Stephen Maher on an unexpected speech at Davos.
Mark Carney speaks in Quebec City, Quebec, Canada.(Renaud Philippe / Bloomberg via Getty Images)
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Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney made headlines at Davos with a much-noticed speech
where he candidly acknowledged that the US led alliance system created in World War II was
coming to an end. Carney called for middle powers such as Canada and its European allies to
give up the illusion that a US led world is still viable and instead try to create new institutions to
preserve their values and their sovereignty. I talked to Canadian journalist Stephen Maher, who
has written a biography of Carney’s predecessor Justin Trudeau, about the far-reaching
implications of this speech.
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For our end-of-year show, we are featuring a couple of our Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney made headlines at Davos with a much-noticed speech where he candidly acknowledged that the US-led alliance system created in World War II was coming to an end. Carney called for middle powers such as Canada and its European allies to give up the illusion that a US-led world is still viable and instead try to create new institutions to preserve their values and their sovereignty. I talked to Canadian journalist Stephen Maher, who has written a biography of Carney’s predecessor Justin Trudeau, about the far-reaching implications of this speech.
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Donald Trump is corrupt on a scale that puts all other criminal presidents, including Richard Nixon, to shame. One recent example is the so-called Anti-Weaponization fund of $1,776,000,000, being deployed to reward convicted criminals who stormed the Capitol on January 6, 2021. Trump and his cronies are also profiting from billion-dollar deals with foreign governments and engaged in stock market trading while in office.
My Nation colleague Chris Lehmann has written about this in a recent column. We talk about both the corruption, and the political tools Democrats can use to fight it.
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Jeet HeerTwitterJeet Heer is a national affairs correspondent for The Nation and host of the weekly Nation podcast, The Time of Monsters. He also pens the monthly column “Morbid Symptoms.” The author of In Love with Art: Francoise Mouly’s Adventures in Comics with Art Spiegelman (2013) and Sweet Lechery: Reviews, Essays and Profiles (2014), Heer has written for numerous publications, including The New Yorker, The Paris Review, Virginia Quarterly Review, The American Prospect, The Guardian, The New Republic, and The Boston Globe.