Finding one’s identity and purpose can be mystifying, especially for the the poor and displaced. Tom LaBlanc, aka Strong Buffalo didn’t know he was Indigenous until he sneaked a peek at a document on his social worker’s desk when he was 15. Until then, the only clue about his identity came from the grandmother of […]
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At the outset I must declare that I am an anti-racist Jewish Australian scientist and humanitarian writer with a sole allegiance to Australia. Coming from a famous Jewish Hungarian family near-eradicated from Hungary by the WW2 Jewish Holocaust, I am inescapably bound by the key moral imperatives from that catastrophe, to whit “zero tolerance for […]
Last month, to mark one year since the death of a female icon, Ruth Bader Ginsberg, the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) shit all over her memory with a misogynist tweet (below). The once-revered ACLU has become so #woke that they now ban words like “women” and “she” and “her” in the name of virtue […]
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I watched Jordan Peele’s Candyman last Thursday night, and it freaked me out. Especially as a Texan. Can acts of injustice curse a place? Can acts of monstrosity—as Peele et al. suggest—stain a community? A quasi-sequel to the 1992 film of the same name, Candyman explores the affirmative answer to these questions. And that’s what […]
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There seems to be a glaring illogic to official arguments about the need to vaccinate British children against Covid that no one in the corporate media wishes to highlight. Days ago the British government’s experts on vaccinations, the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation, withstood strong political pressure and decided not to recommend vaccinating children […]
The race-baiting wave of 2020-2021 took a slightly unusual turn over the weekend when a Los Angeles Times opinion writer named Erika D. Smith published two pieces about the California recall gubernatorial candidate Larry Elder. She leads off her articles with these headlines: Larry Elder draws fire for N-word comedy clip Column: Larry Elder is the […]
Once upon a time Nationalism was an ideology reserved for extremists, but in recent years it has moved from the irrelevant fractious fringes to become a central movement in western politics. Rooted in fear, it feeds on tribal instincts and has become mainstream by offering oversimplified explanations to complex problems, such as poverty and immigration. […]
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Demonizing Durban [Prefatory Note: The post below describes the campaign carried on over the last 20 years by pro-Israeli propaganda, both government and NGO, to defame the UN dedicated anti-racist efforts as a new species of antisemitism. It is a perverse effort that shields Israel’s racist policies and practices toward the Palestinian people behind a […]
Victim narratives were discussed here a year ago this month; everybody has one, including you, even if you think you don’t. A victim narrative is a way of telling your story, the story of your family, your nation, etc, as always being held down. Everybody is to blame except you. The opposite of a victim […]
We were told this would happen. In fact, we were told many times, by the likes of no one less than Jesus Christ himself, but this quote gives a lot of detail since it was later stated, during the fourth century of the Christian era: A monk once asked Abba Pambo, “Is it true, Abba, […]
