By Vijay Prashad and John Ross (*) – Independent Media Institute U.S. President Donald Trump—supported by most of the U.S. establishment—deepened the U.S. government’s assault on the Chinese economy.
The Economist The president is back after being hospitalised with the virus. But the pandemic may weaken the Republicans’ push to confirm Amy Coney Barrett PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP returned to the White House in triumphant mood on the evening of October 5th.
By Ariel Dorfman* – The Atlantic One tiny mark on a ballot, and then one more, and then yet another forged a better, luminous collective future in a not so distant land. Can you recognize this country?
Nesrine Malik* – The Guardian The president will not show humility, or respect for the 200,000 US dead. But the fatigue on his face is a testament to his limits If the past few days in US politics were a dramatisation, one would think the plot was too unbelievable.
By Thomas Frank* – Le Monde Diplomatique, English edition Both political parties in the US believe the other side is plotting a takeover of the nation that will end American democracy. The panic, fear, ranting and scolding has reached unbearable levels In this, the worst year of…
By John Cassidy* – The New Yorker As the reverberations from Tuesday night’s shambolic Presidential debate echoed around Washington on Wednesday, Senator Tim Scott, of South Carolina, the sole Black Republican in the upper house of Congress, called on…
Tyler Durden – Zero Hedge (*) (Authored by Dave DeCamp via AntiWar.com) Last week, the House Foreign Affairs Committee grilled Michael Pack, who President Trump recently appointed to head the US government’s state propaganda arm, the US Agency for Global Media (USAGM)…
The Guardian Donald Trump set the tone for a brawl that offered a bleak picture of American democracy Lloyd Green, Derecka Purnell, Geoffrey Kabaservice and Art Cullen Geoffrey Kabaservice*: ‘There were no winners’ As this annus horribilis grinds toward its close, the first (and…
By Roberto Savio* – Other News The creation of a Palestinian State remains a pipe-dream After the fall of the Ottoman Empire at the end of WWI, The League of Nations mandated that Britain administer Palestine. The London administration was quite ineffective, in part, due to the…
By Wade Davis* – Rolling Stone The Anthropologist Wade Davis on how COVID-19 signals the end of the American era. The COVID crisis has reduced to tatters the idea of American exceptionalism. *Wade Davis holds the Leadership Chair in Cultures and Ecosystems at Risk at the…
