I begin today's blog with a long and possibly tedious criticism of the U.S. and its Canadian and British puppets. If it is boring, feel free to skip past this to the more conventional entries.
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Following the news daily is a profoundly depressing experience. A main reason it's so depressing is that our news media don't really report war. No. Almost invariably their view is one of our good guys against bad guys. And the good guys are always right. The current conflict in Iran is an example of this.
Iran was a nation plundered by the British from 1918 to 1948. Iran was forced to GIVE free of charge all the oil requested by the whole British navy. Iran was crushed into poverty. But, in 1948, Iran elected, quite democratically, it's own leadership, and set it's own terms for selling it's own oil.
So, in 1948, the British and Americans invaded it, killed hundreds of its people, and installed a dictatorship. (The Americans later squeezed out the British and became the big thief. For billionaires, sharing of conquests has never been a factor in war.)
There was not a word of criticism from any of the western news media. The good guys, in their view, had won. And the Shah became the front man for American plunderers.
When the Iranians, some years later, kicked out the Shah, the U.S. began a long series of attacks against it. People were murdered. But none of the western media had a peep of complaint.
More recently, the U.S. has, quite illegally, imposed 'sanctions' on Iran for it's sin of daring to run it's own country. It has also sent warships into Iranian waters. No comment from our news media. In all this, particularly with sanctions, Iranians are on the edge of starvation. But, of course, there was not a whimper from the Trudeaus of this world.
Meanwhile, the U.S. had killed over a million people in an invasion of Iraq - a quite illegal invasion. A high proportion of the killed (and horribly wounded and orphaned) were children. But our news media didn't give a damn.
There was nothing accidental about the killing of children. This was, and is, quite deliberate policy. Heavy bombing of residential targets, of schools and hospitals had became the standard practice of American war. It was also heavily used against Laos and Cambodia. In Vietnam, they added the delight of poison gas to spread death and starvation without discrimination. The U.S. also assisted in the starvation of babies and young children in Lebanon. Our news media hasn't bothered to tell us how many died. Nor can I recall a Canadian prime minister denouncing this.
With the invasion of Afghanistan, (another illegal one) the U.S. again concentrated on murdering civilians with mass bombing. To this it added mass torture that went beyond even the worst of Hitler's Germany. And it still does. Read much about that in your news?
(In the course of this, Britain and the U.S. have both inflicted torture on their own citizens. As I write this, an American journalist who did nothing illegal is in many years of prison as Britain and the U.S. prefer to keep him in solitary confinement until it kills him. (That's so much nicer than a messy trial for which they have no evidence.)
I must have missed Mr. Trudeau's courageous rebuke of that.
Oh, Canada also sent troops (quite illegally) to help our American friends in Afghanistan. In the course of that they, naturally, handed their prisoners (including a young Canadian) over to the U.S. for torture.
Since then, we have been good Americans on may occasions, with Canadian ships interfering with other countries, with the Canadian air force bombing Libya to make Americans happy - I wonder if they followed the American practice of bombing civilians..... And Canada's army is helping the U.S. to train Syrians to kill each other.
And Canada's prime minister has now condemned Iranians for not being Americans.
As I write this, I think I can hear beer bottles crashing to the floor in the rooms of The Canadian Legion. However, I am not in any way criticizing Canada's military. They have been terribly abused, but not by me. They have been abused by our government in being offered up as killers (and victims) for the U.S. in the illegal wars it has been fighting since 1950. And they have been abused by Canadian governments who simply hand them over to kill for America.
The difficulty with The Canadian Legion is that it has unquestioningly supported our selling Canadians to fight American wars. The legion is supposed to support and defend those who serve Canada. In fact though, it routinely simply hands over Canadian service men and women to fight and die for American and Canadian billionaires.
And the trouble with our news media is that they don't tell the truth.
The world's biggest killer since 1945 has been the United States. It has killed something over 20 million people in that time, most of them civilians and children. (Actually, counting starvations, nobody knows how many the U.S. has murdered.) And it's all to please weapons billionaires who make money out of killing. That's why the U.S. has soaring rates of poverty. Those are inflicted by governments which, from the start back in 1776, have abused the poor to enrich the wealthy. That's why education is underfunded, university out of reach for millions - why Americans die because they can't afford medical care.....
