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  1. Sales of Orwell's '1984' Increase as Details of NSA Scandal Emerge

    Tue, 11 Jun 2013

    Amazon Sales of "1984 ," George Orwell 's 1949 classic novel about the oppressiveness of government overreach, have risen over 3,000 percent on Amazon since the country

  2. New 'Papers Please' Video Game May Surprise You

    Wed, 8 May 2013

    latest game comes at a time when immigration has coincidentally taken center stage in American politics. Inspired by George Orwell 's 1984 and by the checkpoints separating East and West Berlin during the Cold War, the game is set in an imaginary

  3. With Chávez Absent, Things Get Orwellian in Venezuela

    Mon, 14 Jan 2013

    plot. Throw some talking pigs in there, a hard working horse and winged creatures, and we could have a sequel to George Orwell 's "Animal Farm" on our hands. Sadly, this is actually what things could start to look like in Venezuela, a nation

  4. Did Mitt Romney Get His Game Changer? (The Note)

    Thu, 19 Jul 2012

    on Wednesday. And his about-face on whether his healthcare provisions are a penalty or a tax is reminiscent of ' George Orwell 's '1984' or the best efforts of Pravda at the height of the Soviet period,' the former House speaker says

  5. Report: London No Safer for All Its CCTV Cameras

    Thu, 23 Feb 2012

    installed in the mid 1980s. Privacy activists are worried that Britain will become the bleak totalitarian society George Orwell painted in his classic novel "1984," where citizens were spied on and personal freedom sacrificed for the benefit

  6. New Orwellian-Themed Santorum Ad Takes Aim At 'Establishment' and Romney

    Wed, 18 Jan 2012

    set to debut in South Carolina tomorrow. The ad, which will run in 60 and 90-second versions, is an homage to George Orwell featuring automaton-like voters marching single file to a voting booth with flickering images of Mitt Romney blasting

News

  1. The 'Just in Case You're a Criminal Someday' Act

    Mon, 8 Aug 2011

    you commit a crime someday. This is no casual reference to the "Big Brother is Watching You" dystopian world of George Orwell 's "1984;" it is the reality of H.R. 1981 , a bill in Congress that orders Internet companies to build vast digital

  2. India Wins: Beats Pakistan in World Cup Cricket Collision

    Wed, 30 Mar 2011

    tweeting and Facebooking about for nearly a week, is much more than an eight-hour sporting event. Serious sport, George Orwell once said, is "war without the shooting," as Time http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599

  3. Hello, Big Brother: Digital sensors are watching us

    Tue, 25 Jan 2011

    recorded and time-stamped. Several developments have converged to push the monitoring of human activity far beyond what George Orwell imagined. Low-cost digital cameras, motion sensors and biometric readers are proliferating just as the cost of

  4. Vanessa Woods' "Bonobo Handshake"

    Fri, 4 Jun 2010

    Mothers could choose to be tested with their infants. Infants could participate in the research. In the novel 1984 by George Orwell , the worst part of the dystopia wasn't Big Brother always watching or the drab postwar world or the dreary work. It

  5. Amazon offers to replace Orwell books on Kindles

    Sat, 5 Sep 2009

    Amazon.com is offering free books or $30 to Kindle customers whose copies of the George Orwell novels 1984 and Animal Farm were deleted from their electronic reading devices in July. When Amazon erased the books from Kindles

  6. Big Brother Is Watching Your Blackberry

    Mon, 27 Jul 2009

    Well, consider a recent incident involving the Internet bookseller Amazon and two works by -- ironically enough -- George Orwell . Amazon had been selling the title s, "1984" and "Animal Farm," to owners of its Kindle reader, the special

  7. Amazon.com CEO apologizes for Orwell incident

    Fri, 24 Jul 2009

    Amazon.com CEO Jeffrey P. Bezos has apologized to Kindle customers for deleting pirated copies of George Orwell novels 1984 and Animal Farm from their e-reader devices. Kindle users were surprised last week to find that Orwell works they

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Videos

  1. September 9, 1993: Middle East Tension

    Fri, 9 Sep 2011

    than a few among the Palestinians and Israelis tonight who feel a certain kinship. With the fictional characters of George Orwell 's bitterly as satirical novel 1984. The world you may remember was divided in broken the three continents two of

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  2. This Week (10.25.09)

    Sun, 25 Oct 2009

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  1. PHOTO: George Orwell's 1984 has risen 7000 percent on Amazon.com with the NSA scandal.

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