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#Venezuela accuses US of plotting ‘false flag attack’ on Guyana oil platform
Venezuela’s VP said US Sect of State Marco Rubio and #Blackwater founder Erik Prince were behind alleged attack plan to blame Caracas for an attack on oil giant #ExxonMobil in neighboring #Guyana
#ErikPrince #MarcoRubio #Venezuela #FalseFlag #ErikPrinceColonialism #Oiligarchy
https://www.scmp.com/news/world/americas/article/3305449/venezuela-accuses-us-plotting-false-flag-attack-guyana-oil-platform
Venezuela accuses US of plotting ‘false flag attack’ on Guyana oil platform
Venezuela’s vice-president said US Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Blackwater founder Erik Prince were behind the alleged attack plan.Agence France-Presse (South China Morning Post)
https://www.commondreams.org/news/mahmoud-khalil-deportable
'Very Dark Stuff': Judge Rules Palestine Activist Mahmoud Khalil Can Be Deported
"A U.S. immigration judge in Louisiana on Friday ruled that Mahmoud Khalil, a permanent U.S. resident and former Columbia University graduate student arrested last month after protesting Israel's genocidal assault on Gaza, can be deported, a decision that came despite the Trump administration admitting the imminently expecting father committed no crime and was being targeted solely for constitutionally protected speech.
Assistant Chief Immigration Judge Jamee Comans said that she lacked the legal authority to question the determination by Secretary of State Marco Rubio that Khalil was deportable. Earlier this week, Comans gave the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) until Friday to produce evidence that Khalil is eligible for deportation.
No such evidence was provided other than Rubio's assertion that he reserves the right to order Khalil's expulsion under the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952, which empowers the secretary of state to expel noncitizens whose presence in the United States is deemed detrimental to U.S. foreign policy interests."
As the article itself notes, this isn't a final victory for the Trump administration; Khalil can and will continue to fight this, and most legal experts seem pretty confident this is all going to end up in front of the Supreme Court before the government can actually deport him; although why the court's 6-3 fascist high composition gives anyone confidence that they'll stop the regime's fascist and blatantly unconstitutional ideological policing and repression, is somewhat beyond me. As horrifying as this decision is, a random immigration judge doesn't get to say "surprise, fascism is legal now" even if that's more or less what this ruling is pointing to.
With that having been noted however, I need folks to understand what the regime's successful (for now) argument is here, because if you don't get that, it's impossible to grasp just how far these nazis clearly mean to go with this. The government is admitting that Mahmoud Khalil had a legal right to be in the United States, and committed no crime whatsoever. They are expressly stating that he's being targeted for deportation because of his political beliefs, and opposition to the US-back genocide being conducted by Israel, against Palestinians in Gaza as we speak; which they have chosen to define as antisemitism for political and propaganda reasons. This is a fundamental denial of Khalil's First Amendment rights which regardless of what you heard on Fox News, apply to everyone in the United States, not just people born there.
Despite this however, the regime is arguing that they have the right to deport Khalil because the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952 gives the Secretary of State, Marco Rubio, the right to unilaterally, even unconstitutionally, order Khalil's expulsion; citing that the Act empowers him "to expel noncitizens whose presence in the United States is deemed detrimental to U.S. foreign policy interests." Who decides what US foreign policy interests are, has a right to to declare those decisions state secrets, and can change those potentially secret objectives at a whim? The Trump regime. Who decides which actions are "detrimental" to U.S. foreign policy decisions and who should be deported for them? Well the regime's argument is that it's Marco Rubio or whoever happens to be Trump's Secretary of State, and that he can do it by a whim, without explaining or justifying his decisions whatsoever.
So you caught that right? The regime can violate the constitutional rights of even a lawful US resident, because Marco Rubio feels a way, and he's not required to provide any more proof than "I said so." And yesterday, a U.S. immigration judge agreed with that logic. All of which now begs the question, what, or who, will Little Marco decide is "detrimental to U.S. foreign policy decisions" tomorrow?
