Mallen Baker: Faultlines

How Trump’s Bizarre Anti-Science Cult Is Hurting America

25 Aug 2025

Contributed by Lukas

The US used to lead the world in its innovation, including in energy and industry, and also in its medical advances. And that was because it invested ...

Trump’s Ukraine Hypocrisy Exposed

24 Aug 2025

Contributed by Lukas

It was just a couple of days ago that President Trump was telling us in no uncertain terms that Ukraine needed to be able to hit deep inside Russia to...

Russia Is Laughing At Trump’s Peace Efforts

22 Aug 2025

Contributed by Lukas

For just a few days, there was an illusion of real momentum arising from the Trump Putin Summit in Alaska, and the Zelensky Europeans meeting with Tru...

Insults To China BLOW UP Trump’s Crony Capitalism Scheme

21 Aug 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Trump's administration has started getting directly involved with businesses in the United States, especially those considered strategic. Up to, and i...

Why Is Trump Punishing Only India For Buying Russian Oil?

20 Aug 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Trump loves strong man leaders, and it used to be that he loved Narendra Modi as a result. They were great friends, the world was told, and so Modi th...

Why Trump’s Security Guarantee For Ukraine Is Worthless

19 Aug 2025

Contributed by Lukas

There are two live issues being played out following the Alaska summit and the ensemble meeting at the White House. First, Trump's determination that ...

Showdown! Europe And Ukraine Join Forces To Confront Trump

17 Aug 2025

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Following Trump's failure to hold the simple lines agreed with European leaders in advance of his summit with President Putin, the heads of the larges...

Putin Completely Plays Trump For A Fool

16 Aug 2025

Contributed by Lukas

The big summit meeting in Alaska finally took place. After being talked about, written about and speculated about for the preceding week, it turned ou...

China Is Playing Trump’s Game Better Than He Is

15 Aug 2025

Contributed by Lukas

China continues to make the most of its near-monopoly on rare earth minerals and magnets - now it is telling businesses they are not allowed to build ...

America’s Allies Are Ditching the F-35 - Because Of Trump

14 Aug 2025

Contributed by Lukas

In this highly uncertain world, with wars raging and tensions rising - many countries have committed to boosting their defence spending - and that inc...

Trump's America Really IS A Banana Republic

13 Aug 2025

Contributed by Lukas

A week ago, we were noting that President Trump fired the head of the statistics bureau that gave the world the bad news about US jobs growth. And we ...

Why Trump’s Alaska Summit with Putin Is Already a Disaster

12 Aug 2025

Contributed by Lukas

The more that President Trump does his trademark freewheeling in the run-up to his summit with Vladimir Putin in Alaska on Friday, the more it becomes...

Is Britain Falling Apart?

11 Aug 2025

Contributed by Lukas

A growing number of rather vocal people, some with large platforms to amplify their message, are utterly convinced that Britain is in deep decline, on...

Trump’s Putin Summit Based On A Big Misunderstanding?

09 Aug 2025

Contributed by Lukas

The Trump Putin summit has been confirmed to take place in the state of Alaska next Friday. But as more has come to light, it seems possible that the ...

Is Trump Bringing In The New Dark Ages?

08 Aug 2025

Contributed by Lukas

The comforting line is that it's all just temporary. Sacking the scientists. Removing the research studies. Publishing anti-scientific conspiracy nons...

Will The Trump / Putin Summit End The War In Ukraine?

07 Aug 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Suddenly, President Trump and Russia's President Putin are on course to have a face-to-face meeting, possibly as soon as next week. What changed? Was ...

Trump’s Epstein Diversion: What His ‘Revenge Plan’ Really Means

06 Aug 2025

Contributed by Lukas

As he campaigned for re-election, Trump made it quite clear that part of his agenda was one of vengeance against all those he felt had wronged him - e...

There Are No Adults In The Trump White House

05 Aug 2025

Contributed by Lukas

In his first time, President Trump was partly constrained by the so-called 'adults in the room' - people who could explain to him why some particularl...

Is Elon Musk’s New Political Party Dead Already?

04 Aug 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Elon Musk just got the first piece of good news he's had for a long time - a massive $30 billion bonus from the Tesla board if he stays with Tesla as ...

The Real Meaning Of Trump’s Nuclear Threat

03 Aug 2025

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President Trump claims he ordered two nuclear submarines to change their position in relation to Russia, in response to some inflated rhetoric from Dm...

