Tag Archives | President Donald Trump

Trump’s return when we already see a world at war, breathtaking inequality and climate catastrophe confirms Engles’ famous dichotomy, writes MATT WILLGRESS

In a statement issued on 6 February 2025, the South African Communist Party (SACP) condemns U.S President Donald Trump’s threats against South Africa and defends the country’s national sovereignty.

During Netanyahu’s visit, Trump dropped Washington’s sugar coating of Israel’s 15-month genocidal destruction of Gaza. This was always about ethnic cleansing

“I watched Trump’s joint press conference with Netanyahu, in utter disbelief. Not that the idea, or indeed the practice, of ethnic cleansing of Palestine is new. But at that press conference the mask has fallen. Recently, fascism has been on the march everywhere, but that press conference seemed to herald an age of naked fascism.”

Since the beginning of the process of colonization and conquest of the territories that are commonly called the United States, the idea of it being ​​the land of abundance and opportunity has been promoted.

Since returning to office, Trump has made clear his intentions of ushering in a new Golden Age of imperialism. With NATO at his disposal, what will this new hyper-imperialism mean for the rest of the world?

Trump has signed an executive order to exert pressure on Iran while also trying to obtain a nuclear deal.

BRICS—initially founded by Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa and now joined by Egypt, Ethiopia, Iran, Saudi Arabia, and the United Arab Emirates—is a coalition mainly of Global South countries. It is a counter to the G7 and NATO that offers an alternative to U.S. imperialist policies.

Hamas official tells MEE that group remains committed to agreement but ‘manipulation’ of truce may cause it to collapse.

And the Booming Border-Industrial Complex.

Following the ceasefire, Toufic Haddad reflects on the complicity & failures of global powers & institutions. We must keep mobilising against Israel’s crimes.

“Can Trump’s Second Act Work for the Working Class While Giving Back to His Super Donors?” asks NPR.com

On Tuesday Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu became the first foreign leader to meet Donald Trump in The White House during his second term. During the meeting, Trump doubled down on previous suggestions to remove Palestinians from Gaza.

The immediate task for Canada should be to delink from the United States and the American Empire.

In 1950, Nevada Democratic Senator Pat McCarran said he wanted to save the United States from communism and “Jewish interests.” 

Gitmo, Yesterday, Today… and Tomorrow

The executive order “directs implementation of a next-generation missile defense shield for the United States against ballistic, hypersonic, advanced cruise missile, and other next-generation aerial attacks.”

We need to build our own resilience against the increasingly unpredictable acts of our belligerent neighbours to the south.

Trump’s “border czar” has spent the past several years promoting racist conspiracy theories and associating with white nationalists. His mass deportation agenda is one of the Administration’s top priorities.

The U.S. president suggests that Jordan and Egypt should take in more Palestinians from Gaza.