Author: Graeme Decarie

As Canada begins its federal elections, a big issue is whether abortions should be permitted. Now, we live in a world in which babies are not only killed in war, they are actually prime targets. That has been true since the 1940s. The U.S., in particular, has deliberately targeted civilians

https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/un-condemns-west-bank-annexation-plans-1.5278863 Israel is everything that Judaism is not about. And Israel gets full support from the U.S. -a country  which is everything Christianity is not about._________________________________________________________________ Wednesday was the first day of  the federal election. The big issue that emerged  was  Trudeau’s lying about his SNC Lavalin deal. Do the

I’ve been looking at some pictures of life in Britain about 1900. For the poor – who were most of the population – life was vile. Boys and girls six and seven were sent to work in factories, or being lowered down into chimneys to sweep them. It was six

https://www.cbc.ca/news/opinion/election-leaders-1.5260586 https://www.cbc.ca/news/opinion/secularism-law-1.5261713 There’s a lot that’s ugly about Canada as it faces a national election. The platforms of our Liberal and Conservative parties are ugly (and shallow and ignorant) to a degree we’ve never seen before. And racism is popping up. (French Quebec could not accept that anglos should be

Yes. We did or, at least, our billionaires did. https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/hong-kong-lam-bill-withdrawal-solve-crisis-1.5271101 I did not think this would happen – but I’m very happy it has. However, I fear that Hong Kong’s continuing demands could return it to a very dangerous situation.________________________________________________________________ https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/sep/04/beijing-hong-kong-compromise-too-little-too-late-carrie-lam-china_______________________________________________________________ CBC news has nothing about the Canadian election. That’s

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/university-ottawa-osap-cuts-school-returns-1.5264636 Not to worry. The government needed the money to give more grants to billionaires who don’t pay taxes. We have been watching the Conservative party (and the Liberals) across Canada plundering everybody to stuff the bellies of the very, very rich. The proportion of our national wealth that goes

Annus mirabilis. I  have found the page I lost many times. Here’s hoping. https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/andrew-scheer-social-controversy-conservative-1.5264360 Wow! That’s Canada’s big election issue? Right. Who gives a damn about climate change?  Right? Who cares about Canada committing itself to help out American billionaire wars? Who cares that it will take uncountable billions of

Not a good week. I have written a post for Saturday on the Canadian election. Unlike the others, it is not a survey of news media. It is my attempt at a clear view of where we are going. And where we are going is not pretty. My theme is

….our billionaires need your money._______________________________________________________________ https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/trump-oil-and-gas-methane-emissions-1.5263859 Of course. And before you heave a sigh of relief that we Canadians don’t live in the U.S., think. Canada’s Conservative party  is the equivalent of Trump’s Republicans. Canada’s Liberal party is the equivalent of those Democrats who are a lot like Trump’s Republicans.

My birthday is winding down. So I have time for a  brief blog.________________________________________________________________The best  article on the Koch brothers I have seen. https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/aug/27/death-destruction-david-koch-legacy Take this very seriously. The Koch brothers are just two specimens  of a capitalist breed who kill to maintain their profits.________________________________________________________________ https://brilliantmaps.com/threat-to-peace/_______________________________________________________________https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/aug/26/donald-trump-skips-g7-talks-on-climate-crisis-and-amazon-fires_________________________________________________________________https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/mercosur-negotiation-canada-tuesday-1.5260998 Of course Canada will not

_This may be a little shorter than usual. I had to deal with computer problems.________________________________________________________________https://www.rt.com/news/467142-david-koch-richest-dies/ Russia Times is, of course, a propaganda agency. But it doesn’t lie. Indeed, it beats most of the western press for honesty – often being kinder than it should be. This item on the death

https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/shock-denmark-greenland-cancels-visit-1.5254311 This is serious. The U.S. has a president whose  ego is wildly out of control. And it can only get worse. This is a man of huge arrogance and self-worship. We’ve seen it run wild many times. Let’s get real. This man is mentally ill. He is very, very

A note on the leaders in our business world.. (This article immediately below is not by me. This is from a note that was sent on to me.) “In January 2019, I received the horrible, unreal news that I had a tumor growing not only in my scalp, but also

https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/afghan-cenotaph-dedication-again-1.5250149 We most  certainly should remember those who died in Afghanistan. But we should not use such an event to glorify war – though that’s a bad habit we have. The war in Afghanistan is an American war – and it is a war that has no justification. Canadians went

https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/trump-cucinelli-statue-of-liberty-verse-europe-immigrants-1.5246852 And the evangelical churches that support Trump will also support this racist policy.__________________________________________________________________https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/aug/14/trudeau-broke-ethics-law-in-snc-lavalin-case-watchdog-rules https://www.cbc.ca/news/opinion/ethics-report-1.5247595 And Conservatives would never, ever break the ethics law. No. Well, not  unless they could get paid for it. At this crucial point in history, the western world, and maybe the eastern one , has 

https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/jeffrey-epstein-investigation-1.5243121 Prince Andrew   could be up to his ears in this one. Many years ago, he was a student at a boys’ expensive school in Ontario. I met one of his teachers who told me the prince was obsessed by sex – especially weird sex. And I can remember seeing

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/aug/09/bolsonaro-blessed-brutal-assault-rainforest-sacked-scientist-warns The U.S. is intervening in Venezuela and Iran to steal their oil. It is intervening all over the middle east and Africa. It threatens China. Most of our news media see no problem. President Bolsoharo of Brazil is    doing a fast destroy job on the Brazilian rain forest

Of course we’re getting a lot of violence mixed in with our politics these days.That happens when politicians play the race card – and when so many of our politicians have nothing to offer. This is particularly true in the U.S. of almost all Republicans – and large numbers of

https://www.cbc.ca/news/opinion/health-care-investment-1.5212828________________________________________________________________ https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/stock-indexes-plunge-china-u-s-trade-war-1.5236572 The U.S. routinely hammers poor and smaller nations with its economic power and it’s ability to destroy economies – as it has been doing with Venezuela and Iran. And when the U.S. does it, it’s good. But China is not allowed to do the same to the U.S. 

Our politicians just love to give glib talks about how they’ll deal with climate change (which they may or may not think is happening.) But it’s not that easy. In parts of Africa and Asia, climate change is already causing mass starvation. And so the people flee. (They have a