Author: Graeme Decarie

https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#inbox/FMfcgxvzKkmXccmbPBszHRxCGKvJcRXv This first item is a  long extract from a new book about journalism in Britain. It’s a long read, but an important one in

https://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/charts-climate-change-bar-codes-1.4802293 Well,  not to worry. This story hasn’t been important enough to make the irving press. Anyway, in this election time the politicians have more

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/sep/14/paul-manafort-trumps-ex-campaign-chair-strikes-plea-deal-with-special-counse This could be dangerous for all of us. Yes. Trump is blustering liar, an international bully with both friends and foes, an egomaniac…and the

https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/pope-bishops-february-abuse-prevention-summit-1.4819974_____________________________________________________________American governments had decided there would be a World War Three even as World War Two ended in 1945. That’s what the Korean war was

https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2018/sep/10/starvation-a-weapon-of-war-that-could-kill-590000-children-by-the-end-of-2018 The war heroes of today kill children – and adult civilians. And it’s not an accident. This is the new face of war. It’s

https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/income-gaps-grow-as-canada-s-have-nots-get-left-behind-1.764487 Gee! That’s odd. Our local newspaper tells us that making the rich even richer benefits all of us. If that’s true, New Brunswick must

……Our local irving chapel will have two ministers this Sunday. Count them. Two. And both have Doctorates in Divinity. That’s real class. Jesus always had

The story the irving press will never print. It’s about how U.S. invasions and U.S. corporations (and Canadian ones) have made Guatemala a hell. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/sep/02/study-of-portuguese-and-spanish-explodes-as-china-expands-role-in-latin-america________________________________________________________

No. On August 31 , I opened my irving newspaper (a newspaper monopoly in the province of New Brunswick) on the comments page to see

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/kinder-morgan-canada-shareholders-vote-sale-trans-mountain-pipeline-1.4804503 Let’s see…the Kinder Morgan pipeline is dead. So us taxpayers are picking up the tab for those poor, misunderstood capitalists? Actually, those fearless, enterprising

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scotia/french-town-black-battalion-memorial-1.4798913 In both wars, Canada was slow to accept Blacks. Or orientals. Or native peoples. —————————————————————————https://www.commondreams.org/views/2018/08/26/hot-enough-you Hey! Don’t worry, New Brunswick. Who are you going

This blog may be a little short since I am being coerced into going to the shore to sinfully frolic in the surf._______________________________________________________________ https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/aug/25/trumps-terrible-week-stunning-news-and-whispers-of-impeachment If

….I’d hate to see what came second…..______________________________________________________________ https://www.haaretz.com/middle-east-news/saudi-arabia-seeks-death-penalty-for-woman-activist-1.640903 This is from Saudi Arabia, a close ally of  the U.S. in its zeal to spread democracy

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/aug/20/summer-weather-is-getting-stuck-due-to-arctic-warming https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/aug/21/arctics-strongest-sea-ice-breaks-up-for-first-time-on-record https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/aug/16/british-columbia-wildfires-state-of-emergency-declared https://lfpress.com/opinion/columnists/dyer-scientific-word-is-out-on-coming-hothouse-earth https://www.commondreams.org/news/2018/08/20/we-are-climbing-rapidly-out-humankinds-safe-zone-new-report-warns-dire-climate https://www.commondreams.org/news/2018/08/20/former-koch-industries-lawyer-turned-top-trump-epa-official-set-deliver-major-win Contrary to the not very intelligent opinion of New Brunswick Conservative leader Blaine Higgs, capitalism is very, very unlikely

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2018/aug/14/extreme-temperatures-especially-likely-for-next-four-years http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/b-c-declares-state-of-emergency-as-hundreds-of-wildfires-burn-across-province-1.4785983 http://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/marine-heat-waves-wildlife-1.4786355 http://rabble.ca/blogs/bloggers/education-age-climate-change/2018/08/what-do-we-teach-while-world-burning https://www.globalresearch.ca/as-america-burns-from-climate-change-trump-officials-attend-denial-conference-to-discuss-why-climate-change-is-fake/5650596 http://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/warm-2018-2022-1.4784746 https://countercurrents.org/2018/08/15/undeniable-human-agency-in-climate-change-while-disasters-multiply/ http://rabble.ca/blogs/bloggers/david-suzuki/2018/08/cool-solutions-mean-hothouse-planet-isnt-inevitable Look. It’s real. We have been lied to by the irving press. We have had years of

https://countercurrents.org/2018/08/14/human-extinction-by-2026-a-last-ditch-strategy-to-fight-for-human-survival/ Of course, all them there thousands of scientists ain’t real smart like our irvings and the editors of the irving press is._______________________________________________________________https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/aug/13/us-interior-secretary-ryan-zinke-climate-change-environmentalists_____________________________________________________________http://www.cbc.ca/news/business/canada-economy-global-1.4780544___________________________________________________________https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2018/aug/13/heat-next-big-inequality-issue-heatwaves-world__________________________________________________________ https://countercurrents.org/2018/08/13/mendacious-mainstream-presstitutes-ignore-huge-carbon-debt-horrendous-hazard-response-debt-disasters-are-not-natural/_____________________________________________________________ http://rabble.ca/blogs/bloggers/activist-communiqu%C3%A9/2018/08/ford-attacks-poor-further-cuts-social-assistance_______________________________________________________________

https://lfpress.com/opinion/columnists/dyer-scientific-word-is-out-on-coming-hothouse-earth Today’s issue of the irving press was stunning. This is a news chain that has ignored the evidence of climate change from the start,

Here’s a story  you will never see in the Canadian news media – and certainly never in the irving press. http://rabble.ca/news/2018/08/mining-canadian-imperialism_____________________________________________________________And another story that won’t

http://www.cbc.ca/news/world/trump-fake-disgusting-media-rhetoric-dangerous-violence-1.4772658________________________________________________________________http://thesaker.is/erratic-empire-downfalling/________________________________________________________________ http://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/world-hothouse-report-1.4775649_______________________________________________________________ https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/aug/07/iran-braces-for-new-round-of-us-economic-sanctions Trump has now declared war on the world – including long-time allies like Canada and the European Union. At this stage, it’s

I write this just before I leave for the shore for a few days. It’s not so much about the news as it is about