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Modern Newspeak: How Internet Censors Are Making Sure You Hear Only One Side of the Story
Modern Newspeak: How Internet Censors Are Making Sure You Hear Only One Side of the Story It’s not breaking news that the internet censors have been hard at work to silence voices that are in opposition to the mainstream media agenda. But after the influence that social media had on the last election, things are […]
Survey Find Americans’ Views on Free Speech is a Whole Bunch of Crazy
Survey Find Americans’ Views on Free Speech is a Whole Bunch of Crazy The biggest thing this survey proves is that Orwellian double-speak is working. If you are unfamiliar, doublespeak is a term from the novel 1984. It is speech intentionally meant to confuse, or obscure reality. What does free speech mean? What is hate speech? […]
The NYT’s Yellow Journalism on Russia
The NYT’s Yellow Journalism on Russia Exclusive: The New York Times’ descent into yellow journalism over Russia recalls the sensationalism of Hearst and Pulitzer leading to the Spanish-American War, but the risks to humanity are much greater now, writes Robert Parry. Reading The New York Times these days is like getting a daily dose of […]
Welcome to 1984: Big Brother Google now watching your every political move
Welcome to 1984: Big Brother Google now watching your every political move © Hoxton / Paul Bradbury / Getty Images Google has taken the unprecedented step of burying material, mostly from websites on the political right, that it has deemed to be inappropriate. The problem, however, is that the world’s largest search engine is a left-leaning […]
Prisons of Pleasure or Pain: Huxley’s “Brave New World” vs. Orwell’s “1984”
Prisons of Pleasure or Pain: Huxley’s “Brave New World” vs. Orwell’s “1984” Definition of UTOPIA 1: an imaginary and indefinitely remote place 2: a place of ideal perfection especially in laws, government, and social conditions 3: an impractical scheme for social improvement Definition of DYSTOPIA 1: an imaginary place where people lead dehumanized and often […]
How to Drain the Deep Swamp
How to Drain the Deep Swamp Pablo Picasso Girl Before A Mirror 1932 Obviously, like hopefully many people, I’ve been following the WikiLeaks CIA revelations, and closely. It’s too early for too many conclusions, if only because WikiLeaks has announced much more will flow from that same pipeline. But one thing is already clear: the CIA is -still- […]
10 Years (Or Less): Orwell’s Vision Coming True
10 Years (Or Less): Orwell’s Vision Coming True In the wake of all of the Brexit vote, a chilling blurb made headlines and it went largely unnoticed and uncommented upon. The line was couched within comments made by Boris Titov, an economic policy maker for Russia’s Kremlin. Actually all of the following merits attention, but […]
Welcome to 1984
Welcome to 1984 Protester Bob Bowes, of Somerville, Mass., displays an American flag featuring corporate logos outside a meeting of U.S. elites in Boston. (Steven Senne / AP) The artifice of corporate totalitarianism has been exposed. The citizens, disgusted by the lies and manipulation, have turned on the political establishment. But the game is not […]
5 things George Orwell understood
5 things George Orwell understood Famed author implores us to be vigilant, and to keep the faiths of decency, tolerance and humanity George Orwell at the BBC in 1941. The insights of his books and many other writings still resonate today. (Penguin Books India) Related Stories The Orwell Tapes, Part 1 The Orwell Tapes, Part […]
Letter from Europe
Letter from Europe Dear Sir , Inside of 25 years I’ve observed the shift of the mass-media in Europe from somehow different and somehow independent /original and free as much the official media can be in this “democracy-capitalism” to a “European Media” which is absolutely identical and absolutely uniformity qua content, being different only the […]
Dystopian Fiction of Yesterday is the NWO of Tomorrow: “The Shift is Toward Totalitarianism”
Dystopian Fiction of Yesterday is the NWO of Tomorrow: “The Shift is Toward Totalitarianism” Many of the things that are happening this very moment have direct parallels in literature of the past. Whether it is an account such as the “Gulag Archipelago” by Solzhenitsyn or a work of “fiction” such as “1984” by George Orwell […]
Where Does the Future Lie?
Where Does the Future Lie? QUESTION: Are you more worried about a 1984 esque future or A Brave New World esque future? ANSWER: Unfortunately, the two go hand in hand. George Orwell simply took the past and laid out what government ALWAYS gravitates toward – total control. We live in a delusion with our brains filled with […]
The New Mind Control
The New Mind Control The internet has spawned subtle forms of influence that can flip elections and manipulate everything we say, think and do March 02, 2016 “Information Clearing House” – “Aeon” – Over the past century, more than a few great writers have expressed concern about humanity’s future. In The Iron Heel (1908), the American writer […]
The new mind control
The new mind control The internet has spawned subtle forms of influence that can flip elections and manipulate everything we say, think and do Photo by Corbis Are search engines and social media sites manipulating the important decisions we make every day? Over the past century, more than a few great writers have expressed concern […]
Mitch McConnell Moves to Grant the President Unlimited War Powers with No Expiration Date
Mitch McConnell Moves to Grant the President Unlimited War Powers with No Expiration Date The essential act of war is destruction, not necessarily of human lives, but of the products of human labour. War is a way of shattering to pieces, or pouring into the stratosphere, or sinking in the depths of the sea, materials […]
