Gaza’s collective sumud has proven more powerful than one of the world’s best-equipped militaries, but the change in international attitudes isn’t happening fast enough to save a starving population from Western-backed genocide, argues RAMZY BAROUD
Democracy was not on the ballot: the Democrats made sure of that
In sordid tactics that ended up backfiring, Kamala Harris’s ‘nomination’ was the least democratic in history, while the party actively suppressed dissident voices online and its lawyers suppressed third-party candidates from the ballot box, says DENNIS BROE
DEFEATED: Kamala Harris holds up a phone as she phone banks with volunteers at the DNC headquarters on election day
Starmer sabotaged Labour with his second referendum campaign, mobilising a liberal backlash that sincerely felt progressive ideals were at stake — but the EU was then and is now an entity Britain should have nothing to do with, explains NICK WRIGHT
JOHN PERRY, BECCA RENK and ROGER D HARRIS offer a corrective to the idea that Latin America still lags far behind the West on women’s rights by looking at the region’s significant feminist gains now stretching back decades
Danni Perry’s flag display at the Royal Opera House sparked 182 performers to sign a solidarity letter that cancelled the Tel Aviv Tosca production, while Leonardo DiCaprio invests in Tel Aviv hotels, reports LINDA PENTZ GUNTER
The summer saw the co-founders of modern communism travelling from Ramsgate to Neuenahr to Scotland in search of good weather, good health and good newspapers in the reading rooms, writes KEITH FLETT
STEPHEN ARNELL casts a critical eye over the sudden rash of challenges to the two-party system on both sides of the Atlantic, noting that today’s performative populist politics sadly lacks Roosevelt’s progressive ‘Bull Moose’ vision of the early 20th century
THE election’s over and now it’s time for the excuses to begin. The Democrats will blame Russia, China, Iran and probably even Moldova for interference. Had they lost, the Republicans would have said the election results were rigged.
The truth is most voters are so angry with the way not only the country but the world is going to hell in a handbasket, they turned out in droves to vote against the centre-right neoliberal agenda, pushing the majority of Americans closer to poverty domestically and pushing the world to the edge of nuclear destruction in a foreign policy built on simultaneously waging three wars. Wars which Joe Biden’s treasury secretary had famously said that an in-debt, cash-strapped government that cannot issue disaster relief at home can afford.
The Democrats will now claim that democracy has taken a hit, but the truth is what is left of that shabby institution had already been pummelled by that party in the campaign.
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