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retired professor, irate citizen, resident of France since 1977, dual national, voter in Massachusetts, leans democratic socialist; identifies with no ethnonational homeland, especially any that engages in [the G-word]; opposes border walls with neighbors

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Jim Cohen @jimcohen226.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
La Maison de l'Amérique latine doit-elle être vendue au plus offrant par la Banque de France? Devrions-nous même avoir à poser cette question ? Mais elle se pose. Signez la pétition s.v.p. pour essayer de la sauver des griffes du capitalisme financier. www.change.org/p/la-maison-...
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La Maison de l'Amérique latine ne doit pas disparaître !
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Edward Blumenthal @edublum.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Esta jueves 1/10 a las 17hs en el seminario ADET Rosa-Isabel Martínez Lillo (Universidad de Málaga) hablará sobre los "Árabes en América: De la venta ambulante al transnacionalismo en la Triple Frontera", en la @sorbonnenouvelle.bsky.social Campus Nation adet.hypotheses.org/3161
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Árabes en América: De la venta ambulante al transnacionalismo en la Triple Frontera
Rosa-Isabel Martínez Lillo, Universidad de Málaga Séance 1 - jeudi 1 de octubre de 2026, Campus Nation, Université Sorbonne Nouvelle, salle B101. La migración árabe en el continente americano es un fe...
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Jim Cohen @jimcohen226.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
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Viet Thanh Nguyen @vietthanhnguyen.bsky.social · 06/04/2026
Perhaps today’s Americans can understand why some in the antiwar movement chanted “Ho Ho Ho Chi Minh, the NLF’s gonna win!” The NLF=National Liberation Front=Viet Cong
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Jim Cohen @jimcohen226.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
French Far Right Falls Short of Statement Win in Yardstick Local Races www.nytimes.com/2026/03/22/w... OK report, though it might have included LFI's success in Saint-Denis (pop. 150,000), and its withdrawal in Marseille, which made possible the handy center-left win against the far right.
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French Far Right Falls Short of Statement Win in Yardstick Local Races
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Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @ocasio-cortez.house.gov · 17/03/2026
If Paramount can shell out billions of dollars to acquire Warner Bros. Discovery, then they can pay their unionized CBS staff a fair wage. I stand with the CBS staff who walked out today as they fight these corporate giants for essential protections and fair contracts.
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Jim Cohen @jimcohen226.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
A MAN, A SCAM, A CANAL. Sharing my detailed look into what the early Trump 2 administration really sought to impose on Panama, even if they did not really mean to "take back" the Canal, and what this tells us about their strategy (?) in the Americas. journals.openedition.org/ideas/24529
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“We’re Taking it Back!” Deciphering Trumpian Designs on Panama’s Ca...
By the time he took office for a second time in January 2025, Donald Trump was already known to be a U.S. nationalist and a sovereigntist (Mittelstadt, Feb. 2, 2025), but few imagined that he would...
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Jim Cohen @jimcohen226.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
Time to End the American-Israeli Alliance prospect.org/2026/03/05/i... Subtitle: Alliances are built on shared interests. Those do not exist here. From The American Prospect.
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Time to End the American-Israeli Alliance
Alliances are built on shared interests. Those do not exist here.
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Edward Blumenthal @edublum.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
Ce lundi 16/2 nous avons deux invités de l'Universidade Federal Fluminense pour aborder le thème des "Circulations et régimes de travail" (1) @campuscondorcet.bsky.social @sorbonnenouvelle.bsky.social @alejandroegmez.bsky.social @jimcohen226.bsky.social adet.hypotheses.org/2989
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Séance 5 : Circulations et régimes de travail
Lundi 16 février 2025 de 17h à 19h, Campus Condorcet, Bâtiment recherche sud, salle 6.040 Los derechos de los esclavos. El derecho a comprar la propia libertad: la Real Cédula de 9 de agosto de 1788 p...
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Jim Cohen @jimcohen226.bsky.social · 08/02/2026
All about the contact man, according to Le Monde, between the Tr*mp administration and the French far right in all its... archive.is/202602080805...
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Nick Turse @nickturse.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
Official U.S. military film footage shows ace of spades “death cards” being placed in the mouths of dead Vietnamese people in South Vietnam’s Quảng Ngãi province.
