socialism | Watching America

Zimbabwe: Economic Polarization in US Shows Failure of Capitalism

Lalatendu Das - March 10, 2023. Published in The Herald

Currently 37 million American people are still living below the poverty datum line.

Canada: In the US, Champagne Socialists Pursue Soft-on-Crime Policies at the Expense of Vulnerable Communities

Rejeanne Lacroix - January 12, 2022. Published in National Post

Egypt: The Socialist States of America?

Robin Koerner - May 22, 2021. Published in Al-Ahram

The leftist rhetoric presently infecting the United States stands in sharp contrast to the country’s most authentic free-market traditions.

Brazil: Trump Seeks Reelection by Inciting Fear of Chaos from Biden’s “Radical Left”

Robin Koerner - September 6, 2020. Published in El Pais

[N]othing is more radical than the Republican platform, which this time revolves around a single idea: that of Donald J. Trump.

Venezuela: Millennials and the Lessons of Past Pitfalls

Robin Koerner - March 15, 2020. Published in Tal Cual

[M]illennials appear to ignore a fundamental aspect of “real socialism,” that it’s linked to social control and repression.

France: The US-China Trade War: 2 Mutually Exclusive Systems

Robin Koerner - November 9, 2019. Published in Les Echos

As these two economic systems and their thinking are incompatible, they will never achieve mutual understanding ... so the conflict will go on.

Canada: Americans Are as Socialist as Elizabeth Warren Needs Them To Be

Rejeanne Lacroix - November 4, 2019. Published in National Post

Canada: Half of Young Americans Call Themselves Socialists. But They Don’t Mean It

Rejeanne Lacroix - April 19, 2019. Published in The Globe and Mail

France: Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez: An Exceptional Orator

Robin Koerner - April 16, 2019. Published in Les Echos

In Ocasio-Cortez’s rhetoric, many similarities to Barack Obama are blindingly obvious.

France: A New Wind Is Blowing in the United States

Robin Koerner - April 3, 2019. Published in La Liberation

Trump’s presidency is so grotesque and so plutocratic that it has woken people up. People are radicalizing; it is striking!

Saudi Arabia: The American Dream and the Socialist Nightmare

Robin Koerner - March 22, 2019. Published in al-Sharq al-Awsat

Will ... using socialism as a scarecrow actually change the course of events for the American public?

Spain: Sanders Launches His Campaign in the Place Where He Lost

Robin Koerner - March 12, 2019. Published in El Comercio

He wants to be the oldest president in history, and defied the cold and snow to launch his campaign in front of a crowd of 20-somethings who are giving new life to his old socialist ideas.

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