By George Friedman* In 2016, the British government called for a referendum on whether the United Kingdom should remain a member of the European Union. The British people voted to leave. Since then, there has been a struggle in Britain to reverse the decision and a struggle…
By Medea Benjamin and Leonardo Flores (*) Election season is a difficult time to develop good policies towards Latin America, since both Democrats and Republicans cater to the small, but organized, conservative factions of the Latinx community in Florida, vying for their…
By Sonali Kolhatkar* – Independent Media Institute Trump offers specific promises and doesn’t bother smoothing his rough edges. In contrast, Biden offers “decency” and other character traits without bold and concrete pledges The last four years have been deeply…
By Prabir Purkayastha* – Independent Media Institute The problem of hate news is built into the genes of big digital monopolies like Facebook. We need to break up these monopolies and regulate them as the new public utilities of the digital age.
By Marshall Auerback and James Carden (*) Independent Media Institute Trump’s rise has led to unity in the ranks opposing his foreign policy The emergence in recent weeks of a coalition of neocon Republicans and former national security officials who have…
David Smith – The Guardian Trump portrayed Biden as a creature of the Washington swamp, beat the drum of law and order and said little about racial injustice Washington – You write him off at your peril. Donald Trump stood at one of America’s most hallowed spaces on Thursday –…
By Marina Hyde – The Guardian As the Republican national convention got under way last night, the party that has formed a personality cult around the personality of Donald Trump was treated to a speech from Don Jr. Say what you like about the polls, Junior’s mere presence…
Maya Goodfellow – The Guardian Priti Patel’s (UK Home Secretary) recognition of a child’s humanity in death is hollow when he was stripped of it in life by cruel border policies The human cost of the government’s border policies has been made appallingly and painfully real: a…
By Paul Jay – theAnalysis.news After three postponed elections, a date is finally set after pressure from protests across the country. Why did Evo step down?
By Benjamin Wallace-Wells* – The New Yorker On Day Two of the Democratic National Convention, the Party’s recent past kept ghosting in and out. Before the networks had even begun their broadcasts, the Party rolled through half a century of its own history…
