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Revealed: How Substack makes money from hosting Nazi newsletters
February 7, 2026
Geraldine McKelvie Senior correspondent
Sat 7 Feb 2026 12.00 EST
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The global publishing platform Substack is generating revenue from newsletters that promote virulent Nazi ideology, white supremacy and antisemitism, a Guardian investigation has found.
The platform, which says it has about 50 million users worldwide, allows members of the public to self-publish articles and charge for premium content. Substack takes about 10% of the revenue the newsletters make. About 5 million people pay for access to newsletters on its platform.
Among them are newsletters that openly promote racist ideology. One, called NatSocToday, which has 2,800 subscribers, charges $80 – about £60 – for an annual subscription, though most of its posts are available for free.
... full articleTrump sees the world in terms of a zero-sum game. In reality, globalisation, if well managed, is a positive-sum force: America gains if its friends and allies – whether Australia, the E.U., or Mexico – are stronger. But Trump’s approach threatens to turn it into a negative-sum game: America will lose, too.
“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.
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