The Trump administration’s claim that Venezuela is a narco-state trafficking drugs to the United States is fiction. The ruse is designed to mask Trump’s military and covert war on Venezuela to gain access to its vast oil and natural gas reserves. Not surprising, Trump is ignoring public opinion that shows 70 percent of Americans oppose US military action against Venezuela. The administration’s allegations stand in sharp contrast to findings in both the United Nations World Drug Report and the European Drug Reports of 2025, neither of which include Venezuela as a producer of illegal drugs and only a minor transit …

This book argues for building a political opposition to challenge the two major parties’ ideological control over US politics. An opposition built around a campaign for a peaceful US foreign policy and shared, universal social benefits. The analysis suggests that a political alternative along these lines can gain traction among tens of millions. An effort to organize such a political project, independent of the two parties, is long overdue. It is also step along a pathway to confront the political rule of capitalists over economic, social and foreign policy. In short, it is a way out of our present political …

The death of George Floyd at the hands of officer Derek Chauvin, whose record of brutalityis well known, shows that years of police reform efforts to educate and retrain officers havefailed. Decade after decade, the so-called bad apples remain in abundance on theMinneapolis police force. Systematic brutality, harassment and killing goes unabated. It appears it’s police officers who control the police, not the City Council, not the mayor andnot the police chief. If they did, officers like Chauvin would long ago have been terminated.It is time elected officials admit what is common knowledge in the community; they are notin control …

TEST practice This analysis is necessarily part conjecture, because, as we know,peace activists are not invited to the table where foreign policy is made. As such, we must look to history to predict imperialisms next moves. We must examine what leaders do, not what they say.This work provides activists with information, analysis and ideas to renew and rebuild the U.S. peace movement on an anti-imperialist foundation. It argues for a mass organizing approach that reaches out to our fellow citizens in their neighbors, campuses and workplaces. Grassroots organizing is the only means we have of breaking through the media black-out …

The recent open letter issued by the police union presidents of Minneapolis and St. Paul (1/4/15) does not indicate a readiness to listen, but to lecture those critical of law enforcement. (URL: http://www.mpdfederation.com/police/.) Like police union leaders in New York City and elsewhere their letter seems to make the same spurious claim that protests against police brutality and discrimination may have incited Ismaaiyl Brinsley to murder two NYPD officers. In light of protesters just anger over the killing of unarmed black Americans, even suggesting such a link lacks respect for the communities that law enforcement serves. Protesters are as heartsick over …