Новости за 28.08.2019

Sen. Bernie Sanders, Guardian
We cannot sit by and allow corporations, billionaires, and demagogues to destroy the Fourth Estate

Leonid Bershidsky, Bloomberg
Opinion This is a game Russia also played after annexing Crimea: First, flat denials, then hints, then a straight admission.

Yasmeen Serhan, Helen Lewis & Tom McTague, The Atlantic
The British prime minister's latest move effectively dares his opponents to unite against him.

Raphael Benaroya, RealClearWorld

Robert Peston, Spectator
The parliamentary battle of our age, and of many ages over how and whether the UK Brexits begins, with the signal from Downing Street that the Commons will rise some time between 10 and 13

Scott Gilmore, Maclean's
Scott Gilmore: It's become increasingly clear that U.S. power is not only absent under Trump, but unneeded. It is unlikely anyone will unlearn this lesson.

BBC
The controversial move would cut the time MPs have to pass any laws that could stop a no-deal Brexit.

Dominic Sandbrook, Daily Mail
DOMINIC SANDBROOK: There are victims on all sides, but by far the saddest cases are those unreconstructed Remainers so inflamed by disappointment they have lost touch with reality.

Michael Mandelbaum, The American Interest
The United States and Great Britain ultimately traded places after WWII. But the hand-off was much messier than is often acknowledged.

Jeremy Corbyn, Independent
Exclusive: The battle to stop no deal is the fight of the many against the few who are hijacking the referendum result to hand even more power to the wealthiest

Donald Gross, The Hill
Despite major achievements, domestic politics are threatening to derail US-China relations and trigger a global recession.

Federica Cocco et al, Financial Times
Every month Joy Kyakwita presses a button on her phone and does something in common with millions of other people across the globe: she sends money home.Ms Kyakwita, a London-based lawyer, gives a third of her salary to her family back home in Uganda, including paying money for school fees for her brothers and nephews.

Marian Tupy, CapX
We can't go on like this. Thus began a newsletter written on August 19 by Eddie Cross, a member of Zimbabwe's parliament and one of the founders of the opposition Movement for Democratic Change. Cross is a trained economist and a very brave man. He remained in Zimbabwe throughout its 20 year-long descent from one

Jon Rahbek-Clemmensen, WOTR
President Donald Trump's offer to buy Greenland, a semi-autonomous territory within the Kingdom of Denmark, came as a bolt out of the blue, causing global

Peter Brannen, The Atlantic
Humans could burn every living thing on the planet and still not dent its oxygen supply.

Conrad Black, National Post

Jimmy Kainja, African Arguments
Malawians angry at the management of the 2019 elections plan to shut down airports and borders next.

Mark Falcoff, Amer. Cons.
Venezuelans voted themselves into this pickle. There's no good reason for Washington to intervene.