Venezuela
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Blood for Oil in Venezuela?
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) Continue reading
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Imperialist intervention in Venezuela: UPDATE 6
The world imperialism is intensifying its interventionist activities around Venezuela while resistance to it is strengthening in different areas. The following update prepared based on media reports present the following information: Continue reading
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Why Venezuela’s People Are Suffering By Eric Zuesse
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… Continue reading
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BBC and Venezuela: bias and lies
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. Continue reading
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Racism And The Fight Over Venezuela
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. Continue reading
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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 Continue reading
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What the Press Hides From You About Venezuela by Eric Zuesse
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… Continue reading
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Venezuela Newslinks 8-9 February 2019
9 February 2019 16:00 — The New Dark Age There may be some duplication due to cross-posting. Former British Foreign Secretary William Hague Attacks Corbyn on Venezuela, Exposes Barbarism of Regime Change Policy https://www.globalresearch.ca/former-british-foreign-secretary-william-hague-attacks-corbyn-on-venezuela-exposes-barbarism-of-regime-change-policy/5668063 An Open Letter to the People of the United States from President Nicolas Maduro https://www.globalresearch.ca/an-open-letter-to-the-people-of-theunited-states-from-president-nicolas-maduro/5668092 Continue reading
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Venezuela as the pivot for New Internationalism?
There is a great deal of controversy about the true shape of the Venezuelan economy and whether Hugo Chavez’ and Nicholas Maduro’s reform and policies were crucial for the people of Venezuela or whether they were completely misguided and precipitated the current crises. Continue reading
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Why I Hope Maduro Wins And North Korea Keeps Its Nukes by Caitlin Johnstone
A second summit meeting for the US and North Korea is reportedly scheduled to take place in Vietnam at the end of the month. Expert opinions on where these negotiations are headed range from the insightful to the incredibly naive, with mainstream media consumers consistently finding themselves in the latter category. Trump supporters believe their… Continue reading
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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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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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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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Venezuela Newslinks 6-7 February 2019
7 February 2019 14:54 — The New Dark Age Ocasio-Cortez, Sanders, Trump and the State of Imperial Decline https://www.greanvillepost.com/2019/02/07/ocasio-cortez-sanders-trump-and-the-state-of-imperial-decline/ BBC’s HARDtalk turned into a cosy chat about how to run a coup in Venezuela http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/TheCanary/~3/c181MAM16Gk/ Continue reading
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Venezuela Blitz – Part 2: Press Freedom, Sanctions And Oil
In support of their claim that Maduro is a ‘tyrant’ who does not allow free elections, corporate media consistently point to a lack of press freedom. When British academic Alan MacLeod of Glasgow Media Group reviewed 166 Western media articles evaluating the state of press freedom between 1998-2014, he found that all depicted Venezuelan media… Continue reading
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