Nicolás Maduro pleaded not guilty to US drugs and weapons charges on Monday and insisted he is still president of Venezuela after being captured by American forces over the weekend.
By Joshua Scheer Nicolás Maduro, Venezuela’s embattled president, declared himself a kidnapped head of state Monday as he pleaded not guilty to U.S. drug trafficking charges—reviving long-standing debates over Washington’s use of criminal prosecutions to justify regime change. A defiant Nicolás Maduro declared himself “the president of my country” in a U.S. federal courtroom Monday, […]
Mehdi and Prem break down the fallout from Trump’s hypocritical and illegal foreign policy move – and what comes next.
Many US lawmakers have remained mum about the attack on Venezuela, despite international condemnation.
“You cannot continue to have the largest energy reserves in the world under the control of adversaries,” Waltz said.
The Arizona senator described the action as an attack on servicemembers and a violation of his speech rights.
Comic books have a long history of serving as political propaganda. The United Electrical, Radio, and Machine Workers published Chug-Chug to explain the benefits of trade unionism and collective bargaining agreements. The Fellowship of Reconciliation put out Martin Luther King and the Montgomery Story as a means to educate readers on the civil rights movement and nonviolent resistance. Julian Bond and T.G. Lewis’s Vietnam: An Antiwar Comic Book laid out reasons to oppose Uncle Sam’s imperial adventure in Southeast Asia.