The Guardian • Joe Biden
Biden makes it official: no Keystone XL oil pipeline
President Joe Biden’s made it official. He yanked, effective immediately, the federal construction licence for the remaining section of the controversial Keystone XL tar sands oil pipeline from Alberta through the US.
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Issue #2021
US rail union leaders warn: corporate greed will delay your holiday gifts, again
US: Crunch. And a shortage of everything. That’s the warning rail union leaders are sending to consumers as the nation approaches the holiday season. Expect,...
Read moreWill we follow our allies this time?
It might be a good idea to return – in January 2022 – to the promises that Joe Biden made on his first day as President of the United States of America on the 20th of January 2021.
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Issue #2004
Zelensky goes to Washington
In 2020 when Joe Biden decided to run for the presidential election, Donald Trump asked the Ukraine President Zelensky to investigate Joe Biden. In exchange...
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Issue #2114
US, Israel, and Palestine – privilege and oppression
The influence that America exerts on the world and the media’s ability to focus global attention was on full show as the US Democratic National...
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Issue #2100
Israel’s slaughter goes on – Opposition grows
The slaughter in Gaza goes on. The lies, distortions and hypocrisy from Israel and its allies go on. The anniversary of Nakba, the catastrophe of...
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Issue #2111
US backing means impunity
The assassinations of Hezbollah leader Fuad Shukr in Beirut, and Hamas chief spokesperson Ismail Haniyeh have shown the world that Israel does not want peace....
Read moreTrump’s Presidency in the light of Democrat neoliberalism
Joe Biden has now replaced Donald Trump as President of the United States.
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Issue #2046
Call to end Cuban embargo: 63 years of suffering
On 10th February 2023, local councillors in Washington DC put up resolution PR25-0113 calling for the Biden administration to remove Cuba from the State Sponsors...
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Issue #2082
Halifax International Security Forum: a thieves’ kitchen
The Halifax International Security Forum has just completed its annual summit in Nova Scotia. It describes itself as a forum and network for international government...
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Issue #2100
Biden anti-China tariffs threaten global economy
US President Biden has announced a range of tariffs on imported Chinese goods. It is a decision that will have negative implications for the USA’s...
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Issue #2128
GLOBAL BRIEFS
ANGOLA: With less than two months to go before he is out of office, US President Joe Biden visited Angola from 2-4 December. “This is...
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Issue #2045
President Biden’s new discriminatory immigration policy
On 2nd February 2023, the US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) announced that of the 998 children detained at the US-Mexico, border under the President...
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Issue #2065
WEASEL WORDS
Worker-centric A British Labour Party shadow trade secretary has said that when Labour gets into power, they’ll get on really well with the Biden administration...
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Issue #2103
GLOBAL BRIEFS
China: The unmanned Chang’e-6 probe successfully landed on the dark side of the Moon for the world’s first mission to collect samples from that region....
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Issue #2047
GLOBAL BRIEFS
America: The Pentagon has blocked attempts by the US federal government to share alleged Russian war crimes in Ukraine with the International Criminal Court (ICC)...
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Issue #2103
Blinken ‘acting like Israel’s foreign minister’
Hamas officials have accused Antony Blinken, the US Secretary of State, of bias as negotiations over a possible ceasefire continue. Hamas official Taher Al-Nunu told...
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Issue #2105
The sham of the Ukraine ‘Peace’ Summit
The much-vaunted Ukraine Peace Summit in Switzerland came and went. The world media reminded us almost daily of the unanimity of support, of the depth...
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Issue #2127
GLOBAL BRIEFS
ITALY: Far-right Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni suffered election setbacks in two regions as the opposition Democratic Party won a tight contest in the central Umbria...
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Issue #2091
GLOBAL BRIEFS
YEMEN: Massive protests for Palestine continue across Yemen. Friday rallies attract millions of participants who march for Gaza. Last Friday was no exception – demonstrators...
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Issue #2106
Israeli destruction could spread
US presidential candidates Biden and Trump don’t have much in common – except for blind support for Israel and an almost rabid animosity toward Palestine....
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Issue #2105
GLOBAL BRIEFS
KENYA: Biden promised to designate Kenya as the USA’s first “major non-NATO ally” in sub-Saharan Africa as Kenyan President William Ruto arrived in Washington for...
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Issue #2122
GLOBAL BRIEFS
EGYPT: Egypt has been certified as malaria free by the World Health Organisation (WHO). “Malaria is as old as Egyptian civilisation itself, but the disease...
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Issue #2099
PEACE NOTES
BIDEN MANOEUVRES TO SAVE VOTES Facing fast growing opposition to the Israeli genocide in Gaza, US President Biden is manoeuvring to save votes in the...
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Issue #2149
Fight: Inside the Wildest Battle for the White House
Fight: Inside the Wildest Battle for the White House analyses the 2024 United States presidential election, examining Joe Biden’s disastrous bid for re-election, and the...
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Issue #2106
US Presidential debate
The recent US Presidential debate watched by 51 million people, was an obvious catastrophe for the Democratic Party. Biden looked lost and wooden. The fiasco...
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Issue #2120
GLOABAL BRIEFS
SYRIA: Bashar Al-Assad, Syria’s head of state and Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi met in Damascus last week to discuss the current situation in the...
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Issue #2094
DINGO
The Federation of the Australian states in 1901 was the first step away from British colonial control. However, imperialist interests continue to dominate Australian politics...
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Issue #2131
Leonard Peltier: Americaís longest serving political prisoner
Joe Biden’s last days in the White House saw him issue pardons to many Americans serving prison sentences. He commuted death sentences and freed hundreds...
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Issue #2045
NO AUKUS
Under the appalling AUKUS plan announced by US President Biden on Tuesday (Australian time), Australia will begin hosting US nuclear-powered and armed submarines from this...
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Issue #2102
Gaza: Biden’s ‘red lines’ lie
Israeli atrocities and war crimes continue. Western leaders continue to act out grief, even outrage, but nothing is done. A few courageous exceptions, such as...
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Issue #2077
A place under the table
It’s always a stressful experience meeting the boss, so perhaps we should sympathise with Anthony Albanese who has just been to Washington to catch up...
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Issue #2150
EDITORIAL
US President Donald Trump is always in the news. There are a lot of reasons to think he’s an especially horrible person. He’s very corrupt...
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Issue #2126
Biden green lights escalation of war against Russia
A dangerous escalation of the NATO war against Russia has moved from the possible to the probable. Zelensky has been long urging his US and...
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Issue #2126
Trump, Israel, and dark days for Palestine
Israel continues its calculated program of starvation and ethnic cleansing in northern Gaza. In a move that surprised no-one, the Biden administration has pledged to...
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