Articles by Julio M. Shiling

Here are the Root Causes of America’s ‘Homelessness’ Crisis.

Political correctness (PC) has invaded every aspect of American life. Language has been a seminal target. A “homeless” person, in a literal sense, is someone without a home. The term is misleading. Yet, we know what the one refers to when we see it in the streets of our cities.

In another era, this group might be called “hobos” or “bums”. “Undocumented” versus “illegal” alien is another display of this semantic trickery, designed to not offend, which has become a de facto 21st-century crime. America’s homeless crisis owes its calamity a string of failed public policies.

The left looks at statistics and consistently errs as to the cause-and-effect binomial predominance. The socioeconomic disparities between black and white Americans are another paragon of this vicious error. Here, leftism points to false narratives substantiated by the radical, Marxist Critical Race Theory (CRT) and cries out “systemic racism” as the root cause. Public policy failures that have pulverized black families and have fortified a “noble victim” identity class, along with fomenting a crippling social network complex to feed into this worldview, points to a more probable cause for these disparities. Vagrancy in the United States has suffered a similar fate of miscomprehension by leftist politicians. 

 

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Critical Race Theory Arrives at the UN, Thanks to Socialist UN Chief Michelle Bachelet.

Michelle Bachelet, the United Nations’ High Commissioner for Human Rights, announced on Monday June 28^th that “systemic racism needs a systemic response.” The UN human rights chief since 2018 added clarity to her unsubstantiated claims by saying “The Black Lives Matter (BLM) movement and other civil society groups led by people of African descent have provided grassroots leadership through listening to communities.”

While the position expressed by the Chilean Socialist politician and daughter of a military official from Marxist president Salvador Allende’s government should surprise no one, it does make evident where the communist identity politics war has broadened a new offensive: the UN. 

Following the death of George Floyd, Bachelet requested a report from the U.N. Human Rights Council (UNHRC) she chairs. Labeled, “Promotion and protection of the human rights and fundamental freedoms of Africans and of people of African descent against excessive use of force and other human rights violations by law enforcement officers” (Report), the UNHRC findings wholly accept the epistemological assumptions that underlie Marxist Critical Race Theory. Consistent with the postmodernist narrative that knowledge is culturally constructed and “lived” experience is the ultimate source of “truth”, the report is flawed and permeated with ideological-driven laundered precepts. 

 

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The History of Cuba’s Tantrums Against U.S. Embargoes in the United Nations.

Early on, Cuban communism realized that the weaponization of multilateral diplomacy would serve its dictatorial survival pursuits. International and national forums, as early as 1959, became prime targets of the Marxist government’s intelligence and foreign relations focus. The United Nations has been one of its most coveted success stories in this field.

Every year since 1992, Castroism has effectively launched a United Nations (UN) embargo tantrum. This year, as has been the case for the last 29 occasions, the UN General Assembly voted on June 23^rd to condemn the U.S. embargo against the Island’s communist dictatorship. Does this vote have any relevance? Is it even necessary?

The cited “embargo” is the unilateral, sovereign decision of the United States to deny credit and limit classes of exportable goods to the Castro regime, as well as commercial and financial transactions. The bogus “blockade” term often heard is nothing short of propagandized semantic chicanery and an insult to proper language and social science conceptual usage. The U.S. government has sustained consistent forms of sanctions and/or an embargo against Castro-Communism since 1960, despite wide variances in its severity and application. The determinant factor has been the occupier of the White House. 

 

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Andy Ngo’s Unmasked: Inside Antifa’s Radical Plan to Destroy Democracy.

Antifa (abbreviation for antifascist), the anarcho-communist movement actively engaged in domestic terrorism, has had an ample list of apologists. Those powerfully connected that have intended to minimize the group’s violent, antisystem existence, include President Joe Biden who has categorized the terrorist movement as “just an idea”, House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerry Nadler (D-NY) who called the movement an “imaginary thing”, and many others on the left. That is why an in-depth journalistic investigation was most warranted. This is why Andy Ngo’s book, Unmasked: Inside Antifa’s Radical Plan to Destroy Democracy (Center Street 2021) (Unmasked), is so important. 

 

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