Peter Strempel’s comments on politics.

Identifying the fascist tendencies of Morrison’s Coalition
Umberto Eco helps us understand the Morrison Coalition’s fascist tendencies, but only News Corp can show us how it got there.
Peter Strempel’s comments on politics.
Umberto Eco helps us understand the Morrison Coalition’s fascist tendencies, but only News Corp can show us how it got there.
JK Rowling is no TERF, no matter the neo-Stalinist cant being promoted by the Google-media-Wikipedia disinformation network.
Commentary on the news, current affairs, journalism, and the news media landscape more generally for October 2021.
What could a Freudian perspective reveal to us about the angry Scott Morrison thrashing about for an end to his sexual assault and harassment problem.
Translating Thomas Frank’s editorial about arrogant American ‘liberals’ for Australian audiences reveals a very unflattering picture of local left elitism.
Australian democracy is threatened by Chinese expansionism, unregulated corporate excesses, and its own neo-fascism.
Commentary on current affairs and the state of journalism.
Scott ‘Scotty from marketing’ Morrison represents Aaron Sorkin’s lowest road possible when it comes to leaders.
Commentary on the news and the state of journalism in December 2020.
Scott Morrison’s right wing populist, nationalist jingoism doesn’t play with China, even if it is guilty of the same.
Scott ‘Scotty from marketing’ Morrison exemplifies a toxic Coalition culture with his insistence of no responsibility and no consequences for unconscionable conduct.
Joe Biden faces his toughest challenge inside his own party, not from Republicans.
Tom Switzer’s arguments expose Australian ‘conservatism’ as a timid kind of neo-fascist, populist demagoguery.
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