{"id":43821,"date":"2019-02-15T07:16:49","date_gmt":"2019-02-15T12:16:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=43821"},"modified":"2019-02-15T09:06:52","modified_gmt":"2019-02-15T14:06:52","slug":"oil-agriculture-and-imperialism-averting-the-fast-track-to-armageddon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=43821","title":{"rendered":"Oil, Agriculture and Imperialism: Averting the Fast-Track to Armageddon?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Oil, Agriculture and Imperialism: Averting the Fast-Track to Armageddon?<\/a><\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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US National Security Advisor John Bolton has more or less admitted that the ongoing destabilisation of Venezuela is about grabbing its oil. He recently stated<\/a>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We\u2019re looking at the oil assets\u2026 We\u2019re in conversation with major American companies now\u2026 It will make a big difference to the United States economically if we could have American oil companies really invest in and produce the oil capabilities in Venezuela.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

The US\u2019s hand-picked supposed leader-in-waiting, Juan Guaido, aims to facilitate the process<\/a>and usher in a programme of \u2018mass privatisation\u2019 and \u2018hyper-capitalism\u2019<\/a> at the behest of his coup-instigating masters in Washington, thereby destroying the socialist revolution spearheaded by the late Hugo Chavez and returning to a capitalist oligarch-controlled economic system.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

One might wonder who is Bolton, or anyone in the US, to dictate and engineer what the future of another sovereign state should be. But this is what the US has been doing across the globe for decades. Its bloody imperialism, destabilisations, coups, assassinations, invasions and military interventions have been extensively documented by William Blum<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Of course, although oil is key to the current analysis of events in Venezuela, there is also the geopolitical subtext<\/a> of debt, loans and Russian investment and leverage within the country. At the same time, it must be understood that US-led capitalism is experiencing a crisis of over-production<\/a>: when this occurs capital needs to expand into or create new markets and this entails making countries like Venezuela bow to US hegemony and open up its economy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For US capitalism, however, oil is certainly king. Its prosperity is maintained by oil with the dollar serving as the world reserve currency. Demand for the greenback is guaranteed as most international trade (especially and significantly oil) is carried out using the dollar. And those who move off it are usually targeted by the US (Venezuela being a case in point<\/a>).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Oil, Agriculture and Imperialism: Averting the Fast-Track to Armageddon? Image source US National Security Advisor John Bolton has more or less admitted that the ongoing destabilisation of Venezuela is about grabbing its oil. He recently stated: We\u2019re looking at the oil assets\u2026 We\u2019re in conversation with major American companies now\u2026 It will make a big difference to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,5,7],"tags":[13900,259,4487,23435,588,839,3142,851],"class_list":["post-43821","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy-2","category-geopolitics","category-survival-2","tag-colin-todhunter","tag-empire","tag-john-bolton","tag-off-guardian","tag-oil","tag-us-dollar","tag-us-empire","tag-venezuela"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43821","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=43821"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43821\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43822,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43821\/revisions\/43822"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=43821"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=43821"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=43821"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}