SENIOR US government figures lined up yesterday to back President Donald Trump’s self-interested decision to pull out of the global fight against climate change.
Announcing his plan to withdraw from the Paris climate accord on Thursday, the billionaire demagogue said: “The agreement handicaps the US economy in order to win praise from foreign capitals and global activists.”
“I was elected to represent the citizens of Pittsburgh, not Paris.”
Colombia’s success in controlling the drug trade should be recognised and its sovereignty respected, argues Dr GLORY SAAVEDRA
Climate justice and workers’ rights movements are uniting to make the rich pay for our transition to a green economy, writes assistant general secretary of PCS JOHN MOLONEY, ahead of a major demonstration on September 20
US tariffs have had Von der Leyen bowing in submission, while comments from the former European Central Bank leader call for more European political integration and less individual state sovereignty. All this adds up to more pain and austerity ahead, argues NICK WRIGHT
FRANCISCO DOMINGUEZ says the US’s bullying conduct in what it considers its backyard is a bid to reassert imperial primacy over a rising China — but it faces huge resistance


