One of our most esteemed writers, Eric Zuesse, offered a great piece, to be found here, that made some significant note of the fact that Republican voters are actually moving away from their support in the Republican Party’s Representatives and Senators in Congress, though they are on the whole not moving away from their support of President Trump.
When Marine Le Pen took the reins of her father’s French far-right National Front party, she launched a well-crafted communication strategy to de-demonize the party’s image.
She distanced herself from unsavory associations and condemned the party’s more overtly racist and anti-Semitic elements. She also co-opted some of the lexicon of the left to appeal to the working class, and hijacked liberal values such as “secularism” or “equality” to attack Islam.
Yesterday’s Italian election results have sent tremors through the bureaucratic maze of Brussels, as two populist EU skeptic parties the centerist-populist Five Star Movement (Movimento Cinque Stelle) and the right-wing nationalist Northern League (Lega Nord), managed impressive gains, with Five Star garnering the most popular votes during this election round.
George Soros is demanding that the European Union regulate social media because voters’ minds are being controlled and "manipulated" as populism is gaining favor in Europe and the US. He warned that an alliance between big tech companies and regulators in the US could lead to totalitarian control. His concerns are deeply hypocritical as he has been pushing the globalist agenda for control for decades by funding non-profit groups. He is now the subject of an 'anti-Soros' bill in his native Hungary, as the country seeks to limit his influence and meddling.
Thursday morning's tweet from Ro Khanna (D-CA)-- above-- is a good example of how someone can promote genuine economic populism. The program he, Bernie and virtually all progressives back to make state colleges free again is incredibly popular-- far more popular than Schumer's and Pelosi's recycled Papa John's Pizza slogan.
Occupy Wall Street protesters.
Giving new credence to a provocative 2014 study showing the United States is controlled by powerful elite interests, as opposed to the desire of its citizens, a new poll released Thursday shows that three-quarters of Americans feel voiceless and largely powerless in the nation that heralds itself as the world’s preeminent democracy.
U.S. President Donald Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu shake hands at the Israel Museum, in Jerusalem, May 23, 2017. (AP/Sebastian Scheiner)
(Opinion) — Many people are feigning shock at the fact that Hungary’s center-right (some would say solid right) populist Prime Minister Viktor Orban has become a friend of Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
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.
[Prefatory Note: This post is a modified and enlarged version of a talk I gave in Geneva a week ago. The audience was a blend of students of all ages from around the world, with almost none from Europe and North America, and several NGO representatives with lots of UN experience.]
Why the peoples of the world need the UN: multilateralism, international law, human rights, and ecological sustainability
