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Trump and the real troika of tyranny — Bolton, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and U.S. envoy for Venezuela Elliott Abrams — have failed in their coup attempt against the democratically elected Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro.

U.S.-backed Venezuelan opposition leader Juan Guaidó launched an attempted coup. Dozens of people were injured in the bedlam that ensued. Guadió was hoping enough military leaders would defect, toppling the government of Nicolás Maduro. It flopped.

Reader Comments: Eyewitness Reports from Caracas, Venezuela; Impeachment debate; Anita Hill; Ilhan Omar; Higher Minimum Wage; Walt Whitman; Pete Seeger Tribute; Hubble Measurements; Racism and Women's Suffrage; lots of Announcements and more....

Opposing rallies in Venezuela, May Day in Europe, unions send a message to Spanish Socialist Party, reports from all over.

Activists protest war criminal Elliot Abrams' affiliation with Washington DC’s Holocaust Museum in the wake of his appointment as special envoy to Venezuela

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The United States is taking illegal and dangerous actions to execute regime change in Venezuela. In January, Juan Guaidó declared himself “interim president,” in a strategy orchestrated by the United States to seize power from President Maduro.

Reader Comments: Martin Luther King Remembered; Military Budget; Reparations; Progressive Candidates; Taking Care of Amazon and Foxconn; Puerto Rico; Mozambique; Brexit; Venezuela; Resources; Lots of Announcements; and more...

Reader Comments: Preparing for 2020 - Unity, Challenge, Take Power; Mueller, Barr Cover-Up; Trump Gift to Military; Worker Struggles- Chicago Symphony, Amazon, UIC, Tipped Workers; Brexit; Venezuela; Cuba; New Resources; Announcements; lots more....