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Friday, May 16, 2025

California State University Students Resisting Genocide in Gaza

May 16, 2025

Seth Sandronsky

Institutions, private and public, wield immense power over the lives of people in and out of the U.S. Thus, people’s organized actions to change institutions are by definition David and Goliath-like power struggles. For America, that holds true in the main because the political donor class uses its deep pockets to influence the three branches of  government. Voters lack such influence.

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A Deceptive Joy in Geneva over U.S. China Trade Talks

Daniel Warner
There is joy in diplomatic Geneva. The neutral, good offices convenor of Reagan-Gorbachev and Putin–Biden summits is back in the headlines with trade talks between China and the United States. “China–U.S. tariff talks place Swiss diplomacy on centre stage” boasted a local website. But wait, isn’t the trade war between the United States and China a clear violation of international norms codified at the World Trade Organization (WTO)? Is the euphoria over the possibility of averting a global trade war and recession actually undermining internationally accepted principles and institutions of multilateralism such as the WTO based in Geneva?