Topic: Upcoming Coup against Democratically Elected
Government in Venezuela.
Jeanette Charles
Questions? Comments? Messages of Solidarity?
Jeanette can be reached at:
editor@venezuelaanalysis.com
For years, the US has tried to undermine and depose the government of the Bolivarian Revolution in Venezuela---first with Hugo Chavez; and now with Nicolas Maduro as president.
Recent Trump dangerous buffoonery has further compromised
the sovereignty and self-determination of Venezuela.
Dakotah in Caracas photo-bombing president Maduro.
Exciting Announcement: Dakotah is a 19 year-old college student who is anti-imperialism and pro-Socialism and a long time supporter of and contributor to the Soapbox.
The Soapbox is pleased to announce that Dakotah will be hosting one Soapbox per month with from a fresh perspective of a young person trying to make a difference outside the acceptable paradigm of Capitalism andtreacherous political duopoly.
Dakotah just returned from a trip to Venezuela which he will talk about in this interview.
A group of Yemeni and Arab political activists and Human Rights NGOs in
cooperation with the Intifada Conference of Tehran and the Arab &
Islamic Forum in Support of Resistance, have launched the International
Campaign to boycott, Indict and Sanction the Saudi Terrorist Regime for
its crimes against humanity and violations of International law.
The Global Front to Resist Imperialism, Zionism and Saudi Terrorist Regime The Zionist Colonial regime in Palestine and the terrorist Saudi regime are results of the division of the Arab homeland in order to serve the imperial global capitalist system and its hegemony over the energy resources and strategic passage routes of the region.
Whereas the Zionist Colonial regime provides a military, hi-tech and advanced security base for the imperialist powers, the terrorist Saudi regime provides financing, training, and arming of tens of thousands of mercenary forces. Both have finally joined efforts through political, diplomatic, intelligence & military ties. They both fear for their mere existence, especially after several defeats, while creating millions of victims and refugees, and the destruction of Syria, Libya, Iraq, Yemen and occupied Palestine.
We support Yemen against the US-Saudi led atrocities upon Yemeni civilians, mostly women, children and elderly, and the intentional destruction of their heritage and infrastructure. Clearly, both the Zionist colonial and the terrorist Saudi regimes and their masters pose a constant threat to regional & international peace, security & prosperity. These terrorist states must be held accountable for their crimes:
1- The Saudi regime supported the British Colonial power schemes in assisting the Zionist terrorist gangs with arms, training and eventually waging a war against indigenous Palestinian people which resulted in bloody massacres and forced a million people to exile reaching over seven million today who are still targeted in their refugee camps in Syria, Lebanon, Palestine and their temporary refuge states all over the globe. 2- The Saudi role in the 1956 war against Egypt by British, French and Zionist forces. 3- Its role in the 1967 Zionist colonial regime expansionist war against Egypt, Syria and Jordan which led to occupying all of Palestine, Sinai and Golan Heights. 4- The Saudi use of political money to extort and blackmail heads of state and liberation movements and leaders (e.g. PLO) to carry out US agendas in the Arab homeland and as far as Nicaragua, Angola, Mozambique, Mali, Chad, Nigeria, Bosnia/Herzegovina. 5- The Saudi role in 1976 Lebanese civil war (e.g. theTel el-Zaatar massacre against the Palestinians) which lasted for 15 years, the 1978 Litani invasion, the 1982 Zionist war of aggression and invasion of Lebanon led by the terrorist Ariel Sharon.
6- Their implicated role in the Madrid and later the 1993 Oslo accords orchestrated by Bandar Bin Sultan to form a Palestinian autonomy which maintains the occupation and the Zionist project and continuous aggression actions against Palestinians.
7- Zionist / Saudi genocidal wars against the Palestinian people in Gaza in 2008, 2012, 2014 and the continuous blockade of Gaza.
8- Their leading role in the seven-year proxy war against Libya, Syria, Iraq and Yemen.
