The Man the Media Loved to Hate ANTI-CORPORATISM, ANTI-NEOLIBERALISM, BATTLE OF COMMUNICATIONS, CORPORATE OWNED PARTIES, GOVERNMENT CRIMES, GREAT HYPOCRISY, IMPERIAL APOLOGISTS & COLLABOS, INDECENT SLIMEBALLS, LatinAm-VENEZUELA, MEDIA SCUM, PUTRID CORPOMEDIA Comments Off Apr 082013 The US Press and Hugo Chavez Hated by the powers that be. Crime? Siding with the people. by STEVE RENDALL Always the target of media scorn, Venezuelan president Hugo Chávez’s death was occasion for a double dose. “Venezuela Bully Chávez is Dead,” read the New York Post headline (6 March); “Death of a Demagogue” was how Time framed the news (5 March). “The words ‘Venezuelan strongman’ so often preceded his name, and for good reason,” declared NBC Nightly News in its send-off. According to ABC World News, the day after he died was “the first day the people of Venezuela are no longer under the strong control of their president, Hugo Chávez” (5 March). National Public Radio’s obituary gave the last words to Chávez-basher Michael Shifter: “So in the end, he really was an autocrat and despot” (5 March). Continue reading » Did you like this? Share it:
Chávez’s Chief Legacy: Building, with People, an Alternative Society to Capitalism ACTIVISTS & HEROES, ANTI-CORPORATISM, ANTI-NEOLIBERALISM, ANTIWAR, BETTER HUMANITY, CAPITALISM & SOCIALISM, CLASS STRUGGLE, LatinAm-VENEZUELA Comments Off Mar 302013 by Marta Harnecker, MRZine When Hugo Chávez triumphed in the 1998 presidential elections, the neoliberal capitalist model was already foundering. The choice then was none other than whether to re-establish the neoliberal capitalist model — clearly with some changes including greater concern for social issues, but still motivated by the same logic of profit seeking — or to go ahead and try to build another model. Continue reading » Did you like this? Share it:
New BRICS Development Bank Announced ANTI-NEOLIBERALISM, ASIA AFFAIRS, BETTER HUMANITY, BRICS BLOCK, CAPITALISM & SOCIALISM, CHINA, INDIA, INTERNATIONAL REPORTAGE, LatinAm-ARGENTINA, LatinAm-BRAZIL, LatinAm-CUBA, LatinAm-ECUADOR, LatinAm-PARAGUAY, LatinAm-VENEZUELA, RUSSIA, SAVING THE PLANET, TACTICS & STRATEGIES Comments Off Mar 282013 by Stephen Lendman In September 2006, four original BRIC nations met in New York. On May 16, 2008, Yekaterinburg, Russia hosted a full-scale diplomatic meeting. In June 2009, Brazil, Russia, India and China again met in Yekaterinburg. Early steps were taken to end dollar supremacy. Eventual plans may replace it with a global currency or basket of major ones. Continue reading » Did you like this? Share it:
Washington Post Anti-Bolivarian Propaganda ANTI-COMMUNISM, ANTI-CORPORATISM, ASSHOLES, BASTARDS & CRIMINALS, BATTLE OF COMMUNICATIONS, CLASS STRUGGLE, CONSERVATIVES & REACTION, CORPORATE OWNED PARTIES, CORPORATE TELEVISION, IMPERIALISM, INTERNATIONAL, LatinAm-VENEZUELA, MEDIA SCUM, PUTRID CORPOMEDIA Comments Off Mar 182013 by Stephen Lendman GLOBOVISION’S owner Guillermo Zuloaga, a Latin Murdoch in terms of poisonous influence. Western media scoundrels waged war on Chavez. They did so throughout his tenure. Managed news misinformation substituted for truth and full disclosure. Chavez is gone. Misreporting continues. Post editors march in lockstep with other media scoundrels. Doing so betrays their readers. \ Continue reading » Did you like this? Share it:
President Chavez: A 21st Century Renaissance Man ACTIVISTS & HEROES, ANTIWAR, CAPITALISM & SOCIALISM, CLASS STRUGGLE, CORPORATE OWNED PARTIES, CORPORATE TELEVISION, GOOD FOR THE SOUL, IDEOLOGICAL STRUGGLE, IMPERIALISM, LatinAm-VENEZUELA, MEDIA CRITICISM, PUTRID CORPOMEDIA Comments Off Mar 172013 James Petras on Latin America Introduction: President Hugo Chavez was unique in multiple areas of political, social and economic life. He made significant contributions to the advancement of humanity. The depth, scope and popularity of his accomplishments mark President Chavez as the ‘Renaissance President of the 21st Century’. Continue reading » Did you like this? Share it:
