Nicolas Maduro responded to Trump's recent comments claiming that when he left office, Venezuela was on the brink of collapse thanks to the Trump Administration's blockade, sanctions and active measures by the CIA/State Dept.

"Ex-President of the United States, Donald Trump, declared his crime. A crime against humanity, against the people of Venezuela."

"He declared that the objective of his government and of the aggression and sanctions against Venezuela was to make Venezuelan society collapse so that the Imperialist power of the United States would seize Venezuelan oil, seize Venezuela's wealth."

"As a good lawyer would say, 'by the confession of the parties, there is no need for evidence.' Trump has declared his guilt in crimes against humanity against the noble and peaceful people of Venezuela."

It's interesting how American elections were the "best" in the world until Trump Lost re-election.

Now magically we have the most corrupt elections in the world!

I really cannot wait until we get to watch Trump physically removed from the White House by Secret Service agents.

There really are no words for just how Seth Meyers and John Oliver have stepped it up not just in this Coronavirus Pandemic, but in the entire maddening Trump Era.

Watch, like and share even if for no other reason than it probably pisses off Donald Trump and his goon squad of Liars, Con Artists, Petty Thieves and Dr. Evil wannabes.

Is it just me, or is just seem so typically and completely appropriate that one of Donald Trump's Legal Defense Team, Alan Dershowitz is, like Trump, a child rapist?

Can't we just send all of these scumbags to the Gulags? Damn, I really miss Stalin...

I've said on this blog over and over that US Imperialism is a never ending, unstoppable force for evil in the world.

Corruption in our Neoliberal Capitalist Economy along with the corruption pervasive in our Bourgeois Democracy long ago led US Imperialism to go into hyperdrive.

Our neverending wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, along with Libya, Yemen,l) Somalia, Chad, Niger, Nigeria, and so on; it doesn't take a Marxist to see the entire US Economy has become a War based Economy, depending on constantly expanding Warfare to realize Economic growth through Imperialist expansion.

From Military buildups in Saudi Arabia, South Korea, Columbia and North Africa, it's been clear for quite some time now that the Ruling Capitalist Class has been unsatisfied with the slow growth Status Quo and have been itching for a new War to drive up prices on Fossil Fuels and requisitioning big Military Contracts due to the Trump Administration's willingness, and indeed eagerness to accelerate the pattern of Privatization of US Warfare.

We have now reached the point where more Mercenary Military Contractors have died fighting in Afghanistan than actual US Soldiers.

This is undoubtedly the big opportunity the Capitalists have been waiting for: US War Incorporated.

Privatization of Warfare has meant two things. One, Mission Creep is no longer deniable. The almost Wars in South America, North Africa and the Middle East endlessly expand and the others never end. And Two, the Ruling Class will be looking to start new Wars.

It doesn't matter all that much who's in the White House. Hillary Clinton was a notorious Neocon who saw Henry Kissenger, the notorious War Criminal who to this day can't travel to certain parts of the world for fear of being Charged for his Crimes Against Humanity, Clinton openly bragged how Kissenger was a mentor.

Joe Biden is no different. Another Liberal Expansionist, Joe Biden, like Barack Obama and Bill Clinton before him will go to bat for the War Economy. Unlike the Trump Administration, Democrats eagerly look for opportunities to create a new Legal Framework for the War Economy to exist within rather than the Republican president of Lawless Expansion vulnerable to Public Opinion and International Law but that can act more swiftly and without Congressional concerns.

But make no Mistake, the War Economy and the instigation of War with Iran is only the latest salvo of a pattern that's been on an endless march forward since the end of World War II.

Each War's end is proceeded by a new one. US Imperialism has been steadily marching forward without pushback for 80 years and now that some pushback actually is occurring from rising powers like China and India, you see more and more desperation to rapidly ramp up the US Imperialist stake in and control of World Resources, land, and strategic positions to remain Economically and Militarily dominant.

Since the Public has had little stomach for a new War, the Trump Administration has been pressing buttons all across the World, looking for vulnerabilities where their instigations will create a response they can use to claim a new War as inevitable and unavoidable (though very unfortunate I'm sure).

The Ruling Class has settled on Iran. One because of its rich access to resources. Two because of its previous presentation as the "Bad Guys" on the World Stage. Three because of their Economic vulnerabilities. And Four because they're easy to be antagonistic with while getting little pushback from the rest of the International Community or the Domestic Public.

But they couldn't make it too blantantly obvious they were instigating a War. And so the Trump Administration set out to set up a series of False Flag Operations that they could then use to drum up support for a War.