9- Their continuous terrorist threat to other countries such as Egypt, Tunisia and Algeria and their occupation of Bahrain. These crimes, causing misery and loss of life to millions also prove the dysfunction of the UN as an international organization, due to manipulation by the US and its satellite states regardless of the efforts of other UNSC members’ efforts to the contrary.
It is time for human rights organizations, political activists & peace movements to form a global network that unites and organizes their efforts in coordination with other targeted countries' peace organizations in order to stop the terrorist states from pursuing their heinous actions which are a threat to all people other than the usurpers.
The Steering Committee Beirut, Lebanon
March 2017
The steering committee is looking for peace and social justice activists and organizations to sign on to this statement.
If you wish, please contact Amal Wahdan at: Amalwahdan1712@gmail.com
U.S. Out Now! AFGHANISTAN - Longest War in U.S. History U.S. Hands Off!*
Syria • Palestine • Korea, • Venezuela • Haiti • Cuba
Saturday, October 7, 7- 9:30 pm No to U.S. overt & covert wars, sanction/embargo wars, drone & cyberwars, Special Operations/CIA wars proxy wars and the war against working people at home!
Cindy Sheehan, Peace and social justice activist and producer/host of Cindy Sheehan's Soapbox
Walter Riley, Haiti Action Committee; Haiti Emergency Relief Fund
Jeff Mackler, UNAC Nat’l Admin. Comm.; author, “Syria: Anatomy of Another U.S. Imperialist War;” Socialist Action
Judy Greenspan, Workers World Party and International Action Center: speaking on Korea
Alan Benjamin, Editor/National Organizer, Socialist Organizer: speaking on Venezuela/Latin America
Sponsor: United National Antiwar Coalition (UNAC) Co-sponsors: Initial list/co-sponsors welcome: Haiti Action Committee • Socialist Organizer • Socialist Action • Workers World Party • Mobilization to Free Mumia Abu-Jamal • Hands Off Syria Coalition • International Action Center • Karen Wald, Cuba Solidarity Activist
Donation requested: No one turned away for lack of funds For information call 510-268-9429 jmackler@lmi.net
As it becomes increasingly clear that yesterday’s conspiracy
theories are today’s real news, the call to kill the messengers just
gets more shrill and hysterical.
The attacks on free speech with high-tech censorship campaigns
and old-fashioned hit pieces in the "War on Fake News" are massive and
concerted.
The book burners are starting so many fires it’s impossible to stamp them all out.
What are the horrible thought crimes committed by the alternative press?
The new media has consistently exposed the lies and crimes of our corrupt and broken institutions.
Pioneers of alt media have passionately and convincingly made the case that The
Patriot Act literally reversed the gains to human liberty codified in
The Bill of Rights.
Independent media dismantled the lies that were presented as the
pretexts
to the invasion of Iraq. The same lies aggressively promoted by Bush,
Hillary
Clinton, CNN and The New York Times and that resulted in the death of a
million people and global chaos. By contrast, how many people have died
as a result of alternative media reports? The answer is zero.
The
independent press interviewed NSA whistleblowers who accurately
described how the U.S. government was illegally spying on its citizens
and retaining our data, and how these whistleblowers were being
persecuted by their own government for coming forward and refusing to
break the law.
This was years before anyone heard of Edward Snowden.
Amazingly, there was very little interest in these bombshell allegations in the mainstream press.
It’s hard to believe now, but in those days, people who claimed
the government was surveilling innocent citizens were dismissed as
paranoid by the self-proclaimed arbiters of truth at the NYT and CNN.
Grassroots media detailed a decade ago how police forces all over America
were becoming militarized and predicted that this dangerous trend would
lead to racially charged conflict on the streets of the nation. What
kooks!
We have also railed against; torture, needless wars, police
brutality, government corruption, the two-party duopoly, the criminality
of the banksters and the end of privacy.
Now the very same mainstream media hacks who promoted the lies
that lead to war in Iraq and Syria and mindlessly regurgitate whichever
talking point is uploaded onto their teleprompter are gleefully
assassinating what they call "fake news" using edited tape and misleading hit-pieces.
