Climate Crisis
Kathleen Dean Moore: How Big Oil is manipulating the way you think about climate change
A logic professor explains how a persistent, subtle fallacy has infected public discussion of climate change Read HERE
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Andrew Lowenthal: An Insider’s Guide to “Anti-Disinformation”
Andrew Lowenthal spent more than two decades defending digital rights, and watched as peers and partner organizations switched to an opposite mission called “anti-disinformation.” An inside account Read HERE
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Craig Murray: The USA – What Democracy?
Free press? What free press? How the US intelligence agencies control the media and politics Craig Murray is a British former diplomat, political activist, human rights campaigner, blogger, and whistleblower Cross-posted from Craig’s website Joe […]
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David Jamieson – Conspiracism is Rife, and Not Just in Scotland
Around the world conspiracy theories are resurgent, and the political centre is the most paranoid of all David Jamieson is the editor of Scottish website Conter Cross-posted from Conter The conspiracy theory has become the final […]
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Jonathan Cook – Why the media don’t want to know the truth about the Nord Stream blasts
Well worth reading as it contains some new facts. First, journalists lapped up Russian culpability. Now they peddle a preposterous James Bond-style story. Anything to ignore the US role Jonathan Cook is the author of […]
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Adam Bienkov: Leaked Whatsapps Destroy the BBC’s Impartiality Myth
Lies, Damned Lies, Mainstream Media. Although they try to portray themselves as more objective than corporate media, state media is there to represent the interests of those whose interests the state is representing – the […]
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José Álvarez Díaz – What impact will artificial intelligence have on education?
It seems that we are witnessing the sudden emergence of revolutionary technology, full of potential and promise but also perils that could transform our world. Maybe, but that hour hasn’t yet come. José Álvarez Díaz specialises in […]
Economics
Bill Mitchell: Abandoning the euro would have essentially zero negative income effects for the vast majority of Member States
“I am still one that considers the only viable future for the 20 Member States is to exit the EMU, restore their own currency sovereignty, and then negotiate inter-governmental agreements at the European level (by […]
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Boaventura de Sousa Santos – The Deafening Silence of Intellectuals in the Face of Growing Global Conflicts
Silence is nothing short of complicity with the masters of war. Boaventura de Sousa Santos is the emeritus professor of sociology at the University of Coimbra in Portugal. His most recent book is Decolonizing the […]
Climate Crisis
Clare Daly – A Peaceful Europe?
The European Union’s foundation myth links “ever closer union” to peace on the European continent, but the ideal of a peaceful Europe has been in retreat for some time. Prior to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, […]