Punishing Progress: Washington Targets Social Achievements of Cuba, Nicaragua and Venezuela
The authors take stock of the collective progress in Latin American countries targeted by the US for regime change.
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Trumpism – Destroying America: 6 Articles
‘Trump’s Unprecedented Program of National Self-Destruction’; ‘Science Decommissioned!’; ‘Trump’s ‘Big Beautiful’ Cuts to Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid and More’; ‘Disappearing the America We Once Knew’; ‘Trump’s Budget Bill a Disaster for Black Workers’; ‘A Death Sentence for Thousands and Thousands of People’.
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The US as Tax Haven
A look at how the US tax system actually works in terms of allowing people and companies to pay different rates of tax.
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Tariff Parleys with US Will Hurt Indian Farmers; WTO Rulebook Blow to Indian Farmers – 2 Articles
‘Why Tariff Parleys With US Will Hurt Indian Farmers’: The net outcome will be a cut in Indian tariff rates vis-à-vis US goods, which will mean lowering of MSP for foodgrains and the entry of heavily subsidised American grains into India. Also: ‘WTO’s Rulebook is a Blow to Indian Farmers – It Favours the Rich and Punishes the Poor’.
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China | Online Blog | USA
China and US Agree to Cut Tariffs; Beginning or End of Tariff War? – 2 Articles
‘China and US Agree to Cut Tariffs Imposed in April’. Also, ‘Beginning or End of the Tariff War Between the US and China?’: Unless the current global system of trade and economy is dismantled, the world will continue to teeter on the edge of new wars – wars for profit, wars for the sake of war.
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CIA Documents Prove the Agency was Lying to Public About Germ Warfare in Korea for Decades
In 2019, the CIA proved that it had been lying to the public for decades about germ warfare in Korea when it released a trove of signals intelligence documents from the Korean War in a publication called Baptism by Fire: CIA Analysis of the Korean War.
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What Explains India’s Response to Trump?
India’s response stands out among that of major countries worldwide. India’s rulers have chosen this moment to move even closer to the US, both in the sphere of the economy and strategic alignment.
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Capitalism | Fascism | Online Blog | USA
Trump’s Assault on Working People – 9 Articles
Trump’s relentless assault on working people; Trump budget gives $1 trillion to military while slashing programs for working class; Efforts to ‘bring the press into line’; Defunding of NPR and PBS; Slashing education funding; Threatens to take away Harvard’s tax-exempt status; US economy shrinks for first time since 2022; Anti-Trump nationwide May Day protests.
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Online Blog | Russia | Ukraine | USA
Why Trump’s Ukraine War ‘Kellogg Plan’ Collapsed
On why Trump’s proposals to Russia, Europe and Ukraine to begin negotiations and end the war collapsed at the recent London meeting.
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US Ceasefire in Yemen: Retreat Masquerading as Restraint
The US ends its Red Sea campaign not by victory, but by necessity – under relentless pressure from an underestimated Yemeni resistance.
