by Lee Camp

Have you looked up in the sky recently? What do you see?

If you’re in Venezuela right now, you see vultures. 

As sure as the earth circles the sun, the US ruling elite will never stop trying to collapse Venezuela’s government in order to slurp at their sweet sweet oil and finally triumphantly announce “See! Socialism doesn’t work!” This week we yet again get to witness this redundant tiresome performance.

ACT I: Venezuela’s far-right opposition forces (with a lot of help from U.S. propaganda outlets) say they are going to win the election.

By Lee Camp

We increasingly live in the post inequality world. And by that, I don’t at all mean there isn’t inequality — HOLY SHIT, there’s TONS of inequality. There’s more inequality than there are fake eyelashes. In fact there’s probably more inequality than ever before. No, I mean that we increasingly live in a world that notices immense inequality about as much as we noticed when the movie Shazam: Fury of The Gods left theaters. (I had to look up the name of that movie because I also didn’t notice that it existed.) 

As covered in Peoples Dispatch, “The wealth of the world’s top five richest men has more than doubled since 2020 while 4.8 billion people, or 60% of humanity, have been further impoverished.”

by Lee Camp

This goes out to all the liberals.

If Trump were president right now would you be furious about the US-backed genocide Israel is perpetrating? 

If Trump were president right now would you be irate about the fact the administration has done nearly nothing about climate crisis? 

If Trump were president right now would you scream obscenities over the fact that 43 million Americans have student loan debt and the Biden Administration has managed to erase it for a whopping 1/4th of 1% of those struggling people? 

If Trump were president, would you care that the US government can’t provide good healthcare to millions of Americans?

If Trump were president right now would you have your undies in a twist over the US government spending more on military than the bottom 170 countries combined — and spending more every year no matter how much the Pentagon proclaims they have no idea where the money is going?