We are surrounded by screens full of voices that are always lying to us, and experts wonder why we're so crazy and miserable all the time.The screens tell us, "This is a perfectly normal and sane way of doing things. It is perfectly normal and
Have you ever noticed how rare sincere apologies are in politics? I've been thinking about this a lot lately. Normal people apologize to each other every day, for accidentally interrupting someone or standing in their way, for being inconsiderate or forgetful, for being unable to
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has kicked off yet another round of "Iran is totally gonna nuke us any second now you guys" ejaculations. This is of course another demand that we accept unsubstantiated claims from a proven liar about another longtime target for neoconservative
After being publicly accused of sexual assault by more than fifty women stretching back decades, serial rapist Bill Cosby has finally been sentenced to three to ten years in state prison for drugging and sexually assaulting a female acquaintance at his Philadelphia home in 2004.
Imagine if you and some friends wandered into a completely dark room together for some reason. You've never been in this room before, and you can't see a thing.Now imagine one of your friends says he can see everything in the room perfectly, and starts
If any evidence existed to be found that Donald Trump had illegally colluded with the Russian government to rig the 2016 presidential election, that evidence would have been picked up by the sprawling surveillance networks of the US and its allies and leaked to the
The Guardian has just published an actual, non-fictional op-ed that is titled "Is my Jewish three-year-old too young to learn about antisemitism?", about a concerned mother who is teaching her toddler about the Holocaust in case Jeremy Corbyn becomes Prime Minister.The Guardian. Not The Onion.
In the movie The Matrix, humans are imprisoned in a virtual world by a powerful artificial intelligence system in a dystopian future. What they take to be reality is actually a computer program that has been jacked into their brains to keep them in a
That's right, I'm writing an entire goddamn article about a single tweet made by another political commentator. It probably won't even be a long article, because the excellent Tim Black said it all. Call me lazy, I don't care, this is the most interesting thing
People try to tell me that there is no hope. That the status quo is too fully locked in. That the sociopathic manipulators who are driving our species toward war, ecocide and Orwellian dystopia are just too powerful and too good at what they do.