While these discredited war cheerleaders lie about why our sons
and daughters are sent to die, we are bravely exposing the fraudulent
casus belli they traitorously and disgracefully promote.
While these corporate spokespeople work for the interests of the
oil and drug companies and political forces that pay their salaries, we
risk everything to expose the crimes and scams of these same
broken institutions.
We have done a great public service by exposing
the deceptive, psychological methods used by the ruling elite to warp
historical narratives, manipulate patriotism and manufacture consent.
By helping people to recognize and suspend their belief in propaganda
and therefore their own complicity in it, the alternative media is helping to create a
public awareness to the tactics our enemies use to keep us divided,
steal our rights and slaughter countless innocents all over the world.
I know it’s fun and easy to call us tin-foil-hat wearers, or
whatever pejorative has been chosen for you today, but let’s be clear
about whose dirty work some are doing. Ironically, many are using
talking-points written by deep-state operatives to ridicule the idea
that the deep-state exists at all!!
Alternative media is in direct competition with the mainstream media for
revenue and the MSM want to control the information we are exposed to.
The MSM are waging a concerted demonization campaign aimed at
destroying some of the dominant platforms exposing the lies and crimes of
their corporate and deep-state masters and many are helping them
do it.
The MSM is an enemy of the truth and of the people. Friends of
mine have been accused of being Russian agents in The NYT because they
simply told the truth about Clinton during the campaign.
The corporate press has gone from lying to the American people to lying about the American people.
Do we have the will and power to destroy our common enemy?
How appropriate it is that the culture war is being fought on the ritual battlefields of the football stadiums.
People
seem to care more about ritualized warfare than they do about actual
wars being fought with our money and our children's lives.
Shallow
and hollow patriotism is on full-throated display in NFL spectacles.
They are the new Roman games designed to reflect the glory of the
Empire.
U.S. military might has always been projected onto the
faux warriors of the football circuses, and dissent was never even
considered to be possible.
How can you play football and
question America at the same time?
The ideals that guide our policy are
to be reenforced in the games and not challenged.
The
tradition of standing with your hand on your heart as the National
Anthem is played before every game is proof that these are Imperial
games and not private sporting events.
The concussion-inducing combat on field is wildly cheered on even as the wounded are carried out on stretchers.
Fans
entering stadiums are subjected to humiliating TSA style searches and
military jets routinely do fly-overs during halftime while jingoistic
spectacles are performed on the field.
All of this is designed as an affirmation of the moral legitimacy of the police state and endless war.
Are you ready to play some football? This game is going to get rough.
In 2005 while I was roasting for peace under the hot Texas sun at Camp Casey in Crawford, Tx, Rob Reiner sent his wife Michelle and a crew there to film a commercial with me.
Before the end of 2005, a lot of the people/groups who supported our antiwar effort kicked us to the curb when they figured out we really were against war and not just against Bush's wars.
The Reiners were among the ones that I discovered didn't so much care about the wars, but cared more about getting Demo-quacks elected.
Soon after Camp Casey temporarily shut-down that summer, I was invited to the Reiner's house to have a meeting. I was never the kind of person who got all twittery over so-called celebrities, but if the Reiners could help our cause, I was anxious to further our collaboration.
Rob Reiner and his team had already offered to do the paperwork and pay for getting Gold Star Families for Peace (my organization at the time) non-profit (501c3) status which we gratefully accepted.
Anyway, at the meeting (which included billionaire, Demo-quack funder, Steve Bing), after the niceties were over, both Steve and Rob got down to the real brass-tacks of the meeting. They wanted me to throw my influence (which was then pretty considerable) behind the presidential candidacy of Hillary Clinton. Bing looked me in the eye, with a serious face and said, "Mrs. Clinton is our only hope."
I gasped and averred how she had not only voted to support the very war that killed my son, but was the Bush regime's Demo-quack cover for war propaganda. Then Steve said this with a straight-face and no sense of how hurtful this statement could be to a mother whose oldest child was killed for these lies, "Mrs. Clinton is really against the wars and she will come out against them when it is politically expedient for her to do so." What?! People are still dying in Iraq and Afghanistan (and elsewhere) and how can mothers like me even understand a little about "political expediency" when our hearts are ripped out of our chests? Not just for one day, but for the rest of our lives.
