In political debates around the influence and strength of fascism in Ukraine, there has been a very dangerous analysis used here to dismiss their power and influence. This analysis is based on reading the electoral results of a single party - Svoboda's two percent in the parliamentary vote in 2019. This is a central argument made in Doug Saunders' Globe & Mail column on March 26 2022, entitled "Ukrainian 'Nazis' are real - but they're not worth our attention".
The advent of CERB and the hype surrounding the prospect of a Basic Income was never about replacing EI. CERB and its successor, CRB, was setup as distinct from EI not because of some overwhelming technical-bureaucratic problem, but because they were temporary measures designed to keep our shit-awful EI system untouched and intact once the temporary measures were gone and the height of the pandemic crash of spring 2020 was over.
Here are some of my interpretations of the military side of the Russian invasion and by extension, some commentary on Putin’s political goals of this mad war.
This map in the November 13 1948 edition of the Financial Post provides a great visual representation of why anti-Communism was so aggressive and pervasive within organized labour during the opening years of the Cold War. While the CCF was being red-baited in election campaigns, the CCF inside the CIO-affiliated Canadian Congress of Labour, in concert with the non-aligned Trades and Labour Congress, waged a ruthless war on Communist-led unions that dominated resource industries and a lot of critical manufacturing and logistics.
I don't know what's on the news in Nova Scotia these days, but here in Upper Canada a few clicks from John A MacDonald's bones, I'm hearing almost nothing about the Mass Casualty Commission.
Michael Ignatieff, the Iraq War cheerleader and champion of America’s torture programs, is once again at the service of empire. This time he is busy rewriting history as a pure fantasy in attempting to reduce the Russian war on Ukraine as both the design and actions of a single madman. And what better place for these ravings than the Globe & Mail?
