#TuesdayColumn: The US #TradeWar essentially amounts to American ultimatums to its friends and enemies alike, swiftly proving that there's no such thing as a friend of America's any more. #Trump #TrumpTradeWar #politics #writing
Tariff Treachery:
https://wastedwordsweb.wordpress.com/2025/04/22/tariff-treachery/

Tariff Treachery
I’m no fan of ultimatums. They reek of a bully’s delusionally high opinion of themself, and the belief that if they aren’t participating, then the world will crumble. Ultimatums a…
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Bigby’s Back
Resurrection. Reincarnation. De-extinction. These are words that have circulated high-profile media this week, as Colossal Bioscience have brought back a pre-historic animal from the annals of the …
WastedWords#TuesdayColumn: It is easy to sneer at a neo-#fascist #Italy restricting #citizenship rights as just another #populist encroachment. Then again, legitimate citizenry is an important fundament to any #democracy... #poltiics #writing
Gate-Keeping Citizenship:
https://wastedwordsweb.wordpress.com/2025/04/08/citizenship-gate-keeping/

Citizenship Gate-keeping
Italy is revising its citizenship laws to exclude people from being afforded their coveted passports and freedom of movement and work within the European Union, by infringing upon the genealogical …
WastedWords#TuesdayColumn: With the 'death of God', humanity's left without that sweet validating judgement we oh so crave. And 25 years ago, in #DeusEx, #BigData was suggested to take up that mantle of omniscient arbiter... #AI #datamining #BigTech #writing #tech
The Divine Mandate of Big-Data:
https://wastedwordsweb.wordpress.com/2025/04/01/the-divine-mandate-of-big-data/

The Divine Mandate of Big Data
We encounter Morpheus – an AI designed to channel data-mining resources into giving people an unprompted total and complete recap of their lives – in the basement laboratory of a Big Te…
WastedWords#TuesdayColumn: Consumers rage against #ElonMusk by attacking #Tesla, vandalizing cars and torching charging stations, striking at the billionaire where it hurts the most. And it seems to be working... #TeslaTakedown #VotingWithYourWallet #politics #writing
The Tesla Takedown:
https://wastedwordsweb.wordpress.com/2025/03/25/the-tesla-takedown/

The Tesla Takedown
Protests, vandalized cars, destroyed vendors and charging stations, even going so far as arson; people worldwide are unhappy with an unelected oligarch running rampant in the corridors of political…
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A Once and Future Autocracy
Last weekend (March 1st), ICE agents stormed a Columbia University dorm to arrest Mahmoud Khalil, green card-carrying permanent resident in the US, because his involvement in the student protests a…
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A Banker General for a Trade War
Canada’s Liberal ruling party is getting a fresh face amidst low approval ratings, a trade-war with the US, and the threat of annexation in what could be the most tumultuous time in North Ame…
WastedWords#TuesdayColumn: #Trump ambushes #Zelenskyy on live television in the heart of the USA, delighting #Moscow and producing one of the most childish displays of #DiplomacyFailures in modern history. But at least now we have it on tape... #politics #writing #UkraineWar
Ambush in The Office:
https://wastedwordsweb.wordpress.com/2025/03/04/ambush-in-the-office/

Ambush in The Office
Last Friday (February 28th) saw one of the most heinously blatant attempts to extort, shout-out, and bully a diplomatic peer that the world has ever got to witness live on camera, as Ukrainian pres…
WastedWords#TuesdayColumn: When the atrocity of #SchoolShootings inevitably strikes close to home, the shock of it should serve to rattle us out of the complacency we otherwise wreathe ourselves in. #OrebroShooting #Örebro #Orebro #writing
The Name of the Game is Proximity:
https://wastedwordsweb.wordpress.com/2025/02/18/the-name-of-the-game-is-proximity/

The Name of the Game is Proximity
Last week, a silent minute was held across the country’s seats of higher learning, ”in honour and respect” for those ten people who were shot dead at a language learning centre in the Swedish town …
WastedWords#TuesdayColumn: As the German political Christians, #CDU, win the parliamentary election by #AfD support, it goes to show that #Christianity deserves a higher calibre of Christians. #Germany #politics #writing
Tacit Support is still Support:
https://wastedwordsweb.wordpress.com/2025/02/11/tacit-support-is-still-support/

Tacit Support is still Support
There used to be a time in European politics when the Christian parties weren’t concerned with curbing individual freedoms or subjugating women by assuming mandate over their bodies. Once upo…
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