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Venezuela cuts relations with United States over coup support
Maduro cut relations with the U.S. and said that envoys of the countries who have stopped recognizing him as elected president have 72 hours to leave the country.
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Open thread: U.S. backs anti-Maduro coup in Venezuela
Lacking, for now, the support of Venezuela’s own military the only way the coup can succeed is with military help from a foreign power, the obvious candidates being the U.S., NATO and Brazil’s new President Jair Bolsonaro——a cross between Pinochet and a used car salesman.
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Inequality and the ecological transition
Last month Branko Milanovic published a blog post about the Yellow Vest movement against the fuel tax in France. He was worried–like many analysts–that the uprising proves it will be virtually impossible to roll out the policies necessary to reduce carbon emissions. He’s convinced that people simply won’t accept it.
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Karl and Rosa: 100th anniversary
The masses of red flowers for Karl Liebknecht and, even more for Rosa Luxemburg, was higher than I have ever seen them. Both were murdered one hundred years ago. Why do those two names mean so much to so many people?
- In their tenth week of protests, Yellow Vests face brutal police crackdown January 25, 2019
- Rosa Luxemburg’s revolutionary socialism January 25, 2019
- Trump recognition of rival Venezuela government will set off a diplomatic avalanche January 25, 2019
- Venezuela cuts relations with United States over coup support January 24, 2019
- ‘Today, capitalism has out-lived its usefulness’: Martin Luther King January 24, 2019
- Open thread: U.S. backs anti-Maduro coup in Venezuela January 24, 2019
- What’s been learned won’t be easily forgotten January 24, 2019
- Dozens arrested in short-lived National Guard mutiny January 24, 2019
- America has its gunsights on Venezuela January 23, 2019
- Make MLK’s teachings part of school curriculum January 23, 2019
- Debris of INF treaty will fall far and wide January 22, 2019
- Europe on the brink of collapse? January 22, 2019
- Inequality and the ecological transition January 22, 2019
- Despite offering significant benefits, Union membership continues to decline January 21, 2019
- Interview with Maduro January 21, 2019
- War on BDS: How AIPAC-Israel agenda became U.S. priority January 21, 2019
- Victor Wallis – Red-Green Revolution January 19, 2019
- My hopes lie shattered January 19, 2019
- Marx imagined a totally asexual worker January 19, 2019
- Why the World Bank’s optimism about global poverty misses the point January 18, 2019
- Macron, Yellow Vests and the class struggle in France January 18, 2019
- Scenes from the UTLA Teachers’ Strike January 18, 2019
- Karl and Rosa: 100th anniversary January 17, 2019
- Corporate media miss distinction between pro- and anti-genocide January 17, 2019