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Attorney General Eric Schneiderman said that his office’s case against Trump has nothing to do with the billionaire’s presidential run.

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Attorney General Eric Schneiderman said that his office’s case against Trump has nothing to do with the billionaire’s presidential run.

New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman on Sunday rejected suggestions that his office’s case against presidential candidate Donald Trump’s defunct “Trump University” was at all political.
“This is a straightforward fraud case. We never had any idea in 2013 the guy was going to run for president,” Schneiderman said on John Catsimatidis’ “Cats Roundtable” program on AM 970. “This is not a political case. This just a case where a lot of New Yorkers were ripped off.”
“There were thousands of folks who thought they were going to learn from real estate experts who were handpicked by Trump and that they would learn his personal secrets,” Schneiderman said. “Thousands of people (who) paid as much as $35,000 to $45,000.”
Schneiderman’s office filed suit against the now shuttered school in August 2013 after getting almost 70 complaints from students who said they were deceived into paying thousands of dollars for investment advising services they never received after getting lured in for “free” seminars.
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A flyer advertising “Trump University.”

A flyer advertising “Trump University.”

But after years of stalled litigation, a state appeals court last month gave a green light to the civil fraud claim against the GOP front-runner and his former education business.
In a unanimous ruling, a four-judge panel of the state Appellate Division said the state attorney general’s office was “authorized to bring a cause of action for fraud.”
Schneiderman had charged Trump University, which operated between 2004 and 2010, was a scam that ripped off its students. Through “their deceptive and unlawful practices, (Trump and the school) intentionally misled over 5,000 individuals nationwide, including over 600 New Yorkers, into paying as much as $35,000 each to participate in live seminars and mentorship programs with the promise of learning Donald Trump’s real estate investing techniques,” the AG’s office said.
Lawyers for Trump and his now-defunct school had contended that the suit should be tossed, pointing to a statute of limitations they say expired.
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Saturday, March 19, 2016

Luis-Manuel Miranda: In the room where it happens

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In the room where it happens

Lin-Manuel Miranda, the creator of "Hamilton," spent this week making headlines in Washington. But he's not new to politics.
by MARK CHIUSANO
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It was a particularly political week for Lin-Manuel Miranda, creator and star of the blockbuster musical "Hamilton."
Miranda was in Washington to perform at the White House. While in town, he met with Treasury Secretary Jack Lew, later tweeting that Lew said "you're going to be very happy" with the new $10 bill. That tweet brought a surge of attention to the proposed redesigned currency, which treasury hopes can include a woman's portrait for the first time without angering Hamilton supporters.
He also lent his support to a bill providing bankruptcy protection to debt-strapped Puerto Rico, standing alongside members of Congress and another political force: his father.

Meet me inside

Luis A. Miranda, Jr. isn't just a supporting character in an epic toast from his son's wedding. He is a longtime powerbroker in New York.
A founder of the political consultancy MirRam Group, the elder Miranda has been on all sides of the political ecosystem: An adviser to Mayor Ed Koch; an early contributor to the campaigns of Sen. Chuck Schumer, Hillary Clinton, and Fernando Ferrer; and a founder of the Hispanic Federation, an advocacy and social services group.
Luis Miranda says he can't remember a time when he wasn't involved in politics, dating to his time in Puerto Rico. And in Puerto Rico, all politics is tinged by an ultimate, portentous decision, says Miranda. You're casting a vote on Puerto Rico's future: Independence, commonwealth, or statehood.
In America, that's a Civil War- or American Revolution-era choice, which his son captures so well in "Hamilton."
Miranda says that upon arriving in America it took him a while to find his place in the Democrat-Republican divide. Since then, he's been engaged in "politics with a big P" —mostly electoral campaigns.
Angelo Falcón, founder of the National Institute for Latino Policy and another mainstay of the NYC political scene, says he's been "busting his chops" for years and has had disagreements with Miranda's political choices, but says he respects Miranda's establishing a "real powerhouse" political consultancy in MirRam group.
Falcón remembers the father-son team when Lin-Manuel was a kid, and he appreciates that now, the Hamilton creator remains engaged in political issues.
"What's happening in Puerto Rico is a humanitarian crisis," says Falcón — an issue that goes "beyond politics" and necessitates involvement from the wider community, particularly artists. "Sometimes we don't see our artists speaking out as much as they should."

