Inter-Imperialist Rivalry

Regime Change Ramp-Up? Guaido Announces Venezuela-Wide ‘Tactical Action’ Against Maduro

March 29, 2019 Staff,.Rt.com Educate! Electoral Politics, Inter-Imperialist Rivalry, Latin America, Venezuela

US-backed Venezuelan opposition leader Juan Guaido has announced "tactical actions" by his supporters will begin next week after a nationwide protest, part of his "Operation Freedom" designed to topple President Nicolas Maduro. The ominously vague "tactical action" relies on the organization of so-called "Aid and Freedom Committees," according to a tweet from Guaido which scheduled the event for April 6. The committees, planned civilian "freedom cells" he set up across Venezuela with the help of opposition lawmakers in recent weeks...

Venezuela Deploys Advanced S-300VM Missile Systems To Protect Capital Amid Growing U.S. Threats

March 28, 2019 Staff, Militarywatchmagazine.com Resist! Inter-Imperialist Rivalry, Latin America, Regime Change, US Imperialism, Venezuela

Venezuela’s armed forces have reportedly redeployed additional S-300 missile batteries to military facilities near the capital Caracas to provide full coverage against potential air strikes, in response to a perceived threat of attack from the United States. The air defence missile batteries, command centres and radars were deployed to the Captain Manuel Rios Airbase. Venezuela currently operates several units of the S-300VM surface to air missile system, the second most advanced S-300 variant after the S-300V4, which is particularly specialised in intercepting ballistic and cruise missile attacks.

International Trade Unions Condemn Recognition Of Guaidó

March 25, 2019 Ivar Andersen, Arbetet.se Resist! Inter-Imperialist Rivalry, Regime Change, Russia, US Imperialism, Venezuela

More than 60 countries have recognized Juan Guaidó as legitimate interim president. But among international trade unions, support for Venezuelan self-determination is resolute . On January 23, the leader of the National Assembly, Juan Guaidó, declared himself interim president of Venezuela. His claim on the presidency was immediately recognized by the United States who, through Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, called for the world to “pick a side”.

Russian Troops, Aid Arrive In Venezuela After Delivering Red Line Warning To Trump

March 25, 2019 By Tyler Durden, Zerohedge.com Resist! Inter-Imperialist Rivalry, Latin America, Russia, US Imperialism, Venezuela

One of those warnings delivered by Ryabkov is understood to have been that no American military intervention in Venezuela will be tolerated by Moscow. For his part, Abrams sounded as if he had emerged from the meeting after having been given a severe reprimand. “No, we did not come to a meeting of minds, but I think the talks were positive in the sense that both sides emerged with a better understanding of the other’s views,” he told reporters. “A better understanding of the other’s views,” means that the American side was given a red line to back off.

We Are Being Lied Into War Again

March 14, 2019 Lee Camp, Truthdig.com Educate! Inter-Imperialist Rivalry, US Imperialism, Wars and Militarism

I was 23 when we invaded Iraq, and I wasn’t sure it was based on lies, but something deep down in me—just behind the spleen—told me it was based on lies. Kinda like if your blind date shows up and you notice he has a 2004 flip phone. It seems vaguely worrisome, and no explanation he can haltingly supply will put you at ease. Plus, anyone else who acts like it’s normal also becomes suspect. The invasion of Iraq just felt like it was a lie to me. And it turned out that I was right, that it was a lie, and that the entirety of the mainstream media and our government were either wrong or lying and, most of the time, both.

The Conflict Of Our Time: U.S. Imperialism Vs The Rule Of Law

March 11, 2019 Nicolas J S Davies, Worldbeyondwar.org Educate! Inter-Imperialist Rivalry, United Nations, US Imperialism

The world faces many overlapping crises: regional political crises from Kashmir to Venezuela; brutal wars that rage on in Afghanistan, Syria, Yemen, and Somalia; and the existential dangers of nuclear weapons, climate change, and mass extinction. But beneath the surface of all these crises, human society faces an underlying, unresolved conflict about who or what governs our world and who must make the critical decisions about how to tackle all these problems — or whether we will tackle them at all. The underlying crisis of legitimacy and authority that makes so many of our problems almost impossible to solve is the conflict between U.S. imperialism and the rule of law.

Venezuelans March Against Attack On Electric Grid System In Anti-imperialist Day

March 11, 2019 Staff, Telesurenglish.net Resist! Electric Grid, Inter-Imperialist Rivalry, Protests, Venezuela

The march gathered thousands of Venezuelans that protest imperialist intervention in the country, two days after the attack on its electric system. Thousands of Venezuelans took to the streets Saturday to march against interventionism in the country, as part of the celebrations of the national Bolivarian Anti-imperialist Day. The march started at 09:00 a.m. local time from the headquarters of Venezuela's TV Channel 8 and it mobilized down Av. Libertador de Caracas to the Presidential Palace of Miraflores, where President Nicolas Maduro and the countries political leaders received the gathering crowd.

