World Bank, IMF, Gaza and Immigration Protesters
Attendees at the Spring meetings of the WB (World Bank) and IMF (International Monetary Fund) on Tuesday this week while waiting to pass through security before entering the WB headquarters…
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About Blocking Trump’s Deportation Command
On March 25th, Trump issued an order that he would end the legal status for over 500,000 Cubans, Nicaraguans, Haitians and Venezuelans - voiding their work permits and opening them…
Will there be a big change in the world’s balance of power, can this happen without a big war?
In historical terms when the situation is moving towards a significant change in the balance of power, possibilities of war can increase, although by no means war is inevitable in…
Will the ascendancy of factionalism and authoritarian rule in America be its final undoing?
“The United States of America!” Doesn’t saying it just make your heart leap for joy? I start hearing the national anthem play in my head, see the rockets red glare…
US-Iran Talks: Nuclear Diplomacy at Stake!
President Donald Trump wants Tehran to take his stand regarding “nuclear talks” seriously or else face “consequences,” that of “bombing” and more. Certainly, talks have begun but there is no certainty about…
Khmer Rouge Monsters: Untold Half of Story
There are two popular adages that could serve as our compass as we grope our way through the dense ruins overgrown with tropical vegetation of unwelcome historical memories."It is the…
Europe and China Must Unite Against Trump’s Trade Assault
BERLIN – US President Donald Trump’s misguided trade war against the rest of the world could mark the beginning of the end for both his political dominance and his “Make…
Nazi Porsche
It is not only Tesla boss Elon Musk’s (neo)-Nazi salute that connects cars to Nazis. Historically, there were other car companies that were linked to real Nazis – Hitler’s Nazis,…
Dear Dems: Do the Right Thing! (Stop Funding Genocide)
On April 3rd, Senator Bernie Sanders forced votes on the floor of the Senate on two Joint Resolutions of Disapproval (JRDs), specifically S.J. Res 33 and 26, each intended to…
The Gutting of American Mental Health Care
This Mental Health Awareness Month, Funding Slashed While Surprising New Research Shows Bipartisan Support for Expanded Services The United States has been in the throes of a mental health and…
Recipe for Disaster—Power of a Few Persons to Take Decisions that can Kill Millions
One aspect of recent world affairs that should cause increasing concern is the increasing possibility that just a few persons with very high power concentrated in their hands, acting largely…
Ten Commandments for the New American Century
First Commandment: THOU SHALT TAKE MONEY OUT OF POLITICS No money in politics. Zero! First, people should stand up and declare unequivocally they will not vote for anyone who takes…
A Moral Imperative for the 2025 Canadian Election
Will Canadians Vote for Genocide? by Kim PetersenBack in August 2014, the New Democratic Party (NDP) was led by Tom Mulcair whose Zionism was so extreme that a sitting MP,…
The Betrayal of the Black Community
Significant numbers in the Black community feel betrayed by our so-called allies who ignored the warnings of Black people regarding the elections, its political rhetoric, and the history of racism…
Resist Technofeudalism of Mr Bill Gates and Defend the Collective Foundations of Education
Will Artificial Intelligence (AI)-led robots take over classrooms and replace teachers? Will AI-driven technology undermine human connections in teaching? Will AI disrupt traditional classroom-based teaching and learning? As concerns about…
The Selling of America: Ending the US Dollar’s Exorbitant Privilege
Has the love, or even more so the fixation, gone with the US dollar, that all cushioning reserve currency that has shown itself unimpeachable for decades? A curious event teasing…
A Society Without Charity Is Doomed to Failure
ROME – Every Easter, Christians remember how at the Last Supper, on the eve of Jesus’s crucifixion, hope seemed to be lost. Most of Jesus’s closest friends were about to…
The Ever-Expanding War Machine-Dismantling the Government While Pumping Up the Pentagon
Under the guise of efficiency, the Trump administration is taking a sledgehammer to essential programs and agencies that are the backbone of America’s civilian government. The virtual elimination of the U.S. Agency…
Euphemistic Practices: The IDF, Killing Aid Workers and Self-Investigation
Few armed forces have managed to make murder and executions the stuff of procedural aberration rather than intentional practice. Killing civilians and unarmed personnel is the stuff of misreading and…
Pope Francis Dies After Final Appeal for Gaza Cease-Fire
The Vatican announced Monday that Pope Francis has died at the age of 88, hours after he appeared at an Easter mass and appealed for an end to Israel's war on the Gaza Strip.…
Will the Global Economy Stall?