And Trudeau gets headlines for saying the 63 Canadians were killed by Iran. More, far more, Canadians have been killed fighting wars for the U.S. But Trudeau thinks that killing for the profit of U.S. billionaires is just great.
Hitler was not the creator of horror in the twentieth century. That began in 1900 when the British invaded South Africa (with Canadian help) to steal its gold mines. the British people got nothing out of that. Most of them lived in the poverty they had always known. It was the very rich who got the gold. That's still true today.
World War One was not a war of evil Germans against Godly French and English. It was a war of capitalists against capitalists to see which side could push aside the capitalists on the other side.
World War Two was largely a copy of World War One. But World War Two knocked out the capitalists of Europe and handed over to American capitalists the dream that they would now rule all the nations of the world. Thus the almost unbroken string of U.S. wars all over the world. Thus the mass murder of millions of civilians.
Yes, of course we should investigate the causes of death in a war. But we should investigate the causes on both sides. To forget U.S. killings while condemning those of other countries is hypocrisy The U.S. is the world's biggest killer. It's the biggest enemy of the whole world - including the biggest enemy of itself.
One might have expected a Canadian prime minister to recognize that. (Well, no. One might not have expected. Neither Canada nor the U.S. has ever noticed how murderous the U.S. has always been, and how that murderous behaviour, largely by the wealthy. has always been a feature of American life.)
Watch this one. It is very likely Canada will be asked to send troops to fight for the most vicious nation in today's world. And our news media will once again pretend this is good guys against bad guys.
The U.S. bombing fleets, for over 70 years, have been the most murderous in the world - and with a heavy emphasis on the bombing of civilians and children.
But don't wait from any criticism of that from Trudeau.
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https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/iran-jetliner-unintentionally-shot-down-1.5423608
Well, we now have a villain. Note the use of quotation marks in this headline. Iran said it 'unintentionally' shot down the airliner. But that is not what Iran said.
Iran said it shot it down unintentionally. But the use of quotation marks is, quite clearly, to express doubt that Iran is telling the truth. And that is dishonest reporting.
And so we have the desirable good guys, bad guys scenario. Forget that the U.S. quite illegally murdered an Iranian leader. Forget that the U.S. has been illegally destroying the whole Iranian economy for some time. Forget that the U.S. has illegally murdered well over a million people, most of them civilians, in neighbouring Iraq. Forget that it has recently destroyed the elected government of Bolivia in a deliberate attack on it's indigenous people. Forget that Trudeau has supported the U.S. in this as well as in other tragic assaults in Latin America. Forget that Canada was so in favour of U.S. illegal mass murder that it sent troops to help out the U.S. in Afghanistan and Syria.
The message of this 'report' is that the U.S., which daily kills innocent people every day just with it's drone bombers is good, and Iran is evil. How come our news media rarely report this? How come we have few reports of the dozens of illegal wars fought by the U.S. since 1950? When the U.S. murdered some 200,000 innocent people of Guatemala, the CBC, like all other North American news media didn't even cover the story. A New Brunswick graveyard near the church of the reigning dictator of New Brunswick holds the body of a Canadian missionary who was murdered by CIA thugs in Guatemala. But even the local news media have never carried that story. And, most certainly, Trudeau has never mentioned it - with or without quotation marks.
Will the U.S. now invade Iran? That would be unwise - but possible. And, if so, it will expect Canada to send troops. And Trudeau will salute, while singing a chorus of God Bless America.
Yes, I still think that CBC is the best news medium in North America. But, oh, it could be much, much better.
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https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/ps752-flight-iran-missile-1.5422912
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The future of the middle east is a terribly complex matter. Much of that complexity was caused by British and, more recently, American interventions.
But, alas, what was done is done - and there is no easy solution in sight.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/jan/11/why-instinct-and-ideology-tell-trump-to-get-out-of-the-middle-east-suleimani-iran
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https://rabble.ca/columnists/2020/01/america-exists-today-make-war-says-col-lawrence-wilkerson
And this is the openion of a man who can reasonably be called an American right-winger.
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https://rabble.ca/podcasts/shows/radiolabour/2020/01/striking-back-students
Billionaires in Canada - and other places - demand billions in gifts from the rest of us - and they get them. But for ordinary children? We don't give a damn.
