I am continually amazed by the "inyerface" pronouncements of Loyd Axworthy, present head of the Univerity of Winnipeg and former Foreign Minister of the Liberal government. (see a previous article in good newsclips.)
I had assessed him as a waffling "liberal" when he occasionally came out with media-warranting positions during his tenure at a US college. He was as dissappointing as John Kerry is to centrist Democrats.
But suddenly LLoyd has become a tiger. I have to wonder if he is trying to do a Diefenbaker. Presenting a populist alternative to the waning Martin forces. But he is coming out too true, too passionate to simply be a "contender". Whatever his motives he's speaking with a straight tongue and I applaud him.
Here's his Toronto Star article. Just click on the header.
Wednesday, August 24, 2005
AlterNet: Darfur as a Resource War
As the deaths mount from the Dharfur genocide in Sudan, the seemingly senseless depopulating of the region is played up in the international press as a fight between opposing theologies, and also as a welcomed example in the west of the ruthlessness of Islam. "The poor people of Africa" is once more ressurrected and western youth are brought to tears by the sight of a starving baby attempting to receive nourishment from the unresponding paps of it's starving mother. Live 8 becomes a rockfest to divert western youth from righteous anger and oligarchy-threatening real analysis and activism, and accepting a "gods will" explanation of the tragedy which can only be answered by "charity and good will".
The increasingly evident reality of our age is that OIL RULES. From the Iraqui war and the Afghanistan venture propelled not by democratic or anti-ben Ladin motives but by the push to get a pipeline across Afghanistan for Uzbekistan oil as US and Euro corporatiopns vie for dominance.
US client states in Afghanistan and Iraq on each of Iran's borders also constrain the Iranian Theocracy. As the US and it's allies continously strip the Soviet Union of it's old components thru the use of powerful internal agents and propaganda, it will undoubtably encounter more opposition from China. China, as it's burgeoning economy expands it's imperialist (capitalist) economy is also contending for oil in these regions, which are closer to them than the western powers. Japan is also in competition for needed oil resources and US complacence as to Japan's loyalty should not be taken for granted.
Some of the new front-lines in the OIL-WARS might well be in the Gulf of Guinea, but the sad reality is that the oil-crunch is rapidly approaching as most scientific researches have shown. That more oil is being used than is possibly able to be produced. Many of the scientists prognosticating this scenario feel that the world isn't listening, but I believe that the world powers are well aware of it and just getting into jockeying positions.
The article linked to, presents a different take on the commonly accepted view of southern Sudan.
The increasingly evident reality of our age is that OIL RULES. From the Iraqui war and the Afghanistan venture propelled not by democratic or anti-ben Ladin motives but by the push to get a pipeline across Afghanistan for Uzbekistan oil as US and Euro corporatiopns vie for dominance.
US client states in Afghanistan and Iraq on each of Iran's borders also constrain the Iranian Theocracy. As the US and it's allies continously strip the Soviet Union of it's old components thru the use of powerful internal agents and propaganda, it will undoubtably encounter more opposition from China. China, as it's burgeoning economy expands it's imperialist (capitalist) economy is also contending for oil in these regions, which are closer to them than the western powers. Japan is also in competition for needed oil resources and US complacence as to Japan's loyalty should not be taken for granted.
Some of the new front-lines in the OIL-WARS might well be in the Gulf of Guinea, but the sad reality is that the oil-crunch is rapidly approaching as most scientific researches have shown. That more oil is being used than is possibly able to be produced. Many of the scientists prognosticating this scenario feel that the world isn't listening, but I believe that the world powers are well aware of it and just getting into jockeying positions.
The article linked to, presents a different take on the commonly accepted view of southern Sudan.
Thursday, August 11, 2005
Somehow, Canada Got It Right
I'm not usually a fan of the appointments of the US and corporate-friendly Martin government, but someone in the vast Liberal apparachnic has got it right. From the appointment of the previous Governor-General Adrienne Clarkson who did so much in presenting our country, to the new appointment of Michelle Jean, it does make me proud of being a canadian.
But really, a black female Haitian quebecois journalist as the (admittedly token) head of state ? Damn !! Hallelu'jah !!
Maybe I've already died and this is only a fantasy projected by the gods. Or else possibly I smoked too much dope in depression after I dreamed Martin had appointed Ernest Manning as Gov-Gen and I haven't yet awakened to reality.
Hopefully it will also lead to an awareness of the present shameful actions in Haiti of Canada acting as a junior surrogate of US repression in one of the first nations historically to successfully rid itself of colonial rule(French)in the Americas. The masquerade of corporate interests appearing as benefactors but in reality the architechs of the impoverisment and starvation of the Haitian people must end. And Canada's complicity as a surrogate police force for US corporate interests is not what we pride ourselves on in appointing Michelle Jean as G-V.
But really, a black female Haitian quebecois journalist as the (admittedly token) head of state ? Damn !! Hallelu'jah !!
Maybe I've already died and this is only a fantasy projected by the gods. Or else possibly I smoked too much dope in depression after I dreamed Martin had appointed Ernest Manning as Gov-Gen and I haven't yet awakened to reality.
Hopefully it will also lead to an awareness of the present shameful actions in Haiti of Canada acting as a junior surrogate of US repression in one of the first nations historically to successfully rid itself of colonial rule(French)in the Americas. The masquerade of corporate interests appearing as benefactors but in reality the architechs of the impoverisment and starvation of the Haitian people must end. And Canada's complicity as a surrogate police force for US corporate interests is not what we pride ourselves on in appointing Michelle Jean as G-V.
Wednesday, May 25, 2005
Revamping This Blog
I have moved all the previous content of this blog, which had become a repository of my own and other writings to " Writings From Out Here".
My original concept was to give a focus to the concerns of prairie people to events , local, national, and international which are not served by the general media. Hopefully I'll have the energy to produce regular rants and commentary which will reflect our concerns and might also interest people from other regions of this ever-contracting world.
My original concept was to give a focus to the concerns of prairie people to events , local, national, and international which are not served by the general media. Hopefully I'll have the energy to produce regular rants and commentary which will reflect our concerns and might also interest people from other regions of this ever-contracting world.
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