#Fascism #Trump #Immigration #Courts #MahmoudKhalil #Protest #PoliceState #MarcoRubio #Gaza #CivilRights #JameeComans #ImmigrationAndNationalityAct #Genocide #McCarthyism #FreeSpeech #Israel #Constitution
'Very Dark Stuff': Judge Rules Palestine Activist Mahmoud Khalil Can Be Deported
"If Mahmoud can be targeted in this way, simply for speaking out for Palestinians and exercising his constitutionally protected right to free speech, this can happen to anyone," one of his lawyers warned.brett-wilkins (Common Dreams)
In other words, the regime is admitting that Kahlil hasn't committed a crime, but is being deported for purely ideological reasons under the guise of protecting American national security; which is more or less exactly what the administration has been saying out loud until the precise moment when someone points out that this is fascism, at which point they briefly deny it.
https://theintercept.com/2025/04/10/deportation-case-mahmoud-khalil-antisemitism-rubio-trump/
The Case Against Mahmoud Khalil Hinges on Vague “Antisemitism” Claim
"Khalil’s attorneys said it’s clear the government’s case is about cracking down on his speech in support of Palestine and represents a precedent amid the Trump administration’s nationwide attacks on universities and students. The Trump administration has revoked hundreds of students since Khalil’s arrest. Many were not involved in protests at all, while some were being targeted for low-level misdemeanors.
“And where would this lead?” Van Der Hout said. “Are we going to now throw people in jail for speaking out against the Social Security cuts in this country? This is a dangerous slope, and we are taking a stand on behalf of Mahmoud, and he is taking a stand.”
“He’s decided to stay in jail and fight this case to the bitter end,” he added, “while we try to establish that people like Mahmoud have a constitutional right to speak out in this country.”
If there's an upshot here, it's that all of this is patently illegal, and even the Immigration Nationality Act little Marco is using to justify this fascist bullshit contains a provision "that prevents the secretary of state from using the “foreign policy” provision to deport someone based on an individual’s speech unless it has compelling grounds to do so." The fact that the government has refused to produce evidence that would justify deporting Kahlil probably increases his chances of being released, and soon.
The bad news of course is that the Trump regime has already ignored multiple court orders forbidding its fascist activities, and the government is openly asserting the right to target, detain, and deport, again, a *legal* permanent resident of the United States, who is married to an American citizen, for purely ideological reasons. That assertion may not survive a judge's ruling in this particular case, but with a 6-3 fascist high Supreme Court in its pocket, it feels like it's only a matter of time before the regime wins one of these arguments before a more sympathetic judge - and then there is no predicting how far the new American Nazi movement will go to crush dissent and ideological opposition to its authoritarian rule.
#Fascism #Trump #ICE #DHS #Nazis #MahmoudKhalil #SCOTUS #MarcoRubio #PoliceState #Gaza #IdeologicalPolicing #Genocide #WhiteNationalism #Israel #Immigration #FreeSpeech
The Case Against Mahmoud Khalil Hinges on Vague “Antisemitism” Claim
The Trump administration filed no new evidence in its case against Mahmoud Khalil, according to a source who has read the government filing.Jonah Valdez (The Intercept)
Venezuela’s VP said US Sect of State Marco Rubio and Blackwater founder Erik Prince were behind alleged attack plan to blame Caracas for an attack on oil giant ExxonMobil in neighboring Guyana
#ErikPrince #MarcoRubio #Venezuela #FalseFlag
https://www.scmp.com/news/world/americas/article/3305449/venezuela-accuses-us-plotting-false-flag-attack-guyana-oil-platform
Venezuela accuses US of plotting ‘false flag attack’ on Guyana oil platform
Venezuela’s vice-president said US Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Blackwater founder Erik Prince were behind the alleged attack plan.Agence France-Presse (South China Morning Post)
Some students have been picked up off the street by immigration agents and held in detention centers, sometimes a thousand miles away from their homes, with little warning
By Daniella Silva, Chloe Atkins, Julia Ainsley and Abigail Williams, March 27, 2025
"Secretary of State #MarcoRubio said Thursday the State Department has revoked 300 or more #StudentVisas, as the White House increasingly targets foreign-born students whose main transgression seems to be #activism.
"Rubio warned that the administration was looking out for 'these lunatics.' Around the country, #scholars have been picked up, in some cases by masked immigration agents, and held in #DetentionCenters, sometimes a thousand miles from their homes with little warning and often with few details about why they were being detained.
"'It might be more than 300 at this point. We do it every day. Every time I find one of these lunatics, I take away their visas,' Rubio said at a news conference in Guyana, where he was meeting with leaders.
"Many of those rounded up by Trump officials attended or were part of the pro-Palestinian movement that swept college campuses last year, and while the administration hasn’t said publicly why these students are being singled out over others, at least one sought by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement appeared on lists made by far-right pro-Israel groups as targets for deportation.
"And Trump allies, many in government again, telegraphed for months before he took office that they’d seek to deport students who openly advocated for Hamas or other U.S.-designated terrorist groups or after they participated in an unauthorized campus #protest and were suspended, expelled or jailed.
