Robert B. Livingston

1. The dismantling of Medicare in the United States

The Trump administration’s dismantling of Medicare is not a distant threat—it is a reality that is unfolding with alarming speed alongside the erosion of Social Security and the privatization of the United States Postal Service. While often framed as a partisan issue, the truth is that Medicare’s privatization is a bipartisan effort spanning decades, pushed by both Democratic and Republican administrations. The difference now is the speed and aggressiveness with which the Trump administration is executing this agenda.

2. More than 250,000 people thrown into poverty at a stroke-- upon announcing a £15 billion cut of social spending and a huge increase of military spending, UK Chancellor Rachel Reeves gives the most pro-war speech made by any British politician since World War Two

3. The reemergence of Greenland as a major point of conflict between American imperialism and its former European allies proves that the same capitalist contradictions that gave rise to two world wars in the 20th century are still in play

4. The trade union-sponsored New Democratic Party in Canada is campaigning for the April 28th federal election on a program of massive rearmament, trumpeting a “Made in Canada” plan to pour tens billions of dollars into new war spending

5. Turkish politicians maneuver to secure their best advantages amid erupting mass protests, a state crackdown, and imperialist plans to control the Middle East

[US President] Trump... had a phone conversation with [Turkey's President] Erdoğan three days before the detention of [İstanbul's mayor and leader of the oppositional CHP party] İmamoğlu. Afterwards, Elon Musk’s X/Twitter blocked access to dozens, perhaps hundreds, of accounts in Turkey that publicized the protests and police violence

6. McDonald’s “Archways of Opportunity”

7. US Democrats seize on the recent Yemen attack leak to press for imperialist war

The Democratic Party, which has been complicit in the fascist rampage by President Donald Trump against democratic rights, social programs and federal workers, has suddenly found its voice this week in claiming Trump’s top national security aides were insufficiently careful in the preparation of the bombing of Yemen

8. For the second time in six-months, the pseudo-leftist Centre of Indian Trade Unions (CITU) abruptly ends a militant strike of workers at Samsung’s factory in Tamil Nadu, India, without any of the workers’ demands being met

9. The US Congress confirms Jay Bhattacharya as director of the US National Institutes of Health and Dr. Marty Makary to lead the Food and Drug Administration: the scientific community reels from the US Trump administration's war on science and public health, what is being put in place is a regime of faith-based medicine, conspiracy-driven policy, and corporate subservience

10. Transport Workers Action Committee: the refusal of the Verdi union leadership to organize a proper strike of public transit workers in Berlin, Germany is directly related to its support for the government and its program of war

11. Speaking at Germany's Bundestag (parliament), the Left Party’s most well-known politician not only expresses his agreement with all the premises and goals of official war policy but also calls on the parliament to close ranks against any opposition to them

12. Massachusetts Democrats collaborate with ICE: while claiming to oppose the US Trump administration's policies, Democrats have aligned themselves with measures that scapegoat migrants and undermine the democratic rights of the working class

13. Recent statements by the Palestine Solidarity Network Aotearoa misrepresents the real relationship between US imperialism and Israel and lay bare the futile political perspective that has dominated New Zealand's anti-genocide protest movement

14. Hollywood's unprincipled Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences fails to defend Hamdan Ballal, co-director of No Other Land (the award-winning film still denied widespread viewing), who was brutally assaulted by Israeli settlers and soldiers this week

15. Democratic Pennsylvania Senator John Fetterman, beloved by pseudo-leftists, gloats over the Gaza genocide and exchanges gifts with the war criminal prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, during a recent visit to Israel

16. Thousands protest the abduction and incarceration of Tufts PhD student and Fulbright scholar Rumeysa Ozturk by a gestapo of masked immigration agents in an apparent violation of a court order

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17. US President Trump escalates trade war with 25 percent auto tariff

18. The US Trump administration threatens to cut funding for New York City transit system