Politics

December 13, 2019
Trump’s order to combat anti-Semitism makes Israel sacrosanct & sets up Jews for discrimination

President Trump claims to be protecting American Jews from anti-Semitism by signing an executive order this week. But it's nothing of the sort. It's a cynical attempt to shut down...

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December 13, 2019
UK election 2019: Why some British-Indians think democracy is dead

Many Indians living in the UK have long regarded it as a paragon of democracy, only to be disappointed by a party that has taken their votes for granted. No...

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December 13, 2019
If Trump is a threatening tyrant, why did Democrats just agree to give him $730bn for the military?

Bipartisan support for a massive military funding bill shows that apocalyptic justifications by Democrats in their push to impeach President Donald Trump ring hollow when it's time to agree on...

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December 12, 2019
There is NO trans murder epidemic. But someone IS using trans deaths for political gain in America…

Advocacy groups continue to stoke fears on what they call an "epidemic" of murders within the trans community. Worries heard far and wide as politicians and news agencies repeat the...

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December 12, 2019
From Cheney-hating Vice to Fox-bashing Bombshell: How Hollywood’s new genre of ‘factual’ films puts leftist spin on recent news

Bombshell is the latest in what has become an award-season staple, a pseudo fact-based drama that is actually barely disguised liberal propaganda powered by sledgehammer satire (and a side serving...

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December 12, 2019
Twitter bullies try to cancel popular streamer with Tourette’s after she involuntarily says ‘kill the Jews!’ during livecast

Cancel culture has found a new target to be offended by, someone who literally can't help what they say. Sweet Anita is a streamer on Twitch who has amassed an...

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December 11, 2019
Page from Iraq playbook: US invokes WMDs to pile ‘maximum pressure’ sanctions on Iran

With over a year of sanctions failing to force Tehran to bend the knee, Washington is now resorting to creatively invoking “weapons of mass destruction” – the very same pretext...

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December 11, 2019
Greta Thunberg wins TIME Person of the Year: It’s a symptom of a sick & confused world when adults make children their leaders

The willingness of adults to listen to teenagers rather than themselves is a sign of a deep societal crisis in the West. Edward Felsenthal, the editor-in-chief of TIME boasted that...

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December 11, 2019
By pretending the world is uniquely cruel to women, smug feminists only enrage men who risk & sacrifice their lives each day

The activist behind the campaign to make Jane Austen the face of the £10 note has published a 432-page encyclopaedia of feminist grievances. But do women really get a bad...

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December 11, 2019
Iron Man is now a black teen girl: Forced diversity is killing Marvel & DC comics but anti-SJW writers are fighting back

Pushing diversity at the cost of great storytelling is wreaking havoc on the comic book industry sales and splitting the fanbase. But beware anyone who dares criticize as they risk...

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December 11, 2019
Slavoj Zizek: The trouble is not with the Jews, but with my accusers

My latest article for the Independent provoked a wide campaign against me all around the world, so I wrote a reply. The paper rejected the publication of it even as...

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December 11, 2019
US body wants to take India to cleaners over citizenship bill, but what about America’s dirty linen?

As the treasury benches of India's Parliament thundered in applause on Monday with the Citizenship Amendment Bill (CAB) clearing the Lower House, a press release was being drafted 12,000km away...

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December 11, 2019
Church of the Open Borders: ‘Caged nativity’ is the perfect religious display for a politics that permits no heresy

Jesus, Mary and Joseph are separated in chain-link cages in a hyper-politicized nativity scene that elevates open-borders proponents to the ranks of the angels – and slyly slimes US President...

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December 10, 2019
Turkey’s threat to send troops into Libya has all sides sitting up and asking: Is this a bluff?

Showing an uncanny ability to attract the attention of all world powers with one statement, President Erdogan says a controversial new maritime deal with Libya could see Turkish troops, if...

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December 10, 2019
Key takeaway from Ukraine peace talks in Paris is that Zelensky’s best friend is Putin

The Paris talks on Ukraine have enabled Putin and Zelensky to meet for the first time. But they have agreed only to kick the can down the road, to agree...

