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Old May 21st, 2019 #421
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Yeah the article by jew Stephen Lendman is 'interesting' if you are into the 'progressive' view on the emerging US military/police state ...

You are a liberal racist, not a white patriot. You believe in stuff like 'human rights' etc for everyone and would oppose a white male dictatorship in the US if we were ever able to overthrow the present regime, wouldn't you?
It's a Libertarian site. I get that confusion all the time, from Repuglicans and Demoncraps.

I just had a cuckservative, who supports Guaido’s sham government on the facebook say "Lew Rockwell, seriously?"

My response was "And now we dictate who is the leader of another nation, seriously?
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Old May 21st, 2019 #422
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It's a Libertarian site. I get that confusion all the time, from Repuglicans and Demoncraps.
It's LEWPUSS, we all know what it is. jew friendly like stormfront and Amren.

So, what you think about a white male dictatorship 'sister'?
 
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It's LEWPUSS, we all know what it is. jew friendly like stormfront and Amren.

So, what you think about a white male dictatorship 'sister'?
Not a fan of dictatorships.
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Not a fan of dictatorships.
I'm not a fan of two faced liberal racists.
 
Old May 21st, 2019 #425
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The warmongering jewess and pedophile apologist Anne Applebaum uses the Washington Post to attack Russia's president Vladimir Putin, Hungary's prime minister Viktor Orbán and Venezuela's president Nicolás Maduro and his predecessor Hugo Chávez:

Venezuela is how ‘illiberal democracy’ ends

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opini...=.dc651f8828ed

Here's an excerpt from Applebaum's smear piece:


The only people here who have a "distaste for the rule of law" are Juan Guaidó and his jewish masters. I'll just requote the following excerpt from an excellent RT article that shows how absurd Guaidó's claim to power is:


https://www.rt.com/usa/453192-state-...la-propaganda/

And here's a piece that criticizes Applebaum for defending her fellow jew Roman Polanski who drugged, raped and sodomized a 13-year-old girl and then fled the US:

Anne Applebaum, Child Rape Apologist?

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/anne-...4qQzctweT3ioJ8


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anne_Applebaum
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That was Anne Applebaum. Here's another one, Frida Ghitis, who has also excreted a piece for the Washington Shitpost in which she attacks Venezuela's legitimate, democratically elected president Nicolás Maduro:

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This is Venezuela’s struggle. Trump should act with caution.


(…) But in order for the United States to support the people in their quest to remove Maduro’s boot from their neck, the Trump administration needs to act with caution.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opini...=.c70a697869b3

For those of you who don't know, Ghitis is a despicable zionist who defends the racist, genocidal bandit state of Pissrael. Here's one of her articles from the Jerusalem Post:

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Israel’s right to exist is nonnegotiable


(...) I am now persuaded that true, lasting peace may never come unless Palestinians and other Arabs openly accept Israel as a Jewish nation.

Jewish nation, of course, does not mean special rights for Jews or second-class status for non-Jews. Israel is a democratic country whose laws clearly spell out equality for all citizens. Like other democracies, it doesn’t always achieve its goal of equality, but its courts, citizens groups and others continuously work to reach it.
https://www.jpost.com/Opinion/Op-Ed-...-nonnegotiable

The red, bolded part is bullshit. Here's the truth, if anyone is interested:

Non-Jews should not be allowed to live in Israel - Israel's Chief Rabbi

https://www.rt.com/news/337676-israel-for-jews-rabbi/

Controversial citizenship law that bans Palestinians married to Israelis from living in Israel extended by the Knesset

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/w...-10327385.html

Israel rejects Africans' request to convert to Judaism

https://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,...528683,00.html

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'Palestinian requests to convert to Judaism rejected automatically'


(…) Israel’s authority handling conversions to Judaism rejects Palestinian applicants without review because of their ethnic origin, its head said.
https://www.jpost.com/Arab-Israeli-C...tically-449987

