Three Years into Trump’s Presidency, What’s Left of the American Left?

Three Years into Trump’s Presidency, What’s Left of the American Left?

On January 20, Donald J. Trump completed his third year in office. I predicted in 2016, in a blog post that received considerable traction on social media, that Trump would lose his bid for America’s highest office. I was spectacularly wrong but not alone. Even the Las Vegas bookies thought Clinton was a shoo-in with…

The West Has Two Liberalism Problems, And Burning The Quran Is Just One of Them

The West Has Two Liberalism Problems, And Burning The Quran Is Just One of Them

The disgusting burning of a Quran in Norway last week was a rabidly Islamophobic act of hatred that highlighted one of the West’s two liberalism problems, with the first being that the aforementioned stunt is supposedly protected by the principle of “free speech” while the other is that many Western governments are reluctant to encourage…

Electoral Euthanasia in the UK: The Grim Reaper of Liberalism Is Stalking

Electoral Euthanasia in the UK: The Grim Reaper of Liberalism Is Stalking

Britain’s liberal europhiles, still convinced that they lost the Brexit vote because ‘Workington Men’ are too old and stupid to appreciate their virtues, would rather euthanize them from the ballot box. That political discourse has coarsened during this century can scarcely be gainsaid. The availability of the means to insult people without looking them in…

Meddling in Journalism: Google Funding Media to Fulfil Radical Liberal Agenda

Meddling in Journalism: Google Funding Media to Fulfil Radical Liberal Agenda

The world’s most powerful company claims political bias plays no role in its day-to-day operations. Yet how do we explain its funding of left-leaning media amid elections and calls to regulate the Silicon Valley monolith? Google, headquartered in Mountain View, California, has announced recently it will be funding 34 media organizations in North America –…

The Lies of Capitalism

The Lies of Capitalism

Neoliberals love to quote the World Bank’s rosy statistics about capitalism lifting hundreds of millions out of poverty. Unfortunately, those statistics are skewed and manipulated to the point of outright prevarication, as Seth Donnelly demonstrates in his new book, “The Lie of Global Prosperity.” He quotes a breathless World Bank press release, “soon 90 percent…

US Liberals Self-Destruct Over Migrant Crisis, Guaranteeing Trump 4 More Years in Power

US Liberals Self-Destruct Over Migrant Crisis, Guaranteeing Trump 4 More Years in Power

Is the United States – a country founded on the blood, sweat and tears of immigrants from around the world – a cruel, unrepentant racist at heart? Forget about terrorism, melting polar caps and even the US government. According to the results of a new Gallup poll, more Americans than ever before (27 percent) view…