US coup

United States’ Role In The Coup Attempt And Effort To Reignite The Korean War

December 23, 2024 Margaret Flowers, Clearing the FOG. Featured Campaign, Podcast - Clearing The FOG Korean War, South Korea, US coup, Wars and Militarism

On December 3, President Yoon Suk-Yeol attempted to impose martial law in South Korea as part of an effort to take more power and reignite the Korean War. Social movements took to the streets en masse and stopped the coup. Legislators then successfully voted to impeach President Yoon, who is refusing to resign. Clearing the FOG speaks with Ju-Hyun Park of the Korean diaspora organization Nodutdol about long-term US intervention in South Korea, how the coup attempt was thwarted, alleged plans to create a false flag event implicating the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) and what happens next.

How To Understand The Change Of Government In Syria

December 20, 2024 Vijay Prashad, Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research. Educate! Bashar Assad, Hayat Tahrir al-sham (HTS), Syria, US coup

Just over a decade ago, Assad’s government remained in power largely because of support from Iran and Russia, but also because of the involvement – to a lesser extent – of neighbouring Iraq and Hezbollah (Lebanon). Assad did not have the stomach for the contest. He became president in 2000 after the death of his father, Hafez al-Assad, who took office through a military coup in 1971. Bashar al-Assad had a privileged upbringing and studied to be an ophthalmologist in the United Kingdom. When the rebel armies neared Damascus in December of this year, Assad fled to Moscow with his family, claiming that he wanted to retire from politics and resume his career as an ophthalmologist.

Compatible Left Joins Imperialism In Celebrating Defeat Of Syria

December 18, 2024 Stansfield Smith, Popular Resistance. Educate! Imperialism, Media, Syria, Terrorists, US coup

It may be no surprise that the “mainstream” corporate news media have turned into advertising agencies for US government policy. But it still surprises that what the CIA called a compatible left - those on the left it deemed compatible with maintaining imperialist rule - celebrates another US successful “regime change,” this time, Syria. Portside ran an article, Liberation in Syria Is a Victory Worth Embracing, which criticized “some self-styled Western ‘anti-imperialists’” for their lack of enthusiasm for the “victory.” While it does note Israel bombed Syria 220 times up to mid-November this past year, one finds no mention of the long US blockade imposed on Syrians.

Ajamu Baraka On The US-Backed Coup In Syria And Anti-Anti-Imperialism

December 16, 2024 Margaret Flowers, Clearing the FOG. Podcast - Clearing The FOG Imperialism, Iran, Israel, Palestine, Syria, US coup

On December 8, the United States and Israel, with support from Turkey, succeeded in overthrowing the Syrian government using Islamic jihadist militants as proxies. Some people in the United States are claiming this as a victory for the Syrian people even though the proxies are Al Qaeda terrorists. Clearing the FOG speaks with Ajamu Baraka about the coup, the history of resistance in Syria and in the region, and what this means for the Syrian people. Baraka discusses Israel's immediate expansion of its occupation in Syria and its quest for a 'Greater Israel.' He also discusses a tendency for some Left forces in the United States to side with US imperialism and why it is important to have ideological clarity about what is happening.

The US Attempted Coup In Venezuela Uses New Cyber Tools

September 15, 2024 Stansfield Smith, Popular Resistance. Educate! Cyber Warfare, Elections, US coup, Venezuela

The peoples around the world have looked to Venezuela as a vanguard leading Nuestra América in its second independence struggle, against the US. The US rulers operate as the inheritor of the European colonial empires, assuming the right to interfere in other countries’ elections, and dictate who are the winners. No other country - save US underlings in Europe, and Israel - dares to violate international law so brazenly. The Venezuelan right-wing had no real plan to win a democratic election, but instead prepared for a coup d’etat even before the polls closed. Working with the US government and corporate media, they allege President Maduro stole the July 28 presidential election, then committed human rights abuses to crush protests.

US-Backed Media, Activists Behind Attacks On Honduran Government

September 15, 2024 Wyatt Reed, The Grayzone. Educate! DEA, Honduras, Lawfare, Media, US coup, US Imperialism, Xiomara Castro

The Honduran government has slammed the US for attempting to initiate a “coup d’etat” in the Central American country, after the media outlet Insight Crime released decade-old footage appearing to show the current president’s brother-in-law negotiating a payment with men who later confessed to trafficking drugs. The tape was leaked amidst a diplomatic spat with the US over the Honduran government’s friendly relations with Venezuela following its disputed elections in July. Days before the footage emerged, Honduran president Xiomara Castro hinted at its release while announcing an end to a longstanding extradition deal with the US: “I will not allow the instrument of extradition to be used to intimidate or blackmail the Honduran Armed Forces.”

UN Human Rights Council Supports US Regime Change Plans For Nicaragua

April 3, 2024 Alfred de Zayas and John Perry, Popular Resistance. Educate! Human Rights, NGOs, Nicaragua, Regime Change, United Nations, US coup

When the United Nations sets up a “commission of inquiry,” it can result in a powerful analysis of violations of human rights law, such as the one appointed in 2021 to examine Israel’s illegal occupation of Palestinian territories and its Apartheid practices. But other commissions can become political platforms aimed at demonizing a particular government by crafting narratives that give the semblance of objectivity, while suppressing all evidence that contradicts the prevailing geopolitical consensus. The ultimate aim of such commissions is not to investigate or to provide advice or technical assistance, but to support a campaign of destabilization.

