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
US prioritising a new cold war over stopping climate catastrophe
It is a shameful waste for Washington to be spending colossal funds on militarism at a time when it should be drastically scaling up its own climate targets and action, says FIONA EDWARDS
THE US’s cold war propaganda offensive into the Cop26 has centred on attempting to position itself as the world’s “climate leader” and to shift the blame for the climate crisis onto developing countries, particularly China and India.
This is so obviously false and against the interests of humanity that Washington has failed to set the political agenda internationally.
Youth climate leader Greta Thunberg brilliantly cut through this fake narrative, which has been built up relentlessly by the mainstream Western media in recent months, with just three words, “Blah, blah, blah.”
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