Trump bombs Venezuela and kidnaps its President!

 

Nicolas Maduro

People will obviously question the legality of the kidnapping of the leftist Venezuelan President, Nicolas Maduro, in terms of international law. The kidnapping of the Venezuelan President, and the bombing of the Venezuelan capital, is illegal under international law, but the Americans have never bothered too much about that. The Americans consider Maduro a 'Narco-Terrorist' and a New York court indicted Maduro in March 2020, and issued an arrest warrant for him. The American government wants to put him on trial. They don't consider Maduro to have diplomatic immunity.

They did the same thing in 1999 when they invaded Panama and captured the dictator, Manuel Noriega. The U.S. courts ruled in (United States v Noriega) that "jurisdiction is not defeated by abduction." If the U.S. military can physically drag you into a courtroom, even illegally, you can still be tried. This is backed up by the U.S. Supreme Court which relies on the doctrine based on the legal case (Ker v Illinois) which essentially states ("Bad capture, good detention").

Despite their abductions, both Maduro and Noriega, have fared better than Patrice Lumumba, the first democratically President of the Democratic Republic of Congo, Salvador Allende, the democratically elected Marxist President of Chile, and Maurice Bishop, the leftist Prime Minister of Grenada, who all died following CIA inspired coups.

The Yanks will install a Transitional puppet Government in Venezuela, who will retroactively consent to the U.S. operation, and transform the kidnapping into a legal "cooperative extradition." This is what happened in Panama in 1990. It says something that the Americans were able to capture Maduro so easily and to take control of Venezuela and its oil supplies. Will Iran be next? Many Iranians are hoping so.

Are the free market and immigration control incompatible?

 

Eddie Dempsey - RMT General Secretary

The leader of the RMT union, Eddie Dempsey, is right to point out that very often those who do the hard graft in society are often the least recognised and the least rewarded -they keep the show on the road.

But the market doesn't always determine the wages for some people. The wages of many workers are regulated and are not determined by a Dutch auction. Remuneration committees often determine the salaries of banking officials. An MPs salary is set and so are the wages of Eddie Dempsey as a trade union official. What's the going rate for an MP? The wages of police officers will be regulated along with many legal officials like judges. The wages of civil servants and local government workers are also regulated.

If you believe in the so-called "free-market", then you can't really be in favour of immigration control and must be in favour of the free movement of Labour. What does Donald Trump's crackdown on "undocumented" workers have to do with free markets? Many migrant workers may better at doing your job and may be prepared to do it for less money, but very few free-market economists are bold enough to speak out against immigration control.

In America, many immigrants work in food processing, construction, agriculture and hospitality. Undocumented workers, who still pay state and federal taxes in the U.S., make up 25% of all farm workers. There are 7 million workers in the U.S. who are undocumented.

In his book entitled '23 Things They Don't Tell You About Capitalism', the Cambridge economist, Ha-Joon Chang, wrote: "We are persuaded to accept what I call the L'Oréal principle - if some people are paid tens of millions of pounds per year, it must be because they are worth it." We know that many top bosses get well paid even when the companies they run, are losing money and even if they resign, they're given a huge pay off. They're a nepotistic class who have basically got their fingers in the till.

In a class ridden country like Britain, the options that people can choose from, are usually severely limited by a lack of resources or education. Our preferences are strongly formed by our social environment - family, neighbourhood, schooling and social class. The social bank of mum and dad, opens as many doors, as the financial bank of mum and dad.