Tag: Mike Pence

The War on Venezuela is Built on Lies

Tina Marie (Ms. Cat)

Although identity politics are all the rage in the pages of liberal newspapers in the West, race and class are two words almost never uttered in the mendacious “coverage” of Washington’s latest, most naked attempt to grab the world’s greatest source of oil and reclaim its “backyard”.  For all the chavistas’ faults — such as allowing the Venezuelan economy to become hostage to the fortunes of oil and never seriously challenging big capital and corruption — they brought social justice and pride to millions of people and they did it with unprecedented democracy.
— Read on www.counterpunch.org/2019/02/22/the-war-on-venezuela-is-built-on-lies/

Enough Western Meddling and Interventions: Let the Venezuelan People Decide

Tina Marie (Ms. Cat)

The West’s love-affair with intervention has little to do with restoring democracy, either in Venezuela, or anywhere else. ‘Democracy’ has been used throughout the 20th century as a tool that provided legal and moral rationalization for US and Western meddling
— Read on www.foreignpolicyjournal.com/2019/02/14/enough-western-meddling-and-interventions-let-the-venezuelan-people-decide/

VENEZUELA DEFINES THE FUTURE OF THE REGION BY CLAUDIO KATZ

Tina Marie (Ms. Cat)

H/T William Bowles

13 February 2019 — MROnline

by Claudio Katz

Originally published: Claudio Katz Blog – Translated by Nicolas Allen (February 8, 2019)

Guaidó’s self-proclamation as Venezuelan president is the most ridiculous and dangerous coup attempt in recent years. With the shameless backing of Washington, the Venezuelan rightwing intends to place a complete stranger at the helm of the state.

This time around, the starting signal was neither a terrorist attack nor an assassination attempt directed against Maduro. Trump has chosen a group of conspiracy experts (Abrams, Pence, Bolton, Rubio) to pursue escalation and has opted to seize the Venezuelan oil enterprise operating in the United States (CITGO). He has brushed aside all principles of legal guarantee in his quest to appropriate the world’s largest concentration of crude oil reserves.

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Chavistas march against imperialism: what is the next step in Trump’s coup?

Tina Marie (Ms. Cat)

Even though the ongoing imperialist coup in Venezuela has not yet succeeded, the impression one gets is that there is an inexorable march forward in its implementation, which is pushed mainly from forces abroad rather than from within Venezuela itself. The next step in the plan is the use of “humanitarian aid” as a provocation on the border with Colombia.
— Read on www.marxist.com/chavistas-march-against-imperialism-what-is-the-next-step-in-trump-s-coup.htm

Venezuela: The U.S.’s 68th Regime Change Disaster

Tina Marie (Ms. Cat)

In his masterpiece, Killing Hope: U.S. Military and C.I.A. Interventions Since World War II, William Blum, who died in December 2018, wrote chapter-length accounts of 55 U.S. regime change operations against countries around the world, from China (1945-1960s) to Haiti (1986-1994).  Noam Chomsky’s blurb on the back
— Read on www.counterpunch.org/2019/02/06/venezuela-the-u-s-s-68th-regime-change-disaster/

Holy Cow!

Since Killing Hope was published in 1995, the U.S. has conducted at least 13 more regime change operations, several of which are still active: Yugoslavia; Afghanistan; Iraq; the 3rd U.S. invasion of Haiti since WWII; Somalia; Honduras; Libya; Syria; Ukraine; Yemen; Iran; Nicaragua; and now Venezuela.