History has its eyes on you

Lin-Manuel is an exception to that unfortunate rule. He has been steeped in local politics from an early age — he wrote the music for political jingles for some of his father's campaign work, including Ferrer and Eliot Spitzer. He was adept at ensuring that the "intended audience was identified in the music," says his father — a light salsa touch, for example.
Today he "reads like a madman" and "can talk to you about what happened in the debate last night." Though he's inevitably performing during the debates, he devours coverage. But politics was never what he wanted to do. "My son has never been a very political person" — as in big p Politics, says Miranda.
Lin-Manuel has become comfortable advancing political causes important to him, his father says, noting artists like Marc Anthony or those who boycotted the Oscars who have done the same.
The elder Miranda makes a distinction between his and Lin-Manuel's advocacy in the morning and the afternoon on the D.C. trip. Tuesday started by addressing media and supporters, already receptive to their cause. Later, they met quietly in Senate offices where they weren't always preaching to the choir.
In a meeting with amateur violinist Sen. Orrin Hatch, they discussed music before moving on to Puerto Rico, Lin-Manuel adding his "perspective from a personal view," his father says.
The younger Miranda is learning how to use his celebrity to advance selective causes: "He's not going to be in the room negotiating," his father says. Instead he's figuring out what he can "realistically do to move the conversation."
In other words, learning to have an impact whether or not he's in the room where it happens.
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Monday, March 14, 2016

Trump's Not Hitler, He's Mussolini: How GOP Anti-Intellectualism Created a Modern Fascist Movement in America



Donald Trump. (photo: Ethan Miller/Getty Images)
Fedja Buric, Salon
Buric writes: "In an interview with Slate, the historian of fascism Robert Paxton warns against describing Donald Trump as fascist because 'it's almost the most powerful epithet you can use.' But in this case, the shoe fits. And here is why."
By Fedja Buric, Salon
13 March 16
 
