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1 week ago | 
sfltimes.com | Mohamed Hamaludin
The United States leads the developed world in the number of immigrants, around 50 million, with the undocumented at 11 million, for an overall 20 percent of the population, Bruno Venditti reported in Visual Capitalist last December. Many came from countries which were destabilized as the U.S. – and other Western powers – pursued economic, security and imperialist imperatives.
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2 weeks ago | 
sfltimes.com | Mohamed Hamaludin
The Trump administration recently went on the offensive against some of the nation’s top-tier colleges and universities, threatening to withhold billions of dollars in annual federal grants, especially for research, if the schools do not comply with a series of demands. Some of the leaders of socalled Ivy League schools capitulated.
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3 weeks ago | 
sfltimes.com | Mohamed Hamaludin
Hialeah, the Florida city where 94 percent of the population identify as Hispanic or Latino, recently explored the possible annexation of several predominantly African American communities but abandoned the plan. Alarmed by the takeover threat, those neighborhoods are demanding that the Miami-Dade County Commission allows them to establish their own city.
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1 month ago | 
sfltimes.com | Mohamed Hamaludin
“Western civilization” and “the entire destiny of humanity” are about to end, at least as far as Elon Musk is concerned. But doomsday could have been averted on April 1 – All Fools’ Day – if Wisconsin voters had elected a Republican to the state Supreme Court, according to him. That would have forestalled an eventual Democratic takeover of Congress because the vote essentially “was for which party controls the US House of Representatives,” even though it had nothing to do with federal elections.
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1 month ago | 
sfltimes.com | Mohamed Hamaludin
Polls have shown that President Donald Trump’s election victory was aided partly by increased support from young men. Some reports point to the influence of podcasters as an important reason for the shift from the Democratic Party, particularly among African Americans. While European Americans host most of podcasts, so do some African Americans and many deal with a variety of topics.
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1 month ago | 
sfltimes.com | Mohamed Hamaludin
A slim majority of voters picked Donald Trump for a second presidential term. The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that a president has almost total immunity while performing the duties of his office. Fortified by those two mandates, Trump has proceeded to deploy the vast powers of the presidency to radically restructure the federal government. The critics are many and a few federal judges have blocked some of his actions, but he remains largely unchecked.
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1 month ago | 
sfltimes.com | Mohamed Hamaludin
A former Cuba intelligence chief claimed in 2006 that 634 assassination plots and attempts were made to kill Fidel Castro. The CIA was behind some of them, NBC News reported, citing a 1975 U.S. Senate report. The CIA’s efforts included hiring mobsters Sam Giancana and Santos Trafficante Jr., both on the FBI’s 10 Most Wanted List, and poisoning Castro’s cigars, pills and scuba-diving suits, and using dynamite. A plot to have his lover poison his drink ended up in a love-making bout.
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2 months ago | 
sfltimes.com | Mohamed Hamaludin
Musk with then-president-elect Donald Trump in November 2024 and Musk next to a Tesla Model S, 2011. PHOTOS COURTESY OF WIKIPEDIASpecial to South Florida Times Around age 18, Elon Musk bunked for a while in a Canadian youth hostel with five others. Later, he and his mother Maye and sister Tosca shared a one-bedroom apartment, where he slept on the couch, until the family could afford a rentcontrolled three-bedroom unit.
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2 months ago | 
sfltimes.com | Mohamed Hamaludin
President Donald Trump has insisted that illegal immigration constitutes an “invasion” justifying not only the deportation of all 11 million undocumented migrants living in the country and deploying soldiers to the borders. He and his allies have spent years demonizing them with outlandish tales of eating neighbors’ pets, seizing apartment buildings and “coming in from prisons and jails” and mental asylums.
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2 months ago | 
sfltimes.com | Mohamed Hamaludin
If charity begins at home, as English author Thomas Browne wrote nearly 500 years ago, how come the United States spends tens of billions of dollars to help peoples in other countries while millions of Americans struggle to make ends meet? That question is probably in the minds of those who approve of the ongoing efforts to dismantle the United States Agency for International Development (USAID). It is a fair question and there is an answer.
