Articles by Roger D. Harris
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The North American Peace Movement at an Inflection Point
Roger D. Harris | Popular Resistance - TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Apr 2024
17 Apr 2024 – The North American peace movement is contesting ongoing US wars in Ukraine and Palestine and preparations for war with China. Giving peace a chance has never been more plainly understood as opposition to what Martin Luther King, Jr., referred to as “the greatest purveyor of violence in the world: my own government.”
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The Volatility of US Hegemony in Latin America (Part 1)
Roger D. Harris - TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Dec 2022
2 Dec 2022 – Latin America and the Caribbean are again taking on a pink complexion with June’s historic electoral victory in Colombia over the US-backed rightwing and a similar reverse in Brazil in October. These electoral rejections of the rightwing followed left victories last year in Peru, Honduras, and Chile. And those, in turn, came after similar routs in Bolivia in 2020, Argentina in 2019, and Mexico in 2018.
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The Volatility of US Hegemony in Latin America (Part 2)
Roger D. Harris - TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Dec 2022
3 Dec 2022 – The US has long considered Latin America and the Caribbean its “backyard” under the anachronistic 1823 Monroe Doctrine. Even though Biden mistakenly thinks that upgrading the region to “front yard” makes any difference, Yankee hemispheric hegemony is becoming increasingly volatile by a “Pink Tide” of left electoral victories.
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The Volatility of US Hegemony in Latin America (Part 3)
Roger D. Harris - TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Dec 2022
4 Dec 2022 – A surging Pink Tide has brought left electoral victories in Latin America and the Caribbean protesting the neoliberal model imposed by the US and its collaborators. Neoliberalism has failed to meet the needs of the peoples of the region and is losing its legitimacy as a prototype for development.
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Why the US Imprisoned Venezuelan Diplomat Alex Saab
Roger D. Harris - TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Oct 2022
A year ago, October 16, the long arm of US extra-territorial judicial overreach abducted Alex Saab and threw him into prison in Miami, where the Venezuelan diplomat has languished ever since.
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With Its Doomsday Clock at 100 Seconds to Midnight, The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists Calls for Escalating US Aggression against Russia
Roger D. Harris - TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Feb 2022
15 Feb 2022 – Citing the Atlantic Council, the US-based think tank for NATO, the Bulletin explains that the sanctions they advocate would cause the Russian economy to “experience significant chaos.” Instead of supporting peaceful measures in the Ukraine, it has become a cheerleader for Washington. From an organization run by scientists, the current governing board of the Bulletin has hardly a scientist in sight.
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Forbes Reveals Why the US Government Is Trying to Extradite Venezuelan Diplomat Alex Saab
Roger D. Harris - TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Oct 2021
2 Oct 2021 – Alex Saab is “the key that unlocks the Venezuelan monetary mystery—that is, how a country facing sanctions from the US, the UK and the European Union—is still able to export things like gold and oil…and really the only man who can actually explain how the country [Venezuela] survives today,” according to Forbes.
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Venezuelan Diplomat Alex Saab Fights Latest US Extradition Maneuvers
Roger D. Harris - TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Aug 2021
27 Aug 2021 – Venezuelan diplomat Alex Saab remains defiant after over 14 months under US-ordered arrest in the African archipelago country of Cabo Verde. A special envoy of the Venezuelan government, he is fighting extradition to the US for the “crime” of trying to procure humanitarian supplies of food, fuel, and medicine from Iran in violation of illegal US sanctions. To date, Saab’s legal appeals for freedom have been either denied, rejected, or ignored as his extradition to the US is becoming increasingly imminent.
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Roger D. Harris – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Mar 2021
26 Feb 2021 – The fact that the US can with impunity punish a third of humanity (39 nations) with illegal sanctions – what the UN calls unilateral coercive measures – is a measure of its hegemonic standing. These sanctions are a form of “hybrid warfare,” which can be just as deadly as outright war. Although Biden is reviewing the sanctions policy, considering the COVID-19 pandemic, he is expected to “keep using [the] US sanctions weapon but with sharper aim,” as reported by Reuters.
→ read full articleThe Trump-Biden Transition in the Wake of the Capitol Building Riot
Roger D. Harris – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Feb 2021
The Trajectory of Neoliberalism, Trends towards Fascism, and the Resistance to These – Trump may have been booted off the mainstage, but the next act promises to be worse.
→ read full articleThe US Capitol Building Riot and Its Blowback
Roger D. Harris – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Jan 2021
11 Jan 2021 – The Only Thing Scarier than QAnon Is the Reaction to It
→ read full article2020 Latin America and the Caribbean in Review: The Pink Tide May Rise Again
Roger D. Harris – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Dec 2020
24 Dec 2020 – The balance between the US drive to dominate Latin America and the Caribbean and its counterpart, the Bolivarian cause of regional independence and integration, tipped portside by year end 2020 with major popular victories, including reversal of the coup in Bolivia and the constitutional referendum in Chile.
