Don’t say you weren’t warned. While ‘centrist’ neo-liberals and faux-progressives lauded turbo-globalisation in the nineties, one ‘insider’ Sir James ‘Jimmy’ Goldsmith – a billionaire financier who never indulged in groupthink – told us that it wouldn’t end well. In his books The Trap and The Response, Goldsmith predicted that GATT and …
Read More »‘Supreme Court really let us down,’ Trump tweets after crucial election lawsuit defeat, promises to ‘fight on’
“The Supreme Court really let us down. No Wisdom, No Courage!” the president angrily tweeted. Trump wrote that the Supreme Court had rejected the lawsuit filed by Texas “within a flash,” and “without even looking at the many reasons it was brought.” “A Rigged Election, fight on!” he wrote. Twitter …
Read More »Trump’s pursuit of Mideast ‘peace legacy’ is driven by bribery and is fueling conflict
In a few weeks, Donald J. Trump is likely to be finally turfed out of the White House as his tenuous legal challenges to the presidential election fizzle and flounder. With an eye on leaving some kind of “legacy,” Trump wants to go down in history as the great peace …
Read More »The Daily Beast demanded Trump supporters be arrested & humiliated. Why are they shocked when they’re threatened with the same?
When the Daily Beast discovered that a website called Enemiesofthepeople.org was allegedly doxxing state and local officials who’d stood in the way of President Donald Trump’s efforts to challenge last month’s election results, they should have been overcome with a sense of déjà vu. After all, the Beast’s own editor …
Read More »‘Medical miracle’: Trump praises ‘safe & effective’ Pfizer Covid-19 vaccine as FDA grants emergency use authorization
Created alongside German firm BioNTech, the vaccine received emergency use authorization from the FDA on Friday, after an agency meeting earlier this week recommended it be cleared for use by those 16 and older. President Trump hailed the move in a video statement moments after the jab was approved. “Today …
Read More »‘Merkel’s surrender & worst of all possible worlds’: Soros pens angry op-ed over Polish-Hungarian victory in EU budget talks
The European Commission originally imposed “rule-of-law requirements” on member states for disbursing the pandemic recovery funds. The measure was seen as a method of pressure on Budapest and Warsaw, which have been at odds with Brussels over their laws on the media, the judiciary and LGBTQI+ rights, among other things. …
Read More »‘Sickening’ & ‘crass’: First Covid-19 pandemic movie ‘Songbird’ triggers critics by targeting power-hungry governments
“This movie about a pandemic, made entirely during the pandemic, is not something anybody needs right now…or ever,” reads a review of ‘Songbird’ from The Ringer, which promises the movie will “make you sick.” ‘Songbird’, shot in June and released digitally today, is one of the most notable releases of …
Read More »Conflict of interest? WHO ‘conspired’ with Italian govt to remove ‘live saving’ report into Covid-19 first response, media claim
A key WHO report in the spring detailing anti-Covid measures in the then worst-hit European nation – Italy – has been supposedly taken down to shield the Italian health ministry from criticism since the paper cast some of its actions in a negative light, a fresh report by The Guardian …
Read More »‘Multiple’ people injured after vehicle ‘plows’ into Black Lives Matter protesters in New York
A NYPD spokesman confirmed that a vehicle “plowed” into the protesters at the corner of 39th Street and Third Avenue in Midtown Manhattan on Friday afternoon, shortly after 4 pm local time. The injuries did not appear to be life-threatening, police added. Dozens of officers cordoned off the area after …
Read More »Zodiac Killer’s cryptic letter finally deciphered after more than 50 years
Investigators have finally decoded one of the infamous Zodiac Killer’s messages, 51 years after it was mailed to the offices of the San Francisco Chronicle. One of the researchers told the Chronicle of his team’s discovery on Friday, revealing that the letter read: “I hope you are having lots of …
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