The Pre-Genocide of the Palestinians Era and the Post-Genocide of the Palestinians Era

 

Canada has always been one of the apartheid state of Israel's biggest supporters.  Canada is, itself, a colonial project.  A country built upon stolen lands.  It has been a delusional lackey to the imperialists of Britain and the United States.  Under stephen harper I saw that, collectively, Canadians are unconcerned about complicity in torture.  Most of us are completely indifferent to whether there's any sort of democratic elements in our political system.  There's no push for greater democracy and we shrugged in indifference and apathy when the vestiges of democratic oversight were spat upon by the harper regime.

Twenty-Five Years of Cannibalism

 

Jack Rasmus has an excellent summing-up of the costs of over two decades of idiotic tax-cuts to the oligarchy and reckless war spending.

That bigger picture is the looming fiscal crisis driven by the growing convergence of runaway tax cutting since 2001, chronic escalating defense and war spending, more frequent deeper crashes of the economy with slower economic growth between, and now since 2022 accelerating trillion dollar annual interest costs on the US national debt.

The US national debt is on track to reach $38 trillion by year end 2025. Interest payments to bondholders are already exceeding $1 trillion a year. The Congressional Budget Office, research arm of the US Congress, estimates the national debt will reach $56 trillion by 2034 with interest payments of $1.7 trillion — and all that before Trump just passed $5 trillion tax cuts.

Thieving Oligarchs

 Two consecutive essays at Ian Welsh both contribute to an understanding of the collapse of the West, morally, intellectually, economically and militarily.

"The Best Short Summary of Why China is Winning & the West Fading"

Ford-Calandra School Board Take-overs are Land-grabs

 

From Education Action:

For years, this government has starved public education of funding. They’ve ripped $6 billion out of our schools since 2018. They’ve forced larger class sizes, stripped special education supports, and left students and staff to deal with unsafe, crumbling learning environments.

Now, rather than admit the damage they’ve caused, Ford and Education Minister Paul Calandra are grabbing more power — rewriting the rules so they can take control of school boards, muzzle parents and trustees, and force through their own agenda.

Let’s be clear: their agenda has nothing to do with student success. This is about money and control — and, most of all, real estate. The Ministry has given the job of supervising the TDSB to Rohit Gupta, someone with no known experience managing anything related to public education. He is the senior managing partner of Harrington Place Advisors.  Harrington Place describes itself as “bridging public and private sector priorities” by “unearthing latent demand and identifying high value opportunities for public sector assets. He has a background in working with the federal government regarding public-private-partnerships as well as in mergers and acquisitions for Scotiabank. Prior to working at Harrington Place, he led transaction negotiations with Metrolinx for Boxfish Infrastructure Group. This doesn’t mean that the Ministry plans to sell the TDSB to the lowest bidder, but it is interesting that it has chosen a supervisor with so much experience in real estate transactions. 

The Multi-Polar World

 

A lot of people are trying to see something greater in the emergence of the multi-polar world than is actually the case.  Obviously this includes those online geo-political analysts who see in countries like Russia an alternative to the godless, decadent, feminist, emasculated West. [With this subset of people including "Jewish controlled" in their list of the West's deformities.]

But there are also decent people, appalled at the murderous brutality and the shameless hypocrisy and the dangerous hubris and the titanic incompetence of the West's ruling classes who have convinced themselves that countries like Russia, China, India, Iran, are not themselves ruled by oligarchs, anti-democratic, often authoritarian, often religious bigots.

Trump's Gestapo & Leftist Failure

 

It's might be all over in the USA.  Trump's Triple-B bill, "Big Beautiful Bill" passed.  It included billions in funding for ICE, the agency that can grab anyone off the street for any reason and send them to some hell-hole overseas or within the USA itself, without any sort of legal oversight or rescue.  Trump now has his own personal police force.  His Gestapo.

Happy [Belated] Canada Day!!!

 

I've done a couple of posts in the past wherein I've written about my lack of enthusiasm for Canada Day.  You can look for them if you want to.  Obviously, my disaffection was even greater this year.  I'm going to share a quote from a CounterPunch article put up on the site today, July 4th:

The Israeli military forced us into displacement. We ended up in Gaza City on the streets. I have a family. I have children who are all under the age of 15. My wife is pregnant. My financial situation is not easy. A few weeks ago I had to sell some of my belongings. I had a stroller that I used to push the gallons of water on. I had a bicycle too and other things I had to sell to buy flour. We have no food, no water. We don’t have anything. I went to the US aid distribution sites and to the aid trucks. I went there seven or eight times to get food. About 20,000 people gather at the distribution sites along the Netzarim corridor early in the morning, but only 2,000 manage to get any food parcels. Why? Because of the overcrowding. Because of the number of people creating chaos. The food parcels they put in front of us are not enough compared to the number of aid seekers. The American site is a dead end. They told me that there is American aid in Netzarim. I went there. I walked 15 kilometers to look for some flour, rice or lentils. I couldn’t get anything. I went to the Netzarim aid site three or four times. All in vain. We go there only to find death in front of us. There was no food or water. There was only death. People were lying dead in the sand in front of us. I don’t know what to say. This situation is very hard. They told us there is aid in the trucks. Then, we went to the trucks. The trucks move very fast, running over people. The trucks were running on top of people! Today, I am unable to do anything. I used to weigh 90 kilos. Now I weigh only 58 kilos. Things are hard, really hard in Gaza. We are subjected to the worst torture in the world.

THIS is what Mark Carney, Justin Trudeau, Crystia Freeland, Anthony Housefather, etc., plus Pierre Poilievre and his team of troglodytes, all ENTHUSIASTICALLY support.

This is what the management of CBC News deliberately continues to enable and what Canada's mainstream journalists cowardly concede to allow their paymasters to enable.  It's what the fascist, rancid "newspaper" The National Post champions and celebrates.

Meanwhile, some "progressives" are mollified with token sanctions against a couple of particulary egregious nazis in Naziyahoo's cabinet (But heaven forbid sanctions against Naziyahoo himself!)  Whereas the more "radical" and "activist" among us dislocate their shoulders from patting themselves on the back for wandering around in large groups in public chanting like shit-heads.

I've joined those crowds.  I've written letters.  I joined Independent Jewish Voices (as a supporter) and suggested things.  But I had been in a serious financial/personal crisis in 2023 all the way til about this time last year.  But the full-time activists.  The academics and scholars.  The union movement activists.  They've watched this holocaust being live-streamed for almost two years.  For some of them, going to work for eight hours a day, five days a week, pretty much entails that they're supposed to be thinking about how to respond to this.  And, so far, what they've come up with is NOTHING.

So, with this complete moral failure, PLUS Carney's using Trump's threats as an excuse to [again] trample the rights of the First Nations, to "stand up" ["Elbows Up!!!"] to Trump by promising to buy billions of more in US-American weapons and trap refugees at the border and all the other stupid bullshit that Canada's servile politicians do, ... and the significant proportion of this country's population which supports all of this vile garbage, and all the other stuff that makes me depressed and misanthropic, ... fuck it.