Trump’s America Really Is Becoming A Banana Republic

02 Aug 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Having previously boasted about how good the US jobs numbers were, and taken credit for that, it was obviously an unpleasant surprise for President Tr...

This Is How Trump Intends To Rule The World

01 Aug 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Rather a lot of people believe that once all the countries have either negotiated 'deals' with the United States, or have resigned themselves to highe...

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31 Jul 2025

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In the last few days, President Macron of France, Keir Starmer of the UK, and Mark Carney of Canada have all announced that they will recognise the st...

Has Trump Finally Turned Against Putin?

30 Jul 2025

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President Trump had threatened Russia's President Putin - agree to a ceasefire in Ukraine within 50 days, or I'll hit you with secondary sanctions aga...

Will Canada Stand Up To Trump Where Europe Caved?

29 Jul 2025

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The European 'deal' is rather falling apart within a day of being announced, with various provisions being presented wildly differently by both sides....

Did The EU Just Cave To Trump?

28 Jul 2025

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The EU and US announced a "trade deal" that was declared by Trump to be "the biggest ever". Ursula von der Leyen was less bombastic, but still express...

Trump's Epstein Escape Plan Is Going Full Speed Ahead

27 Jul 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Nothing screams 'banana republic' more than what is going on right now with Ghislaine Maxwell. Trump's former lawyer and assistant attorney general go...

Q&A: How Can Democrats Become Relevant Again?

26 Jul 2025

Contributed by Lukas

I asked for questions, and you delivered! A far-ranging Q&A covering the future for the Democratic Party, and why the US system is particularly brutal...

How Trump’s Chaos Hands China the Future

25 Jul 2025

Contributed by Lukas

This week, President Trump continued the trend he has established so many times, he pulled the United States out of UNESCO. And as he did so, China wa...

Flirting with Civil War: Trump’s Dangerous New Rhetoric

24 Jul 2025

Contributed by Lukas

The mainstream media are downplaying Trump and Tulsi Gabbard's rhetoric on former President Obama and 'treason' over Russian influence on the 2016 ele...

The Question Trump's DOJ Will Be Asking Ghislaine Maxwell

23 Jul 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Trump still can't get rid of the Epstein files obsession. Even though he is doing his best to distract the attention of his base with empty promises t...

Is Zelensky Going Too Far? Ukraine’s Democratic Dilemma

22 Jul 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Zelensky's war-torn Ukraine is being accused by many, including the European Union, of authoritarian slide. This has come to a head recently with the ...

Trump’s DOJ Targets Obama – What Comes Next Is Dangerous

21 Jul 2025

Contributed by Lukas

It was always predicted that Trump 2.0 would include a certain amount of payback - and that was particularly the case when he brought in unqualified l...

How Much Trouble Is Trump REALLY In?

19 Jul 2025

Contributed by Lukas

We had gotten used to the idea that nothing stuck to Donald Trump. Previous politicians could be brought down by the slightest indiscretion, or fumble...

Did Trump Get Stephen Colbert's Show Cancelled?

18 Jul 2025

Contributed by Lukas

According to CBS, it was a purely financial decision. But then, that was always going to be the line because if it was actually what everybody thinks ...

Trump Just Admitted He’s Rigging the Next Election

17 Jul 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Remember all that stuff about how Trump was sure the only way he could lose an election would be if there was fraud? Well, it seems he's coming round ...

How Trump Is Wrecking The MAGA Succession

16 Jul 2025

Contributed by Lukas

When President Trump's second term started, the notable thing was just how far-reaching his actions were, just how norm-breaking and transgressive the...

Surviving Trump's Age Of Stupid

15 Jul 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Trump came to power on the back of multiple disinformation campaigns and conspiracy theories. While there's some satisfying karma to see his administr...

Trump’s ‘Big Threat’ To Putin – A 50 Day Deadline

14 Jul 2025

Contributed by Lukas

President Trump had trailed a 'big announcement' on Ukraine and Russia coming today - and we even had Mark Rutte, the head of NATO in the White House ...

Trump Broke the World Order — He Won't Like What Comes Next

13 Jul 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Arguably, the world has been going through the five stages of grief since Trump came back to the Presidency six months ago. And with the latest action...

Will America Really Defend Taiwan?

