Category: International Relations
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Building its Ties to Colombia: Canada’s Imperial Adventure in the Andes
On May 5th, 2008 Canada’s Trade Minister, David Emerson, proudly declared that Canada is “very close” to concluding free trade negotiations with Colombia. According to Foreign Affairs officials, a deal … Keep reading »
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The Left and Labour in Russia Under Putin
With Boris Kagarlitsky, Institute For Globalization and Social Movements, Moscow. Since the collapse of the old Soviet Union in the 1990s and the end of the politically bankrupt regime of … Watch video »
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China and the World Market: Thirty Years of the ‘Reform’ Policy
It is now thirty years since the People’s Republic of China announced its market reform policy at the Third Plenum of the 11th Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party … Keep reading »
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Turkish incursion into Northern Iraq: Military Fiasco, Political Debacle
The February incursion of the Turkish army into northern Iraq has ended in a terrible debacle for both U.S. imperialism and Turkey. The two allies are at loggerheads once again, … Keep reading »
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Putting the U.S. Economic Crisis in Perspective
It is time to take stock. The centrality of the American economy to the capitalist world – which now literally does encompass the whole world – has spread the financial … Keep reading »
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Turkey into the Vortex of the Iraq Quagmire
Another breach in U.S. policy A new dimension of immense importance is being added to the contradictions of U.S. policy in Iraq and the Middle East at large. Turkey, a staunch … Keep reading »
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COSATU Open Letter in Support of CUPE Resolution
The passing of a resolution on 27 May 2006 by the Ontario Division of the Canadian Union of Public Employees in support of the Palestinian peoples has sparked a great … Keep reading »
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Palestine, Israeli Apartheid and the Canadian State
Canada has a long and inglorious history of supporting the Israeli occupation of Palestine. This has included the indirect support of Canadians furthering the illegal colonial settlements in the Occupied … Keep reading »
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The End of a Political Fiction?
Hamas’s landslide victory in the January 25 elections for the 132-seat Palestinian Legislative Council (PLC) is an unprecedented turning point for politics in both Palestine and the broader Middle East. … Keep reading »
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The Anti-semitism of Iran’s President
Stupidity or Deliberate Strategy? Since the death of Ayatollah Khomeini in 1989, Western governments became somewhat accustomed to the conciliatory gestures of both the Rafsanjani and Khatami administrations. The overtly hostile … Keep reading »