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America’s national parks are among the victims of Donald Trump’s and Elon Musk’s efforts to drown our government in a bathtub
Park rangers are our most trusted federal employees, and national parks are America’s gift to the world… but the new Trump regime is choking them, depriving them of the personnel and resources they need.
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Trump Administration’s affinity for Salvadoran dictator shows authoritarian nature
El Salvador is a human rights nightmare comparable to the 1980s death squad era.
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Trump advisor reveals tariff strategy: Force countries to pay tribute to maintain U.S. empire
Donald Trump’s top economic advisor Stephen Miran revealed that Washington’s strategy is to use tariffs to force countries to pay the USA tribute to maintain its global financial and military empire. This is the idea behind the so-called “Mar-a-Lago Accord”.
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Trump’s tariff aggression
It is important for an intellectual position not only to be right but to be right for the right reasons; and the near-universal condemnation of Donald Trump’s aggressive imposition of tariffs, though right, is right for the wrong reasons.
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‘Death Sentence’ – Israel bombs Al-Ahli Baptist Hospital, again
The only functioning hospital in Gaza City has been forced out of service after an Israeli airstrike destroyed key medical departments.
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Pentagon chief nominee wants to expand NATO’s nuclear sharing policy
Although the new administration is looking to refocus on the Asia-Pacific, the policy of expanded nuclear sharing makes sense, as it could ameliorate NATO’s growing conventional inferiority against the battle-hardened Russian military. For over 60 years, the United States has been implementing the so-called nuclear sharing policy with various NATO member states. One of the […]
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Trump’s slump
Where is all this going? Well, it means a slump in production in the U.S. and most major economies; and it means a revival of inflation, particularly in the U.S. This is madness, no? Well, as I said last February when all this kicked off, there is method in this madness.
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‘This is an all-out war on the First Amendment’
CounterSpin interview with Jessica González on Trump’s FCC.
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‘Let all Hell break loose’: The Gaza ceasefire and how we all got played
Trump gives Israel “the green light to rain fire and hell on Gaza” – new manager, same empire.
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HANDS OFF NATO? Not Palestine? Who got the memo?
The Democrats’ HANDS OFF rallies included “HANDS OFF NATO” and excluded “HANDS OFF PALESTINE,” but not all rally goers got the memo.
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The day Rhodes fell: Ten years after
Ten years after one student’s bold action a month earlier inspired protests which led to the removal of Cecil John Rhodes’ statue at the University of Cape Town (UCT), Heike Becker recounts this historical occasion by linking this as well as subsequent and earlier protests to broader conversations about decolonization and concerns about racism, marginalization and inequality.
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Trump declares all state environmental laws to be null and void
Trump signed an executive order declaring all state laws that address climate change to be null and void.
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The anti-anti-Apartheid Movement
Donald Trump and Elon Musk’s embrace of far-right myths about South Africa’s ‘anti-white’ government is part of a brazen attempt to build a white international that runs from Pretoria to Washington through Tel Aviv.
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UN Chief calls Gaza a ‘killing field’ as agencies urge Global action on Israel’s blockade
UN Secretary-General António Guterres stated that “aid has dried up, and the floodgates of horror have re-opened” in the Gaza Strip, where Israel has blocked all humanitarian aid and resumed its assault.
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The Buchenwald concentration camp was liberated by Communist prisoners: The Fifteenth Newsletter (2025)
Eight decades ago, communist prisoners organised and liberated the Nazi concentration camp Buchenwald, where they were held. As the far right of a special type rises across Europe, these heroic victories of anti-fascist resistance are under attack.
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Trump imposes 104 percent tariff on China, as financial turmoil grows
A week after U.S. 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 its goods starting today.
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With Trump invoking William McKinley as Great American President, Progressives should revitalize early 1900s anti-Imperialist League
During his inaugural address, Donald Trump said that he would “restore the name of a great president, William McKinley,” who “made our country very rich through tariffs and through talent—he was a natural businessman—and gave Teddy Roosevelt the money for many of the great things he did including the Panama Canal.”
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What is DOGE doing to Social Security?
Elon Musk-led Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) attacks on Social Security aren’t about efficiency.
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Russia–Iran–China: All for one, and one for all?
Although perhaps not yet obvious to Washington, a U.S. war on Iran will be viewed as one against Russia and China too. Both Putin and Xi know that Trump’s war is singularly directed at the transformational global ‘changes they are driving together.’
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Dilemmas of Humanity Conference discusses new framework for development in the Global South
Dozens of economists, intellectuals, and movement leaders have converged in São Paulo for the IV International Dilemmas of Humanity conference.