Nancy Pelosi, accompanied by, Hakeem Jeffries, Amy Klobuchar, & Chuck Schumer of N.Y. speaks in a park in Berryville, Va., July 24, 2017, where they unveiled the Democrats new agenda. (AP/Cliff Owen)
Published in partnership with Shadowproof.
Traditional Russian Matreskas depicting Vladimir Putin, Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump displayed in a shop in Moscow. Nov. 8, 2016. (AP/Pavel Golovkin)
NEW YORK (Interview) —Neoliberal capitalism has failed the vast majority of Americans. It has increased inequality, fostered austerity, destroyed the environment and fomented wars.
Reactionary right-wing politics have largely succeeded in filling this ideological vacuum, embodied by the election of Donald Trump as President of the United States of America.
A man makes a transaction at an automated teller machine (ATM) of a Piraeus Bank branch in Athens, Greece. (AP/Yorgos Karahalis)
ATHENS (Analysis)– Day by day, we’re moving towards a brave new world where every transaction is tracked, every purchase is recorded, the habits and preferences of everyone noted and analyzed. What I am describing is the “cashless society,” where plastic and electronic money are king, while banknotes and coins are abolished.
Bob McNamara of Spillville, Iowa, and others, listen to Donald Trump speak during a campaign stop at the Electric Park Ballroom, Oct. 7, 2015, in Waterloo, Iowa. (AP/Charlie Neibergall)
White House press secretary Sean Spicer talks to media as he walks to the West Wing of the White House, in Washington, May 9, 2017. (AP/Carolyn Kaster)
The Resistance, a self-aggrandizing term for what amounts to a relatively small but still powerful claque of embittered Clinton surrogates, has been keeping itself busy of late, fanning the flames of McCarthyite recriminations against anyone who dares question the rather flimsy public evidence that Russia influenced the results of the 2016 election, all the while cheering on President Trump’s expansion of the war in Syria.
Soros Fund Management Chairman George Soros speaks at the Nicolas Berggruen Conference in Berlin, Germany, Oct. 30, 2012. (AP/Thomas Peter)
WASHINGTON — After years of veiled accusations condemning the “empire” of organizations controlled and funded by Hungarian-born billionaire George Soros, U.S. lawmakers have finally decided to open an official investigation into allegations that Soros has subverted European governments that resist neoliberal policies.
It's time to start paying attention to what's happening right now in Mexico.
Suspects are detained by state police after they were caught looting in Veracruz, Mexico, early Thursday, Jan. 5, 2017. (AP/Felix Marquez)
(REPORT) — Protests over a double-digit hike in gasoline prices in Mexico continue in at least 22 states of the country, officials said on Friday, as they confirmed that the wave of violent lootings and blockades has left three people dead and at least 700 arrested.
Business leaders estimate that some 1,000 shops and companies have been looted or vandalized this week as others closed over fears of being robbed.
