Author: Stephen Millies

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Venezuela

John Bolton and the Monroe Doctrine

March 10, 2019 Stephen Millies
John Bolton doesn’t serve up any mush about “democracy ” or “human rights” in selling the U.S. war against Venezuela. Trump’s national security advisor told the Fox Business Network on Jan. 24 the real reason […]
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Venezuela

Jefferson Davis and Juan Guaidó: two presidential imposters

March 2, 2019 Stephen Millies
Donald Trump and Juan Guaidó hated Nicolás Maduro for being re-elected president of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela in 2018. Well, slave master Jefferson Davis, as president of the Southern Confederacy, revolted against Abraham Lincoln […]
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Venezuela

Starving Yemen while feeding Venezuela? Using food as a war provocation

February 20, 2019 Stephen Millies
Fourteen million people are facing starvation in Yemen, according to United Nations Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs Mark Lowcock. Every day 130 children die of hunger in Yemen. All these deaths are the result of a […]
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Environment

Mass struggle needed for a Green New Deal

February 15, 2019 Stephen Millies
Capitalism is cooking the earth. Rising sea levels are threatening 167 million people in Bangladesh while Africa is suffering from both increased flooding and drought.   Capitalist climate change dragged the polar vortex to Chicago, […]
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Cuba

New York salutes Cuba

February 11, 2019 Stephen Millies
[su_row][su_column size=”1/2″ center=”no” class=””] [/su_column] [su_column size=”1/2″ center=”no” class=””] [/su_column][/su_row] Two hundred people packed the People’s Forum in midtown Manhattan on Feb. 8 to celebrate the 60th anniversary of the Cuban Revolution. Co-chairs Ike Nahem […]
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Venezuela

‘Venezuela is our fight!’

February 8, 2019 Stephen Millies
New York — In a bold show of support for President Nicolás Maduro and Bolivarian Venezuela, over 100 people demonstrated in front of the U.S. Mission to the United Nations on Feb. 4. The militant action was […]
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Fight racism

Justice for Jameek!

January 17, 2019 Stephen Millies
Jameek “Meek” Lowery went to the Paterson, N.J., police station before dawn on January 5 and asked for water and help. Cops at the Frank X. Graves Public Safety Complex refused to give him either. […]
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Political Prisoners

Mumia Abu-Jamal speaks to New York meeting

January 14, 2019 Stephen Millies
New York — More than a hundred people came to the People’s Forum in Midtown Manhattan on Jan. 12 to hear the latest developments in the struggle to free Mumia Abu-Jamal. On the meeting’s stage were boxes […]
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Im/migrants and refugees

Trump is the real shithole. Hands Off TPS!

January 11, 2019 Stephen Millies
Brooklyn, N.Y. — Fifty people gathered in the icy cold outside Brooklyn’s federal court for a news conference on Jan. 7. They were fighting to save temporary protected status (TPS) for 59,000 Haitians and hundreds of thousands […]
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Labor and strikes

Trump, big coal and black lung

January 5, 2019 Stephen Millies
Black lung disease is a terrible way to die. Coal miners’ lungs become crusty and useless, according to Dr. Robert Cohen, a pulmonologist at the University of Illinois. Towards the end, Dr. Cohen told National […]