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Nearly all of the Ethiopian Beta Israel community, a community of Black Jews, resides in Israel. The Israeli government has mounted rescue operations, most notably during Operation Moses (1984) and Operation Solomon (1991), for their migration when civil war and famine threatened populations within Ethiopia.[citation needed] Today 81,000 Israelis were born in Ethiopia, while 38,500 or 32% of the community are native born Israelis.[192]
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Israel initially denied the claim of imposing a sterilization policy on the Ethiopian women,[201] but later admitted to it, and ordered gynaecologists to stop administering the drugs for women of Ethiopian origin if there is concern that they might not understand the ramifications of the treatment.[203] Action on the issue finally took place after a documentary aired in December 2012 on public television. In it, 35 Ethiopian women who had immigrated to Israel said they had been told they would not be allowed into Israel unless they agreed to the shots.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Racism...iopian_Jews.29

Frida Ghitis. "Trust me."



 
Old May 22nd, 2019 #426
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When the zionist bitch Frida Ghitis says that president Maduro has his boot on the Venezuelan people's neck, she's lying, just like she's lying when she says that non-jews are not discriminated against in Pissrael.
 
Old May 22nd, 2019 #427
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A frustrated Trump questions his administration’s Venezuela strategy


President Trump is questioning his administration’s aggressive strategy in Venezuela following the failure of a U.S.-backed effort to oust President Nicolás Maduro, complaining he was misled about how easy it would be to replace the socialist strongman with a young opposition figure, according to administration officials and White House advisers.
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The administration’s policy is officially unchanged in the wake of a fizzled power play last week by U.S.-backed opposition leader Juan Guaidó. But U.S. officials have since been more cautious in their predictions of Maduro’s swift exit, while reassessing what one official described as the likelihood of a diplomatic “long haul.”
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Trump spoke approvingly of Russian actions in Venezuela following a lengthy phone call with Russian President Vladi*mir Putin on Friday, saying that Putin “is not looking at all to get involved in Venezuela other than he’d like to see something positive happen for Venezuela. And I feel the same way. We want to get some humanitarian aid.”

His comments stood in contrast to earlier statements from Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and Bolton, who accused Russia of propping up Maduro with money and military equipment.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/polit...=.653f53fa875c
 
Old May 24th, 2019 #428
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There’s Far More Diversity in Venezuela’s ‘Muzzled’ Media Than in US Corporate Press


Creative reporting about Venezuela is, according to Lucas Koerner and Ricardo Vaz, "the world’s most lucrative fictional genre."
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The international corporate media have long displayed a peculiar creativity with the facts in their Venezuela reporting, to the point that coverage of the nation’s crisis has become perhaps the world’s most lucrative fictional genre. Ciara Nugent’s recent piece for Time (4/16/19), headlined “‘Venezuelans Are Starving for Information’: The Battle to Get News in a Country in Chaos,” distinguished itself as a veritable masterpiece of this literary fad.
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“Most television is state-run, and authorities ban the few independent TV and radio stations from covering Venezuela’s crisis as it unfolds,” Nugent assures readers. It is unclear whether Nugent has ever watched television in Venezuela, because few statements could be farther from the truth. In fact, Venezuela has three major private television stations (Venevision, Televen and Globovisión), each with millions of viewers.

As of 2013, when the last audience study was conducted by AGB Nielsen, billionaire media mogul Gustavo Cisneros’ Venevision dominated the national news market, with 36 percent of the total viewing public. Venevision was followed by state-run VTV, at 25 percent, with Televen and Globovision coming in third and fourth at 22 percent and 15 percent, respectively. While no new studies have been conducted since, evidence suggests private media’s dominance has strengthened, not weakened, over the last six years.
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Nugent matter-of-factly talks about newspapers and magazines having “all but disappeared,” as if amidst a severe economic downturn, Venezuela was expected to buck the worldwide trend of declining print media.

