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  Jeffrey Sachs Rattles the U.S. Establishment   By David Starr   Jeffrey Sachs has the United States establishment pulling out hairs over his positions on the Venezuela-U.S. conflict, the Russia-Ukraine war, the Israel-Palestine war etc. Sachs has been direct, and correct, on these issues.   Sachs is president of the United Nations Sustainable Development Solutions Network (UNSDSN), and has served as a UNSDSN Advocate under Secretary General Antonio Guterres. Further, Sachs taught about 20 years as a Harvard University professor, and graduated from there, earning his B.A., M.A, and Ph.D. degrees.    So, Sachs has a lot of intellectual prowess to back up his assertions.    Sach’s views on Venezuela strongly defy the narrative of the U.S. establishment. He is vehement about his opposition to the United States, under the Trump regime, with its provocations, hostilities, and all-out murder of people who, riding in small boats, are probably innocent o...

  Kshama Sawant: Political Hellraiser   By David Starr   Seattle, Washington has had some significant changes over the last ten years. This is mainly attributable to Kshama Sawant.   Sawant is a socialist who is not in the habit of aligning herself with politicians from either the Democratic Party or the Republican Party. On the contrary, she has strong criticisms of the two, who are both ideologically the same, being capitalist parties. They are like two tendencies of one party.   According to Sawant , “Most of the time, working people have no representation under capitalism. Both the Democrats and the Republicans serve the interests of the billionaires, and both are warmongering parties down to their bones.”   It’s true that both parties are beholden to billionaires and big corporate interests. But, actually, the Democrats are a little less warmongering than the Republicans, the latter now being outright fascists. Nevertheless, in the bottom line, there h...

  Showdown at the United Nations Security Council Over Venezuela   By David Starr   The threats and aggression  coming out of the  United States’ imperial foreign policy is nothing new. In fact, it’s an inherent part of that policy.    Venezuela  historically has been a recipient  of U.S. empire’s objectives. For decades it was a U.S. market satellite in typical fashion for nations of the Global South who have experienced U.S. imperialism.    Venezuela’s leaders were pliable to U.S. “interests,” sacrificing the stability of their country for their greedy objectives. And, in turn, for the U.S. empire to take advantage of that situation by having  private, monopoly control  over Venezuela’s land, labor and resources.   Then came 1998, when Hugo Chavez was elected president of Venezuela and things  began to change dramatically , establishing and developing a Bolivarian Revolution which was geared to the political an...

  Venezuela is Prepared to Defend Itself Against U.S. Aggression By David Starr   The Trump regime has shown yet again its fondness for fascism…or more directly put, Nazism.    Trump, his billionaire parasites and fellow Nazis have been using Nazi tactics based on  Project 2025 , a right-wing agenda that is an attempt to bring back the worst of the United States. And it does have similarities with Nazi Germany.    The Trump regime has also  showed its fondness  for “regime change,” or an aggressive, imperialist foreign policy. Venezuela is one of the targets for potential regime change based on a lie: combatting “narco-terrorists” in the Bolivarian nation. Its president Nicolas Maduro has been labeled a “narco-terrorist” by Trump mouthpiece Pam Bondi.    But, again, the regime is  peddling lies  like a psychopath. No evidence has been presented that Venezuela is practicing a drug conspiracy against the United States. That ...

  Trump’s ICE Gestapo: The Real Terrorists By David Starr   The Trump’s regime’s terrorism unfortunately continues, one way being the invasion and abducting of “undesirables” by its ICE Gestapo in various U.S. cities.   Saying that Trump is a  madman  is putting it mildly. There has been the mimicking of Nazi tactics and Trump is aware of this. After all, he’s the “dear leader” of his MAGA followers.   Status Coup  had a segment on  ICE’s barbarism  in Chicago. And  Meidas Touch  also had a segment on the  terrorism of ICE  in various cities.   Similarities can be drawn  with the words and behavior of the regime and its ICE thugs to 1930s Nazi Germany. There are  certain differences , however, where the German Nazis took a very hard line with the result being 6 million dead by the Holocaust. ICE hasn’t reached that stage…yet anyway. Could it?    At this point, it goes without saying that the regime...

  Will the U.S. Right-wing Bring Racism, and Thus Lynching, to a Fever Pitch Once Again? By David Starr   During around the 1890s and 1900s racism in the United States not only increased, it became barbaric.    After the Union won the Civil War, there was a  period of reconstruction  to try and free the ancestors of African Americans from the remnants of slavery. African Americans could finally declare themselves citizens of the U.S. with constitutional and political rights.   But the backlash was inevitable. White supremacists proceeded to go on a  racist rampage , (see chapter 2), thus making the benefits of Reconstruction weaker or just temporary. The period from the 1890s to the 1900s was in particular very dangerous for African Americans.    With white racism at a fever pitch, supremacists used both verbal and physical violence to try to intimidate and/or kill, quite a number of Blacks. If we count going beyond 1900, the deaths of b...

  The Emerging of BRICS and U.S. Hostility   By David Starr   The Global South in particular has needed reforms and policies that don’t conform with and defy the current U.S.-dominated world order. It’s been a long time coming.    A viable alternative is BRICS, an acronym that stands for the names of the countries that founded it: Brazil, Russia, India, China, are the founding members, with South Africa joining in 2011.     As  stated on its web site , the objectives of BRICS “incudes strengthening economic, political and social cooperation among its members, as well as increasing the influence of Global South countries in international governance. The group seeks to improve the legitimacy, equity in participation and efficiency in global institutions such as the UN, IMF, World Bank and WTO. (UN = United Nations, IMF = International Monetary Fund, and WTO = World Trade Organization.)   “Moreover, it aims to bolster sustainable social and...