Articles by Eric London
La administración de Trump otorga una visa al fascista Flávio Bolsonaro
Flavio Bolsonaro posando frente a un pabellón de la tristemente célebre prisión CECOT de El Salvador a principios de este año. [Photo: @FlavioBolsonaro] El martes 27 de octubre, un alto funcionario anónimo del Departamento de Estado anunció que la administración de Trump planea otorgar visas al político fascista brasileño Flávio Bolsonaro y a su familia.
Trump administration grants visa to fascist Flávio Bolsonaro
Trump administration grants visa to fascist Flávio Bolsonaro 27 October 2026 Flavio Bolsonaro posing outside a cellblock in El Salvador's infamous CECOT prison earlier this year. [Photo: @FlavioBolsonaro] On Tuesday, October 27, an anonymous senior State Department official announced that the Trump administration plans to grant visas to fascist Brazilian politician Flávio Bolsonaro and his family.
Deportation Of Hundreds Of Handcuffed Indian Immigrants From The USA To India Presents A Humiliating Sight To All Indians| Countercurrents
To Dr. S. Jaishankar Union Minister for External Affairs Dear Dr Jaishankar, The fact of the first batch of 203 immigrants deported by the USA in shackles, hands and feet, presented a humiliating site to the entire nation (https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/pictures-of-indians-getting-handcuffed-humiliated-while-being-deported-from-us-saddening-congress/article69183679.ece).
The Mass Deportation Handoff, Biden To Trump, And The Booming Border-Industrial Complex| Countercurrents
It didn’t take long for the border and immigration enforcement industry to react to Donald Trump’s reelection. On November 6th, as Bloomberg News reported, stock prices shot up for two private prison companies, GEO Group and CoreCivic.
The Broken Foot And Immigration In Massachusetts| Countercurrents
The last Friday in August in central Massachusetts was very hot — almost one hundred degrees Fahrenheit (37.778 Celsius). That afternoon, I went out on my front porch to get my mail, and suddenly felt dizzy and nauseous after which I, without any time lapse, immediately fell down in a kind of faint. Then I realized not too much later that I couldn’t walk anymore.
ICE Escalates Raids Across The US After Trump Demands 1,500 Immigrant Arrests Per Day| Countercurrents
US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers dramatically increased daily arrests of immigrants in cities across the US beginning on Sunday under orders from the Trump White House. In a meeting on Saturday, Trump administration officials demanded quotas for ICE arrests be raised from a few hundred to between 1,200 and 1,500 people per day.
A Controversial Path Shaping Global Politics| Countercurrents
In November 2024, Donald Trump won the U.S. presidential election with a massive majority, marking the beginning of his second term as the 47th President of the United States. His return to power has been marked by several controversial decisions that are poised to significantly impact America’s domestic and international policies, as well as global politics. His strategic approach highlights a strong inclination toward nationalism and protectionism.
What Does Trump's Return To The White House Mean For The US?| Countercurrents
The world was shaken by Donald Trump’s inauguration speech and the phrase, “our Golden Age has just begun” is like kidding. There are many reasons why such a man, with such a big “Ego” was re-elected President of the USA. It is the hundred million Americans who have been impoverished. The rift from decades of economic inequality.
What Is In Trump's Executive Orders On Immigration?| Countercurrents
The first wave of immigration-related executive orders issued by President Donald Trump have now been published. With a few scribbles of his name on paper and no involvement from Congress, Trump has undertaken a substantial transformation of the legal landscape in the United States, eviscerated the basic rights of a significant portion of the population and upended the lives of millions of people.
Trump White House Signals New Phase In Ethnic Cleansing Of Palestine| Countercurrents
In a series of public statements, executive orders and background comments to the press, the Trump administration is making clear that it is moving toward the next phase of the US-Israeli ethnic cleansing of Palestine through the expulsion of the population of Gaza and the annexation of the West Bank by Israel.
