Can Conservative Catholics Win Election for Trump?
Catholic supporters of Donald Trump at a rally in New Jersey in 2020 (Denise Kimmel/W5) Originally...
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Analysis
Donald Trump and the Ambitions of “Project 2025”
Project 2025: “A cadre of Trump loyalists ready to replace career civil servants in “deep state” and 920 pages of right-wing measures across Government”
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How Israel-Gaza Will — or Will Not — Affect The US Election Campaign – and Vice Versa
Co-published with The Conversation: EA on Monocle Radio: Why Israel-Gaza Is Unlikely to Derail...
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Does The Vice-Presidential Pick Matter? In Tim Walz’s Case, Yes
“Conventional wisdom on the role and significance of the US Vice-Presidential office is that it is ‘not worth a bucket of warm spit’. Tim Walz defies that.”
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Making Plans for Nigel: The Politician and TV Networks Stoking the UK’s Far-Right Riots
“This is Nigel Farage — Reform Party leader, UK MP at 8th attempt, TV show host, chancer, & demagogue — stoking rather than dousing far-right riots in UK”
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Donald Trump and the “Christian Nationalists”
“Trump’s message to Christian nationalists: he supports their belief that their biblical theology has precedence over US Constitution and will of people.”
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Israel’s Deadly — But Inconclusive — Message With Killing of Hamas Leader Haniyeh
“With killing of Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh in Tehran, Israel fulfilled a pledge and asked Hamas, Hezbollah, and Iran, ‘Now what are you going to do?'”
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Why J.D. Vance’s “Scots-Irish Hillbilly” Pose Matters
“White trash” could even become compelling origin story for the 48th US President: J.D. Vance, posing as the “Scots-Irish hillbilly” alongside Donald Trump.
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Trump Speaks But The Story is All About Biden….
“Shooting at rally & GOP convention, but we are at same place where we sat last weekend: Will Biden stand aside soon to stop Trump’s threat to US & world?”
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EA on India’s CNN 18: Disorder in Leeds in the UK — Facts v. Disinformation
Aftermath of disorder in Harehills in north Leeds, United Kingdom, July 19, 2024 (Yorkshire Post)...
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A Trump-Vance White House Will Undermine Europe and Boost A Russia-China Partnership
“Trump’s appointment of Vance as running mate signals end of post-1945 internationalist US foreign policy consensus. European leaders are rightly worried.”
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Trump, Political Violence, and the Future of America
“Having just avoided becoming a victim of political violence, Trump immediately, perhaps instinctively seized on opportunity for his ‘politics of violence'”
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Israel’s Military Admits It Can’t Win in Gaza — But Netanyahu Isn’t Listening
Israel military acknowledges failure of 8 1/2-month operations in Gaza. What does Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu do? He plays for time for perpetual war.
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The UK’s Election is Ignoring Poverty
3m emergency food parcels in year in UK; 12m in absolute poverty; 17% of children “food insecure” households — and both Conservatives and Labour are silent.
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The Danger Among Us: A Humiliated Trump v. the US Legal System
“Cicero wrote about Roman Republic, ‘We are slaves of law so that we may be free’. GOP has replaced this with slavery to Trump so none of us may be free.”
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A Beginner’s Guide to Iran’s “Managed” Presidential Election
“Iran’s regime must tread a careful line between controlling the election and risking its legitimacy in a vote where few people bother to turn out.”
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Beginner’s Guide: What Now for Iran’s Regime After Death of Its President?
A Beginner’s Guide: Who was late President Ebrahim Raisi? What happens now for the regime? What is future for rights and stability in Iran and Middle East?
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“Labour Isn’t Listening”: The Party Is Not Engaging With British Muslims
UK Labour Party leader Keir Starmer (Darren Staples/AFP) Co-published with the Byline Times: The...
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Q&A: Is An Iran-Israel War Imminent?
Why Iran retaliation is unlikely to be direct military attack on Israel territory or officials, but rather political & diplomatic push in region and beyond
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EA-Times Radio Special: Killing of Navalny Highlights Failure of Putin’s “Ukraine Gamble”
35-minute special: How Vladimir Putin’s killing of Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny is linked to the failure of Putin’s 2-year invasion of Ukraine.
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EA on WION News: US-Iran Confrontation Across Middle East — Ball Is In Tehran’s Court
Analyzing state of US-Iran confrontation across Middle East, following American retaliation over killing and wounding of US troops by Tehran-linked militias
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Toning Down The Hyperbole Over Trump’s Win in Iowa
“It would be wrong to reach conclusion from one result in Iowa that Trump’s political resurrection and eventual electoral triumph is in some way inevitable.”
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Political WorldView Podcast: Trump’s Threat to US Democracy
After a 4-year break, Political WorldView returns with an analysis of the forthcoming trials of Donald Trump, even as he tries to return to the White House.
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UPDATE: EA on GB News — Avoiding Trump’s Political Trap Over His Indictments
Donald Trump and his lawyer Rudy Giuliani, one of his 18 defendants in the Georgia felony case...
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Who Gains From Destroying A Dam, Lives, and the Environment in Southern Ukraine?
“Likely effect of destructive acts on Ukraine will be to strengthen people’s resolve to liberate their country, and to end Russia’s threat to their nation.”
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Biden’s Diplomatic Mission In Ireland
“Biden’s visit is more than sentimental. Celebrate the Good Friday Agreement today is to assert the US’s support for the rule of law in foreign policy.”
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Confronting “Imperial Conquest”: Lessons From A Year of Putin’s War on Ukraine
Learning from Putin’s war on Ukraine: “Only once Russia ceases to revolutionary state in international system can some semblance of order be re-established.”
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Putin’s Ukraine War Turns Russia Into “Terrorist State”
“Designation of Russia as ‘terrorist’ won’t stop missiles. But as Ukrainians repair and recover each time, it is necessary marker to isolate Moscow.”
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The US Has Passed “Peak Trump”
“These elections mean moment of ‘peak Trump’ has passed. It remains for Republicans to go through painful process of removing Trump from his grip on party.”
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Ukraine: Another Dangerous Escalation as Putin Blocks Grain Exports
Putin’s suspension of Black Sea grain initiative: “A reckless and cowardly move by Kremlin that puts lives of potentially 10s of millions of people on line”
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