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Senator John Hickenlooper @hickenlooper.senate.gov · 03/02/2026
ICE agents leaving behind “death cards” in the cars of people who they’ve detained is cruel for the sake of being cruel. We need an immediate investigation and a total overhaul of this agency.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 03/02/2026
happening this morning in Minneapolis -- ICE agents drawing guns on observers. I reiterate again that it is only a matter of time before DHS kills more innocent people in Minnesota. Congress needs to shut this shit down right now.
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The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 17/01/2026
Sen. Warren is right that her party's too beholden to the donor class: It was a Democratic Congress that rejected Biden’s proposed minimum wage increase from $7.25 to $15. It was a Democratic Congress that killed Biden’s attempt to eliminate the carried interest loophole. trib.al/SDVUfxA
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Jim Cohen @jimcohen226.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
Academic event taking place at the Université Grenoble Alpes, February 5-6, 2026. Program below in comments.
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Jacqueline Sweet @jsweetli.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
BREAKING: New York AG shuts down pro-Israel extremist group Betar US for biased harassment and threats of violence toward Arabs, Muslims and Jews. Letitia James said Betar U.S. would be forced to close its New York operations in a settlement announcement. theintercept.com/2026/01/13/b...
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New York Attorney General Shuts Down Pro-Israel Group Betar U.S. for Biased Harassment of Arabs, Muslims
New York AG Letitia James shut down the pro-Israel group Betar U.S. for biased harassment and violence against Arabs, Muslims, and others.
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Jim Cohen @jimcohen226.bsky.social · 03/12/2025
Sign of the times: a 2-day colloquium on left-wing politics in the U.S., with historians, sociologists, political scientists and some activists as well. Campus Condorcet, Aubervilliers, 4-5 décembre. dsa.hypotheses.org/1021
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Engaging in Left-Wing Politics in the United States: The Left, Social Movements and Institutional Politics (19th-21st centuries) International Conference Program
4-5 December, 2025 Campus Condorcet (Aubervilliers, France) Room 100, Centre de Colloques Access and practical information: https://www.campus-condorcet.fr/en/practical-information Place du Front Popu...
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 03/12/2025
Rep. Ilhan Omar: "I hope he gets the help he needs. It sounds like he's trying to deflect from the failures that he's had as president ... he's fought to be the head of the pedophile protection party."
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Edward Blumenthal @edublum.bsky.social · 28/11/2025
Ce lundi 1 déc, Isabela Rodrigues de Souza parlera dans le séminaire ADET sur "La révolution et l’abolitionnisme atlantique : fondements idéologiques de la transformation du travail libre" @alejandroegmez.bsky.social @jimcohen226.bsky.social @cartohist.bsky.social adet.hypotheses.org/2830
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La révolution et l’abolitionnisme atlantique : fondements idéologiques de la transformation du travail libre
Isabela Rodrigues de Souza (Universidade de Sâo Paulo) Lundi 1 décembre 2025 de 17h à 19h, Campus Condorcet, Bâtiment recherche sud, salle 6.040 A Revolução Haitiana é um caso privilegiado de análise ...
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Jim Cohen @jimcohen226.bsky.social · 17/11/2025
Scaremongering is for losers. @NYCMayor www.nytimes.com/2025/11/16/n...
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In Israel, Adams Raises Doubts About Safety of Jews in New York
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Jim Cohen @jimcohen226.bsky.social · 22/10/2025
Not easy to discuss U.S. targeting of Venezuela in brief TV format, but "The Debate" (English-language version of "Le Débat") on France 24 gives you a bit more time. Nothing is simple about Venezuela but the motives and methods of U.S policy need to be questioned. www.france24.com/en/tv-shows/...
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The Debate - Gunning for Maduro? Trump targets vessels off Venezuela, Colombia
Why is the United States suddenly in the business of blowing boats out of the water in the Caribbean? And why without summation? More than 30 people have been killed in seven strikes that started in…
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Jim Cohen @jimcohen226.bsky.social · 11/10/2025
To the astonishment of the French, Macru has just named Lecornon prime minister, whereas a few weeks ago it was Cornon who had named Lemacru.
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Edward Blumenthal @edublum.bsky.social · 29/09/2025
La saison 2025-26 du séminaire ADET démarre avec l'intervention de Antonieta Vera (Universidad de Chile) sur les femmes missionnaires en Araucanía, le lundi 6 oct adet.hypotheses.org/2707 @alejandroegmez.bsky.social @jimcohen226.bsky.social
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Programme ADET 2025-2026 : Circulations et régimes de travail
Lundis, 17h-19h, Campus Condorcet, Bâtiment de recherche sud 5 Cours des Humanités, 93322 Aubervilliers. Métro Front Populaire, Ligne 12 Cette année, le séminaire ADET entamera l’exploration des diffé...
