Tag Archives: Emmanuel Goldstein

They Killed Emmanuel Goldstein

Honestly, I was rather convinced that Osama bin Laden wasn’t alive. In Orwellian times, the sole remaining superpower desperately needs an arch villain in order to wage wars (at the moment two or even three). But bin Laden, dead or alive, was … Continue reading

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Euphemisms

Only minutes after President Obama’s speech at the U.S. National Archives in Washington on closing down Guantánamo prison camp what he called a “misguided experiment”, former vice president Dick Cheney denounced the decision saying it came “without deliberation and no plan.” A … Continue reading

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