12 Jul 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Yesterday, it emerged that the Trump team has been asking its (former) allies Japan and Australia a very strange question - demanding clarity from the...

Trump's Word Means Nothing – Ask Canada and Vietnam

11 Jul 2025

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Canada thought it was making good progress in negotiations with the Trump team - then he announced even higher tariffs against it. Vietnam thought it ...

Trump Uses Tariffs To Topple Brazil's Democracy

10 Jul 2025

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The US President just announced a massive 50% tariff on Brazil. Nothing to do with the usual excuses - trade deficits - the US has a trade surplus wit...

Is Trump Finally Turning On Putin?

09 Jul 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Trump has muttered, he has grumbled, he has occasionally threatened, but never has there been the slightest sign that he would actually take action of...

“We Don’t Want an Emperor” — World Slams Trump Tariff Demands

08 Jul 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Another day, another round of tariff dramas. Trump revealed the new tariff rates he was 'granting' to various countries via letter, along with a new d...

The Real Reason the US and UK Political Systems Are Breaking

06 Jul 2025

Contributed by Lukas

So Elon Musk is launching a new political party in the US. And former Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn is doing something similar in the UK, albeit with a ...

China Just Stunned Europe and Ukraine - ‘We Won’t Let Russia Lose’

05 Jul 2025

Contributed by Lukas

China has had a public line on Ukraine for the last three years - studied neutrality that didn't entirely fool anybody. Well, yesterday it blew that u...

How Free Speech Is Dying In Trump's America

04 Jul 2025

Contributed by Lukas

For an administration that talks a lot about free speech, President Trump sure seems to sue a lot of news media companies for reporting on things he w...

Trump Blindsides Allies, Stops Ukraine Weapons — Then Calls Putin

03 Jul 2025

Contributed by Lukas

It came out of the blue, with all the NATO allies of Ukraine having thought they'd done a great job of keeping Trump on side at last week's NATO summi...

Why Trump’s Mega-Bill Could Blow Up on MAGA

02 Jul 2025

Contributed by Lukas

The controversial Trump Budget Mega-Bill squeaked its way through the Senate, thanks to the casting vote of JD Vance. And now it has come back to the ...

Why Global Population Collapse Is Coming Sooner Than We Thought

01 Jul 2025

Contributed by Lukas

We know that big changes are happening in the world. Some of them are well known as cycles in history, and affect the current geopolitical order. But ...

How Elon Musk Sabotaged His Own Legacy

30 Jun 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Musk has largely gone back to focusing on his own businesses - but he couldn't help making a last public stab at President Trump's big budget bill whi...

What Are The REAL Lessons From Zohran Mamdani's New York Win?

29 Jun 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Lots of people have gotten excited about an upset win for an old-fashioned socialist candidate in the New York Mayoral race. Notwithstanding the impli...

Trump’s Massive Canada Tantrum – The Trade War Is Back On

28 Jun 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Suddenly, Trump had a moment and called off the ongoing trade talks with Canada. The reason - or, at least, the excuse - was the incoming Digital Serv...

Quackery at the Top: How RFK Jr. Is Rewriting Vaccine Policy

27 Jun 2025

Contributed by Lukas

We heard all the promises during the confirmation hearing for Robert F Kennedy Jr. He was not anti-vax. He was not promoting conspiracy theories. He w...

How China Is Exploiting Trump’s Global Blunders

26 Jun 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Trump's use of military force in Iran has made his enemies and rivals sit up and take notice - especially those in China who have been evaluating the ...

Why THIS Is The Dumbest Thing Trump Does

25 Jun 2025

Contributed by Lukas

The NATO Summit came to a relatively successful conclusion, given the rather limited ambition it had set for itself. But throughout the event, Trump i...

Trump Floats Regime Change As Iran Strikes Back

23 Jun 2025

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All of Trump's team were on message - the US bombing of Iranian nuclear sites was a one-off strike, not a declaration of war, and certainly not direct...

Trump Bombs Iran – Desperately Hopes That’s the End of It

22 Jun 2025

Contributed by Lukas

So the President Trump's United States just dropped a bunch of its 'bunker buster' bombs on the nuclear enrichment sites in Iran. Technically, that me...

Trump Enrages Key Ally Japan – Just As China Unveils A Game Changer

21 Jun 2025

Contributed by Lukas

The Trump Administration's trademark abrupt bullying has just led to key regional ally Japan cancelling an annual security summit. Between America's s...

