-
Why don’t the media fact-check “amnesty” claims?
The practice of citing conservative agitators is often characterized as “bothsidesism,” but here the news outlets only presented one side—the one on the far right—without even a hint that the claims might not have a factual basis.
-
Vintage comics against war
The next phase of rebellious art, I have thought all this time, belonged to the rise of the Underground Comix of the later 1960s, with one tip of the hat to the campus satire magazines that in some places gave artists like Austin’s Gilbert Shelton a start, and another to Harvey Kurtzman’s failed magazines after […]
-
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.
-
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.
- Peculiarities of U.S. imperialism in Latin America January 31, 2019
- Russia denounces U.S. cynicism sanctioning Venezuelan PDVSA January 31, 2019
- The making of Juan Guaido January 31, 2019
- ‘I have faith in our generation’ January 30, 2019
- The U.S. coup in Venezuela: new attempt to eradicate the Chavista Revolution January 30, 2019
- Maduro denounces Citgo takeover as ‘robbery’ January 30, 2019
- AGO proposes nationwide raids on books containing ’banned ideas’ January 29, 2019
- The challenges for the European left regarding debt and the banks January 29, 2019
- Washington follows Ukraine, Syria roadmap in push for Venezuela regime change January 29, 2019
- Why don’t the media fact-check “amnesty” claims? January 28, 2019
- Some early lessons from the Los Angeles teachers strike January 28, 2019
- The radicalization of U.S. policy on Venezuela January 28, 2019
- Vintage comics against war January 27, 2019
- A new abnormal January 26, 2019
- Erik Olin Wright (1947–2019) January 26, 2019
- What the mountain taught the mouse January 26, 2019
- 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