10 February 2019 — TRNN
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Day: February 10, 2019
Blood for Oil in Venezuela?
10 February 2019 — TRNN
Vijay Prashad discusses the extent to which US interest in Venezuelan oil and other natural resources is driving Trump’s policy of seeking regime change. The link is not that straight-forward, but it is there, says Prashad (inc transcript)
Welfare Weekly 10 February 2019
Statewatch: New criminal records database for non-EU nationals is “disproportionate and discriminatory”
10 February 2019 — Statewatch
Statewatch: New Analysis (03/19)
A new EU database for holding information on convicted non-EU nationals is “disproportionate and discriminatory”, says an Analysis (pdf) published today by Statewatch.
Imperialist intervention in Venezuela: UPDATE 6
10 February 2019 — Counter Currents
Russia, US present rival UNSC resolutions on Venezuela
- Only Venezuelans can solve Venezuela’s issues, reiterates China
- US blockade on Venezuela has cost US$350 billion
- Oil reserves would be opened to foreign investors, says Guaido’s envoy
- US humanitarian aid is a ‘big lie’: Venezuela’s VP
- Independence, sovereignty non-negotiable: Venezuelan VP
- Guaido isn’t ruling out ‘authorizing’ US intervention
- ‘You don’t get to authorize US military interventions’: US Congressman to Guaido
A Simple Translation of Anglo-European Russophobia Over Africa By Phil Butler
10 February 2019 — New Eastern Outlook
The Anglo-European monopolization of Africa as a cash cow may soon be at an end. Until then, however, Africans will have to stomach the never-ending distortions of truth, on top of watching their legacy evaporate like a mirage over the sands of the Sahara. I’ve covered the disinformation on neo-colonialism many times, but today I want to deconstruct, line-by-line, the latest Russophobia propaganda about Putin’s role with African nations.
Why Venezuela’s People Are Suffering By Eric Zuesse
10 February 2019 — Strategic Culture Foundation
INTRODUCTION
The case that will be documented here is that Venezuela’s people are suffering from a tragic national situation which actually cannot be reversed by anything that’s within the power of Venezuela’s Government to do or to block. In order to understand this very unfortunate reality (if one wants to understand it), one must first understand the relevant parts of the broader situation in the world that affects Venezuela. What’s dooming the country isn’t merely a local situation, but instead is global and environmental. It also is economic, pertaining to the role that Venezuela is playing in the global economy. But the economic factor is definitely not of the kind that it’s commonly assumed and alleged to be. It is instead very different.
BBC and Venezuela: bias and lies
7 February 2019 — Socialist Appeal
Darrall Cozens, Hands Off Venezuela Committee
A coup attempt is in full-swing in Venezuela, orchestrated from Washington. As ever, supposedly ‘objective’ media outlets such as the BBC are softening up public opinion for this imperialist intervention.
Racism And The Fight Over Venezuela
9 February 2019 — Moon of Alabama
The U.S. coup attempt in Venezuela is not only about oil and general U.S. imperialism. It is attempt to bring a specific type of people back into power. The same type of people that rule in Washington DC.
How the people could really govern By Terry Bell
10 February 2019 — Terry Bell Writes
A version of this item appeared in the City Press on February 10
The people shall govern. So says the Freedom Charter. And so they do, says the ANC along with all the parties represented in parliament.
But this is a lie. And awareness of this fact is what has caused such widespread disillusionment with mainstream politics and political parties. In our party list electoral system this is particularly pertinent: every five years we go to the polls to vote for a party where a president and perhaps the party elite, usual decide on the representatives over whom we have no control. Yet a universal franchise — one person, one vote — is a concession won after many bloody and bitter battles in recent centuries by working people deprived of even the slightest influence over those who governed them.
Venezuela Newslinks 10 February 2019
10 February 2019 — The New Dark Age
There may be some duplication due to cross-posting.
Venezuela and disaster capitalism
http://links.org.au/venezuela-disaster-capitalism
Venezuela defines the future of the region
http://links.org.au/venezuela-defines-future-latin-america
What the Press Hides From You About Venezuela by Eric Zuesse
9 February 2019 — Dissident Voice
A Case of News Suppression
This news-report is being submitted to all U.S. and allied news-media, and is being published by all honest ones, in order to inform you of crucial facts that the others — the dishonest ones, who hide such crucial facts — are hiding about Venezuela. These are facts that have received coverage only in one single British newspaper: the Independent, which published a summary account of them on January 26th. That newspaper’s account will be excerpted here at the end, but first will be highlights from its topic, the official report to the U.N. General Assembly in August of last year, which has been covered-up ever since. This is why that report’s author has now gone to the Independent, desperate to get the story out, finally, to the public:
The New Dark Age 