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Rooting Out The Root Causes In Ukraine

May 20, 2025 Joe Lauria, Consortium News. , , , , , ,
After a two-hour telephone call between the presidents of Russia and the United States on Monday, President Vladimir Putin said: I would like to emphasize once again that the conversation was very constructive, and I rate it highly. The question, of course, is for the Russian and Ukrainian sides to show maximum desire for peace and find compromises that would suit all parties. At the same time,I would like to note that Russia’s position is generally clear. The main thing for us is to eliminate the root causes of this crisis. It should be no mystery to Western leaders, media and the public what those root causes are, as Moscow has been repeating them ad nauseam beginning 30 years ago and especially in the run up to Russia’s 2022 intervention in Ukraine’s then eight-year old civil war.

Socialist Women In Texas Vow To Take On Abortion Bans

May 20, 2025 Natalia Marques, People's Dispatch. , , , , , , , , , ,
Dozens of Texans packed into a Methodist church in San Antonio, Texas for the “Women’s Socialism Conference,” organized by the Party for Socialism and Liberation. The gathering was the first of its kind in Texas. Attendees traveled to San Antonio from across the state and the country to talk about the issues that women face in Texas and how socialist ideas and policies could be a solution. According to Destiney Peña, an organizer with the PSL in San Antonio, the conference challenges the narrative that Texas is a “lost cause” politically, or a “state full of Trump supporters,” rather than a state with a diverse range of political opinions.

Trump’s Far-Fetched Attempt To Divide Russia And China Is Clearly Failing

May 19, 2025 Ben Norton, Geopolitical Economy. , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , ,
US President Donald Trump claimed he would “un-unite” Russia and China. However, this divide-and-conquer strategy — which prominent US officials like Henry Kissinger have advocated since the 1970s — is clearly failing. In a meeting in Moscow celebrating the 80th anniversary of their nations’ shared victory in World War Two, Presidents Xi Jinping and Vladimir Putin reaffirmed that “China-Russia relations have reached the highest level in history”. In a lengthy statement, Beijing and Moscow vowed to “jointly resist any attempts to interfere with and disrupt the traditional friendship and deep mutual trust between China and Russia”.

Order To Expand Logging Threatens To Increase Climate-Fueled Wildfires

May 19, 2025 Curtis Johnson, Truthout. , , , , ,
On March 1, President Donald Trump signed an executive order titled “Immediate Expansion of American Timber Production.” The order claimed “onerous Federal policies” have hindered domestic timber production and that expanding logging was a matter of protecting “national and economic security.” It ordered the secretary of the Interior and head of the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), who oversee the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) and the U.S. Forest Service (USFS) respectively, to develop a plan to expand timber targets and streamline permitting “to suspend, revise, or rescind all existing regulations, orders, guidance documents, policies, settlements, consent orders, and other agency actions that impose an undue burden on timber production.”

Israel Just Launched Its Offensive To Permanently ‘Conquer’ Gaza

May 18, 2025 Qassam Muaddi, Mondoweiss. , , , ,
Massive explosions shook the Gaza Strip in the first hours of Saturday morning as Israeli warplanes launched intensive airstrikes on north, south, and central Gaza, in what the Israeli army called “preparations to expand operations” in the Strip. Israeli airstrikes hit Khan Younis, Deir al-Balah, several parts of Gaza City, and Jabalia. A resident of the Shati’ refugee camp in Gaza City told Mondoweiss that “the occupation army had issued orders to evacuate Shati’ camp, but they called off the orders — and then they called for an evacuation again, keeping residents in constant anxiety.” “Then, yesterday night, they began bombing all over Gaza, including Shati’ camp,” the Shati’ resident added. “It lasted all night.”

Trump’s Deals With Gulf Leaders Are An Explicit Act Of Feudalism

May 18, 2025 Aseel Saleh, People's Dispatch. , , , , , , , , , , ,
All eyes were on US President Donald Trump last week during his tour of the Gulf Arab states, with many hoping that his trip would speed up Gaza ceasefire talks and bring a permanent truce in the war-torn enclave. While the ceasefire is still out of reach, the trip proved to be one of Trump’s most lucrative business journeys ever. Trump’s first major overseas trip in his second presidential term started on Tuesday, May 13 and ended on Friday, May 16, during which he visited three Gulf oil-producing countries, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, and the United Arab Emirates (UAE). Dr. Saeed Dhiyab the General-Secretary of the Jordanian Democratic Popular Unity Party (Wihda Party) criticized the heads of the Gulf Arab countries who hosted Trump.

Corruption, Lies, Biden’s Health And Trump’s Victory

May 18, 2025 Margaret Kimberley, Black Agenda Report. , , , ,
In 2020, this columnist and many other people observed that Joe Biden was not a healthy man. His confusion and his strange and angry outbursts, such as telling a voter who questioned his position on the second amendment that he was, “Full of shit,” are now legendary. Robert Hur, appointed special counsel investigating whether Biden had improperly held classified materials, not only described Biden as “an elderly man with a poor memory” but gave examples of troubling lapses for a man who was president and expected to run for office again. “In his interview with our office, Mr. Biden's memory was worse.

