12 June 2, 2012 - ObserverXtra
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<strong>12</strong> | COMMENT<br />
The MONITOR VeRBATIM ThIS WeeK IN hISTORY<br />
Mexico is the only part of the continent where the middle class has<br />
been gaining from growth. Although similar trends in Canada and<br />
the U.S. maintained growth in middle class incomes until the 1970s,<br />
they have since run out of steam. Globalization, technological<br />
advances, a drop in unionized work, and a deregulated labour<br />
market have contributed to stagnant real incomes for most in<br />
Canada and the U.S. since the 1980s.<br />
» Lars Osberg, Dalhousie University professor and Canadian Centre for Policy<br />
Alternatives research associate<br />
Dyer: Dictator will take the<br />
path that sees him retain power<br />
ContinuED fRom | 10<br />
of the protesters, the Sunni<br />
Muslims who make up 70<br />
per cent of Syria’s population.<br />
His other goal was to<br />
lure the protesters into<br />
using force, because that<br />
would license his own<br />
army to use far greater<br />
force against them.<br />
Eventually, in October/<br />
November, deserters from<br />
the Syrian army (who took<br />
their weapons with them)<br />
began shooting back at<br />
Assad’s troops, and he<br />
had his pretext. After that,<br />
he was free to use artillery<br />
against city centres,<br />
slaughter whole villages,<br />
whatever he liked.<br />
The shift to open warfare<br />
also had the effect of<br />
frightening most Christians,<br />
Druze and Alawites<br />
back into the regime’s<br />
camp. They bought the<br />
regime’s lies about the<br />
resistance being run by<br />
Sunni Islamist fanatics<br />
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on his side, plus<br />
most of the army, all of<br />
the heavy weapons, and<br />
the world’s nastiest intelligence<br />
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Russia and China will<br />
guard Assad’s diplomatic<br />
flank, and the other Arab<br />
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sending some money<br />
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an insult to taxpayers.”<br />
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last year's federal election.<br />
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