Differing Approaches to Immigration
Darrell Bricker and John Ibbitson note:
“… the Swedish reporter wanted to know how Canada was able to take in so many refugees, hundreds of thousands of them, year after year, and integrate them successfully.
Except, that’s not what Canada does at all, the Canadian explained. Typically, about 10 percent of the people who are granted permanent resident status (which puts them on the path to citizenship) each year are refugees. The rest are either immigrants brought in because they will contribute to the Canadian economy or family members of economic-class immigrants….
Canada brings in immigrants for reasons that are entirely selfish, which is why immigration works better in Canada than in Sweden”.
kleptocracy, money laundering and global corruption:
kleptocracy, money laundering and global corruption:
Why no one should be surprised by the latest Trump corruption mess
Brian Klaas notes:
“Corruption may originate with cookie-cutter villains and cartoonish oligarchs in Moscow, but they’re getting away with it with the help of seemingly legitimate banks and seemingly legitimate businesspeople in the Londons and Miamis of the world”
Trump’s approach to foreign policy provokes an anti-American response
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/trumps-america-first-philosophy-has-created-a-less-stable-world/2019/05/16/edbd5970-7818-11e9-bd25-c989555e7766_story.html
Scott Sumner on America's foreign
policy misadventures:
https://www.themoneyillusion.com/how-can-the-world-best-gang-up-on-america/
Who is the Lesser Evil – Iran or Saudi Arabia?
PETER BEINART, a professor of journalism and political science at the City University of New York, notes:
“But the problem with suggesting that Iranian is uniquely supportive of terrorism is that, in recent decades, Sunni jihadist groups like ISIS and Al Qaeda have killed far more American civilians. And those groups have received the bulk of their state support not from Iran but from Sunni-led regimes—particularly Saudi Arabia and other monarchies in the Gulf. In 2016, Americans learned that a long-classified section of the 9/11 Commission Report alleged that, “While in the United States, some of the September 11 hijackers were in contact with, and received support or assistance from, individuals who may be connected to the Saudi Government.”