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Noam Chomsky and the Socialist Alternative to Climate Chaos
If we choose to take seriously the overwhelming consensus position of credible climate scientists, we have to accept that ...
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Stupid? Deluded? Uneducated? Why ordinary people get hooked on conspiracy theories
Over the next three years, the conspiracy theories got wilder and wilder. At their height, a variety of different COVID conspiracists believed that Melbourne’s onerous lockdowns were called so ...
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Meet Israel's czar responsible for holding back ICJ, ICC's war crimes tsunami - exclusive
It was December 2023, and Israel was facing the most important legal warfare (lawfare) battle of its existence: whether the International Court of Justice would order the Jewish state to end the ...
Daily Monitor24d
Authoritarian Legalism: A Chomskyan perspective
Noam Chomsky’s concept of “authoritarian legalism” describes how regimes manipulate legal frameworks to maintain power while projecting a facade of democracy. In Uganda, under President ...
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As fires ravage the LA region, so too are conspiracy theories and misinformation
Hot off the announcement that Meta is doing away with fact checkers, social media has been ablaze with conspiracy theories and AI generated images and videos. The Department of Homeland Security ...
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Conspiracy theories are a mental health crisis
The complex relationship between mental health, conspiracy theories, and disinformation that no one's talking about. Credit: BOB AL-GREENE / MASHABLE COMPOSITE; SHUTTERSTOCK This story is part of ...