Imperial Warmongering Continues, Cubans Thrive as Puerto Ricans Suffer
"The Trump administration’s new National Defense Strategy is being touted as a sea change in U.S. foreign policy,
a shift from the 'war on terrorism' to 'great power competition,' a
line that would not be out of place in the years leading up to World War
I...The problem with designating 'great powers' as your adversaries is
that they might just take your word for it and respond accordingly."
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"How
absurd — remove an elected president with a military coup to restore
democracy? Does that pass the straight face test? This refrain of Rubio
and Tillerson seems to be the nonsensical public position of US policy.
The US has been seeking regime change in Venezuela since Hugo Chavez was
elected in 1998. Trump joined Presidents Obama and Bush before him in
continuing efforts to change the government and put in place a US-friendly oligarch government."
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"The
arrival of 415 members of the U.S. Air Force in Panama has been
described by social organizations and media outlets as a 'silent
invasion'...a strategic move to carry out military action in Venezuela."
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"...the
Bush administration went to war with Afghanistan on October 7,
2001...Lacking a stated reason to be in Afghanistan, the US stayed. And
the US is still there. And the US is complicit in the deaths of a
million or more Afghans, and complicit in the forced exodus of more than
five million Afghans, and complicit in the devastation of Afghanistan
culturally, politically, militarily, and economically. Only US delusions survive more or less intact."
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"Ignoring
Calls for Peace Effort, Pence Refused to Engage With North Koreans at
Olympic Games": the headline tells the whole story as USian warmongering continues. Why? Because war is the Empire's most dependably profitable export.
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"Cuba
was hit by Hurricane Irma, a category 5 hurricane, on September 8,
2017. Two weeks weeks later, on September 20th, Puerto Rico was
devastated by Hurricane Maria, a category 4 hurricane. In Cuba, the
electricity was restored to the entire island within a few weeks. In
Puerto Rico, over four months after Maria nearly 40 percent of the
island is still without power.(To read the rest, go here or here.)
