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New Sheriff Astride the Globe: Trump’s Sovereigntist Imperialism

Days after November’s Trump/MAGA election victory, a senior Russian diplomat asked how great a historical transformation it signaled. Was it the equivalent of the Civil War, or the Depression era New Deal? Soon it was clear. Jamille Bouie wrote in…

The Myths that Blind Us: Confronting Trump’s Assault on Immigrants and the Constitution

Presentation by Jhon Sánchez following the screening of Borderland | The Line Within. The documentary not only exposes the profitable business of immigration and its human cost, but weaves together the stories of immigrant heroines and heroes resisting and showing…

Trump’s Confrontational Foreign Policy Defies His “America First” Agenda

Millions of Americans expected Trump to go rogue once he reassumed the presidency, but much fewer expected him to issue scores of reckless and damaging executive orders so swiftly. Pulling the US out of several United Nations agencies is one…

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…

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