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The Biggest World News Item of 2024 Was Not the Recent US Election

The World Had Already Changed Before November 5th Although many of you will find this hard to believe, a series of events took place this year and last year that, in their level of global importance and future impact, trumped…

What Are Republics, Exactly? It’s a Good Time to Learn

Republican ideals have evolved over millennia, shaping governance across the globe. Modern republics continue to adapt, but face challenges in upholding their foundational principles. By John P. Ruehl The 2024 U.S. presidential election was framed as a crucial test for…

The Would-Be Dictator’s Foreign and Military Commitments

On November 6, many of us woke to the reality that our nation is even more corrupt and dangerous than we had realized as a majority of  U.S. voters embraced and voted for a fascist, racist, convicted rapist and felon,…

Will Trump End or Escalate Biden’s Wars?

When Donald Trump takes office on January 20th, all his campaign promises to end the war in Ukraine in 24 hours and almost as quickly end Israel’s war on its neighbors will be put to the test. The choices he…

A new wave of movements against Trumpism is coming

Our job is to translate outrage over his agenda into action toward a truly transformational vision. By Mark Engler and Paul Engler For many of us, the immediate aftermath of Donald Trump’s decisive electoral victory has been a time of…

Stop the Mass Deportation NOW

At this point, I don’t want to focus on who’s to blame for the tragic election of Donald Trump as President of the United States again. While politicians now debate how to realign their ideological platforms, the immigrant community must…

USA: Reflections on Another Election

Having been mostly silent about American imperialism and the havoc that it wreaks, mainstream Western commentators were suddenly very vocal about the American election. They all voiced their opinions and made their predictions. Geopolitical knowledge, on the other hand, was…

The Military-Industrial Complex Is Fueling Climate Catastrophe — Let’s Demand Accountability at COP

As we write, New York City is an unsettling 70 degrees in November. Meanwhile, a cohort of war profiteers, their pockets lined by the very industries destroying our climate, are flying to COP, the annual U.N. climate summit hosted by…

Billionaires Own US Climate Policy

Billions of dollars will buy almost anything anybody wants, and on November 5th billions of dollars bought the world’s leading anti-climate-change political administration, aka: the Trump Administration, which is anti-almost-everything, except for a free reign to the almighty market. Price…

Migration at the center of US-Mexico relations: can a collaboration process take place?

There is much talk about what Trump could do with his anti-immigration policy, especially about those coming from Central America and Mexico. Therefore, the words of Claudia Sheinbaum, the new President of Mexico, who yesterday highlighted on her social network…

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