ITHACA – The timing could hardly have been less propitious. Just as the world economy was showing signs of stabilizing, the odds of a policy-induced global recession have risen significantly.…
Those Chinese Peasants
Some would posit, “If you have nothing nice to say, don’t say anything.” US president Donald Trump is not beholden to that epithet and neither is his vice-president JD “I…
Trump Harvests Autocratic Powers, Planted by Bush and Cheney
In 2003, the Macedonian police arrested Khaled el-Masri, a German citizen vacationing in their country. They handed the unfortunate man over to the CIA, who shipped him off to one…
UC Berkeley Calls for Self Determination, Resistance to Trump
Speaking from the Mario Savio steps on April 17, in front of Sproul Hall, Robert Reich, UC Berkeley Public Policy professor and former Secretary of Labor during the Clinton administration,…
Economics–Exposing Long Established Distorted Notions is as important as Criticizing the New Destabilizing Ones
It has been very rightly said that the arbitrary one-sided decisions on increasing tariffs by the USA is bad economics (it is also bad politics) that can cause avoidable turmoil…
Dotty and Cretinous: Reviewing AUKUS
It was a deal for the cretinous, hammered out by the less than bright for less than honourable goals. But AUKUS, the trilateral security alliance between Australia, the United Kingdom…
Uh-oh Canada Votes
NEWSFLASH! If you are right-wing you are going to vote to the right and if you are left-wing you are going to vote to the left. A political reality heightened…
Leading Overarching Objective of World Policy Must be to Avoid Big Wars
Our already deeply troubled world has recently entered a new phase of disruption and instability. Some influential people who were happy with earlier times blame only the recent disruptions and…
Lessons from the #RutoMustGo Campaign in Kenya
As we approach the first anniversary of the RutoMustGo campaign by GenZ and others, lessons are being learnt by the resistance on strategies and tactics to struggle against the comprador…
US airstrikes in Yemen kill 80 and injure over 150
On Friday, the Trump administration launched a major airstrike against the Ras Isa oil port in western Yemen that resulted in the deaths of at least 80 people and injured…
US strike on Ras Issa port constitutes unlawful use of force, warrants immediate investigation and accountability
Geneva – The US military strike on Yemen’s Ras Issa oil port—which resulted in dozens of civilian casualties, including medics—raises serious concerns of grave violations of international humanitarian law, potentially amounting to war crimes. An independent investigation must be…
Latin America Three Months into the Trumpocalypse
Nobody is complaining anymore about Latin America and the Caribbean being neglected by the hegemon to the north. The Trump administration is contending with it on multiple fronts: prioritizing “massive…
Linkages of US-Iran Talks to Gaza and Wider Palestine Issues
The US-Iran negotiations are widely seen on a note of hope by most people. The issue of alleged nuclear weapon plans of Iran has long been a highly controversial issue…
The German “Drang nach Osten” Policy and South-East Europe Around 1900
The unified German Empire, proclaimed in Versailles in January 1871, contemplated balancing the division of the world’s colonies, the markets, and the sources of the world’s raw material.[1] Exceptionally, the…
United States is the biggest Terrorist State
A Columbia University student Mahmoud Khalil had been detained by the authorities in the United States as he had organised demonstrations in support of Palestine during the ongoing conflict between…
Facing Trump’s America: In the Spirit of African American History and the Black Civil Rights Movement
Recently, in an executive order, President Trump directed the removal of “improper, divisive, or anti-American ideology” from the Smithsonian Institution. That order was, in essence, an attempt to rewrite history on race…
Global response to Trump’s tariff tsunami
The enhanced tariffs on imports of America announced by Donald Trump recently as second-term President of USA, resulted in turmoil in the economic world. Though they were aimed at Making…
EPIC – a Back to the Future Political Romance for Public Recitation
Dedicated to US Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Sing in me Muse the epic tale of that Earth daughter who shook the foundations of the Dark Towers and challenged in combat the…
Australian Elections: Racist & Lying Mainstream Presstitutes Ignore Gaza Genocide By Apartheid Israel
Australia will have Federal Elections on 3 May 2025. The main issue should be the horrific and Australia-complicit Gaza Genocide (553,000 deaths from violence and deprivation by 20 January 2025)…
Campus Crackdowns: Why the Ruling Classes Fear and Attack Higher Education
The increasing attacks on higher educational institutions and universities reflect a deeper malaise within the ruling classes. President Donald Trump’s criticisms of American universities and attacks on universities such as…
