George Orwell
Young Wigan actor bids for stage breakthrough
A young Wigan actor is hoping for a springboard to stardom after landing her biggest role yet in a homegrown musical premiere.<p>Francesca Fazackerley …
ManchesterPolitical Cornflakes: 77 percent of Americans — like the president — believe major media outlets report ‘fake news,’ according to a new poll
77 percent of Americans — like the president — believe major media outlets report ‘fake news,’ according to a new poll. Some Utah candidates have …
Sinclair Broadcast GroupRunning in hot pursuit of George Orwell
<b>ANALYSIS/OPINION:</b><p>George Orwell is dead and gone, and more than a half-century has passed since he wrote “1984,” but he would recognize America today. …
El PasoShots fired‚ but no war at Wanderers
“Serious sport‚” George Orwell famously observed in an essay written 73 years ago but more searingly true now than ever‚ “is war minus the shooting.”
George OrwellThe open wounds of history fifty years ago
THE OPEN WOUNDS OF HISTORY<p>FIFTY YEARS AGO<p>BY: T. D. DUFF, TONKA BAY, MINNESOTA<p>My generation came of age in the late 1960’s and 70’s, at the apogee of …
Martin Luther King, Jr.Commentary: George Orwell was wrong — about the date
George Orwell was wrong!<p>About the date.<p>It wasn’t 1984, it was 2016, for which evidence continues to grow on a daily basis. Orwell had the concepts, …
Salt Lake CityWhat It's Like to Live Without Social Media | Best Countries | US News
After learning that UK-based political data firm Cambridge Analytica acquired private data on millions of Facebook users and used it to influence not …
Social MediaShulkin’s phony martyrdom and other comments
<b>From the right: David Shulkin’s Phony Martyrdom</b><p>Newly fired Secretary of Veterans Affairs David Shulkin is trying hard to make himself into a martyr, …
Donald TrumpInformation as Spectacle: Second World War Exhibitions by the Ministry of Information | Journal of Design History
The <i>Victory Over Japan</i> exhibition opened during the heady days following the Allied victory in the Second World War. As one of a series of exhibitions …
ArtistsLying about books
From the Guilty Secrets survey by Spread the Word, the top ten books that people say that they’ve read but haven’t.<p>1. 1984 by George Orwell (42%)<br>2. …
Barack ObamaColumn: World Cup offers chance for respite from Russia heat
PARIS (AP) It was late 1945, and distrust of Russia was rising. British military planners had recently hatched secret plans, codenamed “Unthinkable,” …
RussiaBig brother isn’t watching you
Donald Trump is the O.J. Simpson of our moment, and we’re on a never-ending White Bronco ride<p>This piece originally appeared on TomDispatch.<p>A record? Come on! Don’t minimize what’s happening. It’s far too unique, too unprecedented even to be classified as “historic.” Call it mega-historic, if you …
Donald TrumpWhat makes a book a best-seller?
All authors dream of looking at the best-seller list and seeing their book at the top. But what turns a book into a smash literary hit? Literary …
BooksA record? Come on! Don’t minimize what’s happening...
<b>Big Brother Isn’t Watching You</b><b><br>You’re Watching Him!</b><br>By Tom Engelhardt<p>A record? Come on! Don’t minimize what’s happening. It’s far too unique, too …
Donald TrumpJack White on his new album, Jeopardy! and what he's learned from Michael Jackson
If music superlatives are passed down like royal titles, James Brown may well have bequeathed his Hardest Working Man in Show Business mantle to Jack …
South-east Asia6 Americans Produce Services for Every Worker Producing Physical Products
The chart below shows that the number of goods-producing jobs in the US has remained relatively flat since WWII at about 20 million, while the number …
GlobalizationAbraham Lincoln Brigade in Spain
On March 29, 1939, Francisco Franco and his fascist forces overran the capital city of Spain, Madrid, and declared victory over their enemies, the …
Political ScienceHugh Pennington · Phrenic Crush: The rise and rise of tuberculosis
Phrenic Crush<p>Hugh Pennington<p>The Return of the White Plague: Global Poverty and the ‘New’ Tuberculosis edited by Matthew Gandy and Alimuddin …
Rikers IslandWhy community and not confinement will end TB
The global response to tuberculosis has saved millions of lives; TB treatment saved 53 million lives between 2000 and 2016. Yet each year millions …
Public HealthThe Illusion of Freedom in the Digital Age by Mark Leonard
LONDON – Over the last few weeks, media around the world have been saturated with stories about how technology is destroying politics. In autocracies …
Xi JinpingSpeaking as a white male...
How much are you in control of your own opinions? I ask this sincerely because, as you’ll see, I’m trying to think this through and I’m not sure …
George OrwellPost-truth politics and why the antidote isn't simply 'fact-checking' and truth
<i>This article is part of the Revolutions and Counter Revolutions series, curated by Democracy Futuresas a joint global initiative between the Sydney</i> …
Geert WildersThe Job Centre decides if I eat or go hungry: My Wigan Pier Story
Volunteer, Geoff Hardwick, 62, tells Claire Donnelly how sanctions left him destitute - but a community centre saved him.<p>I’ve lived in the Seacroft …
UK PoliticsBill Murray Compares Parkland Students to Vietnam War Protesters
“If you can just stop shooting at them, they really do pretty well,” actor writes in op-ed<p>Bill Murray is standing with the Parkland students, and …
Groundhog DayXi rules — on Chinese President's concentration of power
China is no stranger to reform. Over the past three decades the structure of the government has changed at least half a dozen times. But the scale of …
ChinaOh, Florida! Putin’s aiming missiles at us. Big deal.
-Lago, where his BFF hangs out half the year.<p>No sirree, Mr. Putin put the western side of Interstate 4 in his crosshairs, aiming his …
J. Edgar HooverWhat Doesn't Kill You Gives You Tweet Material
I listen to NPR everyday (highly recommend the NPR One app). I am not a news fanatic and more often than not these days find media to be inflammatory …
Texas A&MHard Times Again
We live in hard times, and all the indications are that they may get much, even very much, harder. No one, at any rate, would take a bet that they …
Conservative ViewAmnesty campaigns against Apple over privacy issues in China
Beijing, March 22 (IANS) Amnesty International has launched a new campaign against Apple for allegedly making the data of Chinese iCloud users …
Amnesty International'Businesses need to use their own data, and buy the right data'
Disruption is one business trend overarching most others right now. Retailers are threatened by the looming arrival of Amazon.<p>TV and print media are …
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