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Venezuelan Sovereignty and the Essequibo Referendum

24Jul

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Venezuela

Venezuelan Sovereignty and the Essequibo Referendum

The national vote held on December 3 upheld sovereignty in two ways: exercising control over the territory and emphasizing the weight of the popular vote. Clodovaldo Hernández Clodovaldo Hernández is a Venezuelanalysis columnist. (Venezuelanalysis) Sovereignty, a concept that neoliberal modernity has sought to dilute and pasteurize, has come doubly to the forefront as a result of the referendum held in Venezuela on December 3 regarding the country’s dispute with Guyana over the 159,500 square kilometer territory west of the Essequibo River. Caracas’ move was an unusual turn in this type of border dispute. Previous cases involved consultations with the concerned peoples but had been preceded by diplomatic agreements between the parties. In this case, the acti...

The Separate Paths of Venezuelan Politics

24Jul

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Venezuela

The Separate Paths of Venezuelan Politics

Sociologist Reinaldo Iturriza delves into the phenomenon of “disaffiliation” in present-day Venezuela. Reinaldo Iturriza López According to Iturriza, disaffiliation is one of the most serious problems facing Venezuelan society today. (Venezuelanalysis) If we were to accept the premise that it is no longer possible to speak of a politically polarized Venezuela because the political field has ceased to be the scene of a conflict between two antagonistic projects in Venezuela, the most logical conclusion would be to formulate some hypotheses about the course of the poles in contention, specifically about their social support bases and their leadership figures. This is relevant because, in the realm of anti-Chavista opinion-makers, the analysis seems to go as follows: af...

24Jul

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Italy

The 1958 Vatican Conclave Coup

Did it start Sede Vacante? By: Claudio Resta VT Condemns the ETHNIC CLEANSING OF PALESTINIANS by USA/Israel $ 280 BILLION US TAXPAYER DOLLARS INVESTED since 1948 in US/Israeli Ethnic Cleansing and Occupation Operation; $ 150B direct "aid" and $ 130B in "Offense" contractsSource: Embassy of Israel, Washington, D.C. and US Department of State. https://twitter.com/RorateCaeli/status/1818286619591586266 The #US State Department had a mole in the #Vatican who gave them info on how to interfere with the 1958 conclave. The election of Siri, Ruffini, Ottaviani would be “a misfortune for the Church…” The declassified American documents say that the 1958 conclave that elected John XXIII was piloted by Washington and the Freemasons. The coup in the Vatican did not s...

A Personal Discussion of Russian National Security

24Jul

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Russia

A Personal Discussion of Russian National Security

BY MELVIN GOODMAN Photograph Source: A.Savin – CC BY 3.0 I correctly anticipated significant criticism of my last piece for CounterPunch, which argued that President Vladimir Putin’s was not “unproved,” that NATO expansion was a significant factor in the Russian use of force, and that our policymakers and so-called experts failed to understand the central national security aspects of Soviet/Russian policy. Among the critics of my CounterPunch article were Walter Slocomb who served in Clinton’s national security council and lobbied for NATO expansion, and a former colleague of mine at the National War College, Marvin Ott, who supported expansion and is anticipating a Russian victory in Ukraine to be followed by Putin’s aggression elsewhere. I am not trying to m...

24Jul

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Venezuela

Serving the People, Not Capital

VA columnist Reinaldo Iturriza revisits the insights of Alí Rodríguez Araque to put Venezuela's political dilemmas in perspective. Reinaldo Iturriza López The predominance of oil in the Venezuelan economy has led to several crossroads over time. (Venezuelanalysis) The lack of knowledge about our history, the absence of even the slightest analytical rigor, and perhaps more dangerously, a certain tendency to reproduce a common sense that prevails in these times of capitalist realism, can lead us to incorrectly assess the years of the Hugo Chávez presidency as a period in which everything was possible thanks to the oil revenue. From the aforementioned, it is often deduced that, in the absence of sufficient oil revenue—as a result of falling oil prices, the impact of sanc...

