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Bloody Canada: Cheerleading the Lima Group’s Plot to Overthrow the Government of Venezuela
Bloody Canada: Cheerleading the Lima Group’s Plot to Overthrow the Government of Venezuela Canada has become the cheerleader of the Lima Group, an ad-hoc, self-appointed busybody group formed specifically to overthrow the legitimate government of Venezuela. Unable to get the OAS votes needed to agree to their nefarious plot, this is a group of governments […]
The Mother of All Bombs: U.S. Foreign Policy
The Mother of All Bombs: U.S. Foreign Policy Following the horrific destruction left in the wake of World War II, the United Nations in its seminal and founding document, the Charter of the United Nations, set out to prevent future wars among member nations. The Charter’s admonition against war was also voiced in the lessons […]
Venezuela: The US’s 68th Regime Change Disaster
Venezuela: The US’s 68th Regime Change Disaster In his masterpiece, Killing Hope: U.S. Military and C.I.A. Interventions Since World War II, William Blum, who died in December 2018, wrote chapter-length accounts of 55 US regime change operations against countries around the world, from China (1945-1960s) to Haiti (1986-1994). Noam Chomsky’s blurb on the back of the […]
Dismantling the Doomsday Machines
Dismantling the Doomsday Machines “From a technical point of view, he (Stanley Kubrick) anticipated many things. … Since that time, little has changed, honestly. The only difference is that modern weapons systems have become more sophisticated, more complex. But this idea of a retaliatory strike and the inability to manage these systems, yes, all of these […]
US ‘Regime Changes’: the Historical Record
US ‘Regime Changes’: the Historical Record As the US strives to overthrow the democratic and independent Venezuelan government, the historical record regarding the short, middle and long-term consequences are mixed. We will proceed to examine the consequences and impact of US intervention in Venezuela over the past half century. We will then turn to examine […]
UK vegetable and fruit supplies at risk
UK vegetable and fruit supplies at risk Potatoes on the wing – and thin pickings for all as UK crops wilt. Image: By Lucas Sankey on Unsplash Britons’ familiar and well-loved fish and chips could become scarcer as politics and climate change imperil UK vegetable and fruit supplies. LONDON, 5 February, 2019 − A combination of Brexit − Britain’s move to […]
US sanctions on Venezuela could lead to higher gas prices
US sanctions on Venezuela could lead to higher gas prices MANDEL NGAN/AFP/Getty Images The Trump administration announced last week it would impose sanctions on Venezuela’s state-run oil industry. That could lead to higher energy prices, especially in wake of the US withdrawal from the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action. Together with Iran sanctions, analysts say the […]
Goodbye ‘Freedom and Democracy’ – Hello ‘Rules-based International Order’
Goodbye ‘Freedom and Democracy’ – Hello ‘Rules-based International Order’ The banner and the clarion call of western countries, and their own asserted legitimation – especially when they are engaging in illegal wars and coups – used to be “freedom and democracy”: the precious gift they were generously and selflessly offering to a backward world – […]
The Venezuelan Coup and Gilets Jaunes: Great-Power Politics In a Multipolar World Order
The Venezuelan Coup and Gilets Jaunes: Great-Power Politics In a Multipolar World Order The protests seen in France and the interference in the domestic politics of Venezuela highlight Western double standards, which stand in contrast to the respect for international law maintained by China, India and Russia. In France on November 17, 2018, hundreds of […]
Washington plays Russian roulette with European lives by trashing INF Treaty
Washington plays Russian roulette with European lives by trashing INF Treaty © Getty Images / Denver Post In a flash, the US has scrapped the 1987 Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty, which safeguarded Europe and the world from a deadly US-Russia arms race. This is particularly bad news for Europeans. Russia must be feeling a […]
This Russian Oil Giant Is Driving Putin Toward Showdown With Trump In Venezuela
This Russian Oil Giant Is Driving Putin Toward Showdown With Trump In Venezuela “Russia is now so deeply invested in the Maduro regime that the only realistic option is to double down,” writes senior fellow at the Carnegie Moscow Center Alexander Gabuev. He details in a Financial Times op-ed that Moscow-based state oil giant Rosneft owns two offshore gas fields in […]
Bertrand Russell Diagnoses Washington War Madness and the Coming Rape of Venezuela
Bertrand Russell Diagnoses Washington War Madness and the Coming Rape of Venezuela It is a scene depressingly familiar to inhabitants of Political Washington over the past 30 years since US armed invasion of small or vulnerable countries came back into fashion after being briefly discredited following the Vietnam War. This time it is Venezuela and […]
WSJ Confirms: Trump-Appointed Venezuela Coup Leader Plans Neoliberal Capitalist Shock Therapy
WSJ Confirms: Trump-Appointed Venezuela Coup Leader Plans Neoliberal Capitalist Shock Therapy Venezuela’s US-appointed coup leader Juan Guaidó plans to privatize state assets and give foreign corporations access to oil, the Wall Street Journal admitted. The Wall Street Journal reported that Venezuela’s US-appointed coup leader Juan Guaidó has already drafted plans for “opening up Venezuela’s vast oil sector […]
Is Oil Behind Washington’s Venezuela Coup Madness?
Is Oil Behind Washington’s Venezuela Coup Madness? On January 23 US Vice President Pence sent a message via Twitter that Washington recognized the 35-year-old Speaker of the Venezuela National Assembly, Juan Guaido, as the “legitimate” President of the troubled country, and not elected President Maduro. The fact that it was first Pence and not the US […]
