“Venezuela's President Nicolas Maduro explained his country's ideals at a ceremony to remember the battle of Carabobo, a great victory against the Spanish. 'Simon Bolivar knew that if the consolidation of the military, political, and geopolitical victory in South America was not achieved, the Spanish imperialist army would not have been completely expelled from our lands, and a counteroffensive would occur sooner rather than later. ...
That is why, from the beginning, Bolivar conceived a strategy of continental liberation: the integration and independence of South America. The great liberation campaigns are at the deep base of our roots and identity, with which we present ourselves to the world.
That is the Bolivarian vision. And that is why we now assume ourselves fully and absolutely as militants in Bolivar's cause. That is why we proudly say we are the Bolivarians of the 21st century.' "
-->Do you think that you will be reading President Maduro's words in the US media? That is how you can judge the limits of our supposedly "free press." All the news that the Pentagon has decided is fit to print. The US is the imperial power in Latin America today, and like the Spanish before us, we will have to be driven away if the region is be finally become truly free.
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Common Dreams:
"U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders on Wednesday endorsed a pair of House Democrats in their primaries against challengers backed by the nation's most powerful pro-Israel lobby—which is spending heavily to defeat progressive candidates who advocate for Palestinian rights.
Sanders (I-Vt.) endorsed Reps. Rashida Tlaib and Andy Levin, both of Michigan, tweeting that the former 'has taken on powerful special interests and fought for working people' while the latter 'is a strong labor voice who is taking on right-wing-funded super PACs.'
One of those super PACs is the American Israel Public Affairs Committee's United Democracy Project (AIPAC's UDP), which has recently poured money into several Democratic primary races to thwart progressive candidates who support Palestine and who criticize Israel's occupation, colonization, ethnic cleansing, and apartheid there—and the nearly unconditional $3.8 billion in annual U.S. military aid to Israel."
-->Yes, the Israel Lobby is dedicated to supporting fascist candidates for the US Congress. Israel is a fascist state, and the Lobby's support of racist, right wing candidates in the US makes perfect sense. Of course, the NYT didn't print this story.
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Common Dreams:
"President Joe Biden has reportedly struck a deal with Republican Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell to nominate an anti-abortion lawyer to a lifetime federal judgeship in Kentucky, news that comes less than a week after the U.S. Supreme Court ended the constitutional right to abortion.
According to Louisville's Courier-Journal, Biden has agreed to nominate Republican attorney Chad Meredith once there's a federal court vacancy in Kentucky, where abortion was outlawed immediately following the high court's ruling in Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization on Friday.
In exchange, McConnell (R-Ky.) has purportedly agreed not to obstruct the president's future judicial nominations—a vow that was met with deep skepticism from outside observers, given the Kentucky Republican's long record of cynical machinations that have yanked the Supreme Court and lower courts to the right for decades to come."
-->Does the Democratic leadership actually support abortion rights? Or is the party prone to using abortion rights to win elections? Pelosi's support of Henry Cuellar, the only anti-abortion Democrat left in the House of Representatives, is a case in point. Too bad our major media can't ask these questions.
