There have been penalties for those who looked the other way when Epstein was convicted of child sex offences and decided to maintain relationships with the financier — but not for the British ambassador to Washington, reveals SOLOMON HUGHES

FOLLOWING its $1.9 trillion Covid relief package, the Biden administration has further announced an infrastructure package of $2.3 trillion.
But in contrast to the former which is to be spent within months, the latter is to be spent over an eight-year period. And this package in turn is to be followed by a “human infrastructure” package. All this adds up to a massive stimulus for the economy as well as a massive redistributive programme, especially since the infrastructure package is proposed to be substantially financed through an increase in corporate tax rates.
Donald Trump had reduced corporate tax rates in the US from 35 per cent to 21 per cent, and Biden wants to raise the tax rate to 28 per cent, not immediately of course but over a period of time.

PRABHAT PATNAIK details the epochal shift of political power from Western neocolonialists to the people


