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We Approach State Singularity
We Approach State Singularity Many citizens of the West believe that they live in free societies, or something close. But as time goes on, public authorities increasingly insist on having a say in everything. People cannot build things on their own land without permits. They cannot run businesses without approvals and inspections. They cannot give […]
US Targets Journalists Who Criticize Administration’s Foreign Policy
US Targets Journalists Who Criticize Administration’s Foreign Policy State-ordered Purge of Truth-Tellers in Time of War. Scott Ritter Passport Seized, WaPo Smears Indy Journalists Scott Ritter was pulled off a NY-to-Istanbul flight yesterday by US officials and his passport confiscated in a startling new development in the government’s open drive to censor and silence critics […]
Will the Revolution Be Televised?
Will the Revolution Be Televised? That depends. Will we have water? Electricity? Who will revolt and over what? The Detroit Rebellion of 1967. In the course of five days, 43 were killed, 33 black and 10 white. 1,189 were injured and 7,200 people arrested. National Guardsmen fired over 150,000 bullets during the riot. This post […]
They Can’t Control the Gaza Narrative Because Too Much Has Been Seen
They Can’t Control the Gaza Narrative Because Too Much Has Been Seen A lot of mainstream-adjacent progressives act like Gaza is some radical deviation from normal US behavior, which is infantile nonsense. The US inflicts similar horrors on the world all the time; the only major difference is (A) this one’s being live-streamed and (B) […]
How Might We Undermine the PMC?
How Might We Undermine the PMC? Fourteen years ago, I wrote a very long article that became the lion’s share of Chapter Two of Keith Farnish’s book Underminers. My article was about the Tools of Disconnection — the cultural mechanisms by which we became disconnected from each other and the more-than-human world, and hence willing and able […]
Weekend reads: Slowing down the news
Weekend reads: Slowing down the news A Q&A with Jeremy Klaszus, founder of the Calgary outlet The Sprawl Photo credit: Gavin John At Lean Out, we often write about what’s not working in Canadian media — but we also want to highlight what is working, particularly when it comes to local news. As such, we have an […]
Managing Chaos: Adventures in Alternative Media. Greg Guma
Managing Chaos: Adventures in Alternative Media. Greg Guma An eye-witness account that explores the unique, tumultuous history of Pacifica radio and alternative media in America. After an eclectic career, Greg Guma discusses the evolution of radio and television, the impacts of concentrated media ownership, the rise of the alternative press, his own work in Vermont — before […]
Leaked New York Times Gaza Memo Tells Journalists to Avoid Words “Genocide,” “Ethnic Cleansing,” and “Occupied Territory”
Leaked New York Times Gaza Memo Tells Journalists to Avoid Words “Genocide,” “Ethnic Cleansing,” and “Occupied Territory” Amid the internal battle over the New York Times’s coverage of Israel’s war, top editors handed down a set of directives. The New York Times instructed journalists covering Israel’s war on the Gaza Strip to restrict the use of the […]
The Day We Stopped Trusting Media
The Day We Stopped Trusting Media Imagine future election campaigns One of the first posts in this newsletter’s Shrinking Trust Horizon series was about how “deep fake” technology will make fake images, videos, and audio recordings almost indistinguishable from the real thing. This will kill millions of modeling and acting jobs, while weaponizing audio and video in […]
Orwellian Sydney Police: We Will Be the “Source of Truth”
Orwellian Sydney Police: We Will Be the “Source of Truth” Sydney residents question the implications of centralized truth and censorship in the wake of a government’s push to police online discourse. Offering a fresh perspective on the fallout of a recent Sydney stabbing attack, residents have expressed their anger and mistrust toward the police who […]
Scotland Implements Controversial Hate Legislation That Damages Free Speech
Scotland Implements Controversial Hate Legislation That Damages Free Speech A major attack on free speech was introduced on April 1st. Scotland’s contentious “hate crime” legislation, widely criticized as an affront to free speech, is now in effect. Critics have voiced concerns that these new measures, while designed to address the alleged harm inflicted by hatred […]
What the Western Press Didn’t Say About the Leaked Luftwaffe Conversation
What the Western Press Didn’t Say About the Leaked Luftwaffe Conversation What if a conversation between Russian officials discussing the explosion of a bridge in Germany had been revealed? Would Western press coverage also treat the leak as something more serious than threats of military attack? On March 1, the editor-in-chief of the Rossiya Segodnya […]
The Endgame, Part I
The Endgame, Part I The Russo-Ukrainian war and geopolitics of Europe In early February, I posted a poll on X asking whether I should write a geopolitical piece on the Russo-Ukrainian war, adding to my series mapping a worst-case scenario for the war. While the vote count for this particular poll was not very high, an overwhelming majority supported […]
WSJ Editor-in-Chief Admits To Davos Elites ‘We No Longer Own The News’
WSJ Editor-in-Chief Admits To Davos Elites ‘We No Longer Own The News’ Thanks to the internet and (shrinking) press freedoms, legacy media outlets no longer have a monopoly on information and narratives. Case in point, during a WEF discussion at Davos entitled “Defending Truth,” Wall St. Journal EIC Emma Tucker lamented this loss of control over ‘the […]
