The Republican candidate in the November 8 presidential race is lining up his excuses for why he鈥檚 going to lose: the media is against him, Democrats are faking ballots from undocumented immigrants and dead people and on and on.
Donald Trump
Long-term US activist Angela Davis addressed an overflowing lecture theatre at Melbourne University on October 24.
In a wide-ranging lecture and discussion, Davis looked at the criminalisation and incarceration of communities most affected by poverty and racial discrimination.
Davis drew upon her own experiences in the 1970s, when she spent 18 months on trial after being placed on the FBI鈥檚 鈥淭en Most Wanted List鈥.
After the final debate in the US presidential race on October 19, spoke to Dr Jill Stein, the Green Party鈥檚 presidential nominee. Stein and Libertarian nominee Gary Johnson were excluded from the debate under stringent rules set by the Commission on Presidential Debates, which is controlled by the Democratic and Republican parties. The interview is abridged below.
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What is your response to the debate?
This is what things have come to.
The Greatest Democracy In the World鈩 is subjecting its people, and the world, to an election campaign to determine who gets to order new crimes against humanity, in which one candidate is a far-right, racist, woman-hating, tax-avoiding failed property mogul, reality TV star and serial sex offender, and the other is, by all available evidence, a robot built by Goldman Sachs.
鈥淒on鈥檛 go around acting holier-than-thou about this like you鈥檝e never heard anyone say anything like that before,鈥 said Tomi Lahren, 24-year-old Trump-supporting commentator for right-wing US media network The Blaze, over Donald Trump鈥檚 leaked comments boasting about sexual assault. 鈥淕ive me a break.鈥
Apparently, the universe does have a sense of humour.
After blaming his poor showing in the first presidential debate on problems with his microphone, Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump鈥檚 candidacy is swirling around the toilet bowl due to comments that a different microphone did pick up.
Trump went into the second debate on October 9 with Hillary Clinton needing the impossible 鈥 for millions of people to forget the revulsion they felt when they learned about his casual misogyny unearthed in a 2005 recording.
WELL, THAT was pretty much what we all thought having to spend 90 minutes with Donald Trump would be like.
After 18 months of hype and anticipation, an expected record number of viewers watched the first presidential debate to find out what most of them already knew: Donald Trump is an egomaniac who expresses his love for the American people by how many buildings he owns in their cities.
High-profile African-American academic, activist and socialist Cornel West, who strongly backed Bernie Sanders in the Democratic primary race, talks to 's Amy Goodman on why he is backing the Green Party's Jill Stein for president.
The Republicans gathered in Cleveland over July 18-21 to ratify the verdict of primary voters and choose Donald Trump as their presidential nominee for the November elections 鈥 with Indiana governor Mike Pence his running mate.
A last-minute attempt by the 鈥淣ever Trump鈥 forces to obstruct his nomination was easily overcome when party officials rushed through a voice vote on convention rules. Despite Republican internal divisions, the Trump-Pence ticket emerged intact.
Murri leader Sam Watson does not have a high opinion of Pauline Hanson's intellect or her lack of substantial policies. However he told 麻豆传媒 Weekly that 鈥渟he can't be ignored鈥.
鈥淚 was very pleased to see in the last few days when she went to appear on Q&A that there were comrades on the street to challenge her,鈥 he said.
He was also pleased when First Nations activist Murrandoo Yanner ordered her out of the building at the Cairns Indigenous Art Fair.
鈥淪he is evil and we need to confront that evil and challenge that evil.鈥
鈥淏ernie! Bernie! Bernie!鈥 the lady from California enthusiastically chanted down the phone. Some 12,000 kilometres away on a couch in Sydney, I started to chant too.
Returning to the United States in an election year, I am struck by the silence. I have covered four presidential campaigns, starting with 1968; I was with Robert Kennedy when he was shot and I saw his assassin, preparing to kill him. It was a baptism in the American way, along with the salivating violence of the Chicago police at the Democratic Party's rigged convention. The great counter revolution had begun.
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