This IS world war three.
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The U.S. has a long history of overthrowing governments all over the world, and installing American-controlled puppets. It happened in Iran back in 1948 when the U.S. overthrew the elected goverment and installed the shah as a dictator. It happened in Congo - often. It has been happening in South America for well over a hundred years.
And, after 1945, Canadians have lined up to chirp support for the U.S. in getting rid of leaders who are not as nice as they should be to American big business. Most recently, when Trump cut off relations with the government of Venezuela, Canada's Justin Trudeau almost wet his pants he was in such a hurray to say, "look at me, Mr. Trump. I'm on you're side. look at me."
When the U.S. decided to dump the elected president of Haiti ( He wasn't nice enough to American corporations).. Canada tripped over itself to recognize the American puppet who was planted there. Canada also sent peacekeepers (such a lovely word) to keep Haitians quiet.
It's no secret that the CIA tried, many times, to knock off Castro in Cuba - but failed. They said Castro wasn't a democrat. In fact, the government that Castro overthrew was not a democracy either. It was a torturing and murderous gang that the U.S. just loved because it let American capitalists run wild.
U.S. agents in Guatemala sought out missionaries, priests and nuns to murder in Guatemala because the churches were trying to protect the people of Guatemala from plundering by American capitalists.
The U.S. has a long history of stolen land, mass murder, torture in Latin America. And it's all done to benefit American capitalists who plunder the resources of Latin American countries, deny adequate living standards, hold down the people in poverty. And just to keep it all running smoothly, the U.S. operates a School of the Americas, where Latin American soldiers from 'trustworthy' countries can be trained in assassination, torture and other useful democratic skills. In just about every country in Latin America, the U.S. has its fingers on soldiers who can be used by the U.S. against their own countries.
Our news media regale us with stories about how the present government of Venezuela has run the country into terrible debt. In fact, the debt was (illegally) created by the U.S. to prevent the local government from spending money on the people of Venezuela. And it worked. It created mass poverty.
In a programme more vicious than we can imagine, U.S. capitalists have spent 150 years in enslaving, abusing, murdering the people of Latin America.
And Canada's prime minister has kissed whatever it is that Donald Trump likes to have kissed. The question now is whether Canada will be asked to play a role in this grotesque dance of greed.
The Trump claim is that Venezuela has no democracy. Maybe not. neither does Guatemala (ruled by U.S. friends), or Haiti (under U.S. control.) The U.S. put a murderer in charge of Chile for seventeen years. It's close friend in the Middle East is the murderous and completely undemocratic country of Saudi Arabia.
And we will accept this because we always have, because we really don't give a damn, because our Canadian capitalists get a piece of the action and plunder.
Capitalism can be a dreadful and inhuman system that makes both victims and villains of us all. And what we have been doing in Latin America is as disgusting as what Hitler did.
But think about this. We live under an economic system dominated by the greedy and vicious. And the greedy and vicious are plundering the world - all of us. They don't pay taxes. Most have no sense of responsibility for anything except the satisfaction of their own greed. That is going to come crashing down. On all of us.
https://medium.com/s/story/timeline-us-intervention-central-america-a9bea9ebc148
The U.S./Canada and others position is that Maduro does not have popular, democratic support to govern. Well, perhaps not. And it is quite possible his opponent Gialdo has even less -- much less. But the U.S., which has murdered and plundered all over Latin America for well over a century, is not doing this to restore democracy. It has proven for a very long time that it couldn't care less about democracy.
And it has Canada as its whimpering puppy.
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https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/jan/22/the-guardian-view-on-israels-democracy-killing-with-impunity-lying-without-consequence
Israel has become the opposite of what Judaism is about. Hitler won. He destroyed a large part of Judaism in this world.
The Guardian is not the paper it once was. But it's still the best of the commercial newspapers. It took intelligence and courage to run the column above.
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Maybe this world needs more children and fewer adults.
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/jan/24/school-strikes-over-climate-change-continue-to-snowball
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https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/jan/24/donald-trump-venezuela-nicolas-maduro
All too true. We have never been closer to the final war.
______________________________________________________________
http://rabble.ca/blogs/bloggers/david-suzuki/2019/01/canadian-pipeline-push-promotes-false-and-misleading-claims
Will we wake up in time? Will our oil bosses wake up at all? I wish I could believe it.
