I happened upon the protest and listened to many of the speeches. All of them harped on the need to bring the hostages home. One woman went into detail about all the suffering the hostages are going through. Not one word about the 33,000 Palestinians killed, not one word about the principle of proportionality according to the 1949 Geneva Convention, which prohibits disproportionate retaliation. Is there anyone anyplace who can deny that Israel is violating that principle of international law, and has been doing so for decades? T he most absurd aspect of the demonstration was the ferve ..read more

Janet Yellen urges China to reduce green energy exports – Doesn’t this put the lie to the myth of Free Market Capitalism! And it also demonstrates how little Washington prioritizes the environment. After all, if protection of the environment is the most important concern, above all else, then the cheaper the products related to green energy the better. Today, Yellen in China warned the Chinese that their export of green energy products violates fair trade practices. But for the champions of capitalism the free market is sacred; it can’t be tampered with and when it is, everything is thrown in ..read more

 Nadie puede negar que Maduro es políticamente astuto. En caso contrario no hubiera sobrevivido la campaña sin cuartel contra su gobierno - ni por un mes.  Elecciones en Venezuela: Maduro y Machado van con todo Por Steve Ellner Publicado en NACLA: Report on the Americas, Edición de la primavera de 2024 No es un secreto que Washington está tan enamorado de la candidata presidencial María Corina Machado, como ella está de Washington. Como ejemplo, el día después que el gobierno de Biden parcialmente levantó las sanciones contra Venezuela el pasado octubre, el Secretario de Estado Ant ..read more

The reaction of the corporate media and pundits to Tucker Carlson’s interview with Putin is predictable. They all bash Carlson – in Europe they are threatening Carlson with judicial hearings – and claim that Putin seized the opportunity to deceive and threaten the West. One simply asks the question, don’t we have the right to hear the other side of the story? I listened to the interview the other night (I accessed it by chance) and was impressed by the seriousness of Putin’s arguments and his thorough command of the subject matter regarding Ukraine, Russian history and foreign policy in g ..read more

 This was a well-calculated statement not a gaffe. Trump is attempting to attract votes of the majority of people in the U.S. who are opposed to endless wars. People know full well that a good part of their financial problems are due to Ukraine, Israel, Yemen and the list goes on and on. Trump opposes those wars but for the wrong reasons. The left has to contest Trump’s occupation of this anti-war political space. For a starter it needs to run one presidential candidate not three. Two of the following candidates should resign and support the one who doesn’t: Cornel West, Jill Stein and ..read more

  The movie (which can be streamed on MAX), albeit boring, is about a recent graduate of Northwestern (Julia Garner) who lands a job as a receptionist of sorts who ends up doing everything from tidying up the office of her boss to holding in her arms the baby of someone who comes into the office. When she goes to denounce what she considers to be an ethical breach by her boss, her case is handled in the most paternalistic manner by the head of the company’s grievance department who suddenly insults her in the most demeaning way. But the clinch of it all is the last scene in which she ca ..read more

Redefining US-Latin American Relations BY MEDEA BENJAMIN - STEVE ELLNER CounterPunch An all-encompassing expression of goodwill in the form of a New Good Neighbor Policy will meet resistance from vested economic and military interests, as well as those persuaded by racist arguments. The Trump administration dusted off the 19th century Monroe Doctrine that subjugates the nations of the region to U.S. interests. The Biden administration, instead of reversing course, followed suite, with disastrous results for the region and a migration crisis that threatens Biden’s re-election. It has ..read more

 Today the U.S. government announced the re-implementation of economic sanctions against Venezuela in response to the decision of the Venezuela supreme court to bar María Corina Machado from participating in the upcoming presidential elections. On more than one occasion, Machado called for U.S. military intervention in Venezuela. The country that is trying to extradite Julian Assange for “treason,” certainly knows what that word means. In the following video, Machado calls for the “use of international force” as the only means to restore democracy in Venezuela. When asked whether she wa ..read more

  The government of Jordan denies that the base is located in its territory, knowing full well how unpopular that would sit among the people of the country and of the region, especially in light of U.S. military support for Israel in its assault on Gaza. Washington denies that the base is in Syria and that it understands why Jordan refuses to recognize the existence of a U.S. base in their nation. So if the U.S. understands why the Jordanian government has made this denial because it’s against the will of its people, what justification is there for having the base there in the first plac ..read more

He threatened Nikki Haley's donors with excluding them from the MAGA movement if they continue to support her. That’s to say, he will not accept donations from them if they don’t withdraw support for her? Just read between the lines! He’s not going to turn down money from anyone. What he’s saying is that corporate donors will forfeit the possibility of getting a piece of the Republican pie once Trump is elected president. Capitalism always worked this way, but it was never quite this blatant.    ..read more