Author: Graeme Decarie

This blog may be shorter than unusual. My computer has been under treatment in the computer hospital. ______________________________________________________________________________________ Cheer up. You might die in  nuclear war. But all those super rich that we all love will be safe. There are safe havens for them being set up on tropical islands.

…but we were sold out by politicians – Liberal, Conservative, Democrat , Republican – who were, themselves, sold out to the super rich. _________________________________________________________________________________ My computer is acting very odd today. The blog that I sent two days ago never made it until today.  (It appears below this one.) Apparently,

  For reasons best known to itself, my computer did not send out the following blog on July 28 – though I ordered it to do so. But computers follow their own convictions. So I add this now, on July 30, with the regular blog following it. __________________________________________________________________________________ https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/jul/27/global-climate-fight-could-be-lost-trump-re-elected Yes.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/jul/25/trump-federal-agents-portland-ploy-election_________________________________________________________________________________ https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/jul/25/houston-consulate-jeers-for-china-as-us-officials-shut-mission Western threats and bravado might seem like “making America great again”; but it won’t make anybody great. A war with China would be a no-winner.Even a conventional war (a war without nuclear weapons) Would mean the greatest death toll in a war ever. A war just between the

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/jul/23/donald-trump-portland-oregon-mayor-ted-wheeler-teargas-federal-agents So who are the good guys as the U.S. descends into chaos? Which party has a plan – any plan?_________________________________________________________________________________ https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/jul/23/covid-19-has-killed-least-health-workers-yemen-report-says But Saudi Arabia, with American help, will carry on it’s war with Yemen, specializing in starvation, especially of children while the American (and Canadian) news media specialize in

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/jul/20/trump-john-yoo-lawyer-torture-waterboarding————————————————————————————————————————-https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/jul/20/trump-shock-troops-portland-doomed_______________________________________________________________________________ The story you’re not likely to see in Canadian news media. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/jul/20/canada-migrant-farm-workers-coronavirus_________________________________________________________________________________ https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/jul/21/uk-will-bear-the-consequences-for-hong-kong-decision-china-warns China is certainly a vicious nation. And guess who made it that way.It was centuries of killing, plundering, threatening by the western powers. At first, this was the brutality of the British and a few other

The following is the most powerful account of a war I have ever seen. It shatters many illusions we have about war. Almost all this is in this account that was NOT reported by any other news medium. The war was the Iraq war.  George Bush lied, Britain’s Tony Blair

This site had a terrible crash over a week or so ago. But by means I don’t understand it is suddenly alive again. And this is a good time to explain what I never did explain – what this site is all about. My starting point is that almost all

This has been a trying time. I have a new computer. Thus my missing of blogs as I try to figure out how to go through the process all over again of how to set up a blog. And it’s not going well. This will also be brief because It’s

I’m preparing this in case I need to send something earlier than usual. My computer will be off for repairs sometime very soon. So this is being prepared now in case my computer has to go at a bad time. Meanwhile, most of the press seem to be floundering in

Canada is becoming more American than most of us (I hope) would like it to be. https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/boogaloo-guns-government-facebook-1.5632056_________________________________________________________________ https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/jul/01/more-than-350-elephants-dead-in-mysterious-mass-die-off-botswana-aoe_________________________________________________________________ https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/jul/02/cuban-migrants-detention-ice-facility-new-mexico_________________________________________________________________https://www.theguardian.com/news/audio/2020/jul/02/the-scandal-of-millions-of-americans-being-deprived-of-running-water-podcast_________________________________________________________________ https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/jul/02/hong-kong-protesters-laying-low-following-mass-arrests-china Hong Kong’s situation is desperate. Can we threaten China with war to prevent what it happening to Hong Kong? No. For all the bluster of the war fans, any such

……I lost my head….. Americans have very short memories. Today, I watched the news about how those evil Russians paid evil people to kill American soldiers. (This is not confirmed yet.) But American newscasters seem to have forgotten that the U.S. until just over twenty years ago, paid, trained and

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/jun/27/obamacare-trump-covid-health-insurance Not to worry. The super rich will still be okay. God bless America, the land of the free…._________________________________________________________________ https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/jun/27/russia-offered-bounties-afghanistan-militants-killing-us-soldiers-report-outrage My goodness, how very unamerican. Oh – yes –  the U.S. has been financing foreign killers as in Ukraine, the middle east for fifty years – not to mention it’s

I was many hours writing this blog when I accidentally touched A or C or alt on my keyboard – and every thing I had written disappeared. I shall struggle on. But this may be a much shorter blog than usual. In any base, I’m finding my sources less helpful

…because I made such a mess of yesterday’s. I don’t know exactly what happened. I had almost finished yesterday’s when the screen went blank. I don’t know why. I think I might have touched something on the key board – but I have no idea what it was. So that

I’ve been typing this for ten hours. And, just seconds ago, I hit the wrong key and lost all of it. The theme was partly that the Victory over Hitler in 1945 was supposed to take us into a world of peace. But it didn’t. Just shortly after World War

I found today’s news more than a little slim. That’s been true for several days.    Even CNN which has until recently been covering events closely is now settling for more talk show style. Most channels have no coverage at all of what’s happening. All of this is strange given

Donald Trump is the most recent of thousands of years of emperors and kings who salute their soldiers. Splendid chaps. Yes. Proud of them. They serve their nations and or monarchs and to emphasize this their soldiers, sailors, and airmen are laden down with medals. Crowds cheer. Roads are renamed

I have just spent hours writing this blog and then……..I must have hit a wrong button…..and everything disappeared. I shall start again – but much of this one has been my own commentary that it’s going to be hard to remember. In fact, I’ve already forgotten the opening essay that