11 February 2019 — GreenLeft – Marxist Sociology Blog
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 to incorporate the “new” social movement of environmentalism.
Day: February 11, 2019
How the Media Manufactures Consent for Regime Change in Venezuela
10 February 2019 — Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting
Alan MacLeod looks at the role of the media in the regime change operation in Venezuela.
Juan Guaido swore himself in as “interim president” on January 23 (EFE)
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 heard of — to declare himself President.
A Progressive ‘Artifice’ of Democratic Impotence: The ‘World’ Finally ‘Gets It’ By Alastair Crooke
28 January 2019 — Strategic Culture Foundation
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.
Britain plainly is going through such an interregnum: a period when the élites that previously ‘managed’ political discourse (in Michel Foucault’s words) within strict consensual frontiers, now find that it is being acerbically contested. Such periods are also moments when sanity is lost — when the limits and meaning of what it is reasonable to believe – and do – melt away.
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/
Elliott Abrams: The War Criminal Running US Policy in Venezuela
11 February 2019 — TRNN
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
An open letter to the people of the U.S.A. from President Nicolás Maduro
11 February 2019 — The New Dark Age
President Nicolás Maduro of Venezuela delivered this Feb. 7 message to the people of the U.S. through social media.
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 am a worker of mind and heart. Today I have the great privilege of presiding over the new Venezuela, rooted in a model of inclusive development and social equality, which Comandante Hugo Chávez forged starting in 1998, inspired by the legacy of Simón Bolivar.
France: Yellow Vests and Red Unions Strike Together
10 February 2019 — PM Press
Macron Prepares New Repressive Measures
On Tues, Feb. 5, as the Macron government pushed harsh repressive laws against demonstrators through the National Assembly, the Yellow Vests joined with France’s unions for the first time in a day-long, nation-wide “General Strike.”
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 against Macron’s authoritarian, neo-liberal government. The demonstrators’ demands ranged from better salaries and retirement benefits, restoration of public services, equitable tax codes, an end to police brutality, and banning the use of “flash-balls” on demonstrators, to Macron’s resignation and the instauration of participatory democracy.
Latest FoI release from MoD shows extent of UK air and drone war in Syria by Chris Cole
11 February 2019 — Drone Wars
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.
In Venezuela, White Supremacy is Key to Trump’s Coup By Greg Palast
10 February 2019 — Greg Palast
By Greg Palast updated from Truthout
Note: Palast covered Venezuela during the Chavez presidency for BBC Television Newsnight and The Guardian. Download, for free, the film of Palast’s BBC reports, “The Assassination of Hugo Chavez.” This article incorporates additional reporting by William Camacaro in Caracas.
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?
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