Editorial Boris Johnson saw immigration as the driver of Brexit, and has produced a policy that taps into questions about the nature of work The government’s proposed immigration reforms represent perhaps the biggest change to British life since the Maastricht… Continue Reading
By Liz Theoharis* – Boston Review The Trump administration’s sanctions against Iran and cuts to SNAP benefits are two sides of the same war that the rich are waging against the global poor. The January 3 assassination of Qasem Soleimani… Continue Reading
John Nichols*- The Nation Eight Republican senators join Democrats to declare that Trump has no authority to attack Iran without congressional approval. If senators took their oaths seriously, votes to assert Congress’s authority in matters of war and peace would… Continue Reading
Robin Kelly and David Hogg (*) – Newsweek About seven years ago, President Barack Obama issued an urgent plea while speaking with Sandy Hook Elementary School families in Newtown, Connecticut. He said America was failing to protect our nation’s most… Continue Reading
By Vijay Prashad* – Independent Media Institute. On May 3, 2020, the Bolivian people will go to the polls once more. They return there because President Evo Morales had been overthrown in a coup in November 2019. Morales had just won… Continue Reading
By William Hartung* – TomDispatch.com When it came to war, this year’s State of the Union Address, given by a president who had, at least in part, been voted into office for criticizing America’s “endless wars” and the military high… Continue Reading
By Michela Palese – TruePublica (*) 9th February 2020 / United Kingdom – A new report by the recently established Centre for the Future of Democracy at the University of Cambridge has found that dissatisfaction with democracy has reached an all-time global high.… Continue Reading
BY NETA C. CRAWFORD* – THE CONVERSATION The figure includes $838 billion in “emergency” and “overseas contingency operation” funding and $59 billion spent by the State Department and USAID on Iraq and Syria Even if the U.S. administration decided to leave — or was evicted… Continue Reading
Aziz Huq, Tom Ginsburg, David Landau (*) – Boston Review How other countries’ constitutions protect against political free-for-alls. As dramas go, this one was devoid of suspense. The Senate trial of President Donald Trump always had a foregone conclusion. This… Continue Reading
By Ishaan Tharoor, with Ruby Mellen(*) – The Washington Post It says a lot about this fraught moment in U.S. politics that President Trump’s move to slap immigration restrictions on almost a quarter of Africa’s population transpired with little more… Continue Reading
By Mark Joseph*- Newsweek “America will never be a socialist country,” President Donald Trump declared at last year’s State of the Union address. But at least 51 percent of Americans aged 18 to 29 have a favorable view of socialism.… Continue Reading
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 through… Continue Reading
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… Continue Reading
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… Continue Reading
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. Did Trump commit an impeachable offense? Yes. His attempt to… Continue Reading
By AMY GOODMAN – Democracy Now! (*) Calls are growing for the Senate to call witnesses in President Trump’s impeachment trial, after The New York Times published details about former national security adviser John Bolton’s forthcoming book. In the book,… Continue Reading
by Tyler Durden – Zero Hedge* After the editor of Christianity Today infuriated the president and stunned the American evangelical community by declaring that President Trump should be booted from office, the president has apparently found a way to show… Continue Reading
By John Nichols* – The Nation In that way, the president is keeping a campaign promise. Too bad for him, the Democrats are keeping theirs. Three years ago this week, Donald Trump swore an oath that he would “faithfully execute… Continue Reading
By Walden Bello* In India and the Philippines, strongmen have consolidated immense power through democratic means. How do we explain this? Demonstrations and strikes have shaken India over the last few weeks as people from all walks of life protest… Continue Reading
By AMY GOODMAN – Democracy Now! (*) As the federal government plans to divert an additional $7.2 billion from the military budget for the construction of President Trump’s promised border wall, and tens of thousands of asylum seekers from Central… Continue Reading
