The Trump administration has proposed punitive new fees on international shipping that would target vessels owned by Chinese companies or manufactured in Chinese shipyards, promising to dramatically alter the economics of global trade. The new policy would charge Chinese-owned cargo ships, as well as third-country flagged vessels built in China, $1 million or more per […]
PENTAGON — U.S. Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth has called for NATO’s European members to increase their role in the defense of Europe as the United States focuses on defending the alliance’s Pacific flank. It is a move that he says will likely require European allies to significantly increase defense spending from 2% of GDP to […]
“Palestine is not just an idea—it is a place. It is a homeland to the Palestinian people,” the coalition wrote. A coalition of over 100 organizations on Monday forcefully denounced U.S. President Donald Trump’s plan to ethnically cleanse the Gaza Strip of Palestinians and take over the coastal enclave recently decimated by an Israeli military campaign conducted […]
The destruction of Gaza “was primarily the result of Israel’s war crimes,” said one human rights expert. “They are not rectified by another huge war crime.” As U.S. President Donald Trump expanded on his plan to ethnically cleanse Gaza and force Palestinians to resettle against their will in what he said Thursday would be “far safer and more beautiful […]