For a very long time, I have believed that the political right wing, and the religious far right in particular is far more politically organized and well-funded than most of us would like to believe. Back in 2010, Marci McDonald published a book called “The Armageddon Factor“. It’s a bit
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Dead Wild Roses: Thought Terminating Cliches – “The Far Right”
Discussing issues about our society in the online world is almost always a contentious affair, but lately it seems that people are particularly unwilling to engage in conversation and debate. One of the terms that is getting thrown around liberally is the “the Far Right”. Any point of disagreement once
Continue readingNorthern Currents –: The Conservative Party has become the political arm of the trucker’s convoy
The Conservative party has made a turn to the hard right. No doubt they want to swallow up lost voters further to the right that have turned to the PPC. What this means in practice is an outright rejection of any public health measures that actually prevent Covid infections and
Continue readingNorthern Currents –: Making sense of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine
What has become clear is that Canadian and American media are manufacturing consent, and presenting the Russian invasion of Ukraine outside of its historical context. The act of invasion is 100% Vladimir Putin’s decision, and the invasion was not justified. At the same time, the conditions that led to this
Continue readingNorthern Currents –: A left-wing case against Justin Trudeau invoking the Emergencies Act
The central issue with invoking the Emergency Act is twofold: First, it is a step too far in consolidating state power against dissenting citizens. Second, police already had the tools they needed to deal with the occupation in Ottawa but chose not to. If the police had exhausted all their
Continue readingNorthern Currents –: The Police Problem in Canada
The Emergencies Act sets a dangerous precedent- as does Bill 1 in Alberta, and we should not be encouraging their precedent-setting use. It is clear that the systems and leaders have not been listening. Legislation that allows the system to reproduce the same old issues is not going to bring
Continue readingNorthern Currents –: The truckers convoy promotes social harm, not “mandating freedom.”
The organizers of the covid convoy have been demanding they speak to the manager of Canada. While they claim to fight for freedom and “vaccine choice,” this couldn’t be further from the truth. What all the elements within the spectrum of supporters of the convoy have in common is the
Continue readingNorthern Currents –: Where is the convoy to support workers in the trucking industry?
Wage theft is a major problem for workers in the trucking industry, yet the organizers of the so-called Truckers for Freedom Convoy are completely silent about this. How can the organizers and supporters of the convoy claim to support truckers, when they simply used them as a spectacle to draw
Continue readingNorthern Currents –: Right-wing news outlet “True North” posts misleading vaccination statistics
True North, a conservative-leaning news site, has published a highly misleading article that seems to attempt to undermine vaccine effectiveness. It’s actually kind of shocking how bad it is. Putting True North’s own numbers into context tells an entirely different story than the story its readers have heard. According to
Continue readingNorthern Currents –: Widely condemned ‘Truckers For Freedom’ rally features Trudeau figure in a noose
Aside from needless greenhouse gas emissions, the only accomplishment of the so-called Truckers for Freedom convoy is further consolidation and recruitment of the far-right. Whatever your stance on vaccines or vaccine mandate, the growth of these far-right conspiracy movements and the inevitable violence that goes along with it should be
Continue readingNorthern Currents –: How capitalism made the pandemic worse, every step of the way
The internal logic of capitalism has tainted our government’s response to the pandemic. Corporate profits were preserved, while the interests of the working class were disregarded. Pandemic austerity and vaccine nationalism were the primary themes of government responses, and have grave consequences for the working class and health of humanity.
Continue readingNorthern Currents : Should Leftists and Progressives trust Pfizer and Big Pharma?
The Left has always had a strong tradition of emphasizing the importance of science and empirical understanding of the world. Remember that foundational socialists such as Pierre-Joseph Proudhon, Karl Marx, and Friedrich Engels considered their approach to economics as “scientific socialism.” Marx himself admired the scientific advances made possible by
Continue readingNorthern Currents : Wake up Sheeple! How covid conspiracists miss the biggest ‘conspiracy’ of all.
What strikes me the most about the claims made by this coalition of covid-conspiracists, including anti-vaccine adherents, is just how close some of them are to understanding what is really going on. Some of them are actually on the brink of grasping broader left-wing ideas of class dynamics in society. Capitalism
Continue readingKersplebedeb: “Insurgent Supremacists” and the evolution of Trumpism – Matthew N. Lyons
Originally published on the Three Way Fight blog on January 21, 2021. Introduction—An analysis for this moment I finished the manuscript of Insurgent Supremacists: The U.S. Far Right’s Challenge to State and Empire in September 2017, a few weeks following the murderous Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville, Virginia. Now,
Continue readingKersplebedeb: It’s time for Hong Kong to reckon with its far-right (reposted from lausan.hk)
This article was translated by the wonderful Lausan collective. You can find it and many other articles offering “decolonial left perspectives on Hong Kong” here. It’s time for Hong Kong to reckon with its far-right That the 2019 movement fostered the rise of the far-right requires serious collective examination for
Continue readingNorthern Currents: It’s an American election dumpster fire: Canadians need to be vigilant too
Share this article: The American democratic experiment is stuck in gridlock. It has become clear that Joe Biden will be the next president with a lead of over 4 million votes. More importantly, Biden has passed the 270 electoral vote threshold needed to win. However, Trump-style politics are still in
Continue readingNorthern Currents: Conspiracy Theories and Conservatism: A Love Affair (Part 2)
Share this article: Daniel Collen Dan Collen is a freelance writer who covers fringe political movements and conspiracy theorists. Lately, he’s been writing about Canada’s growing anti-mask movement.Find Dan on Medium and Twitter dancollen.medium.com/ Read part one here. Suspending Your Beliefs is Partisan The way that I see it with
Continue readingNorthern Currents: Conspiracy Theories and Conservatism: A Love Affair (Part 1)
Share: Daniel Collen Dan Collen is a freelance writer who covers fringe political movements and conspiracy theorists. Lately, he’s been writing about Canada’s growing anti-mask movement.Find Dan on Medium and Twitter dancollen.medium.com/ From my childhood to today, I have always enjoyed a good conspiracy theory. Alternative theories about the moon
Continue readingNorthern Currents: Canadian Freedom and Anti-maskers. Covidiots just don’t get it.
Share this: In this land we call Canada, much has been made about citizens handing over certain freedoms in order to get ourselves out of the Covid-19 pandemic. When it comes to mask wearing, the science has already been settled. Wearing a mask is one important tool among many to
Continue readingWritings of J. Todd Ring: Who Are The CIA?
Who are the CIA? This will tell you everything you need to know. Here’s where things really started to go wrong: 1947, the National Security Act, which created the National Security Council and the CIA, giving the CIA sweeping, ultra-secretive, unconstitutional powers, and near limitless budget through the legalized, covert
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