Trump the straw man has finally been knocked down, giving the Democrats a victory that costs their corporate masters nothing.

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s birthday is often celebrated without any regard for his radical political legacy.

The worse the political and economic crisis becomes, the more lethargic the US left behaves – as if generations of collaboration with corporate Democrats has sucked the life out of the left.

By what stretch of the imagination can the US be a democracy when ordinary citizens have virtually no influence over what their government does? 

Ugandan pop star turned presidential candidate Bobi Wine is not Sankara or Lumumba, but he has risked his life to mount a fierce challenge to the 36-year dictatorship of President Yoweri Museveni.