Elliot Abrams

It is a disgrace that Elliot Abrams is speaking on behalf of the United States in the U.N. Security Council.


Abrams is akin to SS-Gruppenführer Karl Hermann Frank, the butcher of Lidice.

Corruption

The capitalist political world is riddled through and through with corruption...


Trump here in the United States.


Netanyahu in Israel.

Trudeau in Canada.


And on and on it goes.


And these corrupt creeps are going to overthrow the government of Venezuela?

Justin Trudeau and Donald Trump

Justin Trudeau in Canada is mired up to his eyeballs in a corruption scandal and refuses to resign yet he has the unmitigated gall to work in cahoots with Trump in trying to bring down the Maduro government in Venezuela...


These capitalist hypocrites working for Bay Street and Wall Street have no scruples and are willing to bring immeasurable harm upon other people in an attempt to cover up their own criminal conduct.

We need more public voices for socialism

Many who call themselves progressives and leftists, not just liberals, are failing to act in solidarity with Maduro and the Venezuelan people... and the people of Cuba and Nicaragua who Trump has in his cross-hairs, too.

The fact remains, without a very vocal, active and strong Marxist working class party leading mass organizations in all spheres this will continue to be a big problem. Just look at all these people who self-identify as various kinds of socialists who won't even stand in solidarity with Maduro and the Venezuelan people at the very time the Wall Street imperialists are actively trying to instigate a coup... shameful and disgusting.

We need to bring socialism out into the public square where it can be vigorously discussed and debated.

We need a discussion about what socialism is and why we need it.

We, as Marxists, need to struggle against this backwards thinking in our own ranks that socialism is some kind of long-term remedy when just the opposite is true if we are going to survive.

As we work to build solidarity with the people of Venezuela, Cuba and Nicaragua now defending their socialist revolutions we should be thinking about what kind of working class Marxist organization we need in our country and we should be laying solid foundations for such an organization in every community, school and workplace.

I would invite people to consider working to build locals of the Socialist Connection Action Network (Socialist C.A.N.)

Read and study about socialism.

Write wherever you can in support of socialism; explain what socialism is and why our very survival depends on replacing capitalism with socialism.

Speak out vigorously for socialism.

Coming soon to blogtalk radio: "Left of Liberal" with hosts Alan and Debbie Maki

Impeach Trump now! We can't take the chance Democrats will defeat Trump in 2020.

It is very selfish of the Democrats to not take up the need to impeach Trump and remove him from office through a massive mobilization of the American people right now; we can’t wait for Election Day... the stakes are too high.


Nancy Pelosi and the Democrats in Congress applauded Trump’s plan to remove Maduro from office through a violent murderous illegal coup funded by U.S. taxpayers but they won’t lift a finger to carry out their own Constitutional responsibility to remove Trump from office even though every single day they come up with another of his wrong-doings that they have splashed all over the media.

I can say right now, I will never vote for any Democrat for president backed by Nancy Pelosi, Chuck Schumer or Steny Hoyer... all of whom are backing this coup now underway trying to oust the democratically elected president of Venezuela, Nicolas Maduro, who has done a heck of a lot more for workers and farmers than these worthless Democrats like Nancy Pelosi, Chuck Schumer and Steny Hoyer have ever done for the workers and farmers in this country... in fact, by refusing to take up Trump’s impeachment they are enabling him to do irreparable harm to us and our living environment as he inflicts pain and suffering on the peoples of Venezuela, Cuba and Nicaragua.
By the time the Democrats get done working hand-in-hand with Trump, Pence, John Bolton and Eliot Abrams and the blood is flowing through the streets of Venezuela and the filled body bags return back to our country... these Democrats will have about as much chance of electing a Democrat in 2020 as Lyndon Johnson would have had should he have sought re-election after overseeing the carnage in Vietnam.


Don’t count on the Democrats defeating Trump in 2020... Trump needs to be impeached now... only massive movements of militant protests in the streets will force the Democrats to take up Trump’s impeachment.

Democrats shamefully support Trump's Venezuela coup

Did anyone see the performance on CNN of the biggest "liberal" in the U.S. Senate, Ben Cardin, who is owned by AIPAC and the Military-Industrial Complex?


Cardin said he supports Trump’s effort to oust Maduro in a coup.


