The story that you will never see in the irving press.
http://www.cbc.ca/news/business/cra-tax-gap-foreign-holdings-1.4726983
240 billion dollars. Now do you understand why governments have to go over budget? Now do you understand why our schools and hospitals don't have enough money? Now do you understand why our children have to go deeply into debt for years to go to university?
And in the U.S., where greed reigns, it's much, much worse.
_______________________________________________________________
Russia Times is, like Russia Today, propaganda for Russia. And, like Russia Today, it doesn't look at the faults of Russia - just those of the west. But, knowing that, it is better than most western news media because the part that it does tell is true - unlike almost all western news media.
In this case, the writer is a VERY distinguished and knowledgeable American journalist, scholar and clergyman.
https://russia-insider.com/en/politics/america-shows-many-signs-impending-catastrophic-collapse-pulitzer-prize-winner-explains
And this is exactly what is happening. And it's happening in Canada, too.
_________________________________________________________________
http://www.cbc.ca/news/thenational/national-today-newsletter-us-gun-violence-1.4722108
______________________________________________________________
The next is not an important story. But there's an amusing angle to it.
Many, many Montrealers move on July 1. This article treats it as though it were a French tradition.
https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2018/jun/29/montreal-moving-day-what-happens-when-a-whole-city-moves-house-at-once
But 1 - it's not a tradition of any sort to move on July 1. And 2 - it has nothing to do with Quebec being French. I know that because I lived in Montreal, and from the age of 6 I helped my father move us each May 1, carrying furniture through the streets, and always to a place just a block or so away.
Once, BBC TV contacted me to do a broadcast on what this odd practice was all about. So I did. And it's not a French tradition.
It's Scottish. Two or three hundred years ago, most Scottish farms were rented. A moving family had to be settled in as early as possible to prepare for the planting. So May 1 was the chosen day. In the 19th century, the major landlords of Montreal were Scottish. So they continued the practice. (The same was true in some American cities. I believe Boston was one of them.)
Why was it moved to July 1? That's very recent - and it may well have been a separatist slap in the face at Canada Day.
_____________________________________________________________
It's a big mistake to think of the Israeli government's vicious treatment of Palestinians, its murders of protesters, its theft of Palestinian land, its cruelty toward Palestine as being a reflection of Judaic values. Many, many Jews condemn what Israel is doing.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/jun/29/israelis-call-world-intervene-behalf-palestinians
________________________________________________________________
All imperial powers have a history of unspeakable brutality.
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2018/jun/30/british-intelligence-officers-linked-to-man-waterboarded-83
_______________________________________________________________
Europe and the U.S. have a long history of racism and brutality in dealing with refugees - especially refugees created by U.S. and European racism and brutality.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/jun/29/angela-merkel-refugee-crisis-drown
And, no. Canada is not pure.
_______________________________________________________________
This next one is profoundly depressing to me. But it's common that aid given to poor countries by rich ones ends up in the pockets of the wealthy friends of the rich country. The U.S., for example, voted huge aid packages to rebuild Iraq where shattered schools got a slap of paint, nothing more, at monstrous cost. That sort of of thing has happened all over Latin America and Africa.
http://rabble.ca/blogs/bloggers/gerry-caplans-blog/2018/06/canada-sends-military-force-mali
_________________________________________________________________
An American invasion of Venezuela is quite possible. Coincidence - Venezuela has the largest oil deposits in the world. And the government of Venezuela is foolish enough to believe this should be used for the benefit of the people of Venezuela.
And Canadian cooperation with the U.S. in this is quite possible.
https://countercurrents.org/2018/06/29/venezuela-towards-an-economy-of-resistance/
______________________________________________________________
This is a huge story that I certainly have not seen in the irving press. If accurate, it is a major defeat for the U.S. (And Robert Fisk is a pretty accurate news man.)
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/49740.htm
Once again, the biggest and most expensive military in the world has been defeated. (Remember Korea, Vietnam, and Afghanistan). And, if so, this is a huge setback for American influence.
And a thought. The U.S. since 1945 has been determined to make the whole world an American empire. But ever since then, and despite it massive military budget, huge army and air force, and world leading navy, it cannot win conventional wars, even against small opponents.
That is a powerful temptation for nuclear war - as Trump has already threatened against North Korea.
