In a strange but revealing way, popular culture and politics intersected soon after Donald Trump first assumed the presidency of the United States: George Orwell’s…
George Orwell
In spite of their differing perceptions of the architecture of the totalitarian superstate and how it exercises power and control over its residents, George Orwell…
This week, on the night of the Indiana primary, I read one of the most loathsome political screeds it has been my misfortune to encounter. It was…
WhoWhatWhy Introduction by Milicent Cranor: The story below offers a rare close-up view of a man who is so creepy it’s fascinating. He actually performed…
Over the past century, more than a few great writers have expressed concern about humanity’s future. In The Iron Heel(1908), the American writer Jack London pictured…
Perhaps he’s just smirking, as the merged worlds of global finance and transnational government play out their collaborations of control and deception in the name…
Not only has free speech become a four-letter word--profane, obscene, uncouth, not to be uttered in so-called public places--but in more and more cases, the…
My warning that the neoconservatives have resurrected the threat of nuclear Armageddon, which was removed by Reagan and Gorbachev, is also being given by Noam…
Trump is one of 14 Republican presidential aspirants – fascist lunatics representing America’s dark side. They’re in lockstep with their Democrat opponents, supporting endless wars…
It’s no secret that 90% of American media is owned by just 6 corporate conglomerates, and it’s also no secret that the media is used…
In 1937 George Orwell said that coal mining was the ‘metabolism’ of western civilisation. What he meant by this striking metaphor was that coal was…
In spite of their differing perceptions of the architecture of the totalitarian superstate and how it exercises power and control over its residents, George Orwell…