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His threatened secondary sanctions could majorly backfire by harming the US’ own interests. The “major statement” on Russia that Trump earlier hyped up turned out to be a clumsy attempt to thread the needle between radically escalating US involvement in the Ukrainian Conflict and walking…

During July BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa) summit held in Rio de Janeiro, United States President Donald Trump threatened to impose trade tariffs, and that position changed the anti-Western and anti-United States language of participating leaders and…

U.S. President Trump’s massive tax and spending bill planned to allocate more than US$8,6 billion to increase the U.S. Coast Guard Icebreaker fleet in the Arctic, where Washington hopes to counter the possible rising Russian and Chinese dominance.  In fact,…

I understand the urgent need to reform our immigration policy to streamline the current chaotic and disjointed immigration laws. However, Trump’s approach to addressing migration will gravely affect the health of the economy, to which immigrants are indispensable.  Expelling hard-working…

Trump Opens a Big Can of Worms Donald Trump is completely betraying his MAGA base. His base elected him on a nationalist, isolationist platform centered around closed borders, pulling US troops out of foreign nations and stopping the neocons’ forever-wars.…

“The real American tradition isn’t war—it’s the people’s resistance to it.” On June 16, Rolling Stone reported on the recent “No Kings” demonstrations that revealed something profound about American values. In the article they noted that Saturday’s protests drew millions…

When historian Paul Kennedy published The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers in 1987, his sweeping analysis of imperial decline—spanning 1500 to 1980—arrived at a moment of American triumphalism. The U.S. stood ascendant as its Cold War rival, the…

by Irshad Ahmad Mughal When I was a young trainee as a community development worker, I was told: “Never lose sight of the forest by counting individual trees.” This lesson taught me to adopt a holistic perspective—a mindset that now helps me…

He’s known for being a realist, not a wishful thinker, which is why his prediction was so surprising to many observers. Putin predicted a few weeks back that Russia will inevitably reconcile with the EU and Ukraine. Regarding the first,…

The mainstream media seems to be waiting for a clash between Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum and U.S. President Donald Trump. Both figures embody starkly different visions of the present moment. Sheinbaum, Mexico’s first woman president and a self-described humanist, enjoys…