I'm a little groggy today. I was up until 4 in the morning watching for developments in Venezuela. There weren't any - but here's a story you probably won't find in your local news outlet.
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2019/jan/30/historian-berates-billionaires-at-davos-over-tax-avoidance
One of the greatest threats facing us is the increasing drift of all wealth into the pockets of the very, very wealthy. Every year these people take millions and even billions of dollars from us in a grand theft that amounts to trillions.
The very wealthy not only refuse to pay taxes. They also insist that government spending be directed to them. That's why the U.S. has such a huge defence budget. It has very little to do with defence -but everything to do with creating profits for war industries.
As well as this 'defence' spending, the U.S. also lavishes gifts of billions of dollars in handouts to the very wealthy. In this, it resembles ancient Rome at its worst. Meanwhile, there is nothing for the homeless; we have an education system frozen in the world of a century ago; the U.S., the richest nation in the world, cannot afford health care for its people....
It's bad enough the very wealthy don't pay any taxes. But it's worse that they demand handouts that put us deeper into debt every year.
This system is going to crash.
Why are our news media silent about this? Why are we paying for wars that benefit only the very wealthy? It is paraded in real life every day - a wealthy elite that is getting wealthier on our cheap labour and our taxes - and on the sweat labour of this world.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/climate-change-polar-vortex-1.4998820
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https://www.commondreams.org/news/2019/01/31/city-sized-1000-foot-deep-cavity-found-glacier-warns-nasa-signaling-rapid-decay
But don't worry. Mr. Trump says the experts don't know what they're talking about - and Mr. Trump has a bachelor's degree in finance. So there.
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The New York Times has a reputation for outstanding journalism. Sometimes it is outstanding. Sometimes it isn't. It's one of the papers that never mentioned the U.S. slaughter of some 200,000 Guatemalans - mostly Maya people, and a number of Christian missionaries.
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2019/01/31/continuing-long-history-supporting-us-backed-regime-change-nyt-hands-venezuela
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What is the Afghnistan war all about? Forget the stories about the evil of the Taliban. (In fact. the Taliban was largely trained and equipped by the U.S. The 9/11 attack on New York was never the cause of that war. It was a war to 1. open up Afghanistan mining to American and British companies and 2.to create a base that could threaten Russia.
Your tax dollars at work - but not for you.
https://www.thenation.com/article/afghanistan-war-peace-talks-minerals/
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https://www.thenation.com/article/howard-schultz-billionaire-franklin-delano-roosevelt-new-deal-social-security-medicare-all/
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https://countercurrents.org/2019/01/31/venezuelas-oil-and-the-geopolitics-of-the-us-backed-coup/
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https://countercurrents.org/2019/01/31/your-complete-guide-to-the-n-y-times-support-of-u-s-backed-coups-in-latin-america/
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I knew Pierre Trudeau. (No. I'm not a Liberal. But I did know Pierre Trudeau.)
And Justin is no Pierre. Pierre had the guts and the principles to support Castro.
Justin has neither guts nor principles.
https://countercurrents.org/2019/01/31/an-open-letter-to-justin-trudeau-prime-minister-of-canada/
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https://countercurrents.org/2019/01/31/international-criminal-court-judge-resigns-citing-shocking-us-interference/
In 1945, the American super-wealthy (the ones who don't pay taxes) saw their opportunity to make the whole world their empire. Britain, it's own empire destroyed, caved in to the new world order. But things have not gone well for the American empire.
China and Russia have emerged as challenges. Much of the Muslim world has risen to oppose U.S. dominance. (And the American military, despite its size and sophistication and its reliance on the massive killing of civilians and children, has been remarkably unsuccessful.)
And that has brought us to the edge of the war that nobody can win.
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I don't think this made most (any) of our major news media.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/51006.htm
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Another win for our slimier politicians and their slimy, billionaire friends.
https://www.nationalobserver.com/2019/01/30/analysis/canadas-climate-gap-widens-yet-again
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https://www.globalcitizen.org/en/content/venezuela-crisis-facts-to-know-poverty/
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As very young child of World War Two, I worshipped Churchill. As a teenager, I was captivated by his multi-volume history of Britain. Only later, as I studied history, would I realize what a thoroughly nasty bit of goods he was. He was a racist, a servant of the very rich, a man with nothing but contempt for that majority of the British people who weren't rich. He was also perhaps the inventor of the deliberate massacre of civilians. (He ordered the bombing of civilian Kurd villages and town in 1920).
