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Regime change assets Nadya Tolokonnikova and Slavoj Žižek.
Shaping Society: The Intersection of Art, Ideology, and Power
Explainer: This is just a sampling of my ongoing research for a project on social conditioning. There’s a vast amount of material to explore, and I’m still figuring out how to weave it all together. My hope is to someday write a book or at least compile a comprehensive piece on this topic.
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Protected: Sorry, Not Sorry—Couldn’t Resist This One
JD Vance Speaks at Rod Dreher’s ‘Live Not by Lies’ Screening in DC + More
JD Vance Speaks at Rod Dreher’s ‘Live Not by Lies’ Screening in DC
“The ruling elite of the societies have become actively hostile to some of the very ideas that those countries were founded on in the first place,” Vance said before an audience of about 100 people at the Heritage Foundation in Washington, D.C. In addition to Vance’s speech, the by-invitation-only event featured a screening and discussion of the first episode of the film series Live Not by Lies released April 1, by Angel Studios.
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Palantir Goes to the Frankfurt School
Since the election of Donald Trump, a growing body of research has examined the role of digital technologies in new right wing movements (Lewis 2018; Hawley 2017; Neiwert 2017; Nagle 2017). This article will explore a distinct, but related, subject: new right wing tendencies within the tech industry itself. Our point of entry will be an improbable document: a German language dissertation submitted by an American to the faculty of social sciences at J. W. Goethe University of Frankfurt in 2002. Entitled Aggression in the Life-World, the dissertation aims to describe the role that aggression plays in social integration, or the set of processes that lead individuals in a given society to feel bound to one another. To that end, it offers a “systematic” reinterpretation of Theodor Adorno’s Jargon of Authenticity (1973). It is of interest primarily because of its author: Alexander C. Karp.
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“PATRIA Y VIDA” OR THE COUP’S SOUNDTRACK IS NOT SO SOFT IN CUBA + Update
“PATRIA Y VIDA” OR THE COUP’S SOUNDTRACK IS NOT SO SOFT IN CUBA (machine translation)
In Spanish: “PATRIA Y VIDA” O LA BANDA SONORA DEL GOLPE NO TAN BLANDO EN CUBA
Wind of Change was better, IMO.
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Is the US embassy in China recruiting ‘traitors’?
Of course they are: Origins of the Congress for Cultural Freedom, 1949-1950
Give me a hundred million dollars and a thousand dedicated people, and I will guarantee to generate such a wave of democratic unrest among the masses–yes, even among the soldiers–of Stalin’s own empire, that all his problems for a long period of time to come will be internal. I can find the people.
Sidney Hook, 1949
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Section 136, which also is not included in the McCaul bill, would authorize appropriations totaling $500 million over FY22-26 not only to support U.S. state media such as Radio Free Asia, but also to fund training for “local media” and “independent media,” in efforts to “combat Chinese disinformation.” Funds would target coverage aimed at discrediting Chinese activities such as the Belt and Road Initiative.
The cartoon that came in from the cold
For George Orwell, there was nothing pro-American about Animal Farm. The CIA, however, had other ideas. Karl Cohen tells the remarkable story of how US intelligence secretly funded a landmark British movie
The cartoon that came in from the cold
Ms. Cat’s Chronicles 
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