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Billionaires as eunuch scribes In a disheartening display of obeying in advance, media magnates are muzzling their outlets to placate the looming specter of Trump’s Second Reich. Jeff Bezos, Amazon overlord and owner of The Washington Post, quashed his editorial board’s Kamala endorsement, triggering resignations and a subscriber exodus. But he couldn’t care less. Bezos… Read more.
I’ve been in the vanguard of those calling on the UK government to extradite Julian Assange. This, after the Ecuadorian embassy infamously kicked him to the curb in 2019 for continually violating the conditions of his asylum in its London embassy. That’s where British police, who had been lying in wait for nearly seven years,… Read more.
Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman (MbS) exposed his perfidy and Trump’s cupidity with the brutal assassination of Washington Post journalist Jamal Khashoggi. The prevailing feature of President Trump’s foreign policy is the way he courts world leaders with whom he has, or is scheming to establish, personal financial ties. Nothing betrayed this quite like… Read more.
Such is the nature of groupthink among Western commentators that you’d be hard-pressed to find any who support, as I do, Russia’s decision on Friday to incarcerate three Pussy Rioters. The nature of their political hooliganism warrants prosecution. Likewise, you’d be hard-pressed to find any who oppose, as I do, Ecuador’s decision that same day to… Read more.
