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A second Brexit referendum will boost the extreme right and the fascists further

globinfo freexchange Costas Lapavitsas spoke with Paul Jay of The Real News and explained why a second Brexit referendum will fuel the far right nightmare: The working class people, the poor and others who voted for Brexit in 2016, take their vote very seriously. Another referendum - before the first one will have been implemented - will look, and it will be, a direct negation of democracy. It will be a direct subverting of democracy. They will have been told ‘your vote counts for nothing’. In that context, the only political current that can benefit is the extreme right. And they're there. They're already active. They speak the language of the working people. There are actually now out and out fascists who are organizing actively. They call for a defense of democracy. They call for a rejection of politicians and politics in the sense that these politicians and official politics, democratic politics, are maneuvers used by the rich, and

The Grayzone testifies at the UN, exposes the Western propaganda on Venezuela

The Grayzone The Grayzone's Max Blumenthal and Anya Parampil spoke about Venezuela 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."

Rubio’s gloating betrays US sabotage in Venezuela power blitz

by Finian Cunningham US imperialists are so desperate in their regime-change predations over Venezuela, they seem to have a problem controlling their drooling mouths. The latest orgy of American gloating was triggered by the massive power outages to have hit Venezuela. No sooner had the South American country been blacked out from its power grid collapsing, senior US officials were crowing with perverse relish. Republican Senator Marco Rubio – who has become a point man for the Trump administration in its regime-change campaign in Venezuela – was a little too celebratory. Within minutes of the nationwide power outage last Thursday, Rubio was having verbal orgasms about the “ long-term economic damage ”… “ in the blink of an eye ”. But it was his disclosure concerning the precise damage in the power grid that has led the Venezuelan government to accuse the US of carrying out a sabotage. Information Minister Jorge Rodriguez noted how Rubio, in his

Βενεζουέλα: εκεί όπου οι θεωρίες συνωμοσίας βγαίνουν αληθινές

Οι καταγγελίες που εξαπολύει τις τελευταίες εβδομάδες ο πρόεδρος της Βενεζουέλας, Νικολάς Μαδούρο, εναντίον των ΗΠΑ θυμίζουν θεωρίες συνωμοσίας της πιο νοσηρής φαντασίας. Το πρόβλημα είναι ότι η μία μετά την άλλη επιβεβαιώνονται από αμερικανικά μέσα ενημέρωσης. του Άρη Χατζηστεφάνου Κάθε φορά που οι Ηνωμένες Πολιτείες θέλουν να αρχίσουν έναν νέο πόλεμο», έλεγε πρόσφατα ο δημοσιογράφος Γκλεν Γκρίνγουολντ, « επινοούν ένα πραγματικά εμπρηστικό και συναισθηματικά φορτισμένο ψέμα. Στόχος είναι να κάνουν τον κόσμο να μισεί τόσο πολύ την κυβέρνηση που θέλουν να ανατρέψουν, ώστε να αφήνουν στην άκρη τη λογική και να στηρίζουν τις πολεμικές επιχειρήσεις ». Τα σχετικά παραδείγματα στη σύγχρονη Ιστορία των Ηνωμένων Πολιτειών είναι αναρίθμητα και συχνά εξαιρετικά χοντροκομμένα. Ο πόλεμος του Βιετνάμ κλιμακώθηκε ύστερα από την υποτιθέμενη επίθεση που πραγματοποίησε το Βόρειο Βιετνάμ εναντίον αμερικανικών πλοίων στον κόλπο του Τόνκιν -μια επίθεση που κατά τα φαι

Ricardo Hausmann’s “Morning After” for Venezuela: The neoliberal brain behind Juan Guaido’s economic agenda

While online audiences know YouTube comedian Joanna Hausmann from her videos making the case for regime change, her economist father has flown below the radar. His record holds the key to understanding what the U.S. wants in Venezuela. by Anya Parampil Part 3 - Revolt against the austerity agenda During the late 1980s, as Lt. Col. Chávez watched the wholesale ravaging of his country’s economy by foreign capital, he formed a cadre of populist officers called the Bolivarian Revolutionary Movement 200. In 1992, Chávez led the officers in an attempted military coup against the government of Pérez, hoping to ride the wave of popular resentment for the neoliberal policies enforced by Hausmann and his fellow IESA boys. Though he initially failed, Chávez captured the mood of the Venezuelan public, including sectors of the middle class, and emerged as a national folk hero. Even mainstream U.S. media conceded that Chávez had a point. At the time, the Washington Post identifie

US regime change blueprint proposed Venezuelan electricity blackouts as ‘watershed event’ for ‘galvanizing public unrest’

