Big Brother

When George Orwell wrote 1984 little did he realize that 50 years latter the fiction at the time around when 1984 was first published wasn't to far off from the reality of today. This novel discusses the devastating effects of an authoritarian society, where thought crime is...

Have You Been Tricked Into Playing a Part In the Police State?

Just think of all the ways we are encouraged to aid and abet law enforcement, recycle, pay our fair share to reduce the deficit, use less water, use less electricity, and all the other civic responsibilities being...

UK government to monitor calls, emails, texts and website visits

After a week of government interference in fuel distribution which left the public fuming at the price hikes and massive queuing at the pumps. Civil liberties groups are now criticizing new government plans to be...

HOMELAND SECURITY'S ORWELLIAN BROADCAST PSYOP CUT DOWN TO SIZE

BREAKING NEWS sourced from CommLawCenter, November 3, 2011 2:21 PM EDT :   FEMA, the Federal Emergency Management Agency division of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, has indicated that the audio of the Nov. 9 national Emergency Alert System test at 2...

Tea Party: a force for totalitarianism

The Tea Party types claim that they are protecting freedom. Nothing could be further from the truth.First of all, the Tea Party types do not tolerate freedom. Where they operate, only the Tea Party line is tolerated and everything else is brutally attacked or destroyed....

Roman Empire and Glenn Beck Republicans

One frequent claim made by American Right is that the Roman Empire fell apart because of its "decadence." Like most claims of American Right this one is wrong, and it is time that more people see that.The Roman...

National Health ID Will Promote Patient Health and Savings

This article was subsequently republished by the author at the Public Option Health Care Now blog.NowPublic participant Peter.Sande has pointed out in an article here today that one of the health bills moving through the US Congress would: "'enable the real-time (or near...

Kindle controversy turns up the heat on Amazon

"Good fame is like fire; when you have kindled you may easily preserve it; but if you extinguish it, you will not easily kindle it again."Francis BaconObviously the good people at Amazon.com follow the golden...

Privatised Law Enforcement Trampling On Our Justice System

Orwell's 2009: How Privatisation Of Law Enforcement Threatens Our Civil Liberties Imagine a day not in the far future when the police is legislated into a private corporation independent of the government. Its...

George Orwell starts a blog

Beginning next week, the personal diary of George Orwell is going online.  The entries will be posted on the same date as they were written during the buildup and outbreak of WWII.  Orwell remains one of...

you and the atomic bomb

 What would George Orwell have made of 9/11; or American military power and Iran's desire for a nuclear bomb?

Orwell at 104

"It's the birthday of the novelist and essayist George Orwell, born Eric Arthur Blair in Bengal, India (1903). He came from a middle class family, but managed to win a scholarship to a distinguished boarding...

Reading Dissident Web Sites

POLL ---- Who should be prevented from reading, or allowed to read, dissident web sites?

Double Speak and the War on Terrorism - Democratic Party

Timothy Lynch, director of the Cato Institute’s Project on Criminal Justice, has written an article examining the use of double speak, and new vocabulary that has been created during the War on Terror.

Orwellian Birthday

"It’s the birthday of the man who wrote Animal Farm (1945) and Nineteen Eighty-four (1949), George Orwell, born Eric Blair in a small village in Bengal, India (1903). He went to an English boarding school...

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