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Abandoning the public interest – The neo-liberal drive to cut red tape is costing lives. Exposing the hidden costs of deregulation and privatization.
On Self-Determination – Does 'the right to self-determination' actually mean anything, or is it an empty slogan whose main use is that it relieves us of the trouble of thinking critically?
Dances with Guilt: Looking at Men Looking at Violence – When we throw around indiscriminate terms like 'male violence' and give credence to theories that men are inherently violent, we slander men who are not violent and perpetuate the stereotype that to be a man is to be violent.
One Vote for Democracy – The ‘consensus’ model of group decision-making rarely works well. The democratic model is better both in principle and in practice.
Ten Health Care Myths – Medicare's opponents have launched a sustained ideological attack on medicare. Their propaganda relies on myths and misrepresentations.
The Iraq Crisis in Context – A rogue state, heavily armed with weapons of mass destruction, openly contempuous of international law and the United Nations, plunges the world into crisis.
Contamination: The Poisonous Legacy of Ontario's Environmental Cutbacks – A story about fanaticism and death: How a neo-conservative government gutted health and environmental protection polices, leading to the Walkerton water disaster.
Capital Punishment – The cold-blooded killing of a human being is horrifying. The existence of capital punishment make us all complicit in killing, and degrades us as a society.
Anarchism vs. Marxism – Anarchist critiques of Marxism typically reveal a lack of knowledge of what Karl Marx actually wrote, resulting in sterile denunciations of a straw-man opponent.
What Do We Do Now? Building a social movement in the aftermath of Free Trade – We have the potential to create a social movement in this country that goes beyond single-issue organizing to work toward an integrated vision of a more just and caring society.
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When we remember that we are all mad, the mysteries disappear and life stands explained.
– Mark Twain

Whenever a particular freedom is put in question, freedom in general is put in question.
– Karl Marx

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The shadow which haunts the power structure is the danger that those who are controlled will come to realize that they are powerless only so long as they think they are. Once people stop believing they are powerless, then the whole edifice which they support is in danger of collapse.
Against All Odds

Apologists for censorship invariably profess noble motives. They tell us that of course they are in favour of freedom of speech ‘in principle’ – then they go on to explain that ‘the greater good’ requires denying freedom of speech to people whose views they dislike.
Free speech for me – you shut up

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Too much consistency is as bad for the mind as it is for the body. Consistency is contrary to nature, contrary to life. The only completely consistent people are the dead.
– Aldous Huxley