GEORGE GALLOWAY—One of my earliest memories was watching Scottish soldiers murdering Yemenis in the Crater district of Aden. We’ve been trying for hundreds of years to vanquish them, unsuccessfully.
CULTURE & CRITICISM
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Lee Fang on Why He LEFT THE INTERCEPT To Go INDEPENDENT
1 minutes readEDITORS—Lee Fang’s critique of the degraded journalistic atmosphere at The Intercept that forced his resignation. The embrace of partisanship and wokism was too much for Fang, who exited the once-promising place (originally founded by tech billionaire Pierre Omidyar) much as did one of its founders, Glenn Greenwald.
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Obesity rules! America, Britain, and other countries in the “collective West” getting progressively fat.
3 minutes readEDITORS—We know that America has been fighting the Battle of the Bulge for a long time, and losing, but its usual partner in crime, Britain, is also afflicted by the fat epidemic. In this powerful documentary we get an inside look at the NHS hospital fighting the obesity epidemic in the UK. Subscribe to Our Stories: https://bit.ly/3lzSXhv One of the UK’s biggest and busiest obesity units opens its doors to allow an exclusive insight into the battle with the bulge. Sunderland Royal Hospital is at the heart of one of the fattest places in the country and deals with thousands of patients turning to surgery to beat their obesity. But before they go under the knife, they need to come to terms with why they’re overeating. At 47 stone, 29-year-old Terry is one of the biggest patients the unit has ever treated.
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• “TOTALITARIAN” ANTI-COMMUNISM: LOADED LANGUAGE STRAIGHT OUT OF CIA, NEO-CON PLAYBOOK
by Bruce Lerro35 minutes readBRUCE LERRO—Using loaded language in politics supports narrowing the thinking process to heroes and villains, gods and devils, dictators or democrats. Working-class people do not initiate what these words mean, or in what contexts they are used. However, working class people circulate these words unconsciously when they talk about politics to others. Working-class people also internalize these words and this narrows the span of how they think about political processes. The purpose of this article and the next one is to challenge you to try purging from your vocabulary the words totalitarian dictatorship or democracy. Chances are very good that the Yankee anti-communist campaign is playing you.
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PIERS MORGAN—Pink Floyd co-founder Roger Waters is quite simply a legend of British rock music history. His band created a foundational sound that has inspired generations, and have sold more than 250 million records worldwide. Not content however to be just an artist, Roger is also a well-known antagonist and activist. His support for Palestine has been unwavering; but also controversial. Roger joins Piers Morgan Uncensored with an energy and zeal most wouldn’t have at 80 years old. Piers asks him about his father, who fought the Nazis in World War 2, but also challenges him on his contentious stage shows, his views on Hamas, and his mistaken belief that Russia would not invade Ukraine. Roger barely allows Piers to speak, which is of course, no easy feat.