Miscellaneous material to start your week. – Aaron Wherry discusses the deadly-serious consequences of climate denialism which is driven by frivolous rhetoric. And Andre Mayer points out the numerous ways in which the climate breakdown is actually responsible for the increased cost of living which is being used as an
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Accidental Deliberations: Friday Afternoon Links
Assorted content to end your week. – Oshan Jarow discusses Sapien Labs’ work measuring mental health levels around the globe – and the resulting conclusion that “conveniences” including smartphones and ultra-processed foods may contribute to a lower level of mental wellness. And Michelle Gamage writes about the plummeting life expectancy of
Continue readingWritings of J. Todd Ring: Greenwash, Lithium & Eco-Fascism
Proved: Greenwash Is Ecoterrorism, Eco-Fascism – and High-Tech, Neo-Feudal “Green” Imperialism Indigenous cultures in the “lithium triangle” of Chile, Argentina and Bolivia are being robbed, subjugated, poisoned and plundered, to make Teslas and cell phones. Corporate-state violence is the continuing norm, in response. Welcome to “Green” Imperialism. Cell phones, tablets,
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Friday Morning Links
Assorted content to end your week. – Sigal Samuel discusses the potential to better target investments toward well-being – though it seems odd to criticize measures of health as a standard alongside GDP. And Cory Doctorow writes about Deb Chachra’s observation that we should view infrastructure as a form of
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Assorted content to end your week. – Beth Blauer writes about the continuing need for accurate and timely data about COVID-19 as it represent an ongoing threat. And Rachel Bergmans et al. examine the impact of long COVID on Black Americans in particular, while pointing out a few ways to make
Continue readingA Puff of Absurdity: Social Darwinism and "Useless Eaters"
Some people are arguing that the removal of mask mandates in hospitals is a form of eugenics. Tamara Taggart, President of Down Syndrome BC, said on “This is Vancolour,” “This is eugenics, like 100%. So now we don’t care about people. . . . All those people are expensive. I
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Monday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material to start your week. – Trevor Hancock discusses the need to treat the economy as a means to human well-being, rather than an end worth sacrificing our health and our living environment. – Henry Killworth writes about new research confirming that the lost sense of smell arising out
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Sunday Morning Links
This and that for your Sunday reading. – Kenyon Wallace writes that the only reason we’re not observing large COVID waves is that we’ve been pushed to accept a perpetual high tide – with all the avoidable illness and death which comes with that. And Bill Hathaway discusses new research
Continue readingIN-SIGHTS: Hollow words, and deep down we know it
When people gather, it is common to hear acknowledgements that the group is meeting on unceded traditional territories of Indigenous people who have populated western Canada for roughly 14,000 years. The announcements make me uncomfortable. They are hollow words and deep down we know it…
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Thursday Morning Links
This and that for your Thursday reading. – Katie Camero discusses how the belief that the COVID-19 pandemic is over (pushed by businesses and politicians eager to avoid responsibility for anybody’s health) is creating avoidable dangers for everybody. Sydney Stein et al. study the persistence and dispersal of COVID in
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Truth & Reconciliation Day Links
Some material for learning and reflection on the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation. – The Truth and Reconciliation Commission’s Calls to Action can be found here, And Peter Zimonjic reports on the limited progress that’s been made in giving effect to them. – The reports and calls for justice
Continue readingKersplebedeb: Leonard Peltier Shares His Indian Boarding School Story [NativeNewsOnline.net]
Leonard Peltier and his sister, Betty Ann, circa 1950 before they were forcibly removed from the home of their grandmother and sent to the Wahpeton Indian School, an Indian boarding school in North Dakota run by the Bureau of Indian Affairs. [This article is mirrored from NativeNewsOnline.net.] Leonard Peltier June
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Sunday Afternoon Links
This and that for your Sunday reading. – Beatrice Adler-Bolton discusses how the U.S.’ debate over the most basic of COVID-19 protections reflects fundamental choices as to whether people should have even the slightest respect for each others’ health and well-being. Glen Pearson notes that a (however unjustifiable) willingness to
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Tuesday Morning Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading. – Mustafa Hirji discusses how basic public health protections offer the best chance of controlling the spiraling harms from COVID-19 without resorting to lockdowns. Andrew Woo writes that the elimination of regular testing and reporting at the provincial level is making it impossible
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Saturday Afternoon Links
Assorted content for your weekend reading. – William Haseltine writes about the long-lasting and severe cognitive effects of long COVID, while Danny Altmann discusses the urgency of developing effective treatment given the reality that vaccines do little to prevent it. Katherine Wu warns that the U.S. is rapidly losing any
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: #SKNDPLDR22 – The Race is On
I’ve previously noted the danger that the Saskatchewan NDP’s leadership campaign – however unnecessary it should have been to begin with – might be particularly damaging to the party if it failed to produce some meaningful challenge to Carla Beck as the first entrant and front-runner. From that standpoint, it’s
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Thursday Morning Links
This and that for your Thursday reading. – Jacques Poitras talks to some of the at-risk people whose freedom will be undermined by the scrapping of public health protections. Phil Tank calls out Scott Moe for refusing to report on child COVID deaths (among other essential information even from the standpoint
Continue readingIN-SIGHTS: Neoliberalism, racism, assimilation
SFU Assistant Professor Kyle Willmott finds neoliberalism behind calls for assimilation and the rewriting of history to elevate racist abuses to “remarkable works” and “good deeds.” Dr. Willmott identifies the Canadian Taxpayer Federation (CTF) as a contributing organization amplified by unjournalistic media that uses cookie-cutter stories from groups with hidden
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Wednesday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – Emma Farge and Mrinalika Roy report on the World Health Organization’s warning that it’s dangerous to act like the COVID pandemic is over. Davide Mastracci observes that governments who have been willing to bother protecting citizens against substantial community spread have been successful even
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Monday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material to start your week. – Katharine Wu examines how the effect of immunity is just one more area where people are seeing profoundly unequal results of the COVID pandemic – with a disproportionate burden being placed on those who were already facing disadvantages. Lauren Pelley reports on the
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