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Truth and Lies
We have allowed advertising to visually represent real people, which viewers can then emulate. TV, then computers, internet and smartphones have progressively increased the sophistication and volume of these visually and auditorially ‘realistic” (portraying a person or persons) media-which has magnified the impact on the viewing public to extraordinary levels. What are the consequences?
Human and Animal
How Humans Convinced Themselves They Deserve the Earth — and What It’s Costing Us I. The Oldest Lie We Tell Ourselves There is a story so deeply embedded in human civilisation that most of us have never thought to question it. It goes something like this: ‘We are special. We are chosen. We are…
Cuba: Before and After Castro’s Revolution
A balanced, source-led account of Cuba before and after the 1959 revolution, examining social gains in health and education, housing and poverty claims, U.S. sanctions, the Bay of Pigs, and the political costs of one-party rule.
