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Obama’s last days

Written By: mickysavage - Date published: 10:05 am, December 30th, 2016 - 150 comments

Barak Obama is using the last few days of his presidency to do some quite radical stuff.

Israel threatens sanctions against New Zealand

Written By: mickysavage - Date published: 10:31 am, December 27th, 2016 - 132 comments

Israel has responded to New Zealand’s principled stand in seeking to uphold the rights of Palestinian citizens by threatening sanctions.

Facebook, fake news and Donald Trump’s election

Written By: mickysavage - Date published: 9:33 am, December 26th, 2016 - 72 comments

Donald Trump’s success in the recent Presidential Election may have had a lot to do with very judicious use of targeted Facebook advertising and the proliferation of fake news stories.

Reason #3751 progressives should oppose Donald Trump presidency

Written By: mickysavage - Date published: 8:09 am, December 23rd, 2016 - 26 comments

President Donald Trump reckons that the US must greatly strengthen and expand its nuclear capability to make the world come to its senses regarding nukes.

Keep it in the ground

Written By: advantage - Date published: 8:00 am, December 22nd, 2016 - 51 comments

In the last days of the Obama presidency the current President is taking steps to protect the Arctic from oil drilling.

Denial in Politics

Written By: Mike Smith - Date published: 9:26 pm, December 17th, 2016 - 33 comments

There’s a lot of it around. The Democrats and their media and spook allies are in a complete lather over Putin’s supposed personal influence in the US election. Confident of victory and its spoils up till midday on election day, the Clinton team are incapable of assessing just what a debacle of a campaign they ran, still less what they need to do now. Lessons abound.

The first Trump ripple

Written By: advantage - Date published: 1:17 pm, December 17th, 2016 - 96 comments

Donald Trump’s telephone call with the Taiwanese president has created a response which it seems clear he did not anticipate.

The great US climate scientist witch hunt

Written By: mickysavage - Date published: 8:55 am, December 11th, 2016 - 15 comments

Donald Trump’s transition team have been quizzing state employees of the Department of Energy about their beliefs and activities in relation to climate change. Is a clear out of those who believe climate change is a reality possible? And why is he refusing to investigate the possibility that Russia affected the Presidential election in his favour?

Trump’s broad international challenges

Written By: advantage - Date published: 9:00 am, December 1st, 2016 - 10 comments

Barak Obama is leaving Donald Trump a number of international crises to face. What will the Donald do and will he make America great again?

Everybody wants a recount

Written By: mickysavage - Date published: 8:38 am, November 29th, 2016 - 100 comments

US President elect Donald Trump has expressed support for a widespread investigation of America’s electoral system

America’s broken democratic system

Written By: mickysavage - Date published: 9:20 am, November 27th, 2016 - 92 comments

Through partisan control of the electoral system and continuing attempts to suppress votes America’s electoral system is in clear need of an overhaul.

Fidel Castro has died

Written By: notices and features - Date published: 8:19 pm, November 26th, 2016 - 175 comments

Fidel Castro has died aged 90.

Post-US election post

Written By: notices and features - Date published: 6:07 am, November 21st, 2016 - 125 comments

A general discussion thread about the US election.

Angela Merkel’s values

Written By: advantage - Date published: 8:00 am, November 19th, 2016 - 30 comments

Angela Merkel has offered Donald Trump close cooperation on world issues, but with a rather important tag.

As politicians go…(II)

Written By: Bill - Date published: 10:43 am, November 18th, 2016 - 7 comments

Two paths. One choice.

As politicians go….

Written By: Bill - Date published: 9:57 am, November 18th, 2016 - 21 comments

Following voters in the USA adding yet another to a growing list of defeats for the radical centre….

It’s time for a different story

Written By: weka - Date published: 5:55 am, November 16th, 2016 - 68 comments

A post-US election space for engendering solidarity and resistance.

I’m Arab and Many of Us Are Glad That Trump Won

Written By: Bill - Date published: 12:42 pm, November 13th, 2016 - 49 comments

A challenging and provocative piece on Trump’s election victory from an Arab perspective.

An interesting time for the Republicans

Written By: Anthony R0bins - Date published: 8:08 am, November 13th, 2016 - 55 comments

Trump is going to be a figurehead, not a president, leaving governance to an unfettered Republican machine. That machine is no friend of the disenfranchised, never was, never will be. How will Trump’s base react to being betrayed?

The Trump peace dividend: opportunity for rapprochement

Written By: Colonial Viper - Date published: 11:25 am, November 12th, 2016 - 76 comments

Walking back the last 5 plus years of escalating military, economic and diplomatic proxy war between Russia and the United States will be difficult. But it has to be done.

Lessons?

Written By: Ben Clark - Date published: 8:05 am, November 12th, 2016 - 116 comments

What can we learn from the election of Donald J Drumpf?

Where the Democrats went wrong

Written By: mickysavage - Date published: 8:00 am, November 12th, 2016 - 90 comments

The reason for the Democrats losing the recent presidential vote is contained in this video.

Trump scooped up the white vote that Democrats abandoned

Written By: Colonial Viper - Date published: 12:05 pm, November 11th, 2016 - 83 comments

Trump laid siege to the Democrat’s “Blue Wall” and they didn’t respond to or recognise his strategem until far too late.

Don’t mourn, organise

Written By: mickysavage - Date published: 8:20 am, November 11th, 2016 - 113 comments

What all good progressives should be doing in these POTUS Trump days.

Margins

Written By: Ben Clark - Date published: 7:40 am, November 11th, 2016 - 82 comments

1 in 100 US voters switch and the polls would have been right, and we’d be talking about progressive America, destroyed Republicans and the ‘blue wall’.