Source : Le Comptoir, Ludivine Bénard
Si George Orwell est principalement connu en France pour « 1984 » et « La ferme des animaux », il paraît impossible, au vu de la diversité et de la qualité de ses autres écrits, de le réduire au statut de romancier. Car c’est une somme d’articles en tout genre que l’homme nous aura laissés à sa mort, le 21 janvier 1950. Des reportages, des chroniques, des analyses politiques…
Source : Le Partage, George Orwell, 07-08-2016
Texte très intéressant de George Orwell, bien que nous ne soyons pas des partisans du socialisme (dont nous partageons la volonté d'une société sans classes) ni d'aucune forme de société de masse, pour sa critique du machinisme et du progressisme, assez juste et assez claire.
The Duran’s Alex Christoforou and Editor-in-Chief Alexander Mercouris discuss the George Floyd riots that went global with large, and often times violent, protests (specifically hitting the UK) where historical statues were vandalized and torn down by angry mobs.
“Who controls the past controls the future: who controls the present controls the past.” George Orwell’s famous quote comes from his justifiably famous science fiction novel “Nineteen Eighty-Four”.
Bernie Sanders has routinely called Trump a “pathological liar.” The term pathological liar, a controversial one for psychiatrists, in common usage coveys someone who is an extraordinarily unrestrained liar. And so, Bernie knows that it is in no way radical to use this term to describe the unrelentingly self-serving Trump who unhesitatingly lies if he […]
On 4 March 2018, both Sergei Skripal and his daughter who was visiting from their shared home country of Russia, Yulia Skripal, were poisoned in Salisbury England, and — though both survived — neither of them has been allowed to communicate to the public except under the watch of their British court-appointed ‘guardians’. They also have been prohibited to communicate with any Russians. Repeated efforts by the Russian Embassy to be allowed to communicate with them have been rejected by the UK Government.
Recall when Lev and Igor were caught laundering Russian money into the Trump campaign and the campaign of dozens of Republicans in Congress? Yesterday, Christian Berthelson reported that Lev-- one of the Giuliani criminal associates was handed a million bucks from Putin in September "a month before he was charged with conspiring to funnel foreign money into U.S. political campaigns.
Tom ENGELHARDT
I, Winston Smith… I mean, Tom Engelhardt… have not just been reading a dystopian novel, but, it seems, living one — and I suspect I’ve been living one all my life.
The British government appears to be more and more aping a Monty Python-type farce with each passing day. Soon the absurd ensemble will be complete if either Boris Johnson or Jeremy Hunt becomes the next prime minister.
This week the mandarins at the Ministry of Funny Walks ruled that two internationally respected Russian news media channels were banned from attending a global conference on “press freedom”.
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George Orwell’s fictionalized world where Big Brother reigns supreme is no longer a figment of the imagination, but a prophetic vision of present-day threats.
