Bernie Sanders sees in the global trend toward nationalism an “authoritarian axis”, and proposes a new progressive international front to oppose it in an op ed for the UK edition of the Guardian At a time of massive wealth and income inequality, when the world’s top 1% now owns more wealth than the bottom 99%,Continue reading “Axis: Bold as Hate”
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Whose Treason?
From that notorious anonymous op ed in the NYT The dilemma — which [Trump] does not fully grasp — is that many of the senior officials in his own administration are working diligently from within to frustrate parts of his agenda and his worst inclinations. Wait a minute. That part about working to frustrate parts ofContinue reading “Whose Treason?”
Fake Views
Comes now the New York Times weighing in on Trump’s South Africa tweet Mr. Trump’s comment came after the Fox News host Tucker Carlson presented a late-night program on South Africa, including land seizures and homicides, and described President Cyril Ramaphosa as “a racist.”The tweet gives prominence to a false narrative pushed by some right-wing groupsContinue reading “Fake Views”
The Alt Right is Dead; Long Live the Alt Right
This Atlantic piece by Adam Serwer, “White Nationalists are Winning”, is a torrent of paranoid hyperbole from the bugman’s id, but gets the important part right. A year after white nationalists in Charlottesville chanted, “You will not replace us!,” their message has been taken up and amplified by Fox News personalities. Tucker Carlson tells his audienceContinue reading “The Alt Right is Dead; Long Live the Alt Right”
Implicit Civil War
After General John Kelly called out Frederica Wilson by name he called her out by implication: I’ll end with this: In October — April, rather, of 2015, I was still on active duty, and I went to the dedication of the new FBI field office in Miami. And it was dedicated to two men whoContinue reading “Implicit Civil War”
Catching the Pitch
Reality’s Trump-et
Is this Washington Post article trying to imply Donald Trump’s recent comments on Sweden’s Muslim problem provoked Muslim rioting afterwards? Just two days after President Trump provoked widespread consternation by seeming to imply, incorrectly, that immigrants had perpetrated a recent spate of violence in Sweden, riots broke out in a predominantly immigrant neighborhood in theContinue reading “Reality’s Trump-et”
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