Bolivarian Diplomacy vs. the Monroe Doctrine: A Conversation with Carlos Ron

23Jul

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Venezuela

Bolivarian Diplomacy vs. the Monroe Doctrine: A Conversation with Carlos Ron

Venezuela’s upcoming presidential election raises the issue of US meddling in Latin America. Cira Pascual Marquina Carlos Ron (Venezuelanalysis) Carlos Ron is Vice-Minister of Foreign Affairs for North America and heads Venezuela’s Simón Bolívar Institute, which promotes peace and solidarity among the world’s peoples. In part one of this interview, we talk to Ron about two opposing worldviews: Bolivarianism versus Monroism. Ron argues that the US doctrine of Monroism has been applied to Venezuela with the aim of toppling its government. Part two of the interview will address the upcoming presidential election and the challenges ahead for the Bolivarian Process. The Monroe Doctrine, now 200 years old, has been historically linked to the US’ self-assigned right to hegem...

Venezuelan Opposition Cries Fraud; People Reelect President Maduro

23Jul

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Venezuela

Venezuelan Opposition Cries Fraud; People Reelect President Maduro

BY ROGER HARRIS Photo: Roger Harris. July 29, 2024, Caracas, Venezuela. Shortly before midnight, the president of the National Electoral Council (CNE), Elvis Amoroso, announced the re-election of Venezuela’s President Nicolas Maduro. Like the proverbial boy who cried wolf, the US-backed and funded far-right opposition cried fraud. Maduro won with 51.2% of the vote. His nearest rival, the far-right US-backed candidate Edmundo Gonzalez trailed by 7 percentage points. While the US corporate press refers to the “opposition” as if it were a unified bloc, eight other names appeared on the ballot. Unlike the US, where most of the electorate is polarized around two major parties, the fractious opposition in Venezuela is split into many mutually hostile camps whose dislike ...

23Jul

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Politics, USA

Project 2025: A New Pax Romana

BY LIZ THEOHARIS - SHAILLY GUPTA BARNES Image by Gage Skidmore. Roman poet Juvenal coined the phrase “bread and circuses” nearly 2,000 years ago for the extravagant entertainment the Roman Empire used to distract attention from imperial policies that caused widespread discontent. Imagine the lavish banquets, gladiatorial bouts, use and abuse of young men and women for the pleasure of the rich, and so much more that characterized the later years of that empire. And none of it seems that far off from the situation we, in these increasingly dis-United States, find ourselves in today. Although the Roman Empire described itself as being in favor of life and peace, the various Caesars and their enablers regularly dealt death and destruction in their wake. They spread the ...

23Jul

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Politics, USA

How Civil Wars Start

BY PATRICK MAZZA Battle between the USS Monitor and Merrimack – Public Domain On the afternoon of July 13, a family member called me. “They just shot Trump. This is how civil wars start.” The family member is an ardent Trump supporter, and he believes, as many others in the Trump camp, that the shooter didn’t act alone. The glaring omission of leaving a roof in the line of fire unprotected fuels that belief, as do facts such as that the shooter was seen on the roof beforehand, and that he was somehow able to carry a ladder and rifle across a distance of around 200 yards from his van to the building without being challenged. Whether this was a monumental set of screw-ups or something worse, a truism I long ago learned about politics is that perception is reality. An...

Biden’s Mixed Legacy and a Chance for Change

23Jul

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Politics, USA, ZIO-NAZI

Biden’s Mixed Legacy and a Chance for Change

BY L. MICHAEL HAGER Photograph Source: The White House – Public Domain When President Joseph R. Biden finally removed himself from the race for a second presidential term on July 21, there followed a cascade of high praise, not only for his “brave decision” to step down but also for his “remarkable achievements” over a lifetime of public service. Both long-time colleagues and the major media applauded him in columns or tweets. In a New York Times opinion, historian Jon Meacham called the President’s decision to end his campaign “one of the most remarkable acts of leadership in our history.” The President can take credit for a number of domestic achievements during his term of office. Most notably, he oversaw dramatic post-Covid job growth; lowered costs f...