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December 10, 2019
Putin & Zelensky meet: Lasting peace in Ukraine closer, but still far away

The Normandy Four peace talks in Paris suggest that while the road is long, there may be light at the end of the tunnel when it comes to ending the...

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December 9, 2019
Democrats play havoc with history, cite King Louis XVI in effort to impeach Trump

House Democrats laid out their case for impeachment in a report that takes great liberties with US as well as European history. The end result comes off as a lame...

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December 9, 2019
Strikes over pension reform cripple France as leaders say ‘let them eat cake’

As Macron and his prime minister dig their heels in over pension reform while France faces a Black Monday transport chaos and more strikes tomorrow, the pair may yet find...

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December 9, 2019
India & China could find a 21st-century purpose for the aircraft carrier

The Indian naval Chief, Admiral Karambir Singh, has said the Navy is planning to maintain three aircraft carriers to keep pace with China, which is projected to have five or...

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December 9, 2019
How suddenly-precious cobalt that powers Teslas and iPhones also fuels child labor in Africa & armed heists in Europe

It's an unwanted side-effect of the world's growing desire for environmentally friendly vehicles: rare metals that are key components of electric cars are becoming prime targets for criminals, as demand...

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December 9, 2019
For celebs like Emma Watson it’s ‘self-partnering,’ for ordinary male divorcees like me, it’s Christmas alone

By now you may have heard of the term “self-partnering.” It's a recent addition to the burgeoning lexicon of identity categories. Contrary to its vocal advocates, the coinage is a...

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December 8, 2019
Normandy Four summit on Ukraine’s future: What’s at stake?

Paris is set to host the first summit of the so-called Normandy Four in over three years. The rendezvous is possible thanks to a change of power in Ukraine and...

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December 8, 2019
Rise of Skywalker is the last chance to revive Disney’s Star Wars, but do fans still care enough? Does anyone?

'The Rise of Skywalker' is out this month but the hype around Disney's $4 billion 'Star Wars' franchise just isn't there, and it hasn't been for a while. Why have...

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December 7, 2019
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. As leaders'...

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December 7, 2019
WADA’s blurred lines & blind spots would lead to a moral blackout should it ban Russia

Ahead 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...

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December 7, 2019
Celebrating the ‘revival’ of sleeper trains in Europe, don’t forget Russia has been running those for decades

Hollywood 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...

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December 7, 2019
‘Actors are pretty stupid,’ says Sir Anthony Hopkins – and they prove him right every single day

Sir 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...

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December 6, 2019
New ‘Star Wars’ may have a gay character — if this franchise continues to go woke, it will continue to go broke

J.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...

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December 6, 2019
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. A...

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December 6, 2019
Hillary hints at Trump grudge match, proving the Democrats are approaching political extinction

The 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...

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December 6, 2019
China stealing Middle East from under America’s nose

China, 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...

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December 6, 2019
Abducting women for sex trafficking, harvesting their body parts, how low can white van man go? Facebook algorithm starts a panic

Thanks 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...

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December 6, 2019
Party like it’s 1299 with these medieval eco-innovations

As 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...

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December 5, 2019
Deaths caused by British Empire should be condemned just like deaths under Stalin

Western 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...

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December 5, 2019
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...

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December 5, 2019
New cabinet, more empty platitudes and interventionism from Trudeau

For 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. The unveiling of Canada's...

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December 5, 2019
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. Thank St Nicholas for the mainstream media...

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December 5, 2019
Digging up the buried last Sikh emperor and reclaiming a ‘looted’ heritage by the British colonialists

A demand has been made in the Indian parliament to exhume and return the remains of the last Sikh emperor. Maharaja Duleep Singh was converted into a Christian, shipped to...

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December 4, 2019
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...

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December 4, 2019
Greta’s growing up and now liberal eco-warriors and the media face losing their teenage talisman

As 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...

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