To which we append this excerpt from a cogent essay by Joseph Cirincione in the journal Responsible Statecraft:
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Category Archives: riptides
Like An Acid
Now come a few trenchant excerpts from a recent interview with Rob Wallace, an evolutionary biologist and public health phylogeographer presently visiting the Institute for Global Studies at the University of Minnesota.
He is author of Big Farms Make Big Flu and the soon to be published Revolution Space, both with Monthly Review Press. Wallace also co-authored Neoliberal Ebola: Modeling Disease Emergence from Finance to Forest and Farm, and Clear-Cutting Disease Control: Capital-Led Deforestation, Public Health Austerity, and Vector-Borne Infection.
Images added by DP.
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Fairy Creek
This week, we return again to the blockade at Fairy Creek via the voice of indigenous forest protector Kati George-Jim, interviewed yesterday on Democracy Now. Transcribed excerpts below.
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Below, a recent video missive from Fairy Creek, as relayed from a DP correspondent.
Lost Fragments of Soul
In an editorial opening the recent “animals” issue of The Ecological Citizen, Eileen Crist underscores the heavy price we pay when we obscure our animal selves, and abuse our animal kin. We cannot address climate emergency without confronting the dominant ethos of human supremacism, and its dense understory of “petty mind-games.” Excerpts below, with images added by DP.
In That Last Gasp
Now comes Jennifer Lucy Allan with an excerpt from her recently published book, Foghorn’s Lament, brought to our attention by a DP correspondent.
The images are self-explanatory, the second linking to a video documenting the “true aural obliteration” of the horn. Given the apparent impenetrability of our cognitive, emotional & spiritual fog in the midst of the Sixth Extinction, we offer this as an emblematic sound for our times.
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Love For This Oasis
One of the key tidal observations throughout our DP voyages has been, simply put, that we cannot change what we do not truthfully understand.
For example: reconciliation regarding the historical experience of American slavery is impossible without coming to grips with how that history lives on in the present through densely interwoven manifestations of white supremacy, with the carceral state at its center.
Now comes the ever-lucid Eileen Crist, with thoughts on a different though related variant of subjugation, not within a single species but rather between one particularly invasive species (homo sapiens) and the rest of life on Mother Earth.
Excerpts from a recent interview below, with images relayed from the website of Joseph Wheelwright.
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Note: The entire excellent interview from within the pages of The Sun Magazine (not the tabloid, mind!) is worthy of close consideration. The magazine has generously dropped its pay wall during Covidzeit, yet relies entirely on reader support. We highly recommend trial perusal, and then subscription.
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Regimes of Racist Terror
Amidst the cacophony of a malignant regime finally exposing its white supremacist core, we bend an ear to professor Manisha Sinha, historian of slavery, abolition, Civil War and Reconstruction and the author of The Slave’s Cause and The Counterrevolution of Slavery.
Excerpts from a recent interview below; caption to the image added by DP.
THE DAY MAGALAND DISPLAYED ITS TRUE COLORS
During the largely peaceful BLM protests, Trump declared that anyone damaging federal property would be charged with felony riot and face the possibility of ten years in prison.
Let us see what punishment shall be deemed appropriate for the racist & deluded berserkers who ransacked the capitol, and for those who incited and praised them as “patriots”. Of all the lies spewed forth from the twisted MAGA delusion machine, surely that is the most repugnant – yet.
We close with the glorious voices of the Resistance Chorus, with luminous Rhiannon Giddens in the mix:
BOUND TO LOSE
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In Thrall to the Lie
Now comes Hegel scholar and political philosopher Alexander Kojève, writing in 1943. We dare say the “records” to which he alludes in the second paragraph have surely been not just broken but shattered during the relentlessly mendacious Trump years, most notably (and dangerously) in the abundance of bunkum saturating the vast & delusional MAGA zone in the aftermath of recent elections.
The entire essay is worth your consideration; excerpts below, with a couple of emblematic images.
THE GREATEST LEADER EVER & FOREVER & A DAY UNTIL DEATH DO US PART AMEN
AND HIS MOST TRUSTED LEGAL ADVISOR
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Imagination and Emergency
What can art do in the face of the unfolding climate crisis? This simple question haunts the editorial offices of DP like an angry ancestor.
James Berger, author of the excellent After the End, offers a few helpful insights in an interview that first appeared a month or so before Covid 19; we relay a reprise below, with images from the now dismantled Banksy Dismaland.
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FB = Fried Bananas
OK, now that we have your full attention: surely the time has come, for the thousandth time, to delete your Facebook account.
Listing the reasons would consume a year’s worth of DP, yet we are grateful to a DP correspondent for alerting us to a powerfully concise summary in the Opinion pages of the NYT, written by the ever-lucid Jamelle Bouie.
Excerpts below, with images and captions added by DP.
FROM THE RED PILL TO THE RED BUTTON
FAREWELL TO THE ZUCKED THUMB
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