"The detentions are a signal of a broader effort by President Donald Trump to clamp down on the actions of legal permanent residents, student visa holders and others who live and work legally in the United States, one that threatens to undermine a fundamental American right to #FreeSpeech and to assemble, experts and advocates said."
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/trump-administration-takes-aim-immigrant-students-rcna198346?utm_source=firefox-newtab-en-us
#USPol #ThoughtPolice #Authoritarianism #Orwellian #CharacteristicsOfFascism #Clampdown #SilencingDissent #CriminalizingDissent #CriminalizingActivism #RightToAssemble #FirstAmendment #USPol
Rubio says State Department has revoked at least 300 student visas
The Trump administration has been targeting foreign-born graduate and doctoral students whose main transgression seems to be activism.Daniella Silva (NBC News)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U5urGA2MkW8
#Ozturk #USAcademia #CriticalThinking #CivicEngagement #USOppression #MarcoRubio #HumanRightsViolations #Politics #1stAmendment #ICE #ParadoxOfEducation
The Op-Ed in question:
https://www.tuftsdaily.com/article/2024/03/4ftk27sm6jkj
Op-ed: Try again, President Kumar: Renewing calls for Tufts to adopt March 4 TCU Senate resolutions
The independent student newspaper of Tufts UniversityRumeysa Ozturk (The Tufts Daily)
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/03/27/marco-rubio-student-visas-palestine-00005141
#MarcoRubio #SecretPolice #1930s #ICE #Politics #NonCitizens #HumanRights
More than 300 people have had their visas cancelled by US authorities as part of a move to crack down on support for Palestine on US third level campuses, according to Secretary of State Marco Rubio.
https://www.rte.ie/news/us/2025/0327/1504450-student-visas-us/
#Morethan300 #US #Palestine #third #State #MarcoRubio
Here Are the Attack Plans That #Trump’s Advisers Shared on Signal
The admin has downplayed the importance of the text messages inadvertently sent to #TheAtlantic’s editor in chief.
By #JeffreyGoldberg & Shane Harris
#law #NationalSecurity #SignalGate #Signal #idiocracy #kakistocracy #intelligence #USIntelligenceAgencies #JDVance #Hegseth #TulsiGabbard #Ratcliffe #MikeWaltz #MarcoRubio #SusieWiles #Witkoff #StephenMiller
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2025/03/signal-group-chat-attack-plans-hegseth-goldberg/682176/?gift=guxsrl_dAdXUP9zqbQPWxdIP7nj6nZG7D9Wu-KWAI6M&utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share
Here Are the Attack Plans That Trump’s Advisers Shared on Signal
The administration has downplayed the importance of the text messages inadvertently sent to The Atlantic’s editor in chief.Jeffrey Goldberg (The Atlantic)
#BaaghiTV #International #SouthAfrica #Ambassador #EbrahimRasool #US #DonaldTrump #PersonaNonGrata #CapeTown #InternationalCriminalCourt #ICC #Israel #Palestine #MarcoRubio
https://en.baaghitv.com/south-african-ambassador-expelled-from-us-receives-grand-welcome-upon-arrival-in-the-country/
Trump’s strikes on the Houthis show he’s not Joe Biden mumbling ‘Don’t’
The change in White House leadership is promising change in the Middle East. Big change. Needed change. President Donald Trump made that crystal clear by launching a campaign against Iran-backed Houthi militants in Yemen over the weekend.BYTESEU (Bytes Europe)
Trump's strikes on the Houthis show he's not Joe Biden mumbling 'Don't' - EUROPE SAYS
The change in White House leadership is promising change in the Middle East. Big change. Needed change. PresidentEUROPE SAYS (EUROPESAYS.COM)
"Comments from South Africa’s ambassador about the Trump administration were “unacceptable” and “obscene,” State Department spokeswoman Tammy Bruce said.
Secretary of State #MarcoRubio declared Ambassador Ebrahim Rasool “persona non grata”... after the diplomat said that #Trump and his supporters are effectively a “#supremacists” movement projecting “#Whitevictimhood.” "
"#SouthAfrica’s Ambassador Made ‘Unacceptable’ Comments, US Says"
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-03-17/south-africa-s-ambassador-ebrahim-rasool-made-unacceptable-comments-us
#law #CivilRights #FreedomToAssemble #FreeSpeech #RightToProtest
#law #immigration #CivilRights #FreedomToAssemble #FreeSpeech #RightToProtest
https://www.washingtonpost.com/documents/8a3cbff6-4589-43e1-8455-042fa9555e3c.pdf
A government document that details the civil charges against #MahmoudKhalil does not include written evidence from #immigration officers.
