Columbia University, which was called ground zero in the anti-genocide protests last spring, announced last week that it will bow down to the Trump administration and implement free-speech-killing policies in the hopes of getting the White House to reconsider the $400 million funding cut for allegedly allowing antisemitism run amok on campus.
When a government borrows to fund its programs, that puts pressure on consumer prices, according to research by Ernie Tedeschi, director of economics at Yale University’s Budget Lab and former chief economist for President Joe Biden’s White House Council of Economic Advisers.
Jewish alumni of Columbia University came to the defense of Mahmoud Khalil, the Palestinian graduate, who faces possible deportation by the Trump administration for standing up against Israel’s genocide in Gaza during protests last year on the campus.
Last week, the Trump administration made good on its promise to continue to track down anti-genocide protesters in an attempt to deport them.
Again, as Gerald Celente keeps noting, “Bullshit has its own sound.” And, unfortunately, the American media has gone deaf because it is not hearing the Donald Trump bullshit spewed out in his address to Congress two weeks ago when he said that as President, “I’ve stopped all government censorship and free speech in America... it’s back.”
Doing a 180, last Tuesday, when President Trump addressed Congress, he said, “I’ve stopped all government censorship and brought back free speech in America,” Trump said, with a straight face. “It’s back.”
Iran’s Foreign Ministry last week criticized the Trump administration’s decision to enforce a “maximum pressure” sanction campaign on Tehran and that the Americans are fooling themselves if they think proven failed policy will somehow achieve a more desirable outcome.
French President Emmanuel Macron told other European countries last week that France is willing to discuss providing the bloc with a nuclear umbrella considering what he sees as a growing risk of an invasion by Russia and an unstable relationship with the Trump administration.
Israel Katz, the Israeli defense head and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu loyalist, said the Trump administration approved of Tel Aviv’s plans to keep troops in the southern region of Lebanon, violating his country’s ceasefire with Hezbollah.
French President Emmanuel Macron said last week that the European Union finds itself in a dangerous predicament with an emboldened Russia and new leadership in Washington that can no longer be looked at as a security guarantor.