KENN ORPHAN—The ruling class of the US imperium will simply not tolerate any government that opposes its financial and geopolitical dominance, attempts socialism, or transfers its nexus to another powerful state entity, like Russia or China for instance. If one chooses to do so it is instantly targeted for assault either by crippling economic sanctions or embargoes, which make governance nearly impossible and primarily harms the general population, or covert subversion, or by direct and indirect military intervention.
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P. GREANVILLE—This report, which is illuminating in some regards (the images tend NOT to lie after all), was filed (in 2013) by China’s main international tv network, CGTN, yet its tone is one that I find disturbingly erratic and equivocal. At times it sounds like it approves of Venezuela’s right to arm itself against imperialist attack (an indisputable fact); other times it sounds like like an American network or Ajazeera, as if it were critiquing Venezuela for defending itself, showing a guy who sounds like a typical Venezuelan oppositionist. That’s why I would give this report only 3.0 stars out of 5. Perhaps today (2019) their tone would be clearer and more in favor of Venezuela, but in 2013, apparently they were hedging their bets.
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Meghan McCain: Still crying over her father, a war criminal, but also the man who made her a celebrity. It’s an inevitable fact of life that in most cases the kin of criminals will have glowing opinions of them, hence their opinions have to be filtered with extra caution. Not to mention this woman was acculturated in a rich family of longstanding rightwing/imperialist affiliations, deepening the exceptionalist brainwash afflicting most Americans.
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Flagrant, Cynical, Public attempt at coup d’état – Venezuela
38 minutes readCHRIS FAURE—Despite the various governments in Latin America that became right leaning and had their governments appointed by the Hegemon, the people in Latin America understand where their opposition comes from. I cannot see Brazil or Colombia sending troops on the ground. The Venezuelan right is not united. American troops? Trump will most probably lose his base. I cannot see this.
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What’s Been Learned Won’t Be Easily Forgotten: A Conversation with Antonio Gonzalez Plessmann
23 minutes readCIRA PASCUAL MARQUINA—”At present there is a sector of the Latin American intellectual left which, in taking stock of the region’s so-called “progressive” processes, concludes that “it was not worth it,” because today we are more dependent, more extractivist and less democratic than before. That analysis goes hand in hand with a kind of turn away from the state. Instead, we are supposed to commit to the community and to projects that arise from social movements.”