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Artificial Intelligence, Global Inequality, and the Colonial Machinery of Capital
Artificial intelligence is often presented as a universal breakthrough — a tool that will democratize knowledge, expand opportunity, and usher in a new era of human progress. But AI does not emerge in a vacuum. It is built inside a global order shaped by conquest, extraction, and the long shadow of empire. The world into […]
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Language, Mind Control, and 9/11
An example that shows the radical devaluation of thought is the transformation of words in propaganda; there, language, the instrument of the mind, become ‘pure sound,’ a symbol directly evoking feelings and reflexes. – Jacques Ellul, Propaganda A leader or an interest that can make itself master of current symbols is the master of the […]
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Ngugi wa Thiong’o: The Death of a Radical Writer and Novelist
Ngugi wa Thiong’o (5 January 1938-28 May 2025) Let us now look about us. Where are our national languages now? Where are the books written in the alphabets of our national languages? Where is our own literature now? Where is the wisdom and knowledge of our fathers now? Where is the philosophy of our fathers […]
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The Public Life of Noam Chomsky
A man of stupendous brilliance.” — Norman Finkelstein “A gargantuan influence.” — Chris Hedges “ … brilliant … unswerving … relentless … heroic.” — Arundhati Roy “Preposterously thorough.” — Edward Said “[A] fierce talent.” — Eduardo Galeano “An intellectual cannon.” — Israel Shamir “A lighthouse over a sea of hogwash.” — Kathleen Cleaver He had […]
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The Brutalization of Education and the Closing of the American Mind
Even in our sleep, pain which cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart until, in our own despair, against our will, comes wisdom through the awful grace of God. ― Aeschylus, Agamemnon One of the most disturbing trends I have witnessed over the course of my forty-nine years is the hijacking of American […]
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Recapturing White Rhetoric for Socialist Agitating
Orientation Leninist and anarchist shortcomings in relation to rhetoric A little over three years ago I wrote an article about how bad Mordor Leninists and anarchists are about knowing about, let alone using rhetorical rhetoric. The article is titled Socialist Rhetorical and Dialectical Communication: Overcoming Brainwashing, Propaganda and Entertainment These areas of bumbling included: Initiation […]
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Caged in Oligarchic Contradictions
A contronym is a word having two definitions that contradict each other. Two examples are the word bolt, which can mean to lock with a bolt and to flee, and clip, which means to attach and to detach. There are many such words and there is also a system of thought based on them. It […]
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The Dark Side of Left-Brain Operations
Orientation Left and right brain divisions and dependencies Why is the brain so clearly and deeply divided? Why are the two cerebral hemispheres asymmetrical? Is the division of labor in the brain complete or do the sides overlap in functions? A lot of what we once thought went on in one hemisphere alone is now […]
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Aryan Idols and the Search for Indo-Europeans
Orientation Purpose of this article Almost 2 years ago I wrote an article called Aryan Right-Wing Mythology for the New Age based on the work of Robert Ellwood (The Politics of Myth). In it Ellwood showed the conservative nature of popular mythologists Carl Jung, Mircea Eliade and Joseph Campbell. My purpose was to show how […]
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