Public schools have always been forced to run on peanuts - even as we hand out grants to private schools for rich kids.
For many, especially the poor, this means ignorance for life. In my grade one class, only one of the students got to complete high school - and it wasn't me.
For the added touch, university education has always been difficult to attain. After my years of education, I had to pay 15 years of debt for the cost of my education. And it's now much, much worse.
The rise of public educaton for all in the nineteenth century was a tremendous gain for all. But for some years now we've been destroying it.
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https://www.thenation.com/article/australia-fires-climate-morrison/
And Canadians await their turn - soon. And Canada has guaranteed it's own disaster as in every province Canadians voted for the Conservative party that will do nothing and for The Liberals who will, occasionally, talk about doing something but have done nothing for 30 years.
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https://www.thenation.com/article/foundation-defense-democracies-iran/
Yes, in the U.S.(and Canada and Britain and other 'democracies') the wealthy buy politicians.
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https://lfpress.com/opinion/columnists/dyer-u-s-hit-on-general-hands-iran-two-big-long-game-wins
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https://lfpress.com/opinion/columnists/dyer-hong-kong-chaos-has-taiwans-tsai-poised-to-win-saturday-election
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https://www.commondreams.org/news/2020/01/10/tens-thousands-join-sack-scomo-protests-against-government-climate-inaction
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https://www.commondreams.org/news/2020/01/10/usaid-arriving-bolivia-monitor-elections-raising-fears-us-meddling-may-3-vote
Of course, the US is going to meddle on the side of those who illegally overthrew the elected government of Bolivia. And Canada's own Justin Trudeau has, from the beginning, been on the side of those who are destroying Bolivia's large, indigenous populaton. Trudeau has chosen his side. And his side, with the U.S., is the support of Bolivia's racists.
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https://consortiumnews.com/2020/01/10/the-war-in-afghanistan-is-a-fraud-and-now-we-have-
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https://countercurrents.org/2020/01/iraq-why-doesnt-the-us-move-out-despite-the-iraqi-parliaments-decision
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The government of India has fallen a long way since the years of Ghandi. It is now thoroughly racist in matters or religion - a change that it is not much noticed by the western news media.
https://countercurrents.org/2020/01/jnu-violence-must-be-investigated-by-a-judicial-commission
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https://countercurrents.org/2020/01/mega-droughts-engulf-countries
Yes. It's happening.
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http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/52834.htm
Information clearing house is a little weak this time. It jumped too quickly at the conclusion that Iran was innocent in it's shooting down of a passenger plane in Iran. And Canadian news media went wild in the other direction.
What we know now is that we really don't have a clear picture of that downing of a passenger plane. Iran has said it was a terrible and unplanned blunder. Canadian news media have jumped to a conclusion that this was a deliberate attack on Canada, though with no evidence to support this claim. Nor is it at all clear what Iran would gain from this attack.
Our news media forever blame somebody else for the murder of civilians. In fact, as this article shows, the U.S. has been murdering civilians on a world scale for over a hundred years. And that's exactly what Hitler did. And what the British Empire did. (in fact, it's also what Canadan did to it's indigenous people - and it's what Canada almost did to them just days ago when the RCMP planned to use snipers against them for their opposition to an oil pipeline on their territory.
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https://www.nationalobserver.com/2020/01/02/opinion/albertas-30-million-bonfire
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https://www.nationalobserver.com/2020/01/11/news/banks-arent-backing-their-climate-message-rainforest-action-network
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https://www.nationalobserver.com/2020/01/07/news/australias-bushfires-offer-heated-view-longstanding-misinformation-climate-change
In Canada and it's provinces, all the government parties (Liberal and Conservative) have done nothing. Meanwhile, evidence is growing all over the world that we face the ultimate crisis - and have very little time to deal with it. And the reaction of the Canadian people?
As the recent election shows, most of the Canadian people stand around with their faces hanging out.
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https://theantimedia.com/ukraine-airliner-tragedy-evokes-memories-iran-air-flight-655/
Don't remember it? Of course not. Who cares when it's the U.S. that shoots down a civil airliner?