Nonetheless, Venezuela does still have a number of national circulation papers, which Nugent could confirm with a visit to any Venezuelan newspaper kiosk. Moreover, as in other countries, newspapers that no longer circulate in print have continued their operations on digital platforms and social media.

Today, Venezuela has five nationwide dailies still in print, the majority of which are anti-government. While Últimas Noticias and of course state-run Correo del Orinoco take a pro-government line, any cursory glance at El Universal, Diario 2001 and La Voz will find them all to be staunchly anti-Chavista.
https://venezuelanalysis.com/analysis/14501
 
Old May 26th, 2019 #429
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Here's a good (and somewhat old) article about Venezuela that was written by Paul Craig Roberts, who was the US Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for Economic Policy under President Ronald Reagan:

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The Triumph of Evil

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Today (April 17) I heard a NPR “news” report that described the democratically elected president of Venezuela as “the Venezuelan dictator Maduro.” By repeating over and over that a democratically elected president is a dictator, the presstitutes create that image of Maduro in the minds of vast numbers of peoples who know nothing about Venezuela and had never heard of Maduro until he is dropped on them as “dictator.”

Nicolas Maduro Moros was elected president of Venezuela in 2013 and again in 2018. Previously he served as vice president and foreign minister, and he was elected to the National Assembly in 2000. Despite Washington’s propaganda campaign against him and Washington’s attempt to instigate violent street protests and Maduro’s overthrow by the Venezuelan military, whose leaders have been offered large sums of money, Maduro has the overwhelming support of the people, and the military has not moved against him.
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Maduro is in trouble, because Washington has stolen Venezuela’s bank deposits and cut Venezuela off the international financial system, and the British have stolen Venezuela’s gold. This makes it hard for Venezuela to pay its debts.

The Trump regime has branded the democratically twice-elected Maduro an “illegitimate” president. Washington has found a willing puppet, Juan Guaido, to take Maduro’s place and has announced that the puppet is now the president of Venezuela. No one among the Western presstitutes or among the vassals of Washington’s empire finds it strange that an elected president is illegitimate but one picked by Washington is not.
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Secretary of state Mike Pompeo and vice president Pence have added their big mouths to the propaganda against the few independent governments in Latin America. Where is the shame when the highest American government officials stand up in front of the world and openly proclaim that it is official US government policy to overthrow democratically elected governments simply because those governments don’t let Americans plunder their countries?
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The top officials of the US government have announced that they intend to overthrow the governments of 3 countries and this is not seen as “a threat to international peace and security?”

How much peace and security did Washington’s overthrow of governments in Iraq, Libya, Ukraine, and the attempted overthrow of Syria bring?

Washington is once again openly violating international law and the rest of the world has nothing to say?

There is only one way to describe this: The Triumph of Evil.
https://www.paulcraigroberts.org/201...mph-of-evil-2/
 
Old May 26th, 2019 #430
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World NewsMay 24, 2019 / 1:43 AM / 3 days ago

Maduro says U.S. seeks to destroy Venezuela state-backed food program


CARACAS (Reuters) - Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro on Thursday accused the United States of seeking to destroy a food aid program that the government of the crisis-stricken OPEC nation says feeds some 6 million families.

Washington is preparing sanctions and criminal charges against Venezuelan officials and others suspected of using the food program to launder money for the Maduro government, sources familiar with the matter said on Tuesday.

The measures against the program, known in Venezuela by its Spanish acronym CLAP, are expected to be enacted within the next 90 days, according to the sources, who asked not to be identified.
“(The U.S.) is preparing sanctions to destroy the CLAP system,” Maduro said in televised broadcast, accompanied by the military high command.
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-v...-idUSKCN1ST2VK

It seems that starvation is one of the jews' favorite methods of killing. They're doing it to the Palestinians in Gaza, just like they did to millions of Slavs in Ukraine in the first half of the 20th century:

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The Holodomor (Ukrainian: Голодомо́р)[a] was a man-made famine in Soviet Ukraine in 1932 and 1933 that killed an officially estimated 7 million to 10 million people[11]. It was part of the wider Soviet famine of 1932–33, which affected the major grain-producing areas of the country.

