In 1992, Francis Fukuyama’s The End of History prophesised the future belonged to western liberal democracy, under a free-market driven economy. Unfortunately, almost thirty years since the fall of the Soviet Union, democracy hasn’t blossomed. On the contrary, the world has witnessed an alarming rise in right-wing authoritarians chipping away…

Bernie Sanders Has Lost The Nomination, But Won The Future Bernie Sanders will not be the Democratic Party’s nominee for the Presidency of the United States. There will not be a Sanders vs Trump contest in November (and what a contrast that would have been). Yet, history will vindicate Bernie…

Now that the dust settles from another chaotic general election in the United Kingdom, that saw Boris Johnson win the largest Tory majority since Margert Thatcher’s third election victory in 1987, the time has surely come to re-examine the suitability of a first past the post voting (FPTP) system. In…

How modern day colonialists are trying to make a new banana republic — War is a racket”, General Smedley Butler warned in 1935. Butler, who was the most decorated marine at the time of his death, was sent by his government to South America to establish one banana republic after another. The drums of war are at it again, this time in Venezuela…

On 14th February 14, 40 Indian paramilitary soldiers were killed by a suicide bombing in Indian-Administered Kashmir. Whilst the bomber was born and raised in India (a fact ignored by the Indian media), he was funded and equipped by the Pakistan based terrorist organisation JeM, who have publicly taken credit…

900 million people are going to the polls for parliamentary elections in India to determine who rules the largest democracy for the next five years — The American election of 2020 is still 600 days away, yet even in the British press there is at least one article a day on any declared or even potential candidates to challenge Donald Trump. Yet very little focus has been given by the international press to the biggest election…

The President-elect of the South American country is a potential autocrat. His rise is another symptom of the increasingly global strength of the far right. — In last week’s run-off election, Brazil’s fascist-in-chief Jair Bolsonaro won the presidency with 55% of the vote. Yes, fascist is the appropriate description, and let the record show that this was a far from a fair fight. From the 2016 impeachment of the former President Dilma Rouseff on flimsy charges…

Avi Banerjee suggests that the Democrats should embrace radical solutions to reform the highest court in America and restore its liberal balance — Avirup Banerjee After the election of 1800, who would become the third President of the American Republic was very much a mystery. With the electoral college tied at 73 between Thomas Jefferson and Aaron Burr, the decision was left to the House of Representatives with Jefferson only winning the Presidency…

Labour’s so called anti-Semitism problem has been weaponised by those who seek to underine Corbyn and the Labour party — The ancient Chinese had a curse: ‘may he live in interesting times’ — well these are interesting times when the president of the United States claims there are good people on the side of neo-Nazis and with the electoral success of far-right neo-Nazi political groups all over Europe and America…