n an interview with Slate, the historian of fascism Robert Paxton warns against describing Donald Trump as fascist because “it’s almost the most powerful epithet you can use.” But in this case, the shoe fits. And here is why.
Like Mussolini, Trump rails against intruders (Mexicans) and enemies (Muslims), mocks those perceived as weak, encourages a violent reckoning with those his followers perceive as the enemy within (the roughing up of protesters at his rallies), flouts the rules of civil political discourse (the Megyn Kelly menstruation spat), and promises to restore the nation to its greatness not by a series of policies, but by the force of his own personality (“I will be great for” fill in the blank).
To quote Paxton again, this time from his seminal “The Anatomy of Fascism”: “Fascist leaders made no secret of having no program.” This explains why Trump supporters are not bothered by his ideological malleability and policy contradictions: He was pro-choice before he was pro-life; donated to politicians while now he rails against that practice; married three times and now embraces evangelical Christianity; is the embodiment of capitalism and yet promises to crack down on free trade. In the words of the Italian writer Umberto Eco, fascism was “a beehive of contradictions.” It bears noting that Mussolini was a socialist unionizer before becoming a fascist union buster, a journalist before cracking down on free press, a republican before becoming a monarchist.
Like Mussolini, Trump is dismissive of democratic institutions. He selfishly guards his image of a self-made outsider who will “dismantle the establishment” in the words of one of his supporters. That this includes cracking down on a free press by toughening libel laws, engaging in the ethnic cleansing of 11 million people (“illegals”), stripping away citizenship of those seen as illegitimate members of the nation (children of the “illegals”), and committing war crimes in the protection of the nation (killing the families of suspected terrorists) only enhances his stature among his supporters. The discrepancy between their love of America and these brutal and undemocratic methods does not bother them one iota. To borrow from Paxton again: “Fascism was an affair of the gut more than of the brain.” For Trump and his supporters, the struggle against “political correctness” in all its forms is more important than the fine print of the Constitution.
To be fair, there are many differences between Italian Fascism of interwar Europe and Trumpism of (soon to be) post-Obama America. For one, Mussolini was better read and more articulate than Trump. Starting out as a schoolteacher, the Italian Fascist read voraciously and was heavily influenced by the German and French philosophers Friedrich Nietzsche and Jean-Marie Guyau, respectively. I doubt Trump would know who either of these two people were. According to the Boston Globe, Trump speaks at the level of a fourth grader.
There are other more consequential differences, of course: the interwar Italy was a much bigger mess than the USA is today; the democratic institutions of this country are certainly more resilient and durable than those of the young unstable post-World War I Italy; the economy, both U.S. and worldwide, is not in the apocalyptic state it was in the interwar period; and the demographics of the USA mitigate against the election of a racist demagogue. So, Trump’s blackshirts are not marching on Washington, yet.
Also, as a historian I have learned to beware of historical analogies and generally eschew them whenever I can, particularly when it comes to an ideology that during World War II caused the deaths of 60 million human beings. The oversaturation of our discourse with Hitler comparisons is not only exasperating for any historian, but is offensive to the memory of Hitler’s many victims most notably the six million Jews his regime murdered in cold blood.
Finally, rather than explaining it, historical analogies often distort the present, sometimes with devastating consequences. The example that comes to mind is the Saddam-is-like-Hitler analogy many in the George W. Bush administration used to justify the U.S. invasion of Iraq, which was an unmitigated disaster. The overuse, or misuse, of a historical analogy can also make policy makers more hesitant to act with equally disastrous consequences: the prime examples are Bosnia and Rwanda in the 1990s when the West attributed their inaction to stop the slaughter in each country by arguing that these massacres were “not like the Holocaust.”
Thus, for a historical analogy to be useful to us, it has to advance our understanding of the present. And the Trumpism-Fascism axis (pun intended) does this in three ways: it explains the origins of Trump the demagogue; it enables us to read the Trump rally as a phenomenon in its own right; and it allows those of us who are unequivocally opposed to hate, bigotry, and intolerance, to rally around an alternative, equally historical, program: anti-fascism.
The Very Fascist Origins of Trumpism
That white supremacist groups back Donald Trump for president of the United States, and his slowness to disavow the support of David Duke, all illuminate the fascistic origins of Trump the phenomenon. In fact, Paxton acknowledges that while Fascism began in France and Italy, “the first version of the Klan in the defeated American south was arguably a remarkable preview of the way fascist movements were to function in interwar Europe.” That the KKK was drawn to the Trump candidacy, and that he refused to disavow them speak volumes about his fascistic roots.
Like Fascism, Trumpism has come about on the heels of a protracted period of ideological restlessness. Within the Republican Party this restlessness has resulted in a complete de-legitimization of the so-called GOP establishment.
