Trump’s tariffs rock US and global economy
US President Trump’s imposition of a 25 percent tariff on imports from Canada and Mexico, which came into effect on Tuesday, has sent a shock wave through the global economy…
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What Are the Possibilities for Peace in Ukraine?
The whole thing is a fiasco. The theatrical drama in the White House’s Oval Office triggered a series of predictable responses around the world. Outrage at US President Donald Trump…
Refocusing the Kenya Resistance: From GenZ to Working Class
There has been much attention given to the actions by GenZs and others under the RutoMustGo resistance activities in Kenya . This is appropriate as these actions have been the…
Dalai Lama is a pawn in the game of America’s Asia Pacific Strategy: USA intensifies its interference with ‘Resolve Tibet Act’, while Modi-led India connives with it
Chou En-Lai, Panchen Lama, Mao Tse-Tung and His Holiness the Dalai Lama in Beijing, China in 1955. (Photo courtesy Tibet Images). July 1954 to June 1955 / Dalai Lama Visits China…
Call to Refuse Fascism Ahead of Trump Address to Congress
WASHINGTON (03-04) – Activists gathered outside across from the Capitol prior to President Trump’s address to a joint session of Congress this evening in an event titled “Refuse Fascism.” The…
Prospective German Chancellor’s Call for Europe’s Strategic Rethink Amid Global Power Shifts
2025 is marking a threshold of a transformative era for Europe. As the prospective coalition tends to take shape for Germany’s incoming government in the midst of swiftly changing global…
Righteous, Confused and Unwilling: Europe’s Ukrainian Predicament
There is something deeply moving about the ignorance and scatty nature of politicians. At points, it can even be endearing. In the apparently wide wake left by the mauling of…
The Arrogance of Power Revived
In April 1966, Senator J.W. Fulbright, Chair of the US Senate Foreign Relations Committee, gave a remarkable and highly-publicized speech at Johns Hopkins University, condemning the U.S. role in the…
How about the US Becoming the 11th Province?
While living in the Middle East, a Palestinian friend taught me about Arabic culture, which he said was still preserved in Yemen. Arabic etiquette, he told me, was that a…
Major Geopolitical And U.S. Domestic Disruptions Show Old World Crumbling
A week ago, the U.S. voted with Russia in the U.N. on the issue of the Ukraine war. The same Washington that led the charge to make Russia a pariah…
Countering undeclared colonialism – A Global South perspective
Is Europe the embodiment of authentic multilaterism, or has it reduced itself to being a mere collective of subtle, unspoken post-colonialism projects that pass off as initiatives of international cooperation…
UN Security Council must act quickly to stop Israeli attacks on southern Syria
Geneva – The United Nations Security Council must act swiftly and forcefully to prevent Israel from encroaching on Syria’s sovereignty and territorial integrity, guarantee that its forces leave the southern regions of the country, and compel it to abide by…
Zelensky: Victim of Colosseum Politics
There was a revolting tabloid quality to the Oval Office reception given to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on February 28, but then again, President Donald Trump is a tabloid brute,…
A Battle of Theologies in the Age of Trump
“There has almost always been an outright hostility that is shown towards people of the Christian faith,” House Speaker Mike Johnson said on a podcast recently. He was talking with Tony Perkins,…
Remembering Nuclear Victims 71 Years after the Castle Bravo Test- Pushing for the Abolition of Nuclear Weapons and War
by Gerry Condon and Helen Jaccard March 1 marks 71 years since the U.S. used its biggest ever nuclear weapon—on Bikini Atoll in the Marshall Islands. The bomb was 15…
In Germany’s recently concluded election, 46 percent of the youth vote was split between the left and the far-right
As per earlier predictions, the results of Germany’s general election show that the center-right political party, the Christian Democratic Union (CDU), is once again on track to become the largest…
Conquered Lands
To the victors, the spoils. A hundred years ago, after the conclusion of the First World War, the British Empire and its French ally broke up the old Ottoman-dominated Arab…
Fiendish Experiments: Trump’s Guantánamo Bay Migrant Detentions
Guantánamo Bay has been a fiendish experiment in US law for decades. The fiendishness lies in the subversion. Operating as a naval base in Cuba, this contentious facility has been…
Donald Trump and the Military-Industrial-Tech Complex
Donald Trump’s power has thrived on the economics, politics, and culture of war. The runaway militarism of the last quarter-century was a crucial factor in making President Trump possible, even…
You’re Next, MAGA Seniors!!
