Jill Filipovic, Art Cullen, Lloyd Green and Malaika Jabali (* ) – The Guardian Trump offered little vision and barely any policy, while Biden was solid. The president needed a win, and he didn’t get it Fri 23 Oct 2020… Continue Reading
By Ishaan Tharoor* – The Washington Post Centuries ago, Christendom was accustomed to the periodic existence of “antipopes.” They were clerics who, whether through spiritual conviction or political machinations, challenged the designated pontiff with rival claims to the top seat in the… Continue Reading
By Charles H. Clavey* -Boston Review The Frankfurt School on the appeal of authoritarianism—and how to counteract it. A number of recent books have put the methods of the social sciences in the service of understanding Trump, his movement, and… Continue Reading
Michael von der Schulenburg* Although almost unnoticed today, 75 years ago, on 24 October 1945, the probably most important international treaty, the United Nations Charter, came into effect. Its aim was not only to end WWII, but to save, once… Continue Reading
By Justin Podur* – Globetrotter, Independent Media Institute The Minneapolis City Council’s attempt to defund police may have fizzled out for the moment, but the problem of police violence across the United States is unresolved—and much of it stems from the institution’s… Continue Reading
By Jennifer Senior* – The New York Times ——————————- We reproduce below an analysis of The New York Times, from November 2016, after the election of Donald Trump, which we have recovered because he lucidly designs our time. Kind regards,… Continue Reading
By Amy Goodman* – Democracy Now! Former Bolivian President Evo Morales’s political party MAS has claimed victory in the country’s presidential election, with Morales’s handpicked successor Luis Arce securing over 50% of the vote, according to exit polls. If confirmed,… Continue Reading
By George Friedman* – Geopolitical Futures In the 1970s, President Richard Nixon stepped into the political and social chaos wrought by the Johnson administration and compounded it substantially. Hence, when I visited Europe during the late Nixon years, all of… Continue Reading
By Anwar Mhajne, Crystal Whetstone(*) – Foreign Policy Around the world, emergency powers are chipping away at democracy—sometimes with public support As the pandemic’s death toll rose throughout the spring, many countries took aggressive measures to control the spread of COVID-19. Governments instituted national emergencies and travel… Continue Reading
By Peter Carbonara and Scott Reeves – Newsweek With two weeks to go before the election, the nation’s financial health is top of mind for Americans. According to a recent Gallup poll, nearly nine out of 10 registered voters say… Continue Reading
by Agora of the Inhabitants of the Earth WTO rejected an important proposal that would have allowed the world’s population equal access to Covid-19 therapy They have once again failed to give priority to human beings, to life, over the… Continue Reading
Francis Fukuyama* – American Purpose newsletters Today, there is a broad consensus that democracy is under attack or in retreat in many parts of the world. It is being contested not just by authoritarian states like China and Russia, but by… Continue Reading
By Ewan Palmer* – Newsweek Followers of QAnon are jubilant after President Donald Trump failed to denounce the baseless conspiracy theory, which claims that leading Democrats are satanic pedophiles, during NBC’s Town Hall. The president frequently claimed he knows “nothing” about the… Continue Reading
The Ecconomist An international comparison IN HIS NEW book Casey Mulligan offers an intriguing explanation for why President Donald Trump makes outlandish economic claims. Mr Trump knows he is hyperbolising when he says that America has enjoyed “the greatest economy… Continue Reading
By Thalif Deen* Addressing poverty eradication last week, just ahead of the International Day for the Eradication of Poverty on October 17, UN chief António Guterres warned that the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic are falling “disproportionately on the most… Continue Reading
By Julian Borger* – The Guardian The world is anxiously watching the election, with the candidates far apart on issues such as the climate crisis and nuclear weapons Foreign policy barely gets a mention in this US election, but for… Continue Reading
By David H. Freedman – Newsweek The first three “nodes” of the conspiracy-theory network known as QAnon arose in 2018 in the persons of founders Tracy Diaz, Paul Furber and Coleman Rogers. They had figured out how to profit from promoting… Continue Reading
By Roberto Savio* The US is a hopelessly divided, and dysfunctional country Let’s take a look at the American elections which at this moment are important not only for the United States but also for the entire world. The American… Continue Reading
By George Friedman* – Geopolitical Futures Russian President Vladimir Putin described the collapse of the Soviet Union as the greatest geopolitical catastrophe in history. Though it may not be true of all of history, it is certainly true of modern… Continue Reading
By Boaventura de Sousa Santos* The statements by the US ambassador in his interview to the weekly Expresso on 26 September are offensive to the Portuguese people and a violation of diplomatic codes of conduct. He threatened that the US… Continue Reading
