LOCDE revoit la baisse ses prvisions de croissance, sur laquelle vont fortement peser les droits de douane instaurs par Donald Trump. En 2025, la progression du PIB mondial devrait tre infrieure 3 %, une premire depuis la crise du Covid-19.
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Democratic party leaders just met for the first time in months. When will they take real action Norman Solomon
Sen Schumer, the minority leader:
is a clear villain and a bully. So where is s backbone Where is his conviction Where is that toughness he likes to project
Elon Musk's recent question about Trump's trade war caught Tesla employees off guard, stirring anxiety about job security and finances. This highlights how trade policies can disrupt global supply chains and impact workplace morale. Musks engagement shows his awareness of external economic factors affecting Tesla's future. Read the full story for insights on this situation.
BREAKING: s top data analyst Harry Enten just dismantled s presidency in real time, chart by chart, stat by stat.
From job losses to trade disasters to historic indictments, Enten lays it bare: Trumps legacy isnt greatness, its .
:coffeev60: Hmmmm . . .
"Increasing inequality the privatization of infrastructure, security, financesweve seen this before, Cullen Murphy writes. Are we headed for a new feudal age"
Things, believes
The U.S. spends taxpayer money on transgender (actually "transgenic") mice
has been executed in 2020 and been replaced by a clone/robot
White Farmer genocide in South Africa
the deep state
everything says
Immigrants eating cats and dogs
Totally non-concerning for a U.S. president
Bryson DeChambeau compares Donald Trump to Tiger Woods after White House meeting
Bryson DeChambeau likens Donald Trump to Tiger Woods after White House meeting
Schreckt die berschrift Sie hinreichend ab
Im Folgenden lasse ich Sie daran teilhaben, welche Texte mich heute klger gemacht haben. Der Wichtigste zuerst.
Yanis Varoufakis/Project Syndicate: Darum geht es Trump und seinen besten Freunden: aus den Kryptowhrungen ein Kettenbriefsystem machen, in dem er (und seine Freunde) der ist, der sich ganz oben dumm und dmlich bereichert. Dass ich den Text berhaupt gefunden habe, liegt an den Miesepetern bei den nachdenkseiten, so viel Fairness muss sein. Die Kommentare zu den Links lassen sich berlesen
Wie funktioniert diese Gangster-Systematik in der US-Regierung Der hier in Bonn ansssige Schnellschreiber Uwe Kerkow/telepolis vermittelt dazu einen ebenso schnell zu lesenden prgnanten Eindruck und lsst dabei auch die inneren Widersprche (= Schwachstellen) nicht aus: Silicon Valley und das Pentagon gehen eine historische Allianz ein. Die Tech-Giganten liefern KI-Expertise, Washington bietet Geld und Macht. Doch zu welchem Preis
Um das Denken dieser Gangster besser zu verstehen, eignet sich folgender Text von Tilman Baumgrtel/Jungle World: Elon Musk und Ideologen des Dark Enlightenment wie der kanadische Marketingprofessor Gad Saad erklren das Mitgefhl zum neuesten woke mind virus: toxisch und selbstmrderisch.
So dumm und dmlich knnen Medien funktionieren
Oliver Schott/Jungle World: Eine Journalistenfloskel, die man nicht mehr hren kann: Politiker XY msse jetzt liefern: Sprachkolumne. Was Journalisten bei der Politik bestellen.
Zwei weitere Beispiele sind der Paywall von uebermedien entsprungen, und haben von ihrer schockierenden Brisanz leider nichts verloren:
Johanna Bernklau/uebermedien: Auslnder kriminell, Ossis rassistisch, fragt eine ARD-Doku. Doch statt Vorurteilen wirklich auf den Grund zu gehen, bleibt der Film oberflchlich. Auf ihrem Trip nach Erfurt fragt die Reporterin nicht ausreichend nach, sie ordnet nicht ein. Und lsst problematische Aussagen einfach so stehen. Die Presenter-Pest da ist sie wieder. Und die fragliche Dame war noch nicht mal aus dem dummen Westen zum Zoobesuch angereist, sondern aus Leipzig.
Stefan Niggemeier macht die mchtigste Verlegerin NRWs nackig: Das Funke-Clickbait-Portal Der Westen fhrt Menschen mit einer Schlagzeile zu Friedrich Merz in die Irre. Aber vielleicht dient das alles ja nur dem angeblichen Traum von Verlegerin Julia Becker, eine medienkritische Gesellschaft zu frdern
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versammelt sich alljhrlich bei der . Von den dortigen Diskursen gibt es lesenswerte Nachbereitungen, deren Meinung ich nicht in allen Punkten teile, die aber zur persnlichen Meinungs- und Weiterbildung gut geeignet sind, jedenfalls sich positiv vom dummen Geslze ber die Digitalisierung unterscheiden:
Christian Bartels/MDR-Altpapier: die der neue Kulturstaatsminister Weimer anzettelte, nimmt Fahrt auf. Digitalminister Wildberger legte auf zwei ausgesprochen unterschiedlichen Konferenzen erste Auftritte hin. Auerdem: Das Gert Radio wird vermutlich nicht berleben.' Zum letztgenannten Punkt markiere ich meinen Dissens. Und Valerie Weber, Ex-WDR-Direktorin, halte ich nur fr eine recht begrenzt taugliche Kronzeugin solcher Argumente.