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I enjoyed this next one.
https://www.thenation.com/article/la-teachers-strike-education-labor-unions/
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Well, it's not news. But it's interesting.
https://countercurrents.org/2019/01/24/the-agony-and-pathos-of-lenins-last-days/
________________________________________________________________
Sixty years ago, the NDP was the CCF - and it was a party that went to the root of problems. Yes, it was radical. And one of its radicalisms was medicare for all those who needed it. Liberals and Conservatives have never liked it. But it's so popular that, to this day, they have been slow to destroy it.
But when the CCF became the NDP (to get financial support from unions), it became even more bland than the Liberals and Conservatives. Yes. It was the unions that killed socialism in Canada - and the NDP has never recovered from that.
https://www.nationalobserver.com/2019/01/22/opinion/ndp-crisis-and-singhs-leadership
We are heading into political and social crisis. We need a dynamic and critical political party. But all we got from the NDP is Liberal Fog. Politics is not just about getting elected. It's about shaking the voters to make them think.
________________________________________________________________
The situation in Venezuela is a very dangerous one because it may be more than a matter of a U.S. alliance crashing in to the country.
We now have at least two pots boiling in South America. One is American interference in Venezuela. The other, closely related, is the U.S. border crisis. And these could well spark other crises.
In addition, note that Russia and China are not staying silent in this. I certainly don't expect them to intervene in Venezuela itself. But they are not likely to be inactive as the U.S. carves out a piece of the world for itself.
https://off-guardian.org/2019/01/24/open-thread-the-crisis-in-venezuela/
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https://off-guardian.org/2019/01/22/guardian-reports-more-good-news-kids-are-dying-in-venezuela/
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https://theantimedia.com/syria-tel-aviv-airport-israel-damascus/
I remember that day in 1945. I was 11, and caught up in the joy of a crowd cheering the end of World War 2. We had won. And we had been promised there would be no more wars. That's what November 11 is supposed to be about. We would have a UN to settle problems.
The reality is that the U.S. has completely ignored the UN. It has invaded and murdered in at least 70 countries since then, usually ignoring the UN completely. It has murdered 30 million people - more if you count those it starved to death.
We have created refugees on a scale the world has never seen before. We have betrayed everything we said our fathers and grandfathers died for. (Yeah - forgetting my age - and our great grandfathers....)
And Canada has wimped along every step of the way with the U.S. All our energies have gone into creating a small number of billionaires who use our tax money to murder and starve millions every year.
In a superbly wealthy world, we have almost none of that wealth. We seem to prefer to pass it on to the billionaires who hide it from taxation for their own benefit.
I think back to that day in 1945, and I realize how little ordinary life has improved since that time. And how vicious and violent our world still is every day.
________________________________________________________________
https://truthout.org/articles/trump-administration-sets-new-restrictions-on-food-for-the-poor/
The U.S., like Canada, can't afford to feed the poor. But both the U.S. and Canada can afford billions in gifts for billionaires who don't pay any taxes. I saw this up close when I lived in New Brunswick.
The billionaire Irving family pays no income tax. It has extensive property taxes - but those are reduced to a tiny fraction of what they should be. As well, it constantly receives huge government grants to help operate its investments.
And the poor? They sleep in tents through the winter - or until the police tear them down.
Wake up. We have an upper class that does nothing for us while, like every upper class in history, it bleeds the rest of us dry. Instead of those wonderful promises that were given to us in 1945, we have been handed over to an unspeakably greedy class of the super-wealthy.
_________________________________________________________________
Who organized, trained and equipped from the start those people we call Muslim terrorists? Surprise. It was the U.S. and Israel.
https://www.voltairenet.org/article204804.html
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https://www.haaretz.com/middle-east-news/un-executions-expert-to-lead-international-inquiry-on-saudi-khashoggi-killing-1.6872386
Israel, the U.S. and the UN have agreed to investigate the case of a Saudi prince who may have murdered a journalist.
Since 1945, the U.S. has murdered at least 30 million people. A high proportion of those have been children. It has also helped the Saudis to starve uncounted numbers of children to death in Yemen. But who cares?
______________________________________________________________
https://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/australia-heat-wave-1.4991164
Hey, we need more oil pipelines. Anyway, horses are old-fashioned.
Has it ever occurred to you that our oil billionaires are not a particularly bright bunch?
