Tag: Government

  • The US Supreme Court Corruption Bonanza

    When ProPublica’s investigation into links between Republican donor Harlan Crow and the US Supreme Court surfaced, there was a sense that dark waters lurked beneath the revelations. While Justice Clarence Thomas featured prominently as the recipient of largesse and pomp from Crow – island hopping in Indonesia, private jet travel, among other treats – things […]

  • An Absurd Scene at G7: The Bandit Leader Ran for Police Chief

    An Absurd Scene at G7: The Bandit Leader Ran for Police Chief

    Illustration: Liu Rui/GT The Group of Seven (G7) Finance Ministers and Central Bank Governors’ meeting that ended on Saturday did not name China in the joint statement, nor did it mention the so-called economic coercion that has been hyped for a long time. Nonetheless, it is hard to say the G7 is returning to rationality […]

  • Charter Schools Are Not State Actors

    Eleven months ago a critical education case came before the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in North Carolina (Peltier v. Charter Day Sch., Inc., 37 F.4th 104, 116, 4th Cir. 2022). A main issue in the case pertains to the dress code at “Charter Day School” in Leland, North Carolina, specifically, whether the privately-operated […]

  • The Only Populists that Billionaires Fund are Right-wingers

    The Only Populists that Billionaires Fund are Right-wingers

    The 372-page book that the European Center for Populism Studies published in March 2023, The Impacts of the Russian Invasion of Ukraine on Right-wing Populism in Europe, opens its Chapter (p. 200-209) on “The Russia-Ukraine War and Right-Wing Populism in Latvia” by saying something that has broad applicability across all U.S.-and-allied nations, Right-wing populism, and […]

  • China’s Government Calls US Government an International Outlaw

    China’s Government Calls US Government an International Outlaw

    Wang Wenbin, China’s Foreign Ministry Spokesperson, held his regular press conference in Beijing, on May 11th, and answered a reporter’s question: “It was reported that the G7 Summit to be held in Japan will ask China to abide by international rules. Do you have any comment?” by saying that those countries are hypocritical for accusing […]

  • US-backed Military once again Targets Deposed Pakistani PM Imran Khan

    US-backed Military once again Targets Deposed Pakistani PM Imran Khan

    Imran Khan poses the greatest threat to Pakistan’s military monopoly on political power. The arrest of former Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan and leader of the Pakistan Movement for Justice (Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf, or PTI) caused thousands of Pakistanis to take to the streets and protest. However, Pakistan’s Supreme Court ordered on May 11 his release, […]

  • UN Must Investigate U.S. Role in Moïse Assassination

    The Haiti/Americas Team of the Black Alliance for Peace (BAP) and BAP member organization, MOLEGHAF, request the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) launch a serious and in-depth investigation into the assassination of former Haitian de facto President Jovenel Moïse. We demand to know the truth concerning U.S. and other foreign countries’ complicity in plotting to […]

  • The Sadistic GOP’s Debt Limit Ploy vs. the People

    Raising the federal debt limit over the years has secured unconditional routine Congressional passage and was endorsed by presidents Ronald Reagan and Donald Trump. After all, it allows the U.S. Treasury to pay past and existing bills, not expand future spending. Routine, that is, until the recent arrival of the mad-dog Republicans with their monetized […]

  • The Government Is Turning America Into a Constitution-Free Zone

    The Government Is Turning America Into a Constitution-Free Zone

    There are more instances of the abridgment of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations. —James Madison How far would you really go to secure the nation’s borders in the so-called name of national security? Would you give the government limitless amounts […]

  • King Charles III: Policing the Republican Protests

    In Britain, pageantry has always been a palliative and plaster for the dark and dismal. Be it in times of crisis, the chance to put on an extravagant show, usually at vast expense, is not something to forego. Central to this entertainment complex is the Royal family, that archaic vestige of an era that refuses […]

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