February 11, 2019
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Climate and contradiction in Marx’s theory of history by Matt Huber
Climate change is often seen as a “new” kind of crisis of capitalism – one that throws into question the standard Marxist analysis as having a blind spot with respect to nature. This has led to a whole host of intellectual efforts to “green” Marxism, or to argue an ecological Marxism must go beyond class… Continue reading
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How the Media Manufactures Consent for Regime Change in Venezuela
The latest extraordinary chapter in the bizarre world of Venezuelan politics is playing out before our eyes. After winning the 2018 presidential elections, Nicolás Maduro was inaugurated in January, only for the head of the National Assembly, Juan Guaidó — a man whom, at the time, less than 20 percent of the country had even… Continue reading
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A Progressive ‘Artifice’ of Democratic Impotence: The ‘World’ Finally ‘Gets It’ By Alastair Crooke
Antonio Gramsci described an interregnum as a time “when the old is dying and the new cannot be born… in this interregnum a great variety of morbid symptoms pertain.” In such periods, the new is perceived as mad, bad and dangerous to contemplate. Continue reading
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Venezuela Newslinks 10-11 February 2019
11 February 2019 19:16 — The New Dark Age Due to duplication, there may be some cross-posting. Podcast Ep 2: How Israel helps Latin American death squads https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/nora-barrows-friedman/podcast-ep-2-how-israel-helps-latin-american-death-squads Making Globalism Great Again https://www.greanvillepost.com/2019/02/11/making-globalism-great-again/ Continue reading
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Elliott Abrams: The War Criminal Running US Policy in Venezuela
The recently named US Special Envoy on Venezuela, Elliott Abrams, is back in the halls of power after a career of supporting dictators, violence and genocide around the world Continue reading
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An open letter to the people of the U.S.A. from President Nicolás Maduro
If I know anything, it is about the people, because just like you, I am a man of the people. I was born and raised in a poor neighborhood of Caracas. I was forged in the heat of popular and union struggles in a Venezuela submerged in exclusion and inequality. I am no tycoon; I… Continue reading
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France: Yellow Vests and Red Unions Strike Together
At the very moment when in Paris the lower house was voting to implement Macron’s proposed laws designed to suppress public demonstrations (a legal right protected in both the French Constitution and the U.N. Human Rights Declaration) tens of thousands of their constituents were out in the streets all over the country demonstrating and striking… Continue reading
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Latest FoI release from MoD shows extent of UK air and drone war in Syria by Chris Cole
The rise in UK air and drone strikes in Syria since September 2018 has been laid bare in the MoD’s latest responses to a Drone Wars UK FoI request. The number of British strikes in Syria per month rose to its highest ever amount (75) in December 2018. Continue reading
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In Venezuela, White Supremacy is Key to Trump’s Coup By Greg Palast
On January 23, right after a phone call from Donald Trump, Juan Guaido, former Speaker of Venezuela’s National Assembly, declared himself President. No voting. When you have official recognition from The Donald, who needs elections? Continue reading
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