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…
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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…
Trade Wars Should Not Lead to Many Countries being Forced to Accept Hazardous Imports
Tariffs are dominating news, but of course there are several other important aspects of trade-related aggression. As has been increasingly seen in recent decades, particularly in the course of moving…
The State of Africa In The New World Order
Africa today stands at a crossroads, caught between internal crises, shifting global power dynamics, and the slow unraveling of the post-liberation political order. Across the continent, ruling parties that once…
AFL-CIO Foreign Policy Leaders Lie to Members; Refuse to Mobilize Members Against Trump
The American Federation of Labor (AFL), and later the AFL-CIO (Congress of Industrial Organizations) have carried out their own foreign policy since the 1890s. These operations, done in the name…
Tariffs and Trade—Paradox of the Biggest Exploiter Posing as Victim
In a gathering if the most powerful person says the most absurd thing but says it in the loudest and most threatening way, then this voice may just succeed in…
Trump imposes 104 percent tariff on China, as financial turmoil grows
A week after US President Trump launched his economic war against the world under the banner of so-called “reciprocal tariffs,” China will have a tariff of 104 percent imposed on…
Speak in loud voice for end to conventional wars to prevent nuclear threat
Humanitarian crisis is at its peak as an aftermath of the wars in Middle East and between Russian & Ukraine. Despite the ceasefire between Israel and Hamas there is no…
World tariff war: Are we heading towards the third world war?
After Trump came to power, the world tariff war has started. This tariff war has shaken the stock markets of the world including India. America itself is not untouched by…
President Bankrupt And a Country (and World) Coming Apart at the Seams
From childhood, I think I had some eerie sense of just how bad it could get in America. After all, in junior high and high school, I was riveted by this…
The Geoeconomic Dilemma: Globalisation à la Xi or Isolationism à la Trump?
As the political West struggles to maintain cohesion in what often resembles a dysfunctional marriage – one seemingly heading toward an inevitable divorce – events unfolding on the other side of the…
Nicaragua’s opposition media welcome Trump’s new tariffs – and ignore how they were calculated
Five countries in Central America, together with the Dominican Republic in the Caribbean, have a free trade agreement with Washington, but this didn’t protect them from the punitive tariffs announced…
A Look at USAID From the Inside
What put the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), with an annual budget hovering at just about 1% of federal spending, at the top of Elon Musk’s budget-cutting target list?…
America Has Become Anti-American
Because I live in Japan and post articles which are critical of America, I am often accused of being anti-American. The truth is both counter-intuitive and disturbing. I haven’t changed…
Hands Off Everything – Save Our Democracy
More than 1,200 demonstrations sponsored by over 400 activists’ groups took place on March 5 in all 50 states to protest Donald Trump and billionaire Elon Musk’s dismantling of the…
Addressing Hate Speech and Incitement: Holding Meta Accountable in Africa
It was yet another unwelcome development for Mark Zuckerberg’s technology titan Meta, the parent company of Facebook. The High Court of Kenya has found that the US-based entity can be…
Why Are HANDS OFF Rallies Supporting NATO?
We are passionate supporters of all but one of the items on the Hands Off agenda for the April 5 rallies. We couldn’t agree more that the corrupt U.S. government…
CODEPINK: Funded by the CCP?
On March 26th, Congressman Jim Banks sent a letter to Attorney General Pamela Bondi requesting that CODEPINK be investigated for our alleged funding from the Chinese Communist Party. According to…
With Big Money Foreign Powers Taking Rival Sides, the Civil War in Sudan may Turn Even More Destructive Using Heavier Weapons
As the Sudan Civil War completes two years this month (in April 2025), it has already claimed nearly 150,000 human lives and displaced nearly 12 million people. Unfortunately with big…
Trump, Iran And The Coming ‘Nuclear Fight’
Experts say the Middle East region is poised on an impending war with the top protagonists being the USA, Israel and Iran. They stand on a military pedestal of violent…
Closed for Business: The Oddities of Trump’s Tariffs
Liberation Day, as April 2 was described by US President Donald Trump, had all the elements of reality television perversion. It also had a dreamy, aspirational hope: that factories would…
Academic freedom under attack: From the government but also from within
[This essay is adapted from It’s Debatable: Talking Authentically about Tricky Topics] Universities in the United States are facing one of the most serious attempts to impose political control on…
A Different Approach is Needed for Survival in the Nuclear Age
Amid growing international chaos, it should come as no surprise that nuclear dangers are increasing. The latest indication is a rising interest among U.S. allies in enhancing their nuclear weapons…
Continue to Fight Even When you are Weary
The presidential announcements and outrage come at us so viciously fast that it is difficult to keep up with the latest assault on governance, our intellect, decency, or humanity. Much…
Trump’s “reciprocal tariffs” escalate economic war against the world
The imposition of the new US tariff regime unveiled by President Trump yesterday is a declaration of economic war against the rest of the world. It has been driven forward…
Celebrate Pope Francis!
