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The Dems need to conduct a sophisticated public campaign now, educating the people - they can't just assume everybody watched these hearings like some of us did....
Confuse the people with facts . That means either the American public are stupid or the Republicans are trying to play hide and seek with the facts . Let trump and his minions testify
I basically agree though it sounds like it was written in 1905 and racism so overlays class struggle in Bolivia at least...that they underplay. Julieta wrote something good that I'll send you. I'm furious at Zibechi, Rachel Gutierrez, and Rita Segato...not to mention Galindo and Silvia Rivera.
As a friend said this week, the streets are now where the Right goes not the left or not only the left. My election delegation friends just sent something through what's app about the call for a "paro nacional" in Mexico on Wednesday by the Right. Talk about a paro light.
We are reconvening our "Protest" seminar/action group...Chile!!! blinding people, how brutal, at least 200; and Bolivia is heartbreaking....what a time.
Margaret Cerullo
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If you're against Venezuela, Nicaragua, Bolivia or any country that proclaims itself and does it's best to be socialist as opposed to proclaiming itself 'National Socialist, you're truly be damned. Capitalism has had a few hundred years to work out it it's many faults with no good result, but the second, the freaking second, a new socialist government with a completely new and humanistic agenda makes a few mistakes, and almost always because of sanctions, military pressure, et cetera and if you need me to elaborate, please 'shang ke" (look it up!|}
Anyway, we leftists are too eager to criticize when what we need to do is: yeah, I'm not sure that's the right way to go, but I'm more than ready to sit down with you who are of like heart and mind and work it out. Come on! We're old, but our sons, daughters, and grandchildren? We must. It's not us, it's for the children,
We need recognized International outside leaders to step up and help what is rapidly becoming genocide -- Where is Michelle Bachelet, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights?
How vicious is this? Compare Israel’s recent actions and their deliberate kneecappings at the Gaza demonstrations and elsewhere. The resultant dependency this creates is a kind of collective punishment. Filthy.
Saludos desde Mayaguez, Puerto Rico. When will the U.S. liberal and left organizations start calling us by the rightful name of colonies? The U.S. has 5 colonies that not only in Medicare but in a bunch of other situations and programs it calls "territories". If there is one thing that Maria and the Trump administration has taught us in Puerto Rico is that we are a COLONY of the U.S.
Please be truthful and call us what we are. And No the colonial problem will Not be solved be by statehood. It will only worsen. We have studied the plight of the Native Americans on their reservations. Gracias por su atencion,
Mary Anne Merrill- Ramirez
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The USA territories, including Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands, have no voting representation in the Congress, and no vote for President. For medical care, we depend on the whim of Congress, and the hand-outs are significantly less than to the states. This year we go back to an old allotment formula that will cripple healthcare in the territories.
Is there any evidence that all of these cuts to social programs have reduced the federal deficit?
Robert Supansic
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I know I see the deterioration in my people. I live in a territory - Puerto Rico. Not even the funds for hurricane Maria reconstruction have arrived 2 years later. He is lying - not even half of the money. We still have people living under FEMA blue traps. He is playing with health, education and living conditions of US citizens
We are second class citizens. No right to vote for the president but in the event of a major conflict we can be drafted. It’s a shame for mainland Americans to have second class citizens.
It was a horrible massacre and the true heroes were morally massacred by their superiors and many Americans. What happened in My Lai is a stain on the American Army but more specifically of the officers who ordered their men to murder unarmed civilians including women, children and babies.
There is a history of presidential criminals and whistleblowers. Nixon declared that the chief My Lai perpetrator was “probably a good soldier ... getting a bum rap.” He ordered a secret task force to undermine press stories of the massacre.
Mr. Longrich is a paleontologist and seems to know his stuff. But he misses the mark on population doubling every 25 years by citing Malthus as a link. This is not the case, with research that indicates people have always regulated their populations. See Death, Sex, and Fertility: Population Regulation in Preindustrial and Developing Societies by Harris & Ross. This might just be a problem of a research specialist speaking too broadly about the larger canvas of human issues. As a political left enterprise,
xxxxxx needs to be a little more discriminating in its science posts on the human condition. Mr. Longrich's view of the human past would be embraced by the gun loving right or strong defense folks. That's fine if its good science but Mr. Longrich overstates the case about past human culture and misses much knowledge to the contrary of his thesis.
Chuck Willer
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