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The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 19/09/2025
Using Charlie Kirk’s assassination as a pretext, the Trump administration is planning on “an organized strategy to go after left-leaning organizations” that had nothing to do with his murder. trib.al/gOITqi1
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Jim Cohen @jimcohen226.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
Almost feels like springtime. Scenes from streets of Paris on the national strike day of September 18, 2025.
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Stephen Zunes @szunes.bsky.social · 06/09/2025
From the president of the Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights Center and the HHS Secretary’s sister:
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Rebecca Vilkomerson @rvilkomerson.bsky.social · 30/08/2025
makes me feel slightly less insane to read this by @ahjohnson.bsky.social in @inthesetimes.com inthesetimes.com/article/new-...
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Why Does the New York Times Keep Ignoring Polls Showing Mamdani Leading with Jewish Voters?
Polling shows mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani in a commanding lead with Jewish New Yorkers, but you won’t read about it in the paper of record.
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Omar Fateh @omarfatehmn.com · 21/08/2025
28 party insiders met privately and voted to overturn our endorsement. Let me be clear, we’re still in this fight. And we’re going to win. Donate and sign up for a shift today. www.fatehformayor.com/donate
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Jacobin @jacobinmag.bsky.social · 13/08/2025
Last week, Donald Trump dismissed five of the seven members of Puerto Rico’s Financial Oversight and Management Board. The move is part of a hostile takeover of the territory made possible by its corrupt neoliberal elite.
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Trump Is Launching a Hostile Takeover of Puerto Rico
Donald Trump dismissed five of the seven members of Puerto Rico’s Financial Oversight and Management Board last week. The move is part of a hostile takeover of the territory made possible by its corrupt neoliberal elite.
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Jim Cohen @jimcohen226.bsky.social · 02/08/2025
From the Dallas News, co-authored by a friend of mine: "Preserve the Texas-Mexico relationship" Tariffs threaten successful partnership rooted in decades, even centuries, of trade. Economic integration, like the golden goose, needs care and feeding. reader.dallasnews.com/infinity/art...
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OPINIONPreserve the Texas-Mexico relationship
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Stephen Zunes @szunes.bsky.social · 23/07/2025
Unlike in Rome, Washington’s support for the ongoing massacres continues unabated. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...
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Pope condemns Gaza war’s ‘barbarity’ as 93 reported killed by Israeli fire while waiting for food
Israeli forces open fire on hungry Palestinians near Gaza City in one of bloodiest incidents involving aid seekers
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Viet Thanh Nguyen @vietthanhnguyen.bsky.social · 23/07/2025
Snapshots from ICE detentions today. The Trump immigrant kidnapping policy is an abomination.
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Jim Cohen @jimcohen226.bsky.social · 20/07/2025
Let Delta Airlines know what is wrong (though not completely) wirh this picture.
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Jim Cohen @jimcohen226.bsky.social · 15/07/2025
For what it's worth, knowing that the ambassador does not believe that the occupied territories are occupied, because a book written over 2000 years ago does not recognize that fact. P.S. No, I don't use twitter anymore since now it's a cesspool much but sometimes it's worth pushing back.
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The Intercept @theintercept.com · 13/07/2025
And the Supreme Court enabled it.
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Trump Administration Expels Eight Men to War-Torn “Third Country” South Sudan
The Supreme Court is helping Trump expand "third country" deportation — and restrict immigrants’ rights to object for fear of torture.
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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
BREAKING: Zeteo has released, globally, the film the BBC so controversially refused to air. "Gaza: Doctors Under Attack" is now available to watch in full at gazadoctors.film and zeteo.com. Here's the trailer:
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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 22/06/2025
I was briefed on the intelligence last week. Iran posed no imminent threat of attack to the United States. Iran was not close to building a deliverable nuclear weapon. The negotiations Israel scuttled with their strikes held the potential for success.
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Jim Cohen @jimcohen226.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
There could be no clearer a statement of the problem at hand. This war needs to be stopped and Netanyahu must no longer be enabled. Only the U.S. can impose diplomacy over war. To avoid catastrophe, that's what needs to happen. www.youtube.com/watch?v=DB8e...
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Trump: Don't Drag the US Into Netanyahu's War with Iran | Sen. Bernie Sanders
YouTube video by Senator Bernie Sanders
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Jim Cohen @jimcohen226.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
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Israel is not winning. Trump must not cave to new demands for help.
