Tag: 1984

  • Totalitarian Paranoia in the Post-Orwellian Surveillance State

    Totalitarian Paranoia in the Post-Orwellian Surveillance State

    The revelations of whistle-blowers such as Chelsea Manning, Jeremy Hammond and Edward Snowden about government lawlessness and corporate spying provide a new meaning if not a revitalized urgency and relevance to George Orwell’s dystopian fable 1984. Orwell offered his readers an image of the modern state that had become dystopian –…

  • A Slow Death by the Proper Name…

    A Slow Death by the Proper Name…

    Since 1954, the World Meteorological Organization has been naming extreme storms after people. But we propose a new naming system. One that names extreme storms caused by climate change, after the policy makers who deny climate change and obstruct climate policy. If you agree, sign the petition athttp://www.climatenamechange.org/#/pe… Related articles…