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https://truthout.org/articles/the-faces-of-extinction-the-species-we-lost-in-2019/
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https://theintercept.com/2020/01/10/joe-biden-super-pac-iowa-tv-ads/
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https://theintercept.com/2020/01/09/donald-trump-iran-suleimani-murder/
Well, this is different. An American president has the right to murder people anywhere in the world. Possibly even Americans. Anyway, the righteous indigantion of our media at the killing, accidentally or not, of Canadians will distract the attention of our news media.
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https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/outraged-trudeau-says-iran-must-take-full-responsibility-after-admitting-it-shot-down-ps752-1.5423764
In fact, Iran HAS taken full reponsibility. And I note that Canadian governments have never been crirical of mass murder by Americans - not in Afghanistan, not in Bolivia, not in Venezuela; and, in Guatemala, Canadian news media didn't even report the murder of a Canadian missionary by the CIA, a gang of international murderers created by the U.S.
I note , too, that Canada never criticized the illegal murder of an Iranian general by the U.S.
Think hard. What was the last time that Trudeau criticized the U.S. for anything significant?
In the past 60 years, the U.S. has murdered tens of millions of people all over the world. That includes over 70 official wars and also the unofficial ones, as with drone bombings of children, ever day. Before that, Canadians in general praised Britain for it's mass murder of of hundreds of millions - perhaps a world record.
I cannot think of any prime minister in Canadian history who has been critical of the mass murder by our imperial masters. And Canadian news media? Forget it.
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https://theintercept.com/2020/01/09/republican-reporters-want-democrats-stop-saying-qassim-suleimani-assassinated/
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https://theintercept.com/2020/01/06/border-iranian-american-iran/
And you can bet that Trudeau didn't - and won't - say a word in defence of those Canadian Iranians.
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https://thesaker.is/trumps-sanctions-threat-reveal-us-plan-all-these-decades-total-colonization-of-iraq/
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A week or so ago, it looked as if a world war was inevitable. It was. And it still is. The U.S. is, in effect, ruled by its billionaires who may be the greediest and most murderous people in history. Canada and Britain are on board with them.
I don't believe it would be possible for anyone to win this war.
I often, these days, remember the posters that mesmerized me on D-Day. "We've won the war. Now we've go to win the peace."
But we didn't win the peace. We never even tried to.
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Following the news daily is a profoundly depressing experience. A main reason it's so depressing is that our news media don't really report war. No. Almost invariably their view is one of our good guys against bad guys. And the good guys are always right. The current conflict in Iran is an example of this.
Iran was a nation plundered by the British from 1918 to 1948. Iran was forced to GIVE free of charge all the oil requested by the whole British navy. Iran was crushed into poverty. But, in 1948, Iran elected, quite democratically, it's own leadership, and set it's own terms for selling it's own oil.
So, in 1948, the British and Americans invaded it, killed hundreds of its people, and installed a dictatorship. (The Americans later squeezed out the British and became the big thief. For billionaires, sharing of conquests has never been a factor in war.)
There was not a word of criticism from any of the western news media. The good guys, in their view, had won. And the Shah became the front man for American plunderers.
When the Iranians, some years later, kicked out the Shah, the U.S. began a long series of attacks against it. People were murdered. But none of the western media had a peep of complaint.
More recently, the U.S. has, quite illegally, imposed 'sanctions' on Iran for it's sin of daring to run it's own country. It has also sent warships into Iranian waters. No comment from our news media. In all this, particularly with sanctions, Iranians are on the edge of starvation. But, of course, there was not a whimper from the Trudeaus of this world.
Meanwhile, the U.S. had killed over a million people in an invasion of Iraq - a quite illegal invasion. A high proportion of the killed (and horribly wounded and orphaned) were children. But our news media didn't give a damn.
There was nothing accidental about the killing of children. This was, and is, quite deliberate policy. Heavy bombing of residential targets, of schools and hospitals had became the standard practice of American war. It was also heavily used against Laos and Cambodia. In Vietnam, they added the delight of poison gas to spread death and starvation without discrimination. The U.S. also assisted in the starvation of babies and young children in Lebanon. Our news media hasn't bothered to tell us how many died. Nor can I recall a Canadian prime minister denouncing this.
With the invasion of Afghanistan, (another illegal one) the U.S. again concentrated on murdering civilians with mass bombing. To this it added mass torture that went beyond even the worst of Hitler's Germany. And it still does. Read much about that in your news?
