Listen to a reading of this article:https://soundcloud.com/going_rogue/there-are-no-innocent-americans ❖ If the logic that "there are no innocent Russians" because the Russian people have a moral obligation to overthrow their warmongering government were evenly applied, it would also apply to Americans. Even more so, really, since their government is
Listen to a reading of this article:https://soundcloud.com/going_rogue/why-i-publish-art-and-philosophy-in-addition-to-news-commentary ❖ I get funny reactions from people who are new to my work, often because I don't act like the other indie media figures they follow. I'm unrefined and swear a lot. I engage on social media with both followers
Listen to a reading of this article:https://soundcloud.com/going_rogue/recalling-cnns-fraudulent-interview-with-an-eight-year-old-syrian-girl ❖ There's a thread going around on Twitter by Columbia University's Sophie Fullerton advancing the claim that I have promoted crazy conspiracy theories about child "crisis actors" in Syrian war atrocities. Fullerton has me blocked on Twitter so I can't
Listen to a reading of this article:https://soundcloud.com/going_rogue/a-prison-where-the-prisoners-dont-know-theyre-in-prison ❖ Talking about Russia's invasion of Ukraine without also talking about the ways the US empire provoked and benefits from this war is the same as lying. ❖ One of the main differences between myself and other commentators who talk about an
The US empire's proxy war in Ukraine has had many jaw-dropping instances of imperialist sociopathy, propagandistic audacity and brazen journalistic malpractice that we've discussed in this space many times, but one of the most cringeworthy and degrading aspects of the globe-spanning narrative control campaign surrounding
Listen to a reading of "Kids These Days":https://soundcloud.com/going_rogue/kids-these-days ❖ Well you know kids these days they're so entitled . They'll quit a job just because they don't like it , or because it doesn't pay enough , or because they're not grateful for the privilege of turning a gear for a silver dollar and
Listen to a reading of this article:https://soundcloud.com/going_rogue/you-are-home ❖ It can be hard to feel your roots as a westerner.Many of us live in countries built on relatively recent colonization by Europeans, so our ancestral connection to the land only goes back a few generations. Our spirituality is
Listen to a reading of this article:https://soundcloud.com/going_rogue/western-journalists-are-cowardly-approval-seeking-losers ❖ Research conducted by New York University's Center for Social Media and Politics into Russian trolling behavior on Twitter in the lead-up to the 2016 US presidential election has found "no evidence of a meaningful relationship between exposure to the Russian foreign
Listen to a reading of this article:https://soundcloud.com/going_rogue/weve-been-dominated-by-narrative-control-since-the-dawn-of-civilization ❖ The science of modern propaganda arguably got its start over a century ago during World War I when a young Edward Bernays was recruited to help sell the conflict to a reluctant American populace, after which he took what he'd
Listen to a reading of this article:https://soundcloud.com/going_rogue/two-parties-of-capitalist-imperialists-notes-from-the-edge-of-the-narrative-matrix ❖ They don't just call Democrats "communists" and "Marxists" in order to attack Democrats, they do it to disappear the entire giant expanse of political spectrum that exists to the left of the capitalist imperialist Democratic Party. They want you