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Yanis Iqbal
USA’s Game Plan in Venezuela: Strangulation through Sanctions
21 Jan 2021
‘Perhaps the irony of all ironies is that the sanctions were meant to ‘save or liberate’ Venezuela from some supposed tyranny. The method for US-styled liberation is peculiar. When a country is in…
PTI
Biden Signs Executive Order Rejoining Paris Climate Agreement, to Come Into Effect February 19
21 Jan 2021
Donal Trump had pulled out of the Paris accord that committed the US and 187 other countries to keeping rising global temperatures below 2C above pre-industrial levels and attempting to limit them…
Newsclick Report
Joe Biden to Swear in as US President Amid Heavy Security, Trump’s Farewell May be Damp
20 Jan 2021
For the first time in US history, the outgoing president will skip the inauguration ceremony of the new president.
M.K. Bhadrakumar
US Makes Aggressive First Move on Russian Chessboard
19 Jan 2021
The stage is being set for a US-Russia collision right at the outset of the Biden presidency, as Navalny is a strategic asset that the CIA will not give up easily, and Moscow, too, is digging for the…
Sonali Kolhatkar
Dear Republicans, Was Your Deal With Trump Worth It?
17 Jan 2021
The nation needs a reckoning for the dark deal the GOP has made with President Donald Trump in edging us so dangerously close to fascism.
Peoples Dispatch
A New Migrant Caravan Leaves from Honduras for the US
16 Jan 2021
Over 3,000 Hondurans have embarked on a perilous journey to the US in the absence of a response from the far-right government of President Juan Orlando Hernández to the socio-economic crisis in the…
Albena Azmanova, Marshall Auerback
Lessons From the January 6 Insurrection in US Capitol
16 Jan 2021
No matter how equal society becomes in terms of wealth distribution, without a dramatic government investment in public services, trust and disillusionment in American institutions will persist, and…
Associated Press
US Capitol Rioters Included Highly Trained Ex-Military and Cops
15 Jan 2021
An AP review of public records, social media posts and videos shows at least 21 current or former members of the US military or law enforcement have been identified as being at or near the Capitol…
PTI
US House Impeaches Trump for 'Incitement of Insurrection' at Capitol
14 Jan 2021
Donald Trump is the first president in American history to be impeached twice. The impeachment now moves to the Senate, which will conduct a trial and a voting to remove him from office.
Subir Purkayastha
How Did We Get to This Sad State in US Politics ?
13 Jan 2021
For decades the Republicans resorted to ‘dumbing down’ the base of the Republican party so that the Republican elite could get away with their pet policies. The conundrum that created gave rise to…