Trump ‘Not Ruling Out’ Dropping A Nuke On Iran

20 Jun 2025

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You read that right - The Fordow nuclear enrichment site in Iran, located as it is beneath a mountain, is considered by some in the Pentagon to be so ...

It’s Official - The World Hates Trump’s America

19 Jun 2025

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New research by the Pew Research Centre has looked at worldwide attitudes to President Trump, and as a consequence Trump's America. Some of it won't b...

Trump Broke The World Order - So Is War With Iran Next?

18 Jun 2025

Contributed by Lukas

The G7 Summit of 2025 may come to represent the last gasp of the old rules-based world order, condemned to impotence and irrelevance as President Trum...

How Trump Is Breaking the Last Barrier to Dictatorship

17 Jun 2025

Contributed by Lukas

The most frequent setbacks to the Trump Administration have been in the courts, up to and including the Supreme Court with its Trump-appointed judges ...

Why Ukraine Made The Iran War Inevitable

16 Jun 2025

Contributed by Lukas

The G7 summit is under way in Canada, and the biggest agenda item by far is the war between Israel and Iran. Almost certainly, nothing said or done th...

The Alarming Rise of Political Violence in America

15 Jun 2025

Contributed by Lukas

This weekend, we saw the tragic eruption once again of political violence in America. Unfortunately, this is just the extreme end of a growing wave of...

Trump’s Quiet Immigration U-Turn Just Exposed His Weakness

14 Jun 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Something happened almost, but not quite, unnoticed. Trump admitted that his administration's approach to its mass deportation project was having a ma...

Israel’s Iran Attack Just Exposed Trump’s Biggest Weakness

13 Jun 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Israel has transformed the world geopolitical stage again by launching a direct and sustained assault on Iran. It wrongfooted President Trump by doing...

Trump’s America vs the World: AUKUS, NATO, G7 at Risk

12 Jun 2025

Contributed by Lukas

A period of extreme stress has begun for many of the leaders of the free world. Beginning with the announcement from the US that it is throwing the Au...

China Just Taught Trump’s America A Hard Lesson

11 Jun 2025

Contributed by Lukas

China and the US just wrapped up two days of trade talks in London. But the fascinating thing is what they are NOT saying about what was agreed. There...

The Real Reason Trump Sent in the Troops — And What It Sets Up Next

10 Jun 2025

Contributed by Lukas

The crisis in LA has deepened since we discussed it two days ago. President Trump doubled the number of National Guard, and added 700 US marines for g...

Why Trump’s Golden Dome Makes The World LESS SAFE

09 Jun 2025

Contributed by Lukas

It's a great idea in theory - an impregnable missile defence shield to protect the country from any attack from its numerous enemies around the world....

Trump Sends National Guard To LA - Why It’s Just The Beginning

08 Jun 2025

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The use of the National Guard to quell violent protests / riots in LA obviously crosses a line, but it's only the start of a journey that was mapped o...

Leaked Russian Spy Memo Says China Is The Enemy

07 Jun 2025

Contributed by Lukas

A leaked FSB briefing document has been revealed - and it is fascinating for what it shows about Russia's REAL attitude to its supposed close ally Chi...

The Musk vs Trump Civil War - Why It’s Bigger Than You Think

06 Jun 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Yes, Elon Musk vs Donald Trump - it's very entertaining. The memes are flowing in industrial quantities. But a lot of people are missing just how impo...

China and Germany Manage Trump Like A Toddler

05 Jun 2025

Contributed by Lukas

We got a surprise today, when it was suddenly announced that China's President Xi Jinping and President Trump had spoken directly on the phone. And th...

Why The Trump And Musk Explosion Was Inevitable

04 Jun 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Everyone - even me - was saying that sooner or later a huge falling out between President Trump and Elon Musk would have to happen. Just when we thoug...

Trump's Ambassador Tells Canada To Quit Moaning!

03 Jun 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Trump's Canada ambassador Pete Hoekstra already got noticed by scolding Canadians for boycotting American products in their stores. Now, he's back to ...

Ukraine’s Bold Attack Exposes Trump’s Impotence on Russia

02 Jun 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Ukraine sat down for more direct talks with Russia today - and that managed not to remotely be the story. More important was Ukraine's dramatic strike...

