Opinion

What the French then wanted was the stability that Napoleon offered. France would not know republican government for another 72 years. This vote for a “strongman” took place after only ten years of the French Revolution. As of this writing,…
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Bernie and friends point to the eminently obvious advantages of supposedly "socialist" Finland, Sweden, and Iceland: we are told on a routine basis that they are models that we should emulate. Free of ultra-wealthy and ultra-greedy…
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A few years ago, Weisbrot traveled to Venezuela to see the reality with his own eyes. He returned to the United States, and assured us that the Venezuelan people were happy; that its reported problems were merely the result of isolated…
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The environmental movement has clearly become more radical and strident in its demands over the course of the past two years. This is part of the general left-ward lurch of the Democratic Party in the wake of Trump. Yet, their environmental…
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Today he is a human rights activist: founder of the organization Operation Freedom and winner of the Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought, awarded by the European Parliament in 2017. He spent two years and three months in the coldest, most…
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By Sukanti Bhave * The humanitarian aid for Venezuela was supposed to enter the country on February 23rd through, Cucuta, Colombia. One week and many canisters of tear gas later, the border between Venezuela and Colombia is closed,…
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The international mainstream media is generally eager to report on stories involving indigenous populations who are being discriminated against or abused by the powerful: governments, multinational corporations, wealthy landowners, farmers,…
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Venezuela is on track to shed 6 million people by the end of this year. What other nation in modern history has lost 20% of its population...in a time of peace, no less? Yet, we continue to hear from some elements of the American Left, and…
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Waters sees Branson as unwitting pawn of the "Evil Empire": the United States, which, of course, just wants to steal all of Venezuela's oil. (He apparently believes that Russia and China have no interest in Venezuela oil, and is blissfully…
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For the historians of the American Civil War, the "lost cause" is an ideological movement that fantasizes the Confederate cause as a heroic struggle against very great difficulties. The doctrine of this lost cause highlights alleged virtues…
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It is time for the world to pick sides, according to US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo. As the Venezuelan crisis has turned into the greatest humanitarian catastrophe in modern Latin American history, with millions of refugees pouring out…
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