......I lost my head.....
Americans have very short memories. Today, I watched the news about how those evil Russians paid evil people to kill American soldiers. (This is not confirmed yet.)
But American newscasters seem to have forgotten that the U.S. until just over twenty years ago, paid, trained and equipped Afghanis to kill other Afghanis. Yes, they did. And those Afghanis are the same ones the U.S. has been killing for 20 years.
In fact, the U.S. has a long record of renting killers in Latin America, the middle east, as well as in Afghanistan.
Funny how American (and Canadian) news media don't seem to know that.
This has meaning,too, for Canada. I read in my local paper (as with most commercial news media, a ghastly experience) about it's view that Canada must not bow to Chinese demands that Canada return a Chinese businesswoman to China in exchange for China returning two Canadians serving time in China.
Yep. Canada has high moral standards, and to agree to such a deal is immoral. Unless, say, well what if Trump asked Canada to turn the woman over to him in exchange for two Canadians in an American prison. There's no need to guess what Trudeau would do - and in a hurry.
Trudeau is one of the weakest leaders Canada has ever suffered, and our self-righteous news media make hypocrisy sound virtuous. Two Canadians are in a prison. And we are too moral to get them home?
Bull and shit.
And this is part of a bigger problem going back to 1945. The U.S. was eager for one of the most corrupt leaders in the world, Chiang Kai Sheck, to become the ruler of China so U.S. capitalists could move in and plunder China to death as the British had.
But Chiang Kai Shek lost to Mao. Mao had his faults but, unlike Chiang, he did not peddle illegal drugs all over the world. He was not corrupt. He was determined to end the brutalities of British rule and the brutalities the U.S carried with it. Since then, the China that we in the west would have forced on it instead advanced and prospered to an amazing degree.
(No. I'm not a communist.)
But I would never expect a journalist for the Ottawa National Post to understand any of this.
_______________________________________________________________
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/jun/30/european-leaders-condemn-china-over-deplorable-hong-kong-security-bill
Again - we in the west are the ones who have created the China that we now see.
Instead of welcoming the new China in 1950 we made every attempt to bully it.
We are now making big noises about war with China. That would certainly be the biggest blood bath ever - for both sides.
No. We really have to do what we should have done 70 years ago - welcome China. Oh, yes, I know China is evil. But Britain has one hell of an evil past and we still celebrate it. And the U.S.? It was been the world's most savage killer since 1945 and, indeed, a major killer for all of it's history.
_________________________________________________________________
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/jun/30/european-leaders-condemn-china-over-deplorable-hong-kong-security-bill
It is, most certainly, deplorable. (Indeed, China is now acting as Britain and the U.S (and France and Belgium and a few others) have acted for centuries. And as the U.S. still acts in Latin America and the middle east.
Most animals kill - to eat. But researchers say that primitive man became the first mass killer as the primitive brain got larger. And I guess that explains our history of empire and of capitalism.
________________________________________________________________
https://www.theguardian.com/world/commentisfree/2020/jun/30/a-10-budget-cut-to-the-us-military-budget-by-10-to-help-save-lives-in-this-pandemic
Oh, no, Bernie. All money in the U.S., all money, is for the super rich.
________________________________________________________________
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/live/2020/jun/30/russian-bounty-payments-donald-trump-briefing-afghanistan-live-updates?page=with:block-5efb62438f0800c87646d69d#block-5efb62438f0800c87646d69d
______________________________________________________________
https://rabble.ca/blogs/bloggers/other-hand/2020/06/us-opinion-polls-dump-president-donald-trump
Alas! voting for the Democrats will not help the U.S. Democrats and Republicans are both servants to the very wealthy - and not to the American people. The U.S. is nowhere close to solving its political problems.
