The Post-Partisan Emporium

  "Where were all the anarchists during Covid 19?" PAUL CUDENEC This is a wide-ranging interview I recently did with two anarchist pro-freedom campaigners, MA and WS, from Brighton, England.   Illustration by Ken Avidor. WS:  Please could you introduce yourself and say how you came to be a writer and create the website Winter Oak? Paul Cudenec:  I am a former professional journalist, who slogged away for 25 years on a local newspaper in Sussex, and have also been an active anarchist since the mid 1990s. Ten years ago I took voluntary redundancy to concentrate on my own writing, then moved to rural France. I initially created Winter Oak as a vehicle for publishing my books but over the years the site has increasingly become the focus of my writing activity, in particular my exposures of the global power nexus, which were lent new urgency by the Covid moment. WS:  How would you define ‘anarchism’? Is it left wing or right wing or beyond both paradigms? PC:  I...

  The Judas Goat Creating a Qult for the ages RADIO FAR SIDE Throughout my entire career, one of my professional superpowers has been my ability to visualize complex systems and examine them from multiple angles. This has come in handy for problem solving, event planning and marketing. It can find and solve issues before they arise, as well as save significant amounts of money. It can also smell a grift from a fair distance away. Readers who’ve been around since my days on Blogger are familiar with my long-running series on the Q Phenomenon (now found in the archives here, as well). If you aren’t familiar with it, in brief I proposed that Q was sophisticated marketing operation to both map influencer networks and engender brand loyalty with the Trump Movement. The system “dropped” memes (tags and visuals) into the socmed sphere, tracked who picked them up and how those memes were spread, and created a network of True Believers that could be exploited to spread particular thought pr...

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