The Post-Partisan Emporium

  The article is better than the title... Katherine Maher is Worse Than a Leftist BY  ANDREW LOWENTHAL Katherine Maher, NPR’s new CEO, has been in the spotlight for more than a week now as the straight-out-of-casting avatar of peak woke and peak institutional attainment. But Katherine Maher is not a liberal or a leftist. Though she apes identitarian thought bubbles you won’t find her on a picket line, or splitting any of her previous  800k annual Wikipedia salary  with the downtrodden. I don’t remember it being a trait of the Left to work at the World Bank, the National Democratic Institute, and HSBC, intern at the Council of Foreign Relations, be a WEF young leader, or a fellow at the Atlantic Council, a NATO-affiliated think tank. Maher is what I call a Cosmopolitan Authoritarian – a cultural libertine that institutional power has anointed into the charmed circle. I crossed Maher’s path several times on the digital rights conference circuit but met her only once  when I made the mist

  The global world order is centralized at levels above the nation-state The illusions of a transition from a "unipolar" U.S. to "multi-polar" BRICS order NEOLIBERAL FEUDALISM Until you know who has lent what to whom, you know nothing whatever of politics, you know nothing whatever of history, you know nothing of international wrangles. - Ezra Pound In the 2022 Brazil presidential election Brazil’s version of the deep state successfully rigged the election against popular populist Bolsonaro,   running the same strategy   that they had deployed against Trump in America. Protesters   had their funds stolen   from their bank accounts and they were held down and   forcibly COVID vaccinated against their will   and then jailed. Lula, the globohomo candidate, immediately announced that Brazil   would begin de-dollarization efforts . Lawfare efforts   commenced against Bolsonaro   and he fled the country. During the 2022 Canadian Freedom Convoy protests against COVID vacci