Editor: Should your taxes be used here at home to fund the programs and services that most people want, or to support U.S. global domination? In a stark recent example, when a Canadian general was asked about Canadian forces being used to fight fires in Canada he said no, there was not enough personnel available due to the 1,000-plus Canadian troops in Latvia. Should tax-exempt charities get a pass for supporting what an international court has called genocide? That鈥檚 illegal under Canadian tax law. Why is there 鈥渘o money鈥� for needed housing, healthcare and education and a projected hundreds of billions tagged for producing and maintaining new warships, military jets and NATO warfare? On the positive side, did you hear about the 鈥淥n to Ottawa鈥� peace caravans which left both the Pacific and Atlantic coasts of Canada on Mother鈥檚 Day, May 12, and joined hundreds to protest the CANSEC global arms trade show in Ottawa? Though more and more people are recognizing their pain is caused by capital accumulation priorities which suck money and power to the top one percent, others are persuaded that economic chaos is caused by refugees, immigrants, carbon taxes and 鈥渇oreign interference.鈥� So a system has evolved that can keep democratic forms like free elections and parliaments, but where the masses of people (demos) have very little part in the most significant policy decisions. These crucial questions and news items are discussed by Canadian author/activist Yves Engler in his dozen well-researched books and in his weekly Foreign Policy Hour with Yves Engler show on YouTube. He provides essential education that reveals how power operates, how the many are ruled by the few. Yves will be speaking and taking questions in 琉璃神社 on Friday, June 14, 7 p.m., at the downtown 琉璃神社 United Church across from the French Cultural Center. Mark Haley 琉璃神社