________________________________________________________________
https://rabble.ca/blogs/bloggers/cathy-crowes-blog/2020/06/homeless-encampments-are-here-stay
Sadly, many don't have even encampments. Just yesterday, I saw a homeless man lying asleep on a patch of grass with car traffic passing two to three feet on two sides of him. We can't afford to provide decent housing and food for the homeless. We need the money to provide billions of dollars as free handouts to people like Irving and his billionaire friends,
______________________________________________________________
https://rabble.ca/news/2020/06/defunding-police-only-first-step-abolition
_____________________________________________________________
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2020/06/30/genocidal-negligence-new-democratic-climate-action-plan-criticized-woefully
Of course. Democrats and Republicans serve the same masters.
________________________________________________________________
http://gwynnedyer.com/2020/syrian-sanctions/
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http://gwynnedyer.com/2020/putins-plea/
Putin is actually one of this world's more intelligent leaders.
_______________________________________________________________
https://consortiumnews.com/2020/06/29/this-russia-afghanistan-story-is-western-disinformation/
Most Americans will still get their false information from papers like The Washington Post.
________________________________________________________________
https://countercurrents.org/2020/06/the-kafkaesque-imperium-julian-assange-and-the-second-superseding-indictment/
_______________________________________________________________
https://countercurrents.org/2020/06/pandemics-neoliberalism-and-inequality/
______________________________________________________________
https://www.counterpunch.org/2020/06/30/bill-clintons-serbian-war-atrocities-exposed-in-new-indictment/
Yes, all those brave lads who "fight for their country" (whatever that means), the ones we cheer as they march to cheers in parade, have cmmonly spent their careers killing civilians and children.
________________________________________________________________
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/55288.htm
I've noticed it in news casts, in the news media I read...... There is no sense of where and how America has to go. And there is no significant sense of unity among the American people. Indeed, it is possible, even likely, that large numbers of Americans would simply break away from the U.S. in the event of a crisis. (to be followed by a strong move by one side to annex Canada or part of it (like Alberta) to the U.S.)
_________________________________________________________________
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/55292.htm
_________________________________________________________________
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/55283.htm
_________________________________________________________________
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/55289.htm
The U.S. dream to rule the world after 1945 ain't going to happen.
Get used to it. We are watching the fall of the U.S. and, quite possibly, watching the break up.
________________________________________________________________
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/55287.htm
_________________________________________________________________
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/55275.htm
_______________________________________________________________
https://www.nationalobserver.com/2020/06/30/opinion/canada-got-hoodwinked-meng-wanzhou-shake-down-and-show-trial
_______________________________________________________________
https://thesaker.is/usa-sitrep-the-collapse-of-the-united-states-is-no-longer-avoidable/
I don't usually agree with Roberts. But I think he's right this time.
_______________________________________________________________
Much as I dislike the behaviour of the current government of China, let's remember a little background to this.
For well over a hundred years, Britain dreadfully abused China. It enslaved, starved, ravaged, murdered the people of China. It forced China to permit the sale of drugs to it's people. Indeed, it also enforced the people of China to use them.
By 1900, both the U.S. and Germany chimed in for a bit of the action. No-one will ever know how many Chinese were murdered in this time, how many starved to death..... (I also saw echoes of this in Hong Kong where evening streets displayed miles of cardboard for homeless families, where elderly men could be seen sleeping in stacks of wire cages, each just big enough to hold one person lying down....)
During World War Two, the U.S. and Britain both supplied weapons to the horribly corrupt and vicious western puppet, Chiang Kai Chek, who peddled drugs on a world scale.
As the Chinese got rid of Chiang, the U.S. turned to war with China so that American capitalists could plunder China as British capitalists had. Thus the Korean War - though it was an American failure. For almost 200 years, China has been a victim of western brutality, enforced poverty and, now, nuclear threats.
We should have changed all that in 1945, and offered China help to undo the savagery that western powers had imposed. But we did the opposite.
Gee! I wonder why China doesn't like us.
Now, China has made a remarkable recovery from those centuries of horror.
Our response? The U.S. wants another war, almost certainly a nuclear one because the U.S. military isn't up to a war against such a huge opponent.
How will that end? It's anybody's guess.
All the experience of China tells it to defend itself against the U.S. And that gives us a China that can be as brutally murderous as the U.S. is.