This came in the form of the Ship bombing that conveniently caught supposed soldiers in Iranian Uniform pulling a mine out of the waters on camera. As if Iran were actually that stupid.

That one was a very obvious CIA Operation and ploy to drum up support for War with Iran.

When that didn't work, next they flew a US Drone along a part of the border with Iranian Airspace where they new the border moves back and forth, and so the Trump Administration could claim the drone wasn't in Iranian Airspace despite flying in and out of their airspace.

When Iran shot down the drone, it was their word versus ours. And that was that.

But still it wasn't enough to gain Domestic Public support for a War with Iran. And so they set out to do something bigger. Something they knew very well Iran would have to respond to. And this came in the form of the Quds Force General Soleimani's Assassination.

Knowing how popular General Soleimani was in Iran, the Trump Administration knew there was no way Iran could go without responding.

And so here we are again. Nearly Twenty years after the Iraq and Afghanistan Wars began, and though they still haven't ended after Trillions of dollars, thousands of American lives, millions of Middle Eastern Civilian lives, and a vacuum where Iran was given its oppirtunity for Regional Dominance where previously they couldn't.

So don't fall for this garbage. Anyone with their eyes open for the last twenty years knows full well what's going on here. And if you don't you're a fucking hopeless idiot and I'm not going to waste any more time explaining it to you. This is the Cost of US Imperialism. This is where it takes its payment in blood. You decide whether or not you can support the blood of another million or so innocent Civilians for the profit if Billionaires.

Guess we're going to have to bring back the old Iraq War Protest slogan: No Blood For Oil

Obviously they didn't get it the first time

I usually don't watch these Liberal shows because they never talk about anything remotely important, but this?

*WHAT*THE*FUCK*

What the flying FUCK is this delusional man blob saying???

Seriously tho

THIS GUY HAS THE NUCLEAR CODES?!?!!?

He's completely shot! Brain dead shot! This guy can't even string a simple sentence together!

No joke! I have no fucking idea what this man is trying to say. It's terrifying!

Ronald Reagan's mental decline was NEVER this obvious!

And think about it!

If this is the condition his team is willing to put him ON NATIONAL TELEVISION in, than what do think he's like BEHIND CLOSED DOORS?!?!

Presidents have said and done some scary shit before. The casual way they'll talk about going to war with countries halfway across the world, the way they talk about the use of nuclear weapons, like some relatives funeral that calls for nothing more than a somber tone.

But THIS? This is batshit crazy!

How the FUCK could ANYONE vote to leave him in office???? I mean, for Christ sake Pence should've tried using the 25th Amendment a long time ago! Since when does that jackass put his desire for more power aside? What is wrong with these people? Do they not see how utterly insane this man is? Yet you even have some DEMOCRATS who refuse to impeach him!

If that psychotic bastard having a "Senior Moment" on Live Television isn't removed from office, we are SO FUCKED.

If he's this bad now, if his mental faculties have completely disintegrated this quickly, we don't HAVE TIME to wait for elections!

Republicans have rigged the electoral maps in more than half this country. They've removed tens of millions of people from the voter rolls with a nod and wink from the Supreme Court despite its BLATANT VIOLATION of the Voting Rights Act.

Does anyone really want to take the chance of losing the next election?

Who's going to miss work to stand for eight hours at the polls to vote for a Joe Biden? Seriously? Do we have to do this again? Doesn't anyone in this shithole country learn their lesson?

If people don't start hitting the streets, going to DC and blocking traffic, blocking Federal Buildings, starting RIOTS, then NOTHING is going to change!

Do people think FDR just wanted to pass the New Deal reforms?

HELL NO! Congress passed and he signed those bills because there literally wars between Unions and Companies. Socialist Parties and a rapidly growing Communist Party were WINNING ELECTIONS Nationwide! In the Plains States, multiple villages HUNG THEIR SHERIFF when he came to repossess a neighbor's farm. Their were protests that turned into violent riots.

The New Deal passed because Congress and the President were TERRIFIED that there would be Bolshevik Style Revolution right here in the US. And had they not passed the New Deal reforms there likely would have been.

The point is Bourgeois Elections don't get reforms. THE PEOPLE DEMAND THEM!

Protests and demonstrations don't scare Corrupt Politicians! Seriously?

VIOLENCE, RIOTS, BOMBS, ARSON AND REVOLUTION SCARE CORRUPT POLITICIANS!!!

If our Corrupt Politicians can't even remove a delerious Senile old fart from the PRESIDENCY, does anyone really think these same Corrupt FUCKS are going to pass bills that benefit YOU? HA! Yeah, Okay chief!

