Manchester According to Populists
The current surge in the left’s propensity toward violence and mayhem should surprise no one; this is PRECISELY who they are. This is why the American left and Islam share parallel ideologies. They...
View ArticleLeaving the West
Among Turkish media commentators and academics, we are observing an increasing tendency to question Erdoğan’s policy of reorienting Turkey away from the West towards positions and a vernacular that...
View ArticleAmerican Talkbackers for Putin
American journalists hate the USA. I find Putin more reliable than the press. At least Putin is a patriot. I’d actually believe Putin over anyone in the mainstream media. I think Putin should spill...
View ArticleWhy Mainstream Migration Journalism in Italy and Spain Is Failing
Talk to Spanish and Italian journalists about reporting on refugees and migration and a single common sentiment emerges. “I wish to give a voice to the voiceless and record the unrecorded,” an Italian...
View ArticleThe French Inferno
The US press does not hesitate to compare Paris to Baghdad and its suburbs to the Gaza Strip. Either the concern is sincere and we should be grateful, or the opportunity was too good to be missed to...
View ArticleThe Reporter
His rifle was pointed at a projection of Berlaymont, the European Commission HQ. “Is that the real thing?” I asked him. “I’m not telling, mate,” the reporter said, laughing. “You sort it out.”...
View ArticleFrench Artist Statement on Eurovision
More than 100 French artists, including the draughtsmen Willem and Tardi, Imhotep of the IAM group, the filmmaker Alain Guiraudie, the opera singer Marie Soubestre and the visual artist Ernest Pignon...
View ArticleThe View From the Newsroom
“We changed the picture,” the Russian editor said over the messaging client from Brussels. “Jean is here, and he agrees. We substituted it for something more appropriate.” That something more...
View ArticlePoland Before Capitalism
Poland is a country in where no one really knows how much the dollar is worth. The government officially assesses it at 200 zlotys, the black market puts it at three to four times more, and the weekly...
View ArticleIs Anti-Capitalism Always Leftist?
In the 1990s, the now global triumph of the market economy was proclaimed – to the point that some of its apologists no longer even thought it necessary to use euphemisms defying the word “capitalism”....
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