Now that Trump has ' Muskrat' using his chainsaw on this and then that within the federal government, beware MAGA seniors. This writer sat in a coffee shop right before…
Dalai Lama playing politics explicitly, is given Z-category security cover all over India, even as USA intensifies its interference with ‘Resolve Tibet Act’
Bandi Sanjay Kumar, India’s Minister of State for Home Affairs, and others in a delegation visit the Dalai Lama on 14 February 2025, at Bylakuppe. It is the day on…
Trump wants to usher in a new code for US imperialism-An epoch of multilateralism is the real urgent imperative
The world has entered a new era in global politics. In just the three weeks that Trump has been in power, he has created disarray on a range of issues.…
Paradox of Panicking as Peace Approaches
Normally there is a lot of stress in times of war, and even panic when things are going the wrong way. However recently what we have seen is a very…
Starmer:Selling Britain by the Pound
In 1973, the rock band Genesis titled their album ‘Selling England by the Pound’. They did so for various reasons. The phrase was taken from a Labour Party slogan of…
What is Trump’s Real Role?
Since returning to the White House in 2025, Donald Trump has pursued aggressive policies in three key areas: Tariffs, Territory, and Transfers (of People). Tariffs: He raised tariffs on multiple…
Remembering the Sacrifice of US Airman Aaron Bushnell
One year ago, on 25 February 2024 the 25-year old US Airman Aaron Bushnell self-immolated in front of the Israeli Embassy in Washington, D.C. to protest against the Israeli genocide…
Ukraine’s Critical Minerals, Plenty to Mettle With!
In his sudden haste to see Ukraine repay the US for the billions of dollars appropriated by Congress to the country in its war against Russian aggression, Donald Trump, aka…
The Coming Age of Border Changes?
Trump’s remarks on annexing territory and recognizing Russian and Israeli territorial gains may align with his geopolitical ambitions, but the disruption to longstanding norms of fixed borders sets a risky…
Negate the Nazi Then Free the Future
Is today’s moment that different from all prior moments? Haven’t we endured extreme subterfuge forever? “Defense Department”? “Serve the people”? “Health and human services”? “Workers rights”? “High technology”? “Home of…
The Last Generation of Black Americans Under Jim Crow and the Culture of Racism in America
Today, racism remains a poisonous force in America. Fascism and authoritarianism are on the rise and President Donald Trump is giving voice to such hate, making it state policy and…
Wars without Victors
In several contexts it needs to be emphasized that increasingly there are no victors in present day wars. In several significant ways those who proclaim themselves to be victors and…
D Is for Donald (and Decline)
Count on one thing: in some almost unimaginable future, no American president (if we even have them anymore) is going to rename a mountain for Donald Trump as he’s recently tried…
Top Scientist Warns Against the Existential Threat of Nuclear Weapons
Although the extremely high risks associated with nuclear weapons are widely recognized, it appears from the conduct of policy by some highly educated policy makers in recent times that they…
The Predictable Trump
With Donald Trump, another lying Baron Munchausen was born. And like Munchausen, Trump too, can pull himself out of the swamp by his own hair. In Trump’s version, the pussy-grabbing…
Hold the Applause for Trump, the “Peacemaker”
There is history worth remembering as Trump is lauded in certain circles on the so-called “right” and “left” as a peacemaker with Russia over the US/NATO proxy war against Russia…
Intentional Journalism Owes a Debt to the Dead in a Swedish Mass Shooting
As the mass murder that took the lives of 10 innocent people in Sweden disappears from the international news map, there remains a debt to the dead that will likely…
Mineral and Riviera Deals can never be A Substitute for Proper Peace Diplomacy
“The (Ukraine) war is all about money. People don’t talk much about it. But you know, the richest country in all of Europe for rare earth minerals is Ukraine. Two…
This Tattoo Could Land You in Guantanamo
Imagine being forced to leave everything behind, your home, your family, your dreams, because US sanctions have devastated your country’s economy, making day-to-day living increasingly unbearable. You endure a treacherous…
Trump is Moving Rapidly to Destroy Workers’ Rights
Only a month into his second term as president, Donald Trump is well underway toward destroying crucial rights of American workers. Currently, the best known of these threatened rights is…
UAE: Participation of Israeli arms companies in defence exhibitions is clear support for the Israeli killing machine
Geneva – The United Arab Emirates’ approval of Israeli arms companies’ participation in the Maritime Defence and Security Exhibition NAVDEX 2025 and the International Defence Exhibition IDEX represents direct support for…
