Geopolitics
DropSite News – Maduro pleads not guilty in U.S. court; DOJ drops claim that “Cartel De Los Soles” exists
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Geopolitics
Jeffrey D. Sachs – My Briefing to the UN Security Council Regarding US Aggression Against Venezuela
The following remarks, as prepared for presentation, were made by Jeffrey D. Sachs, president of the UN Sustainable Development Solutions Network and director of the Center for Sustainable Development at Columbia University during an emergency […]
Economics
Michael Roberts – China: AI, involution and the national plan
The China nay-sayers think the economy is heading towards stagnation, but the reality is that China is out-competing the West on every important economic metric. Michael Roberts is an Economist in the City of London […]
Geopolitics
Sami Al-Arian – Venezuela extends the lesson of Gaza into the western hemisphere
If Netanyahu can get away with genocide, then why can’t Trump get away with abducting another country’s President? Barbarism is as barbarism does. Sami Al-Arian is the Director of the Center for Islam and Global […]
Geopolitics
Michael Roberts – Venezuela and oil
American oil giants exploiting Venezuela’s oil is more complicated than it sounds. Michael Roberts is an Economist in the City of London and a prolific blogger. Cross-posted from Michael Roberts’ blog Within hours of the US […]
Geopolitics
Juan Cole – Top 5 Mistakes Bush made in Iraq that Trump is making in Venezuela
Of all these errors, no day-after planning sticks out as the most important point of comparison between Iraq and Venezuela. Juan Cole is the Richard P. Mitchell collegiate professor of history at the University of […]
Geopolitics
Politico – Denmark PM bristles at Trump’s ‘need’ for Greenland after US strikes on Venezuela
Europeans look at Trump’s gangsterism and think ‘it will never happen here’, but it can. Read the full article HERE.
Geopolitics
Luke Goldstein, Lucy Dean Stockton – Corporations Are Ready to Cash In on Venezuela
‘Before Donald Trump’s capture of Nicolás Maduro, corporations filed lawsuits against Venezuela seeking damages tied to state nationalisation, international sanctions, and political instability. A Trump-installed government could tilt the courts in their favour.’ In Jacobin. […]
Geopolitics
Adriana Marin – How US intervention in Venezuela mirrors its actions in Panama in 1989
US actions in Venezuela have been framed as a break with the so-called rules based international order, but similar actions in Panama just as the Cold War was ending shows that there is significant continuity […]
Geopolitics