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USAID (US Agency for International Development) spends around $2 billion annually in Latin America, which is only 5% of its global budget. The temporarily closed-down agency’s future looks bleak, while reactions to its money being cut have been wide-ranging. Only a few were as strong as Petro’s and many condemned the move. For example, WOLA (the Washington Office on Latin America), a leading “liberal” think tank which routinely runs cover for Washington’s regime-change efforts, called it Trump’s “America Last” policy. Читать дальше...

Neoliberalism has always been more than an economic project; it is a political and educational weapon designed to erode social solidarity and dismantle the foundations of democracy. It does not merely defund public institutions like healthcare, education, and welfare—it delegitimizes them, recasting them as burdens rather than essential public goods. As a pedagogical and ideological assault, neoliberalism has championed unfettered greed, unchecked self-interest, and a notion of government devoid of any sense of social responsibility. Читать дальше...

It is difficult to keep up with Donald Trump’s challenges to U.S. democracy, and it is similarly difficult to keep up with the Washington Post’s denial of the challenges.  On the heels of an editorial that suggested it would be useful to allow Elon Musk and his minions into the Pentagon to begin a process of military reform, a Post editorial denies that the United States is facing a constitutional challenge.  Bret Stephens, a senior columnist with the New York Times, is in the same camp as Willick... Читать дальше...

It is astonishing that Kaiser, the largest HMO in the country with profits of $4.1 billion in 2023 and $64 billion in the bank will cancel thousands of appointments rather than meet these minimal demands. And blatantly oblivious it seems to a national crisis in mental health, compounded no doubt by the new regime in Washington. This is in defiance Medicare standards, of its own employees, also of the Southern California labor movement which provides many thousands of members, and an array of elected... Читать дальше...

Madmen Trump and Musk are moving with warp speed to illegally and dictatorially wreck America and enrich themselves in the process. Forget the use of the terms “autocracy” and “constitutional crisis.” This is a savage dictatorship, getting worse by the day. Trump is attacking the courts, ignoring Congress run by a cowardly GOP, pushing to cut off More

At a press conference with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday, President Trump once again reiterated his desire to cut military spending. He stated that the United States, Russia, and China should reduce their “defense” budgets in order to focus on more productive things. “It doesn’t really make sense, does it? We’re spending the More

It’s hard to see articles about the “move fast and break things” approach of the Trump administration without also hearing about the hovering presence the world’s richest man, technocrat extraordinaire Elon Musk. The mainstream media likes to describe Musk primarily as an oligarch. His involvement—which now includes having a desk in the White House—is a rather More

“We identified and stopped $50m being sent to Gaza to buy condoms for Hamas. They used them as a method of making bombs. How about that?”—Donald Trump In the early 2000s independent fact checking emerged as a response to the spread and distribution of information on the internet. There was an increased need for establishing More

Amid the military posturing, economic sanctions, and political power struggles shaping the U.S.-China rivalry, intellectual property (IP) disputes remain a major battleground. In January 2025, Chinese company DeepSeek’s latest AI model helped wipe $1 trillion off the U.S. stock market by demonstrating how open-sourced collaboration—refining publicly available AI technology—can rival proprietary models without massive investment. More

Chicago, Illinois, has a rich history of grassroots organizing. Notable examples are the Back of the Yards Neighborhood Council’s efforts to improve local economic and social conditions and the Black Panther Party’s establishment of housing cooperatives and free food, clothing, and medical services. The solidarity economy movement has continued to gain momentum in Chicago. In More

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