The most effective way to counter US President Donald Trump鈥檚 reactionary policies is through mass action.
The Democratic Party, however, hopes to steer movements and individuals opposed to Trump into support of its candidates. While this trap of 鈥渓esser evil鈥 politics has proved to be a failure over and over again, there is another, outright reactionary, content to the Democrat鈥檚 current anti-Trump campaign.
The furore surrounding Michael Wolff鈥檚 book is unsurprising because he lifts the lid on the foetid cesspit that is US President Donald Trump鈥檚 White House. In the tradition of scandal-mongering journalism, he reveals the back-stabbing, in-fighting and squabbling of this ramshackle administration of bigots, ignoramuses and incompetents.
In a move that 鈥渟macks of something you see in a totalitarian country,鈥 according to historian Douglas Brinkley,聽United States President Donald Trump is reportedly pushing for a huge display of his country鈥檚 military prowess.
Such is the growing alarm at the devastating impact of climate change that even some world leaders have distanced themselves from US President Donald Trump at the January World Economic Forum (WEF) at Davos in Switzerland.
Trump was greeted with boos and hisses in response to his criticism of the media as 鈥渘asty, mean, vicious and fake鈥. At one session, even after being favourably introduced by Davos founder Klaus Schwab, Trump was still greeted with disapproving boos.
In his now infamous statement on immigration last month, Trump expressed his views clearly: He doesn鈥檛 want immigrants from 鈥渟hithole鈥 countries in Africa, Haiti and El Salvador 鈥 Black and Latina 鈥 to be let into the US.
On the other hand, he wants to encourage immigrants from predominantly white nations like Norway.
Donald Trump devoted a large section of the end of his聽聽on Tuesday night to North Korea.
Anyone who was paying attention during George W Bush鈥檚 State of the Union addresses in 2002 and 2003 would have found Trump鈥檚 statements frighteningly familiar: Trump used exactly the same justifications for war with North Korea as Bush had for war with Iraq when standing at the same podium.
Venezuela鈥檚 National Constituent Assembly (ANC) has approved a proposal to hold presidential elections before聽April 30.聽
The move came a day after the European Union announced sanctions targeting seven Venezuelan senior state officials on January 22.
"Last year it felt like a funeral. This year it feels like a resistance."
Those words--from one of the many hundreds of thousands of protesters who took to the streets on January 20 as part of the massive Women's Marches marking the shameful anniversary of US President Donald Trump's first year in office--summed up the political mood.
In two words: Pissed off.
From Los Angeles to New York, tens of thousands of demonstrators are donning pink "pussy" hats and marching as one, demanding equal rights, justice and fair pay in the second annual Women's March.
Supporters swarmed the streets of 250 cities across the United States on January 20 in defence of women's rights as the political crises of the past year rose to the surface in a wave of sleazy politicians, violated immigration rights and families torn asunder.
What鈥檚 the fate of Cuba in the age of Trump? It is not an easy question to unravel, but Canadian author and journalist Arnold August provides some answers in his latest book, Cuba-US Relations: Obama and Beyond.
Trump properties around the world are facing blowback after US President Donald Trump鈥檚 racist comments about why the US accepts migrants from 鈥渟hithole countries鈥 to members of Congress on January 11.
Anti-Trump campaigners claimed victory on January 13 after the US president cancelled a planned visit to London in the face of planned mass protests.