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Review: Ronald Beiner’s Dangerous Minds: Nietzsche, Heidegger, and the Return of the Far Right – Merion West

Posted: July 21, 2020 at 12:28 pm

During the past few years before, I had struggled withand then firmly said goodbye tothe Catholicism of my upbringing, and I was searching for a new philosophy of meaning that did not seem to depend on so many leaps of faith.

Introduction

When I was in the second year of my undergraduate degree, I was utterly enamored with the German philosopher Martin Heidegger. It would not be overstating it to say I thought he was the greatest philosopher in history (not that I had read that many then!). Perhaps the timing in my own life contributed. During the past few years before, I had struggled withand then firmly said goodbye tothe Catholicism of my upbringing, and I was searching for a new philosophy of meaning that did not seem to depend on so many leaps of faith. Heideggerand, to a lesser extent, Friedrich Nietzscheseemed to promise just that. In their philosophies was thinking that directly and consistently spoke about Being, existence, nihilism, and many of the other big spiritual questions that consumed me. At the same time, my formal studies were dedicated to human rights law and cosmopolitanism, much of it inspired by the horrors of the Holocaust, which had liquidated millions of Jews, LGBTQ persons, Roma, and others. So imagine my horror upon discovering that two of my intellectual heroes were so closely aligned with the Nazi movement; worse, Heidegger had actually joined the Nazi Party and had insisted others do the same. Needless to say, I took considerable comfort from authors such as Hannah Arendt and Jacques Derrida, who insisted that there was no need to let this association cloud ones appreciation for Heidegger as a philosopher. One simply needed to detach the treasure trove of philosophical riches from the nasty politics, which were not that important anyways.

Ronald Beiners excellent, recent book Dangerous Minds: Nietzsche, Heidegger, and the Return of the Far Right would no doubt have been a disappointment to my younger self, who was determined to insulate his intellectual heroes from reprisal. Beiner insists that we need to take the problems of Nietzsche and Heideggers politics far more seriously than we typically do. This is particularly true for progressive thinkers, who have been strangely willing to draw liberally from the two German firebrands, while ignoring the reactionary bent of their views. Troubling though this may be, Beiners case is very compelling. By the end, one is left with little doubt that Nietzsche and Heideggers politics needs to be seriously rethought.

Nietzsche, Heidegger, and the Far Right

The great majority of men have no right to life, and serve only to disconcert the elect among our race; I do not yet grant the unfit that right. There are even unfit peoples.

Friedrich Nietzsche, The Will to Power

For a long time, the standard approach of progressive admirers of Nietzsche and Heidegger has been something halfway between creative interpretation and acting as a public relations agent. Nietzsche and Heidegger were not political thinkers, the line goes. They were concerned with metaphysics, the history of philosophy, the problem of nihilism, and other issues far beyond the nitty gritty of the political realm. Yes, they do occasionally make problematic statements, and there is that little embarrassment of Heidegger joining the Nazi party and making anti-Semitic remarks. However, it is important to remember that they grew up as rural Germans in conservative households and simply held many of the unfortunate but predictable prejudices shared by most men and women of their time. When invoking their work, make the requisite apologias and then move on to discussing the real philosophical meat.

Beiner minces no words in insisting that we stop relying on these well-worn tropes. He points out that many of the more ambitious commentators on the far-right, including Richard Spencer, have long found a great deal of intellectual solace in Nietzsche and Heidegger. And Beiner suggests that it is time to accept that there are reasons for this attraction. As Beiner puts it:

Highly relevant to the contemporary neofascist revival is the fact that since the Enlightenment, a line of important thinkers has considered life in liberal modernity to be profoundly dehumanizing. Thinkers in this category include, but are not limited to, Maistre, Nietzsche, Carl Schmitt, and Heidegger. For such thinkers, liberal modernity is so humanly degrading that one ought to (if one could) undo the French Revolution and its egalitarian ideal and perhaps cancel out the whole moral legacy of Christianity. For all of them, hierarchy and rootedness are more morally compelling than equality and individual liberty; democracy diminishes our humanity rather than elevating it. We are unlikely to understand why fascism is still kicking around in the twenty-first century unless we are able to grasp why certain intellectuals of the early twentieth century gravitated towards fascism

From here, Beiner does a deep dive into Nietzsche and Heideggers work that spans several hundred pages. He points out that the conventional excuse that they were largely disinterested in politics does not bear out when examining their writings closely. Nietzsche wrote voluminously on history, morality, and civilizational traits, with plenty of commentary on contemporary 19th century politics peppered throughout. He was also infamously sexist, famously declaring in Thus Spoke Zarathustragoest thou to woman? Bring a whip. In his 1889 work Twilight of the Idols, Nietzsche even comes to mourn the decline of the patriarchal family, claiming that all rationality has clearly vanished from modern marriagethe rationalist of marriagethat lay in the husbands sole juridical responsibility, which gave marriage a center of gravity, while today it limps on both legs. He endlessly critiques the vulgar egalitarianism of liberal modernity, invoking a more ancient ideal of a noble aristocracy that rose above the mediocrity of the herd and its banal needs. Nietzsche was also unafraid to call for force to bring about an end to liberalism, constantly invoking martial rhetoric when describing the new philosophers who would bring about the future. By the end of Beiners long chapter on the formidable German, he has assembled a damning array of textual evidence showing that whatever else he was, Nietzsche was a reactionary figure. And he was a figure who condemned a huge array of modern political systems for their egalitarianism and soft concern for the well-being of the unworthy mediocrities. Nietzsche desired for these political systems to be replaced by harder, stratified hierarchies, where the strong would be uninhibited by obligations towards the weakwhether these weak be women, the sick, a wide variety of other cultures, etc.

