Just like during the 1970s, coups in Africa have become trendy again. And I mean “trendy”: many human actions are more contagious than we give them credit for.
Sudan’s Collapse and Passports
Weak passports trap citizens during crises, like Sudan’s impending collapse, limiting escape options and emphasizing the privilege of international movement.
What “Pro-Palestine” Student Groups Get Wrong
Back then – as now – this fit into a “colonialist” narrative of European Jews oppressing Arabs – an easy, eye pleasing but intellectually lazy fit.
What We Get Wrong About Putin’s Motivations. And Money.
7 weeks into the Ukrainian invasion our collective media is still wasting time kvetching about Putin’s wealth and the oligarchs surrounding him.
On The Anti-Asian Hate ‘Crime Wave'”
The anti-Asian pogrom is yet another phony moral panic fed by grifters, profiteers and activists who can’t get a real job and their useful idiots.
Putin’s Rolodex of Fake States
Donetsk and Luhansk are the latest in a number of “fake states” in the former USSR. Putin has a rolodex full of them because he made them.
On The Dynamics of Abortion. And Argentina.
There’s big news from Argentina lately. By a fair margin abortion was finally legalized there last month after decades of grassroots activism.
The Financial Criminality of Trumpworld: An Expert Perspective
$650 a night for Secret Service agents at hotels, golf cart rentals of $1M, Chinese trade marks etc, are not where the real graft was for four years of malfeasance.
Inauguration Day Report from the White House to the BBC (parody)
Marine One is taking off now – up into the clear blue winter sky, off to Mar a Lago via Andrews and whatever new grifts this crime family has in store.
Sorry Woke-Rouge: We’re *Not* That Racist in America
Let’s have a chat….and take a trip. We’ll see about this current idea that Anglosphere democracies,… are “the most racist societies on earth”