History Repeating: The War on the Kulaks

History Repeating: The War on the Kulaks

If you’ve read We’re All Dutch Farmers Now and We’re All Sri Lankan Farmers Now, then you’ll know all about the concerted war on farming that is taking place right now, not just in Holland or Sri Lanka but in Ireland and Argentina and Canada and Spain and seemingly every other country around the globe. And, if you have read those editorials, then you’ll also know all about…

cognitive carpet bombing

cognitive carpet bombing

it’s really all but impossible to overstate the extent to which media saturation was used to stoke fear and spread egregious and irresponsible levels of misinformation over “the covid years.” it was a ubiquitous, constant, unrelenting barrage of monolithic talking points right down to all the bobbleheads using the exact same words and phrases…

Propaganda 101: a book review

Propaganda 101: a book review

How do we parse out propaganda in our fast-paced, digitally dissolving, ‘post-truth’, fake-news world? Michelle Stiles’ ambitious and beautiful book can help. She began working on One Idea to Rule Them All in 2018, and her topic of choice has proved prescient. More than ever, now we must be able to identify propaganda and sift through stories for grains of truth…

How politics can destroy your soul – confessions of a former Tory candidate

How politics can destroy your soul – confessions of a former Tory candidate

Enoch Powell’s (quoted) words ring truer every day: ‘Those whom the gods wish to destroy, they first make mad’. Watching the Andrew Bridgen saga, it seems we have reached Biblical levels of sin. One man out of 650 in parliament is now able to speak the truth and he is shunned for it. Most have no idea how this kind of thing can happen…

Are 15-Minute Cities Smart?

Are 15-Minute Cities Smart?

As with the gas stove “debate,” any questioning of the latest coolest way to reorganize society is a sign of madness. This haughty reality-shifting attitude somehow pervades the elites despite the deserved devastation of the public’s trust in its institutions in the wake of the pandemic, the response to which involved lies, half-truths, spin, lies, mistakes, lies, the threat of force…

The climate scaremongers: Heatwave hysteria

The climate scaremongers: Heatwave hysteria

THE New York Intelligencer magazine called it the ‘Worldwide Heatwave’, which according to the UN has ‘engulfed the Northern Hemisphere’. It was of course nothing of the sort, simply the usual mix of hot and cold weather we see every year. Spot the difference, for instance, between this month and July 1998…

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