Globe & Mail can't stop beating war drums

Check out the lead paragraph of this Globe & Mail story; On a Tuesday morning in late June, a crowd of investors, government officials, entrepreneurs and bankers huddle in a small conference room on the 53rd floor of the TD Bank Tower in downtown Toronto to mull over the possibility of imminent conflict. I personally do not find this reassuring. I’ve followed and often written about the evolving propaganda war against our authoritarian adversaries. I watched as they went from competitors, even allies from time to time, to adversaries, to enemies. And after watching this “clash of civilizations,” engineered in Washington DC and some key vassals, being presented in virtually all Western legacy media as inevitable, I am appalled that the Globe takes its role as sheer boosterism for the war-mongers. You’d think in a conference on the cusp of “imminent conflict,” ie war, you might want to invite some peace activists, maybe some military historians; perhaps a philosopher or two. War with our designated enemies, mainly Russia, China, and Iran, is not inevitable at all. In fact, following “our allies,” (which mostly means Uncle Sam, aka Donald Trump) into such a war strikes me as a recipe for catastrophe. The fantasy scenario spun in that Globe story obscures what’s at stake here, but not entirely. Here’s a quote from one of the sharpies in attendance, who hopes to make a killing; “We’ve got ourselves into such a deficit with the state, size and role of our military, that the question has become an either/or: Do you want social programming and dental care and health care, and $10-a-day daycare, or do you want a military?” That’s a no-brainer for every Canadian with half a brain. No, we do not want war. The thought-leaders at the Globe should stop shaming themselves by ceaselessly promoting it.