The meeting didn't end really well, but I thanked them for their help and still refused to support Clinton for anything. When I wrote an article a couple of months later about how the antiwar movement should NOT support Clinton that was posted at Huffington Post, the attack dog of the Reiners called my sister and told her that they were pulling all support from me and Gold Star Families for Peace. In fact, Dede and CODEPINK, L.A. were protesting at a fundraiser for Clinton when Rob and Michelle pulled up and gave them the middle-finger.
The above is recounted for background on why the motives and credibility of Reiner should be viewed with suspicion.
The Meathead goes full-Archie Bunker and Produces Tripe
Enter this week's outrage from Rob Reiner: A video (below) he made with Morgan Freeman as the "star," which is a complete, unabashed, total piece of lying propaganda against Vladimir Putin and Russia.
Interestingly enough, this video was posted about the same time that 41 Demo-quack US senators voted to give the regime tens of billions of dollars more in Pentagon funding: almost 700 billion. This amount is three times more than China spends and TEN times more than Russia spends on so-called defense.
Of course, Rob Reiner could use his considerable wealth and influence to talk about something real like election fraud, but, since the DNC and Clinton campaign stole the 2016 primaries from Bernie Sanders, that wouldn't be productive for doing what is his life work, getting his only "hope," in the Oval Office.
The tens of thousands of people in Libya murdered by Clinton and Obama matter not to Reiner; the ongoing slaughters in Iraq and Afghanistan are not even in his remote consciousness. Rather, blaming Russia and Putin for the loss of one of the most (rightly) unpopular politicians in US history and fomenting for more war is what he wants to join with other neocons like David Frum and Max Boot, to do.
Besides the treacherous motivations behind this piece of rotting tripe, there is actually not one shred of proof that Russia had anything to do with Clinton's loss. I know she and her lackeys would like to blame everything from Putin to bad weather, but putting out a video like this is like playing with nuclear winter.
Other neoliberal/neoconservative idiots say, "Russia hacked" like it acceptable wisdom. "Russia hacked and in other news, water is wet."
Reiner, Freeman, and their ilk are not only liars, but they are dangerous propagandists approaching the level of a Riefenstahl.
Reiner and other useful idiots for Empire have formed a group called, "Committee to Investigate Russia," to, “help Americans recognize and understand the gravity of Russia’s continuing attacks on our democracy." Besides the fact that the USA has never been a democracy, and even if it were, elections here with one War Party under Wall Street have been compromised and invalid for decades, not just since his Grating Hope got creamed by a carnival huckster.
I challenge this "committee" to produce any hard evidence for their malignant horseshit.
Unpacking the Horseshit: Clump by Clump
Face it, Morgan Freeman's voice does have a nice, authoritative kind of benevolent principal tone to it, but in Reiner's irresponsible piece of doggerel, he uses it to unashamedly promote fearmongering.
We have been attacked
We are at war
That's how we begin.
From what I have been able to glean, the powers that be in Russia are treating this like an infantile joke, which on the surface it is.
However, the video obviously was made to sink us back into the lowest depths of the McCarthy witch hunts and HUAC hysteria and as a Cold War Kid, "I don't find this stuff amusing anymore," (Paul Simon, Graceland).
I don't appreciate being dragged back into a time when I was abused into believing the the Soviet Union was the most evil entity on earth and as I study about the Bolshevik Revolution (Slogan: Peace Bread Land) on this 100th anniversary, I resent these Hollywood elites' participation in this skewed "history."
But, of course, the US is "at war," and the US has been at war for all but about two dozen years of its existence.
He (Putin) Uses Cyberwarfare to Attack Democracies
After going on with the video's undocumented "Putin for Dummies," (truly, one has to be a Dummy to believe any of this) we "learn" how this "KGB" agent uses his trickster wiles to "attack democracies around the world." We don't know which democracies Russia has "attacked" because this is a commercial to sell the commodity of fear, not a fact-based narrative.
