K. H Macfarlane’s Takes: Trump is Empire First I
As we near the end of Donald Trump’s first year of his second term, we can say with certainty that, at least so far, he is a bitter disappointment and likely never had any interest in an America First platform. It is also obvious from his cabinet picks and policy decisions that he never intended…
K. H Macfarlane’s Takes: “I think we’re just gonna kill people.”-Trump, Murder Inc.’s Fitting CEO
“Trump is engaged in murder, plain and simple.”[i]- Chip Gibbons In an interview with FOX News’ Bill O’Reilly, Donald Trump, when asked why he wanted to work with Vladimir Putin to eradicate ISIS, said in response to O’Reilly’s remark that he’s a killer, “There are a lot of killers. You think our country’s so innocent?”[ii]…
K. H Macfarlane’s Takes: A Death in Monsters Inc.
“Accursed creator! Why did you form a monster so hideous that even you turned from me in disgust?”[i]- Mary Shelley “I would do it again in a minute.”[ii] This was how Dick Cheney responded to the torture report released in 2014, which outlines the various methods the CIA used to torture, or in their words,…
K. H Macfarlane’s Takes: Crimes Against Language
The US government, like all governments, speaks in tired, clunky euphemisms that evade the grotesquerie of their depravity, from drone strikes or assassinations of alleged terrorists are targeted killings of insurgents or militants. The killing of civilians is collateral damage, during the War on Terror, suspected terrorists, or terrorist cells, were not kidnapped and brutalized…
K. H Macfarlane’s Takes: The War on the Anti-Trump Sect
For much of Joe Biden’s presidency, I wrote about the war on Donald Trump, who, because of the lawfare campaign against him, went from a fading star after J6 to an invulnerable force that channeled the rabble’s rage straight to the White House for a second time. The various indictments against Trump crumbled one by…
K. H Macfarlane’s Takes: The Illiberal Class Outs Themselves
On the first day of his administration, Trump signed the executive order entitled “Restoring Freedom of Speech and Ending Federal Censorship” The order criticizes the Biden regime for its censorship of online speech and its war on dis, mis, and malinformation, and it states that “Government censorship of speech is intolerable in a free society.”[i]…
K. H Macfarlane’s Takes: Who Exactly Is They? On the Martyrdom of Charlie Kirk and The Spectral Left
I started writing this essay as soon as I heard about Charlie Kirk’s killing. By the time it is published there will have been many updates to the rapidly unfolding story. I want to preface this essay by stating upfront that I am not a conservative, nor am I on the political right, but I…
K. H Macfarlane’s Takes: To Think is to Incite
Neo: What truth? Morpheus: That you are a slave, Neo. Like everyone else you were born into bondage. Into a prison that you cannot taste or see or touch. A prison for your mind. [i] In defense of a preacher’s free speech rights in a 1999 court ruling, Lord Justice Sedley argued that free speech…
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The Illiberal Liberal Illusionists In a recent speech at Hamilton College in New York, Barrack Obama lambasted the Trump administration for strangling universities, threatening free speech on campuses, and mass deportations, including the deportations of green card holders and students for “antisemitism”.[i] Obama declared “Now we’re at one of those moments where, you know what?…
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Constitutional Disorder I: The Wrong People to Violate the Constitution Those who were largely silent during the presidencies of Bill Clinton, Barrack Obama, and Joe Biden, and who came to miss and adore the George Bush administration, are screaming and wailing about Trump’s brazen and flagrant violations of the constitution, from his executive order that…
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Sowing the Seeds of Hate In April 2017, after Donald Trump authorized airstrikes on a Syrian airfield in response to then president of Syria Bashar al-Assad’s alleged use of chemical weapons, CNN commentator Fareed Zakaria said emphatically that “Donald Trump became president of the United States last night,”, and that “For the first time really…
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Lost Literature: The Ever-Elusive Mystery of Authoritarian Playbooks “It’s like the Riot Act. The Riot Act. They always tell you they’re gonna read that to you. Have you heard this thing at all?”[i]- George Carlin We are constantly told about the authoritarian playbook and how it is being used by leaders across the world to…
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Chaos Wing: The Trump Show’s Second Season Begins I During the year 193, following the assassination of the reviled and venal emperor Commodus, the Roman empire underwent a rapid succession of five emperors in that year.[i] This period that is marked as the moment the Roman empire began to decay and eventually collapse. Rome and…
