"What’s clear is that autocrats everywhere are becoming more emboldened because they know that they will encounter no real consequences from the Trump-Musk administration for their aggressions. They know that the #UnitedStates government is trying to destroy #democracy at home and around the #world."
-Ruth Ben-Ghiat
https://lucid.substack.com/p/erdogan-arrests-top-opposition-politician
#Carney spoke w/ Ursula #vonderLeyen, president of the European Commission, on Sunday, & military industrial cooperation was discussed….
“Our cooperation w/ #Canada has intensified & should be further enhanced, also to strengthen trans-Atlantic #security,” said the #EU document, released on Wednesday. It added that talks were underway “including on respective initiatives to boost defense industry production.”
Since #Trump’s election, #Canada has been increasingly aligning itself more closely w/partners across the Atlantic, seeking to diversify #trading partners & #defense #allies away from its core relationship w/the #UnitedStates.
In a document prepared by the #EU to lay out the plans for its #defense initiative, Canada was explicitly mentioned, hinting to the talks to absorb the country into the EU #military industry project.
Under the current talks, #Canada would help supply the additional 35% & could go further if it brokered an additional agreement to participate even more closely.
Canada, acc/to the terms of the discussion, would also be given preferential access to the #EU market for #military equipment, an alternative to buying equipment from the #US.
The #EU is taking major steps to increase #military spending, both loosening budget rules so that countries in the bloc can spend more & proposing a 150B euro loan program to finance shared military development.
That program is meant to prioritize European-made products, with 65% of component costs coming either from within the bloc or from partners that have signed a specific type of deal with it.
Shaken by a crisis in the 2 nations’ longstanding #alliance since #Trump’s election, #Canada has started moving closer to #Europe. The #military industry collaboration w/the #EU highlights how traditional #US #allies are deepening their ties without US participation to insulate themselves from Trump’s unpredictable moves.
Menaced by #Trump, #Canada Prepares to Join #EU #Military Industry Buildup
Canada’s draft deal to participate in #Europe’s #defense industry will bring contracts to Canadian #manufacturers & help lessen dependence on the #UnitedStates.
#geopolitics #NewWorldOrder #alliance #NATO #democracy #autocracy
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/19/world/canada/canada-eu-military-industry-trump.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare&sgrp=p&pvid=F359012C-E9F6-4ED9-9ACD-5E24B722BE0C
Democrats are touted as the ‘woke’ party which is ironic because they’re pretty much sound asleep when it comes to seeing and fighting against what Trump has been doing to the foundations of government and the rule of law.
The guys who wrote the Constitution were nobody's fools.
They created a separation of powers so that one person could not amass enormous power.
It should frighten EVERY American — conservatives and progressives — that we now have a president who doesn't respect the rule of law. https://x.com/berniesanders/status/1902383411408359526?s=46 #press #democracy
Elon Musk is blaming Libs for lighting Teslas on fire … which is weirdly ironic as Musk, Trump and the Nazi Republicans are lighting America and her Constitution on fire.
Elon Musk and his companies have made it clear just who they are.
"Judges Fear for Their Safety Amid a Wave of Threats"
#Judges #Safety #Threads #Trump #Violence #Policies #Democracy #SocialMedia
Can we stop calling what’s happening under Trump ‘politics’, and start calling it what it is … a coup and a hostile fascist take over of America?
Now, can we find a way to explain that to Chuck Schumer and the Democrats who are acting as if it’s business as usual in Washington?
"After some research, the reality became clear — ICE detention isn’t just a bureaucratic nightmare. It’s a business. These facilities are privately owned and run for profit." #Democracy https://werd.io/2025/youre-not-a-criminal-but-youre-going-to-jail-my
When you’re unfollowed because a Mastodon citizen’s account suddenly disappeared do you ever worry that a group of masked DOGE thugs threw a bag over their head and took them to an off the grid black site for interrogation?
No … just me?
#USA, #Democracy
I just have run across this note, which seems so much up to date. Eventually I photographed that note in an Indian reservation, in the US 2005.
It appears very spooky, concerning what has occurred since then.
"My arrest was a direct consequence of exercising my right to #freespeech as I advocated for a #freePalestine & an end to the #genocide in #Gaza, which resumed in full force Monday night." a letter from #MahmoudKhalil in #ICE detention
@inthehands @StillIRise1963 @tarheel
study the history of #chile, #southkorea, #spain
look at #serbia, #georgia, #hungary today
corrupt, murderous regimes, opposed
they fought! they're fighting!
what you about you #usa?
i will not listen to arguments saying #american #democracy is doomed:
hopelessness
cynicism
it only helps #plutocrat-#bigot malice
you fight
you #vote
now and forever
that matters
"but it should be easy"
never is and never will be
show a fucking spine
TLDR;
We're letting billionaires destroy the environment so they can reduce their need for non-billionaires.
Smart.
#politics #HumanRights #democracy
https://www.axios.com/2025/03/19/exclusive-uae-us-partnership-to-invest-to-power-data-centers
"Fukuyama writes the #history that haunts him. He seeks to promote liberal #democracy, but from underneath his own feet the specter of #illiberalism reproduces itself." https://www.liberalcurrents.com/fukuyama-fails-to-answer-the-basic-questions-of-liberal-political-theory/
