Tuesday, October 28, 2025
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The new Japanese leader is most unimpressive. Another a-scraper. She is pro-Trump, but anti rights for gays. Japan can look forward to dark days ahead. — © Mark Alexander
Democracy Now! "Master Plan": David Sirota on the Elite Plot to Legalize Corruption in the US
Oct 28, 2025 | We speak with journalist David Sirota about his new book, Master Plan: The Hidden Plot to Legalize Corruption in America. Co-authored with Jared Jacang Maher, the book is based on their award-winning investigative podcast of the same name for The Lever.
Sirota says that while the United States is now "immersed in corruption" in a way that seems like an inevitable part of politics, it is the result of a decades-long agenda by the wealthy to deregulate the campaign finance system and to essentially make anti-bribery laws unenforceable. "This is all part of a plan by a corporate movement that sees democracy — the government providing what people want — sees that as a threat."
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Sirota says that while the United States is now "immersed in corruption" in a way that seems like an inevitable part of politics, it is the result of a decades-long agenda by the wealthy to deregulate the campaign finance system and to essentially make anti-bribery laws unenforceable. "This is all part of a plan by a corporate movement that sees democracy — the government providing what people want — sees that as a threat."
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Japan’s Parliament Elects First Female Prime Minister. She’s Against LGBTQ+ Rights.
LGBTQ NATION: She's a staunch opponent of same-sex marriage and gender equality.
Japan’s parliament on Tuesday elected ultraconservative Sanae Takaichi as the country’s first female prime minister, ending a three-month power struggle after disastrous election losses in July for the governing Liberal Democratic Party.
Takaichi, 64, replaces Shigeru Ishiba, who lasted just a year as prime minister.
The struggling LDP joined the country’s right-wing Japan Innovation Party to form the fragile alliance enabling Takaichi’s election.
Takaichi still lacks a majority in both houses of parliament, throwing prospects for a successful premiership into doubt from the outset.
Japan has had four prime ministers in the last five years.
While Takaichi breaks a glass ceiling for women in Japan as the country’s first female head of government, she is well known for her hostility to women’s rights, gender equality, and diversity.
Takaichi opposes same-sex marriage, separate surnames for married couples, and female succession for Japan’s imperial family. » | Greg Owen | Sunday, October 26, 2025
Japan’s parliament on Tuesday elected ultraconservative Sanae Takaichi as the country’s first female prime minister, ending a three-month power struggle after disastrous election losses in July for the governing Liberal Democratic Party.
Takaichi, 64, replaces Shigeru Ishiba, who lasted just a year as prime minister.
The struggling LDP joined the country’s right-wing Japan Innovation Party to form the fragile alliance enabling Takaichi’s election.
Takaichi still lacks a majority in both houses of parliament, throwing prospects for a successful premiership into doubt from the outset.
Japan has had four prime ministers in the last five years.
While Takaichi breaks a glass ceiling for women in Japan as the country’s first female head of government, she is well known for her hostility to women’s rights, gender equality, and diversity.
Takaichi opposes same-sex marriage, separate surnames for married couples, and female succession for Japan’s imperial family. » | Greg Owen | Sunday, October 26, 2025
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Brésil : l’ex-président Jair Bolsonaro fait appel de sa condamnation à 27 ans de prison
LE FIGARO : En septembre, l’ancien président brésilien a été condamné pour tentative de coup d’État afin de se maintenir au pouvoir malgré sa défaite électorale en 2022.
La défense de Jair Bolsonaro a présenté lundi un recours en appel contre la condamnation de l'ex-président brésilien à 27 ans de prison pour tentative de coup d'État afin de se maintenir au pouvoir malgré sa défaite électorale en 2022. » | Par Le Figaro avec AFP | lundi 27 octobre 2025
La défense de Jair Bolsonaro a présenté lundi un recours en appel contre la condamnation de l'ex-président brésilien à 27 ans de prison pour tentative de coup d'État afin de se maintenir au pouvoir malgré sa défaite électorale en 2022. » | Par Le Figaro avec AFP | lundi 27 octobre 2025
Javier Milei Is No Libertarian. He Is Beholden to Argentina’s Oligarchs.
UNHERD: You have seen the spectacle. The wild sideburns, the rousing speeches, the roaring chainsaw, the heavy metal music dominating his mass rallies. Javier Milei, the self-styled shackle-breaking, anarcho-capitalist madman, marketed himself as a radical departure from everything that came before. He was going to blow up Argentina’s corrupt political casta, abolish its central bank, adopt the dollar and every kind of crypto coin out there as Argentina’s competing currencies. It was a gutsy bid to replace a century of Peronist and neoliberal failure with the libertarian’s dream: a pure, unadulterated, free market.
