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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NRDC By Paige Bennett As one of his first orders of business upon taking office, President Donald Trump has once again withdrawn the U.S. from the Paris Agreement.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…

President Trump: Canadian identity is not defined by his commercial trades

Now or never master in our house! was the French-speaking Quebec liberal Party slogan in 1962 The US elected President Donald Trump’s threat Trudeau government over the last few weeks to slap 25 percent tariffs on Canadian exports to the…

The Panama Canal & Greenland Are Trump’s For The Taking If He Really Wants Them

MAGA 2.0 is poised to be more geopolitically assertive than MAGA 1.0. Trump threatened that the US might retake control of the Panama Canal if it remains under indirect partial Chinese management and continues to charge the US what he…

The Moment Of Truth: How Will Russia Respond To Ukraine’s Use Of Western Long-Range Missiles?

It remains unclear what Putin will ultimately do, but whichever of these two choices he makes will determine the trajectory of this conflict from now on, either more escalation or a possible compromise. Reports emerged on Sunday that the US…

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…

Ending the Wars, Saving Democracy: David Swanson’s Vision After Winning the Real Nobel Peace Prize

David Swanson, the Executive Director of World Beyond War and campaign coordinator of RootsAction.org, was awarded the Real Nobel Peace Prize for 2024 in a touching ceremony held on November 10, 2024, in Oslo. I had the pleasure of sitting…

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