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Showing posts with label George Orwell. Show all posts
Showing posts with label George Orwell. Show all posts
Wednesday, August 15, 2018

Paul J. Saunders — Why Bloomberg Got It Wrong

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Devastating smackdown. Implies the reporters should be fired. I would add, probably the editor responsible as well. Want better news? Dem...
Sunday, July 8, 2018

Jesse — Remembering Ed Schultz, Kind Of - This Is the World That We Live In Now

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Remembering a patriot and champion of workers driven out and then degraded by the corporate culture. Sad, and a warning that difference an...
Thursday, December 1, 2016

Robert Parry — The Orwellian War on Skepticism

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Official Washington’s rush into an Orwellian future is well underway as political and media bigwigs move to silence Internet voices of inde...
Friday, April 15, 2016

William Astore — A Dictionary of Euphemisms for Imperial Decline

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Double-speak Counterpunch A Dictionary of Euphemisms for Imperial Decline William Astore
Tuesday, May 26, 2015

John Feffer — Tomgram: John Feffer, Why the World Is Becoming the Un-Sweden

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Today, TomDispatch regular John Feffer, the director of Foreign Policy In Focus, offers a cunning bow to the convergence theorists of the ...
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Tuesday, February 3, 2015

Elizabeth Murray — Examining the Stasi, Seeing the NSA [and MI5]

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For many years, the East German Stasi was viewed as the most totalitarian of intelligence services, relentlessly spying on its citizens du...
Wednesday, September 17, 2014

David Kravets — Justice Sotomayor says technology could lead to “Orwellian world”

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Let's hope that Sonia Sotomajor becomes the next William O. Douglas . Ars Technica Justice Sotomayor says technology could lead to...
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Tuesday, February 11, 2014

Henry A. Giroux — Totalitarian Paranoia in the Post-Orwellian Surveillance State

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This is a long post but Giroux meticulously combed through the state of affairs and their implications for contemporary life and (formerly)...
Monday, January 6, 2014

Chris Hedges — The Last Gasp of American Democracy

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This is our last gasp as a democracy. The state’s wholesale intrusion into our lives and obliteration of privacy are now facts. And the cha...
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Sunday, September 22, 2013

L Michael Hager — Path to Autocracy: Could America Become a Police State?

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It is time for Americans to say: "Stop!" Let's stop building a platform and all the related tools that some future autocrat c...
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Tuesday, June 11, 2013

Husna Haq — NSA revelations trigger a spike in '1984' sales

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George Orwell's dystopian classic '1984' has experienced a sales surge since the National Security Agency's surveillance pr...
Sunday, November 25, 2012

Double-Speak – the language of the corporate cult

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George Orwell would be impressed by how thoroughly double-speak has been mastered as the language of the corporate cultists. The Huffington ...