Author: Graeme Decarie

75 years ago, I was a child standing on a main street in downtown Montreal and spellbound by the hysteria of thousands of people. A huge crowd followed a leader with a wire wastebasket resting on his hand. I looked to my left – to a store window. A soldier

 This is an extra (and short) post on the subject of communism. It arises from an earlier blog in which I noted the western fury at the rise of communism in Russia of a century ago and in China today. As I said eariler, I do not write this with

 I’m still on “big series” of basic events that most of our new media don’t tell us about. And this is an unpleasant one. But we have to face reality. Let’s start with Trump’s little red cap with the word ‘MAGA’ on it. “Make America Great Again.” What does “great”

This is an extra because I feel guilty about my delays in getting back to normal. For an opener, type Haaretz on your computer. It’s an Israeli paper that now is running free visits for a little while. Haaretz is quite possibly the best newspaper in the world for honesty

The format of this blog today will be  directly from me to you because I am still wrestling and swearing at the way this computer works – and often doesn’t. The big story that ALL the commercial news media including the The Manchester Guardian have been ignoring for many, many

 I missed a blog because I seriously overslept. That happens to us old folks. But  coming back to write this blog, I just got angrier at the whole, damn thing. I’m going to try a different format for this, one time. It needs more comment because without knowing it the

 https://www.etfo.ca/AboutETFO/MediaRoom/MediaReleases/Pages/Ford%20government%E2%80%99s%20return%20to%20school%20plan%20unravelling%20because%20it%20refuses%20to%20fund%20smaller%20class%20sizes%20to%20keep%20students,%20educat.aspx My home province, Ontario, has a premier who is Donald Trump’s twin brother. His name is Doug Ford. ______________________________________________________________ https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2020/sep/23/aid-agencies-warn-of-covid-19-crisis-in-refugee-camps-as-winter-approaches Our wars have pushed tens of millions – probably more – into starvation. That’s why so many flee to Europe to be tossed into primitive camps and there, quite

 https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/trump-tax-evasion-election/

 Sorry this blog is so late. But yesterday was a family day.As well, today’s blog is different because I have to write – not about our news but about the news we haven’t been getting from our news media Having a tough time with bills and job security? Relax. It’a

https://rabble.ca/news/2020/09/trudeau-rallied-canadians-fight-second-wave-covid-19-his-throne-speech-lacked-detail ___________________________________________________________________ https://rabble.ca/blogs/bloggers/david-suzuki/2020/09/back-school-uncertain-climate __________________________________________________________________ https://rabble.ca/blogs/bloggers/views-expressed/2020/09/pandemic-has-cleared-way-doug-fords-plans-privatize-education I grew up in a working class district. It was assumed, quite casually, that my first year classmates and I would never graduate from high school. Indeed, only one ever did. (And it wasn’r me.)The Jewish district of the time was near me It had

 https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/alberta-bitumen-sturgeon-refinery-nwrp-1.5718044 As I have said many times, our super rich exist largely to plunder us. This has been true for thousands of years. And this has been a constant for all those years. For the super rich, they use the rest of us to fight wars for them. I don’t

 https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/apr/02/why-concentration-camps-are-still-with-us Concentration camps were first developed by Spain, Britain and the U.S. about 1900. They were designed to humiliate and demoralize and, yes, to kill their prisoners. And that is still what they exist for __________________________________________________________________ https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-44585716 These are concentration camps today. The American base at Guantanamo is a concentration

Recently,  this blog has become impossible. But I now have discovered a new system. Below are sections in blue. touching them will (I hope) reveal news items. As always, my purpose is to reveal news stories from reliable sources. Most of the commercial news media have never been reliable.  They

 For viewers of the blog dealing with current events, I am having desperate problems with this site. I cannot make contact with the topic. Indeed, I don’t seem to be able to make contact with anything. For those who might recognize it,  my name is 0raeme Decarie. and been stuck

Pay no attention to the four entries at the bottom of this page. They are part of the confusion I am dealing with. These entries are part of a computer problem I am (trying) to deal with in my blog. They should be headlines for blog items. But they won’t

 Sept. 7: I am running late because  I ran into some computer problems. I hope to have them repaired on Sept, 8, and have the blog ready late on September 10. Meanwhile, I am dismayed by a factor in all the research sites. In the 1950s, as major corporations recovered

I’m still having trouble getting my items onto the page. However, there is one thing I can do. I can apologize to Israel. No. I don’t like Netanyahu. No, I don’t like Israel’s abuse of Palestinians. But… I begin to understand it. When World War Two ended, the Jews of

Let’s start with a change of pace. We humans are murderous bastards. We have have been from the start. Yes, other animals kill each other – usually to eat. We kill on a far greater scale – not just for food but for theft, for power, for control. Animals, for

I am having computer problems. I shall attempt to clear them tomorrow (Friday.)

 It has been disappointing to see how little we are informed by any of our news media – and that includes the social media like this one – about the remarkable shift in world power that we are living through. At the end of World War Two, the U.S. set