By Soo Kim – Newsweek As the race to find a novel coronavirus vaccine continues across the globe, Russia has reportedly become the first country to complete clinical trials of a vaccine candidate, with the potential to be distributed from around mid-August. A vaccine…
By Amy Goodman – Democracy Now! (*) “House of Absolute Horrors” Guests : David Cay Johnston, founder and editor-in-chief of DCReport.org. In a new book, Mary Trump — the president’s niece — describes Donald Trump as a “sociopath” who grew up in a dysfunctional…
By !!444!!! InsightHungary!!! (*) Marking the 44th anniversary of the founding of the European People’s Party, three European leaders including Prime Minister Viktor Orbán took part in a video conference on Wednesday where they laid out their visions for…
By Jomo Kwame Sundaram and Anis Chowdhury (*) SYDNEY and KUALA LUMPUR, Jul 2020 (IPS) – In his early February annual State of the Union address, US President Donald Trump typically hailed his own policies for increasing wages and jobs to achieve record low US…
By Alastair Crooke* – The Strategic Culture Foundation It was always a paradox: John Stuart Mill, in his seminal (1859), On Liberty, never doubted that a universal civilisation, grounded in liberal values, was the eventual destination of all of humankind. He…
Opinion by Brad Parscale*, in The Washington Post “Bush’s Rating Falls To Its Lowest Point, New Survey Finds,” read a bold headline on the front page of the New York Times on June 29, 2004. The Times described a fraught atmosphere among the electorate…
Analysis by Alessio Dell’Anna* & Alice Tidey -Euronews Poland’s outgoing president Andrzej Duda failed to win an outright majority in Sunday’s presidential election and is set to face Warsaw mayor Rafal Trzaskowski in a July 12 run-off. According to an Ipsos projection, Duda…
Amy Goodman – Democracy Now! (*) As coronavirus infections worldwide approach 10 million, nearly half can be found in the two largest countries in the Americas: the United States and Brazil, which now has the worst infection rate in the world and could surpass the U.S. death…
By Sarah C Anderson and Sunita Viswanath (*) – Opinion, in Al Jazeera Only strong pressure from the US can stop the Indian government from further eroding religious freedom in the country. On June 10, US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo released the 2019 International Religious…
By Josh Dawsey* – The Washington Post President Trump asked Chinese President Xi Jinping to help him win the 2020 U.S. election, telling Xi during a summit dinner last year that increased agricultural purchases by Beijing from American farmers would aid his electoral…
