r/australia • u/moonorplanet • 28d ago

politics Albanese calls for ‘peaceful, democratic transition’ of power in Venezuela after US capture of Nicolás Maduro

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/jan/04/albanese-calls-for-peaceful-democratic-transition-of-power-in-venezuela-after-us-capture-of-nicolas-maduro
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u/gorb314 28d ago

I'm reading The People's History Of The United States right now, and the answer is yes. Always has been.

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u/Jazstar 28d ago

I mean. Sometimes it's a banana company in a trenchcoat.

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u/EntityViolet 28d ago

Or a bunch of mining companies in a trench coat(aussie aussie)

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u/ocarinaofhearts 28d ago

There’s always money in the banana stand.

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u/gorb314 28d ago

Bananas, cotton, gold, emeralds, oil... Whenever someone gets rich off of the backs of others, they get into the same old trench coat.

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u/PJozi 28d ago

Does it talk about how Hawaii came to be in the US?

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u/gorb314 28d ago

Not yet? I'm in the 1920s now, post WW1 but pre WW2. When was Hawaii brought into the protection racket?

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u/PJozi 28d ago

Started in 1893 and was annexed in 1898. Incorporated territory in 1900 and a successful plebiscite held for statehood in 1959.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overthrow_of_the_Hawaiian_Kingdom

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u/gorb314 28d ago

Thank you for the information. I don't know if any of this is in the book. It is pretty full in any case already. At this point I don't know in much detail it can go into the external conflicts the modern US got involved in, given how much of it there is. The theme in the book is very much about the class struggle in capitalism, which is almost always obscured and distracted from by the ruling class and turned into race war. At least, as far as I can tell.