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No Time to Wait For Climate Change's Useful Idiots

My latest article explores the extent to which the global establishment is exploiting climate change and climate alarmism for its own nefarious ends.

By Daniel Margrain Last week, climate activist, Mike Hudema tweeted the following: ‘An iceberg the size of London has broken off the Antarctic ice shelf. There is no time to wait. We must #ActOnClimate.’, he said. Hudema’s tweet was in response to a CNN report. And then, as if written from a script, another activist remarked: ‘This is a grave reminder that climate change is happening now, and…

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Propaganda In the Age of Eternal War and 'Pandemics'

In my latest article, I look at the relationship between propaganda, war and the Covid event.

By Daniel Margrain The rolling media coverage of major events, including wars, are often accompanied by predictable rhetorical flourishes across what passes for the ‘mainstream’ political and media spectrum. Politician’s, newspaper editors and media pundits invariably invoke war in a jingoistic way in an attempt to garner popularity and to sell copy, especially if the justification given to go…

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Eat Your Mobile Phone & Be Grateful

Eat Your Mobile Phone & Be Grateful

By Daniel Margrain 

The concept of a mixed capitalist social democracy is not what Theresa May had in mind when she described free-market capitalism as the “greatest agent of collective human progress ever created”. What the obsession with the prevailing socioeconomic orthodoxy of successive governments over the last 40 years illustrates, is that politicians like May proselytize, not on behalf…

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The Mass Media & Trump

The Mass Media & Trump

By Daniel Margrain

In 1938, in response to the alleged arrival to America of aliens from another planet, thousands of US citizens left their suburban homes in a state of panic and departed for the hills. An unsuspecting public did this because the authoritative tones of the radio announcer who imparted this ‘news’ was able to induce the requisite amount of fear in them.

It was only later that…

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Sam Shepard & the Holy Modal Rounders

Sam Shepard & the Holy Modal Rounders

By Daniel Margrain

On July 27, 2017, the world lost a prestigious talent. The US actor, playwright and musician. Sam Shepard, had written at least 55 plays, acted in more than 50 films and had more than a dozen roles on television. His play Buried Child, won him the Pulitzer prize for drama in 1979.

As a key figure in helping to rejuvenate American theatre in the 1960s, Shepard is perhaps best…

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Green washing & the psychology of denial

Green washing & the psychology of denial

By Daniel Margrain

In 1978, the Australian social scientist, Alex Carey, pointed out that the twentieth century has been characterized by three developments of great political importance: “the growth of democracy; the growth of corporate power; and the growth of corporate propaganda as a means of protecting corporate power against democracy.”

In order to defend their interests against the forces…

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The twentieth anniversary of Radiohead's 'Ok Computer'. But is it any good?

The twentieth anniversary of Radiohead’s ‘Ok Computer’. But is it any good?

By Daniel Margrain

I stopped reading the New Musical Express (NME)not long after writers of the caliber of Julie Burchill, Steven Wells, Nick Kent and Charles Shaar Murray stopped writing for it. Anton Corbijn’s stunning and memorable monochrome photography added to the mix of art, politics and music that made the paper special. For many people my age, the post-punk and new wave era,…

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On the side of medieval cannibals

On the side of medieval cannibals

By Daniel Margrain

On September 16, 2013, the UN published its evidence in response to the claim that president Bashar al-Assad of Syria used chemical weapons in an alleged attack in the Syrian city of Ghouta. In its report entitled, The Alleged Use of Chemical Weapons in the Ghouta Area, the UN did not, as the corporate media claimed, blame the Syrian president for the August 21, 2013 attack.…

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