This summary of Churchill' character might seem overdone. Possibly it is. But not by much. It also has some big surprises in it.
https://off-guardian.org/2019/01/30/winston-church-close-but-no-cigar/
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https://off-guardian.org/2019/01/31/venezuela-guardian-sparing-neocon-blushes/
Of course, this is what the fuss over Venezuela is about. But that's not how it's been reported.
The U.S. doesn't give a damn about democracy or human rights It murders children in Yemen. It's wars in places like Korea, Vietnam, Iraq - and the secret ones like Guatemala - it's invasion of Haiti - have not been campaigns to bring peace and joy. They have been mass murders - a total of at least 30 million people murdered - to give control of resources to American capitalists. The U.S. has only one objective in Venezuela, stealing control of Venezuela's oil.
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https://theantimedia.com/us-interrogators-uae-yemen/
Of course, the U.S. is involved in torture in Yemen. It's been involved for over a century - going back at least to its conquest of The Philliipines.
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https://theantimedia.com/khashoggi-death-crime-scene/
Of course. The U.S. is very tolerant of its Saudi friends.
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https://www.voltairenet.org/article204951.html
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We have, from the start, abandoned everything we said we were fighting World War Two for. (It would be nice if members of The Canadian Legion could put down their beers for a moment and think of that.)
I was a child the day the war ended in Europe. I remember the crowds. I remember the wild joy. I remember the promises. But I didn't understand.
World War Two had not ended. It is still on. And we are the ones who allowed that to happen.
We have allowed capitalism to run wild. We have handed over the world to greed. Now, we have very little time to undo what we have done. And we are under the control of people who don't want to undo the evil we have turned loose.
_______________________________________________________________
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2019/jan/30/historian-berates-billionaires-at-davos-over-tax-avoidance
One of the greatest threats facing us is the increasing drift of all wealth into the pockets of the very, very wealthy. Every year these people take millions and even billions of dollars from us in a grand theft that amounts to trillions.
The very wealthy not only refuse to pay taxes. They also insist that government spending be directed to them. That's why the U.S. has such a huge defence budget. It has very little to do with defence -but everything to do with creating profits for war industries.
As well as this 'defence' spending, the U.S. also lavishes gifts of billions of dollars in handouts to the very wealthy. In this, it resembles ancient Rome at its worst. Meanwhile, there is nothing for the homeless; we have an education system frozen in the world of a century ago; the U.S., the richest nation in the world, cannot afford health care for its people....
It's bad enough the very wealthy don't pay any taxes. But it's worse that they demand handouts that put us deeper into debt every year.
This system is going to crash.
Why are our news media silent about this? Why are we paying for wars that benefit only the very wealthy? It is paraded in real life every day - a wealthy elite that is getting wealthier on our cheap labour and our taxes - and on the sweat labour of this world.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/climate-change-polar-vortex-1.4998820
_________________________________________________________________
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2019/01/31/city-sized-1000-foot-deep-cavity-found-glacier-warns-nasa-signaling-rapid-decay
But don't worry. Mr. Trump says the experts don't know what they're talking about - and Mr. Trump has a bachelor's degree in finance. So there.
_______________________________________________________________
The New York Times has a reputation for outstanding journalism. Sometimes it is outstanding. Sometimes it isn't. It's one of the papers that never mentioned the U.S. slaughter of some 200,000 Guatemalans - mostly Maya people, and a number of Christian missionaries.
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2019/01/31/continuing-long-history-supporting-us-backed-regime-change-nyt-hands-venezuela
______________________________________________________________
What is the Afghnistan war all about? Forget the stories about the evil of the Taliban. (In fact. the Taliban was largely trained and equipped by the U.S. The 9/11 attack on New York was never the cause of that war. It was a war to 1. open up Afghanistan mining to American and British companies and 2.to create a base that could threaten Russia.
