political crisis

The Treatment of George Galloway and Lee Anderson Shows that Britain’s Governing Class is Out of Ideas

George Galloway and Lee Anderson are exactly what Westminster has been claiming to want and need for the past 15 years. And yet both have now been made political outlaws for patently obscure reasons, says J. Sorel.
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The Left Has Forgotten it Used to Rage Against the Machine

It is tiring to be accused of being 'far-Right' by people doing the bidding of the corporations and investors who recently made a killing on Covid, says Dr David Bell. What happened to the Left's rage against the machine?
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Our Democracy is Broken. It’s Time to Give Power Back to the People

There's a palpable sense of anger in the electorates of many Western democracies after decades of being ignored by political elites pursuing their own agendas. It's time to give power back to the people, says Neil Oliver.
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Trudeaumania Unravels as Canada Grows Disillusioned With Liberals

Facing economic challenges, personal controversies and divisive policy decisions, the popularity of Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has plummeted; his Liberal Party is on course to lose the next election.
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The Decline of Politics into the Quest for ‘Unity’ Began With Theresa May

Theresa May became Prime Minister in July 2016 and no rise to power has been as swift or unanimous. May did not have a policy but a personality – and it inaugurated a new era which we have not yet left.
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Worsening Chaos: Israel’s Political Instability is Now the Norm

Even if a purportedly centrist or even leftist prime minister finds himself at the helm of the government, outcomes will not change when the Knesset - in fact, most of the country - is governed by a militaristic, chauvinistic, and colonial mindset.
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Lithuanians are afraid to serve in the army

Via The Baltic Word…
In 2015 the Lithuanian army reintroduced compulsory military service due to the potential threat caused by the Russia.
Young Lithuanians try to avoid the service. Some of them even are not afraid of penalties and imprisonment.
It is well known that Lithuanian authorities intend to increase the number of servicemen of the Lithuanian Armed Forces by 25%. From 2020, it is planned that their number will increase from 20,790 to 26,850 by 2024.

Ukraine goes on spiralling down

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Exorcising the ‘Popular Will’: How Venezuela can reclaim its democracy

“What we have to deal with here is a communist society [which] is thus in every respect, economically, morally, and intellectually, still stamped with the birthmarks of the old society from whose womb it comes.” —Karl Marx, “Critique of the Gotha Programme”
The Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela will cast votes on 30 July to determine its fate as President and United Socialist Party of Venezuela (PSUV) leader Nicolás Maduro continues to battle neoliberal opposition party Popular Will (VP), who has received Washington’s blessings.