Despite rising inequality, poor job numbers, and Donald Trump’s mass deportations, the economy grew by a remarkable 4.3% last year, mostly thanks to the AI industry. This success masks an economy highly dependent on debt and state subsidies.
Trump Family Businesses Rake in $4 Billion After His Reelection with Focus on AI, Crypto & Nuclear http://www.democracynow.org/2026/1/6/trump_family_businesses
Ventures launched by the Trump family since Donald Trump’s reelection have generated at least $4 billion in proceeds and paper wealth for the Trump family. With investments across sectors like real estate, hospitality, media, cryptocurrency and more, the Trumps are “increasingly integrating their business empire” into the wider U.S. economy, says David Uberti, who has been reporting on the family’s self-enrichment for The Wall Street Journal. The coupling of Trump’s economic and political influence is raising major questions about conflicts of interest. “You have all of these different business interests in different areas in which the government regulates,” and this “proximity to power may help along some of these deals and the valuations at which they’re made.” We look at the Trumps’ cryptocurrency venture World Liberty Financial and the Trump Organization’s planned $6 billion merger with a firm hoping to build a nuclear fusion plant to power AI data centers with Uberti, who says such “very speculative, highly risky corners of financial markets” are key to the family’s investment strategy.
The history of the natives, slaves, the Haymarket martyrs, Sacco and Vanzetti, the Red Scare or the Black Panthers (few examples, even Thoureau found himself behind bars) show that the US has always been an authoritarian regime disguised as a freedom haven.
Many migrated there escaping tyranny in Europe and elsewhere, just to find more of the same at the other side of the pond.
What they do externally, they just reterritorialise within their borders.
Headlines for January 6, 2026 http://www.democracynow.org/2026/1/6/headlines
Nicolás Maduro and Cilia Flores Plead “Not Guilty” to Drug and Weapons Charges in U.S. Court; Venezuelan VP Delcy Rodríguez Sworn In as Interim President; U.S. Assault on Venezuela Condemned by Allies and Adversaries Alike at U.N. Security Council; Grand Rapids Police Arrest Protest Antiwar Organizer on TV After She Condemns Trump; WSJ: Trump Tipped Off Oil Executives a Month Before U.S. Attack on Venezuela; Venezuelan Opposition Leader Machado Says She Plans to Return to Venezuela; Danish Prime Minister Warns U.S. Attack on Greenland Would Mean the End of NATO; Israel Launches Airstrikes in Lebanon, Claiming to Target Hezbollah and Hamas; U.S. Drops the Number of Vaccines Recommended for Every Child; Democrats Demand Speaker Johnson Unveil a Plaque Honoring Police Officers from Jan. 6 Insurrection; Defense Secretary Hegseth Censures Democratic Sen. Mark Kelly; Trump Admin Deploys 2,000 ICE Agents to Minneapolis to Probe Alleged Cases of Fraud
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