Month: April 2022

The Rise of Ecofascism: Climate Change and the Far Right, by Sam Moore and Alex Roberts (Polity: 2022), 171 pages. Sam Moore and Alex Roberts are researchers, anti-fascist activists, and the hosts of a podcast about the far right. So says the jacket of their new book, out this week. They’re Brits, too. That’s all
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“Queen K,” a luxury yacht owned by Oleg Deripaska, one of a number of Russian oligarchs who reportedly had to terminate private jet leases with Credit Suisse amid previous U.S. sanctions. Anadolu Agency | Anadolu Agency | Getty Images Credit Suisse told CNBC Wednesday that U.S. authorities will “absolutely not” find any evidence of wrongdoing
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Hunter Biden may be under investigation by the Joe Biden administration, but have no fear: Attorney General Merrick Garland promised there would “not be interference of any political or improper kind.” Garland, the hackiest of political hacks serving in the Biden administration, made the promise on Tuesday when he appeared at a Senate Appropriations Committee hearing. Sen.
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According to a recently surfaced email, President Joe Biden agreed to pay more than $800,000 of the legal bills built up by his son Hunter while he was conducting business with a Chinese firm. The email contained an attached spreadsheet detailing debts owed by Hunter, which calls into question the validity of his father’s repeated
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The political left has been talking a lot about gender reassignment surgeries for children, calling it “gender-affirming care.” I call it child abuse. In a recent document released by Secretary of Health and Human Services Xavier Becerra, his Office of Population Affairs stated, “Gender-affirming care encompasses many facets of healthcare needs and support, [and] it
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Attorney General Jeff Sessions announces the creation of a new initiative to crack down on Chinese intelligence officials pilfering intellectual property from U.S. corporations through hacking and espionage during a press conference at the Justice Department in Washington, DC, on November 1, 2018. (Photo by Jim Watson/AFP via Getty Images) The Biden administration’s Justice Department
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In this article STAN-GB Fossil fuels are ingrained in the global energy mix and companies continue to discover and develop oil and gas fields at locations around the world. Imaginima | E+ | Getty Images LONDON — The CEO of Standard Chartered believes it’s “ridiculous and naive” to think fossil fuel production can be immediately
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Amber Heard suffered from “histrionic and borderline personality disorders” and “grossly exaggerated symptoms of PTSD” according to a clinical and forensic psychologist who assessed her mental state following her split from Johnny Depp. Doctor Shannon Curry told the court she had originally been approached by Depp‘s legal team to help ascertain whether there was evidence
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Actress Jameela Jamil posted what she called her “last tweet” on Monday in the wake of news that Elon Musk had struck a deal to purchase the company. Musk has said that he intends to make Twitter a platform that allows people to participate in free speech. “Ah he got twitter. I would like this
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Philip Rieff (right) speaks on a 1967 panel on “The New Left and the American Consensus.” (Denver Post via Getty Images) There is a fundamental and fundamentally appealing insight at the heart of left-liberalism, as distinguished from classical liberalism or libertarianism, namely, that human societies should be caring and nurturing, integrating more and more of
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Denny Hamlin NSACAR driver Denny Hamlin was ordered to complete sensitivity training after he posted an ‘anti-Asian’ meme on Twitter. Hamlin trolled fellow NASCAR driver Kyle Larson, whose mother is Japanese, with a video clip from “Family Guy” of an Asian woman getting into a car accident after cutting across lanes without looking. Hamlin posted
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