VIJAY PRASHAD examines why in 2018 Washington started to take an increasingly belligerent stance towards ‘near peer rivals’ – Russa and China – with far-reaching geopolitical effects
Is Trump now unstoppable?
Behind the superficial glitter of the Republican election campaign, lie big money interests and an assortment of extreme right-wing groups – including white supremacists, anti-semites and bizarre conspiracy theorists, warns JOHN GREEN
ROGER McKENZIE looks back 60 years to the assassination of Malcolm X, whose message that black people have worth resonated so strongly with him growing up in Walsall in the 1980s
At least 1.5 million tons of crude oil has been spilt in the Niger Delta since 1958, writes PAVAN KULKANI
ANDREW MURRAY surveys a quaking continent whose leaders have no idea how to respond to an openly contemptuous United States
Based on his experience of Haringey Council Councillor MARK BLAKE believes only a radical policy rethink will reconnect councils with the alienated constituencies they are supposed to serve
Last week the CPUSA launched a new Rapid Response project aimed at mobilising a popular resistance to policies enacted by the new government. CAMERON HARRISON explains
WITH Joe Biden’s reluctant withdrawal from the race for the next US presidency and, barring any unexpected earthquakes, it is looking like a very safe bet that Donald Trump will be the next president.
There have been a number of US presidents who were clearly not up to the job and who were completely out of their depth. One only needs to think back to Ronald Reagan and George Bush Jnr as perhaps the two most infamous, but Donald Trump is in another league altogether.
The mainstream media treat Trump as a cartoon figure, a hapless accident-prone clown, while our political leaders try and pretend he doesn’t exist and reiterate the mantra that “our relationship with the USA will remain solid” irrespective of who is president.
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