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I'd like to introduce another idea to Canadian economic politics, and would just be curious to read your thoughts on it. It's what I'll refer to here as political economic structuralism. In Canada, most of us are familiar with the capitalist-socialist spectrum. First, I'll analyse them here...

I'm tired of the same old issues being brought up again in elections and politics. Let's look at NAFTA in the 1980s, nothing more than a revival of the Reciprocity debate that started in the 1880s, and that itself going back to older debates about mercantilism! Or what about Official...

We talk about prejudice alot. gender prejudice, racial prejudice, religious prejudice, etc. But what about political prejudice (the whole right vs. left debate for example) or national prejudice (Americans are like this, Canadians like that, Chinese think this way, Iranians are like this, etc.)...

With all the discussions going on in these forums lately about 'mainstream' and 'fringe' ideas, I was wondering what 'fringe' ideas might be lurking in our minds. I'd like to read about some of your 'fringe' political ideas and why you think they could be considered 'fringe'. First I'll go...

Here's a game for you. Identify a Canadian 'right-wing' politcian and a Candian 'left-wing' politician who you think could probably come up with some good policies on a particular issue if they put their heads together. And identify the issue too please.

I've found instances in some threads where a person's ideas are rejected not on the basis of the ideas themselves, but rather on who the speaker is. This to me just seems ridiculous. After all, I've found a few quotes from Hitler that I can agree with, even though I'd disagree with the vast...

A friend of mine sent me an e-mail recently inviting me again to visit North Korea this summer. This is not the first time I'd been invited to go there. A few years ago, another friend had invited me to go on a first trip, but I'd refused since this was right after North Korea had announced that...

I was wondering who here would be interested in translating interesting news articles from around the world that might not be available in English. If there are enough of us, it might be worth having a separate section in which we could post threads presenting interesting articles from around...

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I was wondering how you rationalize the legitimacy or illegitimacy of a war. For me, it's generally the folowing: 1. National self-defence. I don't mean theoretical arguments about how if we don't fight 'them' 'there' that they'll get us here. But clear proof that if we don't fight them now...

In Afghanistan, US finds itself lost in translation as military struggles with languages

Irak in Translation — De l ’art de perdre une guerre sans connaître la langue de son adversaire . (Iraq in Translation: on the art of losing a war without knowing the language of the adversary) By Mathieu Guidère ISBN 978-2-84724- 211-9. To order in Canada (French version; English not yet...

Which would you choose if you could?

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