(2025-08-24). Tariffs can't stop U.S. debt woes, could make them worse. independent.co.ug 
WASHINGTON, the United States | Xinhua | America's gross federal debt has surged past 37 trillion U.S. dollars, a milestone reached earlier this month and five years sooner than pre-pandemic forecasts. Washington is now adding roughly 1 trillion dollars every five months, swelling a debt snowball that already costs nearly 1 trillion dollars a year …
(2025-08-24). Trump administration to vet all 55 million U.S. visa holders. ecns.cn The Trump administration said Thursday it is reviewing all 55 million foreign nationals holding U.S. visas, warning that any violations could trigger immediate revocation and deportation. The State Department stressed visa holders are under "continuous scrutiny," including for overstays, criminal activity, threats to public safety or links to terrorism.
(2025-08-24). Convicted felon Trump's White House expands attack on the Smithsonian Institution. indybay.org The above green ticket, is a Ticket to Donald J. Trump's 2021 Senate impeachment trial (front and reverse)…
(2025-08-24). Trump may 'do nothing' if Putin, Zelensky fail to meet. newarab.com 
Trump told reporters in the Oval Office that he was "not happy" about a Russian strike Thursday that hit a US-owned factory in Ukraine "and I'm not happy about anything having to do with that war." | But he said he wanted to see whether Russian President Vladimir Putin and Ukraine's Volodymyr Zelensky would meet fi…
(2025-08-24). La CIA, el Mossad y Epstein: desentrañando los vínculos de inteligencia de la familia Maxwell. strategic-culture.su Ante la creciente especulación sobre la posibilidad de que Trump la indulte, MintPress presenta a la familia de Ghislaine Maxwell, convicta de tráfico sexual. Desde su padre, magnate de los medios de comunicación y espía de alto nivel para Israel, hasta su hermana, que trabaja para impulsar los intereses de Tel Aviv en Silicon Valley, sus hermanos, fundadores de un dudoso pero influyente centro de estudios antiislámico, y sus sobrinos en puestos influyentes en el Departamento de Estado y la Casa Blanca, el clan Maxwell mantiene amplios vínculos con el poder estatal estadounidense e israelí. Esta es su historia.
(2025-08-24). Heaven is no place for war criminals. strategic-culture.su By Spencer NEALE | Join us on , , and . | Contact us: | President Donald Trump couldn't help himself. Speaking with the unabashed Israel…
(2025-08-24). Trump's D.C. Takeover Is Scaring Immigrant Parents Out of Taking Kids Back to School. theintercept.com 
Washington, D.C.'s large immigrant population is facing a reign of terror: Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents have flooded neighborhoods with large Latino populations, imposing checkpoints and hanging a threat over families' heads as kids and parents prepare to go back to school next week. | Instead of worrying about having the right notebooks for the school year, many families are now afraid of getting detained by ICE on their way to school drop-off and pickup, three school staff members and local organizers told The Intercept. Teachers claim that the D.C. school system has been unhelpful, treating th…
(2025-08-24). Fighting The Trump Administration's 'Unchecked Power' To Deport Noncitizen Students. thedissenter.org 
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(2025-08-24). Le monde selon le mode russe et la Pax Americana. thealtworld.com La visite à Moscou du représentant spécial du président américain Steve Witkoff et les déclarations officielles concernant la rencontre prévue entre le président russe Vladimir Poutine et son homologue américain Donald Trump pour discuter du règlement du conflit en Ukraine soulèvent à nouveau la question d'une éventuelle cessation des hostilités et du lancement d'un processus de paix, si les conditions conviennent à toutes les parties. | Bien que l'on parle de paix, des connotations contradictoires et des questions supplémentaires apparaissent. Les objectifs de l'opération militaire spéciale annoncés par les diri…
(2025-08-24). Latin American Countries and China Condemn Trump's Threats Against Venezuela. truthout.org China and members of an alliance of Latin American and Caribbean nations in recent days joined countries including Brazil and Colombia and anti-war voices around the world in denouncing the Trump administration's deployment of US warships off the coast of Venezuela. At least three US Navy guided missile destroyers and thousands of Marines are currently off the coast of Venezuela… |
(2025-08-24). Federal Appeals Court Blocks Oak Flat Land Exchange in Arizona. indybay.org PHOENIX, August 18, 2025 — The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals issued an emergency injunction today blocking the Trump administration from handing Oak Flat over to a private mining company while three lawsuits challenging the land exchange proceed. Without the injunction, the public lands about 40 miles east of Phoenix were expected to be transferred Tuesday to Resolution Copper, a subsidiary of multinational mining companies Rio Tinto and BHP.
