Category: United States
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The Trump Administration Wants to Turn US Cities Into Occupied Territory
Opinion: The logic is imperial, and familiar. Invent an enemy. Inflate the threat. Justify the war. Except this time, the war zone is your own backyard. Jesse Mackinnon | Aug 07, 2025 | Common Dreams By any rational measure, the Trump administration’s internal Department of Homeland Security memo—obtained by The New Republic— reads less like a briefing…
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The real reasons for the US-Israeli war on Iran, explained
Jun 17, 2025 / Ben Norton / Geopolitical Economy Report – The United States and Israel are waging war on Iran, but why? What are their real goals? Ben Norton explains the imperial strategy to impose US hegemony in West Asia (aka the Middle East), destroy the Axis of Resistance, colonize Palestine, destabilize the revolutionary…
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Trump, Nixon, Reagan and the Alger Hiss Case
May 2, 2025 | Matthew Stevenson Alger Hiss testifying before Congress in 1948. Library of Congress. New York World-Telegram & Sun Collection. Although the details of the case would be lost on him (don’t forget, presidential aides had to explain the historical rudiments of Pearl Harbor when Tropical Storm Donald made landfall in Hawaii), Trump’s…
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Trump is Satan
Paradise Lost in Washington, DC May 10, 2019 | Jeffery R. Wilson | Harvard University Donald Trump is Satan. The Satan in question is perhaps the greatest literary character in the finest epic poem in the English language, John Milton’s Paradise Lost. That makes Washington Republicans the other fallen angels. In 2016, Republicans made a…
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What Donald Trump Has Revealed About Our Country
Now is the time for assessing the assets of the citizenry and putting them to work. Ralph Nader | January 19, 2025 | Opinion | Common Dreams The rise of Donald Trump from a widely publicized, if failed, business boss to a two-term president has taught us a great deal about our society. He will teach us even…