SETH DONNELLY—From the 1950s through the 1980s, the US government supported the brutal dictatorships of “Papa Doc” and “Baby Doc” Duvalier, who tortured and killed thousands of Haitians. The popular mass movement that came to be known as Lavalas (The “flash flood” of the people), succeeded in toppling the Duvalier dictatorship and electing Jean-Bertrand Aristide as President of Haiti. Twice, the United States supported coups to overthrow the elected government, in 1991 and 2004. Ever since this last coup, Haiti has been occupied by the United Nations, as authorized by the UN Security Council, at the behest primarily of the US, France, and Canada.
Default Editor Patrice de Bergeracpas
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Free Fall—making sense of a confusing world. On US provocations, Putin’s response and more.
30 minutes readMESHED GEARS—The CIS continues to benefit from the fixed price agreements on oil and gas sales to the PRC which Putin negotiated near the peak price in 2015, and is taking payment in industrial goods to build the GDP of the CIS while eliminating most dollar denominated debt (and investments). By building ties with, and working with the PRC, Putin has ensured that the CIS will remain a significant member of the coming multi-polar order. The reality is that, on its current trajectory, the USA will not. That is not because of anything Putin wants or has done, but because the USA has consistently acted against the interests of everyone else, without ever counting the costs to itself.
The leftists who don’t like Putin have missed all of this. The world is in transition. This increases dangers and opportunities. Putin is a competent leader, able to negotiate the Scylla and Charybdis of external and internal forces, while making the CIS as a whole stronger, and gaining it friends who know that, unlike the USA which is only able to inspire fear, but not respect, that the CIS can be trusted to be consist and supportive. This has great value in and of its own right.
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In absolute unison with the revolutionary Cuban people, the Network of Intellectuals and Artists in Defense of Humanity (REDH) calls on the entire world to remain alert and oppose the interference that the U.S. government and its cronies intend to apply in Cuba. We send a warning about the implications of the recent campaign for a “humanitarian corridor” that the United States is promoting under the pretext of the pandemic, because Cuba is not only a unique country in the South, which, in addition to being among the first in the world in the vaccination ranking, thanks to its universal policies of humanistic health care and high professionalism, has one of the lowest death rates for the pandemic. Cuba has supported dozens of countries with their offering of humanity assistance to save lives, while the so called “humanitarian interventions” imposed by the United States are all about occupations, designed only to bring about destruction, misery and the most atrocious violations against the dignity of nations and individuals.
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Grover Furr: ‘Stalin, waiting for… the truth’, Part-1
8 minutes readAs usual, the invaluable Grover Furr wades into the thick and fetid pools of anticommunist fabrication to destroy many of the myths underscoring the fear and loathing of all things connected with Stalin. Intelligent people have long understood that the West’s deliberate demonisation of Stalin was and remains a permanent psyop to keep people corraled away from examining the promise of communism. The alarms about Stalin’s “crimes” is a case of stunning hypocrisy. For one thing, a country like the US or Britain or France who have trained death squads for generations, who have meddled across the globe, invariably on the side of tyrants, exploiters of every stripe, and plutocrats, have no right to pretend being shocked by the “crimes of Stalin”. (Or Mao, for that matter, or Fidel, all members of that club that Washington always has in store to serve as bogeymen when anti-communist hysteria is required—which unfortunately is almost all the time. )
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DIVIDED WE STAND: ELEVEN REGIONAL RIVALRIES FROM MOUNTAIN PEOPLE TO THE SWAMPS OF DIXIE
37 minutes readBRUCE LERRO—The federal government of the United States only began to try to unify the country from the Atlantic to the Pacific after the Civil War with massive architecture, street names, and flags in every classroom. it is questionable how successful they have been. To talk about a common national experience over such a large territory confronts many problems.
David Hackett Fischer in his book, Albion’s Seed, identified four major regions in the United States with significant differences in their means of subsistence, their religion, the conditions of settlement and the parts of England these first settlers were from. In his book American Nations, Colin Woodard has expanded these settlements from four to eleven regions. Please see Table A to understand which country of Europe settled the region, the time of settlement and the region of the U.S. it occupied.