Now, let me ask this question:

Is there anyone who thinks the Democrats have any chance of beating Trump when the biggest “liberal” in the U.S. Senate supports Trump’s illegal, unconstitutional coup against not only Venezuela, but his stated intent to overthrow the governments of Cuba and Nicaragua?


Will the required number of people needed to vote for Democrats to defeat Trump turn out to vote for these kinds of Democrats? I doubt it.

Poverty

Trump, Pence, Pompeo, John Bolton, Steny Hoyer and the Hitlerite Eliot Abrams are making the pitch to the world as their reason for orchestrating the overthrow of the governments of Venezuela, Cuba and Nicaragua ( by coup or direct war) that they have some kind of humanitarian interests in helping the poor.


Poverty, according to the United States government as defined by Lyndon Johnson when he pushed his “Great Society” initiative that became mired in the swamps of Vietnam, is a state of deprivation, lacking the usual or socially acceptable amount of money or material possessions. The most common measure of poverty in the U.S. is the "poverty threshold" set by the U.S. government. This measure recognizes poverty as a lack of those goods and services commonly taken for granted by members of mainstream society.

Over forty-million of our fellow citizens right here in our own country are forced to endure poverty because these same lying imperialist morons who claim to want to help people in poverty in Venezuela, Cuba and Nicaragua have never lifted one little finger to alleviate, let alone eliminate, poverty right here in our own country. Only a complete fool can fail to see the outright hypocrisy in all of this.

What will those who refuse to back Trump's impeachment do....

... when the Democrats can't defeat Trump?

Trump's Miami speech: Trump Demands End to Maduro Regime in Broad Attack on Socialism

A must see and listen to speech:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V7IjQc6PITw

Only a completely deranged moron billionaire would make such a warmongering imperialist speech.

It is the epitome of hypocrisy for Trump, himself a crooked and corrupt liar representing his fellow Wall Street imperialist monopolists, to be lecturing the peoples of the world about how capitalism is better than socialism and threatening the peoples of Venezuela, Cuba and Nicaragua with military intervention and invasion intended to topple their governments and replace these governments created according to his dictate if they don't accede to his demands and abandon their socialist path to progress.

This speech on its face is a violation of international law and requires Trump and his backers including Pence, John Bolton, Pompeo, Steny Hoyer, Stephen Miller and Eliot Abrams to be brought before the International Criminal Court. Trump's threats are crimes against humanity.

The claim that Juan Guaido is the President of Venezuela must be rejected as nuts, preposterous, crazy and outrageous; Nicholas Maduro is the only legitimate President of Venezuela- he was elected.

All sanctions against Venezuela must be dropped.

We must pursue normalized relations in all spheres of human endeavor- including development, trade, science and culture- with the peoples of Venezuela, Cuba and Nicaragua... these people are our friends, not our enemies.

The right to self-determination of the people's of Venezuela, Cuba and Nicaragua must be defended... and this includes their right to choose the socialist road of development.

We need to build solidarity with the peoples of Venezuela, Cuba and Nicaragua who have the moral and political courage to stand up for their rights in opposition to Trump and this bunch of Wall Street imperialists who think they can dictate how everyone must live.

Our own enemy is Wall Street; not the people of Venezuela, Cuba and Nicaragua with whom we share this common enemy: Wall Street.

We, the people of the United States, must join with the rest of the world's peoples and say "NO'' to this U.S. orchestrated and financed coup now underway in Venezuela; this subversion of the democratic rights of the Venezuelan people to choose their own government and economic system must end.

Trump made the most barbaric, jingoistic and chauvinistic speech in Miami riddled with a litany of lies about socialism intended to mislead and disorient people about what is going on in Venezuela, Cuba and Nicaragua.

Trump has launched into this attack on Venezuela, Cuba and Nicaragua largely to cover up his own corruption and his own trampling of our own Constitution and Bill of Rights.

Trump should be impeached, removed from office and prosecuted based on these threats and attacks on the peace loving peoples of Venezuela, Cuba and Nicaragua who pose no threat to anyone and just want the right to develop free from Wall Street's dictate.

These monstrous threats made by Trump are those of a raving moronic lunatic and are in complete violation of our own Constitution and run counter to all international laws intended to protect the peace, sovereignty of all nations and the right of all peoples to choose their own governments and paths of economic development... this is about the right of all nations to self determination.

