I live in the city of Ottawa, the capital of Canada. It has a very large war museum, essentially of world wars one and two. It has quite a collection of weapons, accounts of battles..... What it doesn't have is any indication of why Canadians fought in those wars. That says a lot about Canada's war historians, one of whom was the major designer of this war museum - and it should make us think about the many years of our misleading news agencies.
Actually, we'll go back a few years to a war sthortly before World War One. This was the Boer War since it was against the Boer (Dutch) settlers in their South African colony.
This was quite clearly a war of conquest and plunder. The Ducth had settled it because It had, and still has, huge gold reserves. It also had a native (Black) work force that could be used as really cheap labour. Britain invaded it so it could steal all that gold and cheap labour.
There was no doubt that Britain would win such a war.
So why did it ask it's colonies like Canada and Australia to join? Colonies were not required to fight British wars. And they certainly ween't needed for this one.
But colonial politicans responded with enthusiasm that was encouraged by their news media.
So what was this all about?
It was about the war that came a little later, the one against Germany and others.
Britain knew it was going to need help with that one - and it wanted a precedent.
Of course, . Canada's, politicians and business leaders, all of them closely tied to Britain and manipulators of the press, appealed to Canada to 'rally to serve tne "mother country" and it's king. And it worked. Thousands of Canadians who had no moral or legal requirement to fiight British wars, who really had nothing against the Boers and were in no way threatened by them, ralled to serve the king.
Britain didn't need them. But it knew it would need then a major war broke ou in Europe - and it wanted a precedemt fpr all of it's colonies to join in when such a war happened.
And so Canadians died fighting a war which neant nothing to them. ( They also ran concentration camps where Boer wives, children and the elderly were held, there to die in very large numbers. All so Britain's super rich could steal South Afriican gold.
As a scheme to pull Canadian into the First World War and the Second, it worked.
In the same way, the U.S., with the help of Canadian politicians and news media, pulled Canada into killing Koreans in a war that had nothing to do with Canada, but really an attempt to use Korea as a base to conquer a China that American capitalists wanted - as the British had wanted - conquer and plunder and murder China. Canadians died in Korea for reasons that had nothing to do with Canada.
Then there was Afghanistan. At the time, Afghanistan has just finished fighting off the Russians. It had not, in any way, attacked Canada, Britain or the U.S.
(Bin Laden, later murdered by the U.S., was certainly a hater of the U.S., but he had not led any attack on it. Nor was he an Afghanistan citizen. Nor had Afghanistan been the country that atttacked New York and Wasshington on 9/11.
Those attacks were led by citizens of a big, American friend, Saudi Arabia.
But Canadian politicans (and citizens) bought the rumour that our news media spread about who evil Afghanis were, how, in fact, they were 'terrorists'.
American bombers, who speicalized in bombing civilians, hospitals, schools, and have killed over 20,million people since 1945, and who daily, using drones,
daily murder innnocent people.
So the Canadian government sent Canadian troops, and the Canadian press didn't even whimper.
The U.S. is far the worst killer in today's world. But you would never guess that from our news media.
Going back to World War 1, were German evil?
No more so than all the other major powers. Germany - like Britain, like the U.S., like Canada, like Austria - all were controlled by very greedy capitalists.
But on the day World War 1, our news media labelled Germany as evil and kill crazy. No such label was every placed on Britain or the U.S. or anybody else on '"our side". But at the end of the war, Britain and France insisted on labelling Germans as the evil ones.
And that is what brought Hitler to power.
Our news media lie.Yes, Hitler was evil. The British were far more so, murdering over 400 million in their empire and enslaving and impovershing billions. Belgium was savage in it's slaugjter of Congo.
The American killings of their native peoples quite possibly esceeded the holocaust in Germany - and was at least as brutal. But you won't learn that from your daily paper.
Our news media lie/ They exist to serve their owners by lying.
And I must say that this world's military historians are less candid than they should be. And Ottawa's war museum should make a greater effort to tell the truth. Indeed, these failure to tell the whole truth are a dreadful remender or our abose osf those we send to wars.
