Seventy I have lived my life on the down slope of a historic arc. I grew to adulthood when times were very good. I expect to see the bottoming out of this long arc and a new beginning.
Trumped Up It is mere speculation to talk about how all this would work in a real democracy. There are no real democracies, at least not national democracies, in the modern world. The empire crushes any attempt to launch one.
The Lights Have Gone Out Again The monuments need to be torn down. They are really monuments to Canada’s shame. All these wars were wars of empire which we should have wanted nothing to do with.
Inquiring into Covid Inquiries The worst thing about covid inquiries is that they tend to promote the idea that the pandemic is something which happened in the past. The full effects of covid are yet to be felt. The coming era may come to be called, “the covid age”.
About Canadian Patriots, China, History, and the Drug Trade They are available as critics of financial capitalism. So, they can be useful when other criticisms are not so available. There are other criticisms of Financialism from an authentic left perspective, but they are not as well funded, and often heavily suppressed.
About Migration and Immigration We do not right the wrongs of mass displacement and migration by supporting the plan of those who caused the problem. We do not save A by wrecking B.
Global Intifada and Globalizing the Intifada Many people are denying that the Israeli lobby is controlling the United States because “the tail does not wag the dog”. To continue with this metaphor, there are a lot of tails wagging in this situation, and it is impossible to see where the dog is.