Friday, December 20, 2019



SNC-Lavalin wooed Gadhafi's son with luxury jet and a second, bigger yacht to secure deals
From left, sons of Libyan President Moammar Gadhafi, Mutassim and Saadi, are accompanied by Italian movie producer Marina Cicogna during the 62nd ...


Fixing the bad policy at the root of the Trudeau government’s SNC-Lavalin scandal
Reforming the Integrity Regime by ending the automatic debarment policy could have avoided this
whole mess.

After year of political turmoil, SNC-Lavalin gets most of what it wanted in plea deal
After a year in which Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's failed efforts to see SNC-Lavalin avoid prosecution led to him losing two key ministers, his edge in the polls ...

SNC-Lavalin pleads guilty to fraud, to pay $280M fine

Toronto Star
SNC-Lavalin settlement raises several questions
SNC-Lavalin must be delighted that the penalty is so low.


The Globe and Mail
Dec. 20: ‘Jody Wilson-Raybould could have cut this deal more than a year ago.’ Readers react as SNC-Lavalin pleads guilty to fraud, plus other letters to the editor
Ms. Wilson-Raybould could have cut this deal more than a year ago with a deferred prosecution agreement, and all of the uncertainty for thousands of workers and the future of a century-old company could have been avoided.



BNNBloomberg.ca
Jody Wilson-Raybould is BNN Bloomberg's newsmaker of the year
It was a story that sent shockwaves across Canada, pulling back the curtain on a tangled web of business and political relations. "PMO pressed justice minister ...
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rabble.ca
This year started and ended with SNC-Lavalin
Please chip in to support more articles like this. Support rabble.ca today for as little as $1 per month! Karl Nerenberg. December 20, 2019. analysis · Politics in ...
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PM says he might have acted differently if knew how SNC-Lavalin case would end
OTTAWA - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says his government might have acted differently had it known the ...
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National Observer
Crown asks for 9 year sentence for former SNC-Lavalin exec Bebawi
Former SNC-Lavalin executive Sami Bebawi tarnished Canada's reputation and helped perpetuate the corrupt dictatorial regime of Moammar Gadhafi in Libya, ...
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Canoe
LILLEY: SNC plea deal shouldn't let Trudeau off the hook
Justin Trudeau now says if he knew that the SNC-Lavalin court case would end with a plea deal then he might have acted differently. Ya don't say!“Obviously, as ...
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OCCRP
SNC-Lavalin Settles Graft Cases for US$213 million
A few days after a former SNC-Lavalin executive was found guilty of paying kickbacks and bribing Libyan officials, the Canadian engineering giant said it will ...
YesterdayInternational
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Sudbury.com
Jody Wilson-Raybould chosen Canada's newsmaker of the year
The former justice minister was the runaway choice of news editors across the country surveyed by The Canadian Press.
2 days ago
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CFJC Today Kamloops
SNC-Lavalin settles Libya charges, pleads guilty to single count of fraud
MONTREAL — SNC-Lavalin Group Inc. on Wednesday settled criminal charges related to business dealings in Libya, with its construction division pleading ...
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The Globe and Mail
Morning Update: SNC wooed Gadhafi's son for deal; Ottawa's e-cigarette ad ban
Also: PM wants to stall U.S.-China trade deal until Canadians are released.
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Financial Post
What SNC-Lavalin admitted: Funding Gadhafi's condo decor, yacht and parties
In 2008 and 2009, as the one of the largest-ever global financial recessions kicked into high gear, SNC-Lavalin Construction Inc. was paying for Saadi Gadhafi, ...
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The Globe and Mail
Politics Briefing: Johnson promises 'radical' agenda
Hello,. Britain's Parliament officially reopened this morning, and Prime Minister Boris Johnson said his government has delivered the “most radical Queen's ...
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TheChronicleHerald.ca
EDITORIAL: A slap for SNC-Lavalin
Well, it wasn't the SNC-Lavalin deal that saw federal cabinet ministers lose their jobs before the last election. But it was a deal just the same. Trading in the ...
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Slater Sentinel
Raymond James Analysts Give Snc-Lavalin Group (TSE:SNC) a C$26.00 Price Target
Raymond James set a C$26.00 price target on Snc-Lavalin Group (TSE:SNC) in a research report report published on Tuesday, BayStreet.CA reports.
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Windsor Star
Crown says former SNC-Lavalin exec Bebawi should be sentenced to 9 years
MONTREAL — The Crown is recommending a prison sentence of nine years for Sami Bebawi, the former SNC-Lavalin executive found guilty of fraud and ...
2 days ago
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Winnipeg Free Press
PM refuses to see error of his ways on SNC-Lavalin
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says he might have acted differently in the SNC-Lavalin scandal had he...
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THE ROUTLEDGE COMPANIONTO FASCISM AND THE FAR RIGHT [PDF]
FULL BOOK 441 pages The Routledge Companion to Fascism and the Far Right is an engaging and accessible guide to the origins of fascism, the main facets of far-right ideology, and the reality of fascist and far-right government around the world. In a clear and concise manner, this book illustrates the main features of the subject using chronologies, maps, glossaries and biographies of key individuals. As well as the key examples of Hitler’s Germany and Mussolini’s Italy, this book also draws on extreme right-wing movements and regimes in Latin America, Eastern Europe and the Far East. In a series of original essays, the authors explore the following aspects of fascism and the far right: . 
Roots and origins . Ideology . Attitudes to nation and race . Social policy . Economic thinking . Diplomacy and foreign policy . The practice of politics in government and opposition. 