________________________________________________________________
Why are people fleeing Latin America?
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/49748.htm
What is really needed is a wall to keep American capitalists and American armies out of Latin America.
_____________________________________________________________
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/49748.htm
____________________________________________________________
Almost a hundred and twenty years ago, Canada sent troops to kill South Africans - including thousands of children and women in families that Canadian troops were responsible for. We celebrated the Canadians on their return. They were patriots. They had served the king. They were glorious.
They were no such thing. They had murdered innocent people to produce bigger profits for already wealthy British businessmen. In Afghanistan, we sent 'patriots' and celebrated them with 'highways of heroes'. But this time it was to serve the greed of American billionaires.
We have been all too eager to kiss up to the wealthy and greedy.
https://www.globalresearch.ca/global-affairs-canada-statement-represents-a-complete-disconnect-from-realities-on-the-ground-in-syria-tacit-endorsement-of-al-qaeda/5645944
________________________________________________________________
https://www.counterpunch.org/2018/06/29/move-over-god/
Obviously, he's not a New Brunswick Christian clergyman.
_____________________________________________________________
https://www.globalcitizen.org/en/content/arctic-is-turning-into-the-atlantic/
_______________________________________________________________
Let's skip the details that news requires. The big, untold story is that we cannot survive the direction we have chosen. That was obvious at the end of World War Two.
Then and later we were faced with some huge problems.
1. We saw - or should have seen - that the destructiveness of modern weapons made most future war impossible.
And we did nothing about it because our corporation bosses wanted war to increase their profits and to extend their power.
2. We've known about climate change for at least thirty years now. We know it can destroy us. We know we have little time to deal with it. And we don't lift a finger. And news media like the irving press pretends it doesn't exist. Why? Because big oil doesn't want us to interfere with it. That would hurt it's profits.
Is that a brainless position for big oil to take? Of course. But big oil has never been known for anything but big greed.
3. We have created massive unrest and growing poverty all over the world. Thus the many and uncounted millions of refugees today. That unrest has been created largely by the greed of capitalism. Thus the refugees drowning in the waters off Africa, and the Latin American children in American concentration camps.
4. We have created crippling conditions of spreading poverty even in countries like the U.S. and Canada. And it's going to get much, much worse soon as big business (and the governments it owns) refuses to deal with the spread of automation in the work place. It should mean shorter hours and better pay for the average worker. But that's not going to happen because big business doesn't want it to happen.
5. The advances we have made - as in education, medicare, pensions - are in serious danger. Big capitalism is determined to either destroy or take over these.
These are just five of the monstrous and urgent issues facing us. And we're not doing a thing about any of them. I checked my irving press today....
The lead, front page story is about a boy who was killed in a hit and run accident 13 years ago. The point of the story? His mother misses him.
Yes, this is sad. But it isn't news. It tells us nothing we can do anything about. There's no lesson in it. There's no remedy. A mother is sad about the death of a child? Of course, she is. There are thousands of people like this in New Brunswick. This is a sad story. But it's not news. This is what in the days of honest journalism used to be called a sob story. And it's almost a daily feature of the irving press.
As I follow the provincial election news, I still have no idea of the principles that the two, major parties represent - and not much about the other parties.
The big, world news? Well, a Canadian soldier died in a swimming accident in Ontario. Yemen? Iran? Israeli snipers killing a 13 year old Palestinian boy? U.S. collapsing in Syria? Refugees fleeing wars and starvation drowning as they try to escape? U.S. preparing war in Venezuela? Who cares? Our irving press aren't newspapers; they're sleeping pills.
_________________________________________________________________
I am sure there are readers who think I'm exaggerating when I write of the dangerous times we have entered. I wish I were exaggerating. But here are some of the factors in it.
For nearly 500 years, the western world (that's all us Christians) has dominated most of the rest of the world. It has killed uncounted millions - in war and in the horrible abuse, torture, starvation, exploitation of its imperial victims. Nobody will ever know the full number. Tens of millions were deliberately starved to death in China, in India, in the Philippines, in Latin America, in Africa. It's still going on. And we sang songs to celebrate the killing - like "Land of Hope and Glory"....
All of this slaughter and theft and abuse did nothing for most of the people of Britain, France, Spain, Germany, Portugal, the U.S..... No. The profits (or loot) went to a small number at the top.
