John Shaplin
@johnshaplin
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"Never does the thinking observer have the right to remain silent, just because he knows for now only a few will be listening."- Friedrich Lange
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‘Hitler is the outcome of Rousseau; Roosevelt and Churchill, Locke.’ , that is, with unforgivable credulity.
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The 1911 Britannia treats Rousseau as a lunatic from the out go, ‘he was always subject to incomprehensible freaks’. Russell treats him as criminal:
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What concrete kind of need does one mean when one describes labour as man’s prime need? The question is all the more necessary because in one sense, which clearly seems to be the primary one, labour is only a need in so far as it directly results from social coercion: if 'I need'
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George Kennan on our dangerous warmongering political-media establishment elites (1982): - “I find the view of the Soviet Union that prevails today in large portions of our governmental and journalistic establishments so extreme, so subjective, so far removed from what any sober
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Open it to any page. It’s the vague harmlessness of the critique that protected him. Bolsheviks and communist are well-meaning but mistaken, and US foreign policy is shameful, hypocritical, devious etc. The obscure anarchist tradition of Bakunin merits further study, etc
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He was not a philosopher, a poor linguist, a bad historian, a radical libertarian anarchist polemicist. Who are I talking about?
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WTF was Manufactured Consent then? nobody posited a greater Conspiracy Theory than Chomsky. At one point he was even convinced human language was a gift from aliens to this planet.
Chomsky taught a generation to dismiss ruling class coordination as "conspiracy theory" while dining with the man who coordinated blackmail operations for that same ruling class
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a few days ago Bernie Sanders appeared on Theo Von's podcast and in front of an audience of 4 million he repeated the genocidal atrocity propaganda rape hoax, blamed the genocide on KHAMAS, said Israel has the right to defend itself, and refused to recognize the genocide
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I will simply never recover from reading this sentence: "Since Georgia implemented work requirements in 2020, they have spent twice as much on Deloitte consultants and administrative costs as on healthcare for people."
Today, Luke Farrell explains how complex eligibility requirements have turned America’s safety net into a lucrative revenue stream for monopolistic private contractors.
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🇮🇶🇸🇾⚡- The anticipated Prime Minister of Iraq, Nouri Al-Maliki: "Syria is now a country under Turkish and Israeli rule, and the government consists of terrorists who used to be imprisoned in Iraq. Do you really believe these terrorists can properly govern an ethnically and
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The media market dynamics have never been so bad. Online influencers can lie over and over again and get paid millions via views on YouTube, TikTok and X spinning culture war. Responsible journalists carefully reporting the facts and fixing mistakes get laid off. It’s awful.
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100 grand won’t even cover the loss of healthcare and education benefits they get from the Danish governme
🚨ALERT: In a bombshell revelation, top White House officials disclosed that the United States is finalizing a staggering $700 billion cash offer to buy Greenland outright from Denmark, plus $100,000 lump-sum payments to each of its ~57,000 residents—totaling nearly $706 billion.
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Listen to Jeff Sachs about his exchange with the Danish UN ambassador about how Denmark - who now wants international law to be fully respected regarding Greenland - refused to uphold the UN charter when Israel bombed Iran. And then read the lines from Mark Carney's speech at
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Iran's Mehr News reports from inside a morgue, where a doctor describes victims murdered by regime change rioters in machete attacks, shootings, mob beatings and ISIS-style mutilations
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Alastair Crooke: Iran’s protests began organically but were hijacked by armed outsiders, including MEK operatives and Kurdish militants. Snipers targeted security forces, provoking chaos. Tehran struck back, cutting internet and Starlink, exposing and dismantling the networks
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