Reading Time: 4 minutes How great plans quickly descended into decades of dictatorship, corruption, kleptocracy and violence
Tag: Dictatorship
Tyranny oil should be treated like blood diamonds
Reading Time: 4 minutes Oil and gas revenues can be used by tyrannies, autocracies and dictatorships to oppress their populations
One government after another fails in face of COVID-19
Reading Time: 4 minutes Governments around the world have been tardy, negligent, dysfunctional or otherwise an impediment to an aggressive and successful outcome
How do we shake China’s firm grasp after COVID-19?
Reading Time: 3 minutes We have surrendered far too much control of the economy to the Chinese, from sports equipment to broader supply chains
How Canada can face down Chinese tyranny
Reading Time: 4 minutes China is trying to bend Canadian culture to its will. This will only get worse as Chinese economic clout grows in Canada
The crude story behind the Russia/Saudi oil war
Reading Time: 3 minutes Coupled with the coronavirus, the oil battle is hurting economies all over the world, including Canada and particularly Alberta
Coronavirus exposes China’s failure as a socio-economic player
Reading Time: 4 minutes With more economic clout comes more responsibility. And China is failing
Push back against China’s pro-communist Bible
Reading Time: 3 minutes Chinese President Xi Jinping has concocted a devious plan to revise the Bible to make it more in line with his country’s totalitarian ideology
The revolution always eats its own children
Reading Time: 3 minutes History shows plenty of radicals who pushed too hard. We have plenty on today’s world stage
God save the Queen – so she can save our country
Reading Time: 4 minutes When (not if) democracy fails, Canada’s constitutional monarchy could well save us from a descent into political anarchy