When The Oligarchs Get Together!| Countercurrents
The inaugural ceremony of crowning of Mr Donald Trump as the 47th President of the USA was marked by the presence of superrich who have influence not only their governments but on the governments of other countries as well. Many of them are Tech giants who plan to control the minds of the people from a remote distance. Some of the prominent ones include Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg, Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos, Google CEO Sundar Pichai, Elon Musk, Apple CEO Tim Cook and TikTok CEO Shou Zi Chew.
FEAR, The Engine Of Fascism| Countercurrents
Trump’s opening fascist tirade, during which I kept picturing him with a little moustache and straight arm salute, was designed to engender fear. He wanted to make it clear to all that you join in his mass campaign of jingoism and racism or you will be a victim.
The First Day Of King Trump| Countercurrents
In the first hour of Trumpdom My new King gave to me Millions o’ deportees In the second hour of Trumpdom My new King gave to me One border closing and Millions o’ deportees In the third hour of Trumpdom My new King gave to me One canal a-taken One border closing and Millions o’ deportees In the fourth hour of Trumpdom, My new King gave to me One gulf renaming One canal a-taken One border closing and Millions o’ deportees In the fifth hour of Trumpdom My new King gave to me Women’s rights...
Trumpocalypse| Countercurrents
A Time Capsule from 2048- What Turbocharged Carbon Will Do to Our Children My name isn’t important, only what I have to say. I’m writing with a pencil because I need to conserve my batteries tonight. It’s Year 24 of Our Trump (though he himself, of course, is no longer with us, just his kids who are running things). I feel like I should try to explain our era to whoever opens this time capsule a century from now, though you may need scuba gear to get at it. A lot of records could be lost by then.
Trump Begins Signing Executive Orders Attacking Immigrants And Democratic Rights| Countercurrents
by Eric London and Andrea Lobo Donald Trump’s second term began with his signing the first in a series of unprecedented executive orders aimed at restricting immigration and democratic rights. Trump signed an initial set of orders in front of a crowd of supporters chanting “USA! USA! USA!” at an arena in Washington D.C. and returned to the White House where he signed further orders. Included among those signed are a ban on birthright citizenship.
Trump Reverses Sanctions On Israeli Settlers In Occupied West Bank In First Act As President| Countercurrents
Washington (Quds News Network)- On his first day in office, US President Donald Trump rescinded sanctions imposed by the Biden administration on far-right Israeli settler groups and individuals accused of violence against Palestinians in the occupied West Bank. The new White House website said Trump rescinded Executive Order 14115 issued on Feb.
Trump’s Pull Out From Paris Climate Agreement Is A Crime Against Humanity| Countercurrents
On 20th January evening , soon after his swearing in ceremony, President Donald Trump signed an order to withdraw from the Paris climate accord and immediately dispatched a letter to the United Nations explaining his decision. This is a very unfortunate decision especially 2024, the very first year to pass 1.5C global warming limit.
How US Left reacts to Trump’s victory
Fascist former president Donald Trump has won the US presidential election, according to overnight projections of state-by-state results, which showed him winning 276 electoral votes, above the 270 required for victory. While votes are still being counted in many states, and three of the seven “battleground” states were still not called by the Associated Press, Trump won the remaining four, North Carolina, Georgia, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin.
La campagne de terreur politique de Trump contre les immigrants de Springfield en Ohio (WSWS)
La campagne de terreur politique de Trump contre les immigrants de Springfield en Ohio Par Eric London WSWS, 17.09.24 La campagne de terreur politique déclenchée par Donald Trump et le Parti républicain contre des milliers de travailleurs haïtiens à Springfield, dans l'Ohio, marque un tournant dans la crise du système politique américain.
My Thoughts On The Attempted Trump Assassination| Countercurrents
The assassination of Trump would not remove the yearning of tens of millions of people, many conditioned by the Christian right, for a cult leader. Most of the leaders of the Christian right have built cult followings of their own. These Christian fascists embraced magical thinking, attacked their enemies as agents of Satan and denounced reality-based science and journalism long before Trump did.
