The Washington Post is revamping its opinion section to focus on American values, with an emphasis on “personal liberties” and “free markets,” the newspaper’s owner, Jeff Bezos, announced in an email to staff on Wednesday. The move has led to the resignation of opinion editor David Shipley and sparked debate among journalists and readers.

 

Bezos’ WaPo overhaul prompts key editor to quit

 

As part of the overhaul, the newspaper will publish daily op-eds supporting the two core pillars outlined by Bezos, while viewpoints opposing them “will be left to be published by others,” he stated.

I read the definition of antisemitism adopted by Australian universities and my first thought was “we need a list”, not of what is considered antisemitic, but of what is not considered antisemetic. Now it would be helpful to have a prescriptive list of what one can say about Israel without being smeared as an antisemite.

 

What can one now say about Israel without being smeared as an antisemite?    By Sawsan Madina

 

“We have decided to offer Ukraine NATO membership. But it is also clear that we must all agree on it if it is to happen,” said Denmark’s Defense Minister Troels Lund Poulsen following the Ukraine Defense Contact Group meeting at NATO headquarters in Brussels on February 13.

Poulsen must have referred to the previous U.S. president’s wish for Ukraine to be in NATO, because the new president’s defense minister, Pete Hegseth, said the opposite following Donald Trump’s 90-minute telephone talk with Vladimir Putin: No NATO for Ukraine, and give up territory, meaning Donbas and Crimea, which joined the Russian Federation by referendum.

 

Attorney General Pam Bondi has announced plans to begin releasing documents related to Jeffrey Epstein’s case, including the deceased sex trafficker’s list of contacts, alleged clients, and flight logs to his private island, “hopefully” as early as Thursday.

Epstein, a financier who mingled with the rich and famous for years, allegedly introduced numerous young women – some of whom were underage – to his powerful acquaintances and flew them to his private Caribbean island aboard his jet, dubbed the “Lolita Express.” He was arrested in 2019 and died in his Manhattan jail cell later that year, with his death officially ruled a suicide.

After securing the largest share in the German election, Friedrich Merz has met with President Emmanuel Macron in the French capital. The pair discussed European security in the face of a shifting US policy on Ukraine.

Germany's likely next chancellor Friedrich Merz made a surprise visit to Paris to meet French President Emmanuel Macron on Wednesday.

The visit comes just days after his conservative CDU/CSU bloc emerged as the biggest party in terms of electoral seats after the German election.

Because now an American and a Russian president will negotiate a peace solution between themselves. Negotiations have already begun and a personal meeting between Trump and Putin is expected to take place in just a few weeks.

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uwtUwJGq2qQ

“Peace Is A Threat To Us All” Say European Leaders w/ John Mearsheimer

 

YOURDEMOCRACY.NET RECORDS HISTORY AS IT SHOULD BE — NOT AS THE WESTERN MEDIA WRONGLY REPORTS IT.

 

IN THIS REPORT, John Mearsheimer REITERATES WHAT HE'S BEEN SAYING FOR A LONG TIME: MAKE PEACE ASAP! BUT THE IDIOTS WHO RUN YOUROUPE (AND THE PREVIOUS IMBECILES — STILL IMBECILIC — LIKE BORIS JOHNSON) ARE FROTHING AT THE MOUTH FOR MORE WAR WAR AND WAR....

         Gus Leonisky

How did we wind up with duds like Albanese and Dutton?
The major parties are presenting an invidious choice at the coming election. How did we end up having to choose between such flops?

BY BERNARD KEANE  

https://www.crikey.com.au/2025/02/25/anthony-albanese-peter-dutton-duds-disillusionment/

GOOD QUESTION....

THE ANSWER IS SIMPLE....

SINCE THE END OF WW2, THE WEST HAS LIKED DUDS, DORKS, DUMMIES AND CLOWNS.

 

YOURDEMOCRACY.NET RECORDS HISTORY AS IT SHOULD BE — NOT AS THE WESTERN MEDIA WRONGLY REPORTS IT.

 

         Gus Leonisky

Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk said that a group of European leaders will head to London Sunday to discuss joint plans on defense and security.

