Economic Hit Man Refuses To Take Out Chavez
John Perkins, author of "The Confessions of an Economic Hitman", has an interesting perspective on Hugo Chavez's contributions to progress in Latin America. Perkins, an economist, worked for the big...
View ArticleChomsky on Obama and The Investment Theory of Politics.
In an April 13, 2009, interview on Democracy Now Amy Goodman asks for his views on Obama’s handling of the bail-out. Chomsky notes that Obama, as a centrist Democrat, is relying on exactly the same...
View ArticleU.S. Invests in Banksters, Venezuela Invests in Food and Jobs.
As an American living in Venezuela, I read the news that the Obama administration is funneling several trillion dollars of taxpayer's money into the U.S. biggest financial institutions. I see that...
View ArticleChavez Brings 700% Revolution to Teachers
In May, 2009, the Chavez government signed a new collective bargaining agreement with the nation's teachers union which gives teachers in Venezuela a raise of 30%. With this raise, teachers here have...
View ArticleU.S. vs. Ve: Who Benefits From Nationalization?
President Obama announced this week that the U.S. taxpayers, now own 60% of General Motors. Just who will benefit from this investement? As GM’s bankruptcy was filed this week, President Obama tells...
View ArticleObama's Personal Doctor Prescribes Medicare for All
President Obama's family physician of 22 years has some strong and much needed medical advice for our president. He recommends:"Medicare for all." reports Forbes.com. Dr. Scheiner supports a...
View ArticleThe Internet is Revolutionizing Revolution.
Iran, the BBC's Tehran correspondent gave 24 hours to leave the country. http://bit.ly/... #iranelection #gr88 #Mousavi #tehran #iran While the professional journalists in Iran have been locked down in...
View ArticleUrgent E-Mail RE: Kidnapping of Honduran President
I just received this e-mail, marked urgent, from Eva Golinger, a Venezuelano-American Attorney now living in Caracas who is very close to the Chavez government. She asks that the information be passed...
View ArticleVenezuela Seeks Critically Thinking Media Consumers.
Venezuela’s new educational reform law, passed by the National Assembly yesterday and signed today, August 15, 2009, will require, among other measures, that schools educate students in critical...
View ArticleObama: We Need To Abolish Our Economic System.
That's what I wanted to hear from President Obama's latest speech. And that is something that, no matter how awful the catastrophes wrought by our big capitalist corporations, no matter how vast the...
View ArticleLive Well in Venezuela For Under $1200 a Month.
It pains me terribly to read posts reporting the terrible plight of those who are facing involuntary unemployment in the U.S. today due to the lack of jobs, especially for those older workers who, once...
View ArticleAnti-Capitalism: Creating The Cavalry For a New, Human Society.
This week in dailykos, in a post entitled “And then he kicked the chair out from underneath his feet.” Debbieleft wrote: He was a machine operator - a factory man. He spent his whole life employed in...
View ArticleChristine O'Donnell Proposes "Don't Touch, Tell All" Military Policy
At the very moment that the Democrats may move to abolish the military’s anti-gay “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell" policy, (see Joan McCartér’s “DADT Repeal Prospects Look Good”), Christine O’Donnell is...
View ArticleAnti-Capitalism: On The Road To Socialism -- Without Violence
Today, October 31, 2010, Brazil celebrates the election of its first female president, socialist Dilma Rousseff, while Argentina continues to mourn with its female president, socialist Christina...
View ArticleStop Talking About Obama, Start Talking to Your Neighbors!
Sadly, President Obama has demonstrated that he cannot or will not bring about the changes he promised during his election campaign. So be it. We must do it ourselves.If we put the same energy,...
View ArticleCables Give More Proof of U.S. Attacks on Chavez
U.S. attorney and writer, Eva Golinger, who has published two books detailing the U.S. funding of opposition actions against the democratically elected government of Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez,...
View ArticleWikiLeaks Impacts Venezuela, Exposes Traitor.
Venezuelan newspapers were ablaze yesterday with reports on the seemingly traitorous actions of Venezuela's Archbishop, Baltazar Porras, who heads the Council of Bishops of Venezuela.A WikiLeaks...
View ArticleVenezuela Takes "50 Year Step Backward" To Honesty in Banking.
This week, Venezuela’s National Assembly declared its banking industry to be a public service, requiring banks to contribute to the public good. Now, under the new Law of Banking Institutions,...