Peter Davies is Senior Lecturer in European History at the University of Huddersfield. His books include The National Front in France (1999), France and the Second World War (2001) and The Extreme Right in France (2002). 

Derek Lynch is Senior Lecturer in Politics at the University of Huddersfield. He is currently working on a book on radio broadcasting and propaganda in the twentieth century

CONTENTS
List of maps vii
Acknowledgements ix
Note x
Introduction 1

Part I Fascism and the far right: The basics 13
Chronology 15
Background 34
Historiography 42
A–Z of historians 58
Maps 72

Part II Fascism and the far right: Themes 87
Roots and origins 89
Evolution of ideology 100
Nation and race 113
Civil society 126
The economy 139
Diplomacy and international relations 151
The practice of politics in government and opposition 167

Part III Fascism and the far right: Sources, names and terms 185
Guide to sources 187
Biography 195
Glossary 248
Guide to secondary reading 360
Notes 386
Bibliography 398

Index 404

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SEE  https://plawiuk.blogspot.com/search?q=fascism 


Ur-Fascism can come back under the most innocent of disguises. Our duty is to uncover it and to point our finger at any of its new instances—every day, in every part of the world. Umberto Eco, “Ur-Fascism”


Putin's Russia as a fascist political system 
Alexander J. Motyl 
Department of Political Science, Rutgers University, United States

Keywords: Fascism Nationalism Authoritarianism Personality cult Political system 

Abstract
 There is a broad consensus among students of contemporary Russia that the political system constructed by Vladimir Putin is authoritarian and that he plays a dominant role in it. By building and expanding on these two features and by engaging in a deconstruction and reconstruction of the concept of fascism, this article suggests that the Putin system may plausibly be termed fascist. Not being a type of group, disposition, politics, or ideology, fascism may be salvaged from the conceptual confusion that surrounds it by being conceived of as a type of authoritarian political system. Fascism may be defined as a popular fully authoritarian political system with a personalistic dictator and a cult of the leaderda definition that makes sense conceptually as well as empirically, with respect to Putin's Russia and related fascist systems. 

© 2016 Published by Elsevier Ltd on behalf of The Regents of the University of California.


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Ur-Fascism can come back under the most innocent of disguises. Our duty is to uncover it and to point our finger at any of its new instances—every day, in every part of the world. Umberto Eco, “Ur-Fascism”











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The Jewish Question: History of a Marxist Debate By Enzo Traverso

Jay Rothermel at Marxist update - 1 week ago
Traverso's version of Marxism never rises above the level of caricature and academic kitsch. Neither Marx, Lenin, Engels, or Trotsky ever promoted the idea of linearity or inevitability in history in general or in the contemporary class struggle. They were conscious polemical opponents of such ideas; at their best, so were Kautsky, Labriola, and Plekhanov, not to mention Mandel and George Novack. Traverso, for a "man of the left," seems to be satisfied with a knowledge of Marxism obtained second-hand, not from the works of the movement's founders and leaders. To tackle subjec... more »

Reading notes on Conclusion of The Jewish Question: History of a Marxist Debate By Enzo Traverso

