(2025-07-29). Tomgram: Alfred McCoy, Did Mark Twain Imagine Donald Trump? warisacrime.org This article originally appeared at TomDispatch.com. To receive TomDispatch in your inbox three times a week, click here. Honestly, don't expect this to end well. As TomDispatch regular Alfred McCoy, author of the classic book on an imperial planet To Govern the Globe: World Orders and Catastrophic Change, reminds us today in a vivid fashion, it …
(2025-07-29). Trump's Shortened Deadline For Putin Will Soon Reveal Which Of Them Miscalculated. thealtworld.com
(2025-07-29). State Dept: Trump's "Third Countries" for Immigrants Have Awful Human Rights Records. theintercept.com 
The White House search for partners in its global gulag has grown to 64 nations. Most of them are notorious violators of human rights.
(2025-07-29). Trump Attacks Science-Based Regs, Higher Education & US Workers; AI Threatens Teachers. indybay.org Pacifica's Capitalism, Race & Democracy Covers Trump Attacks Science-Based Regs, Higher Education & US Workers; AI Threatens Teachers…
(2025-07-29). A Putz At Fascism, Too! Trump's Feral, Libertarian Despotism Ordains Oligarchy, Not Centralized Dominance Or Unifying Vision. progressivehub.net ROBERT S. BECKER | NATION OF CHANGE…
(2025-07-29). Harvard open to spending up to $500m to resolve Trump dispute. geo.tv 
Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts, U.S., December 12, 2023. — Reuters WASHINGTON: Harvard University has signaled a willingness to spend as much as $500 million to end its dispute with the Trump administration, the amount being more than twice of what Columbia…
(2025-07-29). Trump's push for more deportations could boost demand for foreign farmworkers with 'guest worker' visas. |
(2025-07-29). Columbia's $200M deal with Trump administration sets a precedent for other universities to bend to the government's will. |
(2025-07-29). The countdown has started: Trump gave Russia 10 days to cease fire. eadaily.com
(2025-07-29). Minnesota cops delayed an hour after witnessing Democrat lawmaker shot by Trump fascist. wsws.org New reporting from the Minnesota Star Tribune raises serious questions about the police response to last month's targeted assassinations.
(2025-07-29). Trump Has Wrecked the US Economy by Laura Tyson, 7/3. indybay.org Trump's draconian immigration policy represses the vital need for immigrants in harvesting, hospitality and construction. Ms. Tyson, the chief economic advisor under Obama, is a professor at UC-Berkeley…
(2025-07-29). Brussels revealed what intrigues against Russia were discussed by Trump and von der Leyen. eadaily.com US President Donald Trump and the head of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, at talks in Scotland on July 27, discussed, among other things, the issue of shortening the introduction of 100 percent US duties against Russia's trading partners.
(2025-07-29). Trump denies seeking summit with Xi, says he 'may' visit China. aljazeera.com US president says he will visit China only at the invitation of Chinese leader.
(2025-07-29). US stopover by Taiwan's president cancelled; Trump mulls China trip: Report. aljazeera.com US President Donald Trump reportedly opposed a stopover in New York by Taiwan's president, says considers China trip.
(2025-07-29). Trump's Blatant Attacks on International Law Are Nothing New for the US. They're Bipartisan. scheerpost.com
(2025-07-29). Real and fake antidotes to Trump's latest tariffs, seen from South Africa. cadtm.org
(2025-07-29). Now that countries have capitulated on tariffs, Trump will be back for more. aljazeera.com Governments should stop handing Trump unnecessary victories and stand up to him. This is the only way to defeat him.
(2025-07-29). In vain he shrugs off: Trump is not worried about the reaction of oil to anti-Russian sanctions. eadaily.com US President Donald Trump does not believe that new sanctions against Russia, if any, will have a bad effect on world oil markets. He said this today to journalists on board his plane.
(2025-07-29). Trade deal between the EU and US: Another stage in an escalating trade war. wsws.org The trade deal agreed on Sunday by US President Donald Trump and European Union (EU) Commission President Ursula von der Leyen marks a further stage in an escalating trade war that is being waged on the backs of the working class and dragging the whole world into the abyss.
