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End All Interventionism, Not Just in Venezuela
END ALL INTERVENTIONISM, NOT JUST IN VENEZUELA It truly is phenomenal. The massive death and destruction from U.S. interventionism in Iraq, Afghanistan, Syria, and the rest of the Middle East isn’t even over with, and yet interventionist dead-enders are now shifting their sights to Venezuela. One almost gets the impression that the dead-enders are saying to […]
People Who Care About Democracy Don’t Plot Coups Abroad
People Who Care About Democracy Don’t Plot Coups Abroad Illustration by Nathaniel St. Clair For some months now, Venezuela’s socialist government has lurched through a series of escalating crises — hyperinflation, mass protests, political violence — while both the government and its opposition have flirted with authoritarianism. It isn’t pretty — and to hear the […]
Bank of England tears up its Gold Custody contract with Venezuela’s central bank
Bank of England tears up its Gold Custody contract with Venezuela’s central bank In early November 2018, it first came to light that the Bank of England in London was delaying and blocking the withdrawal of 14 tonnes of gold owned by the Venezuelan central bank, Banco Central de Venezuela (BCV). At the time, Reuters […]
Flash-Balls, Pitchforks And A Backstop
Flash-Balls, Pitchforks And A Backstop It’s educational and even somewhat entertaining to observe the role of the western press in the ongoing erosion and demise of democracy in Europe. But while it’s entertaining, it also means their readers and viewers don’t get informed on what is actually happening. The media paints a picture that pleases […]
China, Russia Preparing For “Blackout Warfare” With “Super-EMP” Bombs
China, Russia Preparing For “Blackout Warfare” With “Super-EMP” Bombs Russia, China and several other nations are developing powerful high-altitude nuclear bombs that can produce super-electromagnetic pulse (EMP) waves capable of knocking out critical electronic infrastructure, according to several declassified 2017 reports from the now-defunct Commission to Assess the Threat to the United States from EMP Attack […]
U.S.-China War May Be “Just A Shot Away”
U.S.-China War May Be “Just A Shot Away” – “World’s most dangerous hotspot” is in the South China Sea– Currency and trade wars can lead to shooting wars warns Rickards– Chinese buildup in South China Sea like ‘preparing for World War III’ says US senator (see news)– U.S.-China shooting war could be, as Mick Jagger put it, […]
Moscow Will Do “Whatever It Takes” To Defend Its Interests In Venezuela
Moscow Will Do “Whatever It Takes” To Defend Its Interests In Venezuela After decrying US sanctions against Venezuela’s state-run oil company PDVSA as “illegal” and enforcing “unfair competition”, a Kremlin spokesman has reiterated that Russia is prepared to use “all mechanisms available to us” to defend its economic interests in Venezuela – interests that are closely tied […]
Three Reasons Macron is a Hypocrite when it Comes to Venezuela
Three Reasons Macron is a Hypocrite when it Comes to Venezuela Paris (GPA) – Emmanuel Macron recently voiced support for opposition in Venezuela even as his own country is ground to a halt every weekend by protests. There is an overused saying that “people in glass houses shouldn’t throw stones.” While these few words may be cliche there […]
Russia Warns Low-Yield US Nuke Increases Risk Of Nuclear War
Russia Warns Low-Yield US Nuke Increases Risk Of Nuclear War Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov has responded to a Monday report in The Guardian that the United States has started manufacturing a low-yield nuclear warhead, warning that it has heightened the risk of a nuclear conflict. Lavrov said that Moscow voiced its concern last year over the W76-2 […]
Just Like Iraq, Warns Venezuela’s Maduro, US Wants to ‘Get Hands on Our Oil’
Just Like Iraq, Warns Venezuela’s Maduro, US Wants to ‘Get Hands on Our Oil’ “We will not allow a Vietnam in Latin America,” says nation’s president ahead of opposition demonstrations on Wednesday. Pro-government supporters attend a rally against U.S. President Donald Trump in Caracas, Venezuela in 2018. (Photo: Ueslei Marcelino/Reuters) Warning that U.S. military intervention […]
The America Problem
The America Problem Way back when the West was pressuring the apartheid government to commit suicide on behalf of its people, they did a remarkable thing. They sequestered their nuclear program, making sure the information and material would not fall into the hands of whatever came after apartheid. It was remarkable, because no other state […]
‘Media Bias Fact Check’ Smears WikiLeaks, Supports Western Propaganda Machine
‘Media Bias Fact Check’ Smears WikiLeaks, Supports Western Propaganda Machine With the latest US-backed coup underway in Venezuela and Roger Stone’s arrest as much an exercise in theater as the rest of his political career, one may wonder what a critique of Media Bias Fact Check (MBFC) and similar sites could contribute to the conversation in our […]
Project Fear Goes To ’11’: Brexit Could Lead To Thousands Of Deaths, Mass Hunger
Project Fear Goes To ’11’: Brexit Could Lead To Thousands Of Deaths, Mass Hunger If you listen to the government tell it, a post-“hard” Brexit Britain will inevitably resemble the post-apocalyptic Australia from “Mad Max”: A post-apocalyptic hellscape where Britons will be forced to battle it out “Thunderdome”-style for access to scare essentials like food, […]
Trump’s Venezuela Fiasco
Trump’s Venezuela Fiasco Last week President Trump announced that the United States would no longer recognize Nicholas Maduro as president of Venezuela and would recognize the head of its national assembly, Jose Guaido, as president instead. US thus openly backs regime change. But what has long been a dream of the neocons may well turn […]
