By Ariela Ruiz Caro* – CounterPunch Two major developments can be inferred from the results of the November 8, 2022 mid-term elections in the United States. First, the voters did not punish Joe Biden after his first two years as president as the pre-election polls had predicted…
By Carlos Gustavo Poggio Teixeira* – The Hill Once again, observers of Brazilian politics have a sense of déjà vu. Since the election of Jair Bolsonaro two years after the election of Donald Trump, Brazilians have been living in a kind of U.S. political multiverse with a…
By Binoy Kampmark* – CounterPunch website It just keeps getting darker and darker. For the professionally ignorant, things are only getting better. With one of history’s great events of sportswashing concluded – the 2022 Qatar World Cup – another state famed…
Jonathan Yerushalmy and Sam Jones – The Guardian Joe Biden says situation in Brazil is ‘outrageous’ as presidents across South America denounce ‘assault on democracy’ Joe Biden said the situation in Brazil was “outrageous” after supporters of the former president Jair Bolsonaro…
By Pavan Kulkarni* – People’s Dispatch Fighting between the Sahrawi People’s Liberation Army and Moroccan occupying forces has intensified in recent days. Morocco, Western Sahara – Moroccan forces illegally occupying the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic (SADR) have come under…
By Peter Wehner* – The Atlantic For Trump, the violence on January 6 was a bonus. “We all look like domestic terrorists now.” Those are the words of Hope Hicks, one of Donald Trump’s most loyal aides, in a text she sent to Ivanka Trump’s chief of staff on January 6, 2021. They…
Patrick Wintour and Jessica Elgot (*) – The Guardian After Bolsonaro’s defeat and Duterte’s departure, 1.7 billion people are now living under populist rule, report says The number of populist leaders around the world has fallen to a 20-year low after a series of victories for…
By Branko Marcetic* – Jacobin Juan Guaidó was supposed to be the appealing, human face of US-backed regime change in Venezuela. His ouster as “interim president” this week is another signal that those efforts have failed. It’s official: Juan Guaidó is no longer the president of…
By Michael von der Schulenburg* Outlining the possible outcomes from the probable scenarios Whether there will be a chance for peace in Ukraine depends, above all, on the United States! For the USA, this war is about its geostrategic goals and only geostrategic considerations…
