By Amy Goodman – Democracy Now! (*) The Trump administration has expanded its contested travel ban to six additional countries — most of which are African nations. Under the new restrictions, nationals of Nigeria, Eritrea, Myanmar and Kyrgyzstan will no longer be able to obtain…
By Prabir Purkayastha*- Independent Media Institute With the United States walking out of the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA)—more commonly known as the Iran accord—we all enter into a heightened zone of danger. Trump is threatening a war on Iran…
By Ishaan Tharoor* – The Washington Post President Trump called his plan for Middle East “peace” an “unprecedented” development that swept past “even the most well-intentioned plans” of his predecessors. It is in keeping with the guiding animus of his presidency — a ceaseless…
By Joan Walsh* – The Nation And if they do that, Bolton must release his bombshell book immediately On Saturday morning, during what Donald Trump disdained as the “Death Valley” of television viewership, the president’s lawyers made an excellent case—on behalf of the House…
By Robert Reich* – Newsweek Don’t get bogged down in the minutiae of President Donald Trump’s Senate impeachment trial. Here are the 10 big things you need to know. 1.
By Boaventura de Sousa Santos* Baruch de Spinoza, the great 17th century philosopher, wrote that the two basic human emotions (or “affections”, as he called them) are fear and hope, and he suggested that a balance needs to be struck between the two, because fear unmingled with…
The Economist The 2020s are poised to be to energy firms what the 2010s were to utilities—disruptive As revolutionary slogans go, it hardly had the resonance of ¡No pasarán! But when Repsol, a Spanish oil company, said in December it would reduce the net carbon…
By John Nichols* – The Nation In that way, the president is keeping a campaign promise. Too bad for him, the Democrats are keeping theirs.
Anthony Harwood * – Newsweek It’s hard not to be astonished by Saudi Arabia’s arrogant belief that it can do whatever it likes. It comes from being disgustingly rich and having everyone suck up to you, I suppose.
By Walden Bello* In India and the Philippines, strongmen have consolidated immense power through democratic means. How do we explain this?