(2025-07-29). North Korea says US must accept its status as a nuclear weapons state. aljazeera.com North Korean leader's powerful sister says talks aimed at denuclearisation would be interpreted as a 'mockery'.
(2025-07-29). Commentary: What the world got wrong about tariffs. channelnewsasia.com No economy rises or falls for just one reason, even a shock as big as Donald Trump's trade policy, says Ruchir Sharma for the Financial Times.
(2025-07-29). Monday 8/18: Protest Against the Trump Regime. indybay.org At the corner of Ocean and Water Streets in Santa Cruz…
(2025-07-29). Trump EPA Sabotages Climate Action With Rollbacks of Tailpipe Rules, Endangerment Finding. commondreams.org President Trump's Environmental Protection Agency today rolled back tailpipe pollution standards and rescinded the landmark scientific finding that planet-heating pollution harms public health and welfare, which is a foundation of federal climate action.Both the Biden EPA standards to reduce pollution from cars and trucks and the Obama EPA's 2009 endangerment finding were based on overwhelming scientific evidence that has only become more
(2025-07-29). Summer has brought both hope and questions for Ukraine amid Donald Trump's posturing. |
(2025-07-29). The Thane of Bluster greets sycophants Starmer and Von der Leyen in Scotland. wsws.org The US President's grotesqueries must not conceal the importance of the issues discussed between Trump, von der Leyen and Starmer, which pose a grave threat to working people all over the world.
(2025-07-29). When It Comes to Tariffs and Trade, Trump Is Not Playing with a Full Deck. counterpunch.org 
Trump often makes allusions to card playing when discussing his negotiations on various issues, but in the case of trade, it seems he is the one missing cards. He has a much worse hand than he imagines as he attempts to extort our trading partners into make concessions on various issues. Our trading partners benefit
(2025-07-29). The Genocidal Partnership of Israel and the United States. scheerpost.com President Trump Meets with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. The White House from Washington, DC, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons | In one of the scariest moments in modern history, we're doing our best at ScheerPost to pierce the fog of lies that conceal it but we need some help to pay our writers and staff. Please consider a tax-deductible By Norman Solomon / For decade…
(2025-07-29). We Need Good Trouble, Not Designer Protests. counterpunch.org 
Americans are mobilizing en masse against the Trump administration. First, there was "50 protests, 50 states, 1 day." Then came "Hands Off" and "No Kings." On July 17, the 50501 organizers behind these national days planned yet another slogan-driven day of action: "Good Trouble Lives On," on the fifth anniversary of John Lewis' passing. John Lewis was a legendary congressman who was famously arrested 45 times during the Civil Rights Movement for getting in "good trouble."
(2025-07-29). The Shambolic Grifter In the Arena, Daring Greatly. commondreams.org 
As King Cheeto still lies, scams, babbles and scurries to escape the furor over his pedophile bestie, some fierce unlikely heroes have emerged to call bullshit. They range from Jon Stewart's "Go ____ Yourself" choir to South Park's grifter with a "teeny tiny" talking penis to Scotland's blistering response to his unwelcome $10 million golf …
(2025-07-29). North Korea says Trump must accept new nuclear reality. channelnewsasia.com
(2025-07-29). Civil Rights Groups Sue Trump Admin for Information on Detention of Immigrants at Guantánamo. commondreams.org Civil rights groups today filed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit seeking information on the Trump Administration's detention of immigrants at the U.S. Naval Base in Guantánamo Bay, Cuba. The move comes after the administration sent approximately 500 noncitizens to Guantánamo without due process and amid reports that it plans to detain thousands more there. Despite attempting to expand this notorious prison camp — associated at its core with torture and lawlessness — the administration is continuing to operate in secrecy about who they are sending there and why, as well as the likely terr…
(2025-07-29). US, China make trade progress, paving way for possible Trump-Xi summit. geo.tv 
US Secretary of the Treasury Scott Bessent, US Trade Representative Jamieson Greer, China's International Trade Representative and Vice Minister of Commerce Li Chenggang, and Chinese Vice Premier He Lifeng, prepare to discuss on the day of a bilateral meeting between the US and China, in…
(2025-07-29). U.S. automakers feeling the impact of tariffs. america.cgtn.com 
One key sector that has been significantly impacted by the various tariff disputes is the auto industry. And although the Trump administration says the tariffs are focused in large part on bringing manufacturing back to the United States, U.S. automakers are among those being impacted. | CGTN's Dan Williams shares the latest.