America needs to put on it's big boy pants, grab it's big boy Molotov Cocktails and SMASH SHIT!

Trump and Rudy are the worst crime couple since Boris and Natasha

Hehehe...

What an asshole

I just watched Trump give a Press conference and noted a few things:

For one, Trump is (sadly) absolutely correct on a number of issues regarding Middle East policy.

Why were American troops in Syria to begin with?

Well we were told American Special Forces, first 500 and then 2,000, were sent to Syria to fight ISIS. Clearly that was always a sham. Our troops were sent into Syria to present a barrier to block Syrian, Iranian and Russian troops from re-uniting the Syrian State.

Mind you we were in Syria in direct violation of International Law, without the invitation of the sovereign Syrian State.

Now Trump comes along, finishes driving out ISIS, and because as he sees it, because both that job is done, and because now Turkey wants to make a mad dash across Northern Syria to push back Kurdish dominated areas, Trump clearly wants to avoid being in the middle of that messy situation and has decided to remove American troops from that area.

Now, for anyone who listening to the Press conference, Trump twice made reference to a handful of troops who stayed behind in order to "secure the oil".

In one of those rare candid moments when the truth is accidentally spoken aloud.

US troops were certainly there to push back Russian, Syrian, and Iranian troops making headway towards re-establishing the Syrian State, but the real reason, the reason we got involved to begin with, was to "secure the oil".

It's a moment that belies the truth about American Imperialism. It's the pure essence of Capitalistic Imperialism in it's purest form.

Here, all of the stories peddled in the pliant media arms of American Capitalism are exposed for what they are. Cheap tricks to put a thin "Internationalist" veneer on the face of American Imperialism and it's constant drive to expand control over resources.

Trump is also correct when it comes to the Obama Administration and it's war mongering against the DPRK.

Does anyone out there really think a Clinton Administration wouldn't taken the first opportunity it could find to attack the DPRK for no particular reason?

And what threat exactly does a small Socialist country facing embargo with an undeveloped economy pose to the United States???

Yet to a transactional President like Trump, this seems like a lose lose situation, and so he's mostly left the DPRK to its own devices except for the continued embargo against North Korean goods.

Of course none of these actions pleases the Gods of US Imperialism. And so they complain vociferously through their media pawns. Now they use the Democratic Party to urge Imperialist aggression.

And sadly, because Liberals hate anything Trump, they now find themselves on the side of the Neoconservative Foreign Policy establishment, agitating for more war, more aggression and defending the forces of Reaction and Imperialism.

For those on the Left, this is an opportunity to reflect on the role reversals we've seen since the 2016 elections.

Republican voters now call for the return of US troops and the withdrawal from US Empire.

While Democratic voters agitate for more aggression, expanded Empire, and Neoconservative Foreign Policy.

US politics isn't about thoughtful policy or ideological principals. It's about following the tribe of your own Party brand and being used in the games played by various factions of the US Ruling Class.

Neither Democrats nor Republicans offer anything outside a particular faction of the Bourgeoisie. No politician within the two parties sees voters as anything but tools to manipulate and use to put pressure on the Politicians they buy.

The only escape from this false dichotomy is by using Marx and Engel's Historical Materialism to analyse and view our modern world. To see the games of the Bourgeoisie for exactly what they are, and to recognize that participation in Bourgeois democracy cannot and will not lead to any major change.

Only Marxism-Leninism offers a proven strategy for escaping the trap of Bourgeois politics. Only Marxism-Leninism gives us a map for smashing Bourgeois democracy and the Bourgeois State, bringing it to it's knees and establishing true Proletarian Democracy.

As has been proven throughout the last Century, Marxist-Leninist theory has led to successful democratic Revolutions all over the world and has resulted in various experiments in creating a Worker's State, not just another Bourgeois State.

It's time to revive Marxism-Leninism in America, in the West and elsewhere, to form a Marxist Internationalism that can stand in Solidarity with Worker's everywhere and work to bring Socialism to the world.

Solidarity Comrades

None of this surprises me in the least.

Not when the Trump Administration includes the likes of John Bolton, Mike Pompeo and Eliot Abrahams.

All are a bunch of Neoconservative thugs and international war criminals.

Eliot Abrahams specifically. Responsible for genocide in Nicaragua, Guatamala, El Salvador, Panama, Honduras and more.

These people need to be tried before the International Criminal Court

The U.S. Blamed Maduro, but a New Video Casts Doubt https://nyti.ms/2H85qXX

A great example of why you should question ALL AUTHORITY