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Listen to a reading of this article (reading by Tim Foley):https://soundcloud.com/going_rogue/the-word-presstitute-is-insulting-to-sex-workers ❖ Responding to a war caused by NATO expansion by expanding NATO.Fighting Russian authoritarianism by increasing censorship.Fighting Russian propaganda by increasing propaganda.Pursuing peace by rejecting diplomacy.Defending Europe from Russia by bombing European pipelines. ❖ Twitter has dropped its

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/growing-up-means-extracting-the-beliefs-that-were-placed-in-your-head-by-others ❖ Most people never grow up. Not really.Growing up means maturing. It means becoming independent. It means developing into your own person and standing on your own two feet.Few people really do this. Because few people ever get around to

 Listen to a reading of this article:https://soundcloud.com/going_rogue/opposing-war-is-the-first-step ❖ Forcefully opposing the warmongering and imperialism of your rulers is the very first step toward political morality. It's not the only step, but it is the first step, because if you haven't taken that step then no other ostensibly

Listen to a reading of this article:https://soundcloud.com/going_rogue/robbing-the-global-south-then-scorning-its-poverty ❖ Michael Parenti has said that "Poor countries are not 'under-developed', they are over-exploited." The west tends to look down on the rest of the world for reasons that either directly or indirectly relate to the poverty in those nations,