Academic Freedom In Canada At Crossroads

Bravo Kevin!

As a frequent reader of GlobalReasearch.ca I was astonished to read in the Saturday Aug.20 edition of the Winnipeg Free Press that B'nai Brith had lodged a complaint with the University of Ottawa. I have found GlobalResearch.ca to be a solidly researched website. I have never come accross any anti-semetic articles at all, period! I recommend this website without reservation to anyone.

Mike M. from Winnipeg

The University 'intelligentsia' were a big help in legitimizing the claims of the Nazis as well. Today, they advance similar arguments in order to prop up the biases of Leftists. When will the 'intelligentsia' learn to be open minded? Today's universities are boring us with their rigid left-leaning political views, everyone knows they're crap.

>>The University 'intelligentsia' were a big help in legitimizing the claims of the Nazis as well.<<

Talk is cheap. Can you back that up with historical facts? I'm not aware of ANY such instances that weren't actually state isued propaganda in the guise of intellectual support for fascism. In point of fact, intellectuals, universities and free speech suffered greatly under fascism, much as it does now.

I hate to remind you but it is the universities that teach neoclassical economics, globalization, free trade, the wisted out words of Adam Smith, causing the biggest crime wave in history. Many university departments are now nothing more than corporate branches. Just last year somebody sent me a petition signed by 1500 North American professors against the further enroachment of corporations into and their taking over of whole universities for their own commercial purposes.

By the way, who, or what the hell are these so called "leftists" we keep hearing all the complaints about? I spent 45 years of my life fighting the dictatorial collectivization of society by communism, now I'm spending my old age fighting the dictatorial collectivization of society by capitalists. So, in your esteemed opinion, what am I, just because I just happen to hate all forms of dictatorship and ruling classes ? Ed Deak, Big Lake, BC.

Ed Deak, you speak nothing but good sense.

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If you don't like these ideas, I've got others. --Marshall McLuhan

The State of Israel has the most powerful lobby in America, and most likely Canada as well. The ADL and Brin'ai Brith both say that critisizing Israel, or questioning/researching the holocaust is Anti-Semitism.
Look at the behavior of the State of Israel. It is one of the most facist states on the planet.

Without a doubt, Attack Beaver. (I like your name)

Since being against Israel and for terrorists is very popular on university campuses these days, it would appear that the 'most powerful lobby' you refer to doesn't actually seem to be all that powerful.

If you mean that Israel is surrounded by fascist states, then you are correct.

<i>I hate to remind you but it is the universities that teach neoclassical economics, globalization, free trade, the wisted out words of Adam Smith, causing the biggest crime wave in history.</i><br><br> Ed, you aren't exaggerating. Following snips are from an interview with John Perkins, the author of the book <b>Confessions of an Economic Hit Man</b>:<br><br> AMY GOODMAN: It’s good to have you with us. Okay, explain this term, “economic hit man,” e.h.m., as you call it.<br><br> JOHN PERKINS: Basically what we were trained to do and what our job is to do is to build up the American empire. To bring -- to create situations where as many resources as possible flow into this country, to our corporations, and our government, and in fact we’ve been very successful. We’ve built the largest empire in the history of the world. It's been done over the last 50 years since World War II with very little military might, actually. It's only in rare instances like Iraq where the military comes in as a last resort. This empire, unlike any other in the history of the world, has been built primarily through economic manipulation, through cheating, through fraud, through seducing people into our way of life, through the economic hit men. I was very much a part of that.<br><br> AMY GOODMAN: How did you become one? Who did you work for?<br><br> JOHN PERKINS: Well, I was initially recruited while I was in business school back in the late sixties by the National Security Agency, the nation's largest and least understood spy organization; but ultimately I worked for private corporations. The first real economic hit man was back in the early 1950's, Kermit Roosevelt, the grandson of Teddy, who overthrew of government of Iran, a democratically elected government, Mossadegh’s government who was Time's magazine person of the year; and he was so successful at doing this without any bloodshed -- well, there was a little bloodshed, but no military intervention, just spending millions of dollars and replaced Mossadegh with the Shah of Iran. At that point, we understood that this idea of economic hit man was an extremely good one. We didn't have to worry about the threat of war with Russia when we did it this way. The problem with that was that Roosevelt was a C.I.A. agent. He was a government employee. Had he been caught, we would have been in a lot of trouble. It would have been very embarrassing. So, at that point, the decision was made to use organizations like the C.I.A. and the N.S.A. to recruit potential economic hit men like me and then send us to work for private consulting companies, engineering firms, construction companies, so that if we were caught, there would be no connection with the government.<br><br> AMY GOODMAN: Okay. Explain the company you worked for.<br><br> JOHN PERKINS: Well, the company I worked for was a company named Chas. T. Main in Boston, Massachusetts. We were about 2,000 employees, and I became its chief economist. I ended up having fifty people working for me. But my real job was deal-making. It was giving loans to other countries, huge loans, much bigger than they could possibly repay. One of the conditions of the loan–let's say a $1 billion to a country like Indonesia or Ecuador–and this country would then have to give ninety percent of that loan back to a U.S. company, or U.S. companies, to build the infrastructure–a Halliburton or a Bechtel. These were big ones. Those companies would then go in and build an electrical system or ports or highways, and these would basically serve just a few of the very wealthiest families in those countries. The poor people in those countries would be stuck ultimately with this amazing debt that they couldn’t possibly repay. A country today like Ecuador owes over fifty percent of its national budget just to pay down its debt. And it really can’t do it. So, we literally have them over a barrel. So, when we want more oil, we go to Ecuador and say, “Look, you're not able to repay your debts, therefore give our oil companies your Amazon rain forest, which are filled with oil.” And today we're going in and destroying Amazonian rain forests, forcing Ecuador to give them to us because they’ve accumulated all this debt. So we make this big loan, most of it comes back to the United States, the country is left with the debt plus lots of interest, and they basically become our servants, our slaves. It's an empire. There's no two ways about it. It’s a huge empire. It's been extremely successful.<br><br> More at: <a href="http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=04/11/09/1526251">John Perkins Interview</a>

A friend just gave me this book. I haven't had a chance to read it yet, but am looking forward to it later in the year, when our outside work is done.

