Anisur Rahman

2 months ago | countercurrents.org | Bharat Dogra |Lawrence Wittner |Mir Adnan Aziz |Anisur Rahman

“The (Ukraine) war is all about money. People don’t talk much about it. But you know, the richest country in all of Europe for rare earth minerals is Ukraine. Two to seven trillion dollars (worth) of minerals that are rare earth minerals, very relevant to the 21st century… Donald Trump is going to do a deal to get our money back, to enrich ourselves with rare earth minerals.

2 months ago | countercurrents.org | Lawrence Wittner |Phil Pasquini |Mir Adnan Aziz |Anisur Rahman

Only a month into his second term as president, Donald Trump is well underway toward destroying crucial rights of American workers. Currently, the best known of these threatened rights is probably job security, for the sudden onset of Trump’s mass, indiscriminate firing of more than 200,000 federal government workers has sparked a furor.

2 months ago | countercurrents.org | Mir Adnan Aziz |Phil Pasquini |Andre Damon |Anisur Rahman

Law of the Instrument or Maslow’s Hammer is a cognitive bias that dictates a tunnel vision as an overarching solution for everything. Attributed to American psychologist Abraham Maslow it states that if the only tool you have is a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail. President Donald Trump, the fourth child of New York real estate tycoon Fred Trump, was reared in his father’s footsteps.

2 months ago | countercurrents.org | Anisur Rahman |Kim Scipes |Joshua Frank |Phil Pasquini

Donald Trump has successfully moved the USA around 300 years backward. He heads counterclockwise, forcing the All-powerful Uncle Sam to move to the reverse circle. Modern-time colonialism that began a few hundred years back reached its culmination in the 18th century. Its decline started in the first quarter of the last century, and within 50 years, it collapsed almost totally. Although the present-day neo-colonialism or economic imperialism is even worse in some cases, the old one has gone.