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The Subtleties of Anti-Russia Leftist Rhetoric
By Edward Curtin Source: Behind the Curtain While the so-called liberal and conservative corporate mainstream media – all stenographers for the intelligence agencies – pour forth the most blatant propaganda about Russia and Ukraine that is so conspicuous that it … Continue reading
Posted in anti-war, Authoritarianism, conditioning, corporate news, culture, Empire, Geopolitics, imperialism, media, Media Literacy, NATO, Neocons, news, propaganda, Psy-ops, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, State Crime, Technocracy, war
Tagged Christian Parenti, corporate news, Doublethink, Dystopia, empire, geopolitics, George Orwell, imperialism, Liberals, Mainstream Media, NATO, Neocons, Noam Chomsky, Russia, The Intercept, Ukraine, US Foreign Policy, war
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Newspeak in the 21st Century: How to Become a Model Citizen in the New Era of Domestic Warfare
By Cynthia Chung Source: Strategic Culture Foundation With President Biden’s inauguration many feel that they can finally breathe a deep sigh of relief. At last sanity has been restored and we can all go back to our predictable lives knowing … Continue reading
Posted in Authoritarianism, censorship, civil liberties, conditioning, consciousness, culture, Dystopia, elites, Empire, media, Media Literacy, news, Oligarchy, propaganda, Psy-ops, Psychology, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, State Crime, surveillance state, Technocracy, war
Tagged 1984, Authoritarianism, censorship, crimestop, culture, Doublethink, Dystopia, George Orwell, groupthink, Joe Biden, Newspeak, OldSpeak, Oligarchy, Patriot Act, propaganda, purges, society, thoughtcrime
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Everybody Knows the Fight was Fixed
By Edward Curtin Source: Behind the Curtain “Yeah, like [in] a church. Church of the Good Hustler.” – Fast Eddie Felson (Paul Newman) in The Hustler At the end of Henrik Ibsen’s classic play, A Doll’s House, Nora, the aggrieved wife, leaves … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Authoritarianism, conditioning, Corruption, culture, Deep State, divide and conquer, Dystopia, elites, Empire, imperialism, media, news, Oligarchy, propaganda, Psy-ops, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, State Crime
Tagged A Doll’s House, Corruption, Donald Trump, Doublethink, Dystopia, Election 2020, empire, Henrik Ibsen, imperialism, Joe Biden, Oligarchy, Plutocracy, propaganda
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The End of Reality?
By Edward Curtin Source: Behind the Curtain In 1888, the year before he went insane, Friedrich Nietzsche wrote the following in Twilight of the Idols: We have got rid of the real world: what world is left? The apparent world perhaps? … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Authoritarianism, conditioning, Corporate Crime, corporate news, Corruption, culture, Deep State, media, Media Literacy, news, Oligarchy, Philosophy, propaganda, Psy-ops, Psychology, Science, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, surveillance state, Technocracy, Technology
Tagged 1984, Art, coronavirus, corporate media, Covid-19, Doublethink, fascism, Filippo Tommaso Marinetti, Friedrich Nietzsche, Futurism, George Orwell, Mathew Arnold, media, Media Literacy, Neil Postman, Paul Virilio, Peter Koenig, Philosophy, propaganda, Roberto Calasso, surveillance state, techno-fascism, Technocracy
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Orwell’s 1984 no longer reads like fiction. It’s the reality of our times
By Robert Bridge Source: RT.com 70 years ago, the British writer George Orwell captured the essence of technology in its ability to shape our destinies in his seminal work, 1984. The tragedy of our times is that we have failed … Continue reading
Posted in Authoritarianism, CIA, civil liberties, conditioning, corporate news, culture, Dystopia, freedom of speech, internet freedom, media, Media Literacy, police state, propaganda, Psy-ops, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, State Crime, surveillance state, Technocracy, Technology
Tagged 1984, Authoritarianism, CIA, culture, Doublethink, Dystopia, Facebook, facecrime, George Orwell, Mark Zuckerberg, Newspeak, NSA, police state, Social Media, society, surveillance state, technology, tyranny
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Lessons from George Orwell’s ‘1984’
By Ethan Indigo Smith Source: Waking Times “Political language is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.” — George Orwell Some fictional literature is so profound as to … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Authoritarianism, censorship, civil liberties, conditioning, consciousness, corporate news, culture, Dystopia, Empire, freedom of speech, History, media, news, Philosophy, police state, propaganda, Psy-ops, Psychology, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, State Crime, surveillance state, war
Tagged 1984, Authoritarianism, censorship, Crimethink, Doublethink, Dystopia, Fake News, George Orwell, Newspeak, police state, Prole, propaganda, social control, surveillance state, Thought Crime, Totalitarian State, Winston Smith
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