The one doing most of the killing lately is the U.S.; but the backroom boys of Britain and France still jump in to lick American boots.
The abuse and killing has all been to enrich a very small number of people, the ones we call the big capitalists. Very little of it crept down to the rest of us. British landowners quite deliberately allowed Irish families to starve to death in the potato famine - though there was plenty of food available to feed them. From 1800 or so, the British were swept off their farms to work in dangerous mines and factories from childhood, and for very small return. Factory cities were normally vile and filthy and wretched and violent like The Gorbals of Edinburgh where my grandmother was born. It happened in the U.S. and Canada, too. Well into the early part of the twentieth century and all over the western world, workers were treated like filth, paid as little as possible - and died young. Strikers would be beaten, shot by troops. And that happened in the U.S. and Canada as well.
To this day, the "wealthy" U.S. has over 40% of its population living in deep poverty. Any social services have come only under great pressure. (In the U.S. there are almost none. Indeed, even the prisons are privatizing with terrible results for the prisoners - in a U.S. which has far the biggest prison population in the world. In Canada, we have some services - like medicare and public education. But they are under threat from Canadian capitalists who, with the help of propaganda rags like the irving press, want to privatize them for private profit.)
What's behind all this, of course, is human greed and arrogance. That has always been with us. But it's taken on an even more dangerous form with big capitalism.
Capitalism is based on greed. It's only purpose is to take while giving back as little as possible.
Capitalism has always been associated with war, too. For centuries, we have sent our people off to war "to fight for the Queen", "for love of country"... But wars are almost never fought for those reasons. Almost all of them are fought to satisfy the greed of the very wealthy. The Boer War was fought to steal South African gold mines. World War One was fought to maintain the economic dominance of Britain against a rising Germany. So was World War Two.
(Yes, I know Hitler was evil. But that wasn't why the war was fought. In fact, most western capitalists just loved Hitler because he would stop communism. Many backed him right to the end of 1941. Britain and France declared war only because, by 1939, he was being too successful in building Germany's economic power. Yes. I know he was murdering Jews. But none of the western powers, including Canada, gave a damn about that. Indeed, in Britain, Canada and the U.S. Jews were hated, especially by the very wealthy and the aristocracy. Edward VIII and Wallis Simpson were not the only Nazi enthusiasts in the Royal Family and the British aristocracy.)
The U.S. has invaded over 71 countries since 1945. The ONLY legal reason for invasion is if the target country is a threat to your country. For most of the period since 1945,NO country has been a threat to the U.S. Nobody attacked it. Nobody was in a position to attack it. So why were all those countries invaded and people murdered? It was so American capitalists could make money out of them and out of the resources of their countries.
There's really no doubt about it. Capitalism is a strong incentive to mass murder. It recognizes no limitations to murder and exploitation. This is not an empty accusation. We have centuries of evidence of it. In Canada, it was capitalism that destroyed our native peoples. That's why Canada sent troops to our West to kill Metis and native peoples - to clear the way for capitalist development.
And all the benefits of the killing stay with the capitalists. Again, there's no doubt about it. Big capitalists create poverty. That's most obvious is in Latin America and Africa. But it also explains the shockingly high rate of poverty in the U.S. It also explains why New Brunswick governments go into debt. It's because the big capitalists of the world, including New Brunswick, don't pay taxes - and they expect lots of government handouts.
They also, of course, have access to corrupt politicians. That's why, in the U.S., it's obvious that big capitalists own the governments. In fact, they ARE the governments. That is what has created two thoroughly corrupt parties. But most Americans, shackled by generations of propaganda about American 'democracy', have no sense of alternatives. The result, with Trump, was an election he won on what was essentially a vote against rather than for anything. That was the reason why Hitler targetted the Jews. He really had nothing to offer. So he had to attract the "voting against" people. Ontario has just done the same with electing Doug Ford.
The situation in Canada, among Liberals and Conservatives, for corruption is much like that in the U.S. And Canadians, too, really don't have much sense of the need to have parties of some moral stature.
This is what has taken the world into 70 years of wars, not one of which had any justification. And it's even worse than it used to be. Up to World War 2, capitalists at least paid some of the cost of their wars. Now, they don't. The rest of us have to pay the bills - and take the risk getting killed.
So where is this taking us?
