From left: Mark Zuckerberg, Lauren Sanchez and future spouse Jeff Bezos, Sundar Pichai and Elon Musk at Trump’s inauguration, Washington, D.C., Jan. 20, 2025. Entering his second term, President Donald Trump ripped the curtain off the myth of U.S. democracy being “of, by and for the people.” So far, at least 14 billionaires, including Trump,…

In December, The Jerusalem Post published an investigation from Nicholas Potter, a “counter-extremism expert,” who falsely accused MintPress News of being part of a network of far-left, foreign government-funded outlets that push conspiracy theories and anti-Semitic extremism. The claims are untrue and are particularly ironic, considering the calls for the extermination and expulsion of Palestinians…

Prolific Palestinian-American journalist and Electronic Intifada founder Ali Abunimah was arrested by plain-clothed police and later deported from Switzerland, while convicted Israeli war criminals visit the European continent freely. This comes as part of a wider trend that has seen Western nations crack down on pro-Palestine activists and journalists. Abunimah was detained by plainclothes police…

On January 22, President Donald Trump signed an executive order re-designating Yemen’s Ansar Allah, commonly known as the Houthi movement, as a “foreign terrorist organization.” He vowed to dismantle the group’s capabilities, a decision that seemed at odds with his self-proclaimed anti-interventionist stance and “America first” rhetoric. Critics argue that the move effectively positions the…

• After Elon Musk’s disproportionate donation to support Reform UK (United Kingdom), his interventions in favor of the AfD (Germany), the declarations for the annexation of Greenland, one could legitimately wonder what the team of re-elected President Donald Trump had in store for France. • American journalist Candace Owens received a legal letter from French…

Upon being sworn in on Jan. 20, President Donald Trump abruptly unleashed racist attacks against undocumented workers and migrant families.  Philadelphia, Dec. 10, 2024. (WW Photo: Joe Piette) Trump used the inaugural address as a forum for his assault. In his speech, he threatened to pass “a series of historic executive orders” aimed at targeting…

Home » Editorials » Will U.S. troops refuse to brutalize migrants? The billionaires’ new administration in Washington is putting its violent and reactionary anti-migrant program into effect. Its enforcement relies on shock and awe. On force. It relies on obedience. In the end, it counts on the U.S. Armed Forces. But will all troops follow…

Once the second ceasefire between Israel and Hamas was formally agreed to on Jan. 16, the first hostage exchange for the first phase of the agreement began on Jan. 19. Three Israeli women were freed, and 90 Palestinian hostages, most of them women and youth held in Zionist torture dungeons for months, even years, were…

We were all astonished by President Trump’s chain-signing of executive orders immediately after his inauguration. The European press saw him as an autocrat asserting his power. Not so! In fact, many of these documents limit the power of the federal state for the benefit of the federated states. Errors of interpretation of this kind are…

Monument to the glory of Stepan Bandera in Ternopil (Ukraine). According to Forward Magazine, there are around a hundred monuments to the glory of Nazi collaborators in Ukraine. Russia demands their immediate destruction, while NATO claims they are unimportant. At the Liberation (that is to say at the end of the Second World War), Westerners…

Voltaire, International Newsletter is a weekly newsletter on international politics. It features 10 to 15 pages of contextualized, sourced news items. Its aim is to enable you to follow the decline of the unipolar world and the emergence of a multipolar system. The newsletter is published in several languages. Several foreign ministries from different countries…

Home » Prisons: tear them down » ‘It’s finally over’ – President Biden grants Leonard Peltier clemency The NDN Collective released the following statement on Jan. 20, 2025: Sumterville, Florida – Today, President Biden granted Leonard Peltier executive clemency and commuted the remainder of his sentence. The president’s decision is the result of decades of…