Daily Writings About The End Of Illusions
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Listen to a reading of this article (reading by Tim Foley): In a recent CNN interview of US presidential candidate Cornel West, former CIA intern Anderson Cooper argued that the US invasion of Iraq was morally superior to the Russian attack on the city of Grozny. Pushing back against West’s claim that NATO provoked the Russian invasion of Ukraine [ ]
Listen to a reading of this article (reading by Tim Foley): One of my favorite follows on Twitter right now is a smallish account run by an anti-imperialist activist who goes by “Left I on the News”, because he has a real knack for going through articles in the mainstream press and highlighting the mundane [ ]
Listen to a reading of this article (reading by Caitlin Johnstone): One of the most formative moments of my life was when I was running a small eco blog called Earth Mums in the mid-00s which focused on consumer solutions to the problem of environmental destruction. Back then I still believed that while capitalism was [ ]
Listen to a reading of this article (reading by Tim Foley): ❖ Julian Assange is a journalist who’s been imprisoned for doing journalism on war crimes, by an empire that claims to defend journalists and oppose war crimes. Assange and his persecution expose the giant plot holes in every story the western power structure tells [ ]
Listen to a reading of this article (reading by Tim Foley): I saw a video clip of Julian Assange speaking in London in 2010 where he made an important observation while explaining the philosophy behind his work with WikiLeaks. He said that all our political theories are to some extent “bankrupt” in our current situation, because our [ ]
Listen to a reading of this article (reading by Tim Foley): ❖ I just read a disturbing paragraph in a New Yorker article about the Instant Pot, a popular electronic pressure cooker whose parent company recently filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy: “So what doomed the Instant Pot? How could something that was so beloved sputter? Is the [ ]
Listen to a reading of this article (reading by Tim Foley): ❖ The New York Times has been churning out an amazing number of hit pieces on Robert F Kennedy Jr lately. On Tuesday the Times published an audio essay titled “Why I Regret Debating Robert F. Kennedy Jr.” by opinion columnist Farhad Manjoo. Manjoo [ ]
Sedition #12 of my print-friendly treason zine is now available and ready for download. As usual anyone is free to print, copy, republish, distribute, or use any and all of these materials in any way they choose, either digitally or out there in the analog world. This month’s Treazine, “The Truth Will Set Us All Free,” [ ]
Listen to a reading of this article (reading by Tim Foley): ❖ The US won WW2 and then immediately plunged into the Cold War. The US won the Cold War and then immediately set to work destroying the Middle East. The US destroyed the Middle East and then immediately started another cold war in preparation [ ]