Jay Rothermel at Marxist update - 1 week ago
The Jewish Question: History of a Marxist Debate By Enzo Traverso Translated by Bernard Gibbons Brill, [2018] The below are my underlinings/highlightings of Traverso. My own thoughts appear, if at all, as [N.B.]. Jay Conclusion ....Classical Marxism was incapable of comprehending the nature of anti-Semitism, or of recognising the Jewish aspiration to a distinct separate identity. Actually, it shared this misconception with all intellectual and political currents that belonged to the tradition of Enlightenment, from democratic liberalism to Zionism. ....The movement founded... more »

Reading notes on Chapter 10 of The Jewish Question: History of a Marxist Debate By Enzo Traverso

Jay Rothermel at Marxist update - 1 week ago
The Jewish Question: History of a Marxist Debate By Enzo Traverso Translated by Bernard Gibbons Brill, [2018] The below are my underlinings/highlightings of Traverso. My own thoughts appear, if at all, as [N.B.]. Jay Chapter 10: Post-war Marxism and the Holocaust ....lack of a Marxist debate on the causes, forms and consequences of the destruction of the European Jews ....During the 1940s and 1950s Marxism became an essential component of anti-fascist culture, in which the Jewish tragedy was reduced to a marginal aspect of the gigantic conflict that had ravaged Eur... more »

Reading notes on Chapter 9 of The Jewish Question: History of a Marxist Debate By Enzo Traverso

Jay Rothermel at Marxist update - 1 week ago
The Jewish Question: History of a Marxist Debate By Enzo Traverso Translated by Bernard Gibbons Brill, [2018] The below are my underlinings/highlightings of Traverso. My own thoughts appear, if at all, as [N.B.]. Jay [N.B. There is no better place to understand Abram Leon's book The Jewish Question than the book itself, available in many places on the web, and for purchase here. Traverso in his chapter on Leon tries to have his cake and eat it, too on nearly every page: Leon is too dogmatic in his Marxism/he breaks from previous Kautsky dogmatism; Leon counterposes assi... more »

Reading notes on Chapter 8 of The Jewish Question: History of a Marxist Debate By Enzo Traverso

Jay Rothermel at Marxist update - 1 week ago
The Jewish Question: History of a Marxist Debate By Enzo Traverso Translated by Bernard Gibbons Brill, [2018] The below are my underlinings/highlightings of Traverso. My own thoughts appear, if at all, as [N.B.]. Jay Chapter 8: The Messianic Materialism of Walter Benjamin 3 Critique of Progress ....his acceptance of Marxism was critical and, so to speak, selective. What interested him about Marxism was its subversive and revolutionary dimension, of which there no longer remained any trace in social democracy. Educated by Bernstein and Kautsky, the latter conceived ... more »

Reading notes on Chapter 7 of The Jewish Question: History of a Marxist Debate By Enzo Traverso

Jay Rothermel at Marxist update - 1 week ago
The Jewish Question: History of a Marxist Debate By Enzo Traverso Translated by Bernard Gibbons Brill, [2018] The below are my underlinings/highlightings of Traverso. My own thoughts appear, if at all, as [N.B.]. Jay Chapter 7: From Weimar to Auschwitz: Anti-Semitism and the German Left ....Just as the German left in the nineteenth century had ignored the anti-Semitic propaganda of Richard Wagner, Heinrich von Treitschke and Hous-ton Stewart Chamberlain, under the Weimar Republic it did not pay attention to Mein Kampf. ....Nazi anti-Semitism, on the contrary, was charge... more »

Reading notes on Chapter 6 of The Jewish Question: History of a Marxist Debate By Enzo Traverso

Jay Rothermel at Marxist update - 1 week ago
The Jewish Question: History of a Marxist Debate By Enzo Traverso Translated by Bernard Gibbons Brill, [2018] The below are my underlinings/highlightings of Traverso. My own thoughts appear, if at all, as [N.B.]. Jay Chapter 6: Gramsci and the Jewish Question [Gramsci has zero to do with the continuity of revolutionary Marxism. He, like Benjamin and the Frankfurters, have been embraced by petty bourgeois radicals and academics who traded curiosity or support for independent working class political action for the companionable teat of bourgeois public opinion every time the wo... more »
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SEE  https://plawiuk.blogspot.com/search?q=jewish+question

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