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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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| | | | | SINGAPORE - As a teenager three decades ago, Mr Alfred Siew watched bulldozers take apart the Berlin Wall on a grainy television, believing that the Cold War, along with the tensions and distrust among nations that came with it, was gone for good. | |
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| | | The Supreme Court on Friday rejected a request from Special Counsel Jack Smith to decide, without waiting for a federal appeals court to weigh in, whether former President Donald Trump can be tried on criminal charges that he conspired to overturn the results of the 2020 election. Smith had asked th | ||
