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Speeding into the Void of Cyberspace as Designed

Speed and panic go hand-in-hand in today’s fabricated world of engineered emergencies and digital alerts. “We have no time”...

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Angels and Demons: Imperialism and War, ‘Chavs’ and Jeremy Kyle

Colin Todhunter The father of modern public relations and spin, Edward Bernays was a cynical manipulator of mass perception....

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Masters of Myths – From Homer to Hollywood

Hugh O’Neill The great enemy of truth is very often not the lie–deliberate, contrived and dishonest–but the myth–persistent, persuasive...

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Looking Through the Screen at the World’s Suffering

Most people on this earth live on the edge of an abyss. Life is a daily struggle to stay...

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Legal highs and crazy fools

Kevin Smith Some people have such a way with words, especially US presidents. These are my two personal favourites,...

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Shelter from the Storm

Eddison Flame Trouble I look around at the world and I see wars and violence occurring everywhere. I see...

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Idea Bomb

< h6>Eddison Flame</h6> I want to set off an idea bomb. I’ve been trying to set one off for...

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What if…

Eddison Flame What if humans weren’t meant to live such disconnected lives? What if humans were actually meant to...

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The Fascinating Spell Cast by Weasels

Edward Curtin Ah, mon cher, for anyone who is alone, without God and without a master, the weight of...

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The Peaceful Revolution

Eddison Flame How can we fight back against people who control a vast military, financial, information, and surveillance machine?...

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A Gentrified Little Town Goes to Pot

Edward Curtin In my little town/ I grew up believing/God keeps his eye on us all.” Simon and Garfunkel,...

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What Are We Working For “At Eternity’s Gate”?

Ever since I was a young boy, I have wondered why people do the kinds of work they do....

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Sometimes A Pair of Pants Can Give You Vertigo

It is a dastardly habit no sane person should inflict on oneself. To rise from one’s night...

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The Apocalypse Not Now

Edward Curtin It was balmy and breezy by the bench where I sat outside a public library east of...

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The Cell Phone and the Virgin: A Montreal Odyssey

Edward Curtin And the sun pours down like honey on our lady of the harbor And she shows you...

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Consensus reality has outlived its evolutionary usefulness

The nature of reality used to be a philosophical, metaphysical contemplation. But now it’s political.

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Escaping the Iron Cage of Hopelessness

By Edward Curtin Specialists without spirit, sensualists without heart; this nullity imagines that it has attained a level of...

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Marching in Circles: Faustian Thinking and the Myth of Science

The recent marches on April 22nd to promote science and to celebrate Earth Day were perhaps well-intentioned, but they...

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Snow, Death, and the Bewildered Herd

by Edward Curtin, from Global Research Few people at this hour – and I refer to the time before...

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