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Washington DC Residents Decry Trump’s ‘War On Poor People’

August 16, 2025 Natalia Marques, People's Dispatch. , , , ,
Several days after US President Donald Trump announced his takeover of the local police force of Washington, DC, federal forces have begun patrolling the streets of the US capital. The Pentagon announced Thursday, August 14 that all 800 National Guard troops President Trump ordered into Washington’s streets this week to restore “law and order” have now been deployed. Defense Department Press Secretary Kingsley Wilson said that in rotating shifts of 100 to 200 unarmed soldiers, the National Guard will assist Washington police and federal law enforcement by guarding monuments and federal buildings, conducting “community safety patrols,” and engaging in “area beautification.”

Trump Occupying DC: Washington Post Used To Be Disgusted

August 16, 2025 Pete Tucker, Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting. , , , ,
President Donald Trump has now put troops on the District of Columbia’s streets in both of his terms. This time around, the Washington Post is less alarmed. In addition to calling up 800 DC National Guard troops—which Trump can do because DC isn’t a state—he also seized control of DC’s police force in the name of a “crime emergency,” despite the city experiencing its lowest violent crime rate in 30 years. With DC’s self-governance under threat, the city’s paper of record is positioned to play a critical role. Right off the bat, Washington Post columnist Marc Fisher sounded the alarm about Trump’s actions, telling the New Yorker (8/11/25), “This is troops-in-the-streets, shades-of-authoritarian-rule bad.”

Trump Is Sending Thousands Of Troops To Latin America

August 16, 2025 Samuel Karlin, Left Voice. , , ,
The Department of Defense has ordered the deployment of air and naval forces to the southern Caribbean Sea. On August 15, CNN reported that Trump is deploying 4,000 U.S. sailors and Marines to Latin America, and that various military assets are being allocated to the U.S. Southern Command including a nuclear-powered attack submarine, several destroyers, and a guided missile cruiser.  This operation comes after Donald Trump secretly signed an order last week directing the Pentagon to use the armed forces in the supposed “fight against drug cartels” in countries where groups declared “terrorist” exist, such as in Mexico, Haiti, El Salvador, and Venezuela. The operation was confirmed by Secretary of State and National Security Advisor, Marco Rubio.

Don’t Single Out Military Deportations, Dismantle The Deportation Machine

August 15, 2025 Sofya Aptekar, In These Times. , , ,
One Purple Heart veteran is in deportation proceedings. Another has self-deportedin anticipation of being detained. The father of three Marines is beaten and arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents at work. The wife of a Marine languishes in a Louisiana immigration detention center, apprehended at her green card interview. Amid a brutal escalation of immigrant deportations in 2025, a spate of news stories including those above highlights a convergence of the U.S. military and immigration system. Immigrants have always served in the U.S. military, and their veteran status does not protect them from being deported alongside their civilian immigrant neighbors.

End The Colonial Occupation Of Washington D.C

August 14, 2025 Black Alliance for Peace, Popular Resistance. , , , , , ,
President Donald Trump’s recent announcement to deploy the National Guard to Washington, DC, framed as a crackdown on crime, marks a dangerous escalation in the federal government’s militarization of one of the spaces of the Black/African internal colony. On August 11, Trump declared, “We’re taking our capital back,” while signaling an unprecedented federal takeover of the Metropolitan Police Department. This move, under the pretext of public safety, follows his March 2025 executive order establishing the “Safe and Beautiful” task force, led by Stephen Miller, an architect of white nationalist immigration policies. The initiative has accelerated mass surveillance, aggressive policing, and the criminalization of Black/African and working-class communities, particularly in Southeast DC.  

Black Lives Matter DC: No Safety Without Self-Determination

August 14, 2025 Black Lives Matter DC, Popular Resistance. , , , , , , ,
Washington, D.C.- Trump’s alleged “takeover” of D.C. is a con. It is not about public safety; it is political theater. It is designed to make people think something new is happening when Black and other marginalized D.C. residents know we already live in the most heavily policed city in the United States. Our city, with a population over 700,000, is patrolled by 32 independent police agencies, eight university departments, and five local agencies that have cooperative agreements with the DC Metropolitan Police Department (MPD) under the Police Coordination Act (PCA). These agencies share the same immunity and powers as MPD when patrolling D.C.

Chris Hedges Report: When Religious Mafia And Rightwing Extremists Take Over

August 14, 2025 Chris Hedges, Scheer Post. , , , , ,
One of the most stark examples of the expanding tide of authoritarianism worldwide was the 2017 murder of Gauri Lankesh, an Indian journalist and activist, allegedly assassinated by a far-right religious group in India for her fearless journalism. Joining host Chris Hedges on this episode of The Chris Hedges Report is Rollo Romig, a journalist whose Pulitzer Prize-finalist book, I Am On the Hit List: A Journalist’s Murder and the Ruse of Autocracy in India, examines the historic and political context of Lankesh’s murder. Romig chronicles the rise of Hindu nationalist extremism in India, linking it to India’s current authoritarian policies under Narendra Modi and his Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP).

Free DC Models Effective Resistance To Trump’s Takeover

August 14, 2025 Daniel Hunter, Waging Nonviolence. , , , ,
On Monday, President Donald Trump ordered 800 National Guard troops to the nation’s capital — a move Princeton University professor Khalil Gibran Muhammad described as “a slide towards fascism” and “textbook” authoritarianism. Claiming emergency powers from the D.C. Home Rule Act, Trump also announced a takeover of the Metropolitan Police.  As is typical with authoritarians, the pretense for these orders was an invented crime emergency. But pretense is just that. We should all remember Washington, D.C.’s most violent day in recent years — Jan. 6, 2021 — was sparked by Trump himself. What’s more, D.C.’s safety won’t come from militarization, but rather through decreasing unemployment, ending ICE’s kidnapping of neighbors, and restoring funding to Medicaid, SNAP and schools.