Beiners case against Heidegger is less rhetorically provocativein part because one rarely sees Nietzsches flights of rhetorical excess in dense technical works such as Being and Time. Nevertheless, Heideggers work is, in many respects, even more disturbing. Nietzsche never lived to see his work bastardized by the Nazis in films such as Triumph of the Will, which featured Adolf Hitler descending from the clouds like a modern Zarathustra trucking down his mountain. Heidegger, though, not only joined the Nazi Party; he actively worked to further its ends for several years. Even after being sidelined and growing more conflicted in the late 1930s, Heidegger never left the Party until it ceased to exist following the Allied occupation of Germany. Heidegger never apologized for his involvement or offered much in the way of an explanation, beyond some tactless whataboutism-style arguments chiding the Allies for the damage wrought against the German people.

Beyond these now well-known biographical facts, Beiner delves into Heideggers philosophy for an explanation for his damning political decisions. Perhaps the most original analysis is his take on Heideggers 1946 Letter on Humanism, which was written and published shortly after the Second World War in response to Sartres existentialism. Beiner reads Heidegger as offering a rather strange history of Western civilization as read through the filter of its philosophers. Modern times are radically banal because we have been influenced by second-rate thinkers who have forgotten to think Being. This is, of course, a classic Heideggerian injunction, which is also legendarily obscure. As Beiner approaches it, Heidegger sees modernity as radically fallen since it places the human being at the center of Being itself. The consequence is that we no longer shudder at the mystery of existence but, instead, appropriate the world for our vulgar and selfish purposes. This explains why in his 1953 book Introduction to Metaphysics, Heidegger castigated liberal capitalism and communism as metaphysically the same. Despite all of the overstated differences between liberal defenders of capitalism and their opponents on the political left, both ultimately agree that the point of existence is to more efficiently design and distribute better refrigerators.

By contrast, to truly think Being we need to exist in strikingly unmodern environmentslike Heideggers beloved Black Forest; and we would need to engage in a more authentic way of living with the world as a whole, unmediated by the selfishness of humanistic reason. Beiner points out that Heidegger often tries to cast this in humble, pastoral termsinvoking images of German peasants and soldiers with a distinct capacity to commune with Being. But this humility concealed a deep-rooted arrogance and ethnocentrism. The converse of Heideggers noble and conservative German peasants, who are in touch with being, is the rest of the world, which is radically fallen and incapable of producing anything of great value. Only the German volk, for Heidegger, was capable of enacting the spiritual renewal of Europe, which is why Heidegger supported the Third Reich until its dying days.

Most disturbing in all of this is Heideggers lack of repentance for such a colossal error, which was excused or even justified by an appeal to philosophical pretension. In his posthumous works, one sees Heidegger musing that one must approach history in epochal termsand that the fullness of time will vindicate his decisions. We can only hope that, like many of Heideggers prophecies, this turns out to be untrue.

Conclusion

The one weakness of Beiners book is that he never spends much time connecting his analysis of reactionary philosophers to the contemporary era and to the return of the far-right. There are some scattered comments on how Nietzsche and Heideggers work has been picked up and interpreted by figures such as Spencer and former White House Chief Strategist Steve Bannon. However, for the most part, the reader is left to draw the connections independently, which is somewhat frustrating given the promise of the title and the initial chapter. But this fact does not detract from what is an exhilarating and crisp intellectual takedown of two major philosophers. Beiner stresses that his critiques should not be taken as a recommendation to ignore or not read Nietzsche and Heidegger. He points out his own deep fascination with their work, and he encourages the reader to learn from it what one may. But Beiner is all too correct that one ought not try to foist a politically correct version of these two German philosophers on the world, stripped of all the nasty and worrying politics. Nietzsche and Heidegger may have been brilliant men, but they were also aligned with some of the most sinister movements of their time. Wrestling honestly with that fact can help us better understand our own strange politics.

Matt McManus is a professor of politics at Whitman College and the author of The Rise of Post-Modern Conservatism, among other books. He can be added on Twitter via @mattpolprof

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The Business of Drugs: Why Amaryllis Fox Is The Perfect Host – Screen Rant

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The Business of Drugs features the ideal host to deliver a crucial message about the war on drugs. Here's what you need to know about Amaryllis Fox.

Now streaming on Netflix, The Business of Drugs features the ideal host to communicate the show's important message about the relationship between moderneconomics and the war on drugs. Raised in various international locations,Amaryllis Fox studied international law at Oxford University, and later became a CIA analyst upon creating a historical data algorithm that was used to predict terrorist attacks. However, it'snot just Fox's experiences and knowledge that benefit the Netflix docuseries, but rather, the way she chooses to deliver her ideas to a world of curious streamers.

The Business of Drugs opens with a breakdown of Fox's credentials. The host discusses her10 years working with the CIA as a field operative and how she helped track down weapons of mass destruction. With the appropriate context established, Fox looks straight into the camera and explains why it's so crucial to think deeper about international drug production and distribution. In theNetflix docuseries, Fox is blunt when addressingthe economics of cocaine, synthetics, heroin, meth, cannabis, and opioids, but personablewhen interviewing people with insiderinformation.

Related: How To Fix A Drug Scandal: Biggest Reveals From Netflix's Documentary

In pop culture, Fox is perhaps best known for appearing in American Ripper, a 2017 investigative docuseries about serial killer H.H. Holmes. WithThe Business of Drugs, she's front and center as the featured commentator;she doesn't try to scareher audience like so many American politicians from the 1980s, a time when the war on drugs was reduced to convenient talking points and cultural cliches. Instead, Fox tries to show the human side of the illegal narcotics industry.

Fox never boasts about her professional accomplishments, but instead recalls her childhood experiences in Africa and Southeast Asia, and what she learned as the daughter ofan economist who helped developing countries. It's this personal background that makes Fox so well-suited to host this series: While investigating the rise of heroin distribution inAfrica most notably inKenya Fox offers cultural insightabout her formative years in the continent, and how she looks back on thoseexperiences differently as an adult. During an episode about meth arguably the most revelatory episode of the Netflix docuseries Fox states thatSoutheast Asia is in my blood...Southeast Asia made me who I am.There's a sense of world culture that grounds the host's opinions, as she clearly valuesthe importance of understanding how drug economics correlate with cultural shifts, and vice versa.