_________________________________________________________________
The U.S. has a long history of overthrowing governments all over the world, and installing American-controlled puppets. It happened in Iran back in 1948 when the U.S. overthrew the elected goverment and installed the shah as a dictator. It happened in Congo - often. It has been happening in South America for well over a hundred years.
And, after 1945, Canadians have lined up to chirp support for the U.S. in getting rid of leaders who are not as nice as they should be to American big business. Most recently, when Trump cut off relations with the government of Venezuela, Canada's Justin Trudeau almost wet his pants he was in such a hurray to say, "look at me, Mr. Trump. I'm on you're side. look at me."
When the U.S. decided to dump the elected president of Haiti ( He wasn't nice enough to American corporations).. Canada tripped over itself to recognize the American puppet who was planted there. Canada also sent peacekeepers (such a lovely word) to keep Haitians quiet.
It's no secret that the CIA tried, many times, to knock off Castro in Cuba - but failed. They said Castro wasn't a democrat. In fact, the government that Castro overthrew was not a democracy either. It was a torturing and murderous gang that the U.S. just loved because it let American capitalists run wild.
U.S. agents in Guatemala sought out missionaries, priests and nuns to murder in Guatemala because the churches were trying to protect the people of Guatemala from plundering by American capitalists.
The U.S. has a long history of stolen land, mass murder, torture in Latin America. And it's all done to benefit American capitalists who plunder the resources of Latin American countries, deny adequate living standards, hold down the people in poverty. And just to keep it all running smoothly, the U.S. operates a School of the Americas, where Latin American soldiers from 'trustworthy' countries can be trained in assassination, torture and other useful democratic skills. In just about every country in Latin America, the U.S. has its fingers on soldiers who can be used by the U.S. against their own countries.
Our news media regale us with stories about how the present government of Venezuela has run the country into terrible debt. In fact, the debt was (illegally) created by the U.S. to prevent the local government from spending money on the people of Venezuela. And it worked. It created mass poverty.
In a programme more vicious than we can imagine, U.S. capitalists have spent 150 years in enslaving, abusing, murdering the people of Latin America.
And Canada's prime minister has kissed whatever it is that Donald Trump likes to have kissed. The question now is whether Canada will be asked to play a role in this grotesque dance of greed.
The Trump claim is that Venezuela has no democracy. Maybe not. neither does Guatemala (ruled by U.S. friends), or Haiti (under U.S. control.) The U.S. put a murderer in charge of Chile for seventeen years. It's close friend in the Middle East is the murderous and completely undemocratic country of Saudi Arabia.
And we will accept this because we always have, because we really don't give a damn, because our Canadian capitalists get a piece of the action and plunder.
Capitalism can be a dreadful and inhuman system that makes both victims and villains of us all. And what we have been doing in Latin America is as disgusting as what Hitler did.
But think about this. We live under an economic system dominated by the greedy and vicious. And the greedy and vicious are plundering the world - all of us. They don't pay taxes. Most have no sense of responsibility for anything except the satisfaction of their own greed. That is going to come crashing down. On all of us.
https://medium.com/s/story/timeline-us-intervention-central-america-a9bea9ebc148
The U.S./Canada and others position is that Maduro does not have popular, democratic support to govern. Well, perhaps not. And it is quite possible his opponent Gialdo has even less -- much less. But the U.S., which has murdered and plundered all over Latin America for well over a century, is not doing this to restore democracy. It has proven for a very long time that it couldn't care less about democracy.
And it has Canada as its whimpering puppy.
________________________________________________________________
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/jan/22/the-guardian-view-on-israels-democracy-killing-with-impunity-lying-without-consequence
Israel has become the opposite of what Judaism is about. Hitler won. He destroyed a large part of Judaism in this world.
The Guardian is not the paper it once was. But it's still the best of the commercial newspapers. It took intelligence and courage to run the column above.
_________________________________________________________________
Maybe this world needs more children and fewer adults.
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/jan/24/school-strikes-over-climate-change-continue-to-snowball
________________________________________________________________
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/jan/24/donald-trump-venezuela-nicolas-maduro
All too true. We have never been closer to the final war.
______________________________________________________________
http://rabble.ca/blogs/bloggers/david-suzuki/2019/01/canadian-pipeline-push-promotes-false-and-misleading-claims
Will we wake up in time? Will our oil bosses wake up at all? I wish I could believe it.