The Shooting Of Donald Trump| Countercurrents
As a nation, the United States, as if we did not already know, is convulsed. Paranoid and divided, giddy with conspiracy and deranged by a fear of totalitarian seizure, hyper partisan and hostile to debate and any loose definition of facts (this condition afflicts the entire political spectrum), the only thing missing so far was this: an assassination attempt on a presidential candidate.
The US Supreme Court Outs The Imperial Presidency| Countercurrents
The US Supreme Court has much to answer for. In the genius of republican government, it operates as overseer and balancer to the executive and legislature. Of late, the judges have seemingly confused that role. In contrast to its other Anglophone counterparts, the highest tribunal in the US professes an open brand of politics, with its occupants blatantly expressing views that openly conform to one side of the political aisle or the other.
Supreme Court Declares America A Presidential Dictatorship| Countercurrents
by Eric London and Tom Carter The US Supreme Court’s decision Monday in Trump v. United States fundamentally alters the character of the American government as it has existed since the American Revolution, placing the president above the law and effectively transforming the “Commander-in-Chief” into a dictator, who can commit crimes with impunity.
El Gobierno ucraniano prohíbe el World Socialist Web Site
Fuentes: WSWS El lunes 3 de junio, el Gobierno ucraniano prohibió la página World Socialist Web Site en todo el país, emitiendo una orden que obliga a todos los proveedores de servicios de internet a bloquear el acceso al WSWS de manera indefinida. La orden fue emitida por el Servicio Estatal de Comunicaciones Especiales y Protección de la Información en Ucrania (SSSCIP), una rama del aparato militar y de inteligencia del país.
Texas Immigration Law Is Unconstitutional
It would seem to me that Texas immigration law is not only unconstitutional, but fails to meet the requirements of and violates the treaty of Guadalupe. The definition, status of Mexican nationals in the American southwest on what is now US soil, immigration, and movement of peoples between the US and Mexico, is actually defined in part by treaty law, which actually is above even federal law and becomes the “law of the land” per article 2, section 2.
Contribution of the serotonergic system to developmental brain abnormalities in autism spectrum disorder
INTRODUCTION Autism is a developmental disorder characterized by early functional anomalies including restricted, repetitive, and stereotyped patterns of behavior; deficits of social behavior (American Psychiatric Association, 2013); and sensorimotor challenges (Baranek, 1999; Cascio et al., 2016; Fournier et al., 2010; Unruh et al., 2021), with onset prior to the 3rd year of life (Lord et al., 2000). The incidence is 4.5 times higher among boys than girls (Christensen et al., 2016).
At Least 40 Immigrants Dead In Fire At US-Mexico Border| Countercurrents
At least 40 refugees were killed in a fire that broke out Monday night in a crowded detention center in the Mexican border city of Ciudad Juarez. The deadly blaze, which left 28 more hospitalized in serious condition, erupted during a protest by refugees from Central and South America, who had learned they were to be deported from Ciudad Juarez as a result of the Biden administration’s policy banning immigrants from applying for asylum at the US-Mexico border.
Social inequality
At the prompting of the Biden administration, the world’s capitalist politicians, CEOs and bought-off journalists have let flow a deluge of crocodile tears over the global food crisis, which they claim was singlehandedly created by Vladimir Putin.
Witness To A Social Crime: The Reality Of US Immigrant Child Detention
In the corporate media, political establishment and middle class “left,” the sound of sanctimonious appeals to America’s responsibility to defend democracy in Ukraine has grown deafening. Without a shred of critical thought, the Mighty Wurlitzer of war propaganda gets spinning.
Global protest movement grows on every continent amid worsening commodity shortages
The US/NATO proxy war against Russia in Ukraine has triggered a wave of social protests against the rising cost of living, tapping into deep working class anger over social inequality and the devastating impact of the ongoing coronavirus pandemic.
Class struggle
Shock is beginning to give way to action. Significant strikes and demonstrations are breaking out across the world in the largest wave of social protest since before the outbreak of the Covid-19 pandemic. The imperialist politicians and geo-strategists who spent years drawing up the blueprints for war are discovering that despite all their careful planning, they set their bloody plans into motion on top of a massive social fault line.
