RM (Rude Macedon)
itself. They'll be talking about this in the history books. And your kids will be saying things like 'You were right there and didn't KNOW about it?!?! Geez!!!! Old folks sure weren't very bright back then - all that tv, I guess....'
Dave's Letters to Various Places (with few exceptions unacknowledged and never published)
November 2017 - I've been very unhappy about the completely idiotic subservience of most 'progressive' sites to 'hate trump syndrome', so obviously a massive propaganda drive from the people we are all supposed to be fighting - finally an interview on The Real News Network (TRNN) was the catalist for getting some frustration out - Trump is not the enemy!
June 2017 - delving into more history, this time the Russian Revolution and related things towards Marxism, came across a sit called In Defence of October, lots of good info, but I don't think the current work lives up to the past - so I wrote them a letter
Feb 2017 - more whining from the Canadian media and related places about how the public doesn't trust them (the silly fools!) and their financial situation, none of which got anywhere near the obvious 'reality' of the situation, so I thought I'd make one more attempt to enlighten them - The Shattered Truth - an open Letter to Canadian Journalism Students (and anyone interested in the sorry state of 'journalism' in Canada (not a single response, of course, I had a wee tiny smidgen of hope that there'd be one real journalism student out there - but apparently not ...)
Jan 2017 - Lots of talk about Canada's 150th birthday, I have some thoughts ...In our name - 'we the people' of Canada have a whole lot NOT to be celebrating this year - rather, we ought to be finally getting on our feet and freeing our brains with a Howard Beale 'mad as hell and not taking it anymore' moment. I try, but I'm not holding my breath ....
September 2016 - came across a website I had not encountered before, Unwelcome Guests, with over 700 radio interviews with interesting people, most of the ones I've sampled so far being very well done - but with one notable exception. They seem to have become entranced by David Graeber and his Debt: 5000 Years book, about which I have some considerably different opinions, as I wrote to them David Graeber - radical alternative economics genius - or deep state disinfo agent??.
June 2015 - Ideas putting forth the 'idea' that the 'seige on science' we've been seeing the last few years was because most Canadians are ignorant. I begged to differ ... Canadians conducting a 'siege on science'???
July 2 2014 - Tyee asking how we'd celebrate Canada's 150th birthday in a couple of years, I had some ideas, again nobody wanted to hear about - My dream for Canada, ~2017, our 150th birthday
Nov 21 2012 - A CBC column extolling the 'great journalistic safeguards' in place to make sure we get all the news we need all the time - perhaps not that surprisingly, I don't entirely agree - CBC 'journalistic safeguards' ... Really???
July 15 2012 - Rick Salutin reviews a book talking about how we can justify not honoring debts - to which I suggest this is not entirely the best approach - It's the *odious* debts we need to understand...
July 4 2012 - Deborah Coyne announces entry in the Liberal leadership 'race' - I have some suggestions...
Nov 11 2011 - Bob Rae talks about 'rebuilding' the Liberal party - I have some comments..
Nov 05 2011 - Jian Gomeshi celebrates the 75th anniversary of the CBC - I have some comments..
March 3 2011 - 'lefty' Cdn pub Cdn Dimension columnist very pretentiously asserting his superiority over nutcasee 911 'conspiracy theorists' - I have some comments..
- going back a few years, gotta collect em somewhere - by and large, still better writing than most of what you find in the mainstream media, if only because it originates from outside the box, and doesn't rest on the fantasy world they encourage people to believe in the mainstream media. Which probably explains a good part of why they won't print anything I write - the last thing they need is some kid in the crowd wondering what the fuck they're talking about here, 'Emperor's new clothes?!?! - krist, the guy is obviously naked!!' - no, they don't need that kind of thing at all, their grip on things right now is a lot more fragile than they like to try to make it appear ... think the Wizard of Oz - all powerful??? Not if people actually pull back the curtain and see what is really going on here ..
December 24/07 Left wing bias? Who you trying to kid?!? - in which I respond to one of the yearly complaints from the Canadian rightwing media about the mythological 'lefty-librul' 'bias' in the Canadian media - grip on reality a bit shaky, guys?!?!?
December 21/07 - to a Brit discussion: Sticking up for old white guys... - some lady attacks 'sex tourism' with some stereotypes and other things I feel inclined to comment on ...
November 30/07 - to the Star: Terrified of democracy... - in which the Toronto Star once again panics at the very thought of democracy rearing its ugly head in Ontario, and I comment, with reference to the noble sounding words on 'responsible journalism' of the 'public affairs editor', as she rather incorrectly calls herself.
November 25/07 - to the CBC: A Real Dose of Reality - comments on a CBC-PEI series about drug addiction in young people, in which they fail to talk about all the most important things. Typical MSM stuff.
October 30/07 - to the Star: Why the Apathy?? - a Star columnist opines that Canadians are apathetic about important issues, and offers some suggestions as to the reasons - I offer an out-of-the-box perspective (concerning which he was/is apparently not interested - why was I not surprised??)
October 10/07 - to the CBC: Electoral reform fraught with risk - for who??? - shameless crap from the Toronto Star inspires a response (to which, of course, as usual, they pay no attention ....
July 04/07 - to the CBC: Dear Peter - Peter Mansbridge does a sort of web interview to tell everyone how wonderful the CBC is; I have a question and bit of a commentary about it all ...
Mar 13/07 - to the CBC: Maybe they should start with a mirror - a commentary on the CBC 'Spincycles' series (the producer Ira Basin did respond to this)
Feb 2/07 - to Reporters Sans Frontèirs: What about press responsibility - they release their annual report about press freedom, but I note there may be other problems equally as important in 'democratic' countries
Sept 21/06 - to Martha Hall Findley: Some thoughts on your leadership campaign (***NOTE: THIS WAS ACKNOWLEDGED!! (although by a campaign worker, that's ok, she's obviously very busy)
Sept 17/06 - to Diana Johnstone: Debunking Diana (not an especial challenge, her 'debunking' of the Truth Seekers was a typical shallow hatchet job)
- and a bunch of earlier ones for those with insomnia, or otherwise interested in things the Canadian MSM was not publishing a few years ago, or just some good writing unseen in the in-the-box Canadian MSM - Letters from RM to Various, 2002-4
Onward Rocinante
