Opinion by Paul Waldman – The Washington Post As Republicans hold a convention that portrays President Trump as all but a living god, one of his most important supporters from the religious right is experiencing a precipitous fall from grace. Like a scene from a satire attacking…
By Al Jazeera and news agencies Bannon and three others arrested for conspiracy to commit wire fraud in online fundraising campaign for border wall. Former White House adviser Steve Bannon was arrested on Thursday on charges that he and three others illicitly took money from…
By Paul Krugman* – The New York Times The Postal Service facilitates citizen inclusion. That’s why Trump hates it. In June the independent website Factcheck.org made a dig at Joe Biden, publishing a post titled “Biden Floats Baseless Election Conspiracy.” Biden…
By Alexis Goldstein* – Truthout Facing increasingly unfavorable poll numbers, Trump has clearly decided the only way he can win reelection is to cheat. Trump has ramped up attacks on the post office, including the removal of mail sorting machines, in a naked attempt to suppress…
By Juan Gabriel Tokatlian* The Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) was founded in 1959 and it has been the leading provider of financial support for Latin American and the Caribbean. Since then the President of the institution has been a Latin American. There are several…
Observer Editorial Last week’s agreement to normalise relations between Israel and the UAE does nothing to solve the Palestine impasse The principal authors of last week’s agreement to normalise relations between Israel and the United Arab Emirates – Donald Trump, Benjamin…
By Jacob Jarvis – Newsweek While Republican-led anti-Trump campaigns have gained traction ahead of November, polling shows GOP supporters are shifting in favor of re-electing President Donald Trump. Efforts by groups such as The Lincoln…
By Prabir Purkayastha* – Independent Media Institute The U.S. tech war on China continues, banning Chinese equipment from its network, and asking its Five Eyes partners and NATO allies to follow suit. It is a market and a technology denial regime that seeks to win back…
By Ishaan Tharoor, with Ruby Mellen* – The Washington Post A hundred years ago, French, British and Italian officials convened in a famous porcelain factory southwest of Paris to carve up the Ottoman Empire. The Treaty of Sèvres, signed Aug. 10, 1920, concluded months of…
By BBC News Facebook and Twitter have penalised Donald Trump and his campaign for posts in which the president claimed children were “almost immune” to coronavirus. Facebook deleted the post – a clip from an interview Mr Trump gave to Fox News – saying it contained “harmful…