That's a story for next time.
http://www.cbc.ca/news/business/cra-tax-gap-foreign-holdings-1.4726983
240 billion dollars. Now do you understand why governments have to go over budget? Now do you understand why our schools and hospitals don't have enough money? Now do you understand why our children have to go deeply into debt for years to go to university?
And in the U.S., where greed reigns, it's much, much worse.
_______________________________________________________________
Russia Times is, like Russia Today, propaganda for Russia. And, like Russia Today, it doesn't look at the faults of Russia - just those of the west. But, knowing that, it is better than most western news media because the part that it does tell is true - unlike almost all western news media.
In this case, the writer is a VERY distinguished and knowledgeable American journalist, scholar and clergyman.
https://russia-insider.com/en/politics/america-shows-many-signs-impending-catastrophic-collapse-pulitzer-prize-winner-explains
And this is exactly what is happening. And it's happening in Canada, too.
_________________________________________________________________
http://www.cbc.ca/news/thenational/national-today-newsletter-us-gun-violence-1.4722108
______________________________________________________________
The next is not an important story. But there's an amusing angle to it.
Many, many Montrealers move on July 1. This article treats it as though it were a French tradition.
https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2018/jun/29/montreal-moving-day-what-happens-when-a-whole-city-moves-house-at-once
But 1 - it's not a tradition of any sort to move on July 1. And 2 - it has nothing to do with Quebec being French. I know that because I lived in Montreal, and from the age of 6 I helped my father move us each May 1, carrying furniture through the streets, and always to a place just a block or so away.
Once, BBC TV contacted me to do a broadcast on what this odd practice was all about. So I did. And it's not a French tradition.
It's Scottish. Two or three hundred years ago, most Scottish farms were rented. A moving family had to be settled in as early as possible to prepare for the planting. So May 1 was the chosen day. In the 19th century, the major landlords of Montreal were Scottish. So they continued the practice. (The same was true in some American cities. I believe Boston was one of them.)
Why was it moved to July 1? That's very recent - and it may well have been a separatist slap in the face at Canada Day.
_____________________________________________________________
It's a big mistake to think of the Israeli government's vicious treatment of Palestinians, its murders of protesters, its theft of Palestinian land, its cruelty toward Palestine as being a reflection of Judaic values. Many, many Jews condemn what Israel is doing.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/jun/29/israelis-call-world-intervene-behalf-palestinians
________________________________________________________________
All imperial powers have a history of unspeakable brutality.
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2018/jun/30/british-intelligence-officers-linked-to-man-waterboarded-83
_______________________________________________________________
Europe and the U.S. have a long history of racism and brutality in dealing with refugees - especially refugees created by U.S. and European racism and brutality.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/jun/29/angela-merkel-refugee-crisis-drown
And, no. Canada is not pure.
_______________________________________________________________
This next one is profoundly depressing to me. But it's common that aid given to poor countries by rich ones ends up in the pockets of the wealthy friends of the rich country. The U.S., for example, voted huge aid packages to rebuild Iraq where shattered schools got a slap of paint, nothing more, at monstrous cost. That sort of of thing has happened all over Latin America and Africa.
http://rabble.ca/blogs/bloggers/gerry-caplans-blog/2018/06/canada-sends-military-force-mali
_________________________________________________________________
An American invasion of Venezuela is quite possible. Coincidence - Venezuela has the largest oil deposits in the world. And the government of Venezuela is foolish enough to believe this should be used for the benefit of the people of Venezuela.
And Canadian cooperation with the U.S. in this is quite possible.
https://countercurrents.org/2018/06/29/venezuela-towards-an-economy-of-resistance/
______________________________________________________________
This is a huge story that I certainly have not seen in the irving press. If accurate, it is a major defeat for the U.S. (And Robert Fisk is a pretty accurate news man.)
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/49740.htm
Once again, the biggest and most expensive military in the world has been defeated. (Remember Korea, Vietnam, and Afghanistan). And, if so, this is a huge setback for American influence.
And a thought. The U.S. since 1945 has been determined to make the whole world an American empire. But ever since then, and despite it massive military budget, huge army and air force, and world leading navy, it cannot win conventional wars, even against small opponents.
That is a powerful temptation for nuclear war - as Trump has already threatened against North Korea.
