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The United Socialist Party of Venezuela (PSUV) won the November 21 mega-elections in a landslide, getting more votes in 20 of 23 states and the capital Caracas. So the US government responded by trying to discredit the vote. Venezuelan journalist Diego Sequera speaks about the elections, the historic victory of the ruling party of President Nicolás Maduro, and Washington’s attempt to delegitimize the process.

Journalists Camila Escalante & Ben Norton join us live from Nicaragua to talk about the elections that just took place and what the Western media won’t tell you about them. Then journalist Danny Haiphong talks about getting shut down by Twitter over Keith Olbermann tweets and Wyatt Reed talks about getting called a “wh*re” by Keith Olbermann.

Sometimes a single article or video can teach far more about the complicated and shifting reality we inhabit than all the bloviating we see on the Establishment TV and print channels. This is the case with these two videos by Jimmy Dore, impeccably supported by a formidable journalist, Max Blumenthal (The Grayzone), whose capacity to peel off the layers of deception cynically manufactured by the imperial system has few equals. Watch these closely and learn.  There are important facts and lessons here, and valuable confirmations for those who have been longtime critics of the capitalist system and its myriad social morbidities. 

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Alexander Mercouris discusses the probable reasons for the top-level meeting between the CIA’s chief and his Russian counterpart. It’s clear the Russians told the Americans clearly that their kind of provocations canot and will not go unpunished indefinitely.