{"id":59963,"date":"2021-10-18T06:09:31","date_gmt":"2021-10-18T11:09:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=59963"},"modified":"2021-10-18T06:09:31","modified_gmt":"2021-10-18T11:09:31","slug":"the-us-has-placed-itself-in-charge-over-which-nations-get-to-eat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=59963","title":{"rendered":"The US Has Placed Itself In Charge Over Which Nations Get To Eat"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 class=\"entry-title eltd-post-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/caitlinjohnstone.com\/2021\/10\/17\/the-us-has-placed-itself-in-charge-over-which-nations-get-to-eat\/\">The US Has Placed Itself In Charge Over Which Nations Get To Eat<\/a><\/h3>\n<article id=\"post-10628\" class=\"post-10628 post type-post status-publish format-standard has-post-thumbnail hentry category-article category-news tag-alex-saab tag-empire tag-maduro tag-sanctions tag-starvation tag-venezuela tag-washington\">\n<div class=\"eltd-post-content\">\n<div class=\"eltd-post-image-area\">\n<div class=\"eltd-post-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"attachment-newsroom_elated_post_feature_image size-newsroom_elated_post_feature_image wp-post-image\" src=\"https:\/\/caitlinjohnstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/medium-2-6.jpg?ea9430&amp;ea9430\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1080px) 100vw, 1080px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/caitlinjohnstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/medium-2-6.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/caitlinjohnstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/medium-2-6-300x160.jpg 300w, https:\/\/caitlinjohnstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/medium-2-6-768x410.jpg 768w, https:\/\/caitlinjohnstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/medium-2-6-1024x546.jpg 1024w\" alt=\"\" width=\"1080\" height=\"576\" \/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"eltd-post-text\">\n<div class=\"eltd-post-text-inner clearfix\">\n<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/going_rogue\/the-us-has-placed-itself-in-charge-over-which-nations-get-to-eat\">Listen to a reading of this article:<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?visual=true&amp;url=https%3A%2F%2Fapi.soundcloud.com%2Ftracks%2F1143280441&amp;show_artwork=true&amp;maxheight=1000&amp;maxwidth=1060\" width=\"1060\" height=\"400\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>\u2756<\/p>\n<p>The globally influential\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/swprs.org\/the-propaganda-multiplier\/\">propaganda multiplier<\/a>\u00a0news agencies AP and\u00a0AFP have both informed their readers\u00a0that a \u201cfugitive\u201d has been extradited to the United States.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFugitive businessman close to Venezuela\u2019s Maduro extradited to US,\u201d\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/fugitive-businessman-close-venezuelas-maduro-230133414.html\">reads<\/a>\u00a0the AFP headline.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAlex Saab, a top fugitive close to Venezuela\u2019s socialist government, has been put on a plane to the U.S. to face money laundering charges,\u201d AP\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ap\/status\/1449474896828973061\">announced<\/a>\u00a0on Twitter.<\/p>\n<p>You\u2019d be forgiven for wondering what specifically makes this man a \u201cfugitive\u201d, and what that status has to do with his extradition to a foreign government whose laws should have no bearing on his life. The Colombian-born Venezuelan citizen Alex Saab, as it happens, is a \u201cfugitive\u201d from the US government\u2019s self-appointed authority to decide which populations on our planet are permitted to have ready access to food. His crime is working to circumvent the crushing US sanctions which have been\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scoop.co.nz\/stories\/HL1904\/S00166\/trump-has-murdered-over-40000-venezuelans-with-sanctions.htm\">starving Venezuelan civilians to death<\/a>\u00a0by the tens of thousands.<\/p>\n<div class=\"twitter-tweet twitter-tweet-rendered\"><iframe id=\"twitter-widget-0\" class=\"\" title=\"Twitter Tweet\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/embed\/Tweet.html?dnt=false&amp;embedId=twitter-widget-0&amp;features=eyJ0ZndfZXhwZXJpbWVudHNfY29va2llX2V4cGlyYXRpb24iOnsiYnVja2V0IjoxMjA5NjAwLCJ2ZXJzaW9uIjpudWxsfSwidGZ3X2hvcml6b25fdHdlZXRfZW1iZWRfOTU1NSI6eyJidWNrZXQiOiJodGUiLCJ2ZXJzaW9uIjpudWxsfSwidGZ3X3NwYWNlX2NhcmQiOnsiYnVja2V0Ijoib2ZmIiwidmVyc2lvbiI6bnVsbH19&amp;frame=false&amp;hideCard=false&amp;hideThread=false&amp;id=1449492737234018305&amp;lang=en&amp;origin=https%3A%2F%2Fcaitlinjohnstone.com%2F2021%2F10%2F17%2Fthe-us-has-placed-itself-in-charge-over-which-nations-get-to-eat%2F&amp;sessionId=2907eb842f37fb65e8bb2c63f297aafd91c97fdc&amp;theme=light&amp;widgetsVersion=fcb1942%3A1632982954711&amp;width=550px\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-tweet-id=\"1449492737234018305\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>Saab is being extradited from the African nation of Cabo Verde where he has been imprisoned since last year under pressure from the US government. In an article published this past May titled \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.mintpressnews.com\/alex-saab-v-the-empire-how-the-us-is-using-lawfare-to-punish-a-venezuelan-diplomat\/277364\/\">Alex Saab v. The Empire: How the US Is Using Lawfare To Punish a Venezuelan Diplomat<\/a>\u201c, Roger D Harris explains how the US uses its domination of the international financial system to crush nations which disobey it and outlines the real reasons for Saab\u2019s imprisonment, which has included torture and draconian living conditions. Harris writes:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mppre.gob.ve\/en\/comunicado\/venezuela-joins-request-african-lawyers-demands-government-cape-verde-immediately-release-alex-saab\/#:~:text=Alex%20Saab%2C%20Special%20Envoy%20and,which%20is%20why%20Cape%20Verde\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Special Envoy and Ambassador<\/a>\u00a0to the African Union for Venezuela Alex Saab was on a humanitarian mission flying from Caracas to Iran to procure food and gasoline for the Venezuelan\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/venezuelanalysis.com\/news\/14602\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">CLAP<\/a>\u00a0food assistance program. Saab was detained on a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.afriquemedia.tv\/afrique\/cape-verde-heading-to-hell-paradise-destination-with-high-risk-of-ill-treatment-and-arbitrary-detention\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">refueling stop<\/a>\u00a0in the African nation of Cabo Verde and has been held in custody ever since June 12, 2020.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>\u2026click on the above link to read the rest of the article\u2026<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The US Has Placed Itself In Charge Over Which Nations Get To Eat Listen to a reading of this article: \u2756 The globally influential\u00a0propaganda multiplier\u00a0news agencies AP and\u00a0AFP have both informed their readers\u00a0that a \u201cfugitive\u201d has been extradited to the United States. \u201cFugitive businessman close to Venezuela\u2019s Maduro extradited to US,\u201d\u00a0reads\u00a0the AFP headline. \u201cAlex Saab, [&hellip;]<\/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":[5,6],"tags":[17039,319,2308,17693,3142,851],"class_list":["post-59963","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geopolitics","category-liberty","tag-caitlin-johnstone","tag-food","tag-starvation","tag-us-economic-sanctions","tag-us-empire","tag-venezuela"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59963","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=59963"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59963\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59964,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59963\/revisions\/59964"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=59963"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=59963"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=59963"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}