Krystal Kyle And Friends With Historian And Author Thomas Frank
Krystal Ball of the YouTube show Rising and Kyle Kulinski of the popular channel Secular Talk, have launched a newContinue Reading
Tag: Donald Trump
Irish Media Learns All The Wrong Lessons From Storming Of US Capitol
Though you’ll rarely see it discussed in the popular press, one of the more troubling aspects of Donald J Trump’sContinue Reading
Melania Trump And The Triumph Of Greed
In the aftermath of the murder, or more accurately the assassination of the investigative journalist Veronica Guerin by the so-calledContinue Reading
The Ulsterisation Of Politics In The United States
While I’m old enough to remember other outbreaks of civil unrest in the United States, notably the Los Angeles riotsContinue Reading
Donald Trump Is Taking Hydroxychloroquine, An Unproven Covid-19 Treatment
Strongmen and their doctors. Throughout human history there have been innumerable cases of autocratic leaders whose whims and obsessions haveContinue Reading
Joe Biden And The Tara Reade Assault Allegations
Are the wheels starting to come off the Joe Biden campaign? Up to this week it seemed certain that theContinue Reading
How Fake News And Fake Facts Are Being Used To Undermine The Lockdown
With some business leaders beginning to push for a premature end to the Covid-19 lockdown across the country, and withContinue Reading
Joe Biden. The Right Candidate At The Wrong Time?
If the coronavirus crisis has shown us anything else, it’s that the issue of ageism and a lack of deepContinue Reading
Michael Moore On The Useful Idiots Podcast
This first part of an interview by Matt Taibbi and Katie Halper of the Useful Idiots podcast with the AmericanContinue Reading
DW Documentary: Poverty In the USA
Another excellent documentary on life for working-class and lower middles-class communities in the United States of America from the GermanContinue Reading
The Would-Be Rehabilitation Of George W Bush
Another excellent video feature from the YouTube channel Renegade Cut examining recent attempts by some moderate conservative leaders and commentatorsContinue Reading
Unionist And European In A Time Of Brexit
“Sure hasn’t it always been that way” A couple of years back, in a throwaway comment to a close friend,Continue Reading
American And British Exceptionalism In The Age Of Trump And Brexit
Renegade Cut is rapidly becoming one of my favourite YouTube channels for its commentary on the modern crossover between politicsContinue Reading
Saudi Arabia Claims “Sabotage Attacks” On Oil Tankers As US-Iran Tensions Rise
There is an almost universal belief among -right and centre-left political commentators in the United States that Donald Trump isContinue Reading
Politico And The Fake “Irish” Supporters Of Brexit
The online machinations of that other IRA, the Russian Federation’s state-linked Internet Research Agency, may have failed to inadvertently bringContinue Reading
Invasion Literature Becomes Invasion Cinema, Prefiguring Trump And Brexit
In many ways the Franco-Prussian War of 1870 to 1871 was one of the most influential political events in the lives of an entire generationContinue Reading
Trump To CNN Journalist: “You Are The Enemy Of The People”
Incredible stuff from a chaotic press conference by Donald Trump in the wake of Tuesday’s congressional elections in the UnitedContinue Reading
The KKK, The DUP, And The Trumpian Toxicity Of Brexit
Not everyone who votes for the DUP dresses up in KKK clothing and poses with clenched fists outside an IslamicContinue Reading
Joe Rogan Talks To Roseanne Barr
Watching this lengthy discussion with the YouTube host Joe Rogan, it’s hard not to feel some sympathy for the disgracedContinue Reading
Donald Trump: “They Weren’t Laughing At Me, They Were Laughing With Me”
Yet another solo press conference from the man with the “…very, very large ah-brain“, this time following his extraordinary addressContinue Reading
NYT: Senior White House Officials Are Ignoring Or Blocking Donald Trump’s Instructions
Many fans of the NBC television series, The West Wing, regard the eighteenth episode of the second season as one ofContinue Reading
White House Chief Of Staff John F Kelly: Trump Is “Deranged”
Among the many revelations expected in Fear, the new book on the Donald Trump administration by the veteran journalist BobContinue Reading
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