Because Foxhas a deepunderstanding and curiosity of differentcultures, she's more effective as an interviewer. In The Business of Drugs, the host casually converses with a masked cocaine dealer from Compton, California, and smiles when discussing sociopolitical conflict withMyanmar politician Yawd Serk, only to then explain to the audience that his anti-meth campaign is merely a "propaganda exercise." Fox opens each episode by describing what she wants to learn, and concludes by reinforcing the fact that the complex business of drugs continues to rapidly change.During the Netflix docuseries, Fox'snuanced approach stands out most when speaking with an American drug dealer about the consequences of his product. First, she's able to get an honest answer, and then acknowledges to the audience that the dealer is "spouting evil." But then Fox circles back to the premiseabout unregulated capitalism and middle-level criminals whodeflect attention from the biggerpicture.

In The Business of Drugs, Fox enters dangerous territory while traveling and speaks candidly with her overall assessments. Do Americans really know that the United States funds "a chain of human suffering"? And do people in general know that Myanmar produces more meth pills in a single year than McDonald's produces hamburgers? Fox is admittedly nostalgic for the past, but recognizes that being willfully naiveaboutdrug economics is part of the problem. As she puts it, "there's a terrible collisions of circumstances." The Netflix docuseries shows that Fox isn't a typical host who merely poses questions for the audience to consider. Instead, she reassesses her own perspectives and identifiescultural talking points thatneed to be part of the conversationmoving forward.

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How a miracle drug changed the fight against infection during World War II – The Union Leader

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In March 1942, 33-year-old Anne Miller lay delirious in New Haven Hospital, deathly ill from septicemia that she developed following a miscarriage a month before. During her stay at the Connecticut hospital, doctors tried every cure imaginable from sulfa drugs to blood transfusions as her temperature at times spiked past 106 degrees.

She was just incurable, Eric Lax, author of The Mold in Dr. Floreys Coat, said in a phone interview. It was like somebody today with COVID-19 who is going down the tubes.

Desperate, her doctors acquired a tablespoon of an experimental drug and gave her an injection. Overnight, her temperature dropped. A day later, she was up and eating again.

The miracle drug that saved her life? A virtually unknown substance called penicillin.

As researchers around the world chase a vaccine and treatments for the novel coronavirus, the quest echoes the race to mass-produce penicillin in the United States and Britain during World War II.

In the days before antibiotics, something as simple as a scratch or even a blister could get infected and lead to death. Before the beginning of the 20th century, the average life expectancy was 47 years, even in the industrialized world, according to the National Institutes of Health. Infectious diseases such as smallpox, cholera, diphtheria and pneumonia cut life short. No treatment existed for them.

Scottish biologist Alexander Fleming had discovered the penicillin mold in London in 1928. Fleming attempted to extract the molds active substance that fought bacteria but was unsuccessful, and he gave up experimentation, according to Laxs book.

As war broke out in Europe in 1939, Australian doctor Howard Florey obtained funding from the Rockefeller Foundation in New York to study Flemings discovery further at the University of Oxford. Along with brash German emigre Ernst Chain, and meticulous assistant Norman Heatley, he worked to generate penicillins active ingredient.

But in the course of their research, Florey confronted an obstacle: Extracting the active ingredient from the mold was terribly difficult. Time after time, the delicate mold would dissolve in the process of extraction, leaving scientists frustrated.

The tablespoon of penicillin that cured Anne Miller represented half the entire amount of the antibiotic available in the United States in 1942. To give her a full treatment, doctors had to collect her urine, extract the remaining penicillin from it at about 70% potency, and re-inject it, according to Laxs book.

Through trial and error, the team had discovered that penicillin was much more effective and safer in fighting bacteria in animals than sulfa drugs, which were the treatment for infections at the time. Discovered by German scientists in the 1930s, sulfa drugs had severe side effects, and researchers were motivated to find an alternative.

As they tried to cultivate penicillin, they began a few human tests. In late summer 1940, Albert Alexander, a 43-year-old Oxford police officer, scratched his face while working in his rose garden. The scratch became infected by streptococci and staphylococci and spread to his eyes and scalp, according to The Mold in Dr. Floreys Coat. A few weeks later, he was admitted to an Oxford University hospital.

Lax writes that Alexander was in great pain and desperately and pathetically ill for months as he lay in the hospital with no cure available. The abscesses on his face and arms were oozing pus everywhere, Heatley wrote in his diary, Lax notes, and Alexanders left eye became so infected that in February 1941 it had to be removed.

The bacteria continued eating at him and soon spread to his lungs and shoulders. Desperate, doctors gave him 200 milligrams of penicillin, the largest individual dose ever given at the time, and then three doses of 100 mg every three hours, according to Lax. Within 24 hours, there was a dramatic improvement, Heatley wrote.

Alexanders fever went back to normal and his appetite returned. As with Anne Miller, researchers collected his urine to extract penicillin to re-administer.

By the end of February, Alexanders treatment had used up the nations entire supply of penicillin, according to Lax. After 10 days of stability, his condition deteriorated without any more of the drug. A second course would have helped him to fully heal, but there was no more to give him. Florey and the others watched helplessly as a flood of septicemia swept through him. On March 15, he died, Lax writes.

Heartbroken, Florey, Chain and Heatley continued to hunt for methods to produce more penicillin. Meanwhile, the Battle of Britain raged around them. In fall 1940, 50 million pounds of bombs were dropped on London alone, Lax writes.

The Oxford team realized penicillins urgent value in treating wounded soldiers and civilians.

They knew that of the 10 million soldiers killed in World War I, about half died not from bombs or shrapnel or bullets or gas but rather from untreatable infections from often relatively minor wounds and injuries, Lax said.

