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- Corbyn v. Johnson leaders’ debate is won by… Labour’s Barry Gardiner
Both Jeremy Corbyn and Boris Johnson performed satisfactorily at Friday night’s UK pre-election leaders’ debate, but arguably the winner of the evening was someone who didn’t take part. - WADA’s blurred lines & blind spots would lead to a moral blackout should it ban RussiaAhead of its crunch meeting to decide on whether to ban Russia, the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) has demonstrated a masterclass of what happens when blurred lines and blind spots lead to the brink of a moral blackout.
- Hillary hints at Trump grudge match, proving the Democrats are approaching political extinctionThe former First Lady just can’t let it go. The belief that the presidency was denied her in 2016 by a thousand conspiracies is tempting her to enter the 2020 race at a time when Democrats desperately need new blood.
- China stealing Middle East from under America’s noseChina, the world’s second-largest economy, appears to be in the process of carving out a new Middle East plan that will over time erode and chip away at American dominance in the region.
- Party like it’s 1299 with these medieval eco-innovationsAs the refuse of our industrial society piles up around us, inventors and startups aren’t looking to the future. Instead they’re turning the clock back and launching products a medieval peasant would instantly recognize.
- London fog: NATO strong, or empire in crisis?Officially, the NATO summit in London was a huge success and alliance is strong and united. Yet even the mainstream media aren’t buying this any more, seizing on high-school-style gossip to mock the alliance leaders.
- Greta’s growing up and now liberal eco-warriors and the media face losing their teenage talismanAs Swedish teenager Greta Thunberg heads to Madrid for a climate summit, signs of her growing up will concern her handlers who will fear that her greatest asset, childhood, is slipping away and there’s nothing they can do.
- Gassed to death: Bhopal tragedy is hard for India to live down even after 35 yearsIt has been 35 years since the Bhopal disaster struck India and claimed 20,000 lives, but its legal, moral, and historical lessons are relevant to this day – and holds an answer for the nation to come to terms with its trauma.
- NATO’s attack on Kaliningrad could prompt Russia’s nuclear strikeAn attack by NATO on Russia’s westernmost exclave Kaliningrad – a scenario that’s been speculated about in the media lately – would lead to a nuclear apocalypse and affect even countries not involved in a hypothetical conflict.
- The wolf that ate Wall Street: US economy roars amid rising income inequalityAs the US stock market continues to set records, and the economy creates millions of new jobs, many Americans are forced to settle for low-paying work and meager benefits. How long can the inequality continue?
- Corbyn v. Johnson leaders’ debate is won by… Labour’s Barry GardinerBoth Jeremy Corbyn and Boris Johnson performed satisfactorily at Friday night’s UK pre-election leaders’ debate, but arguably the winner of the evening was someone who didn’t take part.
- WADA’s blurred lines & blind spots would lead to a moral blackout should it ban RussiaAhead of its crunch meeting to decide on whether to ban Russia, the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) has demonstrated a masterclass of what happens when blurred lines and blind spots lead to the brink of a moral blackout.
- Celebrating the ‘revival’ of sleeper trains in Europe, don’t forget Russia has been running those for decadesHollywood has a lot to answer for, films like ‘Shanghai Express’, ‘Murder on the Orient Express’, ‘From Russia With Love’, and for the past century we have become charmed by the magical nostalgia long distance train travel brings.
- ‘Actors are pretty stupid,’ says Sir Anthony Hopkins – and they prove him right every single daySir Anthony Hopkins, of ‘Silence of the Lambs’ and ‘The Two Popes’ fame, says he keeps his political opinions to himself for good reason. Other, more outspoken performers may want to take a page from his wise book these days.
- New 'Star Wars' may have a gay character — if this franchise continues to go woke, it will continue to go brokeJ.J. Abrams is hinting that a new gay character could be introduced in ‘Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker’, but his giddy, woke comments show exactly one of the glaring flaws with the current franchise.
- Why are there so many snowflakes on the Western media Russia beat?Few media specialties, or disciplines of Western academia, attract as many sensitive souls as Russia. Rather ironic given the country is constantly associated with “aggression” by the Anglo-American press.
- Hillary hints at Trump grudge match, proving the Democrats are approaching political extinctionThe former First Lady just can’t let it go. The belief that the presidency was denied her in 2016 by a thousand conspiracies is tempting her to enter the 2020 race at a time when Democrats desperately need new blood.
- China stealing Middle East from under America’s noseChina, the world’s second-largest economy, appears to be in the process of carving out a new Middle East plan that will over time erode and chip away at American dominance in the region.
- Abducting women for sex trafficking, harvesting their body parts, how low can white van man go? Facebook algorithm starts a panicThanks to its own algorithm, Facebook is susceptible to generating widespread panic as fake posts are shared across the social media platform without any filter from account users. The latest victim is white van man.
- Party like it’s 1299 with these medieval eco-innovationsAs the refuse of our industrial society piles up around us, inventors and startups aren’t looking to the future. Instead they’re turning the clock back and launching products a medieval peasant would instantly recognize.
- Deaths caused by British Empire should be condemned just like deaths under StalinWestern historians who condemn the USSR for the deaths under Stalin’s dictatorship should shed a spotlight on the millions who died under British rule, including those in engineered famines across the Indian subcontinent.
- Marvel’s Hulk, Mark Ruffalo, thinks capitalism will kill us until we elect millionaires ‘like us’Mark Ruffalo has come out as a Bernie Sanders supporter and thinks that instead of electing evil billionaire capitalists like Trump, what we really need are leaders ‘like us,’ and by that he means millionaires like Mark Ruffalo.
- New cabinet, more empty platitudes and interventionism from TrudeauFor however long it lasts, Canada’s incoming government has doubled down on its doublespeak, using ‘woke’ discourse to push corporate welfarism at home and interventionism abroad.
- Does gifting your wife a $2000 exercise bike make you a fat-shaming misogynist? BBC says it might…The latest Twitter storm to strike involves the maker of an exercise bike who dared to target women customers in online ad campaign.
- Digging up the buried last Sikh emperor and reclaiming a ‘looted’ heritage by the British colonialistsA demand has been made in the Indian parliament to exhume and return the remains of the last Sikh emperor.
- London fog: NATO strong, or empire in crisis?Officially, the NATO summit in London was a huge success and alliance is strong and united. Yet even the mainstream media aren’t buying this any more, seizing on high-school-style gossip to mock the alliance leaders.
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