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Fake ‘populism’: How Trump’s billionaire admin serves the rich, and hurts everyone else
Donald Trump is portrayed as a “populist” committed to average working-class people, but his policies benefit wealthy elites at the expense of everyone else. His administration includes 13 billionaires—including Elon Musk, the world’s richest oligarch—and he is cutting taxes on the rich and corporations while imposing a consumption tax on the poor through tariffs.
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Trump’s “reciprocal tariffs” escalate economic war against the world
The imposition of the new U.S. tariff regime unveiled by President Trump yesterday is a declaration of economic war against the rest of the world.
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Liberation day
It’s not April Fools day (1 April). But it might as well be as later today U.S. President Donald Trump announces another barrage of tariffs on imports into the U.S. in what Trump calls ‘Liberation Day’ and what America’s voice of big business and finance, the Wall Street journal, has called “the dumbest trade war in history.”
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Surrendering to Authoritarianism
Liberal institutions, including universities, traditionally surrender without a fight to the dictates of autocrats. Ours are no exception.
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With Section 230 repeal, Dems and media offer Trump new censorship tools
In a move that threatens to constrain online communication, congressional Democrats are partnering with their Republican counterparts to repeal a niche but crucial internet law.
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A cowardly attack on disabled students
The squatter in the White House is laying siege to the Education Department’s civil rights division.
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Trump wants a super bigot to be ambassador to South Africa
Trump and his daddy, Fred Trump–who was arrested while participating in a 1927 Ku Klux Klan riot in Queens, New York–refused to rent to Black families.
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The tenth demand?
The latest drama at Columbia—involving interim President Katrina Armstrong’s “resignation”—has broad implications for the academy and American democracy. Once unpacked, this episode throws into sharp relief the issue of whether universities now operate at the pleasure of the White House.
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“Love your neighbor” Pope-Vance controversy
You don’t have to be Christian or a religious person or even a supporter of Pope Francis to appreciate his willingness to speak truth to power, and his efforts to get U.S. Catholic Bishops to do the same.
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Trump’s State Department would support literally any Israeli atrocity
Netanyahu could live stream himself kicking a baby Palestinian off a cliff and telling the camera he did it because he wants to commit genocide, and the next day Tammy Bruce would respond to all questions about the incident by yelling the word “Hamas!” with her fingers in her ears.
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Senate Intelligence Committee hearing turns ugly with McCarthy-style lies about CODEPINK: Women for Peace
On March 25, at the U.S. Senate Intelligence Committee hearing on global threats with the five heads of intelligence agencies of the U.S. government, Senator Tom Cotton, accused on national TV a group I have worked with for over 20 years, CODEPINK: Women for Peace, of being funded by the Communist Party of China.
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Thoughts on the Trump team’s Signal chat about bombing Yemen
The real currency of our world is not gold, nor bureaucratic fiat, nor even war machinery. The real currency of our world is narrative and the ability to control it.
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What is Esencia and what will happen to Puerto Rico if this is constructed?
Esencia is a massive $2 billion colonial development project aiming to seize over 2,000 acres of land, spanning three miles of beaches in Punta Melones, Cabo Rojo, by 2028.
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The U.S. hypocrisy about Israel’s nuclear weapons must stop
An extraordinary three-part series on Israeli television, The Atom and Me, lays out how the country got its nuclear weapons.
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Trump threatens 25% tariff on Countries buying Venezuelan oil as U.S. continues migrant crackdown
The White House said it planned to once again invoke the Alien Enemies Act of 1798 to extradite Venezuelan nationals.
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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.
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‘A small group of people wanted to do away with Social Security from the beginning’
CounterSpin interview with Nancy Altman on Social Security attacks.
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In complying with Trump’s demands to crack down on free speech, Columbia confesses that money, not education, is its goal
Columbia University quickly rolled over for the Trump administration’s demands to suppress pro-Palestinian protests, pulling back the thin veil of liberal academic freedom.
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From Hawai’i: To the U.S., we’re a giant military station
Increasing militarization of the Pacific continues to cause tension inside and outside the region. In Hawai‘i, where the U.S. Navy’s Pacific fleet is stationed, Indigenous rights advocates have fought for decades against expansive military occupation and use of their lands and surrounding ocean.
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Palestinian Oscar winner missing after being severely beaten by Israeli settlers
Hamdan Ballal, co-director of the Oscar-winning ‘No Other Land’, returned from Los Angeles three weeks ago.