(2025-07-29). Commentary: Indonesia's bid to be a bigger fish in global waters. channelnewsasia.com Indonesian President Prabowo Subianto arrived at the BRICS Summit in Brazil hoping to mark Jakarta's growing global stature. But the moment was upstaged by US President Donald Trump, says political analyst Johannes Nugroho.
(2025-07-29). Trump Targets Latino Migrants: Ideology Over Humanity. popularresistance.org The importance of Latinos living and working in the US is enormous: if they were in a separate country, it would be the world's fifth largest economy, bigger than even India. President Trump is recklessly attacking Latino migrants, inflicting calculated cruelty and disregarding the consequences for their home countries. | Disastrously, US immigration policy affects the very victims of Washington's destabilization campaigns in Latin America and Caribbean, which drive people to leave their homelands in the first place. In effect, by exporting chaos, the hegemon paradoxically ends up importing immigrants.
(2025-07-29). Trump's Health Cabal Will Worsen US Healthcare, Risk Millions of Patient Lives. commondreams.org Only six months into his second presidential term, Donald Trump has managed to disrupt, deplete and desecrate our nation's already broken health care system, risking millions of lives.
(2025-07-29). Trump slams London Mayor as "radical and nasty" during UK visit. albawaba.com ALBAWABA- U.S. President Donald Trump stirred controversy during his visit to the United Kingdom by launching a personal attack on London Mayor Sadiq Khan, calling him a "radical and nasty person." The comments came during a press interaction at Trump's golf resort near Turnberry in southwest Scotland, where he met with British Prime Minister Keir Starmer. The two leaders had reportedly discussed trade relations and the humanitarian crisis in Gaza, which Trump allegedly blamed on Hamas.Tensions rose when a British reporter asked Trump if he planned to visit London during his state visit. Trump confirmed he would,…
(2025-07-29). FEMA Spending $608M To Build Immigrant Detention Centers. newsone.com 
Source: The Washington Post / Getty | On today's episode of "Wow, They're Really Playing In Our Faces Right Now," the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) announced it will send $608 million to states building concentration camps immigrant detention centers. This is after the Trump administration has repeatedly said they're pulling disaster funding for the states. | So yeah, folks, they're really playing in our faces right now. |
(2025-07-29). Trump Prepares to Revoke Lifesaving Abortion Care for Veterans. theintercept.com 
President Donald Trump appears poised to institute an abortion ban for hospitals run by the Department of Veterans Affairs — escalating his war on reproductive health care by revoking veterans' access to abortion. | The Office of Management and Budget concluded its review last week of a Veterans Affairs rule titled Experts believe the rule is a reversal of a Biden-era policy of the same name which ended the agency's ban on abortion counseling for veterans and a…
(2025-07-29). As Trump's August 1 deadline looms, tariffs are here to stay, experts say. aljazeera.com Trump's protectionist moves likely to keep pushing countries to lessen their reliance on the US, analysts say.
(2025-07-29). 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?
(2025-07-29). Western powers are complicit in crimes against humanity in Gaza. onlineopinion.com.au The West, led by the Trump administration, has enabled the Netanyahu government to commit crimes against humanity and became complicit in the unfathomably horrific disaster that is being inflicted on the Palestinians in Gaza.