As Europe sank deeper into war, labs around the world got word of the Oxford labs penicillin research and began requesting samples. Florey and his team were careful not to send any to German scientists, who could have easily developed them to support the Nazi war effort, according to Lax.

The Oxford team was so fearful of the drug falling into Nazi hands that as the Blitz bombings shattered England, the team rubbed their coats with the mold, knowing the spores would live for a long time on fabric, Lax said in a phone interview. That way, if any researchers were captured or had to travel in a hurry, they had it with them and could extract and regrow it.

British pharmaceutical companies were interested in mass-producing penicillin, but they were overburdened by wartime demand for other drugs. Florey and Heatley began looking overseas for help, turning once again to the Rockefeller Foundation in New York.

Florey struck a deal with his Rockefeller contacts: He and Heatley would show Americans how to produce penicillin molds. In return, Americans would give Florey a kilo of the drug. This would provide the Oxford researchers with enough penicillin to complete human trials for suffering patients like Alexander. The foundation agreed.

In a hazardous trip out of war-torn Europe, Florey and Heatley arrived in New York on July 2, 1941.

Through Rockefeller contacts, Florey had access to major players in the U.S. government to back his project including the War Production Board and the U.S. Department of Agriculture. A week after arriving in New Haven, Heatley and Florey traveled to the USDAs Northern Regional Research Laboratory in Peoria, Ill., a farming community about 160 miles southwest of Chicago.

Robert Coghill, the head of the fermentation division, agreed to help the Oxford cause if Heatley would stay on in Peoria to get the penicillin mold culture started. Leaving Heatley in Peoria, Florey visited U.S. drug companies in the hope of persuading one or more of them to brew the culture fluid and extract the mold to yield enough for his experiments, according to The Mold on Dr. Floreys Coat.

By the fall, Florey had persuaded Charles Pfizer & Co., Eli Lilly & Co., Merck and other drug firms to work on the project, and he returned to Oxford to wait for his kilo of penicillin. But then war struck the United States. With millions of American lives now at stake, penicillin was no longer just a scientific fascination to U.S. pharmaceutical companies it was a medical necessity.

Ten days after the Pearl Harbor attack, pharmaceutical companies began escalating penicillin production for the war effort, some experimenting with a process called deep-tank fermentation to extract the drug from the mold. It was a major breakthrough.

As war escalated throughout 1942, researcher Andrew Moyer led the USDA Peoria lab in finding the most potent penicillin mold that would hold up during fermentation extraction. Each day, he sent assistant Mary Hunt to local markets for decaying fruit or anything with fungal growth to find more-productive strains of the penicillin mold, Lax writes. Earning the nickname Moldy Mary, she once found a cantaloupe with a mold so powerful that in time it became the ancestor of most of the penicillin produced in the world, according to the American Chemical Society.

In July 1943, the War Production Board made plans for widespread distribution of penicillin stocks to Allied troops fighting in Europe. Then scientists worked round-the-clock to prepare for an ultimate goal: having enough to support the D-Day invasion.

On June 6, 1944, 73,000 U.S. troops landed on the beaches of Normandy, boosted by millions of doses of the miracle drug.

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As Philippines fights coronavirus, some fear involvement of the police – Reuters

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MANILA (Reuters) - At the peak of the Philippines war on drugs, people in the rundown neighbourhoods of Navotas in the capital Manila grew used to police knocking on doors, or bursting into the homes of drug suspects - who often wound up dead.

Children look out from a window of their shanty home while a police officer on board an armored vehicle patrols the neighborhood to enforce the reimposed lockdown amid a spike in the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) cases, in Navotas, Metro Manila, Philippines, July 17, 2020. REUTERS/Eloisa Lopez

Now, many residents of the Navotas area, which has been particularly badly hit by the coronavirus, fear another harsh police campaign after the government said officials will visit homes of patients with mild or no symptoms and escort them to isolation centres.

Some Filipinos have labelled the plan Tokhang 2, calling it the sequel to a police-led anti-drug campaign that became synonymous with thousands of killings.

We are afraid of the house-to-house. We dont know what the police and soldiers will do to us, said Crisanto dela Cruz, a 46-year-old pedicab driver in Navotas.

At the same time, we are afraid of getting infected because we are always outside.

Infections have tripled in the Philippines since June 1 and the interior ministry announced this week that health officials, with the help of local authorities and the police, will move people suffering from COVID-19 from their homes to isolation centres. It has urged neighbours to report potential cases of infected people who are evading authorities.

President Rodrigo Dutertes spokesman, Harry Roque, stressed the home visits will be led by local health workers.

In a statement, he said police presence is merely to provide support or assistance in the transport of patients.

But Roque also said anyone likely to spread the virus could be forcibly removed if need be.

We can still compel them but I dont think it will be in the nature as if they are being treated as criminals, he told CNN Philippines.

The United Nations has said at least 8,663 people, and possibly many more, were killed in the Philippines after Duterte launched a war on drugs in 2016. It said the killings took place amid near impunity for police and incitement to violence by top officials.

Most of the deaths were in poor, run-down areas like those in Navotas.

Police say their actions in the anti-drug campaign have been lawful and that deaths occurred in shootouts with dealers resisting arrest.

The coronavirus strategy was announced in a week when the Philippines recorded Southeast Asias biggest daily jump in deaths from the disease.

While much of East Asia appears to have COVID-19 under control, the Philippines has recorded nearly 36% of its infections and 23% of its 1,660 deaths in the past two weeks. In the region, only Indonesias death toll is climbing faster.

The government has defended the house-to-house approach, saying that infected people with insufficient space to quarantine themselves at home should be moved to isolation centres.

But opposition senators and human rights groups say the campaign is from the playbook of the drug war.

Senator Franklin Drilon said police had been enforcing a lockdown aggressively, and there was no need for fascist actions to demand submission.

The National Union of Peoples Lawyers called it another tool to sow fear in our communities.

With a government that has emboldened its own uniformed personnel to violate human rights with impunity, how can we be sure that the police will not abuse this new power, it said.

