Home » Topics » george orwell
George Orwell’s birthplace in India to become Gandhi memorial
The long-neglected birthplace of British novelist George Orwell in eastern India is to be developed into a memorial — just not one dedicated to the writer, officials said Monday. Instead, the land attached to Orwell’s house in Bihar’s Motihari city will be developed in memory of independence hero Mahatma Gandhi,…
Germany meets Greece in financial crisis and soccer match for Euro 2012
Stranger than fiction: Germany-Greece eurocrisis invades the soccer pitch (via The Christian Science Monitor) Sport is war minus the shooting, George Orwell once said. The European Football Championships 2012, currently being held in Poland and Ukraine, have so far been a fairly peaceful affair. Only Poland against Russia was a…
Rep. Hank Johnson compares CISPA to ’1984′
Rep. Hank Johnson (D-GA) on Thursday compared controversial cyber security legislation to George Orwell’s famous dystopian novel 1984. The Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act (CISPA) would authorize Internet companies, such as Internet service providers and social networking sites, to share private online communications and other data about possible attacks…
Brand new on Raw Story
- Jennifer Rubin demands CNN ‘mute’ David Shuster for ‘Media Matters talking points’
- Jewish group demands Sen. Chuck Grassley apologize for Hitler comment
- Associated Press boss blasts ‘unconstitutional’ phone records seizures
- Police: Fatal shooting of gay man in New York was a hate crime
- High school students arrested for throwing water balloons at school
- Obama’s approval rating up despite scandals
- Rove says his super PAC is same as NAACP because it’s for ‘social welfare’
- Florida parent says ‘religious zealots’ got teen daughter arrested for lesbian relationship
- Paul Ryan: IRS connection to Obamacare is ‘rotten to the core’
- Internet in ‘coma’ as Iran election looms
Commentary
Stop whining about Millennials
By Pando Daily
Six ways the GOP could screw up the Obama administration’s scandals
By Ana Marie Cox, The Guardian
Raw Exclusives
Featured Video
Follow Us!
