A decade of dissent: against corporate dictatorship

In the second part of his retrospective essay on ten years of The Acorn, editor Paul Cudenec looks back on its content in 2016. The online document covering the entire decade can be found here. Resistance to the industrial system's endless assault on our lives and our world was at the centre of the second … Continue reading A decade of dissent: against corporate dictatorship

Modernisation means pillage and profit

by Paul Cudenec As I have pointed out before, a big disruptive event like a war serves multiple purposes for the criminocrats. [1] One of these is to initiate a Reset, a "building back better" of society that is not just highly profitable for them, but also advances their long-term industrial-authoritarian agenda. Delphine Dulong sheds … Continue reading Modernisation means pillage and profit

The Acorn – 99

Number 99 In this issue: The master script For one people's resistance! The British population is under attack Olympic mafia faces Alpine opposition Friedrich Schelling: the 250th anniversary of an organic radical inspiration Acorninfo 1. The master script by Lies are Unbekoming Imagine a vast theater production where the audience believes they're watching multiple independent … Continue reading The Acorn – 99

The Acorn – 98

Number 98 In this issue: Terrorism and the demonocracy The Veil Falls Farmers' fires of rage against the global system Sri Aurobindo: an organic radical inspiration Acorninfo 1. Terrorism and the demonocracy by Paul Cudenec One of the most shocking of all the harrowing accounts to come out of Gaza this year was provided by … Continue reading The Acorn – 98

The stench of the system: propaganda

by Paul Cudenec Something is smelling decidedly 'off' in today's world, with nauseating levels of corruption, mass murder, lies, hypocrisy and repression. These three essays are based on three books I happen to have recently read, each of which provides fascinating but necessarily limited insights into the reality of contemporary society. Placed alongside each other, … Continue reading The stench of the system: propaganda

The stench of the system: sayanim

by Paul Cudenec Something is smelling decidedly 'off' in today's world, with nauseating levels of corruption, mass murder, lies, hypocrisy and repression. These three essays are based on three books I happen to have recently read, each of which provides fascinating but necessarily limited insights into the reality of contemporary society. Placed alongside each other, … Continue reading The stench of the system: sayanim

The Acorn – 96

Number 96 In this issue: The corruption is real and sickening Serbia: death threats and repression in a mining colony Lithium batteries: a fake-green catastrophe Kit Pedler: an organic radical inspiration Acorninfo 1. The corruption is real and sickening by Paul Cudenec The difference between conspiracy realists and conspiracy deniers is, of course, that the … Continue reading The Acorn – 96

Escaping the industrial nightmare

by Paul Cudenec Whatever happens in Sunday's bitterly divisive parliamentary elections in France, we can be sure that the next government will be committed to economic growth and technological progress. As the excellent monthly newspaper La Décroissance ("Degrowth") never ceases to point out, politicians from all sides of the supposedly all-embracing "political spectrum" (including so-called … Continue reading Escaping the industrial nightmare

The king and the criminocrats

An interview with Winter Oak's Paul Cudenec appears in the October 2023 edition of La Décroissance, a French real-green real-life newspaper with a wide distribution. Here's the English-language version. LD: You criticise King Charles III. As his subject, shouldn't you rather be rejoicing at having a new sovereign who is presented by the mass media … Continue reading The king and the criminocrats

Resisting and revealing the plutocratic occupation

by Paul Cudenec [UPDATE. 4.6.2023. AN ENGLISH-SUBTITLED VERSION OF THE FILM IS NOW AVAILABLE TO WATCH ON YOUTUBE] Last night I had the pleasure of attending the screening of a 90-minute documentary about the 2018-2019 Gilets Jaunes movement in France. Shot in and around the city of Toulouse, La Vie de tempête (literally "life in … Continue reading Resisting and revealing the plutocratic occupation