Wie immer eine inhaltliche Fundgrube Thomas Knwer: .
Wohin das Rstungskapital fhren will
Das beschreibt Bojan Stojkovski/IPG-Journal ganz schamfrei und begeistert ber die Ukraine: Die Ukraine entwickelt sich zum Epizentrum militrischer Innovation und knnte Europas Verteidigung grundlegend verndern.
Wenn dieses Gedns hier durch die Luft fliegt, will ich tot sein.
Und wer tut was dagegen
Es gibt jede Menge bliche Verdchtige. Aber auch die hier, die sich gegen ihre Diffamierung durch das Leitmedium Sddeutsche zu wehren wissen:
Jens Neusser/schwatzgelb: Prsidentschaftswahl beim Ballspielverein Borussia 09 e.V.: .
Und hierzu jetzt Ihre intellektuelle Hausaufgabe: warum tut die SZ das Warum hat sie das ntig Und warum die, fr deren Interessen sie hier ficht
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing CompanyCEO C. C. Wei blamed worsening traffic snarls for slight delays in expanding its base in southwest Japan.
Soliciting bribes or gifts from foreign powers is an impeachable offense unless you're
Hard for me to understand: grappling with the Charlottesville tragedy eight years on (US)
Trump extendss sympathy after Biden cancer diagnosis but it doesnt last long
Aber nicht gackern!
: Hes got categories of pardonsBut all of them have one thing in common, which is youve got to be whole hog for . Never before we have we seen a president who makes it a gate to getting to a pardon to be a supporter of his, a vocal current political supporter.
FOUR OUT OF FIVE LIVING PRESIDENTS AGREE
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British Prime Minister Keir Starmers failure to explain how and when hell find billions of pounds of extra defense spending has left him facing doubts about the U.K.s commitment as a key power in Europe and NATO.
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El Kremlin descarta una cumbre "en breve" entre Putin, Trump y Zelenski El portavoz presidencial ha sealado que dichos encuentros deben ser producto de acuerdos alcanzados" durante las negociaciones.
US-Cloud bald illegal
Die rechtliche Basis fr die Nutzung von US-Cloud-Angebote war immer schon wackelig. Nach der Machtbernahme von Donald Trump in den USA ist das Transatlantic Data Privacy Framework (TADPF) tot. Es hat nur noch niemand gerufen: Der Kaiser ist nackt!
Canadians Have Cooled on US Travel
Secret Service Told Trump It Needs to Bolster Security if He Keeps Golfing (PalmBeach
The Emperor Has No Clothes: Trumps $45M Military Parade And Americas Democratic Decline
The Emperor Has No Clothes: Trumps $45M Military Parade And Americas Democratic Decline
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Trumps upcoming June 2025 military parade, coinciding with his 79th birthday, sparks debate over US democratic erosion. Costing $45M, the event highlights executive overreach amid declining global soft power. It is also the culmination of decades of American Presidents bearing dictator-like powersonly this time the Emperor has no clothes.
A personal parade for a Presidents self-glory, a new Presidential airplane which has been described as a amid corruption accusations this is not the description of some Third World dictatorship (as part of the Global South was called during the Cold War years). This is America.
On June 14, 2025, the US is set to host a grand military parade in Washington, DC, ostensibly to celebrate the 250th anniversary of the US Army. Yet, the date coincides with President Donald Trumps 79th birthday, a detail that has sparked widespread controversy and reignited debates about the state of American democracy. This spectacle, featuring thousands of troops, tanks, and aircraft, is projected to cost up to $45 milliona figure some argue is an underestimate, given . More troublingly, the event raises a deeper question: is the US, long a self-proclaimed beacon of democracy, sliding into an illiberal system, thereby undermining its global soft power
The hard truth is that, for decades already, the US has operated as a democracy in name only, a trend that became more pronounced after the September 11, 2001 attacks. The post-9/11 era saw the expansion of presidential superpowers, with measures like indefinite detention and warrantless surveillance becoming normalized. Even before that, American presidents have long wielded expansive powers to engage in military actions and de facto war and thus shape foreign policy without explicit congressional authorization. By exploiting vague pieces of legislation like the and leveraging executive authority, Presidents have, over and over again, initiated conflicts, drone strikes (more recently), and covert operations, often bypassing the Congresss constitutional war-declaring role.
This trend, from Vietnam to modern interventions in Syria and Yemen, centralizes foreign policy control in the executive, undermining democratic checks and enabling rapid, unilateral global influence, often with far-reaching consequences. If US Presidents have often been temporary dictators (even if bound by the so-called deep state parameters), Trump seems to be bent on making himself and future Presidents more dictator-like pertaining to domestic policy as well.
