Inter-Monopoly and
Inter-Imperialist Competition
and Claims
of "Foreign Interference"
- Nick Lin -
The Liberals have drowned their pledge to enact
democratic
reforms in talk about foreign interference. Besides other things,
it has nothing to do with democracy and everything to do with
cyber attacks carried out by rival interests in competition with
one another. It is part of their striving to dominate and control
the products of artificial intelligence such as G5 wireless
technology.
CBC reported that on January 24, Innovation
Minister
Navdeep
Bains, while in Davos, Switzerland for the World Economic Forum,
finalized a $40 million deal with Finnish high tech company Nokia
to conduct research on 5G wireless technology in Canada. This is
one of the unfolding events which coincides with the arrest of
Meng Wanzhou, the Chief Financial Officer of Huawei, the leading
5G company in the world, which the U.S. is trying to ban from the
Canadian market. Meng's arrest on an extradition warrant was
carried out at the behest of the U.S., while the Five Eyes
network of intelligence agencies is exerting pressure on Canada
to not permit Huawei into the Canadian market. All of this would
indicate that where national interests end and international
interests begin is not clearly demarcated at all. More
importantly, it indicates that the inter-monopoly and
inter-imperialist rivalries over spheres of interest are very
sharp. Attempts by NATO and international espionage agencies,
such as the Five Eyes, to embroil the Government of Canada and
Canada's own security establishment in controlling this rivalry
in favour of one side over another are bound to cause more havoc.
However, to intervene in this rivalry in the name of protecting
the democracy is inappropriate to say the least.
The security analysis which rails against
"foreign
interference," in which Russia and China are targeted as the main
culprits, is the mantra of a democracy caught up in an
inter-imperialist and inter-monopoly competition. For those in
power who are beholden to NATO and U.S. imperialist demands to
now seek the acquiescence of the public to put police powers in
charge of political campaigns and to hand over funds in the
public treasury to the "right side," is to foment internal civil
wars such as the one we see raging in the United States. Now that
Canada's economy has been integrated into the U.S. economy and
war machine it is ipso
facto
dragged into its civil war.
What is it that the security agencies do not
think
should be
revealed publicly when they discover that a foreign "state actor"
is interfering in a Canadian election? If it has to do with
inter-imperialist competition over technology in the field of
artificial intelligence, providing that information only to the
"select few" within the context of a political campaign is an
unwarranted intervention in the affairs of the polity. Given the
inter-monopoly competition within the high tech sector, where is
the accountability when one side of the competition is favoured
over another? Should the polity be divided in a civil war
scenario as a result of such competing interests in the name of
protecting the democracy? Today what is national and what is
international is inextricably intertwined. Having the polity
take sides in this inter-monopoly and inter-imperialist
competition does not favour the people in any way.
This article was published in
Volume 49 Number 4 - February 9, 2019
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Inter-Monopoly and
Inter-Imperialist Competition
and Claims
of "Foreign Interference" - Nick Lin
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