(2025-07-29). SATIRE: Trump Body Double Struggling To Get Leg Edema Just Right. theonion.com WASHINGTON—Expressing frustration with his inability to duplicate the president's bulbousness caused by trapped fluid, body double John Schade was reportedly struggling Tuesday to get the appearance of Donald Trump's leg edema just right. "One glance at my ankles and they'll know something's off," said the presidential political decoy who bemoaned that there was only so …
(2025-07-29). America's Opinion Pages Overwhelmingly Supported Trump's Attack on Iran. scheerpost.com
(2025-07-29). Trump shortened the deadline for Russia's ultimatum in collusion with Moscow — Rada deputy. eadaily.com The new 12-day ultimatum of US President Donald Trump, put forward by Russia, is a position agreed with Moscow in the game of forcing Ukraine to peace. This was stated by Verkhovna Rada deputy Alexander Dubinsky.
(2025-07-29). Trump, Starmer trade compliments but underline policy differences. channelnewsasia.com
(2025-07-29). England's victory parade: How the Lionesses won the UEFA Euro 2025 title. aljazeera.com Chaos followed England from the beginning of Euro 2025, but like true Lionesses, they roared back every single time.
(2025-07-29). Call for the 1st International Antifascist Conference. internationalviewpoint.org "we call on international antifascist forces to open a dialogue capable of confronting the destruction being carried out by ultraliberal conservatism — placing unity in the streets against the far right as our top priority." | – | / |
(2025-07-29). Spanish far right intensifies anti-immigrant assaults under PSOE-Sumar government. wsws.org For two consecutive weekends, fascist groups have mobilized across towns in Spain with the aim of assaulting or lynching immigrants.
(2025-07-29). "War supports reactionary, capitalist and fascist forces and destroys lives, hopes and nature" internationalviewpoint.org
(2025-07-28). Secret Service Debut Armored Polaris Ranger "Golf Force One" To Help Protect Trump. twz.com 
During a golf outing with his son Eric at his course in Scotland on Saturday, U.S. President Donald Trump was trailed by an armored
(2025-07-28). EU Bowing to Trump Pressure by Agreeing to More Risky, Polluting Oil and Gas Imports. commondreams.org The EU and the U.S. have announced a new trade deal, ending months of a stand-off over tariffs. Under the new deal, the EU has given in to pressure from the Trump Administration to buy $750 billion worth of oil, gas and other energy products from the U.S. over the next three years in exchange …
(2025-07-28). Headlines for July 28, 2025. democracynow.org 147 Palestinians Starve to Death; Netanyahu Denies Starvation in Gaza, Israeli Forces Raid Handala Aid Ship to Gaza, Pentagon Kills Senior Islamic State Leader in Syria, U.S. and EU Announce Trade Deal; U.S. to Impose 15% Tariff on EU Imports, Anti-Trump Protests Held in Scotland During Trump's Visit, Federal Judge Dismisses Trump Administration Lawsuit Against Chicago over Sanctuary Policies, Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche Holds Second Day of Meetings with Ghislaine Maxwell, Thailand and Cambodia Agree to Ceasefire, Doctors Without Borders: 652 Children Have Died of Malnutrition in Nigeria, Islamic State R…
(2025-07-28). Summer of the 'isolationist' smear: Colby and restraint in crosshairs. responsiblestatecraft.org 
(2025-07-28). Covfefe Chronicles: Why A Cartoon Penis Has MAGA In A Meltdown. newsone.com 
The opinions expressed in audio and on this page are those of the author. | The Season 27 premiere of South Park has sparked a political firestorm after depicting a deepfaked, fully nude Donald Trump in bed with Satan, vulnerable, exposed, and sexually humiliated, prompting outrage from MAGA supporters and a swift response from the Trump camp. | The episode, titled "
(2025-07-28). Key elements of EU-US trade deal agreed on Sunday. geo.tv 
US President Donald Trump shakes hands with European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen, in Turnberry, Scotland, Britain, July 27, 2025. —Reuters
(2025-07-28). Pacific Islands military veterans hope for US action over benefits. asiapacificreport.nz By Giff Johnson, editor, Marshall Islands Journal/RNZ Pacific correspondent United States military veterans in the Marshall Islands, Federated States of Micronesia and Palau received increased attention during the Biden Administration after years of neglect by the US Veterans Administration. That progress came to a halt with the incoming Trump Administration in Washington in January, when…
(2025-07-28). Fiji and Pacific countries must 'band together' over Trump uncertainty, says trade expert. asiapacificreport.nz By Dionisia Tabureguci in Suva International trade expert Steven Okun has warned that the "era of uncertainty" in global trade set in motion by US President Donald Trump's tariff policies is likely to be prolonged as there is no certainty now of a US return to pre-Trump trade policy era He has advised small economies…
(2025-07-28). Eliza Gilkyson softly rages against Trump's MAGA fascism in. greenleft.org.au 
New Mexico-based songwriter Eliza Gilkyson's new album Dark Ages is a magnificent, politically charged, angry slow-burn, writes Bill Nevins.
