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U.S. officials: Pentagon preparing for potential aggression on Iran
U.S. officials say the Pentagon is preparing for potentially weeks-long military aggression against Iran if ordered by Trump.
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An Unequal Treaty reminiscent of the colonial era
The two most obvious implications of this Unequal Treaty are, first, with regard to the purchase of Russian oil, and second, with regard to the agricultural sector.
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“International unions” and Trump’s aggression against Canada
As always with the IU question, the new situation might cement further the unity between the U.S. and Canadian sections of an IU union, or may dissolve it once and for all.
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Russia prepares oil shipment to Cuba despite U.S. blockade
While the island faces an unprecedented crisis, the Kremlin is demonstrating Russian solidarity to mitigate the effects of the suffocating U.S. policy toward Cuba.
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U.S. Southern Command resumes extrajudicial killings as piracy spreads to Indian Ocean
U.S. Southern Command reported a new extrajudicial execution against a small vessel in the Eastern Pacific on Monday, February 9.
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Canadians must support Cuba against Trump’s barbaric siege
With the U.S. tightening its grip, Canadians must step up where their government won’t.
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Trump pushes for 2030 Census pilot with immigration status question
“Adding a citizenship question is a calculated attempt to suppress Latino participation and erase other communities of color from the American map,” said the organization Voto Latino.
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Trump pushes Cuba toward catastrophe
Members of the Canadian Network on Cuba discuss the escalating U.S. oil blockade and the dire risks facing the island.
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American fascism is both homegrown and imported
Timo Al-Farooq argues that Trump’s fascism is neither uniquely American nor merely imported, but a convergence of the U.S.’s own racial-terror history and a long-standing admiration for Nazi ideology and aesthetics.
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How street-level direct action is challenging Trump’s authoritarianism
Community-based rapid response networks and irreverent performers are disrupting ICE at the source.
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‘Peace president’ Trump has bombed 10 countries, now plans $1.5 trillion military budget
Self-declared “peacemaker” Donald Trump has bombed 10 countries, more than any other U.S. leader. Now he plans to raise the military budget to $1.5 trillion—nearly the rest of the world’s defense spending combined.
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Epstein files shows how the elites move
The late Jeffrey Epstein was the subject of news for many years before his 2019 death and is still a newsmaker today owing to his years long relation with Donald Trump.
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Secretive U.S. climate skeptic panel tasked with writing contentious global warming report violated law, court rules
The U.S. Energy Department’s secret panel, made up of five climate change skeptics, was tasked with writing a sweeping report criticizing the consensus on global warming. The Trump administration used that report as the basis to propose a repeal of the landmark Endangerment Finding, a scientific determination that provides the legal basis for climate pollution regulations in the U.S.
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EXCLUSIVE: U.S. military tells key Middle East ally to prepare for attack on Iran
In addition to military targets, Trump is considering strikes on senior Iranian leaders with the aim of spurring the overthrow of the Iranian government.
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‘Melania’: The movie. The bribe. The shame.
If America still had a Department of Justice, Bezos would be indicted for bribery of a public official pursuant to 18 U.S. Code § 201, which criminalizes offering or giving anything of value to a public official with the intent to influence their official actions. Penalty: imprisonment for up to 15 years.
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From blockade to asphyxiation: the U.S. war on Cuba enters its most brutal phase
On January 29, U.S. President Donald Trump declared Cuba an “unusual and extraordinary threat” to U.S. national security and tightened the blockade against the island nation
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‘We cannot separate imperialism from domestic militarization’: Understanding the links between ICE, Gaza, and U.S. foreign policy
Mondoweiss interviews author Harsha Walia about the history of ICE and how Trump’s immigration crackdown is closely linked to U.S. imperialism abroad, including in Palestine.
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How the bipartisan “War on Terror” created ICE
The Trump administration is using ICE to wage a brutal, racist war on the working class, but mainstream media is desperate to put the blame for ICE’s current murderous rampage squarely on Donald Trump.
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U.S. economy: Beneath the bombast
Amid all the bombast and threats over Greenland in his Davos speech, U.S. President Trump made a series of boasts about the success of the U.S. economy, which was, of course, down to him.
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Bruce Springsteen releases anti-ICE protest song: ‘Streets of Minneapolis’
In a statement, Springsteen said he wrote the song on Saturday following Pretti’s killing and dedicated it to “the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good.”