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Asia Times os a Hong Kong newspaper that is often critical of China. But not thiis time. This item is about what China did right - and that western news media haven't mentioned.
https://asiatimes.com/2020/04/covid-19-focus-on-what-china-did-right-not-wrong/
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The premier of Alberta says that climate change isn't happening. And he knows things because the oil bosses tell him. And oil bosses are real smart. So there.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/ng-interactive/2020/apr/09/sound-of-icebergs-melting-journey-into-antarctic-jonathan-watts-greenpeace
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https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/apr/09/wisconsin-republicans-primary-democracy
_________________________________________________________________
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/apr/09/in-shadow-of-pandemic-trump-seizes-opportunity-to-push-through-his-agenda
_______________________________________________________________
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/opinion-partisanship-covid-19-government-response-1.5525186
___________________________________________________________
https://rabble.ca/blogs/bloggers/david-suzuki/2020/04/review-shows-ocean-life-could-rebound-30-years
_______________________________________________________________
https://rabble.ca/blogs/bloggers/views-expressed/2020/04/albertas-public-education-system-needs-support-not-cuts
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Oil is killing us. Alberta is determined we need more of it. Yes. Our climate is changing. Yes, that will destroy all of us. Yes. We are running short of time to act.
https://rabble.ca/blogs/bloggers/alberta-diary/2020/04/jason-kenney-lays-out-bad-news-covid-19-then-wanders-economic
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https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/pandemic-election-turnout-wisconsin
Democracy in the U.S. has already gone. It happened way back in the begining of colonial days. Ditto for Canada.
________________________________________________________________
https://www.thenation.com/podcast/politics/pentagon-coronavirus/
_______________________________________________________________
https://www.thenation.com/article/society/bill-gates-foundation-philanthropy/
_______________________________________________________________
https://lfpress.com/opinion/columnists/dyer-pandemic-is-an-opening-for-the-once-unthinkables-like-basic-income
_______________________________________________________________
https://consortiumnews.com/2020/04/08/covid-19-devastated-saudi-royal-family-seeks-to-end-yemen-war/
______________________________________________________________
https://consortiumnews.com/2020/04/09/assange-extradition-the-deadly-vanessa-baraitser/
_______________________________________________________________
https://countercurrents.org/2020/04/ventilator-shortage-exposes-the-cruelty-of-neoliberal-capitalism-noam-chomsky
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Information Clearing House is blocked by my computer because of signs of malware.
______________________________________________________________
https://www.nationalobserver.com/2020/04/06/news/ontario-week-away-running-out-protective-medical-equipment-unless-us-shipment-comes
What's striking about this is that our governments surely knew it was highly likely that the coronavirus in China was likely to strike us. We had plenty of warning....amd we did nothing. How was it possible that so many governmentssaw this happening.........and did nothing whatever.- Just as we have done nothing about the warnings concerning oil. In the thirty years since we learned that, almost nothing has been done.
_______________________________________________________________
https://truthout.org/articles/trump-doubles-down-on-plan-to-slash-crucial-funding-for-social-security/
Even as Trump pushes millions of Americans into steep poverty, he is handing out more, billions more, to billionaires.
______________________________________________________________
https://truthout.org/articles/more-than-2-million-uninsured-people-may-be-hospitalized-for-covid-19/
What can we say about the institutinalized, greedy and immoral treatment of it's people who need medical care but insist that medical care must exist for private profit. It's rather as if Jesus charged fees for healing the sick.
_____________________________________________________________
George Washington and other 'founders of American democracy' were very much like the British aristocracy in their social belief that 'the people' were inferior and would have to be kept in their humble place.
In fact, George Waxhington WAS a typical upper-class Englishman of his time.
He was wealthy, perhaps the wealthiest in colonies. And, as an upper classs Englishman, the saw himself as superior to the commonn peoples. And that was true of most of the other founding fathers as well.
Like upper class Englishmen, they had no respect for the rights of the lower classes. They were also profoundly racist, just like all upper class English. Thus the American slaughter of American native peoples - an act well in tune with Hitler's holocaust.
That also explains why the founding fathers of the U.S. had no problem with kidnapping Blacks, usuing them as cheap (free) labour, and pnnishing them with whips and even death.
George Waxington and his circle saw themselves as a ruling class. That's why they wrote a constitution that protected the power of the ruling class, and severely limited the rights of all others.
https://truthout.org/articles/us-guardian-elite-rulers-date-back-to-nation-s-founding/
And this belief has been a constant in American history. ( And in much of Canadian history.)
The American revolution. in reality, created a U.S. remarkably similar to Britain. All that it left out was the monarchy.
______________________________________________________________
https://truthout.org/articles/cdc-deletes-hydroxychloroquine-guidance-as-study-hyped-by-trump-is-questioned/
_____________________________________________________________
https://truthout.org/articles/trump-was-warned-of-potential-cataclysmic-pandemic-as-early-as-last-november/
Well, yes. Any child could have figured that out.
