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Media Exonerates the US Empire in Venezuela

March 25, 2018 Gregory Shupak, FAIR , , ,
The United States has for years undermined the Venezuelan economy with economic sanctions, but US media coverage of Venezuela’s financial crisis has gone out of its way to obscure this. The intent of the sanctions is clear: to inflict maximum pain on Venezuela so as to encourage the people of the country to overthrow the democratically elected government. SUNY professor Gabriel Hetland (The Nation, 8/17/16) pointed out in 2016 that the Obama government “prevented Venezuela from obtaining much-needed foreign financing and investment.” Such policies, Hetland notes, have had a considerable and highly detrimental impact at a time when Venezuela is in desperate need of dollars but is prevented from gaining access to them by Washington.

Still Meddling In Venezuela

March 8, 2018 Mark Weisbrot, Counterpunch.org , , ,
In recent weeks, the Trump administration has stepped up its efforts at “regime change” in Venezuela. In the past, Trump himself has even mentioned military action as a possible option, but the most recent moves appear more likely to be implemented, and some are already operational. According to sources with knowledge of the matter, the leading opposition contender for Venezuela’s upcoming presidential election, Henri Falcón, was told by US officials that the Trump administration would consider financial sanctions against him if he entered the presidential race. (The US State Department did not return requests for comment.) The US has backed the main opposition coalition decision to boycott the election. Falcón is a former governor and retired military officer. He is leading in the latest polls, and according to the most reliable opposition pollster, Datanalisis, would defeat Maduro in the election by a margin of nearly 7 percentage points.

Still Meddling In Venezuela

March 6, 2018 Mark Weisbrot, Counterpunch.org , ,
In recent weeks, the Trump administration has stepped up its efforts at “regime change” in Venezuela. In the past, Trump himself has even mentioned military action as a possible option, but the most recent moves appear more likely to be implemented, and some are already operational. According to sources with knowledge of the matter, the leading opposition contender for Venezuela’s upcoming presidential election, Henri Falcón, was told by US officials that the Trump administration would consider financial sanctions against him if he entered the presidential race. (The US State Department did not return requests for comment.) The US has backed the main opposition coalition decision to boycott the election. Falcón is a former governor and retired military officer. He is leading in the latest polls, and according to the most reliable opposition pollster, Datanalisis, would defeat Maduro in the election by a margin of nearly 7 percentage points.

U.S. And Allies Look to Military Intervention in Venezuela

February 25, 2018 By W. T. Whitney Jr. , People's World , ,
The Bolivarian social and political movement first led by former Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez and holding state power since 1999 has long faced U.S. assaults.  They’ve ranged from U.S. support for an unsuccessful military coup in 2002, backing for violent street disturbances, U.S. money assigned to political opponents, and U.S. economic sanctions against Venezuelan political leaders. Now the U.S. government may be on the verge of blocking Venezuelan oil sales in the United States. Surveying the scene, Ángel Guerra Cabrera, a Cuban political journalist living in Mexico, asserts that Venezuela “is the Spanish Republic of today.” As in the 1930s, “a decisive struggle is underway in Venezuela for democracy and self determination of the peoples.”

Venezuela: Revenge Of The Mad-Dog Empire

February 22, 2018 Ajamu Baraka, Blackagendareport.com , , ,
Only in the world of comic-book fantasies is the United States a friend to the oppressed in Africa or anywhere else on the planet. In the real world, the U.S. is a predator, colonial/capitalist nation. But like the imagined nation of Wakanda, in the latest cultural assault on critical mass consciousness, “American exceptionalism” and “make America great again” — two slogans representing both sides of the imperialist coin—ruling class interests are obscured and the people are reduced to working against their objective interests and being accomplices to imperial lawlessness. In every part of the world, the United States is engaged in maniacal, criminal assaults on democracy, basic human decency and common sense.

Regime Change Fails: Is A Military Coup Or Invasion Of Venezuela Next?

February 13, 2018 Kevin Zeese and Margaret Flowers, Popular Resistance , , , ,
Secretary of State Tillerson brought up a potential military coup in Venezuela on February 1, 2018 at his alma mater, the University of Texas.  Tillerson then visited allied Latin American countries urging regime change and more economic sanctions on Venezuela. Tillerson is considering banning the processing or sale of Venezuelan oil in the US and discouraging Venezuelan oil in other countries. Further, the US is laying the groundwork for war against Venezuela. Not recognizing elections and urging a military coup are bad enough, more disconcerting is that Admiral Kurt W. Tidd, head of the Southcom, held a closed door meeting in Colombia after Tillerson's visit. Tidd has claimed the humanitarian crisis, created in large part the economic war against Venezuela, requires military action for humanitarian reasons. War preparations are already underway in Colombia. People in the United States who support the self-determination of other countries should show solidarity with Venezuelans, expose the US agenda and publicly denounce regime change. 

Tillerson On Latin American Tour Calling For Regime Change In Venezuela

February 6, 2018 Staff, Telesurtv.net , , , , ,
Representatives of more than 50 social and political organizations rejected the U.S. secretary of state's visit to Mexico, where he was declared persona non grata. U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson's first tour of Latin America got off to a rocky start on Friday with U.S. ally Mexico distancing itself from his suggestion that Venezuela's President Nicolas Maduro could be toppled by his own military. Tillerson ruffled feathers across the region on the eve of his five-nation tour with comments in Texas defending 19th-century U.S. foreign policy in Latin America and suggesting the Venezuelan army could manage "a peaceful transition" from Maduro, Reuters reports. Both Maduro and his defense minister condemned the comments on Friday, and even Mexico – no friend of the Venezuelan government...

