Trump’s ‘Golden Dome’ – Another SDI or Irrevocable Militarization of Space?

By Drago Bosnic, April 24, 2025

During the (First) Cold War, the Reagan administration launched the much-touted SDI (Strategic Defense Initiative) program, now better known under its more popular name – “Star Wars”. On paper, it was one of the most ambitious ventures ever undertaken by any country.

Response to US-Israel Preemptive Attack: Iran’s “Fattah-1” Hypersonic Missile Is Accurate, Lethal and Unstoppable

By Mike Whitney, April 24, 2025

In the event that the United States and Israel launch a preemptive attack on Iran, Iran is prepared to deliver a withering response that will destroy US military bases, oil production facilities, critical infrastructure, and command and control centres across the Middle East.

African American Farmers Facing Complete Annihilation Under Trump Tariffs

By Abayomi Azikiwe, April 24, 2025

Many of the agricultural products grown by U.S.-based farmers will not have export markets if Trump continues the current trajectory. The decline in markets, the layoffs in the federal government, steel and automotive industries, does not portend well for the plight of the working class.

There Will be No Ukrainian Peace Deal. Paul C. Roberts

By Dr. Paul Craig Roberts, April 24, 2025

There cannot be a peace deal when President Trump only proposes that Russia keep Crimea, which Russia did not take in war but in an unanimous vote of the population in Crimea to be reunited with Russia from which Crimea had been torn.

The Selling of America: Ending the US Dollar’s Exorbitant Privilege?

By Dr. Binoy Kampmark, April 24, 2025

Even before the global imposition of Donald Trump’s tariff-driven bonanza and his public bruising of Federal Reserve chairman, Jerome Powell, the world’s dominant currency was already being moved on.  Since 2014, the Chinese and Russian central banks have tried to move out of US Treasury holdings, preferring the magic of gold.  In 2022, the latter went so far as to link its currency, the ruble, to gold.

Will Trump’s Tariff Policy Lead Southeast Asia to “A Future Without US Influence”?

By Ahmed Adel, April 24, 2025

The new US policy on trade tariffs paves the way for a future without American influence in Southeast Asia. Despite the urgent measures that some Southeast Asian countries, including Vietnam and Thailand, are taking to seek concessions with the United States and succeed in ‘renegotiating’ tariffs, the international trade situation in the region is unlikely to return to its previous state.

How a President Becomes a Dictator: By Executive Order

By John W. Whitehead and Nisha Whitehead, April 24, 2025

Where past presidents have used executive orders, decrees, memorandums, proclamations, national security directives and legislative signing statements to circumvent Congress or sidestep the rule of law, President Trump is using executive orders to advance his “unitary executive theory” of governance, which is a thinly disguised excuse for a government by fiat.

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