Largely free from pressure from either the media or his own Republican Party since his election triumph last November, Donald Trump has appointed a team to pursue his ambitious domestic and international programs. Mr Trump was scathing about the U.S. media in the run-up to the election, and has completely ignored their attempts to…
During the third presidential debate in last year’s U.S. election campaign, Donald Trump was challenged on whether he would accept the result of the election, regardless of the outcome. For reasons that are still unclear, Mr Trump demurred, saying he would wait until the outcome was known. At the time, he seemed likely to…
The widely publicised report by America’s CIA, FBI and the National Security Agency into Russian interference in the U.S. presidential election is a disappointing document, which tells us nothing that was not well known during the presidential campaign. The publicly released document, issued on January 6, 2017, reaches the same conclusions as the classified…
The death of the 90-year-old former leader of Cuba, Fidel Castro, was widely reported as the death of a dictator – but one who was loved by his people and who vastly improved the lot of ordinary Cubans. The media also repeated that the United States Government, specifically the CIA, had tried to assassinate him,…
