2025-08-11: Trump Roundup

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newarab (2025-08-11). Bishara Bahbah denies resigning as Trump's Gaza negotiator. newarab.com According to Israeli media, Bahbah said he was never an official member of the team. | He later wrote in a Facebook post: "False news was reporte…

Dr. Jack Rasmus (2025-08-11). Putin-Trump Meeting: What Next Post Alaska, Endgame or PR Event? Jack Rasmus. globalresearch.ca Global Research Note | The proposed location of these negotiations remains to be confirmed. | Has Putin accepted to enter peace negotiations on American territory rather than in a Third Country? (M.Ch) | Putin and Trump last week agreed to meet at a …

WSWS (2025-08-11). Israel murders 6 journalists, as Netanyahu says annexation of Gaza will proceed "swiftly" wsws.org Israel's Prime Minister Netanyahu held a phone call with US President Trump on Sunday and announced that the complete seizure of Gaza would be carried out "fairly quickly," as an airstrike was launched on a clearly marked tent of Al Jazeera journalists in Gaza City.

United World International (2025-08-11). Trump Route: The Global Chess Over the Zangezur Corridor. unitedworldint.com The opening of a new geopolitical chapter and the perspective from Chian, Iran, Türkiye. By Yƒ±ldƒ±ran Acar On Friday, August 8, 2025, Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev and Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan signed a historic agreement at the White House, at the invitation of U.S. President Donald Trump. According to the agreement, the Zangezur Corridor …

Mel Gurtov (2025-08-11). Will the US Invade Mexico? counterpunch.org The Limits of Friendship 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

Lynda Carson (2025-08-11). Convicted felon Trump admin double cross transgender Air Force service members. indybay.org Commander Emily Shilling, a U.S. Naval aviator who is also an out transgender woman, that sued the U.S. government!

Editor (2025-08-11). This Isn't How Wars Are Ended. menafn.com (MENAFN – The Conversation) | A hastily arranged summit between President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin is set for Aug. 15, 2025, in Alaska, where the two leaders will discuss a …

David Bacon (2025-08-11). Why Lelo Juarez Chose Self-Deportation. progressive.org How the current conditions of immigrant detention and Trump Administration policies impelled a farmworker organizer to return to Mexico.

infobrics (2025-08-11). Missile proliferation threatening Indo-Pacific: US fueling arms race. infobrics.org The Indo-Pacific is witnessing a sharp rise in missile deployments driven by an aggressive US approach involving the Philippines, Japan, Australia, and allies. This coordinated buildup aimed to contain China risks miscalculation. Erratic American policy under Trump further undermines regional stability. Without diplomatic restraint, the region could spiral into a dangerous arms race.

NONE (2025-08-11). US's economic colonisation | . dawn.com In recent weeks, US President Donald Trump has announced a string of new trade Although the details of those agreements remain limited, a closer look at them clearly shows that President Trump has leveraged the threat of his higher tariffs Broadly, Washington has used threat of steep tariffs to a) coerce its trading partners i…

newarab (2025-08-11). Europeans urge 'pressure' on Russia before Trump-Putin summit. newarab.com European leaders urged more "pressure" on Russia overnight Saturday, after the announcement of a Presidents Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump will meet in the US state of Alaska this Friday to try to resolve the three-year conflict, despite warnings from Ukraine and Europe that Kyiv must be part of negotiations. | Announcing the summit last week,…

Dan DePetris (2025-08-11). US military bombing drug cartels? It'll likely fail. responsiblestatecraft.org In 2020, during the last year of the Trump administration's first term, President Trump asked then-Defense Secretary Mark Esper a shocking question: why can't the United States just attack the Mexican cartels and their infrastructure

Newsroom (2025-08-11). Euro zone yields dip with Ukraine talks, US-China trade in focus. moderndiplomacy.eu Aug 11 (Reuters) — Euro zone government bond yields edged lower on Monday ahead of a week packed with event risk, including a Ukraine summit between the United States and Russia and a deadline on a U.S.-China trade truce, as liquidity evaporates. U.S. President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin will meet on Friday …