Tusk said that the European Commission is preparing a defense package, details of which will be announced at the special summit of European Union leaders scheduled for March 6.

Ahead of this meeting, "We will be in London on Sunday, together with our British friends and a group of leaders, to talk about these joint plans on defense," he added.

Keir Starmer has announced that Britain will “fight for peace in Europe” with a generational increase in defence spending paid for by slashing the foreign aid budget.

The move, just two days before the prime minister is due to meet Donald Trump, raised immediate concerns that he was pandering to the US president, and fury from aid groups that say it could cost lives in countries that rely on UK support.

 

In a surprise announcement, Starmer announced the biggest increase in defence spending since the end of the cold war, with the budget rising to 2.5% of GDP by 2027 – three years earlier than planned – and an ambition to reach 3%.

The recent United Nations vote to condemn Russia for the war in Ukraine saw unlikely allies in Russia and the United States, which both voted against the resolution. On this episode of the ScheerPost podcast, Ray McGovern joins host Robert Scheer to discuss what this vote means and how a potential new peace with Russia is reminiscent of the days of John F. Kennedy and the Soviet Union. Ray pays tribute to Aaron Bushnell, the Air Force serviceman who set himself on fire in protest of the genocide in Gaza and points out how Trump’s peace in Europe sets up a glaring contradiction for his attitude in the Middle East.

CreditsHost:

Robert Scheer

Dan Bongino, a former US Secret Service agent and far-right podcaster has been chosen to serve as United States FBI deputy director.

US President Donald Trump announced the appointment on his Truth Social platform, praising Bongino as a "man of incredible law and passion for our country".

Bongino, who unsuccessfully ran for congress three times, will serve under Kash Patel, a Trump loyalist who was sworn in on Friday.

The move to place staunch Trump allies atop the nation's premier federal law enforcement has drawn criticism from Democrats and some Republicans who have raised fears the president will use the FBI to target his adversaries.

Peter Dutton has made $30 million of property transactions across 26 pieces of real estate over 35 years, making him one of the country’s wealthiest-ever contenders for prime minister as the major parties battle to convince voters they can fix Australia’s housing affordability crisis.

 

26 properties in 35 years: Peter Dutton’s extensive property portfolio revealed

 

BY James Massola

 

Since buying his first home at 19, Dutton has made property purchases totalling $12 million and sales of $18.8 million in transactions that he has frequently declared to parliament late, partially, and in two cases, not at all.

WHEN EGOS WERE FAR LESS FRAGILE THAN IN TODAY'S GLASSWARE, VERBAL DISPUTE ACCOMPANIED WITH PACKETS OF INSULTS WERE THE GO... LAWYERS HAVE SINCE SEEN A LUCRATIVE INCOME IN SETTLING DEFAMATIONS OF FAR LESS SCOPE THAN SAY "The Flyting of Dunbar and Kennedie"...

WE HAVE EXPLORED MANY POETIC DESTRUCTIONS AND RIDICULES OF WRITERS FIGHTING WRITERS ON THIS SITE, FAR MORE POWERFUL THAN SOMEONE CALLED WADE, FEELING SLIGHTLY HURT BY A TINY MEDIA OUTLET CALLED MWM, AND, TO SOME EXTEND BRINGING MORE SHIT ON ONESELF BY TAKING THE MATTER TO COURT...

EVEN IF HE WINS THE CASE, IN A MAZE OF LAWS THAT SEEMS, TO THIS OLD DECREPIT KOOKY GUS FELLOW, VERY CONFUSED, CONFUSING AND LOPSIDED TO FAVOUR THE PRACTITIONERS OF THE BAR UNTIL THE CASH RUNS OUT, THE MATTER SEEMS TRIVIAL...

What President Donald Trump has been saying about his friends and our allies recently clearly suggests that both the AUKUS arrangement (it is not a treaty), along with last month’s down payment of some $US500k, has been and will prove to be a terrible mistake.

 

Trump has ruled out allies, implying too that with AUKUS we have bought a ‘pig in a poke’    By Andrew Farran

 

With AUKUS we have thrown all our eggs into one basket. With what assurance, as opposed to expectation, of a return? Nor is it clear as to purpose once a military stalemate is between the US and China.