(In the course of this, Britain and the U.S. have both inflicted torture on their own citizens. As I write this, an American journalist who did nothing illegal is in many years of prison as Britain and the U.S. prefer to keep him in solitary confinement until it kills him. (That's so much nicer than a messy trial for which they have no evidence.)
I must have missed Mr. Trudeau's courageous rebuke of that.
Oh, Canada also sent troops (quite illegally) to help our American friends in Afghanistan. In the course of that they, naturally, handed their prisoners (including a young Canadian) over to the U.S. for torture.
Since then, we have been good Americans on may occasions, with Canadian ships interfering with other countries, with the Canadian air force bombing Libya to make Americans happy - I wonder if they followed the American practice of bombing civilians..... And Canada's army is helping the U.S. to train Syrians to kill each other.
And Canada's prime minister has now condemned Iranians for not being Americans.
As I write this, I think I can hear beer bottles crashing to the floor in the rooms of The Canadian Legion. However, I am not in any way criticizing Canada's military. They have been terribly abused, but not by me. They have been abused by our government in being offered up as killers (and victims) for the U.S. in the illegal wars it has been fighting since 1950. And they have been abused by Canadian governments who simply hand them over to kill for America.
The difficulty with The Canadian Legion is that it has unquestioningly supported our selling Canadians to fight American wars. The legion is supposed to support and defend those who serve Canada. In fact though, it routinely simply hands over Canadian service men and women to fight and die for American and Canadian billionaires.
And the trouble with our news media is that they don't tell the truth.
The world's biggest killer since 1945 has been the United States. It has killed something over 20 million people in that time, most of them civilians and children. (Actually, counting starvations, nobody knows how many the U.S. has murdered.) And it's all to please weapons billionaires who make money out of killing. That's why the U.S. has soaring rates of poverty. Those are inflicted by governments which, from the start back in 1776, have abused the poor to enrich the wealthy. That's why education is underfunded, university out of reach for millions - why Americans die because they can't afford medical care.....
And Trudeau gets headlines for saying the 63 Canadians were killed by Iran. More, far more, Canadians have been killed fighting wars for the U.S. But Trudeau thinks that killing for the profit of U.S. billionaires is just great.
Hitler was not the creator of horror in the twentieth century. That began in 1900 when the British invaded South Africa (with Canadian help) to steal its gold mines. the British people got nothing out of that. Most of them lived in the poverty they had always known. It was the very rich who got the gold. That's still true today.
World War One was not a war of evil Germans against Godly French and English. It was a war of capitalists against capitalists to see which side could push aside the capitalists on the other side.
World War Two was largely a copy of World War One. But World War Two knocked out the capitalists of Europe and handed over to American capitalists the dream that they would now rule all the nations of the world. Thus the almost unbroken string of U.S. wars all over the world. Thus the mass murder of millions of civilians.
Yes, of course we should investigate the causes of death in a war. But we should investigate the causes on both sides. To forget U.S. killings while condemning those of other countries is hypocrisy The U.S. is the world's biggest killer. It's the biggest enemy of the whole world - including the biggest enemy of itself.
One might have expected a Canadian prime minister to recognize that. (Well, no. One might not have expected. Neither Canada nor the U.S. has ever noticed how murderous the U.S. has always been, and how that murderous behaviour, largely by the wealthy. has always been a feature of American life.)
Watch this one. It is very likely Canada will be asked to send troops to fight for the most vicious nation in today's world. And our news media will once again pretend this is good guys against bad guys.
The U.S. bombing fleets, for over 70 years, have been the most murderous in the world - and with a heavy emphasis on the bombing of civilians and children.
But don't wait from any criticism of that from Trudeau.
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https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/iran-jetliner-unintentionally-shot-down-1.5423608
Well, we now have a villain. Note the use of quotation marks in this headline. Iran said it 'unintentionally' shot down the airliner. But that is not what Iran said.
Iran said it shot it down unintentionally. But the use of quotation marks is, quite clearly, to express doubt that Iran is telling the truth. And that is dishonest reporting.