________________________________________________________________
Why are people fleeing Latin America?
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/49748.htm
What is really needed is a wall to keep American capitalists and American armies out of Latin America.
_____________________________________________________________
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/49748.htm
____________________________________________________________
Almost a hundred and twenty years ago, Canada sent troops to kill South Africans - including thousands of children and women in families that Canadian troops were responsible for. We celebrated the Canadians on their return. They were patriots. They had served the king. They were glorious.
They were no such thing. They had murdered innocent people to produce bigger profits for already wealthy British businessmen. In Afghanistan, we sent 'patriots' and celebrated them with 'highways of heroes'. But this time it was to serve the greed of American billionaires.
We have been all too eager to kiss up to the wealthy and greedy.
https://www.globalresearch.ca/global-affairs-canada-statement-represents-a-complete-disconnect-from-realities-on-the-ground-in-syria-tacit-endorsement-of-al-qaeda/5645944
________________________________________________________________
https://www.counterpunch.org/2018/06/29/move-over-god/
Obviously, he's not a New Brunswick Christian clergyman.
_____________________________________________________________
https://www.globalcitizen.org/en/content/arctic-is-turning-into-the-atlantic/
_______________________________________________________________
Let's skip the details that news requires. The big, untold story is that we cannot survive the direction we have chosen. That was obvious at the end of World War Two.
Then and later we were faced with some huge problems.
1. We saw - or should have seen - that the destructiveness of modern weapons made most future war impossible.
And we did nothing about it because our corporation bosses wanted war to increase their profits and to extend their power.
2. We've known about climate change for at least thirty years now. We know it can destroy us. We know we have little time to deal with it. And we don't lift a finger. And news media like the irving press pretends it doesn't exist. Why? Because big oil doesn't want us to interfere with it. That would hurt it's profits.
Is that a brainless position for big oil to take? Of course. But big oil has never been known for anything but big greed.
3. We have created massive unrest and growing poverty all over the world. Thus the many and uncounted millions of refugees today. That unrest has been created largely by the greed of capitalism. Thus the refugees drowning in the waters off Africa, and the Latin American children in American concentration camps.
4. We have created crippling conditions of spreading poverty even in countries like the U.S. and Canada. And it's going to get much, much worse soon as big business (and the governments it owns) refuses to deal with the spread of automation in the work place. It should mean shorter hours and better pay for the average worker. But that's not going to happen because big business doesn't want it to happen.
5. The advances we have made - as in education, medicare, pensions - are in serious danger. Big capitalism is determined to either destroy or take over these.
These are just five of the monstrous and urgent issues facing us. And we're not doing a thing about any of them. I checked my irving press today....
The lead, front page story is about a boy who was killed in a hit and run accident 13 years ago. The point of the story? His mother misses him.
Yes, this is sad. But it isn't news. It tells us nothing we can do anything about. There's no lesson in it. There's no remedy. A mother is sad about the death of a child? Of course, she is. There are thousands of people like this in New Brunswick. This is a sad story. But it's not news. This is what in the days of honest journalism used to be called a sob story. And it's almost a daily feature of the irving press.
As I follow the provincial election news, I still have no idea of the principles that the two, major parties represent - and not much about the other parties.
The big, world news? Well, a Canadian soldier died in a swimming accident in Ontario. Yemen? Iran? Israeli snipers killing a 13 year old Palestinian boy? U.S. collapsing in Syria? Refugees fleeing wars and starvation drowning as they try to escape? U.S. preparing war in Venezuela? Who cares? Our irving press aren't newspapers; they're sleeping pills.
_________________________________________________________________
I am sure there are readers who think I'm exaggerating when I write of the dangerous times we have entered. I wish I were exaggerating. But here are some of the factors in it.
For nearly 500 years, the western world (that's all us Christians) has dominated most of the rest of the world. It has killed uncounted millions - in war and in the horrible abuse, torture, starvation, exploitation of its imperial victims. Nobody will ever know the full number. Tens of millions were deliberately starved to death in China, in India, in the Philippines, in Latin America, in Africa. It's still going on. And we sang songs to celebrate the killing - like "Land of Hope and Glory"....
All of this slaughter and theft and abuse did nothing for most of the people of Britain, France, Spain, Germany, Portugal, the U.S..... No. The profits (or loot) went to a small number at the top.
