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Biden’s Choice on Julian Assange and the First Amendment
Assange’s liberty represents that of all journalists and publishers whose job is to expose government and corporate criminality without fear of prosecution. WHEN JOE BIDEN becomes…
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Biden’s Modest Multilateralism
US President Donald Trump has made international cooperation almost impossible over the last four years. Although President-elect Joe Biden is unlikely to embrace multilateralism as wholeheartedly…
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Joe Biden’s foreign policy dilemma
Will the new president do more than simply return to the policies of the past? In foreign ministries around the world, Joe Biden’s victory felt like…
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Biden is rebranding but not reinventing Trump’s China policy
The Biden administration-in-waiting is sending clear signals about its China approach, which will look very different from President Trump’s — at least on the surface. But…
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Crafting a diplomacy-first US foreign policy
US President-elect Joe Biden has made it clear that diplomacy will be at the centre of his administration’s foreign policy. Biden has pledged to rejoin the…
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The time has come for a reckoning on US immigrant abuse
A letter to the UN by four congresswomen renews hope that abuse of detained immigrants in the US will finally be addressed. In mid-September, several organisations…
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Biden transition will be rough and rocky
America is more deeply divided country than at any time since the Civil War The US election is, in fact, over and Joe Biden won and…
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The Biden Formula
Just as US President-elect Joe Biden has pledged to “build back better” to promote economic recovery, America also urgently needs to reinvent its international role. Doing…
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Donald Trump is still busy trying to bulldoze democracy
The red light flashing danger to democracy grew more intense on 19 November. We thought it could hardly get worse, with Trump toady Lindsey Graham sticking…
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Joe Biden’s world order
In less than four years, outgoing US President Donald Trump has achieved what, historically, only devastating wars had done: recasting the global order. With his isolationism,…
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President-Elect Biden: Time for YOU to Follow the Climate Science
Big corporate media outlets are great at policing progressive Democrats who "go too far." They're not so watchful over Democratic presidents who cling to a go-slow,…
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Biden must ditch Trump’s nationalism
Otherwise, the 'new CEO of the US' must expect Asia’s economic supremacy Joe Biden might have won the keys to the White House, but unless he…