Category: articles – Stansfield Smith

The US Attempted Coup in Venezuela Uses New Cyber Tools, but Cannot Break the Chavista Wall

By Stansfield Smith  –  Sep 8, 2024 The peoples around the world have looked to Venezuela as a vanguard leading Nuestra América in its second independence struggle, against the US. The US rulers operate as the inheritors of the European colonial empires, assuming the right to interfere in other countries’ elections, and dictate who are the … Continue reading The US Attempted Coup in Venezuela Uses New Cyber Tools, but Cannot Break the Chavista Wall

Another Respected Figure on the Left Discredits Himself for Kamala

The final stretch of the presidential election season never fails to bring out leftists waving the white flag to the Democrats. Jim Lafferty, former national Director of the National Lawyers Guild, recently crumbled with his Why Socialists and Anti-Capitalists Must Back Kamala Harris. This type of leftist assures us that the two capitalist parties are … Continue reading Another Respected Figure on the Left Discredits Himself for Kamala

The US Blockades What Countries?

CUBA: The US blockade is like a medieval siege and cost the Cuban economy $154 billion over 60 years. Trump and Biden put Cuba on the US State Sponsors of Terrorism list (along with Iran, Syria, North Korea), making it even more difficult for Cuba to acquire goods on the international market as fuel, food, … Continue reading The US Blockades What Countries?

Britain’s Century Long Opium Trafficking and China’s Century of Humiliation (1839-1949)

Stansfield Smith For the Chinese, the trauma of the Century of Humiliation continues as a blunt reminder of their past defeat and neo-colonial servitude, as well as a reminder of the West’s self-righteous hypocrisy and arrogance.  In 1500, India and China were the world’s most advanced civilizations. Then came the Europeans. They eventually looted and … Continue reading Britain’s Century Long Opium Trafficking and China’s Century of Humiliation (1839-1949)

The CIA, FBI, NSA, and DNI interfered in a Presidential Election and Progressives bought the Story: The Russiagate Hoax shows the power the National Security Police State

Stansfield Smith First the US rulers and their national security state foisted the lie Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction. This bogus story was rejected by the progressive and anti-war movements. But then many progressives swallowed the hoax Trump colluded with Putin to steal the 2016 election. It remains a shocking example of manipulation … Continue reading The CIA, FBI, NSA, and DNI interfered in a Presidential Election and Progressives bought the Story: The Russiagate Hoax shows the power the National Security Police State

Anti-Imperialism in the US Today: What it is and is not 

Anti-Imperialism in the US Today: What it is and is not  Fidel Castro, the world recognizes as a historic anti-imperialist figure, repeatedly warned that the main danger to humanity is US imperialism: “There is an enemy that can be called universal, an enemy whose attitude and whose actions…threaten the whole world, bully the whole world, … Continue reading Anti-Imperialism in the US Today: What it is and is not 

 The Danger the Lawfare against Trump Presents to the Progressive Movement

Many have noted that the indictments of Trump ring of lawfare by the Biden administration. Donald Trump has now been indicted four times, and in blatant overkill, now faces 91 criminal charges. In New York alone  he was hit with 34 felonies for the payments to Stormy Daniels. Trump also faces felony charges for claiming the 2020 election … Continue reading  The Danger the Lawfare against Trump Presents to the Progressive Movement

JFK’s World Peace Speech and National Security State Takedowns of US Presidents

Stansfield Smith, ChicagoALBASolidarity.org President Kennedy’s World Peace speech on June 10, 1963,where he championed nuclear disarmament and lasting peace with the Soviet Union, is given renewed attention with a Kennedy now running for president and by the present war with Russia. JFK supposedly underwent a transformationafter the near mutual nuclear annihilation with the Soviet Union … Continue reading JFK’s World Peace Speech and National Security State Takedowns of US Presidents

 John F. Kennedy on Ending the US War on Vietnam – His Own Words

Stansfield Smith, ChicagoALBASolidarity.org With the advent of a new Kennedy running for president, new life was given to JFK’s World Peace speech on June 10, 1963, both among some progressives, and even the LaRouche Schiller Institute.Their thesis is that Kennedy was planning on making peace with the Soviet Union and was going to withdraw US … Continue reading  John F. Kennedy on Ending the US War on Vietnam – His Own Words