Stavroula Pabst (2025-08-11). Trump to federalize DC police, unleash National Guard on city. responsiblestatecraft.org Declaring a public safety emergency this morning, the Trump administration

Global Research News (2025-08-11). Selected Articles: Video: Trump's Emotional Actions. War against Humanity. globalresearch.ca By In this video production, Michel Chossudovsky and Drago Bosnic focus on the improvis…

Ricardo Martins (2025-08-11). In Trump's Tariff War, India May Hold More Cards Than Washington Thinks. moderndiplomacy.eu Donald Trump's decision this month to double tariffs on Indian imports to 50 percent marks the sharpest rupture in US—India trade relations in decades. The White House has justified the move as a response to New Delhi's deepening energy ties with Moscow, particularly its continued purchases of discounted Russian oil. But the escalation risks misreading …

Staff (2025-08-11). Colombia's Petro Backs Maduro, Labels Unapproved US Military Ops 'Aggression' in Latin America. orinocotribune.com Through a message posted Sunday, August 10, on social media, Colombian President Gustavo Petro reaffirmed his strong support for Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro. This followed recent threats from the Trump administration against the Venezuelan government, which is trying to link Maduro with drug trafficking, and the discovery by Bolivarian authorities of arsenals of weapons belonging to terrorist groups linked to the extreme right. | Petro emphatically declared that "Colombia and Venezuela are the same people, the same flag, the same history." He emphasized that "any military operation that is not approved by…

Dave DeCamp (2025-08-11). Backing Netanyahu, Trump Suggests Israel Needs To Ramp Up Military Pressure on Hamas. news.antiwar.com In an interview with Axios on Monday, President Trump provided backing for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's plans to escalate in Gaza, suggesting that Israel needed to ramp up the pressure on Hamas. The report said that Trump stopped short of directly endorsing the Israeli government's plan to take over Gaza City but "seemed to …

newleftreview (2025-08-11). Zhang Yongle: Reconfiguring Hegemony. newleftreview.org A view from China of the battle for America's ideological soul, pitting Trump, home-grown nemesis of Western liberal democracy, against Francis Fukuyama, subtlest philosopher of its world-historical triumph. Are these contrasted figures two manifestations of the same hegemonic principle?

Newsroom (2025-08-11). South Korea, Vietnam leaders pledge closer ties as US tariffs shake up trade. moderndiplomacy.eu SEOUL, Aug 11 (Reuters) — South Korea and Vietnam's leaders pledged to deepen economic cooperation on Monday as their export-dependent countries try to shore up longstanding supply chains as U.S. President Donald Trump's tariffs shake up global trade. There was no public discussion of the levies — 15% on South Korean products going to the …

Eric Worrall (2025-08-11). China Daily: Trump's Big Beautiful Bill will Allow Chinese Companies to Dominate Renewable Energy. wattsupwiththat.com In the parallel universe of Nick Robbins and the Grantham Institute, business opportunities require massive state subsidies.

Dave DeCamp (2025-08-11). Trump Says 'Land Swapping' Required for Peace in Ukraine. news.antiwar.com President Trump said on Monday that there will be "land swapping" between Russia and Ukraine as part of a potential peace deal and pushed back on Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky's public rejection of ceding any territory to Moscow. "I was a little bothered by the fact that Zelensky was saying, 'Well, I have to get …

Staff (2025-08-11). Trump traslada los retratos de Obama y de los Bush a una escalera oculta. cubadebate.cu El retrato oficial del expresidente de EE.UU. Barack Obama, que solía ser una pieza central en la entrada de la Casa Blanca, fue trasladado a una ubicación mucho menos destacada, lo que subraya las tensiones de años entre los presidentes 44 y 47 de Estados Unidos.

Editor (2025-08-11). Zelensky Rejects Idea of Ceding Territory to Russia as Trump and Putin Prepare for Alaska Summit. scheerpost.com

Chuck Baldwin (2025-08-11). In the Year 2025. "Trump is Taking America Over the Edge of the Abyss …" Chuck Baldwin. globalresearch.ca Faithful readers know that I saw Trump for the con man he is since he filled his first administration with CFR globalists. So, I knew he was no less a con man during his presidential campaign in 2024.

