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. Epstein Barr – the next big vaccine push? Epstein-Barr is the virus which causes glandular fever (mono, for our American readers). It is one …
Russell Brand was never much of a comedian. The nadir of his career has to be the disgusting “prank” phone calls he and his chum Jonathan Ross made to the now deceased actor Andrew Sachs in 2008. Best not to mention the content of these calls. His short marriage to the gorgeous and talented Katy […]
In the latest of the interminable media “furores” about Jeremy Corbyn’s supposed unfitness to lead the Labour party – let alone become prime minister – it is easy to forget where we were shortly before he won the support of an overwhelming majority of Labour members to head the party.
In the preceding two years, it was hard to avoid on TV the figure of Russell Brand, a comedian and minor film star who had reinvented himself, after years of battling addiction, as a spiritual guru-cum-political revolutionary.
Listing the ways the state-corporate media have sought to undermine Corbyn would sound preposterous to anyone not deeply immersed in these media-constructed narratives. But almost all of us have been exposed to this kind of “brainwashing under freedom” since birth.
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The first Positive News magazine of 2018 is out now, and it’s our favourite yet. Read on for 10 insights into what you’ll get if you order a copy
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Addiction is a spectrum that everyone is on, says Russell Brand in the new issue of Positive News magazine, as he shares his views on how understanding addiction can help people to lead more fulfilling lives
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Editor Lucy Purdy introduces the new issue of Positive News magazine, which includes a candid interview with Russell Brand about addiction. It also features an interview with a terrorism survivor, portraits of young conservationists, and a look at the case for optimism in the face of climate change
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Squaring the circle, suspicious suicides and the top-earning dead celebrities + this day in history w/Templars arrest and our song of the day by Bon Iver on your Morning Monarchy for October 13, 2016.
We live in a time when state-corporate interests are cooperating to produce propaganda blitzes intended to raise public support for the demonisation and destruction of establishment enemies.
Below, we will examine five key components of an effective propaganda campaign of this kind.
1: Dramatic New Evidence
A propaganda blitz is often launched on the back of ‘dramatic new evidence’ signifying that an establishment enemy should be viewed as uniquely despicable and targeted with ‘action’.
For all of Brand’s joking and braggadocio, a sagacious theme runs through his new book: that a peaceful revolution must bring about a fairer sharing of the world’s resources, which depends upon a revelation about our true spiritual nature.
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