Mask-off outbursts by Maga insiders and most strikingly, the destruction and reconstruction of the presidential seat, with a huge new $300m ballroom, means Trump isn’t planning to leave the White House when his term ends, writes LINDA PENTZ GUNTER
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‘It could be worked out, in my opinion, in half a day’
The above statement comes from former US president Jimmy Carter and puts into perspective the present administration’s willful sabotage of any and all prospects for peace on the Korean peninsula, writes JOHN ELLISON
Visitors use binoculars to see the North Korea side from the unification observatory in Paju, South Korea
BEN CHACKO speaks with Knesset member OFER CASSIF about rising political violence, the prospects for peace and his continuous ‘silencing by suspension’
The City is leaning on Rachel Reeves to cut welfare spending — when what’s needed is cuts to all the benefits given to the mega rich, corporations and banks to help them not pay or blatantly dodge their fair share of tax, explains BERNIE EVANS
The choice between two Blairites to revamp the tepid centrism of our ruling party doesn’t even come as cold comfort as we wander the city streets suffering from their third decade of austerity and the fifth of wage stagnation, writes MATT KERR
ANN HENDERSON looks at the trailblazers of the Women’s Trade Union League and their successful fight for female factory inspectors — a battle that echoes in today’s workplace campaigns
HENRY FOWLER puts the strike of public-sector workers in New Zealand in the wider context of deteriorating employment conditions throughout the world’s major economies
MAT COWARD looks back at a protest 105 years ago this month, whose reporting by the media bears uncomfortable similarities with demos today
ON DECEMBER 3 The Sunday Times carried a full spread on the subject of US intentions with regard to North Korea in the light of its latest successful intercontinental ballistic missile test.
This missile flew high and far, dropping finally into the Sea of Japan.
The calculation has been made that with a more horizontal trajectory it could reach all of the US mainland. North Korea may not yet have the technology to fit such a missile with a nuclear weapon but the US may, more than ever, be likely when militarily ready to initiate war if some incident — perhaps accidentally arising — has not already triggered it.
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