As Mike Johnson Floats Social Security Cuts, Trustees Report Shows Harm of Trump Policies

Social Security’s trustees said in their annual report released Tuesday that the New Deal program will be unable to pay out full benefits by the end of 2032—a quarter earlier than projected last year—in the absence of congressional action, a finding that advocates said underscores the destructive impact of President Donald Trump’s policy agenda and the need to make the rich finally pay their fair share into the system.

As Mike Johnson Floats Social Security Cuts, Trustees Report Shows Harm of Trump Policies

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Where Has All the Class Analysis Gone?

Where has all the class analysis gone? Why is so much of what passes for anti‑imperialist commentary today content to treat nations as unified subjects, physical commodities as the primary sites of power, and shifts in the balance of trade as the horizon of emancipation? And why, when a more structural reading is offered, is it so often dismissed as “defeatism”?

Where Has All the Class Analysis Gone?

If Not Greenland Then Chagos? +

Another debacle from the ‘brilliant’ mind of Donny.

There was a time when Donny thought he could buy Greenland from Denmark….well that did not work out well for the idiot…..and now he is setting his beady eyes on Chagos Island.

Chagos?

Not sure where those are located…..think Diego Garcia….

If Not Greenland Then Chagos?

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Donny’s brain is full of farts. While Diego Garcia would be nice to help contain China in the minds of Elbridge Colby and his ilk, I’m sure that Goldman Sachs and BlackRock would also like to get their hands on those critical minerals in the Central Indian Ocean Basin. The military industrial complex must go on.

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The Palestine Hotel Attack: A View From Next Door

The Palestine Hotel Attack: A View From Next Door

I recount first-hand experiences surrounding the deaths of two journalists in Baghdad: Jose Couso and Taras Protsyuk. This includes events leading up to the US Military’s attack, part of which has never before been reported. I also cover the Pentagon’s attempts to deflect blame by lying.

Reporters Without Borders: Two Murders and a Lie

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Ukraine’s military has a real Nazi problem | Nazi-era specter haunts Kyiv: Poland and Israel turning against Zelensky

By Marta Havryshko, Responsible Statecraft, 6/2/26

When Vladimir Putin launched his invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, he claimed one of his goals was the country’s “denazification.” The Kremlin still uses this narrative as a cornerstone of its war propaganda.

Ukraine’s military has a real Nazi problem | Nazi-era specter haunts Kyiv: Poland and Israel turning against Zelensky