During the Holodomor millions of inhabitants of Ukraine, the majority of whom were ethnic Ukrainians, died of starvation in a peacetime catastrophe unprecedented in the history of Ukraine.[12] Since 2006, the Holodomor has been recognized by Ukraine[13] and 15 other countries as a genocide of the Ukrainian people carried out by the Soviet government.[14]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holodomor



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Lazar Moiseyevich Kaganovich (Russian: Ла́зарь Моисе́евич Кагано́вич; 22 November [O.S. 10 November] 1893 – 25 July 1991) was a Soviet politician and administrator and one of the main associates of Joseph Stalin. He is known for helping Stalin seize power, for his role in the Soviet famine of 1932-33 in Ukraine, and for his harsh treatment and execution of those deemed threats to Stalin's regime. (…) Kaganovich was born in 1893 to Jewish parents[1]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lazar_Kaganovich

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Yagoda was born in Rybinsk into a Jewish family. (…) Yagoda supervised the deportations, confiscations, mass arrests and executions that accompanied the forced collectivisation, and was one of the people responsible for the Holodomor, which resulted in the deaths of at least 7.5 million people.[13][14]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genrikh_Yagoda

From the jewish news site Ynet news:

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Stalin's Jews


(...) We mustn't forget that some of greatest murderers of modern times were Jewish
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An Israeli student finishes high school without ever hearing the name "Genrikh Yagoda," the greatest Jewish murderer of the 20th Century, the GPU's deputy commander and the founder and commander of the NKVD. Yagoda diligently implemented Stalin's collectivization orders and is responsible for the deaths of at least 10 million people. His Jewish deputies established and managed the Gulag system.
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Stalin's close associates and loyalists included member of the Central Committee and Politburo Lazar Kaganovich.
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Many Jews sold their soul to the devil of the Communist revolution and have blood on their hands for eternity. We'll mention just one more: Leonid Reichman, head of the NKVD's special department and the organization's chief interrogator, who was a particularly cruel sadist.
https://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,...342999,00.html
 
Old May 27th, 2019 #431
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Venezuela government, opposition will return to Norway for talks, Oslo says


OSLO (Reuters) - Representatives of Venezuela’s government and the opposition will return to Norway for a second round of talks to help resolve their months-long conflict, the Norwegian Foreign Ministry said on Saturday.
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Commenting on the initial talks earlier this month, Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro said he hoped the discussions would help to “build a peaceful agenda”.

Tensions in the crisis-stricken South American country escalated after a failed uprising last month led by opposition leader Juan Guaido, who called on the military to oust Maduro.

Guaido has insisted that any agreement would require Maduro to step down.
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-v...-idUSKCN1SV0P7

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World News May 27, 2019 / 12:37 AM

Venezuela's opposition leader Guaido plays down prospects for Oslo mediation


CARACAS (Reuters) - Venezuelan opposition leader Juan Guaido on Sunday played down the prospects for success at a new round of mediation with the government to be hosted by Norway next week, saying protests would continue until President Nicolas Maduro resigned.
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“This is not negotiation. This is not dialogue,” Guaido told reporters after a rally in the western Venezuelan city of Barquisimeto, adding that his team was simply responding to an offer from the Norwegian government to mediate.
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-v...-idUSKCN1SW0ZH

Venezuela's legitimate, democratically elected president Maduro wants peace, whereas the greedy, arrogant, opportunistic Guaidó and his jewish masters want war.

 
Old May 29th, 2019 #432
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World News May 29, 2019 / 7:38 PM

Meeting between envoys for Venezuela's government, opposition ends with no deal


OSLO/CARACAS (Reuters) - A mediation meeting between Venezuela’s government and the opposition has ended without an agreement as Norway holds talks aimed at resolving both sides’ long-running conflict, opposition leader Juan Guaido’s office said on Wednesday.

