Tag: Region Americas
More US troops deploying to US-Mexico border, Guantanamo
The Pentagon will deploy roughly 1,500 more active-duty soldiers to the southern border to support President Donald Trump’s expanding crackdown on immigration, a U.S. official said Friday. That would eventually bring the total to about 3,600 active-duty troops at the border. The order has been approved, the official said, to send a logistics brigade from the 18th Airborne Corps at Fort Liberty in North Carolina. The official spoke on the condition of anonymity because the deployment has not yet been publicly…
House Democrats Physically Blocked From Entering Department Of Education Building
Video: House Democrats attempted to enter a Department of Education building on Friday in protest of proposed actions from President Trump but were blocked.
Canadians across political spectrum agree on staying Canadian
Polls have consistently shown that very few Canadians have ever been in favor of joining the United States, and the opinion has been growing stronger throughout the pas few decades. A reputable public opinion monitoring program in Canada examined Canadian views toward the US in September 2022, and one thing was striking: Canadians of different political persuasions may disagree on many things, but Americanization isn’t one of them. If there’s one principle uniting Canadians, it’s that Canadians choose Canada every…
Lockheed Martin Corporation agrees to settle allegations of defective pricing on military contracts
Lockheed Martin Corporation (LMC) has agreed to pay $29.74 million to resolve False Claims Act allegations of defective pricing on contracts for F-35 military aircraft. This payment is in addition to $11.3 million that LMC previously paid to the Department of Defense (DOD) for the same undisclosed cost and pricing data on some of the same contracts. LMC, headquartered in Bethesda, Maryland, is one of the world’s largest defense contractors. According to court documents, between 2013 and 2015, LMC inflated…
West Point Military Academy shuts down clubs for minorities, women amid DEI purge
The U.S. Military Academy has disbanded a dozen West Point cadet clubs centered on ethnicity, gender, race and sexuality in response to the Trump administration’s push to eliminate diversity programs throughout government. The famed military academy in New York issued a memo Tuesday shutting down groups including the Asian-Pacific Forum Club, Latin Cultural Club, National Society of Black Engineers Club and Society of Women Engineers Club in order to adhere to recent guidance from the Army and Defense Department. It also shut…
Bernie Sanders delivers ferocious Attack on Trump, Musk ‘Oligarchy’
Video: During remarks on the Senate floor, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) criticized the Trump Administration for moving the country towards ‘oligarchy’.
US, Philippine fighter aircraft jointly patrol disputed shoal region guarded by China
MANILA, Philippines — U.S. and Philippine fighter aircraft staged a joint patrol and training Tuesday over a disputed South China Sea shoal where Chinese fighter jets fired flares last year to drive away a Philippine aircraft, Philippine officials said. The joint patrol and air-intercept drills over the hotly disputed Scarborough Shoal off the northwestern Philippines were the first by the longtime treaty allies since U.S. President Donald Trump took office again. Trump’s “America First” foreign policy thrust has sparked concerns…
Canadians push back on Trump tariffs by ditching American goods and services
U.S. President Donald Trump’s tariffs started a wave of patriotic pushback this weekend from Canadians declaring that they were swapping American items off their shopping lists and cancelling their subscriptions to leading streaming services. Mr. Trump’s plan to impose 25-per-cent tariffs on Canadian goods starting Tuesday has prompted fears of an economic shock that will throw hundreds of thousands out of work. The federal government immediately responded with retaliatory tariffs as political leaders urged the public to shop local and…
(Video) Bernie Sanders: We Are Living in Unprecedented Times
“Is this a coup?” US at war against its own citizens, federal workforce
A Redditor seems to have figured it out. It’s hard to argue that the current administration’s actions don’t qualify as a coup. As defined by the Cambridge English Dictionary, a coup is a sudden illegal, often violent, taking of government power, especially by part of an army. Readers may decide for themselves whether the list of actions below qualify as acts of war against American citizens. Actions of the Trump / Vance / Musk Administration Coming up: Trump moves to…
Lawsuit accuses Amazon of secretly tracking consumers through cellphones
Amazon.com was sued on Wednesday by consumers who accused the retailing giant of secretly tracking their movements through their cellphones, and selling data it collects. According to a proposed class action in San Francisco federal court, Amazon obtained “backdoor access” to consumers’ phones by providing tens of thousands of app developers with code known as Amazon Ads SDK to be embedded in their apps. This allegedly enabled Amazon to collect an enormous amount of timestamped geolocation data about where consumers…
Texas sends more than 400 Guardsmen to US-Mexico border
Gov. Greg Abbott on Monday said he’s sending more than 400 soldiers from Houston and Fort Worth to the U.S.-Mexico border to collaborate with Border Patrol agents “to stop illegal immigrants from entering our country and to enforce immigration laws.” Abbott said he will also send C-130s, an aircraft that can take off and land on rough terrain, and Chinook helicopters. The troops, part of a unit called the Texas Tactical Border Force, will join those already deployed to the…
Is DeepSeek a DeekFake and does it matter?
The Chinese AI startup, DeepSeek, is in the news today due to its rapid rise and the impact that had on NVIDIA stock. Apparently, DeepSeek developed an AI model that has caused a stir. For one thing, it just became the top-downloaded free app in the Apple Store, surpassing ChatGPT. This led to a sharp decline in NVIDIA’s stock, as investors are supposedly concerned that DeepSeek’s AI model is more cost-efficient. More more cost-efficient means that it threatens NVIDIA’s dominance…
Trump Unlawfully Purges Independent Watchdogs who Police Federal Agencies
Late Friday night, President Trump abruptly fired at least 12 inspectors general, defying a law that requires 30 days’ notice and detailed rationale to be provided to Congress, according to NYT sources. The firings targeted watchdogs in agencies from the departments of Agriculture, Commerce, Defense, Education, Housing and Urban Development, Interior, Labor, Transportation and Veterans Affairs, along with the Environmental Protection Agency and the Small Business Administration. Emails from the White House cited “changing priorities” as the reason for the…
Trump call with Denmark’s PM over Greenland described as confrontational, serious, dangerous
Trump has apparently not ruled out the use of military force to annex Greenland. During a press conference on January 8, 2025, Trump stated that “all options were on the table,” refusing to exclude the possibility of military force (The Guardian). The confrontational stance has raised concerns among European leaders, with Germany and France warning against any use of force over Greenland (The Guardian). German Chancellor Olaf Scholz said “the principle of the inviolability of borders applies to every country……
In confidential memo, LeBlanc asks for ideas on how to fight back against U.S. protectionism
Finance Minister Dominic LeBlanc has asked his fellow ministers to draw up a list of ideas he can deploy in the planned spring budget to fight back against U.S. protectionism, a threat that shows no signs of going away even if Canada has secured a pause to President Donald Trump’s planned tariffs. In an undated, confidential memo sent to cabinet ministers and obtained by CBC News, LeBlanc writes he is only willing to consider spending more money on initiatives that respond to the “current Canada-U.S….