I picked up my first economics textbook at a garage sale for a buck in 1982 and from the first page on I couldn't help thinking:"Does anyody really believe this crap ?" By 1985 I was certain that neoclassical economics are a fraud, especially after reading Milton Friedman and other so called "Nobel Prize" winners. I say "so called" because there is no such thing as Nobel Prize for economics. It is the Bank of Sweden Prize, fraudulently using the Nobel name.

So, even the Nobel angle is a fraud, set up to further and legitimize organized crime against the human race. I've been writing on this for 20 years and have the 1991 copyright for the only scientifically correct and unbreakable definition of economic efficiency. The problem is that if a really efficent system were introduced, the stock and money markets would collapse and apart from the criminals in control, billions of innocent people would also suffer.

So, I don't know what is the solution to get out of this mess? I think, it will have to destroy itself and then try to rebuild it under strict scientific and democratic principles. Ideologies are dead and should never be used again. It could be done allright, but who's going to do it without getting shot by the would be rulers? Ed Deak, Big Lake, BC.

it has been rumored also that the complaint aganist Gobalresearch.com was a set-up also, possiblily by certain people who support the war, the main complaint by ADL was aganist a handler named " The Truth " who went around the chat forum speaking that the holocost that did not exist and other clap trap, which then brought the attention of the ADL, and so thus the attention to Gobalresearch.com, but if you read the chat forum most of it is copy and past and jpeg's aganist the war, why the war happened, who's behind the war, how north america is losing to dictarship, the one i liked was the thread " America becoming Nazi Germany ", where it is stated that all one has to do is talk to those who were brought up during the rise of Hilter or talk to those who were raised in the Communist blok countries and how many of these people see similarities now happening in the North America, as it was in Nazi times and Stalinist times, and many of these people are leaving north america right now

also Gobalresearch was hit by hackers also a few months back and had the chat forum shut down for over a week, again by those who were supporting the war so it was said

anyway, intresting stuff on this chat forum, it looks as this chat=board is just spreading the info around the internet and Globalresearch is just another avenue in getting out the info

You have to realize that palestinian terrorism is simply a cause/effect reaction to the state terror of Israel. I'm against terrorism and always have been, but at least I see where it comes from.

Part of the problem as I see it, is dual citizenship. Nobody with dual citizenship should work in any sort of foreign affairs capacity. There could always arise a conflict of interest. Such is the case in both Canada and the US. You have people in the highest levels of government, advising on policy with respect to their second nationality. That's a conflict of interest and subject to ethical abuse. Dual citizenship should simply not be allowed for employment in any area of government that could have an effect on foreign policy. That's just asking for trouble.

I was inside nazi Germany for the last 6 months of its existence, was sentenced to death by a nazi drumhead court martial, then listened for 3 years in DP camps etc . to little nazis making excuses for WW2, the massmurder of millions and for Hitler and his gang.

Yes, there was such thing as the Holocaust and I have seen, have known and worked with many of the survivors, regardless what Zundel and his bunch of horses asses claim.

Anybody who wishes for the return of the nazis is just as sick in the head as the theory itself.

Ed Deak, Big Lake, BC.

>> When will the 'intelligentsia' learn to be open minded? <<

The people here, although not part of any “university intelligentsia” just showed how "open minded" and "tolerant" they are by hiding your comment.

The University 'intelligentsia' is usually composed of bright people who couldn’t make it in society and had to come crawling back to the last place they enjoyed success. It is very rare that one of these people isn’t threatened by legitimate debate, relying instead on the fact that they have the authority to give you a good letter or a bad letter on a piece of paper to keep you from wrecking the foundation of excuses and rationalizations that many have built their belief structure on. In that, some have become purveyors of new-speak, “Liberal” becomes synonymous with “intolerant” and “discourse” becomes synonymous with “group think”. They get their tenure and spend the rest of their careers preaching that it is society that failed them, not they that failed themselves. People with similar dilemmas latch on to this line of thought and you get little cults of personality.

One of the most wonderful, noble things on this earth is a gifted teacher/professor without an axe to grind. One that is interested in the pursuit of truth at the expense of dogma and isn’t afraid to examine ideas that may not be flattering to their own ego’s. One who chose to teach, rather then defaulting to it.

>> Today's universities are boring us with their rigid left-leaning political views, everyone knows they're crap.<<

Tell the professors that only want to hear what they want to hear that which they want to hear, but reserve the right to make your own mind up on a given issue. Cultivate the genuinely “liberal” (there is a distinction between that and “leftist”, a big one.) professors who are exhilarated by a challenge and who wont “punish” you for having the audacity to not be in agreement with them. (Also remember that you might be the one that is incorrect or wrong, the objective is truth and effectiveness, not comfort.)