Behind Trump Tariffs Is Capital’s Warfare Against the Working Class

 February 17, 2025
William I. Robinson
Trump’s tariffs will escalate exploitation and desperation of US workers. That’s the point.

Demonstrators gather outside of the Office of Personnel Management to protest federal layoffs and demand the termination of Elon Musk from the "Department of Government Efficiency" (DOGE) in Washington, D.C., on February 7, 2025. Bryan Dozier / Middle East Images / Middle East Images via AFP

A President’s Day Card

February 17, 2025

Elliot Sperber

Elliot Sperber is a writer, attorney, and adjunct professor. He lives in New York City and can be reached at elliot.sperber@gmail.com and on twitter @elliot_sperber

LIVE BLOG: Three Police Officers Killed in Rafah | Marc Rubio Arrives in Israel – Day 499

February 16, 2025

Killed               62,403
Wounded        111,638

The Gaza Genocide and the Unravelling of US Hegemony

February 15, 2025
Nasim Ahmed

Trump/Musk Dictatorship Is Galvanizing the American People’s Resistance

February 14, 2025
Ralph Nader
Madmen Trump and Musk are moving with warp speed to illegally and dictatorially wreck America and enrich themselves in the process. Forget the use of the terms “autocracy” and “constitutional crisis.” This is a savage dictatorship, getting worse by the day. Trump is attacking the courts, ignoring Congress run by a cowardly GOP, pushing to cut off critical assistance for tens of millions of Americans, devastating health, safety, food (Meals on Wheels), education (Head Start), and Medicaid insurance protections.

Gaza is not for sale

February 14, 2025
Lorenzo Maria Pacini
In the midst of one of humanity’s most disastrous crises, Donald Trump has found the courage to make very aggressive statements toward Palestine. We had no doubt, the American goal remains the same.

Tomorrow Belongs To Me: On Boogers and Bullshit

February 14, 2025
Abby Zimet
In a freakish snapshot of the GOP's descent into brutal, gonzo nihilism, this week saw the brash Nazi-Oligarch-in-Chief helming an Oval Office presser to hype his political, economic, cultural demolition of democracy "in compliance with the President’s executive orders" - no more health care or feeding hungry kids, lots of Kid Rock - as his four-year-old son wiped boogers on the Resolute desk where an impassive, discomfited Trump sat in the "most powerless image of a President ever." Nothing to see here.

Tehran imposes tit-for-tat ban on Lebanese planes, calls on Beirut to restore permission for Iranian flights

February 14, 2025

The Lebanese government has suspended Iranian flights to Beirut after the Israeli army claimed Tehran was smuggling clash to Hezbollah

Trump’s Gaza Plan: A Green Light for Ethnic Cleansing?

February 13, 2025
Ramzy Baroud
( Middle East Monitor ) – Let’s be clear: the forced displacement of Palestinians is not a new idea. US President Donald Trump’s latest proposal to take “long-term ownership” of Gaza, to “clean out” the “mess”, and to turn it into a “Riviera of the Middle East” is just the latest iteration of efforts aimed at ethnically cleansing Palestinians from their homeland.

Iranian press review: Tehran praises Musk’s attack on anti-establishment media

February 13, 2025
Georgiy Berezovsky

Meanwhile, the return of 'Butcher of the Press’ angers lawyers, Pezeshkian’s administration faces pressure over rial devaluation, and lucrative business of bypassing international sanctions revealed

 

 A mural depicting a mock version of the Great Seal of the United States painted on the outer walls of the former US embassy in Tehran, 6 November 2024 (AFP)

‘It is impossible to bring us to our knees’: Russia reacts to Putin-Trump phone call

February 13, 2025
Georgiy Berezovsky

Russian politicians, journalists, and experts reacted to the news about the first contact between the presidents of Russia and the US

Amid deadly raids, Israeli army orders evacuation of another West Bank camp

 February 12, 2025
Israeli army storms Nur Shams camp as it continues three-week ‘open war against existence of Palestinian people’ in West Bank.

