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| | | | | ( Tomdispatch.com ) - In the weeks leading up to the recent presidential inauguration in Washington, this country and an anxious world expected many different things from what might be called, to borrow the title of a famed William Butler Yeats's poem, "The Second Coming" of Donald J. Trump. But nobody expected this. Nobody at all. "We will restore the name of a great president, William McKinley, to Mount McKinley where it should be and where it belongs," President Trump announced to a burst of applause during his inaugural address on January 20th. Continuing his celebration of a decidedly mediocre | |
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| | | | | Image Credit: Wikimedia Commons History has shown that shifts from free-market trade and pressures from protectionist policies correspond with periods of tension. Post-World War I economic sanctions fueled underlying resentments in Germany and Japan, giving birth to political justifications for war. Institutions like the World Trade Organization (WTO) were built to break this cycle and... | |
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| | | | | It was bound to happen. With continuing operations in Gaza, and increasingly violent activities being conducted against Palestinians in the occupied territories, human rights organisations are making increasingly severe assessments of Israel's warring cause. While the world awaits the findings of the International Court of Justice on whether Israel's campaign, as argued by South Africa, | |
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| | | As Donald Trump parades through the Middle East this week, he will encounter a very different region than the one he experienced during his first term. | ||