We've been meaning to give WOD visitors a heads up regarding Global Brief: World Affairs in the 21st Century, a new journal that is being published by the Establishment wing at York University. Global Brief describes itself as "Canada’s confident, 21st century answer to The Economist, Foreign Affairs, Foreign Policy, Le Monde Diplomatique and a host of other world-class international affairs media platforms."
GB's Advisory Council includes several Canadian Establishment-friendly academics, a token former official from the GB (George Bush) administration, (Daniel P. Fata of the German Marshall Fund and the Cohen Group, named after Bill Clinton's Secretary of Defense, William Cohen, whose own 'team' includes many former Bush officials), among others.
An alarmist, anti-leftist article featuring GB advisory council member and contributor Tom Quiggin in today's Ottawa Citizen reminded us about GB:
"From the winter Olympics to the summer G8 and G20 gatherings, 2010 promises to be a pivotal time for activists. With a not-too-popular federal minority government, swelling bank profits and massive government deficits amidst rising unemployment, collapsing pensions and Afghan war casualties, "they've got everything working in their favour," said Tom Quiggin, an Ottawa security intelligence specialist who has worked with police to analyze the extreme end of the activist movement. "If they can't do it this year, then give up on the revolution, boys."..."Islamic radicals, meanwhile, are not that different from the old Socialist Worker's Party, Quiggin wrote last week in the online edition of Global Brief, a new international affairs journal..."
We've included a link to GB in our '21st Century Imperial Brain Trust' section, and will be sure to advise on any related developments...