Monday, November 15 4:30-6 pmWater Tower Park, Michigan Ave and Pearson St The US has grabbed Venezuelan diplomat Alex Saab and imprisoned him in Miami, facing trial. This violates recognized international law (the 1961 Vienna Convention) on diplomatic immunity for one country to arrest and imprison a diplomat of another. Alex Saab was engaged in … Continue reading Free US Imprisoned Venezuelan diplomat Alex Saab! End the US Blockade of Venezuela, which has killed over 100,000 civilians! End US Interference in Venezuela elections!
Category: articles – Stansfield Smith
Is the US Global Empire Actually in Decline?
Stansfield Smith, Chicago ALBA Solidarity, and Roger D. Harris, Task Force on the Americas For all our political lives we have been reading reports of the decline of US global supremacy. It is almost taken for granted, if not an article of faith, in the progressive milieu (e.g., here) that this is the case. Does … Continue reading Is the US Global Empire Actually in Decline?
The Webinar “Nicaragua: A Leftist Perspective” Advocates Overthrowing the Social and Economic Achievements of the Nicaraguan People, all in the name of “Human Rights”
The webinar “Nicaragua: A Leftist Perspective” is one more example of US regime change propaganda against countries the US corporate national security state considers a challenge to its world rule. William Robinson, in the guise of an objective and serious scholar holding respectable academic credentials, introduced this webinar that virulently attacked Daniel Ortega. (To bolster … Continue reading The Webinar “Nicaragua: A Leftist Perspective” Advocates Overthrowing the Social and Economic Achievements of the Nicaraguan People, all in the name of “Human Rights”
The US Plan to Imprison Businesspeople in other Countries for “Violating” Illegal US Sanctions: The Cases of Alex Saab, Meng Wanzhou, Mun Chol Myong
US economic sanctions are a weapon against states which choose a development path independent of US global domination. Sanctions can take the form of blocking a nation’s financial and trade transactions, not allowing financial institutions to process them. The US can also freeze the assets of another country. The US uses sanctions as a tool … Continue reading The US Plan to Imprison Businesspeople in other Countries for “Violating” Illegal US Sanctions: The Cases of Alex Saab, Meng Wanzhou, Mun Chol Myong
US Sanctions: A Weapon of War on Civilians — End Sanctions Now!
The US uses economic sanctions as a weapon against nations that choose a path independent of US global domination. Sanctions can take the form of blocking a nation’s financial and trade transactions, not allowing financial institutions to process them. The US can also freeze the assets of another country. Sanctions imposed on a country are … Continue reading US Sanctions: A Weapon of War on Civilians — End Sanctions Now!
The Failure of Trump’s “Coup”: A Victory for the US Empire – but the Left gets on their bandwagon
Stansfield Smith The Democrats’ second trial of Trump ends like the first: the outcome known in advance, the entire process designed to sell to the anti-Trump masses that the Democrats were leading some progressive counter-attack. Both impeachments enabled these politicians to present a national diversion to avoid addressing real issues the US people suffer from: … Continue reading The Failure of Trump’s “Coup”: A Victory for the US Empire – but the Left gets on their bandwagon
Write to ‘In These Times’ about their smear job on Cuba “the Western Hemisphere’s most undemocratic government”
InTheseTimes, a well-known liberal journal, runs an article in its February issue attacking Cuba in a tone akin to the Trump government. It refers to the “repression of the Western Hemisphere’s most undemocratic government,” which they allege to be Cuba. Not Bolsonaro’s Brazil, Chile with its police who blind protesters, Colombia’s death squad supporting government, Honduras’ coup regime, Haiti’s hated rulers, … Continue reading Write to ‘In These Times’ about their smear job on Cuba “the Western Hemisphere’s most undemocratic government”
What We Will Miss with the End of the Trump Presidency
Stansfield Smith On January 6, President Trump and his “deplorables” made the US Empire look dysfunctional to the whole world by overtaking the Capitol, causing those corporate tools, our “elected representatives,” to run and hide. Does that set a bar for what is needed to bring health care for all, to end what Martin Luther … Continue reading What We Will Miss with the End of the Trump Presidency
What the US Constitution Specifies about Choosing the New President; How it is Stacked against the People
Stansfield Smith Regardless of the traditional bluster about the "Founding Fathers" and the world historic nature of the US Constitution, the electoral system it set up to choose a new president is far from democratic. * We now find Trump attempting to use the Constitution as written to be “re-elected.” Those who laud “our great … Continue reading What the US Constitution Specifies about Choosing the New President; How it is Stacked against the People
Part 1: Inadequacy of Modern Monetary Theory (MMT) and the Power of the US Dollar in the World Economy
Stansfield Smith, ChicagoALBASolidarity.org Modern Monetary Theory (MMT) has become popularized by some of the liberal-left because it offers an explanation how to achieve full employment, national health insurance, free college education, and the Green New Deal without raising taxes. Political leaders like Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Bernie Sanders have espoused MMT. Economist Stephanie Kelton, a leading spokesperson … Continue reading Part 1: Inadequacy of Modern Monetary Theory (MMT) and the Power of the US Dollar in the World Economy
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