Author: Luis Fleischman

Bernie Sanders Isn’t Promoting Social Safety Net, But Leninism

In a Hill opinion piece published last month, Lanny Davis dismissed fears over Sen. Bernie Sanders’ radical social agenda, and particularly the idea of socialism. by claiming that Sanders’ socio-economic model is nothing more than a model of Scandinaviana Keynesian welfare state based on high taxation and redistribution of national resources.

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Trump’s Mideast Plan a Major Breakthrough But Risky

Seven months after proposing the economic plan for the solution of the Palestinian/Israeli conflict, the Trump administration presented a political plan — one which is substantially different than the previous ones and to a certain extent revolutionary.

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Venezuela’s Instability Merits Reevaluation of US Strategy

The United States must reevaluate its policy towards Venezuela.

A unified international coalition of the Organization for American States (OAS) and a group of Latin American countries backing sanctions and the isolation of Venezuela, combined with social protests and a finally unified opposition under the leadership of Juan Guaido, has generated anxiety and defection within the Venezuelan state apparatus.

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