Tag: Spotlight
Rather than being some kind of prophet, Orwell was a literary Cold Warrior who plagiarized works and critiqued the Soviet Union more than he did Nazi Germany
The current state of ever-expanding government surveillance and endless war elicits frequent comparisons to George Orwell’s dystopian novel Nineteen Eighty-Four.
The conventional biography portrays...
Orwellian Days
During his first presidency, Trump told 30,573 lies, yet he calls his privately owned online outlet “Truth Social”—which sounds like it is straight out of the Ministry of Truth. Hence, we need to revisit the thinker who is believed to have said “In a time of universal deceit...
In a markedly revealing September 22nd interview with The National, U.S. special envoy to Syria Tom Barrack made a number of stunning admissions about the state of play in Lebanon.
Despite Western governments demanding for months that Beirut disarm Hezbollah, he acknowledged the resistance group had “zero” incentive to voluntarily...
On October 9, Israel and Hamas announced the adoption of a cease-fire agreement involving the release of all hostages held by Hamas.
Israel, in exchange, agreed to allow for the entry of humanitarian aid, to release Palestinian prisoners, and to withdraw its forces to a so-called “yellow line” from which...
The criminal case of ex-France President Nicolas Sarkozy touches the historical tensions between Muammar Gaddafi's Libya and Western powers, particularly France. In a recent development, a Paris court sentenced Sarkozy to five years in prison for criminal conspiracy, marking a historic conviction for a former French president.
The charges? They...
Donald Trump did not win the Nobel Peace Prize, as he boasted he should for supposedly being the “peace President”—a claim we’ve debunked numerous times on this show...
Foreign politics and censorship in Denmark, where I have lived off and on for 35 years, is actually worse than in the United States today. Not one of the 16 political parties with members in the 179-seat Danish Parliament (follketing) supports Russia’s reasons for its “Special Military Operation” (SMO)...
In August 2023, the Kaw Nation transported a sacred boulder, known as Iⁿ‘zhúje ‘Waxóbe, from Lawrence, Kansas, to ancestral Kaw land near Locust Grove, Kansas, where Kaw Nation members lived.
The Lawrence City Council voted 5-0 to allow for the transfer of the boulder which, since 1929, had been located...
The barbarism of the North American conquest was exemplified by scalping and mutilation of Native Americans
In May, President Donald Trump announced that he would not recognize Indigenous People’s Day and would bring Columbus Day “back from the ashes.”
A few months later, War Secretary Pete Hegseth announced that 20...
Danny Casolaro Was Planning to Meet with Key Figures in Nugan Hand Bank and Members of Australian Government Commission Before He Was Murdered
On August 10, 1991, Danny Casolaro was found lying dead in a tub of bloody water in a hotel room in Martinsburg, West Virginia.
The...
