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…
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's recent visit to Washington was no ordinary trip. The consensus among Israeli analysts, barring a few remaining loyalists, is that Netanyahu was not invited but,…
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…
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…
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…
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…
What should one make of the recent White House meeting between US President Donald Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu? Well, this time Netanyahu was almost summoned to the…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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)…
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…
[Prefatory Note: The post below was published in a modified form as an opinion piece by the Andalou Agency in Turkey on February 27 with the title Trump’s Riviera Proposal for…
“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…
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…
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.…
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…
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…
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,…
During his first term, President Donald Trump exerted a “maximum pressure” campaign against perceived U.S. adversaries in Latin America and elsewhere. Among other hardline policies, he levelled crippling sanctions against…
President Donald Trump’s latest executive order to dismantle the Department of Education isn’t just a headline—it’s a political warning shot. Framed as a push to “return power to the states,”…
On Saturday, US President Donald Trump ordered the Pentagon “to launch a decisive and powerful military operation” against the Houthis of Yemen with “overwhelming lethal force” in the most significant military action…
With Donald, the Terrible back in power, diplomatic relations between the USA and the EU are set to be in stormy waters. Europeans, as well as the whole world, know…
Yes, “shock and awe” is back in the second age of Donald Trump. His border czar, Tom Homan, used that very phrase to describe border policy from day one of the new…
From 1950 onwards the US was involved in horrific wars that took the lives of tens of millions of people but the unforgivable American perpetrators unsurprisingly failed to acknowledge the…
Not even two months since Inauguration Day and it’s already been quite a trip. Ping-ponging between vindictive pettiness and unconstitutional overreach while using everything in his power (and much that…
The New York Times yesterday (11 March 2025) headlined: “Trump Intensifies Statehood Threats in Attack on Canada.” What particularly stood out was the sub headline: “The U.S. president on Tuesday…
Among tariffs, territorial ambitions and other threats to America's well-being by Pres. Trump, one of the more severe threats may be his willful ignorance concerning the severity of climate change. Michael Mann, one of America's most highly regarded climatologists, noted that the Trump Administration has…
Donald Trump’s distasteful State of the Disunion address urged salvation, anything to obtain relief from the madness. A lack of empathy and gruff manner displayed a chilling use of the…
The critics are utterly beside themselves in trying to understand the bruising odds and turns of Donald J. Trump, the reality showman and business tycoon who became US president twice. …
One of the fundamental pillars of our free and democratic country is the right of every child to have a free public-school education. While this is not the case globally,…
As a clergy person who has served congregations in the Black and of-color communities in Chicago, Boston and Washington, DC for over 45 years I am acutely aware of the…
Federal workers and taxpayers continue to protest daily across the city as they become more frustrated and infuriated by Elon Musk and DOGE in the illegal cutting of their jobs…
Science matters! And on March 7 a “Nationwide Stand up for Science” rally took place along with 32 other “nerd parties across the country” protesting the Trump administration’s attack on…
Under the guidance and massive supply of money by Elon Musk, Donald Trump won the elections in 2024. Ever since the electoral democratic systems came into being in the world,…
US President Donald Trump called Russian President Vladimir Putin and told him that the US government is committed to a peace process in Ukraine. As part of the deal, Trump’s…
The opening weeks of the second Trump administration have produced daily headlines that read — no, this is not hyperbole! — like science fiction. The spectacle of a South African…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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.…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
After just 4 weeks a horrified World now faces the Zionazi Trump reality: anti-science and terracidal climate criminality, homicidal cessation of USAID and US support for the WHO, mass Hispanic…
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…
“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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
First we got a mafia economy. Then we got a mafia state. We must rid ourselves of the ruling criminal class or become its victims. Kiss the ring. Grovel before…
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