Our successor to This Week in the Guardian, This Week in the New Normal is our weekly chart of the progress of autocracy, authoritarianism and economic restructuring around the world. 1. Swift outlines potential CBDC network The international payment network SWIFT announced this week they have plans in place to creat a global network of …
John W. Whitehead & Nisha Whitehead Audio Version New Feature! “That was when they suspended the Constitution. They said it would be temporary. There wasn’t even any rioting in the streets. People stayed home at night, watching television, looking for some direction. There wasn’t even an enemy you could put your finger on.” Margaret Atwood, The …
More and more of the country being owned by the richest 1%, more and more of the Government is also being controlled by the richest 1%, because money brings power, Eric Zuesse writes.
If the current, sorry spectacle is the best Western liberal “democracy” has to offer, it definitely does not need any enemies or “threats”.
A Joe Biden presidency will be stillborn. The following scenario therefore is predicated on the surmise that Trump will not be sworn in as president on Jan 20 2021.
Why is it that US news channels censored a press conference by a President of the United States? Why is it that tech giants feel the need to censor Trump’s
Instead of a modern democracy, America returns to its roots as a rickety old eighteenth-century republic that is increasingly unresponsive and corrupt.
The latest issue roiling the U.S. presidential race is the Supreme Court and what to do if it bucks the wishes of the ruling party. The reason is the Amy Coney Barrett nomination, which, assuming it goes through, could result in a 6-3 conservative majority lasting well into the 2030s.
As ye sow, so shall ye reap, is another, Biblical way of expressing the common American adage from the title. The recent passing of U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg seems to have provoked more jubilation and color revolution scheming against President Trump than heartfelt bereavement. In a country rent asunder that, incidentally, has also authored the color revolution playbook for wrecking other countries – that is hardly surprising.
For all of the bad things that have happened in 2020 don’t for a second believe that 2021 won’t be infinitely worse. It has been clear to me for months that the fight for the White House is one for the ages.
