W. T. Whitney Jr.
LATEST ARTICLES BY W. T. Whitney Jr.
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News
Peru ranks oil production over pandemic threat and Indigenous rights
July 9, 2020The capitalist Peruvian state is in shambles. It didn’t prepare to meet the pandemic and long ago cast its population adrift.
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World
U.S. blockade, domestic supply system inefficiencies bring food insecurity for Cubans
July 7, 2020Food availability is the top concern of 21% of Cubans, reflecting the shortages promoted by the U.S. blockade and the shortcomings of the domestic supply system.
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Opinion
U.S. must return political prisoner Simón Trinidad to Colombia
June 24, 2020Simón Trinidad, a leader of the FARC, faced unfounded criminal charges in a U.S. court. He’s being held under the cruelest of conditions and will die in prison unless he is released.
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Opinion
Economic collapse and unemployment councils – then and now
June 19, 2020Hunger, homelessness, and evictions were features of the Great Depression in the United States.
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World
New U.S. military intervention subverts peace in Colombia and Venezuela
June 5, 2020U.S. troops on the way to Colombia, officially to fight narco-terrorism. But the threat to Venezuela can't be ignored.
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World
U.S. hand in recent assaults on Cuba, Venezuela
May 12, 2020Those two countries put people and people’s basic needs first. They exemplify an alternative to U.S. purposes.
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World
Venezuela confronts intimidation, myth-making, and dirty war
May 6, 2020Venezuela’s story currently is one of vulnerability and precariousness amidst signs of rising U.S. aggression.
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Opinion
Pandemic Story: Failures, forebodings, signs of solidarity
April 29, 2020A great hazard looms. Under duress and as chaos mounts, capital may find it useful to revert to the extremist, even brutal, measures figuring in its past.
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