US Military Blows Up Another Boat in Latin America Amid Scrutiny of Bombing Campaign
SOUTHCOM claimed the strike killed four 'narco-terrorists,' a term used to justify the extrajudicial executions at sea
Hegseth Flails As New Details on Boat Strikes Revealed
By Krystal Ball and Saagar Enjeti / Breaking Points
RAY McGOVERN: Trump Ukraine Plan AOA (Alive on Arrival)
Ray McGovern Republished from Consortium News Despite widespread rejection and ridicule in Western media of Donald Trump’s peace proposal on Ukraine being “dead on arrival” in Moscow, there was Trump’s…
Ralph Nader on Trump’s ‘Entrenching Dictatorship,’ Reclaiming Congress, and the Fight Against Big Money
Nader discusses the legacy of his book, the current state of government regulation and why Congress must reclaim its authority from an out-of-control Trump administration.
‘Political Stunt Wrapped in Badges’: New Orleans Readies Resistance as Trump Operation Begins
By Brett Wilkins Original to Common Dreams The Trump administration on Wednesday launched a major operation against what it said are “criminal illegal aliens” in New Orleans but that critics…
Donald Trump, Union Buster
Trump’s anti-union campaign dovetailed with his efforts to terminate the employment of hundreds of thousands of federal workers, many of them union members.
No Quarter: The White House’s New ‘War’ Lets the President Kill First — and Pardon Drug Lords Later
By: Joshua Scheer With the president claiming that we are in an armed conflict with the cartels — and with the AP reporting from a memo it obtained from the…
Trump and Rubio’s Venezuela Play: Regime Change Under the Guise of the Drug War
By: Joshua Scheer There is a running theme today, but it is vital to understand that what is happening in Venezuela is unacceptable. I have added reporting from Venezuelanalysis.com about…
White House Claims Trump ‘Has the Authority to Kill’ Survivors of Boat Strikes
By: Jessica Corbett Published on Common Dreams While continuing to deny that the Pentagon chief ordered those carrying out the first known US military strike on an alleged drug-running boat…
Ozymandias on the Potomac
Energy Policy and the Politics of American Decline.
Trump Pardons Convicted Narco-Trafficking Pol Amid Plot To Rig Honduran Election
Donald Trump is threatening to destroy the Honduran economy unless the country elects the oligarch-run National Party. Now, he’s even pardoned the last party member to rule the country, who…
Trump Declares Closure of Venezuela’s Airspace
Such a step or any military strikes on Venezuela would be illegal without congressional authorization, per the US Constitution.
What Defeat Looks Like
By Stefan Moore Special to Consortium News European leaders are in panic mode. They are scrambling to ensure that Trump’s 28-point peace plan that they believe favours Russia can be…
Ray McGovern: The Neocon-Realist Armageddon Over Ukraine
Trump holds the cards to end this war but he has to find the fortitude to stand up to the Europeans and the neocons he appointed to his cabinet.
Thanksgiving Amid Tragedy: Trump’s Immigration ‘White Nationalist’ Rhetoric Follows D.C. National Guard Shooting
By Joshua S After eating and talking with my largely mixed family in the city of Los Angeles — a city that includes countless so-called “evil” undocumented people — I…