Sanger and Edward Wong (*) – The New York Times HANOI, Vietnam — As President Trump settled into the dining room of a French-colonial hotel in Hanoi on Thursday morning, the conversation with Kim Jong-un, the North Korean leader with whom he had struck up the oddest of…
By Hall Gardner* In commenting on the new status of Chinese President Xi as president for life, President Trump quipped: “And look, he was able to do that. I think it’s great.
Robert Reich* – The Guardian The Mueller report looms but the president is doomed anyway – no one who screws the people so blatantly can win re-election Robert Mueller’s soon-to-be-delivered report will begin months of congressional investigations, subpoenas, court challenges…
Ariel Cohen* – Newsweek Watching Vladimir Putin threaten to wipe out your hometown of Washington, D.C. in a national address is an unnerving experience; especially when viewing it in Moscow. Lately, Putin has not been shy about flaunting his shiny new missiles—and using them, if…
Kaufman* – HuffPost The oil, gas and coal industries’ donations heavily favor the lawmakers who have so far refused to back the only climate policy to match the scale of the crisis. The 12 senators co-sponsoring the Green New Deal resolution that Sen. Ed Markey (D-Mass.)…
By Nick Allen* – The Telegraph Bernie Sanders’ singular refusal to compromise the principles of his left-wing crusade have helped earn him the nickname “America’s Jeremy Corbyn”. In policy terms there certainly are similarities, although Mr Sanders sits somewhat to the right of…
Jean-Pierre Vettovaglia* A spark that lit a fire. The increase of the fuel tax was too much of a sacrifice imposed on the modest French homes invisible from the Élysée palace: suburbs and rural France!
By Vincent Auger*, Opinion – The Globe Post Eighteen months after being driven from their homes in Myanmar by what U.n. officials described as a campaign of genocidal violence by the military, the situation facing Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh remains perilous. Hundreds of…
By Roger Harris – ZeroHedge, via Counterpunch.org Donald Trump imagines Juan Guaidó is the rightful president of Venezuela. Guaidó, a man of impeccable illegitimacy, was exposed by Cohen and Blumenthal as “a product of a decade-long project overseen by Washington’s elite regime…
By Tom O’Connor – Newsweek A senior Russian diplomat has hit out at the United States’ reported attempts to oust the Venezuelan government by turning the Latin American state’s armed forces against it. The U.S. has recognized National Assembly head Juan Guaidó’s claim to the…
