Elpidio Valdes

Politics

Capital, Labor, and Social Movements

Force Alone Maintained Him, Force Alone Overthrows Him

The Ruling Elite And Their Thoughts

How May Day Is Celebrated in the U.S.

The Conservative Manifesto

Elites Explain Why Class Warfare is Good for Productivity

The US Federal Reserve and Class Warfare

Rousseau’s Social Contract

Why Socialism? by Albert Einstein

Henry George: Progress and Poverty

The Iron Law of Oligarchy by Robert Michels

Rosa Luxemburg vs. The Bolsheviks

The Christian Communist Manifesto

The One Constant in Communist, Capitalist, and/or Liberal Democratic Societies

Heilbroner: Capitalism vs. Communism

The United States Crusade Against Communism is a Campaign Against Development

Conservative Laura Ingraham on the Importance of Adam Smith and the Federalist Papers

A Summary of “The Great Leveler” by Walter Scheidel

The Economic Theory Based Entirely on Sentimental Hope – Smith vs. Ricardo

Karl Marx, the American Worker, and the Natural Rise of Socialist Movements

Adam Smith’s Division of Labor – “stupid and ignorant as it is possible for a human creature to become”

Excerpts from the Manifesto of the Communist Party

Wage Slavery: A Quick History

Defending the Welfare State: “Expanding The Floor Of The Cage”

Will the Real Adam Smith Please Stand Up!

Classical Politics

Aristotle on Oligarchy vs Democracy

Plato on the Evils of a “Government Resting on a Valuation of Property”

Aristotle on the Inequality of Property

Corporate Power

Berle on The Modern Corporation

Exxon Lobbyist Caught On Video Talking Freely On How They Work Washington

Milton Friedman on the Social Responsibility of Business – To Increase its Profits!

Examples of the Inherent Corrupt Nature of Corporations

Under Oath, Apple Lies to the World About Paying Taxes

HSBC, the US Justice Department, and the War on Drugs

Citigroup’s Plutonomy Memo: “There are rich consumers, and there are the rest”

Supra-Governments – “The Most Powerful Force on Earth”

Confirmed: Tobacco Companies Sell Addiction, Not Tobacco

Confirmed: Exxon Lies to the World About Climate Change

Noam Chomsky on How Businesses Sought to Destroy the Democratic Movements of the 1960s

The Powell Memo: A Call-to-Arms for Corporations

The Powell Memo – Full Transcript

List of Bank Fraud and Criminal Activities

10 Companies Profiting Most From War

Cuba

Patria y Vida – Cuban Exile Terrorism

Castro and Revolutionary Justice

Cuban Embargo and the Hippocratic Oath

José Martí vs. the United States

Cuba and U.S. Interests in Latin America

Fear and Loathing of Fidel Castro: Sources of US Policy Towards Cuba

Politicizing Hunger: Roots of the Cuban Embargo

Cuba’s “Successful Defiance” of US Hemispheric Power

Robert Kennedy Orders “Terrors of the Earth” for Cuba

Marco Rubio: Welfare for me and my people, not you!

The Week the World Stood Still: The Cuban Missile Crisis and Ownership of the World

Discussion on the Cuban Five

The US Embargo Against Cuba – A Detailed Analysis

Cuba in the Cross-Hairs: A Near Half-Century of Terror

The Real History of Cuba

Luis Posada Carriles: Redefining Terrorism

Domestic Affairs

Nazis As Far As The Eye Can See

Nixon: “The press is the enemy. The professors are the enemy.”

Reagan on College Tuition

Communism = Constitutional rights, free speech, & a free press

Kennedy: “We have only status quo to offer these people. Commies can offer change.”

“Pure Democracies Are Not The Way To Run A Country”

Chief Justice Warren Burger and the “Fraud” of the Second Amendment

Bush Confesses to “Unjustified and Brutal Invasion of Iraq”

American Nazis

Smedley Butler: “War is a Racket”

Democracy Will Not Be Tolerated In This Country. Period!

“We’re Not A Democracy” – US Senator

Eleanor Roosevelt: “We will all go ahead together, or we will all go down together”

The FHA and Government Sponsored Racial Discrimination

Kennedy: “I’m Not That Interested in Space”

How Scholars Loath Democracy, Freedom, and the Common Man

Weyrich: If We Stop Them From Voting, We Win!