_________________________________________________________________
Americans have very short memories. Today, I watched the news about how those evil Russians paid evil people to kill American soldiers. (This is not confirmed yet.)
But American newscasters seem to have forgotten that the U.S. until just over twenty years ago, paid, trained and equipped Afghanis to kill other Afghanis. Yes, they did. And those Afghanis are the same ones the U.S. has been killing for 20 years.
In fact, the U.S. has a long record of renting killers in Latin America, the middle east, as well as in Afghanistan.
Funny how American (and Canadian) news media don't seem to know that.
This has meaning,too, for Canada. I read in my local paper (as with most commercial news media, a ghastly experience) about it's view that Canada must not bow to Chinese demands that Canada return a Chinese businesswoman to China in exchange for China returning two Canadians serving time in China.
Yep. Canada has high moral standards, and to agree to such a deal is immoral. Unless, say, well what if Trump asked Canada to turn the woman over to him in exchange for two Canadians in an American prison. There's no need to guess what Trudeau would do - and in a hurry.
Trudeau is one of the weakest leaders Canada has ever suffered, and our self-righteous news media make hypocrisy sound virtuous. Two Canadians are in a prison. And we are too moral to get them home?
Bull and shit.
And this is part of a bigger problem going back to 1945. The U.S. was eager for one of the most corrupt leaders in the world, Chiang Kai Sheck, to become the ruler of China so U.S. capitalists could move in and plunder China to death as the British had.
But Chiang Kai Shek lost to Mao. Mao had his faults but, unlike Chiang, he did not peddle illegal drugs all over the world. He was not corrupt. He was determined to end the brutalities of British rule and the brutalities the U.S carried with it. Since then, the China that we in the west would have forced on it instead advanced and prospered to an amazing degree.
(No. I'm not a communist.)
But I would never expect a journalist for the Ottawa National Post to understand any of this.
_______________________________________________________________
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/jun/30/european-leaders-condemn-china-over-deplorable-hong-kong-security-bill
Again - we in the west are the ones who have created the China that we now see.
Instead of welcoming the new China in 1950 we made every attempt to bully it.
We are now making big noises about war with China. That would certainly be the biggest blood bath ever - for both sides.
No. We really have to do what we should have done 70 years ago - welcome China. Oh, yes, I know China is evil. But Britain has one hell of an evil past and we still celebrate it. And the U.S.? It was been the world's most savage killer since 1945 and, indeed, a major killer for all of it's history.
_________________________________________________________________
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/jun/30/european-leaders-condemn-china-over-deplorable-hong-kong-security-bill
It is, most certainly, deplorable. (Indeed, China is now acting as Britain and the U.S (and France and Belgium and a few others) have acted for centuries. And as the U.S. still acts in Latin America and the middle east.
Most animals kill - to eat. But researchers say that primitive man became the first mass killer as the primitive brain got larger. And I guess that explains our history of empire and of capitalism.
________________________________________________________________
https://www.theguardian.com/world/commentisfree/2020/jun/30/a-10-budget-cut-to-the-us-military-budget-by-10-to-help-save-lives-in-this-pandemic
Oh, no, Bernie. All money in the U.S., all money, is for the super rich.
________________________________________________________________
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/live/2020/jun/30/russian-bounty-payments-donald-trump-briefing-afghanistan-live-updates?page=with:block-5efb62438f0800c87646d69d#block-5efb62438f0800c87646d69d
______________________________________________________________
https://rabble.ca/blogs/bloggers/other-hand/2020/06/us-opinion-polls-dump-president-donald-trump
Alas! voting for the Democrats will not help the U.S. Democrats and Republicans are both servants to the very wealthy - and not to the American people. The U.S. is nowhere close to solving its political problems.
________________________________________________________________
https://rabble.ca/blogs/bloggers/cathy-crowes-blog/2020/06/homeless-encampments-are-here-stay
Sadly, many don't have even encampments. Just yesterday, I saw a homeless man lying asleep on a patch of grass with car traffic passing two to three feet on two sides of him. We can't afford to provide decent housing and food for the homeless. We need the money to provide billions of dollars as free handouts to people like Irving and his billionaire friends,
______________________________________________________________
https://rabble.ca/news/2020/06/defunding-police-only-first-step-abolition
_____________________________________________________________
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2020/06/30/genocidal-negligence-new-democratic-climate-action-plan-criticized-woefully
Of course. Democrats and Republicans serve the same masters.
