“Once you’ve been to Cambodia, you’ll never stop wanting to beat Henry Kissinger to death with your bare hands.” —Anthony Bourdain, A Cook’s Tour (2002). The interventions in Laos and Cambodia are said to have left 350,000 Laotians and 600,000 Cambodians dead.(savageminds.substack.com)
The woman cyclist who "lost'" to Veron*ca Ivy Rach*l McWhatever speaks out(savageminds.substack.com)
Dr Petra Bueskens, psychotherapist, writer and Honorary Fellow in the School of Social and Political Sciences, discusses her op-ed last year on JK Rowling which went viral opening up a debate within the Australian Sociological Association and led to a some denouncing her as a “transphobe.”(savageminds.substack.com)
What's Driving Authoritarianism Today?(savageminds.substack.com)
Belgium Is on the Right Track. Obviously, it will take more than symbolic solidarity and political statements to force Israel to respect international law, to dismantle apartheid, to end the military occupation and to grant Palestinians their freedom.(savageminds.substack.com)
Julian Vigo on Orwellian gender ideology - The Power of the Senseless On the Scrubbing of Public Memory(savageminds.substack.com)
The hawkish disposition of media outlets in a number of countries in shrieking for war is becoming palpable. Go out and kill, you noble sons and daughters. Do your nation proud, however stupidly. The desperation of such a measure is also a reflection of how public opinion rejects the war drive.(savageminds.substack.com)
It was only a matter of time until both the bureaucracy and the executive held the electorate, not just in open derision, but developed a broad range of tools to discipline populations for dissident thought, speech, and voting behaviour.(savageminds.substack.com)
US Supplies Cluster Bombs to Ukraine. The decision to supply cluster munitions is yet another U-turn in the Biden administration’s Ukraine policy, which had expressed doubts just a few months earlier, claiming that they were too dangerous.(savageminds.substack.com)
Sall Grover, the founder and CEO of the female-only social networking app Giggle, discusses the Tickle v Giggle federal court case which opened up the conversation in Australia about the right to female-only spaces.(savageminds.substack.com)
Morocco Drives a War for Its Phosphates. If you add up the phosphate reserves in this entire region, it amounts to 72 per cent of the entire phosphate reserves in the world. Phosphate, along with nitrogen, makes synthetic fertilizer, a key element in modern food production.(savageminds.substack.com)
We Need to Change How We Do Media. The media got everything wrong and chose to lie. The result of this media firestorm resulted in dozens of arrests, a huge bill for the city of Los Angeles to foot over the necessary policing, two people were stabbed, another beaten with a pipe, bones were broken.(savageminds.substack.com)
Stacy Malkan, co-founder and managing editor of U.S. Right to Know, discusses a report she recently co-authored, Merchants of Poison: How Monsanto Sold the World on a Toxic Pesticide (2022) which uncovers astroturfing operations that Monsanto has exacted around the planet.(savageminds.substack.com)
The Military Industrial Complex Wants You to Be More Media (l)literate! September 2022 report from Tessa Jolls, president of the Center for Media Literacy read like a blueprint for how to indoctrinate students in corporatism and militarism under the auspices of media literacy education.(savageminds.substack.com)
Why Journalism is Promoting Falsehoods. There are stories where rapists are regularly referred to as “women” without any mention that the sexual offenders are men.(savageminds.substack.com)
The US Secretary of War: US goal is to bleed America’s long-standing enemy Russia, costing it as much in dead soldiers, destroyed military weapons and wasted economic assets as possible. Like we've said all along: the US wants to engage Russia a long war of attrition down to the last Ukrainian.(savageminds.substack.com)
America’s Hypocrisy over Ukraine and "Spheres of Influence". The United States champions a “rules-based order,” in which we make the rules and hold ourselves exempt from them when desirable.(savageminds.substack.com)
A Psychologist's Victim Ponzi Scheme(savageminds.substack.com)
Fair Cop's Letter to Chief Constable Jardine. What it's like to be hauled in by the Thought Police in the UK for posting against trannies on social media. "...the grossly offensive actions of your male officers at the behest of one of that movement’s unhinged activists."(savageminds.substack.com)
West Is Paranoid About Brics Summit. Reuters lied and started a rumor that India wouldn't come. "I think that someone who is trying to spoil our summit is creating all sorts of stories that suggest that it won’t be successful."(savageminds.substack.com)
The Euro Without German Industry. There is no more uncertainty about whether Europe may break away from US diplomacy by restoring mutual trade and investment with Russia. Where do the euro and dollar go from here?(savageminds.substack.com)
Western Media Bias Makes Israeli War on Palestinians Possible. Obviously, this logic does not apply to the Russia-Ukraine war. For NYT and all mainstream western media, there is no question regarding who the good guys and the bad guys are in that bloody fight.(savageminds.substack.com)
Censorship by Proxy, Physical Violence, and Chilling Threats. Though Google, Facebook, Twitter, and other Big Tech corporations lack the formal legal authority of sovereign states, “their capacity to enable or limit freedom of information and expression is greater than that of most states.”(savageminds.substack.com)
Jenni Swayne, a former teacher, discusses her work as a women’s rights activist her recent hate crime arrest for stickering in Newport, Gwent (Wales). One of the stickers she posted reads: “No child is born in the wrong body: Humans never change sex.”(savageminds.substack.com)
What's Driving Authoritarianism Today?(savageminds.substack.com)