The RPOJ comes for thee “Nicky”. Counterpunch needs to rein in the crazy, or at least find an editor that will actually edit for truth and veracity as opposed to the shout festival screed titled “The Time for Queer Revolution is Now” by Nicky Reid. How this ‘article’ got
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Dead Wild Roses: Counter-Punch: Paul Street now a Far Right Reactionary TERF
Counterpunch is a alternative news site that I’ve followed for many years. I have often picked up on an essay that I found there and added my critique or opinion on the matter. Recently I critiqued a piece that was – ideologically speaking – over the top and I had
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The Bullshite I See on Counterpunch – The Best Revenge Against Judicial Tyranny is Secession
This article is written by Nicky Reid who in her first sentence declares their identity as a “Queer pro-lie anarchist”. I think that if you happen to be writing an piece to be published, wouldn’t it be better to let your thoughts and ideas carry your message rather than stating
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The Apparent Fascism Of the Trump Years – Paul Street
US commentators still seem to be mulling the prospects of how close, or how far they came to living in an authoritarian fascist state under Donald Trump. It is interesting how little air time the States dances with fascism get in the media today. The liberal economist and New York
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The United States is Fundamentally Unjust – Paul Street.
The massive disparity between the social classes in the US make it difficult to find the equality as set down by their law, in their society. “1. The United States, by the way, is fundamentally unjust. Even before the Trump Virus sparked a depression and corporate bailout that deepened inequality
Continue readingWritings of J. Todd Ring: Hurray For the Daft! (That’s Us)
* (My apologies for the strange formatting again – WordPress gets glitchy on me and refuses paragraph spacing, forcing me to use awkward-looking stars. Bear with me.) * The left is loudly proclaiming, amidst the coronavirus (largely manufactured disaster capitalism) disaster: bail-outs for the people not the corporate elite, health
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Books I Want to Read – One World, Ready or Not: The Manic Logic of Global Capitalism by William Greider
It seems like William Greider was frighteningly correct with the thesis of his book from 1997. This snippet from Counterpunch has raised my curiousity enough to make it point to borrow or buy the book. “Back in 1997, Greider wrote a book, One World, Ready or Not: The Manic Logic
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Paul Street – What Goes Around – Trampling the Helpless Abroad
The conclusion of Paul Street’s essay is important in naming the situation the US currently inhabits. “You cannot maintain democracy at home while conducting an authoritarian empire abroad” is the idea that lies at the bottom of the problems plaguing the United States. The notion that there are people, by
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: When is Violence Acceptable in Society? – The Fascist/Antifa question.
I am playing catch up with the recent dust-up around the choice of tactics used by Antifa in the United States in it’s struggle against the proto-fascist elements energized by the current Republican Administration led by Trump. There are several sources in this brief overview, first from a academic
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: On American Exceptionalism – Mistakes Happen…
This excerpt from Paul Street’s essay, “Bob Kerrey, Fulbright University, and the Neoliberal Erasure of History.” Mistakes Happen “And besides, the conventional imperial American exceptionalist wisdom holds. mistakes happen. It’s true, dominant media and reputable intellectuals acknowledge, Uncle Sam and his innately gallant gendarmes occasionally make “mistakes” in their inherently noble (because American) zeal […]
Dead Wild Roses: Testing the Manufacturing Consent Hypothesis – Jill Stein
From Counterpunch: “Jill Stein, the Green Party’s nominee for president, has been the sudden target of attacks from all corners of online media since the official end of Bernie Sanders’ campaign at the Democratic National Convention. Outlets like the Washington Post, New York Magazine and Gizmodo have assaulted Stein by using out-of-context quotes to […]
Dead Wild Roses: John Pilger on Identity Politics
“A generation ago, a post-modern cult now known as “identity politics” stopped many intelligent, liberal-minded people examining the causes and individuals they supported — such as the fakery of Obama and Clinton; such as bogus progressive movements like Syriza in Greece, which betrayed the people of that country and allied with their enemies. Self […]
Dead Wild Roses: The State of the Republican Party – Noam Chomsky
As far as concise descriptions of the state of the GOP in the US go, this is fairly accurate and sadly amusing all at the same time. “It is important to bear in mind that the Republicans have long abandoned the pretence of functioning as a normal parliamentary party. Rather,
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: 5000 Dollars and One Goat.
Murder, by the numbers. “Matters were moving toward a climax. Reliant on bulletins from the Predator crew, the captain commanding the raiding party on the ground had interpreted the news that the convoy was now heading away from the Americans on the ground as confirmation not only that the
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The Liberal Media and the Ideology of Black Victimhood
Fascinating article by Thomas Barker- here is the conclusion. Find the rest on Counterpunch. […] Conclusions As with so much of the racial tension in the United States, the origins of the present situation can be traced back to slavery. In his ground-breaking work on the American slave system, the
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Some Recent History in the Middle East – ISIS and US.
Fascinating reading about some of the circular nature of events that are playing out in the Middle East as of late. This excerpt from the Counterpunch article titled Once More, Into the Quagmire. The Middle East Needs Our Military Might One can hear, in the reverberating noise of mainstream
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: There is always a Class War going On – Noam Chomsky
From an article at Counterpunch, I suggest you go there and read the whole interview with Noam Chomsky: “Well, there’s always a class war going on. The United States, to an unusual extent, is a business-run society, more so than others. The business classes are very class-conscious—they’re constantly fighting a
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: At the End of Capitalism’s Rope – BENJAMIN J. GEORGE
I suggest you go to Counterpunch and read the whole article, but here we see the benefit of Marx’s analysis of capitalism. “In Stack’s “manifesto”, he quotes Karl Marx. Ironically, Marx is useful here. Explaining how human labor-power is objectified in commodities, which then become realized as social relations once
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Quote of the Day – Gail Dines on Government.
What would you suggest as a metric for determining the quality of governance? Gail Dines has a simple suggestion (taken from a counterpunch article on contrasting styles of governing): ” […] a government that has demonstrated a capacity to work for the people rather than just corporate interests, and
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