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The Fading of Washington’s Global Dreams and the Coming of a New World

19Jan

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USA

The Fading of Washington’s Global Dreams and the Coming of a New World

BY ALFRED W. MCCOY Photo by Lee Lawson A few recent headlines reveal the painfully inhumane, dangerously volatile state of U.S. relations with its own home region, the continent of North America. A record-breaking 2.76 million border crossings from Mexico filled homeless shelters to the bursting point in cities nationwide in 2022. This year, the possible cessation of Covid restrictions could allow tens of thousands more migrants, now huddling in the cold of northern Mexico, to surge across the border, as some are already able to do. Most of those refugees are Central Americans, fleeing cities ravaged by gang warfare and farms devastated by climate change. The inept U.S. response to such a disturbing world ranges from the Biden administration’s nervo...

Can the United States Provide an Off-Ramp For Putin?

19Jan

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Russia, Ukraine, USA

Can the United States Provide an Off-Ramp For Putin?

BY MELVIN GOODMAN Photo by Markus Spiske If you believe that the Russian invasion of Ukraine was unprovoked, then perhaps you should read no further. And, if you believe that Vladimir Putin will allow the United States and Europe to bring Ukraine into the Western security orbit, then once again you should read no further. But if you acknowledge the provocations that the United States has made in dealing with Russia over the past 20 years, then consider the possibility that U.S. concessions could provide an opening for high-level talks with the Kremlin and perhaps a cease-fire. One way to slow the spiral of horrific fighting and Western delivery of increasingly lethal military weaponry, which now includes more sophisticated armored combat vehicles and mobile a...

19Jan

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Environment

Global warming – an obvious fact?

ByIvor Williams YOU might argue that to say the world is warming is an obvious fact. ‘But,’ as Sherlock Holmes remarked to Dr Watson*, ‘there is nothing more deceptive than an obvious fact.’ The meteorological fraternity tell us that as emissions keep growing the temperature of our earth will keep rising. Some of the effects, they say, can be seen in extreme weather such as floods, droughts and storms. However, research has shown the apparent escalation of this kind of event is far more likely to be due to a greater facility for reporting every incident over the last fifty years. Even more doubt lies in the fact that we have been widely recording weather details for about 150 of the 11,000 years since the last ice age. Any claims of records being broken can refer o...

With Echoes of Jan. 6, Thousands of Bolsonaro Supporters Storm Presidential Offices

19Jan

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Brazil

With Echoes of Jan. 6, Thousands of Bolsonaro Supporters Storm Presidential Offices

Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro speaks during the formal launch of his reelection campaign on July 24, 2022 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. (Photo: Buda Mendes/Getty Images) "The insurrection in Brazil can be directly tied to Trump and the Republicans' emboldening of fascism and violent extremism," said one progressive U.S. lawmaker. JULIA CONLEY This is a developing story. Please check back for updates... Brazil on Sunday faced "its own January 6," one progressive journalist said as thousands of supporters of former President Jair Bolsonaro stormed the presidential offices and the nation's Congress in Brasilia a week after President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, commonly known as Lula, was sworn in. Lula was in São Paulo at the time of...

Biden Isn’t Great for Latin America, But Trump Was Far Worse

19Jan

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USA

Biden Isn’t Great for Latin America, But Trump Was Far Worse

BY ARIELA RUIZ CARO Two major developments can be inferred from the results of the November 8, 2022 mid-term elections in the United States. First, the voters did not punish Joe Biden after his first two years as president as the pre-election polls had predicted they would. Consequently, Donald Trump’s political standing has diminished along with the legitimacy of his leadership role in the Republican Party. All 435 seats in the House of Representatives were up for election, and Republicans now have control of the lower chamber, though by a narrow margin. Since the end of World War II, the opposition party has usually won at least one of the two legislative bodies in the first mid-term election after a new president takes over. Historically, however, the opposition victory...

