Donald Trump is an authoritarian menace who has played to and preyed upon the United States’ worst, most hateful and paranoid instincts, in a farcical yet nonetheless dangerous effort to establish an autocratic state with him as the cult-style Dear Leader. Predictably enough, he has spent the last seven weeks …
Read More »Baby Jesus has left the building: In the spiritless world of woke there’s no room for an authentic Christmas anymore
The greeting card industry in the UK remains massive, with more than 900 million cards worth a mammoth £1.7 billion ($2.3 billion) exchanged each year according to the most recent figures available, so it is extraordinary that it is so hard to find just one that I’d like to send …
Read More »There’s more than just Trump’s wall between the US and Mexico, & the deeper problems won’t go away with Biden
You don’t hear a lot about it these days, but one should never forget that the Trump administration built its support around antagonism towards Mexico. His slogan: ‘Build a wall’ would ultimately define his presidency, not so much in terms of substance, but in terms of its nationalist appeal and …
Read More »No US-Iran peace till there is democracy in Tehran, says ex-diplomat McFaul, who’s ‘surprised’ by negative feedback
The observation, which the Obama-era diplomat shared with his Twitter followers on Friday, provoked an avalanche of critical responses. McFaul later even said he was surprised that his “analytical statement” that simply rehashed a theory that democracies generally get on together well was taken as a policy suggestion to Tehran. …
Read More »There is no ‘Russian secret war’ on the US, but WaPo fantasy risks Biden starting a very real one
Democrat Joe Biden, anointed by the US mainstream media and Silicon Valley as the next president, “must call out Putin’s secret war against the United States” when he assumes office, the Post’s editorial board argued this week. But this “secret war” exists only in their feverish imagination. Each and every …
Read More »Zizek: There will be no return to normality after Covid. We are entering a post-human era & will have to invent a new way of life
The world has lived with the pandemic for most of 2020, but what is our situation with regard to it now, in early December, in the middle of what the European media is terming ‘the second wave’? Firstly, we should not forget that the distinction between the first and second …
Read More »Wayne Dupree: My family Thanksgiving this week will be business as usual. There’ll be no Covid restrictions at my dinner table
Burning down the city and beating up business owners? No problem. Enjoy some Turkey and stuffing with a few law-abiding citizens? Nope, that’s a crime and a threat to public health. I’ve heard and seen just about stupid enough in 2020 to last me a lifetime. Governors across the country have …
Read More »No, Trump’s firing of defense secretary Mark Esper doesn’t mean there’s going to be a military coup in the US
In what has become a force of habit for President Donald Trump, he announced the termination of his Secretary of Defense, Mark Esper, and the appointment of his replacement, Christopher Miller, by tweet: “I am pleased to announce that Christopher C. Miller, the highly respected Director of the National Counterterrorism …
Read More »‘With a margin that small, there will be a recount’ in Georgia, local Secretary of State announces, as presidential race tightens
“As we are closing in on a final count, we can begin to look to our next steps,” Raffensperger told reporters on Friday. “With a margin that small, there will be a recount in Georgia.” Joe Biden pulled ahead of Donald Trump in Georgia by just over 1,000 votes on …
Read More »Muslims are strangely obsessed with cartoons, all while there are very real crimes over which they should be angry at France
I honestly don’t know what to make of France. Not the people –nor the country itself– but the foreign policy inclinations of its respective governments, including those under the leadership of Emmanuel Macron. As a former anti-terrorism cop recently told RT, France may have brought Jihad on itself – in …
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