Gary Younge – The Guardian Gun deaths – intentional, accidental and self-inflicted – dwarf those related to terror. The talk is of secure borders but within the US many live in a state of fear Shortly before leaving America for Britain, after 12 years as a correspondent, the…
By Carl Pope* – The Huffington Post It’s staggering to recall that one of Donald Trump’s main appeals to many of his voters was a pledge to “drain the swamp” and rid Washington of corruption. In only two weeks he has, instead, begun stocking the swamp with new and poisonous…
BY CHRIS SOMMERFELDT – NEW YORK DAILY NEWS President Trump’s most recent executive order effectively bans citizens of seven Muslim-majority countries from entering the U.S. for at least 90 days — but some Muslim countries were spared from the order’s blacklist, even though they…
Paul Mason – The Guardian Both Steve Bannon and Newt Gingrich engage in dangerous fantasies about US history – and come to chilling conclusions about the future A controversial and divisive US president is elected. State governments defy his will. Popular discontent erupts into…
UN Wire United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres marked the International Day of Zero Tolerance for Female Genital Mutilation with a speech calling for a global effort to end the practice. Studies suggest around 200 million women and girls have been subjected to FGM, a…
Isabel Hilton – Opinion, The Guardian The US president has dismayed the world; Xi Jinping has wooed it. This could be a huge win for Beijing Two years ago, some European and US experts gathered to discuss China in an elegant English country house.
By John Feffer* – TomDispatch The Birth of a New Nationalist World Order Donald Trump is a worldly fellow. He travels the globe on his private jet.
By Robert Kahn – Newsweek / Council on Foreign Relations. As many as 132,000 jobs could be lost too.
Paul Krugman – The New York Times Peter Navarro, the closest thing Trump has to an economic guru, made some waves by accusing Germany of being a currency manipulator and suggesting that both the shadow Deutsche mark and the euro are undervalued. Leaving aside the dubious notion…
Ross Douthat – New York Times Populisms vary, but their genesis is generally the same. Some set of ideas commands public support but lacks purchase in elite policy debates.
