☰[PREFATORY NOTE: Previously published online in Counterpunch, May 4, 2021. Biden’s international bipartisan approach risks a renewed arms race in a political and economic atmosphere that makes it unaffordable as well as acutely dangerous. My conversation with David Krieger explores some of the ramifications.] Biden’s Foreign Policy and Nuclear Weapons: a Dialogue BY RICHARD FALK – […]
On election day, reporting for NPR, Yara Bayoumy wrote about the authoritarian and fascist leaders around the world-- from Netanyahu and Viktor Orbán to Putin and Bolsonaro-- who preferred Trump and now have to contend with Biden, a typical dues-paying member of the military industrial complex.
-by Reese Erlich I’m pissed. I’m pissed at Donald Trump for trying to shut down the vote count early and at Republicans seeking to steal the election using conservative-appointed federal judges. But I’m also mad at Joe Biden and the Democratic Party big shots who got Biden elected but failed to win the Senate and lost House seats. It should have been a blowout.
An important behind-the-scenes battle is being fought over the Democratic nominee’s conservative positions.-by Reese Erlich@ReeseErlichLast spring, the Biden campaign decided to hit back hard against accusations of being soft on China. So the campaign produced a blistering ad [above] attacking Trump’s failure to confront China in the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic.The Biden ad was xenophobic and racist.“Trump let in 40,000 travelers from China into America,” says the ad’s narrator as ominous music plays in the background.
