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EDITOR—Garland weighs in on the exasperating complexities of communication and word meanings in a culture in flux on account of political and philosophical pressures, and the apportionment of inclusion, banishment (cancelling) and punishment. Who decides what is acceptable, and how do we apply critical thinking to social issues? How do the ruling elites enforce ideological conformity through rewards and punishments and what could be the remedy for this kind of normalised tyranny? 

FEMI AKOMOLAFE—One of today’s wonders is how anyone with a brain could fail to notice how far from reality the leaders and the media in the West have become.

Visiting Europe and watching the news there these days is quite an experience. Europeans chose to create and live in their parallel universe, millions of miles from reality. It does not help matter that unelected EU bureaucrats have hijacked almost every aspect of life. These EUcrats banned Europeans from watching alternative news media.

It baffles greatly that Europeans sheepishly went along.

America mercifully did not descend into the levels of Europe before they decided to act.

As we said at the onset, we have no horse in American presidential races.

However, the country’s importance will continue to affect our lives deeply.

GODFREE ROBERTS—During his years in Beijing the young man had forgotten Tibet’s political realities, where the nobles and abbots had murdered the ninth, tenth, eleventh, and twelfth Dalai Lamas for reformist tendencies. Drepung Monastery, the seat of fierce resistance to the Chinese, owned one-hundred-eighty-five manors and twenty-five-thousand serfs, and employed sixteen-thousand herdsmen. Its lamas forced boys into monastic slavery, pilfered the country’s wealth, and sold serfs along with the land. American journalist Anna Louise Strong10 found handcuffs of all sizes at Drepung, including small ones for children, and instruments for cutting off noses and ears, gouging out eyes, breaking off hands, and hamstringing legs, hot brands, whips, and disembowelling implements.

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.

Guest Host RUSSELL DOBULAR and the panel—including Jimmy Dore— examine why most corporate comics sell out, often using the same meme across their platforms. Careerism explains much of their conformity, of course, a label they would probably furiously reject if called out on their behaviour. Others are simply mediocre.