Tag: Trump

Hope and Myth in Mitch Griffiths’ Immortal

A review of Mitch Griffiths IMMORTAL exhibition at Halcyon Gallery...

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The Surrealist Practice of Twenty-First Century Populism

‘Surreal’ is a word that many increasingly reach for, a (hopelessly inadequate) description for the daily cavalcade of cataclysmic and bizarre events we’re confronted by....

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TRA: Fake News

Fake News: Satirical Saturday Cartoon on Art by Alex Brenchley 2018...

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Observations from the Gallery: Trump

Saturday Cartoon by Alex Brenchley 2018...

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Fake News, Clickbait, and the Phishing Net

dropcap style=”font-size:100px;color:#992211;P/dropcapresident Donald J Trump is an intriguing phenomenon. Any criticism of his presidency is dismissed as ‘Fake News’. Nigel Farage...

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霸权 Chinese values make the world China!

Chinese hegemony is it something to worry about? It is if your uncomfortable with the West becoming more undemocratic and prone to long term leaders who stay on for, stability. ...

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Donald Trump vs. the US Judiciary

As federal courts openly clash with the Trump Presidency, what now for the Founding Fathers' vision of a limited judiciary?...

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SOTU 2018: Donald Trump Colonises America

Donald Trump's State of the Union speech last week revealed many things and (surprise) more than a few echoes of colonialism....

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Graveyard of Empires: Afghanistan Prepares its Killing Grounds… Again

There is no draining the swamp of the collective mind, for the swamp and citizenry are one. ...

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Flags, Statues, Genocide and the Trash Can of History

If tearing down statues could redress the wrongs of history, why stop at Confederates?...

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Fire and Fury: Perpetual War = Perpetual High Dollar

The marriage of the high dollar to perpetual war becomes more blatant by the day...

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Is Trump Getting Too Big For His (Concrete) Boots?

Elites have no issue with dead Muslims, but they will draw the line at presidential ineptitude...

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Deep State, Media Vampirism and the MOAB Bomb

With the MOAB, High Dollar Despotism And Perpetual War show off their latest toy...

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Madam Hillary, Time to Go Home

In US politics, dignity is a rare commodity. Which doesn't stop Madam Hillary burning what's left of hers....

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Nothing Changes: Isn’t ‘Deep State’ just the ‘Civil Service’?

Whatever you choose to call it, the wheels within wheels always have the power...

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Only Lenten Honesty Can Trump a Carnival of Lies

Jokers are wild for Mardi Gras, but only a lent of honesty can counter a carnival of lies...

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Democratic Stitch Ups and the Untouchable Will of the People

Autocracies fail in the long run because the people much prefer to oppress themselves than be oppressed...

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Kings Of The Ballot Box – What Democracies & Monarchies Have In Common

2016 was not a good year for democracy. This year could be worse. ...

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Failing Upwards: The Perpetual Motion of Elected Fraud

Trump's repeated 'failing upwards' is only one sort of perpetual motion. ...

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Anti-Trump Protests? Yes Please. Pro-Democrats Protests? No Thanks.

Anti-Trump protests will lead nowhere if allowed to be channeled into the service of the Democratic Party. ...

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Against the Indignities of Trump, We Are Either All Together, or We Fall

Pearlclutching and professional outrage led us here, it's time to speak plainly....

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A Bought-Out Police State? Plus Ca Change.

The foundations of a Trump-era corporation-enabling police state were laid by Barack Obama...

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Queasy Democrats – Make Your Wound a Womb

Only an honest appraisal of the situation will prove of benefit for Democrats yet to come...

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Trump: The Handy Hillaryite Denial Buddy

Donald Trump is the arch enabler of Hillaryites' addiction to political pettifoggery...

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Feigned Swoons beat Locker Room Bravado Every Time (US Elections)

Ignore the neo-Victorian faux umbrage of the Clinton camp and instead contemplate the corporate bloodbath HRC will helm...

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Is the US A New Weimar? If So, The Democrats Made It

If Donald Trump is the symptom of US sickness, it is the Democrats who are the disease...

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Machismo and Violence – The Heavy Doors of Another Closet

Trump calling Obama a closeted Muslim misses the point. Obama's presidency uses Muslims as cannon fodder ...

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Killer Hillary or the Lumpentrumpetariat; On Choosing the Lesser of two Evils

A presidency headed by either Donald Trump or the Clinton Cartel will make the world a more dangerous place. Essay...

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Hillary’s Hair-Trigger Partisans Versus Trump’s Smalltown Nostalgists. A Zero Sum Game

In a battle between Trump and Clinton, should it come to that, no-one wins. Essay...

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A Viagra Republic will Rise. Or Not. Election Cycle Anomie

Return of the carnival of false hope and manufactured fear. The US Election Cycle hots up. Or, more accurately, reheats a tired forula...

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