Month: December 2022

Jose Nino’s Digest: December 31, 2022 Russian Foreign Minister Claims the United States and NATO are Trying to Defeat Russia On the Battlefield, and more

Here are my most recent articles for you Russian Foreign Minister Claims the United States and NATO are Trying to Defeat Russia On the Battlefield In an interview with Russian state media outlet TASS, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov proclaimed that the United States and its NATO allies […]

2022 in Brief Encounters

New York Review of Books This year at The New York Review, we published fifty interviews as part of our “Brief Encounters” series. In these conversations with our contributors, which have covered topics are diverse as fairy tales, Michigan and Indiana, the politics of criticism, and the history of […]

Love Crashes In

Caitlin Johnstone 50 min ago Listen to a reading of “Love Crashes In”: Love crashes in from all directions, so peel me off the ground like Wile E Coyote and blow on my thumb to unflatten me. Love crashes in like an ACME anvil, like an ACME exploding […]

The Coming Split in the GOP?

By Dan Gerlenter, American Greatness ast week I wrote about Teddy Roosevelt and Donald Trump. My comparison wasn’t between the two men as presidents—though they had some similar personality traits—but between how the two men were treated by the Republican Party. The Republican Party of 1912 decided it […]

The War on Sex Workers

It seems like a rule that whenever government declares war on something, the problem gets worse. Elizabeth Nolan Brown is an award-winning journalist and Reason editor who writes about how hysteria around human trafficking has created a “War on Sex Workers” to complement the failed Wars on Drugs, […]

“Alcohol isn’t cool anymore”

December 30, 2022 Big news: Our Pulitzer Prize-winning comics team is back. The team’s newest illustrated report “Bulldozer injustice” tells the story of an Indian student activist who spoke out about government discrimination — only to have her family home destroyed. I encourage you to take a look […]

Awakening From The Narrative Matrix

Caitlin Johnstone Listen to a reading of this article: Western analysts spent years warning that western actions would provoke a war in Ukraine, westerners spent four years being propagandized into hating Russia, then Russia invades and now western imperialists say the war is advancing US interests. But remember: […]

Note From San Francisco

On the way home after the holidays, notes on “cherry-picking” and a few other odds and ends Matt Taibbi Having seen the redwoods with the boys by day, sampled dim sum last evening, and overdosed nights on San Francisco movies (Bullitt, Vertigo, the underrated Zodiac), I’m headed home […]

Shrinking Comfort Zones

Linh Dinh Dec 28 [Chennai, 12/25/22] After a month in India, I’m back in Bangkok. My last four days in Chennai were eventful in unpleasant ways. I finally ate or drank something that kept me bedridden for most of two days. Finally strong enough to seek much needed […]

‘You could hear the president dropping f-bombs all over the West Wing’: White House insiders reveal explosive details about how furious Joe Biden exploded at staff as they struggled to get a grip of border crisis

By Harriet Alexander For Dailymail.com Biden saw the crisis on the border as one of the most pressing problems of his presidency in 2021, along with vaccine misinformation, according to a new book The president raged at his aides and said the situation made his ‘blood boil’, Chris […]

‘How dare you?!’ Humiliated Andrew Tate snaps back at Greta Thunberg after teenage eco-warrior says the Big Brother contestant-turned-influencer has ‘small d*** energy’ and should ‘get a life’ in savage putdown

By Tom Cotterill and Oliver Price For Mailonline Ex-kickboxing champion Andrew Tate took to Twitter to mock the Swedish teen The 36-year-old boasted about his supercars and their ‘enormous emissions’  He was recently banned from YouTube, Instagram and TikTok for his ‘toxic’ posts Greta’s response to the social […]

Dehumanizing the enemy

gilbertdoctorow Uncategorized December 27, 2022    The word “Russophobia” has been used very widely in the past couple of years by Russians and by “friends of Russia” abroad to describe the campaign of vilification of President Putin in particular and of the Russian people more generally that the […]