Archive | March, 2019

We are the invisible. We are the invincible. We will overcome.

Originally published: Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research on February 28, 2019 (more by Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research) |

The mood in Caracas (Venezuela) is sombre. It appears that the attempted coup against the government that began on 23 January is now substantially over (as the Venezuelan Foreign Minister Jorge Arreaza tells me).
Extinction rebellion

Originally published: Truthdig on February 24, 2019 by Chris Hedges (more by Truthdig) | (Posted Mar 01, 2019)

There is one desperate chance left to thwart the impending ecocide and extinction of the human species.
Statement by Permanent Representative Vassily Nebenzia at the UN Security Council meeting on Venezuela

Originally published: Internationalist 360° on February 26, 2019 (more by Internationalist 360°) (Posted Mar 01, 2019)

Let us call things by their proper names: this is not humanitarian aid. If the U.S. had really wanted to help the people of Venezuela, they would have acted via UN agencies accredited in the country, as other states successfully do.