“We are in the imperial core. We are the only ones that can actually change this. The rest of the world's been ready. They are waiting for us because they don't want to fucking die at the hands of our insane, belligerent military empire.”
A look back at devastating history of foreign intervention in Mexico amid Trump’s present-day threats against the region. This is episode 9 of Under the Shadow, Season 2.
“Workers are fighting to be able to afford the same food that they produce for the rest of the country, to be able to buy beef at the grocery store and not have to buy Top Ramen.”
The comments marked the second time in just two months that Bannon has floated having ICE illegally monitor US elections.
The Democratic Party has chosen again and again to abandon working people and cling to corporate power, militarism, and a feckless, out-of-touch leadership class, Norman Solomon of RootsAction says. And we’re all paying the price.
70% of Americans are fundamentally wrong about Iran’s “nuclear program.” This is not an accident.
“She was very much ahead of her time… this is a formerly enslaved Black woman who was speaking with an unfettered, unrestrained radicalism.”
“If you understand what an organization like ICE is doing, and you can quantify it… you can resist effectively,” says Michael Wriston of Project Salt Box.
“As the president becomes more unpopular, his actions will become more extreme, but that doesn't mean they're going to be any more successful,” Ari Berman of Mother Jones tells us.
“The vast majority of Americans, Europeans, Iranians, of people in the Global South, who now see increases in the price of food because fertilizers are going up, because oil is going up, because natural gas is going up—the workers of the world are united in being the losers of this war.”
One foreign policy expert noted that fears of a “mass exodus” of refugees come “as the US starves Cuba of energy and food.”
Federal immigration agents are required to allow parents to “make alternative care arrangements” for their children before they’re detained.
Israeli officials told US diplomats that the Iranian government is “not cracking” in a State Department cable.
“We're saying, ‘Oh, pretty please, will you save the bays? Will you not pollute us today?’... I think we're way too polite and way too well-behaved. And that's why I advocate being an unreasonable woman.”
