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  Kamala Harris’ DNC Acceptance Speech: Hope for the Working Class…Appeals to Ultra-Nationalism   By David Starr   The 2024 Democratic National Convention (DNC) turned out to be electrifying. The enthusiasm was contagious. And it became official: Kamala Harris accepted the nomination for president of the United States.    Harris still has momentum after the DNC, but  according to   Newsweek , she did not increase her lead over Donald Trump. There was “no DNC bump.” However, Harris is still in the lead,  Newsweek  citing a Morning Consult survey where Harris has her best increase ever since she replaced Joe Biden for the presidential campaign run. Harris, as of this writing, leads 48 to 44, a four-point advantage.   Harris’ momentum is impressive. Morning Consult’s Cameron Easley and Eli Yokley are quoted, “The kind of information voters heard about Harris previously tracked with what they were hearing about Biden, but it’s been a different story since she became the Democratic nominee:

  U.S. Officials Are Sanction-Happy   By David Starr   How can a country with a degree of democracy put sanctions on various countries resulting in inevitable consequences while it brags that it’s spreading democracy and freedom worldwide? A country that has the rule of capital as its main objective. True, there are other systems with negative characteristics. But capitalism is inherently geared toward maintaining and expanding the rule of capital, in the bottom line.   The United States, as an empire, is that country, and with the change in the international situation since 1991 (when the USSR dissolved), the USA is trying to take full advantage of it.    The USA has quite a number of sanctions imposed on countries branded as “evil doers.” Especially nowadays, the USA does not practice much diplomacy as it does war mongering. Countries are demonized really because they want to take an alternative path in a multi-polar world as opposed to a bi-polar one, which the USA, and its’ allies,

  U.S. Trying to Use Venezuela’s Election as an Excuse to Impose Regime Change By David Starr   Latin America, and the Caribbean, have had a bloody history dealing with the consequences of U.S. imperialism. And Venezuela is no exception.    Venezuela was a market satellite of the USA for decades in the 20 th  century. In what is all-too-familiar, the U.S. empire imposed a coup in 1908, installing Vice President Juan Vicente Gomez to head the government. Gomez ruled Venezuela either directly or through puppet leaders until his death in 1935. In Venezuelanalysis, Brett Wilkins  writes  that Gomez’s “regime was one of inconceivably medieval brutality.” And Gomez did Washington’s bidding, putting foreign oil companies in the country to establish private monopolies.   In the mid-20 th  century, there was some semblance of democracy when Romulo Betancourt took over to lead the government. He was considered the founder of modern Venezuela. Betancourt wrote that Gomez “was the instrument of fo

  The Right-wing is Failing to Target Kamala Harris Effectively   By David Starr   The two tendencies of the Republicrat Party (which imposes the rule of capital) have had a kind of “slugfest” with each other. Republicans blame Democrats and Democrats blame Republicans for the problems that U.S. society has as it wallows into chaos, tension, division and anger.   The Republican side, however, is flailing, and failing, to utilize effective attacks to use against presumptive presidential nominee Kamala Harris. One attempt is criticizing Harris on border policy. This may have results, but Harris may find an effective counterpoint to this.    Trump has attacked Harris of being a failed “border czar,”  quoting him  in a  Reuters  report. Republicans have used this repeatedly, one reason being that they don’t have anything else on Harris that would discredit her.    This, line of attack, however, has been refuted.  Reuters  quotes democratic, Connecticut Senator Chris Murphy, who is on the F