Political leaders, media moguls and journalists have saturated the public throughout the world with claims and accusations that President Trump is destroying the World Order, undermining historic alliances, western values, the world trade organizations and violating national and international constitutions and institutions. In the United States, legislators, judges and leaders
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Canadian Dimension: Immigration: Western Wars and Imperial Exploitation Uproot Millions
Photo from Public Domain “Immigration” has become the dominant issue dividing Europe and the US, yet the most important matter which is driving millions to emigrate is overlooked — wars. In this paper we will discuss the reasons behind the massification of immigration, focusing on several issues, namely (1) imperial
Continue readingCanadian Dimension: President Trump: Nationalist Capitalism, An Alternative to Globalization
Image from Public Domain During his inaugural speech, President Trump clearly and forcefully outlined the strategic political-economic policies he will pursue over the next four years. Anti-Trump journalists, editorialists, academics and experts, who appear in the Financial Times, New York Times, Washington Post and the Wall Street Journal have repeatedly
Continue readingCanadian Dimension: China’s Pivot to World Markets, Washington’s Pivot to World Wars
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China and the United States are moving in polar opposite directions: Beijing is rapidly becoming the center of overseas investments in high tech industries, including robotics, nuclear en…
Continue readingCanadian Dimension: Polarization and the Powder Keg
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The constitutional order of the US, such as it exists, faces a profound crisis of legitimacy, rooted in the multi polarity of US society. The US is divided among (1) a deeply entrenche…
Continue readingCanadian Dimension: Brexit: A Workers’ Response to Oligarchs, Bankers, Flunkies, and Scabs
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The European Union is controlled by an oligarchy, which dictates socio-economic and political decisions according to the interests of bankers and multi-national business. The central organs o…
Continue readingCanadian Dimension: Anglo-America: Regression and Reversion in the Modern World
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Introduction
What does it mean when the US and British financial systems launder hundreds of billions of dollars of illicit funds stolen by world leaders while their governments turn a
Continue readingCanadian Dimension: Europe’s Islamist Legionnaires Come Home to Fight
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Introduction
The terror bombings in Paris and Brussels have raised a cacophony of voices, ranging from state officials, Prime Ministers and Presidents, to academics, journalists and medi…
Continue readingCanadian Dimension: Twilight of the Idols: Rise and Fall of the Personalist Left
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Introduction
Over the past three years Latin American leftist leaders, who presided over heterodox ‘free trade’ and commodity based welfare economies, lost presidential, legislative an…
Continue readingCanadian Dimension: Presidential Elections 2016: The Revolt of the Masses
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Introduction
The presidential elections of 2016 have several unique characteristics that defy common wisdom about political practices in 21st century America.
Clearly the established pol…
Continue readingCanadian Dimension: Past and Present Islamist, Democratic and Nazi International Brigades
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Introduction
The Islamic State (IS) has become a magnet for international brigades, drawing over 30,000 fighters from 5 continents and 86 countries to their war in Iraq and Syria.
Whil…
Continue readingCanadian Dimension: International Monetary Fund’s Rogues Gallery
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Introduction
The IMF is the leading international monetary agency whose public purpose is to maintain the stability of the global financial system through loans linked to proposals designed t…
Continue readingCanadian Dimension: Recep Tayyip Erdoğan: Portrait of a Backstabbing Pasha
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What Makes Recep Run? The Making of a Modern Pasha
Erdoğan began his ascent to power as a social reformer in opposition to the power elite; he was a rabble-rouser for popular Islam and…
Continue readingCanadian Dimension: State Terror or Capitalist Terror, Military Coup or Capitalist Coup
The Rosariazo in 1969. The worsening economy and the onset of dictatorship led to waves of protests, strikes and riots. • Photo by Carlos Saldi Introduction Democratic critics of military seizures of power commonly refer to them as military coups. They adopt a very narrow and misleading conception of what
Continue readingCanadian Dimension: China: Reformers and Compradors
18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, November 2012 • Photo by 东方 China’s wealthiest classes have secured their recent fortunes through various means, both legal and illegal: These include (1) the privatization of public enterprises; (2) the savage exploitation of cheap labor after destroying workers rights, protections
Continue readingCanadian Dimension: Colombia’s Killing Fields: Peace is War
Photo from Public Domain Introduction Colombia has received more US military aid–over $6 billion dollars in the past decade – than any country in the Western Hemisphere. For its part, Colombia allowed the Pentagon to build seven military bases, more than all the other countries in the region combined. There
Continue readingCanadian Dimension: The Age of Imperial Wars
U.S. Navy photo by Photographer’s Mate 1st Class James Finnigan Introduction 2015 has become a year of living dangerously. Wars are spreading across the globe. Wars are escalating as new countries are bombed and the old are ravaged with ever greater intensity. Countries, where relatively peaceful changes had taken place
Continue readingCanadian Dimension: Pillage and Class Polarization: The Rise of “Criminal Capitalism”
The Tribune of the Uffizi (1772–78), by Johann Zoffany, depicts the commodity-fetishism metamorphosis of oil paintings into culture-industry products. Introduction About 75% of US employees work 40 hours or longer, the second longest among all OECD countries, exceeded only by Poland and tied with South Korea. In contrast, only 10%
Continue readingCanadian Dimension: A Critique of US “Grand Strategy toward China”
Photo by U.S. Department of Agriculture “We will have a very strong (military) presence, very strong continued posture throughout the region to back our commitments to our allies, to protect and work with our partners and to continue ensuring peace and stability in the region, as well as back our
Continue readingCanadian Dimension: Lies and Deceptions on the Left: The Politics of Self-Destruction
Buzludzha • Photo by Stanislav Traykov Introduction Over the past year, what appeared as hopeful signs, that Left governments were emerging as powerful alternatives to right-wing pro-US regimes, is turning into a historic rout, which will relegate them to the dustbin of history for many years to come. The rise
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