By George Friedman* – Geopolitical Futures U.S. foreign policy comes in phases. From the end of World War II to 1972, its goal was to confront the Soviet Union and affiliated communist governments. Things changed a little in the early… Continue Reading
By Hall Gardner* It can still happen here! The January 6 siege of the Capitol—the very symbol of American Democracy—was like a scene out of the novel, It Can’t Happen Here, written by Sinclair Lewis in 1935. In the book, the… Continue Reading
Editorial – The Guardian With no roadmap for peace, Israel risks being compared to the old South Africa It was a deliberate provocation by B’Tselem, Israel’s largest human rights group, to describe the Palestinians in the Holy Land as living… Continue Reading
By Simon Tisdall* – The Guardian The secretary of state has laid political booby traps for Biden in a diplomatic onslaught – with the aim of winning the White House While all eyes are on Donald Trump and his Capitol… Continue Reading
Levente Szadai Hungarian PM Viktor Orbán secured his third successive term in the 2018 general election. Now, for the first time since 2010 polls show that the “united opposition” would defeat his party if an election was held today. According… Continue Reading
Editorial – The Guardian These have been 10 days that shook America and the world. Congress has made the right response The wheels of justice are slowly but remorselessly closing in on Donald Trump and his gang. Mr Trump’s second… Continue Reading
By Isa Ferrero* – The Wire, India The US – as well as European powers like France and Germany – continue to sell arms and pour fuel on the humanitarian disaster in Yemen. Late last year, in the waning days… Continue Reading
By George Friedman* – Geopolitical Futures Thoughts in and around geopolitics U.S. President Donald Trump’s supporters and detractors are both obsessed with him. They share the belief that everything that has happened is because of him. His supporters believe his… Continue Reading
By Boaventura de Sousa Santos* It is impossible not to make a comparison between Trump these last few days and Hitler’s last days Trump is not Hitler, the US is not Nazi Germany, no invading army is heading toward the… Continue Reading
By Sonali Kolhatkar* – Independent Media Institute Blaming the deadly virus surge on individuals and their risky behavior ignores that the real fault lies with a government that chooses to prioritize the health of businesses over that of humans. Los Angeles,… Continue Reading
Observer Editorial The president must be removed for inciting violence on the Capitol but Republicans also share blame for his toxic legacy It’s easier to understand last week’s turmoil in Washington if it is viewed as the disastrous culmination of… Continue Reading
By Walden Bello* – Wall Street International Magazine The storming of Capitol shows America has entered the Weimar Era By mid-February 2021, American deaths from Covid-19 may well surpass the country’s 405,400 deaths during the Second World War. By around mid-May,… Continue Reading
By Amy Goodman* – Democracy Now! Police Stand Down as Trump Mob Storms Capitol to Disrupt Election Vote The U.S. Congress has certified President-elect Joe Biden’s victory, hours after a violent, right-wing mob incited by President Trump interrupted proceedings and… Continue Reading
By Noam Chomsky and Vijay Prashad(*) – Globetrotter, Independent Media Institute Large parts of the world—outside of China and a few other countries—face a runaway virus, which has not been stopped because of criminal incompetence by governments. That these governments… Continue Reading
Editorial The US president is seeking to bring down a system that defeated him This week, Donald Trump will undermine democracy in the US by supporting the claim that Democrat Joe Biden did not fairly win last November’s presidential election.… Continue Reading
By Ishaan Tharoor* – The Washington Post If you’re like me, you were probably flooded with jubilant messages and memes about the end of 2020. Our black swan year of crisis and calamity, plague and polarization, is over. And in… Continue Reading
By Roberto Savio* It will be quite different from the one with the Soviet Union While the Coronavirus has rightly taken much of our attention, a fundamental geopolitical realignment has been taking shape in the world, and it will become… Continue Reading
By Sasha Abramsky* – The Nation This egomaniac has zero concern for the unemployed, the cratered businesses, the sick and dying. He’d much rather pardon crooks and undermine democracy Betting that things can’t get worse with Donald Trump has always… Continue Reading
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. The Blackwater guards include Nicholas Slatten, who was sentenced to life in… Continue Reading
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… Continue Reading