View ArticleVenezuela Builds Homes for the Homeless on Unused Land of the Rich
Marksist, writing "Pledge to Help the Homeless" in dailykos on Sunday, January 9, 2011, wrote: Did you know that on any given night in Los Angeles County that two out of every three homeless people...
View ArticleVenezuelan Women Seek Abortion Legalization And Review of All Laws for Gender...
In recognition of International Women’s Day, more than 20 Venezuelan Women’s Collectives massed in the Venezuelan National Assembly yesterday to request that the Assembly address their proposals to...
View ArticleVenezuela's President Chavez Halts Nuclear Energy Program, Colombia's...
On Tuesday, March 15, 2011, President Hugo Chavez announced that he is halting Venezuela’s joint project with Russia to build a nuclear energy plant in Venezuela, an agreement that was signed in...
View ArticleHelen Keller & Julian Assange Vs. The "Industrially Blind & Socially Deaf”...
Thanks to Kos commentators Pluto and Don Mikulecky for re-introducing me to a great American Socialist of the early 20th century, a woman by the name of Helen Keller.Keller, although blind and deaf...
View ArticleTalk by British Economist, Lord Adair Turner, at Soros's Bretton Woods...
Just a note to encourage dailykos readers, especially those interested in the Anti-Capitalist group, to check out a talk by British economist, Lord Adair Turner, to the Bretton Woods economic...
View ArticleVenezuelan Cooperatives Change Human Relations and Furthers Individual...
Venezuela’s cooperative movement, which has increased a thousand fold since President Hugo Chavez’s first election in 1998, fosters development of the individual, but not “individualism”, through...
View ArticleBlind Allegiance: Autopsy of Palin's Pernicious Personality
A conservative-progressive coalition demolishes the myth of Queen Esther of Wasilla in "Blind Allegiance", published May 24, 2011 by Howard Books. Reading this book is like watching an autopsy, seeing...
View ArticleFinance Capitalism: Has It Eaten Its Own Entrails in Mortgage Fraud Debacle?
Justice John Levanthal, writing for the unanimous four judge panel in New York’s appellate division, just decided the case of Bank of America v. Silverberg, (Bank of NY v. Silverberg, 2011 NY Slip...
View ArticleBeing "Anti-Capitalist"Is Not Enough: We Need To Envision A New Society!
Having lived in Venezuela for the past four and a half years, I’ve had many opportunities as an American to observe its president, Hugo Chávez Frias, as he and his party, PSUV (Partido Socialista Unido...
View ArticleJoining Together With Our Local Neighbors To Effect Global Economic Changes.
I wrote the following comment in "democratic underground" a few days ago in response to a post full of existential despair about the horrors of capitalism. Rather than remaining in the paralysis of...
View Article"Some Rob You with a Six-Gun, Some with a Fountain Pen"
London is now filled with young people in the streets looting the shops that line their neighborhoods. The capitalist economic system has left them without adequate schools or jobs; their schools are...
View ArticleLight Bulbs On, Capitalist Thefts Of Our Labor Exposed.
In the past several weeks, dailykos readers have been kept current on the day-to-day realities in the world of Big Box stores.Lightbulb has been reporting almost daily on the nuts and bolts of his life...
View ArticleAnti-Capitalist Meet-up: Chavez Versus Obama: Whose Policies Are Best For the...
One hopes that in the midst of the myriad conversations about “what Is to be done?” that are taking place in the hundreds of “Occupy Wall Street” sit-ins taking place throughout the U.S., at least some...
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The Real Right To Life: Venezuela Expands Benefits for Elderly while the U.S....
"A nation's greatness is measured by how it treats its weakest members." Mahatma GhandiIn Chicago on November 7, 2011, hundreds of senior citizens joined with Occupy Chicago and their union supporters...
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Alan Grayson Quotes Lincoln: 'Labor Is the Superior of Capital'
">The following article, by Alan Grayon, was sent out, to his mailing list, to be shared with all who support the 99% and our fight to establish equity and equality in our society.Grayson is running...
View ArticleColombia’s Former President, Uribe, Aids U.S. In Attempt to Oust Chavez
In recent weeks, a Colombian news network, C&M, released videos of former Colombian president, Alvaro Uribe, addressing a group of Venezuelan opposition leaders at a meeting organized by Uribe...
