When countries become pariahs
Pariah = an outcast. Stating that the US’ and Israel’s war against Iran is a failure is a gross understatement. The hubris and bellicose styles of President Donald Trump and Prime Minister Benjamin...
View ArticleStanding ovation to imperialism – did Elina Valtonen and Alexander Stubb give...
When US Secretary of State Marco Rubio gave his speech at the Munich Security Conference on 14 February, if anything, Rubio’s speech resembled MAGA, white supremacist, foreign policy, where the US and...
View ArticleWhat is the plan in Venezuela? Who is next? Greenland? Mexico? Cuba?
One of the big questions about the US invasion of Venezuela is what is the next step. Does th Trump régime have a plan? Or is it the first step in the Western Hemisphere to control Greenland, Mexico,...
View ArticleThe Perussuomalaiset and Republicans: Two political clown shows in one
The Republicans exposed the clown show in choosing, after six failed attempts, the speaker of the house. It is a mirror image of the Perussuomalaiset (PS)* parliamentary group. All there is personal...
View ArticleFinnish voters take stock: The US midterms were a referendum against “the...
There was no red wave, never mind a red tsunami, in the midterm elections in the United States. Defying the precedent of past elections, the Democrats gave the Republicans a beating they will not...
View ArticleTrump, Putin and the Perussuomalaiset
Former President Donald Trump is a threat to USAmerican democracy, and Russian President Vladimir Putin a threat to world peace. While these leaders spread their toxicity and hatred on other people and...
View ArticleIf Biden calls MAGA Republicans semi-fascists, why can’t we call the...
Like many analysts, US President Joe Biden’s “semi-fascism” remark did not go far enough. He should have just dropped the word semi and called them fascists. Taking into account how much the US...
View ArticleExposing white Finnish privilege #72: False police reporting is an example of...
White Finnish privilege is powerful since you can use the police to project the need for defense and protection. In the United States, we saw two viral examples (see below) involving Amy Cooper and...
View ArticleThe PS and its enablers are the wrecking balls of Finland’s social welfare...
I can’t believe what you say, because I see what you do. James Baldwin If some scholars sound the alarm bells that democracy in the United States could turn into a right-wing dictatorship that has the...
View ArticleThe overdose of hypocrisy and crocodile tears from the West on Afghanistan
I don’t know if you feel the same way about helping Afghans after the Taliban took over the country. Listening to politicians and the media, two words reveal the present state of things: hypocrisy and...
View ArticleWho is Finland’s Marjorie Taylor Greene?
TOPLINE Republican Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene is the far-right conspiracy monger who was voted out of her two committee assignments this week. In the age of misinformation, peddling conspiracy...
View ArticleBiden inauguration: Words of unity and inclusion that reverberate in Finland
After four years of chaos and division, an illness that even inflicted the Perussuomalaiset (PS)* and politicians in other parties that sow division heard long-overdue healing words. Without losing...
View ArticleHalla-aho, Purra, Tavio, Niikko and all of you PS politicians: Trump’s stench...
THIS STORY WAS UPDATED TOPLINE It is quite extraordinary that the Perussuomalaiset (PS)* continues to play down and deflect criticism for their admiration and support for outgoing US President Donald...
View ArticleWhy radical-right populism will fail in Finland
TOPLINE After the historic election of the Perussuomalaiset (PS)* party in 2011, when it won 39 seats in parliament from 5 previously, two international events have kept in check the PS’ rise: the...
View ArticleNovember 7, 2020: A day that ended an infamous administration
The US presidential election’s long-anticipated result bore fruit on Saturday with Joe Biden projected as Pennsylvania’s winner and getting him over the 270 electoral threshold defeating incumbent...
View ArticleUS elections: Will November 3, 2020, be a day of continued infamy or new hope?
Four years ago, I wrote about the surprise US presidential election, which elected Donald Trump. I compared the election outcome to Franklin D. Roosevelt’s famous words after the attack on Pearl Harbor...
View ArticleIf racism costs the US $16 trillion, how much has it cost Finland?
The Islamophobic Perussuomalaiset (PS)* have been quick to point out how much migrants (all?!) are an economic burden to Finland. A new study by Citigroup claims that ethnic inequality and inequity...
View ArticleExposing white Finnish privilege #72: False police reporting is an example of...
White Finnish privilege is powerful since you can use the police to project the need for defense and protection. In the United States, we saw two viral examples (see below) involving Amy Cooper and...
View ArticleAre Donald Trump and his critics interested in #BlackLivesMatter, social...
Thanks to the United States, Latin America has suffered human rights abuses, poverty, exploitation, and a long line of dictators. The latest coup we saw in that part of the world was in Bolivia when...
View ArticleTwitter (The Daily Show): President Trump is the “+100,000 charlatan”
The video clip by The Daily Show does not need anymore elaboration except for barf bag to expell his administration’s outright lies and toxicity. Viewer discrtion is advised when looking at the video...
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