By George Friedman* – Geopolitical Futures I arrived in London on Saturday afternoon. Traffic was heavy and it took nearly two hours to reach my hotel, giving ample time to speak to my driver. It was time well spent. He… Continue Reading
By Tyler Durden* –Zero Hedge Authored by Daniel Lacalle via DLacalle.com The results of the UK elections have shown something that I have commented on several occasions: The widely spread narrative that British citizens had regretted having voted for Brexit… Continue Reading
The Economist The Conservatives triumph. Yet Boris Johnson faces tough challenges over Brexit—and much else GRIMSBY SUMMED UP a fantastic night for the Conservatives and a terrible one for Labour and the Liberal Democrats. Although Great Grimsby had been a… Continue Reading
By Naveed Jamali* – Newsweek 12/6/19 – With the announcement by Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Thursday that she instructed key House chairmen to draft articles of impeachment against President Donald Trump, the expected outcome of the inquiry has been formalized.… Continue Reading
Editorial The prime minister kept a calculated distance from the US president at the Nato summit because he knows their similarities play badly with voters A US president’s low-key exit from a Nato summit, skipping the traditional press conference, would… Continue Reading
Linda Farthing * – The Guardian There is little faith – especially among indigenous Bolivians – in the elections called by interim president Jeanine Áñez As the dust begins to settle following weeks of upheaval in Bolivia, fresh elections are… Continue Reading
By Gregory Shupak* – FAIR (Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting)** Pro-coup editorials rely on -and misreport-questionable evidence from the dubious OAS To endorse the coup in Bolivia, numerous editorials in major US media outlets paint President Evo Morales as undemocratic.… Continue Reading
By Ankita Rao, Pat Dillon, Kim Kelly and Zak Bennett (*) – The Guardian Voter suppression as a tactic – from strict ID laws to closing polling places to purging voter rolls – is deliberately making it hard for minority… Continue Reading
Editorial Boris Johnson wants to get rid of this House of Commons because it stands in the way of an even harder Brexit than he is letting on Oliver Cromwell’s speech attacking the Long Parliament in 1653 has gone down… Continue Reading
By Gary Younge* – The Nation British MPs are tired of arguing, but that’s no reason to approve Boris Johnson’s disastrous deal There is a moment in the movie Primary Colors when presidential candidate Jack Stanton (played by John Travolta)… Continue Reading
By Justin Baragona* – The Daily Beast “I’ve often said that Tulsi is sort of the Trojan horse in this. She’s polling at only 1.2 percent, yet she’s still in the race,” Sunny Hostin said at one point. The View’s Joy… Continue Reading
By Charlie Kirk* – Newsweek On Saturday, the British Parliament voted to withhold the deal proffered by Prime Minister Boris Johnson to finalize a United Kingdom withdrawal from the European Union, an effort famously known as “Brexit.” The vote by… Continue Reading
By Jon Henley* – The Guardian Analysts say tactic of cooperation against nationalist parties appears to be working A narrower-than-expected win for Poland’s ruling Law and Justice party (PiS) and a serious setback for Hungary’s governing Fidesz show eastern Europe’s… Continue Reading
By LILI BAYER – POLITICO Liberal beats incumbent backed by Hungary’s ruling party. BUDAPEST — Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán suffered his biggest political setback in a decade on Sunday, when an opposition candidate became mayor of Budapest by defeating an… Continue Reading
Marc Schulman* – Newsweek On Thursday, the members of the 22nd Knesset took their oaths of office. With eight exceptions, the members of the freshly sworn-in Knesset are identical to those who had served in the 21st Knesset, which was… Continue Reading
by Roberto Savio* It is very likely that the idea of impeaching Donald Trump will be a boomerang. Trump fans are listening to a furious campaign which smacks of coup d’etat and call his accusers traitors who deserve to go… Continue Reading
By Ishaan Tharoor* – The Washington Post Italian Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte opted to resign Tuesday rather than face a no-confidence vote he was likely to lose. In doing so, Conte confirmed the collapse of one of the more intriguing recent political… Continue Reading
Published by Focus on the Global South In the first half of 2019, a great deal of global attention focused on national elections in three countries where authoritarian regimes or personalities were in command of the state: Thailand, the Philippines,… Continue Reading
Alberto Nardelli* – BuzzFeed News A close aide to Italy’s deputy prime minister Matteo Salvini held covert talks to pump Russian oil money to his far-right party. BuzzFeed News has the tape Six men sat down for a business meeting on… Continue Reading
BBC World Kyriakos Mitsotakis, who has won the general election in Greece, has politics running through his veins. His father Konstantinos Mitsotakis was prime minister in the early 1990s and his sister, Dora Bakoyannis, was mayor of Athens when the… Continue Reading
