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By Richard Steigmann-Gall, Associate Professor of history at Kent State University, USA The overriding temptation on the left is to frame Trump’s criminality as another instance of Uncle Sam meddling in Latin American affairs. Big Continuity, which implicates all our imperial presidents since McKinley. I don’t think this fits Trump’s pattern, however. And this does […]
This morning, the third of January, the news arrived not through the slow deliberation of the courts, but through the sharp, sudden fact of American special forces – Nicolás Maduro, a man who had long inhabited the Miraflores Palace as though it were a fortress against time itself, was taken by US forces, on the […]
Manufacturing emotion and stealing stability. The Digital Factory of Despair – How They Farm Your Outrage By Gael There is a particular kind of cruelty in the way the modern world tries to steal your soul. We used to talk about the factory floor and the picket line; today, the factory is in your pocket, […]
By our Sports Correspondent. In recent years, the landscape of international sports has become increasingly intertwined with global politics. One of the more recent developments is the establishment of the FIFA Peace Award, a recognition aimed at promoting peace through football. However, speculation surrounds whether it is simply a toy to appease the giant Man […]
Kathy O’Connor on Mamdani’s victory. It is an occupational hazard for anyone interested in American politics to become overwhelmed by rhetoric. The national conversation is so often conducted in italics and capital letters—TREASON, LOW-IQ, DEEP STATE—that the essential banality of governance, the stuff that determines whether your rent goes up or your subway runs on […]
American Youth bite back. By Kathy O’Connor It’s difficult to say, exactly, when the future began to feel less like an aspiration and more like a poorly executed eviction notice. One felt compelled to conclude, watching the seemingly endless, granular erosion of American civil liberties—the systematic dismantling of protections for reproductive autonomy, the punitive erasure […]
As swathes of English people are fooled into flag wars, and Americans are being groomed to hate oil rich Venezuela, Karen Orr explores the history of the working class dying for billionaires… The history of conflict is not the grand narrative of kings and causes taught in schools; it is, at its core, a sordid […]
To top Prick’s return to Blighty his ‘local’ (pub) is invaded by JD Vance on his holidays (or vacation as he would say it) trying to sample simple English life. What could happen in this confrontation? Transcript I was back from Trump’s Reich, settling down into the comforting gloom of Ye Olde Cheshire Cheese, my […]
The last of (the current) story of our previous Royal Corespondent, who has expanded into reporting many other areas; especially as here on Ungagged we are anti-monarichists! Anyhoo, what becomes of Prick and what plans do the gang have for the BHC06. If we did trailers you’d know all this already but we don’t. So […]
Prick & Chuck travel to Miami on their next step in flooding the Orange concealer scandal. What will they find out, how are they coping with the all the substances they have been taking and how does an 80’s Brit TV star help?? Confused? You won’t be after the episode of A Prick in America. […]