Well the pandemic is over, at least according to most governments, science and medicine not so much. So now it is time to look back, and to look forward. Perhaps my biggest reflection is that governments, at least in Canada, did not receive the rational criticism for their failures that
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Politics and its Discontents: This Is One Part Of The Problem
The other, of course, is the love of the gun that indelibly stains America and which few are talking about in the aftermath of the Buffalo massacre. H/t Theo Moudakis Recommend this Post
Continue readingTHE FIFTH COLUMN: Much Ado About Truckers and Building a Canadian White Supremacist Fascist Movement
So what is going on with the truckers. They are calling it a protest. But it is not like any protest I have ever been involved in. Protests are designed to attempt to make change. While they may be aimed at getting governments to change their policies, gaining public support
Continue readingTHE FIFTH COLUMN: The Unspoken Privilege – English Privilege
We all know what White Privilege is but no one seems to speak about English Privilege. English privilege is simply the ability of English language speakers to get by practically anywhere in the world without learning another language. It brings with it a sense of entitlement. English speakers get annoyed
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: Repost: The Blood of Emmett Till
Almost two years ago I wrote a series of posts on racism, starting with the 1955 murder of Emmett Till, a 14-year-old Black boy horribly tortured before his death. Here is that post, and if you would like to read the entire series, you can click here From this tragedy
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: White Supremacy Flourishes When the Political Caste Start Flirting.
Max Boot has a lesson for all of us but especially for those who have developed a sudden fondness for Andrew Scheer. The American conservative writer warns it’s no longer acceptable for our political leaders and some media outlets to play under-the-table footsie with white nationalists and white supremacists. It’s
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Doug Ford and the White Supremacists
Well we know he's no mango Mussolini, no Great White Superman.Just a big fat old Dougie from Etobicoke, with delusions of grandeur.But we also know that Canada's white supremacists want Doug Ford to be their homegrown Fuhrer. We know that one of his PC candidates was caught in the act of
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Andrew Scheer and the Neo Nazi Invasion
As we all know, Andrew Scheer likes to claim that he's a godly man, with a "positive" message for Canadians, or Conadians.And not long ago he asked those Conadians what issues they would like him to focus on when Parliament returned. And although one might think that they had told him to focus on
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: Strong Evidence Of Trump’s Racism
The CBC’s Neil Macdonald has written a searing assessment of Donald Trump that leaves little doubt that the Americans elected a racist president. His starting pint is an interview conducted by the NYT of one Derek Black, a former white supremacist nurtured since childhood by a family that embraced racism;
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: Part 11 – Echoes Of History: 1955 And 2017
In Part 1, I discussed the murder of Emmett Till, the exoneration of his murderers, and the tactics used by the racists of 1955 Mississippi to try to discredit both the NAACP and the entire trial. Efforts went so far as to suggest Till had not been murdered at all
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: Echoes Of History: 1955 and 2017
From this tragedy large, diverse groups of people organized a movement that grew to transform a nation, not sufficiently but certainly meaningfully. What matters most is what we have and what we will do with what we do know. We must look at the facts squarely … The bloody and
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: Deciphering White Supremacists
The New York Times provides a very useful glossary of the terms favoured by white supremacists these days. Be sure to check it out. As well, the following video breaks down the symbols brandished by these hate-mongers, symbols that were much in evidence last week in Charlottesville. Recommend this Post
Continue readingTrashy's World: Whether the USA survives as one nation and not two or several…
…is anyone’s guess. I ain’t no psychic. So. Something I’ve been saying since Obama was elected and the right-wing vitriol fallout is that this was the beginning of the end of the United States of America. I hoped I was wrong but am increasingly thinking that I’m dead on. A
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: No, Mr. Trump, There Aren’t Two Sides
Although issues of justice and equity have concerned me throughout most of my life, as I move through my final decades I find matters becoming more, not less, pressing. Clearly, history is not on an upward trajectory, and as the saying goes, we can rest when we are dead. Like
Continue readingdaveberta.ca – Alberta Politics: Rebel Media becomes a wedge issue in the United Conservative Party leadership race
This weekend’s violent march of Nazis and white supremacists through the streets of Charlotteville, Virginia made international headlines and also had repercussions for the United Conservative Party leadership race in Alberta. Leadership candidate Doug Schweitzer, a Calgary lawyer who is trying to position himself as a social moderate in the
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Donald Trump and the Neo–Nazi Terrorists
Along with the religious fanatics they have always been Donald Trump's most loyal supporters.The ones who call themselves alt-rightists or white nationalists, but I call white supremacists and Neo-Nazis.Since their Gropenfuhrer was elected President they have become even more brazen, and don't even bother to wear masks or white hoods
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: The Shape Of Ideological Purges To Come?
History teaches us that when political ideologies mutate into forms of state religion, those who stand in opposition or refuse to ‘get with the program’ are targeted. Nazism, with its elevation of the Aryan race at the expense of all others, is one prime example. Those who didn’t conform were
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: Use Your Words
This, courtesy of our friends at Raw Story: Recommend this Post
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: UPDATED: Words Are Important
Thus political language has to consist largely of euphemism, question-begging and sheer cloudy vagueness. Defenceless villages are bombarded from the air, the inhabitants driven out into the countryside, the cattle machine-gunned, the huts set on fire with incendiary bullets: this is called pacification. Millions of peasants are robbed of their
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: How Can We Remain On The Sidelines?
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