Category Archives: American fascism

Fake news versus real news in a dictatorship: upsidedownism and samisdat in the U.S. of A.

Posted on August 8, 2020 by Naomi

How peculiarly upside down things are. As I was commenting on the scary Charlie Warzel interview with a games designer,I kept thinking about samisdat. I kept reading and typing and thinking, “What the hell?” Trump calls our free press, our … Continue reading →

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Remember the Russians’ default political smear?

Posted on August 7, 2020 by Naomi

While working on Part Two: The Fakes of Life for my book, How I Learned The Facts of Life, I picked up a pattern in the Russian attacks on our 2016 election. They throw out false accusations (kompromat) of pedophilia … Continue reading →

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“I did the research”: A must-read column about QAnon and its believers

Posted on August 5, 2020 by Naomi

Eagerly, I clicked on Charlie Warzel’s New York Times column today, “Is QAnon the Most Dangerous Conspiracy Theory of the 21st Century? ‘It’s a collaborative fiction built on wild speculation that hardens into reality.’” Immediately I was drawn in, because … Continue reading →

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