CRISTEN HEMINGWAY JAYNES—“The Amazon is in a hurry to survive the devastation caused by those few people who refuse to see the future, who in a few years cut down, burned, and polluted what nature took millennia to create,” Lula said, as The Associated Press reported. “The Amazon is in a hurry to continue doing what it has always done, to be essential for life on Earth.”
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JOSUE MICHELS—n age of relative freedom took a major setback on August 25, the day the European Union’s draconian Digital Services Act (dsa) went into force. In the future, this measure could be used to ban articles such as this one. But much more than banning “disinformation” and “hate speech,” the law is set to ban any illegal content, services or activities. While the dsa is combating some filth and corruption American companies allow and promote, it is also setting the scene for a system of absolute state control over the Internet.
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FRANK SCOTT—Given the increasingly insane and bloody moves by what passes for leadership of something called the free world, at least according to its owners and their lackeys, it’s almost impossible to overstate or underrate present fictional reality. A nation presently engaged in a proxy war sacrificing thousands of Ukrainian and Russian lives in pursuit of further domination of Europe in keeping with its role since the Second World War also increases its warrior position surrounding China in its alleged love and admiration for Taiwan – an actual part of China – while bellowing about the warlike posture of the Chinese.
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FRANK SCOTT—While a new administration presides over what many hoped would be a return to normal after the even more blatant and open worship of wealth, war and Israel of the Trump regime, what’s missed is that what passes for normal is what needs radical change. As long as market normalcy in the USA means hundreds of thousands are homeless, millions are living in poverty and millions more than that are so much deeper in debt than ever before in our history that the World Bank warns of the possibility of social collapse.
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GABRIEL ROCKHILL—It is often presumed that intellectuals have little or no political power. Perched in a privileged ivory tower, disconnected from the real world, embroiled in meaningless academic debates over specialized minutia, or floating in the abstruse clouds of high-minded theory, intellectuals are frequently portrayed as not only cut off from political reality but as incapable of having any meaningful impact on it. The Central Intelligence Agency thinks otherwise.
