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The largest wealth heist in U.S. history: Trump’s bill sacrifices lives for billionaires
We’re about to see the largest upward transfer of wealth in U.S. history. It’s also going to be the largest cut to health care in the history of the U.S. The “Big Bill” includes over $1 trillion in cuts to Medicaid, Medicare, and the Affordable Care Act (ACA).
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The Empire is a nonstop insult to our intelligence
The western empire is one nonstop insult to our intelligence. The peace advocates are terrorists, the genocide architects deserve peace prizes, the journalists are dangerous, and Epstein was just a wealthy socialite who made a few mistakes.
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The anointed and the annihilators: Trump’s peace candidacy and his apostles in Tel Aviv and Rawalpindi
Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel and Pakistan’s General Asim Munir—have found common cause in nominating Donald J. Trump for the Nobel Peace Prize.
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Capitalism’s rolling back of welfare spending
Donald Trump’s “big beautiful bill” which got passed by both houses in the U.S. and has now become law, is a massive assault on welfare spending.
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Medicaid enrollees targeted for forced farm work under Trump immigration crackdown
The remarks echo proposals President Donald Trump himself has floated in recent months, including a plan to compel farmers to house and supervise migrant laborers to avoid ICE raids directly.
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Massive expansion of Trump’s deportation machine passes with little Press notice
Some cuts, like those to Medicaid, have been heavily covered by the corporate media. But one key piece of the bill has gotten much less media scrutiny: The preposterous sum of $175 billion has been allocated to fund Trump’s signature mass deportation campaign.
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What is the Trump Doctrine? John Bellamy Foster on U.S. Foreign Policy & the “New MAGA Imperialism”
What is MAGA imperialism? Monthly Review editor John Bellamy Foster says that, despite its feints toward anti-imperialist isolationism, President Donald Trump’s foreign policy has coalesced into a “hyper-nationalist” form of populism that rejects the U.S.’s post-WWII adherence to liberal internationalism and promotes dominance over other countries via military power rather than through economic globalization.
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How to New York Times-Proof Mamdani’s Playbook: Turning Coalition Specifics into Fiscal Possibilities
In a recent video recapping his primary victory in Queens, Zohran Mamdani did something almost radical for today’s political landscape: he cut through the usual Beltway euphemisms and mapped out the varied, living elements of the coalition that won. Most postmortems stay tangled in polite code. We get anxious talk of “electability,” “swing voters,” whether […]
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The Trump Doctrine and the New M.A.G.A. Imperialism — John Bellamy Foster — ICSS 20250629
The dramatic shift in the Trump led U.S. foreign policies, as seen recently in the bombing in Iran, has created enormous confusion and consternation within establishment centers of power.
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By limiting nationwide injunctions, Supreme Court declares ‘open season on all our rights’
In a ruling that stems from the president’s birthright citizenship order, the “conservative supermajority just took away lower courts’ single most powerful tool for reining in the Trump administration’s lawless excesses.”
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U.S. Supreme Court allows deportation of migrants to third countries
Court ruling means migrants can now be deported without the opportunity to contest their destinations.
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War propaganda, state controlled media, and the end of African Stream
African Stream’s Pan-African, anti-imperialist journalistic perspectives made it the target of a state that colludes with corporate media to spread war propaganda.
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Trump reverses trend away from the death penalty
If you were wondering about changes in the use of the death penalty at either the state or federal level since Donald Trump reassumed the presidency, well, wonder no more.
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“Congratulations to everyone” in rope-a-dope strategy, the bell also sounds for rest periods
According to the Unified Rules of Boxing issued by the U.S. Association of Boxing Commissions and Combative Sports, when the bell sounds for the end of each round, there is a “rest period” before the boxers resume their fight, or one retires too hurt to continue.
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In rope-a-dope war fighting strategy, nothing quite succeeds like failure
According to General Daniel Caine, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, the U.S. has knocked out Iran’s nuclear enrichment and nuclear weapon preparation plants with “extremely severe destruction”; “completely and totally”, according to President Donald Trump.
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Exclusive: Iran given advance notice as U.S. insisted attack on nuclear sites is ‘one-off’
The story: U.S. President Donald Trump says three key nuclear facilities in Iran have been “obliterated,” while threatening more strikes “if peace does not come quickly.”
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Pentagon split over ‘Israel’ military aid exposes foreign policy rift
A Pentagon rift over military aid to “Israel” reveals tensions between advocates of Middle East engagement and those prioritizing Asia, shaping Trump’s foreign policy.
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Trump, U.S. intelligence split on Iran, Gabbard sidelined
Trump says Iran is weeks from a nuclear weapon, contradicting U.S. intelligence assessments.
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Iranian and Israeli Communists condemn Netanyahu’s war on Iran
Communists in Iran and Israel strongly condemn Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s attack on Iran and President Donald Trump’s backing for it.
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Trump orders unprecedented mass deportation targeting Democratic cities
Trump unleashes sweeping deportation plan, sparking legal battles and nationwide protests.