North America
The region of North America should not be taken as a synonym for the United States. Spanning Canada and, depending on your perspective, Greenland, this is a vast area inhabited by disparate populations. We cover Indigenous culture and critically analyse the region’s political challenges while highlighting those working to build a better world.
Worldbeaters: Spotlight on Steve Bannon
Donald Trump's right-hand man is at the centre of global power. And he's dangerous.
Is Arkansas’s execution parade justice or expedience?
Although it has been put on hold, Arkansas' planned series of executions has raised again the issue of capital punishment, writes Robert Walsh.
When sanctuary is resistance
In the United States in the 1980s, the simple act of providing refuge became a form of civil disobedience, writes Mark Engler.
A personal welcome
In Canada, private sponsors are paying refugees’ resettlement costs. But should such a scheme be replicated elsewhere? Sian Griffiths reports.
The Establishment is not a viable candidate
The Trump shock shows that the same old same old is no longer an option. Jonathan Matthew Smucker on building the progressive alternative.
Exclusive: Inside Diego Garcia, America’s highly secretive military base
A two year investigation reveals the US military’s poor treatment of contract workers on the controversial island. Katie McQue reports.
Books against Trump: an anti-Trump reading list
As Orwell’s 1984 hits US top seller lists in the wake of Trump’s presidency, Ed Fairhead provides a few more must-read titles to contest Trump.
Worldbeaters: Donald Trump
Ego? Tick. Money? Tick. Power-hungry? Tick. A disaster for the world? Tick.
Bikini was just the beginning, bombs still threaten the islanders
John Pilger visits the Marshall Islands and its bomb survivors, still blighted by US nuclear weapons.
Indigenous rights: Justin Trudeau’s elephant in the room
The Canadian PM had promised change to the treatment of First Nations, but Jasmine Andersson shows how hopes have been frustrated thus far.
The coming war on China
A major US military build-up – including nuclear weapons – is under way in Asia and the Pacific with the purpose of confronting China. John Pilger raises the alarm on an under-reported and dangerous provocation.
The dangerous rise of the right: an interview with Noam Chomsky
Subi Shah asks the acclaimed intellectual his view on the dangers of the rise of the right, Trump's election, and the future of left-wing movements in the social media age.
Trick or... Trump? Trump and Clinton hold the stage in US Halloween display
A halloween display featuring a border wall, Donald Trump, Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders popped up in Connecticut.
Climate Con: why a new global deal on aviation emissions is really bad news
A new climate deal is expected to be agreed upon soon by the International Civil Aviation Organization, is a cop-out, writes Oscar Reyes.
From Cassius Clay to Muhammad Ali, always a fighter
Mari Marcel Thekaekara remembers the great boxer and pays homage to his audacious courage.
Worldbeaters: Hillary Rodham Clinton
Hawkish Hillary is a friend of bankers and warmongers, despite her Democratic credentials.
Rohingyas in Canada: portraits of life and struggle
Colin Boyd Shafer documents a community’s resilience in the face of adversity.
Government intrusion and the loss of human rights
14 years of fighting the ‘war on terror’ has left us all less secure, says Amit Singh.
What can Mad Max tell us about water scarcity?
Beulah Devaney finds an unexpected message in the Hollywood blockbuster.
The day the Monroe Doctrine died?
Stephen Wilkinson analyses the implications of Cuba’s comeback from the political freeze.
Living with fracking
What’s it like to live next door to the fracking rigs? Six photographers spent two years in gas-rich Pennsylvania trying to find out.
We are prisoners, but we are human
A letter from death-row inmate Brandon Astor Jones complaining about demeaning treatment is still waiting for a response.
Cosmopolis Toronto
Colin Boyd Shafer has been photographing Toronto’s multicultural life in a series dedicated to its worldwide inhabitants.
The JFK assassination, Cuba policy and Operation Mongoose
As the anniversary of the president’s death comes round again, why has the crime of the century remained unsolved? asks Youssef El Gingihy.
Eight Facts About American Inequality
Pierce Nahigyan points out some hard facts on the country’s economy.
Spinning gold: the ‘happy’ story of Canadian mining
What world are Goldcorp’s shareholders living in, wonders Emilie Teresa Smith as she sits in on their AGM.
Winner takes all – Obama gets his way in the Philippines
Iris Gonzales reflects on a very one-sided state visit by the US President.
What the Abu Ghraib images really tell us about war
US soldiers who posed next to hooded inmates in the Baghdad prison 10 years ago revealed the ‘banality of evil’, explains Sean Willcock.
The death penalty: killing them nicely?
Debating what constitutes as ‘humane executions’ allows politicians to avoid discussing abolition, argues Robert Walsh.
Why are we so afraid of chemical weapons?
War is destruction. So why, asks MG Zimeta, does the ‘existential threat’ of an airborne toxic event in Syria and beyond, instil such horror.
Algerian gas plant terror: the real story
Used to justify Western military in North Africa, we have not been told the truth about the Tiguentourine attack reveals Jeremy Keenan.
Why American Jews are falling out of love with Israel
Outspoken scholar Norman Finkelstein speaks to Hazel Healy about his latest book Knowing Too Much.
BRICS challenge dollar hegemony
Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa team up to resist Western financial domination, reports Lasanda Kurukulasuriya.
