The indoctrination and propaganda model is creaking and groaning. From the fact that the Democrats ran with Biden and then had to force him out in this amateurish manner, we can only conclude that the desperation must be enormous.
The Propaganda Model Has Limits Read Journal Article
Public discourse is broken. Perhaps it broke when governments elected to represent the people openly employed behavioral psychology to lie to their constituencies. Media, health professionals, politicians, and celebrities all participated in this lie.
We Reap the Harvest of Lies Read Journal Article
Events like the Olympics no longer symbolize the aspiration of a world of nations to live and compete peacefully with one another. They are now a testament to the dissolution of nations into a global Panem ruled by Capitol elites.
Our Hunger Games Unfold in Paris Read Journal Article
I hope the uproar caused by the Summer Games’ disruptions to people’s ability to live, work in, and enjoy their city will shine a light on these dangerous technologies of control and surveillance that are incompatible with a free society.
Are the Olympics a Trial Run for a 1984 Digital State? Read Journal Article
The very notion of certainty has been hobbled by the pandemic response, the surveillance state, and the socialist socialite power structure at the heart of globalism. Experts are no longer experts. Institutions can no longer be trusted.
Immutable Rules Made Mutable in the New Age Read Journal Article
But there is a new level of desecration still polluting both these icons of rural, and outback Australia. The flotsam and jetsam of so-called health advice, torn and tattered, flopping from the one remaining pin on a wall.
The Desecration of Australia’s Icons Read Journal Article
I thought of the advocacy for abortion upon abortion…the blurring of the bright line between life and death…the acts of degradation all around us…of obscenities played out in public…of genocidal language amplified in the public arena.
Death Gods and the Attack on President Trump Read Journal Article
What happened in the French legislative elections? How did Marine Le Pen’s National Rally, the big winner in the first round of elections, end up limping over the finish line in third place far behind the big winner…
The French Right: Defeat Snatched from the Jaws of Victory Read Journal Article
Accountability is highly unlikely. Whatever changes happen to pandemic protocols, even if they do happen, will be made quietly and without debate. The institutions that have experienced a loss of trust will be gradually diminished in public importance.
The Pandemic Response Was the Turning Point Read Journal Article
Today, there is an official and extremist public attitude of Russia hate. Few may know how far back it goes. Here I share quotations from 1836. You decide whether the quotations seem apt as criticism of today’s Russia hate.
Russia and Richard Cobden 1836 Read Journal Article
Stories aside, today, an array of fact-checking organizations have been built, and accusations of fake news or misinformation fly with reckless abandon. Yet, the news, easier to consume than ever before, retains the same problems Dumas wrote about.
The Ultimate Monument to Journalism Read Journal Article
But for X, the last 24 hours would have looked very different: nothing but propaganda, apart from a few marginal places here and there. Therein lies another irony: the way X is managed is increasing trust rather than reducing it.
During the Crisis, Free Speech Worked Brilliantly Read Journal Article
