Archive for the 'Dictatorship' Category
The Kafkaesque Imprisonment of Julian Assange Exposes U.S. Myths About Freedom and Tyranny
January 1st, 2021Via: Glenn Greenwald: Persecution is not typically doled out to those who recite mainstream pieties, or refrain from posing meaningful threats to those who wield institutional power, or obediently stay within the lines of permissible speech and activism imposed by the ruling class. Those who render themselves acquiescent and harmless that way will — in […]
Five Times this Year the New York Times Accidentally Told the Truth
January 1st, 2021Via: AIER: The paper of record in 2020 shifted dramatically to the most illiberal stance possible on the virus, pushing for full lockdowns, and ignoring or burying any information that might contradict the case for this unprecedented experiment in social and economic control. This article highlights the exceptions.
School or Prison
January 1st, 2021Fun for the whole family! School or Prison
UK Woman Arrested For Filming Inside Empty Hospital
December 31st, 2020Via: Summit News: A woman in the UK was arrested by police after she filmed a video inside an almost completely empty hospital and posted it online. The clip shows the woman walking through virtually empty corridors and filming empty wards at Gloucestershire Royal Hospital. … According to reports, a 46-year-old woman was subsequently arrested […]
“Los Angeles Vaccine Recipients Can Put the Proof in Apple Wallet”
December 30th, 2020Here we go. Via: Bloomberg: Covid-19 vaccine recipients in Los Angeles County, a major virus hot spot, will be offered a digital record that will help ensure they get a second shot and could, eventually, be used to gain access to concert venues or airline flights. The offering is being provided starting this week through […]
The Threat of Authoritarianism in the U.S. is Very Real, and Has Nothing To Do With Trump
December 30th, 2020Via: Glenn Greenwald: The COVID-driven centralization of economic power and information control in the hands of a few corporate monopolies poses enduring threats to political freedom. … The hysterical Trump-as-despot script was all melodrama, a ploy for profits and ratings, and, most of all, a potent instrument to distract from the neoliberal ideology that gave […]
U.S. Poverty Jumps the Most in 60 Years
December 30th, 2020The pandemic did this. The pandemic did that. Wrong. Governments caused this disaster. –A Communist Christmas Via: CBS: Of the various measures of the coronavirus pandemic’s comet strike on the U.S. economy, one especially reveals the size of the crater: Over a six-month period, nearly 8 million Americans have tumbled into poverty. The nation’s poverty […]
Back to the Future with Tom “Mr. Monsanto” Vilsack
December 30th, 2020Via: Organic Consumers Association: President-Elect Joe Biden has nominated Tom Vilsack as Agriculture Secretary. For anyone who is familiar with our Millions Against Monsanto campaign or who participated in March Against Monsanto during the Obama-Biden years, you know why this is bad news. For everyone else, this is the first installment in our series of […]
New Factories in Chinese Internment Camps
December 28th, 2020Via: BuzzFeed News: China has built more than 100 new facilities in Xinjiang where it can not only lock people up, but also force them to work in dedicated factory buildings right on site, BuzzFeed News can reveal based on government records, interviews, and hundreds of satellite images. In August, BuzzFeed News uncovered hundreds of […]
Spain Plans A “Registry” For Those Who Refuse COVID Vaccine
December 28th, 2020Via: ZeroHedge: And so, in Spain at least, government bureaucrats are fighting back, as Health Minister Salvador Illa warned the country would set up a “registry” for everybody who refuses the vaccine. “What will be done is a registry, which will be shared with our European partners… of those people who have been offered it […]
