Donald Trump may have won the US elections with demagogic, strongman promises to 鈥淢ake America Great鈥, but, in the lead up to his inauguration, the hollowness of such claims is clear as he stocks his Cabinet with oligarchs collectively worth billions.
Last year鈥檚 presidential election was marked by deep divisions in both the Democratic and Republican parties, on top of a stalemate in Congress between the twin parties of US capitalism.
When Donald Trump is sworn in as president on January 20, he will take over the running of the US intelligence agencies 鈥 the CIA, FBI, NSA etc 鈥 that have brought charges to discredit the outcome of his election.
The Electoral College has rubberstamped Trump鈥檚 election and Congress has ratified it. The storm over allegations of Russian聽interference in last year鈥檚 elections will pass as The Leader takes charge and cleans house in these agencies.
But there are some things that should be noted about this brouhaha.
President-elect Donald Trump announced on November 30 that former Goldman Sachs partner Steven Mnuchin 鈥 a man聽聽as 鈥渢he anti-populist from Hell鈥 鈥 is his pick for treasury secretary.
President-elect Donald Trump has tapped for US Education Secretary , a conservative billionaire who 鈥渄oes not hide her contempt for the public schools,鈥澛犅爃istorian Diane Ravitch.
Proceedings in the latest in the United Nations鈥 ongoing conferences on Climate Change 鈥 the November 7鈥18 COP22 that just concluded in Marrakech, Morocco 鈥 were disturbed by the news of the US election result.
A belligerently anti-environmental president is set to take office in the world鈥檚 greatest greenhouse polluting nation at the same time a shaky international climate treaty is being pieced together that will need US involvement to be effective.
This year has seen a remarkable renaissance of star athletes in the United States for the first time since the 1960s and 鈥70s using their hyper-exalted platform to speak about politics.
One person who can speak about these eras like no one else is legendary sports sociologist Dr Harry Edwards, who played a role in advising activist athletes from Muhammad Ali to Colin Kaepernick.
Powers that went largely unchallenged during the Obama administration are now in the hands of President-elect聽 鈥 and that鈥檚 a frightening prospect.
Each day after the November 8 presidential elections won by Donald Trump, the streets of cities across the United States have pulsed with anger, outrage, fear and solidarity in opposition to Trump, US Socialist Worker .
鈥淭he response was immediate, with spontaneous mobilisations forming as the election results came in,鈥 it said.
In response to the election of right-wing billionaire Donald Trump as president elect in the US, a 鈥淒ump Trump鈥 protest was organised on November 12.
The action was in solidarity with African Americans, Latinos, LGBTQIA people, the disabled and women, all of whom have borne the brunt of attacks by Trump and his supporters as they exploited xenophobia, Islamophobia, racism, homophobia and misogyny during the long election campaign.
The US Declaration of Independence declares: 鈥淲hen a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such government鈥.
Err, like now, when we have just seen the racist, misogynist, billionaire bully Donald Trump 鈥渆lected鈥 US president by only 25% of the eligible vote and with 700,000 fewer votes that his opponent Hilary Clinton?
When the majority of US residents did not vote for either of these two candidates of the richest 1%?
As an openly racist president was elected in the US, artist-activists reacted to Donald Trump across Latin America and the Caribbean. Below is a selection, abridged from .
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1. Mexico's old-school rock-rap band Molotov did not miss the opportunity to take a jab at both US president-elect Donald Trump and current Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto.
The Mexican and US national teams defied protocol on November 11 in their World Cup qualifier as they posed together for a team photograph. The move was a display of unity as US president-elect Donald Trump threatens to tear the two nations apart.
Mexico won the game, hosted in Ohio, with a 2-1 final score.
Normally, football teams pose separately before the game, but this time the players decided to pose together to strike back at Trump鈥檚 proposal to make Mexico pay for a wall between the two countries to keep immigrants out.