Opening the Epstein files

“I know this is a lot to take in. The violence. The neglect. The bad decisions. The self-harm. Imagine if a trauma reel like this played in your head all the time, as it does mine … but please don’t stop reading.”

The management of not knowing

Project Censored’s latest survey of press freedom in the United States offers a snapshot of a country whose long-standing commitment to free speech is under threat from both an autocratic President and oligarchical commercial interests.

Master of the universe

Donald Trump’s unfettered determination to wield absolute power at home and abroad in his pursuit of his ever more unhinged agenda threatens to plunge the world into chaos and break the back of American democracy.

Trump’s war on the west

Donald Trump, like many rich men, believes he’s above the law and entitled to take anything he wants, including the territory of fellow NATO members, while threatening and punishing anyone who dares oppose him.

America walks away

Donald Trump’s withdrawal of the United States from international bodies and agreements, and his flouting of long-standing democratic norms requires other democratic nations to step up to defend themselves against authoritarian threats and hostile actors.

Maduro as hell

Donald Trump’s kidnapping of Venuzuela’s President and potential annexation of Greenland may accelerate the splitting of the world into 3 authoritarian spheres of influence, with Russia allowed to take Europe and China to dominate the Pacific in Asia in return for an isolationist, imperialist USA dominating the American continents.

Trump’s Greenland folly

It seems like the plot to a political satire, but Donald Trump seems intent to annex Greenland from Denmark – an extraordinary move which would either destroy or emasculate NATO and ruin America’s relations with the world.

How it went down

Whatever the international legitimacy or political wisdom of Trump’s assault on Venezuela, the US military executed a well-planned combined arms operation.

Trump’s battered wife

Donald Trump’s abuse of the political norms and expectations of the United States resembles to coercion and abuse of a battered wife.

Trump first

Trump’s “America first” foreign policy is a cloak for his all consuming ‘Trump first” agenda and, like his domestic policies, aims to wrong-foot traditional norms and institutions to tighten his authoritarian control.

Stand back and stand by

Donald Trump’s unchecked descent into authoritarian insanity continues to gain pace with his plan to use America’s military against its own people.

Trump’s contempt for press freedom

United States President Donald Trump is well advanced in his systematic campaign to undermine the American media and eviscerate its traditional function of holding people in power to account.