As trade war escalates between the U.S. and Canada, Donald Trump spent the Labor Day weekend sharing generative AI images of him as a hockey player beating up Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney. Carney took a more serious tone, releasing a 15-minute video (20 minutes in French) on Tuesday morning speaking directly to Canadians. In it, he said that by standing up to Trump’s belligerence…
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In a lengthy Truth Social post on Sunday evening, President Donald Trump lambasted two Supreme Court justices he had personally appointed to the bench for not being “loyal” enough to him. Trump berated Justices Neil Gorsuch and Amy Coney Barrett, deriding their roles in a majority ruling earlier this year that overturned his massive global tariffs. He also denounced them for appearing…
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A panel of federal judges ruled Thursday that US President Donald Trump’s sweeping 10% tariffs on most imports are unlawful, another major legal blow to the centerpiece of the Republican president’s economic agenda — which has failed to produce the manufacturing boom he repeatedly promised on the campaign trail. The Court of International Trade (CIT) found in a 2-to-1 ruling that Trump…
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When Eileen Nusselt and Gio Cox got married earlier this year, they skipped the traditional registry and asked their guests to donate to a home renovation fund. Yet as tariffs have pushed up the price of materials like lumber and paint, that money isn’t going as far as they expected. “We’re having to cut off projects that we really want to do,” said Cox, who lives with his wife in Charleston…
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On Thursday, the one-year anniversary of President Donald Trump’s so-called Liberation Day, US advocacy groups sounded the alarm about his new tariffs targeting “patented pharmaceuticals and their ingredients under Section 232 of the Trade Expansion Act of 1962 to bolster American national security and public health.” The administration announced a year ago that the US Department of Commerce…
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In recent decades, imperialism has been somewhat out of fashion as a subject of analysis in academic circles. Yet in the past several months, President Donald Trump had reminded everyone that U.S. imperialism is indeed alive and kicking. In fact, imperialism never went away, as leading radical economist Costas Lapavitsas points out in the exclusive interview for Truthout that follows. Lapavitsas…
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