West

In The West – Propaganda, Hysteria And Truly Foul Breath!

May 31, 2020 Andre Vltchek, Journal Neo. Educate! Capitalism, colonization, Socialism, West

If it wasn’t so tragic, it would be laughable: the political brigands in North America and Europe are fuming, spitting and rolling their eyes upwards towards the ceiling. They are pointing fingers in all directions, shouting incoherently “China!”, “Russia!”, “Venezuela and Cuba!”, “Iran!”; “You, You, YOU!”. China and Russia are quietly building a new world, which includes brand new infrastructure, factories and entire neighborhoods for the people. Hospitals are being constructed, and so are universities, parks, concert halls and public transportation networks. Both countries are doing all this quickly and noiselessly, and with great determination.

How The West And Its Allies Sabotaged Venezuela

June 29, 2018 By Val Reynoso, Venezuelanalysis.com Educate! Electoral Politics, Latin America, US Imperialism, Venezuela, West

Venezuela and Colombia differ in their relations and involvement with the US government and its functions. Washington makes the case that the US was helping to protect private sectors and the oil industry in Venezuela, as well as defend the Colombian government from the supposed terrorism of FARC, however, this is not the case for either nation. The Venezuelan government cannot be criticized without taking into account the role that the US, Organisation of American States (OAS), Saudi Arabia, Israel and Colombia have played in sabotaging the Venezuelan government and economy, then using corporate media to blame Venezuela's problems on Chavismo. The issues that have had an impact on the Venezuelan economy are not caused by an alleged socialism, but relatively low oil prices and sabotage by violent right-winged opposition to Bolivarianism.

The West’s Moral Hypocrisy On Yemen

February 25, 2017 Jonathan Marshall, www.consortiumnews.com Educate! West, Yemen

By Jonathan Marshall for Consortium News - Only a few months ago, interventionists were demanding a militant response by Washington to what George Soros branded “a humanitarian catastrophe of historic proportions” — the killing of “hundreds of people” by Russian and Syrian government bombing of rebel-held neighborhoods in the city of Aleppo. Leon Wieseltier, a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution and former New Republic editor, was denouncing the Obama administration as “a bystander to the greatest atrocity of our time,” asserting that its failure to “act against evil in Aleppo” was like tolerating “the evil in Auschwitz.” How strange, then, that so many of the same “humanitarian” voices have been so quiet of late about the continued killing of many more innocent people in Yemen, where tens of thousands of civilians have died and 12 million people face famine.

Syria’s “Voice Of Conscience” Has A Message For The West

October 27, 2016 Murtaza Hussain and Marwan Hisham, www.theintercept.com Resist! Syria, West

By Murtaza Hussain and Marwan Hisham for The Intercept - YASSIN AL-HAJ SALEH has lived a life of struggle for his country. Under the Syrian regime of Hafez al-Assad, he was a student activist organizing against the government. In 1980, Saleh and hundreds of others were arrested and accused of membership in a left-wing political group. He was just 19 years old when a closed court found him guilty of crimes against the state. Saleh spent the next 16 years of his life behind bars.

India To France, Millions Rising Up Against Effects Of Western Domination

September 2, 2016 Vijay Prashad, www.alternet.org Resist! France, Imperialism, India, West

By Vijay Prashad for AlterNet - Colonialism made us feel backward. It was always Europe that was advanced and enlightened, and it was always the East that was backward and wretched. Rather than honestly say that they had come to plunder, the colonial rulers said that they had come to school the East – it needed to be civilized. Every European colonizer used the phrase – the French called it mission civilisatrice, the Portuguese called it missão civilizadora and the English called it liberalism.

‘Empire Strikes Back’: Eric Draitser On Western Destabilization Of BRICS

May 27, 2016 Mnar Muhawesh, www.mintpressnews.com Educate! BRICS, West

By Mnar Muhawesh for Mint Press News - MINNEAPOLIS — NATO, the International Monetary Fund, and the World Bank are all touted as global organizations, in which every member is deserving of dignity, progress and support. Yet these organizations and others like them are dominated by economic and political heavyweights in Washington, Wall Street, London and Brussels, who are working to preserve the ideals of Empire that exploit, dominate or wholly ignore the Global South.

West Coast Cities Sue Monsanto To Pay For Chemical Cleanup

May 20, 2016 Sarah Gilman, www.hcn.org Resist! Chemicals, Lawsuit, Monsanto, West

By Sarah Gilman for High Country News - Portland, Oregon’s Willamette is no wilderness river. But on a spring day, downstream of downtown, wildness peeks through. Thick forest rises beyond a tank farm on the west bank. A sea lion thrashes to the surface, wrestling a salmon. And as Travis Williams, executive director of the nonprofit Willamette Riverkeeper, steers our canoe under a train bridge — dodging debris tossed by jackhammering workers — ospreys wing into view. The 10-mile reach, known as Portland Harbor, became a Superfund Site in 2000.

Land Of The Free? Harvard Study Ranks America Worst In West For Fair Elections

April 21, 2016 Claire Bernish, www.thefreethoughtproject.com Educate! Elections, United States, West

By Claire Bernish for The Free Thought Project - As if further proof could possibly be needed of the sorry state of the American electoral process, a new study just ranked the United States dead last in electoral integrity among established Western democracies. The Electoral Integrity Project (EIP)’s 2015 Year in Elections report is an independent research project by 2,000 elections experts from Harvard University and the University of Sydney in Australia assembled to examine the world’s elections.

US Elections Ranked Worst Among Western Democracies

March 24, 2016 Pippa Norris, www.theconversation.com Educate! Democracy, Elections, West

By Pippa Norris for The Conversation - The world is currently transfixed by the spectacle of American elections. From New York, London and Paris to Beijing, Moscow, and Sydney there is endless heated debate in the news media and across dinner tables about the factors fueling the remarkable success of Donald Trump, speculation about a brokered convention shattering the old GOP, and the most likely outcome of a polarizing Trump-Clinton battle in the fall.

How The West Chose War In Gaza

July 19, 2014 Nathan Thrall, www.nytimes.com Educate! Gaza, Hamas, Israel, Palestine, West

AS Hamas fires rockets at Israeli cities and Israel follows up its extensive airstrikes with a ground operation in the Gaza Strip, the most immediate cause of this latest war has been ignored: Israel and much of the international community placed a prohibitive set of obstacles in the way of the Palestinian “national consensus” government that was formed in early June. That government was created largely because of Hamas’s desperation and isolation. The group’s alliance with Syria and Iran was in shambles. Its affiliation with the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt became a liability after a July 2013 coup replaced an ally, President Mohamed Morsi, with a bitter adversary, Gen. Abdel Fattah el-Sisi. Hamas’s coffers dried up as General Sisi closed the tunnels that had brought to Gaza the goods and tax revenues on which it depended. Seeing a region swept by popular protests against leaders who couldn’t provide for their citizens’ basic needs, Hamas opted to give up official control of Gaza rather than risk being overthrown. Despite having won the last elections, in 2006, Hamas decided to transfer formal authority to the Palestinian leadership in Ramallah. That decision led to a reconciliation agreement between Hamas and the Palestine Liberation Organization, on terms set almost entirely by the P.L.O. chairman and Palestinian Authority president, Mahmoud Abbas.

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