زن وارداتی

در روز پایانیِ سال ۱۹۹۹ و آستانهٔ ملیونیوم جدید
با توجه به تحریم اقتصادی ایران که از اوائل انقلاب تا به امروز ادامه داشته است، صادرات به ایران از آمریکا و اروپا خیلی‌ محدود، و اگر هم بطور غیر رسمی‌ و قاچاقی‌ باشد، در سطح خیلی‌ بالا انجام می‌شود. از آن طرف صادرات ایران به آمریکا و اروپا هم بصورت مافیایی و از طریق کشور‌های واسطه صورت می‌گیرد. گرچه این صادرات و واردات کم‌کم پیچ و مهره‌اشان شل می‌شود و اجناس بسیاری بصورت غیر رسمی‌ از ایران وارد آمریکا می‌شوند، ولی‌ یک نوع از واردات همیشه آزاد بوده است، و با شروع انقلاب این واردات چند برابر هم شده است، و آن واردات زن از ایران به آمریکا است.ا

 

New Administration Tells AARP Social Security Payments Are Protected

February 12, 2025
Andy Markowitz

67 million Americans receive benefits that they have earned

‘Humiliating and painful’: testimonies of mass displacement in the northern West Bank

February 11, 2025
Qassam Muaddi
Israel has expanded its offensive on the northern West Bank from the Jenin refugee camp, to the refugee camps of Nur Shams in Tulkarem and al-Far’a in Tubas. Dubbed “Operation Iron Wall,” the Israeli assault has been ongoing for three weeks, killing at least 25 Palestinians, wounding over 100, and forcibly displacing 40,000 people from their homes according to a statement by UNRWA on Monday.

 

An Israeli bulldozer destroyed Palestinian homes in Jenin refugee camp as Israeli colonial forces continue to raid Jenin and the camp for a fourth day as part of a major military operation to crack down on armed resistance, January 24, 2025. Israeli armed bulldozers have entered the camp, destroying infrastructure and homes. Witnesses report that some houses are being burned by Israeli forces. Drones are constantly hovering over the camp, observing as many Palestinian families were forced to flee in the past few days. Entrances and exits are blocked by the Israeli forces, preventing health workers and journalists from entering the refugee camp. At least 12 Palestinians have been killed and nearly 40 injured in Israel’s assault on Jenin. (Photo: Wahaj Bani Moufleh/Activestills) 

A Trumpian Fascistic Coup is Underway—Stop It Before the Terror Starts

February 11, 2025
Ralph Nader
Rise up people and fast. Tyrant Trump and his Musk-driven gangsters are launching a fascistic coup d’état. Much of everything you like about federal/civil service for your health, safety, and economic well-being and protections is being targeted.

Hamas delays captive release 'until further notice' accusing Israel of violating deal

February 10, 2025
Alex MacDonald
Hamas said it would delay the release of the next tranche of Israeli captives "until further notice", accusing Israel of failing to comply with the terms of the ceasefire deal.

 

People walk with belongings along the Wadi Gaza bridge along al-Rashid street in the central Gaza Strip on 10 February 2025 (Eyad Baba/AFP)

Our ‘return’ to northern Gaza is not the end of exile

February 10, 2025
Nour Elassy
Poet and writer based in Gaza
For 15 months, I was displaced from my home in northern Gaza. For 15 long months that felt like 15 years, I felt like a stranger in my own homeland. Not knowing when the exile would end, I lived with an unbearable sense of loss, with memories of a home frozen in time that I could see in my mind but could not go back to.

 

 A drone view shows Palestinians, who were forcibly displaced to the south of the Gaza Strip by the Israeli army, making their way back to their homes in the north on January 27, 2025 [Mohammed Salem/Reuters]

What Is the Mainstream Media Missing About Elon Musk? He Is Instituting Technocracy

February 10, 2025
Tom Valovic
It’s hard to see articles about the “move fast and break things” approach of the Trump administration without also hearing about the hovering presence the world’s richest man, technocrat extraordinaire Elon Musk. 

 

 Demonstrators gather outside of the Office of Personnel Management in Washington, D.C. on February 7, 2025 to protest federal layoffs and demand the termination of Elon Musk from the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE). (Photo: Bryan Dozier/Middle East Images/AFP via Getty Images)

The American Inquisition Cometh

February 10, 2025
Kary Love
Don Trump, current temporary occupant of the elective office of President of the United States, has issued an Executive Order to ferret out “antichristianity” from the federal government. Now cynics might perceive an odd karmic resonance from the “communist witch hunts” of Senator Joe McCarthy though the grotesque, twisted soul of Roy Cohn to his acolyte Don Trump, but nothing could be further from the truth. Be assured: there is no “antichrist” in this “antichristianity” purge. The choice of words is just a coincidence.