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Biden’s Legacy: A Fitting End to Decades of Service to the Permanent Regime II In his preposterous and fumbled farewell address, Joe Biden pompously warned of a growing oligarchy, a “tech industrial complex” where social media companies are saturating the information space with lies for profit.[i] He also considered the potential risks and opportunities of…
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Biden’s Legacy: A Fitting End to Decades of Service to the Permanent Regime I With Donald Trump taking office this week, there has been a flurry of articles declaring and debating Joe Biden’s legacy and his foreign policy record, and he has said that he is leaving Trump “a strong hand”.[i] There are some, like…
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An Atrophied Body Politic: The Reign of Insect Politicians “I’m saying… I’m saying I – I’m an insect who dreamt he was a man and loved it. But now the dream is over… and the insect is awake.”[i] Seth Brundle says this to Veronica Quaife amid his grotesque transformation into what he calls the ‘Brundlefly’.…
K. H. Macfarlane’s Takes: The Garbage Strikes Back
The Garbage Strikes Back Trump’s supporters are not to blame for this. It is up to the US and Western ruling class to reflect and understand why so many people want to see the institutions they regard as precious bulldozed. They will not do this, so our best option is to grab some popcorn and…
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A Pyrrhic Victory for Assange “Julian Assange is a truth-teller who has committed no crime but revealed government crimes and lies on a vast scale and so performed one of the great public services of my lifetime. Do we need to be reminded that justice for one is justice for all?”[i]- John Pilger (This essay…
The War on Trump VII: The Law of the Ruling Class Prevails
“Anything going on today?”[i]- Hillary Clinton “The real verdict is going to be Nov. 5 by the people, and they know what happened here and everybody knows what happened here,”[ii]- Donald Trump The war on Trump has now escalated to a history shattering precedent, as for the first time in America, a former US president…
K.H Macfarlane’s Takes
Can You Hear the Sounds of Hysteria? The 2024 election is looming, and with it, constant prattle in the halls of corporate media and the US government that Russia, as well as China, are already preparing to interfere to try and boost Trump’s chances against Biden.[i] In an article for Mother Jones, serial fabulist David…
Take on the Week Ending March 24th
I have been delayed in posting the past month because I moved to Thailand to work as an English Teacher. There was a brief period of a few weeks where I did not have time to write. This past week, however, I have started writing a lot more and am back to my usual schedule…
Take on the Week Ending February 18th
Humanitarian Frauds On Friday, February 16th, Russia’s prison agency of the Yamalo-Nenets region reported that Russian political activist and investigative journalist Alexei Navalny died.[i] Russian authorities claim that Navalny suffered a ‘sudden death, though this is disputed by his family and by Western officials and pundits.[ii] Although Western leaders and commentators have rushed to condemn…
Take on the Week Ending February 9th
Tucker Carlson is a Traitor? Tucker Carlson was spotted attending the Bolshoi Ballet in Moscow on Saturday, February 3rd.[i] This sparked speculation on his reasons for being there. Many figured he was there to interview Russian president Vladimir Putin, an interview he has been trying to get for a few years now. In 2021, Carlson,…
Take on the Week Ending February 5th
The Magical Thinking of the Conservative Elite Many in the conservative elite are lamenting the downfall of the DeSantis campaign and are pointing out his failures, and they are also blaming Republican voters for refusing to ‘see sense’ and to opt for a candidate other than Trump.[i] They were also desperate to see Nikki Haley…
Take on the Week Ending January 28th
Canada’s Friendly Fascists A Canadian Federal Court ruled that Prime Minister Justin Trudeau violated the Charter of Rights and Freedoms by invoking the Emergencies Act in response to the trucker’s convoy protest in 2022.[i] Deputy Prime Minister Chrystia Freeland says that the Trudeau regime will appeal the decision, and she remarked that they were justified…
Take on the Week Ending January 21st
Since I was busy finishing my TEFL course the week before last, I did not manage to publish a take on the week, nor did I publish one last week. I have decided to publish first my take on the week ending January 21st, which focuses on Taiwan’s recent election On Friday I will return…
Take on the Week Ending January 7th
The Party Reigns As Biden and the rest of his party apparatchiks are declaring themselves the sole protectors of democracy, they are sneakily pulling strings in various states to ensure that Biden does not have to face a primary challenge for the 2024 Democratic presidential nomination. Massachusetts, Florida, North Carolina, Tennessee have all bypassed the…
