Yesterday, Canadians for Justice and Peace in the Middle East blasted the Canadian government for boycotting a memorial service for the victims of the atomic bombing of Nagasaki.
The U.S. military’s destruction of Hiroshima and Nagasaki was among the worst atrocities in human history. At a moment when Japan was on the verge of surrender, the U.S. government knowingly incinerated thousands of Japanese children. The Truman administration did so to terrorize anyone who might resist the new era of U.S. global hegemony.
So why did the Trudeau government decide to boycott the ceremony in Nagasaki? Because the city’s mayor did not invite Israel’s genocidal regime to participate.
Around the same time that I learned of Canada’s disgraceful boycott of the ceremony in Nagasaki, an activist group known as “Coalition du Québec URGENCE Palestine” held a press conference in my neighbourhood. The purpose of their press conference was to denounce the Caisse de dépôt et placement du Québec (CDPQ), one of Canada’s largest pension funds, for refusing to divest from corporations that are complicit in Israel’s genocide and apartheid.
Yesterday, I attended the Coalition’s press conference. There, I learned that CDPQ is a shareholder of U.S. arms manufacturer Lockheed Martin. Arguably, no corporation on God’s green earth is as complicit as Lockheed Martin in Israel’s genocide in Gaza.
All of this prompted me to rant. While strolling around the streets of old Montreal yesterday, I tongue lashed Canada’s government and the CDPQ for their utter contempt for Palestinian lives.
You can watch and listen to my rant here:
Sometimes “eating” at the table of political affairs leaves one losing appetite and perhaps considering fasting as TMI (Too Much Information) overloads the “digestive system” with opinions creating tears like onions as twisted ideologies are set before us, currently “waiting for a war” as we tune in to catch the beginning of larger scale homicide, courtesy of the suppliers of weapons “cleaning up” in profits of the deadly business of war. Tanks a lot, eh? (A “think tank” is NOT a “vessel,” it’s a weapon of poopaganda.)
I share your perspective, your frustration, your sadness, and especially your anger … and I do this every single day. I also share it with every person that I know. I no longer care what those people who have been brain-washed by the main-stream media think of me.
BTW.. I am currently reading a book, by Howard Zinn and Anthony Arnove titled: “Voices of a people’s (true) history of the United States”, which illustrates the true nature of those in power by describing the evolution of the American hegemony i.e. how USA became the “evil empire” and the prime debilitating factor for world peace. It is possibly the BEST and most TRUTHFUL American history book ever written.