Trump’s two-front bluster—Venezuela in the Caribbean, Iran in the Middle East—is theatre. The real war is quieter: Palantir-style surveillance turning society into an open-air prison.
Tag: authoritarianism
The Rape of Venezuela: Trump, Macbeth, Narcissism, and the New American Despotism
Following the January 3, 2026, abduction of Nicolás Maduro from the Fuerte Tiuna military complex, the mask of the “Rules-Based Order” has been incinerated. This op-ed argues that the new “Donroe Doctrine” is not a policy shift, but a blood-soaked coronation of a manic American despotism—one that the Fourth Estate must stop sanitizing as mere “eccentricity.”
Quiet, Piggy: How Calling a Female Reporter Livestock Became Just Another Tuesday in the Death of American Democracy
This is it—the final piece examining what “quiet, piggy” really means.
We’ve traced how outrages disappear (Part One) and mapped the nine-year war on women who speak (Part Two). Now we need to understand the broader pattern.
Because what’s happening isn’t chaos. It’s a playbook. Refined over decades. Tested globally. Deployed in America with surgical precision.
The question isn’t whether you’ll recognise the strategy. It’s whether you’ll resist before the window slams shut.
Quiet, Piggy: How Calling a Female Reporter Livestock Became Just Another Tuesday in the Death of American Democracy
The President called a female reporter a pig on Air Force One. It took four days for anyone to notice. That’s not an accident—it’s the machinery of forgetting at work. Part One of a three-part investigation into how democracies die through strategic flooding and algorithmic distraction.
Trump’s Dirty War at Sea and Australia’s Silent Complicity
When Donald Trump’s America goes fishing, it doesn’t bring a net — it brings a drone. His latest outburst over “illegal Venezuelan boats” turns the Caribbean into a stage set for bluster and bombast. A small fleet of working men in open skiffs become props in a tragicomic rerun of empire, complete with digital spin and patriotic sound effects. Another performance of power — and another warning of what happens when showmanship replaces statecraft.
Trump’s Ballroom: Democracy Under Demolition
Trump’s demolition of the White House East Wing to build a “self-funded” ballroom is more than vandalism. It’s the Gilded Age reborn — a cash-for-access cathedral where billionaires buy permanence and democracy is reduced to rubble.
The War on Dissent: How Western Democracies Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Thought Police
The genius of modern repression is that it doesn’t require jackboots or midnight knocks. It requires bureaucracy. Forms. Watchlists. De-banking. IRS audits. Loss of tax-exempt status. It’s not a gulag; it’s a compliance nightmare. You’re not disappeared; you’re just financially ruined and socially destroyed. Much more civilised.
The Betrayal Myth That’s Remaking the Pentagon
How Trump and Hegseth are using manufactured history and dominionist theology to transform the U.S. military into a sectarian warband. The neglected story.
A Cathedral of Grievance: How Murdoch Built The Monster He Can No Longer Control
An unflinching examination of how Murdoch’s media empire evolved into a cathedral of manufactured outrage, now weaponized by tech oligarchs and autocrats—and why the resistance that matters happens at the edges.
The Funeral that wasn’t Maga’s Horst Wessel Moment and the March of Teenage Fascism
The memorial for Charlie Kirk was less about mourning and more a spectacle for political mobilization, showcasing emotional manipulation and propaganda reminiscent of fascist pageantry. Trump’s address weaponized grief to promote division, turning Kirk into a martyr for the MAGA movement, while undermining true dissent and civil discourse in American politics.
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