On the Legacy of Hugo Chávez ACTIVISTS & HEROES, AMERICAN STUDIES, ANNOTATED NEWS, BATTLE OF COMMUNICATIONS, CAPITALISM & SOCIALISM, CLASS STRUGGLE, CORPORATE OWNED PARTIES, COUPS & CIVIL WAR, CULTURE & CRITICISM, IMPERIALISM, LatinAm-VENEZUELA, PLUTOCRATIC POWER 2 Responses » Mar 112013 Greg Grandin / March 5, 2013 THE NATION Editor’s Note: This piece appeared on The Nation, a liberal publication we normally classify as part of the faux left and in far too many cases a ready and willing apologist for imperial projects. Read critically. There’s much that’s interesting in the piece, mixed with some things that are not only jarring but defamatory to Chavez’ rule, as is the assertion that as a “strongman” he practically muzzled the media, a charge easily refuted by anyone living in Venezuela where the capitalists continue to enjoy and overwhelming superiority. This piece rounds out our dossier on the passing of Pres. Hugo Chavez. —PG I first met Hugo Chávez in New York City in September 2006, just after his infamous appearance on the floor of the UN General Assembly, where he called George W. Bush the devil. “Yesterday, the devil came here,” he said, “Right here. Right here. And it smells of sulfur still today, this table that I am now standing in front of.” He then made the sign of the cross, kissed his hand, winked at his audience and looked to the sky. It was vintage Chávez, an outrageous remark leavened with just the right touch of detail (the lingering sulfur!) to make it something more than bombast, cutting through soporific nostrums of diplomatese and drawing fire away from Iran, which was in the cross hairs at that meeting. Continue reading » Did you like this? Share it:
A Posthumous Message to Hugo Chávez ACTIVISTS & HEROES, ANTI-CORPORATISM, ANTIWAR, BATTLE OF COMMUNICATIONS, BETTER HUMANITY, CLASS STRUGGLE, IMPERIALISM, LatinAm-VENEZUELA, MARXISM 1 Response » Mar 102013 By Marta Harnecker• Dear Hugo, Who would think that the man, full of vitality, who I met nearly 11 years ago in an airplane that flew us toward El Vigía, and who was a marvelous combination of humanity and political sense, one day would too soon pass away. A man with so much, so much energy and with so many, so many projects to carry out! Continue reading » Did you like this? Share it:
Chronicle of a Death Foretold: The Post-Chávez Venezuelan Conjuncture ACTIVISTS & HEROES, BATTLE OF COMMUNICATIONS, BETTER HUMANITY, CLASS STRUGGLE, CORPORATE OWNED PARTIES, IMPERIALISM, LatinAm-VENEZUELA, PUTRID CORPOMEDIA, REVOLUTION Comments Off Mar 092013 The B u l l e t Socialist Project • E-Bulletin No. 779 March 9, 2013 Jeffery R. Webber On live television, Venezuelan Vice-President Nicolás Maduro choked on his words. Hugo Chávez, the improbable President, born in the rural poverty of Sabaneta, in the state of Barinas, in 1954 had died of cancer.[1] To his wealthy and light-skinned enemies he was evil incarnate. To many impoverished Venezuelans, his contradictory and eclectic ideology – a labyrinthine blend drawing on the thought of nineteenth century Simón Bolívar and Ezequiel Zamora, twentieth century left-military nationalism and anti-imperialism, Soviet-inflected, bureaucratic Cuban Socialism, social Christianity, pragmatic neostructuralist economics, and currents of socialism-from-below – made a good deal of sense at least insofar as he had come from origins like theirs and had made the right sort of enemies. Continue reading » Did you like this? Share it:
El comandante has left the building ACTIVISTS & HEROES, AMERICAN STUDIES, ANTI-CORPORATISM, ANTIWAR, BETTER HUMANITY, CAPITALISM & SOCIALISM, CLASS STRUGGLE, IMPERIALISM, LatinAm-VENEZUELA Comments Off Mar 072013 By Pepe Escobar, Asia Times Castro and Chavez: Blazed the path to dignity through revolution. El Comandante may have left the building — his body defeated by cancer — but the post-mortem demonization will go on forever. One key reason stands out. Venezuela holds the largest oil reserves in the world.in Venezuela El Comandante came up with the subversive idea of using oil wealth to at least alleviate the problems of most of his people. Continue reading » Did you like this? Share it:
Hugo Chavez: New World Rising ACTIVISTS & HEROES, ANNOTATED NEWS, BATTLE OF COMMUNICATIONS, BETTER HUMANITY, CLASS STRUGGLE, CORPORATE CRIMINALITY, CORPORATE OWNED PARTIES, COUPS & CIVIL WAR, GOVERNMENT CRIMES, GREAT HYPOCRISY, IMPERIALISM, LatinAm-VENEZUELA, NEOCOLONIALISM, PUTRID CORPOMEDIA Comments Off Mar 062013 by Black Agenda Report executive editor Glen Ford President Chavez, Prócer de la Revolución Latinoamericana. The great Bolivarian is gone – which means the U.S. will soon escalate its destabilization campaign against his country. “Washington hopes that Venezuelan socialism cannot survive without Chavez.” But the U.S. cannot roll back the movement that Chavez did so much to ignite, “the dark awakening in the barrios, favelas, rural villages and native highlands of the continent.” Continue reading » Did you like this? Share it:
