Author: Graeme Decarie

 Much  (most) of our news is based on lies. So, feeling miserable about the world in general, I thought I’d devote a blog to samples of people who lie about the news. Some of these are politicians,of course. Some are journalists for print, radio and TV. We’ll start with Canada’s

 A story on what I am about to write on this site has appeared in two web sites – The Nation and Common Dreams. And if you’re living in a hard time, this will explain why you are. In The Nation.com, March 2,a very reliable source, how billionaires manage to

  I was born into a Montreal at the depth of the terrible 1930s when most people were very poor. As my parents felt the time coming of my birth,, they knew they had to walk from the north end  – and really the end of the city – and

 It was some 20 years ago that Canada obeyed a U.S. request  (order) to destroy democracy in Haiti. Canada sent troops and police, to complete the destruction of Haitian freedom Funny thing. If you look at sites on the web, you get the impression that Canada was doing good by

There is no climate change! All this news about the Arctic melting – all this news about monster forest fires all over the world – all the recorded warming of the oceans in just recent years – the gradual sinking of California and Florida as the oceans rise don’t mean

 Well, I spoke to me daughter about my idea taking the colour and text of the stories I use for my blog. She sat me down – as daughters do – and said that was not a good idea. The audience would prefer to see my text. Then she patted

 Confession time. I have felt for some time that site requires more of the pictures and text from papers that have colour pictures from around the world – and have print that goes beyond mine. But, for us old folks, that’s not easy to do. And I guess that’s why

 I have at last finished reading Ezra Klein – and he is, believe me, one hell of a tough read. This guy is a lot smarter than I am.  Near the end of his “Why We’re Polarized” he offers a brief and very readable summary of his comments on why

 I have been in hospital for over a week. And I’m an old, old man – 83. This blog is a catchup. I haven’t had time to catch up on all the stories I meant to cover for this blog. but here are a couple of items that you didn’t

 I have just returned from a long trip to rearrange all my internal parts. And, no, I wasn’t allowed to have my computer with me. While away in the hospital, I read a very disturbing  book and one hell of a difficult to  read book about the U.S. political system. 

The paragraph be below is from a post to this site something over a week ago. I keep thinking of the follo post from a reader with sympathy for the reader’s perception – and with sadness that It cannot be all true..  So here it is… I am sure (says the

The first part of this blog may not seem to have a place in my usual topic. Actually, it does. For an opener to stimulate thought, let’s try to forget our image of China as a dictatorship and a threat. The reality is that we created a China that was

 Yeah, Yeah, Biden has created a new America. Well – no. He hasn’t. The American constitution is not a symbol of democracy. It never has been.George Washington was not a democrat. He believed in decision making by the rich.He had no patience for those who weren’t rich. And the mass

 Ah, the confusion of life. I have a whole blog that seems to have gone missing.  And  my confusion is not helped by a diet of sleeping pills that can knock me out for  15 hours and more. I’m sorry. This has been a wretchedly drawn out several days for

Forgive me. Writing this blog has been extremely painful for me. Yes. There are people on the other side who do evil things to us. But let’s get serious. We probably out’evil anybody on the other side.  In the current crisis, the term nuch used has been “American values”. What

 This morning (December) was checking through some of the usual, conventional papers that are worth reading only because I can get them free. Today, I was enraptured by the tone of a typical article these papers carry. It says that President Biden may feel it necessary to invade Cuba. It

 I hesitate to write this. I’m sorry I wrote it. I’m sorry I had to write it. We have one hell of a change to face and, well, we humans are not good at dealing with change. Maybe the best thing to do is to read only your local newspaper

Consortium news carries the story of a recent study of tax cuts for the rich. The government argument for this is that tax cuts for the rich create a trickle down that means financial benefits for all of us. But recent studies show they do no such thing. In fact,

I came across a disappointing but true story today while playing on the computer. I went to the web site  for the Canadian war museum in Ottawa. There, I found a sentence I didn’t want to see. The museum had a recent section on the time Canadians sent our troops

It’s a mad, mad, mad, mad world. (Forgive me. I gave brief start to this post, but soon drifted off into the evil of our very wealthy.And they are very evil, indeed. I really should put in a section on these people, on the power they have inflicted on us