[Craic] Good articles by Tony Burman in today’s Saturday’s Star.

[David Walsh]

Recent articles by Tony Burman at the Star

Click photo to read this first article – from today’s Saturday’s Star.

        David

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Aftershocks from a failed American coup – led by the president.
<https://www.thestar.com/opinion/contributors/2021/01/14/us-capitol-attacks-draw-increasing-parallels-with-nazism-in-the-1930s.html>
[Trump supporters at the Jan. 6 rally in Washington, the day the Capitol was stormed. “You’ll never take back our country with weakness,” the president said.]<https://www.thestar.com/opinion/contributors/2021/01/14/us-capitol-attacks-draw-increasing-parallels-with-nazism-in-the-1930s.html>
CONTRIBUTORS<https://www.thestar.com/opinion/contributors/2021/01/14/us-capitol-attacks-draw-increasing-parallels-with-nazism-in-the-1930s.html>
U.S. Capitol attacks draw increasing parallels with Nazism in the 1930s<https://www.thestar.com/opinion/contributors/2021/01/14/us-capitol-attacks-draw-increasing-parallels-with-nazism-in-the-1930s.html>
Jan 15-2021<https://www.thestar.com/opinion/contributors/2021/01/14/us-capitol-attacks-draw-increasing-parallels-with-nazism-in-the-1930s.html>





Excerpts from other recent articles by Tony Burman at the Star



Who would have thought that America’s “great experiment” in democracy — as its first president George Washington so glowingly described it more than two centuries ago — would end up blowing apart on U.S. national television in the year 2021 in such a grubby and shocking way?

But that’s what happened this week, nothing less.

On Wednesday, President Donald Trump led a botched coup attempt<https://www.thestar.com/news/world/2021/01/07/us-updates-politics-capitol-trump-biden-jan-7.html> in a bid to overturn the will of the voters in November’s presidential election. He did it by calling on tens of thousands of his right-wing supporters — many of them racist white nationalists and crazed conspiracy theorists — to storm the U.S. Capitol building where members of Congress were meeting to certify the victory of president-elect Joe Biden.

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A broken U.S. democracy has survived — but just barely — having a madman in office. Congratulations, America. But when sanity returns to the White House with Joe Biden’s inauguration, many Americans will begin to realize the enormity of what almost happened. A sitting U.S. president — with the support of the Republican leadership — tried to deny the will of the American people and steal the election. The repercussions from this will be explosive.

In this age of instant, global communication, there are probably few corners in the world that didn’t witness the grotesque and humiliating scenes from Washington on Wednesday. Unquestionably, they have done incalculable damage to U.S. democratic institutions and the country’s international reputation.

To U.S. allies, many of whom were humiliated by Trump in the past, the response was wrenching. It was a mixture of surprise, embarrassment and incredulity that what they assumed was the world’s leading democracy was imploding so dramatically.



Tony Burman on past predictions - My track record

Following the international rules of scoring that have been common in this Trump era — self-serving, of course, and highly suspect — I have averaged seven out of 10 correct predictions over the past four years.

In that spirit, I was accurate this past year (2020) on seven of my predictions. I was wrong on two. And there is one prediction — “Trump resigns to get a pardon” — that still has a few weeks to go before final determination.

I was right in predicting that Biden and Kamala Harris would be nominated and then elected in November’s U.S. election, that North Korea’s nuclear threat would return, that Iran would end the year caught up in Trump’s crosshairs and that the Taliban in Afghanistan would emerge as the winners in a so-called “peace agreement” being worked out by the U.S.

I was wrong in predicting that the era of Benjamin Netanyahu in Israel would come to an end — although this may happen in elections in 2021 — and I was wrong, or at least premature, in suggesting that political violence would explode in Latin America.

[A protester screams ‘Freedom’ inside the Senate chamber after the U.S. Capitol was breached by a mob during a joint session of Congress on Jan. 6, 2021 in Washington, D.C.]


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