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Words of Wisdom

  • When we remember that we are all mad, the mysteries disappear and life stands explained.
  • – Mark Twain
  • Whenever a particular freedom is put in question, freedom in general is put in question.
  • – Karl Marx
  • Too much consistency is as bad for the mind as it is for the body. Consistency is contrary to nature, contrary to life. The only completely consistent people are the dead.
  • – Aldous Huxley
  • I didn’t really say everything I said.
  • – Yogi Berra

Snippets

The shadow which haunts the power structure is the danger that those who are controlled will come to realize that they are powerless only so long as they think they are. Once people stop believing they are powerless, then the whole edifice which they support is in danger of collapse.
Against All Odds

Apologists for censorship invariably profess noble motives. They tell us that of course they are in favour of freedom of speech ‘in principle’ – then they go on to explain that ‘the greater good’ requires denying freedom of speech to people whose views they dislike.
Free speech for me – you shut up

If Hitchcock had made a film about neoliberal economics, the Chicago School of Economics would be the Bates Motel, Milton Friedman would be the demented proprietor, and Friedrich Hayek would be the dead mother in the attic.
Neoliberal House of Horrors

The Left has engaged in the futile pursuit of ‘moving the NDP to the left’ since 1933, achieving pretty much the same result as a dog chasing its tail.
Let’s Stop Kidding Ourselves About the NDP


Radical Digressions Comprehensive Subject Index

The Subject Index is designed to help you explore Radical Digressions by topic. There are individual pages for each topic, as well as an index page listing the most popular topics, and a separate comprehensive subject index listing more than 4,000 topics.
- Ulli Diemer


Propaganda

  1. Connexions Library: Organizing Focus Page
  2. Drowning in a Sea of Lies
    Introduction to the March 3, 2024 edition of Other Voices
  3. "Fake News"
    Introduction to the December 20, 2016 issue of Other Voices
  4. Free Speech and Acceptable Truths
    Statement of the Alumni for Responsible Speech
  5. Lurching to War
    Introduction to the October 15, 2016 issue of Other Voices
  6. Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - October 15, 2016
    Lurching to War
  7. Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - March 3, 2024
  8. Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - December 21, 2025
    Solstice
  9. Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - September 19 2014
    Spying, terrorism, and protest
  10. Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - November 13, 2014
    Libertarian Socialism
  11. Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - November 27, 2014
    Climate Change
  12. Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - February 12, 2015
    SYRIZA
  13. Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - February 26, 2015
    Ukraine
  14. Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - June 5, 2015
    Residential schools
  15. Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - June 18, 2016
  16. Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - July 2, 2016
    Brexit, Jeremy Corbyn, and Contempt for Democracy
  17. Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - December 20, 2016
    Fake News
  18. Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - June 10, 2018
    Massacres and Morality
  19. Radical Digressions 6
  20. Radical Newspapers
  21. The Red Menace
    A libertarian socialist newsletter
  22. Some of my best comrades are friends
  23. Tactics of desperation: Using false accusations of 'anti-semitism' as a weapon to silence criticism of Israel's behaviour



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