Joe Biden is not likely to lift the blatantly illegal US siege of Venezuela, says Leo Flores on The Grayzone. In fact, his imperialist posture toward Caracas may signify a worsening f tensions between the two countries and their allies. In this episode, Red Lines host Anya Parampil speaks with Leo Flores, the Latin American Campaign Coordinator for CODEPINK, about what the election of Joe Biden will mean for US Venezuela policy. They also discuss Venezuela’s upcoming parliamentary elections and the fractured state of the country’s opposition.
US EXCEPTIONALISM
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EDWARD CURTIN—The so called Deep-State has been given many names over the years. I will not bore you with them, except to say that it was once called the power elite. They are the upper classes, the super wealthy who control the financial institutions, Wall Street, the intelligence agencies, the corporate media, the internet, the military, and the politicians. They are multinational.
They are the wealthy nihilists who care not one jot for the rest of the world. They operate in secret, yet also run above-ground organizations such as the World Bank (WB), the World Health Organization (WHO), the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), etc. Their bloodstream runs on war, the preparations for war, and economic exploitation of the world.
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4 Years Under Silicon Valley? Biden/Harris, Brzezinski, Marilyn Ferguson & Imperialism
9 minutes readCALEB MAUPIN—Biden’s transition team is liable to be headed by Google’s former CEO, Eric Schmidt, a man known for his fascistic thinking. Contrary to the image of geeks working out a garage and making billions through their sheer genius, Maupin shows that Silicon Valley and the computer revolution were not spawned by free market dynamics, but actually the opposite, a creation of the US government’s most secretive agencies—CIA, NSA, etc.—determined to gain supremacy in the development and control of information technology.
Silicon Valley is so libertarian, so unrooted in any sense of loyalty or obligation to society or the nation, that Trump himself and Bannon, spousing economic nationalism, fear and distrust this peculiar subculture.
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Caleb Maupin on the Biden team’s links to Silicon Valley and its weird subculture of New Agey hyper individualism
9 minutes readCALEB MAUPIN—A wide-ranging discussion aiming to clarify the true sociopolitical nature of the Biden regime (should it come to power). Maupin points to Biden’s numerous links with Silicon Valley magnates and its New Age culture of hyperindividualism grounded in a weird blend of Margaret Ferguson’s “Aquarian Conspiracy” of personal autonomy in a “decentralized society” with Ayn Rand’s fierce libertarianism. Maupin points out some interesting and concerning facts.
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White Supremacy Sanctions Internal and External Colonialism
18 minutes readDAVID GAMBLE—Both James Bradley in The Imperial Cruise and Stephen Kinzer in True Flag document the imperial expansion of the Spanish-American War. But having been established by the slavery of European mercantilism, the wealth accumulation of American capitalism was becoming increasingly hemmed in with the closing of the West at the end of the nineteenth century. However, the Aryan urge for its sense of rightful dominance refused to be limited, and so the American imperial era was born with McKinley and Roosevelt’s reaching beyond the strictures of the Monroe Doctrine, now becoming a global doctrine of “security” and “democracy.”