(2025-08-24). L'incolmabile ritardo della cantieristica navale commerciale statunitense. strategic-culture.su Risalire la china nel campo della produzione di navi commerciali e del commercio marittimo internazionale appare dunque a tutti gli effetti come il più impossibile sogno trumpiano. | Segue nostro In una celebre canzone degli anni '60 dello scorso secolo, l'italiana Orietta Berti intonava: "fin che la barca va, lasciala andare", ma il problema per Donald Trump è proprio questo, la barca non va e costruirla come lui con molte ragioni vo…
(2025-08-24). Trump and the US Are Paying the Price for Racism and Denial. indybay.org The pathological narcissist and distractor-in-chief followed his authoritarian playbook of lies, obscenities, threats, and insults and never prepared US communities for these earth-shaking migrations! Prices rise, employment plummets, and trust disappears! Trump must not be allowed to finish his second term!
(2025-08-24). North Korea's Kim oversees test-firing of new air defence missiles. aljazeera.com Report comes a day before US President Donald Trump's summit with his South Korean counterpart, Lee Jae-myung.
(2025-08-24). US Justice Dept releases Ghislaine Maxwell transcripts. newarab.com 
The Justice Department released a transcript on Friday of an interview with Maxwell, who is serving a 20-year prison sentence for recruiting underage girls for Epstein, was interviewed last month by Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche, Trump's former personal lawyer. | The Justice Department released hundreds of pages of transcripts and audio recordings of th…
(2025-08-24). A triangle with only two sides: Trump's move with Zelensky in favor of Putin. strategic-culture.su
(2025-08-24). "Trump's plan is dead" – Russia blocks US initiative on Ukraine. albawaba.com ALBAWABA -According to a story from Britain, the Kremlin has essentially taken down President Trump's plan to end the war in Ukraine. The i Paper says that Moscow has taken steps to stop any possible progress just one week after Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin met in Alaska. This shows that Trump's suggested framework is no longer a workable option. | On Thursday, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said again that Putin is "ready" to meet with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky. However, he also added new problems that make it very unlikely that the two will be able to meet. | During a news con…
(2025-08-24). Trump says he'll keep extending TikTok shutdown deadline. newarab.com 
President Donald Trump is calling national security and privacy concerns Congress approved a U.S. ban on TikTok unless its parent company, ByteDance, sold its controlling stake. | But Trump has so far extended the deadline three times during his second term — with the next one coming up on Sept. 17. | "We're gonna watch the secur…
(2025-08-23). Trump Is on a National Tirade Against In-State Tuition for Undocumented Students. truthout.org This month, Oklahoma's Attorney General joined with the U.S. Department of Justice in a lawsuit seeking to overturn an Oklahoma state law giving in-state higher education tuition rates to undocumented residents. The lawsuit piggybacks off a January executive order titled Protecting the American People Against Invasion, part of which required the Attorney General and the Department of Homeland… |
(2025-08-23). Illusions of Power: Trump's Proposal and the Reality of the Ukraine Conflict. Ruel F. Pepa. globalresearch.ca In recent remarks, U.S. President Donald Trump suggested that Russian President Vladimir Putin and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky should first meet one-on-one before considering a trilateral summit involving himself. At first glance, this suggestion might sound like an effort at …
(2025-08-23). What will Uganda gain from accepting US deportees? aljazeera.com Analysts speculate that Uganda is seeking better trade deals and wants to be in Trump's good books.
(2025-08-23). FBI raids home and office of former Trump National Security Advisor John Bolton. wsws.org The crackdown and intimidation of political opponents is a critical aspect of Trump's erection of a presidential dictatorship and police state.
(2025-08-23). Trump-Putin summit exposes Mélenchon's New Popular Front. wsws.org Mélenchon's nationalist calls for France get more of the "cards of power" show that the NFP and the union bureaucracies will not seriously fight social cuts to fund French militarism.
