By Benjamin Moffitt* – The Guardian The loose coalition of disparate groups that came together to defeat Trump has served its purpose. Now the struggle begins It is tempting to conclude that Donald Trump’s defeat – which he still hasn’t accepted – is a sign that the “populist…
By Edit Inotai and Claudia Ciobanu – Balkan Insight Hungary and Poland have plunged Europe into another untimely crisis by vetoing the budget as they look to water down the rule-of-law mechanism governing the distribution of EU funds. Hungary and Poland blocked the €1.82…
By Roberto Savio* Now it is clear that Joe Biden is the new president of the United States. It is unlikely that Donald Trump’s legal manoeuvring will change the election results, as when a conservative Supreme Court in 2000 decided in favour of George Bush over Al Gore, who lost…
By Richard Sennett* – The Guardian The anger that drives the president’s supporters was visible 50 years ago. As it hardens, they may shift further right Even if Donald Trump loses, his base will not desert him.
By Ewan Palmer* – Newsweek Followers of QAnon are jubilant after President Donald Trump failed to denounce the baseless conspiracy theory, which claims that leading Democrats are satanic pedophiles, during NBC’s Town Hall. The president frequently claimed he knows…
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…
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…
Maya Goodfellow – The Guardian Priti Patel’s (UK Home Secretary) recognition of a child’s humanity in death is hollow when he was stripped of it in life by cruel border policies The human cost of the government’s border policies has been made appallingly and painfully real: a…
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 Joseph Chamie* NEW YORK, Jul 2020 (IPS) – The world is in the midst of the Great Migration Clash, a bitter struggle between those who “want out” of their countries and those who want others to “keep out” of their countries. More than a billion people would like to move…
