Whitehead* and Nisha Whitehead* – CounterPunch In his State of the Union address, President Trump declared that America is entering a “Golden Age.” Golden for whom? For a president who lives lavishly in a taxpayer-funded mansion, jets around to weekend golf getaways at taxpayer…
By Jorge Heine* – Responsible Statecraft Washington rips Santiago for even considering a Pacific fiber optic link to Hong Kong, even though the US has 30 such cables running to Asia. On February 20, the State Department announced it had revoked the visas of Chile’s minister of…
By Zuzana Schwidrowski* and Omolola Mary Lipede* – Inter Press Sevice (IPS) Africa is home to approximately 160 million adolescent girls aged 10 to 19 (according to 2022 data by the United Nations Population Division). They embody the energy, creativity, and potential of the…
By Alfred McCoy* – TomDispatch An Appointment in Samarra. Some tales can cross cultures, continents, and even centuries to arrive in our own era with their timeless truths pretty much intact.
By Lisdey Espinoza Pedraza* – Modern Diplomacy The killing of Nemesio Oseguera Cervantes, known as El Mencho, marks a watershed moment in Mexico’s long and violent confrontation with organised crime. The killing of Nemesio Oseguera Cervantes, known as El Mencho, marks a…
By Joe Lauria* – Consortium News The U.S. secretary of state is reviving the language and intent of 19th century colonialism to deter what he sees as “the forces of civilizational erasure that today menace both America and Europe alike.” Cecil Rhodes may have been the most…
Sachs* – Common Dreams The White House and Congress can and should provide relief to American families who bore the costs of these illegal tariffs. The administration has the responsibility to design such relief.
By Logan McMillen* – Foreign Policy In Focus (FPIF) What does the Trump administration want with Cuba? According to recent leaks to Axios, the U.S.
By Jamal Kanj* – Middle East Monitor (MEMO) More than 75,000 Palestinians have been murdered in Gaza, with tens of thousands more still missing beneath the rubble. They did not die to “build a home,” or privatize their beaches.
Davies* – Common Dreams Trump is following in the footsteps of the five US presidents before him, quickly abandoning his formal strategy goals and diverting America’s overpriced but impotent war machine back to the Middle East. After some delays, the United States is dispatching…
