In the eight months since Donald Trump has been the President of the United States of America, he has intervened militarily in the nations of Iraq, Syria, Afghanistan, Somalia, Yemen, and the Philippines. And he has threatened the nations of Iran and North Korea with outright war. That makes eight nations that President Trump has militarily intervened in or threatened with war. Now the South American nation of Venezuela makes the ninth country President Trump has threatened with war.
Recently President Trump threatened the sovereign nation of Venezuela with military invasion because the government of Venezuelan President, Nicolas Maduro, has instituted a new congress despite U.S.’s imposition of economic sanctions. In response to President Trump’s interventionist imposition of economic sanctions, Venezuelan Foreign Minister Samuel Moncada has said, “Venezuelans are free and will unite against the insolent threat from a xenophobic and racist [American] government… [and] against the United States’ brutal interventionist efforts.”
The South American nation of 30 million has been racked by intense protests which broke out after President Maduro insisted that a new constitution was needed to restore peace, stop the opposition from carrying out a coup d’etat, and rid the country of social and economic woes.
Earlier President Trump said he would take “strong and swift economic actions” if President Maduro continued with the new assembly that could rewrite Venezuela’s constitution and supercede other institutions. And now that President Maduro has established a new assembly and is rewriting Venezuela’s constitution, President Trump now says he will militarily intervene in Venezuela. Whatever happened to the economic sanctions President Trump promised?
It’s apparent to nearly everyone that President Trump is at war with the world. He has thrown U.S. diplomacy out the window in his belief that the U.S. military can solve all international issues. The question that must be asked about President Trump now is how long will it be before President Trump drags America into another major war that he can call his own? How many new wars will President Trump have America fighting before his four-year term has ended? And how long before we see mushroom clouds above the cities of Tehran and Pyongyang?
From the Belly of the Beast, at Prison Radio, I am Shakaboona.
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![Prison Radio is sharing an abbreviated version of a press release covering recent racist incidents at SCI Rockview in PA and the organizing to demand accountability. We are reaching out to people incarcerated at Rockview as well as recently transferred folks, inviting them to call, in hopes of hearing commentaries from them.
Benner Township, PA.-
On November 24th, 2023, imprisoned people at SCI Rockview found two nooses hanging in the CO’s office, displayed visibly for many prisoners to see. When the prisoners asked the staff why the nooses were hung, they were told it was a joke.
By December 4th, prisoners filed a grievance to document what they saw, noting that the hanging of the nooses was “unethical, racially motivated, hateful, [a] deliberate debasement of black inmates" and “unsafe for inmates, staff, [and] the whole prison in general.” In the grievance, they demanded that Sgt. Mosser and CO Richard be fired and investigated for a hate crime, and for CO Kirchner to get therapy. Captain Andrews, the head of security, denied the grievance.
The sergeant and COs are still working in the prison to this day, with no repercussions...
As of March 10th, prisoners have reached out to Pennsylvania officials at the Dept. of Corrections in a letter campaign, sending 100 copies of the grievance. Copies of the letter also were mailed to Governor Shapiro, Senator Fetterman, Senator Street, and various advocacy groups. The demands for relief in the original grievance have now become the platform of demands for this campaign. About 20 of the 100 letters were withheld by the prison.
Activists on the outside are joining forces with prisoners to elevate their demands, flooding the phone lines of DOC offices, assisting with outreach to media, and circulating the stories of prisoners who have found unity in opposition to the facility's virulent institutional racism.
In any other workplace, hanging a noose would be grounds for immediate termination. However, Nicki Paul, the superintendent's assistant and "grievance coordinator" informed the public that they self-investigated their staff and found they did nothing wrong.
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