GREG WILPERT—Venezuela experienced its most extensive power outage in its history, beginning last Thursday around 5pm. The power outage affected about 70 percent of the country and initially lasted at least 20 hours in the capital of Caracas. Other parts of Venezuela, such as the states near Colombia’s border, Tachira and Merida, the power outage has continued for four days now. The main reason for the outage was that the Guri Dam, which generates about 80 percent of Venezuela’s electricity, went down. The exact reasons the dam’s generators went offline is not clear, but the government of President Maduro said it was the result of a cyberattack on the dam’s control systems.
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AN INTERESTING EXCHANGE TAKES PLACE:
• Colbert: Do you think that ISIS could have been defeated without our involvement and without our support of the local troops there?
• Gabbard: There are two things we need to address in Syria. One is a regime change war that was first launched by the United States in 2011, covertly, led by the CIA. That is a regime change war that has continued over the years, that has increased the suffering of the Syrian people, and strengthened groups like Al Qaeda and ISIS, because the CIA was using American taxpayer dollars to provide arms and training and equipment to these terrorist groups to get them to overthrow the government. So that is a regime change war that we should not have been engaging. -
The Actual Nature of Revolution – Class led by Caleb Maupin
3 minutes readCALEB MAUPIN—Discusses the genesis of revolutions, and revolutionary theory, truths and myths and many misguided notions polluting this tremendously important subject. Caleb Maupin is a widely acclaimed speaker, writer, journalist, and political analyst. He has traveled extensively in the Middle East and in Latin America. He was involved with the Occupy Wall Street movement from its early planning stages, and has been involved many struggles for social justice. He is an outspoken advocate of international friendship and cooperation, as well 21st Century Socialism.
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Truth heroes: Dispelling the daily media bullshit on Venezuela
19 minutes readPATRICE GREANVILLE—CNN, CBS, NBC, MSNBC, Fox, the NYTimes, the WaPo, the Wall Street Journal, the coterie of vassal media in subimperialist nations, fellow whore media like The Economist, the (UK) Guardian, and so on…and let’s not forget the deformations constantly introduced by supposedly comedy shows, like Bill Maher’s, which has gone full on zioimperialist, or Steven Colbert, always a dependable conduit for the Democrats’ lies du jour. The list is indeed long of those engaged in disinforming the public 24/7, all of them existing and operating chiefly for the benefit of their masters, the 0.00001% that owns everything worth owning in this world.
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CAITLIN JOHNSTONE—After being imprisoned for seven years under draconian conditions which twice drove her to suicide, whistleblower Chelsea Manning has again been thrown behind bars for defending government transparency. Manning has been jailed in contempt of court after refusing to testify before a grand jury related to Assange and WikiLeaks, saying she “will accept whatever you bring upon me.”“The judge said she will remain jailed until she testifies or until the grand jury concludes its work,” AP reports.