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An employee places "Buy Canadian Instead" signs on a shelf at a liquor store in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada on March 10, 2025.  (Photo: Liang Sen/Xinhua via Getty Images) Posted by: John Phoenix "A lot of people feel betrayed by our closest ally," said one marketer in Canada, where President Donald Trump has imposed 25% tariffs. With declining consumer interest in Tesla vehicles sending CEO and Trump administration ally Elon Musk into an apparent panic over the electric automaker's plummeting stock—spurring an impromptu car show on the White House lawn Tuesday with President Donald Trump scolding Americans for not buying Musk's products—recent reports from across Europe and Canada suggest the two right-wing leaders are p...

Posted by: John Phoenix Image by Global Residence Index. This stigmatizing, and frankly racist, statement about people from the Global South was not blurted out by Trump during his rambling anti-immigrant tirades, nor shouted by a MAGA crowd, nor uttered in some meeting of the far-right. No. It was pronounced by a distinguished Professor giving a lecture about France’s contested colonial legacy in Algeria at an IVY League University. I am Algerian myself. I must admit that I did not react in this room full of professors and “specialists” in area studying Algerians, who all laughed at these words intended—it would seem—as a joke. When faced with racist comments, often, you become petrified, and your brain simply refuses to process the enormity of what was just said. But there ...

Posted by: John Phoenix James Bovard In his State of the Union address last week, President Donald Trump promised that Americans “will always be free.”    That throwaway line assured another round of applause from his Republican devotees on Capitol Hill.  But will other Americans be as gullible or servile as members of Congress? Americans are indoctrinated in government schools to presume that our national DNA practically guarantees we will always be free. But few follies are more perilous than presuming that individual rights are safe in perpetuity. None of the arguments on why liberty is inevitable can explain why it is becoming an endangered species. Presuming that freedom is our destiny lulls people against political predators of all parties and creeds...