Donald Trump

Setting The Pace In Auto: Thinking Bigger Than Tariffs

March 31, 2025 Andrew Elrod, Labor Notes. Strategize! Donald Trump, History, Mexico, NAFTA, Tariffs, Trade, Worker Rights

President Donald Trump’s infatuation with tariffs dates back to the 1980s, when he first said tariff was “the most beautiful word in the dictionary.” On March 26 he announced “a 25 percent tariff on all cars not made in the U.S.,” but exempted auto parts that comply with the U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement, the successor to NAFTA. For those parts, and for the 25 percent of U.S.-sold vehicles that are assembled in Mexico and Canada, the tariffs will be applied partially at an undisclosed date to only the non-U.S. part of the vehicle’s value. Essentially, auto manufacturing is already so integrated across North America that the administration has left carve-outs for Mexico and Canada.

Fake ‘Populism’: Trump’s Billionaire Administration Serves The Rich

March 30, 2025 Ben Norton, Geopolitical Economy. Resistance Report BlackRock, Donald Trump, Elon Musk, Larry Fink, Silicon Valley, Tariffs, Taxes

When Donald Trump campaigned to be US president in 2024, he promised he would help working-class Americans. He even did a photo op at a McDonald’s, pretending to be a fast food worker. When he returned to the White House, however, Trump made it clear that his policies would be serving a small handful of billionaire oligarchs, not the majority of the country. Trump appointed 13 billionaires as top officials in his administration. As Public Citizen reported, this means that the Trump administration represents not just the 1% richest Americans, but the 0.0001%.

Recording Reveals Social Security Head’s Thoughts On DOGE And Trump

March 30, 2025 Eli Hager, Pro Publica. Educate! DOGE, Donald Trump, Leland Dudek, Social Security, Trump Administration

Since the arrival of a team from Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency, Social Security is in a far more precarious place than has been widely understood, according to Leland Dudek, the acting commissioner of the Social Security Administration. “I don’t want the system to collapse,” Dudek said in a closed-door meeting last week, according to a recording obtained by ProPublica. He also said that it “would be catastrophic for the people in our country” if DOGE were to make changes at his agency that were as sweeping as those at USAID, the Treasury Department and elsewhere.

Canada’s Sovereignty Was Under Threat Long Before Trump

March 30, 2025 Ekaterina Cabylis, Orinoco Tribune. Educate! Canada, Donald Trump, Energy, NAFTA, Sports, US Empire, White House

While the exploitation of Canada’s natural resources and economic control exerted by the U.S. are well known, the subtler ways America maintains its grip, through cultural influence, economic pressure, and the poaching of talent, reveal a deeper, systemic colonization. The United States has systematically prevented Canada from developing industrial independence, ensuring it remains a supplier of raw materials rather than a competitor on the global stage. The economic imbalance has been in place for decades, yet many Canadians falsely believe that Donald Trump was the catalyst for U.S. exploitation.

Trump’s Rule By Fiat A Bipartisan Legacy

March 29, 2025 Vinnie Rotondaro, Consortium News. Educate! Democracy, Democrats, Donald Trump, Executive power, Liberal class, Wars and Militarism

U.S. President Donald Trump’s latest defiance of the courts — this time refusing to follow an appellate judge’s order to halt migrant deportations — has triggered another round of liberal outrage. Critics are calling it an authoritarian move, a blatant assault on the rule of law, and a warning sign that American democracy is on its last legs. But if this is the end of democracy, it’s been ending for a long time. And not just at Trump’s hands. The central truth we keep missing — especially on the left — is that Trump is not an aberration. He’s a grotesque continuation.

Pro-Palestine Organizations Will Mobilize In Washington, DC On April 5

March 28, 2025 Natalia Marques, People's Dispatch. Resist! Campus Movement, Donald Trump, Gaza, Israel, Palestine, Palestine Solidarity, Palestinian Youth Movement (PYM), Washington DC

Emboldened by an ultra-right wing and extremely pro-Zionist administration in the US, Israel has resumed its genocidal bombardment of Gaza. Meanwhile, in the United States, Trump and his immigration authorities are rounding up and detaining student organizers for standing in solidarity with Palestine. Student activists such as Mahmoud Khalil and Rumeysa Ozturk have been violently abducted by ICE in front of their families and communities for registering their peaceful opposition to genocide. Rather than having a chilling effect on the movement for Palestine, however, these ICE kidnappings have actually had the opposite impact: more have taken to the streets in support of Palestine than ever since Trump’s election.

Thousands Protest ICE Abduction Of Tufts Student

March 28, 2025 Julia Conley, Common Dreams. Resist! Boston, Campus Movement, Donald Trump, ICE, Immigrant Rights, Student Activism, Tufts University

As reports surfaced Wednesday that Rumeysa Ozturk, the Tufts University Ph.D. student who was abducted by immigration agents off a street in Somerville, Massachusetts, had been taken to a detention center in Louisiana, thousands of people assembled in the Boston-area city to demand Ozturk's release. Ozturk was transferred to the South Louisiana Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) processing center despite a court order barring immigration officials from moving her out-of-state without prior notice, and her lawyers shared a statement at Powder House Park saying they hadn't been notified about the Turkish student's exact whereabouts. They also said her F-1 student visa had been terminated.

Explainer: The Lawsuits Aiming To Stop Trump’s Assault On Free Speech

March 28, 2025 Michael Arria, Mondoweiss. Resist! Campus Movement, Columbia University, Donald Trump, Free Speech, Higher Education, Israel, Lawsuits, Palestine, Palestinian Solidarity, Repression, Student Activism, Trump Administration, UCLA

According to a tracker developed by Just Security, there have been at least 146 legal challenges to Trump administration actions since he took office. Several of those have dealt with the White House’s war on Palestine activists. In recent weeks, students, faculty, and legal organizations have launched multiple lawsuits aimed at halting the Trump administration’s draconian crackdown on Palestinian protesters and holding universities accountable for their complicity. Here are some of the legal efforts that we’ve seen so far.