On Sunday 23 March, Pope Francis appeared on the balcony of Rome's Gemelli Hospital, for the first time since his hospitalization and before leaving the facility where he had been…
Voices from Hell Call to End the Civilized Humanity
Politicians Speak from Hell We, the People of human conscience, appear incapable or unprepared not to imagine peace and global order as the cornerstone of logic and perceived wisdom to…
For the Love of Landmines: European States Exit the Ottawa Convention
Paranoia manifests in various ways. It can eat away individuals in desperate solitude, whittling away sanity and balance. It can be enlisted in the making of policy. The latter can…
The Costs of Trump’s War on Federal Workers
The second administration of President Donald J. Trump has already started working its special magic across the Washington, D.C. capital region. Elon Musk and his Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE)…
The World is Experiencing Big Changes but Remains Far Away from Big Solutions
A lot has happened in the first three months of 2025. For many leading countries this short period would be recorded in history as a time of big changes. Although…
Don’t Let Governments Break Encryption
WASHINGTON, DC/BARCELONA – Imagine that some strange man wants a picture of your child. If it were the year 1750, he might commission an artist, who would then knock on…
Trump, as America’s Gorbachev
He’s not as affable, well-meaning and certainly not at all a truth-seeker of the same kind. In terms of his potential historical impact though US President Donald Trump is destined…
Why the U.S. Must Reconsider Mike Huckabee’s Ambassadorship to Israel
Mike Huckabee—a Baptist minister, former Arkansas governor (1996–2007), and two-time Republican presidential candidate—has long courted controversy for his polarizing rhetoric on Israel and Palestine. President Trump’s nomination of Huckabee as…
Secrecy and Virtue Signalling: Another View of Signalgate
There has been a fascinating, near unanimous condemnation among the cognoscenti about the seemingly careless addition of Jeffrey Goldberg of The Atlantic to the chat chain of Signal by US…
Veterans For Peace Delegation Visits Nicaragua, Call for Solidarity and Truth in the Face of Disinformation
In a powerful demonstration of international solidarity, seven members of Veterans For Peace (VFP) visited Nicaragua in mid-to-late March as an official VFP delegation. Veterans from five U.S. states flew…
US Bullying in Kalaallit Nunaat
United States vice president JD Vance traveled to Kalaallit Nunaat (colonial designation: Greenland) to join his wife. He issued a statement that speaks much to the imperialist mindset of the…
Kshama Sawant honoured in absentia by Canadian Radio station for standing up against caste-based oppression
Former Seattle City Councillor was presented with the annual Hands Against Racism award by Spice Radio at a well-attended event in Surrey on Sunday, March 30. Born and raised in…
The Real Outrage in Yemen
As Democrats decry the Trump Administration’s national security lapse, the United States is engaged in an actual killing campaign. Beginning in March of 2017 and for the following eight years,…
Confusing AI with OpenAI: Separating Tech from its Capitalist Controllers
Recently, social media has been awash with “Ghibli-fied” versions of netizens selfies, family pictures and travel memories using OpenAI’s latest image generation capabilities for their LLMs. Some have taken a…
Huge earthquake causes death and destruction in Myanmar and Thailand
A powerful earthquake with a magnitude of 7.7 that struck in Myanmar yesterday has killed more than 700 people in that country and neighbouring Thailand. The death toll, however, could…
We Will Not Move One Solitary Inch Towards Your Armageddon: Roger Waters
The following is a lightly edited version of a speech by musician Roger Waters on the 80th anniversary of the Yalta conference: Thank you for inviting me to speak here…
Authoritarian Politics: Netanyahu’s War on Israeli Institutions
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is waging a war on many fronts. He has ended the tense ceasefire with Hamas in Gaza in spectacularly bloody fashion and resumed bombing of…
CODEPINK Statement Regarding The Recent Defamation of Peace Activists and Unconstitutional Attacks on Students
Trump Administration allies, along with their bipartisan co-conspirators in Congress, are actively undermining and rendering useless the First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution. This week alone, they have repeatedly defamed…
Congress, Do Your Job – No Tax Breaks for Billionaires!
