Listen to a reading of this article (reading by Tim Foley):https://soundcloud.com/going_rogue/free-those-who-expose-government-misdeeds-jail-those-who-try-to-conceal-them ❖ The consistently insightful Branko Marcetic has a new article out with Jacobin titled "After the Ukraine Documents Leak, Mainstream Media Is Missing the Story" about the way imperial narrative managers have been manipulating the discourse
Listen to a reading of this article:https://soundcloud.com/going_rogue/you-have-to-be-trusted-by-the-people-that-you-lie-to ❖ The widespread refusal to accept that the US government bombed the Nord Stream pipelines is based solely on the faith-based belief that the US government would never do something so evil, despite its having done many things that are
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
Listen to a reading of this article.https://soundcloud.com/going_rogue/western-governments-keep ❖ Depending on what political echo chamber you've been viewing it from, the ongoing release of information about the inner workings of pre-Musk Twitter known as "the Twitter Files" might look like the bombshell news story of the century, or
Listen to a reading of this article:https://soundcloud.com/going_rogue/free-speech-doesnt-matter-if-propagandists-determine-what-people-say ❖ None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free.None are more hopelessly ignorant than those who falsely believe they're informed.None are more hopelessly propagandized than those who don't know they are propagandized.Living in a liberal western democracy means
Listen to a reading of this article:https://soundcloud.com/going_rogue/when-will-foreign-leaders-start-asking-to-speak-to-americas-real-government ❖ During the furor over Nancy Pelosi's incendiary Taiwan visit last week, I was watching an appearance by Antiwar's Dave DeCamp on the show Rising which brought up the under-discussed point that US officials going to Taipei is actually a
Listen to a reading of this article:https://soundcloud.com/going_rogue/the-mainstream-worldview-is-self-evidently-bullshit ❖ They've lied about every war, and they've openly acknowledged lying about this very war, but you're a Kremlin agent if you say they're lying to us about this war. ❖ The mainstream worldview is self-evidently bullshit. If our media and education
Listen to a reading of this article:https://soundcloud.com/going_rogue/ideas-for-a-dystopian-novel ❖ I've been kicking around some ideas for a dystopian novel lately, and I was hoping readers might be able to provide me with some feedback.I'm picturing a story set in a world where everyone's a slave but doesn't know
Seems like almost every day now the mass media are blaring about the need for speech on the internet to be controlled or restricted in some way. Today they're running stories about Joe Rogan and Covid misinformation; tomorrow it will be something else.The reasons for
Listen to a reading of this article:https://soundcloud.com/going_rogue/its-about-the-system-not-the-individuals ❖ If the working class had as much class solidarity as the ruling class has there never would've been a ruling class. ❖ Stealing someone's labor is worse than stealing their property, because it's theft of their life; you can replace property