A statement on Ukraine from the Quad (US, Australia, Japan, and India) seems to reflect India’s continuing irritation with the behavior of the western...
A year after the end of Apartheid, Nelson Mandela’s Government of National Unity launched the South African Truth and Reconciliation Process (TRC) under the...
Abstract
Why are we bombarded by fact-checks and “anti-disinformation” efforts in our timeline scrolls? When one reads news, further, they often find that “experts” are...
Introduction
On February 14, 2022, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau invoked the Emergencies Act in response to protests across Canada. Based on testimony at a public inquiry in...
(Also published at timhayward.wordpress)
Official stories, according to the official story about them, are (nearly) always true. The ‘nearly’ gets mentioned just because, on rare...
Spectacle
Spectacle is the system’s representation of itself. It is a vast self-reproducing accumulation of images which stands in for a society which no longer...