Reviews

In the central interior of the Canadian province of British Columbia is the unceded territory of the Wet’suwet’en First Nation. A corporate entity, Coastal GasLink (CGL), abetted by colonial-government structures, is preparing to lay a…

War over Peace, by the Israeli sociologist Uri Ben-Eliezer, raises several questions about the nature of Israeli society, chief among them being: Why has Israel attempted to solve virtually every conflict it has encountered or engendered by…

Neoliberalism is frequently portrayed as the malevolent ideology of the super-rich. Its critics contend that its preference for minimal state regulation favours the strong over the weak. The conclusion usually drawn is that state powers…

This account of Israel’s drift to the political right over the last few decades avoids sensationalism and reveals that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, contrary to his image abroad, is one of the more liberal figures in the country’s main…

With remarkable access to officials and reports, Ronen Bergman’s revealing book lays bare Mossad’s kill operations

The Five Hundred Year Rebellion: Indigenous Movements and the Decolonization of History in Bolivia After centuries of colonial domination and a twentieth century riddled with dictatorships, indigenous peoples in Bolivia embarked upon a…

For as long as there has been human language, humans have been using it to manipulate one another. The fact that it is possible to skillfully weave a collection of symbolic mouth noises together in such a way as to extract favors,…

The “lens” in which we view the world is important. The “lens” is a simplistic term for describing our worldview, our analysis, and perhaps our ideology, in which we interpret an event, a relationship, or a situation. We all have a lens…

The book is 400 pages long, (including a modest index and 28 pages of Endnotes), and fortunately, Zwicker makes it an enjoyable 400 pages. Throughout Towers of Deception (hereon TOD), he employs a writing style that reflects his personable…

Although it was long assumed that the electoral college favored Democrats - and this assumption continued right up to election night 2016 - Democrats in the United States have now decided the electoral college is a bad thing. Thus, we…