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Rock legend Neil Young gifted his entire music archive to Greenland residents. Young, a vocal critic of President Donald Trump, said he hoped the offering “will ease some of the unwarranted stress…you are experiencing from our unpopular and hopefully temporary government,” Pitchfork reported Tuesday. The musician hasn't held back his thoughts on the Trump administration and has criticized its actions against American citizens, and now Greenlanders. On his Neil Young archives, the artist offered the message of solidarity "as a gesture of kindness and respect, we stand with you along with a strong majority of Americans." Young has used both his music and social media commentary to take swings at Trump and his administration. Young has also taken legal action against the Trump campaign on multiple occasions for the unauthorized use of his songs at campaign rallies, most notably his 1989 hit "Rockin' in the Free World," demonstrating his strong opposition to Trump's political movement and his willingness to defend his artistic work from association with Trump's agenda.

The alliance between Donald Trump and far-right nationalist groups in Europe has become frayed to the point of snapping due to his designs on occupying Greenland and the kidnapping of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro Moros.According to the New York Times, European far-right parties have historically grounded their political platforms on national sovereignty, particularly opposing immigration. However, Trump's contempt for European nations has exceeded their tolerance.While the Trump-nationalist relationship has always been characterized as "awkward," European nationalist leaders have recently adopted a more confrontational stance toward the president. His lengthy speech at Davos intensified existing tensions.Jordan Bardella, president of France's far-right National Rally party, characterized Trump's Greenland remarks as "unacceptable" and labeled tariff threats as "blackmail."Nigel Farage, leader of Britain's far-right Reform UK party and longtime Trump ally, described the Greenland threats as a "very hostile act." Giorgia Meloni, Italy's right-wing prime minister, typically viewed as Trump-friendly, rejected his claims about European military contributions in Afghanistan.Justin Logan of the libertarian Cato Institute explained the backlash: "Whatever the AfD or Rassemblement National believe about civilizational erasure and migration, they're not for the American annexation of a big chunk of Europe."Trump faces additional challenges among far-right Europeans who already harbored suspicions toward America. Polling data shows substantial shares of far-right-aligned voters in Britain, France, and Germany viewed Trump negatively before the recent developments.Trump's unpopularity is particularly acute in France, where association with the president carries political risk and he is described as "politically toxic." Alice Weidel, a leader of Germany's extremist AfD party, directly accused Trump of violating a fundamental campaign promise by interfering in other countries through the Venezuelan invasion.You can read more here.

Italians were angry Tuesday after news that the US was sending ICE agents to the Winter Olympics in Italy. The announcement reportedly set off confusion after the Department of Homeland Security confirmed that the unit was heading to Europe to apparently work as "a security role" for the US delegation at the international event, a DHS spokesperson confirmed with CNN. “They don’t do immigration enforcement (operations) in a foreign country obviously,” the spokesperson said.DHS spokesperson Tricia McLaughlin told CNN that “All security operations remain under Italian authority.”“At the Olympics, ICE’s Homeland Security Investigations is supporting the U.S. Department of State’s Diplomatic Security Service and host nation to vet and mitigate risks from transnational criminal organizations,” McLaughlin said in a statement to CNN. The move set off outrage among Italians, citing major concern among the Europeans who have watched ICE attack and kill US citizens, including the most recent fatal shootings of Alex Pretti and Renee Good in Minneapolis. Milan Mayor Giuseppe Sala said he would not welcome ICE in his city, which is set to host the opening ceremony on Feb. 6, according to The Associated Press. Vice President JD Vance was expected to attend the event in Milan, where most of the ice sports will be.“This is a militia that kills, a militia that enters into the homes of people, signing their own permission slips. It is clear they are not welcome in Milan, without a doubt,” Sala told RTL Radio 102.

Major automaker Volkswagen has considered cancelling its plans for a US major factory over President Donald Trump's automotive tariffs, according to reports Monday. Oliver Blume, CEO of the Volkswagen Group, said in an interview with Handelsblatt that in the first nine months of 2025 levies issued by the Trump administration had cost the company $2.5 billion and that the company needed to make cuts, Semafor reported. After Trump returned to office, German investments in the US dropped 45% year-on-year in 2025, according to Reuters. The dollar's depreciation was considered a factor while German exports also declined. Other recent political and economic factors have also come into play. "After Trump warned at the World Economic Forum last week of possible further duties on Europe, growing global uncertainty over the stability of trade relationships pushed gold above $5,000 per ounce for the first time," according to Semafor.

