Tag: Trump

“Paz for the People” in CD5

July 30, 2026 Jeannie Connerney

On July 23, 2026, I sat down with Jonathan Paz, candidate for US Congress in Massachusetts District 5, to ask him questions about his campaign and his vision for the future. Jonathan Paz (“Paz for the People!”) is challenging the incumbent, Katherine Clark. Jonathan was […]

Trump’s Ebola Response Demonstrates Hegemony, Not Partnership

June 18, 2026 Finn Smith

U.S. foreign policy has long had the tendency of treating third world countries as something less than sovereign nations and partners. From practicing regime change to flexing its economic dominance, the U.S. has used its powerful global position to enforce its will in sovereign third […]

Trump and Xi’s Beijing Summit: Hope for Progress?

June 3, 2026 Marcus Breen

Peace advocates should take positive vibes from the meetings in Beijing, May 13-15, between President Xi Jinping and President Donald Trump. Put simply, the face-to-face meetings during the State Visit offered a welcome change to the belligerent, even bellicose, anti-China blatherings emanating from the Trump […]

Trump’s Iran War: And the Big Fool Says Push On

April 8, 2026 Joseph Gerson

Fact-checking the bald-face lies in a morally obscene address by the most criminally corrupt and morally bankrupt US president in the history of the nation. We were waist deep in the Big Muddy The big fool said to push on —Pete Seeger On April Fool’s […]

The Use and Abuse of Holy Week in Boston, Washington, and Rome

April 8, 2026 Jeannie Connerney

As Christians celebrated Holy Week around the world, messages from activists at Good Friday peace events and statements from Pope Leo contrasted starkly with the shamefully bizarre words coming out of the Trump administration. The imagery drawn from Christianity was used in a manner so […]

Do Americans Really Want Another Middle East War?

March 4, 2026 Jeff Klein

By Jeff Klein Originally published in the Dorchester Reporter. As the Trump administration and Israel continue their attacks on Iran, opinion polls show that Americans are overwhelmingly opposed to yet another US war in the Middle East. Trump does not care. He says that the war will […]

A New World Order For Europe

September 4, 2025 Anatol Zukerman

by Anatol Zukerman During the meeting with Trump in Alaska last month, Putin spoke of the root causes of the war in Ukraine. Those roots are very deep, indeed. In 1654 Ukraine was partitioned along the River Dnipro after a twelve-year war between Russia and […]