Goodbye, Trump, and welcome democracy!
Dear editor President-elect Joe Biden has won the election by 5 million more votes than Mr. Trump and has secured 76 more electoral college (EC) votes. Mr. Biden sits on 290 EC votes – well […]
Category: USA
EU must learn to live without US leadership under Biden, say analysts
by Agence France-Presse The EU will once again have a cooperative US partner when Joe Biden becomes president, but Europeans should harbour no illusions: Washington will be no globo-cop nor NATO’s big protector, leaders and analysts […]
US removes shadowy group condemned by China from terror list
by Agence France-Presse The United States said Friday it had removed from its list of terror groups a shadowy faction regularly blamed by China to justify its harsh crackdown in the Muslim-majority Xinjiang region. In a […]
Biden Underperforms and Trump Stokes Chaos by Claiming False Victory
BYAmy Goodman, Democracy Now! President Trump has prematurely declared victory and falsely accused Democrats of “major fraud,” even as millions of ballots continue to be counted across the United States amid an unprecedented wave of mail-in […]
Politicians Should Stop Assuming Immigration Is the Only “Latino Issue”
BYRafael Logroño, Truthout We’ve heard countless experts argue that Latinos “will decide the 2020 election,” but can either Donald Trump or Joe Biden win big with Latinx voters? There are 32 million Latinos eligible to vote […]
The Winner of the 2020 Election Won’t Be Inheriting a Genuine Democracy
BYAlexandra Boutri, Truthout With just a few days until what is widely regarded as the most important national election in recent U.S. history, voters remain divided and polarized over what should be essentially the future of […]
Climate Change and Hurricanes
BY JOHN DAVIS Photograph Source: Roosevelt Skerrit – CC BY-SA 3.0 Do you remember last summer’s gang-of-five? Known individually as Harvey, Irma, Jose, Katia and Maria, a strangely mellifluous invocation of the deluge (or a diluvian mantra), […]
Policing the Pandemic: How the City of Albuquerque Criminalizes People Living on the Streets
BY KEEGAN JAMES SARMIENTO KLOER – DAVID CORREIA Photograph Source: Office of Public Affairs – CC BY2.0 Instead of helping unsheltered people find support and housing, the City of Albuquerque’s Family and Community Services Department has been […]
On Trump’s Megalomania
BY EVAGGELOS VALLIANATOS Photograph by Nathaniel St. Clair I have been observing Trump since 2016. He is a despot in a business suit. He is undermining the government and the health of Americans and the natural […]
Trump and Biden: Cold-War Dinosaurs
BY JULIA KASSEM Photograph Source: Phillip Pessar – CC BY 2.0 The first time foreign policy was mentioned in the entire 2020 election campaign began with a question premised upon allegations that Russia, Iran, and China were […]