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Dead Wild Roses: The Political Hate for Bernie Sanders – From Both Side of the Aisle
Systems, whether they be strictly social or political try to maintain a equilibrium, and to threaten that equilibrium results a great deal of unrest and turbulence as one of the first priorities of any system is the preservation of said system. The tenor of so many articles in the American
Continue readingCowichan Conversations: President Trumps Economy With Accuracy on Display
This is f*cking AWESOME!!! Turn up your speakers. Wait for the ending! pic.twitter.com/wG20LuQXYT — Jim From San Diego (@jimfromsd) February 5, 2020
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Two Possible Definitions of “Deep State”
Both exist. The interface between the public and private sectors of society need to be closely monitored, as the potential for nefarious ‘deep state’ activities is quite real. (Rebecca Gordon writing for Tom’s Dispatch writes) “McLaughlin told National Public Radio’s Greg Myre and Rachel Treisman that he had received
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Left?/Right? The Only Winner is the Washington Consensus
Rob Urie takes a good run at explaining some of the problems with the United States polity. The infusion/revolving door of money and politics means that society is being run for the benefit of tiny minority of people. They have two ‘choices’ in the electoral sense, but it does nothing
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Does Political Democracy flow From Economic Democracy?
Could this be a method to work within the system to change the system? This snippet from a Counterpunch article by Rob Urie is interesting because its hard to argue against the notion that sharing economic power *wouldn’t* be a benefit for a democratic society. Push-back for lightyears from those
Continue readingDented Blue Mercedes: On “Unalienable” Human Rights
Screen capture, launch of the Commission on Unalienable Rights On Monday, July 8th, the U.S. State Department announced the launch of a Commission on Unalienable Rights, which is intended to rethink and reshape how human rights laws are applied around the world. This Commission was deemed necessary to ensure that
Continue readingCowichan Conversations: Jon Stewart Calls Out Congress For Slashing Budget To Assist Responder Victims-VIDEO
Longtime host of the Daily Show, Jon Stewart delivers the truth to an out of touch Congress. His messaging is dead on the money. Perhaps we could bring him to Canada to speak to our Read more…
Continue readingScripturient: Stalin’s ghostly influence today
I recently finished reading the second volume of Stephen Kotkin’s magisterial biography of Josef Stalin: About 1,700 pages so far, with another 400 or so in small-type notes. Brilliant stuff, but a lot to absorb and consider. A bit of a slog if you’re not at least somewhat familiar with
Continue readingCowichan Conversations: Trump, Bolton Are Beating the Drums of War
It has been clear for well over a year that Trump is a pathological liar, a cheat, a sneak and an incomparable threat to not only the US but the rest of us as well. Read more…
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Damn the Torpedoes! – US Democrats Stopping Socialism in the US
Political theatre is interesting to observe. Not so much when the strongest nation on earth continues to dable with proto-fascist notions and leaders. The Democrats in the US will shortly (again) be showing their allegiance to the corporate interests that support them. Let’s hope they can’t obstruct Sanders this time
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The Town Hall on Fox Featuring Bernie Sanders
In the second part, start at 10:05 for that, if Bernie actually means this, then he should be the next President of the United States. If he has an actual commitment to justice, and this isn’t just rhetoric… this may indeed be me looking to the east by light of
Continue readingCowichan Conversations: Assange Arrest-‘Now He Is Our Property’
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Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Venezuela and the American Body Politic
American foreign policy seems to be carefully insulated from the majority of the American population. I’m thinking that, outside the respective frenzied political bases, the general populace has little or no taste for international misadventures and the inevitable blowback that accompanies imperial meddling in the affairs of other states. Yet
Continue readingScripturient: Goodbye, Information Age
“Say goodbye to the information age: it’s all about reputation now,” is the headline of an article by Italian philosopher and professor Gloria Origgi, published recently on Aeon Magazine’s website. She writes: …the vastly increased access to information and knowledge we have today does not empower us or make us
Continue readingScripturient: America’s time machine
We meet in the midst of a nation brought to the verge of moral, political, and material ruin… our homes are covered with mortgages, labor impoverished; and the land concentrating in the hands of the capitalists… The fruits of toil of millions are boldly stolen to build up colossal fortunes
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Learning the Power of Lies – Arnold Isaacs
What’s going on in the US is chilling by nature. The democratic underpinnings of their society are being being eroded at frightening rate as misinformation, lies, and propaganda replace the space once reserved for reasonable public discourse. This process of disintegration isn’t new, but is hastened by the current
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: A Common Sense, Progressive, Pragmatic Approach…
This excerpt is from counterpunch article reviewing Michael Moore’s new film. I think the reviewer rightly tagged it, along with all the rest of the comedy late night satirists as (I’m paraphrasing now) just more furious fiddling while Rome continues to burn. It appears that the US Democratic party are
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Trump’s “Infrastructure” Plan Pump Up the Pentagon By William D. Hartung
Why would rational people choose the least efficient method of priming the economic pump? I’m sure it has much to do with making the the correct people and factions in society benefit from the policies put in place. The notion of the ‘public good’ seems almost a quaint notion in
Continue readingTattered Sleeve: Every Canadian should read Bob Rae’s column in the Walrus
It is all about Canada-USA relations, and in particular, this uncomforting reality: “It’s time we understood just how far apart our two countries are and act accordingly” The whole text is here. Interestingly, it comes just hours after the publication of this warning for the EU from the Guardian:EU must
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