And so we have the desirable good guys, bad guys scenario. Forget that the U.S. quite illegally murdered an Iranian leader. Forget that the U.S. has been illegally destroying the whole Iranian economy for some time. Forget that the U.S. has illegally murdered well over a million people, most of them civilians, in neighbouring Iraq. Forget that it has recently destroyed the elected government of Bolivia in a deliberate attack on it's indigenous people. Forget that Trudeau has supported the U.S. in this as well as in other tragic assaults in Latin America. Forget that Canada was so in favour of U.S. illegal mass murder that it sent troops to help out the U.S. in Afghanistan and Syria.
The message of this 'report' is that the U.S., which daily kills innocent people every day just with it's drone bombers is good, and Iran is evil. How come our news media rarely report this? How come we have few reports of the dozens of illegal wars fought by the U.S. since 1950? When the U.S. murdered some 200,000 innocent people of Guatemala, the CBC, like all other North American news media didn't even cover the story. A New Brunswick graveyard near the church of the reigning dictator of New Brunswick holds the body of a Canadian missionary who was murdered by CIA thugs in Guatemala. But even the local news media have never carried that story. And, most certainly, Trudeau has never mentioned it - with or without quotation marks.
Will the U.S. now invade Iran? That would be unwise - but possible. And, if so, it will expect Canada to send troops. And Trudeau will salute, while singing a chorus of God Bless America.
Yes, I still think that CBC is the best news medium in North America. But, oh, it could be much, much better.
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https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/ps752-flight-iran-missile-1.5422912
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The future of the middle east is a terribly complex matter. Much of that complexity was caused by British and, more recently, American interventions.
But, alas, what was done is done - and there is no easy solution in sight.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/jan/11/why-instinct-and-ideology-tell-trump-to-get-out-of-the-middle-east-suleimani-iran
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https://rabble.ca/columnists/2020/01/america-exists-today-make-war-says-col-lawrence-wilkerson
And this is the openion of a man who can reasonably be called an American right-winger.
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https://rabble.ca/podcasts/shows/radiolabour/2020/01/striking-back-students
Billionaires in Canada - and other places - demand billions in gifts from the rest of us - and they get them. But for ordinary children? We don't give a damn.
Public schools have always been forced to run on peanuts - even as we hand out grants to private schools for rich kids.
For many, especially the poor, this means ignorance for life. In my grade one class, only one of the students got to complete high school - and it wasn't me.
For the added touch, university education has always been difficult to attain. After my years of education, I had to pay 15 years of debt for the cost of my education. And it's now much, much worse.
The rise of public educaton for all in the nineteenth century was a tremendous gain for all. But for some years now we've been destroying it.
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https://www.thenation.com/article/australia-fires-climate-morrison/
And Canadians await their turn - soon. And Canada has guaranteed it's own disaster as in every province Canadians voted for the Conservative party that will do nothing and for The Liberals who will, occasionally, talk about doing something but have done nothing for 30 years.
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https://www.thenation.com/article/foundation-defense-democracies-iran/
Yes, in the U.S.(and Canada and Britain and other 'democracies') the wealthy buy politicians.
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https://lfpress.com/opinion/columnists/dyer-u-s-hit-on-general-hands-iran-two-big-long-game-wins
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https://lfpress.com/opinion/columnists/dyer-hong-kong-chaos-has-taiwans-tsai-poised-to-win-saturday-election
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https://www.commondreams.org/news/2020/01/10/tens-thousands-join-sack-scomo-protests-against-government-climate-inaction
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https://www.commondreams.org/news/2020/01/10/usaid-arriving-bolivia-monitor-elections-raising-fears-us-meddling-may-3-vote
Of course, the US is going to meddle on the side of those who illegally overthrew the elected government of Bolivia. And Canada's own Justin Trudeau has, from the beginning, been on the side of those who are destroying Bolivia's large, indigenous populaton. Trudeau has chosen his side. And his side, with the U.S., is the support of Bolivia's racists.
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https://consortiumnews.com/2020/01/10/the-war-in-afghanistan-is-a-fraud-and-now-we-have-
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https://countercurrents.org/2020/01/iraq-why-doesnt-the-us-move-out-despite-the-iraqi-parliaments-decision
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The government of India has fallen a long way since the years of Ghandi. It is now thoroughly racist in matters or religion - a change that it is not much noticed by the western news media.
https://countercurrents.org/2020/01/jnu-violence-must-be-investigated-by-a-judicial-commission
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https://countercurrents.org/2020/01/mega-droughts-engulf-countries
Yes. It's happening.
