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Science for Peace @science-for-peace.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Please note: This event will be taking place at the OISE building at 252 Bloor Street West, second floor, room 2286 in Toronto. Also on Zoom. Register at scienceforpeace.org
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Science for Peace @science-for-peace.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
US #imperialism and #tariffs are signs of America's decline as an economic power. It can no longer compete with China, so it retreats into #protectionism and seizing resources such as oil in Venezuela. And this pattern is unlikely to change. jacobin.com/2026/09/trum...
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Donald Trump’s Imperialism of Decline Is a Global Menace
US leaders have generally sought to cloak their imperialism with euphemistic rhetoric, but Trump has dropped any pretense about his shameless resource grabs. As the US grows weaker on the world stage,...
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Science for Peace @science-for-peace.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
What irony: leftist parties attract educated and comparatively well-off support while the "working class" (those lacking tertiary education), drift to far-right populism, especially in the US and the UK. What can be done? www.welcomestack.org/p/the-long-s...
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Science for Peace @science-for-peace.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
On the impending #tradewar, Bill Clinton offers a clear explanation of the significance of the refusal of #Canada to bow to demands that pertain not only to bilateral trade but also to US control of Canadian policies. WE are not a vassal state. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Aef4...
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"Canada Just Did What No Country Has Done To Trump!" | Bill Clinton
YouTube video by Willow Abbott
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Science for Peace @science-for-peace.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Why does the US keep losing #wars - in Vietnam, Iraq, Afghanistan and #Iran - despite its superior military resources? Mainly because they initiated the wrong wars: flimsy rationales for wars opponents could win just by outlasting them. #uswar foreignpolicy.com/2026/08/05/i...
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Why the United States Keeps Losing Wars
Washington has a long record of fighting the wrong war for the wrong objective.
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Science for Peace @science-for-peace.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
The US National Academy of Sciences produces a manual that includes a section on how #fossilfuels burning promotes climate change. But Trump depends on the fossil fuel companies for donations and thus condemns the science as the enemy. And so, we burn. #climatecrisis thebulletin.org/2026/07/amer...
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American Nero: Why Trump is trying to burn down the National Academy of Sciences
Carnage in pursuit of power, revenge, personal financial gain, and ego.
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Science for Peace @science-for-peace.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
With the US heading for a humiliating defeat in the #Iranwar , Canada and Greenland will again be under threat. Trump may see them as more vulnerable targets as he tries to rebuild his shattered reputation as empire-builder. #cdnpolitics
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Science for Peace @science-for-peace.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
Hey Canada, we have the Canadian Peace Museum opening next month in Bancroft, ON. We have war museums already, but this is the first museum devoted to peace. It is supported entirely by donations from the public. Do attend! #peaceispossible www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ZSL...
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Peace Podcast 198 Chris Houston
YouTube video by Peace Podcast
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Science for Peace @science-for-peace.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
On 16 July, US Sec of State Rubio convened representatives from 65 countries to warn that the left was an “encroaching darkness.” His colleague Stephen Miller called “left-wing extremism” a “fatal cancer to civilization.” We've heard this talk before, we know where it leads.
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Science for Peace @science-for-peace.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
Hiroshima-Nagasaki Memorial Day: See you there: Next Thursday, 4:30: Toronto City Hall #nuclearwar
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Science for Peace @science-for-peace.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
This article reflects on the importance of self-discipline in #nonviolent movements. Disciple is crucial in preventing the regime from defining you and in prompting observers to question why such peaceful people are willing to suffer. www.scienceforpeace.org/post/why-sel...
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Why self-discipline can be a form of political power in non-violent political action
Patty KwokStefan Müller from Germany, CC BY 2.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0>, via Wikimedia Commons Many people regard non-violent political actions as naïve. On the one hand, criticsargue that non-violence can be slow, ineffective, and unable to bring about real change. Onthe other hand, they believe it is unrealistic for peaceful protesters to stick to non-violentprinciples no matter what, especially when there is a huge power imbalance betweenordinary people and an oppressiv
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Science for Peace @science-for-peace.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
This book, with the subtitle "How Canadians Can Deter Aggression, Defeat Tyranny and Build Democracy", will be available in early November. #nonviolence #Canada #civilresistence
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Science for Peace @science-for-peace.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
FYFP - "#!!? Your Fascist Pancakes". Interesting how one comment - this one hurdled at Alberta's #DanielleSmith at a pancake breakfast by an irate constituent protesting Smith's coddling of #MAGA Alberta separatists - can resonate!