As Iran mounts an effective response to Israel's war of choice, why should the president now risk US lives to join it?
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The Intercept @theintercept.com · 01/06/2025
“You don’t want a Democratic Mr. Beast.” interc.pt/44Yy0VH
A photo of Joe Rogan at UFC 249 at VyStar Veterans Memorial Arena on May 9, 2020, in Jacksonville, Fla., overlaid with the headline, "The Futile Quest to Build a “Liberal Joe Rogan”" and the DEK, "Experts question Democrats’ $20 million plan to make content with an “aspirational vision of manhood that aligns with Democratic values.”"
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Jim Cohen @jimcohen226.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
Upon arrival in Mexico, and before even presenting his credentials to the government, the new U.S. ambassador, a former CIA agent and organizer of covert operations in Central America, had dinner with a figure of the Mexican far right, whom he called "my brother". www.sinembargo.mx/4653293/el-u...
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El extremista de derechas Verástegui da cena para el enviado de Washington y esposa | SinEmbargo MX
Eduardo Verástegui ofreció una cena para el nuevo Embajador de Estados Unidos en México, Ronald Johnson, quien agradeció al ultraderechista mexicano por su hospitalidad.
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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
Rightfully, the cuts to Medicaid (over 10M people will lose their health care) and the tax cuts for the rich have been the story of the disastrous Republican budget bill. But I read the whole thing. And there are some hidden rats in there you need to know about. 1/ A quick🧵
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Stephen Zunes @szunes.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
The majority of Congressional Democrats continue to side with Trump and their Republican colleagues in insisting U.S. arms transfers to Israel's far right government remain unconditional. They can't pretend they don't know what Israel is doing.
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Jim Cohen @jimcohen226.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
Their man in Paris. By a 51-45 vote, with the help of one Democratic Senator who recently conducted an all-night filibuster against the Trump regime, France will soon be receiving Ambassador Charles Kushner, father of Jared, who brings with him an illustrious past. thehill.com/homenews/sen...
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Jim Cohen @jimcohen226.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
Two collaborators of Mexico City mayor Clara Brugada killed in broad daylight today. Too much political violence in Mexico already, but this is the capital! No idea yet of who did this, but it smacks of destabilization. May the gov't of Mexico resist firmly. 🇸🇳 www.jornada.com.mx/noticia/2025...
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Externa Sheinbaum apoyo a Brugada por asesinato de dos de sus colaboradores
Confirma la Presidenta que la secretaria particular de la Jefa de Gobierno, Ximena Guzmán y José Muñoz, asesor, fueron atacados con armas de fuego.
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Jacobin @jacobinmag.bsky.social · 19/05/2025
The Trump coalition unites anti-corporate populists and libertarian futurists — two factions with irreconcilable views. The struggle over AI copyright underscores just how unstable that alliance has become.
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The AI and Copyright Issues Dividing Trump’s Court
The Trump coalition unites anti-corporate populists and libertarian futurists — two factions with irreconcilable views. The struggle over AI copyright underscores just how unstable that alliance has b...
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Democracy Now! @democracynow.org · 19/05/2025
Palestinian activist Mohsen Mahdawi receives his diploma from Columbia University. Watch our exclusive interview with Mahdawi, shortly after his release from an ICE jail: www.democracynow.org/2025/5/16/mo...
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Jim Cohen @jimcohen226.bsky.social · 16/05/2025
News of Palestine Genocide, you may have noticed, is no longer a banned word since, according to the moron in chief, that is what happened to the whites of South Africa. 🙈🙉🐷
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Jim Cohen @jimcohen226.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
The Coming JewishCivil War OverDonald Trump newrepublic.com/article/1946... via @newrepublic.com
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The Coming Jewish Civil War Over Donald Trump
Trump is offering American Jews a kind of devil’s bargain: throw in with us against the antisemitic universities and campus rabble-rousers, but pay no attention as we dismantle the traditions and inst...
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Jim Cohen @jimcohen226.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
NO to U.S. troops in Mexico, despite Trump's "offer". NO is the point of view of the Mexican president and NO should also be the point of view of all U.S. citizens who oppose imperial interventionism. www.reuters.com/world/americ...
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Sheinbaum says she rejected Trump's offer to send troops to Mexico
Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum said on Saturday that U.S. President Donald Trump had proposed sending U.S. troops to Mexico to combat drug trafficking, but said she had rejected that offer because "sovereignty is not for sale."
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