Peruvian government deploys army, locks down Lima, then rescinds order as cost-of-living protests swell
Late Monday night, Peruvian President Pedro Castillo deployed the army, initiated a state of emergency and declared an all-day curfew Tuesday in the capital of Lima and the neighboring port city of Callao as protests over the rapidly-increasing cost of living spread across the country. Later Thursday, as it became clear that the curfew would only trigger deeper protests, Castillo lifted the curfew.
Sacramento teachers: No return to work without seeing the contract!
Last night, shortly after 9 pm, the Sacramento City Teachers Association (SCTA) and Service Employees International Union (SEIU) announced they had reached a sellout agreement with the Sacramento City Unified School District (SCUSD) impacting thousands of teachers and support staff. The union ordered teachers to return to work Monday morning, with less than 12 hours notice.
La crise alimentaire mondiale nourrit la lutte des classes internationale
La guerre entre les États-Unis, l’OTAN et la Russie en Ukraine a allumé une mèche dans le baril de poudre de la lutte des classes mondiale.
Światowy kryzys żywnościowy napędza międzynarodową walkę klasową
Wojna USA-NATO z Rosją na Ukrainie zapaliła lont w beczce prochu, jaką jest globalna walka klasowa. W ciągu zaledwie kilku tygodni wojna oraz bezprecedensowe sankcje USA i UE wobec Rosji głęboko zdestabilizowały światowe siły wytwórcze, doprowadzając do rozpadu i tak już wątłych globalnych łańcuchów dostaw, wzmacniając tendencje inflacyjne i paraliżując światową produkcję żywności i gazu. Ludzie stojący w kolejce po kerozynę w Kandy, Sri Lanka, 22 marca 2022 r.
Global food crisis fuels international class struggle
The war between the US-NATO and Russia in Ukraine has lit a fuse to the powder keg of the global class struggle. In the span of just a few weeks, the war and unprecedented US and EU sanctions against Russia have profoundly destabilized the world’s productive forces, throwing already-frail global supply chains into disarray, strengthening inflationary tendencies, and crippling global food and gas production.
Determined Richmond, California Chevron workers join global movement against spiraling cost of living
The situation confronting 600 striking Chevron oil workers in Richmond, California, encapsulates the irrationality of the capitalist system: Skyrocketing oil prices greatly enrich a tiny layer of executives and shareholders who add nothing to the production process. But this same rise in the cost of living makes it harder and harder for workers who actually refine the oil to fill their own cars with the gas they need to drive to work.
An unoriginal hagiography of the Democratic Party: Michael Kazin's What it Took to Win
Michael Kazin, What it Took To Win: A History of the Democratic Party . Straus and Giroux, 2022. ISBN 9780374200237 It is not only a poetic coincidence that the Democratic Party was founded when the period known as The Era of Good Feelings came to an end. The circumstances of the party’s birth and early years characterize its enduring political mission.
Pro-imperialist pseudo-left event on Ukraine ends in debacle for organizers
On Sunday, March 13, representatives of a variety of pro-imperialist pseudo-left tendencies held an online event in which they voiced support for the US/NATO war drive in Ukraine and echoed the accompanying propaganda campaign.
The lies and absurdities in Biden’s State of the Union address
If anyone tuned in to Joe Biden’s State of the Union address still expecting to hear a serious speech about any of the metastasizing and intersecting crises confronting United States and the world, they would have left disappointed. Biden’s speech was a vulgar attempt to paper over an immense domestic crisis by presenting the US as internally united against one man: Vladimir Putin.
Bernie Sanders backs imperialist provocations against Russia
U.S. Sen Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., speaks at a rally, Friday, March 26, 2021, in Birmingham, Ala., ahead of a union vote at an Amazon warehouse in the state. (AP Photo/Kim Chandler) On Tuesday, shortly after Joe Biden announced what he called a “first tranche” of sanctions against Russia, Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders announced his support for the measures.