#law #CivilRights #FreedomToAssemble #FreeSpeech #RightToProtest
https://www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/2025/03/12/marco-rubio-mahmoud-khalil-deportation/
Syria’s interim gov’t, Kurdish-led forces sign landmark integration agreement
Syrian Democratic Forces Commander Mazloum Abdi and interim Syrian President Ahmad al-Sharaa shakes hands in Damascus, Syria, on Monday.BYTESEU (Bytes Europe)
The two advisers got into a heated argument over DOGE-backed firings.
https://newrepublic.com/post/192493/marco-rubio-elon-musk-fight-donald-trump
"Secretary of State #MarcoRubio, alongside other miffed agency heads, laid into billionaire bureaucrat #ElonMusk during Thursday’s meeting of Donald Trump’s #Cabinet...
In the end, #Trump defended #Rubio"
#Musk #Coup #Corruption #DonaldTrump #GOP #Government #USPol #USPolitics #News #US #USA
I would die of embarrassment but in the US they make you Secretary of State after a mistake like that.
#MarcoRubio #Bolivar #Venezuela #Germany
The #UnitedStates calls #Cuba’s medical internationalism "human trafficking" — but it’s really an internationalist lifeline for the #GlobalSouth.
from #Jacobin
By #HelenYaffe
March 8, 2025
On February 25, #US secretary of state #MarcoRubio announced restrictions on visas for both government officials in Cuba and any others worldwide who are “complicit” with the island nation’s overseas #medical-assistance programs. A #USStateDepartment statement clarified that the sanction extends to “current and former” officials and the “immediate family of such persons.”
https://jacobin.com/2025/03/cuba-medical-programs-us-sanctions
#CubanMedicalInternationalism
#VivaCuba #LetCubaLive #CubaSi #EndTheBlockade #CubaSolidarity #EndTheEmbargo
#EndSanctionsAgainstCuba #OffTheList
#news #press #politics #healthcare #embargo
@cubainfo
Cuba Sends Doctors, the US Sends Sanctions
The United States calls Cuba’s medical internationalismjacobin.com
Before doubling down on Trump’s promise to kill all Palestinians in Gaza.
#MarcoRubio #PerformativeChristians #ZionismInChristianity #US #FalseChristians
#geopolitics #UnitedStates #MafiaState #RevengePolitics #authoritarianism #ForeignPolicy #allies #NATO #Europe
#geopolitics #Ukraine #UnitedStates #MafiaState #allies #NATO #Europe #ForeignPolicy #RevengePolitics #authoritarianism
#geopolitics #UnitedStates #MafiaState #allies #NATO #Europe #ForeignPolicy
#geopolitics #Ukraine #Russia #UnitedStates #MafiaState #allies #NATO #Europe #ForeignPolicy
(AFP)- El presidente de Emiratos Árabes Unidos reiteró el miércoles al jefe de la diplomacia estadounidense, Marco Rubio, su rechazo a cualquier desplazamiento de palestinos, según la agencia de prensa oficial emiratí Wam. Marco Rubio realizó el miércoles una breve visita a este país del Golfo en el marco de su primera gira por Oriente […]
#Gaza #MarcoRubio #Mundo #Mundo
https://www.crhoy.com/mundo/presidente-emirati-reitera-a-rubio-su-rechazo-a-desplazamiento-de-palestinos-de-gaza/
"Together w European Foreign Ministers, I spoke to #MarcoRubio after his talks in Riyadh.
#Russia will try to divide us. Let’s not walk into their traps.
By working together with the US, we can achieve just and lasting peace – on #Ukraine terms"
Egypt is developing a plan to rebuild Gaza, countering Trump’s call to depopulate the territory
CAIRO (AP) — Egypt is developing a plan to rebuild Gaza without forcing Palestinians out of the strip in a counter to President Donald Trump’s proposal to depopulate the territory so the U.S. can take it over.BYTESEU (Bytes Europe)
Belarus frees an American and 2 other people in a bid to repair ties with Washington
TALLINN, Estonia (AP) — Belarusian authorities on Wednesday released an imprisoned U.S. citizen, a Belarusian journalist for a U.S.-funded media outlet and an opposition supporter in an apparent attempt to repair ruptured ties with Washington.BYTESEU (Bytes Europe)