The obvious objective is to foster discontent and provoke social unrest by blocking the operations of the financial, oil and gold producing sectors of the Venezuelan economy. It is obvious that these sanctions affect above all the ordinary people regardless of their political affiliations. It is especially disgraceful that the unilateral US sanctions are having a negative impact on the implementation of social and humanitarian projects. A glaring example of the consequences of the recent banking restrictions is the blocking of the treatment programme for cancer patients carried out through a joint Venezuelan-Spanish project.
US EXCEPTIONALISM
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PEPE ESCOBAR—Since Pearl Harbor, no nation has dared to stare down the system leader so blatantly, as Iran did in Iraq. Vlahos mentioned something I saw for myself in 2003, how “young American soldiers referred to Iraqis as ‘Indians’, as though Mesopotamia were the Wild West”. Mesopotamia was one of the crucial cradles of civilization as we know it. Well, in the end, that $2 trillion spent to bomb Iraq into democracy did no favors to the civilizational vision of the ‘system leader’.
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Western China Bashing vs. Western Biowarfare?
13 minutes readPETER KOENIG—In fact, Dr. Tedros has himself, as well as other high-ranking WHO officials, on various occasions praised China for her effort to contain the virus, the speed with which Wuhan (population of 11 million, capital of the center-eastern Province of Hubei) and China as a whole has reacted to the outbreak.
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All US Presidents are Criminals
David Swanson 04 Feb 2020BAR’s Margaret Kimberley dissects the anti-Black policies of all 45 presidents of the world’s most successful white settler state. She was interviewed by David Swanson on his Talk Nation radio program.
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Jimmy Dore’s truth on the hypocritical Democrats and some media vermin—not to be missed
10 minutes readWhile Pelosi rips Trump’s speech, ostentatiously scoring points with the easily impressionable and the rank ignorant, she’s 100% behind Trump when it comes to really serious matters, like attacking Venezuela to steal its oil and hand it over to US oil companies and the super rich guys who own them. It’s called imperialism, of the naked kind, and about that, there is no disagreement between the “two” parties.