The Plot Against America
How a Dangerous Ideology Born From the Libertarian Movement Stands Ready to Seize America As I write this in early 2025, a quiet revolution is unfolding within the U.S. government.…
Southcom’s Double-Speak – Every Accusation Is a Confession
by Francisco Dominguez and Roger D. Harris Admiral Alvin Holsey demonstrated selective outrage over the fear of multipolarity in the Western Hemisphere. The Southcom commander confirmed the official US military…
Federal Workers on Earth to Musk, Save Our Services
Federal employees along with ordinary citizens rallied and protested at the now-infamous Tesla showroom here on February 19 to express their solidarity to stop Elon Musk and his Department of…
Guantánamo, Donald Trump’s “Immigrant Problem,” and the Rest of Us
President Donald Trump has made no secret of his disdain for immigrants, particularly the non-white variety from south of our border. His statements that immigrants are “poisoning the blood” of…
The Annexation of Texas, California, and New Mexico by the USA- The 1775−1783 American War of Independence
The American Revolution or the American War of Independence against British colonial lordship started in 1775 when the Thirteen Colonies began to fight for their political independence from London. In…
Social Conditions that Lead to Donkey Route Migrations from India
Recently as several illegal immigrants from India have been deported back to India in US military aircraft, often in handcuffs, this has led to a lot of discussion on dangerous…
“Artificial Intelligence”: Myth and Reality!
Lately, newspapers and editorials have been glorifying artificial intelligence (AI). It is called "superior intelligence," a "revolution in intelligence," and many other things. I do not have in-depth knowledge of…
A realtor’s worldview
Law of the Instrument or Maslow’s Hammer is a cognitive bias that dictates a tunnel vision as an overarching solution for everything. Attributed to American psychologist Abraham Maslow it states…
CAIR Finds Stanford a “Hostile Campus”
The San Francisco Bay Area office of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR-SFBA) in Palo Alto held a press conference on February 19 to announce CAIR’s designation of Stanford University as a…
Maybe the Constitution is the Crisis
A Constitutional crisis they say. Is it here already? Will it come soon? I think what they mean is will Trump defy a court order to not carry out one…
Class and/or Identity?!
As resistance to fascism grows, and it is growing—how could it not—activists will face many choices. One that has often been quite contentious will re-arise. How should we decide whether…
Trump making the USA an International Outcast
Donald Trump has successfully moved the USA around 300 years backward. He heads counterclockwise, forcing the All-powerful Uncle Sam to move to the reverse circle. Modern-time colonialism that began a…
The Pentagon is recruiting Elon Musk to help them win a nuclear war
According to the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons, there are over 12,000 warheads in the world, the vast majority of them owned by Russia and the United States. While many consider…
What’s Trump’s Game? Trying to Save a Weakened US Empire
Donald Trump has hit the ground running, asserting himself and his will to power to the maximum, starting before his second presidency began but accelerating upon his assumption of the…
Why Donald Trump’s Obsession with Greenland Is All About China
In early January, Donald Trump Jr.’s private plane landed on a snowy airfield in Greenland. There was little fanfare upon his arrival, but his 14 million social-media fans were certainly…
Not My President’s Day-Tesla Protests Draw Thousands
Answering the Clarion Call for action, protesters across the country on February 17 demonstrated at City Halls and State Capitols in a nationwide “Not My President Day” by calling for…
Ukraine War Should End Now Without Further Delay
Due to a number of circumstances the prospects of ending the Ukraine war very soon appear to have brightened rather suddenly. This moment should be seized. Once lost it may…
“Elon’s Monkey Business” Charged with Cruelty
Since its founding in 2016, Neuralink, a private for-profit company co-founded and owned in large part by Elon Musk, has been working on the development of brain-computer interface (BCI) implants…
Greenland! Canada! The Panama Canal! The Gulf of America! Gaza! Manifest Destiny Gets a Reboot Under President Donald Trump
A few years ago, I came across an old book at an estate sale. Its title caught my eye: “Our New Possessions.” Its cover featured the Statue of Liberty against…
Tesla Protest Electrifies Activists
CORTE MADERA, CA (02-15) – At Tesla dealerships across the globe on February 15 protesters demonstrated and picketed the company’s showrooms in making their voices heard in defiance of the…
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