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Can Joe Biden Break the Deadlock Over Palestinian Statehood?
Alain Catzeflis looks at the chances that the Democratic Party US Presidential hopeful will find a path forward in the intractable Israel-Palestine question
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Trump has Made Americans a Global Health Hazard
CJ Werleman considers the effect on the reputation of the superpower following the President’s mishandling of the Coronavirus crisis, which has seen the US become the worst-hit country in the world
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Did Trump Cover-Up a Russian Conspiracy with the Taliban to Kill US Troops?
Kseniya Kirillova talks to intelligence experts about the likelihood the US President ignored evidence of GRU bounties paid to target troops in Afghanistan
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To Alabama and Back: The Memorial that Holds Up a Mirror to Racism
Hannah Charlton takes a journey into America’s dark history of segregation and subjugation of black communities and wonders how Britain could do the same
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When it Comes to Trump and his Supporters, Can Intolerance be an Act of Love?
CJ Werleman argues that if the US President is a shape-shifting salesman, his customers bear responsibility for his deadly racism and bigotry
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Why America Never Stops Genocide
CJ Werleman explores why reports of Donald Trump’s support for China’s Uyghur Muslim camps is not surprising given the gap between the US’ rhetoric and reality on it being the ‘policeman of the world’
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Qanon in Georgia — The Conspiracy Theory that has Become an Article of Faith
Graham Williamson reports on how the bizarre American satanic myth is now going mainstream in the Republican Party
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Trump and Fox News Continue to Stoke a Race War in the Streets
CJ Werleman reports on how violent right-wing extremists have been empowered further following the murder of George Floyd and the protests of the Black Lives Matter movement
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Veneration of Donald Trump Is a ‘Personality Cult’
Kseniya Kirillova speaks to cult expert Steven Hassan, who has been helping people exit destructive cults since 1976 having once been a member of the ‘Moonies’, about the US President’s supporter base US President Donald Trump appears to have the traits of a leader of a destructive cult and his influence on the most zealous…
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Statue Battles: The Counter-Protestors at War with Themselves
Stephen Yaxley-Lennon’s former producer explains how the hard-right has chosen a fight it cannot win and why Boris Johnson cannot cut it completely loose
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America Becomes a Propaganda Tool Abroad By Suppressing Dissent Domestically
Steve Shaw reports on how Donald Trump’s violent crackdown on Black Lives Matter protests are being used by repressive regimes abroad to prove the superpower’s hypocrisy
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Blackstone, Private Equity and the Future of Public Education
Tom White, Ben Jacob and Crystal Ma look at how private firms and billionaire donors could benefit from the radical restructuring of universities during the Coronavirus pandemic
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The US Protests Reveal How Gun Culture Has Always Been About White Supremacy
CJ Werleman explores how the right to bear arms and racial injustice in America have always been intertwined – a relationship which can be seen again in the reaction of gun advocates to Donald Trump’s use of force against protestors now
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Donald Trump: Make America Hate Again
James Melville explains why the US President was always destined to burn bridges rather than build them, and how he fans the flames of racism
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Is the United States on the Brink of Another Civil War?
With protests taking place across cities in America following the murder of George Floyd, CJ Werleman considers whether the country could descend into all-out conflict sparked by continuing racial injustice.
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‘Tommy Robinson’ and the Hundred-Year-Old Racist Rape Meme
Stephen Yaxley-Lennon’s former producer explains why sexual fears of non-white foreigners are being used to aggravate racial tensions in the UK.
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The Coronavirus Crisis: 100,000 People Are Dead – But America Doesn’t Mourn Black and Brown Lives
The COVID-19 pandemic has once again exposed what ‘White America’ believes to be of value in the US, argues CJ Werleman.
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Businesses and Lobbyists Tied to Trump Secure Millions in Aid from US Coronavirus Stimulus Bill
Stephen Delahunty reports on how the US Government’s $669 billion Paycheck Protection Programme to deal with COVID-19 is benefitting those with links to the President.
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The Coronavirus Crisis: Boris Johnson’s COVID-19 Message Exploits a Long-Established Culture of Individualism
Jon Bailes explores why the Government may have changed its Coronavirus messaging to ‘Stay Alert’ and how this represents the tenets of a culture in which social problems are blamed on perceived individual failings.
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The Coronavirus Crisis: It’s Time to Discuss the United States’ Most Dangerous 36%
CJ Werleman discusses a new poll which indicates sustained support for Donald Trump over COVID-19 and distrust of the country’s top infectious disease expert – and where this lethal aversion to the truth among a sizable part of the population could lead.
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The Coronavirus Crisis: It Took a Global Pandemic to Expose the Stock Market as a “Mirage”
Despite Donald Trump making it central to his presidency, the success of the stock market bears no connection to the lives of nearly 90% of American citizens.
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The Emptiness of Trump’s Relentless Pursuit of Beauty
Bonnie Greer explores what is driving the US President in his quest to create the world around him in his vision.