Benito Mussolini came to the scene in the 1920s at a time when all the known “isms” of the time had lost their mojos. Conservatism, which since the French Revolution had been advocating for monarchy, nobility, and tradition, was dealt a devastating blow by the First World War, which destroyed four major empires (Ottoman, Austro-Hungarian, Russian, and German), made universal male suffrage (mostly) the norm, and eliminated a generation of aristocrats. Although initially seen as victorious, liberalism, in its emphasis on equality, constitutions, parliaments, and civil debates, quickly proved unable to solve the mammoth problems facing Europe after the war. To the millions of unemployed, angry, and hungry Europeans, the backroom politicking and obscure party debates seemed petty at best, and deserving of destruction at worst. Shoving millions of Europeans into nation-states they saw as alien to their ethnicity created huge minority problems and sparked irredentist movements including fascists and their many copycats. The success of Lenin’s Bolsheviks in Russia and their protracted, terrifying, civil war made Communism unpalatable for most Europeans.
Enter Fascism. Fascism promised people deliverance from politics. Fascism was not just different type of politics, but anti-politics. On the post-WWI ruins of the Enlightenment beliefs in progress and essential human goodness, Fascism embraced emotion over reason, action over politics. Violence was not just a means to an end, but the end in itself because it brought man closer to his true inner nature. War was an inevitable part of this inner essence of man. Millions of European men had found this sense of purpose and camaraderie in the trenches of the First World War and were not going to sit idly by while politicians took it away from them after the war (famously, after the war Hitler was slow to demobilize and take off his uniform). Fascists’ main enemies were not just Marxist politicians, or liberal politicians, but politicians in general.
It is therefore no coincidence that the most common explanation Trump supporters muster when asked about their vote is that “he is no politician.” Trump did not invent this anti-politics mood, but he tamed it in accordance with his own needs. Ever since the election of Barack Obama the Republicans have refused to co-govern. Senator Mitch McConnell’s vow that his main purpose would be to deny the president a second term was only the first of many actions by which the Republicans have retreated from politics. The Tea Party wave meant an absolute refusal to compromise on even the most essential issues, which were central to the economic survival of the government if not the entire country (the Debt ceiling fiasco anyone?!). But since then it has gotten worse: now even the establishment Republicans who had been initially demonized by the Tea Party, such as Mitch McConnell, have openly abrogated their own constitutional powers by refusing to exercise them. This has been most evident in their blanket refusal to even hold a hearing for a Scalia replacement on the Supreme Court. In other words, the Republicans themselves, not Trump, broke politics.
The anti-intellectualism of Trump has also been a long time in the making. It was the Republican establishment that has for decades refused to even consider the science of climate change and has through local education boards strove to prevent the teaching of evolution. Although not as explicit as the Fascists were in their efforts to use the woman’s body for reproducing the nation, the Republican attempts at restricting abortion rights, and women access to healthcare in general have often been designed with the same purpose in mind. Of course American historians have pointed to this larger strand of anti-intellectualism in American politics, but what is different about this moment is that Trump has successfully wedded this anti-Enlightenment mood with the anti-political rage of the Republican base.
Still, for a fascist to be accepted as legitimate he has to move the crowd and from the very beginning of his candidacy Trump has done this by stoking racial animosity and grievances. It is no coincidence that the Trump phenomenon emerges during the tenure of the first black President. It bears remembering that Trump’s first flirtation with running for office was nothing more than his insistent, nonsensical, irrational, and blatantly racist demand that President Obama show his birth certificate and his Harvard grades. This was more than a dog whistle to the angry whites that the first black President was not only un-American, literally, but that he was intellectually inferior to them, despite graduating from Harvard Law. If one considers this “original sin” of Trump then the KKK endorsement of his candidacy and Trump’s acceptance of it seem less strange.
Like Mussolini, Trump is lucky in his timing. When Mussolini created his Fascists in 1919 there were numerous other far right, authoritarian movements popping up all over Europe. As Robert Paxton reminds us, by the early 20th century Europe had gotten “swollen” by refugees, mostly Ashkenazi Jews who had since the 1880s been escaping pogroms in Eastern Europe. Culturally and religiously different they caused reactions amongst the Europeans that are strikingly similar to the way in which many European politicians have reacted to the influx of Muslim refugees and migrants from the Middle East and North Africa. The Hungarian government’s building of a fence to prevent Muslim migrants from coming in and its rhetoric of foreign, Islamic, invasion is just one of more noted examples of Islamophobic euphoria sweeping rightwing and fascistic movements into power all across Europe. As Hugh Eakin points out in the New York Review of Books, even Denmark, the beacon of civilized, tolerant, Europe has become susceptible to the xenophobic fear mongering: hate speech now passes for mainstream discussion (the Speaker of the Danish Parliament claims Muslim migrants to be at “a lower stage of civilization”). The head of the newly elected right-wing party in Poland, Jaroslaw Kaczynski, has described migrants as “parasites” who bring diseases.” Thus, it is no coincidence that Trump often references the refugee crisis to point to the ineptitude of European politicians and to simultaneously warn of a yet another jihadist terrorist attack. Trump would feel perfectly at home in the company of the new generation of European authoritarians like Viktor Orban of Hungary or Vladimir Putin of Russia. He does not care that Putin considers America Russia’s historic enemy because for Trump the real enemy is within.
The Trump Rally: An exercise in community building
