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Nintendo appears to leak new Switch game ahead of release The leak was spotted on the Nintendo website Republique. Image Credit: Republique on Steam Visitors to the Nintendo website have noticed an accidental upload pertaining to an upcoming Switch and Switch Lite game. The official Nintendo website was seen to include information about Republique, a stealth game that has previously been available on every other platform aside from the Xbox. The link has since been removed. Republique appeared...

Today is the 21st day of 2021. There are 344 days left in the year.

It chronicles Vitali’s first trip outside of the USSR, when he took a train from Moscow to Britain, through to a final journey in March 2020 to Slovenian/Italian town Nova Gorica/Gorizia, just as lockdown was making the open and all but imaginary border real and visible again for the first time in 13 years. In between the first and ‘last’ trips, the author takes the reader on an unforgettable journey around islands, across micronations and quirky enclaves, atop mountains into valleys, and...

13 Jan 2021 “It starts with banning words,” said Jocko Willink, retired Navy SEAL and author, warning of totalitarianism in the context of growing digital censorship in episode 263 of his eponymous podcast. Willink reflected on the lessons of George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four and Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn’s the Gulag Archipelago while examining how control over language lays the foundation of control over minds. “It happens slowly,” Willink said of manipulation of language, “an...

George Orwell was neither on the left nor the right The famous author despised dictators and herd mentality. Above all he advocated "common decency". George Orwell.  Share In December 1936, George Orwell arrived in Catalonia as a volunteer in the struggle to defend the Spanish republic against the violent insurgency led by General Francisco Franco and his nationalist allies. The Spanish Civil War, as with today’s long, harrowing Syrian war, was a theatre of great power rivalry. The nationali...

Lolita (1962), directed by Stanley Kubrick. © 1962 Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Inc. Leading up to its publication, Vladimir Nabokov’s Lolita gave even its author pause as to whether it should be available to the public. It took some convincing from his wife to publish the novel, and it was released by a noted pornographic press in France in 1955. Lolita’s controversial status fueled its success, leading it to the top of best-seller lists across the globe. However, its subject matter, which was p...

US Prof Faces Cancellation For Teaching Students to Question Propaganda Amid COVID-19 Pandemic Subscribe Sputnik International https://sputniknews.com/interviews/202101121081733570-us-prof-faces-cancellation-for-teaching-students-to-question-propaganda-amid-covid-19-pandemic/ Hostility to dissenting perspectives has become increasingly recorded over the past few years, but particularly since the outbreak of the novel coronavirus. One apparent victim of this shrinking space for differing views i...

In 1947, the year David Bowie was born, a tubercular George Orwell shuffled over to the bedroom window of his cottage on the storm-lashed Scottish island of Jura and thought about London. He was always thinking about London. The ailing Orwell—moustache and cigarette drooped downward, clad most of his days in just the same old raggedy dressing gown as he propped himself up in bed with a typewriter—was in a race against time to polish off the manuscript of what would be his ninth and final bo...

Parler will likely go offline for "a while" Sunday evening given Amazon Web Services' decision to suspend the upstart social media platform after Wednesday's U.S. Capitol riot, executives said Sunday.

The works of George Orwell enter the public domain this month Credit: Getty George Orwell died from tuberculosis in January 1950, aged 46. Writers who can combine such originality of thought with such clarity of expression are rare enough that even now it’s difficult not to be grief-struck by his lamentably premature demise. But taking consolation where we can, we can celebrate the fact that in the month of the anniversary of his death comes the expiry of the copyright on his books – someth...