“The opposition has nothing,” she told Al Jazeera. “I get that it’s hard to argue for a complicated future, but they do and say nothing. All they’ve left us with is a choice between managing the war and the occupation and Smotrich and his followers. That’s it. What kind of future is that?”
Financial analyst Robert Scott told Al Jazeera the tariffs failed to deliver tangible results even in Trump’s first term. “Most of those tariffs did not see the US trade position improve,” he said. “US trade deficits continued to grow and China’s exports to the world kept rising. They simply rerouted goods through other countries.”The ruling came in a pair of lawsuits, one filed by the nonpartisan Liberty Justice Center on behalf of five small US businesses that import goods from countries targeted by the duties, and the other by 12 US states.
The companies, which range from a New York wine and spirits importer to a Virginia-based maker of educational kits and musical instruments, have said the tariffs will hurt their ability to do business.“There is no question here of narrowly tailored relief; if the challenged Tariff Orders are unlawful as to Plaintiffs they are unlawful as to all,” the judges wrote in their decision.At least five other legal challenges to the tariffs are pending.
What unfolded in Rafah on Tuesday was not a tragedy – it was the grim success of colonial humanitarianism.On May 27, thousands of Palestinians surged towards an aid distribution site in Rafah – desperate for food after months of starvation – only to be met with gunfire from panicked private security contractors. What the world witnessed at the Tal as-Sultan aid site was not a tragedy, but a revelation: The final, violent unmasking of the illusion that humanitarian aid exists to serve humanity rather than empire.
Marketed by Israel and the United States as a model of dignity and neutrality, the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation’s new distribution hub disintegrated into chaos within hours of opening. But this was no accident. It was the logical endpoint of a system not designed to nourish the hungry, but to control and contain them.
As starving people in Gaza – made to wait for hours under the scorching sun, tightly confined in metal lanes to receive a small box of food – eventually began to press forward in desperation, chaos broke out. Security personnel – employed by a US-backed contractor – opened fire in a failed attempt to prevent a stampede. Soon, Israeli helicopters were deployed to evacuate American staff and began firing warning shots over the crowd. The much-advertised aid site collapsed completely after only a few hours in operation.Coca-Cola said its ability to address the issue is “limited by regulatory factors linked primarily to free trade within the Eurasian Economic Union”, an integrated single market made up of Russia, Armenia, Belarus, Kyrgyzstan and Kazakhstan.
Finnish food company Fazer, which owns Geisha chocolate, reiterated that it had permanently left Russia.“According to the information that we received during spring 2023 from Finnish Broadcasting Company YLE, the products still sold in Russia have entered the Russian market via Finland and Estonia, and they have been transported by private Russian citizens. Unfortunately, it is impossible for us to stop the trade when it comes to isolated cases,” the company told Al Jazeera in a statement.
“Fazer exports some small amounts of products to Central Asia but there are no such sudden increases in these amounts, which could imply that products actually end up in Russia through these channels. If we detect that there is a customer who actively and professionally exports products, then we will intervene.”Other brands identified in this story did not respond to requests for comment.