Graham* – The Atlantic Donald Trump’s newest defense strategy is laced with menace The line between imagination and delusion is thin, as Donald Trump’s initial reaction to an FBI search at Mar-a-Lago in August demonstrated. In the first days afterward, the former president saw…
By ANTONIO POLITO – Corriere della Sera I don’t think that in other European countries political leaders boast publicly that they are good at bringing down governments. In Italy, Matteo Renzi has done it. ‘It is not a Giorgia stai serena,’ the leader of Fratelli d’Italia warned…
By Prabir Purkayastha * – Globetrotter/Independent Media Institute The so-called electricity markets were created to help private capital, not people. It is time that we wind up such bogus electricity markets and return all such public services to the people, to be run…
By Nadia Batok* – MEER Humanity accepting the inclusion of technology in our natural beings Experts wonder what will happen when we succeed in building computers that are smarter than us, how it will work and why it must be done in the right way to ensure that the human race…
Lorenzo Tondo (*) – The Guardian Giorgia Meloni’s Brothers of Italy draw on a vein of fascism in a country that – unlike Germany – has never had to confront its past A hundred years after the rise of Italian fascism was heralded by Mussolini’s 1922 march on Rome, the country is…
By Tom Theuns and Alvaro Oleart (*) -EUobserver Ursula von der Leyen’s State of the Union speech is just the most recent example of turning a blind eye to the EU’s own budding autocrats and the EU’s democratic deficit more broadly Unsurprisingly, the State of the Union speech by…
Amy Goodman, with Juan González – Democracy Now! (*) War in Ukraine & Crackdown on Dissent After Queen’s Death We look at how the Ukraine war is contributing to an energy crisis across Europe with Greek politician and economist Yanis Varoufakis. Last week Russia announced it…
By Priyamvada Gopal* – Al Jazeera, Qatar The late queen faithfully served the British imperial project Ever since Queen Elizabeth II passed away peacefully at a great age, the British public sphere has been engulfed by waves of cloying platitudes. On a seemingly interminable…
By Anis Chowdhury and Jomo Kwame Sundaram (*) SYDNEY and KUALA LUMPUR, Sep 13 2022 (IPS) – After a quarter century of economic stagnation, African economic recovery early in the 21st century was under great pressure even before the pandemic, due to new trade arrangements…
By Cesar Chelala* – CounterPunch Brazil’s upcoming presidential elections in October signal a momentous event in the country, one that will have long-lasting consequences. Throughout the campaign, Brazil’s president, Jair Bolsonaro, has suggested that, like the U.S. former…