A better approach, say critics, is to improve contact-tracing and testing, with just 0.9% of the population tested so far. Roughly two-thirds of the tests followed the relaxation of restrictions on June 1 to try to rescue the economy.

Navotas has since seen cases grow from 286 at end May to 906 as of July 16, prompting authorities to reimpose restrictions, with armed police in camouflage deployed to keep people indoors and threaten violators with fines.

Its not martial law, theres no need for police to go house-to-house, said Arvin Provito, a Navotas tricycle driver.

What they should do is do house-to-house testing.

Former health minister Esperanza Cabral said the government should rethink its approach.

As they say, give a carpenter a hammer and all he will see are nails, she said. As for the people, theyve been so used to being treated as nails theyre naturally scared of anyone who has a hammer.

Additional reporting by Adrian Portugal, Eloisa Lopez and Neil Jerome Morales; Editing by Martin Petty and Raju Gopalakrishnan

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We’ve lost our ability to be nuanced about the past | Courier-Herald – Enumclaw Courier-Herald

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In The Six Grandfathers, Mount Rushmore, and our national identity July 8, ECH editor Ray Miller-Still mentions the Sioux name for Mount Rushmore no less than eight times.

He goes on to list the sins of Washington, Jefferson, Lincoln and Roosevelt. What a pity. The writer correctly points out that the four images were originally conceived to represent the founding, expansion, preservation and unification of the United States. I would guess that most visitors to the site understand that. Some people apparently now believe that statues, carvings and other images of historical Americans are similar (in a way) to the saints of the Catholic Church, i.e. that they are to be personally hallowed because of their perfection, but that is not true in the case of American icons they are not saints. Their images represent an idea and an ideal most often related to an accomplishment intended to invoke inspiration, aspiration and appreciation but not veneration.

Unfortunately it seems that we have lost the ability to consider this type of nuance, subtlety and ambiguity in our national discussions. What a pity. About 10 years ago, I was inspired by an article in the Wall Street Journal by Bret Stephens entitled Our Incompetent Civilization. The principles he cited are timeless, namely that there are limits to virtue and that while we must learn from history we cannot let it cripple us. As we try to cleanse our history we go too far, we inflict a deeply debilitating wound on ourselves a self loathing that is polarizing and immobilizing. What a pity.

Orwell said, The most effective way to destroy a people is to deny and obliterate their understanding of their own history. The high priests of the new totalitarianism preach this gospel of nihilism. Theyre unaware that their scripture and orthodoxy are not new, it never works, it leads to destruction but I fear we will travel down this dangerous path anew. Again, what a pity.

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Netflix’s The Business Of Drugs Review: Cocaine, Meth, and More | TechQuila – TechQuila

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The Business Of Drugs premiered on Netflix on 14 July 2020 is a documentaryweb television mini-series. With 6 episodes titles Cocaine, Synthetics, Heroin, Meth, Cannabis, Opioids respectively.

Amaryllis Fox, a former kid CIA agent recruited at the age 21 who hopped the globe fight on the war against terror until 2010 is the host for the series.

Drugs have existed in our societies longer than terrorism! It is deeply rooted in our system and society. The drug trade is widespread and uncontrollable and to some people their only means of survival. From human carriers to stuffing of drugs inside toys, the export of drugs is untamed.

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The series doesnt elaborate on what it starts with- how drugs are a part of wall street, freudian theory and a lot more. It tells the viewers more about how drugs are made and exported! The series features live testimonies from smugglers and dealers, who sell coke in small amounts and stay off radars.

The series initially compares the war on drugs to the war on terrorism, the two very different and distinctively important issues are put under common light making matter lighter for each! The Business Of Drugs includes interviews with experts in each episode who take us deeper in the whole production, sale and use. Alongside this, bits about the history of drugs is displayed.

Government spends a huge amount on the removal of Coca plant from Columbia- The largest importer of cocaine. But the question it left me with was- If the government can spend soo much money on removal on Coca plant, Why not spend it on developing Columbia, dealing with the root problem! Rather than just working on the surface with little to NO result.

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While the stats and information Fox brings forward is well drawn, it never really reaches to a point where the viewers feel triggered for a want to bring about change. The view point is more or less focused on the U.S.A and not on the global impact of drugs. The Business Of Drugs simply touches over various drugs and things related to them, that have been covered in various other shows and documentaries

STREAM IT! The Business Of Drugs is informative even though it misses out on some significantly important parts. This docuseries isnt the best of the genre but its worth a watch!

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The People: bridging distance and differences in a pandemic – The Fulcrum

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After organizing the Voters Not Politicians 2018 ballot initiative that put citizens in charge of drawing Michigan's legislative maps, Fahey became founding executive director of The People, which is forming statewide networks to promote government accountability. She interviews colleagues in the world of democracy reform each month for our Opinion section.

David Valente got involved in politics helping with a state Senate race in New Mexico when he was a teenager. He has since become discouraged by both major parties' spending and is currently chairman of the West Virginia Libertarian Party. He supports criminal justice reform, protecting civil liberties and ending the "war on drugs."

Sonia Riley served as field director for Cathy Albro, the unsuccessful 2018 Democratic candidate in Michigan's heavily gerrymandered 3rd congressional district, where she observed the effect of a lack of public resources on both urban and rural communities. Now she's running for city council in Wyoming, a suburb of Grand Rapids, advocating for increased voting access and improved health care.

Our recent conversation has been edited for clarity and brevity.

Fahey: It seems you both reached a certain point where you decided to get actively involved in making change. Talk about the moment or motivation that led you to take action?

Valente: I got involved in my first campaign at 16 and built a community with the people on the campaign. It was fun and felt like we were doing something good. In my experience, you can't get anything done if you don't work together, because then you're just a debate club. If you're willing to work together, you're able to influence policy and move the ball forward.

