‘It’s a golden era for the populist demagogue to enter the stage and say: Just leave it with me’
Elif Shafak’ https://www.theguardian.com/books/2025/aug/30/literature-can-be-a-form-of-resistance-lea-ypi-talks-to-elif-shafak-about-writing-in-the-age-of-demagogues She was just on France 24 just now. More need to brave and take a stand to end the reign of Empire’s demagoguery!

Empire prints $ and uses racketeering to buy up Nations businesses to bend them to its will fascists will. All while more of its own are starving and homeless without medical support, opportunity and surrounded and ruled by criminals who want to #ICE them! It is not sustainable. Neither is Empire’s ethnic genocides and ecocide fuelled by invasions to steal and destroy others resources! #NotForLong #FascistsAreNotGilded #EmpireIsEvil #EmpireWithoutDeregulatedMarketsDies
#EcocideEmpireIsNotGreat #Demagogues #DemagoguesAreEthnicSupramacists

‘Literature can be a form of resistance’: Lea Ypi talks to Elif Shafak about writing in the age of demagogues

The Albanian author of Free and the Turkish novelist discuss the rise of populism, censorship – and how today’s conflicts all come from the unresolved trauma of the past

The Guardian

@theguardian It’s a golden era for the populist demagogue to enter the stage and say: Just leave it with me
Elif Shafak’ She was just on France 24 just now. More need to brave to end the reign of Empire’s demagoguery!

Meanwhile, when Empire cannot use the $ and racketeering to buy up Nations businesses to bend them to its will fascists will, its own will rebel. Starving and homeless without medical support or opportunity surrounded and ruled by criminals who want to #ICE them is not sustainable! Neither is Empire’s ethnic genocides and ecocide fuelled by invasions to steal others resources, but mainly to destroy essential ones are not without consequences! #NotForLong #FascistsAreNotGilded #EmpireIsEvil #EmpireWithoutDeregulatedMarketsDies
#EcocideEmpireIsNotGreat #Demagogues #DemagoguesAreEthnicSupramacists

22 Nov 1541: Katherine Howard deprived of her Queenship #otd (royalcollection) She had first been publicly acknowledged as queen on 8 Aug 1540 #NotForLong
22 Nov 1541: Katherine Howard deprived of her Queenship #otd (royalcollection) She was first publicly acknowledged as queen on 8 Aug 1540 #NotForLong