An awful, awful day.
As American intervention in Venezuela comes closer, the western news media have generally – – lied. The U.S. is not intervening to save democracy. The U.S. doesn’t give a damn…
Graeme Decarie
Jan. 12: The tipping point?
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2019/01/11/united-states-doesnt-even-make-top-20-global-democracy-index Physician, heal thyself. (This is the country that supports dictatorships – like Guatemala, Saudi Arabia – all over the world.)_____________________________________________________________ https://www.commondreams.org/news/2019/01/12/us-news-headlines-israel-palestine-show-systemic-bias-study_________________________________________________________________ If the following is true, it is very…
Jan. 10: Somewhere over the rainbow….
In this story, note, among other things, the pictures of ‘homes’ https://www.cbc.ca/news/indigenous/garden-hill-first-nations-drinking-water-1.4907864 We wouldn’t dream of making our wealthy live in these conditions. Nor would we dream of making the…
Jan. 08: A bad, bad day.
Naughty, naughty. When the war ended in 1945, the American decision was that the U.S. would rule the world. It had no need for a European Union. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/jan/08/trump-administration-downgrades-european-union-status_________________________________________________________I include the…
Jan. 5: The bottomless pit….
https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/torrance-california-bowling-alley-shooting-1.4967245 Wow! The killers must have been them there migrant women and children from Central America. I mean, Americans never shoot each other._________________________________________________________________ For the last couple of days, I’ve…
Jan. 3: Still quiet -but this could well be our decisive year.
Some good news for a change. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/jan/02/north-atlantic-right-whales-canadian-waters______________________________________________________________ https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/jan/03/jamal-khashoggi-suspects-appear-before-saudi-court We will pass lightly over the fact that the Saudi prince who almost certainly ordered the killing is not being arrested. No.…
Jan. 1: Happy? New Year
A kind word for Donald Trump as both Republicans and Democrats gather to destroy him. Yes, he has been a boastful, bullying ass. Yes, he has done nothing for the…
Dec. 30: Liar! Liar! Pants on Fire!
This has been a remarkable weekend even by Trump standards. He is pulling out, he says, from Syria because he has achieved the American goal of protecting the government of…
Dec. 22:: It’s easy to see what’s wrong….
…But what to do? Where to start?_______________________________________________________________https:/www.thenation.com/article/overmatch-pentagon-military-budget-strategy/_______________________________________________________________ A pause for stray thoughts In the confusion over Trump’s pulling out of the war on ISIS, have you noticed the laguage of…
Dec. 20:Wow! The U.S. won iin Syria!
Let’s not waste time on this one. The U.S. was never in Syria to help that country. It was, in fact, on the other side. No. Syria and Russia have…
December 18: An unhappy blog
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/dec/18/unaccompanied-children-tijuana-us-immigration But who cares? _________________________________________________________________Will Trump fall? It might not matter. The views and values of a Trump government are much like those of almost every US government for the…
Dec. Not a good computer day.
This will be a short one. My computer is playing games with me which are driving me mad. Among other things, my text is so small I can barely read…
Dec. 13:: Not sure this will work…..
Not sure how or if this blog will work. My computer is behaving oddly. I can’t even proofread because the print on my end in terribly small. In 1939, Britain…
Dec. 11: A bad day’s news.
Will we? Won’t we? Will we? Won’t we? As time runs out, it looks as though we won’t. https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/dec/09/us-russia-ally-saudi-arabia-water-down-climate-pledges-un _https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/dec/10/tackle-climate-or-face-financial-crash-say-worlds- _https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/edmonton/cdn-environment-groups-tell-world-canada-not-slowing-emissions-from-oil-and-gas-1.4940732 It’s called insanity._____________________________________________________________ So imagine what the reaction is…
Dec. 08: more than 70 years after 1945……
—-we have not done any of the things we said we fought that war for. The ring is closing on Trump. Alas. That could mean it’s closing on all of…
Dec. 6: Forgotten promises
1945 was a year of promises. We were going to create a new world of peace, sharing, cooperation,,, and, right from the start we betrayed all that we said we…
Dec. 4: These final days.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/george-herbert-walker-bush-obituary-reaction-1.4928813 Brian Mulroney – an excellent choice to deliver the obituary for George W. Bush. Bush, like his son, was a mass murderer to please the rich. Mulroney took his…
Dec. 1:George H.W.. Bush – murderous friend of the wealthy.
A_A_A_AH….After two hours of writing, I hit some idiot button I wasn’t supposed to hit. And I lost everything. Damn! I wanted to get bigger print – and I got…
Nov. 29: This is the way the world ends….
IN case Atlantic Canada readers of this blog haven’t noticed…. https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/new-brunswick/environment-canada-storm-snow-rain-1.4925130____________________________________________________________ People who are even smarter than Donald Trump, Doug Ford, and all our oil barons have noticed that the…
Nov. 27: A very dangerous world.
https://www.cnn.com/videos/health/2018/11/23/climate-change-report-us-consequences-rene-marsh-sot-vpx.cnn But don’t worry about it. This report by government scientists means nothing according to Donald Trump. And he would know. Because he’s rich. We get lots of reports from…