Propaganda

Indonesian President Prabowo Subianto waited decades for his chance to lead the country. The controversial former general finally won the office on his third attempt in a 2024 landslide election. Since then, Prabowo has wasted little time moving against Indonesia’s fragile democracy, accelerating a process that began under his predecessor,…

Melania, the new Melania Trump documentary promoted by President Donald Trump as “a must watch,” has opened with stronger‑than‑expected box office returns while drawing overwhelmingly negative reactions from critics and film buffs. Essential Reading: The US Is in Beta as China Changes the Game How Trump’s Nuclear Brinkmanship Is Forcing…

An anarcho-communist from Ballarat suddenly developed a keen interest in Philippine flood recovery corruption. In fact, it’s part of an AI-powered troll farm. (Image: Private Media/Zennie) A social media account with the handle @AntiKing1312, which describes itself as belonging to an “Anarcho communist and all around buzzkill”, mostly posts about…

commentary Neither insightful nor interesting, the first lady’s disgraceful doc exists only to fuel Trump’s propaganda machine Published February 1, 2026 12:00PM (EST) "Melania" (Amazon MGM Studios/Muse Films) What do you get the woman who has everything — if “everything” constitutes a collection of ghastly hats, a Grinchian disdain for…

Amazon poured tens of millions of dollars into the Brett Ratner-directed documentary. It fails on virtually every level Melania: Twenty Days to History starts with a long drone shot above the Atlantic Ocean. The camera glides over a white sand beach, a pool, a golfing green, before swooping down over…

In the 104 minutes of the movie “Melania,” there are only two real hints of how dangerous our world and politics have become.  The supposed documentary on First Lady Melania Trump is largely set in the 20 days before her husband, President Donald Trump, returned to office for the second…

Jan. 31, 2026, 6:00 AM EST With the release of “Melania,” a film so devoid of substance that it feels wrong to call it a documentary, we might need to come up with a new word for shameless. Because shameless doesn’t seem harsh enough to describe the grotesqueness of releasing…

Melania, Brett Ratner ’s Melania Trump movie, is a purportedly serious film that plays like a mockumentary. If you were making a movie that parodied the current first lady of the United States, I’m not sure what you’d do differently. This interminable, nearly two-hour-long film features a running voice-over by…

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Two hours that I won’t get back (Picture: Dimitrios Kambouris/Getty Images) As I presented my ticket to the usher at a West London’s Vue cinema on a drizzly Friday morning, I asked him if there had been much interest in the film.  He responds with a small shake of the…