U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent warned that the U.S. military could stop receiving their salaries in mid-November if the government shutdown (temporary interruption of the functioning of the U.S. administration) continues. Anna Paulina Luna, a Republican congresswoman, reported on Sunday that the U.S. government shutdown could last until the end of November. In an interview with CBS, Bessent said, “I ...
By Sergio Rodríguez Gelfenstein Dedicated to the Heroic Guerrilla, Commander Ernesto Che Guevara, on the 58th anniversary of his passing into immortality After reading a recent article by former Russian President Dmitry Medvedev, I was left thinking about a phrase he said: “Trump has once again entered an alternate reality…” With the unique irony that has characterized him in recent ...
Violence becomes more and more the predominant feature of global politics. International violence takes on the form of war, for instance in Israel’s attack on Palestine, resulting in a genocide. Simultaneously, Western countries increasingly use the threat of war to pursue their interests, be it with NATO threatening to mount up at Russian borders, the US and allied navies patrolling ...
By Sergio Rodríguez Gelfenstein To Frantz Fanon, on the centenary of his birth, for showing us the way. The widespread belief that what’s happening in the United States and around the world stems from the fact that “Trump is crazy” is simplistic and banal. On the contrary, I believe that behind Trump’s actions lies a very well-thought-out plan conceived by ...
By Fernando Esteche The approval of “The One Big Beautiful Bill” by the US Congress in July 2025 reveals a fundamental paradox: the United States responds to its decline not with structural reforms, but with unprecedented militarization and domestic policies that deepen its internal contradictions. The current situation reveals multiple fractures that go beyond traditional partisan polarization, manifesting in open ...
By Stephan Kaufmann The US government is launching a new offensive to consolidate the economic foundations of its global power. The planned new budget is intended to make the US a magnet for capital from all over the world. Tax cuts are intended to channel investor money to the United States. President Donald Trump’s “Big Beautiful Bill” costs trillions of ...
By Sergio Rodríguez Gelfenstein During the last decade of the last century, following the collapse of the Soviet Union and the end of the Cold War, the United States set out to find a new enemy to serve as a pivot for reorganizing its foreign and military policy. Initially, it found one in drug trafficking. After September 11, 2001, it ...
By Sergio Rodríguez Gelfenstein The course of history has conclusively demonstrated that, in order to further its interventionist and militaristic ambitions, the United States has sought subterfuges and fabricated false evidence, which history itself has either disproved or exposed as false. The manipulation of evidence to garner favorable support from the country’s public opinion in the first instance, and that ...
By Fernando Esteche The militarization of Los Angeles Los Angeles is bleeding. In the streets of a city that for decades stood as a symbol of the American dream, today the cries of resistance of those who built its greatness from the shadows resonate. The massive raids by Immigration and Customs Enforcement Enforcement (ICE), have unleashed a spiral of urban ...
By Michael Roberts * President Donald Trump implemented his new range of tariffs on US imports called reciprocal tariffs. In addition to those announced last Wednesday (Liberation day), Trump included an extra levy on Chinese imports in retaliation to China’s decision to impose a 34% tariff on US imports, which in turn was a retaliation against Trump’s 34% hike on Chinese imports ...