The Cynical Assault on Venezuela: Two excellent responses

Thank you John Pilger. It is absolutely surreal to think this theatre of the absurd propaganda operation in support of yet another U.S. led coup is being supported by much of the Western world. The same oh so "law abiding," oh so concerned with "human rights," oh so "civilized" and oh so "democratized" Western world that has been plundering the rest of the planet for 500+ years now. A rather "bloody" form of irony to be sure. We used to kill you and steal everything that wasn't nailed down because we felt obliged to "save your soul" by bringing you Christianity. Now we kill you and steal everything that isn't nailed down due to our concern for your "human rights." We kill you - "because we care about you so very very much."

When I was much younger I used to still believe in the "bad apples" explanation for U.S. mayhem. This was back in the 1980's. From that "bad apples" perspective it was the Bolton's and Abrams and Ollie Norths of the world who were "responsible" for the torture and coups and brutality. Watching our amoral fetid war machine wreak it's endless destruction decade after decade, MSM lie after MSM lie, one eventually must face the reality that our entire institutional structure and social system simply "IS" the war machine and we are all part of it, willingly or unwillingly, simply through paying our taxes.

As psychopathic and evil as the Boltons and the Abrams are, ethically they are really no worse than the well paid media personalities delivering the fabricated war propaganda day after day, oblivious to the murder and mayhem created by their shilling for the empire's war machine. These media vampires are quite obviously as unconcerned about human suffering as the bought and paid for political shills in both parties who's job it is to keep this machine running no matter how much innocent blood they must wade through in the process just to reach their office everyday. Of course it goes without saying that the Billionaires, bankers, and the Wall Street boys who make their fortunes from the war machine, together comprise a particularly odious and vile branch of this system of organized crime we call a "society," yet somehow they seem to almost magically disappear into the shadows as the war profits roll in and as the empire moves on to the next victim of our never ending "democracy enhancement" global rape and pillage project.