During the meeting in Oslo, Guaido’s office said it had ratified a roadmap of ending Nicolas Maduro’s presidency, installing a transition government, and holding free elections that would “resolve the tragedy that Venezuela is suffering.”

His office gave no details about the disagreement, but Maduro has said previously that he would not step aside. Guaido in January assumed a rival interim presidency and denounces Maduro as illegitimate after he secured re-election last year in a vote widely criticized as rigged.
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-v...-idUSKCN1SZ2BF .
 
Old June 3rd, 2019 #433
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This is what the jew-imposed sanctions are doing to the people of Venezuela (although the jewish media are obviously putting the blame on Maduro):

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Venezuela healthcare collapse: Four children die in same hospital this month


Vivian Sequera

CARACAS (Reuters) - Under a wooden arch decorated with white balloons in a small house in Caracas’ largest slum, the body of 11-year-old Erick Altuve lay in a small coffin covered in cuddly toys and cartoon drawings, one of four children who have died this month in Venezuela’s main pediatric hospital.

Altuve died on May 26 from respiratory problems while being treated for stomach cancer at the Jose Manuel de los Rios public hospital, a concrete tower ringed by a white security fence in the center of Caracas.

For the past six months, Altuve had not received his medication, his mother, Jennifer Guerrero, said, because of widespread shortages of drugs and medical equipment that have devastated Venezuela’s health system.
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Children have paid an especially heavy price from the collapse in Venezuela’s healthcare system as the economy has shrunk by over a half during six years of recession.
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Maduro’s government, however, says U.S.-imposed sanctions were responsible for the children’s deaths, by freezing funds allocated to buy medicine and send the children to Italy for treatment under the 2010 agreement.
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-v...-idUSKCN1T122Q

Looks like the jews – who are history's biggest mass murderers – now have even more blood on their hands.
 
Old June 5th, 2019 #434
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Russia and China want situation in Venezuela to stabilize: Putin


MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Wednesday after talks in Moscow with Chinese leader Xi Jinping that Moscow and Beijing wanted the situation in Venezuela to stabilize.

Russia and China are close allies of Venezuela’s socialist President Nicolas Maduro.
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-v...-idUSKCN1T61VC
 
Old June 6th, 2019 #435
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Venezuela loses $1.4 billion of gold to banks for guarantees: sources


Corina Pons, Mayela Armas

CARACAS (Reuters) - Citibank and Deutsche Bank have taken control of around $1.4 billion of Venezuelan government gold, which they received as guarantees for loans, as a result of U.S. sanctions on the Venezuelan Central Bank, according to five sources.

Between 2014 and 2016 the central bank (BCV) used a portion of its foreign gold reserves to guarantee financial operations with banks to boost liquidity, with the intention of repaying the loans to avoid losing the gold.

Five sources with knowledge of the deals said the BCV had agreed with Citibank and Deutsche Bank to buy back the gold in 2020 and 2021, but since the U.S. government imposed sanctions on the BCV in April the banks had invoked a condition of the contracts to retain ownership of the bars.

Both banks had resolved that an “event of default” had occurred due to the sanctions, as established in agreements underpinning the gold swap deals, the sources said.
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-v...-idUSKCN1T72LU
 
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Organization of American States to adopt International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance definition of anti-Semitism


June 6, 2019 10:41 am

(JTA) — The Organization of American States will adopt the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance working definition of anti-Semitism, the group’s head said.

OAS Secretary General Luis Almagro’s announcement Tuesday in Washington makes him the first Latin American leader to do so.

He also called Hezbollah “a terrorist organization” as he accepted the Champion of Democracy Award from the American Jewish Committee on the last day of its annual Global Forum.

