“Australia is offering Trump $1 billion in AUKUS funding to secure a defence deal. But Trump has a notorious track record of abandoning agreements—and it could backfire spectacularly.”
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The Nobel Peace Prize and the Price of Aspiration: María Corina Machado and the Trumpification of Virtue
The Nobel Committee’s 2025 Peace Prize to Venezuela’s María Corina Machado reveals not moral clarity but the creeping Trumpification of virtue; another act in the long theatre of Western self-absolution.The enshittification of the Nobel Peace Price- Prof Greg Grandin, Yale University.
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 Deepfake Presidency: Trump’s Billion-Dollar Blitzkrieg Against Reality; Powered by Project 2025, ICE, and the Gospel of Grievance
Trump’s second term is powered by Project 2025, militarized crackdowns, oligarch-backed financing, and billionaire profiteers. This satirical exposé reveals how Trump’s Deepfake Presidency turns out the lights on truth, democracy, and accountability.
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 Gaza “Peace Plan”: When Tyranny Calls Itself Diplomacy
This isn’t a peace plan. It’s a blueprint for entrenching occupation and calling it stability. For managing ethnic cleansing and calling it security. For weaponizing the very concept of peace to justify ongoing war in slow motion.
‘Applaud or Lose Your Rank’: Inside Trump’s Quantico Loyalty Purge
A vivid, incisive exploration of how Donald Trump and Pete Hegseth are reshaping the Pentagon—prioritising loyalty over strategy, fantasy over reality, and risking catastrophic failure.
The Day the Elevator Stopped: Trump at the UN, or U Thant 2.0 in Reverse
The moment captures Donald Trump’s chaotic entrance into the UN General Assembly, marked by a mechanical failure of the escalator and the Teleprompter. Trump blames others for these failures, showcasing an absurdity that mirrors the dysfunction of authority and democracy, revealing deeper tragedies within the spectacle of power.
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.
The Great Unravelling: Trump’s UN Tantrum Exposes Democracy’s Diseased Heart
At the recent UN General Assembly, Trump delivered a chaotic address marked by self-absorption, fabrications, and climate denial, leaving allies bewildered. His performance epitomized a decline in American soft power, transforming diplomacy into a display of political tantrums and grievances, ultimately casting America as a global laughingstock.
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