Tom Sandborn

3 days ago | rabble.ca | Tom Sandborn

As autocrats near and far wage war on independent judiciaries, a study of courts and judges under the Third Reich provides us with some important learnings for our current world crisis. Hitler’s Justice: The Courts of the Third Reich, by German legal scholar Ingo Müller, was originally published in Germany in 1987, and an English version appeared in 1991. Despite the time that has elapsed since Müller’s book first appeared, it is as timely today as it was then.

3 days ago | rabble.ca | Tom Sandborn

Dear rabble readers, For as long as there have been humans, there has been labour. As the world marched forward—particularly with the onset of the Industrial Revolution and the rise of capitalism—the nature of labour and the challenges it posed changed dramatically.

4 weeks ago | vancouversun.com | Tom Sandborn

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1 month ago | thetyee.ca | Tom Sandborn

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1 month ago | rabble.ca | Tom Sandborn

Oil, together with other fossil fuels like coal and natural gas, has been a part of human history for millennia- from serving in its tarry bituminous form as mortar between the bricks of Babylon and  waterproofing Indigenous canoes in  pre-conquest North America, to fueling the world’s catastrophic automobile age to driving a process of climate change that may signal the end of the human experiment on the planet.