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Prosecutors say gag order is needed to keep Trump from inviting 'violent act' on law enforcement
Good Morning America via Yahoo News· 4 hours agoThe judge in Donald Trump's federal classified documents case did not rule from the bench Monday on...
Is the United States Too Devoted to the Constitution?
The New Republic via Yahoo News· 16 hours agoA new generation of free speech decisions at the court lavished attention on liberty in wartime,...
George Orwell understood a century ago weaponizing language empowers political agendas
Knox News | The Knoxville News-Sentinel via Yahoo News· 7 days agoOne of these excesses was societal manipulation through language. More recently the term has been...
Bruce E. Levine, AlterNet
The Raw Story· 7 days agoDo some totalitarians actually want us to hear how we have been screwed because they know that humiliating passivity in the face of obvious oppression will demoralize us even ...
How the Most Influential Novel Ever Written Has Been Misunderstood
Acton Commentary· 5 days ago...or rather Nineteen Eighty-Four, to use the British title that Orwell himself preferred—as the...
‘Big Brother’: Someone to Watch Over Us, via ‘1984’
The Wall Street Journal· 3 days agoAmong the Orwellisms that have infiltrated the lexicon are “doublethink,” “thoughtcrime,” “unperson,” and “memory hole.” None, however, is more...
Cody Cain, Salon
The Raw Story· 2 days agoThe meaning today of the "Big Lie" almost always refers to the false claim by Donald Trump and his right-wing cronies that the 2020 presidential election was somehow stolen by the left and Joe ...
Don’t Be Fooled By Liberalism’s Modesty
The New Republic via Yahoo News· 4 days agoAlso, the technologies of domination and surveillance are becoming more totalitarian all the time, and we must take urgent care that artificial...
‘At the Edge of Empire’ Review: Leaving Mao’s China
The Wall Street Journal· 3 days agoInstead Mr. Wong must sell his story to us entirely on its own dramatic merits; and he must persuade us to empathize with the difficult choices that a...
Madrid leader accused of ‘deep disloyalty’ to Spain for hosting Javier Milei
The Telegraph via Yahoo News· 3 days agoThe leader of Spain’s Madrid region has been accused of “deep disloyalty” to the country for hosting...