If we historicize Trump in such a way, his rallies become much easier to read. For Trump’s supporters, the pushing and shoving, and even the outright violence, against protesters, and the menacingly carnivalesque atmosphere are, to an extent, an end in itself. Just observe how groups at Trump rallies spontaneously come together to roughen up a protester. The sheer emotional intensity of their facial expressions shows us precisely why they support Trump and why no policy proposal from any of his competitors can ever come close to diminishing Trump in his supporters’ eyes. Violence is electrifying and community building as much as it is devastating for those on the receiving end. Action over politics.
But it bears reminding that the crowds have transformed Trump as well. At the beginning of the campaign he seemed taken aback by protesters, but recently he has begin to egg them on (“I’d like to punch him in the face”). Simultaneously, he has gotten more confident on stage, bolder in his outrage proposals (ban all Muslims from the U.S.), and more theatrical.
This transformation brings to mind a moment in the history of another authoritarian, the former Serbian President Slobodan Milosevic whose ascent to power wrecked the country of Yugoslavia and caused a series of vicious civil wars that killed hundreds of thousands of people and displaced millions. When Milosevic first appeared on TV he did so as a mid-level member of the Communist party and spoke with the dry jargon of a Marxist intellectual. In 1987, party bosses sent Milosevic to the volatile Serbian province of Kosovo to quell a riot by Serb locals who were complaining that the majority Albanians had been perpetrating violence, and even genocide, against them. Feeling abandoned by the government, the Serb nationalists surrounded Milosevic telling him that Albanians were beating them. Milosevic hesitated. He began to employ the party jargon of national unity and promised to solve their problems, but the crowd grew rowdier and at one point, Milosevic looked scared. That’s when he uttered the phrase that would transform him from an anonymous politician to a Serb nationalist leader: “no one can dare to beat you!” The crowd erupted in cheers, propelling his career during which he destroyed not only his own party, but also the country at large. He would die nineteen years later in a prison cell at the International War Crimes Tribunal in the Hague, Netherlands.
This is not to say that Trump will cause a civil war in the U.S., or that he will commit war crimes (although he did promise to do the latter). But the destruction of the GOP looks all but imminent should he be the nominee. We should be warned that fascist demagogues are often made on the sly, almost imperceptibly, and that the fires they stir up tend to spread rather quickly. The pull of history on individuals is often inexorable. In his excellent portrayal of Nazification of German life, the historian Peter Fritzsche recounts a story of Karl Dürkefälden, a German living in the town of Peine during Hitler’s ascent to power. An opponent of Nazis, Karl expressed in his diary a profound sense of shock at how quickly his whole family—mother, father, and his sister—underwent a conversion to Nazism during the early 1933. In one particularly poignant scene, Karl is standing at the window of his house alongside his wife looking at the Nazi May Day celebrations, in which the entire, now Nazified, community participates, including his father. He struggles to remain on the sidelines not because he is a convinced Nazi, but because his entire community is caught up in what he called Umstellung, “a rapid…adjustment or conversion to Nazism,” in the words of Fritzsche.
Individuals who successfully resist historical Umstellungs are unfortunately few and far between. This is why we celebrate them. Those who succumb to them are much more common. The case of a young man by the name of Drazen Erdemovic from the Bosnian war is telling in this regard. Born in a mixed Croat-Serb family, the twenty-four year old Erdemovic found himself in 1995 a part of the Bosnian Serb firing squad executing Muslim men around the town of Srebrenica: by his own admission, he personally murdered seventy Muslims. After surrendering to the war crimes tribunal in the Hague, Erdemovic said:
I have lost many very good friends of all nationalities because of that war, and I am convinced that all of them, all of my friends, were not in favor of a war. I am convinced of that. But simply they had no other choice. This war came and there was no way out. The same happened to me.
“They had no other choice.” “This war came and there was no way out.” Once unleashed, the demons of history are too difficult for any individual to resist on his/or her/ own no matter what their backgrounds or political beliefs of the moment. This is why resistance to such atrocities always requires a movement, a community, and in fighting Fascists this was Anti-Fascism.
Branding Trumpism Fascist has the political benefit of mobilizing disparate forces in the fight against him just like the antifascist coalition of World War II led to unprecedented alliances between ideologically disparate forces (the Soviet-American alliance being the primary example). In the American context, seeing Trump as a 2016 reincarnation of Mussolini can unite Democrats, Republicans, independents, Naderites, neo-cons, constitutionalists, and others, into a broad anti-Fascist coalition which would bring Trump down and save our democracy.
In conclusion, the Fascism analogy is admittedly not a perfect fit. When it comes to ideologies, no analogy is. This is because ideologies change through time. The religious anti-Semitism of the Middle Ages was very different from its racial reincarnation during the nineteenth century, the latter of which was picked up by the Nazis (although religious anti-Semitism still remained a part of it). The anti-imperial, liberal, nationalism of the first half of the nineteenth century was very different from its more virulent, expansionist, and repressive kind at the beginning of the twentieth. Stalin’s Bolshevism was much scarier and arbitrarily deadlier than Lenin’s. In other words, just like the overuse of historical analogies should not make us too quick to embrace them, a search for a perfect ideological replica of interwar Fascism should not blind us to its ugly re-emergence in 2016.
Today, the echoes of Fascism are all too audible to anyone willing to hear them. Having lost one country, Yugoslavia, I really don’t want to lose another one.
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Sunday, March 13, 2016