No nations should ever be threatened by these imperialist bullies.

People have a fundamental human right to choose socialism over capitalism.

It is Trump and this Wall Street bribed cabal of Washington politicians who must be replaced.

These arrogant exploiting Wall Street billionaires like Trump can not stand to think that working people, farmers and peasants can run the government and the economy without them.

The Wall Street billionaires like Trump can not stand to think that people will choose to use the wealth created with their labor to better their own lives rather than fill the coffers of these greedy Wall Street exploiters and thieves.

With Wall Street billionaire monopolists using their wealth to select people like Trump to be the President of the United States this is what needs to be examined if we are going to talk about what constitutes democracy.

Wall Street's Military-Industrial Complex is at the center of this U.S. imperialist foreign policy gone so awry. When so much power is allowed to be placed in the hands of these Wall Street imperialist merchants of death and destruction this is where all problems arise.

It is long past time for us to consider the need for a new working class based people's party that is both anti-monopoly and anti-imperialist with the moral, ethical and political courage to challenge Wall Street for political and economic power which will get us on the road to socialism.

Now would be a good time to consider what Minnesota's former socialist governor, Elmer Benson, had to say:

http://collections.mnhs.org/MNHistoryMagazine/articles/47/v47i04p154-161.pdf

The "nationalism" of Trump's "America First" is a recipe for fascism, imperialist intervention and never-ending dirty imperialist wars. 

Each and everyone of us must ask ourselves if we want these creeps like Trump and the Hitlerite Eliot Abrams speaking for us and carrying out U.S. foreign policy.

Never has the mainstream corporate owned media been so unanimous in joining the call for imperialist intervention and war... lie after lie after lie in support of Trump's attempt to bring down the governments of Venezuela, Cuba and Nicaragua... and Nancy Pelosi and the Democrats join in beating the drums of war--- shameful and disgusting.

Capitalism is Wall Street's system; socialism is the system of workers, farmers and peasants.

A creep like John Bolton, his hands dripping with blood, who has picked up the baton from the long discredited likes of the murderous Allen Dulles of the CIA has the unmitigated gall to refer to the peace-loving peoples of Venezuela, Cuba and Nicaragua as the "Troika of Tyranny" when Bolton and Trump and this cabal pushing this coup in Venezuela are the real tyrants. And, what is Juan Guaido the self-proclaimed president of Venezuela if not the CIA's and Eliot Abrams' chosen and selected tryrant to rule over Venezuela for the purpose of restoring a vile and corrupt oligarchy managing Venezuela for Wall Street's greedy selfish interests of robbing Venezuelans of their wealth? Who but a crazed tyrant walks out into the street and proclaims them-self to be a president?

As the British trade unionist Arthur Scargill has stated: "Now is the time for all socialists to unite in solidarity with Nicolas Maduro and the people of Venezuela."

Trump's criminal imperialist intent was elaborated on and heralded here on the front page in the Wall Street Journal in late January:

Corruption in Canada

Justin Trudeau should be forced to resign.

Picture I took of Longhorns with newborn calf in Bluebonnets,,, click on pic to enlarge

Trump’s new nuclear weapon has entered production

Who is paying for all of this?

What is the cost to us of Wall Street's imperialist agenda?

Something to think about:

The Wall Street merchants of death and destruction profit from militarism and wars while we pay through the nose.

We pay; they profit.

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The W76-2 will be launched aboard Trident II D5 missiles. (Ronald Gutridge/U.S. Navy)

A new low-yield nuclear warhead, created at the behest of the Trump administration, has officially entered production and is coming off the assembly line which will trigger a new nuclear arms race and make the world a much more dangerous place.

The first production unit of the W76-2 warhead is underway at the Pantax Plant in Texas, according to a statement from the National Nuclear Security Agency.

“NNSA is on track to complete the W76-2 Initial Operational Capability warhead quantity and deliver the units to the Navy by the end of Fiscal Year 2019,” an agency spokesman said. The spokesman noted only the IOC units will be delivered this year, but declined to say how many warheads make up that total.

Here’s when all of America’s new nuclear warhead designs will be active — and how much they’ll cost

America will be spending a lot on nuclear weapons in the coming years. Here's what the Trump administration will get.

