Welcome to democracy. Now democracynow.org the Warren Peace Report I’m Amy Goodman. China has announced retaliatory tariffs on US goods after President Trump initiated a trade war by imposing an additional 10% tariff on all Chinese products. China’s finance ministry said it would levy 15% tariffs on US coal and liquefied natural gas and 10% on crude oil, farm equipment, and some US-made vehicles. China is also imposing new export controls on certain minerals, including rare earth elements critical to the electronics industry. This comes
after Trump said he would delay plans by at least a month to impose tariffs of 25% on Canada and Mexico. Trump’s reversal came after the Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau promised to take steps to crack down on fentanyl smuggling at the US border, even though Canada contributes less than 1% of fentanyl consumed illegally in the US, and Mexican president Claudia Shane Boom said Trump called off the tariffs after she agreed to send 10,000 troops to the border. He asked me how long I wanted to pause tariffs. I said
Forever he told me how much time I told him a month. I’m sure that during this month we’ll be able to deliver good results for his people and the people of Mexico. President Shamim said that under the deal the US pledged to slow the illegal trafficking of weapons to Mexico, though Trump’s account of the agreement on Truth Social made no mention of that commitment. Secretary of State Marco Rubio named Trump Ally and State Department official Pete Morocco as acting administrator of the US agency.
for International Development, that’s used after the Trump Administration placed staff members on leave and took the agency’s website and social media accounts offline. NBC reports that under the first Trump administration, Morocco’s efforts to consolidate power and slash funding drove officials to write a DEC memo that ultimately pushed him out of office. Morocco was also reportedly among the insurrectionists who attacked the US Capitol on January 6, 2021. On Monday, a group of House and Senate Democrats rallied outside the US
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shuttered headquarters in Washington DC and were denied entry to the building. This is Congress member Ishan Omar of Minnesota. This is what the beginning of dictatorship looks like when you have the Constitution and you install yourself as the sole power. That is how dictators are made. What Trump and Elon and all of their cronies are trying to do is take away the constitutional power of Congress. A federal court in Washington, DC, has extended a temporary injunction against President Trump’s effort to freeze trillions of dollars of federal
spending us District Judge Lauren Layan ruled Trump’s order appears to violate the Constitution’s separation of powers, which grants Congress the authority to tax and spend. She also cited the catastrophic impact the freeze would have on millions of people who receive government services, including food, home heating, and medical assistance. On Monday, protesters gathered outside the Office of Personnel Management, which associates of Elon Musk have taken over. The White House has confirmed it is now a special government
An employee with a government email address and office space in the White House complex, Musk tweeted Monday he had deleted a government agency that worked on a free online system for filing 2024 tax returns directly with the IRS, although for now the software appears to remain available. Companies including H&R Block and TurboTax are seeking to protect their multi-billion dollar industry, which sees the average US taxpayer spend $140 a year on tax preparation software. this comes after treasury secretary Scott beset said he had halted most of
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the work of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, the agency established after the 2008 banking crisis to prevent unfair, deceptive, or predatory financial practices. The Trump administration deactivated the famine early warning system network after the State Department issued a stop work order on all US foreign assistance with exceptions for some emergency food aid and military aid for Egypt and Israel. The monitoring program was established after the 1984 famine in Ethiopia; more recently, it predicted the unfolding.
hunger crisis in Sudan, where fighting between rival military factions has plunged half the population, some 25 million people, into high levels of acute food insecurity in the Democratic Republic of Congo, Rwanda, and back. M23 forces have declared a ceasefire, pausing all fighting in the east of the country for humanitarian reasons. The deal, which begins today, comes after at least 900 people were killed as M23 fighters seized the eastern city of Goma over the past week. International groups have called for sanctions and an arms embargo against.
Rwanda over its support of M23 in an interview with CNN The Rwandan president, Paul Ka game, claimed he was unaware of any Rwandan military troops fighting in the Eastern DRC today, on the 3rd of February. Does Rwanda currently have any troops at all in Eastern DRC? I don’t know you’re the commander-in-chief. Yeah, there are many things I don’t know. Meanwhile, the World Food Program says 25.
6 million people across the DRC are facing acute food insecurity; four and a half million children under the age of five require treatment for malnutrition. Israel’s 15-month-long assault on Gaza has killed more than 617 Palestinians, according to the Gaza government media office, which added over 14,000 people missing and presumed dead to its death toll. Nearly 18,000 of that total are children, including 214 newborn infants. A recent study in The Lancet finds the true death toll in Gaza may be 40% higher than official figures. Over 2 million people have. been displaced in Gaza.