A Time of Living Dangerously – For Telling the Truth
The West has long cherished political correctness as though it were a core democratic value. This drive to ‘civilise’ public discourse has been especially aimed at illiberal democracies or post-socialist societies…
Resisting American Techno-Fascism
WASHINGTON, DC – Big Tech’s massive encroachment upon the levers of state authority under US President Donald Trump is creating a dangerous new power structure – one not confined to…
Trump Targets Migrants amid Human Trafficking Allegations
Donald Trump has launched an aggressive campaign that targets Latino migrants – particularly Venezuelans – as scapegoats in a broader geopolitical agenda. Bolstered through a controversial alliance with the Salvadoran…
If the US does invade Canada, it won’t be the first time
Trump’s threats to take over Canada and Mexico (and elsewhere) have stirred up a shit-storm of push-back. Perhaps it’s a good time to remember some relevant history. That’s what the…
Appalled at Funding Genocide, Over 2,000 US Taxpayers Turn to the UN for Redress
Taxpayers Against Genocide (TAG), a nongovernmental grassroots mass movement comprised of more than 2,000 taxpayers who have been protesting their congressional representatives’ votes to fund Israel’s genocide in Gaza, filed…
Tax Day Protests Call for an End to Taxpayer Financed Wars
SAN FRANCISCO (04-15) – Today being Tax Day, a day most Americans dread, activists from across the country protested the unfairness of taxes allowing the rich to pay less than…
Flexible and Sly: Indonesian Defence Policy, Russia and Australian Anxiety
Island states tend to be anxious political entities. Encircled by water, seemingly defended by natural obstacles, the fear of corrupting penetration is never far. Threats of such unwanted intrusion are…
To End Trumpism: A Tale of Three Reactions
Imagine you are about to crack open a new book and begin reading. The opening sentence goes like this: “It was the best of times, it was the worst of…
You Only Get What You’re Organized to Take
The day after Donald Trump won the 2024 election, the 10 richest people in the world — including nine Americans — expanded their wealth by nearly $64 billion, the greatest single-day…
Gender Stunts in Space: Blue Origin’s Female Celebrity Envoys
Indulgent, vain and profligate, the all-female venture into space on the self-piloted New Shepard (NS-31) operated by Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin was space capitalism and celebrity shallowness on full show,…
Will Trump Unite China and Europe?
ROME – With little economic or political rationale, US President Donald Trump has introduced some of the highest tariffs in more than a century, and imposed them on nearly every…
To love your country means to question its rulers
The political and economic campaigns such as ‘America First’ by President Donald Trump, ‘India First’ by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, and ‘Britain First’—a far-right political group founded in 2011 by…
Fortress America-Trump’s Tricontinental Vision for a New World Order
Most of us can remember at least a few troubling scenes from George Orwell’s dystopian novel 1984: the mandatory love demanded for the spectral dictator Big Brother; the malleability of facts at the…
Iran Wins First Round in The Oman Talks
EDITOR’S NOTE: This editorial, written by by Abdul Bari Atwan, chief editor of the Arabic Al Rai Al Youm website, on Saturday, 12 April relates to the first talks of the…
Should Iran Bend Knee to Donald Trump?
Former UNSCOM weapons inspector Scott Ritter usually provides excellent analysis of geopolitical events and places them in a morally centered framework. However, in a recent X post, Ritter defends a…
Trump’s anti-China stand: Covid-19 & Tariff-war!
During his first term in office, President Donald Trump’s anti-China policies seemed as aggressive and assertive as they are now. Paradoxically, though those centred around a totally different issue, they…
Planned Obsolescence of Capitalism versus Sustainable Chinese Alternatives: A Clash of Ideologies
Why do the American ruling elites, both in the Republican and Democratic parties, oppose China so strongly? Since taking office, President Donald Trump imposed tariffs of up to 145% on…
In a world already facing existential crisis, recent and on-going disruptive policies can prove suicidal
Highly disruptive and arbitrary policy decisions have been taken in recent times in countries from which much more maturity is expected and where democratic systems of checks and balances are…
Prognosticating Trump’s tariff policy and trade war with China
Trump's attempt to pull USA out of the US laid post WWII economic order and instead take a path of isolationisn and economic protection, is perhaps the most systematic assault…
Europe’s Tech Sovereignty Demands More Than Competitiveness
BRUSSELS – As part of his confrontational stance toward Europe, US President Donald Trump could end up weaponizing critical technologies. The European Union must appreciate the true nature of this…
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