By: Aaron Mehta

The warhead design is a modification of the W76-1 warhead for the Navy’s Trident ballistic missile, which has allowed NNSA to quickly turn around the design since it was ordered in last year’s Nuclear Posture Review. The warhead is designed to be smaller than the weapon detonated at Hiroshima, Japan, during World War II.

 Cancel funding for the W76-2. Fund human needs, health care and education, instead.

What is the carbon footprint created by this new round in the nuclear arms race?

https://canadiandimension.com/articles/view/climate-change-and-the-military-industrial-complex1

There is another alternative to this health care mess

Nina Turner sent me an email (see below) claiming the for profit Medicare for All is the only solution to this health care mess.

I sent her this:

It simply isn’t true that Medicare for All is the only alternative so why do you keep on saying this? In fact, Medicare isn’t even all that great with everything it doesn’t cover and all the co-pays and the expensive supplemental insurances required which most people can’t afford to pay out of their miserly Social Security checks.

You Democrats have not even improved Medicare or Social Security with needed reforms over the years; in fact, you have gone right along with the Republicans in attacking both which has created massive hardships for most people. And now you come along pushing this Medicare for All which you don’t even intend to bring into existence anyways; you are just using this in a very mean way to trick people out of their votes just as you Democrats have been doing since 1948.

And all the while you Democrats work hand-in-hand with the Republicans to prevent a new working class based people’s party from achieving ballot status so we can bring forward real reforms such as these...

What we really need, and what you are either afraid to say or fight for, is a National Public Health Care System:

Publicly funded.

Publicly administered.

Publicly delivered.

Just like public education.

And pay for it with what you, also, don’t dare talk about: a great big Peace Dividend which would require ending these dirty wars, putting an end to this nuclear arms race and instead of having over 850 U.S. foreign military bases dotting the globe put a health care center in every community and neighborhood providing the American people with free world-class health care.

Nationalize the pharmaceutical industry under public control and ownership.

This is the socialist approach to health care reform.

Please stop bombarding me with your phony crap.

Sent from my iPhone

On Feb 14, 2019, at 3:13 PM, Senator Nina Turner wrote:

Dear Alan,

When we talk about healthcare in this country, we must realize that we cannot settle for half-solutions, or half-movements. We must dedicate ourselves to achieving an America that cares for and helps every person, every family, every parent, and every child in this country…. because only all that we love is on the line.

I recently had the honor of speaking on a National Nurses United panel at the Sanders Institute Gathering that brought together leaders in healthcare movements not only from the United States but from around the world.

WATCH THE PANEL

Kelly Coogan Gehr, Assistant Director of Public Policy and Advocacy for NNU, laid the scene: a righteous movement for healthcare for all.

“What our enemies most fear is this: Medicare for All gives a fifth of our economy back to the people and increases the size, strength, and power of our democratic government.” – Kelly Coogan Gehr

Dr. Diane Archer, President of Just Care USA, explained why Medicare for All is the best and only option – because we cannot encourage a “middle-ground” system that would continue to include private companies that exclude patients that need care to maximize their profits while hiking up costs for everybody else.

“Commercial insurers drive up administrative costs and pocket profits for their shareholders rather than investing in their members’ needs, let alone the public health.” – Dr. Diane Archer

Jean Ross, Nurse and Co-President of National Nurses United, through Kelly Coogan Gehr spoke about the moral imperative behind a Medicare for All system and why our strength not only lies with the statistics, and the economic benefits, but also in the moral imperative of healthcare as a human right.

“One’s ability to stay alive should never be based in someone else’s ability to profit.” – Jean Ross

Dr. Hosnieh Djafari-Marbini described the reverence for and popularity of the UK’s single payer system but warned of spreading privatization – an import from the American system – that is jeopardizing the popular and quality care that has been provided in the UK for over 70 years.

“It is no exaggeration to say that The NHS in the UK is revered and is more of a national obsession than a great cup of tea or in fact the weather. It is revered as it provides that most basic of human rights; free universal healthcare at your time of need.” – Dr. Hosnieh Djafari-Marbini

Jo Beardsmore, co-founder of UK Uncut, convinced every person in the room that we must not only fight for healthcare for all but that we can win!

