Holding the Bully's Coat: Canada and the U.S. Empire

Bravo Linda McQuaig. This book tells why the world is at war and how to stop it. It's an easy, page turning read on an important but difficult subject. These last 5 days my wife and I fought so much over who got to read our one copy she went and bought a second. The only two reasons not to read this book is either you like war or you would prefer not to read a book with a Canadian focus. The book argues that war should go the way of the duel or slavery. It has become too destructive to continue to be tolerated as a method of handling disputes. The choice the world has is between the pursuit of the American empire with its purpetual wars on the one hand and world law leading to peace on the other. She points to the example of western Europe fighting for hundreds of years and now in a stable law abiding common market to show that it is possible. This is her conclusion; the fun is her story filled way of getting there.

I have not yet read nor will I read this pablum of the loony left wing nutjob linda mcquaig.Although, I think she is very good looking, she is a garden variety jew hater. She likes to hide behind the banner of anti americanism, but what she really means by that is that she is marxist loving hence anti semitic loving, anti morality, hater. Most canadian publishers have taken on the mantle of jew hating mantras all over the world and cannot let go of their dream of having an atheist marxian loving world.

Thanks to the right-wing elite the universe in which Linda McQuaig and the rest of us reside is unfortunately one of lies, deceit and betrayal. It is also a world she passionately tries to rectify and better. McQuaig is an increasingly isolated, yet serene and articulate, progressive reporter who is one of the important voices for an independent Canada. The scarcity of voices like her is all the odder because of the obvious logic of her arguments and how she elucidates topics like 9/11, the military-corporate axis and the complicit corporate-governmental alliance that feeds the wars, conflicts and hatred. In Holding The Bully's Coat: Canada And The U.S. Empire the recognized Canadian journalist describes how our civil society with all its potential has been hijacked by self-interested moneyed elites and zeroes in on the Canadian branch of this undercurrent that seeks to push Canada ever more into the U.S. orbit. The U.S. hags of war need a plan, a strategy, subverted natural and unnatural allies and chapter after chapter discusses this movement as it slithers through society. The book deals at some length with the conservative Canadian media, the Canadian right-wing elite, the US-inspired Canadian military and leaves the reader aghast, ashamed and feeling desperate. There is a common reference out there - let us call it progressive circles - that the common sense sectors of society have become too negative and, by implication, turn off large swaths of society. In contrast, the massive right-wing machine has mastered the art of feel-goodism and commands the attention and allegiance of a majority of society. The inability to exhort people to act according to their own natural interests and to rebel against what they instinctively know is wrong is partly explained as such and McQuaig is similarly to blame. It is not that the book is negative or abysmal. In fact, it is difficult being cheerful and positive when those who have sworn to serve are actively conspiring and undermining their own countrymen and doing so with as much a guise as money and power can buy. Holding The Bully's Coat, and its author, spends pages refuting the standard charges of "Anti-Americanism' in order to avoid the inevitable pigeonholing that will follow. Then again, McQuaig might be falling into the set trap by expending energy better spent elsewhere and elevating the discussion by actually taking part in it. If telling the truth, being against death and destruction, advocating a peaceful future for the coming generations and diverting funding from killing machines to the environment, education and healthcare is 'Anti-American' then conservatives have much to answer for and, oh in the meanwhile, please call me anti anything you like. McQuaig, and others like her, would do well to pay no heed to this, react less and be more proactive, upbeat and in agenda setting mode. It must also be pointed out that her portrayal of the end of slavery and the circumstances by which it d