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Nov 12, 2024 | 
countercurrents.org | Daron Acemoglu |Kim Scipes |Francisco Dominguez |Karen Greenberg
BOSTON – The outcome of the US presidential election was more of a Democratic loss than a triumph for Donald Trump. The Democrats lost not because US President Joe Biden stayed in the race too long, and not because Kamala Harris is unqualified, but because they have been losing workers and failed to win them back. The party ceased to be a home for American workers long ago, owing to its support for digital disruption, globalization, large immigrant inflows, and “woke” ideas.
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Nov 11, 2024 | 
countercurrents.org | Kim Scipes |Francisco Dominguez |Karen Greenberg |Mohd Khan
Well, the Democrats failed to keep Donald Trump out of the presidency again. That’s going to hurt a lot of people. I assume most of us would prefer that he was not in this position. However, I argue that if we carefully examine the situation, we can see that the situation is not as bleak as initially suggested—for example, Trump is an “attractor,” not a leader—and that if we on the left respond intelligently, we can have a major impact on this country and its role in the world.
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Nov 9, 2024 | 
countercurrents.org | Francisco Dominguez |Karen Greenberg |Mohd Khan |Phil Pasquini
The people of the United States and most of the rest of the world woke up this week to the last news they wanted to hear. Not only had Donald J Trump presiding over a proto-fascist Maga mass movement been elected president of the United States, he will enjoy a comfortable Republican majority in the Senate, and he also may have a Republican majority in the House of Representatives.
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Sep 10, 2024 | 
countercurrents.org | Bhabani Nayak |Bruce Lerro |Rebecca Gordon |Francisco Dominguez
The Mont Pelerin Society (MPS) is organising its 2024 Biennial Congress and General Meeting from September 22 to 26 in New Delhi, India, with the goal of advancing freedom and prosperity for the next six billion people in the Global South. The event is being hosted by the Center for Civil Society (CCS), based in Hauz Khas, New Delhi. This marks the third time the MPS is holding its meetings in India. The society previously organised its meetings in Goa in 2002 and in New Delhi in 2011.
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Sep 10, 2024 | 
countercurrents.org | Guilherme Ferreira |Vijay Prashad |Zoe Alexandra |Francisco Dominguez
Preparations for the US-led coup attemptThe people of Venezuela have defeated a high-tech US-led coup. The nation’s electoral authority was able not only to hold election 31st but, despite facing a colossal attack against the nation’s computerised electoral system, it was able to announce the July 28 election results that showed the people of Venezuela, by re-electing President Maduro for the 2025-2031, resulted victorious against, yet another nasty US-run ‘regime change’ push.
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Aug 24, 2024 | 
countercurrents.org | Guilherme Ferreira |Vijay Prashad |Zoe Alexandra |Francisco Dominguez
On Thursday, Venezuela’s Supreme Court of Justice (TSJ) upheld the results of the July 28 presidential election issued by the National Electoral Council (CNE), which handed re-election to President Nicolás Maduro. According to the CNE, Maduro received 52 percent of the vote, against 43 percent for the candidate of the Washington-backed Venezuelan opposition, Edmundo González.
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Aug 11, 2024 | 
countercurrents.org | Marwan Asmar |Yanis Varoufakis |Jay Janson |Francisco Dominguez
The north of Israel is in a complete mess. The regions near the Lebanese border have been taking a battering since 7 October 2023 when Israel launched its deadly war and slaughter on Gaza. Head of the Higher Galilee Council Giora Zaltz stated, Saturday, said Hezbollah’s military operations in the north of Israel are becoming more deadly and powerful and the level of security in these northern regions has long deteriorated.
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Aug 11, 2024 | 
countercurrents.org | Vijay Prashad |Eric Zuesse |Zoe Alexandra |Francisco Dominguez
Despite a monstrous internationally-coordinated, and grotesquely false media campaign of fake news that repeatedly quoted CIA-linked “pollsters” giving extreme right-wing candidate, Edmundo Gonzalez, percentages of up to 80 percent of the vote and all supplemented by a propaganda campaign threatening violence, voiced principally by media-lionised, far-right politician, Maria Corina Machado, on July 28, 2024, the people of Venezuela calmly but solidly voted to continue the Bolivarian process...
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Jul 22, 2024 | 
countercurrents.org | Eric Zuesse |Zoe Alexandra |Countercurrents Collective |Francisco Dominguez
The polls in Venezuela have so consistently shown that by more than a 3 to 1 margin, Venezuelans will vote for the pro-U.S.-Government candidate Edmundo González Urrutia in preference over the pro-independence candidate Nicolás Maduro, so that the likelihood of the U.S. Government’s failing to win back control over Venezuela on July 28th is virtually 0%.
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Jun 3, 2024 | 
countercurrents.org | VladislavB Sotirovic |Vijay Prashad |John Raby |Francisco Dominguez
From the very political point of view, the 19th century in Latin America started in 1808 when the emancipation of the subordinated people against the foreign (Spanish & Portuguese) rule started (and finished in 1826) and was over with the beginning of the Great War in Europe in 1914. The struggle for independence was extremely speeded up by the French military-political subjection of the Iberian Peninsula when both Spain and Portugal lost direct connections with their overseas colonies.
