No-Bid ICE Contract Went to Former ICE Agents Being Sued for Fabricating Criminal Evidence on the Job
The $73 million deal for assisting with deportations went to a company whose executives are accused of retaliating against a fellow ICE worker.
https://theintercept.com/2025/04/17/ice-deportation-contracts-us-advisors/
‘I don’t want to give money to this America’: tourists’ fears of US travel under Trump
And it has only just begun....
#Trump #economy #uspol #travel #isolationism
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/apr/18/america-tourists-fears-us-travel-trump
#globalization #isolationism
Hopefully it will not take World War III to get us there. Hopefully we will not end up in a world in which we are further divided, isolated and estranged from one another. Hopefully we will not need to grow potatoes under train tracks or raise goats on our balconies. But it is clear that resolving tensions between globalization and equality is one of the most urgent tasks of our time and that our future rests upon it.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/05/opinion/globalization-collapse.html
That's journalism: Read on one page what the world leaders say about the USA today: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/apr/03/donald-trump-global-trade-tariff-rates-by-country-breakdown-asia - just a #travel around the globe.
Weekly #shopping has recently been given a fun twist: #BoycottUSA
Fortunately, it's easy in #France: goods from the region and the own country have always been specially labelled. And we now also cheekily turn US goods upside down.
A new study: 62% of French people support the #boycott of US products. Falling numbers also in #tourism, #working, #studying. The #study reveals an unprecedented collapse in the image of the US among French people.
https://www.publicsenat.fr/actualites/international/administration-trump-62-des-francais-soutiennent-le-boycott-de-produits-americains
“''April 2, 2025 will forever be remembered as the day American industry was reborn,' Trump began. 'For decades our country has been looted, pillaged, raped and plundered by nations near and far,' by both allies and enemies, he added."
#Trump #Musk #tariffs #LiberationDay #recession #inflation #trade #Putin #nationalism #aggression #isolationism #NATO #Europe #Canada #Mexico
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"Donald Trump has begun his 'liberation day' event announcing sweeping tariffs, saying he will sign an executive order announcing 'reciprocal tariffs on countries throughout the world'."
~ The Guardian
#Trump #Musk #tariffs #LiberationDay #recession #inflation #trade #Putin #nationalism #aggression #isolationism #NATO #Europe #Canada #Mexico
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Daniel L. Davis is a retired United States Army officer. He was one of the earliest military officers to publicly criticize the War in Afghanistan.
Davis is a Senior Fellow at Defense Priorities, a Foundation of the Koch brothers.
Davis was selected by Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard for appointment as deputy director. On Wednesday, the Jewish Insider magazine ran a story against Davis ; neoconservative radio jock Mark Levin helped spread the Jewish Insider story to his 4.9 million followers; within hours, Davis was informed there would be no job.
https://thecradle.co/articles/gabbard-withdraws-war-critic-from-top-intel-job-following-smear-campaign-by-pro-israel-groups 
Is "restraint" a more useful framework for US foreign policy than #isolationism? It may offer a middle path between disengagement and unrestrained global activism. A foreign policy scholar explains: https://theconversation.com/what-is-isolationism-the-history-and-politics-of-an-often-maligned-foreign-policy-concept-245201
By Andrew Latham, Macalester College #diplomacy
Morten Morland @mortenmorland @thetimes on #Trump #Isolationism #RussiaUkraineWar – political cartoon gallery in London original-political-cartoon.com
Via #BobRae, Permanent Representative of #Canada to the #UnitedNations since 2020, @ 9:00am ET on Feb 02, 2025
The #UN Charter was drafted in 1945 by people who had learned the lessons that the #aggression, #isolationism and #TariffBarriers of the 20’s and 30’s had led the world into a conflagration. Article One makes it clear: threats of #annexation are illegal. So are unilateral #tariffs in breach of a #trade agreement.
#Isolationism is all #US have to expect with these bipartisan fascist policies. Especially now that neoliberalism has failed dramatically and all countries will get rid of the neoliberal puppets imposed on us by the US, it will be hard to find allies on Earth.
But maybe #NaziMusk will do something on Mars, though.
#USPS Reverses Decision to Halt Parcel Service From #China
The Postal Service will continue to accept parcels from #HongKong & China despite a new #ExecutiveOrder from #Trump.
#economy #geopolitics #USpolitics #isolationism #Nationalism
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/04/business/usps-china-de-minimis.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare
If Americans give up on internationalism, partnerships and alliances, the outcome will be a tragedy not only for mankind but also for themselves. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/commentary/2025/02/05/world/isolationisms-path-to-nowhere/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #commentary #worldnews #donaldtrump #maga #us #isolationism
Why Does Trump Threaten America’s Allies? Hint: It Starts in 1919.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/02/opinion/trump-panama-greenland-foreign-policy.html?unlocked_article_code=1.uU4.Su69.lFsnacPSo3gL&smid=url-share GIFT article #isolationism #sovereignty #Panama #Greenland
True, however the carrying-out is breathtaking. Granted, #Hitler was similary swift in 1993, even without #SocialMedia, the internet, and global communications. Today, there are so many more people involved.
PS:
For those of you for whom #AmericaFirst does not ring an alarm bell:
https://mastodon.social/@HistoPol/112894479993007709
A quotation from Wallace, Henry:
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The American fascists are most easily recognized by their deliberate perversion of truth and fact. Their newspapers and propaganda carefully cultivate every fissure of disunity, every crack in the common front against fascism. They use every opportunity to impugn democracy. They use isolationism as a slogan to co…
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Full quote, sourcing, notes:
https://wist.info/wallace-henry/72803/
#ElonMusk did not attend classes at Stanford when he arrived in Palo Alto in fall 1995, working to build his company instead.
“There are work options during studies, while engaged in a full course of study, & also after the completion of studies,” said Adam Cohen, author of “The Academic #Immigration Handbook” & an attorney who specializes in employment visas.
#law #ForMeButNotForThee #Billionaire #Republican #lies #WhiteSupremacy #nationalism #isolationism
“I had no money for a lab & no legal right to stay in the country, so that seemed like a good way to solve both issues,” #ElonMusk wrote.
Acc/to the federal #immigration regulations that were in effect in the mid-1990s, foreign students with a J-1 visa were allowed to work only in limited circumstances if they were in “good academic standing” & pursuing a “full course of study.”
#law #ForMeButNotForThee #Billionaire #Republican #lies #WhiteSupremacy #nationalism #isolationism
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