In December 2022, corruption revelations involving the state-owned Erdenes Tavan Tolgoi (ETT) mining company sparked enormous protests in Ulaanbaatar. What initially began as a backlash against an entrenched “coal mafia” snowballed into a trenchant critique of the government’s inability (and unwillingness) to provide a better future for Mongolia’s youth. Protestors told The Diplomat that suffocating […]
Did the UK torpedo peace talks on Ukraine?by Ian SinclairMorning Star12 November 2022 Since 1976 the award-winning US media watchdog Project Censored has printed an annual list of the most under-reported news stories in the US media – the “news that didn’t make the news”. Should someone start publishing a similar book about the UK […]
Ibram X. Kendi is the director of the Antiracist Research and Policy Center at American University. About 5 weeks ago The Atlantic published a piece he wrote about what he fears a conservative Democrat winning the nomination. He refers to the conservative wing-- incorrectly as just as the corporate media wants him to-- as moderates. His analysis is so good, it's a shame he doesn't understand the importance of not ceding that word-- moderate-- to the right.
The most interesting news about Biden I saw today was Branko Marcetic's piece for Jacobin about how Biden pulled the Democratic Party to the right starting in the 1980s when he helped Reagan start dismantling much of the New Deal.
Trump's family is more disgusting and more crooked than Biden's. Trump is a bigger liar than Biden. Trump seems more senile and off the rails than Biden. Trump is more corrupt then Biden. Trump is more in the pocket of the ruling elite than Biden. Trump is more racist than Biden. But Biden being less horrible than Trump could give us the second worst president in history. The bar is too low.
Like Hillary, Biden started off as a Republican. He found himself in a Democratic environment at work-- and he didn't like Nixon-- so he re-registered as a Democrat. But, issue-wise, like Hillary, he's always been a moderate Republican at heart. He wants to run for president as one too-- and if he does, like Hillary, he will probably lose. Status Quo Joe's only real chance would be if voters decide he's the lesser of the two evils.
Feeling the pressure from Elizabeth Warren and Bernie-- and the energy among grassroots activities they have inspired-- Biden's team of weasels is talking about making some kind of symbolic gesture so Status Quo Joe can pretend he stands with working families instead of the Wall Street crooks who are underwriting his campaign and who he has always kissed up to.
Remember what Chris Hayes said about looking at the 2020 candidates as the cycle kicked off? I saved the video to remind you. Let's use it as a quick lens to look at Status Quo Joe. Who will he fight for? What will he fight for? Well, who has he always fought for? His own career, his family, his family's lobbying clients, Big Banks, Wall Street, corporate America, the Military Industrial Complex Eisenhower warned us about. Can he be trusted to do what he says? According to PolitiFact, 84% of Trump's checked statement have been lies. No one can compete with that...
Hillary and ZerlinaAs we saw on Tuesday, Bernie-- tied with Elizabeth Warren-- is leading the pack for the Democratic nomination is the 3 early states. That's a tight race but the DFA straw poll wasn't.