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Palantir Coronavirus Contract Did Not Go to Competitive Tender
David Hencke reveals that the UK Government’s COVID-19 contract with the data surveillance firm owned by Donald Trump-backer Peter Thiel was approved under an obscure statutory instrument.
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The Coronavirus Crisis: Two Deadly Viruses Are Wreaking Havoc in the US – COVID-19 and MAGA-20
CJ Werleman on the ‘liberation’ protests being held in some American states demanding an end to social distancing measures to help combat the COVID-19 pandemic.
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The Coronavirus Crisis: COVID-19 Exposes the US as a Third-World Country
CJ Werleman explains how the Coronavirus has starkly exposed all of the US’ structural social problems and made them worse.
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The Coronavirus Crisis: Does COVID-19 Prove Women Are Best Suited to Lead in a Crisis?
New Zealand and Germany have been commended for their approaches to tackling the Coronavirus pandemic – does the fact that both are led by females hold the key to their success?
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The Coronavirus Crisis: Herd Immunity has Infected UK Policy – But Who Was Patient Zero for this Toxic Transatlantic Idea?
Peter Jukes finds more evidence that the origin of the disastrous concept can be traced back to the Prime Minister’s chief advisor Dominic Cummings and his US links.
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The Coronavirus Crisis: The Christian Right Becomes A Suicide Cult
CJ Werleman explains why President Donald Trump’s support from the Christian Right is proving deadly in the US’ response to the COVID-19 pandemic.
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The Coronavirus Crisis: China Capitalises on COVID-19 By Blaming Foreigners
CJ Werleman looks at the international conspiracy theories being thrown around about the Coronavirus and how the Chinese Communist Party is using the pandemic to further its geopolitical goals.
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The Coronavirus Crisis: More Austerity Doesn’t have to be the Answer to a COVID-19 Recession
Stephen Colegrave on why using austerity to justify the right-wing claim that the ‘cure is worse than the disease’ is so damaging in the fight against the Coronavirus.
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The Coronavirus Crisis: Trump is Choosing Mass Graves Over Social Distancing to Save the Stock Market
The lives of Americans are being put in grave danger because of the President’s incompetence, misinformation and narcissism, says CJ Werleman.
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COVID-19 SPECIAL INVESTIGATION: Part One – The Politicised Science that Nudged the Johnson Government to Safeguard the Economy over British Lives
In the first part of his investigation, Nafeez Ahmed looks at the serious flaws of scientific fatalism and inaccurate modelling.
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The Coronavirus Crisis: The Obnoxious Stupidity of Flag-Waving Patriotism
CJ Werleman argues that those flocking to beaches at the weekend and flouting social distancing measures to tackle the COVID-19 outbreak cannot be called patriotic.
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The Coronavirus Crisis: Enter the Far-Right
Will sowing division and hate by blaming the Coronavirus pandemic on Chinese and Asian people be part of Donald Trump’s 2020 re-election strategy?
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A Good Day to Bury Bad News: US Justice Department Drops Charges over Russia’s 2016 Election Interference
Caroline Orr reports on how charges against indicted Putin Ally Yevgeny Prigozhin were abandoned just as the coronavirus pandemic in the US set a deadly new record.
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The Coronavirus Crisis: The Danger of America Being a ‘Me’ Country Not a ‘We’ Country
CJ Werleman explains why a national philosophy of selfishness and a President who willingly spreads disinformation is such as a threat to America as it tackles the COVID-19 outbreak.
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The Dangerous Duo of Trump and Putin Weaponising Coronavirus Disinformation
CJ Werleman reports on conspiracy theories that the US is behind the outbreak of COVID-19, the President’s spreading of disinformation and Vladimir Putin’s interests in adding his trolls into the mix.
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The Coronavirus Crisis: Has the Public Still Had Enough of Experts?
Otto English explores the disinformation which has been spreading as fast as the Coronavirus and considers the soil which allowed the denigration of facts and expertise to flower.
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Unhealthy Information: Trump’s Aggravating of a Deadly Pandemic
CJ Werleman explains why the Trump Administration’s response to the Coronavirus provides a glimpse of its dystopian future.
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Will the Coronavirus Be the Death of Authoritarian Regimes?
While authoritarians try to build nationalist walls, infectious diseases don’t respect boundaries and need transnational solutions argues CJ Werleman.
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‘Downstream of Culture’: How Identity Politics Swept Labour Away
While the right has turned politics into a culture war, the left has yet to tackle the politics of culture, says Hardeep Matharu.
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Meet the ‘Anti-Greta’: Climate Denial’s Latest Vessel
Mat Hope explains how the dark money-funded US alt-right is using a German teenager to advance more misinformation about the climate emergency.
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Sanders Versus Trump: Why Russian Intervention Will be Worse in 2020
With Donald Trump facing re-election in the US and the Labour leadership for up grabs in the UK, Stephen Komarnyckyj looks at how Vladimir Putin is trying to further disrupt politics in both countries.
