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Oct 19 2020
News
Rightwing populists place their bets on four more years of Trump
In Budapest, Hungary’s far-right prime minister, Viktor Orbán, says he is “rooting for another victory for Donald Trump”. In Brasília, Jair Bolsonaro has been pictured in a Trump 2020 campaign hat.
Rightwing nationalist politicians around the globe are abandoning the usual diplomatic etiquette of hedging bets before foreign elections and instead are throwing their support firmly behind
The GuardianFeb 01 2021
Opinion
The United States Needs a BBC
In July 2020, the BBC released some remarkable numbers: In the previous 12 months, 438 million people had tuned into BBC News, 351 million to the BBC World Service, and 137 million to BBC Global News. All three channels, as well as the BBC’s entertainment channel, had registered double-digit growth. The figures were especially surprising given that, unlike certain U.S. news outlets and online
Foreign PolicySep 04 2020
News
President Trump Visits Kenosha
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On Tuesday, September 1st, President Trump visited Kenosha, WI to address unrest.Addressing the protests, Trump said, “These are not acts of peaceful protest but, really, domestic terror...” He criticized Abridge NewsNov 02 2020
News
Missouri officials cover noose near polling booths
Officials have covered up a noose on display near polling booths in Missouri, after local Democrats argued it could intimidate black voters.
The incident is one of a number of controversial occurrences in the final days of the US election campaign.
Meanwhile a Democratic campaign bus in Texas was encircled by supporters of President Donald Trump, a Republican.
And a rally
BBC NewsJul 09 2021
Perspectives Blog
When Donald Trump Thinks He Has Been Cancelled
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Donald Trump’s latest attempt at performance art has just arrived, in the form of his announcement of a lawsuit against Facebook, Twitter, Google and their CEOs under the dubious grounds that their decisions to ban him from their platforms represented a violation of his First Amendment right to free speech. Legal experts
Dan SchnurJan 12 2021
Opinion
The Pension-Fund Profiteers Are Making a Killing From Long-Term Care
Canada’s public health care system is widely celebrated, and with good reason. Following years of struggle, the problems posed by private health care provision were overcome with the establishment of a universal and public single-payer medicare system in the 1960s. Bernie Sanders and others involved in the inspiring Medicare For All campaign in the United States often point to Canada’s single-
JacobinSep 09 2017
News
The case for letting North Korea keep its nukes
The official position of the US government is that North Korea’s nuclear program is unacceptable and that Pyongyang has to give up all of its nuclear weapons. This was the goal of US policy under President George W. Bush, it was the goal of US policy under President Barack Obama, and it is now the goal of US policy under President Donald Trump.
VoxJul 03 2019
News
Ninth Circuit denies Trump permission to use military funds to build border wall
A federal appeals court refused Wednesday to allow President Trump to start building his wall at the Mexican border, saying funding has been denied by Congress, which has constitutional authority over federal spending.
The 2-1 ruling by the Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco left intact a decision by U.S. District Judge Haywood Gilliam of Oakland barring the Trump
San Francisco ChronicleAug 13 2020
Background
Americans Have Given Up on Public Schools. That’s a Mistake.
Public schools have always occupied prime space in the excitable American imagination. For decades, if not centuries, politicians have made hay of their supposed failures and extortions. In 2004, Rod Paige, then George W. Bush’s secretary of education, called the country’s leading teachers union a “terrorist organization.” In his first education speech as president, in 2009, Barack Obama
The AtlanticJun 12 2020
News
Florida observes Pulse Remembrance Day on the fourth anniversary of the Pulse nightclub shooting
(CNN)Four years ago on June 12, 2016, one of the worst mass shootings in US history claimed 49 lives at a Florida gay bar. This morning, people across the state will observe a moment of silence to honor those who were lost.
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis signed a proclamation declaring June 12 "Pulse Remembrance Day," in memory of those killed during a mass shooting at Pulse nightclub, a
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