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.
Jeffrey Sachs to Trump: Give Back the Tariff Money
Cold War, Column, Crimes Against Humanity, Donald Trump, Fascism, History, Human Rights, Trump Administration, United States, Vietnam, War Crimes
Donald Trump’s Death Cards
Trump’s ICE agents have resurrected the Ace of Spades death cards inserted into the mouths of dead Vietnamese by U.S. troops in Vietnam more than 50 years ago, writes Nick Turse.
PATRICK LAWRENCE: To Whom Are Our Liars Lying & What Is the Point of Their Lies?
In America’s late-imperial phase, conjured realities are preferable to reality. The creak of history’s wheel has become unbearable such that forlorn attempts to silence it are the only remaining resort.
Analysis, Belarus, Eurasia, Europe, History, Intelligence, Military, NATO, Poland, Russia, Ukraine, United States
Year 4: The Timeline That Tells the Tale
Without historical context, which is buried by corporate media, it’s impossible to understand the war in Ukraine. Historians will tell the story, but journalists are cut short for trying to tell it now.
Afghanistan, American Empire, Analysis, Britain, Commentary, Germany, History, Intelligence, Iraq, Kuwait, Militarism, Military, NATO, Poland, Ukraine, United States
Year 4: Why the US Needed the Russian Invasion
In a moment of candor in March 2022, Joe Biden revealed why the U.S. needed the Russian invasion to launch its three-pronged, pre-meditated war on Russia, writes Joe Lauria.
Analysis, History, Iraq, Libya, Military, NATO, Russia, Soviet Union, Syria, U.S., Ukraine, United Nations, United States
Year 4: Why Russia Invaded
HOW IT HAPPENED: Russia says it has no intentions of controlling Ukraine and its military operation is only to ‘demilitarize’ and ‘de-Nazify’ Ukraine 30 years after the U.S. pushed Russia too far, wrote Joe Lauria on Feb. 24, 2022.
Year 4: UK Still Helping Ukraine Join NATO
As the war in Ukraine enters its fifth year Tuesday, Britain is running an aid project helping Kiev prepare to join NATO and opening up the country to U.K. businesses, writes Mark Curtis.
First Gaza, Then the World
In the hands of Israel’s genocidal settler-colonial society, the state of exception is a relentless nightmare that will not stop at the borders of Palestine, writes Ramzy Baroud.
Advanced Technologies, Artificial Intelligence (AI), Commentary, Environment, Human Rights, Immigration, Income Inequality, Indigenous People, Neoliberalism, U.S.
A Neocolonial Billionaire Fantasy in Honduras
Edith Romero reports on the unbridled power, tech fantasy and resource hoarding of ZEDEs — Zones for Employment and Economic Development — where the governments are run by AI and crypto is the main currency.
Africa, American Empire, Anti-Colonialism, BRICS, Britain, British Empire, Canada, Colonialism, Commentary, Egypt, Foreign Policy, Greenland, History, Indigenous People, Iran, Iraq, Mexico, Middle East, Militarism, Panama, Russia, Soviet Union, Spain, Venezuela
Marco Rubio’s Cecil Rhodes Moment
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,” writes Joe Lauria.
American Empire, Analysis, China, CN Live!, Commentary, Gulf States, Intelligence, Iran, Israel, Jordan, Media, Middle East, Russia, The World This Week, U.N. Security Council, Zionism
WATCH: The World This Week — w/Scott Ritter
With the world on the brink of a major Middle East war, Scott Ritter joins The World This Week to discuss the rationale, conduct and outcome of a devastating conflict between Iran and the U.S. and Israel. Watch the replay.
American Empire, Analysis, Commentary, Constitution, Donald Trump, Economy, History, Legal, Politics, Trump Administration, U.S. Congress, U.S. Supreme Courrt, United States
Trump: ‘I Can Destroy Countries’
A U.S. Supreme Court ruling against Donald Trump’s tariffs sent the 47th president into a rant that leaves little doubt who he is and what Constitutional crisis he is about to cause, writes Joe Lauria.
Crimes Against Humanity, Gaza, Genocide, Human Rights, International Law, Israel, Middle East, Military, Palestine, War Crimes, Zionism
Lancet Study Finds Higher Violent-Death Toll in Gaza
Of the 75,200 violent deaths in Gaza between Oct. 7, 2023 and Jan. 5, 2025, 56 percent were women, children, and elderly Palestinians, the study reveals.
Civil Rights, Commentary, Human Rights, Immigration, Indigenous People, Protest, Race Relations, Racism, Trump Administration, U.S., U.S. Justice Dept., Veterans
How Minnesota ‘Nice’ Turned Against ICE
Ann Wright reports on how Minneapolis neighborliness is organized, block-by-block, to mobilize and defend communities from a deadly immigration crackdown.
American Empire, Analysis, Commentary, Intelligence, Iran, Israel, Middle East, Militarism, Politics, U.S. Congress
Caitlin Johnstone: Dems Quietly Back War on Iran
Democratic Party leaders are doing nothing to oppose Trump’s war plans for Iran because they support those plans. They just don’t want to be the ones pulling the trigger.
US Reps Move to Stop Trump’s War on Iran
Even if war breaks out before he and Thomas Massie can bring a vote in the House next week, Ro Khanna says it’s important to get lawmakers on the record so voters can see where they stand.
The Incremental Loss of Freedom
Chilling is as unconstitutional as silencing, writes Andrew P. Napolitano. And when the feds conscript private entities to do for them indirectly what the U.S. Constitution prohibits them from doing directly, that’s chilling.
Judge Slams Trump Admin for Orwellian History
The administration’s claims of power to erase or hide historical accounts “echo Big Brother’s domain in Orwell’s 1984,” ruled Judge Cynthia Rufe.
Britain, Column, Foreign Policy, Intelligence, International, Israel, Israel, Military, United Kingdon
With Andrew Arrested, Mandelson Faces Similar Probe, Plus Questions on Tory Ties on Israel
The disgraced Labour grandee Peter Mandelson appears to have kept ties with Conservatives long after his friendship with Jeffrey Epstein emerged, reports Martin Williams.
Commentary, Iran, Trump Administration, U.N. Security Council, U.S., United Nations, Until This Day--Historical Perspectives on the News
Jeffrey Sachs to UN: No US War on Iran
The current threat of an attack by the U.S. did not begin with any failure by Iran to negotiate. On the contrary, it began with the United States’ repudiation of negotiations that had already succeeded.