Hmmm....The CIA was formed to be a bad actor on the world stage and here is a list of the Democracies the US has attacked and overthrown just since World War II:
Overthrowing other people’s governments: The Master List
By William Blum – Published February 2013
Instances of the United States overthrowing, or attempting to overthrow, a foreign government since the Second World War. (* indicates successful ouster of a government) Original Post
China 1949 to early 1960s
Albania 1949-53
East Germany 1950s
Iran 1953 *
Guatemala 1954 *
Costa Rica mid-1950s
Syria 1956-7
Egypt 1957
Indonesia 1957-8
British Guiana 1953-64 *
Iraq 1963 *
North Vietnam 1945-73
Cambodia 1955-70 *
Laos 1958 *, 1959 *, 1960 *
Ecuador 1960-63 *
Congo 1960 *
France 1965
Brazil 1962-64 *
Dominican Republic 1963 *
Cuba 1959 to present
Bolivia 1964 *
Indonesia 1965 *
Ghana 1966 *
Chile 1964-73 *
Greece 1967 *
Costa Rica 1970-71
Bolivia 1971 *
Australia 1973-75 *
Angola 1975, 1980s
Zaire 1975
Portugal 1974-76 *
Jamaica 1976-80 *
Seychelles 1979-81
Chad 1981-82 *
Grenada 1983 *
South Yemen 1982-84
Suriname 1982-84
Fiji 1987 *
Libya 1980s
Nicaragua 1981-90 *
Panama 1989 *
Bulgaria 1990 *
Albania 1991 *
Iraq 1991
Afghanistan 1980s *
Somalia 1993
Yugoslavia 1999-2000 *
Ecuador 2000 *
Afghanistan 2001 *
Venezuela 2002 *
Iraq 2003 *
Haiti 2004 *
Somalia 2007 to present
Honduras 2009
Libya 2011 *
Syria 2012
Ukraine 2014 *
Syria
He (Putin) Convinces people in democratic societies to
distrust their media
Do I even have to go there? Reiner and Freeman and the other neocons and Useful Idiots for Empire are aware that all the worldwide "mainstream" media are owned by a handful of very powerful people and entities and if we don't "distrust" our media, then we are the foolish ones.
It has been proven, just in the Iraq War that killed my son, that outlets like MSNBCia used paid Pentagon shills to sell that war to a seemingly gullible American population. The White House had a group to make up crap like, "Mushroom Clouds," that Hillary Clinton participated in. Garbage in, garbage out.
Morgan then sits behind a desk in what looks to be a bomb shelter and calls on Donald Trump to use the resources of the USG to determine "how this happened." As far as I can tell, it has not even been determined "if" it happened. Let's not skip any steps here.
For 241 years, our democracy has been a shining example of what we can all aspire to
To me, this is the most dangerous and irresponsible lie of the entire video and I don't know how a black man can even utter those words without vomiting, because they make be throw up a little in my own mouth. Morgan Freeman is a sellout to the struggle for black emancipation and the struggle for people under the terrible yoke of US occupation and oppression around the world.
The USA was one of the the last "democracies" to (allegedly) abandon slavery, and it took the lives of almost 700,000, mostly poor working-class young men, to do it. I say "allegedly," because if anyone thinks slavery has been abolished in the USA, I suggest you watch "13th," a most enlightening Netflix documentary on how the 13th Amendment to the US constitution just transferred slavery to the prison systems.
Like I pointed out above, the founders of the US didn't frame our government as a democracy and most of the founders owned black slaves that were stolen from their continent and forced to perform labor in this "shining example;" the "shining example" that also committed genocide on its native population and has worked overtime to overthrow many democracies---true democracies; not just the feeble representation of democracy propagated by this horseshit.
Paul Robeson was a black man who realized how oppressed his people were and how that oppression connected to the liberation and anti-colonial struggles around the world. He paid a price for his courage and integrity, saying, among other things "why should the Negroes fight against the only nations of the world where racial discrimination is prohibited, and where the people can live freely? Never! I can assure you they will never fight against the Soviet Union, or the peoples' democracies."
