Iain Davis Edited 17/12/22 by the author to correct a misattribution In Part 1, we discussed the historical background of Technocracy Inc. that briefly found popularity in the US in the 1930s durin…

This past month has seen an influx of news stories, all somehow featuring the supposed negative effects of “online misinformation”, “hate speech” and/or “conspiracy th…

John Whitehead “He sees you when you’re sleeping He knows when you’re awake He knows when you’ve been bad or good So be good for goodness’ sake!” “Santa Claus Is Coming to Town” You’d better watch …

Kit Knightly Waiting for a government – any government – to release their “secret” files is a waste of your time, and reading anything they eventually publish is doubly so. …

Todd Hayen Remember the ugly prank taping a sheet of paper on a nerd’s back (or on the back of some other vulnerable innocent) that said KICK ME? Maybe you are from a generation where teenagers did…

Charles Chevalier To what extent was Enlightenment one of human emancipation? As Hampson (1968) describes the period “an embarrassment of wealth for the historian and the danger of being buried und…

Sylvia Shawcross We must greet each other now not by vague kisses in the air off to the side, or handshakes or elbow touching, but by reaching out and touching the cheek of the other. This is to re…

James Corbett joins Ryan Christian of The Last American Vagabond to discuss a very contentious and manipulated topic, one that is being hoisted above the population as an absolute, as those in powe…

CJ Hopkins Well, it has been quite a year, 2022. I’m officially dubbing it “The Year of the Gaslighter.” I was going to dub it “The Year of the Mother of All Mindfucking Global-Capitalist Gaslighte…

Riley Waggaman There was much rejoicing last month when Russia—together with its Multipolar friends and its Collective West arch nemesis—signed a declaration in support of “build[ing] on the succes…

Suzie Halewood “Reality is that which when you stop believing in it, doesn’t go away” Phillip K Dick For hundreds of years the barons, landed gentry and royals of England sought to incr…

Simon Elmer In the UK today, it seems, being knighted means you’re someone the UK state wishes to protect from prosecution for crimes against the British people. We don’t need to point to Sir Tony …

Simon Elmer This is a follow-up to the article Arise, AstraZeneca, which was published earlier today Dr Stephen Wright On 16 January, 2021, Dr. Stephen Wright, a healthy 32-year-old child psycholog…

John Whitehead “When the song of the angels is stilled, when the star in the sky is gone, when the kings and princes are home, when the shepherds are back with their flocks, the work of Christmas b…

Edward Curtin “The most incomprehensible talk comes from people who have no other use for language than to make themselves understood.” Karl Kraus, Half-Truths & One-and-a-Half Truths Things, p…

So this is Christmas, And what have we done? We’ve shared lots of meme posts, And had lots of fun. And told lots of people, That the world’s all gone wrong. But it’s all a big jok…

JR Leach “The art of living… is neither careless drifting on the one hand nor fearful clinging to the past on the other. It consists in being sensitive to each moment, in regarding it as utterly ne…

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. MASKS 2: T…

Edward Curtin On December 15, the night that the Biden administration released some of the remaining JFK files while withholding others with another half-assed excuse, Tucker Carlson, the most-watc…

Todd Hayen So working at home is a dream come true, eh? I’ll bet. What fun! A permanent snow day for all! Stay in your PJs all day, go at your own pace, play a few vid games here and there, take a …

Colin Todhunter If events since March 2020 have shown us anything, it is that fear is a powerful weapon for securing hegemony. Any government can manipulate fear about certain things while convenie…