Now it is my turn to ask for your help

I donate because reading your blog helps me with the smorgasbord of lies by the Canadian Mainstream Media. I love to read material from authors who are uncompromising questioners and tell it like it is. Speaking truth to power is journalism. What use is my education if I ignore critical thinking and become a sheep.

Alfred, Lord Tennyson, poet laureate of Britain wrote in 1854 in the “Charge of the Light Brigade” ‘Theirs not to reason why”. This line offers a timeless reflection on the senselessness that accompanies war. Some years after Tennyson published his poem glorifying the loss as a victory, Kipling asked why, in old age, the survivors of the charge were living in poverty.

It is our and journalist’s job to reason why. Why does Western media not reason, and ask why FBI and other American security services manually control digital media?

I am offended when I listen to CBC on domestic or world events as they constantly lie, manipulate, and omit the facts. I unlike CBC do not want the past to be erased, and I don’t want the erasure forgotten, and most importantly I don’t want the lie to become the truth.

CBC news represents everything that is not journalism. CBC newsreaders remind me of men that I have seen licking their lips as they pushed their way past women and children to be first at a smorgasbord table. In the case of CBC’s, so-called journalist. It is to be first to report a smorgasbord of lies.
There is nothing worse than a journalist who demands freedom of the press for our detractors, but then write to please their benefactors. These “ass kissers” want to be the first to fill their plate to overflowing at the smorgasbord of lies as if there is no tomorrow.

A true journalist exposes excesses in our own backyard with equal vigor as he or she exposes them in the Middle East, London, Moscow, or Jerusalem. This is called balance. When it comes to race issues, I am color-blind. An investigative journalist must have a moral compass firmly fixed on the truth and be color-blind to politics, economics and social issues and leave the value judgements to the reader.

A journalist must have a liberal education combined with intelligence to speak about justice and integrity. Those who fear losing the support of people whose approval might be useful to them are not journalists.
I was brought up by parents who worked their way into privilege, but they were always committed to and sacrificed for social justice. Unionism provided balance, so they always unionized their businesses. Their advice to me was always engaging, informative and reliable. I expect journalist to be engaging, informative and reliable.

I consider most national and almost all local journalism as unreliable, including recent media reporting on US elections, world events and in particular the war in Ukraine. You read any article in this nation, turn on the radio or TV and what do you get, one-sided interviews or commentary that reflects Western bias and narrative. We are censored by social media, and by our government, while some journalists are even assassinated.

Journalists seldom if ever ask the tough question. Journalism in this country has become a love affair between those in government and those who control the government. Journalists “prostitute” their credentials to sell Ads and everything that they tell us reflects government policy regardless of its truthfulness, its morality or its life promoting value.

Most journalists get comfy with the politicians and their handlers, and their reports euphemize the truth to promote the government agenda so that the articles that are written might as well be government bulletins. For most Canadian journalists, some revolutions are worthy, while similar revolutions in some country not in our economic orbit are unworthy.

In the reporting about Ukraine and just about every country that we have destabilized, our journalists report what political power and those connected to it tells them to report. Most journalists with professional integrity, exiled, fired or jailed, like Assange, for asking the tough questions or telling the truth. There have been a few others that have been fired, or they quit because they did not want to go to parties, dinners, and bars with those to whose actions they will report.

I’m not seeing tough questions asked by our journalists on any issue of social significance. The journalists in Canada refuse to question power because they want to be part of the social circle, or a club that they aspire to join. Where were the questions about Canada’s largest PR machine the military, the abuses of our international mining companies, or any number of other debacles. Many stones are left unturned, however, there are endless references to workers asking for a reasonable raise which the press reports as Draconian.

The recent media avalanche of disinformation about Russia represents yellow journalism unmatched even by Palmer and Hoover, who organized a campaign against foreigners’ ‘internationalism’ and the police. As a result, troops were ordered to raid magazine offices, public houses, union headquarters and meetings of any liberal organization and “over 6000 were arrested and put in prison”. This was followed by the McCarthy “Witch Hunts” where innocent people were prosecuted, and the courts sent them to prison knowing that the evidence against them was fabricated, while the evidence that exonerated them was omitted.

Why is it that journalists in countries that we see as adversaries that support our narrative are worthy of our protection, and yet journalists like Assange and Snowden are unworthy when they reveal an opposite narrative? If, as a journalist, you protect freedom of the press, you need to protect it everywhere. Why do you ignore the shooting of the RT journalist in Ukraine and the detention and beating of two others, or the recent assassination of Darya Dugina? Why was bombing by NATO of Radio Television Serbia and killing some 15 journalists not a war crime? It’s like condemning the Holocaust but not condemning Vietnam and Laos (2 million dead), Iraq (2.5 million dead) and the Congo (6 million dead) only to mention these three which were genocides by war. Editorials and comments about current issues are shamefully inaccurate, particularly when journalists include historical background. When they don’t have the facts, they make them up.

Journalism is not a popularity contest. A true journalist must be an unpopular messenger of the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth. Journalists today are shoeshine boys for the corporate sector, and political parties. Journalists at one time investigated government policy reporting on its significance, they did not print press reports as stories for reelection purposes. Where is the integrity in that? The job of a journalist is to expose public policy promoted by campaign donations, self-interest, and corporate need.

Our journalists in the West wrap themselves in the cloak of patriotism, the flag, and religion, to deceive. The job of a journalist is not to reprint articles from wire services which constantly provide one narrative, don’t allow debate and sensor the narrative of the opposition, that is what totalitarian states do, not democracies that we supposed to represent. A journalist’s job is not to debate me or anyone else, the job is to find out the truth and print it.

Fifty dollars from me and fifty on behalf of my Orthodox Christian priest who reads your blog. God Bless.

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Thank you. Very much. I would like to get you the amount you need to do this great work every day. But like thousand of your readers our pensions are getting lower and prices go only up I can say I pray for you. But I would like to help in a different manner. But my age will diktat what I can doo. Thanks for all your great work. Walter

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Danke für die großartige Arbeit die Ihr leistet.

Andrei, my educated guess on the next assassination target of the Nazis is Sergei Glaziev because that is who the British Deep State always went after, the Economic Ministry, Sergei Witte for example. Glazyev’s Economic strategy is very innovative and is bound to succeed and get further ahead of the EU Kleptocracy. I hope you have a Russian source who can alert the proper Russian authorities.

Can you please post address to send cash? …goons have been loosed, so can’t do anything else here in late-great-usa today.
Thanks