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June 6, 2018 - by Arthur Chrenkoff

SICK OF NEWS – I can’t say I’m particularly surprised: If you feel like there is too much news and you can’t keep up, you are not alone. A sizable …

Politics

May 21, 2018 - by Arthur Chrenkoff

THERE IS NO FAKE NEWS LIKE POLISH FAKE NEWS – Some in the Western mainstream “legacy” media no doubt reason in those terms but no one has yet dared to …

Politics

May 17, 2018 - by Arthur Chrenkoff

THE HAMAS AUCTION – Two days ago, Hamas officially published a list of ten of the “peaceful protesters” killed by Israel at the border with Gaza: Hamas says 10 of …

Politics

May 5, 2018 - by Arthur Chrenkoff

UNFORTUNATE PLACEMENT – Or not:

Culture / Politics

May 2, 2018 - by Arthur Chrenkoff

MUCH ADO ABOUT APU – Just as Kanye West remains unapologetic about not toeing the cultural-industrial complex’s political line, and just as Keziah Daum remains unapologetic about wearing a Chinese …

Politics

Dear Karl Marx, happy birthday from The New York Times

May 1, 2018 - by Arthur Chrenkoff

Karl Marx will be celebrating his 200th birthday on 5 May (as much as you can celebrate in hell), but “The New York Times” opinion pages have already presented the …

Politics

April 26, 2018 - by Arthur Chrenkoff

BORDERS WITHOUT REPORTERS – Reporters Without Borders has just released its 2018 World Freedom Index, and the United States has slipped another few spots, down to number 45 in the …

Politics

April 18, 2018 - by Arthur Chrenkoff

THEY SHOULD START CHARGING TRUMP RENT FOR LIVING IN THEIR HEADS – Since January, each book at the top of The New York Times best-seller list has had one thing …

Politics

April 9, 2018 - by Arthur Chrenkoff

WHO NEEDS RUSSIAN TROLLS? – Welcome down the rabbit hole where not only the fake news about the right are manufactured by the left but the fake news about the …

Politics

April 8, 2018 - by Arthur Chrenkoff

SECRET TALKS – Shhhhhh, don’t tell anyone! Thanks, CNN.

Politics

April 8, 2018 - by Arthur Chrenkoff

“THE NEW YORK TIMES” GETS RATIOED – For the non-hardcore Twitter folk, “ratioed” is a term that refers to a huge disparity between the number of comments your tweet attracts …

Politics

March 29, 2018 - by Arthur Chrenkoff

SLATE’S SO CUTE WHEN IT’S DELUSIONAL – Truly: Two arguments in particular. Firstly: Moreover, if institutional bias is a problem for American society, then why haven’t conservatives tried to solve …

Politics

ABC’s War on Easter

March 29, 2018 - by Arthur Chrenkoff

When the war on Christmas is old and busted, the new and hot around town is the war on Easter: The water footprint of chocolate is 24,000 litres for every …

Culture / Politics

March 29, 2018March 29, 2018 - by Arthur Chrenkoff

PRODUCING POPULAR CULTURE FOR HALF THE POPULATION – So it’s only half popular. As the “Roseanne” reboot smashes TV ratings in the US (18 million viewers and all that), some …

Politics

March 22, 2018 - by Arthur Chrenkoff

IT WASN’T THE RUSSIANS OR FACEBOOK – Do you know who really got Donald Trump elected? Do you want to know what made Trump president? It wasn't the thousands spent …

Politics

March 7, 2018 - by Arthur Chrenkoff

WASHINGTON POST: “IT’S TIME TO GIVE SOCIALISM A TRY” – No, really: Bruening, who looks 12, is not some random who got lucky, but an opinion writer on the staff …

Politics

March 7, 2018 - by Arthur Chrenkoff

HOW MEDIA TRIVIALISES NEWS, PART 837 – Democratic Mayor of Nashville, Tennessee, resigns in disgrace and pleads guilty to a charges of theft connected to a 2-year affair with her …

Politics

March 7, 2018 - by Arthur Chrenkoff

HOW MEDIA TRIVIALISES NEWS, PART 836 – Good news from the Korean peninsula: The secretive state could also impose a ban on further nuclear and missile tests during talks with …

Politics

Activists, supporters, and you – the Chrenk Manifesto

March 5, 2018 - by Arthur Chrenkoff

Much of the left’s and the whole social justice warriorship’s political project is not at all about achieving equality as an end but merely as a half-way point in a …

Politics

March 1, 2018 - by Arthur Chrenkoff

MUST READ – I don’t even know which particular paragraphs from Matt Walsh’s latest piece “Why Does The Media Care More About The Parkland Shooting Than It Ever Did About …