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In Nineteen Eighty-Four, the "memory hole" is a small chute leading to a large incinerator used for censorship: [3] [4] In the walls of the cubicle there were three orifices. To the right of the speakwrite, a small pneumatic tube for written messages, to the left, a larger one for newspapers; and in the side wall, within easy reach of Winston's ...
Politics of memory is the organisation of collective memory by political agents; the political means by which events are remembered and recorded, or discarded. Eventually, politics of memory may determine the way history is written and passed on, hence the terms history politics or politics of history .
Demonizing the enemy or demonization of the enemy [1] is a propaganda technique which promotes an idea about the enemy being a threatening, evil aggressor with only destructive objectives. [2] Demonization aims to inspire hatred toward an enemy, rendering the enemy more easily hurt while preserving and mobilizing allies and demoralizing the enemy.
CBS News California takes a closer look at the drug component of the high-profile Proposition 36 to fact-check claims about the ballot measure from supporters and opponents.
In 2017 Milosz’s biographer Andrzej Franaszek said in an essay in The New York Times: “Perhaps a decade ago, it would have been easy to pass off The Captive Mind as a relic of the totalitarian 20th century: However, the last decade has demonstrated how the mechanisms of mind control Milosz exposed continue to be deployed throughout the ...
Samuel Little has confessed to 93 slayings committed between 1970 and 2005, recounting the crimes with astonishing, near-photographic detail.
Memory laws can be either punitive or non-punitive. A non-punitive memory law does not imply a criminal sanction. It has a declaratory or confirmatory character. Regardless, such a law may lead to imposing a dominant interpretation of the past and exercise a chilling effect on those who challenge the official interpretation.
Attorney General Merrick Garland told staff at the Department of Justice that the agency will not be used as a “political weapon” as Donald Trump campaigns on a message of political ...