The US State Department and the Venezuelan right-wing have gone into overdrive in a concerted effort to discredit Venezuela’s July 28 election. Nicolas Maduro was officially declared the winner with 51.2% of the vote, but the US-backed opposition continues to claim fraud, and are declaring Edmundo Gonzalez as the winner. Zoe Alexandra, co-editor of Peoples Dispatch, who observed the election in Caracas, describes the mass mobilizations in support of Maduro that corporate media won’t cover and her observations of the voting process.
Yanis Varoufakis On 23rd October, Yanis Varoufakis testified in front of the Jury of Conscience in the context of the Gaza Tribunal. His speech focused on the economic forces underpinning the genocide of the Palestinian people. In particular, he spoke on the manner in which capitalist dynamics have historically fuelled the white settler colonial project and, more recently, how the accumulation of a new form of capital - which he calls cloud capital - has accelerated, deepened and amplified the economic forces powering and propelling the machinery of genocide.
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