(2025-08-23). Judge blocks Trump from cutting funding from 34 cities and counties over 'sanctuary' policies. whyy.org A judge ruled late Friday the Trump administration cannot deny funding to Boston, Chicago, Denver, Los Angeles and 30 other cities and counties because of policies that limit cooperation with federal immigration efforts. | U.S. District Judge William Orrick in San Francisco extended a preliminary injunction blocking the administration from cutting off or conditioning the use of federal funds for so-called "sanctuary" jurisdictions. His
(2025-08-23). Can the new India-China bonhomie reshape trade and hurt the US in Asia? aljazeera.com Trump's tariffs and shifting geopolitical winds have pulled India and China closer. That could undercut the US-led Quad.
(2025-08-23). US general whose report on Iran nuclear sites angered Trump fired. aljazeera.com
(2025-08-23). A summer of sellouts: UFCW pushes through three grocery contracts in one week amid growing rank-and-file resistance. wsws.org Grocery workers face not only poverty wages, corporate domination and intensifying attacks on democratic rights under the Trump administration, but a campaign of sabotage by union bureaucurats.
(2025-08-23). What Do We Know About Zelensky and the Seven Dwarfs Visit to the White House? dissidentvoice.org With the usual qualifier that I could be entirely wrong, my sense is that both the Alaska Summit and Monday's meeting at the White House were reality checks. They revealed that Putin was finally able to convince the "collective Trump" (Gilbert Doctorow's term), that the war in Ukraine did not begin with the Russian invasion …
(2025-08-23). Is Trump's 'Big Beautiful' spending law the biggest tax cut in US history? aljazeera.com Trump's 2025 law ranks third among tax cuts since 1980 and mainly extends old cuts, making its impact modest for most.
(2025-08-23). Conversation with Trump, peace plan for Ukraine, predictions, insider information from Lukashenko. eng.belta.by In the run-up to his visit to the People's Republic of China Belarus President Aleksandr Lukashenko granted an interview to China Media Group. The meeting with reporters did not end then. Belarusian reporters invited the president to continue the conversation.
(2025-08-23). Trump's call to Lukashenko seen as possible beginning of new stage in Belarus-USA relations. eng.belta.by "Trump sees Lukashenko as a player one cannot simply step over. Washington understands that Lukashenko represents not only Belarus but also the Union State [of Belarus and Russia]," Viktor Baranets added.
(2025-08-23). Trump nominates close aide Sergio Gor as next US ambassador to India. geo.tv 
Sergio Gor at a rally for Donald Trump at Madison Square Garden in New York. —Reuters/File
(2025-08-23). Trump Admin Kills Massive Offshore Wind Project. wattsupwiththat.com "Americans deserve energy that is affordable, reliable, and built to last — not experimental and expensive wind projects that are proven failures," DOI deputy press secretary Aubrie Spady told the DCNF. "In line with President Donald Trump's Energy Dominance Agenda, Interior is putting an immediate stop to these costly failures to deliver a stronger energy future and lower costs for American families. Like President Trump said, 'the days of stupidity are over in the USA!'" (RELATED: EXCLUSIVE: Trump Admin Unveils Massive Oil And Gas Lease Expansion Biden Tried To Squash)…
(2025-08-23). White 'Supremacy's' Subjective Identification Of War Criminals Reveals Deeper Psychopathology. popularresistance.org Last week the world witnessed the geopolitical spectacle that took place in Anchorage, Alaska when Presidents Trump and Putin met to discuss ending the feckless, unnecessary, and fossil-fueled war between the Russian Federation and Ukraine that's been ongoing for three years. Unsurprisingly, the three hour discussion between the leaders led to no comprehensive agreement that would, in Trump's words, "stop the killing." However, while the Trump/Putin meeting failed to result in an armistice, it did elucidate profound hypocrisies and revealed that when it comes to who is considered a war criminal it largely depends…
(2025-08-23). I Paladini dell'Occidente. globalresearch.ca Anche se non è stato lui direttamente a provocare la guerra tra Russia e Ucraina — preparata e attuata tramite la NATO dalle Amministrazioni Obama e Biden — Donald Trump, in quanto presidente degli Stati Uniti, è al comando della …
(2025-08-23). Por que o embate entre o STF e Trump é uma crise sem precedentes na Nova República. strategic-culture.su
(2025-08-23). Kilmar Abrego Garcia Released From ICE Custody After Return From El Salvador. truthout.org Kilmar Abrego Garcia, the Salvadoran man whom the Trump administration wrongfully deported in violation of a judge's order earlier this year, was released from custody in Tennessee on Friday. "Today, Kilmar Abrego Garcia is free," his attorney, Sean Hecker, said. "He is presently en route to his family in Maryland, after being unlawfully arrested and deported, and then imprisoned… |
(2025-08-23). "Trump economic zone" on Lebanese-Palestinian border! tehrantimes.com BEIRUT—In a report on August 21, Axios revealed part of the U.S. President Donald Trump's ambition in South Lebanon according to which the region will be transformed into an investment zone.
