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20 hours ago

Imperial Narrative Control Has Five Distinct Elements

Listen to a reading of this article: ❖ All of our world’s worst problems are created by the powerful. The powerful will keep creating those problems until ordinary people use their superior numbers to make them stop. …

Propaganda

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Imperial Narrative Control Has Five Distinct Elements
Imperial Narrative Control Has Five Distinct Elements

2 days ago

People Don’t Think Hard Enough About What Nuclear War Is And What It Would Mean

Listen to a reading of this article: ❖ There’s a John Mearsheimer video clip from 2016 that’s going viral on Twitter right now, as old John Mearsheimer clips tend to do in the year 2022 when his predictions that western actions would lead to the destruction of Ukraine are…

Nuclear Weapons

5 min read

People Don’t Think Hard Enough About What Nuclear War Is And What It Would Mean
People Don’t Think Hard Enough About What Nuclear War Is And What It Would Mean

3 days ago

Let’s Fight WW3 Over Lithuania: Notes From The Edge Of The Narrative Matrix

Listen to a reading of this article: ❖ The problem with anti-imperialists who spend all their time criticizing the evil US empire is that there aren’t nearly enough of them. ❖ People who respond to criticisms of the US by babbling about the misdeeds of other governments are just…

News

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Let’s Fight WW3 Over Lithuania: Notes From The Edge Of The Narrative Matrix
Let’s Fight WW3 Over Lithuania: Notes From The Edge Of The Narrative Matrix

4 days ago

Just For Fun

Listen to a reading of this article: ❖ Just for fun we all pretend to be strangers. Just for fun we pretend we don’t know each other on the street, on the train, at the store, at the traffic light. Just for fun we pretend we aren’t locked in…

Poetry

2 min read

Just For Fun
Just For Fun

5 days ago

The Guardian Churns Out Embarrassingly Awful Empire Propaganda

Listen to a reading of this article: ❖ The Guardian has put out a smear piece on critics of the imperial Syria narrative that reads like propaganda made by seven year-olds without adult supervision. The article was initially released under the headline “Russia-backed network of Syria conspiracy theorists identified,”…

Propaganda

5 min read

The Guardian Churns Out Embarrassingly Awful Empire Propaganda
The Guardian Churns Out Embarrassingly Awful Empire Propaganda

Jun 18

Assange Is Doing His Most Important Work Yet

Listen to a reading of this article: ❖ British Home Secretary Priti Patel has authorized the extradition of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange to the United States to be tried under the Espionage Act in a case which seeks to set a legal precedent for the prosecution of any publisher…

Julian Assange

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Assange Is Doing His Most Important Work Yet
Assange Is Doing His Most Important Work Yet

Jun 17

The Mainstream Worldview Is Self-Evidently Bullshit: Notes From The Edge Of The Narrative Matrix

Listen to a reading of this article: ❖ They’ve lied about every war, and they’ve openly acknowledged lying about this very war, but you’re a Kremlin agent if you say they’re lying to us about this war. ❖ The mainstream worldview is self-evidently bullshit. If our media and education…

Politics

5 min read

The Mainstream Worldview Is Self-Evidently Bullshit: Notes From The Edge Of The Narrative Matrix
The Mainstream Worldview Is Self-Evidently Bullshit: Notes From The Edge Of The Narrative Matrix

Jun 16

We’re Here To Become As Conscious As Possible

Listen to a reading of this article: https://soundcloud.com/going_rogue/were-here-to-become-as-conscious-as-possible ❖ If there is a purpose of human life, as near as I can tell from these severely limited sense organs and this very limited brain, it’s to become as conscious as possible. If you were given a video game to play…

Humanity

5 min read

We’re Here To Become As Conscious As Possible
We’re Here To Become As Conscious As Possible

Jun 15

MBS Sullies Saudi Arabia’s Good Name With Plans To Meet US President

Listen to a reading of this article: ❖ The White House has officially confirmed reports that President Biden will indeed be visiting Saudi Arabia in contradiction of his campaign vows to make the nation a “pariah” for its human rights violations, and everyone’s acting like visiting a murderous tyrant…

News

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MBS Sullies Saudi Arabia’s Good Name With Plans To Meet US President
MBS Sullies Saudi Arabia’s Good Name With Plans To Meet US President

Jun 14

Biden’s New Press Secretary Almost Calls Saudis A ‘Regime’

Listen to a reading of this article: ❖ White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre came very close to committing the cardinal sin of referring to a US-aligned nation as a “regime” on Monday. In the official White House transcript of Jean-Pierre’s interaction with a reporter inquiring about Biden’s upcoming…

Politics

6 min read

Biden’s New Press Secretary Almost Calls Saudis A ‘Regime’
Biden’s New Press Secretary Almost Calls Saudis A ‘Regime’
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