Yves Smith – Naked Capitalism Yves here. As Financial Times columnist Lucy Kellaway said: “The good thing about someone else’s prejudices is that they either confirm your own, or they make you cross – either of which is a blessing in these bland times.” Here Ilargi reveals a…
By Raja Shehadeh – The Guardian Israel has twisted its laws and contorted its politics to protect the occupation. The UAE and Bahrain deals won’t create peace More than a quarter of a century after Yitzhak Rabin and Yasser Arafat shook hands on the White House lawn, Israel…
InsightHungary!!! (*) David Cornstein announces resignation “It was with a deep sense of pride, as well as some sadness, that I informed President Trump and Foreign Minister Szijjártó that I will be stepping down as U.S. Ambassador to Hungary on November 1.” U.S.
By Elizabeth Crisp* – Newsweek President Donald Trump continued to deny the impact of climate change as he traveled to California on Monday for an update on devastating wildfires that have spread along the West Coast. “It will start getting cooler,” Trump told California…
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 Eric Alterman* – The Nation Brian Stelter’s book Hoax gets half the story about the toadies of cable news. Donald Trump has a few things in common with Joseph Stalin. In some ways, the comparison is an injustice to both men: Stalin was not a moron, grifter, or alleged…
InsightHungary!!! (*) Several hundred students of the prestigious University of Theatre and Film Arts (SzFE) in Budapest occupied a campus building on Monday amid a struggle with the government over the university’s autonomy. SzFE leaders – including the acting rector…
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 Roberto Savio* On August 23, a respected Brazilian polling institute found that the country’s president, Jair Bolsonaro, enjoys an approval rating of 51 percent, the highest since he was elected. Brazil ranks second as the country with the highest number of coronavirus deaths…
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 –…