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Changing the Washington Guard: What a Democratic Sweep in November Portends
Roger D. Harris – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Sep 2020
19 Sep 2020 – Those who complain about Trump’s bungling should understand that the Biden alternative will be a more deadly and efficient rule of capital not only for the US but worldwide. We should be careful about what we wish for.
→ read full articleThe Current Impasse in Belarus and the Peace Alternative
Roger D. Harris – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Sep 2020
8 Sep 2020 – Back in the 1970s, the left and even many liberals were clear that Nixon’s dropping napalm on Vietnamese villages was an abomination. By the 1990s, some thought Bill Clinton’s bombing of Yugoslavia was, perhaps, humanitarian. Fast forward to the present, there is sentiment that the US has a global “responsibility to protect” the less enlightened lands in the name of “democracy.” The fallacy of “humanitarian imperialism – using human rights to sell war.”
→ read full articleThe Specter of a Fascist Coup by Trump Haunts the US – There’s Worse to Worry about
Roger D. Harris – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Aug 2020
18 Aug 2020 – What remains is a political theatre of two neoliberal parties vehemently contesting matters of style and colluding on matters of substance. The two major parties concur: bail out Wall Street, renew the Patriot Act, increase the military budget, modernize the nuclear arsenal, prepare for war with China, pursue regime change in Venezuela, etc.
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Moore’s Planet of the Humans – More Misanthropic than Malthus
Roger D. Harris – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Jul 2020
Planet of the Humans is produced and promoted by Michael Moore and is free online. The underlying message of the movie, critiquing the green energy movement, is about the existential threat of human overpopulation. “Without seeing a major die-off in population, there is no turning back,” is anthropologist Steven Churchill’s gloomy prognostication.
→ read full articleBlaming the COVID-19 Pandemic on Too Many Humans–A Critique of Overpopulation Ideology
Roger D. Harris – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Jun 2020
28 May 2020 – A world gripped by a deadly virus has precipitated a deluge of punditry claiming to have found the primal cause of the pandemic. Anthony Judge, writing in Transcend Media Service, claims to have tapped into “the collective subconscious” to blame what he calls overpopulation. How well does this claim hold up?
→ read full articleBaby Boomers for Biden Recant Left Legacy
Roger D. Harris – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 May 2020
Former members of the leading Vietnam War-era peace organization in the US, Students for a Democratic Society (SDS), recently circulated an open letter warning today’s young activists to – as the adage goes – do as I say and not as I did. Back in the ‘60s and ‘70s, these former leaders led the way in opposing the ravages of US imperialism and exposing what they called the “death culture.” Today, they are admonishing the new generation not to follow in their footsteps, but to go all out for what they call the “capitalist democrat” Joe Biden.
→ read full articleTrump and Biden Trade Hit Pieces – Distinctions without a Difference
Roger D. Harris – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 May 2020
25 Apr 2020 – This season’s sequel to the Game of Thrones features reality TV star and current occupant of the Oval Office versus the former Senator from MBNA and two-term VP. The narrower the distinctions between Democrats and Republicans, the more vociferous they get in inflating those distinctions, as if a distinction were really a difference.
→ read full articleBernie Sanders Tests the Limits of the US Political System
Roger D. Harris – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Apr 2020
The Great Gray Hope has bowed out of the presidential primary race, leaving tottering Joe Biden as the last Democrat standing. What Bernie Sanders accomplished electorally was remarkable, revealing both how far a progressive can venture and the limits proscribing further advancement to the left within the Democratic Party.
→ read full articleSolidarity in a Time of Pandemic as USA Capitalizes on Disaster
Roger D. Harris – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Apr 2020
13 Apr 2020 – What we are seeing is not social distancing but people coming together… while maintaining the prescribed 6-foot physical distancing. Our enforced physical isolation has paradoxically awakened a deeper appreciation of our commonality and mutual dependence, echoed by the response of nations other than the US.
→ read full articleBeyond Chutzpah: US Charges Venezuela with Narco-Terrorism
Roger D. Harris – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Apr 2020
According to the parable, the ungrateful son takes out a life insurance policy on his parents, murders them to collect, and is caught and found guilty. At his sentencing, the judge asks if he has anything to say on his behalf. The son replies: “Have mercy upon me because I am an orphan.” That’s chutzpah. US Attorney General Barr’s indictments on March 26 against the government of Venezuela for narco-terrorism go beyond chutzpah.