Victoria Nuland Retires Unexpectedly

March 6, 2024 Yves Smith, Naked Capitalism. Educate! State Department, Ukraine, US coup, Victoria Nuland

It is a cause for celebration that behind-the-scenes neocon mover-and-shaker Under Secretary of State, Victoria Nuland, is retiring at the end of March. Her replacement is Dick Bass, former ambassador to Afghanistan, and like Nuland herself, also a former direct report to Dick Cheney, i.e, another dyed-in-the-wool warmonger. However, Nuland was singularly effective, as proven by her longevity and in serving both parties, with the Trump Administration her only time out of formal power since 1993, when she was chief of staff to Strobe Talbott, then Deputy Secretary of State.

Secret Service Raids Venezuelan Ambassador’s Residency In Washington

February 17, 2024 Orinoco Tribune. Educate! FBI, Juan Guaido, US coup, Venezuela, Washington DC

Officers from the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and the United States Secret Service raided the residence of the Venezuelan ambassador in Washington. The diplomatic building was illegally occupied by the fugitive from Venezuelan justice Carlos Vecchio with complicity from US authorities since he declared himself Venezuela’s ambassador during the failed US “regime change” operation led by former deputy Juan Guaidó, who proclaimed himself “interim president” of Venezuela in 2019. According to a report posted by photojournalist Kyle Mazza on social media on Thursday, February 15, police activity could be seen in the area, and FBI officers were wearing bulletproof jackets and carrying long guns.

A Word Like Peace Is Faster Than The Bullet Of War

February 16, 2024 Vijay Prashad, Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research. Educate! Russia, Ukraine, US coup, Wars and Militarism

Two years ago, on 24 February 2022, Russian forces entered Ukraine. This act was not the start of the war in Ukraine. Rather, it was the acceleration of a conflict that dates back to at least 2014. That year, at the behest of the United States, a new government was imposed on Ukraine, aiming to bring the country closer to the European Union. This initiated the sustained persecution of the country’s Russian-speaking population. The conflict moved swiftly, with Crimea de facto becoming part of Russia once again and the Donbass region of Ukraine becoming a frontline in the conflict between Ukrainian far-right nationalists and Russian speakers. I

President Petro Denounces Attempt Of Institutional Rupture And Coup

February 4, 2024 Ana Perdigón, Orinoco Tribune. Educate! Colombia, Gustavo Petro, Social Movements, US coup, US Intervention

The president of Colombia, Gustavo Petro, denounced the attempt of a “serious rupture of institutional order,” referring to the investigation by the Attorney General’s Office against him, which he called unconstitutional. Petro decried that the Colombian Attorney General’s Office has opted for disruption of institutional order to remove him from the presidency. “They have decided to break the institutional order. As the president of the republic, I must warn the world of the mafia that has taken over the Attorney General’s Office, and I must ask the people for maximum mobilization,” the Colombian president wrote on social media.

International Court Of Justice Rules Against Ukraine On Terrorism, MH17

February 1, 2024 Joe Lauria, Consortium News. Educate! Crimea, Donbass, International Court of Justice (ICJ), Russia, Ukraine, US coup, Wars and Militarism

The World Court ruled on Wednesday that Russia did not finance terrorism in its defense of separatists in Ukraine and the court refused to find Russia guilty of downing Malaysian Airlines Flight 17 as Ukraine had asked. The case was brought to the ICJ by Ukraine in 2017, three years after the U.S.-backed coup in Kiev overthrew the democratically-elected President Viktor Yanukovych. When Russian speakers in Donbass rebelled against the unconstitutional change in government that they had voted for, the coup leaders in 2014 launched what it called an “anti-terrorist” military operation to put down the rebellion.

Delegation To Honduras Launches Campaign To Indict The US, Canada

January 10, 2024 Honduras Solidarity Network, Popular Resistance. Organize! Honduras, Human Rights, Narcotrafficking, US coup

Members of a ten-day US/Canada delegation hosted by the Cross Border Network of Kansas City and the Honduras Solidarity Network of North America have investigated how their two nations prioritize protecting the political, economic, and military interests of their governments and corporations over the rights and interests of the Honduran people. The delegation visited communities affected by mining and land grabbing, met with labor movement activists, and spoke with US, Canadian and Honduran officials and found that the continuing poverty, inequality, and dispossession of the Honduran people result from the crimes of the narco-dictatorship that ruled Honduras since the U.S. and Canadian-supported coup in June 2009.

Ukrainian Trial Demonstrates 2014 Maidan Massacre Was False Flag

December 16, 2023 Kit Klarenberg, The Grayzone. Educate! Far Right, Maidan, Maidan Massacre, Odessa, Russia, Ukraine, US coup, Viktor Yanukovych, Volodymyr Zelensky

Two police officers charged with the mass shooting of opposition protesters in Kiev’s Maidan Square in 2014 have been released after a Ukrainian court determined the fatal shots in the infamous massacre were fired from an opposition-controlled building. On October 18 2023, Ukraine’s Sviatoshyn District Court determined that of the five officers on trial, one would be acquitted outright, while another was sentenced to time served for alleged “abuse of power.” The remaining three, who no longer live in Ukraine, were convicted in absentia on 31 counts of murder and 44 counts of attempted murder. This, under a Supreme Court opinion stipulating suspects can be held collectively responsible for the actions of a group deemed criminal.

The Maidan Massacre, Censorship And Ukraine

October 23, 2023 Natylie Baldwin, Consortium News. Educate! Censorship, Maidan, Massacre, Media, Ukraine, US coup, Wars and Militarism

Canadian-Ukrainian professor Ivan Katchanovski’s investigation of the Maidan massacre in Kiev in February 2014 found an organized mass killing of both protesters and the police, with the goal of delegitimizing the Yanukovych government and its forces and seizing power in Ukraine, as he wrote for Consortium News in an in-depth article in 2019. (On Wednesday three policemen were sentenced for the massacre, one was acquitted and one was released for time served. The official investigation ignored Katchanovski’s academic research.)

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