. “The Mind-Benders: How to Harvest Facebook Data, Brainwash Voters, and Swing Elections” by Roberto J. Gonzalez, copyright 2018; first published in Counterpunch, March 23, 2018 In the days and weeks following the 2016 presidential elections, reports surfaced about how… Read More ›
Month: March 2018
3 Takes on Identity: Poems by Devon Balwit; art by Bea Garth
Portrait of a Generation . by Devon Balwit, copyright 2018 . No wish to drive, less dating, less sex—iGen teens cocoon, self-swaddled, with their phones, my son among them, prone, faces illuminated, ensorcelled. To say put it down is like demanding… Read More ›
On Ethics: 4 Poems by Sofia Kioroglou; Art by Bea Garth
“No tertium quid” by Sofia Kioroglou, copyright 2018 . In search of a morally univocal answer There is either right or wrong, No tertium quid, no equivocity . Seek for the truth, and meet with scandals and horrors in multivocal… Read More ›
“America’s Troll Farm Media,” by Gerald Sussman; art by Erik Kaye
MARCH 9, 2018 (reposted from Counterpunch) by GERALD SUSSMAN What else does the citizenry have to say? A mere 18% have “a lot” of trust in the MSM, while 74% see them as “biased” (Pew Research, July 2016). A study… Read More ›