Tag: Truth

  • Don’t Go Away Angry, Just Go Away

    Don’t Go Away Angry, Just Go Away

    I grew up taking people at their word. Even as a child I listened carefully to adults and gave thought to their interests and motives- but especially their actions. In the course of time one can see- at least I do- that those who hold any kind of power know they must be willing to […]

  • Another Magical JFK Assassination Pseudo-Debate and Limited Hangout

    Another Magical JFK Assassination Pseudo-Debate and Limited Hangout

    Much has been made of the September 9, 2023 simultaneous reports in The New York Times and Vanity Fair of the claims of a former Secret Service agent, Paul Landis, who was part of the security detail in Dallas, Texas when President John F. Kennedy was assassinated on November 22, 1963.  Like so many reports […]

  • Chance Encounters as the Walls Close In

    Chance Encounters as the Walls Close In

    “Apple Blossom – Blue Sky” by amandabhslater A treasure stumbled upon, suddenly; not gradually accumulated, by adding one to one. The accumulation of learning, ‘adding to the sum-total of human knowledge’; lay that burden down, that baggage, that impediment. Take nothing for your journey; travel light. — Norman O. Brown, Love’s Body,  1966 These are […]

  • Australia’s Combatting Misinformation and Disinformation Bill

    Could we face collective decisions so fundamental that discourse itself buckles under conceptual strain? If so, maybe this is such a time and it would accordingly be wise to map it in the most reliable tradition, which prioritises agreed facts and valid inference from them. This also befits a need to be incisive, given the […]

  • Free Press, Propaganda and Censorship

    In war, truth is the first casualty. — Aeschylus, Greek tragic dramatist (525 BC – 456 BC) How many of us learn about Russia from a Russian point of view? Or about Syria from a loyal Syrian? Or Cuba from a Cuban supporter? Or Iran, Nicaragua, North Korea, China or many others on our current […]

  • Converting to Christianity, Islam: Does It Prove Anything?

    Converting to Christianity, Islam: Does It Prove Anything?

    Religious conversions later in life are generally greeted as evidence that something terrible must have happened to the converter. The Onion published a satire in 2016, ridiculing Paul D’Amatol, who took up a life of Christian piety in late middle age. It must be ‘drugs or maybe he killed someone in a car accident. Something […]

  • A Kid in California Heading to the Brig

    A Kid in California Heading to the Brig

    Every war is a war against children. –Egalntyne Jebb, founder Save the Children a century ago. These introductions to people I have, that is, keyholing into their lives, immersing into their dreams and sharing their gifts of living, learning their avocations, and then welding connections to my own life with theirs have happened this way […]

  • Why Isn’t the Democratic World a World?

    Why Isn’t the Democratic World a World?

    Alain Badiou is undoubtedly among the greatest of living philosophers; one that may fairly be credited with rescuing philosophy from academic irrelevance, and the twin enemies of scientism and historicism. For Badiou, philosophy does not merely interpret the world (as Marx famously asserted in his “Theses on Feuerbach”). For an interpretation of the world, we […]

  • Graeme MacQueen: The Indispensable 9/11 Writer’s Latest Book

    Graeme MacQueen: The Indispensable 9/11 Writer’s Latest Book

    This free eBook — The Pentagon’s B-Movie: Looking Closely at the September 2001 Attacks (rat haus reality press, 15 March 2023) — by Graeme MacQueen contains a collection of his articles and essays on the attacks of September 11, 2001, the subsequent anthrax attacks, and analyses of other false flag operations. They are profoundly important and […]

  • Ron DeSantis: Dogmatist Extraordinaire

    Certainty closes the minds of those possessing the Truth from on High. These darlings of the gods may even feel sorry for those benighted Unfortunates with the temerity of disagreeing with them and try to persuade them to see reason to save them from themselves.  As the blood-stained pages of history amply attest, dogmatists may […]

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