(2024-02-04). Redefining US-Latin American Relations. orinocotribune.com By Medea Benjamin and Steve Ellner — Feb 1, 2024 | The Trump administration dusted off the 19th century Monroe Doctrine that subjugates the nations of the region to US interests. The Biden administration, instead of reversing course, followed suit, with disastrous results for the region and a migration crisis that threatens Biden's re-election. | It has left most of Trump's sanctions against Venezuela and Cuba intact and has tightened those against Nicaragua. | US policy towards Venezuela has been a fiasco. Try as it might, both Trump and Biden were unable to depose President Maduro and found themselves stuc…
(2024-02-04). Are Palestinians the New Jews? counterpunch.org 
Image by Ahmed Abu Hameeda. | The World War II mass murder of European Jewry took place mostly behind closed doors, as it were. Most of the living witnesses were the perpetrators. Not so the Gaza genocide. Like the American war in Vietnam, the destruction and the mass murder are reported in the media daily, even in the mainstream media that is right up Israel's arse. The media exposure proved fatal to the US cause in Vietnam. What chance a comparable development regarding Gaza? By contrast with the conditions of the Jewish holocaust, there is the knowledge and capacity to constrain Israel's bloodlust. | To rea…
(2024-02-04). Are Palestinians the New Jews? counterpunch.org Image by Ahmed Abu Hameeda. | The World War II mass murder of European Jewry took place mostly behind closed doors, as it were. Most of the living witnesses were the perpetrators. Not so the Gaza genocide. Like the American war in Vietnam, the destruction and the mass murder are reported in the media daily, even in the mainstream media that is right up Israel's arse. The media exposure proved fatal to the US cause in Vietnam. What chance a comparable development regarding Gaza? By contrast with the conditions of the Jewish holocaust, there is the knowledge and capacity to constrain Israel's bloodlust. | To rea…