By Chris Hedges*- ScheerPost Joe Biden and the Democratic Party made a Trump presidency possible once and look set to make it possible again. If Trump returns to power, it will not be due to Russian interference, voter suppression or because the working class is filled with irredeemable bigots and racists. It will...
By Stephan Richter* – The Globalist Olaf Scholz, the German Chancellor, and Emmanuel Macron, the French President, are once again in the global spotlight. Why do they lock horns so fiercely? At a time when Europe’s economy is reeling and the EU’s strategic heft is rather deplorable, Olaf Scholz, the German Chancellor,...
By NICHOLAS VINOCUR, HANNAH ROBERTS E JACOPO BARIGAZZI – POLITICO The Italian prime minister is courting Trump and preparing to tilt European policy her way. When Giorgia Meloni first rose to power in Italy in 2022, Western elites harbored doubts about a prime minister who’d once professed admiration for fascism....
by Carrie Lynn Hawthorne* – Common Thread/The Nation Nearly every day of the year, some part of humanity is facing an untameable wildfire, or extreme heat, or deep drought, or torrential flooding. This inescapable fact, and the accelerating logic of climate change, mean that for most of us it’s only...