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US election should be scrapped!

LINDA HEARD | Published — Tuesday 11 October 2016 Linda Heard The upcoming US presidential election needs a redo. Both candidates are generally disliked and both are embroiled in various kinds of scandals. Neither is of the caliber to lead America, never mind the so-called free world. In a perfect […]

Trump’s magical economic thinking

Oct 02,2016 – JORDAN TIMES – SIMON JOHNSON Donald Trump has finally put out a detailed economic plan. Authored by Peter Navarro (an economist at the University of California-Irvine) and Wilbur Ross (an investor), the plan claims that a president Trump would boost growth and reduce the national debt. But […]

The Sanders phenomenon

May 30,2016 – JORDAN TIMES There is a Sanders phenomenon. It is real, and the factors that have prompted its emergence need to addressed and understood. When this year’s presidential primary began, many dismissed the Democratic Party contest as a “done deal”. It was assumed that Hillary Clinton would be […]

Gloomy presage

May 05,2016 – JORDAN TIMES EDITORIAL Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump has become not only the Republican Party front-runner in the upcoming US presidential election, but virtually the Republican nominee, following after the withdrawal of his main competitor, Ted Cruz, from the presidential race after his stunning defeat in the […]

Unmistakable signs of fascism

RAMZY BAROUD Published — WWW.ARABNEWS.COM Last update 8 March 2016   Regardless of the outcome of the American presidential primaries, or even the result of the general elections next November, a frightening phenomenon is underway. The US has decidedly moved to the right, in fact the ultra-right; class differences are […]