If you have tears.....

...think a little bit...

It was some twenty years ago that agents from Afghanistan crashed passenger aircraft into the twin towers in New York. That is what caused the U.S. to attack Afghanistan in what the U.S. called "the war on  terrorism".

Sort of....

In fact, the European powers, notably France and Britain, had been attacking and murdering Muslim countries since 1920. After World War Two, the Americans took over the slaughter. The reason?

It was the reason for most wars -to plunder those countries. Yes, the reality is that western capitalists were the terrorists.

But western newspapers never told that story. Of course not. The western capitalists, after all, were the same people who owned those newspapers. So the official word was Muslims were terrorists - and we were launched into the war on terrorism. Canada went to war while the Canadian Legion wet it's pants for joy as it sent Canadians to die.

And the US even had a catchword ready - the war on terror. In fact, it was the British and the French and then the U.S. and Britain and Canada who were the terrorists.

As I watch TV news, I see that it's the other side who are bad guys. In fact,  it's us. It always has been. And no western newspaper I have ever heard of has told the truth on this. And as I watch U.S. news (CNN) I see it lying constantly - and CNN is probably the best of the U.S. news services. (Canadian news services, even CBC, are often no better. (Check out a web site called rabble.ca on your computer.  That's an honest site featuring honest reporters. It was founded by a CBC reporter who was determined to get some honesty in the news.)

Get used to it. Your news media are liars. Reporters who are honest get fired.

The dishonesty goes way back to a man who became a movie - Citizen Kane. He was a journalist who used his papers to support American wars in Latin America   - Which is why American billionaires have been able to plunder Latin America for over a century.

In the case of current wars, the only "profitable" one is the U.S. in Afghanistan. It has massive funding making it the largest war money pot in the whole world. Indeed, the U.S. is the biggest war spender in the world - by far. (and it still can't win.) But oh, big money in the U.S. just loves all the contracts it gets.

And, in the not too distant future the U.S. is going to need more territory because of the enormous damage caused by climate change in the U.S. And guess which country it will take for itself. (No. Not Mexico.)

By the way, why didn't Canada, after 6 years or so in Afghanistan, pull out? Isn't it odd to act like that in a war? Was that a   decision of the Canadian Legion? (I doubt it.) Why were we never given any reason? Pulling out of a war is usually an admission of defeat. Why didn't the Legion give a reason?

We are in dangerous times. Both Liberals and Conservatives have committed themselves to ignore all the warnings about oil fields, and to plunge into cooperation with the U.S. in this product that murders.

Oh, you're an admirer of the U.S.? This is the country that has driven many, many millions of it's people into the streets without a place to sleep, without money, without food, where children and the elderly die in huge numbers. It's also the country whose super rich can ignore most of their taxes. Meanwhile, the super rich are making their biggest profits in history.

At my age, I'll surely die fairly soon. But, oh, I'm ill at the thought of the world my children are inheriting.