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A visit to mysterious U.S. Air Firm accused of arming right-wing insurgency in Venezuela
Jeb Sprague entered the offices of 21Air, a shadowy air cargo company accused of ferrying arms to Venezuela, and demanded answers about its role in the U.S.-led coup
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The global networks of neofascism
Phil Hearse explores the worldwide allegiances which bind rising fascist movements across the world into a coordinated force.
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The Trump tax plan proves a bonanza for business
In sum, thanks to the Trump tax plan, trillions of dollars that could have been used to transform our transportation and energy infrastructure, industrial structure, and system of social services are instead being transferred to big businesses, who use them for speculative activities and to further enrich their already wealthy managers and stock holders.
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Guaido ‘appoints’ new oil executives as Trump vows ‘all options on table’
Trump has repeatedly refused to rule out a military option.
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The battle lines have been drawn on the Green New Deal
“I REALLY DON’T like their policies of taking away your car, taking away your airplane flights, of ‘let’s hop a train to California,’ or ‘you’re not allowed to own cows anymore!’” – President Donald Trump
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The State and Accumulation Under Contemporary Capitalism
Historically, capitalism develops institutions and ideologies that justify surplus extraction and capital accumulation. In the last decades of the twentieth century, the financialization of capitalism initiated a new era of accumulation which is known in academic contexts as finance-capital-driven neoliberalism.
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Sweezy on the Rise of Fascism
Both Sweezy and Dimitrov agree that fascism arises in the middle class and becomes a threat when the bourgeoisie embraces it, but Sweezy’s unique contribution is to demonstrate fascism’s relationship to the postwar transitional period of class equilibrium.
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Oil, Neocons, Monroe Doctrine: author explains origins of Trump’s Venezuela plan
The U.S. has revitalised its old Monroe Doctrine, seeking to take Latin America countries and most notably Venezuela, famous for its rich oil reserves, under control, French journalist Gilbert Mercier has told Sputnik, explaining why the “overt coup attempt” in Caracas is doomed to failure.
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Venezuela’s missile crisis: a conversation with Juan Contreras
A grassroots leader from the 23 de Enero barrio in Caracas looks at the historical forces operating behind the showdown unfolding right now in the Bolivarian Republic.
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Financial blockade: Chronology of a strategy to destroy Venezuela
Sanctions against Venezuela are real and palpable mechanisms of destruction of the State, identity and, with it, of Venezuelan society.
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The legitimacy of Venezuela’s President
The right-wing opposition in Venezuela, openly directed by the United States, is attempting a coup to impose an interim president, a figure not recognized in the country’s Constitution, disregarding the will of 6,248,864 citizens who voted for Nicolás Maduro.
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Inside the neoliberal laboratory preparing for the theft of Venezuela’s economy
Among the academics pushing hard for regime change in Venezuela is Ricardo Hausmann, now an adviser to Juan Guaido, who has “already drafted a plan to rebuild the nation, from economy to energy.”
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United States: defend Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib, the first two Muslim women in the U.S. Congress!
Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib are under attack for who they are–as Muslim Arab-American women, and as progressive critics of U.S. foreign policy not only in Palestine but throughout the Middle East and in Latin America as well.
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Defying U.S.-led pressure, people across the world stand up for Venezuela’s sovereignty
While international media creates a spectacle around “humanitarian aid”, strong mobilizations in support of Nicolás Maduro and the Bolivarian Revolution continue within Venezuela and across the world.
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Phrasebook of imperialism
This Tricontinental Newsletter on a phrasebook for imperialism is intriguing if shorter than usual.
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‘The neoliberal project is alive but has lost its legitimacy’: David Harvey
In an interview with The Wire, the well-known Marxist scholar talks about the surge of populist and right-wing politics and the future of neoliberalism, capitalism and technology.
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Myth of the Medieval Jewish Moneylender with Julie Mell
On this episode, Scott Ferguson and Maxximilian Seijo speak with Mell about these and other connections that may be drawn between her own and neochartalism’s critical projects.
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Rep. Ilhan Omar grills Elliott Abrams over his shady past
Rep. Ilhan Omar spoke truth to power on Wednesday when she grilled Elliott Abrams over his support for violent regime change policies and history of lying to Congress.
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In Venezuela, white supremacy is a key driver of the Coup
The coup is, at it heart, a furious backlash of whiter and wealthier Venezuelans against the mixed race and Black majority.
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An open letter to the people of the United States
Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro calls on U.S. society to denounce its government´s threats of war.