Editorial – The Observer Despite the fears about his electability, Bernie Sanders is the man to beat on Super Tuesday and could yet pose a real threat to Trump The battle for the US Democratic party’s presidential nomination will reach a sort of climax this week when 14 states…
By Daniel Trilling* – The Guardian Politicians across Europe have been quick to exploit the outbreak by heaping suspicion on the most marginalised When I give talks on Europe’s “refugee crisis” I often start by showing a photograph of a rescue boat arriving at the port of…
By Robert Jago* – The Nation When pipeline protesters shut down Canada’s railways, the prime minister stopped pretending to care about reconciliation. As we speak, Canadian paramilitary and police forces are occupying parts of the sovereign territories of the indigenous…
The Economist Boris Johnson is busy accumulating power in Number 10 The emperor Nero was reportedly in the habit of dipping dissidents in tar and using them to light his dinner parties. Boris Johnson has not so far shown an inclination to use his ministers as human torches…
By Vijay Prashad* – Independent Media Institute At Obock, Djibouti, 2,000 migrants gather each day along the waters of the Gulf of Aden; they look for boats to get them to Yemen. Over the past two years, more migrants from Africa have used the “Eastern Route”…
By Mukul Kesavan* – The Guardian The riots have been driven by a ruling party intent on painting its largely peaceful opponents as seditious sectarians Since Sunday violent mobs in north-east Delhi have killed 21 people including a police constable, injured hundreds of others…
By Anis Chowdhury and Jomo Kwame Sundaram* SYDNEY and KUALA LUMPUR, Feb 2020 (IPS) – Meeting the President of the Republic of Korea in September 2019, President Donald J Trump bragged that the “US economy is the envy of the world”. Trump reiterated such claims in his State…
By Jason Stanley* – The Guardian The two strongmen favour immigration and citizenship policies designed to demonise minority groups The US president, Donald Trump, has delighted a stadium of 125,000 cheering Indians in Gujarat by declaring: “America loves India. America respects…
The Economist Covid-19 presents economic policymakers with a new sort of threat It mixes demand and supply effects The only thing we have to fear is fear itself, or so reckoned Franklin Roosevelt. In many an economic downturn that is true—an anxiety-induced reluctance to…
By AMY GOODMAN – Democracy Now! As Bernie Sanders’s runaway win in Nevada cements his position as the front-runner for the Democratic nomination, the Democratic Party establishment and much of the mainstream media are openly expressing concern about a self-described democratic…
