Tuesday, 19 January 2021, 5:41 pm
My eclectic news feed looks odd as the hours count down
to the end of the Trump administration. Westerners are
largely celebrating the exit of Donald Trump himself,
whereas with those I follow from areas targeted by US
imperialism, the man they re happiest to see the back of is
Mike Pompeo.
It looks very bizarre, as this part of
our weird collective adventure comes to an end, how Pompeo s
tenure first as CIA Director and then Secretary of State
were almost entirely unmarred by criticism from the
political/media class. This is after all a man whose word