The US remains the world’s dominant economic, political and military superpower. But it faces competition from a newly emerging superpower, China, and its allies. This introduces a new, more dangerous phase of imperialism.
As more votes are sorted, it becomes much clearer that Trump’s victory, far from being a landslide, was quite narrow. When the count is finalised nationwide, more voters will have chosen someone other than the bigoted billionaire.
Donald Trump has nominated about two dozen monsters in an administration that is sure to inflict serious damage on workers and the oppressed in the US and beyond.
Something terrible happened in Amsterdam on 7 November, although if you just read the mainstream media, you’d be forgiven for not knowing exactly what that was.
