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by Kenn Orphan
Writer, Dandelion Salad
Halifax, Nova Scotia
March 11, 2023
With the recent spate of vicious attacks on drag performers and drag shows, I’ve been thinking a lot about a brilliant quote by the late Ram Dass: “Treat everyone you meet as if they were God in drag.” And I think it gets to the heart of this manufactured controversy.
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with Ralph Nader and Chris Hedges
Ralph Nader Radio Hour on Feb 11, 2023
Ralph welcomes Dr. Nason Maani, co-editor of “The Commercial Determinants of Health,” to explore the larger forces, forces beyond the power of an individual to control, that shape our environment and therefore our health.
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with Chris Hedges and Paul Street
TheRealNews on Sep 9, 2022
What are we to make of a Democratic Party that has embraces an election strategy that includes demobilizing the majority working-class non-Republican electorate; legitimizing right-wing agendas and narratives; seeks bipartisan cooperation with right-wing politicians such as Liz Cheney; refuses to attack archaic minority rule institutions including the Electoral College and the Senate filibuster; repeatedly backs down from hauling Donald Trump into court and funds far-right Republican candidates in this year’s primary elections, repeating the disastrous Hillary Clinton campaign’s “Pied Piper” ploy of promoting the supposedly “more beatable” Trump in the 2016 Republican presidential primaries?
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by Kenn Orphan
Writer, Dandelion Salad
Halifax, Nova Scotia
December 14, 2021
“Puritanism has made life itself impossible. More than art, more than estheticism, life represents beauty in a thousand variations; it is indeed, a gigantic panorama of eternal change. Puritanism, on the other hand, rests on a fixed and immovable conception of life; it is based on the Calvinistic idea that life is a curse, imposed upon man by the wrath of God. In order to redeem himself man must do constant penance, must repudiate every natural and healthy impulse, and turn his back on joy and beauty.” — Emma Goldman
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by Kenn Orphan
Writer, Dandelion Salad
Halifax, Nova Scotia
December 9, 2021
How anyone could believe that “left woke fascism” is actually a thing is staggering. But I have encountered this line of thinking many more times than I am comfortable with lately, primarily among Americans. Sadly, it has become very fashionable in some corners on the internet to bemoan and decry the supposed scourge of leftist “wokeness” and to equate it with the real menace of far-right authoritarianism, violence and brutality. It is a myth that has gained alarming traction.
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by Kenn Orphan
Writer, Dandelion Salad
Halifax, Nova Scotia
August 9, 2021
“I am human, and I think nothing of which is human is alien to me.” — Publius Terentius Afer, Roman playwright (195/185 – c. 159 BC)
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with Abby Martin
Empire Files on May 7, 2021
Abby Martin explains what’s behind the cringe “Humans of CIA” recruitment ad promoting themselves as a place of ‘intersectional’ social progress.
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