Thomas Klikauer

1 month ago | countercurrents.org | Steve Ellner |M K Bhadrakumar |Thomas Klikauer |Tom Engelhardt

During his first term, President Donald Trump exerted a “maximum pressure” campaign against perceived U.S. adversaries in Latin America and elsewhere.

1 month ago | countercurrents.org | M K Bhadrakumar |Thomas Klikauer |Tom Engelhardt |Gideon Polya

President Donald Trump’s latest executive order to dismantle the Department of Education isn’t just a headline—it’s a political warning shot. Framed as a push to “return power to the states,” Trump’s March 21 directive demands the department take “all necessary steps” to wind itself down. His administration argues the department is bloated with bureaucracy, fueled by liberal ideology, and ultimately responsible for declining academic outcomes. But the implications go far deeper than red tape.

1 month ago | countercurrents.org | M K Bhadrakumar |Thomas Klikauer |Tom Engelhardt |Gideon Polya

On Saturday, US President Donald Trump ordered the Pentagon “to launch a decisive and powerful military operation” against the Houthis of Yemen with “overwhelming lethal force” in the most significant military action of his second term, to date. The US attacks began on Saturday and continued into Sunday on the Yemeni capital Sanaa and other areas reportedly killing 31 people and wounding 101 so far, most of them children and women.

1 month ago | countercurrents.org | Thomas Klikauer |M K Bhadrakumar |Tom Engelhardt |Gideon Polya

With Donald, the Terrible back in power, diplomatic relations between the USA and the EU are set to be in stormy waters. Europeans, as well as the whole world, know that the last Trump presidency was marked by confusions and frustrations as his reign ended badly, if not deadly. And now, the European Union plus others like the UK are facing Trump 2.0Tellingly, Trump’s hyper-televised inauguration show has excluded many of those worshipping their messiah.

2 months ago | countercurrents.org | Romi Mahajan |Thomas Klikauer |Binoy Kampmark |Irwin Jerome

Nowadays, we have Nazism in the news again and not as simply a metonym for evil or a symbol of  the degree to which -historically- a rich country can lapse, but instead as a present threat. In the most powerful nation on Earth- armed to the teeth with nuclear weapons and economic bombs- the government has been occupied by forces of the far right. The country no longer resembles what it did even just a decade ago. It feels like 1933.