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Regime change in Venezuela

vendredi 22 février 2019 à 01:00

The US government is seriously planning to impose regime change on Venezuela, working together with Guaidó.

An open letter calls on the US government to stop pushing for a coup in Venezuela and support reconciliation efforts to move the country towards fair elections.

The letter points out that US sanctions along with Maduro's bad economic policies are jointly responsible for the economic crisis in Venezuela.

Medea Benjamin: "A Coup Is Not a Democratic Transition!"

One Venezuelan journalist supports Guaidó as president but warns the US not to turn this into a bloody coup.

Maduro's treatment of both Guaidó and the US embassy are astonishingly gentle. Can you imagine what the repressor would do if Clinton declared herself president, on the grounds that Republicans stole the election two years ago?

Cod stocks

vendredi 22 février 2019 à 01:00

Cod Stocks on Course to Crash if Ocean Warming Continues.

Air controllers

vendredi 22 février 2019 à 01:00

Flights at major US airports were delayed because of a shortage of air controllers.

Material witness

vendredi 22 février 2019 à 01:00

Marzieh Hashemi says that US agents holding her as a material witness harassed her by offering her only food that she as a Muslim was not supposed to eat.

She was required to testify against the Iranian broadcaster that she works for. Why did that require keeping her hungry?

Her example points out the unfairness of the secret process for deciding whether to jail someone as a material witness.

Industrial democracy

vendredi 22 février 2019 à 01:00

Industrial democracy — putting workers on corporations' boards — is a way to reduce mistreatment of workers.

The AFL-CIO needs to focus on organizing, not on money for Democratic candidates.

As regards funding campaigns, I suspect its choice of candidates to support is not selective enough.