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Orwell Updated
Conformity is diversity. Exclusion is inclusion. Toleration is oppression.
Ten Favorite Books
Keith Knight, host of the Don't Tread on Anyone podcast, interviewed me about ten of my favorite books. Watch it here.
The Good News
The WSJ says that China and South Korea seem to have already peaked in their Corona virus outbreaks. It seems it never did break out in Shanghai. But apparently only due to totalitarian travel restrictions and Orwellian surveillance. Update: Oh shit. The bad news:...
Was Orwell’s Idea Right, Year Wrong? 01-16-91
Nominally Free
In this Washington Post piece about their Orwellian task master Jeff Bezos and Amazon's growing dominance over whathaveyou, the reporter refers offhand to America as a "nominally free" society. Sounds right.
Illegitimate
The most important lesson of the “Me Too” phenomenon has, of course, gone completely ignored: it is the same as the most important lesson that ubiquitous cell phone video and Donald Trump’s presidency have taught us, which is that absolutely no one, no matter how...
5/5/17 Ramzy Baroud on Palestinian resistance to 70 years of Israeli occupation and domination
Ramzy Baroud, a journalist, author, and editor of Palestine Chronicle, discusses why Palestinians in Israeli jails are on a hunger strike; Israel's Orwellian attempt to rewrite history by prohibiting the 1948 Nakba's commemoration and attempting to change the occupied...
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Israel Winner of the 2003 Iraq Oil War
From the Foreword by Lawrence B. Wilkerson: “[T]he debate over whether oil was a principal reason for the 2003 invasion has waxed and waned, with one camp arguing that it absolutely was, while the other argues the precise opposite.” “Mr. Vogler, himself a former...
Domestic Imperialism: Nine Reasons I Left Progressivism
Imagine the Catholic Church (or any person or group of people) doing what the government does every day: Everyone who doesn’t give the Catholic Church 25% of his annual income every year will be put in jail. If he resists the Jesuit officer, the officer has the right...
Diary of a Psychosis: How Public Health Disgraced Itself During COVID Mania
FOREWORD BY JAY BHATTACHARYA, MD, PHD Diary of a Psychosis is different from all other books on Covid: it traces the development of the government response as it happened, bit by bit, and subjects it to relentless scrutiny: did any of it do any good? It thereby...