The ‘Disappearing’ War Chat

March 27, 2025 Joe Lauria, Consortium News. Educate! Donald Trump, Europe, Israel, JD Vance, Journalists, Trump Administration, Tulsi Gabbard, US Imperialism, Wars and Militarism, Yemen

In his article about being invited by U.S. National Security Advisor Mike Waltz to a Signal chat with the U.S. secretaries of state, defense and treasury, the U.S. vice president and the directors of national intelligence and the C.I.A., Atlantic magazine editor Jeffrey Goldberg writes that Waltz set at least some of the text messages in the chat to disappear. Goldberg wrote: Waltz set some of the messages in the Signal group to disappear after one week, and some after four. That raises questions about whether the officials may have violated federal records law: Text messages about official acts are considered records that should be preserved.

Trump Launches ‘October 7 Joint Task Force’; War On Palestine Protesters

March 27, 2025 Michael Arria, Mondoweiss. Educate! Donald Trump, Hamas, Israel, Palestine, State Repression, Trump Administration

Last week the Trump administration announced the formation of a joint task force that it said is meant to hold Hamas leaders accountable for the October 7 attack. But many fear it will be yet another weapon the administration will use to target activists within the United States. The Joint Task Force October 7 (JTF 10-7) will “investigate acts of terrorism and civil rights violations by individuals and entities providing support and financing to Hamas, related Iran proxies, and their affiliates” which is similar to work that began under the Biden administration. The new task force however is also targeting “acts of antisemitism by these groups,” which the administration has indicated refers to campus activism for Palestine.

El Tren De Aragua: The Defunct Venezuelan Band

March 27, 2025 Resumen English. Educate! Donald Trump, Media, Tren de Aragua, Trump Administration, US Imperialism, Venezuela, Venezuelan migrants

Until the designation as a “transnational criminal organization” by the US in 2024, the course of the now-disbanded group was narrated by a network of US think tanks, media and funds that constructed a discourse against the Bolivarian Revolution. This construction currently serves to justify sanctions, carry out mass deportations and feed the false idea of a failed state in Venezuela. In July 2024, when the US Treasury Department included Tren de Aragua on its list of transnational criminal organizations, it equated it with cartels such as Sinaloa or Jalisco Nueva Generación, which have a presence in more than 100 countries and have more than 45,000 members, associates and facilitators.

What Comes After Globalization?

March 26, 2025 Branko Milanovic, Portside. Educate! Donald Trump, Global South, Globalization, Neoliberalism, Poverty

Donald Trump is back in power, and, to put it mildly, he’s no fan of globalization. The president has publicly “rejected globalism and embraced patriotism” and said that “it’s left millions and millions of our workers with nothing but poverty and heartache.” To better understand the current era of globalization that he’s trying to bring to an end and its track record, it’s useful to compare it with the globalization that took place between 1870 and the outbreak of World War I. Both globalizations represent pivotal periods — watershed years that shaped today’s world. And both saw the largest expansions of global economic output to date.

The Far-Right Hate Group Helping Trump Deport Israel’s Critics

March 26, 2025 Alan MacLeod, MintPress News. Educate! Censorship, Deportation, Donald Trump, Far Right, Fascism, Genocide, Israel, Palestine, Repression

A far-right, pro-Israel group with a history of support for terror and genocide is working closely with the Trump administration, preparing dossiers on thousands of pro-Palestine figures it wants deported from the United States. Betar U.S. is known to have had several meetings with senior government officials and has claimed credit for the arrest and detention of Mahmoud Khalil, a leader of the nationwide anti-genocide student demonstrations that began at Columbia University last year. Ross Glick, the group’s executive director until last month, noted that he met with a diverse set of influential lawmakers, including Democratic senator John Fetterman and aides to the Republican senators Ted Cruz and James Lankford.

‘I Will Wear My Persona Non Grata As A Badge Of Dignity’

March 26, 2025 Pavan Kulkarni, People's Dispatch. Resist! BRICS, China, Cuba, Donald Trump, Elon Musk, Genocide, International Court of Justice (ICJ), South Africa, US Imperialism

Cheering crowds thronged outside the Cape Town International Airport on Sunday, March 23, to welcome the South African ambassador expelled from the US after being subjected to repeated attacks for his stance in solidarity with Palestine. “Ebrahim Rasool is a race-baiting politician who hates America,” US State Secretary Marco Rubio accused in a X post on March 15. “We have nothing to discuss with him and so he is considered PERSONA NON-GRATA,” Rubio added, sharing the alt-right Breitbart News report on the academic observations Rasool had made on the white supremacist character of the “MAGA movement” in a webinar hosted by a South African think tank.

What The World Can Learn From Radical Queer Aid Collectives

March 25, 2025 Soita Khatondi Wepukhulu, Grassroots Economic Organizing. Strategize! Africa, Donald Trump, Global South, LGBTQ, Mutual Aid, Nonprofits

One of the 26 executive orders Donald Trump signed on the first day of his presidency was a 90-day pause on foreign aid, which he said is often “not aligned with American interests”. The subsequent suspension of overseas aid programmes has hit vulnerable communities around the world, with LGBTIQ+ organisations in the Global South among the worst affected. But three East African queer mutual aid groups were well-prepared for this scenario, and have a model that could help organisations reeling from Trump’s actions. Since their inception, The Trans and Queer Fund and UmaUma Buy Nothing group, both based in Kenya, and an untitled queer collective in Uganda have organised themselves to be independent from foreign donors, which they say do not understand the realities of the communities they serve.

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