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 forces Trump to backpedal
Mexico’s unflinching stand has earned praise from across Latin America and the world, writes DAVID RABY
Mexico’s President Claudia Sheinbaum
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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
DONALD TRUMP’S loud-mouthed threats to all and sundry are enough to cause anxiety and panic around the world, and especially in near neighbours of the declining superpower he is about to inherit from that master of senile hypocrisy, Joe Biden.
Panic and anxiety are precisely what the orange fascist wants to incite.
The recipe worked like a charm with that pathetic excuse for a national leader, PM Justin Trudeau of Canada, whose craven uninvited trip to Mar-a-Lago to plead with Trump not to slap tariffs on his northern satellite led to brutal humiliation, with the CBC (Canada’s BBC) producing a vicious satirical sketch of Trudeau being treated as a servile puppy.
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DAVID RABY reports on the progressive administration in Mexico, which continues to overcome far-left wreckers on the edges of a teaching union, the murderous violence of the cartels, the ploys of the traditional right wing, and Trump’s provocations
By taking a firm stance against the ‘Monroe Doctrine Mk II’ President Sheinbaum has won plaudits from across Mexican society, says DAVID RABY
