By Stephen Bryen* – InDepthNews No NATO Membership for Ukraine, No US Troops European leaders who have been strongly supporting keeping the Ukraine war going have been dealt a serious blow by President Trump and Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth. Most of them must be in…
By Sebastian Smart* – The Conversation Bosses of tech giants Meta, Google and X had front row seats at Donald Trump’s recent presidential inauguration. This special treatment highlighted the increasingly cosy relationship between leaders of technology companies and the White…
By John Matisonn* – Responsible Statecraft The row centers on a new land seizure law prompting the White House to cut off aid President Donald Trump’s attack on South Africa has brought relations between Washington and Pretoria to their lowest point since sanctions were imposed…
By Adam Dick* – Eurasia Review Will Donald Trump’s presidency bring a United States war on Mexico? There are indications that it may.
By Jeremy Scahill* – Drop Site News Fresh off his triumphant trip to Washington, D.C., the Israeli leader is preparing a set of new demands for Phase 2 he hopes Hamas will reject. President Donald Trump meets Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the White House.
By Ross Rosenfeld* – Newsweek Once there was a time when egregious acts by presidents required a veneer of legitimacy. President Ronald Reagan may have ignored the AIDS crisis and engaged in thinly veiled racist tropes, but outwardly he presented an image of unity and spoke of…
By Pontsho Pilane* – Africa Is a Country Foreign aid has never been just about assistance—it enforces political, economic, and social control, keeping recipient countries in a cycle of dependency. Donald Trump sent shockwaves across the world in his first week as president.
By Alon Ben-Meir* – Inter Press Service (IPS) Even after Trump declared that he wanted to take back the Panama Canal, acquire Greenland by force, if necessary, and rename the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America, I could not, like many others, imagine that his madness could…
By Medea Benjamin* and Nicolas J.S. Davies* – Common Dreams Instead of counting down the minutes and seconds to our extinction, the Peace Clock calls on the U.S. government to take a series of specific, concrete steps toward nuclear disarmament.
By Tamara Pearson* – Counter Punch From preparing to send migrants to Guantanamo Bay, to labeling cartels “terrorist organizations,” Trump has been using both language and policies to frame Latin American countries and Latinx migrants in the US, as criminal. Painting the entire…
