One deceitful and yet successful strategy used by mass media to spread truths that don’t exist is by putting words in the mouths of millions, whether these be words of demand, rejection, support or condemnation. Today this strategy is employed by ideologies that seek to encroach on liberties. But this has always been the case.
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Constant change with Covid
Slavoj Žižek has written that a frustrating aspect of the pandemic is that it continues without end, with no conclusion. It’s an ongoing emergency, which proceeds non-teleologically in different stages. Steve Latham As we are learning, with the virus a permanent presence in our world, the implications of […]
Coping with life and death: the Westerns of Budd Boetticher
As a child, Budd Boetticher (pronounced ‘bettiker’) was assured by his mother that she was taking him to the circus but brought him instead to the dentist. Sean Sheehan Arriving there, he asked “Where are the elephants?” –the question became the title of his second, unpublished autobiography– and, […]
The obstacle to Biden’s foreign policy
For Robert Menéndez, chair of the United States Senate Foreign Relations Committee, the cases of Cuba and Iran are sacrosanct. His hatred for the Cuban revolution and, therefore, the people whose ideas do not mirror his own, goes back a long way. The Cuban American senator has been in […]
Defending Assange and confronting Covid
The decision by the judge that Julian Assange should not be extradited to the United States is good news in dark times but it may not last. It was a surprise for observers who saw blatant hostility to the defendant by the judge. Sean Sheehan Moreover, the decision […]
