Across the globe, the nationalist Right, from Elon Musk, Benjamin Netanyahu and Donald Trump to Giorgia Meloni and Britain’s Daily Telegraph, lionised him. Niall Ferguson, the financial oligarchy’s court historian, declared a “man-made miracle” in the making. For a few brief months, as Argentina’s inflation rate plunged from its peaks, and even the poverty rates seemed to decrease, the chorus of fanboys grew deafening. Until everyone fell silent.
Today, the miracle has been exposed as a mirage. Argentina’s economy has nose-dived and its peso is in a death spiral, with a desperate $20-billion lifeline from the US and yet more rescue loans from the IMF keeping the Milei show on the road until the forthcoming mid-term elections. Closer inspection of the poverty reduction sub-miracle also reveals a mirage: the only reason the relative poverty index dropped was that median incomes had fallen faster than those at the bottom with the result that that fewer people now count as poor. The situation in Argentina is what you would call a meltdown — but is it really a surprise? » | Yanis Varoufakis | Thursday, October 16, 2025
Across the globe, the nationalist Right, from Elon Musk, Benjamin Netanyahu and Donald Trump to Giorgia Meloni and Britain’s Daily Telegraph, lionised him. Niall Ferguson, the financial oligarchy’s court historian, declared a “man-made miracle” in the making. For a few brief months, as Argentina’s inflation rate plunged from its peaks, and even the poverty rates seemed to decrease, the chorus of fanboys grew deafening. Until everyone fell silent.
Today, the miracle has been exposed as a mirage. Argentina’s economy has nose-dived and its peso is in a death spiral, with a desperate $20-billion lifeline from the US and yet more rescue loans from the IMF keeping the Milei show on the road until the forthcoming mid-term elections. Closer inspection of the poverty reduction sub-miracle also reveals a mirage: the only reason the relative poverty index dropped was that median incomes had fallen faster than those at the bottom with the result that that fewer people now count as poor. The situation in Argentina is what you would call a meltdown — but is it really a surprise? » | Yanis Varoufakis | Thursday, October 16, 2025
Argentina's Milei Vows More Reforms after Election Triumph
Oct 27, 2025 | Argentina's President Javier Milei said his party's big victory in the nation's midterm elections marked a turning point and vowed to pursue reforms his government still considers necessary.
'Today we pass through a turning point,' Milei said after the results. Milei's party cruised to victory in midterm legislative elections as voters backed his free-market reforms and deep austerity measures, providing a mandate for him to push forward with his radical overhaul of the economy. The results will also likely be welcome news to US president Donald Trump, whose administration recently provided Argentina with a hefty financial bailout but had threatened to pull away if Milei did not do well.
Little good will come of this clown's reforms. They will enrich the superrich of Argentina and impoverish the masses. How Argentinians can vote for this madman is beyond my comprehension. — © Mark Alexander
'Today we pass through a turning point,' Milei said after the results. Milei's party cruised to victory in midterm legislative elections as voters backed his free-market reforms and deep austerity measures, providing a mandate for him to push forward with his radical overhaul of the economy. The results will also likely be welcome news to US president Donald Trump, whose administration recently provided Argentina with a hefty financial bailout but had threatened to pull away if Milei did not do well.
Little good will come of this clown's reforms. They will enrich the superrich of Argentina and impoverish the masses. How Argentinians can vote for this madman is beyond my comprehension. — © Mark Alexander
Monday, October 27, 2025
Milei’s Win in Argentina Had Trump’s Fingerprints All Over It. But Just How Long Will Their Friendship Last?
THE GUARDIAN — OPINION: The Argentine president’s libertarian experiment is in tatters, and his hold on power seems increasingly dependent on volatile US support
In 1946, Argentina was emerging from military rule, an empowered labour movement was reshaping politics and Col Juan Perón, a leftwing leader who had introduced a raft of popular workers’ rights decrees, was rising fast in the polls. The then US ambassador, Spruille Braden, had other ideas about who should win the national election that year, and he openly campaigned against Perón in Buenos Aires. Braden’s action stands out as one of the most brazen instances of US interference in Argentina’s politics. Until now.
