JAILED: Journalist Barrett Brown will face 5 years jail time for charges relating to the hack of a private intelligence firm. By Yaël Ossowski | Watchdog.org His name is Barrett Brown. He is a journalist…
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Mercenary in Ukraine and the State of Permanent Contradiction
Is this American (or Anglo) mercenary in Marioupol, Ukraine fighting the Russian-backed separatists? Or protecting the Ukrainian state forces? Who hired him? Is he Blackwater? The Russians say one thing, the Ukrainians another, and so…
Adam Curtis on Today’s Nonlinear World Which Confuses and Contradicts
Adam Curtis asserts that the strategy of creating confusing and contradictory political and media narratives, used to “undermine people’s perception of the world,” is the newest power structure emerging in our time. It’s a non-linear…
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The Death of a Journalist
Yesterday I sat down for breakfast with a friend of mine, a fellow journalist, at a posh bakery in Vienna’s 3rd district. It was a chance meeting. We rarely ever have time to catch…
Unplugged: Facebook Exodus
I remember the act of joining Facebook. It was 2007, in the spring of my senior year of high school. I had just been accepted to at least 2 universities and I knew I was…
A Mind’s Construction of Paros Island
I could see the front of my two feet every few seconds. I would play a game to see how much of my shoe I could actually bring into my field of vision with each…
An Island Hopper’s Manifesto
The careening bow of the ship tilts the top two centimeters of my beer ever so slightly, but the violence is contained within the glass. It’s been at least 40 minutes since we spotted land,…
The Dreadful History of Dresden
By Yaël Ossowski The immediate casualties of war and conflict are measured not only in blood and treasure, but also in historical truth. And 69 years to the day since the Allied firebombing of Dresden,…
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