...this type of incident is not unusual in European countries. Far-right parties have garnered even more success on the national level in several countries recently...
...is Trump’s continuous effort at outreach to Russia connected to his understanding of how the US might quietly transition from a moment of overextended empire – to something smaller, within a multi-polar framework?
...what is being desperately defended on Capitol Hill is not the rule of law, national security or fidelity to the Constitution of the United States., but a giant Neocon Lie that is needed to keep the Empire in business...
From a big picture perspective, the largest rift in American politics is between those willing to admit reality and those clinging to a dishonest perception of a past that never actually existed...
...most shocking thing to come out of the hearings thus far is confirmation that no matter who is elected President of the US, the permanent government will not allow a change in our aggressive interventionist foreign policy...
Like so many other glib “Russia experts” with access to Establishment media, Fiona Hill, who testified last week in the impeachment probe, seems three decades out of date...
The great mistake foreign observers make observing the latest impeachment farce in Washington is assuming that there must be some order, rationality and linear logic behind it. There is none...
Why do so many American Progressives wish to put even larger swathes of our lives under political control given their belief that politics is so very easily corrupted by oligarchs and big-money donors?
What we clearly see again is unelected central banks, having failed at their mandates, to pivot to politics to try to stay relevant. Will a Green New Deal be their new goal? Keeping CO2 in check along with CPI? Or will it be fighting inequality? If so, I seriously struggle to think how!
