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Trump’s Pressure Campaign Against South Africa Is About More Than Just The Boers

The ANC’s long track record of political mistakes and policy failures is finally catching up to it precisely at the moment when the party finally started prioritizing South Africa’s participation in global processes, thus creating the pretext for the US…

The Art of the 21st Century Deal (The US is Finished, Unless…)

More of the Same, Despite All the Bluster Before Donald Trump was elected he gave indications that he had some understanding of the war in Ukraine and how it has exponentially accelerated the transformation of the global economic world order…

Reviving The Death Penalty Is One Of Trump’s Greatest Moral Failures

One of Trump’s most despicable day-one executive orders revoked Biden’s moratorium on federal executions, ensured that states that still carry out capital punishment have “a sufficient supply of drugs needed to carry out lethal injection,” and urged the Attorney General…

Why Did Trump Threaten To Modify Or Rescind India’s Sanctions Waiver For Iran’s Chabahar Port?

Threatening the viability of the North-South Transport Corridor pressures Iran, India, and Russia in one fell swoop in a diplomatic-economic masterstroke. Trump 2.0 is considered to be Indophilic in large part due to his team’s understanding of how India can…

Forcing The Palestinians Out Of Gaza Is A Recipe For Unimaginable Disaster

Even after Trump declared that he wanted to take back the Panama Canal, acquire Greenland by force, if necessary, and rename the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America, I could not, like many others, imagine that his madness…

Renaming The Gulf of Mexico Isn’t A Laughing Matter But Part of a U.S. Imperialist Power Grab

Trump’s executive order to rename the Gulf of Mexico the “Gulf of America” isn’t just another absurd stunt or another example of his outlandish behavior. It signals a much deeper, more troubling agenda that seeks to erase historical identity and…

The US’ Coercion Of Panama Over The Canal Presages Impending Military Tensions With China

The US wants to preemptively neutralize as many of the means as possible through which China could asymmetrically respond to this scenario in plausibly deniable ways such as by having its company that controls port facilities on both sides of…

Why’d Trump Just Repost His Threat To Impose 100% Tariffs On BRICS Countries?

A full-fledged economic pressure campaign by the US against the BRICS countries might be imminent. Trump reposted late November’s threat to impose 100% tariffs on BRICS countries if they go through with their alleged plans to create a new currency…

Trump’s sanctions threats against Russia usual routine – Kremlin

The Kremlin views US President Donald Trump’s threats to impose sanctions against Russia if a deal on the Ukrainian conflict settlement is not reached as the usual routine, Russian Presidential Spokesman Dmitry Peskov said on Thursday. “We do not see…

Trump Pulls U.S. Out of Paris Agreement, Again

‘There’s No Mandate to Slam Climate Progress Into Reverse,’ Says NRDC By Paige Bennett As one of his first orders of business upon taking office, President Donald Trump has once again withdrawn the U.S. from the Paris Agreement. During his…

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