Home » Global » Asia & the Pacific » China refuses to play Trump’s “art of the deal” games by Carlos Martinez Carlos@agent_of_change There is only one side responsible for sabotaging U.S.-China trade relations, and it’s not the Chinese. U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent has accused China of trying to damage the U.S. economy after…
Home » Workers unite! » On the Picket Line Kaiser strike Approximately 45,000 health care workers held a five day strike at Kaiser Permanente facilities across Hawaii, California and Oregon. The strike affected over 500 facilities and was the largest in health care union history. Striking workers included registered nurses, nurse practitioners, physician assistants, nurse…
China, responding to United Nations criticism, academic and media reports, and an embarrassing court case in Kazakhstan, has come closer to admitting that it has brutally cracked down on the strategic north-western province of Xinjiang in what it asserts is a bid to prevent the kind of mayhem that has wracked countries like Syria and…
Anti-Muslim activists in the United States were operating in a “post-truth era” and putting out “alternative facts” long before those phrases entered the language. For the last decade, they have been spreading provable falsehoods through their well-organized network of publications and websites. A major theme of those falsehoods is telling the U.S. public that Islam…
Yahya Staquf, a diminutive, soft-spoken leader of Nahdlatul Ulama, the world’s largest Muslim movement, and Indonesian president Joko Widodo’s advisor on religious affairs, has held a series of meetings in recent weeks that reflect the Muslim world’s shifting attitudes towards Israel and the Palestinians and a re-alignment of socially conservative Muslim and Christian interests. Just…
When you see an immigrant or a foreign visitor, especially from a Muslim country, should your first thought be that you might be looking at a possible terrorist? Clearly, that’s how the Trump administration wants Americans to react. It was the message in the president’s first address to Congress a year ago, when he declared that “the…
Home » Global » Asia & the Pacific » China refuses to play Trump’s “art of the deal” games by Carlos Martinez Carlos@agent_of_change There is only one side responsible for sabotaging U.S.-China trade relations, and it’s not the Chinese. U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent has accused China of trying to damage the U.S. economy after…
Home » Workers unite! » On the Picket Line Kaiser strike Approximately 45,000 health care workers held a five day strike at Kaiser Permanente facilities across Hawaii, California and Oregon. The strike affected over 500 facilities and was the largest in health care union history. Striking workers included registered nurses, nurse practitioners, physician assistants, nurse…
Home » Global » Israel continues its war crimes The following statement was posted by The Cradle on Oct. 19, 2025. In a new statement, Hamas says it has fully abided by the ceasefire agreement signed in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt, on Oct. 9, 2025, under the sponsorship of Egypt, Qatar, Türkiye and the U.S., while…
Given the long list of its genocidal recipients, the Nobel Peace Prize was already considered by many as a sham award. But new laureate Maria Corina Machado outdid her peers by immediately dedicating her prize to Donald Trump and endorsing Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his attack on Gaza and beyond. Machado, the leader…