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Science for Peace @science-for-peace.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
Trump, facing ignominious defeat in #IranWar‌ , may now be looking to bully a softer target - #Canada - to retrieve his "winner" image. WE need to retaliate on #tariffs - no more unreciprocated concessions. Export tax on pot ash? US has now achieved its own isolation.
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Science for Peace @science-for-peace.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
Regarding responsibility for wildfire smoke: if growth of #wildfires is a dimension of climate change, and if fossil luels account for 70% of #GHGemissions, with Trump doublingl down on fossil fuels, the US is the main culprit.
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Science for Peace @science-for-peace.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
In the 1960s and 1970s, the threat of nuclear war led to massive protests in UK and globally. Today, with an even greater threat owing to #AI, where is the campaign for #nucleardisarmament? Our future will be decided in the streets.
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Science for Peace @science-for-peace.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
So you want to know more about nonviolent action/civil resistance? Here is the place to find online free training sessions: #resist training.aeinstein.org/clientapp/ap...
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A People Powered Training Platform
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Science for Peace @science-for-peace.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
#Iranwar : on Zoom and In-Person. Please register.
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Science for Peace @science-for-peace.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
#Disinformation, such as that now promoting secession in Alberta and discrediting Canada, is a major threat. How to counter it? Digital nonviolence refuses outrage, instead building trust slowly, and treating truth as a shared responsibility. wagingnonviolence.org/cnv/podcast/...
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Science for Peace @science-for-peace.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
Can we make the abolition of #war a realistic goal, and if so, how? We need a strategy for escaping the prospect of mutual suicide should nuclear deterrence fail. www.youtube.com/watch?v=ipL5...
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"Making the Abolition of War a Realistic Goal"
YouTube video by Science4Peace
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Science for Peace @science-for-peace.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
Blumenfeld Junior Fellowships now open for applications at Science for Peace in Toronto. Preference to graduating UG students and graduate students in the greater Toronto region. Focus: 1) #nuclearweapons, 2) #nonviolentresistance. Refer to scienceforpeace.org for details
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Science for Peace | peace education and research non-profit in Toronto | 15 King's College Circle #355, Toronto, Ontario M5S 3H7, Canada
Science for Peace is a peace education and research non-profit in Toronto. We are a charitable organization dedicated to popular education and research on the intersections of demilitarization, decar...
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Science for Peace @science-for-peace.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
The degree of community-based cooperation and nonviolent #ResistanceUnited in US cities, especially in reaction to ICE ("King Trump's private army": Bruce Springsteen) is remarkable, inspiring. #NoKings inthesetimes.com/magazine/the...
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The New Antifascist Consensus
Investigative reporting about corporate malfeasance and government wrongdoing, analysis of national and world affairs, and cultural criticism that matters.
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Science for Peace @science-for-peace.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
“When I was a kid in the 1980s, we were at three minutes to metaphorical midnight and my dad wouldn’t even let me go to the movies. Now, [Bulletin of Atomic Scientists] have pushed it even closer. We’ve tick-tocked ourselves to 85 seconds to midnight. " We've had enough.
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Science for Peace @science-for-peace.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
Can we make the abolition of war a realistic goal? Register for this panel (Zoom or in-person) for reflections on this key issue, at scienceforpeace.org under events.
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Science for Peace @science-for-peace.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
Canada's new $6.6 billion Defence Industrial Strategy aims to build Canada's defence industries and ensure sovereign control of communications, digital services and weapons. Ok, but still the unanswered question: how to withstand a US intervention?
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Science for Peace @science-for-peace.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
The New START agreement between the US and Russia, in force since 2011, caps the number of American and Russian long-range missiles and bombers. It is the last treaty stabilizing the nuclear relationship between the superpowers. Now Trump is willing to see it expire.
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Science for Peace @science-for-peace.bsky.social · 01/02/2026
2 take-aways from the inspiring NV resistance in Minnesota: -Civic engagement was strong before the invasion: numerous non-profits, unions and faith communities -heavy repression backfires, with anger mobilizing more protestors. Lessons for future NV struggles.
