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Gotcha – or so what?

Melanie

Three days ago, no-drama Obama said this about the alleged Russian hack of Democratic National Committee chairman John Podesta’s emails which were published during the US election by WikiLeaks: “None of this should be a big surprise. Russia trying to influence our elections dates back to the Soviet Union.” Obama dismissed the hack and the leaked emails as “not very interesting” and lacking “explosive” revelations. He puzzled as to why it was an “obsession” by the news media despite the knowledge that the Russians were responsible. “What’s happened to our…

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Western spring or European winter?

Melanie

Europe is convulsing. Neo-Nazis and racists are pushing at the doors of power along with less alarming populists and nationalists. Austria may have failed to elect as its president the neo-Nazi Norbert Hofer, but the threat from his Freedom Party is far from over. Hofer won more than 45% of the vote, and opinion polls suggest the party may win the most votes in parliamentary elections before the end of 2018. In France, Marine Le Pen not only promotes something akin to National Socialism but her strenuous attempts to distance…

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Britain USA 

Trump and Corbyn Have More in Common Than You Think

Melanie

Just like the Labour leader, the US President-elect is protectionist, isolationist and dead against globalisation You will, by now, be familiar with the argument: that Donald Trump’s triumph in the American presidential election represents a kind of social and political apocalypse. That his victory came at the hands of fundamentally irrational, bigoted, disgusting extreme right-wingers beyond the pale of civilised values. It is axiomatic that there can’t be any good reason behind voting for him, so it is assumed that 60 million Americans were duped by ‘fake news’ which must now…

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Trump’s Opponents are the Bigots and Racists

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Liberals weep for democracy even as they malign the people for being too stupid to deserve a say If any evidence were needed of why Donald Trump won the White House, it’s on display in the reaction to his election. American college students have demanded classes be cancelled so they can cry over the threat Trump apparently poses to their “sanity and well-being”. This is the same student body that regularly mounts threatening protests against anyone who dares contradict progressive pieties. Liberal writers have conjured up an existential apocalypse. In…

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As I see it: The Uprising of the Scorned

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A populist revolution is under way in Britain, Europe and now in America. We may be in for a very rocky ride. On Tuesday night, the second shoe dropped with a terrific bang. Those of us who understood the full import of Britain’s Brexit vote last June had observed a similar phenomenon at work in the unstoppable rise of Donald J. Trump. As his stunning victory in America’s presidential election sank in, the reaction echoed the Brexit vote aftermath. For distraught liberals, it’s the end of the world as they…

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