Gaza Campus Protestors: Today’s “Have You No Sense of Decency?”
Michael Hudson looks at the ideological roots and power dynamics behind the anti-Gaza-genocide protests spreading across US campuses.
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Free Speech on the Ropes: Legislation to Revoke Not-for-Profit Status of Organizations that Support Palestine Protests Passes in House
The officialdom has just wheeled out much heavier weaponry in the war against free speech, here targeting not-for-profits.
Read more...Google AI Censorship: Google Reverses Itself Fully on Demonetization Threat After Intervention by Matt Taibbi and Our Demonstration of Pervasive Errors
Hooray! Google fully reversed itself on its AI-generated censorship and demonetization threat. But don’t assume this sort of thing is over.
Read more...The Populist Dynamic: Experimental Evidence on the Effects of Countering Populism
Oh noes! Populism is gaining ground! A report on A/B testing of messaging in Italy to defang it.
Read more...‘Does the CIA Still Do That?’
A look at the CIA’s sorry history of propaganda, psyops and assassinations.
Read more...War Is Never the Answer to a Properly Posed Question
A discussion of four books about Palestine to facilitate better understanding of the war in Gaza.
Read more...Crackdowns on Pro-Palestine Occupations on Major Campuses Bringing Gaza Conflict a Bit Closer to Home
Mild campus protests, at least by 1960s standards, against the Gaza genocide, have produced panic in the officialdom and aggressive responses.
Read more...AI Chatbots Refuse to Produce ‘Controversial’ Output − Why That’s a Free Speech Problem
Quelle surprise! AI is being deployed to censor unwelcome ideas via omission.
Read more...Middle East Escalation: Financial Times’ Revealing Account of Israel Risk of Ukraine-Style Air Defense Attrition; Helmer on Possible Electrical Grid Campaign
US mixed messages continue: trying to check Israel’s suicidal conduct while providing military support. So what might happen next?
Read more...Yanis Varoufakis: My Berlin Speech on Palestine That German Police Entered the Venue to Ban
Germany sends the cops to shut down a conference on Palestine on trumped-up grounds. What next?
Read more...On the Difficulty of Research in the Biomedical Sciences and Scientific Medicine
Why medical research is hard, and often path-dependent, which may not always be a good thing.
Read more...How Biden Can Win on the Economy: Stop Mass Layoffs
Why has Biden failed to add a clause to Federal contracts to protect workers from mass layoffs?
Read more...Interview: Puncturing Misconceptions About Vaccine Hesitancy
“Vaccine hesitancy” less pervasive than some say
Read more...Ukraine Plan of Crocus City Hall Attack to Start Ethnic Pogroms, Civil War in Russia
An in-depth discussion of the apparent Ukraine/Western plan to use the Crocus City Hall massacre to stoke ethnic hostilities in Russia.
Read more...Baltimore Bridge Crash: Risk Management Questions
Why it’s a mistake to think of the Baltimore bridge collapse as catastrophic bad luck.
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