The IHRA working definition offers a comprehensive description of anti-Semitism in its various forms, including hatred and discrimination against Jews, Holocaust denial and, sometimes controversially, the way anti-Semitism relates to the ways criticism of Israel is expressed.
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He also denounced Iran and Hezbollah, noting that they have a solid base of operations in South America,” and have found “fertile ground to operate in Cuba and Venezuela.”
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Argentina, like all other countries in the Americas except the United States and Canada, do not list Hezbollah as a terror organization.
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All of S America is mixed meat banana republics.
Crime rates are off the charts.
 
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What Is Really Happening in Venezuela - Excellent Discussion on Chris Hedges' RT Show


This is from early April, but we just stumbled across it, and it is excellent. Chris Hedges is a socialist to the left of Bernie Sanders, but what he and his guest Ben Norton explain about Venezuela could not be more true. Highly recommended.

I had the pleasure of joining Chris Hedges to discuss the US war on Venezuela. Corporate media reporting on the country has been ridiculous propaganda. The US is brutally collectively punishing Venezuela’s population with devastating sanctions — and Donald Trump’s coup is still failing.

The laughable failure of the US-backed military coup attempt on April 30 reinforces the points I made in this interview: Chavismo is deeply rooted, the opposition is unpopular, and Washington’s only effective tactic is crippling economic war.
https://russia-insider.com/en/what-r...t-show/ri27202

 
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After the failed coup attempt, the jews' puto Guaidó turns to Canadian cuck boy Justin Trudeau for help:


https://www.reuters.com/article/us-v...-idUSKCN1SK2N9







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Canadian FM plays good cop to US, promising Cuba 'part to play' in Venezuelan democracy


Published time: 8 Jun, 2019 02:10
Edited time: 8 Jun, 2019 11:39

Cuba will have a "part to play" in restoring democracy in Venezuela, the Canadian foreign minister – a supporter of the coup-minded US-backed opposition – has declared after meeting with her Cuban counterpart.
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Pence has pushed Freeland to play the "good cop" to the US' "bad cop" regarding Cuba, urging her to apply pressure against what he has termed its "malign influence" on the Venezuelan situation. While the US imposed a sweeping travel ban on Cuba earlier this week, curtailing tourist and private travel to the island after the number of American visitors swelled during the first four months of 2019, and has allowed American firms to sue the country over the use of assets seized during the revolution, there is little else it can do, economically speaking. A near-total embargo on Cuban exports to the US has been in place since 1962, and President Donald Trump has already reversed the tentative steps toward rapprochement begun by his predecessor, Barack Obama.
https://www.rt.com/news/461351-canad...uba-venezuela/
 
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Russia denies withdrawing specialists from Venezuela, says cooperation is set to expand


Published time: 4 Jun, 2019 03:54
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FILE PHOTO. Venezuela's President Nicolas Maduro checks out a Russian-made SVD sniper rifle. © Reuters

Reports of a mass exodus of Russian military and technical specialists from Venezuela are not true, Russian officials say, adding that cooperation with Caracas is going on as usual and is set to expand.
In a Sunday story, the Wall Street Journal reported that Russian military and technical personnel had left Venezuela en masse, with the numbers diminishing from 1,000 to several dozen. The newspaper explained the alleged exodus by a lack of contracts and the fact that Moscow supposedly realized that Caracas lacks any funds to pay for the services of Russian hi-tech, military hardware corporation Rostec.

On Monday, the corporation itself dismissed the report.

"The figures provided in the piece by the Wall Street Journal have been exaggerated tens of times. The numbers of our staff there has remained the same for many years," the press service of Rostec stated.

The corporation explained that apart from having a permanent representation, it sends groups of technical specialists "from time to time" to Venezuela to perform maintenance and repairs of equipment supplied by Russia. "Just recently, the maintenance of a batch of aircraft was completed," the press service added.

Russia's state military hardware exporter, Rosoboronexport, said that Moscow and Caracas are actually planning to increase cooperation. Russian companies "remain committed to deepening cooperation with the Ministry of Defense and other departments of the Venezuelan government," the exporter stated.
https://www.rt.com/news/461002-russi...tay-venezuela/
 
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