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Officials warned this week the most urgent humanitarian need is for temporary shelters as thousands of Palestinian families are sleeping outdoors in frigid temperatures. Authorities say Israel is continuing to obstruct aid access to Gaza, violating the terms of the ceasefire. This comes as Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is meeting with Trump at the White House today. Ahead of their meeting, Trump said there were no guarantees the Gaza ceasefire will hold. Trump also recently called for the quote cleaning out of Gaza and.
forcibly expelling its population to neighboring countries This comes amidst reports, and Yahoo will not commit to implementing the second stage of the ceasefire and is refusing to withdraw troops from Gaza while Hamas remains in political power in the occupied West Bank. The Oscar-nominated director Basel Adri filmed armed and masked Israeli settlers attacking his community of Masada. AATA last night, the settlers threw stone smash vehicles/slash tires and punctured a water tank. Israeli soldiers on the scene did not intervene to halt the crime.
crimes Basel Adri’s film No Other Land is about Israel’s mass expulsion of Palestinians living in Masa Yuta. It’s been nominated for an Academy Award. The Palestinian Ministry of Health says Israeli forces have killed at least 70 Palestinians in the occupied West Bank since the start of this year, more than half of those in Janine al-Zara’s published satellite images that show Israel’s building out seven military bases within the demilitarized buffer zone with Syria following the ouster of Bashar Al Assad in December. One of the.
bases are being built outside the buffer zone inside Syrian territory. Israel’s incursions into Syria violated a 1974 truce that designated the area of the Golan Heights as a buffer zone. Here in New York, three Columbia University students filed a lawsuit Monday against Columbia’s administration after they were suspended last year just ahead of graduation for taking part in peaceful campus protests for Palestinian rights. This is one of the plaintiffs. Katherine, currant, groom, this all comes in response to Colombia’s repression.
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against us, where they created sham disciplinary proceedings to target and discriminate against us, and this led to the suspension and, in my case, effective expulsion from the university. Today we stand here saying that not only do we refuse to be intimidated by the university, but we actively seek through this to hold our university accountable for their violation of our rights and for the immeasurable harm that they have inflicted upon us and anti-Zionist students like us who are simply struggling for Palestinian rights.
to freedom and safety To see our coverage of the Gaza solidarity protest in Colombia and campuses across the country, go to democracynow.org. Later in the broadcast, we’ll speak with a student who was almost deported at Cornell University, and we’ll speak with an Israeli reporter from Hartz. The Senate has confirmed the executive Chris Wright is Secretary of Energy. He has long advocated for fossil fuels and has publicly denied the existence of the climate crisis. He’s the founder of the Denver-based oil field.
firm Liberty Energy and until recently served on the board of OKO, a nuclear power startup. His confirmation came as the Trump Administration sent emails to over 1100 Environmental Protection Agency recently hired workers warning them they could be fired at any time, the New York Times reports. The effect staffers work on climate change. air pollution reduction, clean energy, and enforcing environmental laws like lead pipe remediation. Secretary of State Marco Ruby on Monday unveiled an agreement with the government of El Salvador, which.
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says it will receive immigrants and asylum seekers from different countries who are deported from the United States in his remarks Monday. Rubio praised Salvadoran president Nabob Bekele, who’s been accused of gross human rights abuses and of violating El Salvador’s Constitution by remaining in power for a third presidential term he has agreed to accept for deportation any illegal alien in the United States who is a criminal from any nationality, be they MS-13 or Tragi, and house them in his jails, and third, he has.
offered to house in his jails dangerous American criminals in custody in our country, including those with U.S. citizenship and legal residence. Rubio’s visit to El Salvador came after he met with officials in Panama. Rubio is heading to Costa Rica and then Guatemala today before making a trip to the Dominican Republic as part of his first foreign trip as Trump’s Secretary of State. We have more on the trip after headlines. Businesses across the US, from child daycares to grocery stores, closed their doors Monday to mark a day without.
immigrants in a protest of the Trump administration’s mass raids and deportations. Students also skipped school to join the peaceful action. Thousands took part in the streets and cities. Nationwide, including Phoenix, Arizona New York and Los Angeles protesters also rallied outside Trump Tower in downtown Chicago. This is Melanie, the daughter of undocumented immigrants, who held a sign that read, Speaking out for immigrants who can’t. On the other side, I have immigrants. Built America because who’s the one who
Does your crop? It’s immigrants. They’re the ones in the field who pick up your trash. It’s immigrants. They’re the ones that are cleaning out the offices, the bathrooms, everywhere you work. They’re the ones that clean up. They’re not the ones that are sitting at an office desk doing paperwork. They’re the ones behind everything. President Trump has named his former speechwriter, Darren Bey, to a senior position at the State Department. Bey was fired in 2018 after CNN reported he’d spoken at a conference attended by
White nationalists last October, BD wrote, quote, competent white men must be in charge if you want things to work, unquote, and in Germany 160,000 demonstrators rallied at Berlin’s Brandenburg Gate on Sunday to condemn conservative leader Frederick Mer for collaborating with the extreme right Alternative for Germany party to push an anti-immigrant measure. The bill ultimately failed after members of his own CDU party refused to support it. Ms. has been favored to become Germany’s next chancellor in the upcoming
