James Comey was axed. Sean Spicer went down in a heap of ashes. Anthony Scaramucci crashed and burned instantaneously. Reince Priebus hung on for dear life but was finally canned. Seven months in, Steve Bannon got the old heave-ho and soon after, his minion, Sebastian Gorka, was unceremoniously shoved out the White House door. In…
The mysterious masterpiece of Portugal’s great modernist @newyorker
In his magnum opus, “The Book of Disquiet”—a collage of aphorisms and reflections couched in the form of a fictional diary, which he worked on for years but never finished, much less published—Pessoa returns to the same theme: “Through these deliberately unconnected impressions I am the indifferent narrator of my autobiography without events, of my…
Yesterday’s traffickers are today’s anti-trafficking force @associatedpress
On its Facebook page, the militia said on Aug. 19 that it had coordinated between the Italian Embassy and Sabratha’s hospital for the delivery of three shipments of medical aid from the Italian government. It said the first shipment had arrived at the hospital. The role of Italy in the policy was unclear. The Italian…
Hospitals, airports, schools, football clubs: KSA hangs up the ‘for sale’ signs @arabnews
This is the face of modernity in the kingdom It marks a historic shift in the economic, social and cultural life of Saudi citizens, comparable to anything experienced by Britons under former Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher’s state sell off in the 1980s, or by Russians in the dissolution of Soviet assets in the 1990s. Some…
Nobody believes in objectivity anymore @ buzzfeedNews
For years, Israel’s Hebrew-speaking media was dominated by a relatively centrist, liberal press. During war times it swung more to the right, during periods of peace more to the left. But now overtly right-wing media figures like Segal, as well as partisan outlets owned by United States billionaire and Republican donor Sheldon Adelson, are increasingly…