Trio Vegabajeno


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Sunday, March 6, 2016

War Against All Puerto Ricans: Inside the U.S. Crackdown on Pedro Albizu Campos & Nationalist Party

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http://democracynow.org - Commemorations are being held today to mark the 50th anniversary of the death of Pedro Albizu Campos, popularly known to many as Don Pedro, the former head of the Nationalist Party and leader of the Puerto Rican independence movement. Albizu Campos spent some 26 years in prison for organizing against U.S. colonial rule. He was born in 1891, seven years before the U.S. invaded the island. He would go on to become the first Puerto Rican to graduate from Harvard Law School. Once he returned to Puerto Rico, he dedicated the rest of his life to the independence movement, becoming president of the Puerto Rican Nationalist Party in 1930. It was a position he held until his death in 1965. In 1936, Albizu Campos was jailed along with other Nationalist leaders on conspiracy and sedition charges. His jailing led to protests across Puerto Rico. On Palm Sunday, March 21, 1937, police shot and killed 21 Puerto Ricans and wounded over 200 others taking part in a peaceful march to protest Albizu Campos’ imprisonment. The event became known as the Ponce massacre. After his eventual release, Albizu Campos was arrested again in 1950, just days after a Nationalist revolt began on October 30. Pedro Albizu Campos would spend almost the rest of his life in prison, where he repeatedly charged that he was the subject of human radiation experiments. We hear Albizu Campos in his own words and speak to three guests: Rep. José Serrano (D-NY); Nelson Denis, author of the new book, "War Against All Puerto Ricans: Revolution and Terror in America’s Colony"; and Hugo Rodríguez of the Puerto Rican Independence Party.

