Listen to a reading of this article (reading by Tim Foley): ❖ The US military has released video footage of a Chinese navy ship cutting across the path of an American Destroyer in the Taiwan Strait over the weekend, reportedly forcing the US vessel to slow down to avoid…

Listen to a reading of this article (reading by Tim Foley): ❖ If you watch western news media with a critical eye you eventually notice how their reporting consistently aligns with the interests of the US-centralized empire, in almost the same way you’d expect them to if they were…

Listen to a reading of this article (reading by Tim Foley): ❖ Republican politicians have found a way to reconcile the fact that scrutinizing the behavior of the US war machine appeals to their base and wins votes with the fact that the Republican Party is built around facilitating…

Listen to a reading of this article (reading by Tim Foley): ❖ The biggest problem with the western left is that it doesn’t exist. To look at a lot of leftist discourse today you might think the left’s biggest problem is that some leftists have the wrong beliefs about…

Listen to a reading of this article (reading by Tim Foley): ❖ We’re already seeing a ton of ridiculous drama queenery about Trump’s second presidential run, claiming he’s grown even more extremist and fascistic than when he was president in what amounts to a repeat of the “Trump is…

Listen to a reading of this article (reading by Tim Foley): ❖ Today in tyranny we’ve got three stories on the rapidly increasing authoritarian abuses in western “free democracies”. Let’s dig in. 1. Grayzone reporter detained by British counter-terrorism police for doing journalism. The Grayzone’s Kit Klarenberg was detained by “six anonymous plainclothes counter-terror officers” who “grilled him for over…

Listen to a reading of this article (reading by Tim Foley): ❖ The biggest impediment to free speech is people’s belief that they have it. Not censorship. Not refusal to platform critical voices. Not the war on journalism. It’s the fact that most people are propagandized into saying what…

Listen to a reading of this article (reading by Tim Foley): ❖ Well it’s that time again. Time for everyone to spend a year and a half pouring mountains of mental energy into arguing about who should be the next President of the United States of America. Friendships will…

Listen to a reading of this article (reading by Tim Foley): ❖ When most people in the English-speaking world hear the word “propaganda”, they tend to think of something that’s done by foreign nations who have governments that are so totalitarian they won’t even let people know what’s true…