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Andrea Aguilera sits at the Erie Neighborhood House in Chicago, Thursday, Nov. 17, 2016. Aguilera, 20, a student at a suburban Chicago college, said she feels uncertain since the election. She was brought to the country illegally as a child and has been able to get a work permit and avoid deportation through a federal program called, Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals. She said she doesn't know what will happen next with the program. (AP Photo/Nam Y. Huh)

Trump’s Election Triggers Anxiety, Questions Among Immigrants

Archives for novembre 2016

Bolivia Asserts Newfound Economic Independence, Rejects Rothschild Banks

Evo Morales announced that Bolivia will no longer respond to the demands or blackmail of the United States, the World Bank, or the IMF.

Whitney Webb
Par Whitney Webb
Bolivian President Evo Morales. Photo: AP Photo/Felipe Dana

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) and US-dominated World Bank have been major players in the global economic landscape ever since their creation in 1944.These international banking organizations, which are privately controlled by the notorious Rothschild banking family, first pressure nations to deregulate their financial sector, allowing

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John Bolton Calls For US To Impose Regime Change In Iran

Bolton said he thinks Iranians would probably welcome a “new regime,” though he conceded that whoever the US ended up installing might not be particularly democratic.

Jason Ditz
Par Jason Ditz
United States Ambassador to the United Nations John Bolton speaks to the media before a Security Council meeting at United Nations Headquarters in New York, Wednesday, Dec. 6, 2006. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)

Still considered among the candidates for President-elect Donald Trump’s Secretary of State, John Bolton is continuing to underscore his longstanding aversion of trying to come up with diplomatic solutions by urging the US to impose a regime change on Iran. Bolton has long called for bombing Iran, and long criticized the nuclear deal with Iran.

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Stability Battles Chaos: From London To Aleppo

Political navigation in the 21st Century is can be quite difficult. The compass by which analysts have long determined left and right is broken.

Caleb T. Maupin
Par Caleb T. Maupin
Activists from the Syria Campaign protest Russian military action in Syria in front of the Russian embassy in London. (Photo: Twitter @RamiJarrah)

(Opinion) -- For over five years the leaders of the United States, Britain, France, and Germany have been working to topple the Syrian Arab Republic. In their efforts to remove the independent nationalist government led by the Baath Arab Socialist Party, the western imperialist powers have enlisted their collection of petroleum vassals and despots

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Trump’s Pick For Nat’l Security Adviser Is An Islamophobic Former Army General

Michael Flynn, a retired Army general and former intelligence officer, sits on the board of ACT For America, a group that the Council on American-Islamic Relations says is part of the ‘inner core’ of America’s multimillion-dollar Islamophobia industry.

Kit O'Connell
Par Kit O'Connell
Retired Gen. Michael Flynn, left, introduces Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump at a campaign rally, Thursday, Sept. 29, 2016, in Bedford, N.H. (AP Photo/John Locher)

AUSTIN, Texas --- Michael Flynn, a military veteran who was once a key player in the U.S. intelligence state, is likely to have an integral part in setting foreign and domestic policy in the administration of President-elect Donald Trump. If Flynn accepts Trump’s reported offer, the retired lieutenant general’s strong Islamophobic views could be

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Stephen Bannon: Anti-Black, Anti-Muslim, Anti-Semitic, But Pro-Israel

‘Anti-Semitism and right-wing Zionism are varieties of ultra nationalism, or … tribalism,’ one sociologist noted in response to the apparent contradiction between Breitbart’s support for anti-Semitism and Zionism.

Kit O'Connell
Par Kit O'Connell
Stephen Bannon, campaign CEO for Republican presidential candidate, Donald Trump, looks on as Trump speaks during a campaign rally, Saturday, Nov. 5, 2016, in Denver. (AP Photo/ Evan Vucci)

AUSTIN, Texas --- The elevation of Stephen Bannon, former boss at the extreme right-wing news outlet Breitbart News, to chief strategist in the incoming administration of President-elect Donald Trump has provoked a firestorm of criticism over his racist views on minorities and his support for anti-Semitism. However, despite what may seem like a

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Trump Ally Says Japanese Internment Proves Muslim Registry OK

The spokesman for a pro-Trump PAC justified the Muslim registry given the US history of rounding up and interning a number of racial and minority groups.

teleSUR
Par teleSUR
In this file photo from the 1920s, a group of Chinese and Japanese women and children wait to be processed as they are held in a wire mesh enclosure at internment barracks in Angel Island, Calif. Chinese immigrants were essential to the founding of California. (AP Photo, file)

A Trump surrogate has come out to cite World World II-era Japanese internment camps as “precedent” for President-elect Donald Trump's proposal for a Muslim registry system. Carl Higbie, a spokesman for the pro-Trump Great America PAC and a former Navy SEAL, appeared on Fox News' "The Kelly File" to argue his support of the plan, modeled

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