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Two years ago, only the US and Israel voted against the UN resolution against the Cuba embargo. The US didn't win over more countries. It threatened them with tariffs, sanctions, & visa restrictions. The same method is used to force countries to end their Cuban doctor programs.

Neoliberalism is best understood not simply as economic policy, but as a project to restore class power and consolidate control over the economy. The top 0.1% of U.S. firms went from owning 47% of corporate assets in 1930 to 88% in 2013.

Modern day colonialism is the preservation of economic domination without direct colonial rule. Venezuela's oil agreement illustrates this logic: foreign capital receives legal protections under U.S. jurisdiction while Venezuela's sovereignty over its own resources is constrained

Reminder: The same owner/team bought the majority of hockey rinks and leagues in the Dallas area to create a monopoly over youth hockey and then raised league fees and the cost for renting ice time.

The Cuban people are clamoring to experience the freedom of medical debt. In Cuba, healthcare is treated as a right the govt must provide. In the US, it's a for-profit industry where pharma companies extract as much as they can from people who need lifesaving medication.

Notice how the headline frames Cuba as the lawbreaker: a ship is “intercepted” while “smuggling” oil into the country. What the headline obscures is the US is the one violating international law by imposing an oil blockade on Cuba and hijacking oil shipments bound for Cuba.

Not even The Onion could make this up: Before deciding whether to intervene in Venezuela, Trump reportedly spent hours consulting an AI chatbot about how Venezuelans would react to his plan to invade the country and overthrow Maduro.

Every accusation is really just a confession

“National Security” is the euphemism they deploy when they have no logical argument or empirical evidence to justify their position. Instead of providing evidence, they invoke “National Security” to push through their agenda.

For years, Silicon Valley’s tech leaders told us they were uniquely qualified to reshape society and rewrite the social contract. Now they are asking the govt to regulate the technology they are building because even they are starting to worry about what they have unleashed

Bloomberg, a financial newspaper of choice for the business class, is framing the Venezuela oil deal as neocolonialism. When even a publication representing the interests of global capital is using the language of anti-imperialism, that says something.

Every accusation is a confession. Not even The Onion could come up with this level of irony.

Every censorship campaign starts with a justification. Today it's "return on investment." Tomorrow it's sociology, political science, history, or any field that teaches students to critically examine society. newrepublic.com/post/213446/…