3/14/2025 – 17/2025

•Israel Breaks Ceasefire killing over 400 Palestinians: Israel’s military says it is continuing its attacks on Gaza, following a series of deadly overnight airstrikes that killed more than 400 Palestinian people, including many women and children, and injured hundreds of others.
The White House confirmed Israel had consulted the Trump administration before it carried out the overnight airstrikes.
https://www.theguardian.com/us

•Trump/Vance administration ignores Federal Court order to turn around 260 Veuzualan immigrants deported to El Salvador. Blackwater mercenary Erik Prince pushes to privatize deportations.

•Demonstrations break out against the arrest of Columbia grad green card holder Mahmoud Kalil who is living on campus with his 8-month pregnant wife, a US citizen. He is being held in a Louisiana detention center. https://zeteo.com/p/watch-the-moment-mahmoud-khalil-was

•Musk/Trump/Vance shut down NOA which tracks climate change among other weather-related issues.
Trump executive order to close down Institute on Museum and Library Services, Minority Business Development Agency, Interagency Council on Homelessness, US Agency for Global Media which funds Voice of America, Radio Free Europe, Radio Liberty, and Radio Free Asia broadcasts. Trump revokes Biden -era rules strengthening tribal sovereignty and self-determination for all 574 federally recognized tribes.

• In FOX interview with Larry Kudlow – Musk pointed to Social Security, “most of the federal spending is entitlements – that’s the big one to eliminate.

•Trump calls news agencies ‘corrupt and illegal” and those that criticize him enemies and arms of the Democratic Party in a speech to the Department of Justice.

https://www.theguardian.com/us
https://www.democracynow.org/
https://zeteo.com/s/this-week-in-democracy