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Venezuela: Where Next?
We must speak the truth: therein lies our strength, and the masses, the people, the multitude will decide in actual practice, after the struggle, whether we have strength. — VI Lenin, 1905 Hugo Chavez will live on as one of the most outstanding foes of US imperialism in our time. His defiance of successive US […]
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How the US Could Have Won the Venezuelan Election
Don’t ask what business the US had in backing a candidate in Venezuela’s July 28 presidential election. Certainly that was not a question that the corporate press ever asked. Of course, the US should never have been meddling in Venezuelan elections in the first place. But given the machinations of the hemisphere’s hegemon, it is […]
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The Political Matrix Sustains the Illusion of Freedom
What you smell is the stench of a dying republic. Our dying republic. We are trapped in a political matrix intended to sustain the illusion that we are citizens of a constitutional republic. In reality, we are caught somewhere between a kleptocracy (a government ruled by thieves) and a kakistocracy (a government run by unprincipled […]
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Absolutist, Relativist and Cynical Thinking Styles
Orientation The mismatch between the complexity of the world and the simplistic manner in which we think about it The social, economic and political world in which we live is extremely complex, but most of the Yankee population does not have the thinking skills that can make intelligent decisions about this world and what to […]
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Voting for Genocide
If Jeffrey Dahmer and Ted Kuzinski were the candidates for the Republican and Democratic parties, which one would you vote for? Donald Trump and Kamala Harris both have more blood on their hands than either of these serial killers, and they promise to kill many more. Both of them supported the latest $20 billion to […]
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Elusive Language: What Is Terrorism Really?
Actually I have gotten tired of explaining to people the deception at the heart of airport security procedures. For years I have tried to show that the explanations given for the increasingly intrusive, not to mention time-consuming, controls to which passengers in international travel and for decades now domestic movement have nothing to do with […]
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A Nation at Peace
To a hammer, everything looks like a nail. To a warmonger, every problem calls for a war. WAR! WAR! FOREVER WAR! UNENDING WAR! Our current leaders are hypnotized by war. They lack the vision and resourcefulness to consider negotiation and cooperation. Peace is not in their thoughts. ‘Peace’ is not in their vocabulary. They are […]
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“What Did You Learn in School Today?”
circa 1830: A slave auction in America. (Photo by Rischgitz/Getty Images) Through the centuries, the Republic that eventuated in North America has maintained a maximum of chutzpah and minimum of awareness in forging a creation myth that sees slavery and dispossession not as foundational but as inimical to the nation now known as the United […]
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Media Coverage of Venezuela’s Presidential Election Normalizes US Interference
Corporate media’s coverage of Venezuela’s July 28 presidential election is akin to an investigation of a homicide that is focused not with identifying the murderer but with an unpaid parking ticket of the victim. Likewise, the media has shifted the narrative into the minutia of electoral procedures, ignoring the much larger issue of US interference […]
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Military Rule and the Disappearing Critics
Democracy can be considered a commodity with multitude of varieties. Each elite ruling class claims theirs is the best suitable for its people, and thus imposes it on them. Mind you, not pure democracy — government of the people, by the people, for the people” — because that would amount to nothing less than socialism. […]
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