Donald Trump

After condemning the pro-Trump invasion of the Capitol, the incoming Biden administration invited Carlos Vecchio – a coup leader charged in the 2014 torching of the Venezuelan Attorney General’s office – to its inaugural ceremony. As Washington recovered from shock and outrage caused by pro-Trump hooligans storming the United States Congress – breaking windows, smashing doors, and intimidating police officers in order to push their way inside – a sense of pre-inaugural excitement began to sweep the nation’s capital. Who […]

Trump walked into the DC ‘Forum’, and ended ‘stabbed to death’, as had Julius. It has been truly Shakespearean, Alastair Crooke writes.

It is a fitting end to four years of Donald Trump in the White House. On one side, Trump’s endless stoking of political grievances – and claims that November’s presidential election was “stolen” from him – spilled over last week into a mob storming the US Capitol. They did so in the forlorn hope of disrupting the certification process of[Read More...]

Edward Curtin Something is happening here, But you don’t know what it is, Do you, Mr. Jones? Bob Dylan, Ballad of A Thin Man It’s hard… Life today seems like a dream, doesn’t it?  Surreal to the point where everything seems haunted and betwixt and between, or this against that, or that and this against …

Whether Donald Trump’s behavior on January 6 actually meets the legal definition of “coup” or “insurrection,” or merely represents the umpteenth “triggering” of Democrats eager to benefit from the latest whirlwind of Trumpian chaos, remains to be seen. While this weighty matter is sorted out, perhaps we can take a moment to reflect on the […]
The post Three Cheers for “Baseless” first appeared on Dissident Voice.

It is a fitting end to four years of Donald Trump in the White House. On one side, Trump’s endless stoking of political grievances – and claims that November’s presidential election was “stolen” from him – spilled over last week into a mob storming the US Capitol. They did so in the forlorn hope of […]
The post Trump May be on Trial, but the System that Produced Him Will be Acquitted first appeared on Dissident Voice.

Preventing the assault on America’s capitol was not exclusively a policing failure; the twisted behavior culminated from inadequate response to Trump and his supporters’ unsubstantiated attacks on the validity of the 2020 election. A simple analysis could have uncovered the illogical thinking and convinced many that the charges of election fraud were fallacious. Media and […]

Our current definition of "free speech" is outdated, no longer fit for purpose in the internet era, and potentially dangerous to democracy...according to a chorus of voices across the mainstream media.

1/ McConnell : pas de procès de Trump en urgence. 2/ La mise en accusation de Biden demandée par une députée. 3/ FBI : l'attaque du Capitole a été planifiée à l'avance. 4/ Le président Trump appelle à une transition pacifique. 5/ New York veut rompre ses contrats avec l'organisation Trump. 6/ Les géants du numérique dans l'équipe de Biden. 7/ La confiance dans les médias est au plus (...)

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1/ McConnell : pas de procès de Trump en urgence. 2/ La mise en accusation de Biden demandée par une députée. 3/ FBI : l'attaque du Capitole a été planifiée à l'avance. 4/ Le président Trump appelle à une transition pacifique. 5/ New York veut rompre ses contrats avec l'organisation Trump. 6/ Les géants du numérique dans l'équipe de Biden. 7/ La confiance dans les médias est au plus (...)

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International