Tag: Bretton Woods system

  • Elusive Language: What Is Terrorism Really?

    Elusive Language: What Is Terrorism Really?

    Actually I have gotten tired of explaining to people the deception at the heart of airport security procedures. For years I have tried to show that the explanations given for the increasingly intrusive, not to mention time-consuming, controls to which passengers in international travel and for decades now domestic movement have nothing to do with […]

  • The Myth of the Marshall Plan and US Imperialism

    The Myth of the Marshall Plan and US Imperialism

    One of the signal events of the post-World War II era– an event that helped shape the subsequent course of US imperialism– was the implementation of the European Recovery Act of 1948, the so-called Marshall Plan. Not only was the Marshall Plan a maneuver to tie Western Europe economically to the US– though Europe would […]

  • There’s too much Canada, not too little 

    There’s too much Canada, not too little 

    A kid that already has handfuls of candies wants to take another whack at the piñata before others have had their first turn. That about sums up the foreign minister’s position on Canadian power in international affairs. Canada needs greater international influence, according to Melanie Joly. While the Foreign Affairs Minister’s recent comment elicited some […]

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