Halal Certification Uproar: The Muslim Scapegoat as National Safety Valve
Debney, B. (2019). Halal Certification Uproar: The Muslim Scapegoat as National Safety Valve. In C. M. Hall, The Routledge Handbook…
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Crisis-Afflicted Humanity is like an Alzheimer’s Patient Lost in the Forest
Originally published on Counterpunch. A couple of very useful quotes are attributed to Einstein. The first is his definition of…
Christchurch, the White Victim Complex and Savage Capitalism
The Christchurch atrocity is a result of the scapegoating dynamic of savage capitalism, built on a white victim complex refusing…
The role of the left in the rise of far-right populism
If Trump exemplifies the use of scapegoats by the far right for the destruction of the country by the pursuit…
Leave None Behind LP
Released this one in 2018 and totally forgot to post about it anywhere at the time.
Trump and Ur-Fascism
Trump-style populism has made a strategy out of substituting superficial charm and emotional appears to fear of the Other for…
Freedom will be won through freedom, or not at all
The presidential campaign of Bernie Sanders has been sold as a political revolution; the hyperbole characteristic of such claims notwithstanding,…
Crisis, collapse and collective survival
According to a NASA-sponsored study released last year, the collapse of the global economy is likely within the next decade…
Adolf Hitler: A Political Archetype of the Dunning-Kruger Effect
Where textbook examples of propaganda, political manipulation, megalomania and control freakery is concerned, Adolf Hitler, leader of the National Socialist…
A Critique of Competitive Individualism
The self-made man or woman as business success story has long been the motivating ideal of free market capitalism and…