_____________________________________________________________
I enjoyed this next one.
https://www.thenation.com/article/la-teachers-strike-education-labor-unions/
_______________________________________________________________
Well, it's not news. But it's interesting.
https://countercurrents.org/2019/01/24/the-agony-and-pathos-of-lenins-last-days/
________________________________________________________________
Sixty years ago, the NDP was the CCF - and it was a party that went to the root of problems. Yes, it was radical. And one of its radicalisms was medicare for all those who needed it. Liberals and Conservatives have never liked it. But it's so popular that, to this day, they have been slow to destroy it.
But when the CCF became the NDP (to get financial support from unions), it became even more bland than the Liberals and Conservatives. Yes. It was the unions that killed socialism in Canada - and the NDP has never recovered from that.
https://www.nationalobserver.com/2019/01/22/opinion/ndp-crisis-and-singhs-leadership
We are heading into political and social crisis. We need a dynamic and critical political party. But all we got from the NDP is Liberal Fog. Politics is not just about getting elected. It's about shaking the voters to make them think.
________________________________________________________________
The situation in Venezuela is a very dangerous one because it may be more than a matter of a U.S. alliance crashing in to the country.
We now have at least two pots boiling in South America. One is American interference in Venezuela. The other, closely related, is the U.S. border crisis. And these could well spark other crises.
In addition, note that Russia and China are not staying silent in this. I certainly don't expect them to intervene in Venezuela itself. But they are not likely to be inactive as the U.S. carves out a piece of the world for itself.
https://off-guardian.org/2019/01/24/open-thread-the-crisis-in-venezuela/
________________________________________________________________
https://off-guardian.org/2019/01/22/guardian-reports-more-good-news-kids-are-dying-in-venezuela/
______________________________________________________________
https://theantimedia.com/syria-tel-aviv-airport-israel-damascus/
I remember that day in 1945. I was 11, and caught up in the joy of a crowd cheering the end of World War 2. We had won. And we had been promised there would be no more wars. That's what November 11 is supposed to be about. We would have a UN to settle problems.
The reality is that the U.S. has completely ignored the UN. It has invaded and murdered in at least 70 countries since then, usually ignoring the UN completely. It has murdered 30 million people - more if you count those it starved to death.
We have created refugees on a scale the world has never seen before. We have betrayed everything we said our fathers and grandfathers died for. (Yeah - forgetting my age - and our great grandfathers....)
And Canada has wimped along every step of the way with the U.S. All our energies have gone into creating a small number of billionaires who use our tax money to murder and starve millions every year.
In a superbly wealthy world, we have almost none of that wealth. We seem to prefer to pass it on to the billionaires who hide it from taxation for their own benefit.
I think back to that day in 1945, and I realize how little ordinary life has improved since that time. And how vicious and violent our world still is every day.
________________________________________________________________
https://truthout.org/articles/trump-administration-sets-new-restrictions-on-food-for-the-poor/
The U.S., like Canada, can't afford to feed the poor. But both the U.S. and Canada can afford billions in gifts for billionaires who don't pay any taxes. I saw this up close when I lived in New Brunswick.
The billionaire Irving family pays no income tax. It has extensive property taxes - but those are reduced to a tiny fraction of what they should be. As well, it constantly receives huge government grants to help operate its investments.
And the poor? They sleep in tents through the winter - or until the police tear them down.
Wake up. We have an upper class that does nothing for us while, like every upper class in history, it bleeds the rest of us dry. Instead of those wonderful promises that were given to us in 1945, we have been handed over to an unspeakably greedy class of the super-wealthy.
_________________________________________________________________
Who organized, trained and equipped from the start those people we call Muslim terrorists? Surprise. It was the U.S. and Israel.
https://www.voltairenet.org/article204804.html
_____________________________________________________________
https://www.haaretz.com/middle-east-news/un-executions-expert-to-lead-international-inquiry-on-saudi-khashoggi-killing-1.6872386
Israel, the U.S. and the UN have agreed to investigate the case of a Saudi prince who may have murdered a journalist.
Since 1945, the U.S. has murdered at least 30 million people. A high proportion of those have been children. It has also helped the Saudis to starve uncounted numbers of children to death in Yemen. But who cares?
______________________________________________________________
https://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/australia-heat-wave-1.4991164
Hey, we need more oil pipelines. Anyway, horses are old-fashioned.
Has it ever occurred to you that our oil billionaires are not a particularly bright bunch?
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