Disability activist Imani Barbarin made an important connection between Covid precautions and genocide. In this Tiktok video she explains why “It’s wild that people think they can support Palestinians as they’re being disabled without disability justice”: @crutches_and_spice De@th does not follow disabled people, nondisabled people carry it with them to
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Politics and its Discontents: The Language Of Genocide
“Political language is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind. ” ― George Orwell It is very easy, in the majority of cases, to become quickly inured to the world’s suffering. Whether it be earthquakes and crime in
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: “They Want Them to Burn Again” – C. Cuomo – A Clarifying Monologue
” But it is overwhelming that Hamas wanted War. This was not the irrepressible angst of the desperate. Who want freedom? Who want better? Nor certainly want anything approximating peace. They wanted the Jews to know that they want them to burn… again.”
Continue readingTHE FIFTH COLUMN: Is There Hope For Palestine
I wrote this in November 2007 on the hope for a solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict: The solution essentially comes down to understanding the most and least that each side can accept. We could argue forever whether the State of Israel should have been created the way it was but,
Continue readingWritings of J. Todd Ring: Greenwash & Eco-Fascism
Climate change is real, but the WEF billionaire-run, corporate-fascist oligarchy is not the saviour of humanity or the Earth – they are the principle devourers of both. We need to be perfectly clear on that. We do need a Green New Deal, but one that promotes, defends and strengthens freedom,
Continue readingA Puff of Absurdity: The System of Ableism Can Be Weaponized Against Anyone
Imani Barbarin is a wealth of information and so funny! If you’re new new to TikTok, and you think it’s all just dumb trends like eating Tide pods, Crutches & Spice is a great starting place to remove that bias against the younger forms of social media. Like any social media, it’s only
Continue readingTHE FIFTH COLUMN: How Should We Judge Historical Figures
Should historical figures be judged by the best things they have done or the worst. Should they be judged by the standards of today or of their time. Should some things like slavery or genocide be considered evil no matter when they may have occurred. These are legitimate questions to
Continue readingAlberta Politics: The appalling discovery in Kamloops is irrefutable evidence of a crime against humanity
The appalling discovery of the bodies of 215 Indigenous children hidden in unmarked graves at the site of the Residential School in Kamloops, B.C., is irrefutable evidence of a crime against humanity. The Tk’emlúps te Secwépemc Band confirmed Thursday that ground-penetrating radar had detected the remains of the children on
Continue readingKersplebedeb: Dr. Samir Shaheen-Hussain: A history of Canada’s medical colonialism against Indigenous people and why it needs to be recognized as genocide
This op-ed by Dr. Samir Shaheen-Hussain, author of Fighting for a Hand to Hold: Confronting Medical Colonialism against Indigenous Children in Canada, was originally published in the Toronto Star on May 5, 2021. On April 1 — a month our Canadian government recognizes as Genocide Remembrance, Condemnation and Prevention Month
Continue readingWritings of J. Todd Ring: Genocide Ahead
I don’t enjoy bringing bad news, but I feel a duty to help others, and to protect them when I can, which includes warning them of danger, as well as pointing out the ways to better health, happiness, freedom, peace and joy, and a better world for all. The signs
Continue readingWritings of J. Todd Ring: Work and Workaholism: Puritanism, and A Day Off
This morning when I got up, feeling exhausted again from the on-going 30-year stint of sleeplessness and insomnia, I thought, I should take a day off – considering I pretty much never take a day off. (Some people imagine that writers and philosophers sit around all day staring at their
Continue readingCowichan Conversations: Murray Sinclair has tried for years to shock Canada into confronting colonialism. He’s not done yet
ILLUSTRATION BY AGATA NOWICKA Originally published by the Globe and Mail By GEOFFREY YORK PUBLISHED DECEMBER 23, 2019 After leading landmark inquiries on racism in Manitoba, residential schools and police discrimination Read more…
Continue readingWarren Kinsella: My latest: it isn’t genocide
Genocide is one of those words that one does not toss about, like confetti. One does not treat “genocide” like it has no meaning. It has a very specific meaning. Justin Trudeau knows it is a serious word, because of what he has said in the recent past. He knows
Continue readingWarren Kinsella: My latest: when Trudeau calls it genocide
Genocide. That’s what the Prime Minister of Canada says Canada is guilty of — the crime of crimes. That’s what the United Nations International Criminal Tribunal called it, too, when passing judgment on Jean Kambanda, who oversaw the slaughter of more than 800,000 Tutsi and Hutu civilians in Rwanda in
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: Sacrificing Isaac
Yesterday’s post dealt with the fact that climate change has thus far resulted in Canada warming twice as fast as the rest of the world; of course, much worse is to come. Today’s post deals with the group who will be most devastated by the catastrophe now enfolding the world:
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Faint Hope – The Moral Resistor
In Defying Hitler, Sebastion Haffner’s disturbing 1939 memoir chronicling the rise of Nazism, the author, a law candidate, describes the insidious day-to-day changes in attitudes, beliefs, politics, and prejudices that began, for Germans, the slow descent into a “trap of comradeship” in which this culture of cruelty flourished as many
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The DWR Quote of the Day – Do I have to do teshuvah?
Barbara Coloroso has done exemplary work in writing “Extraordinary Evil – A Brief History of Genocide”. Second time around on this book, now going low and slow to really get down with the text and understand what she is saying. I wanted to share some of the passages that resonated
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Syndrome “E” – The Neuroscience of Evil
Why do people do evil actions? How does one get from being an ordinary citizen to someone who oversees the genocide of their neighbours? What are the psychological states that premeditate acts of violence on the personal and societal level? Noga Arikha is a historian who has looked into
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Denying History – How Many Times Will the Dead Have to Die? – Robert Fisk
The Armenian genocide of 1915 happened. Where you happen to live in the world determines if you would argue against the truth of this statement. Robert Fisk, as usual, takes our past grim accounts and makes us see our blood stained history. “The Nazis told their Jewish victims that they were
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