SubscriptionsCategory: US Politics
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Trump’s Middle East ‘Peace Deal’ Between Israel and the United Arab Emirates is a Facade
Political posturing has duped the West into celebrating a hollow Arab-Israeli accord, reports Jonathan Fenton-Harvey
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Demon Sperm: Donald Trump, Evangelicals & the Politics of Hate
As President Donald Trump embraces the extreme Christian fringes, Reverend Joe Haward looks at the radicalising role of religion and nationalism among the US right
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Australia’s Convict Colony Past Produced the Interview that Wrecked Trump
CJ Werleman explores why the Australian journalist Jonathan Swan was able to sidestep deference and put the American President on the spot as others have been unable to do
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Year Zero: Coronavirus Presents a Final Chance to Save the Planet
With more than $10 trillion of investment planned around the world in response to the Coronavirus pandemic, Stephen Colegrave considers whether this money can be used to halt climate change
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All the Data in the World: The Dangers of Trump’s Favourite Firm Going Global in a Crisis
Sam Bright tracks the global expansion of data mining company Palantir during the Coronavirus pandemic
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Special Forces Operatives are ‘High Functioning Psychopaths’: What Happens When they are Deployed to ‘Democratic Cities’?
From his experience talking to elite US and Australian combat units, CJ Werleman fears the worst for Donald Trump’s militarisation of policing
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How Johnson and Trump Transformed Their Countries From World Health Leaders into Coronavirus Disaster Cases
Paul Niland explores how a sudden, wilful populist destruction of institutions dragged the two top-rated countries for global health emergencies to the bottom of the pile
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Patriotic Dissent will Take Down Trump
Kseniya Kirillova explores how the most powerful threat to Donald Trump’s re-election are critiques from moderate conservatives like the Lincoln Project
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The American Catastrophe Awaiting Joe Biden
CJ Werleman explores the economic and social consequences of the US Government’s mismanagement of the Coronavirus crisis for the next President
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Facebook is Still Being Used to Rig Democracy
Caolan Robertson draws on his first-hand experience of stirring up right-wing political outrage for likes
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Israeli Annexation: Can the World Match Concern with Concerted Action?
While there has been universal condemnation of Israel’s plans to annex parts of the Palestinian West Bank, Jonathan Fenton-Harvey explains how words alone won’t rescue the two-state solution
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Donald Trump: From Devil’s Apprentice to Dunning-Kruger
Otto English argues that Donald Trump is living proof that, while you cannot fool all of the people all of the time, you can fool yourself
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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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Biblical Jesus Must Now Save the United States from American Jesus
CJ Werleman argues that the New Gospel figure of compassion and fairness who inspired the Civil Rights movement could help Black Lives Matter combat the Christian Right
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Food Standards and a Top Brexiter’s Fishy Business
Looking forward to Jersey Royal potatoes fresh from New Jersey? Henry Dyer reports on how US/UK trade talks could endanger British food standards
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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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Make Black Lives Matter By Ending the ‘War on Drugs’
More than 50 years ago, Richard Nixon decided to deliberately vilify and disrupt black communities in America through his ‘War on Drugs’ – the consequences of which must be tackled if fresh calls for an end to racial injustice are to succeed
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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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The Coronavirus Crisis: As Yemen Faces a New Crisis with COVID-19 the World Stands Idly By
The UK and US continue to sell arms to the Saudi-led coalition waging war in Yemen – a humanitarian crisis which has severely destabilised the country’s ability to tackle the Coronavirus pandemic.
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What is Missing in the Debate about Police Violence in the US
Iain Overton explains how there are countless non-fatal shootings at the hands of law enforcement in America that need to be discussed, too.
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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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Five Things Dominic Cummings Could Have Over Boris Johnson
With the Government mounting an unprecedented defence of the unelected chief advisor, Peter Jukes tries to work out what makes him so indispensable.
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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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The Coronavirus Crisis: In COVID-19, the US is Experiencing the Consequences of its Wars
CJ Werleman explains how the tables have unfortunately been turned on American citizens as they experience the Coronavirus pandemic – and how it should open their eyes to the damage inflicted by their country elsewhere.
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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.