South African ‘Refugees’ May Find The Grass Is Not Greener In America

May 17, 2025 Jon Jeter, Black Agenda Report. , , , ,
Not much is publicly known about the nearly 60 white South Africans who arrived May 12, 2025, at Dulles National Airport in suburban Washington DC, fleeing what the Trump administration describes as racial discrimination and political violence from the country’s Black majority. But in classifying South Africa’s privileged white minority as “refugees” and fast-tracking their path to US citizenship, the White House, in typical fashion, overlooks a salient point which is that statistically speaking, South Africa is arguably the most comfortable place in the world for white settlers to live while the US is among the least.

Diplomatic Chess, Ukraine The Pawn

May 17, 2025 Patrick Lawrence, Consortium News. , , , , , , ,
As was universally expected, little came out of Istanbul this week, where Ukrainian and Russian delegations met with the ostensible purpose of exploring a negotiated settlement of the proxy war the U.S. provoked three years ago. It is an odd state of affairs when even the people doing the talking did not anticipate anything useful to emerge from their talking. After less than two hours of negotiation, the two sides agreed only to future talks on subsidiary questions: a prisoner exchange and a 30–day ceasefire — a ceasefire Kiev and its Western backers refused for years but are now desperate to implement.

Trump’s Attempt To Destroy Due Process Meets 7–2 Scotus Defeat

May 17, 2025 Mark Joseph Stern, Portside. , , , , ,
On Friday afternoon, the Supreme Court issued an emphatic and unusual decision declaring that the Trump administration violated the due process rights of Venezuelan migrants in its attempt to deport them to a Salvadoran prison. The government’s late-night race to expel these individuals, the court held, “surely does not pass muster” under the Constitution, failing to provide them with fair notice and an opportunity to contest their removal. The court also extended an injunction to stop the government from deporting an entire class of migrants under the Alien Enemies Act of 1798 while the case works its way through the lower courts.

How The GOP Is Saving The Fossil Fuel Industry From Trump

May 16, 2025 Anthony Karefa Rogers-Wright, Black Agenda Report. , , , ,
On April 2, so-called Liberation Day, President Trump announced a suite of sweeping tariffs on virtually every country in the world, including some entirely populated by penguins . Of all the nations Trump picked a trade war with, China was set to be hit with the most aggressive tariffs at a rate of 145% for Chinese goods set to be sold in the United States. The announcement of these tariffs, essentially a tax on goods and supplies sold domestically, sent shockwaves through the global economy forcing corporations to scramble to find expedient answers to cope with rising prices and dim economic forecasts.

US Authorities Fire Intelligence Officials Who Contradicted Trump

May 16, 2025 Randolf Borges, Orinoco Tribune. , , , , ,
The US government fired two high-ranking officials of the US National Intelligence Council (NIC) who had contradicted the Trump administration’s claim that the Venezuelan government has ties with the now defunct Tren de Aragua gang. The director of National Intelligence, Tulsi Gabbard, expelled the interim president of the NIC, Michael Collins, and his deputy, Maria Langan-Riekhof, who were responsible for the investigation that destroyed the Venezuelan far-right’s propaganda about alleged links between the gang and the government of Nicolás Maduro. Gabbard’s fired these two NIC officials because their findings did not agree with Trump’s political agenda of continuing a false narrative against Venezuela.

Trump’s Tariffs And The New Cold War On China

May 13, 2025 Carlos Martinez, Friends of Socialist China. , , , ,
The first thing to say about the Trump administration’s tariff war is that it is primarily designed to weaken, undermine and isolate the People’s Republic of China. It’s part of a broader program of “decoupling” from China and a broader New Cold War on China – a system of hybrid warfare incorporating economic measures, diplomatic measures and propaganda measures, along with a significant military component: the deployment of hundreds of thousands of troops to the Pacific region; the US military bases in the Philippines, Guam, Okinawa, Japan, South Korea, Australia; the deployment of sophisticated weapons systems to the region; and the various attempts to create some sort of Asian NATO.

Energy Secretary Claims Trump ‘Wants To Use Force’ Against Venezuela

May 13, 2025 Alba Ciudad, Orinoco Tribune. , , , , ,
US Energy Secretary Chris Wright said that President Donald Trump wants to use force to compel political change in Venezuela. Wright’s remarks were made during an interview with Fox News on Sunday, May 11. “President Trump wants to use United States force, our energy independence, to force change in Venezuela,” the US regime’s energy secretary said. Using the allegation of the migration of criminal gang Tren de Aragua, which the Venezuelan government has reported is extinct, Wright added: “We need to change the situation in Venezuela, not just for Venezuelans, but for all gang members and the refugees fleeing that country, and ‘millions’ of them ending up in the United States.”

Episcopal Church Refuses To Resettle White Afrikaners

May 13, 2025 Jack Jenkins, NPR. , , , , ,
In a striking move that ends a nearly four-decades-old relationship between the federal government and the Episcopal Church, the denomination announced on Monday that it is terminating its partnership with the government to resettle refugees, citing moral opposition to resettling white Afrikaners from South Africa who have been classified as refugees by President Trump's administration. In a letter sent to members of the church, the Most Rev. Sean W. Rowe — the presiding bishop of the Episcopal Church — said that two weeks ago, the government "informed Episcopal Migration Ministries that under the terms of our federal grant, we are expected to resettle white Afrikaners from South Africa whom the U.S. government has classified as refugees."
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