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...

Police State unveils plans for Big Brother database recording all calls, text...

New Labour finally shows its true colour as the Red Brigade tightens its grip on freedom of expression. Learn how to protect yourself from the Police State....Plans for a massive database snooping on the entire...

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...

Why I Write

"Political language is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind."

Double, Triple, Quadruple Standards

 The majority of pacifists either belong to obscure religious sects or are simply humanitarians who object to the taking of life and prefer not to follow their thoughts beyond that point. But there is a...

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