Agriculture, the service economy, sexual exploitation, manufacturing, construction and domestic work drive today's enslavement around the world.
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Act Out! [162] - Inside the C.I.A., Facial UnRecognition & Bills for Blue Lives
Facial recognition is here, but far from being the slick Bond-style tech of tomorrow, it can't seem to recognize faces very well—and it's the hands of the untrained and apparently senile.
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Act Out! [95] - Party Like it’s 1984 with the New Ministry of Truth & How Your Backyard Can Save the Bees
This week on Act Out!, war is peace, freedom is slavery, ignorance is strength—and it's still Russia's fault.
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Welcome to 1984
1984 America is about—unless we act quickly—to get ugly. It's in a moment of history that Antonio Gramsci called the “interregnum”: the period when a discredited regime is collapsing but a new one has yet to take its place.
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Hedges: The “Dual State” That Edward Snowden Enabled Us To See
A debate this week at Oxford University centers on whether the NSA whistleblower helped or harmed the public good – but on a deeper level, this debate revolves around our nation’s loss of liberty.
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Orwell Revisited: The Arithmetic of Political Lies
Those involved in politics — the politicians, reporters and corporate lobbyists — are constantly lying. It isn't so different from what George Orwell presented in "Animal Farm" and "1984." Here are the four basic types of political lies.
