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Venezuela. Is there any difference? Link:  When Is a Democracy not a Democracy? When It’s Venezuela and the US is Pushing Regime Change Just another group of people for the world elites to exploit. ---- Hurrah for global, anti racist and anti-xenophobic, liberal-progressivism! And this:   John Bolton Openly Admits He Wants Maduro Out, American Oil Companies In | Zero Hedge

What, if anything, is wrong with this picture? Excerpt: "I’m English, which means I have European blood and believe that my country ‘belongs’ in Europe. And I’m interested in our history. It is a matter of record that for millennia Europeans have continually fought each other, culminating in two devastating world wars. There’s a lot wrong about the European Union; most EU citizens, including myself, want to see some reforms. But this, for me, is the most precious thing about the EU - that since its foundation we have had peace. And of course, the EU is the largest trading bloc in the world. It makes no sense for a small country (admittedly far too self-important) to leave it. The very thought frightens me. And this increases my fear: that we will be at the mercy of the rise of populism, right-wing politics and corporate bullying. I’m left-wing; I want politics that put people first. But the Leader of the Labour Party, Jeremy Corbyn, the man who put together a Party ma...

“And it is clear that in the colonial countries the peasants alone are revolutionary, for they have nothing to lose and everything to gain. The starving peasant, outside the class system is the first among the exploited to discover that only violence pays. For him there is no compromise, no possible coming to terms; colonization and decolonization is simply a question of relative strength.”  ―  Frantz Fanon,  The Wretched of the Earth And to the "Marxists" in these threads: “The unpreparedness of the educated classes, the lack of practical links between them and the mass of the people, their laziness, and, let it be said, their cowardice at the decisive moment of the struggle will give rise to tragic mishaps.”    ―  Frantz Fanon,  The Wretched of the Earth   How to take on fascism without getting played Excerpt: "Fascism grows in polarized times The growth of polarization makes it possible for haters to come out from the margin...