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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’

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

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

Μέρος 3ο - Εκμεταλλευόμενοι την κρίση με σκοπό να «επιστρέψουν σε μια θέση ισχύος»   Συμφωνά με τα ρεπορτάζ του The Grayzone η προβολή του Γκουαϊδό και το σχέδιο πραξικοπήματος που φαίνεται να έχει αναλάβει, είναι καρπός μιας δεκαετίας – ενός σχεδίου που επεβλεπόταν από τον οργανισμό CANVAS. O CANVAS είναι παρακλάδι της ομάδας Otpor, μιας σέρβικης ομάδας διαμαρτυρίας που ιδρύθηκε από τον Πόποβιτς το 1998 στο Πανεπιστήμιο του Βελιγραδίου. Η Otpor, που σημαίνει αντίσταση στα σέρβικα, ήταν η φοιτητική ομάδα που συνεργάστηκε με διάφορες ομάδες υποκινούμενες από τις ΗΠΑ, με στόχο να υποδαυλίσουν τις διαμαρτυρίες που οδήγησαν στην ανατροπή του Σέρβου προέδρου Μιλόσεβιτς. Ο CANVAS χρηματοδοτείται από το Εθνικό Ταμείο για τη Δημοκρατία(ΝΕD), μια υπηρεσία της CIA που λειτουργεί ως το βασικό εργαλείο της κυβέρνησης των ΗΠΑ στην πρόκληση καθεστωτικών αλλαγών. Σύμφωνα με εσωτερικά μηνύματα ηλεκτρονικού ταχυδρομείου που έχουν διαρρεύσει από την Stratfor, μια εται

Ως «αδιόρθωτο» και «απαίσιο» περιγράφουν οι New York Times, η New York Herald και το Associated Press τον ηγέτη της Βενεζουέλας. Ο τελευταίος «απεχθάνεται τις πιο ιερές αξίες των πολιτισμένων εθνών», γράφουν τα δυτικά ΜΜΕ που υποστηρίζουν τον φιλελεύθερο «επαναστάτη», ο οποίος προσπαθεί να εξουδετερώσει τον «τύραννο». Ο τελευταίος είναι ο πλέον μισητός στον δυτικό κόσμο, το κράτος του, αν και πλούσιο σε πόρους, είναι υπερχρεωμένο, η διακυβέρνηση της χώρας διεκδικείται από έναν επαναστάτη που έχει συγκεντρώσει έναν στρατό και βαδίζει προς το Καράκας. Βαγγέλης Γεωργίου Μέρος 6ο - Αγαπητός στη Δύση, φρικιαστικός στους Βενεζουελάνους Ας δούμε, όμως, τι συνέβη στη Βενεζουέλα του Γκόμεζ, που ανέβασαν οι Αμερικανοί. Ο στρατηγός Γκόμεζ, κατά τη διάρκεια των 28 ετών της διακυβέρνησής του (1908-1935), συγκέντρωσε μια περιουσία 115 εκατομμυρίων Μπολίβαρ, περίπου 0,6% του ΑΕΠ της χώρας για το 1935! Με την προσωπική του εταιρεία Compañía Ganadera Industrial Venezol

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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 2 - The wreckage of the IESA Boys The neoliberal Venezuelan economist Juan Cristóbal Nagel described the neoliberal economics plan he favored for his country during the late 1980’s as “ your basic Washington Consensus recipe. ” Nagel said the plan consisted of the following ingredients: an end to price controls on basic goods and subsidies for gasoline; the privatization of state utilities; a decision to float the country’s exchange rate; and the lowering of tariffs. The recipe was popularly known as “El Gran Viraje,” or the Great Turn, to radical free-market capitalism. While campaigning for Venezuela’s 1988 presidential elections, Carlos Andrés Pérez of the social-democratic Acción Democrática Party (AD) slammed

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 2 - Rubio vows “a period of suffering” for Venezuela hours before the blackout The Venezuelan government has placed the blame squarely on Washington, accusing it of sabotage through a cyber-attack on its electrical infrastructure. Key players in the US-directed coup attempt have done little to dispel the accusation. In a tweet on March 8, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo framed the electricity outage as a pivotal stage in US plans for regime change: No food. No medicine. Now, no power. Next, no Maduro. — Secretary Pompeo (@SecPompeo) March 8, 2019 At noon on March 7, during a hearing on Venezuela at the Senate Foreign Relations Subcommittee, Sen. Marco Rubio explicitly called for the US to stir “ widespread unrest, ” declari

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 2 - Progressive cultural representation + militarist propaganda Captain Marvel was marketed as a feminist blockbuster, a rare superhero movie featuring a female lead. As the women-centered magazine Elle trumpeted, “ Captain Marvel Is Now the Highest Grossing Movie With a Female Lead Ever. ” As is so often the case in Hollywood, however, ostensibly progressive breakthroughs in cultural representation were seamlessly blended with US militarist propaganda. Captain Marvel (played by Brie Larson) has two close allies: Nick Fury (Samuel L. Jackson), a former CIA agent who finds himself directionless in life after successfully defeating communism in the Cold War; and Maria Rambeau (Lashana Lynch), another fighter pilot in the US military. The three team up in a benevolent, US military-backed mission to t