(2025-08-23). Trump Threatens Chicago With Next National Guard Invasion. truthout.org US President Donald Trump said Friday that Chicago is the next city in his crosshairs for the kind of federal invasion and occupation currently underway in Washington, D.C. — a threat that sparked defiant pushback from officials in the Windy City and beyond. "After we do this, we'll go to another location, and we'll make it safe also," Trump told reporters in the Oval Office… |
(2025-08-23). Trump administration seeks to deport Kilmar Abrego Garcia to Uganda. aljazeera.com Abrego Garcia's case remains a flashpoint in US President Donald Trump's anti-immigration crackdown.
(2025-08-23). Glasgow protests demonstrate farce of 'fascists' v 'antifascists'. thecommunists.org On 26 July, to coincide with the visit of US president Donald Trump, competing protests were staged in Glasgow. On one side of the city centre, the United Kingdom Independence Party (Ukip) held a gathering that took an explicit stance in favour of mass deportations of "migrants" and declared its support for the policies of …
(2025-08-23). Apple to produce all iPhone 17 models in India. albawaba.com 
ALBAWABA – Bloomberg unveiled that Apple will be making all its iPhone 17 models in India a month before the release of the new iPhone version.The American company, for the first time in its history, will be making all four iPhone 17 models in India.The move comes amid production expansion across five factories in New Delhi, considering that two more factories were opened in the Asian country.Apple's iPhone. (Shutterstock)Following tariffs imposed by US President Donald Trump on Chinese exports, Apple started working on decreasing the products made in China and shifted the production to India.The iPhone 17 lineup…
(2025-08-23). Accepted at Universities, Unable to Get Visas: Inside Trump's War on International Students. theintercept.com 
A prominent Indian journalist was notified by the Trump administration this week that his student visa to pursue a master's program in the U.S. had been denied. The prospective student, Kaushik Raj, a journalist who has reported for international and Indian publications alike, was told in his rejection letter that the U.S. government felt he did not have enough ties to his home country. | Set to study data journalism at Columbia University's graduate journalism school, Raj was incredulous. His entire family is in India, his reporting has been on India, and he had told the American consular officer during his i…
(2025-08-23). Pentagon authorizes DC Guard contingent to carry weapons of war as Trump threatens martial law in Chicago, San Francisco, New York. wsws.org The arming of over 2,200 National Guard soldiers in the capital city is a major step towards martial law.
(2025-08-23). Japan's Ishiba hosts South Korea's Lee before key Trump summit. aljazeera.com Lee's visit comes two days before his crucial first summit in Washington, DC, with US President Donald Trump.
(2025-08-23). Jeffrey Epstein accomplice says she never saw Trump in 'any inappropriate setting'. geo.tv 
US President Donald Trump wears a 'Trump Was Right About Everything!' hat, as he makes an announcement on the 2026 FIFA World Cup, in the Oval Office at the White House in Washington, DC, US, August 22, 2025. — Reuters Maxwell says President Trump was "never…
(2025-08-23). Terrorist pots and pans banned from Gaza protest. skwawkbox.org 
Proscription of kitchen implements soon to follow? The Met Police banned demonstrators taking part in last night's anti-genocide protest outside the embassy of fascist Israeli ambassador Tzipi Hotovely from bringing pots and pans to the protest, apparently on the basis that the noise might stop the embassy from carrying on its usual genocidal — and …