Nicolas Maduro’s kidnapping is about the US state’s politics, not Venezuela’s oil.


Esam Boraey is an at-large delegate from Connecticut. Esam studies and teaches Political science at Cornell University. He is of Egyptian origin with... more than 10 years of experience in campaign, election, and grassroots organizing in both the US and the Middle East.
Nicolas Maduro’s kidnapping is about the US state’s politics, not Venezuela’s oil.

Trump’s break with Greene exposes a deeper struggle inside the American right over what ‘America First’ truly means.

We represent a growing number of Democrats who are disillusioned with the party leadership and want change.

Whether crossing a bridge in Selma, Alabama in 1965, or in Cairo in 2011, our struggles for justice share much.
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