The Coronavirus Stimulus Bill Is a $2 Trillion Slush Fund for Washington Cronies
[Politics][Social] The Coronavirus Stimulus Bill Is a $2 Trillion Slush Fund for Washington Cronies by Yves Smith Posted April 4, 2020 The financial crisis was such a successful exercise in looting the public purse that our oligarchs are at it again, this time via the...The Biometric Threat
[Social] The Biometric Threat by Jayati Ghosh Posted April 3, 2020 As with so many other convenient technologies, the world is underestimating the risks associated with biometric identification systems. India has learned about those risks the hard way – and should...The USA’s Doll House: A Vast Tapestry of Lies and Illusions
[Social] [Media] The USA’s Doll House: A Vast Tapestry of Lies and Illusions by Edward Curtin Posted April 2, 2020 While truth-tellers Julian Assange and Chelsea Manning sit inside jail cells and Edward Snowden lives in exile in Russia, the American people hole up in...The Superorganism That Created the Pandemic
[Social] The Superorganism That Created the Pandemic By Gaia Vince Posted April 1, 2020 Humans do not operate within their ecosystems in the same way as other species, even other top-level predators. We don’t have an ecological niche, but rather we dominate and alter...How to be anonymous in the age of surveillance
[Social] How to be anonymous in the age of surveillance By Melissa Hellmann Posted March 31, 2020 Cory Doctorow’s sunglasses are seemingly ordinary. But they are far from it when seen on security footage, where his face is transformed into a glowing white orb. At his...Quotable Sayings
You do not become a billionaire through labor. You become a billionaire through inheritance, corruption or economic rents – or, in most cases, some mixture of all three.
Grace Blakeley
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Mainstream American liberals think they’re clear-eyed because they can see the propaganda strings being pulled by Fox and Donald Trump, and mainstream American conservatives think they’re clear-eyed because they can see the propaganda strings being pulled by MSNBC and the Democrats, but the propaganda strings on both trace back to the same puppet master. And seeing that is just the beginning.
Caitlin Johnstone
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You alone are the judge of your worth and your goal is to discover infinite worth in yourself, no matter what anyone else thinks.
Deepak Chopra
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It is obvious that the US government is destroying Assange to signal to journalists the consequences of publishing information. It is therefore also obvious that any journalist who fails to use whatever platform they have to speak out against Assange’s persecution has no intention of ever publishing anything that the US government doesn’t want published. Their silence on or support for what is being done to this man can and should be taken as an admission that they are nothing other than state propagandists.
Caitlin Johnstone
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It’s quite fitting that the – imperially pre-determined – judicial fate of Julian Assange is being played out in Britain, the home of George Orwell.
Pepe Escobar
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