The priceless post-truthiness of ‘westlessness’

There’s a new favourite word to add to our expanding lexicon of Orwellian, new world order gibberish.

U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo confronted the imaginary scourge of westlessness head-on at the Munich Security Conference, with a firm, yet fist-shakingless affirmation that the ‘West is winning,’ writes Lisa Van Dusen.White House photograph by Andrea Hanks

Opinion

BY LISA VAN DUSEN

February 19, 2020

In a recent, pre-coronavirus column on how China was marking the Year of the Rat by cracking down on satire, I lamented that the new world order cabal I like to call KAOS makes up in performative...

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