Under the guise of ‘humanitarian aid’ and the struggle for ‘democracy’, the United States has justified dozens of military and political interventions in the world during the 20th and 21st centuries.
Geography Archives: Americas
South America, Central America, United States & Canada
The shameful attacks on Rep. Ilhan Omar
The House of Representatives may pass their resolution, but that won’t close the door on the discussion Omar’s courage has helped to open. If anything, their behavior and incitement against her has pried it open even further.
The worldwide struggle against fascism: a conversation with Nestor Kohan (Part 2)
An important Latin American political theorist argues that right-wing “internationalism” requires a leftist response that also reaches beyond national boundaries.
‘Useful to keep them nervous’: LISTEN as top Trump aide blabs U.S. Venezuela plans
Vovan and Lexus, Russian telephone pranksters known for their trolling of politicians from around the world, have struck again, targeting U.S. special representative for Venezuela Elliott Abrams to find out more about the U.S.-backed effort to unseat that country’s legitimate government. Sputnik got ahold of the full audio from the talks.
Interview with Stalin Pérez Borges: “It will be very difficult to defeat us.”
Let me finish this interview with our motto: “Fight, fight, don’t stop fighting for a government of the workers and of the people.”
Joao Pedro Stédile: “Venezuela is extremely important because it is the battle of this century”
It is a fundamental task for the class struggle that we succeed in liberating Lula so that he becomes the principal spokesman, he is the one who has the capacity to help mobilize the masses against the system and the project of the extreme right.
Facebook wants you to know if you’re getting your news from the wrong government
NPR’s Facebook page seems to go out of its way to conceal the fact that it’s U.S. government–supported, calling itself “a privately supported, not-for-profit membership organization.” Maybe the P stands for “Private”?
Russia on Venezuela: U.S. mercenaries and direct military intervention
We are certainly worried about the U.S. plans to arm militants in order to destabilise the situation in Venezuela and, frankly speaking, invade this sovereign country.
Promises, promises
They keep promising, ever since the recovery from the Great Recession started more than eight years ago, that the share of national income going to American workers will finally begin to increase. But it’s not.
Roger Waters, socialists say no to Bernie and AOC’s positions on Venezuela
As socialists rally in the United States over their country’s backing of a right wing coup in Venezuela, the supposedly socialist members of Congress–Senator Bernie Sanders (VT) and Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY)–are hitting talking points that worry critics like Roger Waters and activists in the streets alike.
Elliott Abrams, Washington’s ‘new’ Cold Warrior, plots regime change in Caracas
The Trump administration set a 23 February deadline for Venezuelan president Nicolás Maduro to bow to U.S. demands and cede power to self-appointed “president” Juan Guaidó.
Capitalist globalization is not unwinding: TNCs continue to increase their power and profits
The Great Recession of 2008 marked the end of a lengthy period of international economic growth and rapidly increasing international trade. Now, some ten years later, economic activity, including trade and foreign direct investment, remains far below pre-crisis levels with little sign of revival.
The Venezuela crisis and realpolitik
As heads of government, democratically entrusted with safeguarding the welfare of all Venezuelans, Chavez and Maduro bear overall responsibility for the economic crisis, but they are not alone.
The words and deeds of social imperialists
The U.S. left makes celebrities of self-styled “socialists” that have no solidarity with real strugglers against imperialism in the world.
We are the invisible. We are the invincible. We will overcome.
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
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
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.
Letter from the Hampton Institute
In all of the talk about Venezuela, many are missing the real conversation that should be had. Naturally, after being subjected to sensationalist and heavily-biased media reports, most Americans frame the situation in terms of “dictatorship,” “humanitarian crisis,” and “U.S. intervention.”
In countries destroyed by the West, people should stop admiring the U.S and Europe
Everything is connected to this, including the fear and hate that the West feels and spreads about countries like Venezuela, Russia, China, Iran, South Africa, Syria or Cuba.
Venezuela coverage takes us back to Golden Age of lying about Latin America
A few days after the Time story, CNBC (6/22/16) carried a claim that there was no acetaminophen to be found anywhere, either: “Basic things like Tylenol aren’t even available.”
