February 8, 2019
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Imperialist intervention in Venezuela: UPDATE 5
People are strengthening resistance to imperialist intervention in Venezuela while imperialists’ design is being exposed. A roundup of events. Continue reading
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William Hague Attacks Corbyn on Venezuela, Exposes Barbarism of Regime Change Policy By Nina Cross
The rhetoric of the establishment media and political class in their attempt to vilify the mildest dissent from Jeremy Corbyn is shocking, not because it is unexpected, but because it is now apparently normal to break international law and plot to overthrow a government. In fact it’s the done thing if Corbyn just hints disapproval.… Continue reading
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Venezuela Newslinks 8 February 2019
8 February 2019 17:56 — The New Dark Age Due to cross-posting there may be some duplication Geo-Political Realignments Over Venezuela https://williambowles.info/2019/02/08/geo-political-realignments-over-venezuela/ The quiet coup that could devastate human rights in Guatemala https://www.opendemocracy.net/david-mattingly/quiet-coup-that-could-devastate-human-rights-in-guatemala Continue reading
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Geo-Political Realignments Over Venezuela
On the heels of the hard-line anti-Maduro Lima Group meeting in Ottawa, countries favoring a negotiated solution, including Uruguay, Mexico, and Bolivia, met in Montevideo on Thursday. The final declaration, however, compromises Venezuela’s sovereignty, according to Bolivia. We discuss the outcome with Miguel Tinker Salas and Greg Wilpert Continue reading
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Resolutely Promised Prosecutions of Climate Criminals May Force Urgent Climate Action By Gideon Polya
Eminent climate scientist Professor James Hansen has published a must-read, 55-page summary of the worsening climate emergency. In short, to correct the Earth’s presently disastrous energy imbalance we must urgently reduce the atmospheric CO2 to 342-373 ppm CO2 from the present disastrous 407 ppm CO2. Continue reading
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Oil, Agriculture and Imperialism: Averting the Fast-Track to Armageddon? By Colin Todhunter
The US’s hand-picked supposed leader-in-waiting, Juan Guaido, aims to facilitate the process and usher in a programme of ‘mass privatisation’ and ‘hyper-capitalism’ at the behest of his coup-instigating masters in Washington, thereby destroying the socialist revolution spearheaded by the late Hugo Chavez and returning to a capitalist oligarch-controlled economic system. Continue reading
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Venezuela – The Straw that Breaks the Empire’s Back?
Venezuela in the limelight, on practically all the written, audio and visual mainstream media, as well as alternative media. A purposeful constant drip of outright lies and half-truths, “fake news”, as well as misleading information of all shades and hues about Venezuela is drumming into our brains, slowly bending our minds towards believing that –… Continue reading
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‘America First’ Means Nuclear Superiority By M. K. BHADRAKUMAR
The US president’s annual State of the Union address traditionally focuses on domestic issues but it also throws some light on the foreign policy priorities. President Trump’s speech on Tuesday adhered to the pattern and if anything, the portions on foreign policy received scant attention, restricted to his “agenda to protect America’s National Security.” Trump’s… Continue reading
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Leaked Wikileaks Doc Reveals US Military Use of IMF, World Bank as “Unconventional” Weapons By Whitney Webb
This “U.S. coup manual,” recently highlighted by WikiLeaks, serves as a reminder that the so-called “independence” of such financial institutions as The World Bank and IMF is an illusion and that they are among the many “financial weapons” regularly used by the U.S. government to bend countries to its will. Continue reading
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Corporate tax cuts in UK save big business billions of pounds By Barry Mason
Tax cuts being implemented by Theresa May’s Conservative government will save big business billions of pounds, as austerity measures continue to pauperise millions of workers. Corporation tax will be slashed from its current figure of 19 percent to a 17 percent rate effective from April 2020. Continue reading
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Canada mobilizes support for US coup in Venezuela By Keith Jones
Canada’s Liberal government is front and center in Washington’s drive to overthrow Venezuela’s elected president, Nicolas Maduro, and install a virulent right-wing regime that will throw open the country—site of the world’s largest oil reserves—to unbridled imperialist exploitation. Continue reading
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How Chrystia Freeland Organized Donald Trump’s Coup in Venezuela By Eric Zuesse
On Monday, February 5th, Canadian Foreign Minister Chrystia Freeland announced that the 14 countries of the Lima Group — who had actually formed themselves under her direction into this new group on 8 August 2017 in order to overthrow and replace Venezuela’s current President Nicholas Maduro — have now been joined (though she didn’t say… Continue reading
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Venezuela – U.S. Aid Gambit Fails – War Plans Lack Support
The U.S. is using the pretext of ‘delivering humanitarian aid’ from Columbaia to Venezuela to undermine the government and to establish a supply line for further operations. It is another attempt to pull the military onto the coup plotter’s side Continue reading
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