Trump has broadened the CIA’s powers to conduct lethal targeting and covert operations in Latin America. CNN reported that Trump is drawing on a Presidential directive from the 1980s and looking to expand it for what the administration calls its “counter-cartel campaign”
The UK’s Conservative Shadow Justice Secretary Robert Jenrick and a likely future leader of the party continued to steer Tories towards the sewers of the Far Right with a racist complaint of “not seeing another white face” in the diverse Birmingham area of Handsworth. A few years ago it would have been a career-ending statement. Jenrick was happy to confirm he said it and it was waved away by the leader of the Conservative Party
Paramount has bought independent news site The Free Press for $150 million and made its owner the conservative journalist Bari Weiss Editor-in-Chief of CBS News. She has no broadcast experience which is probably what Paramount CEO David Ellison is looking for. The Free Press started as a Substack newsletter just five years ago and quickly became a success on the back of people’s hunger for independent news sources. The move is another sign of the consolidation of conservative mainstream media in Trump’s America
Psephologist Sir John Curtice told a Demos-sponsored event at the Conservative Party Conference fringe that the Liberal Democrats “will almost undoubtedly win more seats” than the Tories at the next UK General Election. “The Liberal Democrat vote is now more geographically concentrated that your vote.” The problem for the Conservatives is compounded by the UK’s archaic First Past The Post voting system which now treats the Tories as it once treated the Lib Dems, Curtice added
Myanmar’s military government — one of the bloodiest and most repressive regimes in the world — bombed a Buddhist protest at a peace festival, killing 24 and wounding 47. Thousands have died and millions have been displaced since the military took over in a coup in 2021
Wish PR could be implemented. the Liberal Democrats have been campaigning for this for years!
Thank you Mark for another great and informative article :)