John & Nisha Whitehead Big Brother is Watching You.” George Orwell, 1984 2024 is the new 1984. Forty years past the time that George Orwell envisioned the stomping boot of Big Brother, the police state is about to pass off the baton to the surveillance state. Fueled by a melding of government and corporate power—the rise …
Edward Curtin My title is redundant for a reason, since the root of the word radical is the Latin word, radix, meaning root. For I mean to show how the use and misuse of language, its history or etymology, and ours as etymological animals as the Spanish philosopher José Ortega y Gassett called us, is crucial …
Our successor to This Week in the Guardian, This Week in the New Normal is our weekly chart of the progress of autocracy, authoritarianism and economic restructuring around the world. 1. The Ministry of Plenty Says Employment is Up A few days ago President Biden (or rather the marketing intern manning his account) tweeted that …
The European Union has been accused of creating Orwellian "ministries of truth" that will ensure wrong thoughts are not allowed in a bid to tackle disinformation online.
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Cosmopolitan — ‘world politics’, ‘world citizen’ — people of many races under a world empire. The word became a meme in the 1890s as British empire blossomed, supposedly the world now united around principles of the free market. Sounds cool. The market is the proven way to run economies. It is neutral, no favorites, harsh […]
Nick Seward was sick of the creep of totalitarianism into everyday life - so he left England and fled to Hong Kong. As a teacher, he now enjoys more freedom than he did back home.
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Quran Rumi The first ten Surahs of the Holy Quran, known as the Al-Mufassal Surahs, hold great significance in the Islamic faith. These Surahs were revealed in the early stages of Prophet Muhammad’s prophethood and lay the foundation for understanding the fundamental teachings of Islam. Let’s explore each Surah briefly: Surah Al-Fatiha (The Opening): Surah […]
Home Secretary slams virtue signalling belief police: Focus on catching criminals, not silencing debates.
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President Macron is not a king but a pawn of global finance The current tenant of the Elysee Palace has been called by NUPES, the left coalition opposition in France, a President-King. To do so is to give him a bigger role and more power than what he has. In reality, Macron is just one […]
The ultimate goal of the conspirators isn’t simply control of the United States but control of the entire world. This would have been impossible in the Twentieth Century for purely technical reasons; now it is not simply feasible but in progress. Back in 1997, David Icke warned of the growth of total surveillance. George Orwell […]
