This article was originally posted on 99-percent.org We have all had the experience of being so deeply immersed in something that we could not see the wood for the trees. And there is nothing we are so deeply immersed in as our own lives. So it is worth a little thought experiment: imagine that…
Category: Politics
Chatter #180 – Dr Yvonne Ridley: Who Are The Taliban And How Did They Conquer Afghanistan So Quickly
Yvonne Ridley is a British journalist who was captured by the Taliban in 2001. She later converted to Islam. She is a vocal supporter of Palestine and an avid critic of Zionism and of Western media portrayals and foreign policy in the War on Terror and has undertaken speaking tours throughout the Muslim…
Chatter #179 – Klaudia Fior On Bywire News, Reimagining Britain, And The End Of The World
Klaudia Fior is a 23 year-old journalist & PR/advertising MA graduate. She works for Bywire News, Britains only blockchain news network, aggregating the best independent news from across the UK. Klaudia writes about debate topics or topics that spark controversy. She was born in Poland and raised in South London. We covered everything…
Who Governs Britain?
This article was originally posted here. There is an obvious and simple answer to the question: the UK has regular general elections; at each election, a party led by a proposed prime minister is elected; the new Prime Minister selects his cabinet; they govern the country on behalf of the electorate. But in…
Chatter #176 – Maram Susli On The Palestinian Genocide, Big Tech Censorship, And The Power Of Israel
Maram Susli (also known as Mimi al-Laham, PartisanGirl, Syrian Girl and Syrian Sister) is a Syrian Australian YouTuber and citizen journalist who prepares videos on the Syrian Civil War, United States foreign policy in the Middle East, and the Palestinian genocide. She’s a Sunni Muslim from Damascus, anti-neocon, anti-NWO, anti-Zionist. HELP ME CROWDFUND…
Chatter #175 – Peter Boghossian On The Cult of Woke, Idea Viruses, And Renewing Our Institutions
Dr. Peter Boghossian’s main focus is bringing the tools of professional philosophers to people in a wide variety of contexts. Peter has a teaching pedigree spanning more than 25 years and 30 thousand students – in prisons, hospitals, public and private schools, seminaries, colleges and universities, Fortune 100 companies, and small businesses. His…