Dewey on the “Shadow Cast on Society by Big Business”

Ithiel de Sola Pool and Society’s Need for “Apathy”, “Passivity”, and “Defeatism”

COINTELPRO: The FBI vs. the “New Left”

COINTELPRO: The FBI vs. the Black Liberation Movement

U.S. Supreme Court: Republicans – 20, Democrats – 8

America: The “Indispensable Nation”

The Electoral College – A Power Move by the Slave-Owning Elite Class

Justice Scalia on the Historical Reasons for an Armed Militia

John Rawls and the Veil of Ignorance: A Thought Experiment on Fairness

FDR and the Purge of Progressive Candidates from the Democratic Party

Medium Income and Poverty in the United States

The 9.9% – The New American Aristocracy

The Great Gatsby Curve

Slave Masters: A Quick Note on the First Aristocracy of the U.S.

James Baldwin on the White Man’s Necessity for a Nigger

A Timeline of Violence During the Civil Rights Movement

How America Disapproved of MLK

MLK and the Myth of Time

Confirmed: DNC Had The Right To Rig 2016 Primary

The Real Anti-Semitism According to the Anti-Defamation League

Daniel Ellsberg Reveals Actual Nuclear War Plans

The Color of Money: Black Banks and the Racial Wealth Gap

Moving toward two societies, one black, one white — separate and unequal

10 Principles of Concentration of Wealth and Power

Key Takeaways from Trump and the 2016 Presidential Election

How the Luxuries of Modern Life Breed Political Tribes

Confirmed: “States Rights” = “Nigger, Nigger, Nigger” – The Use of Coded Racism in the Modern GOP.

Confirmed: Voting Restrictions Key to Republican Electoral Success

Confirmed: War on Drugs Targets Black America

Gun Control: Three Unorthodox Arguments in Support of a Better World

On Heroism: Forced Troop Worship & Compulsory Patriotism

Modern Republicanism and its Liberal Forefathers

“The Problem is Civil Obedience” – Howard Zinn

The U.S. Civil War and the 2012 Presidential Election: A Relation?

Affluence and Influence: Economic Inequality and Political Power in America

The Crisis of Democracy: Report on the Governability of Democracies to the Trilateral Commission

Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (Obamacare) EXPLAINED!

Polyarchy: A Quick Definition

Celebrating the Revolution of Martin Luther King, Jr.

Democracy: what it is, isn’t, and what it should be

The Founding Fathers

John Adams: Democracy Leads to “Anarchy and Tyranny”

Jefferson: Use Debt to Steal Indian Land

Thomas Jefferson on the Supreme Court

Jefferson on Refreshing the Tree of Liberty

The Founding Fathers vs. the “Dangerous Influence of Those Multitudes Without Property”

U.S. Declaration of Independence on the “Merciless Indian Savages”

Madison: Why the Powerful Should Obey the Law

John Adams on the “Greatest Political Evil”

John Adams On Reasons for Restricting Democracy

The True Purpose of the US Senate

Jefferson: Create Paradise by Taxing the Rich

Jefferson on Wage Slavery

Jefferson on the Inequality of Property

James Madison’s Ideas on Protecting the Opulent Minority Against the Tyranny of the Majority

“The People Who Own The Country Ought To Govern It” – The Democracy of our Forefathers.

International Affairs

President Carter on “Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid”

Kennan on NATO Expansion: “A Fateful Error”

NATO’s Core Business

The Defense of Saudi Arabia is Vital to the Defense of the United States

Dean Acheson on International Law

Kissinger: “Latin America is not important”

Biden: “The United States of America would have to invent an Israel to protect her interests in the region”

CIA Memo on “Communist Control of Greece”

The Truth about the U.S. Agency for International Development (AID)

Carter on Vietnam: “The Destruction Was Mutual”

Netanyahu – Leaked Home Video 2001

Wikileaks: Critical Infrastructure & Key Resources Vital to US National Security

Kissinger’s Secret Memo to Nixon on Chile

Downing Street Memo – Fixing the Facts on Iraq!

The Battle for Iran – CIA History

Jimmy Carter Admits to U.S. Willful Destruction of North Korea

How the U.S. Supported the 1964 Brazilian Military Coup

NSC 5412 – Covert Operations

Our Demagogue in South Korea

Amnesty International: Israel is an Apartheid State

Notes on NATO Expansion

Cloaking the U.S. Invasion of the Dominican Republic with Legitimacy

Timeline of U.S. Presidential Foreign Policy Doctrines

How the U.S. Supported the Argentinian “Dirty War”

The Cruelty Behind the Truman Doctrine

Alfred Mahan on National Self-Interests

Charles Hughes on National Interest and the Monroe Doctrine

Reagan and those Damn “Monkeys” from Africa

Pre-Criminals in China: Uighur Concentration Camps

U.S. Realpolitik in Latin America

When To and Not To Starve Innocent People: The U.S. versus Communist Soviet Union