More than Reiner, who is just a tool for the demented Clinton wing of the Demo-quack party, Freeman should be ashamed of himself. I am sure Malcolm X would define him as a "house negro" always looking out for the interests and well-being of the master and not the enslaved masses.
And we owe it to the brave people who have fought and died to protect this great nation and save democracy
This bold declaration of exceptionalist horseshit is posted over young American troops being sent to slaughter and I know my son didn't die to "protect" this "great" nation or save democracy. Like every single troop sacrificed before and after him, he was a victim to capitalism and imperialism.
It can be, and has been argued rather convincingly that the United States have never waged a war to "save democracy," and the Soviet Union bore the brunt of Nazi savagery in World War II, yet was the first to liberate the death camps.
Reiner, et al., are enemies of truth;
They are enemies of peace;
They are enemies of true democracy;
They should be exposed and shamed.
Watch the Horseshit Here:
(If you must)
Why should the Negroes
ever fight against the only nations of the world where racial
discrimination is prohibited, and where the people can live freely?
Never! I can assure you, they will never fight against either the Soviet
Union or the peoples' democracies.
Read more at: https://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/quotes/p/paulrobeso326905.html
Why should the Negroes
ever fight against the only nations of the world where racial
discrimination is prohibited, and where the people can live freely?
Never! I can assure you, they will never fight against either the Soviet
Union or the peoples' democracies.
Paul Robeson
Read more at: https://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/quotes/p/paulrobeso326905.html
Why should the Negroes
ever fight against the only nations of the world where racial
discrimination is prohibited, and where the people can live freely?
Never! I can assure you, they will never fight against either the Soviet
Union or the peoples' democracies.
Read more at: https://www.brainyquote.com/authors/paul_robeson
Why should the Negroes
ever fight against the only nations of the world where racial
discrimination is prohibited, and where the people can live freely?
Never! I can assure you, they will never fight against either the Soviet
Union or the peoples' democracies.
Read more at: https://www.brainyquote.com/authors/paul_robeson
Why should the Negroes
ever fight against the only nations of the world where racial
discrimination is prohibited, and where the people can live freely?
Never! I can assure you, they will never fight against either the Soviet
Union or the peoples' democracies.
Read more at: https://www.brainyquote.com/authors/paul_robeson
President Business, Lord White Supremacy, the Reigning Patriarch of
Global Murder and Mayhem, the Eugenicist Chief and Grand Wizard of the
Klu Klux Kleptocracy Donald J. Trump addresses the World or: Did He
Really Just Call a Head of State “Rocket Man?” By: Matt Sedillo
“We do not expect diverse countries to share the same cultures,
traditions, or even systems of government, but we do expect all nations
to uphold these two core sovereign duties, to respect the interests of
their own people and the rights of every other sovereign nation.”-
Donald Trump
“The United States has great strength and patience, but if it is
forced to defend itself or its allies, we will have no choice but to
totally destroy North Korea.”- Also Donald Trump
The Imperial Overlord in Chief’s reign of absurdist terror, knows no
bounds. It has no end in sight. This disgusting megalomaniac, this free
association hatemonger has threatened to obliterate a member state of
the UN on the floor of the UN. The President of the United States on the
floor of the UN literally said that if North Korea did not comply with
the US demands that “we will have no choice than to totally destroy
North Korea.” Later in his speech he referred to Hezbollah and others as
“loser terrorists.” He spoke of all kinds of threats and enemies to
global peace and the burden taken on by the US military to keep the
peace. He never once mentioned that the US is the only country to ever
use nuclear weaponry, or that in this very year, he himself unloaded the
“mother of all bombs” upon Afghanistan for no discernible reason. The
war crimes of the US and its junior partners are invisible. The
defensive measures that other nations take against imperial slaughter
are seen as “rogue.”
