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Trump Is Blaming Everyone but Himself for Midterm Losses — Including His Wife

By Chris Walker — Truthout

By Chris Walker- Truthout Former President Donald Trump is reportedly “fuming” over the midterm results, as at least 14 of his endorsed GOP candidates lost to their Democratic counterparts in elections this week. Sources who were present at Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate in Palm…

11 November 2022 · 3 min read

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Like hundreds of thousands of others, our prime ministers are hacked on their phones. Can anything be done to stop it?

By Rufo Guerreschi

By Rufo Guerreschi* Elected officials, prime ministers, front-line journalists and news editors are increasingly hacked on their phones. So are hundreds of thousands of law-abiding citizens.

11 Nov 2022 · 9 min read

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Donald Trump Is Political Kryptonite

By Doug Gordon — Newsweek

By Doug Gordon – Newsweek By any objective standard, the 2022 election was a historically bad election for Republicans. While votes are still being counted and important races have yet to be called, the so-called “red wave” Republicans had spent months promising turned out to be…

10 Nov 2022 · 5 min read

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Discipline the poor, protect the rich – it’s the same old Tories, same old class war

Aditya Chakrabortty* – The Guardian Brexit didn’t change the party: austerity was as heartless under Cameron and Osborne as it is under Sunak What kind of government is this? You can almost see the puzzlement on pundits’ faces as they try to work it out.

10 Nov 2022 · 6 min read

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Trump’s march back to power has faltered. Now comes the real challenge for the global left

By Martin Kettle — The Guardian

By Martin Kettle* – The Guardian The US midterms have provided modest relief – but dilemmas facing US allies from Ukraine to the UK remain “It could have been a lot worse” will never be the most inspiring verdict on any election result, especially in a political and media…

9 Nov 2022 · 7 min read

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Children of African descent ‘not considered children at all

UN expert groups (*) – Modern Diplomacy In a report issued on Tuesday, UN human rights experts outline how discrimination affects black boys and girls worldwide to the extent that they are not considered children, even in the eyes of the law. They said unresolved legacies of…

9 Nov 2022 · 3 min read

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Populists vs. the planet: How climate became the new culture war front line

By Karl Mathiesen — POLITICO

By Karl Mathiesen* – POLITICO US midterms show populism is now the ‘biggest obstacle’ to addressing global warming, say greens Delegates landing in Egypt’s Red Sea resort of Sharm El-Sheikh for U.n. climate talks this week are a global elite bent on tearing down national…

8 Nov 2022 · 7 min read

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Twitter and Elon Musk: why free speech absolutism threatens human rights

By Sarah Glozer, Emily Jane Godwin and Rita Mota

By Sarah Glozer, Emily Jane Godwin and Rita Mota (*) – The Conversation For a man who made a fortune from electric cars, the Twitter takeover has turned into a fairly bumpy ride so far. Soon after buying the social media company for US$44 billion (£38 billion), Elon Musk said he…

8 Nov 2022 · 5 min read

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Dangerous moment for American democracy

Observer Editorial A Republican midterm landslide is the last thing a divided, angry America needs From one perspective, the historical significance of this Tuesday’s US midterm elections should not be overstated. Anticipated Republican gains, and a consequent loss of Democratic…

7 Nov 2022 · 5 min read

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THE DOMINANT NEEDS WAR

By Riccardo Petrella

By Riccardo Petrella* “The only war worth fighting is the fight against poverty” – Jan Tinbergen, Nobel Prize winner for economics JUSTICE, SOLIDARITY AND DEMOCRACY NEED PEACE. Is this possible today?

7 Nov 2022 · 19 min read