The U.S. Pisses on the OAS Charter

Pentagon Papers – Gulf of Tonkin Resolution and U.S. War Aims

Confirmed: The U.S. Wants Venezuela’s Oil

U.S. Embassy 5 Point Strategy for Venezuela

Ho Chi Minh Falls for U.S. Propaganda

The Pentagon Papers – A Detailed Summary of the First Three Volumes

The Gaza Diet and Israel’s Politicization of Hunger

Patton on the Destiny of the British and Americans to Rule the World

Woodrow Wilson Teaches Democracy to Latin America

The Atlantic Charter, Propaganda, and the True Aims of the Post-War Period

Economic Charter of the Americas: “Elimination of Excessive Economic Nationalism in All Its Forms”

The CFR and the “Grand Area” in American Economic Policy

Henry Wallace and the “Century of the Common Man”

State Department Memo: Saudi Oil Constitutes a “Stupendous Source of Strategic Power”

A Literal Bird’s Eye View of the IMF and the World Bank

A Quick Overview of The Monroe Doctrine

Henry Luce and the American Century (Empire)

“Only For A Very Good Cause” – CIA Director Explains U.S. Meddling in Other Countries

The US on the “Selective Use of Violence for Propagandistic Effects”

World Court: U.S. is Guilty of International Terrorism

Confirmed: State Department Labels Human Rights as “Obstacles”

Pentagon Papers – The True Reason for the Vietnam War

U.S. Policy in Latin America: Dictatorships over Democracies

The Long History of US Meddling in Foreign Elections

The United States and the ICC: An Alarming Declaration to the World

Grand Imperial Strategy: How the Council on Foreign Relations Carefully Planned the Policies of Modern-day Imperialism

Israel’s Role in Containing “Irresponsible and Radical Elements in Certain Arab States”

Who Owns the World?

What We’ve Learned from WikiLeaks

Middle Eastern Oil: One of the Greatest Material Prizes in World History!

The Greatest Threat to World Peace?

Pentagon study: ‘Irrational’ Nuclear Policy a Deterrent

58 Things We’ve Learned About the NSA

The Kennan Memo – The Vague and Unreal Objectives of US Foreign Policy

Who Controls the World? – A Study on the Complexities of the Global Financial System

Obama vs. Abdulelah Haider Shaye

Drones: Terrifying Civilians, Empowering Militants – A statement by Fereak al-Muslimi

Rios Montt and Ronald Reagan

Palestinian Loss of Land 1946-2010

On The Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations of 1961

Palestine 2012 — Gaza and the UN resolution

Understanding the Palestinian-Israeli Conflict: The Future

Understanding the Palestinian-Israeli Conflict: Looking Backwards

Understanding the Palestinian-Israeli Conflict: Recent History

Understanding the Palestinian-Israeli Conflict: The Other Players

Understanding the Palestinian-Israeli Conflict: The Crisis

In Pictures: Supporting Democracy, American Style! – How the United States Supports Brutal and Oppresive Dictators Around the World.

U.S. Military Bases Around the World

Who Has The Oil?

U.S. Foreign Economic and Military Aid by Major Recipient Country: 2001 – 2009

The Eagle and the Lion: The Tragedy of American-Iranian Relations

Plan Colombia by Noam Chomsky

On the U.S. List of State Sponsored Terrorism

The Charade of Israeli-Palestinian Talks

No Justice, No Peace: A Speech by Dahlia Wasfi

Nicaragua: The First Real American Coup

War is Not About Truth, Justice and the American Way – Lawrence Wilkerson

Map of Colonial Powers in Africa

Contours of Global Order: Domination, Instability, and Xenophobia in a Changing World

Noam Chomsky on the Egyptian Uprising and the Middle East

A Smidgen of Terror Followed by a Dash of Hypocrisy…

Propaganda

Propaganda as a Means of Protecting Corporate Power Against Democracy

Congress Denounces the “Horrors of Socialism”

FOX News: State Television and Propaganda

Ho Chi Minh Falls for U.S. Propaganda

The Atlantic Charter, Propaganda, and the True Aims of the Post-War Period

Orwell on Political Speech

Orwell on the Freedom of the Press

Democracy and Propaganda: A Timeline of Thoughts from Responsible Men

Propaganda: Eward Bernays and Harold Lasswell

Walter Lippmann – Father of Modern Journalism

Creel Committee and State Propaganda

Religion in Politics

Our Puritan Forefathers’ War on Christmas

Religion: The Original “Fake News”

The Jesus Myth and Christmas Politics

The “Christian Nation” Myth and The Treaty of Tripoli

The United Nations

U.S. Vetoes of UN Resolutions Calling for an End to the Cuban Embargo: 1992 – Present

U.S. Vetoes of UN Resolutions Critical of Israel: 1972 – Present