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DEJA VU: 2024 Is 2016 All Over Again | Steve Berman

DEJA VU: 2024 Is 2016 All Over Again | Steve Berman

I’m not very good at Deja Vu. Explaining things twenty times to my middle school-age kids very effectively inoculates me to the feeling of “I’ve done this before.” But I definitely have the sense of living through this time before, politically-speaking. It was 2015, and everyone said Donald Trump, who repulsed everyone important in politics, …

KARMA: Moonie Cult Death Came to Shinzo Abe | Steve Berman

KARMA: Moonie Cult Death Came to Shinzo Abe | Steve Berman

Tetsuya Yamagami shot Shinzo Abe with a handmade gun, killing him. It was a planned assassination. New details of the 41-year-old assassin’s motivation are coming out, and much of it points to the Unification Church—what we call the “Moonies.” The AP quoted an “expert in cult studies.” “If he hadn’t allegedly committed the crime, Mr. Yamagami would …

To Make An Omelet, Sometimes You Gotta Break a Few Heads | Steve Berman

To Make An Omelet, Sometimes You Gotta Break a Few Heads | Steve Berman

If you expect a paen to Trump and the “mentally ill” line on Liz Cheney, maybe you should stop here. Or maybe you should read on, but understand, you’re not going to like this medicine. “It’s not theirs, it’s mine,” said Donald J. Trump to Pat Cipollone and Patrick Philbin, his lawyers who were trying to resolve …