Year: 2025

Protesters at Trump Tower in New York City demand release of Mahmoud Khalil, facing deportation for supporting Palestine
Domestic News

The Other Dangers of Trumpworld

April 1, 2025 fwstaff
By Russ Bellant The following is a guest commentary being republished in Fighting-Words.net with permission of the author. The social needs cuts, the blatantly unconstitutional restructuring of government, the dismantling of disease prevention, the lawless […]
DRC regional illustrated map
International News

White House Quest for Critical Minerals Cannot Bring Peace and Development to the DRC

April 1, 2025 fwstaff
By Abayomi Azikiwe Reports have surfaced during the early months of 2025 regarding a possible deal between the current government of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) under President Felix Tshisekedi and the United States […]
Sean Fain, UAW President
Domestic News

“Free Trade” and Trump’s Tariffs: A Response to Shawn Fain

April 1, 2025 fwstaff
  By Chris Fry Elon Musk and his puppet “King Donald Trump” have laid a political trap against the United Auto Workers (UAW) leadership and the U.S. working class as a whole with their escalating […]
South Africa Ambassador Ebrahim Rasool given hero's welcome
International News

South African Ambassador Returns Home to a Hero’s Welcome

March 31, 2025 fwstaff
By Abayomi Azikiwe A veteran anti-apartheid organizer and later politician now turned diplomat, Ebrahim Rasool, has returned to the Republic of South Africa where people swarmed the airport in Cape Town to express their support […]
Immigrants deported to El Salvador prison without due process
Domestic News

New Steps on the Road to Fascism

March 23, 2025 fwstaff
By David Sole We are only 58 days into the current Trump regime. From day one there have been numerous outrageous, overreaching and downright illegal actions by the chief executive and his minions. Now we […]
South African Ambassador Ebrahim Rasool expelled by Trump White House
International News

White House Expels South African Ambassador

March 23, 2025 fwstaff
By Abayomi Azikiwe Republic of South Africa diplomat Ebrahim Rasool was declared persona non grata by the United States Secretary of State Marco Rubio on March 14. Relations between Pretoria and Washington have deteriorated even […]
Domestic News

WINTER’S END | PLAYING THE NUMBERS BLUES | IF THE SPRING IS SILENT

March 22, 2025 fwstaff
  WINTER’S END this leafless tree is alive with the dance of birds this drizzle reminds me of dew the silence of this bell is probably just a sleight of sound this absence of Light […]
Lesotho Founder King Moshoeshoe I
International News

POTUS Ridicules Historic Kingdom of Lesotho in Rambling Address Before Joint Session of Congress

March 22, 2025 fwstaff
By Abayomi Azikiwe In his first speech before the House of Representatives and the Senate during his second bifurcated term of office on March 4, United States President Donald Trump falsely claimed that the Kingdom […]
European Court of Human Rights rules against Ukraine in Odessa massacre of 2014
International News

New Russian Gains in Ukraine War

March 15, 2025 fwstaff
By David Sole The hard reality of Ukraine’s mounting military losses is not likely to be reversed by Donald Trump’s promotion of a ceasefire. Ukraine provoked this conflict in accordance with a U.S./NATO plan to […]
Mahmoud Khalil
Domestic News

Columbia complicit in Trump arrest of student leader Mahmoud Khalil

March 13, 2025 fwstaff
By Ali Abunimah Update A federal judge in New York issued a ruling on Monday afternoon that the government cannot deport Mahmoud Khalil “unless and until the Court orders otherwise.” US District Judge Jesse M. […]