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What’s Wrong With the Republicans?

By Rebecca Gordon*  – TomDispatch Fruits of the Twin Roots of Evil: Slavery and Imperial Expansion On the Thursday of the second week of the House Intelligence Committee’s impeachment hearings, former U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara had a special guest on his weekly podcast…

Elections

The Guardian view on Trump and Johnson: a toxic alliance

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 once have been perceived…

Corruption

A Common Theme of Global Unrest

By George Friedman* – Geopolitical Futures From Hong Kong to Tehran to Buenos Aires, the world appears to be destabilizing. The question that has been raised is whether there is an underlying cause triggering this global unrest. On the surface, the answer to that ought to be no.

Corruption

Bolivia has been promised elections. But will they be fair?

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 being promised in the new year by…

History

The Pervasive Power of the Settler Mindset

By Nikhil Pal Singh* – Boston Review More than simple racism or discrimination, the destructive premise at the core of the American settler narrative is that freedom is built upon violent elimination. Image: A Kiowa ledger drawing possibly depicting the Buffalo Wallow…

Human Rights

Prompted by Local Activists, Congressman McGovern Condemns the Coup in Bolivia

By Celina della Croce* – Independent Media Institute Thirteen of us squeezed into Congressman Jim McGovern’s small office in Northampton, Massachusetts, far outnumbering the number of chairs available.  At the head of the table sat Koby Gardner-Levine, the congressman’s…

Democracy

Israel and the Emerging Crisis of the Secular and the Religious

By George Friedman* –  Geopolitical  Futures Elections normally don’t interest us at Geopolitical Futures. The passage of personalities who preside over the realities of a nation does not usually affect our work.

Democracy

Unpacking Media Propaganda About Bolivia’s Election

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…