As January bled into February, Lora Kelly notes at The Atlantic, US president Donald Trump “announced 25 percent tariffs on the country’s North American neighbors, caused a panic in the stock market, eked out minor concessions from foreign leaders, and called the...
Indonesia Joining BRICS Is a Huge Deal That Went Unnoticed
On January 6, Indonesia formally entered BRICS as a full member. It was an important geopolitical shift that went largely unreported and little discussed in the mainstream media. BRICS is an international organization whose primary purpose is to balance U.S. hegemony...
A New Military-Industrial Complex Arises
Reprinted from TomDispatch. Last April, in a move generating scant media attention, the Air Force announced that it had chosen two little-known drone manufacturers – Anduril Industries of Costa Mesa, California, and General Atomics of San Diego – to build prototype...
Trump’s Sphere-of-Influence Tariffs
By trying to weaponize the U.S. tariffs on America's big trade partners against China, President Trump is basing bad economics on worse geopolitics. It could prove a costly prelude to a global downturn. On February 1, President Trump imposed 25% tariffs and 10% duties...
Make The Ukraine Truce, Then Cut Europe Loose
Exactly 177 days after being sworn to office, America’s greatest peace president, Dwight D. Eisenhower, announced that the demolition derby on the Korean peninsula would be halted, and that an armistice would prevail henceforth – which armistice remains in place to...
The Gaza ‘War’ Was a Lie, as Is the Ceasefire. Trump Just Told You
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s visit to the White House this week tore the mask off 16 months of gaslighting by western leaders and by the entirety of the western establishment media. United States President Donald Trump finally dropped Washington’s sugar...
The US Should Not Take Over Gaza
This week, President Trump upended US Middle East policy by announcing that the United States would “take over” war-ravaged Gaza and turn it into “the Riviera of the Middle East.” President Trump also said the Palestinians living in Gaza would be (temporarily?)...
Iraq Weekly Roundup: 26 Killed
The People’s Choice: Why DOGE Needs Ron Paul
Reprinted from The American Conservative with the author's permission. he Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), a brainchild of our newly inaugurated President Donald Trump and Elon Musk, stands as a beacon of hope for those of us who have long clamored for a...
The Great March of Hope: Gaza’s Defiance Against Erasure
The return of one million Palestinians from southern Gaza to the north on January 27 felt as if history was choreographing one of its most earth-shattering events in recent memory. Hundreds of thousands of people marched along a single street, the coastal Rashid...


