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 been the winners. Not that there was ever any good reason for the U.S. being there in the first place - except to assist the ambitions of the American oil industry.
When I was in high school, I was fascinated by the British hero - Lawrence of Arabia. It was he, in World War 1, who delivered the middle east oil industry, notably Saudi Arabia, into the hands of British capitalists. Of course, the book never said that.
No, this was a tale of a heroic Englishman who brought - something - to the middle east. And what he brought was a century of exploitation and conquest in the region - first by Britain. U.S. capitalists jumped in right after World War 2, displacing the British in their plundering of the region.
The most dreadfully exploited was Iran which, under British control, has to supply oil for the whole Royal Navy - free of charge. When, after World War Two, the Iranians elected a government that insisted on payment for its oil, Britain invaded. But Britain needed help so the U.S. joined the war,, won it, and imposed a dictatorship - and took over the country.
Iran rose again, dumped the dictatorship, and took their country back from American billionaires. So now, Iran is evil.
For a century, the region has known nothing but mass murder and plunder at the hands of British and American oil barons - thus Iraq, thus Syria, thus Libya...(And as the greed spreads, thus Venezuela...)
Despite Trump's confident words, the U.S. has not won in Syria. Indeed, it never entered that country to help Syria in the first place. Now, it has lost - to Syria and to Russia. Watch for worse to come.
In 1945, we said we had fought the war to end all wars. And we were going to re make our world so that such a war would never happen again. We were going to set up a world body of government in the form of the UN. But we didn't. The UN simply became, like all the governments before it, the tool of the world's major capitalists. It was really the creation of a second world war whose purpose was to satisfy the big capitalists for the same reason we fought the first world war.
As a very young child, I stood in the middle of a cheering crowd in Montreal in the jubilation of VE day, 1945. The war was over. My father was coming home. The whole world was caught up in peace and joy.
But it wasn't. Peace and Joy were the last things in the minds of our leading capitalists. They have led us into a world of war greater than anything we had ever seen. They have become our real ruling class - and they like war.
Today, we face the greatest threat that world has ever seen - in climate change. We have, maybe, a dozen years to get some control over it. And we are using those years to murder all over the world any people who are so greedy as not to give our wealthiest people whatever it is they want. Over much of the world, we are starving millions to death. We have, by now, created over a hundred million refugees - refugees created by our greed.
This is not the world Canadians died for in 1914 and 1939. We recognize their sacrifice one day a year. And for the other 364 days we ignore all that we say they fought for. We allow ourselves to be ruled by the greediest people in the world - people so greedy that in the extremity of their greed, we cannot see the fate they are condemning us all to.
___________________________________________________________
https://www.capebretonpost.com/opinion/columnists/gwynne-dyer-some-progress-made-on-the-climate-front-270075/
We are spending trillions of dollars on this earth for wars to sustain the oil industry for our multi-billionaires Is that what we fought for in 1939-45? WE are allowing hundreds of million to die of starvation and mass murder to please the super-wealthy.
Is this what Canadians fought for?
If so, take your patriotism and stuff it.
_____________________________________________________________
Lots of confusing news on Syria.
https://www.commondreams.org/further/2018/12/19/we-won-and-thats-way-we-want-it-and-theyre-all-coming-back-and-i-have-no-idea
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2018/12/20/bombings-will-continue-phyllis-bennis-warns-us-military-role-syria-not-actually
______________________________________________________________
It's always been like this in Canada, the U.S. and many other countries. And we have very little time to stop it.
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2018/12/19/tax-scam-turns-one-critics-say-law-one-biggest-transfers-wealth-richest-1-us-history
_____________________________________________________________
This is what Canadians were told they were fighting for in 1939-45.
https://countercurrents.org/2018/12/20/a-world-federation-the-world-as-it-is-and-the-world-as-it-could-be/
But we threw it all away to make the greedy happy. And now? Now it's quite possible that it's too late.
