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The Rwanda bill debate: mainstream politics captured by the fringe

Editorial – The Guardian Rishi Sunak’s weak leadership has given a small, hardline faction too much purchase on the national debate Amid the parliamentary theatrics surrounding the Rwanda safety bill in recent days, it has been easy to lose sight of the absurdity at…

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Israel’s argument at The Hague: We are Incapable of Genocide

By Binoy Kampmark* – CounterPunch website Israel’s relationship with the United Nations, international institutions and international law has at times bristled with suspicion and blatant hostility.  In a famous cabinet meeting in 1955, Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion…

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Ecuador, between the rhetoric of the conflict and the reality of the facts

By Francesco Martone* Pavlov’s experiment: “By associating the presentation of meat to a dog with a bell sound for a certain number of times, eventually the bell sound alone will determine salivation in the dog. ” There is much neuropolitics in the unraveling of the most recent…

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Why Joe Biden Is a Foreign Policy Failure

Sachs * – Common Dreams Only an exceptional president could resist the endless war-profiteering of this mammoth war machine; alas, Biden doesn’t even try. When it comes to foreign policy, the president of the United States has two essential roles.

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Magical Thinking About Biden 2024 Paves Way For Another Trump Presidency

By Jeff Cohen and Norman Solomon* –  ADN SAN FRANCISCO | January 2024 (IDN) — An avalanche of polling shows Joe Biden with abysmal approval ratings and grim re-election prospects, but Democratic leaders keep spinning away in dreamland. Even before the…