Your tax dollars at work - but not for you.
https://www.thenation.com/article/afghanistan-war-peace-talks-minerals/
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
https://www.thenation.com/article/howard-schultz-billionaire-franklin-delano-roosevelt-new-deal-social-security-medicare-all/
_____________________________________________________________
https://countercurrents.org/2019/01/31/venezuelas-oil-and-the-geopolitics-of-the-us-backed-coup/
_______________________________________________________________
https://countercurrents.org/2019/01/31/your-complete-guide-to-the-n-y-times-support-of-u-s-backed-coups-in-latin-america/
_______________________________________________________________
I knew Pierre Trudeau. (No. I'm not a Liberal. But I did know Pierre Trudeau.)
And Justin is no Pierre. Pierre had the guts and the principles to support Castro.
Justin has neither guts nor principles.
https://countercurrents.org/2019/01/31/an-open-letter-to-justin-trudeau-prime-minister-of-canada/
_______________________________________________________________
https://countercurrents.org/2019/01/31/international-criminal-court-judge-resigns-citing-shocking-us-interference/
In 1945, the American super-wealthy (the ones who don't pay taxes) saw their opportunity to make the whole world their empire. Britain, it's own empire destroyed, caved in to the new world order. But things have not gone well for the American empire.
China and Russia have emerged as challenges. Much of the Muslim world has risen to oppose U.S. dominance. (And the American military, despite its size and sophistication and its reliance on the massive killing of civilians and children, has been remarkably unsuccessful.)
And that has brought us to the edge of the war that nobody can win.
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
I don't think this made most (any) of our major news media.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/51006.htm
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Another win for our slimier politicians and their slimy, billionaire friends.
https://www.nationalobserver.com/2019/01/30/analysis/canadas-climate-gap-widens-yet-again
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
https://www.globalcitizen.org/en/content/venezuela-crisis-facts-to-know-poverty/
____________________________________________________________
As very young child of World War Two, I worshipped Churchill. As a teenager, I was captivated by his multi-volume history of Britain. Only later, as I studied history, would I realize what a thoroughly nasty bit of goods he was. He was a racist, a servant of the very rich, a man with nothing but contempt for that majority of the British people who weren't rich. He was also perhaps the inventor of the deliberate massacre of civilians. (He ordered the bombing of civilian Kurd villages and town in 1920).
This summary of Churchill' character might seem overdone. Possibly it is. But not by much. It also has some big surprises in it.
https://off-guardian.org/2019/01/30/winston-church-close-but-no-cigar/
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
https://off-guardian.org/2019/01/31/venezuela-guardian-sparing-neocon-blushes/
Of course, this is what the fuss over Venezuela is about. But that's not how it's been reported.
The U.S. doesn't give a damn about democracy or human rights It murders children in Yemen. It's wars in places like Korea, Vietnam, Iraq - and the secret ones like Guatemala - it's invasion of Haiti - have not been campaigns to bring peace and joy. They have been mass murders - a total of at least 30 million people murdered - to give control of resources to American capitalists. The U.S. has only one objective in Venezuela, stealing control of Venezuela's oil.
_________________________________________________________________
https://theantimedia.com/us-interrogators-uae-yemen/
Of course, the U.S. is involved in torture in Yemen. It's been involved for over a century - going back at least to its conquest of The Philliipines.
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
https://theantimedia.com/khashoggi-death-crime-scene/
Of course. The U.S. is very tolerant of its Saudi friends.
------------------------------------------------------------------------------
https://www.voltairenet.org/article204951.html
_____________________________________________________________
We have, from the start, abandoned everything we said we were fighting World War Two for. (It would be nice if members of The Canadian Legion could put down their beers for a moment and think of that.)
I was a child the day the war ended in Europe. I remember the crowds. I remember the wild joy. I remember the promises. But I didn't understand.
World War Two had not ended. It is still on. And we are the ones who allowed that to happen.
We have allowed capitalism to run wild. We have handed over the world to greed. Now, we have very little time to undo what we have done. And we are under the control of people who don't want to undo the evil we have turned loose.
_______________________________________________________________
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