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First, Elon Musk made us pay for “free speech”; now he decides who’s allowed it
Many users of X, formerly Twitter, seem deeply misguided. They imagine that Elon Musk is the saviour of free speech. He’s not. He is simply the latest pioneer in monetising speech. Which isn’t the same thing at all. All the blue ticks on X – mine included – are buying access to an audience. Which […]
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The Political Matrix Sustains the Illusion of Freedom
What you smell is the stench of a dying republic. Our dying republic. We are trapped in a political matrix intended to sustain the illusion that we are citizens of a constitutional republic. In reality, we are caught somewhere between a kleptocracy (a government ruled by thieves) and a kakistocracy (a government run by unprincipled […]
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Iran: Key to World Peace
From what is read and what is said, Iran is the major sponsor of international terrorism — creating turmoil, preventing peace, and wanting to dominate the Middle East. One problem with the accepted scenario is that the facts do not coincide with the assumptions. Except for revenging terrorist attacks by Iranian dissidents and Israeli intelligence […]
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Jean-Pierre Page: in Gaza, France’s CGT Union Turned Its Back on Internationalism
While the CGT proudly participated in the ‘Games of Shame,’ a personal triumph for Macron and his repressive, regressive policies, with the participation of the Israeli delegation and even the Israeli President, who was honored amid the ongoing genocide in Gaza, this letter from Jean-Pierre Page, former head of the CGT’s International Department, condemns the […]
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Absolutist, Relativist and Cynical Thinking Styles
Orientation The mismatch between the complexity of the world and the simplistic manner in which we think about it The social, economic and political world in which we live is extremely complex, but most of the Yankee population does not have the thinking skills that can make intelligent decisions about this world and what to […]
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150,000+ Guns and Weapons to Israeli Settlers Since October 7
It is farcical to suggest a distinction between settler and state violence: They are part of the same settler-colonial structure, and not only complement each other but depend on one another. — Fathi Nimer, The West Bank: Settler Colonial Spillover of the Gaza Genocide While Israel continues its brutal genocide of Palestinians in Gaza, armed […]
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Sacred Ping Pong
Sport: Ambassador of peace (Soviet Union 1970s) Rumi: Come out of the circle of time into the circle of love. I have taken up ping pong as my sole viable remaining sport in my 70s. It really was made for frustrated sedentary has-beens. I played real tennis till tennis elbow set in, but even the […]
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Alice Meets Handala in Wonderland
In a land where logic twisted and turned every moment, a lesson was learned, a large blue caterpillar with arms folded high turned to Alice and asked with a sigh: ‘Who are YOU?’, his voice was languid and slow, Alice paused, for really, she didn’t quite know, ‘I—I hardly know, sir, just at present—it’s true.’ […]
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An Epic Tragicomic Sci-fi Horror
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