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joe carr
joe carr1 day ago
Blanton Winship the Master Mind "serial killer".
MrVidLuv
MrVidLuv1 month ago
Since the original, indigenous people from Puerto Rico were Taino indians, and they originated from the sea faring Arawak Indians, why aren't Puerto Ricans given the same rights as other native Americans?
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Maria Magdalena Gonzalez Nieves (Magdy)
Maria Magdalena Gonzalez Nieves (Magdy)2 weeks ago
+Benjamin Martinez Well said
Klas K
Klas K10 months ago
Tell me, is there any South/latin-american or Caribbean country the U.S has not screwed up in some way the last 100 years?
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onlythewise1
onlythewise13 weeks ago
+Judo Lover yes instead of a wise comment like ,what country hasn't been helped by USA  he goes for the shit talk  .
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Judo Lover
Judo Lover2 weeks ago
+Klas K Aren't you using YouTube right now???? Doesn't that come from the USA?? Are you using the Internet right now????? You're telling me those two things have screwed up Latin America??? SMH!!!
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MrVidLuv
MrVidLuv1 day ago
Shit on his grave? What would that do? How bout collecting all the back taxes the corporations didn't pay in Puerto Rico along with the wealthy families in the USA who benefitted and rebuild this exploited and raped island back to its natural beauty and their people, back to their independence and freedom? Wouldn't that be beautiful? One less colonized people, one less apartheid state in this world, one less injustice.I hate to say this but I've only heard Bernie Sanders speak about Puerto Rico once and it flew by in conversation. He couldn't face the camera! He briefly turned away. This shows how clueless he is on the topic. This shows he can't look you in the eye and lie. He is even against reparations. I hope he reads "War Against All Puerto Ricans"!!! It would certainly change his mind. The torture parts are pretty awful. You better have a strong mind as well as stomach to read it.
j tg
j tg2 weeks ago
Here the the Deceiver should be judged by the internatinal courts for the invasion of Puerto Rico, the abuse, the persecutions of Puertoricans, the assassinations of Puertoricans and many many atrocities done to the people of Puerto Rico since the invation of Puerto Rico in 1898. All they have done is deceive, steal and kill to destroy and humiliate Puerto Rico. I am not the one saying that, history says so.
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Elliot
Elliot1 month ago
GREAT LEADER ..STAND UP FOR YOUR RIGHT'S
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Mike A
Mike A1 week ago
So when does a communist revolutionary's life matter??? It doesn't! He does not represent me, he does not represent my family, and he does not represent my ancestors. Screw him and the communists!
MrVidLuv
MrVidLuv2 weeks ago
Anybody can say they've studied any sort of book on the Caribbean or even taken classes. It doesn't impress me, especially with what's been coming out (both good and bad).What was suppressed, filtered by the media and lied about is emerging.The history of the Caribbean is much more complex than most people can imagine. Information comes out all the time.Like I keep mentioning, read War Against All Puerto Ricans. Otherwise you're misinformed. Just the fact that you're against reparations means you're against justice. If you do serious wrong to someone you're in trouble usually and am obligated to pay that person back return their possessions to their original state, like in an auto accident for example.If you do damage to an entire nation with its own peace and economy. Their own currency and turn their land upside down with violence and colonization, don't you think those effects which can still be felt today, should be corrected in the best way possible?I see some people choose to take the easy way out and just stick their head in the sand, pretending reality doesn't exist.
rich b
rich b6 months ago
Campos led a strike that increased wages ??? You know that made the CEOs nuts.
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minedga mcnamee
minedga mcnamee5 months ago
He gave his life for the truth.
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Maddog TV
Maddog TV1 month ago
Siendo 100% honesto, creo que el PIP no es nuestra salvacion al buscar la independencia... El ideal esta correcto, pero el problema es que siguen siendo un partido que lleva recostado tantos años haciendo MIERDA! Un candidato independiente CON EL MISMO IDEAL del PIP seria una mejor opcion en mi opinion, alguien que no puede ser manipulado por un partido...
Smokey Rico
Smokey Rico5 months ago
Viva Albizu.
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M Ros
M Ros3 months ago
The truth be told about the abuse, DOMINO sugar and American invasion
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Luis
Luis5 months ago (edited)
There are very few of us left. The US has brainwashed almost every Puertorrican here at home and has put us puertorrican nationalist on the list of potential terrorist once again this is outrageous. They have destroyed our country by putting our people on welfare, making our country addicted to debt, destroying and rewriting our true history and culture, shooting down and killing us all the times they new an uprising was imminent. And people are dumbed down through worthless indoctrinating style education. We don't want a fight with the American people they are loving and good. We just want our country back through peaceful means and the truth to come out of the mouths of those in charge for the whole world to here. We just want to live in peace.
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Kaloyan Stoyanov
Kaloyan Stoyanov10 months ago
240p?? Seriously??
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MrVidLuv
MrVidLuv1 month ago
Well 60% of the island has 60% Taino DNA. So if Puerto Ricans have most of their DNA as indigenous then they should be deserving of all the rights of all natives and indigenous peoples. This includes independence and even reparations. It wasn't just the physical war and conquest of the island but the labor exploitation and levels of brutality were enormous, this includes economic exploitation, environmental destruction and pollution......I read the book "War Against All Puerto Ricans". Anyone who does and has any sense of decency and humanity will be outraged!What the US did to Puerto Rico was so violent and disgusting and with such goddamn nerve. Honestly, if I'd I met an old guy who took part in the atrocities there, I'd strangle his fucking ass.
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joe carr
joe carr1 day ago
instead go to Macon, GA and shit on somebody's grave (the master mind of the massacre).
Miriam Warrior
Miriam Warrior8 months ago
There are a lot of EVIL PEOPLE IN THE USA GOVERNMENT and a lot of GOOD PEOPLE as well.......RIP JFK how sad the way your government betrayed you.
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Francesco Arellano
Francesco Arellano4 months ago (edited)
+Miriam Warrior JFK signed the Social security Administration funds into the claws of the gov. .. Learning is power...
joe carr
joe carr1 day ago
Martin Luther King, Malcon X etc.
Francesco Arellano
Francesco Arellano4 months ago
400 de Espana y 100 de USA. Nunca Libre! Prefieren darle 380 Billones a Iran y para que? Mas armas??? Cuba recibio 300 millones de la gente Americana para Obama poder dejar su legacia....LMAO. Y PR que se joda!!! Ya los pesos se hicieron para los ultra ricos...Y el ELA se comio todos los fondos con su fuego popular. La infra estructura obsoleta, crimen fuera de liga y siguen pasando el peso al proximo...Ay bendito, PR esta' jodio!
M Ros
M Ros3 months ago
Puerto Rico a political football
Benjamin Martinez
Benjamin Martinez6 months ago
Mr.albizu campos graduated number one in his class at Harvard, he did not recognized because he was Puerto Rican, but because he was black. That was not clarified in this program. 
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Judo Lover
Judo Lover2 weeks ago
+Benjamin Martinez Right!! Then they didn't care if he was Puerto Rican, it was because he was colored, or black. Many Cuban and other Latin Americans at that time were awarded, but only if they were white.
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