Donald Trump Is The Silvio Berlusconi Of American Politics
While hyperbolic comparisons with Hitler, Stalin and Mussolini have become commonplace when discussing the wayward presidency of Donald Trump, aContinue Reading
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With North Korea, Is Donald Trump Hoping For A Falkland Islands’ Solution To His Domestic Woes?
In March of 1982 the Ipsos MORI poll rating for Margaret Thatcher, the then prime minister of the United Kingdom,Continue Reading
Donald Trump’s Pardon Of Joe Arpaio Sends A Message To His Allies And His Enemies
Donald Trump obviously believes that he will gain some political capital from stepping into the Joe Arpaio legal controversy, thoughContinue Reading
Trump Apologist Crumbles As False Claims About US Economy Challenged
I must admit to enjoying this televised take down of Brad Thomas, the publicity-seeking Wall Street analyst turned Donald Trump apologist.Continue Reading
Donald Trump Excuses Alt-Right Violence In Charlottesville
Donald J Trump can’t help himself. When offered the opportunity to dig himself out of a hole he chooses toContinue Reading
Anthony Scaramucci Adds To The Insanity Gripping Donald Trump’s White House
One of my favourite cinematic political satires is the Marx Brothers’ 1933 classic Duck Soup and over the last severalContinue Reading
Fine Gael Minister Paschal Donohoe Blames Left-Wing Parties For Right-Wing Failures
Paschal Donohoe, the Minister for Finance in the Fine Gael-led minority government, took himself off to the MacGill Summer SchoolContinue Reading
What Links The DUP And Milo Yiannopoulos? The Alt-Right, Of Course
I think it’s fair to describe the “alternative-right” as something of an amorphous political movement. While it has a philosophicalContinue Reading
The Morning Joe Team Respond To Donald Trump’s Twitter Storm
The hosts of MSNBC’s Morning Joe cable news show, Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezierinski, have responded to Donald Trump’s flurry ofContinue Reading
Donald Trump Turns On The Morning Joe Duo
In the run-up to last November’s presidential election in the United States, Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski, the hosts ofContinue Reading
Donald Trump Pushes NATO Leaders Out Of His Way At A Press Event
Oh, America, what have you done? The preening peacock that is Il Duce pushes Dusko Markovic, the prime minister ofContinue Reading
Donald Trump, Mad, Bad And Dangerous To Know. But Especially Mad?
One of the more interesting aspects of watching American politics from afar is dipping in and out of MSNBC’s MorningContinue Reading
Understanding Fake News, Tim Pool
Do not live in an echo chamber of your own politics, of your own likes and dislikes projected back at you.Continue Reading
The Massive Ordnance Air Blast Attack In Afghanistan
At 11.17 am on Saturday the 15th of June 1996 the Irish Republican Army detonated a large truck-bomb on Corporation StreetContinue Reading
Donald Trump Ignores Offered Hand Shake With Angela Merkel In The White House
Donald J Trump, the president of the United States of America refuses to shake hands with Angela Merkel, chancellor of the FederalContinue Reading
Donald Trump Acts Presidential In Reset Change Of Tone. Not!
Donald Trump’s unorthodox style of presidency continues to defy the expectations of the press in the United States as the newContinue Reading
A Press Report From Trump’s Washington, Sorry, Hitler’s Berlin, 1933
Popular comparisons between the presidency of Donald J Trump in the United States and the premiership of Adolf Hitler inContinue Reading
The War On Terror Has Simply Generated More Terror
From the excellent TomDispatch, this analysis of the so-called “War on Terror” in the Middle East by the United StatesContinue Reading
Is Donald Trump Being Challenged By The Deep State In The US?
The term “deep state” is often used to describe the core historical institutions of a nation state, especially when they are knownContinue Reading
Trump’s Press Conference Turns The White House Into Caesars Palace
If you’re a politics’ junkie like me you’ve probably already watched the main highlights of yesterday’s extraordinary White House press conferenceContinue Reading
Donald Trump Finds His Minister Of Public Enlightenment And Propaganda
Stephen Miller, a senior adviser to the United States president, takes to the Sunday morning television shows in the USContinue Reading
Kellyanne Conway And The Bowling Green Massacre
From across the wide Atlantic its seems that the White House administration of Donald J Trump is stumbling from one duplicitousContinue Reading
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