_______________________________________________________
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2020/06/30/attacking-very-foundations-church-state-separation-scotus-delivers-seismic-shock________________________________________________________________
http://gwynnedyer.com/2020/syrian-sanctions/
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
http://gwynnedyer.com/2020/putins-plea/
Putin is actually one of this world's more intelligent leaders.
_______________________________________________________________
https://consortiumnews.com/2020/06/29/this-russia-afghanistan-story-is-western-disinformation/
Most Americans will still get their false information from papers like The Washington Post.
________________________________________________________________
https://countercurrents.org/2020/06/the-kafkaesque-imperium-julian-assange-and-the-second-superseding-indictment/
_______________________________________________________________
https://countercurrents.org/2020/06/pandemics-neoliberalism-and-inequality/
______________________________________________________________
https://www.counterpunch.org/2020/06/30/bill-clintons-serbian-war-atrocities-exposed-in-new-indictment/
Yes, all those brave lads who "fight for their country" (whatever that means), the ones we cheer as they march to cheers in parade, have cmmonly spent their careers killing civilians and children.
________________________________________________________________
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/55288.htm
I've noticed it in news casts, in the news media I read...... There is no sense of where and how America has to go. And there is no significant sense of unity among the American people. Indeed, it is possible, even likely, that large numbers of Americans would simply break away from the U.S. in the event of a crisis. (to be followed by a strong move by one side to annex Canada or part of it (like Alberta) to the U.S.)
_________________________________________________________________
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/55292.htm
_________________________________________________________________
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/55283.htm
_________________________________________________________________
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/55289.htm
The U.S. dream to rule the world after 1945 ain't going to happen.
Get used to it. We are watching the fall of the U.S. and, quite possibly, watching the break up.
________________________________________________________________
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/55287.htm
_________________________________________________________________
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/55275.htm
_______________________________________________________________
https://www.nationalobserver.com/2020/06/30/opinion/canada-got-hoodwinked-meng-wanzhou-shake-down-and-show-trial
_______________________________________________________________
https://thesaker.is/usa-sitrep-the-collapse-of-the-united-states-is-no-longer-avoidable/
I don't usually agree with Roberts. But I think he's right this time.
_______________________________________________________________
Much as I dislike the behaviour of the current government of China, let's remember a little background to this.
For well over a hundred years, Britain dreadfully abused China. It enslaved, starved, ravaged, murdered the people of China. It forced China to permit the sale of drugs to it's people. Indeed, it also enforced the people of China to use them.
By 1900, both the U.S. and Germany chimed in for a bit of the action. No-one will ever know how many Chinese were murdered in this time, how many starved to death..... (I also saw echoes of this in Hong Kong where evening streets displayed miles of cardboard for homeless families, where elderly men could be seen sleeping in stacks of wire cages, each just big enough to hold one person lying down....)
During World War Two, the U.S. and Britain both supplied weapons to the horribly corrupt and vicious western puppet, Chiang Kai Chek, who peddled drugs on a world scale.
As the Chinese got rid of Chiang, the U.S. turned to war with China so that American capitalists could plunder China as British capitalists had. Thus the Korean War - though it was an American failure. For almost 200 years, China has been a victim of western brutality, enforced poverty and, now, nuclear threats.
We should have changed all that in 1945, and offered China help to undo the savagery that western powers had imposed. But we did the opposite.
Gee! I wonder why China doesn't like us.
Now, China has made a remarkable recovery from those centuries of horror.
Our response? The U.S. wants another war, almost certainly a nuclear one because the U.S. military isn't up to a war against such a huge opponent.
How will that end? It's anybody's guess.
All the experience of China tells it to defend itself against the U.S. And that gives us a China that can be as brutally murderous as the U.S. is.
_________________________________________________________________
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