Be it as it may, for over 20 years, the US has already been using indefinite detention and torture in and CIA black sites across over 50 countries, holding thousands, including minors, without due process, as denounced by Human Rights Watch and many others. A culture of institutionalized torture persists: John Yoos 2002 infamous justified acts (including, famously, hypothetically crushing the testicles of the persons child if needed, a stance he in 2010), while then Vice-President Dick Cheney defended blunt torture in 2014. Despite Obama and Bidens pledges to close Guantanamo, no concrete steps have been taken, and CIA torture cover-ups continue, marking the US as a leading global perpetrator of state-sanctioned torture and arrests without due process of law.
The Patriot Act, passed in the wake of 911 terrorist attacks in 2001, granted the executive branch unprecedented authority, typically at the expense of civil liberties. These policies, enacted under the guise of national security, set a precedent for executive overreach that has only intensified over time. Trumps presidency, however, marks a new level of audacity, challenging the very discourses that have underpinned American identity. Controversies about his military parade aside, his many measures reveal an increasing personalization of power that is antithetical to American self-professed democratic principles.
The parade itself is a case study in this illiberal drift. have pointed out that the US Army had no plans for such a display during its 200th anniversary in 1975, a time when the scars of the Vietnam War and the Kent State shootings made such a spectacle unthinkable. Now, with Trump at the helm, the event takes on a different tone. The inclusion of 28 Abrams tanks, 50 helicopters, and a World War II-era B-25 bomber, alongside a paratrooper stunt where the Armys Golden Knights will hand Trump an American flag, feels (for some) more like a celebration of the president than of the military.
This supposed personalization of power is not an isolated incident but part of a broader pattern under Trumps leadership. As I in November 2024, Trumps so-called war against the deep state (or parts of it) is not only about dismantling entrenched bureaucracies but actually has a lot to do with increasing presidential powers. By framing himself as a victim of a shadowy establishment, Trump has justified expanding his authority, often bypassing checks and balances. The military parade thus serves as a symbolic extension of this agendaa public display of control that merges national pride with personal glorification. Such actions not only erode American self-professed democratic norms but also introduce an element of unpredictability that further damages American credibility on the global stage.
For one thing, the implications for US soft power are profound enough. For much of the 20th century, the US wielded influence through its cultural and ideological appeal, positioning itself as a champion of democracy and freedom. Yet, American soft power is eroding (just look at the ). In addition, the Trump administrations erratic foreign policy accelerates such a decline. European diplomats have described his unpredictability as destabilizing, further weakening US global influence.
When a military parade doubleseven if in an ambivalent manneras a birthday celebration for a leader who sometimes behaves like an autocrat (be it a approach of his for or just erratic behaviour when it comes to , for example), it sends a signal to the world that the US is no longer a reliable steward of democratic valuesif it ever was. This is not merely about the $45 million price tag. It is a symptom of a deeper malaisethe Emperor finally has no clothes, so to speak.
To sum it up, Trumps actions, while bold, are not the sole cause of this shift they are the very culmination of decades of erosion in democratic governance. But his personal touch, with its blend of ego and unpredictability (not to mention bravado), has made the USs illiberal turn more evident than ever. Without the democracy human rights narrative to sustain it (already under Biden), the US may find its soft power diminished beyond repair, leaving allies to question its leadership and adversaries to exploit its vulnerabilities. In other words, Trumps parade, in all its pomp and controversy, may well mark a turning pointnot just for Trumps legacy, but for the USs place in the world.
Uriel Araujo is a Ph.D. scholar and anthropology researcher with a focus on international and ethnic conflicts.
Disclaimer: The views expressed in this article are authors own and do not necessarily reflect the editorial policy of Voice of East.
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Informes desvelan que Donald Trump no fue informado sobre la 'Operacin Telaraa' de Ucrania Ucrania ejecut una operacin ultrasecreta con efectos devastadores el domingo por la tarde que golpe a Rusia como nunca.
President Volodymyr Zelenskyy's approval rating in Ukraine has gone up since Trump and Vance started attacking him. And this spike in popularity occurred BEFORE Operation Spiderweb.
With a 74% rating, Zelenskyy is about 28 points ahead of Trump's US rating. Sad!
Unreleased footage of a reporter at a Trump regime press conference.
London Mayor Sadiq Khan Hails Adolescence for Having Mainstreamed Conversation About Epidemic of Violence Against Women
The head of a global airlines industry body said growing trade barriers risked damaging the economy and the air travel sector, and "unacceptable" plane delivery delays were frustrating growth plans.
Trump geht die Geduld mit dem Russland-Ukraine-Krieg aus, sagt der Botschafter
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Daiwa Securities Group boss Akihiko Ogino said the Japan brokerage wont be pushing to add staff working on mergers and acquisitions.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said he supports Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogans proposal to organize a meeting between U.S. President Donald Trump, Russian President Vladimir Putin, and himself.