ALAN MACLEOD—After winning re-election in 2018, President Nicolás Maduro of Venezuela was recently sworn in for a second term. However, Trump has taken the extraordinary step of declaring the elections void, condemning the “illegitimate Maduro regime.” He also arranged to have National Assembly head Juan Guaidó—someone who has never even run for president, whom even the New York Times(1/22/19) describes as “virtually unheard-of”—name himself the country’s new leader. This has spurred the Venezuelan right wing onto the streets to try to force Maduro out of office, leading to the deaths of 14 people in the first two nights of clashes between large pro- and anti-government demonstrations. Last year, the Trump administration preemptively declared as fraudulent the elections they had previously been demanding, instructing the opposition (whom the US has been funding for two decades) to boycott the process.
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US Orchestrating a coup in Venezuela—as boldfaced and outrageous as it comes
VENEZUELA UNDER ATTACK • UNITED NATIONS LIKELY TO BE IGNORED. A takeover by Washington’s designated shills, with assistance from the Venezuelan Fifth Columnists, and prominent Latin American traitor regimes in Brazil, Argentina, and Colombia, while Chile and Ecuador play fiddle. The Venezuelan coup is a test of liberals’ pretensions to human rights and the rule of law, not to mention their professed hatred for Trump. Washigton’s move also a test of the European Union’s own claims to respect for the rule of international law.
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War Whores Revisited
PHILIP A. FARRUGGIO—Isn’t Amerika great? I mean, look at the world of (so called) television journalism. The more these characters ‘ lay down’ for the masters of empire, the more they get compensated. Let’s look at what transpired in March 2003 via our infamous ‘ boob tube’. Before we get to that motley crew, we did have one of the unique and authentic (for those times) television news talk journalists, Phil Donahue and his daily show. His producer at the time, Jeff Cohen ( of Fairness and Accuracy in Media), told this interviewer ( on my internet radio show) that NBC, owned at the time by General Electric.
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‘Most cops support Yellow Vest protesters over Macron’ – France police union chief to RT
Says a French policeman: “Most of us back the Gilets Jaunes [Yellow Vests], because we will be directly affected by any rise in fuel prices,”Alexandre Langlois, the secretary-general of the VIGI police union, told RT France from their studio in Paris. “Most of us can’t live where we work, because it is either too expensive, or we would be arresting our next-door neighbors, so we drive significant distances.”
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