controversies
It seems every time one racially-charged incident ends, a gender or religious controversy takes its place; Ruminate on the issues dividing our nation and world.
Voting Responsibly Improves Our Nation
The 2020 Presidential election yielded so much chaos partially because the last 21 years of elections are often split almost 50/50. Only local elections take place this year, but those are the elections that affect us the most. The US Congress and Senate races start next year. We can have a greater say by voting in our state primaries too.
By Eileen Davis5 years ago in The Swamp
Myanmar Coup: Trouble for the World
The very first question that comes to my mind after reading about the Myanmar crisis is how can something this big be ignored by the world? And so let's talk about it and find what all is being done and what else needs to be taken care of.
By The Hundredth Monkey5 years ago in The Swamp
Julian Assange: A Widely Discussed And Criticized Name
WikiLeaks is a website that publishes a variety of unpublished and confidential documents worldwide. They first made their debut in 2006 and have been working on it ever since. At various times they have become the focus of discussion by releasing many sensational secret documents to the public. They have leaked thousands of secret documents about the war, the movie industry, and many more. WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has always led the organization from the front. The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) once planned to assassinate him. The news was published by 'The Guardian'.
By Mehedi Hasan Shawon5 years ago in The Swamp
Lost In America
Not to be confused with UPS, the USPS (United States Postal Service), has been in the business of collecting, sorting, and delivering America's mail for almost two centuries. As a federally regulated service, the USPS has been responsible for people-- no matter where in the country they may live or how far out of reach they may seem-- getting their mail. And for quite a number of years out of that time, they've been a reliable service that could be depended upon to do the job. Recently however, things have changed.
By Zane Larkin5 years ago in The Swamp
Where have all the workers gone?
You may have noticed that somehow every business in existence is severely short staffed. The effects are everywhere. Shops are reducing their operating hours. Fast food joints are running on drive through only. Deliveries are delayed and shelves go empty as bottlenecks accumulate in manufacturing. Many observers blamed generous unemployment benefits for labor shortages. Calls to slash unemployment rang out--that would force the bums back to work. However, savvy commentators predicted that taking money away from the working class was unlikely to improve the economy. And indeed, after bonuses to unemployment benefits ended the status of the labor market didn’t budge at all.
By Buck Hardcastle5 years ago in The Swamp
Do Vaccine Passports Really Violate Your Rights?
Over the past year, we have seen an extremely vocal minority speaking out against masks and vaccine requirements, and this has increased massively in the past week here in Canada with the introduction of vaccine certificates.
By Sahir Dhalla5 years ago in The Swamp
General Milley Crosses the Rubicon
On the 10th of January, 49 BC, Gaius Julius Caesar crossed the Rubicon River with the army he had led to victory in Gaul. Facing a campaign of politically motivated prosecution in the Roman Senate, Caesar’s choices were bad and worse.
By Grant Patterson5 years ago in The Swamp
Portrait of the Artist as a Cancelled Man
A recent news story reported that Bob Dylan, one of my favourite artists, had been accused of grooming an underage girl in the 1960s. This took place shortly after I bought a big framed portrait of him for the wall of my new flat, and reopened a thought process that lots of people go through, I imagine, especially in this so-called "cancel culture" age. And that thought process is, essentially, can you continue to enjoy art made by a troubling artist?
By Matty Long5 years ago in The Swamp
The Racial Line and its Inhabitants
Religion in the Americas can hardly be separated from the concept of race since they are two of the pillars of the post-colonial societies created onto these lands. Anti-Blackness specifically as a long history in the United States and those beliefs were laced into Christian religions as well as in the tropes created to embody those racist myths about Black people. This essay will look at the ways the line between Blackness and Whiteness was handled by some religious denominations as well as by the justice system, giving a special attention to how the trope of The Tragic Mulatt* falls into it, considering mixed race bodies fall onto this line. Finally, I will also make links between the trope and certain religious groups.
By Allie Pauld5 years ago in The Swamp