The US Role In Regime Change In Brazil

February 5, 2018 Staff, Brasilwire.com , ,
Like its market forces alibi, US imperialism is considered elementary, as natural as the breeze, unnecessary background detail that we simply don’t need to question or talk about. This denial of empire is central to its persistence, and the accusation of “blaming the Yanqui for everything” is the dusty rhetorical device used by both US pundits and the comprador class across Latin America, to shut down any rational criticism of a status quo which has historically protected their privileges. In recent years commentators have even tried to deny the extensively documented US role in Brazil’s Military Coup of 1964, or point to Dilma Rousseff’s own diplomatic remark that “we have enough coup plotters of our own”.

Accompaniment In Honduras

February 4, 2018 By Ken Jones, Common Dreams , ,
We came to Honduras at the urgent request of SHARE El Salvador, a humanitarian aid organization with a long history of solidarity work in Central America. Police and military repression in Honduras since the overtly fraudulent elections in November 2017 has been getting worse, with over thirty people killed and more than one thousand in jails. Death threats aimed at those who are raising their voices the loudest are getting more overt and intense. We were reminded how remarkable the people of this country are. They continue in their courageous struggle with good humor, graciousness, and resilience, despite the grim repression they face. Many of us expressed our gratitude to them in return, for inspiring us to call on these inner strengths ourselves, even in the hardest of times, for protecting us, and for giving us a glimpse of the dictatorship our government supports.

US Color Revolution Begins In Thailand As Proxy War With China

February 4, 2018 By Tony Cartalucci, Global Research , ,
The protest leaders vowed to gather weekly until their demands were met. This is a thinly veiled threat, with the protests taking place precisely where previous protests organized by the same interests carried out gun battles with government troops, mass murder against counter-protesters, and committed widespread and devastating arson in the surrounding areas. The protesters seek to overthrow Thailand’s independent institutions including its military and constitutional monarchy, and return US proxies to power, particularly billionaire and former prime minister, Thaksin Shinawatra and his Pheu Thai Party (PTP). Thaksin Shinawatra is a convicted criminal who fled Thailand to evade a two year jail sentence.

Iran’s Unfinished Democratic Revolution

January 21, 2018 Rohini Hensmen, The Wire. , , ,
The Iranian struggle for democracy goes back more than a century. The 1905 revolution, which resulted in the Constitution of 1906 establishing a parliament (Majlis), was essentially against the absolute power of the monarchy as well as British and Russian imperialism. However the first Majlis was dissolved in 1908 after being attacked by the Shah (king), and the second Majlis of 1909 was dissolved in 1911 when Russian and British imperialism re-established control over the country.

State Department Spent Over $1m In Iran To Exploit Unrest

January 21, 2018 Nafeez Ahmed, Information Clearinghouse. , , ,
At the end of 2017, a dozen cities across Iran, including the capital Tehran, were rocked by spontaneous protests which continued into the New Year. The protests drew attention to the country’s deteriorating economic conditions, along with the regime’s abysmal human rights record. They also paved the way for President Donald Trump’s announcement on January 12th that this would be a “last chance” for waiving US nuclear sanctions under the Iran nuclear deal for a further 60 days, after which the US would withdraw if its “disastrous flaws” cannot be fixed.

Media Turn To Regime Change Enthusiasts To Discuss Iran

January 6, 2018 Adam Johnson, Fair.org , , ,
Since the outbreak of mass demonstrations and unrest in Iran last week, US media have mostly busied themselves with the question of not if we should “do something,” but what, exactly, that something should be. As usual, it’s simply taken for granted the United States has a divine right to intervene in the affairs of Iran, under the vague blanket of “human rights” and “democracy promotion.” (The rare exception, such as an op-ed by ex-Obama official Philip Gordon—New York Times, 12/30/17—still accepted the premise of regime change: “I, too, want to see the government in Tehran weakened, moderated or even removed.”) With this axiom firmly established in Very Serious foreign policy circles, the next question becomes the nature, degree and scope of the “something” being done.

Special Report: Are Long-Term US Regime Change Efforts Behind Iran Protests?

January 5, 2018 Kevin Zeese and Margaret Flowers, Popular Resistance , ,
We talked to Mostafa Afzalzadeh from Tehran about what the current protests in Iran are about and where they are going. Mostafa has been an independent journalist in Iran for 15 years and a documentary filmmaker. One of his documentaries is Manufacturing Dissent, about the US, UK and their western and Gulf State allies that launched a covert war in Syria in early 2011, dressed up by the media as a "revolution," to remove Assad from power and the role of western media in creating support for the war. Mostafa said the US has been trying to change the Iranian government since the 1979 Iranian revolution.

Are Iran Protests Evolving Into Syrian-Like Civil War?

January 2, 2018 Kevin Zeese, PopularResistance.org ,
Reuters reports that a small percentage of protesters are using them to raise foreign policy issues. Another Reuters report described increasing violence by protesters leading to a strong reaction by Iranian authorities. Associated Press reported nine protesters killed including some who tried to storm a police station to take weapns. Iranian state television puts the death toll in six days of demonstrations to at least 20 people. These reports are reminiscent of how Arab Spring protests in Syria became violent and were the seeds to the bloody Syrian civil war. Author Max Blumental pointed out the similarity between the Syrian escalation with the escalation in Iran. . .
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