As tens of thousands return to the streets for the first national Palestine march of 2026, this movement refuses to be sidelined or silenced, says PETER LEARY
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The US Republican Party slips deeper into the right-wing void
In an ominous move, the Republicans have unanimously elected the cartoonishly extreme ‘Maga Mike’ Johnson as their next speaker, writes MARK GRUENBERG
Speaker of the House Mike Johnson talks with reporters ahead of the debate and vote on supplemental aid to Israel, at the US Capitol in Washington, November 2, 2023
If the government really wanted to address public finances, improve living standards and begin economic recovery, it would increase its borrowing for investment, argues MICHAEL BURKE
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ON their fourth try, the House’s ruling Republicans finally elected a new speaker: Louisiana representative Mike Johnson — a man who not only denied Joe Biden’s election as president in the infamous events of January 6 2021, but before that rounded up other Republicans to support a Texas scheme to toss the 2020 election out.
With his elevation to the top job in Congress, no-one can argue that the Trumpite “Maga” (make America great again) faction of the Republican Party is just a fringe element. Maga is now in charge; this is Trump’s party, through and through.
Republicans have just unanimously elected a Speaker who is the architect of House Republican efforts to overturn the 2020 election, voted against the Violence Against Women Act, voted against the Women’s Health Protection Act, voted against legislation to codify marriage equality, authored federal legislation attempting to nationalise Florida’s infamous “don’t say gay” law, and co-sponsored legislation to turn health professionals who provide gender-affirming care into felons.
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