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1 day ago

All Our Systems Are Built To Elevate Viciousness

Listen to a reading of this article: ❖ There’s a scene in The Usual Suspects where Kevin Spacey tells the fable of the mysterious Keyser Soze and how he became a crime lord. “One story the guys told me, the story I believe, was from his days in Turkey,”…

Capitalism

5 min read

All Our Systems Are Built To Elevate Viciousness
All Our Systems Are Built To Elevate Viciousness

3 days ago

CBS Wanted To Do Critical Reporting On Ukraine’s Government But Ukraine’s Government Said No

Listen to a reading of this article: ❖ Following objections from the Ukrainian government, CBS News has removed a short documentary which had reported concerns from numerous sources that a large amount of the supplies being sent to Ukraine aren’t making it to the front lines. The Ukrainian government…

Ukraine

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CBS Wanted To Do Critical Reporting On Ukraine’s Government But Ukraine’s Government Said No
CBS Wanted To Do Critical Reporting On Ukraine’s Government But Ukraine’s Government Said No

4 days ago

China Is Better Than The USA: Notes From The Edge Of The Narrative Matrix

Listen to a reading of this article: ❖ The US empire uses “freedom and democracy” as a pretext to conquer and kill in exactly the same way European colonialists used the pretext of spreading Christianity and civilization to save the godless savages. …

Politics

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China Is Better Than The USA: Notes From The Edge Of The Narrative Matrix
China Is Better Than The USA: Notes From The Edge Of The Narrative Matrix

5 days ago

When Will Foreign Leaders Start Asking To Speak To America’s REAL Government?

Listen to a reading of this article: ❖ During the furor over Nancy Pelosi’s incendiary Taiwan visit last week, I was watching an appearance by Antiwar’s Dave DeCamp on the show Rising which brought up the under-discussed point that US officials going to Taipei is actually a continuation of…

Politics

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When Will Foreign Leaders Start Asking To Speak To America’s REAL Government?
When Will Foreign Leaders Start Asking To Speak To America’s REAL Government?

6 days ago

Westerners Think They Are Free-Thinking Individualists And It’s Effing Adorable

Listen to a reading of this article: ❖ The Times has published an article titled “Lady Gaga embodies everything China fears,” subtitled “The singer’s uncompromising individuality makes her a serious threat to the mass imposition of cultural conformity through censorship,” and its contents are exactly as horrifyingly idiotic as…

China

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Westerners Think They Are Free-Thinking Individualists And It’s Effing Adorable
Westerners Think They Are Free-Thinking Individualists And It’s Effing Adorable

Aug 6

“Russian Propaganda” Just Means Disobedience

Listen to a reading of this article: ❖ You can always tell how important narrative control is by watching the way people react when their control of the narrative is jeopardized. Empire apologists are raging at Amnesty International for pausing its aggressive facilitation of western imperialism to issue one…

News

7 min read

“Russian Propaganda” Just Means Disobedience
“Russian Propaganda” Just Means Disobedience

Aug 5

New Media Are As Intertwined With Imperial Power As Old Media

Listen to a reading of this article: ❖ Alan MacLeod has a new article out with Mintpress News showing how most of the supposedly independent “fact-checking” organizations which Facebook has partnered with to police the information people are allowed to see on the platform about the war in Ukraine…

Silicon Valley

4 min read

New Media Are As Intertwined With Imperial Power As Old Media
New Media Are As Intertwined With Imperial Power As Old Media

Aug 4

Issue #1 Of Treazine, A Print-Friendly Zine Of Articles From The Past Month

Hello all! As part of my continual effort to publish my work in as many forms of media as possible, I’m putting out the inaugural (and possibly only depending on how well it’s received) edition of Treazine, the treasonous zine which collects my favorite articles, poems and Notes from the…

Announcements

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Issue #1 Of Treazine, A Print-Friendly Zine Of Articles From The Past Month
Issue #1 Of Treazine, A Print-Friendly Zine Of Articles From The Past Month

Aug 3

The US Military Was Just Used To Help A Dementia Patient Try To Start WW3

Listen to a reading of this article: ❖ House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has left Taiwan after a brief but diplomatically corrosive visit, the aftereffects from which may be felt for years to come. Toward the end of her speech alongside Taiwan’s President Tsai Ing-wen, Pelosi’s brain underwent one of…

News

4 min read

The US Military Was Just Used To Help A Dementia Patient Try To Start WW3
The US Military Was Just Used To Help A Dementia Patient Try To Start WW3

Aug 2

The Anti-China Brainwashing Is Working: Notes From The Edge Of The Narrative Matrix

Listen to a reading of this article: ❖ If someone criticizing the most dangerous agendas of the most powerful and destructive government on earth looks like “Russian propaganda” or “Chinese propaganda” to you, it’s because you yourself have been brainwashed by propaganda. ❖ The western propaganda campaign against China…

China

5 min read

The Anti-China Brainwashing Is Working: Notes From The Edge Of The Narrative Matrix
The Anti-China Brainwashing Is Working: Notes From The Edge Of The Narrative Matrix
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