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Roger D. Harris – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Mar 2020
29 Feb 2020 – US Government Suppresses Information on Illegal Regime Change Activities
→ read full articleTrump, Racism, and Fascism – More than Just Personality Disorders
Roger D. Harris – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Feb 2020
Trump has been reprehensible in pandering to white racism. But the Republicans have no monopoly on this franchise. We should remember the legacy of Jim Crow and Dixiecrat Democrats in high office including six US senators and two Supreme Court justices who were members of the Ku Klux Klan. FDR, arguably the most liberal US president and a Democrat, force relocated and incarcerated in concentration camps 120,000 Japanese Americans, including orphaned children and people with as little as 1/16th Japanese ancestry.
→ read full articleThe Imminent Threat of Trump and the Value of Progressive Third Parties
Roger D. Harris – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Feb 2020
29 Jan 2020 – As predictable as death and taxes is the quadrennial injunction from liberals for progressive third parties to cease and desist. Trump is the hook; the Dems are the bait. Don’t swallow it and get reeled in by the two-party duopoly. A better world is possible.
→ read full articleNow Three Years into the Reign of Trump, What’s Left? Class Trumps Partisan Differences
Roger D. Harris – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Jan 2020
22 Jan 2020 – The campaigns of Bernie Sanders and Tulsi Gabbard, and before them Occupy, point to a popular insurgency. Mass protests of the dispossessed are rocking France, India, Colombia, Chile, and perhaps here soon.
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Roger D. Harris – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Nov 2019
6 Nov 2019 – The Sierra Club–long a retrograde proponent of saving the planet by driving a Tesla, eating wild caught salmon, and voting blue–took positive environmental leadership with their end of the year issue of the Sierra magazine. Stating it is “time to fix the population fixation,” they examine the interactions of population, climate change, and inequality.
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‘The Management of Savagery’: Greater Middle East Project of Chaos
Roger D. Harris – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Oct 2019
19 Oct 2019 – Max Blumenthal’s ‘The Management of Savagery’ provides a cogent explanation for the US wars in Afghanistan, Iraq, Somalia, Sudan, Yemen, Libya, and Syria with Iran on the to-do list. Savagery reads like a real-life whodunit tracing the shadowy back channels of the CIA, FBI, DIA, and NSA piping jihadists around the greater Middle East to create chaos only to find their assets turning against them. Besides being well written, the analysis of the maturation of the neoliberal imperial project by the world’s sole remaining superpower illuminates the current bi-partisan consensus for militarism.
→ read full articleWhy Trump Is Facing Impeachment
Roger D. Harris – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Oct 2019
There are higher callings than merely winning the presidency for good servants of the empire. But would Trump have been so compliant? Maybe not. So, impeachment is in order to either chasten him to faithful obedience or get rid of him.
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On the Road to Damascus: International Conference in Syria on Sanctions and Its Blowback
Roger D. Harris – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Sep 2019
20 Sep 2019 – Security-wise, it was a lot easier to get into the presidential palace to meet with Syrian President Bashar al-Assad than it is to take a commuter plane from San Francisco to Los Angeles. The president individually greeted each one of us as we entered. He thanked a German delegate for his country’s acceptance of Syrian refugees.
→ read full articleVenezuela Building Socialism in the Midst of a War: Report from the Left Forum
Roger D. Harris – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Jul 2019
5 Jul 2019 – The U.S. is currently unilaterally sanctioning not only Venezuela but also some 30 other countries. The increasing danger of major power confrontation and consequently of world war urgently calls for building a unified movement against militarism, because only a peace movement within the U.S. can overcome this war mongering.
→ read full articleReading Reuters between the Lines: Why the US Puppet President of Venezuela Is Toast
Roger D. Harris – MintPress News,
8 Jul 2019
4 Jul 2019 – A critical reading between the lines of a Reuters article confirms that Washington has failed to cobble together a united opposition in Venezuela that is popular enough to win in the polls, likely signaling the end for Juan Guaidó.
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Venezuela’s Bolivarian Revolution in the Crosshairs of US Imperialism
Roger D. Harris – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Jun 2019
7 Jun 2019 – Hugo Chávez was elected president and initiated what has become known as the Bolivarian Revolution, which has inspired the peoples of the world while engendering the enmity of both the US imperialists and the Venezuelan elites. This article explores the contributions, shortcomings, and lessons of the Bolivarian Revolution’s two decades, in the context of the US regime-change efforts from its inception to current attempts by the US to install the unelected Juan Guaidó as Venezuela’s president.
→ read full articleVenezuela: Amnesty International in Service of Empire
Roger D. Harris – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 May 2019
18 May 2019 – AI fails to put its claims against the Maduro government in the context of a concerted regime-change campaign. The US is waging an illegal war against Venezuela and AI’s broadside leaves out this inconvenient fact, even omitting any mention of sanctions. This is not the first time AI has shown an imperial bias as it has regarding US-backed regime-change projects in Iraq, Libya, Syria, and Nicaragua.
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