First of all, a special invitation to my virtually non-existent Canadian readers!
Substack supplies its writers with excellent analytics. Mine show History’s Parrot is read in forty countries around the world. They also show ( if I am allowed a little bragging) the Parrot has excellent audience overlap with some of the best blogs on the platform (IMHO). It is a concern that readers gravitate to the blog from far and wide except for those in my own country.
I thank those who have shown up at this critical time in world history. The three ring circus that is going to decide the future of the world.
I have known Canada for a long time. We see ourselves as the peaceful kingdom buttressed and a protectorate of the empire next door. We hitched a ride with a rising star sixty years ago that star is now falling on dark times. It is a threat to its own self and the whole wide world. The dark forces controlling America are obsessed with owning and controlling a world never theirs to have and which they are not worthy of controlling. Their credentials too bloodied and their morality abandoned.
Canada is the world’s second largest land mass; but when it comes to societal consciousness we are pea brained, parochial and thoroughly colonized. We suffer the outrageous fallacy that as long as we are tucked into bed with the elephant our future is secure, a toxic belief shared by other NATO members. “One for all and all for one”, as the empire sinks below the waves and the rest of the world moves on to better futures.
When the elephant rolls over in a hard charging rage, what then?
Peoples of the West now have stark choices to make — either continue to be a victim of the tyranny; or a beneficiary of the revolution where democracy, socialism, and human dignity and decency make a comeback— while not forgetting our obligations to future generations.
The video above is as relevant to Canadians as to Americans. Our open undefended border is not just a crossing for billions of dollars worth of goods and services. There has been an ongoing cultural “exchange”—to put it politely, demanding our full and undivided attention for many years to come. If Canadians think we can conduct ourselves with our usual passive indifference to the state of our nation and the world we are sadly mistaken. Like our American neighbor we are trapped in the vortex of political, social, and economic decline where critical attention is required, and the full impacts of the decline are yet to come.
We are frozen in time and place until war is repudiated. Only then can progressive change take place.
The video features Dr. Jill Stein, Green party presidential candidate and economist Dr. Michael Hudson, with host Nima R. Alkhorshid. Both guests bring great insight into America’s crisis and the world situation.
Stein doesn’t even have to win the presidency to leverage progressive change. In a field of four all she has to do is make a good showing. She is the only candidate capable of surging in the polls as all others have conspicuous liabilities, especially the incumbent.
The wars, genocides, chaos and anarchy we are seeing are not just happening in the here and now. They are the end result of decades of corruptions and human folly. Our factual history, humanism and common sense have been slandered out of existence by political zombies on the take.
Now is the time for peace, truth and reconciliation.
Hey, Robert, you'll be happy to know that I'm Canadian, and I read your posts.
I agree -- we're in scary times, and they will (and do) affect us in Canada.
Another Canadian here. I love your post Robert.