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Trump Derangement Syndrome Returns

by Margaret Kimberley, published on Black Agenda Report, April 5, 2023 If democrats were smart, Donald Trump would be a disgraced former president, forgotten by all but his most ardent admirers. But they aren’t smart and they may have given him a political resurrection. Donald Trump is back in the news. He is facing a 34-count indictment for paying people[…]

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20 Years After Iraq, Corporate Media Defends US War Crimes But Obsesses Over Trump Trivialities

by Margaret Kimberley, published on Black Agenda Report, March 22, 2023 Liberals and the media give great attention to Donald Trump’s legal problems that are related to his personal life, but they cover up for the war crimes he and other presidents committed. United States troops began the invasion of Iraq on March 20, 2003 under the direction of president George[…]

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Trump Calls for Peace in Ukraine While the Democrats Make Support for War a Midterm Campaign Issue

by Ajamu Baraka, published on Black Agenda Report, October 12, 2022 Donald Trump is no peace maker, but his stance on negotiations to end the war in Ukraine is in stark contrast to that of the democrats, who fully support continuing the dangerous proxy war against Russia. Anti-war forces must step up and struggle for peace. Since the U.S. sponsored coup[…]

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Biden Signed on to Netanyahu’s ‘Vision’ of Crushing Palestinian Hopes

by Philip Weiss, published on Mondoweiss, July 22, 2022 Apartheid in Israel, potentially, Genocide in Gaza, accepted in the Middle East and the West as just a fact of life that shouldn’t interfere with business as usual. I’ve just been reading that reports on what it cost Egypt to enter an alliance with Israel and the United States.  It’s a[…]

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Cuba Should Be Removed from the U.S. List of State Sponsors of Terrorism

by Roger Waters, Vijay Prashad & Manolo De Los Santes, produced by Globetrotter, July 8, 2022 The United States maintains a list of countries that it considers as “state sponsors of terrorism.” There are currently four countries on that list: Cuba, North Korea, Iran and Syria. The basic idea behind this list is that the U.S. State Department determines that[…]

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Grading Trump on Foreign Policy

by Jeremy Kuzmarov, published on Covert Action, December 30, 2020 Huge Military Budgets, Covert Operations, Drones and Assassinations—but hey, at least he didn’t start another major war By any objective measure, Donald Trump has been one of the worst presidents in American history. His administration exacerbated inequalities, fomented social divisions, encouraged nativist and white supremacist groups, gutted environmental protections, mishandled[…]

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Media Silent as Trump Declares Wars

by Margaret Kimberley, published on Black Agenda Report, July 22, 2020 Donald Trump’s attacks on Venezuela, Syria and Iran are criminal, but Joe Biden vows to be even worse. “There is no congressional opposition to Trump’s acts of aggression which are literally killing people around the world.” The corporate media in this country can endlessly repeat lies about Russia paying[…]

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As US Reels From COVID-19, Trump Turns to Sanctions, War Making and Threats

by Alan MacLeod, published on Mintpress News, May 15, 2020 Presiding over by far the worst COVID-19 outbreak in the world, the Trump administration is making it a key priority to escalate hostilities with its perceived international enemies. Last night President Trump suggested that he might “cut off” all trade with the People’s Republic of China. “Now, if you did,[…]

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Late Stage Imperial Omni-Crisis: Death by Virus and Internal Contradictions

by Glen Ford, published on Black Agenda Report, March 19, 2020 The epidemic reveals the stark truth, that the US dismantled and privatized its public health system, to fatten the pockets of the oligarchy and render working people more helpless and dependent. “Citizens have become aware that the oligarchs – their rulers — are the vectors of mass insecurity, sickness[…]

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