“Some people seem to think that to aim for an expanded and improved Medicare for All is too ambitious. But we know that it is only by aiming for such an ideal that we will mobilize enough people to take action to help us win. If we don’t aim high, we will fall. low, and will become compromised before we even start to negotiate. Big organizing techniques that NNU is using to make the movement happen.” – Jo Beardsmore

Finally, Libby Devlin, Southern Director of NNU, showed us that nurses in each and every state in the U.S. and around the country are already leading the charge because they know – and see every day – what is at stake.

“Every day nurses see the damage done by a lack of health care. They, better than anyone, know that a single standard of care that is safe, effective and therapeutic, regardless of ability to pay must become the public policy of this country”– Libby Devlin

The voices of the nurses in our country are important. They care for patients in their greatest time of need. As the healing hands at the bedside, they have been the consistent witnesses to the inequality of our current health care system. They bear witness to the need for systemic change. They believe as I do that our collective activism is the catalyst for change.

Medicare for All is possible.

It is right.

It is within our reach.

And we must reach for it… because only all that we love is on the line.

In Solidarity,

Senator Nina Turner

Founding Fellow, The Sanders Institute

Venezuela, Cuba, Nicaragua... and Haiti

Perhaps Trump, Pence, Bolton, Steny Hoyer and Elliot Abrams are looking to perform the same kind of free-enterprise capitalist economic miracle for Venezuela, Cuba and Nicaragua that Bill Clinton and George Bush imposed on Haiti.

"Great Decisions" the forum used by those in power to educate the business community

The other night I attended the "Great Decisions" meeting at the Lake Travis Community Public Library; the meeting was intended to discuss immigration and why people leave their country.

When I mentioned people were leaving their countries because of capitalism, colonialism and imperialism a right wing bigot viciously attacked me calling me uncivil and the microphone was grabbed out of my hand to prevent me from explaining with examples.

One more example of this great bastion of democracy.

Facebook, the billionaires' idea of what constitutes democracy

Facebook prevented me from posting and commenting on other pages... then they extended this censorship to my own Facebook page.

So I closed my Facebook page completely.

Facebook made the outrageous claim that my posts and comments violated their "community standards" but arrogantly refused to say how I violated their "community standards."

Democracy and debate

The mainstream media and the hacks employed by the Democratic and Republican parties are striving to make sure dialog, discussion and debate is confined to the parameters they dictate.

In order to solve our problems we will need to get beyond these dictated confines.

Where does the real threat to humanity come from?

The real threat to peace and democracy comes from the fascist cabal of Trump, Pence, Pompeo, Steny Hoyer and Elliot Abrams... and Wall Street's two parties, the Republican and Democratic parties both defending and implementing Wall Street's imperialist interests are the main threat to peace in the world today.

Stop the attack on Venezuela, Cuba and Nicaragua

Trump, Pence, Pompeo, Bolton, Steny Hoyer choosing to work with Elliot Abrams have made it U.S. policy to bring down the people’s governments of Venezuela, Cuba and Nicaragua.

The Wall Street Journal has openly stated this to be U.S. policy.

This is criminal; the threat alone is a crime for which Trump and this entire cabal of Fascist warmongers should be impeached.

There is something very sickening about these liars and crooks entangled in their own web of lies and corruption of their own making trying to dictate to others what kind of government they need in order to be “free.”

Trump has proclaimed socialism to be his enemy.

We need a full and honest discussion about why Venezuelans, Cubans and Nicaraguans have chosen the road to socialism and rejected capitalism.

And, as part of this discussion we need to consider why we should get rid of capitalism and get on the path to socialism... we need a full and open public discussion about capitalism and socialism.

Only capitalist corruption could saddle our country with the likes of these deceitful, lying, corrupt fascist, warmongers like Trump, Pence, Bolton, Steny Hoyer and a human being as sleazy and creepy as Elliot Abrams with his blood drenched hands.

Rescind and withdraw recognition of Juan Guaidó!

Hands off Venezuela, Cuba and Nicaragua!

No coup in Venezuela!

End the sanctions and embargoes!

Solidarity with Maduro, the only legitimate president of Venezuela!

Solidarity with the peoples and their governments of Venezuela, Cuba and Nicaragua!

Read for yourself the front page article from the Wall Street Journal about what these imperialist monsters have planned... circulate this for discussion... is this what you want being done in your name?