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President Donald Trump walks from the podium at the end of a news conference at the Lotte New York Palace hotel during the United Nations General Assembly yesterday
WHEN Donald Trump took the rostrum at the United Nations general assembly yesterday and delegates laughed at his boastful rhetoric directed at United States voters, he was initially surprised.
“Didn’t expect that reaction, but that’s OK,” he confessed.
Since then the Washington Ministry of Truth has leapt into action, with his ambassador to the UN, Nikki Haley, insisting that the world’s diplomats were laughing because “they loved how honest he is.”
International solidarity can ensure that Trump and his machine cannot prevail without a level of political and economic cost that he will not want to pay, argues CLAUDIA WEBBE
The global left must be unwavering in it is support for Venezuela as Washington increases its aggression, and clear-eyed about the West’s cynical motives for targeting it, says CLAUDIA WEBBE
US baseless accusations of drug trafficking and the outrageous putting of a bounty on a president of a sovereign country do not bode well, reports PABLO MERIGUET