The one doing most of the killing lately is the U.S.; but the backroom boys of Britain and France still jump in to lick American boots.
The abuse and killing has all been to enrich a very small number of people, the ones we call the big capitalists. Very little of it crept down to the rest of us. British landowners quite deliberately allowed Irish families to starve to death in the potato famine - though there was plenty of food available to feed them. From 1800 or so, the British were swept off their farms to work in dangerous mines and factories from childhood, and for very small return. Factory cities were normally vile and filthy and wretched and violent like The Gorbals of Edinburgh where my grandmother was born. It happened in the U.S. and Canada, too. Well into the early part of the twentieth century and all over the western world, workers were treated like filth, paid as little as possible - and died young. Strikers would be beaten, shot by troops. And that happened in the U.S. and Canada as well.
To this day, the "wealthy" U.S. has over 40% of its population living in deep poverty. Any social services have come only under great pressure. (In the U.S. there are almost none. Indeed, even the prisons are privatizing with terrible results for the prisoners - in a U.S. which has far the biggest prison population in the world. In Canada, we have some services - like medicare and public education. But they are under threat from Canadian capitalists who, with the help of propaganda rags like the irving press, want to privatize them for private profit.)
What's behind all this, of course, is human greed and arrogance. That has always been with us. But it's taken on an even more dangerous form with big capitalism.
Capitalism is based on greed. It's only purpose is to take while giving back as little as possible.
Capitalism has always been associated with war, too. For centuries, we have sent our people off to war "to fight for the Queen", "for love of country"... But wars are almost never fought for those reasons. Almost all of them are fought to satisfy the greed of the very wealthy. The Boer War was fought to steal South African gold mines. World War One was fought to maintain the economic dominance of Britain against a rising Germany. So was World War Two.
(Yes, I know Hitler was evil. But that wasn't why the war was fought. In fact, most western capitalists just loved Hitler because he would stop communism. Many backed him right to the end of 1941. Britain and France declared war only because, by 1939, he was being too successful in building Germany's economic power. Yes. I know he was murdering Jews. But none of the western powers, including Canada, gave a damn about that. Indeed, in Britain, Canada and the U.S. Jews were hated, especially by the very wealthy and the aristocracy. Edward VIII and Wallis Simpson were not the only Nazi enthusiasts in the Royal Family and the British aristocracy.)
The U.S. has invaded over 71 countries since 1945. The ONLY legal reason for invasion is if the target country is a threat to your country. For most of the period since 1945,NO country has been a threat to the U.S. Nobody attacked it. Nobody was in a position to attack it. So why were all those countries invaded and people murdered? It was so American capitalists could make money out of them and out of the resources of their countries.
There's really no doubt about it. Capitalism is a strong incentive to mass murder. It recognizes no limitations to murder and exploitation. This is not an empty accusation. We have centuries of evidence of it. In Canada, it was capitalism that destroyed our native peoples. That's why Canada sent troops to our West to kill Metis and native peoples - to clear the way for capitalist development.
And all the benefits of the killing stay with the capitalists. Again, there's no doubt about it. Big capitalists create poverty. That's most obvious is in Latin America and Africa. But it also explains the shockingly high rate of poverty in the U.S. It also explains why New Brunswick governments go into debt. It's because the big capitalists of the world, including New Brunswick, don't pay taxes - and they expect lots of government handouts.
They also, of course, have access to corrupt politicians. That's why, in the U.S., it's obvious that big capitalists own the governments. In fact, they ARE the governments. That is what has created two thoroughly corrupt parties. But most Americans, shackled by generations of propaganda about American 'democracy', have no sense of alternatives. The result, with Trump, was an election he won on what was essentially a vote against rather than for anything. That was the reason why Hitler targetted the Jews. He really had nothing to offer. So he had to attract the "voting against" people. Ontario has just done the same with electing Doug Ford.
The situation in Canada, among Liberals and Conservatives, for corruption is much like that in the U.S. And Canadians, too, really don't have much sense of the need to have parties of some moral stature.
This is what has taken the world into 70 years of wars, not one of which had any justification. And it's even worse than it used to be. Up to World War 2, capitalists at least paid some of the cost of their wars. Now, they don't. The rest of us have to pay the bills - and take the risk getting killed.
So where is this taking us?
That's a story for next time.