Trump also went on an anti communist rant, “We call for the full
restoration of democracy and political freedoms in Venezuela. The
problem in Venezuela is not that socialism has been poorly implemented,
but that socialism has been faithfully implemented.” It is interesting
that Trump has singled out Venezuela as particularly undemocratic given
how many national referendums the country of Venezuela has. The United
States has never had a national referendum. Here we simply vote for “our
betters” and let them handle it. Also it is strange for the US with its
inherently undemocratic electoral college to lecture anyone about
democracy. Maduro like many world leaders has pointed out that Trump
lost by 3 million votes. Only in the US do we just accept the idea that
someone could lose by 3 million votes and be president because uh,
“those are the rules” or something.
Between threat and insult Trump blathered on about the sacrosanct
nature of the nation state as free and sovereign. He vowed at this
international gathering to “always put America first.” He described the
various nation states of the world as “diverse.” He spoke of respect
for other nations and people’s despite in the very same speech having
threatened to destroy a nation.
Donald Trump is the latest in a succession of 45 consecutive imperial
presidencies. He is not unique in hypocrisy, he is not unique in the
menace he threatens to impose upon the world. His targets are not
unique. In Donald Trump’s first imperial screed he went on to threaten
and besmirch Cuba, Venezuela, Syria, North Korea and various other usual
suspects of US aggression. What is unique about him in the post World
War II period is the level personal insult and ridicule. If the UN had
any kind of actual standing in the world outside of simply serving as a
quasi business conference for the imperial nations then Trump’s boyish
antics would finally see the US 86’d for its long patterns of abuse to
its fellow members.
Donald Trump is a pathetic loser and is roughly the physical manifestation of the US empire in its current form.
During his performance art presidential act before the world Trump speaking to the foundations of the UN puzzlingly stated
“Those three beautiful pillars, they are pillars of peace, sovereignty, security and prosperity.”
What does it matter that Donald Trump cannot count? Neither can
America. The US is a country where a man can lose by 3 million votes and
still get to be president. Donald Trump is America. America is Donald
Trump. The disgrace is not his alone. Trump is a fascist. Karl Marx once said “History repeats itself first
as tragedy and second as farce.” Donald Trump is a farcicalist.
Sadly
the world may not survive this sick cruel joke. The nuclear codes are in
the hands of a eugenicist. Sad.
Morgan
Freeman appears in a PSA video that hysterically and without a shred of
actual evidence, claims we are "at war with Russia" due to allegations
of meddling in U.S. presidential election.
This
conspiracy theory has been widely discredited, but facts have no hope
of tempering the Russophobic blood lust of the Neo-McCarthyities.
The Kremlin reacted to the video by asserting that the actor Morgan Freeman is suffering from “stress”.
The two minute clip features Freeman
announcing that Russia attacked the United States by interfering in the
presidential election. Apparently, this imaginary attack is their moral pretext to start World War 3.
The
group behind the video, the
Committee to Investigate Russia, claims to be “non-partisan” yet is made
up of Never Trump neo-cons like Max Boot and David Frum in an unholy
alliance with Hillary Clinton lapdogs like Rob "Meathead" Reiner.
Is CIR really a CIA front group?
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said
Freeman’s words were “purely emotional” during a press conference
conference earlier today and that the video couldn’t be taken seriously
because it was “not based on real information”.
“Many creative people fall prey to
emotional stress without real information about the real state of
things,” he was quoted as saying by the Interfax news agency.
Peskov added that the campaign was ” a continuation of a form of McCarthyism,” and that “with time this will pass.”
We
clearly are not actually at war with Russia in the real world, but is
this the sick fantasy these lunatics want to make a self-fullfilling
prophecy?
Do they actually prefer thermonuclear war to detente?
This
weekly email contains a few useful articles on Venezuela and ALBA
Countries that contain bite-sized dose of the truth so that you can
fight the disinformation in your own community, that so much
of the media, including alternative media are putting out.
It
is AfGJ's conviction that we in the US defend Venezuela's sovereignty
and recognize that the Bolivarian Revolution has improved the lives of
its citizens, led the movement toward Latin America integration,
and is building participatory democracy structures that are an example
for us in the US as well. -AfGJ staff
AFGJ
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