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- Freedom for me but not for Assange (or thee): The breathtaking hypocrisy of CNN’s Christiane Amanpour
CNN anchor Christiane Amanpour has some strange ideas about democracy and journalism, believing her colleagues to be above elected officials – but only if they have the correct politics and serve the right masters, obviously. - Slavoj Zizek: Coronavirus is ‘Kill Bill’-esque blow to capitalism and could lead to reinvention of communismThe ongoing spread of the coronavirus epidemic has also triggered vast epidemics of ideological viruses which were laying dormant in our societies: fake news, paranoiac conspiracy theories, explosions of racism.
- The rise of digital erotic model Projekt Melody is a logical reaction to toxic feminismEmma Gray Ellis of Wired thinks that the thousands of fans of digital camgirl Projekt Melody hate real women. No, they just hate the way that women like her treat them.
- At least Trump is honest: Let ‘adversaries’ fight Islamic State while US steals the spoilsFew US presidents have brazenly confessed the underlying motives of American foreign policy like Donald Trump has. But are we getting the full picture, and what’s missing from Donald Trump’s confessions?
- Julian Assange is the victim of a power struggle in the US between Donald Trump and the deep stateThe WikiLeaks co-founder, wanted in the US for ‘endangering national security,’ now faces extradition to America as the Democrats and Republicans are prepared to use him as an expendable pawn in their never-ending partisan feud.
- Assange extradition hearing is Damocles sword over journalists’ heads. But UK mainstream media participate in his crucifixionAssange extradition hearing should be the top story for the British media as it’s a dagger at their throat, but the majority of mainstream press either don't care, or are actively participating in Wikileaks’ founder crucifixion.
- Green preachers shut down Heathrow runway project just when Brexit Britain needs it mostBritain has scored a massive own goal over the short-sighted decision this week by the Court of Appeal to block a third runway at Heathrow Airport just as we enter into the most significant trade talks of a generation.
- Convenient hysteria: US is no longer sugar-coating the fact its nuclear drills are aimed at RussiaLast week, the US conducted a military exercise which simulated a nuclear exchange with Russia and contrary to traditional practices, the Pentagon put that politically explosive designation out in the open.
- The whole Democratic primary is an Obama lookalike contest (and everyone's losing)Within the Democratic primary is the real contest of 2020: who can convince voters they’re most like former president Barack Obama, whom nostalgic alchemy has transformed into the closest thing the US has to a political saint?
- One year on from India’s Balakot airstrikes: How MSM’s targeting strengthened Modi at homeAs MSM downplayed Pulwama terror attack and slated Modi’s response, India rallied behind him, offering a massive mandate.
- Western media is wrong: India isn’t losing its pluralistic ideasThis week’s editorial of the Guardian on recent violence in Delhi claims that “Modi stoked this fire.” Western media’s biases against democratically elected Prime Minister Narendra Modi is now a normal thing.
- Freedom for me but not for Assange (or thee): The breathtaking hypocrisy of CNN’s Christiane AmanpourCNN anchor Christiane Amanpour has some strange ideas about democracy and journalism, believing her colleagues to be above elected officials – but only if they have the correct politics and serve the right masters, obviously.
- Green preachers shut down Heathrow runway project just when Brexit Britain needs it mostBritain has scored a massive own goal over the short-sighted decision this week by the Court of Appeal to block a third runway at Heathrow Airport just as we enter into the most significant trade talks of a generation.
- Slavoj Zizek: Coronavirus is ‘Kill Bill’-esque blow to capitalism and could lead to reinvention of communismThe ongoing spread of the coronavirus epidemic has also triggered vast epidemics of ideological viruses which were laying dormant in our societies: fake news, paranoiac conspiracy theories, explosions of racism.
- The rise of digital erotic model Projekt Melody is a logical reaction to toxic feminismEmma Gray Ellis of Wired thinks that the thousands of fans of digital camgirl Projekt Melody hate real women. No, they just hate the way that women like her treat them.
- Julian Assange is the victim of a power struggle in the US between Donald Trump and the deep stateThe WikiLeaks co-founder, wanted in the US for ‘endangering national security,’ now faces extradition to America as the Democrats and Republicans are prepared to use him as an expendable pawn in their never-ending partisan feud.
- At least Trump is honest: Let ‘adversaries’ fight Islamic State while US steals the spoilsFew US presidents have brazenly confessed the underlying motives of American foreign policy like Donald Trump has. But are we getting the full picture, and what’s missing from Donald Trump’s confessions?
- Weaponizing the coronavirus: Why US politicians & media suddenly care (hint: it’s about getting Trump)After weeks of denouncing “conspiracy theories” about the spread of coronavirus, US media and Democrats are suddenly concerned, accusing President Donald Trump of not doing enough to stop it. How about a political quarantine?
- Assange extradition hearing is Damocles sword over journalists’ heads. But UK mainstream media participate in his crucifixionAssange extradition hearing should be the top story for the British media as it’s a dagger at their throat, but the majority of mainstream press either don't care, or are actively participating in Wikileaks’ founder crucifixion.
- Convenient hysteria: US is no longer sugar-coating the fact its nuclear drills are aimed at RussiaLast week, the US conducted a military exercise which simulated a nuclear exchange with Russia and contrary to traditional practices, the Pentagon put that politically explosive designation out in the open.
- The whole Democratic primary is an Obama lookalike contest (and everyone's losing)Within the Democratic primary is the real contest of 2020: who can convince voters they’re most like former president Barack Obama, whom nostalgic alchemy has transformed into the closest thing the US has to a political saint?
- One year on from India’s Balakot airstrikes: How MSM’s targeting strengthened Modi at homeAs MSM downplayed Pulwama terror attack and slated Modi’s response, India rallied behind him, offering a massive mandate.
- Trump leaves New Delhi as Modi’s biggest advocate, but US still presses ‘true friend’ India on tradeUS President Donald Trump trusts India’s Narendra Modi to handle all manner of contentious issues at home, and hails the PM as his “true friend.” But Trump won’t be pleased until Modi gives him the trade concessions he wants.
- BBC vandalizes literary classics with woke rewriting supposed to make it more ‘yoof’ friendly as it faces licence-funding crisisDesperately seeking audience share, the state-funded BBC’s attempts at rewriting classics for TV are part of a deliberate woke strategy that messes with masterpieces believing they, not the Beeb, need to change to be relevant.
- Let ‘em eat cake: UK’s ban on wet wood & coal for cleaner air will hit the poor who can’t afford electric heating – who cares?The UK government’s ban on the sale of coal and wet logs to burn in domestic fireplaces, to be implemented between 2021 and 2023, is ill-thought-out because it will increase fuel poverty and greatly disadvantage the rural poor.
- Credibility of European Court of Human Rights lies in ruins after judges’ links to Soros revealedA study by the European Center for Law and Justice in Strasbourg has revealed several conflicts of interest between judges at the European Court of Human Rights and NGOs funded by George Soros.
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