Articles by Julio M. Shiling

Biden’s Rush to Rescue Castroism.

Cuban communism (yes, a kleptocracy can be communist also) continues faithfully to exercise dictatorial pragmatism, a policy institutionalized in 1959. Sharp espionage keen on strategic disinformation promotion, ruthless terror at home, and a wide range of collaborators, at state, institutional, and elite individual levels, have been staple components of the sixty-four-year-old regime’s modus operandi. Castroism has been heightening pressure on the U.S. for relief. Joe Biden is rushing to accommodate them.

Barack Obama, a Fabian socialist true believer, gave the Cuban dictatorship what it had been actively pursuing for decades: unconditional coexistence with American perks. The ruling kleptocratic stratocracy in Havana, constant revisionists of Marxist-Leninist guideposts, sought to have their wholesale thievery of American property, shelter for terrorists, crimes against humanity, and involvement in drug trafficking, ignored. By executive fiat, Obama obliged Castro-Communism as much as he could. Hillary Clinton was expected to deepen this immoral path in 2016. Donald Trump and American voters frustrated those plans.   

Trump’s victory, not only put a halt to the détente initiative between the world’s most successful democracy and the globe’s third-oldest totalitarian regime (after China and North Korea) but reversed key aspects of the Obama-Castro pact. The Marxist dictatorship’s dream of unconditional moral capitulation by the U.S. coupled with dollars was castrated, at least for the moment. Biden’s ascension to the White House promised better days for Cuban communism.

 

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Understanding the U.S. House Speaker Stalemate.

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2023 has started with considerable fireworks in American politics. As of this writing, 6 attempts have been made on deciding who will hold the speakership of the U.S. House of Representatives. This is the third most important position in the nation’s political power arrangement, hierarchically speaking. Is this necessarily bad? Does it mean the Republican Party is in disarray? Is there historical precedents for this apparently awkward situation?

Modernity and systemic alterations have gotten us used to uniformity in these types of political courses. The U.S. presidential system, with its divided governmental design, seeks to separate power within the federal state’s composition. The American Framers purposely structured this model to remedy expected factious battles that, in the end, would require consensus. In other words, it is the bland uniformity that we have become accustomed to in previous congressional speakership elections, as well as national political conventions where state electors had certain autonomous powers to bypass party kingmakers that planned coronations instead of competitive contests that better express popular sovereignty. 

 

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Socialism Loses and Freedom Wins in Perú.

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The São Paulo Forum (SPF) dictatorial offensive, designed by communist Cuba to spread socialism throughout Latin America, suffered a big setback on Wednesday, December 7 in Perú. President Pedro Castillo attempted a coup by ordering the dissolution of Congress, initiating the installment of an “emergency” government, ordered a national curfew, and called for the revamping of the country’s democratic constitution. In its place, predictably, it would be substituted with socialist legalism. The forces of freedom saved the day for Perú and potentially for the Americas.

The Peruvian congress acted swiftly after Castillo wanted to bypass an incipient congressional motion that sought to constitutionally displace him from the presidency. By a 101 to 29 clear majority vote, the legislative body reverted the Marxist former president’s Bolshevik-style power grab. Additionally, the mistake made by Bolivian authorities during its 2019 liberation process was not repeated in Perú.

Castillo was quickly arrested and now faces criminal charges under the Peruvian Penal Code’s Title XVI in Chapter 1 and Article 346. Acting smart and with civic determination, Perú’s legitimate public forces closed off passages to the embassies of socialist dictatorial regimes like Bolivia’s. The urgency with which the Peruvian Congress acted, and the complimentary measures taken to safeguard democracy, should serve as a model to challenge the SPF dictatorial model. 

 

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A Referendum on a Postmodern Regime in the USA.

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The 2022 midterm election is a referendum, not on a government of a particular party with competing policy goals, but on a regime that is dead set on producing a systemic change. Left-wing radicals have sequestered the Democratic Party. The condition of “regime” is met by the auxiliary role that mass corporate media, the Big Tech cartel, woke capitalists, and the federal agencies of law enforcement (FBI, CIA, and DOJ) have in coalescing with the political power in a war to deconstruct America. 

Let’s be clear about the facts. The danger confronting the U.S. is not the potentiality of it transitioning into a social democracy. Socialism and social democracy are two entirely unique animals. The former destroys freedom. The latter undertakes a welfare-state approach within a democratic, capitalist system. The Nordic model, to stress the point, is not socialist. The leftist regime in power today is bent on establishing socialism within the postmodern context.

Without getting too bogged down in philosophical technicality, it becomes, however, inescapable to totally avert it. Every historical timeframe moves within a predominating intellectual paradigm. The Modern Era, for example, rested enormously on reason. Postmodernism, a frustrated child of cultural Marxism, is the intellectual framework in which we are living today. The postmodernist worldview argues that knowledge and truth are socially constricted and power springs from the emanating sociopolitical structure. 

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