19 February 2019 18:00 — The New Dark Age
There may be some duplication due to cross-posting.
COLDTYPE Issue 178 Mid-February 2019 – is now on line
https://williambowles.info/2019/02/19/coldtype-issue-178-mid-february-2019-is-now-on-line/
The Saker interviews Jorge Valero, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela
http://thesaker.is/the-saker-interviews-jorge-valero-ambassador-extraordinary-and-plenipotentiary-of-the-bolivarian-republic-of-venezuela/
19 February 2019 — Global Research
In a spectacular display of solidarity and strength, envoys from such distant capitals as Beijing and Havana, Moscow and Tehran, Pyongyang and Caracas, Damascus and Managua and numerous other states stood together, side by side, in front of the United Nations Security Council, declaring their determination to protect the UN Charter and International Law, and holding sacrosanct the sovereignty and inviolability of each member state.
19 February 2019 — Countercurrents.org
15 February 2019 — Consortium News
By Steve Ellner
Special to Consortium News
18 February 2019 21:19 — The New Dark Age
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Watch privileged Venezuelan opposition support US sanctions and even military intervention
http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/TheCanary/~3/H1nDibwyiDg/
Venezuela lacks investment to boost crude production, says advisor to central bank
http://tass.com/world/1045290
18 February 2019 — Venezuela Analysis
After spending two days in Caracas on February 3 and 4, including a semi-private meeting with President Maduro, what follows below is my basic impression. It coincides with the documented, virtually daily on-the-ground reporting by Venezuelanalysis reporters including among the opposition. My perception has more recently been buttressed by the current on-the-spot reporting by, among others, American journalist Max Blumenthal.
12 February 2019 — Covert Action Magazine
[Editors: When relevant, as here, CovertAction Magazine will link to—and/or publish—material from various individuals, groups, non-governmental organizations as well as official statements from governments and their officials.]
The Revolutionary Government of the Republic of Cuba condemns the escalation of pressures and actions of the U.S. government in preparation for a military adventure under the guise of a “humanitarian intervention” in the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela and calls on the international community to mobilize in order to prevent its consummation.
17 February 2019 22:08 — The New Dark Age
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Jimmy Dore: American reporter in Venezuela contradicts US News Coverage
https://www.greanvillepost.com/2019/02/17/jimmy-dore-american-reporter-in-venezuela-contradicts-us-news-coverage/
David Swanson: The Dirty Truth About NATO
https://dandelionsalad.wordpress.com/2019/02/17/david-swanson-the-dirty-truth-about-nato/
16 February 2019 — The News Junkie Post
Empires with internal problems tend to create external crises to distract the public opinion and unite their political and economical ruling class in a fictitious nationalistic fervor. The current United States policy of overt regime change in Venezuela, backed entirely by its NATO vassals, follows an evergreen imperial playbook of creating new crises to obscure failures and divisions.
17 February 2019 — Justin Podur
Dilma Rousseff was president of Brazil until overthrown in a soft coup in 2016. Hugo Chavez was briefly overthrown in 2002. Maduro is being overthrown at the time of writing (2019).
As we watch a US-backed coup unfold in a distant country, as in Venezuela today, our eyes are drawn to the diplomatic, military, and economic elements of the US campaign. The picture of a scowling John Bolton with a big yellow notepad with the message “5,000 troops to Colombia” reveals the diplomatic and military elements. The New York Times headline “U.S. Sanctions Are Aimed at Venezuela’s Oil. Its Citizens May Suffer First” reveals the economic element.
17 February 2019 — Counter Currents
Venezuela Regime Change ‘Made in the USA and Canada’ (photo: venezuelanalysis.com)
17 February 2019 — Strategic Culture Foundation
US National Security Adviser John Bolton may be known for a lot of things, but “diplomat” is not one of them. In 2005, Bolton was never confirmed by the US Senate to be George W. Bush’s ambassador to the United Nations because the walrus-mustachioed neo-conservative ideologue had made past comments deriding the UN as a useless organization. In 1994, Bolton infamously said, “There is no United Nations. There is an international community that occasionally can be led by the only real power left in the world, and that’s the United States, when it suits our interests and when we can get others to go along… The [UN] Secretariat Building in New York has 38 stories. If you lost ten stories today, it wouldn’t make a bit of difference.”
