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”
Your Passport Is A Beer Coaster Now
Americans and other citizens of rich democracies have long taken our travel advantages as rights for granted. The pandemic changes this perspective.
Lebanese Dreams and Manhattan Explosions
[The] slow-moving disaster that has been the last 45 years of the Lebanese Republic should serve as a warning to multi-ethnic countries who can’t “get it together” – like ours now…
Protest Land N.Y.C.: High-Level Excitement
…[I]f the young marchers…cared about racism they’d tackle it at the institutional level: by helping people vote,…thus ensuring the non-racist party had a chance at power.