Free Speech and Academic Freedom in the American Corporate University

19Jan

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Education, Human Rights

Free Speech and Academic Freedom in the American Corporate University

BY DAVID SCHULTZ Phil Knight Management Center, Graduate School of Business, Stanford University. Photo Steve Castillo. CC BY 3.0 Free speech and academic freedom are under attack in American higher education. From the right the allegation is that wokeness and political correctness have taken over, articulating a political agenda that is anti-white, anti-Christian, anti-capitalism, and pro LGBTQ. From the left the indictment is that schools continue to replicate stereotypes in their curriculum that perpetuate discrimination against marginalized groups. Efforts by administrators to police curriculum raises concerns of academic freedom among faculty, whereas doing nothing leaves students feeling they are ...

Which Government Does the United States Recognize in Venezuela?

19Jan

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USA, Venezuela

Which Government Does the United States Recognize in Venezuela?

BY VIJAY PRASHAD Photograph Source: U.S. Department of State – Public Domain On January 3, 2023, Shaun Tandon of Agence France-Presse asked U.S. State Department spokesperson Ned Price about Venezuela. In late December, the Venezuelan opposition after a fractious debate decided to dissolve the “interim government” led by Juan Guaidó. From 2019 onward, the U.S. government recognized Guaidó as the “interim president of Venezuela.” With the end of Guaidó’s administration, Tandon asked if “the United States still recognize[s] Juan Guaidó as legitimate interim president.” Price’s answer was that the U.S. government recognizes the “only remaining democratically elected institution in Venezuela today, and that’s the 2015 Na...

18Jan

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USA

The Political Hubris of Long-Term Plans

BY PATRICK COCKBURN Photograph Source: Matt Brown – CC BY 2.0 Few sights are more absurd or unreal than political leaders announcing their long-term plans for radical changes benefitting millions or their intention to reform giant institutions in a year or two. Grandiose pledges to create a better world trip off the tongue and they pretend to have a degree of control over events that they must know they do not possess. I always liked the caustic remark of French Prime Minister Georges Clemenceau when told in 1918 about President Woodrow Wilson’s Fourteen Points for ending the First World War and for establishing a lasting peace. “Why does he need 14 points?” asked Clemenceau derisively. “Even the Good God only had 10.” I remembered Clemenceau’s jibe when watching Prim...

Third Countries and Bipartisan Hypocrisy

18Jan

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USA

Third Countries and Bipartisan Hypocrisy

BY MICHAEL SLAGER Photograph Source: manhhai – CC BY 2.0 President Biden recently announced changes to US immigration rules that will effectively embed two Trump-era policies, one of which the Supreme Court’s conservative majority has temporarily refused to halt: Title 42. It is a measure ostensibly intended to curtail the spread of COVID-19 by expelling or refusing entry to migrants from Central America. The other is the so-called “safe third country” policy, which requires migrants to apply for asylum in a country through which they transit on their way to the southern border. They must show that the request was denied before attempting to make an asylum claim in the United States. Employing these measures displays the hypocrisy of both major political parties when it ...

Is Jordan really the custodian of Jerusalem’s holy sites?

18Jan

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Jordan, Palestine Affairs, West Bank, ZIO-NAZI

Is Jordan really the custodian of Jerusalem’s holy sites?

Jordanians shout slogans during a protest against the closure of the Al-Aqsa Mosque in Amman, Jordan on 15 July 2017 [Salah Malkawi/Anadolu Agency]. Motasem A Dalloul Israeli occupation forces detained the Director of Al-Aqsa Mosque, Sheikh Omar Al-Kiswani, as he entered the Noble Sanctuary on Tuesday. He was humiliated and searched before being allowed to enter the Islamic holy site. Last week, the Israeli occupation forces delayed Britain's Minister for the Middle East, Lord Tariq Ahmad, for more than half an hour while he was visiting Al-Aqsa Mosque. The minister was subjected to a prolonged security check at the Lions Gate (Bab Al-Asbat). The occupation state went further on Wednesday when it prevented Jordanian Ambassador to Israel Ghassan Majali from entering Al-Aqsa...