THE PENTAGON-MEDIA COMPLEX

Tucker Carlson may be a rightwinger, and work for Fox News, one of the veritable latrines of world “journalism”, but he often comes up with valiant and correct opinions on topics that no one else will touch. Here’s one example. That should be appreciated and not denigrated.

MOA—The situation is at a stalemate. The U.S. will increase sanctions. Venezuela will, like Iran and Syria, find ways around them. Years later nothing essential will have changed.Guaidó may be an attractive looking man capable of charming officials in Washington. But he so far was not able to get anything done. He has only few followers and President Maduro simply ignores him.This was not the plan when this ‘regime change’ operation started. Trump was promised a fast coup during which the military would jump to the site of the random guy the neoconservatives sold to him as “interim president”. That did not happen.

PATRICE GREANVILLE—Mexican-born Ramos wants us to believe (and so he says in the interview with Cooper) that while he was admittedly a bit confrontational with Maduro—holding his feet to the fire so to speak—he was merely acting as a tough journalist, but that is not at all what Ramos does and was doing. In the guise of interviews, Ramos in fact specialises in hostile, real-time propaganda toward political figures the empire or the “Deep State” has put in its crosshairs.  He tried years ago the same ruse with Bolivia’s Evo Morales, and Evo, quickly seeing through his dishonesty, also kicked him out.

Jimmy Dore fills in for Jesse Ventura. Producer Brigida Santos and Jimmy Dore explain the crisis in Venezuela where opposition leader Juan Guaido has declared himself interim president in an effort to unseat sitting president Nicolas Maduro. RT Host Rick Sanchez talks about the history of Venezuela and the impact of US involvement in Latin America.