__________________________________________________________
https://countercurrents.org/2018/12/20/which-nations-are-state-sponsors-of-terrorism/
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https://www.counterpunch.org/2018/12/20/colombias-killing-fields/
Don't think of this as being the work of local thugs. Some people are paying for murder for it to reach that scale. Who is paying? Again, we should waste our time by just looking at the killers. In Guatemala, for example, uncounted thousands, perhaps as many as 200,000 were killed by CIA killers under that guidance of that nice George. This has been going one all over Latin America for well over a century. Usually, the paymaster are the American taxpayers. (The rich hate to pay for their killing.)
Are Canadian corporations involved in similar acts? Almost certainly. That may be why neither the Canadian news media nor our governments every mentioned that massacre.
______________________________________________________________
https://www.globalresearch.ca/rising-homelessness-in-america-the-reality-of-life-for-workers-in-a-booming-us-economy/5663396
______________________________________________________________
http://www.voltairenet.org/article204400.html
All these years later - after that wonderful day I was swept up in a crowd cheering for the the news world we were going to build....All these years later, we ARE the Naziis.
____________________________________________________________
And who is it that said something intelligent yesterday?
https://www.haaretz.com/world-news/putin-warns-of-growing-threat-of-nuclear-war-that-will-end-civilization-1.6765283
____________________________________________________________
It's been a disturbing day of following the news. I found that most of the usual sources had nothing of substance to say. Our leaders - and our people - are not facing up to reality. That is particularly true of a ruling class of billionaires that is blind to the damage it is inflicting on the world and, ultimately, on itself.
And we have a massive class of ordinary people who have no sense of what a horror we are creating, not even when we read of those horrors in the deaths by murder, by hunger, by greed that we read of every day.
Religions all over the world that we might expect to have something useful to say are silent - except for their frequent pandering to hatreds. God smiles when the U.S. starves children to death in Yemen. Of course. God's white. Real Americans are white. And God wants Americans as his chosen people.
The Christians, always willing to pander to the rich and powerful, have nothing to say about our savage behaviour since 1945, nothing to say about a ruling class that is obsessed with greed.
I have never had such a depressing blog to write. We accept the most towering and murderous greed as if this were normal.........but, oh, there's a price for that.
______________________________________________________________
When I was in high school, I was fascinated by the British hero - Lawrence of Arabia. It was he, in World War 1, who delivered the middle east oil industry, notably Saudi Arabia, into the hands of British capitalists. Of course, the book never said that.
No, this was a tale of a heroic Englishman who brought - something - to the middle east. And what he brought was a century of exploitation and conquest in the region - first by Britain. U.S. capitalists jumped in right after World War 2, displacing the British in their plundering of the region.
The most dreadfully exploited was Iran which, under British control, has to supply oil for the whole Royal Navy - free of charge. When, after World War Two, the Iranians elected a government that insisted on payment for its oil, Britain invaded. But Britain needed help so the U.S. joined the war,, won it, and imposed a dictatorship - and took over the country.
Iran rose again, dumped the dictatorship, and took their country back from American billionaires. So now, Iran is evil.
For a century, the region has known nothing but mass murder and plunder at the hands of British and American oil barons - thus Iraq, thus Syria, thus Libya...(And as the greed spreads, thus Venezuela...)
Despite Trump's confident words, the U.S. has not won in Syria. Indeed, it never entered that country to help Syria in the first place. Now, it has lost - to Syria and to Russia. Watch for worse to come.
In 1945, we said we had fought the war to end all wars. And we were going to re make our world so that such a war would never happen again. We were going to set up a world body of government in the form of the UN. But we didn't. The UN simply became, like all the governments before it, the tool of the world's major capitalists. It was really the creation of a second world war whose purpose was to satisfy the big capitalists for the same reason we fought the first world war.
As a very young child, I stood in the middle of a cheering crowd in Montreal in the jubilation of VE day, 1945. The war was over. My father was coming home. The whole world was caught up in peace and joy.
But it wasn't. Peace and Joy were the last things in the minds of our leading capitalists. They have led us into a world of war greater than anything we had ever seen. They have become our real ruling class - and they like war.
