Tag: United States

Last week I was in Minneapolis, Minnesota, to observe and learn from those who have attempted to protect members of their community from the brutal assaults by ICE and other government agencies and hold those agencies accountable for the violence they are wreaking on the community. ICE in Minneapolis—From Surge...
Italian Member of the European Parliament Danilo Della Valle criticizes the EU’s non-independent policy in Africa, accusing Brussels of dependence on France, double standards, and losing influence to USA, China and Turkey. AD: The EU’s strategy in Africa is still largely determined by the interests of former colonial powers, primarily...
In January 2025, Donald Trump, the newly inaugurated U.S. president, signed an executive order directing the U.S. armed forces to construct a missile defense system called the “Golden Dome,” aimed at establishing space weapons in orbit for the first time in history. Legitimized in part by the expiry of the...
While border czar Tom Homan announced last week that the surge of federal agents in Minnesota could be winding down, he signaled that other cities could be next...
I came back from Cuba over last weekend, where I had not been for a year. Despite the warnings from the U.S. State Department and Marco Rubio, now is the time for U.S. citizens to travel to Cuba in solidarity with the Cuban people against the latest U.S. aggressions in the...
Expiry of New START is set to trigger dangerous new nuclear arms race On February 5, the Trump administration allowed the New Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (START) to expire, leaving the U.S and Russia with no agreements for the regulation of nuclear weapons for the first time in more than...
I have been in Washington, D.C., for the past week battling the icy and snow-piled sidewalks and streets one week after the big snow and ice storm that immobilized the city for days. While using the city’s buses and rail, it was apparent that the most probable danger in D.C....
The condemnation by local, national and international labor organizations of the illegal January 3, 2026, U.S. attack on Venezuela and the kidnapping of President Nicolás Maduro and his wife, Cilia Flores, is a welcome development. The AFL-CIO has declared, succinctly and without elaboration, “We join the international labor community in...
H. Rap Brown was charged for instigating a riot that never took place, and was sent to a Supermax prison after being convicted of a murder to which someone else confessed On November 23, 2025, Jamil Abdullah al-Amin, formerly known as H. Rap Brown and one-time chairman of the Student...
The situation in Cuba is dire as the Trump administration ramps up its campaign to destabilize the country and destroy its revolution...