Riley: When I was on the congressional campaign two years ago, it was so significant how black and brown people were often not invited to be part of the conversation. My "Aha!" moment came during the choosing of a location for a watch party. I told the room I was not comfortable going there, and that was an educational moment for a lot of others. If there's no inclusivity at the table, neither party represents my people. If we're not involved and we're not vocal, it hinders the growth of all people. So I fight those injustices, and joining The People has made it even more profound.

Fahey: How have your lives been altered by the coronavirus crisis?

Valente: There are ballot access issues across the country. There are states like Oklahoma where we would have to get 100,000 signatures to get someone on the ballot, and you can't get signatures in this environment. We're finding innovative ways to get the message out, like Facebook and Zoom. We have a gubernatorial candidate who is hosting Zoom meetings every Sunday and interviewing a local policymaker, or highlighting people who are not Libertarian but are still supporting her.

Riley: To run for city council I needed 25 signatures and I collected 50 but 27 were thrown out. I was supposed to be able to pay a $100 filing fee instead, but the city refused. It was an injustice for them to make an immunocompromised person like me go and get signatures, and for people to have to risk their lives to sign so their voices could be heard. I got a call from my party saying they were going to help me fight this. Because of my situation, they've changed the process.

Fahey: At The People, you've created Community Hour, video chats where people can touch base and maybe talk a little about democracy reform. What made you want to start this?

Riley: It's human nature to want to feel connected, and right now every system of connection we have has changed how we're connected with our families, our work, our communities. It's important to have a platform where we can maintain a human connection, and Community Hour creates a way to come together and check in.

Valente: We've talked a lot about how to stay connected when forced to stay apart. I was taking part in "Skype-togethers" with people in my community, and afterwards I felt so much better. I connected in a personal way with people I hadn't seen in ages. So when we were talking about ideas on how to stay connected, that model popped into my head. No agenda, just finding out how others are doing.

Fahey: Have any moments during the calls stood out to you?

Valente: For me, it has been just having great conversations with people I hadn't met before as well as seeing a niece for the first time. No matter what's going on, I think there's a lot of value in these calls.

Riley: I had a profound conversation about grief and loss. People aren't talking about these emotions and acknowledging these feelings. These conversations give space to be authentic and unafraid of judgment.

Fahey: Who is invited to the calls and how can they join?

Riley: All are welcome to join every Wednesday evening 8 Eastern, 7 Central, 5 Pacific. We use Zoom so you can join through video or call in by phone. Details can be found on our Facebook event page.

Fahey: If you were speaking to a high school student or a new immigrant to this country, how would you describe what being an American means to you?

Riley: We as people in brown communities still have to fight to be fully viewed as citizens. For a new person, know the fight will be hard but worth winning in the end. Channel your frustration toward something positive to make a difference. We have a privilege to be in a country saturated in resources. It's a blessing, but it doesn't come without a fight, and it's definitely not for the faint of heart. We have shown resilience as a country, even if our leaders aren't leading to the extent we would like.

Valente: I don't approach this from a nationalistic standpoint. We're all human beings. There's a whole lot of work that needs to be done in this country, and we have to be vigilant in maintaining our freedoms and working to extend them. We're not perfect and we need to make sure we continuously improve and work as best we can toward an ideal society.

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The Philippines on Monday confirmed 1,521 new coronavirus cases and four new deaths, its fifth straight day of reporting over a thousand infections. (AP Photo)

The Philippines on Monday confirmed 1,521 new coronavirus cases and four new deaths, its fifth straight day of reporting over a thousand infections. The Health Ministry said total deaths have increased to 1,835, while confirmed cases have reached 69,898.

Rabindra Abeyasinghe, the World Health Organizations (WHO) representative to the Philippines, called the trend worrying and urged the government to improve its contact tracing methods.

President Rodrigo Dutertes administration imposed one of the worlds longest and strictest lockdowns in March, but fresh outbreaks of the virus have forced some local officials to put their cities under lockdown once more while the government announced it would impose a series of stringent measures.

Eduardo Ano, an ex-general and one of the officials heading the countrys COVID-19 response task force, said authorities will deploy police to escort healthcare workers during their door-to-door visits and transfer any COVID-19 positive patients to isolation facilities. We dont want those whose houses are not equipped for isolation to quarantine at home, said Ano at a press briefing.

Ano also encouraged people to report neighbors who are COVID-19 positive but in hiding, citing a Philippine law that mandates the reporting of coronavirus cases to health authorities and penalizes non-compliance with imprisonment.

The goal is to reduce the risk of community transmission. We do this by making sure that confirmed cases are isolated and are not in contact with anyone else in the community, Health Undersecretary Maria Rosario Vergeire told local media, adding that the move was consistent with existing public health protocols. But the announcement wasnt without its criticism.

I really think it would be better if the home visits were led by community health workers. Involving the police increases the stigma associated with COVID-19 and will just cause panic in the community at a time when the increasing number of cases is already making everyone anxious, Andrei dela Cruz, a NGO health worker based in Navotas, about 14 kilometers (8.7 miles) north of the capital Manila, told DW.

Echoing similar methods used during Dutertes war on drugs, the new measure triggered a wave of fear across the country.

For some, the door-to-door visits are a flashback of tactics used by police during Project Tokhang, the state crackdown on illegal drugs. Tokhang is a combination of two words that mean knock and plead. Police would knock on the doors of suspected drug users, asking them to quit and turn to rehabilitation instead.

Its [door-to-door police accompaniment] like Tokhang but for COVID. This may actually discourage more people from reporting their status, opposition senator Risa Hontiveros said in a statement.

Presidential spokesperson Harry Roque rejected criticism and called it a move by opponents to use the important strategy of contact tracing to vilify the current government.

In Navotas, residents are only authorized to leave home for essential activities. The city went into a two-week lockdown on July 16.

Local media reports showed some police officers carrying long firearms and riding tanks as they patrolled neighborhoods to implement a city-wide lockdown.

Some residents, including Josie, welcomed the presence of police in enforcing safety measures such as home isolation and the wearing of face masks.

