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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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1 month 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.
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1 month ago | 
countercurrents.org | John Ruehl |Michael Albert |Tom Engelhardt |Thomas Klikauer
Trump’s remarks on annexing territory and recognizing Russian and Israeli territorial gains may align with his geopolitical ambitions, but the disruption to longstanding norms of fixed borders sets a risky precedent. Amid ongoing discussions over Donald Trump’s plans for trying to resolve conflicts in Ukraine and Israel, the U.S. president has maintained steady pressure on NATO allies for months.
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1 month ago | 
countercurrents.org | Michael Albert |Tom Engelhardt |Thomas Klikauer |Gideon Polya
Is today’s moment that different from all prior moments? Haven’t we endured extreme subterfuge forever? “Defense Department”? “Serve the people”? “Health and human services”? “Workers rights”? “High technology”? “Home of the free”? “Beacon of Hope?” Even “destroyed the city to save it.” Is today just more of yesterday? Is Trump just another turd on top? Just more odious? Does something make this crisis different from all other crises? Truth be told a whole lot is certainly familiar.
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2 months ago | 
countercurrents.org | S G Vombatkere |Binoy Kampmark |Thomas Klikauer |Leslie Alan Horvitz
ToShri Narendra D ModiPrime MinisterDear Shri Modiji,The Finance Minister (FM), in her recent Budget Speech, stated that “Development of at least 100 GW of nuclear energy by 2047 is essential for our energy transition efforts.
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Jan 7, 2025 | 
znetwork.org | Thomas Klikauer
Regularly, Donald Trump is presented as a fascistic leader. Yet, he has no Italian-style Blackshirts roaming the streets and no Hitler-style SA or SS beating up opponents. Nor are there people rounded up and put in concentration camps or being tortured in a Pinochet-style football station. There will be no Auschwitz in the USA.
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Dec 11, 2024 | 
countercurrents.org | Ram Puniyani |Sumit Gupta |Arjun Banerjee |Thomas Klikauer
by Prof Jagdeep Chhokar and Dr E A S SarmaAppeal to Hon’ble Smt Droupadi Murmu President of IndiaRespected Rashtrapati Ji,We refer to the “Restatement of Values of Judicial Life” adopted by the Hon’ble Supreme Court at its full Court Meeting on 7th May 1997 (https://main.sci.gov.in/pdf/Notice/02112020_090821.pdf), which, inter alia, laid down the following norm of conduct for judges:“Justice must not merely be done but it must also be seen to be done.