The US-funded CANVAS organization that trained Juan Guaido and his allies produced a 2010 memo on exploiting electricity outages and urged the opposition “to take advantage of the situation…towards their needs” by Max Blumenthal Part 3 - Exploiting crisis to “get back into a position of power” As Dan Cohen and I reported here at the Grayzone , Guaido’s rise to prominence – and the coup plot that he has been appointed to oversee – is the product of a decade-long project overseen by the Belgrade-based CANVAS outfit. CANVAS is a spinoff of Otpor, a Serbian protest group founded by Srdja Popovic in 1998 at the University of Belgrade. Otpor, which means “resistance” in Serbian, was the student group that worked alongside US soft power organizations to mobilize the protests that eventually toppled the late Serbian President Slobodan Milosevic. CANVAS has been funded largely through the National Endowment for Democracy, a CIA cut-out that function

Hollywood’s ‘Captain Marvel’ blockbuster is blatant US military propaganda

The Pentagon was deeply involved in the production of the hit Hollywood film Captain Marvel, and is using the movie to spread recruitment propaganda. by Ben Norton Part 3 - Captain Marvel, brought to you by the US military On its official government website, the US Department of Defense boasted of its direct involvement in the production of Captain Marvel: About 50 airmen from the Fresno-based 144th Fighter Wing of the California Air National Guard and the 412th Test Wing from Edwards Air Force Base, California, had roles as extras for the film. B-1 and B-2 bombers; F-16, F-22 and F-35 fighter jets; and a NASA Global Hawk unmanned aircraft, as well as housing, runways, the flighline and a hangar at Edwards were used in the [film]. About 490 cast and crew members with 37 trucks spent about 21 days on the base for setup, filming and tear-down. Brie Larson, who portrays Danvers, also went to Nellis Air Force Base, Nevada, and met femal

As Brazil’s Jair Bolsonaro prepares to meet Donald Trump, his family’s close ties to notorious paramilitary gangs draw scrutiny and outrage

The Intercept Brasil Brazil’s President Jair Bolsonaro is in Washington to meet U.S. President Donald Trump at the White House on Tuesday. While the trip officially is focused on the joint efforts of the U.S. and Brazil to change the government of Venezuela, it is being billed by the Bolsonaro government as a “restart” of his presidency and image after multiple, serious scandals crippled the first three months of his presidency. But when it comes to recreating his image, the timing of this trip could hardly be worse. Key news events of the last several weeks — including the arrests of two former Rio de Janeiro police officers for the March 2018 assassination of Rio City Council Councilor Marielle Franco — have highlighted the most damaging and, to many, most terrifying revelations about Bolsonaro and his three politician sons: their extensive, direct, multilayered, and deeply personal ties to the paramilitary gangs and militias responsible for Brazil’

Britain’s witchfinders are ready to burn Jeremy Corbyn

by Jonathan Cook Part 4 - ‘Too apologetic’ Shortly before he found himself formally shunned by media commentators and his own parliamentary party, Williamson twice confirmed his guilt to the inquisitors. First, he dared to challenge the authority of the witchfinders. He suggested that some of those being hounded out of Labour may not in fact be witches. Or more specifically, in the context of constant claims of a Labour “anti-semitism crisis”, he argued that the party had been “too apologetic” in dealing with the bad-faith efforts of those seeking to damage a Corbyn-led party. In other words, Williamson suggested that Labour ought to be more proactively promoting the abundant evidence that it was indeed dealing with what he called the “scourge of anti-semitism”, and thereby demonstrate to the British public that Labour wasn’t “institutionally anti-semitic”. Labour members, he was pointing out, ought not to have to keep quiet as they were being endlessly slandered as a

The war criminal Elliott Abrams and the liberals who love him

Elliott Abrams, who is steering Trump’s Venezuela policy, has a long track record of war crimes. Yet a number of liberal commentators are rushing to his defense. by Paul Heideman Part 5 - Liberal enablers As Rep. Omar dragged Abrams’ ugly past into the spotlight, millions of Americans were alerted to the country’s bloody footprints in Latin America. The El Mozote massacre in particular received renewed attention. Yet even as Americans heard about this record for the first time, a number of voices spoke up to defend Abrams’ honor. Some of these, like the neocon-turned-“resistance” member Max Boot, or the radical-turned-neocon Ronald Radosh, were predictable and uninspiring. Boot warned that Omar showcased the dangers of the “uber-progressive wing” of the Democratic Party, while Radosh compared her to white supremacist Rep. Steve King. National Review ’s Jay Nordlinger put a bit more effort in, tweeting that “ I’ve come back to my phone to find about