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“Fascismo rampante”: desgarrador editorial de Víctor Hugo Morales
February 5, 2026
Antidemocrático y totalitario, el gobierno avanza hacia un fascismo rampante, arremetiendo furiosamente contra los más débiles.
El Congreso, monumento del parlamentarismo, quiere tener adentro y afuera una sola voz. Y las otras silenciadas por aplastamiento. La voz de los diputados opositores acalladas por un reclutamiento de traidores que asombra. Por dinero, por cargos. Por pertenencia.
... full articleOur firmest convictions are apt to be the most suspect; they mark our limitations and our bounds. Life is a petty thing unless it is moved by the indomitable urge to extend its boundaries.
Trump vs. Canada
February 4, 2026
Former Alberta Premier Jason Kenney on annexation threats, the unraveling of U.S.-Canada relations, and how Trump is forcing allies to rethink democracy, defense, and immigration. Plus: the Trump family’s astonishing UAE crypto deal and Sara Jeannette Duncan’s The Imperialist.
On this week’s episode of The David Frum Show, David opens with his thoughts on the reported $500 million-dollar deal between World Liberty Financial, a Trump-family business venture, and the United Arab Emirates, as reported by The Wall Street Journal. David discusses the helplessness we feel as we are bombarded with stories where it seems all restraint has broken down and explains what laws exist that are meant to curtail corrupt practices.
... full articleWhen plunder becomes a way of life, men create for themselves a legal system that authorizes it and a moral code that glorifies it.
Jeff Bezos’s Destruction of The Washington Post Is a Disgraceful Plutocratic Crime
February 4, 2026
For the past week, I’ve been unable to retrieve the copies of The Washington Post that usually get delivered to my home, since the brutal weather in the DC area has turned my front yard into an unfordable moat of frozen snow. This now seems a richly prophetic turn of events, since my hometown newspaper is being eviscerated under the disastrous ownership of centibillionaire monopolist and MAGA flunky Jeff Bezos.
... full articleSubscribers lost trust in (Bezos’) stewardship and, notwithstanding the newsroom’s stellar journalism, The Post overall. Similarly, many leading journalists at The Post lost confidence in Bezos, and jumped to other news organizations. They also, in effect, were driven away. Bezos’s sickening efforts to curry favor with President Trump have left an especially ugly stain on their own… This is a case study in near-instant, self-inflicted brand destruction.
The return of fascism
January 29, 2026
The 1920s were marked by fascism, a word that should not be used lightly. The same is true of the concept of genocide; once used, there is no turning back. “It’s an avalanche of a word: once you utter it, it just keeps growing,” said David Grossman in an interview with the Italian journalist Francesca Caferri when the Israeli writer first defined what was taking place in Gaza as genocide. Since the beginning of Donald Trump’s second presidency a year ago, but especially since the brutal deployment in Minneapolis of federal paramilitaries from ICE and the Border Patrol, the impression that fascism has taken hold in the United States has only grown among writers, commentators, historians, and citizens.
... full articleThey’re counting on your patriotism to distract you from their plunder. They’re counting on you to be standing at attention with your hand over your heart, pledging allegiance to the flag, while they pick your pocket!