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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

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

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

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

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

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