I Quit My Job To Protest My Company’s Work On Building Killer Robots

March 9, 2019 Liz O'Sullivan, Aclu.org Resist! Artificial Intelligence, Inter-Imperialist Rivalry, Technology

When I joined the artificial intelligence company Clarifai in early 2017, you could practically taste the promise in the air. My colleagues were brilliant, dedicated, and committed to making the world a better place. We founded Clarifai 4 Good where we helped students and charities, and we donated our software to researchers around the world whose projects had a socially beneficial goal. We were determined to be the one AI company that took our social responsibility seriously.

Russia Seeks To Prevent Military Intervention In Venezuela

March 6, 2019 Staff, Tass.com Resist! Inter-Imperialist Rivalry, Russia, US Imperialism, Venezuela

MOSCOW, March 3. /TASS/. Russia will make every effort to prevent military intervention in Venezuela, Russia’s Federation Council (upper house) Speaker Valentina Matviyenko told a meeting with Venezuela’s Executive Vice-President Delcy Rodriguez, who is paying a working visit to Moscow. "We are very afraid that the United States may stage any provocations to provoke bloodshed and find a reason and pretext for intervention in Venezuela. But we will do our utmost to prevent this," Matviyenko said.

Financial Imperialism–The Case Of Venezuela

March 2, 2019 Staff, Kyklosproductions.com Educate! China, Inter-Imperialist Rivalry, Russia, US Imperialism, Venezuela

Invasion of Venezuela by US and its proxies is just around the corner! This past week vice-president Pence flew to Colombia once again—for the fifth time in recent weeks—to provide final instructions to US local forces and proxy allies there for the next step in the US regime change plan. Evidence that the ‘green light’ for regime change and invasion is now flashing are supportive public statement by former president, Barack Obama, and several high level US Democratic party politicians and candidates, directly attacking the Maduro regime. They are signaling Democrat Party support for invasion and regime change.

Venezuela: EU Spurns Violent Intervention For Peaceful Solution

February 27, 2019 Staff, Telesurenglish.net Educate! European Union (EU), Inter-Imperialist Rivalry, Venezuela

"It is very clear: we must avoid military intervention," said Maja Kocijancic, spokeswoman for foreign policy chief Federica Mogherini. The European Union is urging the world to abandon a “militarized intervention” into Venezuela, calling for dialogue to develop a “peaceful, political, and democratic” solution to the nation’s domestic political differences. "What is explicitly quite clear, from our perspective, is that we need a peaceful political and democratic and Venezuelan-owned resolution which obviously excludes the use of force,” said Maja Kocijancic, spokeswoman for foreign policy chief Federica Mogherini.

Everyone Has Fallen For The Lies About Venezuela

February 20, 2019 Lee Camp, Truthdig.com Educate! Inter-Imperialist Rivalry, Latin America, Oil, US Imperialism, Venezuela

Let’s take a second to go over the big three. There are three things that seem to provoke the ornery United States into overthrowing or bringing down a foreign government, no matter how many innocent civilians may die in the process. (If enough die, the perpetrators often get nominated for a Nobel Peace Prize.) If your country has one of these things, the U.S. might screw with you. If your country has two of these things, the U.S. will definitely screw with you. If your country has three of these things, then look behind you, because the U.S. is currently screwing you...

War With China? It’s Already Under Way

February 18, 2019 By Michael T. Klare, Tomdispatch.com Educate! China, Inter-Imperialist Rivalry, United States, Wars and Militarism

In his highly acclaimed 2017 book, Destined for War, Harvard professor Graham Allison assessed the likelihood that the United States and China would one day find themselves at war. Comparing the U.S.-Chinese relationship to great-power rivalries all the way back to the Peloponnesian War of the fifth century BC, he concluded that the future risk of a conflagration was substantial. Like much current analysis of U.S.-Chinese relations, however, he missed a crucial point: for all intents and purposes, the United States and China are already at war with one another. Even if their present slow-burn conflict may not produce the immediate devastation of a conventional hot war, its long-term consequences could prove no less dire.

Confronting The U.S./EU/NATO Axis Of Domination

February 14, 2019 Ajamu Baraka, Blackagendareport.com Educate! European Union (EU), Inter-Imperialist Rivalry, US Imperialism

The hypocrisy and confusion on the issue of race and white supremacy revealed itself once again in the United States with a governor dressed in blackface and a decision by the Trump administration and supported by the European Union to execute a coup against the democratically elected government of Venezuela. And while Virginia Governor Ralph Northam was outed as a racist when photos surfaced from his yearbook as a medical student in the 1980s that depicted him in either blackface or in a KKK outfit, the assumption that the U.S. and European Union had the right to determine the leadership of a nation in the global South escaped the same condemnation as a racist act of white supremacist power.

US Media Trying To Drum Up A New ‘Cold War’

February 14, 2019 Dave Lindorff, Counterpunch.org Educate! Inter-Imperialist Rivalry, Media, Propaganda, US Imperialism, Wars and Militarism

The latest example of absurd fear-mongering was brought to us courtesy of Fox Business News, with anchor Trish Regan darkly warned that “not since 1962 have we had such enemy missiles near our shores.” She explained that “for several years” Venezuela has been “amassing” up to 5000 “long-range Russian-made surface to air missiless.” Of course, in 1962, the missiles in question were intermediate range nuclear-tipped missiles that the then Soviet Union was installing in Cuba, aimed to counter similar missiles that the US had already based in western Europe and Turkey near Russia’s borders.

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