http://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/faces-of-north-climate-change-1.4120055 Climate change is happening. At the other end of the world from Canada’s north, what may be the biggest iceberg in history is breaking off Antarctica. (Brunswick news hasn’t…
http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/commentators/johann-hari/johann-hari-the-truth-our-empire-killed-millions-404631.html http://listverse.com/2014/02/04/10-evil-crimes-of-the-british-empire/ http://www.alternet.org/culture/six-most-evil-presidents-us-history http://www.pbs.org/kera/usmexicanwar/aftermath/many_truths.html the ‘heroic war with mexico.’ http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/yves-engler/un-occupation-haiti_b_16070764.html Haiti, under its series of American-appointed dictators was, like Cuba, essentially a slave state with tortures and murders a matter…
http://www.cbc.ca/archives/entry/quebec-missionary-murdered-in-guatemalaI found story above just recently, though I’ve known of the murder it describes for some time, some 34 years. Canadian and American big business have a brutal and murderous…
Just a few opening lines about my local Burnswick News. Saturday’s issue is a column by a lawyer/politician who appears each week to say nothing. This seems a man of…
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/14/business/monsanto-roundup-safety-lawsuit.html?_r=0 http://www.huffingtonpost.com/topic/monsanto http://www.cnn.com/2017/05/15/health/roundup-herbicide-cancer-allegations/ Don’t waste your time on Brunswick News. It will never carry this story – though it has been an issue in this province. Norbert Cunningham has a…
In yesterday’s copy of Brunswick News, there was a standard feature on the Commentary page. It was a column written by a ‘scholar’ writing for the Atlantic Institute for Market…
There are, we are told, some eighty million refugees in the world. The response of Christians all over the world has been almost unanimous. Kick them out of the country.…
Many years ago when the world and I were young, I was an elementary school teacher. I was with my school principal, who had devoted his life to looking dignified…
Sorry! This is a disorderly blog. I had nothinig but interruptions in trying to write it yesterday. And today, I felt a need to write the long intro below. Our…
Here’s a Canadian news source I have neglected. So I have chosen a story in it that the Irving-owned newspapers of New Brunswick have neglected. http://www.nationalobserver.com/2016/06/20/news/playing-hardball-jd-irving-way It brought my attention…
I have just spent over five hours working on today’s blog. And it just disappeared. Damn! I want to go to bed soon. And I don’t think that gives me…
Our truthful Bunswick News press has announced that the provincial government will clean up two of its worst-polluted beaches. I am touched and moved by this gesture. But it makes…
Briefly, there is a stunning error in today’s Brunswick news. The headline is “Historian says Russian spies may have stolen Mackenzie King’s diary”.Now, the newspaper’s editors write the headlines on…
The very hard truth. Since 1945, the U.S. has killed – nobody knows how many -15 million? more? It has created at least eighty million refugees – civilians, mostly. They…
I’m just back (three days late, thanks to Air Canada) from a trip to Montreal. I’m just recovering from the horror of that return trip – and I’ll do a…
Tomorrow (Tuesday), I am off for a week in Montreal. There are at least a couple of stories to watch. One is the national election in France. This has some…
Oh, it’s an exciting day in the Brunswick News. In the world section, throbbing with excitement, there’s a big story on the outbreak of whooping cough at a local school.…
Let’s Get Real Empires, like people, are born- and then they die. The British Empire of World War One was the biggest empire in history. Then a quick death came…
…..Bow, bow, ye tradesmen, bow, ye masses,Blow the trumpets, bang the brasses,Tantantara! Tzing, boom! http://metro.co.uk/2017/04/16/donald-trump-insists-on-gold-plated-carriage-procession-for-uk-state-visit-in-october-6577689/ The words are from Gilbert and Sullivan’s comic opera Iolanthe. But they aren’t comic any…
This is the one I don’t want to write. Essentially, what I shall say is that all of us (or virtually all of us) have a natural tendency to take…
