David Miliband* – Opinion, Newsweek No one pretends that managing a refugee and migration crisis is easy. Not Colombia, with at least 1.5 million people fleeing from Venezuela. Nor Uganda, with over 1.5 million refugees from South Sudan. Nor Germany,… Continue Reading
By Naveed Jamali* – Newsweek 12/6/19 – With the announcement by Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Thursday that she instructed key House chairmen to draft articles of impeachment against President Donald Trump, the expected outcome of the inquiry has been formalized.… Continue Reading
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… Continue Reading
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… Continue Reading
By Fareed Zakaria* Thanksgiving is my favorite holiday. It’s a secular celebration of America, and as an immigrant, I feel I have much to be grateful for. I am an optimist who tends to see the story of this country as… Continue Reading
Naiara Galarraga Gortázar – El País, Spain The former Brazilian president talked to EL PAÍS about his future plans in one of the first interviews he has granted following his release by the Supreme Court He has been saying for… Continue Reading
*Robert B. Reich – Newsweek As a candidate in 2015, Donald Trump said that he’d “surround myself only with the best and most serious people.” Not quite. On November 15, Trump’s long-time friend and personal confidante, Roger Stone, was found… Continue Reading
By David Miranda * – The Guardian Brazil’s far right knows it needs protests and chaos to justify a restoration of dictatorship-era measures The challenges to democracy and civic order in Brazil, the world’s fifth most populous country, have increased… Continue Reading
Laurence H. Tribe* – Newsweek After just one week of public impeachment hearings, Donald Trump has unmistakably emerged as America’s anti-president, the very model of the charlatan George Washington warned might be overtaken by “the insidious wiles of foreign influence.”… Continue Reading
Editorial If the US president tried to enlist Ukraine to investigate his rivals he broke his oath of office and threatened America’s security There are multiple reasons why Donald Trump ought not to be the president of the United States.… Continue Reading
The xenophobic nationalists of Vox made disturbing progress in Spain’s fourth election in as many years There was one major beneficiary of Sunday’s inconclusive election in Spain, but it was not Pedro Sánchez, the Socialist prime minister. Mr Sánchez hoped… Continue Reading
By Kenneth Katzman(*) – LobeLog (**) The objective of any sanctions regime is not to punish the target country or weaken its economy as an end in itself. Rather, a sanctions campaign—including the Trump Administration’s policy of “maximum pressure” on… Continue Reading
By George Friedman* – Geopolitical Futures Last Sunday, I received an email from a close friend telling me and others that after 60 years he was canceling his subscription to The New York Times because he was tired of its… Continue Reading
By Shaun Walker* – The Guardian The philanthropist who has spent billions promoting democracy talks populism, Trump and powerful enemies Around three decades ago, George Soros was introduced to a brash property magnate over dinner at a country house in the Catskills,… Continue Reading
By Selam Gebrekidan, Matt Apuzzo(*) and Benjamin Novak – The New York Times The European Union spends $65 billion a year subsidizing agriculture. But a chunk of that money emboldens strongmen, enriches politicians and finances corrupt dealing. CSAKVAR, Hungary — Under Communism,… Continue Reading
Harrison Stetler* – The Nation As extremist ideas enter the mainstream, “clash of civilizations” rhetoric is crowding out more nuanced approaches to the very real problem of terrorism “The combined forces of the state will not be able to overcome… Continue Reading
Editorial Boris Johnson wants to get rid of this House of Commons because it stands in the way of an even harder Brexit than he is letting on Oliver Cromwell’s speech attacking the Long Parliament in 1653 has gone down… Continue Reading
By Prof Rodrigue Tremblay* – Global Research “If this [U.S.] government ever became a tyrant, if a dictator ever took charge in this country, the technological capacity that the intelligence community has given the government could enable it to impose total tyranny,… Continue Reading
By Patrick Kingsley* and Benjamin Novak- The New York Times FELCSUT, Hungary — The Pancho Arena stands about 20 yards from the country home of Viktor Orban, Hungary’s prime minister. The professional soccer stadium has a heated pitch, a museum,… Continue Reading
By Gary Younge* – The Nation British MPs are tired of arguing, but that’s no reason to approve Boris Johnson’s disastrous deal There is a moment in the movie Primary Colors when presidential candidate Jack Stanton (played by John Travolta)… Continue Reading
