US State and Military Capitalism in Venezuela

Trump Venezuela

            New Orleans        This whole Trump colonization effort in Venezuela was already unsettling based on the administration’s chortling about the real mission being to expropriate oil for the US.  Usually, the public at least gets some kind of thin rationalization for military action, like saving democracy or protecting human rights.  Slapping dollar signs and …

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They’re Desperate – Is Cuba Next?

Cuba Trump

            Marble Falls      There are too many worrying signs that the Trump administration is getting desperate, as the clock ticks more loudly to the midterm elections in November, and Americans hunker down to prepare for the post-Labor Day campaign onslaughts.  With inflation still strong, gas prices high, data centers, and the Iranian and Israeli …

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