Football star Tom Brady and rap legend Snoop Dogg will appear in a big-money Superbowl ad denouncing hatred. The ad is paid for by the Foundation to Combat Antisemitism, a group staffed by Israel lobbyists that attempts to equate opposition to Israel’s destruction of Gaza with anti-Jewish racism. The group was founded by billionaire owner…
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu abruptly sidelined his intelligence chiefs in the Gaza ceasefire negotiations, replacing them with a key political ally, Ron Dermer. The shake-up came when Netanyahu arrived in Washington to meet with President Donald Trump, the first foreign leader to do so since Trump returned to office. Rather than relying on intelligence…
Two private security firms registered in the U.S. have been contracted to oversee operations in the Netzarim Corridor, a checkpoint separating northern and southern Gaza. The Guardian identified one of them, UG Solutions, as actively recruiting nearly 100 former U.S. special forces soldiers to carry out vehicle inspections on Gazan refugees returning to their homes…
Home » Editorials » What caused the plane crash? Union busting, not DEI! No one should be surprised any time Trump exposes himself as the vile, disgusting, ultraright-wing bigot that he is. Still, it’s almost impossible not to be outraged. A case in point is the Jan. 29 plane crash near the Reagan Washington National…
Home » Global » Massive PRIDE day in Argentina When Argentina’s fascist-minded President Javier Milei made an anti-diversity and homophobic speech at the Davos, Switzerland, economic meeting recently, Argentina’s LGBTQIA+ movement decided to strike back. They did so Feb. 1, calling an ad hoc Pride Day and making it also anti-fascist. Anti-fascist Pride Day in…
President Donald Trump signed orders Feb. 1 imposing 25% trade tariffs on Canada and Mexico and 10% on socialist China. The three countries have been the largest U.S. trading partners for decades. Even economists who supported Trump fear this action. The Feb. 3 Wall Street Journal wrote that they were sparking “the dumbest trade war…
This article follows “Misinterpretations of the Evolution of the United States (1/2)”, by Thierry Meyssan, January 28, 2025. In 1838, 4,000 to 8,000 Cherokees died of cold, hunger or exhaustion on the “Trail of Tears.” Under the Indian Removal Act, they left the East Coast of the United States to Europeans and agreed to travel…
Home » Stop imperialist war and occupation » Philadelphia: Ceasefire today – liberation tomorrow Philadelphia: Ceasefire today – liberation tomorrow. Credit: WW Photo, Joe Piette Organized by the Philadelphia Palestine Coalition, on Jan. 25, over 100 people participated in a march to celebrate the Palestinian resistance. Withstanding 15 months of genocidal U.S./Israeli violence, Hamas and…
By Jean-Pierre Page In another assault on historical fact, the Western imperialist countries which organized the ceremonies commemorating the 80th anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz Concentration Camp this year refused to invite any participation from Russia. Jean-Pierre Page, a former national leader of the General Confederation of Labor (CGT) in France, made the…
Home » U.S. and Canada » UAW strike threat defeats Stellantis job cuts After the powerful auto strike in 2023, the United Auto Workers won a commitment from Stellantis (formed by the merger of Fiat Chrysler Automobiles and PSA Peugeot) to reopen a closed plant in Belvedere, Illinois, by 2027. However, Stellantis, under the direction…
Home » Human needs before profits » Cleveland: Mass march blasts Trump Hundreds of Clevelanders, mostly youth, rallied and marched through the city’s Near West Side neighborhood on Jan. 25, voicing their outrage at the program of President Donald Trump. Cleveland-counter-inaugural-1-25-25. Credit: WW Photo, Martha Grevatt Chants, signs and speakers addressed the multitude of issues…
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…
Poland celebrated the 80th anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz-Birkenau camp in the absence of Russian representatives who were not welcome. ☞ The Red Army liberated this camp and took Berlin, but the authorities of the collective West are now trying to persuade themselves that the USSR never confronted Nazi ideology and only defended…
Before returning to the White House for a second term, President Donald Trump warned he planned on imposing tariffs on several different countries. He stated he would enforce an “emergency executive authority” on day one to enforce tariffs of 25% on products from Canada and Mexico and a tariff of 10% on goods from China.…
Football star Tom Brady and rap legend Snoop Dogg will appear in a big-money Superbowl ad denouncing hatred. The ad is paid for by the Foundation to Combat Antisemitism, a group staffed by Israel lobbyists that attempts to equate opposition to Israel’s destruction of Gaza with anti-Jewish racism. The group was founded by billionaire owner…
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu abruptly sidelined his intelligence chiefs in the Gaza ceasefire negotiations, replacing them with a key political ally, Ron Dermer. The shake-up came when Netanyahu arrived in Washington to meet with President Donald Trump, the first foreign leader to do so since Trump returned to office. Rather than relying on intelligence…
Two private security firms registered in the U.S. have been contracted to oversee operations in the Netzarim Corridor, a checkpoint separating northern and southern Gaza. The Guardian identified one of them, UG Solutions, as actively recruiting nearly 100 former U.S. special forces soldiers to carry out vehicle inspections on Gazan refugees returning to their homes…
Home » Editorials » What caused the plane crash? Union busting, not DEI! No one should be surprised any time Trump exposes himself as the vile, disgusting, ultraright-wing bigot that he is. Still, it’s almost impossible not to be outraged. A case in point is the Jan. 29 plane crash near the Reagan Washington National…