“Do your job!” and “Families Over Billionaires” were the operative messages loudly chanted to Congress outside the Capitol at a morning rally calling attention to the Trump Musk/DOGE evisceration of…
Making America White Again-The Deafening Silence of Trump’s Black Supporters
During the 2024 election campaign, candidate Donald Trump’s most controversial rally occurred at New York’s Madison Square Garden. A comedian on the program referred to the island of Puerto Rico — and…
Senate Intelligence Committee Hearing on Global Threats Turns into a McCarthy Hearing of Lies about CODEPINK: Women for Peace
Yesterday, in the US Senate Intelligence Committee hearing on global threats with the five heads of intelligence agencies of the US government, Senator Tom Cotton, accused on national TV a…
Can We Exit from a World of Debt?
In the past two decades, the external debt of developing countries has quadrupled to $11.4 trillion (2023). It is important to understand that this money owed to foreign creditors is equivalent to…
Trump’s Star Wars Revival: The Golden Dome Antimissile Fantasy
Bad ideas do not necessarily die; they retire to museums of failure and folly, awaiting to be revived by the next proponent who should know better. The Iron Dome shield…
The Mail Must Get Through, DOGE? “Hell No!”
This July the US Postal Service (USPS) will celebrate its 250th anniversary making it older than the country. Once again it is facing a call for privatization, this time from…
The First 50 Days-“Perversifying” the Misdeeds of the Past
Four years ago, I published Subtle Tools, a book on the erosion of American democratic norms in the face of what came to be known as the Global War on Terror.…
What Matters In Terms Of Donald Trump
One of my friends sent me an article that suggested that Bernie Sanders’s recent rallies that goad Donald Trump had paid attendees. In response, I think that such a plan…
With CFPB Closed-Now the Fox Guards Your Nest Egg
A cold and wet day could not deter recently fired Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) employees along with other federal workers from their weekly picketing outside of the bureau’s closed…
Dear DOGE: Here’s how to Cut the Pentagon Budget by $100 Billion in 6 Easy Steps
America’s military budget is more than just numbers on a page—it’s a reflection of the priorities that shape our society. Right now, that nearly trillion dollar budget is bloated, inefficient,…
The F-Word
“Fascism” is the current malediction of the left media to evoke fear and loathing of Trump, Alternatives for Germany (AfD), and other right-wing movements. It’s a strongly charged term, but…
Kirsty Coventry, Rebranding and the IOC
The International Olympic Committee, the sporting world’s equivalent of a white-collar crime family, has made its decision on who will succeed the outgoing president, Thomas Bach. Representatives gathered in Greece…
Trump Rages to Snuff Out Democracy’s Candle, Will We Rage Against the Dying of Its Light?
Allow me to stipulate that I do not wish to die. In fact, had anyone consulted me about the construction of the universe, I would have made my views on…
Columbia University Capitulates to Outrageous and Unprecedented Fascist Demands
On March 13, the Trump fascists issued an outrageous and unprecedented list of demands that Columbia University must comply with in order to even negotiate with the government for federal…
A Dance Party to Take Tesla Down as Protests Grow
Every weekend activists are protesting outside Tesla showrooms as part of the nationwide #TakeDownTesla movement to send Elon Musk the only kind of message he understands: Financial. Since heading up…
Today’s Social Media Are No Longer Safe for Journalism
Hannah Arendt, the German-American political theorist who studied totalitarian regimes, noted in 1974 that “The moment we no longer have a free press, anything can happen. What makes it possible for a…
Putin made Trump wait, then strung him along – it’s clear his war aims in Ukraine have not changed
US President Donald Trump’s phone call with his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin, didn’t take a tangible step towards ending the hostilities in Ukraine, let alone finding an enduring peace. Rather,…
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