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Opposition parties participated in the latest round of elections in Venezuela as President Maduro's popular ruling party appears headed for another sweeping... 23.11.2021, Sputnik International
Spotlight on Chris Hedges EDITED BY PATRICE GREANVILLE How do you revolt? When you are convinced that only rebellion against a corrupt and sociopathic order will create (or restore) social justice and democracy, and thereby permit the advent of social peace, not to mention the general survival of humanity and the rest of sentience, how do you go about it? Which roads do you follow to maximize success and minimize suffering? This is a question that has preoccupied political thinkers for millennia, so it's not surprising that in our era, with the collapse of the capitalist order apparently a...
How the Cookie Crumbles She’s 80, comes from Ayr, Scotland, lives in a sea town along the Oregon Coast. She is caretaker for her 55-year-old nephew. Her heart-failed husband, liver shot through, dialysis weekly, is another of her charges. Imagine, she and her family ran a small chain of shops — clocks, another locksmith, another fish and chips. That was in Bonnie Scotland. Her sister married a bloke in the US Air Force, and she shipped out with him. Pregnant. Child Drew, early on, in Tucson at Davis Monthan Air Force Base, he was diagnosed with Downs Syndrome. Life for her changed, and th...
A critical assessment by Patrice Greanville Another illuminating chat with the ever cogent Chris Hedges. There's no question Hedges is a powerful and valuable voice in a political landscape largely decimated of lucid and principled analysts. That said, I have always found Hedges far more of an old-fashioned left-liberal than a radical socialist, a Marxist, or a "tankie", which in my view would be a marked improvement in the clarity and power of his message. Lest someone think I'm an ingrate, especially at this moment of crisis when we desperately need superior progressive communicators like H...
Rainer Shea OpEds If genuine, this image would be an attempt by DSA to claim genuine leftist credentials—which it definitely lacks. J. Sakai’s Settlers: The Mythology of the White Proletariat, the brutal 1983 polemic which argued that the American left’s dominant institutions are enamored with the ideology of the U.S. empire, is far from being above criticism. But it also accomplishes something very important, which is to compile a history of how the country’s labor organizations and movements have frequently worked to strengthen the structures of U.S. imperialism and colonialism....