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Science for Peace @science-for-peace.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
Speaking of Trump #imperialism , I'd say that Canada's province of #Alberta is now at risk - thanks to the dupes who want to organize an independence referendum in a land-locked province reliant on dirty oil exports in a time of peaking global oil demand. thetyee.ca/Opinion/2026...
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Trump’s America Comes for Alberta | The Tyee
The country must respond to this flagrant violation of Canadian sovereignty.
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Science for Peace @science-for-peace.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
Thanks to Russian strikes near Ukrainian nuclear power stations, T.S Elliot's famous line that the world ends with a whimper, not a bang. may need to be revised. #UkraineWar #nuclear www.rsn.org/001/putin-ha...
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Putin Has Put Ukraine---and the World---At the Brink of Atomic Apocalypse
<p><dropcap>V</dropcap>ladimir Putin is at the brink of igniting multiple global-scale atomic catastrophes at as many as 19 nuclear power plants in Ukraine. </p><p>Putin&...
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Science for Peace @science-for-peace.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
With the whiff of imperialism in the air, not to mention rising authoritarianism, it is time to reassess nonviolent #defence /resistance. Yes, it can work, under certain conditions. @WagingNonviolence sandbroo.faculty.politics.utoronto.ca/rethinking-n...
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Rethinking Nonviolent Defence for the 21st Century - Richard Sandbrook - PROGRESSIVE FUTURES BLOG
After defining what nonviolent defence in the 2020s, I suggest that joint deployment of both nonviolent and armed defence is viable and implementable under certain foreseeable conditions.,
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Science for Peace @science-for-peace.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
Here's a brilliant idea: European countries respond to Trump's 10% tariff on them for supporting Greenland - with a tax on the oligarchs who back Trump and stand to benefit from US control of Greenland. #Greenland @tariffs www.commondreams.org/news/gabriel...
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‘Tariff for Oligarchs’: Top Economist Urges Europe to Fight Trump by Punishing US Billionaires | Common Dreams
"Europe should respond to Trump’s blackmail with targeted measures aimed not at American consumers, but at American billionaires," wrote Gabriel Zucman.
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Science for Peace @science-for-peace.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
"Nous envahir est aise', nous occuper est l'enfer." "To invade us [Canada] is easy, to occupy us is hell "- a warning from Que'bec to would-be invaders. Perhaps also an apt slogan for nonviolent defence. #Imperialism #Canada www.ledevoir.com/opinion/chro...
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Science for Peace @science-for-peace.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
It's often said that #GenZ is absent from protests. Not true! In 2025, they were the main participants in many protests - and suffered. wagingnonviolence.org/2026/01/how-... Protests without leaders cannot be coopted, but lack long-term strategies. Training, organization needed?
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How Gen Z movements around the globe shared tactics and challenges
Leaderless uprisings cascaded across 11 countries and shook governments in 2025. Now, Gen Z protesters must find the road to lasting political power.
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Science for Peace @science-for-peace.bsky.social · 12/01/2026
"Nations that stomp around the globe like King Kong infect themselves with a fatal virus." (Chris Hedges) True. What are Canada's options, if attacked? Pre-empt by adopting vassal statehood, #Military defeat, or organized nonviolent resistance. The latter is best bet. #Canada
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Science for Peace @science-for-peace.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
Donrow Doctrine=fear, force and plunder by the US in the western hemisphere - and in the absence of any moral or legal justification. #Imperialism #VenezuelaCrisis
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Science for Peace @science-for-peace.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
Alternative futures in #Venezuela : 1 Continuity of misery, crime, drug pedaling, though the US grabs oil revenues. 2 Insurrection, chaos, leading the US into occupation and quagmire. #Imperialism isn't easy.
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Science for Peace @science-for-peace.bsky.social · 06/01/2026
What do we do when political actors can create their own history and manufacture the “documents” to back it up? No matter how "authentic" looking the AI-fakes, we will have ways to verify facts. That's the good news. #AI #disinfo thebulletin.org/premium/2025...
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What happens when seeing is no longer believing?
Two fast-accelerating trends in how people consume and produce information—in selective exposure to agreeable content and in our ability to generate realistic-looking audio, documents, photos, and vid...
