Marco Rubio said Wednesday that a plan to seize and sell up to 50 million barrels of Venezuelan oil is designed to give the Trump Administration “tremendous leverage” to stabilize the country after last weekend’s U.S. raid removed President Nicolás Maduro from power. more
In Socialism, his 1972 magnum opus, Michael Harrington termed the American labor movement an “invisible” mass social democratic movement. Even as he noted that its language, its forms, and its foreign policy (at least at the AFL-CIO) suggested nothing like social democratic beliefs, it had been the leading force behind such landmark Great Society legislation as Medicare and Medicaid, and remained the leading force behind expanding such social welfare policies in the years thereafter. Most commentators and scholars of American politics had missed this transformation, Harrington wrote, because it had happened gradually and incrementally, with no ideological proclamations or even much in the way of discussions to herald this transformation. Hence, its invisibility. more
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“They’ve been pretending that this made-up thing was real for a year. But now that they’d have actually to demonstrate its existence in court, they’re going to cram it down the memory hole.” more
“Rather than an isolated decision, this is part of a clear and dangerous pattern” in which the Trump administration has attacked working families, said one advocate. more
Florida Banana Republican Rick Scott says democracy will arrive in Venezuela following Nicolás Maduro’s arrest, but it may take time. Meanwhile, the Naples Republican believes the clock may be winding down on communist rule in Cuba. more
“Belligerent” was how one Democratic lawmaker described a diatribe given by top White House adviser Stephen Miller on CNN Monday evening regarding the Trump administration’s right to take over Venezuela—or any other country—if doing so is in the supposed interest of the US. more
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In President Donald Trump's first two vetoes of his second term, he's denied one of Florida's two federally recognized tribes the ability to protect one of its camps in the Everglades. more
The US attack on Venezuela relies on the same deception that justified the war in Iraq: the idea of self-financing wars with oil. more
“I can’t begin to tell you how insane this is,” said one critic. “He did not inform Congress but he’s saying he informed the oil companies.” more
Marco Rubio tried on Sunday to shed more daylight on the Trump administration’s plan for a path forward in Venezuela after the abduction of Nicolas Maduro, the country’s president, and his wife in a military raid on Saturday. more
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