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- We must depoliticise life in the West otherwise we will turn into a totalitarian society where nothing is personal anymore
A hallmark of totalitarian societies is that there’s no escape from politics and the dominant state ideology. Recent events demonstrate that we’ve now sadly reached that point in Britain, the US and other Western countries. - ‘Multiracial whiteness’ is the latest attention-seeking attempt by patronising white liberals to explain racism to black peopleThe Washington Post’s effort to ‘make sense’ of the existence of black Trump supporters is just more specious nonsense that compounds the insulting myth that black people can only be defined by their relationship to ‘whiteness’.
- Why is the Labour Party so enthusiastic about Covid-19 lockdowns when they are so destructive to our poorest communities?Rather than questioning Tory lockdowns, Sir Keir Starmer’s party, and the wider British left, have only ever called for them to be harder, faster and longer despite the havoc they wreak on those they claim to represent.
- Democracy Dies in Darkness: Washington Post backtracks after it's caught burying Kamala Harris’ cringeworthy joke from old articleThe Washington Post has restored a tone-deaf anecdote mocking prisoners’ suffering to its rightful place introducing a profile on the sister of then-candidate (now VP) Kamala Harris, after getting called out for removing it.
- We must depoliticise life in the West otherwise we will turn into a totalitarian society where nothing is personal anymoreA hallmark of totalitarian societies is that there’s no escape from politics and the dominant state ideology. Recent events demonstrate that we’ve now sadly reached that point in Britain, the US and other Western countries.
- ‘Multiracial whiteness’ is the latest attention-seeking attempt by patronising white liberals to explain racism to black peopleThe Washington Post’s effort to ‘make sense’ of the existence of black Trump supporters is just more specious nonsense that compounds the insulting myth that black people can only be defined by their relationship to ‘whiteness’.
- Why is the Labour Party so enthusiastic about Covid-19 lockdowns when they are so destructive to our poorest communities?Rather than questioning Tory lockdowns, Sir Keir Starmer’s party, and the wider British left, have only ever called for them to be harder, faster and longer despite the havoc they wreak on those they claim to represent.
- Democracy Dies in Darkness: Washington Post backtracks after it's caught burying Kamala Harris’ cringeworthy joke from old articleThe Washington Post has restored a tone-deaf anecdote mocking prisoners’ suffering to its rightful place introducing a profile on the sister of then-candidate (now VP) Kamala Harris, after getting called out for removing it.
- Banished to a cold garage, investigated for sedition, exposed to Covid... Biden sure respects his National Guard troopsIf you thought a president who needs 25,000 troops to safeguard his inauguration from threats that appear to have been manufactured would at least treat his praetorians with some gratitude and respect – well, you’d be wrong.
- Caitlin Johnstone: You counter Trumpism by ending the conditions which created it, not with authoritarian policiesThe option of stopping the rise of Trumpism by changing the system has been taken off the table. Instead, people are being asked to debate the pros and cons of giving more powers to that same corrupt system which created Trump.
- EU fury at UK’s diplomatic snub shows it for what it is, a petty old boys network focused more on status than tackling big issuesBritain’s downgrading of the status of its EU ambassador – because it is not a country – has upset Brussels. But with anger mounting among members over Covid and China, surely it has more pressing issues to worry about?
- Social media, have mercy! FBI laments that deplatforming of ‘extremists’ makes it harder to spy on AmericansLaw enforcement is complaining about social media platforms’ full-frontal assault on American political dissidents’ freedom of speech, crying that removing so-called ‘extremists’ from the internet makes it harder to spy on them.
- Biden’s executive order that prioritises transgender people is a DISASTER for ordinary women and girls across AmericaJoe Biden and Kamala Harris have done more damage to women’s rights in one day than Donald Trump managed in four years with their misguided Executive Order on Gender Identity Discrimination.
- Wayne Dupree: Biden said he was going to preside over a dark winter. Yep, he's making it happen, alrightThe burden facing Americans is about to get greater. Taxes will increase, the cost of living will go up and 11 million illegal immigrants will become citizens. Liberal ideology is expensive, and the elite won't be paying for it.
- Biden should tread carefully… his renewed focus on Russia is only going to push Moscow and Beijing closer togetherThe announcement of an intelligence review on Russia shows Joe Biden’s intent to get tough on Moscow, and at the same time discredit Donald Trump. But this is likely to have major geopolitical consequences.
- The UK’s vaunted NHS is a National Health Shambles – it wasn’t ready for the Covid second wave and can’t cope. What a surpriseThe UK’s new lockdown is driven by the NHS’s failings – even in a normal winter, it can barely cope with a rise in demand. We need to have an honest debate about it, not put it on a pedestal as the so-called ‘envy of the world.’
- US, UK, Canada & Netherlands somehow find $1.2 million for terrorist-friendly ‘White Helmets’ in Syria… because coronavirusAmericans, Canadians, Britons and Dutch sitting at home under harsh Covid-19 lockdowns can feel joy that their governments found time and money to help ‘Al-Qaeda’s medical service’ in Syria make masks and gowns for terrorists.
- 500,000 more kids face mental health issues as they’re denied school, vaccines, friends and holidays. We’re betraying a generationBritish children suffer record levels of depression in our Covid lockdown, with suicidal thoughts, self-harm and eating disorders surging. With schools unlikely to reopen until April, it’s not just their education that’s at risk.
- A UK police force is accused of lying about a black man’s death in a case as shocking as George Floyd’s. So, why are BLM silent?The streets of Britain raged last summer as Black Lives Matter protested the death of George Floyd in America. Why the ambivalence, then, to the police’s alleged conduct in the strange case of Sheku Bayoh in Scotland?
- Caitlin Johnstone: The next two years will be the Democratic Party at its most transparentJoe Biden is now the president of the USA. His day-one executive orders should have prioritized ending the single worst crisis in the world in Yemen, a war in which he campaigned on ending US involvement, but they did not.
- Christopher Steele’s declassified FBI interview: Playing up fake sources and juggling spying jobsNewly declassified papers dismantle what little remains of Christopher Steele’s credibility, and raise more questions as to why his infamous dossier consumed the media’s attention, and imaginations, for much of Trump’s presidency.
- Amazon’s push to privatize vaccinations lifts the curtain on the US government’s transformation into ‘public private partnership’Jeff Bezos’ firm’s offer to the nascent Biden administration to help deliver experimental vaccines across the US is a clever scheme to avoid potential legal liability – and burnish the e-tailer’s own reputation into the bargain.
- Wayne Dupree: Biden’s press secretary vows to deliver truth and transparency, but the words Democrat and truth are not synonymousYou only have to look back at the president’s record during the Obama administration to know that he is Pinocchio Joe – a politician adept at brazenly telling lies, and saying one thing and doing another.
- How China poked Trump’s legacy in the eye on his way out and drew a red line for BidenA parting gift of sanctions from Beijing for some key members of Donald Trump’s administration is China’s way of telling Joe Biden that the US aggression and threats of the past four years cannot be the new normal.
- In his final days, Trump lifted his ban on aides joining the swamp he said he’d drain. So, just how true to his word was he?One of Donald Trump’s major selling points from the outset was his insistence on tackling the special interests responsible for corrupting American democracy. Now he’s left the White House, it’s clear he failed to deliver.
- If America really wants unity, it must do away with critical race theoryOn his first day in office, Joe Biden declared he’ll dismantle Donald Trump’s 1776 Commission, fully embracing critical race theory. This will ultimately lead to worse racial divides and now it’s up to the citizens to stop it.
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