Nidra Poller

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Nov 6, 2024, 10:53 PM

Hang Down Your Head and Cry

HANG DOWN YOUR HEAD AND CRY Dateline Paris / November 6, 2024 I am not a straw man. Not even a straw woman. And certainly not a straw trans. You cannot catch me in any category of the disgruntled whose well-earned...

Nov 3, 2024, 6:36 PM

What’s Left of Donald Trump

You believe, my friend, that you are making an astute political decision in these troubled times. But I am living a Rhinoceros situation. I witness the erosion of your intellectual and moral integrity as you climb deeper and deeper...

Jan 11, 2021, 4:09 PM

Donald Trump, False Messiah

Dateline Paris, December 17, 2020. The Electoral College, respecting the will of the people, has confirmed the results of the November 3rd election: 306 Joe Biden, 232 Donald Trump. No signs so far of a mass uprising in the...

Oct 28, 2019, 10:32 PM

Paris & Washington Struck in the Heart

Update The successful elimination of Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi intervened just as this text was about to go to press. Highly skilled American commandoes, with international cooperation, under the civilian leadership of President Donald Trump, cornered the caliph of the defeated...

Apr 18, 2019, 12:24 AM

Paris Weeps as Notre Dame Burns

Notre Dame ablaze

April 15th, President Macron was scheduled to address the nation at 8 PM, to present a sort of executive summary of government policy, revised but not diverted by five months of weekly Gilet Jaune actions. I switched on the...

Sep 30, 2018, 12:56 PM

Justice for Dr. Ford

In a healthy democracy, one private unelected individual would not determine the future of the US Supreme Court. The appointment of a justice is a political decision that should be debated rationally and ultimately decided by an up down...

Aug 26, 2018, 7:10 PM

American Tragedy

Tuvia Tenenbom, The Lies They Tell. Gefen Publishing House, Jerusalem, 2017 It takes a genius of a clown like Tuvia Tenenbom to piece together the American Tragedy in a drive-in tour de force that spans the Land of the Free...

Aug 14, 2018, 9:16 PM

Affirmative Action Backfires on French President

The Benalla scandal French president Emmanuel Macron and his supporters breathed a sigh of relief as the “Benalla scandal” that had dominated the news stream since mid-July took a dip into the August doldrums. Mass media switched to summertime mode...

Jun 25, 2018, 12:45 PM

Bois d’ébène: Slave trade replay

Fake news, fake metaphors, fake emotions, real human trafficking Bois d’ébène…it’s the French expression for the slave trade — ebony-black human beings stacked like wood, loaded into the stinking hold and shipped across the seas to serve as slave labor....

May 15, 2018, 11:07 PM

Burning Tires in Gaza, Flaming Newsprint Worldwide

It was all so predictable: Billowing clouds of dense black smoke in Gaza, satisfaction in technicolor at the inauguration of the American embassy in Jerusalem. With varying degrees of sarcasm, on a familiar scale from naïve humanism to virulent...

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About Me

Nidra Poller is an American-born writer who has lived in Paris since 1972. She is author of works of fiction in English and in French, and has published in many venues, including the Wall Street Journal Europe, Family Security Matters, New English Review, Times of Israel (French), Commentary, Midah, Tribune Juive. She is the author of literary-political books testifying to the Troubled Dawn of the 21st Century and novels: madonna madonna (français) and So Courage & Gypsy Motion.

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