I'm still on "big series" of basic events that most of our new media don't tell us about. And this is an unpleasant one. But we have to face reality. Let's start with Trump's little red cap with the word 'MAGA' on it. "Make America Great Again."
What does "great" mean? It's a sort of code for world dominance by American capitalists though, really, American capitalists have never dominated the world. Nor should they. But the great dream of 1945 was for the U.S. to conquer the whole world making it the greatest empire in history and all for the benefit of America's super rich.
Canadian capitalists and Canadian Liberals and Conservatives fell in love with it right away. Britain was finished as a great power. So they dumped it, and went whimpering to the U.S. That's why the Liberal government of Louis St.Laurent sent Canadians to die in Korea 1949. That's why Britain and other capitalists joined in to fight that war.
You think we went to defend South Korea? Get real. South Korea was a murderous dictatorship ruled by those Korean traitors who had governed it for the Japanese during the war. And those people would remain in power as our good friends for many years after the Korean war.
But, really, the whole purpose of the Korean War was to ingratiate Canadian capitalists in the eyes of their American bretheren so that Canadian capitalists could share a piece of MAGA with the U.S. And so it is that we became a part of 'making America great'.
And we've been playing that game under the Liberals and Conservatives ever since in at least a dozen wars since World War Two. I'll be talking about this further down.
The Canadian Legion, which was founded to look after our military, never said a word. Instead, and as always, it played cheerleader for Canadians sent to die to improve the bottom line for the super wealthy and greedy.
The Korean war never really had anything to do with Canada or even with the South Koreans who had served the Japanese. The purpose of that war was to add China to the empire of American capitalism. And we lost. Ever since then, Canada has been a loyal servant of American capitalists. We've seen that in Latin America, and the Middle East in particular.
Oh, do you rememmber the Canadian role in Haiti, and how our news media dealt with it?
This was in 2014. The U.S. had just destroyed democracy in Haiti. It then asked (or told) Canada to send troops to 'stabilize' Haiti. Canada sent 800 troops and even more than that in police commanded by a senior RCMP| officer.
Our news media wet their pants with joy. Canada was playing a leading role in helping our American neighbours bring peace and joy to Haiti. I don't know of any Canadian news medium that told the real story.
Our army and the police were there to terrorize Haitians and keep them down. Our police, almost every day, raided the homes of the poor and arbitrarily imprisoned thousands on no known charges at all. In further help, the Canadian government gave the dictator 100 million dollars to build more prisons - your tax dollars at work. (That didn't make the news either.)
We destroyed an effective democracy in Haiti. We did it to please American super-rich. Did you see the story on that in our news media?
No. I didn't think so. On the contrary, we were told to be proud of our troops and our police. And Justin Trudeau follows exactly the same policies today. We are the bumboys for American thieves and killers.
And who was the Canadian prime minister who did this immoral and dirty job? Try the name of Stephen Harper.
Did any of our members of parliament intervene in this? They couldn't. The American, British, Canadian and many other governments. no longer vote on going to war. They haven't bothered with that since 1949. So we aren't told, and we aren't asked. Billionaires do all that thinking for us.
In 2011, I was shocked to see on TV. Canadian jets bombing Libya. Libya had done nothing to harm us. The ruler of Libya was an unpleasant person. But he enjoyed the support of the majority of Libyans. He hadn't invaded anybody and there was no reason to think he would.
But U.S. capitalists wanted him gone. They wanted the control of Libya, all of it. Of course, they wouldn't want democracy in Libya - just control. So they recruited members of a sect that hated Ghadaffi. They stabbed Ghadaffi to a horribly protracted death. (Not long after, the wife of President Clinton chuckled as she told a TV audience - "We came. We saw. He died.")
How many people did our bombers kill? Who knows - who cares? The important thing is that we had served our American capitalist masters. And that would give Canadian capitalists entree to American capitalist projects.
Oh - the prime minister who approved that? That would be Stephen Harper.
As it turned out, the whole operation was a disaster. Ever since our bombing and the murder of Ghadaffi Libya has never recovered. It's now a land of pure chaos. But, hey, we pleased our American masters. Ha!Ha!
Neither Canada nor the U.S. is a democracy. Canada at least has a democratic party in the NDP. But we vote, every time, for the people who lie to us. Justin Trudeau is well known as a patsy for the very wealthy. So is the Conservative party.
Our news media lie to us.
And we are setting ourselves up for the final war. But don't worry. The very rich are fixing themselves up with massive shelters for them selves.
Incidentally, through all this turmoil suffering, Canadian and American capitalists are actually enjoying a period of very high profits. Of course. They don't have to pay taxes. They don't have to fight wars. We give them our taxes to fight their wars. The super rich are enjoying their biggest profits in years even as the rest of us are suffering the worst times since the dirty thirties.
That's reality.
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