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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Mexico: Amlo hits back at EU ‘press freedom’ critics
DAVID RABY explains why Mexico’s president released a furious communique aimed at the European Parliament – and why his geopolitical diplomacy and progressive policies may be what is really angering the West
Mexican President Amlo slammed Europe’s ‘interventionist mania
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
ALONG with some 140 countries, Mexico voted at the UN to condemn the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
But along with most of Latin America, Africa and Asia, it has no plans to impose sanctions: to do so would violate the same principle of sovereignty and non-intervention.
Neither will Mexico impose censorship on RT or any other Russian media: its respect for media freedom is absolute.
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