Trump betrayals

NANCY ALTMAN—Trump and DOGE and the others who Republican President Dwight Eisenhower called a “tiny splinter group” who hate Social Security, but they tried to privatize it. They were unsuccessful in that. And now what they’re doing is they’re trying to destroy it from within. And we will see pretty soon as it collapses, they’ll say, “Oh, the private sector should run it.” That will be horrible. It will undermine all of our economic security.

J. COOK—Anyone trying to make sense of the Trump administration’s policy towards Gaza should have a thumping headache by now.

Initially, US President Donald Trump called for the mass expulsion of Palestinians from the tiny territory wrecked by Israel over the past year and a half, so that he could build the “Riviera of the Middle East” on the crushed bodies of Gaza’s children.

He followed up last week with an explicitly genocidal threat addressed to “the people of Gaza” – all two million-plus of them. They would be “DEAD” if the Israeli hostages held by Hamas were not quickly released – a decision over which Gaza’s population has precisely no control.

To make this extermination threat more credible, his administration has expedited the transfer of an extra $4bn worth of US weapons to Israel, bypassing Congressional approval.

GER—The United States is the biggest arms dealer on Earth, responsible for 43% of the world’s weapons exports from 2020 to 2024. The US transferred seven times more than China, and five times more than Russia. Ben Norton explains how the military-industrial complex profits from war.

EDITOR—“Since yesterday, I have been subjected to a vicious, coordinated, and dehumanizing doxxing campaign led by Columbia affiliates Shai Davidai and David Lederer who, among others, have labeled me (sic!) a security threat and called for my deportation, he began.

Their attacks have incited a wave of hate, including calls for my deportation and death threats. I have outlined the wider context below, yet Columbia has not provided any meaningful support or resources in response to this escalating threat, he added.

I haven’t been able to sleep, fearing that ICE or a dangerous individual might come to my home. I urgently need legal support, and I urge you to intervene and provide the necessary protections to prevent further harm.”

Mahmoud Khalil email to Columbia University interim president on March 7, one day before he was detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement”

EDITORS—Trump insists on “owning” Gaza, and developing that land into some sort of East Mediterranean Riviera, a new “Sin City” sitting where hundreds of thousands of martyrs lie in the rubble, and now the deadline for Hamas and Palestinians to simply surrender has been tightened to a mere few days. He sounds like he’s doing Palestinians a great favour, saving their lives, which in a technical, completely illegal and amoral way, he may be doing, considering he knows the Zionists are ready to resume their barbaric genocide—with ample help from his own administration, packed with fellow rabid Zionists. Meanwhile, he’s applying enormous pressure on Egypt and Jordan to take the millions of Palestinians to be displaced, in itself, a clear crime of ethnic cleansing.  That said, if you think that Biden or Harris would have been better you are fooling yourself: Biden and his Zionist-riddled administration were pursuing exactly the same policies, albeit without Trump’s signature compassionless style.