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(5 comments) SHARE Wednesday, March 1, 2023 Behind the Self-Defeating Approach toward the National Protest against the US War on Russia in Ukraine
The Rage Against the War Machine, which stood up against the US war on Russia in Ukraine, was the first national anti-war demonstration in the capital in years. This was a groundbreaking event, showing that the anti-war movement has revived on a national scale after years of relative quiescence. Yet this success was not welcomed by some leftist anti-war activists.
Underlying this are deeper causes for the conflict.
(1 comments) SHARE Sunday, October 30, 2022 What the 2022 Midterm Election Charade Offers Us
Neither party in the US midterm elections are offering us any solutions to the problems we face. The elections do show that the traditional categories of left and right no longer adequately apply to the political changes taking place in the US.
SHARE Sunday, August 14, 2022 Political Prisoners in the United States, 2022
Categories of political prisoners: state agents and reporters locked up for publicizing blatant government criminality; representatives of foreign governments the US seeks to overthrow; Black, Native American, and Latino activists fighting for the rights of their peoples; US Arab and Muslims targeted after 9-11; prisoners in Guantanamo torture center; women defending against violent attack; and environmental activists.
SHARE Monday, January 17, 2022 21st-Century US Coups and Attempted Coups in Latin America
During the 21st century, the US, working with corporate elites, traditional oligarchies, military, and corporate media, has continually attempted coups against Latin American governments that place the needs of their people over US corporate interests. US-organized coups in Latin American countries is hardly a 20th-century phenomenon.
SHARE Friday, November 12, 2021 Is the US Global Empire Actually in Decline? Part 2
It is often claimed that the US empire is in decline. We analyze this claim and consider whether it is wishful thinking or has actual basis in reality. While the standard of living of the people in the US has decline, the empire remains strong.
SHARE Wednesday, November 10, 2021 Is the US Global Empire Actually in Decline? Part 1
it is often claimed the US empire is in decline. We consider whether this claim is wishful thinking or has actual basis in reality. We conclude that while the standard of living for most US people has declined, the empire has not.
(1 comments) SHARE Wednesday, May 26, 2021 The US Plan to Imprison Businesspeople in other Countries for "Violating" Illegal US Sanctions
The US has taken its unilateral coercive measures to a new level by attempting to extradite foreign businesspeople who have been abiding by international law rather than these US sanctions. The cases of Alex Saab, a Venezuelan, Meng Wanzhou from China's Huawei tech giant, and Mun Chol Myong from North Korea are each charged with violating US sanctions even though all are non-US citizens living outside the US.
(5 comments) SHARE Wednesday, March 3, 2021 The Failure of Trump's "Coup": A Victory for the US Empire - but the Left gets on their bandwagon
The best result for the US empire would be for Trump to lose the election, his "coup" to fail, and he be banned from running for political office. The US rulers achieved almost all that agenda. US leftists, declared opponents of the empire, must ask themselves why this very agenda was also their own agenda.
(4 comments) SHARE Sunday, January 31, 2021 What We Will Miss with the End of the Trump Presidency
With Trump gone, we can expect renewed threats against North Korea and increased military action in the Middle East. We will experience not just an end to presidential condemnations of the national security state, but its further unleashing on the US people and the world.
(2 comments) SHARE Saturday, October 24, 2020 Combating the US Economic War on Venezuela - Differences in the Chavista Ranks
A look at the pluses and minuses of the new The Popular Revolutionary Alternative (APR), made up of the Venezuelan CP and other organizations. They are running in the Venezuelan elections independently of the dominant Chavista party, the PSUV.
(4 comments) SHARE Tuesday, October 13, 2020 Part 2: Why the US Can Keep Increasing its Debt and not Suffer Inflation
The US, protecting the dollar as the world's reserve currency, is not subject to the same rules other countries are: it can spend more than it produces, maintain its consumerist lifestyle, by simply printing more dollars. It can use this extra money to gain control of goods and resources, giving them inflation and debt in exchange. These exported dollars often return home through now uncollectible loans as Treasury Bonds.
SHARE Sunday, June 28, 2020 The Wasp Network Highlights our Lack of Freedom to Tell the Truth on the Cuban Five Case
The Netflix film on the Cuban 5: Wasp Network makes clear the US is the aggressor, that Cuba used the Wasp Network to defend itself. It quotes Fidel Castro pointing out "how amazing it was the biggest spy in the world would accuse the most spied upon country in the world of espionage." Yet the film won't educate people on the Cuban Five case, or on the long history of US terrorism against Cuba.
(2 comments) SHARE Monday, December 23, 2019 The Coup in Bolivia: Lessons for our Movement
What we can learn about the coup in Bolivia, both about their process, and more importantly, what the response here says about the state of our movement.