Why is Mohamad Tawhidi, the self-anointed “Imam of Peace,” so devoted to amplifying racist and sexist attacks on the first two Muslim women in Congress?
— Read on theintercept.com/2019/06/25/mohamad-tawhidi-far-right/
Day: June 26, 2019
Briefing: The Effects of the Economic Blockade of Venezuela
Alfred de Zayas' Human Rights Corner
Link to original article: https://venezuelanalysis.com/analysis/14555
This documentby the Venezuela Solidarity Campaign examines the impact of the US sanctions on the Venezuelan economy.
The blockade in context
The U.S. has been pursuing a strategy of ‘regime change’ through destabilising Venezuela dating back to the early years of Hugo Chávez’s presidency. This led George W. Bush’s administration to support the failed coup d’état against Chávez in 2002 and also the right-wing management lock-out in the oil industry. The lock-out, while ultimately unsuccessful, cost billions of dollars in lost revenues and had a catastrophic impact on the government’s social projects.
Declassified US government documents and Wikileaks material have shown that the US has subsequently used covert financial, political, media and diplomatic activities in pursuit of its goal, including channelling millions of US dollars to right-wing opposition groups to support their bid to destabilise and topple the elected governments of both Presidents Chávez…
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Deep Fakes: Will AI Swing the 2020 Election?
Imagine, on the day before the 2020 presidential election, that someone posts a video of the Democratic candidate talking before a group of donors. The candidate admits to being ashamed to be an American, confesses that the United States is a malevolent force in the world, and promises to open borders, subordinate the
— Read on www.counterpunch.org/2019/06/25/deep-fakes-will-ai-swing-the-2020-election/
A Brief History of US Concentration Camps
There is no doubt that concentration camps are in operation on US soil once again.
“The Union Army re-captured freed slaves throughout the South and pressed them into hard labor in disease-ridden ‘contraband camps.’”
concentration camp (noun): a place in which large numbers of people, especially political prisoners or members of persecuted minorities, are deliberately imprisoned in a relatively small area with inadequate facilities, sometimes to provide forced labor or to await mass execution.
— Read on www.blackagendareport.com/brief-history-us-concentration-camps
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