______________________________________________________________
https://theintercept.com/2020/03/25/capitalist-death-panels-if-corporate-vultures-get-their-way-well-be-dead/
________________________________________________________________
https://thesaker.is/why-america-leads-the-world-in-covid-19-cases/
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Actually, we'll go back a few years to a war sthortly before World War One. This was the Boer War since it was against the Boer (Dutch) settlers in their South African colony.
This was quite clearly a war of conquest and plunder. The Ducth had settled it because It had, and still has, huge gold reserves. It also had a native (Black) work force that could be used as really cheap labour. Britain invaded it so it could steal all that gold and cheap labour.
There was no doubt that Britain would win such a war.
So why did it ask it's colonies like Canada and Australia to join? Colonies were not required to fight British wars. And they certainly ween't needed for this one.
But colonial politicans responded with enthusiasm that was encouraged by their news media.
So what was this all about?
It was about the war that came a little later, the one against Germany and others.
Britain knew it was going to need help with that one - and it wanted a precedent.
Of course, . Canada's, politicians and business leaders, all of them closely tied to Britain and manipulators of the press, appealed to Canada to 'rally to serve tne "mother country" and it's king. And it worked. Thousands of Canadians who had no moral or legal requirement to fiight British wars, who really had nothing against the Boers and were in no way threatened by them, ralled to serve the king.
Britain didn't need them. But it knew it would need then a major war broke ou in Europe - and it wanted a precedemt fpr all of it's colonies to join in when such a war happened.
And so Canadians died fighting a war which neant nothing to them. ( They also ran concentration camps where Boer wives, children and the elderly were held, there to die in very large numbers. All so Britain's super rich could steal South Afriican gold.
As a scheme to pull Canadian into the First World War and the Second, it worked.
In the same way, the U.S., with the help of Canadian politicians and news media, pulled Canada into killing Koreans in a war that had nothing to do with Canada, but really an attempt to use Korea as a base to conquer a China that American capitalists wanted - as the British had wanted - conquer and plunder and murder China. Canadians died in Korea for reasons that had nothing to do with Canada.
Then there was Afghanistan. At the time, Afghanistan has just finished fighting off the Russians. It had not, in any way, attacked Canada, Britain or the U.S.
(Bin Laden, later murdered by the U.S., was certainly a hater of the U.S., but he had not led any attack on it. Nor was he an Afghanistan citizen. Nor had Afghanistan been the country that atttacked New York and Wasshington on 9/11.
Those attacks were led by citizens of a big, American friend, Saudi Arabia.
But Canadian politicans (and citizens) bought the rumour that our news media spread about who evil Afghanis were, how, in fact, they were 'terrorists'.
American bombers, who speicalized in bombing civilians, hospitals, schools, and have killed over 20,million people since 1945, and who daily, using drones,
daily murder innnocent people.
So the Canadian government sent Canadian troops, and the Canadian press didn't even whimper.
The U.S. is far the worst killer in today's world. But you would never guess that from our news media.
Going back to World War 1, were German evil?
No more so than all the other major powers. Germany - like Britain, like the U.S., like Canada, like Austria - all were controlled by very greedy capitalists.
But on the day World War 1, our news media labelled Germany as evil and kill crazy. No such label was every placed on Britain or the U.S. or anybody else on '"our side". But at the end of the war, Britain and France insisted on labelling Germans as the evil ones.
And that is what brought Hitler to power.
Our news media lie.Yes, Hitler was evil. The British were far more so, murdering over 400 million in their empire and enslaving and impovershing billions. Belgium was savage in it's slaugjter of Congo.
The American killings of their native peoples quite possibly esceeded the holocaust in Germany - and was at least as brutal. But you won't learn that from your daily paper.
Our news media lie/ They exist to serve their owners by lying.
And I must say that this world's military historians are less candid than they should be. And Ottawa's war museum should make a greater effort to tell the truth. Indeed, these failure to tell the whole truth are a dreadful remender or our abose osf those we send to wars.
________________________________________________________________
Asia Times os a Hong Kong newspaper that is often critical of China. But not thiis time. This item is about what China did right - and that western news media haven't mentioned.
https://asiatimes.com/2020/04/covid-19-focus-on-what-china-did-right-not-wrong/
_______________________________________________________________
The premier of Alberta says that climate change isn't happening. And he knows things because the oil bosses tell him. And oil bosses are real smart. So there.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/ng-interactive/2020/apr/09/sound-of-icebergs-melting-journey-into-antarctic-jonathan-watts-greenpeace
_______________________________________________________________
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/apr/09/wisconsin-republicans-primary-democracy
_________________________________________________________________
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/apr/09/in-shadow-of-pandemic-trump-seizes-opportunity-to-push-through-his-agenda
_______________________________________________________________
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/opinion-partisanship-covid-19-government-response-1.5525186
___________________________________________________________
https://rabble.ca/blogs/bloggers/david-suzuki/2020/04/review-shows-ocean-life-could-rebound-30-years
_______________________________________________________________
https://rabble.ca/blogs/bloggers/views-expressed/2020/04/albertas-public-education-system-needs-support-not-cuts
____________________________________________________________
Oil is killing us. Alberta is determined we need more of it. Yes. Our climate is changing. Yes, that will destroy all of us. Yes. We are running short of time to act.
