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This Week in the New Normal #107
Our successor to This Week in the Guardian, This Week in the New Normal is our weekly chart of the progress of autocracy, authoritarianism and economic restructuring around the...
Pick and Choose Your Own Truth
Todd Hayen
Here I go again. Getting perplexed by the sheep-types in my life. I seem to be in a constant state of cognitive dissonance. I’ve whacked my forehead so many...
WATCH: Self-Publishing – #SolutionsWatch
This week on #SolutionsWatch, James is joined by Tom-Oliver Regenauer, a self-taught publisher whose German language self-published books now regularly outsell major publishing houses in Germany. He discusses how...
Quick Take: I Don’t Trust Mainstream Epstein Coverage
Everyone has been talking about Jeffrey Epstein for the last few days, and everyone is asking, “Why isn’t anyone talking about Epstein?” Which doesn’t make any sense because, you...
They’re Coming for Your Wood-Burning Stove. Again.
Kit Knightly
The weather is getting colder, and that means getting back to anti-wood-burning propaganda. Did you know a wood burner can kill you? They pollute more than cars and cause...
Beyond the Farm Laws: Corporate Cloud Poised to Reign Over India’s Fields
Colin Todhunter
Nearly four years after India’s historic year-long farmers’ protests forced the repeal of three pro-corporate farm laws, it is clear that the government’s underlying agenda remains intact. The repeal...
Police State Bounty Hunters: The Rise of ICE’s Unconstitutional War on America
John & Nisha Whitehead
“Brother, I am American. You are twisting my arm.” Man shouts “I am American” while ICE agents detain him Masked gunmen. Tasers. Tear gas. Pepper spray. Unmarked vehicles. Intimidation...
The Masks Have Come Off
Edward Curtin
If you believe what is written on those hats worn in the Israeli Knesset – “Trump the Peace President” – you are deluded beyond hope. Halloween may be coming,...
The Wheel of Decline
JR Leach
Unlimited growth. It’s the logic that says a business making a tidy profit is, somehow, failing—unless next quarter is bigger, wider, taller, louder, forever. Growth without end. As if...
Slow Drift to New Norms
Todd Hayen
The agenda moves so slowly that everything they are bucking for will eventually be fact, but no one will think it the least bit odd. It’s like a foxtail...
The BritCard Psyop: What Is True Digital ID in the UK?
Iain Davis
The proposed rollout of the so-called BritCard is a bait-and-switch psychological operation (psyop). The evident purpose is to frame the debate about digital ID in the UK by fundamentally misrepresenting what...
Russian banks unveil “pay with your palm”
Riley Waggaman
Last week, Russian government officials and representatives from fintech firms gathered for the annual Finopolis forum to discuss the future of Russian finance and banking. The conference was held...
Beneath the Flyover, Beside the Temple
Colin Todhunter
The word ‘development’ is often invoked as a moral good. Corporations and international investors regard it as a massive business opportunity, and politicians sell it as a template for...
Trump’s Everywhere War: An Insurrection Against the Constitution
John & Nisha Whitehead
“When they came in the middle of the night, they terrorized the families that were living there. There were children who were without clothing, they were zip tied, taken...
This Week in the New Normal #106
Our successor to This Week in the Guardian, This Week in the New Normal is our weekly chart of the progress of autocracy, authoritarianism and economic restructuring around the...
UK Digital ID: The BritCard Bait and Switch
Iain Davis
In my previous article I suggested that the UK’s proposed “mandatory” digital ID, called the BritCard, was a bait and switch psyop. I posited that the arguments presented by Keir Starmer’s purported Labour government,...
The Very Straight and the Very Narrow
Todd Hayen
I see a lot of young people in my practice. You know, the kids just out of university and setting out to make their mark in the world. They...
WATCH: The Lost Art of “Yes, And…” – #SolutionsWatch
Let me give you some advice that could change your life forever. It’s called “yes, and” and it will transform your arguments into productive conversations. Let me show you...
Let’s Talk About…Trump’s Gaza Ceasefire
The Big News yesterday was that both sides of the conflict in Gaza have agreed to the first stages of a ceasefire plan put forward by the White House....
Manufacturing Consent: Big Ag’s Playbook of Propaganda and Power
Colin Todhunter
Antonio Gramsci argued that propaganda is the main fabric through which contemporary power asserts itself. For Gramsci, propaganda is central to cultural hegemony; in other words, the dominance of a particular worldview (often that of the ruling class or elite) that is...
