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How To Silence RT Forever
How To Silence RT Forever Loyalists of the western empire have been growing increasingly honest about their desire to use censorship and propaganda in order to win an “information war” against Russia. The other day we saw a Guardian article arguing for the necessity of a coordinated campaign by western governments to “combat Russian disinformation” due to […]
2018: When Orwell’s 1984 stopped being fiction
2018: When Orwell’s 1984 stopped being fiction This is the moment when a newspaper claiming to uphold that most essential function in a liberal democracy – acting as a watchdog on power – formally abandons the task. This is the moment when it positively embraces the role of serving as a mouthpiece for the government. […]
Extinction vs. Collapse
Extinction vs. Collapse Does it Matter? Climate twitter – the most fun twitter – has recently been relitigating the debate between human extinction and mere civilizational collapse, between doom and gloom, despair and (kind of) hope. It was sparked by an interview in The Guardian with acclaimed scientist Mayer Hillman. He argues that we’re probably […]
Is the CEO obsolete? A look the emerging organization
Is the CEO obsolete? A look the emerging organization Recently, the writer of a guest editorial in The Guardian Weekly proposed a solution to what ails the world’s business schools: Shut them down. The author, Martin Parker, claims there are 13,000 business schools on the planet and he says that’s 13,000 too many. He says […]
The Guardian Is Committing Journalistic Malpractice By Not Retracting This Claim
The Guardian Is Committing Journalistic Malpractice By Not Retracting This Claim On the 19th of April, The Guardian published an article making the positive assertion that two Twitter accounts were run not by real people, but by automated bot software based in Russia. Since the article was published, the owners of both accounts have stepped forward, […]
How The Guardian Fulfills George Orwell’s Prediction of ‘Newspeak’
How The Guardian Fulfills George Orwell’s Prediction of ‘Newspeak’ On Sunday April 15th, Britain’s Guardian bannered “OPCW inspectors set to investigate site of Douma chemical attack” and pretended that there was no question that a chemical attack in Douma Syria on April 7th had actually occurred, and the article then went further along that same propaganda-line, to […]
Theresa May Reportedly Considering Ban On Russian Sovereign Debt Sales
Theresa May Reportedly Considering Ban On Russian Sovereign Debt Sales Echoing the Treasury Department’s decision to prohibit trading in Venezuelan “hunger bonds” in US markets, UK Prime Minister Theresa May is mulling whether to throw her support behind a measure that would ban the sale of Russian sovereign debt in City of London financial markets. […]
Nations Won’t Reach Paris Climate Goal Without Protecting Wildlife and Nature, Warns Report
Nations Won’t Reach Paris Climate Goal Without Protecting Wildlife and Nature, Warns Report A sweeping new report released today emphasizes just how intertwined the challenges of climate change and loss of biodiversity truly are. The Paris Climate Agreement and several other United Nations (UN) pacts “all depend on the health and vitality of our natural environment […]
Paul Ehrlich: ‘Collapse of civilisation is a near certainty within decades’
Paul Ehrlich: ‘Collapse of civilisation is a near certainty within decades’ Fifty years after the publication of his controversial book The Population Bomb, biologist Paul Ehrlich warns overpopulation and overconsumption are driving us over the edge The toxification of the planet with synthetic chemicals may be more dangerous to people and wildlife than climate change, […]
EPA head Scott Pruitt says global warming may help ‘humans flourish’
EPA head Scott Pruitt says global warming may help ‘humans flourish’ EPA administrator says ‘There are assumptions made that because the climate is warming that necessarily is a bad thing’ Scott Pruitt: ‘It’s fairly arrogant for us to think we know exactly what [the ideal surface temperature] should be in 2100.’ Photograph: Michael Reynolds/EPA Scott […]
Why Special Interests Try to Take Control of Governments
Why Special Interests Try to Take Control of Governments George Monbiot, popular Guardian columnist, beacon light of global environmentalism, is also the kind of progressive who insists on seeing the world as he wishes it were and not as it really is. Wearing these kind of blinders will not help us get a better environment […]
Civil Servants Are Deliberately Destroying Documents From The UK’s National Archive
Civil Servants Are Deliberately Destroying Documents From The UK’s National Archive In yet another galling example of historical revisionism put into practice, the Guardian reported Tuesday that thousands of documents from the National Archives have gone missing in recent years – and some may have been deliberately destroyed by civil servants hoping to purge unflattering […]
George Monbiot on the Commons
George Monbiot on the Commons George Monbiot, a columnist for the British newspaper and website The Guardian, may be the most prominent champion of the commons that I’ve discovered in mainstream journalism today. He has long been a compelling, out-of-the-box thinker on all sorts of economic and environmental issues. Now he is introducing the commons […]
Too right it’s Black Friday: our relentless consumption is trashing the planet
Too right it’s Black Friday: our relentless consumption is trashing the planet Growth must go on – it’s the political imperative everywhere, and it’s destroying the Earth. But there’s no way of greening it, so we need a new system Illustration: Sebastien Thibault Everyone wants everything – how is that going to work? The promise […]
