Tag: Trump

Mitch Griffiths, Flat Earth

Hope and Myth in Mitch Griffiths’ Immortal

28/04/2022

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

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politics, death (c) Joe Eden

The Surrealist Practice of Twenty-First Century Populism

14/09/2020

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

TRA: Fake News

15/12/2018

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

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Observations from the Gallery: Trump

01/09/2018

Saturday Cartoon by Alex Brenchley 2018...

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Fake News, Clickbait, and the Phishing Net

26/08/2018

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!

13/03/2018

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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As the US Judiciary increasingly clashes with the Trump presidency, what does this mean for the founding fathers' vision?

Donald Trump vs. the US Judiciary

08/03/2018

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

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Trump gives the 2018 State of the Union address with Vice President Pence and Speaker Ryan in the background.

SOTU 2018: Donald Trump Colonises America

08/02/2018

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

31/08/2017

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

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Mount Rushmore

Flags, Statues, Genocide and the Trash Can of History

23/08/2017

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

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papa che by Dan Booth

Fire and Fury: Perpetual War = Perpetual High Dollar

11/08/2017

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?

03/08/2017

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

18/04/2017

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

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Madam Hillary, Time to Go Home

05/04/2017

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’?

15/03/2017

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

03/03/2017

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

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Buckingham Palace, The Will of the People

Democratic Stitch Ups and the Untouchable Will of the People

01/03/2017

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

22/02/2017

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

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papa che by Dan Booth

Failing Upwards: The Perpetual Motion of Elected Fraud

02/02/2017

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

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anti trump protests

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

26/01/2017

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

18/01/2017

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.

09/12/2016

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

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papa che by Dan Booth

Queasy Democrats – Make Your Wound a Womb

11/11/2016

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

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Kong by Dan Booth

Trump: The Handy Hillaryite Denial Buddy

29/10/2016

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)

14/10/2016

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

21/09/2016

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

18/06/2016

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

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capitol hill washington

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

16/05/2016

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

24/03/2016

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

03/11/2015

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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