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Pantone Bends the Knee to Trump by Choosing White as Color of the Year

Monday, December 8, 2025 at 9:32 AM
Written by Anthony L. Hall
Pantone White cloud dance with Brown farm worker

Pantone brands white as calm and renewal for 2026. But in a political climate shaped by DEI rollbacks and mass deportations of Black and Brown people, white makes right, and means right. iPINIONS argues that Pantone’s choice of “Cloud Dancer” reads less like serenity than submission — a corporate whitewashing dressed up as neutrality. Read… Read more.

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Filed Under: Culture Tagged With: brown people, color of the year, mass deportations, Pantone, white, white supremacy

The Sweatshop Next Door: US Corporations Eye the Dominican Republic

Monday, June 9, 2025 at 9:36 AM
Written by Anthony L. Hall

CNN just reported that US companies are moving manufacturing to the Dominican Republic. But don’t be fooled by talk of reshoring. This isn’t patriotism — it’s proximity-enabled exploitation. And iPINIONS fears that Haitians, yet again, will pay the price. Read my take on Substack: The Sweatshop Next Door… Read more.

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Filed Under: Economy Tagged With: Border Politics, Dominican Republic, exploitation, Forced Labor, Haiti, mass deportations, Sweatshops, Trump administration, US Corporations

Dominican Republic Showing Trump Admin How to Execute Mass Deportations

Tuesday, December 10, 2024 at 9:33 AM
Written by Anthony L. Hall
image of the DR deporting Haitians in cages

A few weeks ago, I observed that Tom Homan, Trump’s “border czar,” comes across like a beat cop playing a military general without having to do so under enemy fire. Listening to him, you’d think he was gearing up for war with Russia, not rounding up scared immigrants like a farmer herding cattle. The Dominican… Read more.

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Filed Under: General Tagged With: Border Policy, Caribbean politics, Dominican Republic, ethnic cleansing, Haiti, Haitian migrants, human rights, immigration policy, International Law, mass deportations, non-refoulement, Trump deportation plan

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