Photograph Source: Isac Nóbrega/PR – CC BY 2.0 In one of the most bizarre episodes in the history of international trade, President Donald Trump this week announced that 50% tariffs would be imposed on Brazil—a country that has a trade surplus with the United States...
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Trump’s Cuba Memorandum Provokes Strong Criticism Amid New US Aggressiveness Abroad
Photograph Source: hakkun – CC BY-SA 3.0 The Trump administration on June 30 released its “National Security Presidential Memorandum 5” on U.S. plans for Cuba. Criticism from Cuba’s government and international commentators welled up, as if entirely new forms of...
Five Key Lessons from Mamdani’s Startling NYC Win
Photograph Source: Metropolitan Transportation Authority – CC BY 2.0 In a remarkable upset, progressive State Assemblyman Zohran Mamdani defeated former Governor Andrew Cuomo in New York City’s Democratic mayoral primary. Early polls showed Mamdani starting his...
Trump Confuses Telling Blatant Lies With a Straight Face With Competence
Image Source: United States Government – Public Domain We all know and expect that a president’s top appointees are picked in large part because of their willingness to carry out a president’s agenda. But usually these are people with some experience in the areas that...
Should We Garden Our Forests?
Thinning is essentially “gardening” the forest–selecting which trees are winners and which are losers. Photo by George Wuerthner. A new study published in the journal Forest Ecology and Management “Significant mortality of old trees across a dry forest landscape,...
Trump’s “Consistent” Views on Federal Reserve Head Jerome Powell and the Wealth of the Wealthiest
Image by Morgan Housel. The head of the Federal Reserve Board has been viewed as the second most powerful person in the government. In theory, this person heads the body that oversees the country’s monetary policy with the power to set interest rates, which shapes the...
In the Spirit of BRICS, Criminal Defendant Jair Bolsonaro Should be Immediately be Transferred to China: a Modest Proposal
Photograph Source: Isac Nóbrega/PR – CC BY 2.0 In one of the most bizarre episodes in the history of international trade, President Donald Trump this week announced that 50% tariffs would be imposed on Brazil—a country that has a trade surplus with the United States...
Trump’s Cuba Memorandum Provokes Strong Criticism Amid New US Aggressiveness Abroad
Photograph Source: hakkun – CC BY-SA 3.0 The Trump administration on June 30 released its “National Security Presidential Memorandum 5” on U.S. plans for Cuba. Criticism from Cuba’s government and international commentators welled up, as if entirely new forms of...
Five Key Lessons from Mamdani’s Startling NYC Win
Photograph Source: Metropolitan Transportation Authority – CC BY 2.0 In a remarkable upset, progressive State Assemblyman Zohran Mamdani defeated former Governor Andrew Cuomo in New York City’s Democratic mayoral primary. Early polls showed Mamdani starting his...
Trump Confuses Telling Blatant Lies With a Straight Face With Competence
Image Source: United States Government – Public Domain We all know and expect that a president’s top appointees are picked in large part because of their willingness to carry out a president’s agenda. But usually these are people with some experience in the areas that...
Torre Pacheco (o la invasión de unos zombis racistas)
Si las frases hechas suelen encerrar tópicos y falta de reflexión personal, ninguna peor hecha que la de “Yo no soy racista, pero...” que suele utilizarse para intentar disimular que, en el fondo, sí somos un pelín racistas. Temas: Actualidad, Opinión, Racismo,...
Malaysia: PSM protests Trump’s ASEAN invite
The Socialist Party of Malaysia (PSM) is protesting the invitation issued to United States President Donald Trump to attend the ASEAN-US Summit in Malaysia in October, reports Susan Price.