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U.S. President Joe Biden. Image credit: Gage Skidmore/Flickr
Unity is restored to U.S. -- but only among elites
Rick Salutin | There was much media rhapsodizing about a post-inaugural unity between three U.S. ex-presidents from opposing parties. The trouble is, there's never been a lack of unity among U.S. elites.
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National Guard soliders by U.S. Capitol grounds on January 12, 2021. Image credit: Elvert Barnes/Flickr
A spectre of fascism haunts the U.S. presidential inauguration
Duncan Cameron | A spectre of fascism looms over Joe Biden's inauguration because neither the Democrats nor the Republicans have been willing or able to address the serious injustices that prevail in U.S. society.
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Pro-Trump supporters at the U.S. Capitol. Image credit: Brett Davis/Flickr
U.S. Capitol riot lays bare ugly realities of racism and inequality
Amy Goodman, Denis Moynihan | The violent white-supremacist insurrection at the U.S. Capitol on January 6 put some ugly truths in stark relief.
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Prescient demonstrators at the White House on a summer night in 2018. (Image credit: David J. Climenhaga).
Canadian Conservatives, take note: de-Trumpification is coming and not just to the U.S.
David J. Climenhaga | Right-wing Canadian politicians like Alberta Premier Kenney need to find a way to put some distance between themselves and the obvious comparisons to Donald Trump's excesses.
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Pro-Trump supporters at the U.S. Capitol. Image credit: Brett Davis/Flickr
What the pro-Trump insurrection in Washington means for Canada
Karl Nerenberg | On the very day violent extremists seized the U.S. Capitol Building, our federal government warned us about the rise of far-right extremism here in Canada.
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Fighting the rise of the radical right wing
Marc Belanger, RadioLabour | As fascism increases in the U.S. and Britain, unions have released a guide on how labour unions can fight back.
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Pro-Trump supporters at the U.S. Capitol. Image credit: Brett Davis/Flickr
The reduction of the U.S. to fascism is ongoing
Rick Salutin | The storming of the U.S. Capitol was, for shock and symbolic value, a homegrown version of 9/11. Except it was U.S. terrorists directed by their president, defecating on their own national symbols.
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Alberta Premier Jason Kenney. Image: Government of Alberta/Flickr
Alberta premier piously pleads for restoration of order in Washington
David J. Climenhaga | Painful though it may be to watch, there's nothing bizarre about what happened in Washington. The U.S. has been perfecting the techniques of "colour revolution" for half a century.
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Pro-Trump mob on steps of U.S. Capitol. Image credit: Brett Davis/Flickr
The violent riot on the U.S. Capitol was shocking but predictable
Amy Goodman, Denis Moynihan | With Trump and Confederate flags waving, violent insurrectionists rampaged through the halls of Capitol Hill in Washington.
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Electoral college seals Trump's fate, but his denial of reality continues
Penney Kome | Claiming to have won the 2020 presidential election may be among Trump's most startling denials of reality, but as with most of his words and deeds, he has an agenda.
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Why did China's government detain Kovrig and Spavor from among 300,000 Canadians?
David J. Climenhaga | Soon after Huawei chief financial officer Meng Wanzhou was arrested by the RCMP two years ago, Chinese state security officers arrested two Canadian men, Michael Kovrig and Michael Spavor.
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U.S. President Donald Trump. Image: The White House/Flickr
Trump ponders pardoning himself as 54 death row inmates face execution
Amy Goodman, Denis Moynihan | Trump would be the first president in U.S. history to pardon himself. Meanwhile, the 54 people on U.S. federal death row can expect no such mercy from the lame-duck president.