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The Grayzone testifies at the UN: ‘Humanitarian crisis in Venezuela: propaganda vs. reality’ by Max Blumenthal
The Grayzone’s Max Blumenthal and Anya Parampil spoke about Venezuela at a side event at a United Nations Human Rights Council session in Geneva on March 19. They joined former special rapporteur Alfred de Zayas on a panel titled “Humanitarian crisis in Venezuela: Propaganda vs. reality.” Continue reading
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Vladimir Putin as Mad Max and the Impending Oil Disaster By Phil Butler
The US withdrawal of all remaining diplomatic personnel from its embassy in Caracas means the real geostrategy show is about to start. For months now US policymakers have been on the rhetorical, economic, subversive interference offensive against the government of President Nicolas Maduro. But the reasons for the Trump administration’s aggressive stance against Venezuela are… Continue reading
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VENEZUELA: Westerners have lost the ability to reason! (PART 3) By Luis Garcia
Millions can be seen, in photos and videos, supporting Maduro, the democratically elected Venezuelan President. If a westerner believes himself to be well informed by his Orwellian propaganda machine, can that westerner explain the reason why none of these images are shown in Western Lying Media? Continue reading
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America’s Venezuela Strategy: Coup By Sheer Narrative Control by Caitlin Johnstone
The Trump administration is working to overthrow the government of Venezuela. They are not at this time doing this by military invasion, nor by funneling thousands of armed militants into the country, nor even solely with starvation sanctions and CIA ops. The first and foremost means of overthrowing Venezuela’s government currently being utilized by the… Continue reading
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Venezuela: Westerners have lost the ability to reason! (PART 2) by Luis Garcia
If you are an honest person now reading this article, and if you really seek the truth about what’s going on in Venezuela, you can’t afford to ignore documentaries like The Revolution Will Not Be Televised or The War on Democracy. These two and others more contain footage and evidences that are crucial to understand and to prove what I just… Continue reading
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Venezuela Organizes Civic-Military Exercises in Defense of Electric Grid
The president of Venezuela, Nicolas Maduro, headed a planning day Friday for the Civic-Military Exercises Ana Karina Rote 2019 to take place over the weekend throughout the national territory with the aim of shielding the country’s hydroelectric system amid possible new external attacks. Continue reading
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Venezuela: Roundup – 5- India’s Reliance halts diluents export to Venezuela
15 March 2019 — Countercurrents While Venezuela fully restored electricity supply and near-fully restored water supply, the country faces economic war by imperialism with increasing intensity. Continue reading
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Dissecting Washington’s Color Revolution Techniques By Grete Mautner
As it’s been pointed out by a number of prominent statisticians, over the last hundred years Washington has interfered in the internal affairs of at least 50 countries for a total of 130 individual cases. As for the last three decades, there’s been more than 40 instances of such interference, including cases of elections meddling and… Continue reading
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Venezuela: ROUNDUP -4- Guaido seeks to sell out Venezuela’s oil industry, and U.S. is willing to buy
13 March 2019 — Countercurrents Juan Guaido, the self-proclaimed “interim president” of Venezuela, has offered to sell out Venezuela’s oil industry to foreign private companies, and the U.S. has expressed its willingness to buy. Continue reading
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US Regime Change Blueprint Proposed Venezuelan Electricity Blackouts as ‘Watershed Event’ for ‘Galvanizing Public Unrest’ By Max BLUMENTHAL
A September 2010 memo by a US-funded soft power organization that helped train Venezuelan coup leader Juan Guaido and his allies identifies the potential collapse of the country’s electrical sector as “a watershed event” that “would likely have the impact of galvanizing public unrest in a way that no opposition group could ever hope to generate.” Continue reading
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Venezuela: Roundup – 3- Details of Electricity War exposed, saboteurs detained, imperialist economic war widens
Details of the Electricity War, part of a plan to incite unrest against Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro and the ruling party, have been exposed. President Maduro has presented details of the attacks on the country’s electricity supply system. Continue reading
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Venezuela: Roundup – 2- US presses India to stop buying oil from Venezuela: Imperial Economic War intensifies
Imperialists are intensifying their economic war against the Bolivarian Venezuela. Continue reading
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Venezuela: ROUNDUP1-Imperialism’s Electricity War follows failure of interventionist ploy
8 March 2019 — Countercurrents Venezuela experienced an electricity war machinated by imperialism and its proxies – the rightists, the reactionaries. Electricity War Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro accused the US of waging an “electricity war” against the country, as Caracas and other cities plunged into darkness Thursday night. Continue reading
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Venezuela – Guaidó Planned To Use Arms – Frustration Over Stalemate Sets In
New reports about the U.S. coup attempt in Venezuela describe the current mood in Washington as ‘frustration’. They also shine new light on why of the opposition’s plans failed. Continue reading
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International Observers to Venezuela’s Election Pen Letter to the EU
In view of the ongoing Western attempt to destabilize Venezuela, we think it instructive to present to our readers the text of the letter the international observers to Venezuela’s last presidential election addressed to EU’s High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy in June 2018. Continue reading
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The Recolonization of Latin America and the War on Venezuela By James Petras
Not since the US pronounced the Monroe Doctrine proclaiming its imperial supremacy over Latin America, nearly 200 years ago, has a White House regime so openly affirmed its mission to recolonize Latin America. Continue reading
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Venezuela — Interview with Stalin Pérez Borges: “It will be very difficult to defeat us.”
Stalin Pérez Borges is a union leader and veteran socialist militant. He is currently a member of LUCHAS (acronym for Unitarian UnionistChavista League, and also ‘Struggles’ in Spanish) and of the Bolivarian Socialist Workers’ Central (CBST) Advisory Council. Intersecciones spoke to Pérez Borges about the current crisis in Venezuela. The original Spanish version was published… Continue reading
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The Venezuela crisis and realpolitik By Alfred de Zayas
As heads of government, democratically entrusted with safeguarding the welfare of all Venezuelans, Chavez and Maduro bear overall responsibility for the economic crisis, but they are not alone. Surely it was a mistake to follow the risky politics of all previous governments by maintaining the dangerous dependence on the export of petroleum and failing to… Continue reading
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The words and deeds of social imperialists by Glen Ford
The best evidence of the profound weakness of the “left” in the United States is that it is necessary to credit Bernie Sanders with making “socialism” a benign term in national political discourse. The price of socialism’s admission to polite conversation here in the belly of the hegemonic capitalist beast is that it must always… Continue reading
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Hands Off Venezuela: Foreign Minister Arreaza Holds UN Marathon for Peace: Usurper Guaido Urges Military Intervention and War By Carla Stea
In a herculean effort to prevent war, and protect the integrity of his country, Venezuelan Foreign Minister Jorge Arreaza held a breathtaking schedule of events at the United Nations, including a meeting with the Secretary-General, consultations with the envoys of 60 member states supporting Venezuela’s sovereignty, a press conference the evening of February 22, speaking… Continue reading
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