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In Latin America alone, the long and disastrous record of US-led interventions is enough to cause alarm about the possible outcomes of this crisis

If the shutdown resumes, we urge federal workers to stay away from work and their allies to occupy airports on 2/16

Over the course of four days in August 1953, Roosevelt would orchestrate not one, but two attempts to destabilize the government of Iran

Macron Prepares New Repressive Measures

At what point do we say that someone who has done or said something objectionable, something that is not criminal by nature, has changed?

Four hundred nurses attended the bargaining session where safe staffing ratios were discussed, and members had an opportunity to speak

Clearly, the job of all people opposed to the Trump administration coup is to mobilise to make this dilemma as excruciating as possible for the “socialists” backing the Washington warmongers

The Justice Democrats helped get Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez elected. Who are they after next?

Interview on the 40th anniversary of the Iranian Revolution

While Purdue Pharma publicly denied its opioids were addictive, internally company officials were acknowledging it and devising a plan to profit off them even more, the complaint states

Trump’s unwavering backing of Juan Guaidó’s shadow government in Venezuela attaches a “made in the U.S.A.” label to all those positioned to govern should Maduro fall

Perhaps being a victim of privacy invasion will help Jeff Bezos realize the evils of what his company is enabling

North Carolina Immigrant Arrests Climb to 230

Capitalists are driven by a mindless herd mentality once they’ve made money. They believe they can continue doing so forever

After months of anticipation, Democratic New York Congressmember Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Massachusetts Senator Ed Markey introduced a resolution for the Green New Deal

Trump’s language seems intended to brand those who espouse socialism by name or even by their platforms as subversive adherents of a faith alien to American values and traditions

The simplistic narrative of a socialist dictatorship starving its own people provides great utility as a weapon for the establishment to beat back the domestic “threat” of socialism

Don’t Expect Rulers of Nuclear-Armed Nations to Accept Nuclear Disarmament―Unless They’re Pushed to Do So

The Saker: Could you summarize the state of Venezuela’s economy when Chavez came to power? Michael Hudson: Venezuela was an oil monoculture. Its export revenue was spent largely on importing food and other necessities that it could have produced at home. Its trade was largely with the United States. So despite its oil wealth, it Read more…

Mining Greed Produces a Horrific Death Toll

By giving America it’s dumbest and cruelest wars, the best and brightest left room for a dumber and crueler leader to end them

How much of a role declining air service and/or the possibility of a broad walkout played in ending the shutdown is not clear

Examining mainstream media claims that Maduro “stole” the 2018 presidential election

“The way that we’re ensuring that the legislation is as science and justice demand is by building a grassroots movement all across the country that can make sure that we’re holding all politicians’ feet to the fire.”

The US government acknowledges that it is knowingly, consciously driving the Venezuelan economy into the ground, but US media make no such acknowledgment

Serious proposals are on the table to address the deepening divide between the uber-rich and the rest of us.

The Guaidó/Trump cabal does not reflect the democratic consensus in Venezuela, where polls consistently show super majorities oppose outside intervention

Morales spent years making Donald Trump’s bed and performing other duties at his New Jersey club, even though she was undocumented

Raid At Gun Factory Questions Immigrant Right to Identity

Those rare moments when our political class suddenly starts viewing the nation’s richest through a skeptical lens can help trigger real social change

From our prison complex to police shootings to voter purges aimed at people of color to Muslim bans, border cages and the brutal thuggery of ICE, racism still rules

Seattle General Strike

Trump’s assertion that he intends to keep US troops in Iraq to spy on Iran has produced a firestorm of protest and controversy in Baghdad

Staying in Santiago, Chile, at the moment, I see echoes and reflections of Cleo – the servant at the heart of Alfonso Cuarón’s wondrous film Roma – everywhere

The furor over Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam’s yearbook photo has America once again asking the wrong questions about racism

“‘Vicious’ And ‘Brutal’”

Interview on moving toward solutions

Why are the US and its European acolytes embarking on an aggressive and maximalist stance that makes any negotiated solution outright impossible?

The working class was supposed to have been edged out of active politics, but instead France’s elites have been frightened into making concessions by this winter’s uprising of the yellow vests

Trump isn’t giving people orders to commit violence. But fringe violent racists clearly are taking encouragement from Trump’s outrageous bigotry

A lot has happened and we have learned more since last week when we wrote, Venezuela: What Activists Need To Know About The US-Led Coup. This article updates activists so we remain well-informed and can educate others in the face of a bi-partisan and corporate media narrative supporting the coup. This weekend, there were competing protests Read more…

Analysis Shows Medicare for All Would Cut Costs, Boost Efficiency, and Save Lives

Workers have been fighting Donald Trump’s agenda from the earliest days of his presidency

Interview on the short and long term defense of Venezuela’s sovereignty

Venezuelan president Nicolas Maduro has denounced a “massive” Twitter attack against the Venezuelan government after thousands of accounts belonging to ministers and pro-government media and supporters were suspended

Facebook has removed the page of yet another media outlet. This time, it’s not a far right fringe network like Infowars, but “Venezuela’s only independent, grassroots leftwing English media platform,” the outlet, Venezuela Analysis, noted on Twitter

Trump likes strong leadership, But only from the Right; When it comes to Leftwing dictators, Trump turns democrat.   The man who ordered dismemberment Of a critical journalist— Being friendly with oil and investment— Tops Trump’s approval list.   But Maduro whom the laboring mass support Is a recalcitrant Bartelby; “I would prefer not to” Read more…

The only things that will force such a radical change in U.S. policy are public outrage, education and organizing, and international solidarity with the people of Venezuela

‘The Indigenous Narrative Holds the Power to Really Shift People’s Societal Views’

At the recent World Economic Forum at Davos, a U.S. panelist claimed that high taxes on the super-wealthy and economic growth had never coexisted in any country ever. The moderator and other panelists were ready to move on, but someone had made the mistake of allowing a guy on the panel who would blurt out Read more…