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Winnipeg Free Press By: The Canadian Press A book tracing the origins of todays trade wars has won the Lionel Gelber Prize. A book tracing the origins of todays trade wars has won the Lionel Gelber Prize. Jurors awarded the $15,000 honour on Tuesday to "Trade Wars Are Class Wars: How Rising Inequality Distorts the Global Economy and Threatens International Peace." Author Matthew C. Klein is shown in a handout photo. A book tracing the orig...

Southern Border Crisis: Where Is Kamala Harris? Joe Biden has tasked the vice president with looking into the root causes of the migrant surge, but many on the Left and Right want immediate action on the current crisis. President Joe Biden last week tasked Vice President Kamala Harris with leading the White House’s response in resolving some of the roots of the current crisis at the southern border amid the near-record surge of migrants coming to the United States. The vice president’s exa...

Share this article Share this article TORONTO and WASHINGTON, March 9, 2021 /PRNewswire/ - Sara Charney, Chair of the Lionel Gelber Prize Board, announces the shortlist for the 2021 Lionel Gelber Prize: Killer High: A History of War in Six Drugs by Peter Andreas  Twilight of Democracy: The Seductive Lure of Authoritarianism by Anne Applebaum Trade Wars are Class Wars: How Rising Inequality Distorts the Global Economy and Threatens International Peace by Matthew C. Klein and Michael Pettis I...

What’s new? Coca crops have set record yields in Colombia since the 2016 peace accord with FARC guerrillas, persuading the government to expand its forced eradication campaign with the backing of U.S. authorities. Bogotá claims that eliminating the plant will reduce rural violence. Why does it matter? Insecurity in Colombia’s countryside has steadily got worse in recent years as armed groups vie with one another and the military for supremacy. Enhanced eradication, and potentially aeri...