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http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/52834.htm
Information clearing house is a little weak this time. It jumped too quickly at the conclusion that Iran was innocent in it's shooting down of a passenger plane in Iran. And Canadian news media went wild in the other direction.
What we know now is that we really don't have a clear picture of that downing of a passenger plane. Iran has said it was a terrible and unplanned blunder. Canadian news media have jumped to a conclusion that this was a deliberate attack on Canada, though with no evidence to support this claim. Nor is it at all clear what Iran would gain from this attack.
Our news media forever blame somebody else for the murder of civilians. In fact, as this article shows, the U.S. has been murdering civilians on a world scale for over a hundred years. And that's exactly what Hitler did. And what the British Empire did. (in fact, it's also what Canadan did to it's indigenous people - and it's what Canada almost did to them just days ago when the RCMP planned to use snipers against them for their opposition to an oil pipeline on their territory.
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https://www.nationalobserver.com/2020/01/02/opinion/albertas-30-million-bonfire
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https://www.nationalobserver.com/2020/01/11/news/banks-arent-backing-their-climate-message-rainforest-action-network
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https://www.nationalobserver.com/2020/01/07/news/australias-bushfires-offer-heated-view-longstanding-misinformation-climate-change
In Canada and it's provinces, all the government parties (Liberal and Conservative) have done nothing. Meanwhile, evidence is growing all over the world that we face the ultimate crisis - and have very little time to deal with it. And the reaction of the Canadian people?
As the recent election shows, most of the Canadian people stand around with their faces hanging out.
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https://theantimedia.com/ukraine-airliner-tragedy-evokes-memories-iran-air-flight-655/
Don't remember it? Of course not. Who cares when it's the U.S. that shoots down a civil airliner?
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https://truthout.org/articles/the-faces-of-extinction-the-species-we-lost-in-2019/
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https://theintercept.com/2020/01/10/joe-biden-super-pac-iowa-tv-ads/
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https://theintercept.com/2020/01/09/donald-trump-iran-suleimani-murder/
Well, this is different. An American president has the right to murder people anywhere in the world. Possibly even Americans. Anyway, the righteous indigantion of our media at the killing, accidentally or not, of Canadians will distract the attention of our news media.
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https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/outraged-trudeau-says-iran-must-take-full-responsibility-after-admitting-it-shot-down-ps752-1.5423764
In fact, Iran HAS taken full reponsibility. And I note that Canadian governments have never been crirical of mass murder by Americans - not in Afghanistan, not in Bolivia, not in Venezuela; and, in Guatemala, Canadian news media didn't even report the murder of a Canadian missionary by the CIA, a gang of international murderers created by the U.S.
I note , too, that Canada never criticized the illegal murder of an Iranian general by the U.S.
Think hard. What was the last time that Trudeau criticized the U.S. for anything significant?
In the past 60 years, the U.S. has murdered tens of millions of people all over the world. That includes over 70 official wars and also the unofficial ones, as with drone bombings of children, ever day. Before that, Canadians in general praised Britain for it's mass murder of of hundreds of millions - perhaps a world record.
I cannot think of any prime minister in Canadian history who has been critical of the mass murder by our imperial masters. And Canadian news media? Forget it.
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https://theintercept.com/2020/01/09/republican-reporters-want-democrats-stop-saying-qassim-suleimani-assassinated/
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https://theintercept.com/2020/01/06/border-iranian-american-iran/
And you can bet that Trudeau didn't - and won't - say a word in defence of those Canadian Iranians.
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https://thesaker.is/trumps-sanctions-threat-reveal-us-plan-all-these-decades-total-colonization-of-iraq/
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A week or so ago, it looked as if a world war was inevitable. It was. And it still is. The U.S. is, in effect, ruled by its billionaires who may be the greediest and most murderous people in history. Canada and Britain are on board with them.
I don't believe it would be possible for anyone to win this war.
I often, these days, remember the posters that mesmerized me on D-Day. "We've won the war. Now we've go to win the peace."
But we didn't win the peace. We never even tried to.
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