Author: Graeme Decarie

I sit here in tears. Once in a while, I hit a key – I don’t even known which one – and it wipes out hours of work. And it just did it again – after four hours of writing. This will, I”m afraid this will be a short blog

https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/trump-kushner-deutsche-bank-money-laundering-specialists-new-york-times-1.5142279 Oh, for pete’s sake, of course Trump and Kushner are a  part of that small class who don’t pay taxes, who get big payoffs, and give nothing. Check on Wednesday at Gallup Poll Trump. See if it has any change in Trump’s popular support. I doubt that it will.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/indigenous/cmhr-colonialism-genocide-indigenous-peoples-1.5141078 At last. Canada’s record has not been as brutal as the U.S. record. (nobody could be that brutal.) But, yes, it has been a genocide – and I know of no sign that anything is improving.____________________________________________________________                           

https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2019/05/14/bernie_sanders_john_bolton_wants_to_lie_us_into_war_in_iran_like_he_did_in_iraq_like_they_did_in_vietnam.html A war in Iran is unjustified.  Much, much worse, this could drag in the whole region – and Russia and China. And the man pushing for it is John Bolton, a man with a long history of lusting for wars. And he seems to be running the show, with

https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/un-global-warming-climate-change-1.5132888_______________________________________________________________ There is lots of news on a resurgence of anti-abortion movements in the U.S.Anti-abortion….these are the same people who cheer their  hero military for  starving children children to death in Yemen, and murdered children by the millions all over the world. And why limit the word of the Lord

https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/cuba-food-shortage-rationing-1.5132297 The United States is the only country in the world, it seems, that has the right to tell other countries who they’re allowed to trade with – and if they’re allowed to trade at all. It can – and does – use this power to starve nations (yes, starve

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/may/08/trump-iran-nuclear-deal-us-withdrawal This one is very, very dangerous. It’s also without any excuse.Until shortly after World War Two, Iran was  controlled by British oil companies. It was a dictatorship. And it was bled dry by a Britain that forced Iran to supply all oil for the Royal Navy – at no

https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/un-global-biodiversity-report-1.5124089 _https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/may/07/the-future-of-life-on-earth-lies-in-the-balance-a-picture-essay Yes. This really is happening. And we are doing almost nothing about it.________________________________________________________________ https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/may/06/us-deploys-aircraft-carrier-and-bombers-after-troubling-indications-from-iran The U.S. has not done well in most of its wars since 1945. And Iran is not a pushover. As well,this war could draw in many countries, including China, Russia, Israel, Saudi Arabia…. And

Damn! I just lost the whole blog I  had written in this page. Look. The first page of today’s blog appears on another blog just below this one. I  have no idea why. I only know that when I wrote that page, it suddenly stopped, and would not continue. Thus

I finished the last edition of this blog with an afterthought. The point of it was not just thinking good things about dealing with climate change, but understanding what “good things” has to mean. It’s not just a matter of cutting out oil. I remember long, long ago, the cheering

https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/kenney-court-bill-c69-senate-1.5119675 https://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/permafrost-melting-1.5119767 https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/venezuela-uprising-1.5117870 Let’s see now.Premier Kenney of Alberta is refusing to recognize global warming in any way. The U.S. is creating chaos in Venezuela so it’s billionaires can steal more oil fields, and put more oil on the market. And the Arctic ice is melting fast. How come we

https://pressprogress.ca/corporate-canadas-pile-of-cash-in-offshore-tax-havens-has-hit-353-billion-for-the-first-time-in-history/?fbclid=IwAR2HX4jHXNy6qNDQ99hlMJqnVMoPFawJk9-eAZbZtL-6AcF6sSSySanUddU 353 billion dollars. That’s our money. It’s the money we should have have to finance education, poverty programmes, health care…..  If most of us refused to pay our income tax, the government would take action against us. But the wealthy can refuse to pay hundreds of billions. And not

a-far-right-party-is-poised-for-a-breakthrough-in-spain-s-elections-for-the-first-time-since-franco-1.5110632 It’s 1930s fascism all over again – but on a far wider scale.  The world hasn’t learned a thing from the Second World War. By the way Mussolini and Hitler (despite the latter calling himself a National Socialist) were both ardent capitalists.________________________________________________________________https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/apr/26/joe-biden-democrats-2020-fundraising And guess who paid out that 6.3

Great news from our freedom and democracy loving allies in Saudi Arabia. https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/saudi-execution-prisoners-un-amnesty-human-rights-1.5109158________________________________________________________________ Climate change is real. It is  happening. Virtually all scientists who deal with this have warned us. But they are blocked by just a handful of the greediest and selfish people in history. Yes. It is going

Today’s blog is a disaster – and my computer has to go in for serious repairstomorrow. And if the computer doesn’t need serious repairs, I do. I’m not even sure this will work enough to send out anything. https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/us-iran-oil-sanctions-1.5106403 The U.S. has no right to impose trade sanctions on anybody.

https://theconversation.com/trump-declares-economic-war-on-cuba-115672 Take this seriously. The U.S.believes it has the right to rule the world. It has the right to impose its version of democracy on nations that don’t want it. Indeed, American democracy itself is largely a farce in which presidents are, in fact, chosen and bought by the wealthy.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/apr/18/billionaires-donations-notre-dame-france-inequality Well, you can be sure that none of these billionaires will be poor as a result of their donations. I am reminded of the New Brunswick oil billionaire who gave a (much, much smaller) donation to the poor. The province’s wanna be billionaires gave him a lavish dinner, and

Trump and his village idiots (like John Bolton) are discussing – with his generals – a possible invasion of Venezuela. Russia and China are both in Venezuela – by invitation. They have ever right to be there. The U.S. has no right to be there or to threaten it. Russia,

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scotia/climate-change-atlantic-ocean-dfo-report-1.5094133 Nah. There ain’t no climate change. If there were, New Brunswick’s Mr. Irving would have told us in all them provincial newspapers he owns. And he’s smarter than them scientists. He had two years of university. So there._______________________________________________________________ https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/north/arctic-warmest-in-10000-years-1.5094392 Note that this is the kind of story that CBC

https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/venezuela-guaido-trump-pence-un-security-council-1.5092760 A lesson in hypocrisy and ignorance. There are many millions of Americans who will believe that the U.S. wants to restore democracy to Venezuela. They still don’t know that this is the same U.S. that murdered 200,00 Guatemalans to destroy  democracy there. It is the same U.S. that destroyed