Take on the Week Ending December 31st
And the Party Told You: End Democracy to Save It In George Orwell’s 1984, the ruling regime, ‘The Party’, controls history and whatever is currently known to be true, and truth can be altered at any time. To abide by The Party’s imposed truth, “All that was needed was an unending series of victories over…
Take on the Week Ending December 24th
X-Rated Films: Senate Edition In a video obtained by the conservative news site The Daily Caller, a congressional staffer was having gay anal sex with an unknown man Hart Senate Office Building hearing room.[i] The Daily Caller’s exclusive breaking the story has clips of the video laced throughout the article. The staffer turned out to…
Take on the Week Ending December 17th
The National Defense Authorization Scam Nearing the 1 trillion-dollar mark, the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) for fiscal year 2024 is a bloated, wasteful bill that will bring the US empire closer to its demise, not to a glorious battle with the new ‘axis of evil’. Included in the new NDAA, just approved by Congress…
Take on the Week Ending December 10th
The Info Warrior Returns Elon Musk has reinstated the X/Twitter account of political commentator Alex Jones, despite his statement that he would not when asked last year about it, where he said, “I have no mercy for anyone who would use the deaths of children for gain, politics or fame.”[i] The issue with this argument…
Keiran’s Take on the Week Ending December 2nd
This week is my first post in a while because I have been working to finish my TEFL course. Since I am way ahead of schedule, I was able to a write a post for this week, as well as two posts next week and a post that will sum up the year, as well…
Keiran’s Take on the Week Ending November 12th
The war in the Middle East rages on, Trump is on trial in New York and Colorado, and a recent New York Times/Siena College poll shows Trump ahead of Biden in key swing states. This poll has sparked shock and alarm in the illiberal liberal class. Firstly, I will briefly analyze the trial last week…
Take on the Week Ending September 24th
This week Zelensky visited Washington with his usual list of demands and petulant behavior, and the US government has promised that in the event of a shutdown, Ukraine will still receive funding. So much has occurred over the past few weeks related to the Ukraine war that I will likely be publishing a longer post…
Keiran’s Take on the Week Ending September 17th
This week was hectic and filled with outrageous moments and events, from the beginnings of an absurd impeachment process by the Republicans in Congress to Russia and North Korea strengthening ties, much to the chagrin of the illiberal liberal globalist class. First up is an event from my archives, this is from the week ending…
Keiran’s Take on the Week Ending September 10th
I have not published a take on the week or a post for another series as I have been incredibly busy doing my TEFL course, as well as preparing to leave Australia to go back to Canada in between adventures. I have been trying to figure out a way to publish a regular post that…
Take on the Week Ending July 23rd
Keiran’s Take on the Week Ending July 23rd This week I will focus on two news stories related to Trump. First that he is apparently planning to make himself a dictator if he is elected for a second term in office, as there are fears that he will invoke the unitary executive theory. This is…
Take on the Week Ending July 16th
Keiran’s Take on the Week Ending July 16th This week I will first apologize for not publishing a long form post as I promised I would in my last take on the week, however, I will work to publish my next post in the War on Trump series this weekend. It will focus on the…
Take on the Week Ending July 9th
Keiran’s Take on the Week Ending July 9th This week I received the feedback on my thesis, a 19,500-word writing project that I wrote as the final step in completing my master’s in international relations, and the next step in pursuing my PhD. I have been busy going over this feedback and thinking about how…
Take on the Week Ending July 2nd
Keiran’s Take on the Week Ending July 2nd This week was chaotic, and the main event this week was the attempted coup by the Wagner group in Russia. In response to it we were subjected to the orgasmic glee of neocons and the rest of the illiberal liberal class who were drooling at the thought…
Take on the Week Ending June 25th
Keiran’s Take on the Week Ending June 25th Firstly, I want to apologize for the delay on getting this take on last week out. I had about 6 or 7 different news items that I wanted to cover and had extensive notes on, and even after I narrowed it down, I had to condense notes…
Take on the Week of June 18th
I have been behind on my initial goal this year with my blog and podcast. Part of my work this year included the introduction of a series of shorter essays, the Keiran Express series. I have now decided to add a new series, Keiran’s Take on the Week. This will be much shorter, more of…
Not Without Incident: Questioning Big Brother's Platitudes 