As the cheery title of the post suggests we can see the one universal maxim that all of humanity can get behind in action – “greed is good”. “Trafficking, forced labour and modern slavery are big business generating profits estimated at $150 billion a year, the UN labour agency said
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Dead Wild Roses: Vietnam Tone Prose – Quiet Time by Marc Levy
Quiet Time, by Marc Levy. “Imagine this: after a blistering hot day marching up and down mud slicked hills, or tramping wide open fields, or steamy jungle, imagine setting out booby traps on enemy trails, laying in wait, then ever so carefully, breaking them down. At dusk, after planting
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The US military is a Toxic Convoluted Ouroboros
William Astore writing for Tom’s Dispatch. “I first came across the phrase “using a sledgehammer to kill gnats” while looking at the history of U.S. airpower during the Vietnam War. B-52 “Arc Light” raids dropped record tons of bombs on parts of South Vietnam and Laos
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The Violence of Transactivists – Feminists Injured in Speakers Corner (Hyde Park UK)
This story courtesy of Meghan Murphy writing on The Feminist Current. This story highlights exactly the narrative of what the business end of transactivism is – male violence against women. There is nothing ‘progressive’, ‘inclusive’, or any other lefty bullshit word appropriated by the transactivists that apply here. This is
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: Cloak and Mirrors – Who are We Fighting?
CJ Hopkins writes a polemic about one of the themes that crops up in leftist literature. The elite, who are our real enemies (of the common people) will employ just about any set of tactics to keep the populace engaged in harmless activity. Bread and circuses if you will. Yet,
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: ‘Fire and Fury’ – The Korean Peninsula – Helpful Facts
Why looking at non-North American news feeds is important. This little tidbit by Pepe Escobar cropped up on Counterpunch, but the article is all over the place in the Eastern media. “But this is extremely serious. A China-North Korea mutual defense treaty has been in effect since 1961. Under this
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Malala Yousafzai – Demanding Your Rights While Female is Dangerous
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Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Cold War Latin America, The ‘Gulag’ of the United States – John W. Dower
The crimes humans commit against each other have numerous justifications and rationalizations, to most of us in North America, we hear more about the atrocities of our enemies, that we do of the ones we commit in our name. John Dower examines the Cold War period in history and concludes
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: What is to be done? – The de-sovietization of America – William Astore
The conclusion of an essay written by William Astore featured on Tom’s Dispatch. As a member of the minority left, one of the questions frequently asked of us is well then what is your solution to the problems – criticizing is one thing actually putting forward a plan is quite
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Venezuela – In Political, Social, and Economic Crisis
The situation in Venezuela is grim. When conditions take a turn for the worse those on the bottom of the social hierarchy feel it the worse, and of course those are almost always females. I read in the Globe and Mail about Carmen Tovar and her now deceased daughter
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Break the Social Contract – Break the State, and the People.
This excerpt features Dr. Gus Abu-Sitta and Andre Vltchek discussing the Ecology of war and its effects on people living in war conditions. One of their digressions from the main topic was the idea that sanctions, and other Western initiatives are designed to denude the State of its non-coercive powers
Continue readingAlberta Politics: Russia seeks international arrest warrant for former Ukraine PM, reported to now hold Canadian citizenship
PHOTOS: Arseniy Yatsenyuk, former prime minister of Ukraine, with then Canadian prime minister Stephen Harper in July 2015. (Screen capture of CBC news broadcast.) Below: Alberta Conservative Leader Jason Kenney, federal Conservative leadership candidate Chris Alexander (Wikimedia Commons) and Foreign Affairs Minister Chrystia Freeland, all of whom figure in this
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Making America Insecure Again – Rajan Menon
The plan at the base of Trumerica is this. Blame all woes on the other and then feed the 1% and military industrial complex money to solve problems they have no business trying to solve. Menon summarizes the current administration quite succinctly: “Trump also seems determined to stay the course
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The Middle East – America’s Vietnam?
The United States has placed, and continues to place a great deal of geopolitical importance on the Middle East. The problem is that, as the record shows, everything they touch turns to ash or is reborn as a even greater threat to America and American interests world wide. Recent
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: El Salvador – Bans Mining!
“Oxfam hailed today’s passing of a law banning metallic mining by the Salvadoran government. The law comes after years of violence and social tensions around mining in the country and strong opposition to mining from local communities, civil society organizations, the Catholic Church and more than 77% of the country’s
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Brazil Having it Own ‘The Jungle’ Moment – Capitalist Meatpacking Woes
“They use everything about the hog except the squeal.” ― Upton Sinclair, The Jungle Driving into work today I listened to a story about how many large countries of the world had recently banned imports of Brazilian beef and chicken into their countries. Reports from a whistle-blower about cardboard being
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Tom Engelhardt – Government Reformation – But not the good kind.
The Supreme Court’s Citizen’s United decision reverberates strongly in my consciousness when I read articles like this one from Tom’s Dispatch. I am still at a loss as how to compute the base equation of $ = Free Speech, because, well… it doesn’t. Certainly money grants access, but it begets
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: US EPA Czar – Scott Pruitt – Evidence Suggests His Brain is Made of Shit
I’m not sure why people are having such problems dealing with factual reality. Whether it be the gender-queer crowd and their patented ability not to understand that sex and gender are not the same thing or here today with this story about the head of the EPA not accepting the
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: My New Favourite Journalist – Caitlin Johnstone
Much has happened in the world in the past few months. Especially since November 8, when the “left” or the “progressives” in the USA and indeed the world have been crapping their pants about some orange skinned person with homunculus like hands winning the seat of most powerful person in
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