By Amy Goodman* – Democracy Now! President Trump’s pardon of four former Blackwater contractors convicted for their role in a massacre in Baghdad has sparked outrage in Iraq.
Opinion by Daniel R. Alonso* – CNN President Donald Trump announced a wave of pardons on Tuesday for people ranging from Republican allies to two men who pleaded guilty in Robert Mueller’s Russia investigation. Meanwhile, speculation grows about whether President Trump…
By Jerri-Lynn Scofield* – Naked Capitalism With the countdown to January 20, 2021 proceeding apace, we’ve reached one of the seamier windows familiar to veteran observers of U.S. politics. Who will Trump pardon?
Lloyd Green* – The Guardian In addition to Trump mulling a self-pardon, he’s also considering family members and Rudy Giuliani – but Barr’s words may come back to haunt him On Monday, Donald Trump announced the exit of William Barr from the justice department. Finally, the…
By George Soros* – Project Syndicate German Chancellor Angela Merkel has been laboring under enormous pressure to prevent a veto of the European Union’s 2021-27 budget and COVID-19 recovery fund. But the compromise she reached with Hungary and Poland is the worst of all possible…
Editorial Clemency is a noble quality, but in Donald Trump’s hands it risks being a self-serving abuse of law and due process A US president’s power to pardon and commute sentences for federal offences seems to explode America’s claims as a nation of laws and proper process…
By Mikael Klintman * – The Conversation When was the last time you told a lie? If you can’t remember, I’ll give you a clue.
Cohen* – The Atlantic A character study of the 45th president It may seem counterintuitive to say so, but Donald Trump is a complicated figure. To be sure, the basic word cloud is clear—narcissistic, deceitful, vindictive, and so on—but there are multiple sides…
By Ana de Liz – Newsweek The co-author of the business advice book The Art of The Deal said President Donald Trump has committed one of the greatest tax frauds in IRS history, after The New York Times revealed that the president paid just…
By Lili Bayer* – POLITICO The Prime Minister of Hungary took advantage of the vulnerabilities of the bloc’s legal and political systems. It wasn’t supposed to be like this.