The Trump administration was exposed for justifying its arrest and attempted deportation of Tufts University student Rümeysa Öztürk “solely on the inferences made” from an op-ed she co-authored that was critical of the Israeli government, newly unsealed court documents revealed Thursday.Appointed during the Reagan administration, U.S. District Judge William Young unsealed a trove of court documents late Thursday that, according to The Boston Globe, exposed the Department of Homeland Security’s shaky legal grounds for arresting Öztürk last year.“The files on Öztürk, some of which previously were not available to the public, indicate further that the government relied solely on the inferences made from an op-ed she wrote for the student newspaper to carry out the revocation of her visa, her arrest, and her detention,” the Globe reported.A Turkish citizen, Öztürk was in the United States on a valid student visa when she was arrested in broad daylight by masked plainclothes DHS officers. She was released after spending weeks in detention by order of a federal judge, though legal proceedings remain ongoing.Among the newly unsealed documents is a DHS summary of findings on Öztürk, with ex-DHS official Andre Watson writing that the student’s actions may have constituted “violations of President Trump’s executive orders on anti-Semitism,” and that her continued presence in the United States could “have potentially serious adverse foreign policy consequences.”Watson also singled out the op-ed co-authored by Öztürk in the document, labeling it as a piece of “anti-Israel activism.”Öztürk is not the only legal migrant who’s been targeted by the Trump administration for deportation in its purported efforts to combat antisemitism. Columbia student Mahmoud Khalil was arrested after helping lead the protests demanding the university divest from Israel amid its siege on Gaza, a siege that a United Nations commission declared to be a genocide last year. Others, like British journalist Sami Hamdi, Georgetown University student Badar Khan Suri and others have also been arrested over making comments critical of the Israeli government.

Rep. Greg Steube (R-FL) admitted that he would "love to see" the U.S. military at war with the French Armed Forces over the right to own Greenland."It looks like America is firmly in control and empire-building again," MAGA influencer Benny Johnson told Steube in a Friday interview. "It's kind of awesome.""Well, I mean, it's all President Trump," Steube replied to the effort to control Greenland. "And suddenly there's this huge deal because they don't want to get tariffs because our economy is so much bigger than theirs. And they import obviously into our country, and they don't want to lose all of that.""And look, we need to have the ability to operate and have bases there and do the type of things we need to do to ensure that the Golden Dome, when it's built, is successful to protect our country," he continued. "And so whatever we need to do to do that in mission accomplished, I think we need to do that.""But it sounds like it's going to be we are going to have the opportunity to operate bases. That's all we wanted in the first place. And it took leadership from President Trump to get it done."Johnson attributed the outcome in Greenland to Trump's "Art of the Deal.""Yeah, 100%," Steube agreed. "And what strikes me is, you know, you see Macron in the French sending troops to Greenland. Like, I would love to see the United States military up against French troops in Greenland because that would not last very long. It would be a very small skirmish.""But it's just interesting how world leaders like Macron try to buff up their chest to the president," he added. "And then lo and behold, there's a deal that's cut, and he looks like an idiot for trying to push back on something that we need strategically."

While President Donald Trump made news at the World Economic Conference in Davos this week with his demand to be handed Greenland, followed by a rambling speech and the launch of his much derided “Council of Peace,“ Canada’s prime minister was lavished with the kind of praise and positive international attention the American president can only dream of.According to Washington Post analyst Ishaan Tharoor, Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney’s star has risen to dizzying heights after his speech at which he made the point, “Every day we’re reminded that we live in an era of great-power rivalry. That the rules-based order is fading. That the strong can do what they can, and the weak must suffer what they must.”He later added, “The middle powers must act together because if we’re not at the table, we’re on the menu.”According to the Post, Carney made a huge impression that led longtime German diplomat Wolfgang Ischinger to hail the speech and report, “There are some people who are now saying, ‘why can’t we invite Canada to be a member of the E.U.?’"Adam Tooze, who was the moderator when Trump Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick answered questions, agreed and admitted, “It was the only one of the leader speeches that I saw that, with weight and moral earnestness, expressed the shock which many of us are feeling here.”Ian Bremmer, president of the Eurasia Group, joined the praise, explaining, “We know that it reflects a change in the global order that we’ve almost all seen coming increasingly over the past years, but no major government leader was prepared to actually say it,” and then predicting, “people are going to be thinking back on [the speech] for quite a long time.”The Post’s Tharoor reported that Trump appears to realize that he was shown up by Carney and lashed out by rescinding Canada’s invitation to the Board of Peace, which Canada had already rejected. - YouTube youtu.be