The Argentine president, Javier Milei, who won a resounding midterm victory on Sunday, has received ample support from Donald Trump. Ahead of the congressional elections, Trump endorsed Milei and warned: “If he loses, we are not going to be generous with Argentina.” Washington extended a $20bn currency swap line to the government – money aimed at stabilising financial volatility that would have undermined Milei’s chances. The US treasury even intervened directly, buying more than a billion dollars of pesos to slow the currency’s freefall in recent weeks. » | Jordana Timerman | Monday, October 27, 2025
In 1946, Argentina was emerging from military rule, an empowered labour movement was reshaping politics and Col Juan Perón, a leftwing leader who had introduced a raft of popular workers’ rights decrees, was rising fast in the polls. The then US ambassador, Spruille Braden, had other ideas about who should win the national election that year, and he openly campaigned against Perón in Buenos Aires. Braden’s action stands out as one of the most brazen instances of US interference in Argentina’s politics. Until now.
The Argentine president, Javier Milei, who won a resounding midterm victory on Sunday, has received ample support from Donald Trump. Ahead of the congressional elections, Trump endorsed Milei and warned: “If he loses, we are not going to be generous with Argentina.” Washington extended a $20bn currency swap line to the government – money aimed at stabilising financial volatility that would have undermined Milei’s chances. The US treasury even intervened directly, buying more than a billion dollars of pesos to slow the currency’s freefall in recent weeks. » | Jordana Timerman | Monday, October 27, 2025
New Book Drops Bombshell Allegation Ghislaine Maxwell Performed Sex Act on George Clooney
Oct 27, 2025 | Virginia Giuffre’s new memoir has shockingly alleged that convicted sex trafficker Ghislaine Maxwell performed a sex act for actor George Clooney.
Giuffre’s memoir ‘Nobody’s Girl’ was released posthumously on October 21, following the 41-year-old’s death earlier this year.
The former victim of paedophile Jeffrey Epstein reiterated claims that Maxwell allegedly boasted about her past romps, but claimed it may or may not have been true. “Whether that was true or not, we’ll never know,” the memoir read.
The allegation involving the sex trafficker and A-list actor follows a claim that Clooney and Maxwell became intimate in a bathroom at a party.
Giuffre’s memoir ‘Nobody’s Girl’ was released posthumously on October 21, following the 41-year-old’s death earlier this year.
The former victim of paedophile Jeffrey Epstein reiterated claims that Maxwell allegedly boasted about her past romps, but claimed it may or may not have been true. “Whether that was true or not, we’ll never know,” the memoir read.
The allegation involving the sex trafficker and A-list actor follows a claim that Clooney and Maxwell became intimate in a bathroom at a party.
Liban : lors de son premier voyage, le pape se rendra au port de Beyrouth pour y prier
LE FIGARO : Léon XIV ira le 1er décembre sur la tombe du saint patron du Liban, Saint Charbel Makhlouf, au monastère Saint Maron d’Annaya, au nord du pays.
Le pape Léon XIV priera sur le site de l’explosion il y a cinq ans au port de Beyrouth, après une rencontre avec le président turc, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, lors d’un voyage en Turquie et au Liban en novembre, a annoncé le Vatican lundi. Il se rendra à Beyrouth le 30 novembre, où il rencontrera le président libanais, Joseph Aoun, et le Premier ministre, Nawaf Salam.
Le pape ira le 1er décembre sur la tombe du saint patron du Liban, Saint Charbel Makhlouf, au monastère Saint Maron d’Annaya, au nord de Beyrouth. » | Par Le Figaro avec AFP | lundi 27 octobre 2025
Le pape Léon XIV priera sur le site de l’explosion il y a cinq ans au port de Beyrouth, après une rencontre avec le président turc, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, lors d’un voyage en Turquie et au Liban en novembre, a annoncé le Vatican lundi. Il se rendra à Beyrouth le 30 novembre, où il rencontrera le président libanais, Joseph Aoun, et le Premier ministre, Nawaf Salam.
Le pape ira le 1er décembre sur la tombe du saint patron du Liban, Saint Charbel Makhlouf, au monastère Saint Maron d’Annaya, au nord de Beyrouth. » | Par Le Figaro avec AFP | lundi 27 octobre 2025
The Dark Truth about Prince Andrew - Virginia Giuffre’s Memoir
Gov. Hochul Blasts Trump, ICE Raids, Islamophobia at Zohran Mamdani's Massive Rally in NYC
Prince Andrew Will 'Never Recover' from 'Globally Infamous' 2019 Newsnight Interview | Royal Rewind
Oct 27, 2025 | In this episode of Royal Rewind our royal experts look back at Prince Andrew's disastrous interview with Emily Maitlis.
This week Jack Royston, Samara Gill and Bronte Coy re-examine the interview and the fallout which has been ruinous for the Duke of York ever since.
This week Jack Royston, Samara Gill and Bronte Coy re-examine the interview and the fallout which has been ruinous for the Duke of York ever since.
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