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Putin’s paranoia I laughed at Russian President Vladimir Putin and French President Emmanuel Macron sitting so far apart at a big marble table. It made them look like two wannabe Napoleons. I thought Putin was trying to snub Macron. But then I noticed Putin keeping the same absurd distance from his own foreign minister, Sergey… Read more.
Leaders around the world are aping Donald Trump’s dystopian presidency. For example: Democratic leaders in Hungary, Poland, and Italy are adapting his neo-nationalist policies while others in the Philippines, Brazil, and India are parroting his demagogic and divisive rhetoric. Dictatorial leaders everywhere are chanting his “fake news” mantra – not only to discredit any reporting… Read more.
I have been in the vanguard of those warning about this fearful symmetry. In fact, my concerns were such that I began sounding alarms long before a conspiracy of bigotry, ignorance, and complacency misled voters to elect Donald J. Trump the 45th president of the United States. I reacted to this black-swan election with “WTF:… Read more.
It is now conventional wisdom that “Donald Trump is like Adolf Hitler.” The Washington Examiner crystallized this in a report on December 28, 2016, under the headline “Seven times the media compared Trump to Hitler.” But the Washington Post gave this meme über credibility when it published an editorial on February 29, 2016, under the… Read more.
Comparisons between Donald Trump and Adolf Hitler are fast becoming a mainstream media meme. Just this week Representative John Garamendi (D-CA), a seasoned member of the Armed Services Committee, voiced concerns on Wednesday’s edition of CNN’s The Situation Room about Trump “using Nazi tactics” – like demonizing the press; The former British ambassador to the… Read more.
Prince Charles is the Constitutionally apolitical heir to the British throne. Yet he has a habit of using his platform to deliver very political messages. This was certainly the case on December 22, 2016, when he was the featured speaker on the BBC Radio 4 program, “Thought For The Day.” The curious thing, though, is that… Read more.
To all intents and purposes Crimea is now a part of Russia. All that remains is for the United States and Europe to negotiate a way to contain President Putin’s pan-Russian ambitions so that Ukrainians can govern what remains of their country (especially in the East) without undue interference. Their strategy of containment might work… Read more.
