Author: Graeme Decarie

I can’t keep up with this. That’s why this is my second extension of the May 30 blog on the U.S. riots. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/may/31/george-floyd-protests-reporters-targeted-by-police-and-crowds Besides France, there are protests in Britain. And in Montreal, the city I lived most of my life in, there are demonstrations planned for today. It’s hard

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZlU8OOUMq94 even as I was writing yesterday’s blog, things got terribly, terribly worse. Now, at least 30 American cities have been caught up in riots against racism – and, perhaps, even more against disillusionment and anger among the American people in general. Increasingly, we can expect to see an American

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/live/2020/may/30/george-floyd-protests-minnesota-governor-riots-looting-police?page=with:block-5ed257bf8f08f5e37301165a#block-5ed257bf8f08f5e37301165a https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/live/2020/may/29/george-floyd-killing-protests-minneapolis-minnesota-us-twitter-donald-trump-latest-news-live This is not just a couple of days rioting. It’s one aspect, just one of many, of a U.S. that is collapsing. And it’s not just a matter of the riots themselves. It’s the impact of a president who generates hatreds, fears and divisions on the web and

THE PURPOSE OF THIS BLOG IS TO FIND THE NEWS THAT MOST OF OUR COMMERCIAL NEWS MEDIA  DON’T TELL US. THIS GOES BACK TO ABOUT 1870 WITH THE APPEARANCE OF THE CHEAP NEWSPAPER. THEY WERE CHEAP FOR THE PUBLIC. BUT IT COST A LOT OF MONEY TO PUT OUT MASS 

THE PURPOSE OF THIS BLOG IS TO FIND THE NEWS THAT MOST OF OUR COMMERCIAL NEWS MEDIA  DON’T TELL US. THIS GOES BACK TO ABOUT 1870 WITH THE APPEARANCE OF THE CHEAP NEWSPAPER. THEY WERE CHEAP FOR THE PUBLIC. BUT IT COST A LOT OF MONEY TO PUT OUT MASS 

https://www.facebook.com/photo/?serving of kings and emperors. ___________________________________________________________________ https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/may/22/donald-trump-churches-mosques-synagogues-reopen This is pure politics. It’s a play for the evangelicals, many of whom have been ignoring the law and are cramming their churches anyway. Of course. Their concept of religion focusses on one thing – getting themselves into heaven while the rest of

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/may/20/climate-change-turning-parts-antarctica-green-say-scientists-algae Not to worry. Our oil barons who are real rich and smart say it’s good for us.______________________________________________________________ https://www.commondreams.org/news/2020/05/19/no-argue-noam-chomsky-roger-waters-monia-mazigh-and-100-others-canada-does-not?utm_term=AO&utm_campaign=Daily%20Newsletter&utm_content=email&utm_source=Daily%20Newsletter&utm_medium=Email This is the point I was making in my last blog. The U.S. is the major Nazi state of our time. In that it is the successor to the evils of

Sorry for my absences. I’ve had computer problems which – I hope – are solved.In the break time, I thought I should write just this one blog edition, one with no look at the news, but with a look at the reality this world has never faced.(And I’m afraid many

https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2018/oct/12/phone-misery-children-congo-cobalt-mines-drc https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2019/dec/16/apple-and-google-named-in-us-lawsuit-over-congolese-child-cobalt-mining-deaths https://www.worldvision.ca/about-us/media-centre/canadas-child-labour-problem And no, it’s not just China that does it. It’s done by our most highly respected capitalists in the western world with U.S.capitalists currently the leaders. One of the most brutal of such countries was Britain until well into the twentieth century. The British Empire of course

As I wrote the blog for May 7, I felt a profound sadness, like an illness, over the news. With a leadership that is the servant of the super-rich and super-greedy, the U.S.- and the world – are being dragged into the worst war in history. Quite possibly, it will

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/may/07/i-made-millions-last-debt-crisis-rich-win-coronavirus-fair-tax And here’s an unusual source to understand our debt crisis. – and to warn us that it is going to get worse unless we get serious about taxing the very rich._________________________________________________________________ Think much about Brazil and it’s destruction of forests by America’s good friend it’s President? We may soon

As most people all over the world are crashing into poverty, the super-rich all over the world are piling the money up. Yes. They are. That’s why we still get news of them getting handouts from our tax money. While most of the world is plunging into poverty, the rich

https://rabble.ca/news/2020/04/trudeau-liberals-play-coy-support-corporations-abuse-offshore-tax-havens When are Canadians (and Americans and British and more than a few others) going to get  fed up with letting the super-rich get off every year with billions of  dollars that they should be paying in taxes? This is money we need for our hospitals, our schools, for our

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/apr/30/trump-executive-order-meat-processing-workers-coronavirus________________________________________________________________https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/apr/30/brazil-manaus-coronavirus-mass-graves_________________________________________________________________ https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/apr/30/trump-claims-china-will-do-anything-to-stop-his-re-election-as-coronavirus-row-escalates Find people to blame and hate. That was Hitler’s strategy behind his holocaust of Jews. That is Trump’s strategy in dealing with Latin Americans and, almost certainly, with Chinese. Does that  mean a monster war? Almost certainly._________________________________________________________________ https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/apr/30/us-states-ban-abortions-coronavirus-leave-women-desperate Oh, of course. Christians believe in “Thou  Shalt not kill”

https://www.salon.com/2020/04/25/psychologist-john-gartner-trump-is-a-sexual-sadist-who-is-actively-engaging-in-sabotage/ The American people have a choice – an insane president or the other political party — both owned by billionaires who will plunder and starve them. Anyway, the evangelical Christians will continue to support Trump. After all, he is Jesus come back to earth for these final days. And

At the end of world war two, we immediately began to prepare for World War Three. The United Nations was not created for that purpose. It was intended for the far more intelligent purpose of uniting the world to put an end to war. The whole world, in effect, would

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/apr/22/europe-had-hottest-year-on-record-in-2019-new-report-shows Don’t tell this to anybody in Alberta. It annoys them.  fashion-trump-is-blaming-immigrants-for-us-problems This is exactly why and how Hitler gained power by murdering Jews.________________________________________________________ https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/apr/23/coronavirus-unity-global-crisis-generation-x________________________________________________________________https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/apr/23/coronavirus-fight-to-vote-us-voters_________________________________________________________________https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/apr/23/pepsi-coke-bottled-water-consumer-reports_________________________________________________________________https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/apr/22/iran-us-satellite-navy-boats-trump Trump is quite right. The U.S. has built the world’s most expensive military so it can attack other countries to steal their resources. So it has

……we have created 75 years of the world that Hitler failed to achieve.________________________________________________________________https://www.nationalgeographic.com/environment/2019/04/alberta-canadas-tar-sands-is-growing-but-indigenous-people-fight-back/ https://globalnews.ca/news/6832608/coronavirus-trudeau-alberta-bc-saskatchewan-energy-industry-orphan-well-cleanup/ https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/alberta-orphan-wells-cleanup-bill-12-1.5528257 Some of our news media are gushing about how a clean-up of a few oil wells full of destructive and poisonous water will create of vast paradise of clean water that will attract visitors from

An interesting development is the way so many world leaders are dumping on China, blaming it for the slowness in dealing with the spread of coronavirus.I really don’t know whether China did a good job or a bad one – but I do know that most of the major powers

Those who read the April 14 edition of this blog will certainly have noticed the misspellings and even bizarre statements. I very much fear my computer has been hacked. (Indeed, I”m not even sure I’ll be able to publish this.) Accordingly, I’ll be spending the next day or more trying