Robert B. Livingston

1. Joseph Kishore at the World Socialist Web Site: Two months into the Trump administration, the presidency has become a cockpit and planning center of a dictatorship in the United States

Kishore:

Neither in the [New York] Times nor in the media as a whole is there any serious analysis of how the United States got to this point. The media and political establishment present Trump’s actions as if they have suddenly erupted out of nowhere, the product of an individual’s delusions or malice. This is false.

2. Israel's launch of a major new military offensive in Gaza has been accompanied by the largest US attacks on Yemen to date and increasing threats by the Trump administration to wage war against Iran

3. The fight to protect the United States Postal Service (USPS) is an important part of the fight against an emerging dictatorship in the United States

4. Judge Jesse Furman of the Southern District of New York transfers Mahmoud Khalil’s "Trumped-up" deportation case from Louisiana to New Jersey

5. Will Lehman, the socialist rank-and-file worker who ran for UAW president in 2022, explains why members of the United Auto Workers must oppose the seizure of Mahmoud Khalid

6. Gary Tyler, who faced death row and served time in Louisiana after being convicted on unconstitutional charges, discusses the Trump administration's kidnapping of Mahmoud Khalil with Lawrence Porter of the World Socialist Web Site

Tyler:

I feel that as people in this country who say that they believe in freedom and liberty— including the freedom of speech— we must stand up for those beliefs. We should not make any exceptions, no matter what an individual’s political or religious beliefs are.

7. Mass protests erupt after Turkey's President Erdogan has the police detain his main rival, İstanbul mayor Ekrem İmamoğlu, and others

8. The tariff wars and sweeping budget cuts made by the Trump administration have made the likelihood of recession in the US a real possibility

9. Large sections of the media respond to the German Federal Intelligence Service’s "evidence" that COVID-19 originated in a Chinese lab... by not questioning it

10. The Trump administration is seeking to intimidate, detain and possibly deport Momodou Taal for daring to file a lawsuit seeking to repeal Trump’s executive orders criminalizing speech and dissent

11. Immigration lawyer Eric Lee appears on The Hill’s “Rising” to defend Iranian-born law scholar Helyeh Doutaghi who has been called "a terrorist" because of her opposition to the Israeli genocide in Gaza

12. A new report describes how Australian working-class families are finding it increasingly difficult to send their children to school due to the spiraling costs of education

Here is a link to the Futurity Investment Group's Report

13. How biased statistical testing was used by the Australian government to keep the Socialist Equality Party from appearing on federal election ballots

14. The German Federal Court of Justice rules that the extradition of Ukrainian conscientious objectors to the war in Ukraine is permissible under Germany's constitution

15. On his latest, country-oriented album, Will Oldham shows concern about the world’s ills, but offers misguided ideas about how to cure them

16. Cyclone Alfred's devastation was not merely a “natural disaster,” but rather the result of profit-driven and cost-cutting political decisions, combined with the refusal of Australia's Labor and Liberal-National governments alike to mitigate climate change

17. A 33-year-old man dies when the waste bin where he had apparently been seeking refuge from freezing temperatures is emptied; Berlin, Germany does not have enough accommodation for its 10,000 homeless