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Science for Peace @science-for-peace.bsky.social · 05/01/2026
What if the US intervenes in Alberta, following a referendum on independence? We can't rely on our armed forces; they are too integrated with the US military. Our main option in nonviolent defence - if we get prepared. #Canada #nonviolence projectsavetheworld.substack.com/p/episode-72...
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Episode 727 If You Need Nonviolent Defence
Isaiah Ritzmann and Richard Sandbrook are co-chairing a new organization, the Canadian Coalition for Nonviolent Defence, which is preparing people for Trump's possible takeover of Canada.
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Science for Peace @science-for-peace.bsky.social · 05/01/2026
Nuclear weapons modernization and proliferation+ climate change + disruptive technologies = 89 seconds to midnight. What to do? #nuclearwar thebulletin.org/premium/2025...
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Eighty years and 89 seconds: It’s time to fight against midnight
In the 80th year of the nuclear age, with just 89 seconds left on the Doomsday Clock, every nuclear challenge is trending in the wrong direction.
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Science for Peace @science-for-peace.bsky.social · 22/12/2025
China's opaqueness regarding its capacity to intercept ballistic missiles threatens to spur another expensive and dangerous arms race between the two powers. #Defense #China thebulletin.org/2025/12/chin...
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China's strategic missile defense exacerbates arms race instability
China’s first publicly acknowledged missile defense system capable of midcourse interception of long-range missiles, the HQ-29, is raising questions about Chinese intentions and threatening to intensi...
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Science for Peace @science-for-peace.bsky.social · 19/12/2025
It probably comes as no surprise that Trump's cabinet has the lowest educational level of any similar decision-making body of its major global competitors. That, along with unquestioned cabinet obedience to the leader, is a recipe for poor policy. static1.squarespace.com/static/5d59c...
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Science for Peace @science-for-peace.bsky.social · 17/12/2025
Trump's aggressive foreign policies threaten to lead to World War III, according to an eminent Yale historian. The US naval build-up in the Caribbean is unprecedented; its reasons for ousting #MaduroPresidente of #Venezuela are shifting with the day. www.commondreams.org/news/trump-w...
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Yale Historian Warns Trump Is Putting US on Path to World War III | Common Dreams
Yale historian Greg Grandin warns that Trump's foreign policy could lead to a new world war, as US seeks to control global spheres of influence.
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Science for Peace @science-for-peace.bsky.social · 15/12/2025
Are the #conservatives in the West falling into the same error as in the 1930s: thinking they can control the fascists they use in the fight against (in today's case) the globalist social-democratic left? Authoritarian fascists cannot be controlled. #dictatorship
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Science for Peace @science-for-peace.bsky.social · 12/12/2025
#Canada is raising a citizens' army of 300,000. Good to recognize the threat from Trump, but the force should be nonviolent, not armed. Mammoth destruction in the event of an invasion! charlieangus.substack.com/p/canada-mob...
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Canada Mobilizes a People's Army
The government has finally laid its cards on the table.
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Science for Peace @science-for-peace.bsky.social · 10/12/2025
Can democracy, poverty-alleviation and sustainability move ahead in a world where the richest 0.001% own 3 times more wealth than the poorest half of humanity combined? (World Inequality Report, 2025) #inequality #Poverty #Democracy
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Science for Peace @science-for-peace.bsky.social · 10/12/2025
The US 2025 #NationalSecurity Strategy portends disaster. The NSS proclaims the intention of the US gov't to refuse to accommodate the economic, ecological and power realities of the 21st C to reimpose the world of 1991- though without any principle. nilsgilman.substack.com/p/an-open-le...
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An Open Letter to the Trump NatSec Team
The United States is still the most powerful nation on earth, but the gravest challenges we face go beyond those that even the most powerful state can address on its own.
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Science for Peace @science-for-peace.bsky.social · 08/12/2025
Trump's plans to reduce #Canada to a vassal-state, akin to Belarus, have not faltered. Foreign, as domestic, policy is all about domination, excepting a cooperative ("rebalanced") relationship with Russia. #NationalSecurity charlieangus.substack.com/p/the-gangst...
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The Gangster Regime Revealed
Any pundit, politician or commentator who thought that Canada could make its way through this so-called rough patch in U.S.-Canadian relations and come out the other end needs to think again.
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