(2025-07-28). Trump "steamroller" imposes tariff and trade deal on European Union. wsws.org The EU has agreed to a 15 percent tariff hit and to buy hundreds of billions of dollars' worth of energy products and military hardware from the US.
(2025-07-28). How the Trump Administration Wields the Federal Government's Power Over Public Education. counterpunch.org 
The U.S. Supreme Court's July 14 decision to allow President Donald Trump and his secretary of education, Linda McMahon, to proceed with dismantling the U.S. Department of Education came with no explanation from the conservative majority that issued the ruling. It didn't need to. Indeed, if the court's conservative majority had provided an explanation, it would likely
(2025-07-28). Federal Judge's Order Halts Trump Administration's Job Corps Closure. newsone.com 
(2025-07-28). Trump's tariffs against Brazil over Bolsonaro will backfire, on us. responsiblestatecraft.org 
Various members of the Brazilian government have been trying unsuccessfully to reach their counterparts in Washington ahead of August 1. That is the date Donald Trump has set for the imposition of 50% tariffs on all Brazilian exports unless the administration of Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva finds a way to meet two very controversial conditions set by the U.S. president.Those conditions include dropping charges against Lula's far-right predecessor, Jair Bolsonaro, who faces a possible prison sentence for his role in an alleged conspiracy to undermine the 2022 election and adopting a more lenient stance towards U.
(2025-07-28). New COVID-19 variants surge as Kennedy escalates war on science. wsws.org The Trump administration is slashing health agency budgets and firing vaccine experts as highly transmissible variants threaten to double daily infections within a month.
(2025-07-28). Will Trump Pardon Ghislaine Maxwell? Reporter Vicky Ward on Jeffrey Epstein, Maxwell & Their Victims. democracynow.org 
As controversy over President Donald Trump's ties to Jeffrey Epstein continues to dog his administration, we speak with investigative journalist Vicky Ward, who has spent decades reporting on the deceased sexual predator, his rich and powerful associates, and the impact of his crimes. Much of Trump's political base is in an uproar after federal officials declined to release government files about Epstein and his serial sexual abuse of women and girls, with Trump himself reportedly named in the documents. | "They were friends. They hung out with each other," Ward says of Trump and Epstein.
(2025-07-28). Donald Trump Jr.'s Drone Ventures Could Make a Killing — Thanks to Dad's Big Beautiful Budget. theintercept.com 
Last November, shortly after Donald Trump was reelected president, his son Donald Trump Jr. Securities filings showed Trump Jr. owned 331,580 shares in the company, with only two top executives holding more. | After he joined the board, the stock doubled to about $10 a s…
(2025-07-28). Israel has starved to death dozens of Palestinian children. wsws.org Reports and images from Gaza prove that the fascist Israeli government of Netanyahu is systematically using starvation of children as a weapon of war in its campaign to ethnically cleanse the strip of Palestinians.
(2025-07-29). Netanyahu Is Reportedly Planning to Annex Gaza Strip, With Trump Admin's Backing. truthout.org Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is reportedly prepared to propose a plan to annex the entire Gaza Strip that has the backing of the Trump administration, signalling the next horrific phase in Israel's genocide as it also moves forward with annexing the occupied West Bank. On Tuesday, Israeli outlet Haaretz reported that Netanyahu is expected to propose the plan to his cabinet soon. |