Justin Podur is a writer and editor for ZNet (www.zmag.org), part of Z Communications, an alternative media organization dedicated to political analysis and support for movements for social change. He has reported from the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Pakistan, India, Haiti, Venezuela, Colombia, Argentina, Brazil, Israel/Palestine, and Mexico. He also writes on North America. He has written for Z Magazine, Frontline (India), New Politics, New Left Review, rabble.ca, and other publications and is part of the Pueblos en Camino collective (www.en-camino.org). He runs a blog (www.killingtrain.com). He is based in Toronto.
Reading Ivan Illich’s Deschooling Society in the Neoliberal University
Canada Is Waging an All-Front Legal War Against Indigenous People
Is Colombia’s Military Displacing Peasants to Protect the Environment or Sell Off Natural Resources?
The Police System That Terrorizes the Poor and Minorities Is Rooted in the Colonial Past
America’s Wars on Democracy in Rwanda and the DR Congo
Policing Is Irrelevant for Public Safety
The Mumbai Attacks and Regional Implications
The Rise and Fall of “Counterspin”
Women Rise Up Against Gender Violence
The Reordering of Iraq and Syria
A bombing in Islamabad; suspended operations in NWFP
On the Soleimani Assassination and preventing World War Three
Dan Freeman-Maloy on the Gaza Ceasefire
The Future of India’s Conflict Zones: Q/A July 25, 2013 at Hart House
The Ossington Circle: Episode 3, Suzy Harris-Brandts on Architecture, Occupation, and Resistance