Today, we face the greatest threat that world has ever seen - in climate change. We have, maybe, a dozen years to get some control over it. And we are using those years to murder all over the world any people who are so greedy as not to give our wealthiest people whatever it is they want. Over much of the world, we are starving millions to death. We have, by now, created over a hundred million refugees - refugees created by our greed.
This is not the world Canadians died for in 1914 and 1939. We recognize their sacrifice one day a year. And for the other 364 days we ignore all that we say they fought for. We allow ourselves to be ruled by the greediest people in the world - people so greedy that in the extremity of their greed, we cannot see the fate they are condemning us all to.
___________________________________________________________
https://www.capebretonpost.com/opinion/columnists/gwynne-dyer-some-progress-made-on-the-climate-front-270075/
We are spending trillions of dollars on this earth for wars to sustain the oil industry for our multi-billionaires Is that what we fought for in 1939-45? WE are allowing hundreds of million to die of starvation and mass murder to please the super-wealthy.
Is this what Canadians fought for?
If so, take your patriotism and stuff it.
_____________________________________________________________
Lots of confusing news on Syria.
https://www.commondreams.org/further/2018/12/19/we-won-and-thats-way-we-want-it-and-theyre-all-coming-back-and-i-have-no-idea
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2018/12/20/bombings-will-continue-phyllis-bennis-warns-us-military-role-syria-not-actually
______________________________________________________________
It's always been like this in Canada, the U.S. and many other countries. And we have very little time to stop it.
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2018/12/19/tax-scam-turns-one-critics-say-law-one-biggest-transfers-wealth-richest-1-us-history
_____________________________________________________________
This is what Canadians were told they were fighting for in 1939-45.
https://countercurrents.org/2018/12/20/a-world-federation-the-world-as-it-is-and-the-world-as-it-could-be/
But we threw it all away to make the greedy happy. And now? Now it's quite possible that it's too late.
__________________________________________________________
https://countercurrents.org/2018/12/20/which-nations-are-state-sponsors-of-terrorism/
____________________________________________________________
https://www.counterpunch.org/2018/12/20/colombias-killing-fields/
Don't think of this as being the work of local thugs. Some people are paying for murder for it to reach that scale. Who is paying? Again, we should waste our time by just looking at the killers. In Guatemala, for example, uncounted thousands, perhaps as many as 200,000 were killed by CIA killers under that guidance of that nice George. This has been going one all over Latin America for well over a century. Usually, the paymaster are the American taxpayers. (The rich hate to pay for their killing.)
Are Canadian corporations involved in similar acts? Almost certainly. That may be why neither the Canadian news media nor our governments every mentioned that massacre.
______________________________________________________________
https://www.globalresearch.ca/rising-homelessness-in-america-the-reality-of-life-for-workers-in-a-booming-us-economy/5663396
______________________________________________________________
http://www.voltairenet.org/article204400.html
All these years later - after that wonderful day I was swept up in a crowd cheering for the the news world we were going to build....All these years later, we ARE the Naziis.
____________________________________________________________
And who is it that said something intelligent yesterday?
https://www.haaretz.com/world-news/putin-warns-of-growing-threat-of-nuclear-war-that-will-end-civilization-1.6765283
____________________________________________________________
It's been a disturbing day of following the news. I found that most of the usual sources had nothing of substance to say. Our leaders - and our people - are not facing up to reality. That is particularly true of a ruling class of billionaires that is blind to the damage it is inflicting on the world and, ultimately, on itself.
And we have a massive class of ordinary people who have no sense of what a horror we are creating, not even when we read of those horrors in the deaths by murder, by hunger, by greed that we read of every day.
Religions all over the world that we might expect to have something useful to say are silent - except for their frequent pandering to hatreds. God smiles when the U.S. starves children to death in Yemen. Of course. God's white. Real Americans are white. And God wants Americans as his chosen people.
The Christians, always willing to pander to the rich and powerful, have nothing to say about our savage behaviour since 1945, nothing to say about a ruling class that is obsessed with greed.
I have never had such a depressing blog to write. We accept the most towering and murderous greed as if this were normal.........but, oh, there's a price for that.
______________________________________________________________
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