Preview signals Biden’s foreign policy shifts
In his first media interview, the incoming US National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan has given a preview of Joe Biden administration’s foreign policy directions in regard of Russia, Iran and…
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In Diversity We Trust: Joe Biden’s Cabinet Choices
Perfumed and tailored for a certain brand of folksy, identity politics, Pete Buttigieg hoped to blast his way to the White House having run a community of 102,000 constituents in…
Democratic Party Fascism: 2020 Edition
Now that Joe Biden will be America’s next president, it might be worthwhile to take a closer look at some of the choices for his cabinet, White House staff, and…
Ten Realistic and Unrealistic Expectations of the Biden Administration
Those who supported Biden did so primarily to see America free of the Fascist-style president and Republican Party determined to bring the country as close to the Third Reich as…
Eisenhower’s Ghost Haunts Biden’s Foreign Policy Team
In his first words as President-elect Joe Biden’s nominee for Secretary of State, Antony Blinken said, “we have to proceed with equal measures of humility and confidence.” Many around the world will welcome this promise of humility…
Biden’s Promise: America is Back(wards)
With President Donald Trump all but conceding to the transition team that will take over after January next year, interest now shifts to President-elect Joe Biden’s choices for cabinet. On…
Foreign policy challenges for Biden!
It has been the most keenly followed election in U.S. history. The entire world had been on tenterhooks anxiously waiting for the outcome in the early week of November. According…
‘Total Reset’ is Wishful Thinking: The Daunting Task of Reordering US Foreign Policy
A new term has imposed itself on the conversation regarding the impending presidency of US President-elect, Joe Biden: “The Total Reset”. Many headlines have already promised that the Biden Presidency…
Ten Foreign Policy Fiascos Biden Can Fix on Day One
Co-Written by Medea Benjamin and Nicolas J S Davies Donald Trump loves executive orders as a tool of dictatorial power, avoiding the need to work through Congress. But that works…
American Presidential Election and Democracy Look for Change, Moral and Intellectual Leadership
Presidential Election in Stained Democracy When false claims challenge the truth, it breeds fearful and ferocious public outcomes. No wonder, why the American masses are more divided today than any…
Biden Victory: A Mere Sigh of Relief or a Sign of Salvation?
Last four years of Trump presidency has been the most chaotic if not the most problematic that the US and the world at large have experienced, ever. Mr. Trump’s…
A New Strategy For The American Left
Joe Biden won the 2020 US Presidential Election after narrowly defeating the sitting president Donald Trump. This victory comes at a tremendous cost: the defeat of an incipient counter-hegemonic movement which embryonically expressed demands…
Will the Biden Team Be Warmongers or Peacemakers?
Co-Written by Medea Benjamin and Nicolas J. S. Davies Obama and Biden meet Gorbachev - did Biden learn anything? Credit: Wikimedia Commons Congratulations to Joe Biden on his election as…
It Was NEVER About Biden!!
I usually agree with most of what columnist Caitlin Johnstone offers. Yet, in her latest Op Ed she says that a vote for Biden was NOT against fascism, which will…
So Trump Loses, What Happens Then?
Donald Trump isn’t just inside the heads of his Trumpster base; he’s long been a consuming obsession among those yearning for his defeat in November. With barely more than a…
How Biden Flubbed Town Hall Foreign Policy Question
Co-Written by Medea Benjamin and Nicolas J. S. Davies Toward the end of Joe Biden’s October 15 town hall session, a Trump supporter asked Biden the only foreign policy question…
Presidential Election U.S. and the money
Fox News founder Rupert Murdoch's son and daughter-in-law are two of the biggest backers of presumptive Democratic nominee Joe Biden's campaign, federal filings show. James Murdoch and his wife Kathryn…
Palestinian Injustice Will Continue With A Biden Presidency
Over the past year several articles penned by this writer have questioned how well-suited Joe Biden is to lead the Democratic Party's Progressive Movement in 2020 to make the kind…
Biden Wins-Then What?
Assume Joe Biden wins the presidency. Assume as well that he genuinely intends to repair the damage our country has sustained since we declared ourselves history’s “Indispensable Nation,” compounded by the traumatic…
Lost at Sea: Left Liberals Have No Party
I wrote this article over four years ago in 2016 for the purpose of challenging left liberals to face the fact that they have no party. In re-reading it today,…
King Joe and the Round Table: Biden’s America in a Multipolar World
Co-Written by Medea Benjamin and Nicolas J S Davies In an article in Foreign Affairs in March titled, “Why America Must Lead Again,” Joe Biden claimed that “the world…
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