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U.S. President Donald Trump has signed off on the first-ever trillion-dollar military budget. When the White House Office of Management and Budget (OMB) released its budget request for fiscal year 2026 in May, it included a base defense request of $892.6 billion, plus a $119.3 billion allocation of additional resources...
Trade warfare and interference in the free functioning of the judiciary are the current expressions of United States interventionism in Latin America, particularly in Brazil. With the largest economy in the region and the eighth-largest in the world, Brazil holds a central strategic importance for the United States in its...
Donald Trump has taken yet another step in the ruling class’ quest to trash civil liberties, expand the brutal role of cops and other agents of the state and wage an all-out assault on Black people across the country...
In late June, during public commemoration of the 80th anniversary of the Battle of Okinawa—one of the bloodiest battles of the Pacific War that resulted in over 240,000 deaths—local authorities called for a reduction of the U.S. military presence in Okinawa, which hosts over 20,000 U.S. troops. Last August, a...
As Cold War 2.0 heats up and places the world in peril of nuclear war, it is worthwhile to look back at the history of the original Cold War where Russophobia began to metastasize like a cancer in U.S. society. A new book by Gabriela Gavrilov, U.S.-Russian Commercial Relations 1763-1933:...
The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) brands itself as a civil rights watchdog. Founded by Morris Dees, Joseph Levin and Julian Bond in 1971 in Montgomery, Alabama, it gained a favorable reputation in liberal circles in the 1980s for filing civil lawsuits for monetary damages on behalf of the victims...
Donald Trump has taken yet another step in the ruling class’ quest to trash civil liberties, expand the brutal role of cops and other agents of the state and wage an all-out assault on Black people across the country...
As legislators across North America continue bashing the People’s Republic of China, some Canadians, including this author, were invited on a tour of three Chinese cities during the spring. During our time in China, we saw beautiful nature and technological innovation in Hangzhou, the peaceful coastline in Qingdao, and a...
A darling of the Bush II and Obama administrations, Álvaro Uribe Vélez has had close connections to the Medellín and Cali drug cartels along with fascist paramilitary groups that committed heinous crimes in a war against left-wing guerrillas In late July, former Colombian President Álvaro Uribe Vélez (2002-2010) was sentenced...
Dedicated peace activists are committed to abolishing nuclear weapons amidst looming threat of nuclear war Thank you for the opportunity to speak at the 2025 World Conference Against Atomic and Hydrogen Bombs. I bring you greetings and solidarity from civil society movements in the U.S. which have been working diligently for...