For now, Trump’s policy of trying to provoke regime change in Venezuela has failed. But sadly, while the US president’s policies towards Venezuela have been cruel indeed, they are nothing more than an acceleration of the sanctions begun by President Obama in 2015. And it is clear that in one form or another presumed President-elect Joe Biden will continue the regime change efforts of both of these prior administrations, along with the sanctions. In short, there will be no rest for the weary in Venezuela.
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A New Strategy for China with Biden? Or is it Too Late?
A New Strategy for China with Biden? Or is it Too Late?
Biden’s backing seems to come from elements within the US power structure that favor a softer approach with Beijing. However, the escalated climate of the previous four years may make a big reversal in Sino-US relations impossible. Biden may simply follow Trump’s course as the geopolitical stage marches ahead post-COVID, completely reshuffled.
The Historical US Support for al-Qaeda
The Historical US Support for al-Qaeda
And let me tell you about American leaders. In power, they don’t think the way you and I do. They don’t feel the way you and I do. They have supported “awful jihadists” and their moral equivalents for decades. Let’s begin in 1979 in Afghanistan, where the Moujahedeen (“holy warriors”) were in battle against a secular, progressive government supported by the Soviet Union; a “favorite tactic” of the Moujahedeen was “to torture victims [often Russians] by first cutting off their nose, ears, and genitals, then removing one slice of skin after another”, producing “a slow, very painful death”.
Zbigniew Brzezinski Meeting With Deng Xiaoping, May 21, 1978
Zbigniew Brzezinski Meeting With Deng Xiaoping, May 21, 1978
U.S. National Security Advisor Zbignew Brzezinski visited Beijing in May 1978. This is a transcript of his meeting with Deng Xiaoping (Teng Hsiao-p’ing). This transcript was top secret until declassified.
2 Days in May That Shattered Korean Democracy
The US response to a dictatorship’s repression in Gwangju in 1980 was even worse than we thought.
2 Days in May That Shattered Korean Democracy
The Record of Human Rights Violations in the United States in 2019
VOLTAIRE NETWORK | BEIJING (CHINA) | 14 MARCH 2020
Foreword
“We lied, we cheated, we stole … It reminds you of the glory of the American experiment,” said US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo in a speech on April 15, 2019.
The remarks of US politicians have completely exposed their hypocrisy of adopting double standards on human rights issues and using them to maintain hegemony.
The United States claims to be founded on human rights, touting itself as a world human rights defender. Following a framework of its own narrow understanding of human rights and using its core interests of pursuing global hegemony as a yardstick, the United States released annual reports on other countries’ human rights every year by piecing together innuendoes and hearsay. These reports wantonly distorted and belittled human rights situation in countries and regions that did not conform to US strategic interests, but turned a deaf ear and a blind eye to the persistent, systematic and large-scale human rights violations in the United States.
This report is based on a variety of published data, reports and research findings. The facts detailed in the report prove that in recent years, especially since 2019, the human rights situation in the United States has been poor and deteriorating.
You’ve Been Conditioned for War
Americans like to think of themselves as peaceful and benevolent, but we are taught from a young age to accept militarism as normal.
— Read on www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/our-humanity-naturally/202001/youve-been-conditioned-war
[2018] Venezuela Defeats US In Election, Now Must Build Independent Economy
Upon returning to the United States from Venezuela and reading the terrible media reporting of the election, it was evident that the people of the United States are being lied to. The Intrepid News Fund and Venezuela Analysis invited me and others to come to Venezuela for the election to see first hand what actually
— Read on popularresistance.org/venezuela-defeats-us-in-election/
Jimmy Carter has said that Venezuela had the best election system, overall.
Jimmy Carter Lectures Trump: US Is ‘Most Warlike Nation in History of the World’
The former president says peaceful China “ahead of us in almost every way.”
Ms. Cat’s Chronicles 