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Venezuela: More Chicken-hawk posturing from Trump

By Richard Steigmann-Gall, Associate Professor of history at Kent State University, USA The overriding temptation on the left is to frame Trump’s criminality as another instance of Uncle Sam meddling in Latin American affairs. Big Continuity, which implicates all our imperial presidents since McKinley. I don’t think this fits Trump’s pattern, however. And this does […]

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Maduro: The Billionaires move in.

This morning, the third of January, the news arrived not through the slow deliberation of the courts, but through the sharp, sudden fact of American special forces – Nicolás Maduro, a man who had long inhabited the Miraflores Palace as though it were a fortress against time itself, was taken by US forces, on the […]

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Time to Die for Profits!

By Neil Scott I’m off work with covid. Imagine those words 5 years ago. Imagine a friend messaging that to you back then. Covid still can be dangerous for many people- and was deadly for many more half a decade ago. It killed family and friends -and work colleagues- and the devastating footage of people […]

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Karen Orr: How Many Working Class Americans will Kill and Die for Venezuelan Oil?

​As swathes of English people are fooled into flag wars, and Americans are being groomed to hate oil rich Venezuela, Karen Orr explores the history of the working class dying for billionaires… The history of conflict is not the grand narrative of kings and causes taught in schools; it is, at its core, a sordid […]