Galbraith knew it: The Dream pt.4

JK Galbraith 1940s   Richard Gwyn another columnist who supported the Iraq invasion, did have a good commentary recently in the Star on the breaking apart of the American Dream. He focused on the unwarranted and deleterious reputation of Alan Greenspan the retired head of the Federal Reserve . For 20 years Greenspan a rabid [...]

American Dream pt. 3

Ronald Reagan, the Gipper, an American hero. One of the worst presidents ever. Thankfully after GW Bush leaves office people will forget just how bad the Gipper was. On October 15, the Gipper signed the Garn-St.Germain Act thereby deregulating the thrift industry. “I think we hit hit the jackpot” he was quoted at the time. [...]

The people’s bishop

  Ken Caveney became The Bishop of Cabbagetown, anointed by the marginalized of Toronto’s east end. He was  born August 14, 1939 in Toronto and  died on June 19, 2008 of kidney failure. He was 68. Ken was orphaned by the time he was 15 and by his late teens was in trouble with the [...]

Karadzic- Another delusional nationalist

There he was on the CBC News kissing the ikon saying he was defending Christianity! Yes indeed the megalomaniac Radovan Karadzic the Bosnian Butcher. A totally delusional person one who defaulted first on his humanity, then his supposed Christianity and certainly on his Hippocratic oath as a doctor. Was there Kool Aid in the water [...]

Incomparable Jo Stafford

I live in the real world and while I am appalled at the seemingly endless “wars and rumours of wars” and the hubris of small men like GW Bush. I  always loved Camus’ line about life having two fundamental categories we must be faithful to and they are beauty and the humiliated.The humiliated  are more [...]

AMERICAN DREAM PT.2 REAGAN NIGHTMARE

  Americans want to put Ronald Reagan on Mount Rushmore. Again and again he ranks high in their  popular memory. Jimmy Carter however correctly called him one of the worst presidents in US history, leaving behind a federal debt equal to all his predecessors combined. His legacy as well was was the Pax Americana’s last [...]

The American Dream pt.1

George Carlin hit the nail on the head when he said, “They call it the American Dream because you have to be asleep to believe it.” An Yanks have been asleep for decades believing it their right as 4% of the globe to consume about 40% of the world’s resources.This is the major American myth [...]

Tory government salutes Uncle Sam

Once again the will of Canadians is thwarted by a US friendly government. The most recent  poll indicated that 64% of Ontarians said, “Let him stay.” Robin Long was arrested in Nelson B.C. last Friday and is threatened with deportation as early as Tuesday, July 15. We must act quickly to ensure the government does not [...]

Embarrassing to be a Harperite Canadian

It’s getting harder and harder to hold our heads high on the international stage with “Stevie” Harper as PM. The G8 Summit  was a good example. All reports indicate Canadian government has embarassed us all by blocking progress on poverty, climate change and chintzy Third World Aid. As many critics pointed out Canada and US, also opposed mid-term [...]

I always liked Tecumseh and somebody in Toronto did too. They named the extension of my street Palmerston after him.Of course it was in the days of our close links with Mother Albion, yet nevertheless  this is my doff of the cap to a Canadian of note as we remember the glorious first of July. [...]