Paris, March 15, 2026. By S.G. Kazolias

Marco Rubio’s February 14 speech at the Munich Security Conference left the European elite aghast. They pretended it was because of its White Christian supremacist, imperialist, and neo-colonial tone. That is pure hypocrisy. The European elite were aghast because Rubio was saying out loud what they have been trying to keep behind the curtains. This is hard to write.1

By S.G. Kazolias, Paris, December 27, 2024.

Hypocrisy: Orwell’s “Doublespeak,” or Raymond Devos’s “Antipodes”1 found their home in 2024 and truly made it the year of the grotesque which may give renewed youth to Ionescu’s Theater of the Absurd.

Yes, every word has its ‘Anti.’ But 2024 also demonstrated that repeating lies enough does not cause most people to believe they are true.