A new salvo against designated enemies, aka Palestinian rights advocates, which fortunately is more bark than bite.
Read more...Since it clearly needs to be said early and often, the campaign to demonize opponents of Israel’s genocide as anti-Semites is a complete crock.
Read more...A hard look at the use of the notion of populism in recent political discourse, starting with the curious lack of self-professed populists.
Read more...Russia celebrates its victory over Nazism on May 9 while in the West decades of historical revisionism blaming the USSR for WWII has helped rehabilitate Nazis and lead us to the New Cold War crisis today.
Read more...Michael Hudson looks at the ideological roots and power dynamics behind the anti-Gaza-genocide protests spreading across US campuses.
Read more...The officialdom has just wheeled out much heavier weaponry in the war against free speech, here targeting not-for-profits.
Read more...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...Oh noes! Populism is gaining ground! A report on A/B testing of messaging in Italy to defang it.
Read more...A look at the CIA’s sorry history of propaganda, psyops and assassinations.
Read more...A discussion of four books about Palestine to facilitate better understanding of the war in Gaza.
Read more...Mild campus protests, at least by 1960s standards, against the Gaza genocide, have produced panic in the officialdom and aggressive responses.
Read more...Quelle surprise! AI is being deployed to censor unwelcome ideas via omission.
Read more...US mixed messages continue: trying to check Israel’s suicidal conduct while providing military support. So what might happen next?
Read more...Germany sends the cops to shut down a conference on Palestine on trumped-up grounds. What next?
Read more...Why medical research is hard, and often path-dependent, which may not always be a good thing.
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