https://rabble.ca/blogs/bloggers/alberta-diary/2020/04/jason-kenney-lays-out-bad-news-covid-19-then-wanders-economic
______________________________________________________________
https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/pandemic-election-turnout-wisconsin
Democracy in the U.S. has already gone. It happened way back in the begining of colonial days. Ditto for Canada.
________________________________________________________________
https://www.thenation.com/podcast/politics/pentagon-coronavirus/
_______________________________________________________________
https://www.thenation.com/article/society/bill-gates-foundation-philanthropy/
_______________________________________________________________
https://lfpress.com/opinion/columnists/dyer-pandemic-is-an-opening-for-the-once-unthinkables-like-basic-income
_______________________________________________________________
https://consortiumnews.com/2020/04/08/covid-19-devastated-saudi-royal-family-seeks-to-end-yemen-war/
______________________________________________________________
https://consortiumnews.com/2020/04/09/assange-extradition-the-deadly-vanessa-baraitser/
_______________________________________________________________
https://countercurrents.org/2020/04/ventilator-shortage-exposes-the-cruelty-of-neoliberal-capitalism-noam-chomsky
______________________________________________________________
Information Clearing House is blocked by my computer because of signs of malware.
______________________________________________________________
https://www.nationalobserver.com/2020/04/06/news/ontario-week-away-running-out-protective-medical-equipment-unless-us-shipment-comes
What's striking about this is that our governments surely knew it was highly likely that the coronavirus in China was likely to strike us. We had plenty of warning....amd we did nothing. How was it possible that so many governmentssaw this happening.........and did nothing whatever.- Just as we have done nothing about the warnings concerning oil. In the thirty years since we learned that, almost nothing has been done.
_______________________________________________________________
https://truthout.org/articles/trump-doubles-down-on-plan-to-slash-crucial-funding-for-social-security/
Even as Trump pushes millions of Americans into steep poverty, he is handing out more, billions more, to billionaires.
______________________________________________________________
https://truthout.org/articles/more-than-2-million-uninsured-people-may-be-hospitalized-for-covid-19/
What can we say about the institutinalized, greedy and immoral treatment of it's people who need medical care but insist that medical care must exist for private profit. It's rather as if Jesus charged fees for healing the sick.
_____________________________________________________________
George Washington and other 'founders of American democracy' were very much like the British aristocracy in their social belief that 'the people' were inferior and would have to be kept in their humble place.
In fact, George Waxhington WAS a typical upper-class Englishman of his time.
He was wealthy, perhaps the wealthiest in colonies. And, as an upper classs Englishman, the saw himself as superior to the commonn peoples. And that was true of most of the other founding fathers as well.
Like upper class Englishmen, they had no respect for the rights of the lower classes. They were also profoundly racist, just like all upper class English. Thus the American slaughter of American native peoples - an act well in tune with Hitler's holocaust.
That also explains why the founding fathers of the U.S. had no problem with kidnapping Blacks, usuing them as cheap (free) labour, and pnnishing them with whips and even death.
George Waxington and his circle saw themselves as a ruling class. That's why they wrote a constitution that protected the power of the ruling class, and severely limited the rights of all others.
https://truthout.org/articles/us-guardian-elite-rulers-date-back-to-nation-s-founding/
And this belief has been a constant in American history. ( And in much of Canadian history.)
The American revolution. in reality, created a U.S. remarkably similar to Britain. All that it left out was the monarchy.
______________________________________________________________
https://truthout.org/articles/cdc-deletes-hydroxychloroquine-guidance-as-study-hyped-by-trump-is-questioned/
_____________________________________________________________
https://truthout.org/articles/trump-was-warned-of-potential-cataclysmic-pandemic-as-early-as-last-november/
Well, yes. Any child could have figured that out.
______________________________________________________________
https://theintercept.com/2020/03/25/capitalist-death-panels-if-corporate-vultures-get-their-way-well-be-dead/
________________________________________________________________
https://thesaker.is/why-america-leads-the-world-in-covid-19-cases/
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