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#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/po…
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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.
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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) nuclear weapons , 2) nonviolent resistance.
Refer to scienceforpeace.org for details
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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/th…
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“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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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. March 2nd.
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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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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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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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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/2026/01/2…
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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 rsn.org/001/putin-has-put-uk…
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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.ut…
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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 commondreams.org/news/gabrie…
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"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 ledevoir.com/opinion/chroniq…
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It's often said that Gen Z is absent from protests.
Not true! In 2025, they were the main participants in many protests - and suffered. wagingnonviolence.org/2026/0…
Protests without leaders cannot be coopted, but lack long-term strategies. Training, organization needed?
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#DonrowDoctrine=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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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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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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