May 19:not a day of optimism
The purpose of a commentary page in a newspaper is to offer informed analysis of the news. What does all this news really mean? You really can’t tell just from…
Graeme Decarie
May 17: Time to Wake Up.
Ever notice that the U.S. no longer declares war? It just starts killing. The U.S. has not declared war since December of 1941. Since then, it has attacked over 70…
June 15:In my last blog, I promised….
…to include in this one an outline of the rise of capitalism. I already regret that promise. It’s a story so ugly as to be unbelievable. Alas, it’s all too…
May 12: The Road to the Final War
If you want a newspaper that gives little information – and lies even about that – then spend your mornings with New Brunswick’s irving press. Most readers would also shy…
May 9: To Trump, Britain says…
….”Liar, Liar, pants on fire” https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/may/09/uk-will-not-follow-trump-in-ditching-iran-deal-boris-johnson-vows Now, get this. Trump says he has evidence, compelling evidence, that Iran has been developing nuclear weapons. What the British government is saying, in…
May 7:Trump Did It.
https://countercurrents.org/2018/05/06/co2-levels-hit-record-april-temp-hits-record/ Hey, no problem. The irving press makes that clear in a commentary for May 6 in which it says we’re cutting back on the use of fossil fuels –…
May 6: Patriotism and other con games
I’ve often said I should write a one-shot blog about what causes wars. I don’t look forward to it because it’s going to offend a lot of people. But here…
May 5:A bit of good news. A lot of bad.
Let’s start with some good news. The Moncton Times Transcript, normally the worst and most dishonest newspaper I have ever seen, has a magnificent Commentary page for May 4. There’s…
May 3:A time to be very, very scared.
http://www.cbc.ca/news/world/british-tax-havens-new-legislation-passed-1.4644172 Too bad Canada won’t do this. (And I’m pretty sure that the irving press will not publish this story.) —postscript — two days after I wrote this, I can…
April 31: Very Dangerous Times
http://www.cbc.ca/news/world/caravan-migrants-central-america-legal-counselling-1.4640333 Wars, poverty, imperial exploitations have created tens of millions of refugees and immigrants. And we are going to see many, many times that as world starvation and climate change…
April 28: Not a good time to be born.
http://www.cbc.ca/news/world/israel-gaza-border-protesters-killed-wounded-1.4638663 When our news media were given the (fake) story of Syria dropping poison gas on 20 or so children, the whole western press ran the story with indignation, and…
April 26: Lies our news media tell us…
https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#inbox/163023251d057d58 https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-04-25/opcw-investigators-found-no-evidence-chemical-weapons-syrian-facilities-bombed-us Our major, commercial news media lie to us. They always have. They exist to serve their wealthy owners, to make us pay for and serve in their wars,…
April 24: And so the chaos goes on….
http://rabble.ca/news/2018/04/capitalist-god%E2%80%99s-10-commandments________________________________________________________________ http://theantimedia.com/us-backed-coalition-bombs-wedding-yemen-killing-bride/ The story above appeared in the morning of April 23. Will it make the irving press on April 24? I doubt it very much. Now, if this had…
April 21:Forgive me again….
…for starting with my local newspaper chain, the Brunswick News. It’s so intellectually and morally corrupt it screams for attention. It also is a prime example of what’s wrong with…
April 19: The news that wasn’t in today’s paper.
Is the Russia Times a propaganda medium? Of course it is. The difference from the western news media is that the Russia Times doesn’t lie. It simply avoids anything that…
April 17: Very, very bad…
We are trained by our news media and political leaders to see war as a virtuous excercise when it is practiced by us, evil when it is practiced by others.…
April 15: I"m sorry. I’m sorry. I’m sorry.
Back on April 9, as I was preparing this, I was struck with a horrible chest pain of a degree I had never known. Thinking it was a heart attack,…
April 7: A long one for today…..
Here’s a story we’re not likely to find in the irving press when, in fact, it should have made the April 6 edition. And will we ever get an opinion…
April 5:
Readers of the irving press are getting a thrill out the papers’ attacks on the provincial Liberals for deficit spending. That’s obviously the official line until the next election. And…
April 3: Days of computer hell…..
My apologies for being late with this. The last two days in my home have been days of computer chaos – now, I hope, behind me._____________________________________________________________ https://www.rt.com/uk/423162-russia-poison-government-twitter/?utm_source=browser&utm_medium=push_notifications&utm_campaign=push_notifications The story above…