By Gabby Orr and Meridith McGraw (*) – POLITICO They were vocal in backing him the first go around, but they’re sitting on the sidelines now. Acquittal, after all, seems guaranteed. A constellation of conservative groups that rallied behind former President Donald Trump during…
By Boaventura de Sousa Santos* Analysis of the election’s results in Portugal According to certain foreign media, the results of the last election spelled the “end of the Portuguese dream”, meaning the fact that until now Portugal had been the only European country without…
By Albena Azmanova and Marshall Auerback (*) – Independent Media Institute While the majority of Americans deplored the events at the U.S. Capitol on January 6, it was troubling to see a YouGov poll indicating that one in five voters approved of the…
By Anis Chowdhury* SYDNEY, Jan 21 2021 (IPS) – Impeachment or no impeachment, Trump is out of the White House. Trump goes with an approval rating of 34%, far behind his predecessor Barack Obama’s 60%.
By Hall Gardner* It can still happen here! The January 6 siege of the Capitol—the very symbol of American Democracy—was like a scene out of the novel, It Can’t Happen Here, written by Sinclair Lewis in 1935.
Editorial – The Guardian With no roadmap for peace, Israel risks being compared to the old South Africa It was a deliberate provocation by B’Tselem, Israel’s largest human rights group, to describe the Palestinians in the Holy Land as living under an apartheid regime. Many…
By Simon Tisdall* – The Guardian The secretary of state has laid political booby traps for Biden in a diplomatic onslaught – with the aim of winning the White House While all eyes are on Donald Trump and his Capitol Hill mob, a would-be heir and successor is running riot all by…
Levente Szadai Hungarian PM Viktor Orbán secured his third successive term in the 2018 general election. Now, for the first time since 2010 polls show that the “united opposition” would defeat his party if an election was held today. According to the survey conducted by one of…
Editorial – The Guardian These have been 10 days that shook America and the world. Congress has made the right response The wheels of justice are slowly but remorselessly closing in on Donald Trump and his gang.
By George Friedman* – Geopolitical Futures Thoughts in and around geopolitics U.S. President Donald Trump’s supporters and detractors are both obsessed with him.
