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How the Concentration of Wealth is Driving a New Global Imperialism
How the Concentration of Wealth is Driving a New Global Imperialism Corporate media today is highly concentrated and fully international. Their primary goal is the promotion of product sales and pro-capitalist propaganda through the psychological control of human desires, emotions, beliefs, fears, and values. Regime changes in Iraq and Libya, Syria’s war, Venezuela’s crisis, sanctions […]
From ‘Humanitarian Aid’ to a Nationwide Blackout: What Next for Trump’s Coup in Venezuela?
From ‘Humanitarian Aid’ to a Nationwide Blackout: What Next for Trump’s Coup in Venezuela? Washington is growing increasingly desperate as its coup efforts go further south in Venezuela, argues Jorge Martin. US Special Envoy to Venezuela Elliott Abrams has threatened even harsher sanctions against the South American country as Washington’s efforts to oust the Maduro […]
From Coup D’etats to Soft Power: Dissecting Washington’s Color Revolution Techniques
From Coup D’etats to Soft Power: Dissecting Washington’s Color Revolution Techniques Over the last hundred years Washington has interfered in the internal affairs of at least 50 countries for a total of 130 individual cases. As for the last three decades, there have been more than 40 instances of such interference, including cases of elections meddling […]
US Regime Change Blueprint Proposed Venezuelan Electricity Blackouts as ‘Watershed Event’ for ‘Galvanizing Public Unrest’
US Regime Change Blueprint Proposed Venezuelan Electricity Blackouts as ‘Watershed Event’ for ‘Galvanizing Public Unrest’ The US-funded CANVAS organization that trained Juan Guaido and his allies produced a 2010 memo on exploiting electricity outages and urged the opposition “to take advantage of the situation…towards their needs” A September 2010 memo by a US-funded soft power organization that […]
Canada and the Venezuela Coup Attempt
Canada and the Venezuela Coup Attempt US presidents have bombed or invaded places like Grenada, Panama, Iraq and Sudan to distract from domestic scandals or to gain a quick boost in popularity. But, do Canadian politicians also pursue regime change abroad to be cheered on by the dominant media as decisive leaders? In a discussion […]
The Planning of a Coup against Venezuela: Chile, September 11, 1973: The Ingredients of a Military Coup. The Imposition of a Neoliberal Agenda
The Planning of a Coup against Venezuela: Chile, September 11, 1973: The Ingredients of a Military Coup. The Imposition of a Neoliberal Agenda Chicago Economics: Neoliberal Dress Rehearsal of the Structural Adjustment Programme (SAP) The main objective of the US-supported military coup in Chile was to impose the neoliberal economic agenda. “Regime change” was enforced […]
Everyone Has Fallen for the Lies About Venezuela
Everyone Has Fallen for the Lies About Venezuela There are three things I know for sure in this fanciful, sometimes inglorious experience we call life: You will never have a safety pin when you need one, and you will have thousands when you don’t need one. Wild animals are breathtakingly majestic until they’re crawling up […]
Is Venezuela On The Verge Of Becoming Another Syria?
Is Venezuela On The Verge Of Becoming Another Syria? Establishment elites have always had a predilection for regime change. Obviously, this strategy helps weed out nation states that might be uncooperative with their future plans for a fully centralized global economic and political order. We have also seen regime change occur when former puppet leaders […]
With Trump Pushing Regime Change in Venezuela, Critics Warn News Outlets Failing US Viewers Once Again
With Trump Pushing Regime Change in Venezuela, Critics Warn News Outlets Failing US Viewers Once Again “If the US had a major state TV network it would sound exactly like this. 100% pure, uncritical cheerleading.” Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) speaks about Venezuela before the arrival of President Donald Trump during a rally at Florida International […]
Making Globalism Great Again
Making Globalism Great Again Maybe Donald Trump isn’t as stupid as I thought. I’d hate to have to admit that publicly, but it does kind of seem like he has put one over on the liberal corporate media this time. Scanning the recent Trump-related news, I couldn’t help but notice a significant decline in the […]
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 […]
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 […]
Pompeo’s ‘Pandora’s Box’
Pompeo’s ‘Pandora’s Box’ Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, taking advantage of political bedlam inside the Donald Trump White House, has busied himself with “regime change” in Venezuela. Pompeo, working with National Security Adviser John Bolton and Iran-contra felon and arch-neo-conservative Elliott Abrams, worked secretly with Venezuela’s self-proclaimed “interim president,” Juan Guaido, to overthrow that nation’s […]
Flagrant, Cynical, Public attempt at coup d’état – Venezuela
Flagrant, Cynical, Public attempt at coup d’état – Venezuela It came as no surprise this past week when the US Administration made good on their promises to attempt to Regime Change Venezuela, the third part of John Bolton’s Troika of Tyranny, the other parts being Cuba and Nicaragua. But there were a few surprises. Saker readers would […]
