America

Dismantling the Government While Pumping Up the Pentagon Under the guise of efficiency, the Trump administration is taking a sledgehammer to essential programs and agencies that are the backbone of America’s civilian government. The virtual elimination of the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) and plans to shut down the Department of Education are …

The United States is headed toward its fourth nation-defining crisis. This time, it’s the national debt. On the 250th anniversary of the start of armed colonial rebellion against British rule, a timely backdrop for considering long cycles in US political history and their implications for America’s present circumstances and prospects. Roughly …

Thanks to President Trump’s new round of international tariffs, global economy is now at the risk of unraveling. This is not just the result of plunging world trade and investment, but of soaring US military expenditures. President Trump’s new round of reciprocal and universal tariffs will escalate trade tensions, lower investment, hit …

Our offshore concentration camps, for now, are in El Salvador and Guantánamo Bay, Cuba. But don’t expect them to remain there. Once they are normalized, not only for U.S.-deported immigrants and residents, but U.S. citizens, they will migrate to the homeland. It is a very short leap from our prisons, already rife with abuse and mistreatment, to concentration …

The increasing and complex problems people face at world level as well as various kinds of corruption and deception responsible for these should be expected to lead to the involvement of many more concerned and sincere people in initiating change. However, an important factor which obstructs such involvement is that …

“The whole world has decided that the U.S. government has no idea what it’s doing.” – Mark Blyth, “Inflation: A Guide for Users and Losers,” (New York Times, April 14, 2025.) Professor Mark Blyth’s remarks were aimed at the Trump administration’s creation of turmoil in the world’s financial markets due …

We have the answer to realize significant cost savings, while simultaneously promoting sound fiscal policies that benefit us all and don’t threaten the survival of the human race. This week was the week that our 2024 taxes were due in order to fund the fiscal year 2025 federal budget and …

America Should Pursue Parallel Nuclear Negotiations With China and Russia Nearly every week since taking office in January, U.S. President Donald Trump has had something to say about controlling nuclear weapons. In comments to Fox News in March, for example, he referred to these weapons as “big monsters” and the world’s “greatest …

The multipolar world will be born when the geopolitical weight of Asia, Africa, and Latin America matches their rising economic weight. Writing in his cell as political prisoner in fascist Italy after World War I, the philosopher Antonio Gramsci famously declared: “The crisis consists precisely in the fact that the …

Calls for a general strike in the US are growing. It’s important to understand how to organize one, given their key role in overcoming tyrants around the world. Something is in the air: A perception that American democracy and livable conditions for working people may only be saved by the …