Pentagon To Create ‘Domestic Civil Disturbance Quick Reaction Force’

August 13, 2025 Kyle Anzalone, Scheer Post. , , , ,
The Department of Defense is planning to create a rapid response force of National Guard troops to quickly deploy to American cities where protests or unrest are occurring. On Tuesday, The Washington Post reported that it obtained documents showing the Pentagon is creating a “Domestic Civil Disturbance Quick Reaction Force.” “The plan calls for 600 troops to be on standby at all times so they can deploy in as little as one hour,” the outlet explained. “They would be split into two groups of 300 and stationed at military bases in Alabama and Arizona, with purview of regions east and west of the Mississippi River, respectively.” One hundred troops at each base would be on standby to deploy within an hour, while the entire quick force would begin operations within 12 hours.

What Lies Behind Trump’s Attacks Against Venezuela?

August 13, 2025 Francisco Dominguez, Morning Star. , , , ,
As if President Trump intended to meet professional US mercenary Erik Prince half way, US Attorney General Pam Bondi increased the existing US bounty on President Nicolas Maduro — originally set at $15 million — from $25m to $50m for anyone providing “information leading to his arrest or conviction.” In late 2024, Prince, a professional mercenary, alongside Venezuela’s far right, promoted a plan to deploy a private army to Venezuela. He suggested that if the US raised the bounty on Maduro’s head to $100 million, targeting not only the president but also Diosdado Cabello and the entire government, they could “just sit back and wait for the magic to happen.” Prince and Venezuela’s far right even launched a crowdfunding campaign, Ya Casi Venezuela (“Almost There, Venezuela”), to collect the $100 million.

‘Just Following Orders’ Is No Excuse!

August 12, 2025 Leonard Eiger, Substack. , , , ,
On April 21, 2025 I wrote my first post about a campaign in which I was collaborating with another activist to make military personnel aware that they may be told to carry out orders that go against the Constitution and the laws of the United States. Our principle concern was that Donald Trump would order US military personnel to be deployed within our borders to round up U.S. citizens or immigrant families for detention or deportation — whether or not they have committed a crime. The campaign, directed at military personnel, is called “JUST FOLLOW ORDERS?” YOUR DECISION. It invites and challenges members of the military to consider the consequences of their actions, informs them of their options, and provides resources for support. Not too many people took it seriously at the time.

Will The United States Invade Mexico?

August 12, 2025 Mel Gurtov, Counter Punch. , , ,
Donald Trump is proving time and again to foreign leaders that counting on friendly relations is senseless. Most recently, India, Canada, Ukraine, and Brazil discovered that, contrary to expectations, Trump is not influenced by historical ties or long-term common interests. He will treat them like adversaries if there is immediate advantage to doing so. Now Mexico joins the list. Trump has long had the idea of pursuing drug dealers into Mexico. The New York Times reports that he has signed a secret directive to the Pentagon that could lead to the dispatch of US air and ground forces into Mexico, or other countries, on the pretext of fighting terrorism, a designation the State Department began using once Trump took office.

Tariff Pressure Under Trump: A New Economic Colonialism

August 12, 2025 Shen Yi, People's Dispatch. , , ,
The current US administration is determined to abandon multilateral frameworks, favoring instead the resolution of trade disputes through bilateral negotiations, one by one, in pursuit of maximizing US interests. It has openly declared its intention to replace multilateral agreements with bilateral pressure, believing that the US holds stronger leverage in one-on-one negotiations. Under this approach, the US unilaterally launched a global tariff war on what it called “Liberation Day”, using threats of high tariffs as a bargaining chip to force its trade partners into submission. This strategy led to a series of bilateral trade agreements, in which individual economies – including the United Kingdom, Japan, and the European Union – were pressured into making compromises and concessions to the US.

Union-Busting In The Guise Of ‘National Security’

August 12, 2025 Steve Wishnia, Work Bites. , , , , ,
In a ruling the American Federation of Government Employees [AFGE] denounced as “a setback for fundamental rights in America,” a federal appeals court in California on August 1 lifted an injunction preventing the Trump regime from terminating collective-bargaining rights for an estimated two-thirds of the federal workforce. The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals held that the argument by six federal workers unions against Trump’s March 27 executive order nullifying their contracts—that it was retaliation for their exercising their right to dispute policies such as massive layoffs—was irrelevant, because “the President would have taken the same action even in the absence of the protected conduct.” 

FEMA Reverses Plan To Require Israel Loyalty Oath For Disaster Aid

August 8, 2025 Michael Arria, Mondoweiss. , , ,
This week, the Trump administration reversed its decision to link disaster relief funds with loyalty pledges to Israel. Originally, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) had published a statement declaring that states and cities had to certify that they wouldn’t boycott Israeli companies in order to qualify for disaster relief. Under DHS’s standard terms and conditions it reads, “Recipients must comply with all applicable Federal anti-discrimination laws material to the government’s payment decisions” and adds: Discriminatory prohibited boycott means refusing to deal, cutting commercial relations, or otherwise limiting commercial relations specifically with Israeli companies or with companies doing business in or with Israel or authorized by, licensed by, or organized under the laws of Israel to do business. The story quickly made the rounds on social media, prompting it to remove the statement from its website.
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