View ArticleAnti-Capitalist Meet-Up: U.S. Turns Its Health Problem into Vast Criminal...
Last week, thanks to U.S. drug policy, Colombiareports.com reported that Colombia's Urabeños drug cartel effectively seized and held hostage most of northern Colombia, a massive area. It forced the...
View ArticleAction Alert: Death Threats to Honduran Journalist & Her Children
As a result of the illegal coup to depose then Honduran President, Manual Zelaya, in 2009, in which the U.S. played an under-handed role, Hondurans have endured multiple assassinations, kidnapping, and...
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Anti-Capitalist Meet-Up: Socialist Venezuela in Top Five of Happiest...
How is it that a relatively small country (population 28 million), with a Gross National Product (GNP) one-fourth that of the United States...
View ArticleAnti-Cap Meet-Up:Dead or Alive, Venezuelans Will Follow Chavez; Americans...
With the Chavez Socialist Government, which includes articulate young leaders, many of them women, Venezuelans have these rights, benefits and protections, which the government is mandated to enforce....
View ArticleAnti-Capitalist Meet-Up Diary Postponed to Wednesday, the 30th, at 6 PM EDST
My apologies, but I got very sick in the last two days and was unable to post this evening. The group will publish tonight’s discussion on Wednesday, May 30th, at 6:00 p.m. EDST.This postponed diary...
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Anti-Capitalist Meet-Up: Karl Marx on the Paris Commune and Occupy Wall Street
The Occupy movement has sent out a Call to Action for a June 20th “Global Festival” to celebrate their global demand for a Universal Living Wage: The regime of wholesale robbery — what the 1% call...
View ArticleAnti-Capitalist Meet-Up: Mitt And His Fellow Vulture Capitalists See...
The likely Republican presidential candidate and quintessential vulture capitalist, Mitt Romney, chided President Obama for not being sufficiently fearful of Venezuela’s socialist president, Hugo...
View ArticleAnti-Capitalist Meet-Up: Venezuelan Workers Run Their Own Factory: Economic...
In last week's Anti-Capitalist Meet-Up, northsylvania described a wonderful example of non-alienated labor among a community in Britain whose citizens join together freely into neighborhood clubs to...
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Anti-Capitalist Meetup: Trillions in Capitalist Wealth: Where Does It Come From?
Workers: The Source of All Value, All Surplus Value and All the Resulting Capitalist Looted Wealth. Recently, Forbes magazine, a major tool of the capitalist class, reported that the "Super Rich" are...
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Viva Chavez! Venezuela's Chavez, A Revolutionary Empowered By Love and...
Viva Hugo Chavez Frias! Long Live the Bolivarian Revolution! We are republishing this piece by Justina written in December 2012 in memorial to Hugo Chavez and in solidarity with the Venezuelan people...
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Anti-Capitalist Meetup: Did Chavez and Maduro Evict the U.S. From Its Own...
Following the ideals of his hero, Simon Bolivar, President Hugo Chávez Friás long had a grand vision of a Bolivarian unity among the countries of South America, Central America, and the Caribbean. His...
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Anti-Capitalist Meet-Up: Are CIA Mockingbirds Still Nesting in Nicaragua?
"You could get a journalist cheaper than a good call girl, for a couple hundred dollars a month." - CIA operative discussing with Philip Graham, editor Washington Post, on the availability and prices...
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Anti-Capitalist Meetup: From Detroit to Honduras and Back: Capitalists...
From This in Michigan...To This in Honduras....In Michigan, Republican Governor Rick Snyder has appointed an “emergency manager” to take over the city of Detroit, with the powers to over-ride the...
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Anti-Capitalist MeetUp: Surveillance Corps Capture Congress, Courts, Exec.
Wired.com, in a July 26, 2013 piece by David Cravats, details that not-very-surprising fact that those congressional representatives who received the largest political donations from defense...
View ArticleVenezuela Under Fascist Attack -- with U.S. Help.
American progressives must recognize the urgent need to support and preserve the Venezuelan socialist revolution. The peaceful, democratically elected socialist government serves as a model for the...
View ArticleAnti-Capitalist Meetup: War Profiteers Ecstatic at Middle East Mess
US General Smedley Butler detailed in his "War is a Racket" in 1935 the World War I racket he had served. It is now much, much worse.Vice-President Richard Cheney and his fellow Neo-Cons originally...
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