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“Russian propaganda” and “paid trolls”? More like the truth and the blogosphere
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Harry J. Bentham
J’adore la liberté; j’abhorre la gêne, la peine, l’assujettissement. I love liberty, and I loathe constraint, dependence, and all their kindred annoyances. Jean-Jacques Rousseau Suddenly, everyone is scared of the scale of “Russian propaganda”. A basic chart comparing the current offenses in US and Russian foreign policy, which challenge the spirit of the United Nations Charter. The new…
L’Ordre de la Montagne, a blogging society’s ascension
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Harry J. Bentham
Nous sommes tous montagnards, vive la montagne! We are all Montagnards, vive La Montagne! Slogan used in an address to the Jacobin Club, 1793 I have been privileged to help publicize a growing club of bloggers known as the Mont Order or La Montagne. Screen capture of the new trial appearance for the website lordre.net, proposed as a communal…
Easier to accuse a poor isolated regime of censorship than a world-controlling regime?
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Harry J. Bentham
Il n’y a pas d’amis : il y a des moments d’amitié. There are no friends: there are moments of friendship. Jules Renard Making it in the mainstream media has and continues to be one my goals. However, controversy is fun, and a useful fire. Kindling it makes life less boring. Browse my fiction and nonfiction…
Snowden had to act because the government was too slow
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Harry J. Bentham
Le vrai Citoyen préfère l’avantage général à son avantage. The true Citizen prefers everyone’s benefit over his own benefit Jean-Jacques Rousseau Oliver Stone may direct a thriller called Snowden, telling the heroic story of the whistleblower. In anticipation of it, I sought to read Luke Harding’s The Snowden Files (2014) – the main source for the film – in hope of producing a…
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