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America’s Hostile Venezuela Policy Is Slowly Strangling Haiti

Vijay Prashad / Independent Media Institute Feb 20, 2019 By imposing harsh sanctions on the Maduro government, the U.S. has cut off an essential source of relief for the embattled island nation. Dig deeper ( 5 Min. Read )

The Rise of Bernie Sanders and His ‘Revolution’ Sparks Déjà Vu in the ‘Third World’

Staff / Truthdig Dec 20, 2016 Michael Manley of Jamaica and others pushed decades ago for progressive change to end the systems of subjugation in their countries. But that will remain tough to achieve until it is accomplished in the U.S. Dig deeper ( 10 Min. Read )

The Missile Crisis That Never Went Away

By Steven Starr, David Krieger and Daniel Ellsberg Oct 16, 2012 Fifty years after the 1962 Cuban missile crisis, and more than 20 years after the end of the Cold War, the US and Russian nuclear confrontation continues Each nation still keeps a total of about 800 ICBMs at launch-ready status, ready to be fired on a few minutes' warningWith approximately 1,700 nukes at launch-ready status 50 years after the Cuban missile crisis, it is naive to assume that Russia and the U will never again be in a military confrontation. Dig deeper ( 6 Min. Read )

The Week the World Stood Still

By Noam Chomsky, TomDispatch Oct 16, 2012 In 1962, nuclear war with the Soviet Union was avoided by Khrushchev’s willingness to accept that the U.S. effectively owns the world by right and may deploy massive offensive force against those who even think of deterring the benign global hegemon. But we can hardly count on such sanity forever. Dig deeper ( 21 Min. Read )

Middle East Dominoes

Luojie, Cagle Cartoons, China Daily, China Sep 10, 2011 Dig deeper