If its just the village captain who is going to issue warnings, he is less likely to be taken seriously because everyone knows him already. Some may use this familiarity to talk their way out of complying, said the 32-year-old homemaker.

Josies neighborhood was one of many affected by Dutertes war on drugs. A number of Navotas residents were killed at the hands of police during anti-drug operations as authorities tried to bust operations or track down vigilantes.

Josie, acknowledging the past, is not swayed. I would rather have the increased police presence to keep people in check than get infected by the virus, she said.

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Pressure from Manipur CM Biren Singh to drop drugs case: cop to court – The Indian Express

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Written by Esha Roy | New Delhi | Updated: July 17, 2020 4:57:22 am Chief Minister Biren Singh, Additional SP (Narcotics) Thounaojam Brinda.

Manipur Chief Minister N Biren Singh and a top state BJP leader have been accused by a senior officer of the state Narcotics and Affairs of Border Bureau (NAB) of allegedly putting pressuring on the department to drop the case against a person accused in a drug seizure raid which took place in June 2018.

The accusation come in the form of a sworn affidavit Additional Superintendent of Police, NAB, Thounaojam Brinda filed in Imphal High Court on July 13.

The police have put the value of confiscated illegal narcotics and cash at more than Rs 28 crore.

The prime accused in the case, Lhukhosei Zou, was considered kingpin of the drugs cartel and was also a local BJP leader in Chandel district, according to Brindas affidavit.

When contacted by The Indian Express, Chief Minister Biren Singh said, The matter is sub judice. It would not be legally proper to comment. But it is known to everyone that no person can interfere in any judicial proceedings or court cases; the law takes its own course to meet the ends of justice.

He said, For our government, the war on drugs will continue, and no party involved whether a friend or a relative would be spared in the campaign

According to Brindas affidavit, the controversy revolves around a raid carried out across Imphal by NAB teams under her, and subsequent arrests of eight people allegedly found in possession of illicit drugs and cash, on the intervening night of June 19-20, 2018. They were booked under different IPC Sections and the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act, 1985.

According to police, 4,595 kg heroin, over 2.8 lakh World is Yours (WY) amphetamine tablets weighing 28 kg and other items were seized during the raids. Altogether the total seized amount of drugs along with the seized currency was Rs 28,36,68,000 at international market, the police have said.

According to Brinda, Zous arrest became sensational given his political position and strong community base in the border town area of Moreh. At the time of arrest, he was chairman of the 5th Autonomous District Council of Chandel district, the affidavit states. He was elected to the Autonomous District Council (ADC) in June 2015 on a Congress ticket.

In September 2015, he became chairman of ADC Chandel district and later joined the BJP in April 2017, it says.

Brinda said that since the arrest, both she and her department have been under pressure to drop the case against Zou.

On the raids, Brinda told The Indian Express: One of the accused we had arrested earlier that evening told us that there were drugs with Zous driver. When we went looking for him, he (Zou) said his driver was in Guwahati. He refused to let us search his house. We nabbed the driver nevertheless after extensive searches that evening he informed us that there were drugs at Zous residence. When we went back, Zou refused to let us search. There was a scuffle between NAB boys and his men. We finally searched his home (and) found the drugs.

In March 2019, Zou received bail, which he jumped and fled across the border to Myanmar. He surrendered in February this year and his bail hearing came up before Imphal HC, where the judge held that everyone is innocent until proven guilty.

Brinda filed a complaint against the judge with the Registrar of Imphal High Court last month. Subsequently, after lashing out at the judge in a social media post, Brinda was served a contempt notice this month. She filed this affidavit in response on July 13.

This was a big drug haul for the NAB and was a result of a recent raid in Jowai in Meghalaya where a large amount of WY tablets were seized, Brinda, who joined NAB in March 2018, just three months before the raid, stated. The Meghalaya accused pointed to the accused in Manipur who were a part of the same cartel. The war on drugs that the government talks about was actually revived in 2018. Over the past few years, the drug route from Afghanistan-Pakistan had dwindled and instead had shifted to the Manipur-Myanmar border. Indian drug lords now prefer this route and huge consignments of drugs are flooding the market and makes its way across the country all the way down to Kerala even.

This is what we are trying to curtail. All the hill districts are covered with poppy plantations, and yet the government of Manipur, for the past 30 years, doesnt even have data on how much area is covered by poppy growing.

A Manipur state police service officer of 2012 batch, Brinda was conferred the states Police Medal for Gallantry by the state government for her work against smuggling and sale of drugs. The Chief Minister awarded Rs 10 lakh to the NAB team for the seizure of Rs 100 crore worth of drugs, one of the biggest hauls in Manipur.

Earlier, Brindas appointment had been put on hold by the previous Congress government on grounds that she is daughter-in-law of Rajkumar Meghan, former chairman of the United National Liberation Front (UNLF), one of the Northeasts biggest insurgent outfits. The state government allowed her to join the police force after Brinda approached the Guahati High Court but resigned in 2016.

After the BJP formed its first government in the Northeast in 2017, Brinda was reinstated in the police force at the behest of the Centre.

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Vile Creature: "The Most Metal Thing That You Can Do Is Care About Other People" – Kerrang!

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In a year that will go down in history as a dumpster fire of a horror show, a duality of mindset exists among the people one that can be broken down into either apathy or rage. With our every waking thought being recorded on social media, addicted to the micro-dopamine hit of likes, but also doomscrolling long into the night, nuance is dead and opinion is binary. Yes or no, black or white, on or off. There is no maybe, there is no grey area, there are nohalf-measures.

Theres a fine line between people screaming at each other because of what happened on the last season of a shitty reality show and people having a strong opinion politically, muses KW, vocalist and guitarist for Canadian doom-mongers Vile Creature. People need to understand that when it comes to, Which band is your favourite? Which colour is your favourite? Who is the coolest celebrity? that none one of it matters and if you have a strong opinion then you need to calmdown.

