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in contrast, tonight's event with Patrick Bond, foremost BRICS critic: http://thecommonsbrooklyn.org/civicrm/event/info?reset=1&id=12962 On Sun, Oct 18, 2015 at 1:40 AM, Ken Hiebert via Marxism < [email protected]> wrote: > ******************** POSTING RULES & NOTES ******************** > #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. > #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly & permanently archived. > #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. > ***************************************************************** > > http://www.socialistproject.ca/leftstreamed/ls279.php > > Geopolitical conflict produced by NATO expansion is a product of an > economic and social process taking place in Europe. In fact, it is the > logic of the neoliberal model that stimulates NATO expansionism. This is > very similar to what we saw in the late nineteenth century with the new > wave of colonialism produced by the so-called Late Victorian Depression: to > stabilize the system without changing it. > > The dream of Russian elites is to have good relations with the West. The > elite's money is in the West, their children are at Oxford and Harvard, > their property is in Switzerland and England. They are ready to make almost > any concession that will not destabilize Russia itself. But the West is not > accepting these offers. Ruling circles in the EU prefer to speak of a > Russian threat instead of cooperation with Russia. This is all complicating > the wider geopolitical setting around the Black Sea, in the conflicts in > Syria and the Middle east and in Russia's relations with China and East > Asia. These are all crucial issues for understanding the new political > divisions between west and east shaping global politics. > > Moderated by Judy Deutsch. Presentations by: > > Boris Kagarlitsky is Coordinator of the Transnational Institute Global > Crisis Project and Director of the Institute of Globalization and Social > Movements (IGSO) in Moscow. [Also see Kagarlitsky's presentation in April > 2008.] > Sergei M. Plekhanov is Associate Professor of Political Science at York > University and a former Deputy Director of the Institute for U.S. and > Canadian Studies in Russia. > Sponsored by: Centre for Social Justice, Socialist Project, Canada > Research Chair in Comparative Politics - York University. > _________________________________________________________ > Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm > Set your options at: > http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/acpollack2%40gmail.com > _________________________________________________________ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
