by Sasha Abramsky | Mar 28, 2026 | Europe, far right, Fascism, France, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Op-Ed, Spain, UK
For years now, hard right, anti-immigrant, and in some cases overtly fascist political parties have been on the march in Europe, veering from one electoral triumph to the next. When large numbers of refugees fleeing the Syrian civil war began arriving in Europe in 2015, right populist groupings seized on the humanitarian crisis to cultivate a narrative that the whole continent would inevitably…
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by Rebecca Gordon | Mar 25, 2026 | Asylum Seekers, Concentration Camps, ICE, Internment Camps, Op-Ed, Todd Lyons, Trump Administration
The March 4, 2026, edition of the Arizona Daily Star put the facts succinctly: “A Haitian asylum seeker held for four months at Florence Correctional Center died Monday at a Scottsdale hospital due to complications from an infected tooth.” It seems the infection spread from his tooth to his lungs, and he developed the pneumonia that killed him. In other words, U.S.
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by Emily Oliver | Mar 25, 2026 | Alex Pretti, Authoritarianism, Civil Disobedience, Deportation, Deportations, ICE, immigration, Minneapolis, Minnesota, Op-Ed, Operation Metro Surge, Renee Nicole Good, Resistance
The resistance to Operation Metro Surge in Minneapolis was a courageous response to our nation’s ongoing moral crisis in immigration policy. Acts of civil disobedience over the last couple months have raised public consciousness of corporate collusion with state violence, encouraged people to take risks in defense of their neighbors, and even elevated the role of love in resistance.
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by Sonali Kolhatkar | Mar 22, 2026 | cuba, Economic Warfare, Iran, Op-Ed, Sanctions, Trump Administration
Donald Trump, the self-proclaimed “peace president,” has already attacked two nations since the start of 2026 — engaging in regime change in Venezuela on January 3 and launching an air war on Iran on March 1 — and is now strongly suggesting that Cuba would be next. All three nations have been harmed by U.S.-led economic wars for years in the form of sanctions, which have hurt the countries’…
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by Kenny Bruno | Mar 21, 2026 | Donald Trump, elections, Energy, Fossil Fuels, Iran, iran war, Israel, Liquified Natural Gas, LNG, Oil, Op-Ed, Russia, Trump Administration, War, war in Iran
Operation Epic Fury makes perfect sense. To understand it, you simply have to ignore previous political and military norms. The simplest explanation is that the war fits Donald Trump’s two primary principles: enrichment and domination. The consensus on the left is that the U.S. war on Iran is impulsive, senseless, incomprehensible, illogical, not strategic, and not in the U.S. national interest.
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by Henry A. Giroux | Mar 21, 2026 | aesthetics, cruelty, Donald Trump, Fascism, Iran, Op-Ed, Propaganda, spectacle, war in Iran
During his presidential campaign, Donald Trump promised to be an antiwar candidate, boasting that, unlike his predecessors, he would end endless wars and keep the United States out of new military conflicts. Yet the trajectory of his presidency has unfolded in the opposite direction. From expanding military confrontations in the Caribbean to the escalating war with Iran…
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