IF WE HAVE NO CHOICE, THEN LET’S LIVE
LIKE THE ROMANS
But you, the US mass-media :
live like the peoples of the Earth the way they really chose!
By Daniel
Paquet dpaquet1871@gmail.com
MONTRÉAL – « Religious
suffering is, one and the same time, the
expression of real suffering and a protest against real suffering. Religion is the sigh of the oppressed
creature, the heart of a heartless world,and the soul of soulless conditions.
It is the opium of the people. (Marx, Karl, Introduction to A Contribution tl
the Critiqueof Hegel’s Philosophy of Right, Selected Writings, http://neodemocracy.blogspot.com/2018/12/introduction-to-contribution-to-html?spref=bl
)
The weapon
of criticism cannot, of course, replace criticism of the weapon, material force
must be overthrown by material force, but theory also becomes a material force
as soon as it has gripped the masses.
Theory is capable of gripping the masses as soon as it demonstrates ad
hominen, and it demonstrates ad hominen as soon as it becomes radical. To be radical is to grasp the root of the
matter. But, for man, the root is man
himself. » (Marx, Karl,
Introduction…)
« The conflict
in Syria has created more than 5 million refugees. An additional 6,6 million men, women and
children are homeless within Syria.
Despite the difficult, dangerous and volatile operating conditions,
UNHCR (United Nations Refugee Agency) continues to provide humanitarian
assistance to those in need throughout Syria including in hard to reach and
besieged areas. » (Publication of
UNHCR).
Meanwhile in
developed countries such as USA, « the experience of the 2008-2009
financial crisis shattered the notion that monetary policy can fix all economic
problems. The easy money policies of
central banks helped save lenders, but the benefits were less obvious to the
millions of Americans who lost their savings in the housing crash. »
(McKENNA, BARRIE, From D.C. to Delhi, it’s open season on central bankers, The
Globe and Mail, Report on Business, Toronto, Saturday, December 15, 2018, page
B4)
China’s growth is slowing
« Policy
support is expected to keep China’s growth in line with official targets, although downside risks have increased. Past steps to reduce financial
vulnerabilities have slowed credit growth, but are likely dampening economic
growth. (…) A weaker renminbi should
also offset some of the effects of tariffs on export growth. Growth is forecast to ease from around 6 ½ per
cent in 2018 to around 6 per cent in 2020, somewhat softer than in the July
(2018) projection and just below the rate of potential output growth. »
(Bank of Canada, Global Economy,
Monetary Policy Report, Ottawa, October2018, page 6).
As Maude
Barlow, Honorary Chairperson of the Canadians of Canadians, stated in an open
letter (December 2018), « while the 2019 federal election may be 10 months
away, it’s effectively already underway.
(We assist to) the rise of far-right hate groups alive and well in
Canada. They are well funded and have
already begun mobilizing to poison the election with a Trump-style ‘Make Canada
Great Again’ campaign of fear and fake-news to sweep Andrew Scheer and the
Conservatives back into power. »
(Call the Council toll-free at 1-800-387-7177 or donate securely at
www,canadians,org ).
« For
more than five years as head of the Bank of Canada, Stephen Poloz has talked
about bringing the Canadian economy ‘home’ from its long journey through the
postfinancial-crisis wilderness. But
after another year of intermittent progress undermined by setbacks and
uncertainties, home remains. Frustratingly, just over the next hill. (…) For Mr. Poloz, ‘home’ is that cozy place where
the economy is running at full capacity and inflation is at the bank’s 2-per
cent target. » (PARKINSON, DAVID; McKENNA, BARRIE, Stephen Poloz’s long
and winding road ‘home’, The Globe and Mail, Report on Business, Toronto,
Saturday, December 22, 2018, page B1).
Let’s return
to one of the most stable economy in the world, whatever bourgeois economists
say. « Economic officials in China
insist their country remains committed to open markets. Li Wei, head of the Development Research Centre
at the State Council, China’s cabinet, sets out clearly that this is for
reasons of self-interest – a shrewder tactic than merely mouthting pieties
about Chinese benevolence (sic). China
must continue to open and reform its economy, he says, because of its own
development needs. Recalling the phrase
of China’s paramount leader in the 1980s, Deng Xiaoping, that opening a window
to the world would bring in both fresh air and a few flies, Mr Li says that ‘people
generally find that there’s quite a lot of fresh air that came in with reform
and opening up, not a lot of flies.’ He
insists that if China punches back on trade, it would be seen as aggression in
defence of globalisation, not a rethinking of China’s commitment to open to the
world. » (Th
Whatsoever,
class struggles are taking shape in Canada; probably workers feel that the
street-way is more suitable for them and their families than expecting just
anything from social-democratic and bourgeois parliaments that deliver nothing
but broken promises.
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