
THE US Democratic Party’s progressives rallied against President Donald Trump’s denunciation of socialism in his rambling state of the union speech last night.
The president began his tirade against socialism by blaming Venezuela’s economic hardships on left-wing politics.
“We condemn the brutality of their regime whose socialist policies have turned that nation from being the wealthiest in South America into a state of abject poverty and despair,” he said, failing to mention the impact of US economic sanctions.

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Mr Smalls and 13 other Freedom Flotilla Coalition activists who tried to break Israel’s illegal blockade of Gaza aboard the Handala ship remain in detention and on hunger strike