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"The smart way to keep people passive and obedient is to strictly limit the spectrum of acceptable opinion, but allow very lively debate within that spectrum." – Noam Chomsky By Manmeet Sahni Part 3 - Constructed Reality The most recent protests in Venezuela started in 2016, when the opposition-led National Assembly attempted to impeach Maduro before calling for a referendum. Maduro's government has made frequent calls for dialogue with the opposition, which the opposition has repeatedly turned down. In 2016, the opposition-led National Assembly tried to impeach Maduro illegally – they had zero support from legislative bodies. Then, in October of 2016, the opposition called for a coup against Maduro when the Supreme Court ruled to suspend the presidential recall referendum due to suspected electoral fraud in the first phase of the process. The opposition then launched a series of anti-government protests, further exacerbating the crisis. Mike

President and candidate Nicolas Maduro won the Sunday elections. President Nicolas Maduro won the Venezuelan presidential elections Sunday, gaining a second presidential term for six years with more than 5.8 million votes, the National Electoral Council (CNE) announced Sunday night. With 92.6 percent of the votes counted, Maduro had 5.8 million votes, while his closest rival, former governor Henri Falcón getting 1.8 million votes, said CNE President Tibisay Lucena who added that in total, 8.6 million Venezuelans voted, out of an electoral registry of 20.5 million people. " We are the force of history turned into popular victory, " Maduro told his supporters after the CNE announcement. " Thank you to facing so many aggressions and lies, thank you for overcoming it, and for making me president of Venezuela for the next term. " The president further thanked the Venezuelan people for their support and voting him into a second term w

Jean-Luc Melenchon, former head of the European Parliament, condemned critics of Venezuela's electoral process as U.S. "puppets." As the United States continues to claim Venezuela's presidential elections are illegitimate, the leader of France's radical left has defended the Latin American nation's electoral process, condemning critics as U.S. "puppets." Jean-Luc Melenchon, former head of the European Parliament, denied U.S. claims that the international community is rejecting the elections: "There are a certain number of countries, the puppets of the United States, which have decided that these elections did not suit them." In an interview with La Chaine Info (LCI) and RTL, a French radio network, Melenchon said that Spain's former socialist Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero also approved of Venezuela's electoral system. "It is not true that the opposition has boycotted, bec

"The smart way to keep people passive and obedient is to strictly limit the spectrum of acceptable opinion, but allow very lively debate within that spectrum." – Noam Chomsky By Manmeet Sahni Part 2 - Power of Suggestion Words are powerful: they suggest, and help shape public opinion. Used the wrong way, they can prove extremely damaging. For instance, while Chavez was in power, Western media frequently described him as a 'quasi-dictator' and 'strongman.' Jonathan Cook is a senior policy officer with the World Wildlife Fund. He says: "Columnists like the Washington Post's Jackson Diehl and the Miami Herald's Andres Oppenheimer have wielded the sharpest hatchets. Diehl, for instance, labeled pro-Chavez social movements 'anti-democratic' while lauding the anti-Chavez opposition, which used such tactics as distributing false exit poll results during the 2004 referendum. "Washington's hostility toward the recen

If a chemical weapons “attack” comes to pass in the place it has been predicted, it would be the first such provocation blamed on Assad to take place in territory occupied by a foreign power, likely triggering an intensified military response from the U.S. by Whitney Webb Part 4 - Setup for two-front U.S.-Israeli attack? While no new information has since emerged that would corroborate Novosti’s report, it is true that the U.S. — as the occupying force in the area where the provocation is allegedly being planned – does have a motive to conduct such a false flag attack, as the U.S. and Israel stand to benefit the most were the worst to occur. As MintPress has reported over the course of the war in Syria, the U.S. has long had the goal of regime change in Syria and it – along with many of its allies – have helped foment and prolong the Syrian conflict in pursuit of this end. However, timing here is key. Such a provocation, and the retaliation it wo