Any day now a swarm of armed state police dressed for war could descend on a metropolitan area in south-west Ohio.The small town of Springfield in Clark County is awaiting an invasion of unaccountable thugs who conceal their faces and identities, drive in unmarked vehicles with blackened windows, stomp on the Bill of Rights, and viciously brutalize human beings based on race and accent.The clock is ticking for 20 to 25 percent of the city’s population from Haiti. In two weeks, barring last-minute legal or congressional intervention, immigrants from the violently imploding Caribbean country will lose their legal protection from rampaging ICE warriors eager to fill deportation quotas.The militarized sweep of terror unleashed by unrestrained federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents that has traumatized Minneapolis and the nation writ large could be coming to Springfield soon.An estimated 12,000 to 15,000 Haitian residents in the metro area — many of whom have been living, working, and raising families in the area for close to a decade under a legal immigration lifeline — will be stripped of their Temporary Protected Status (TPS) on Feb. 3.That means on Feb. 4, a paramilitary ICE force of masked tough guys can grab and deport as many Creole-speaking Black people in Springfield as possible.Those who protest the savagery deployed against their neighbors could face the same harassment and dispersement tactics demonstrators in the Twin Cities did with flash grenades, tear gas, rubber bullets or, like Renee Good, worse.The Ohio city is bracing for barbaric.Haitian residents cut off from their legally protected status could meet the same fate as other immigrants besieged by cosplaying federal Rambos with weapons and short fuses.The Haitians who flocked to Springfield to escape a violent homeland trusted Ohio to have their backs. They worked their tails off and endured much to revive a dying Rust Belt region. But the lives they painstakingly built in Ohio as co-workers, business owners, community activists and church-going family people are nearing an expiration date.The huddled masses who yearned to be free in Springfield are terrified of being returned to Haiti which is even more turbulent and deadly than when they left.It is considered too dangerous by the U.S. for its own citizens.The State Department gave Haiti its highest Level Four: Do Not Travel advisory due to extreme risks of being caught in gunfire or ongoing gang violence, kidnappings, armed robbery, sexual assault, and severe shortages of basic necessities including fuel, water, and food.Yet while acknowledging (in a gross understatement) that “certain conditions in Haiti remain concerning,” the Trump regime insists the bloody hellscape is safe enough to ship 350,000 Haitian immigrants legally employed in the U.S, including Springfield, back home.The Department of Homeland Security even dangled a $1,000 incentive to Haitians who self-deport.One Springfield immigrant who is haunted by the bodies he saw regularly on the streets of Haiti, gunned down by roving gangs, flinched at an exit bonus to armed conflict.“You could be self-deporting to your death,” he said. The Haitians who turned to Ohio for security, employment, and hope rescued Springfield said local pastor Carl Ruby.The town had been in decline for 70 years before the 2017 arrival of Haitians, he explained.“We had shrunk all the way back to the population we had in 1910,” and the influx of immigrants, granted temporary refuge in Springfield, was “one of the best things that has happened in terms of economic growth and tax revenues” despite initial growing pains.“There were legitimate issues when such a large group arrived all at once, but we’ve made a lot of progress in dealing with those issues and it’s going to be both an economic and humanitarian disaster if TPS ends.” At the Haitian Support Center in Springfield, executive director Viles Dorsainvil said many of his compatriots who survived political upheaval, insecurity and abductions in Haiti believed they had come to Ohio to work hard, raise their families, go to school and contribute to their community.Now they shudder with fear and uncertainty as their final hours of safety and stability ebb away.“But we keep going because we are a resilient people,” sighed Dorsainvil.Yet if the Trump regime revokes the Haitians’ temporary protected status a couple of weeks from now ICE agents could quickly invade Springfield, like other targeted cities, and drag documented immigrants from their children their homes, their dreams.Anxious town leaders are appealing for calm. Meanwhile, Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine warned of a looming economic crisis in Springfield if area factories and business cannot find replacements for the thousands of terminated Haitian employees slated for indefensible deportation to what DeWine called “one of the most dangerous places in the world.”These immigrants were a godsend to American employers who struggled with hard-to-fill jobs.In a sane world, Republican leadership in Ohio would be fighting tooth and nail to protect the TPS holders from Haiti building a robust economic comeback in Clark County because it is clearly in the best interest of the state to do so.Ohio’s U.S. senators would be racing to obtain a TPS extension or redesignation for Haiti to give Springfield’s immigrant community work permit protections against removal to an extraordinarily unsafe country.But they acquiesce without a fight while the madness of a militarized sweep of terror comes to south-west Ohio.And it will. Any day now. Marilou Johanek is a veteran Ohio print and broadcast journalist who has covered state and national politics as a longtime newspaper editorial writer and columnist.