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Who is Giorgia Meloni, the Leader of the Italian Right?
Who is Giorgia Meloni, the Leader of the Italian Right? The Right-Wing victory in the Italian election of this September has generated worries that Italy could be returning to some form of Fascism. But, as it is normally the case, things are much more complex than what you can gather from a few newspaper articles. […]
Greenwald: No One Talks About Ending Ukraine War For Fear Of Being Labelled A ‘Traitor’
Greenwald: No One Talks About Ending Ukraine War For Fear Of Being Labelled A ‘Traitor’ It’s a “dangerous delusion” to dismiss Putin’s nuclear threat Journalist Glenn Greenwald noted Monday that talks to deescalate or end the conflict in Ukraine are virtually nonexistent because the legacy media and political elites have nurtured an atmosphere where to […]
Revolution In Air As Brits Burn Power Bills Amid Historic Energy Crisis
Revolution In Air As Brits Burn Power Bills Amid Historic Energy Crisis Energy prices for millions of households across the UK rose on Saturday. Soaring power bills amid the worst cost-of-living crisis in a generation led to a continuation of growing discontent ahead of the dark winter. Thousands of Brits marched in London and other […]
The Washington Post Dabbles in Orwell
The Washington Post Dabbles in Orwell In scrubbed piece about Edward Snowden, the Bezos Post offers a preview of how history will be re-written A Monday story in the Washington Post entitled “Putin grants citizenship to Edward Snowden, who exposed U.S. surveillance’” began: Russian President Vladimir Putin granted citizenship on Monday to Edward Snowden, a former security consultant […]
New Zealand Prime Minister Calls for a Global Censorship System
New Zealand Prime Minister Calls for a Global Censorship System C-Span screengrab New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern is the latest liberal leader to call for an international alliance to censor speech. Unsatisfied with the unprecedented corporate censorship of social media companies, leaders like Hillary Clinton have turned from private censorship to good old-fashioned state censorship. Speech […]
Say Only What We Want to Hear, or We Will Take Away Your Livelihood
Say Only What We Want to Hear, or We Will Take Away Your Livelihood The attacks on free and open discussion are becoming more and more widespread. Now, as Toby Young explains in an article this morning, the payment service PayPal has closed the accounts of the Daily Sceptic, which often publishes criticism of the government policy in various […]
Who Is Really Spreading Misinformed Disinformation?
Who Is Really Spreading Misinformed Disinformation? Ne’er has there been more fertile ground that exemplifies how those in charge of the narrative are either (1) grossly incompetent, (2) saying what they need to simply to suit their own agenda, or (3) both – than the topics of Covid, inflation, Trump’s non-existent Russian collusion and Hunter […]
Strike, Strike, Strike
Strike, Strike, Strike The mounting social inequality is fueling protests around the globe. The global ruling class is determined to prevent these protests from employing the weapon that can bring them down — strikes. Strike, Strike, Strike – by Mr. Fish The ruling oligarchs are terrified that, for tens of millions of people, the economic […]
Escalation: Recent Events Suggest Mounting Economic Danger
Escalation: Recent Events Suggest Mounting Economic Danger A common refrain from people who are critical of alternative economists is that we have been predicting crisis for so long that “eventually we will be right.” These are generally people who don’t understand the nature of economic decline – It’s like an avalanche that builds over time, […]
In Brief: Trading safety, An inflection point, The crisis of under-consumption, A reign of decline
In Brief: Trading safety, An inflection point, The crisis of under-consumption, A reign of decline Trading safety Within the inner sanctum of one of the world’s oldest and most esteemed universities, an ageing professor sits in a battered leather armchair. Oblivious to the day-to-day sensations within the room – the slow tick and tock of […]
IMF Chief: Harsh Winter May Spark Social Unrest In EU Amid Energy Crisis
IMF Chief: Harsh Winter May Spark Social Unrest In EU Amid Energy Crisis A number of countries in Europe may experience social unrest if the upcoming winter is harsh amid an economic crisis, the head of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) warned on Wednesday. “There is certainly fear of recession in some countries, or even if it is not […]
JOHN PILGER: Silencing the Lambs — How Propaganda Works
JOHN PILGER: Silencing the Lambs — How Propaganda Works Leni Riefenstahl said her epic films glorifying the Nazis depended on a “submissive void” in the German public. This is how propaganda is done. Leni Riefenstahl, center, filming with two assistants, 1936. (Bundesarchiv, CC-BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons) In the 1970s, I met one of Hitler’s leading propagandists, […]
As the planet warms, people are moving. Will Canada welcome them?
As the planet warms, people are moving. Will Canada welcome them? Temporary foreign workers from Mexico plant strawberries on a farm in Mirabel, Que., on May 6, 2020. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Graham Hughes As droughts, deteriorating farmland and rising sea levels push people around the world from their homes, advocates in Canada are calling on the […]
