ALAN MACLEOD—The depiction of Venezuela has been predictably condemned by the Venezuelan government with Culture Minister Ernesto Villegas writing it off as, “crass war propaganda disguised as entertainment.” But Jack Ryan’s depiction of the country does indeed wildly distort the reality of the situation on the ground. Firstly, Venezuela’s current President Nicolas Maduro is himself a left-wing populist, while the United States’ preferred head of state is the far-right Juan Guaidó, who last weekend attempted another failed coup d’état against the elected government.
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THE DURAN—The Duran’s Alex Christoforou and Editor-in-Chief Alexander Mercouris discuss how shifty, corrupt Congressman Adam Schiff folded and had to release information from 53 declassified transcripts of witnesses that testified before Congress regarding the FBI’s Russia probe into the Trump campaign.
The decision for Schiff to publish the 6,000 pages of transcripts comes after a showdown with Director of National Intelligence Richard Grenell, who stated in a letter on Wednesday that if Adam Schiff does not make the transcripts public then he will release them himself.
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Trump’s “Bay of Pigs” in Venezuela (Dossier)
28 minutes readA pair of abortive armed landings by US-led mercenaries on Venezuela’s coast earlier this week has made it clear that the global coronavirus pandemic and the death and devastation it has wrought upon the American people have done nothing to curb US imperialism’s predatory and criminal pursuit of geostrategic interests in South America and across the globe.
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US propaganda campaign promotes lies blaming China for COVID-19
24 minutes readALEX LANTIER—These are political lies as shameless as US lies in 2002 that Iraq had “weapons of mass destruction,” which served as a pretext for an illegal US invasion of Iraq in 2003. The genome of the coronavirus causing COVID-19 has been mapped out in China and examined by biologists internationally. They have established that the virus is a previously-unknown, naturally-occurring coronavirus that originated in bats, which was not previously in the possession of any lab.
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Freedom Rider: Joe Biden and the Black Misleaders
10 minutes readMARGARET KIMBERLEY—Black Agenda Report was quite intentional in coining the term black misleadership class. The misleaders include Democratic Party politicians and allies in civil rights organizations, journalism, churches, and the foundation world. This group is entirely self-interested as they work to get funding for pet projects, well paid jobs, election to office, media attention, or all of the above. They are subservient to the Democratic Party and its donor class while giving the impression of working in the interests of black people.