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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.

A Spark Of Hope From Scrappy Federal Workers

August 8, 2025 Hadas Thier, Hammer and Hope. , , ,
I guess it’s gotten to me after all,” Russ Schafer conceded, gesturing toward his involuntarily shaking hand. Schafer, who requested a pseudonym in order to avoid workplace retaliation, has worked at the Environmental Protection Agency for more than 20 years. He’s trying to hold on to his job and refused “the fork” — the voluntary resignations pushed by the Trump administration in February, so-called because the subject line of the email to federal employees, “Fork in the Road,” was nearly the same as one sent to Twitter employees in 2022 by the company’s then-new owner, Elon Musk. “I’m just unwilling to walk away from my work. It’ll take a much bigger bribe to get me to give up on that,” Schafer told me.

Trump Administration Wants To Turn US Cities Into Occupied Territory

August 8, 2025 Jesse MacKinnon, 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 on immigration enforcement and more like a blueprint for domestic occupation. Strip away the bureaucratic throat clearing and what you find is blunt language: “homeland defense,” “personnel detailed within ICE and CBP,” “Al Qaeda or ISIS cells operating freely inside America.” The lines are being drawn. The administration is preparing to turn American cities into zones of military containment. Los Angeles, it turns out, was the test run. National Guard and Marines were deployed there under the excuse of protests, and the memo declares it a “good indicator of the type of operations (and resistance) we’re going to be working through for years to come.”

Lula Takes Trump’s Tariffs To World Trade Organization

August 7, 2025 Brasil de Fato, People's Dispatch. , , ,
On Wednesday, August 6, the Brazilian government filed a request for consultation with the World Trade Organization (WTO) against tariffs imposed by the United States on Brazilian products. The decision was made on the same day that the tariff announced by US President Donald Trump came into effect, raising taxes on a series of imports from Brazil to 50%. In a statement, the Brazilian Foreign Ministry said that the request is the first step before opening a panel at the WTO – the organization’s judgment tool. The consultation questions the measures and says that the US “flagrantly violates central commitments made by that country at the WTO, such as the most-favored-nation principle and the tariff ceilings negotiated within that organization,” the document says.

American Gulag: Alcatraz And Its Offspring

August 6, 2025 Peter Greenhill, Popular Resistance. , , ,
As if we needed more examples of the incompetence and insanity of the current federal regime, along comes their obsession with Alcatraz, in both the nominal and the actual sense.  They have been looking at the historic San Francisco Bay island prison, now a museum, with the idea in mind of renovating it and reopening it as an active prison.  This foolishness is on the heels of opening a new prison facility in the swamps of Florida that they have christened, with great pleasure, “Alligator Alcatraz.”  Both ideas come from the diseased tyrannical minds exercising destructive control over the whole country and assaulting what little remains of morality.

The Green Zone Of Controlled Opposition

August 6, 2025 Anthony Karefa Rogers-Wright, Black Agenda Report. , , ,
In three weeks, many in the Gulf South and across the country will commemorate the 20th anniversary of Hurricane Katrina, which resulted in over 1,800 deaths and was responsible for over $100 billion in damage (un-adjusted 2005 dollars) . At a time when the climate crisis has only been exacerbated as the global capitalist dictatorship’s insatiable appetite for profit is only matched by its insatiable need to extract resources (including people and their labor), the United States, in particular, continues to move in ways that are antithetical to and completely dismissive of the science that tells us we must rapidly reduce greenhouse gas emissions and transform the way we develop, distribute, and make decisions about energy.
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