This Week on GRadio
by C.L. Cook - GRadio.Substack.com
There’s been much speculation, both here in Canada and elsewhere, regarding recent remarks by Canadian prime minister, Mark Carney at the Davos World Economic Forum last week. Addressing the global business elite, Carney played harbinger of doom, announcing “a rupture in the world order” and declaring the “useful fiction” of values, like “respect for human rights, sustainable development, solidarity, sovereignty, and territorial integrity of the various states” dead; killed - it’s implied - by America’s new Imperial self-understanding.
But does Carney’s lament signal a “fundamentally shift[ed]...strategic posture” so long in lock-step with the U.S.; and if so, where’s the proof of Canada’s new-found “value-based realism”?
My first guest’s recent article, ‘Canada Follows U.S. Lead in Preparing for World War’ beggars belief in the prime minister’s much celebrated sudden Damascene conversion.
Professor Jeremy Kuzmarov is contributing Managing Editor to Covert Action Magazine. His book titles include, ‘Obama’s Unending Wars’, ‘The Russians Are Coming, Again’, (written with John Marciano) ‘Warmonger. How Clinton’s Malign Foreign Policy Launched the U.S. Trajectory From Bush II to Biden’, and his latest, co-authored with Dan Kovalik, ‘Syria: Anatomy of Regime Change’.
Jeremy Kuzmarov in the first half.
And; Mark Carney’s call for “middle power” solidarity in the face of America’s unhinged hegemonic impulses carries with it implicit caveats; the most glaring of those made apparent in the aftermath of the lethal kidnapping raid against Caracas and Venezuelan leader, Nicolás Maduro. When first made aware of the clearly illegal attack against that country’s sovereignty and the person of the president Carney responded saying,
“Canada has not recognised the illegitimate regime of [Nicolás] Maduro since it stole the 2018 election.” Adding, “The Canadian government therefore welcomes the opportunity for freedom, democracy, peace, and prosperity for the Venezuelan people.”
A brave New Order indeed.
Chris Gilbert is professor of political studies at the Universidad Bolivariana de Venezuela in Caracas. He’s too an author and contributing editor at Monthly Review, and co-hosts the Marxist educational program, Esceula de Cuadros. Gilbert’s lastest book is, ‘Commune or Nothing! Venezuela’s Communal Movement and Its Socialist Project’.
Chris Gilbert in the second half.
But first, Jeremy Kuzmarov and America’s “Willing” Coalition mobilizing at the Gates of World War III.
Music: Ai Tsuno/David Rovics
Song: ‘Another War for Oil’
Chris Cook hosts Gorilla Radio, broad/webcasting since 1999. Check out the Archive at GRadio.Substack.com, and the GR blog at:
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