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Cogitations

The Ego’s Circle Of Mirrors – Part 1

26th September 2023

The human mind stands at the centre of a circle of mirrors. The mirrors – parents, friends, lovers, teachers, strangers – constantly reflect images of who we are. We’re told we’re annoying, adorable, stupid; that →

NATO summit Vilnius 2023
Alerts

The Mass-Media Memory Hole – Blair, Ukraine and Libya

20th September 2023

A key function of state-corporate media is to keep the public pacified, ignorant and ill-equipped to disrupt establishment power. Knowledge that sheds light on how the world operates politically and economically is kept to a →

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Climate Collapse – The Grim Silence Of Our Leaders

14th September 2023

None of us has previously witnessed a barrage of extreme weather events of the kind that has been devastating lives across the globe this summer. Canadian wildfires the size of Austria, a Hawaiian town incinerated →

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‘A Death Sentence For People And Ecosystems’: The Climate Emergency, Governments And The Public Enemy

19th July 2023

On a trip to Japan in 2014, approaching the third anniversary of the Fukishima nuclear disaster, Noam Chomsky told an audience that: ‘Governments regard their own citizens as their main enemy.’ What he meant was →

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‘I Hope To God I Am Wrong’ – Climate Change ‘Going Through The Roof’

4th July 2023

Why are we at Media Lens utterly terrified by climate collapse while other people we know are mildly concerned, blithely indifferent or cockily contrarian? The simple answer is that we are doing this full-time and →

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When Truth Becomes Silence: Glastonbury’s Cancelling Of A Powerful Film About Jeremy Corbyn

22nd June 2023

The Soviet dissident Yevgeny Yevtushenko famously said that: ‘When truth is replaced by silence, the silence is a lie.’ In this country, as in other western ‘democracies’, important truths are effectively being silenced. As we →

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Killing The Story – Bakhmut, Nick Cohen, Kakhovka, Nord Stream and Piers Morgan

15th June 2023

The late writer, broadcaster and wit Clive James formulated what he called the ‘Barry Manilow Law’: ‘Everyone you know thinks Barry Manilow is absolutely terrible. But everyone you don’t know thinks he’s great.’ (James, cited →

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Raising The Price – Martin Amis And The Post-9/11 Cataclysm

1st June 2023

The death of novelist and essayist Martin Amis on 19 May triggered a ‘mainstream’ wave, not just of admiration, but of adoration. It is clear from the obituaries that Amis died with his reputation intact →

Cogitations

Head-Trapped – Descartes, Dawkins, Hobbes, Marx, Mill, Darwin, And The Myth Of Western Civilisation

24th May 2023

Descartes famously declared: ‘Cogito ergo sum’, or, ‘I think therefore I am.’ But a thought has no awareness; it is a mere packet of information. ‘It’s hot in here’, is like a telegram, a note. →

Alerts

Climate Breakdown, Extinction And ‘The Most Stupid Boast’

16th May 2023

In a recent Guardian advert pleading for readers to hand over money to the paper, leading columnist Marina Hyde declared: ‘My absolute favourite thing about the Guardian is not being told what to write.’ Hyde →

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