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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 […]
The Coming US-China Proxy War In Venezuela
The Coming US-China Proxy War In Venezuela China won’t give up on embattled Venezuelan president Nicolas Maduro anytime soon even as the US-led international noose of “delegitimizing” hangs around the socialist strongman, according to government statements released on Friday. Beijing reaffirmed it maintains “normal state-to-state relations” and cooperation between the two sides “shouldn’t be undermined no matter how […]
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 […]
The US aggression against Venezuela as a diagnostic tool
The US aggression against Venezuela as a diagnostic tool The Neocons never cease to amaze me and their latest stunt with Venezuela falls into this bizarre category of events which are both absolutely unthinkable and simultaneously absolutely predictable. This apparent logical contradiction is the direct result of a worldview and mindset which is, I believe, […]
Trump’s Brilliant Strategy to Dismember U.S. Dollar Hegemony
Trump’s Brilliant Strategy to Dismember U.S. Dollar Hegemony The end of America’s unchallenged global economic dominance has arrived sooner than expected, thanks to the very same Neocons who gave the world the Iraq, Syria and the dirty wars in Latin America. Just as the Vietnam War drove the United States off gold by 1971, its […]
Venezuela’s Citgo, Which Refines 5% Of US Gasoline, Is Weighing Bankruptcy
Venezuela’s Citgo, Which Refines 5% Of US Gasoline, Is Weighing Bankruptcy In the latest salvo to emerge from the escalating fight between the Trump administration and Venezuela’s ruling Maduro regime over control of the South American country’s state-owned energy assets, the WSJ reports that in order to protect its operations, Venezuela’s Citgo Petroleum is considering various […]
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 […]
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 […]
‘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 […]
The Empire’s Propagandists
The Empire’s Propagandists Drawing by Nathaniel St. Clair With most media attention in the US on the government shutdown and border wall stand-off spectacle, the Trump administration has been quietly ramping up US militarism around the world. And it has set its sights on Venezuela, once again, by supporting a coup. Whether or not one […]
If The World Understood Sovereignty, It Could End All Our Problems
If The World Understood Sovereignty, It Could End All Our Problems My own Australia has of course joined the chorus of US lackeys who are refusing to recognize Venezuela’s only legitimate and elected government, recognizing instead the presidency of some guy named Juan who decided to name himself Venezuela’s president with the blessing of the United States government. A […]
John Bolton Openly Admits He Wants Maduro Out, American Oil Companies In
John Bolton Openly Admits He Wants Maduro Out, American Oil Companies In Embattled Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro might be forgiven for thinking there’s a foreign-backed conspiracy against him in repeatedly accusing the US of engineering a “coup” and waging “economic war” against his regime, especially given that US advisers are now quite openly admitting this is precisely […]