Bipartisan congressional war consensus emerges, bringing together progressive “left” and Republican right
On Tuesday, US President Joe Biden and leading NATO powers escalated the war provocations against Russia by announcing the imposition of substantial economic sanctions in response to Russian President Vladimir Putin’s recognition of the independence of Donetsk and Lugansk from Ukraine. In the United States, a bipartisan consensus is emerging for even greater military and economic pressure to be brought to bear against Russia, increasing the risk of a war between nuclear-armed powers.
Democratic Socialists of America confront left-wing opposition to Biden by shifting further to the right
The Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) is preparing to move further to the right as the Biden administration and Democratic-controlled Congress unabashedly prosecute the interests of Wall Street and American imperialism and reject even the paltriest proposals of social reform. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Jamaal Bowman (Wikimedia Commons/Office of Sen.
Biden administration and Republicans use war crisis to push phony “national unity”
As the Biden administration escalates its provocations against Russia in Eastern Europe, the Democratic and Republican parties are utilizing the war crisis to carry out a reactionary global agenda through the promotion of a phony “national unity.” The foreign policy aim is to accomplish American imperialism’s decades-long goal of subjugating Russia. The domestic aim is to protect corporate profits and suppress social opposition as inflation rises and US COVID-19 deaths near the 1 million mark.
In New Yorker interview, Ocasio-Cortez defends Biden and Pelosi, urges readers not to lose “hope” in reforming two-party system
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez at SXSW in 2019 (Image Credit: Flickr/nrkbeta) On February 14, the New Yorker magazine published an interview with New York Democratic Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, who is also a member of the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA). The interview was conducted by New Yorker editor David Remnick, author of a hagiographic 2010 biography of Barack Obama and prominent liberal promoter of the Bush administration’s lies justifying the 2003 invasion of Iraq.
Republican National Committee resolution declaring January 6 “legitimate political discourse” deepens crisis in both parties
The Republican National Committee’s (RNC) declaration that the January 6, 2021 coup attempt constitutes “legitimate political discourse” has intensified the political crisis wracking both parties of big business. The RNC resolution, which marked the party’s formal adoption of extra-constitutional methods, also censured Republican Congresspersons Liz Cheney (Wyoming) and Adam Kinzinger (Illinois) for participating in the House Select Committee investigating the putsch attempt.
Republican Party officially endorses Trump’s January 6 putsch as “legitimate political discourse”
The Republican National Committee issued a resolution yesterday at its leadership conference in Salt Lake City, Utah, officially endorsing Donald Trump’s plot to overturn the 2020 election. People shelter in the House gallery as rioters try to break into the House Chamber at the U.S. Capitol on Wednesday, Jan.
Trump admits aim of January 6 plot was to “overturn election” and “change results”
On Sunday, former US President Donald Trump explicitly acknowledged that his political strategy following the 2020 election was to “overturn the election” and “change the results,” actions which would have resulted in the establishment of a presidential dictatorship. President Donald Trump speaks at a campaign rally for Senate Republican candidates in Valdosta, Ga. Dec. 5, 2020.
On eve of January 6 attack, Trump lawyers drafted order requiring military to seize ballots
On Friday, Politico published the full text of a draft executive order written by Donald Trump’s attorneys that would have deployed the military and National Guard across the country to seize millions of ballots cast by voters in the 2020 general election. An analysis of the draft order makes clear: this was a charter for presidential dictatorship. It would have declared a state of emergency, suspended democratic rights, disenfranchised the electorate and placed the country under military rule.
A modest proposal by Jacobin editor Bhaskar Sunkara to help Democrats restore faith in two-party system
Bashkar Sunkara (Twitter/@democracynow) On the one-year anniversary of Trump’s putsch attempt of January 6, Jacobin editor and prominent Democratic Socialists of America member Bhaskar Sunkara published an opinion piece in the Guardian advising the Democratic Party as to how it can “defuse” political tensions in America and restore faith in the two-party system.
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