Staff (2025-08-11). Trump, el escorpión y la rana. cubadebate.cu La mayoría de los analistas internacionales de Occidente, formados en la tradición supremacista que desprecia todo aquello que no ha sido liderado por Estados Unidos y la Unión Europea, ha abonado la ilusión de un Donald Trump dispuesto a quebrar los acuerdos bipartidistas básicos del sistema político de los Estados Unidos. Para justificar dicha hipótesis, exhibían los postulados trumpistas de pacificación en la guerra en Ucrania, su alejamiento de las intervenciones militares, su enemistad con el denominado Estado Profundo (Deep State) y el aparente énfasis industrialista, alejado de las premisas financiaristas.

WSWS (2025-08-11). Trump ends collective bargaining for 370,000 federal workers. wsws.org The attack on federal workers' ability to organize marks an escalation of Trump's attack on democratic rights and the purge of the civil service.

infobrics (2025-08-11). India cancels arms deals with America as Trump escalates trade war. infobrics.org The cancellation of all these contracts will undoubtedly be a challenge for the American Military Industrial Complex (MIC). Worse yet (for Washington DC), the cooling of relations with Delhi will undermine the American Indo-Pacific strategy. In fact, it can be argued that this is already happening, as PM Modi just announced that he would be visiting Beijing for the first time in seven years (since 2018). Drago Bosnic, independent geopolitical and military analyst.

Hemant Adlakha (2025-08-11). How a faster than expected US decline is a cause for worry in China? moderndiplomacy.eu Something rather unusual happened this April. CSIS, a Washington-based leading US think tank on foreign affairs, suggested in an article its website carried on April 8 that "African leaders should embrace BRICS countries." The CSIS advice to African nations was triggered by the Trump administration's imposition of over 50% tariffs on 53 African countries in …

Dean Baker (2025-08-11). In Trump's Competition with China, China is Winning. counterpunch.org Donald Trump doesn't have much interest in numbers and the real world, but that is where the rest of us live so it is worth checking in periodically. Trump and many others — including many Democrats — are anxious to see the United States as engaged in a Cold War-type competition with China. I have argued

Ralph Nader (2025-08-11). Tyrant Trump's Worst Crimes, Dangers, and Destructions on America Yet to Come: Special Alert. counterpunch.org The worst crimes of Donald Trump and dangers to America from the unstable, monomaniacal, lying outlaw in the White House have yet to come. He is not satisfied with tearing apart our country's social safety net for tens of millions of Americans (e.g., Medicaid and food program cuts); wrecking our scientific/medical systems, including warning people

Nicholas Oakes (2025-08-11). U.S. Tariffs on India Spark Boycott Calls Against American Brands. moderndiplomacy.eu Calls for boycotts of U.S. brands are spreading across India after President Donald Trump imposed a 50% tariff on goods from the country, a move that has strained relations between Washington and New Delhi. The protests- amplified by India business leaders, supporters of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, and groups linked to his Bharatiya Janata Party- …

Editor (2025-08-11). Will Trump's Deal Between Armenia And Azerbaijan Lead To Lasting Peace? menafn.com (MENAFN – The Conversation) | Armenia and Azerbaijan signed a peace framework in Washington on August 8 after nearly four decades of conflict. The two nations, long divided over territorial disputes, …

aljazeera (2025-08-10). Trump pledges to move homeless people in Washington, DC 'far' from the city. aljazeera.com The White House declined to explain what legal authority Trump would use to evict people from the nation's capital.

Alan MacLeod, MintPress News. (2025-08-10). Israel's Biggest US Donor Now Owns CBS. popularresistance.org After reaching an agreement with President Trump, David Ellison—the son of the second-richest man in the world, Larry Ellison—has acquired Paramount Global, the media giant that owns CBS News. | Larry Ellison, the largest private funder of the Israel Defense Forces, is deeply tied to the Israeli national security state and counts Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu among his closest friends. | David has already announced significant changes at CBS, promising "unbiased" news coverage and "varied ideological perspectives," which are widely understood to signal a shift toward right-wing, pro-Trump coverage…

Staff (2025-08-11). Report: Hamas negotiators arrive in Egypt to renew talks with Cairo. haaretz.com

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