The ideological drift of Canadian communists, from Vladimir Lenin to Vladimir Putin through Subhas Chandra Bose, and the urgency of communists rediscovering Lenin and Luxemburg. By Stephen Gowans March 2, 2023 If anyone should be challenging Russian president Vladmir Putin’s nonsense about Ukraine existentially threatening Russia by proposing to join the EU and NATO, it’s … Continue reading The Putin Club →
December 19, 2022 By Stephen Gowans According The New York Times, the US arms industry is profiting handsomely from the war in Ukraine. In response I tweeted the following. Had Moscow not pulled the trigger on war in Ukraine, the conditions would never have been set for Lockheed Martin and Raytheon to swim in a … Continue reading There Are No Lesser Evils in Imperialism →
Imperialism has penetrated the fabric of our culture, and infected our imagination, more deeply than we usually think.—Martin Green. [1]
[Americans] have produced very, very few anti-imperialists. Our idiom has been empire.—William Appleman Williams. [2]
November 3, 2019
By Stephen Gowans
By Stephen Gowans
July 26, 2019
Paris Match: Many people say the solution lies in your departure. Do you believe that your departure is the solution?
Syrian president Assad: What was the result (of NATO policy when they attacked Gaddafi)? Chaos ensued after Gaddafi’s departure. So, was the departure the solution? Have things improved, and has Libya become a democracy? [1]
Updated January 23, 2016
Originally posted December 24, 2015
By Stephen Gowans
