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Elliott Abrams: Convicted Liar, Defender of Dictators, Accomplice to Genocide—and Foreign Policy Wise Man
A career nearly as steeped in blood as Henry Kissinger’s hasn’t prevented the establishment from embracing—and whitewashing—this serial slanderer.
The name “Elliott Abrams” has been popping up a great deal of late in the news coverage of Israel’s
Florence Pugh’s father brands council ‘dictators’ over new Low Traffic Neighbourhood plans
Florence Pugh’s father has slammed Oxfordshire Council over their Low Traffic Neighbourhood (LTN) scheme as he issued a passionate plea for urgent changes.
Clinton Pugh warned business owners were paying the price as he opened up the real hardships facing locals.
The dad of the Oppenheimer movie star owns three restaurants on Cowley Road, one of the areas affected by the traffic management scheme.
Pugh reveals that his losses had been “high” and admitted he had even been forced to
The scramble to sell cyberweapons to dictators – POLITICO
This story is part of the series Leaked: The Altrnativ world of cybersurveillance. Read the rest.
PARIS — As founder of the privacy-focused search engine Qwant, Eric Leandri was fond of citing the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. The self-styled European tech champion has mentioned the landmark United Nations document in interviews at least a dozen times since 2017.
“I love human rights,” Leandri said in September 2021, referring to the section in the declaration guaranteeing the right to
Mario Vargas Llosa Returns to the Dictator Novel
There were two powers running Guatemala after the Second World War, and only one of them was the government. The other, an American corporation called the United Fruit Company, was known inside the country as the Octopus, because it had tentacles everywhere. It was Guatemala’s largest employer and landowner, and it controlled the country’s only Atlantic port, almost every mile of the railroads, and the nation’s sole telephone and telegraph facilities. U.S. State Department officials had siblings in the upper