When youre talking politically, you have to have a strong opinion because inaction iscomplicity.

Kerrang! is chatting to KW over Skype following the release of Vile Creatures new album Glory, Glory! Apathy Took Helm! last month. And while the album title is tongue-in-cheek, it raises questions of internalised apathy, often born from a place of privilege and wilfulignorance.

KW explains it as a feeling of wanting to make the world a better place but not knowing how, so you just sit in front of Netflix and tell yourself youll do ittomorrow.

Its much easier to blend apathy into your life than to combat things and actively work on making things better not only for yourself but for otherpeople.

He continues: For me specifically, Im referring to the ideals of moral nihilism and the idea of people saying, The worlds nothing and we are nothing so we should just do nothing because nothing fucking matters. Its lazy and stupid and prevalent in a high amount of metal bands. But its metal to care, its metal to try and change things. Do you think Black Sabbath wrote War Pigs to sit around not doing anything? You think Rob Halford was out and proud for no reason? No, they wanted to change things and make thingsbetter.

Since their formation in 2014, Vile Creature have been actively spreading a positive message of change and equality through their punishing slabs of tar-thick riffage. KW (he/they) and his partner Vic (they/them) both identify as queer, and over the past three albums have been sharing their personal experiences at high volume and even higherintensity.

The project began when they began dating and KW taught Vic how to play the drums. Within three months they had released their first record and now, six years later, they have played hundreds of shows and become one of the most respected names in the underground, although they were initially seen as the black sheep of their local scene in Hamilton, Ontario playing just eight shows in their local areaever.

We were a two-piece who were outwardly talking about our personal experiences as queer persons and were very up-front about it. Near the end of the set wed talk for a minute about who we are, what we stand for and what the songs were about. I dont think that was a thing that was around in SouthernOntario.

Our first two years of playing shows, all of our bills were a noise act, a queercore pop-punk band and then us because nobody knew who to put us with. I dont think at that point there were many outwardly, specifically anti-oppressive doom bands, which has changed a lot in the past few years. Its amazing to see so many outspoken bands continuing to pop up, even bands who are significantly older than us being more vocal about their political beliefs. It makes it a much more comfortable experience going out to playshows.

Growing up in south Florida in the late 90s/early 00s, KW explains that the words trans and queer werent a part of the culturallexicon.

It was Oh, youre a f*ggot! Punch, punch, kick, hospital. Thats what growing up was like in a lot of circumstances and the band for me lyrically and creatively started as a means to put those feelings out there and releasethem.

Despite heavy musics supposed ideals of rebellion and independence, LGBTQIA+ is still viewed as a taboo subject by many of its followers ironically going against the progressive attitudes on which this genre wasfounded.

We were looking at Twitter this morning and a tweet said, I was stoked to buy the album on both LP and CD and give this band a try, then they started with all this political crap so I spent my money elsewhere and Im no longer interested in their creativity, smirks KW. Weve got a good amount of pissbaby clownshoe boys like that and we dont give afuck.

We talk about our personal experiences more than anything, but our personal experiences are politically-based. Were politically-charged people because of the system we grew up in and the experiences that we faced. For us it was about being true to ourselves and just generally ignoring everyone who had an issue with what we were saying because we dont care aboutthem.

But could someone who doesnt ascribe to Vile Creatures progressive, liberal viewpoint still enjoy them?

If we were just aiming it at queer people wed just be preaching to the choir, says KW knowingly. If someone listened to our band and it opened them up to thought processes of dealing with their own internalised racism, misogyny or homophobia and come out the other side with a better understanding then thats a wonderfulthing.

Its important for bands like us to play in uncomfortable spaces and talk to people who have opposing views and force them to reckon with their own internal shit, he adds. I will always feel so safe and amazing playing for 500 beautiful, affirming voices of people who intrinsically agree with our politics, but were not changing anything by doingthat.

KW and Vics personal lives have fed directly into new album, Glory, Glory! Apathy Took Helm!. While their previous album 2018s Cast Of Static & Smoke was a sci-fi odyssey released with a 16-page story, their latest full-length is rooted in reality; a reality dripping in bile anddespair.

Love songs are the biggest songs of all time theres a lot of positive art out there but when it comes to us specifically, we utilise this band for letting out feelings in a healthy way, says KW, extolling the virtues of catharsis. No matter what we do or say, theres always a twinge of positivity at the end of it, even because were not the type of people who sit down and takeit.

And for an album that opens on a banshee shriek of the words We die!, it does take you on an adventure out of the darkness and into the light. KW views it in a more cyclical nature, moving the needle from 0 to 360 degrees, forever experiencing the stages of grief from denial toacceptance.

Its the epic, choral finale that solidifies this journey through the rabbit hole and into sunlight. Written with Laurel Minnes from 12-piece choir Minuscule, who also appear, the 14-minute double header of closers Glory! Glory! and Apathy Took Helm! sets you on a path of enlightenment before hurling you back down to Earth with an unholysmite.

Its the thing I was meant to write after 20 years of writing music, smiles KW, acknowledging that his life-long love of musical theatre instilled the idea of wanting to write a full choir-piece. But its not just an accomplishment of songwriting, as a whole its what sets Vile Creature apart in a scene that is awash with bands who simply worship theriff.

Of course, this pair have never been about doing things the normal way, its only about releasing the poison inside. But what about those listening to the new for the firsttime?

Im hoping that they feel okay, or more okay than when they went into the album, says KW sincerely. I hope theyre able to find comfortability in themselves and apply that to the world outside. Maybe this is the least metal thing to say, but I just want people to be okay. I want people to care about themselves and those around them. The most metal thing that you can do is care about other people and the community at large. I want people to feel empowered and have an emotional response; to feel confident to go about the world as the best version of themselves, as well as the best version that can help otherpeople.

And I hope they enjoyedit.

Glory, Glory! Apathy Took Helm! is out now via Prosthetic.

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