Tag: Venezuela

Joachim Hagopian, ‘Peacemaker’ Trump Threatens War against Venezuela’s Maduro Government

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Joachim Hagopian   First on July 25th, the US Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) designated Venezuela’s Cartel de los Soles (of the Suns) a Specially Designated Global Terrorist (SDGT) entity. This simply offers the excuse for US to continue waging its forever “War on Terror” much closer to home inside the Western hemisphere. And just like clockwork just two weeks later, Trump Attorney General Pam Bondi sanctimoniously announced on August 7th a doubled $50 million bounty on Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro’s head, as US history’s highest bounty ever issued on a sitting world leader. In one…

Phil Geraldi, Punishing America’s Enemies: Denying medicines to Iran and Venezuela is a crime against humanity

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PHILIP GIRALDI    Much remains to be learned about the coronavirus, though it is quite possible that it will not be possible to determine how it developed if the various governments that might be involved prove to be uncooperative. The Chinese carefully controlled the information on the virus in its early stages, though they eventually adopted a complete lockdown to prevent its spread that seems to have been successful and might serve as a model for other nations to follow if they can overcome concerns about threats to civil liberties…

Rob Urie, Iran, Venezuela and the Throes of Empire

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by ROB URIE With the Trump administration threatening war against Iran and Venezuela, the question of how the U.S. was brought to this point needs to be considered. To argue that current circumstances are particular to this administration is to overlook U.S. history vis-a-vis both Iran and Venezuela and that between them they possess a material proportion of the world’s proved oil reserves (graph below). In 2019, the pretense that local provocations explain anything beyond domestic political posturing is absurd. However, domestic political considerations do explain threats of war to a…

Dmitry Orlov, Why Must Venezuela be Destroyed?

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Dmitry Orlov  Last week Trump, his VP Mike Pence, US State Dept. director Mike Pompeo and Trump’s national security advisor John Bolton, plus a bunch of Central American countries that are pretty much US colonies and don’t have foreign policies of their own, synchronously announced that Venezuela has a new president: a virtual non-entity named Juan Guaidó, who was never even a candidate for that office, but who was sorta-kinda trained for this job in the US. Guaidó appeared at a rally in Caracas, flanked by a tiny claque of…