• 'That's my only option': Kirsten Dunst declares she will vote for Joe Biden, claims 'Civil War' movie is not about Trump

    Actress Kirsten Dunst said that voting for President Biden in the 2024 presidential election is her only option, while noting that she didn't believe her latest movie was meant to parody the presidency of Donald Trump.The 41-year-old actress, best known for roles in the cheerleading hit "Bring It On" and Marvel's Spider-Man movies of the early 2000s, was interviewed about her latest film, "Civil War," and whether or not it is meant to be a statement about President Trump.The film's presidential...

  • US anti-war activist Joe Allen to give talk on crisis of American politics and war in Gaza

    In a meeting organised by People Before Profit, the activist and author will deliver his talk at 7pm in St Columb’s Hall. Allen is the author of several books on US politics, foreign policy and Labour relations. These include, Vietnam the Last War the US lost, and his most recent book on the struggle for Trade Union rights within United Parcel Service. Allen has been active in radical politics for over four decades. Speaking ahead of the event on Wednesday evening in Derry, a spokesperson for...

  • Trade war: Why Biden and Trump are working to out-tariff each other

    President Joe Biden and presumptive GOP nominee Donald Trump are now working to one-up each other with various tariff proposals despite both political parties enthusiastically backing free trade just a few years ago. The latest came on Wednesday, when Biden proposed tripling the import tariff on Chinese steel and aluminum, subject to an investigation by […]

  • Donald Trump gag order should concern all Americans

    Donald Trump faces fines for violating a gag order imposed by a politically charged judge at the request of a politically charged district attorney, and a whole bunch of ignorant people in America think that’s A-OK. Wake up and smell the tyranny.

  • Why Americans can't see or hear what is going on at the Trump trial

    It's a moment in history—the first U.S. president facing criminal charges in an American courtroom. Yet only a handful of observers are able to see or even hear what is going on. Instead, most of the nation is getting news of former President Donald Trump's hush money trial secondhand. Starting with preliminary motions and jury selection Monday, reporters in a Manhattan courtroom must convey what is being said to the outside world after the fact. That's all because New York state law...

  • Trump: What's going on in Israel could end up in a world war

    Former President Trump warns how President Biden's incompetency could

  • These Americans Won’t Pay for the War on Gaza

    Lucy Dean Stockton As the Biden administration continues to give weapons to Israel, thousands of people across the country are protesting by refusing to pay their taxes.

  • Reader's View: Don't forget, Hamas declared this war

    "According to notes found on Hamas soldiers, their leaders gave directives to basically have fun during their cold-blooded rape and murder."

  • Why Congress keeps hurting Americans to fund endless wars

    The Senate’s newly passed $95 billion package does next to nothing for Americans and does much more to fund endless war — especially with the billions in the package going toward Ukraine. “It does not secure our border; it goes in and takes more money and straps your children and your grandchildren with another $95 billion. It gives money to Taiwan, which hacks off the Chinese,” Glenn Beck explains. However, the blame can’t be laid entirely at the feet of the Democrats. Republicans are...

  • Forget Trump — the American media is on trial in New York

    Back during the Trump years, the media spent an inordinate amount of time dissecting every last detail of this tabloid journalism fodder we’re now seeing play out in a New York City courtroom — whi

  • Review: ‘Civil War’ asks viewers what kind of American they are

    British filmmaker Alex Garland has returned to A24 with his newest film “Civil War.” Though the title suggests otherwise, the film is less about politics and more a critique of how Americans can’t sustain democracy or civility. The film begins with an internal war in America where the fictitious Western Forces — California and Texas This story Review: ‘Civil War’ asks viewers what kind of American they are appeared first on Washington Square News.

  • Letter: Don’t believe the lies, Trump is a criminal

    Perhaps the author of a recent letter understands how Donald Trump’s attorney general, Bill Barr, put his finger on the scales of justice numerous times and that Trump has promised to do so if reelected, since he believes that’s what presidents do (“Biden is a dictator using agencies to ruin Trump,” Star-Advertiser, April 16). Of course, he laughingly denies Trump ever did it. See the Mueller report or Michael Cohen or Geoffrey Berman as proof of the fact.