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Trump’s MAGA and deregulation
Trump sees the United States as just a big capitalist corporation of which he is chief executive.
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Conquered lands
To the victors, the spoils.
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Remembering nuclear victims 71 years after the Castle Bravo test
Pushing for the Abolition of Nuclear Weapons and War.
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The empire rebrands
The larger rebrand underway is seeing elite “reconciliation” under Trump and plutocrats line up behind the repackaging from a “woke” empire to a more old-fashioned version focused on race, religion and more brazen exploitation.
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The empire at its most honest
President Donald Trump has shared a shockingly awful AI-generated music video envisioning a future Gaza.
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U.S. House adopts budget plan to spearhead social counterrevolution
The U.S. House of Representatives on Tuesday night took the first step in the Trump administration’s plans for devastating cuts in social spending, particularly on healthcare, adopting an initial budget plan by a 217-215 vote.
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Make apartheid great again?
Trump’s actions signal need to understand global history of white supremacy.
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The House Republicans’ plan to cut Medicaid to pay for tax cuts for the rich would slash incomes for the bottom 40%
The clearest legislative priority of the Trump administration and the Republican-led Congress is to keep taxes low for the richest households and corporations.
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The crimes and victims of Italian colonialism: A story that must be told, beginning with Yekatit 12 የካቲት ፲፪
Today’s countries such as the United Kingdom, Belgium, and France have, to varying degrees, confronted their imperial legacies, however incomplete or contested these reckonings may be.
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Free Yves Engler
In today’s Canada, offending Zionist influencers is enough to land you behind bars.
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Why did Republicans fund a ‘transgender dance’ in Bangladesh?
Since its founding in 1983, the congressionally-funded IRI has been run by Republican politicians and operatives dedicated to the cause of “democracy promotion” abroad.
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Malcolm X Presente!
On a cold New York afternoon in Harlem February 21, 1965, “Don’t Do it,” were the last words that the world heard from the voice of El Hajj Malik El-Shabazz, better known as Malcolm X, before the assassins opened fire with a barrage of bullets that would take Malcolm away from us physically.
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NYC real estate expo promoting sale of ‘stolen land’ in Palestine descends into violence
Real estate event organized by company promoting land sales in illegal Israeli settlements in West Bank turns violent.
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A prayer for Leonard Peltier
Indigenous political prisoner Leonard Peltier finally returns home today. In the last moments of his presidency, Joe Biden commuted his two consecutive life sentences to home confinement.
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Disappearing climate science
It was clear during the U.S. presidential election campaign that if re-elected Donald Trump would be no friend to the environment. The assault on climate science and action began immediately.
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Peter Thiel reveals how scared Oligarchs are of the people
Billionaire Peter Thiel had a fascinating televised moment the other day when asked by Piers Morgan what he thought about the public making a hero of the man suspected of murdering health insurance CEO Brian Thompson.
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The Road to Chaos – A Global Balance of Payments War
The 1940s saw a series of movies with Bing Crosby and Bob Hope, starting with the Road to Singapore in 1940.
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Laughter and fears: Berlin Bulletin No. 231, February 18, 2025
For good people these are times to weep, rage and, above all, to fight back!
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The Woman’s Story: Examining Pregnancy Narratives, Bodily Autonomy, and the Invisible Woman through Kalki Koechlin’s The Elephant in the Womb
Kalki Koechlin’s memoir presents a real and uncensored picture of pregnancy that explores how pregnant women’s bodies are positioned between the public and personal threshold.
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NYT prints lie – Adds link which debunks it
As part of reading up on the JD Vance speech I stumbled over an outrageously arrogant attempt of reader manipulation in the New York Times.