Even Business Travellers Are Scared Of Trump's America

01 Jun 2025

Contributed by Lukas

We've heard about how tourists are either boycotting holiday travel to the US, or are just scared by stories of people being detained for days or week...

Why Trump’s MAGA Is Interfering In Poland Elections

31 May 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Poland goes to the polls to elect its next president this weekend. And Trump's MAGA movement has been actively campaigning for the candidate it sees a...

Why Did Trump Suddenly Turn On China Again?

30 May 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Everything seems to have settled down with President Trump's America and China now that they'd climbed down from their maximalist tariff barrage. But ...

Trump’s Tariffs In Disarray - Why This Could Be A Dangerous Moment

29 May 2025

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President Trump has been having SO much fun, slapping tariffs on the EU, hitting China, randomly spraying charges on everybody including the penguins....

Will Trump Succeed In Killing Climate Action Worldwide?

28 May 2025

Contributed by Lukas

We all know that President Trump has taken the decision to end climate action previously being taken by the United States - that is very much his prer...

Trump Quietly Launching Attack On European Democracy

27 May 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Having told the Middle East, that America wouldn't be telling the world 'how to live their lives', the Trump Administration is launching a very active...

Why Trump is Terrified Of ‘Crazy’ Putin

26 May 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Fiona Hill was President Trump's Russia advisor in his first term - back when he had advisors who actually knew their subject. In an interview today w...

Gen Z Is ABANDONING Trump

25 May 2025

Contributed by Lukas

A remarkable feature of the 2024 presidential election was just how much Gen Z voters swung towards Trump, particularly young men. There's a popular n...

Why Insane Trump Tariffs Against EU And Apple Will Backfire

24 May 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Just when it seemed that things might be stabilising just a bit, Trump posted onto social media and suddenly we're right back into the throes of new t...

The Crucial Lessons From Biden's Decline America Needs To Learn

23 May 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Books have been landing in recent weeks opening up windows into the behind-the-scenes action around the cognitive decline of US president Joe Biden, a...

Trump Is CLUELESS On What He Just Did To Himself

22 May 2025

Contributed by Lukas

So we had another White House Struggle Session this week, this time with Cyril Ramaphosa, the President of South Africa. President Trump's ambush, wat...

Elon Musk Admits It’s Over – No More Political Money

21 May 2025

Contributed by Lukas

We've known Elon Musk was on his way out for several weeks, but yesterday he added the final straw - he said he was going to cut any political spendin...

The Truth About Trump and Putin's Big Phone Call

20 May 2025

Contributed by Lukas

US President Trump and Russian President Putin held their direct call - the one that was supposed to see Trump pushing Putin into embracing a 30-day c...

The UK EU Brexit Reset Deal - Did It Blow Up UK Politics?

19 May 2025

Contributed by Lukas

The UK and the EU announced a big post-Brexit trade deal today. For some, it was a common sense shift from the original terms of the Brexit deal to ma...

Former US Ambassador To Ukraine SLAMS Trump Betrayal

18 May 2025

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Bridget Brink was the US Ambassador to Ukraine during the three years post-invasion where the United States was standing relatively firm alongside its...

Trump Ambassador Attacks Canada For Being Mean To America

17 May 2025

Contributed by Lukas

So Trump's attempted interference in Canada backfired, and the Liberals' Mark Carney won the recent election. The question is - now what? Can Canada n...

Trump’s Insane Bid To Put Ex FBI Director In Jail - For Free Speech

16 May 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Every relevant senior member of the Trump cabinet has come out with an attack on former FBI Director James Comey - a truly astonishing exercise in gas...

Why Trump REALLY Lifted Sanctions On Syria

15 May 2025

Contributed by Lukas

President Trump has had perhaps his best week so far of his second term, being hosted by some of the richest countries of the world. He has also been ...

How Putin, China And The World Are Learning How To Play Trump

14 May 2025

Contributed by Lukas

It used to be that the United States, as the dominant world power, was the most powerful driving force behind world events, for better or for worse. I...

Why Trump’s MAGA Base Is FURIOUS With Him

13 May 2025

Contributed by Lukas

We've been taking it as read that Trump's MAGA base would stay unquestioningly loyal to him no matter what. But that support is starting to splinter. ...

How Trump's Lying Is Making The Whole World Stupid

12 May 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Yes, yes, we all know Trump lies - so what? Well, the point is that since the US is now bullying the entire world on trade, as well as using its lever...